One of the Izu Islands, the Oshima Island, which is home to an active volcano, Mt. Mihara, is famous for its camellia and hot springs in modern times. Shinjima, Kozujima, Miyake Island, and Hachijojima Island all have hot springs that can relieve fatigue and even cure diseases, and each island is a natural resort made of the sea and nature, which is why the Izu Islands are now a resort in Wakuni.

However, it is also relatively modern as a resort site, and in the Warring States period, and even from the Heian period, the Izu Islands served as a place of exile for nearby prisoners as a barren land far from the mainland. All political prisoners, as well as the most vicious ones, were exiled here, so there were many soldiers in this place to be able to manage these prisoners, and of course some of them were tasked with executing special people.

At this time, the defenders of the Hojo family on the Izu Islands numbered about 300 people, but after evenly distributing them on each island, there were only a few dozen people on each island.

The Kumano Navy has newly surrendered to the Kuroda family, and as the master of the Kumano Water Army, the Kukiki Yoshitaka naturally wants to take this opportunity to show his face in the Kuroda family. Although he is just a rough man, he also knows that the Kuroda family has just changed the head of the family, and the new head of the family is a young man, and young people should be less cautious in employing people than the previous world-famous Kuroda vocational high school!

If that's the case, this time to send troops to Izu Country may be an opportunity for himself, because Hanafang Masayuki's 3,000 men and horses were transported by his own navy, which means that in the battle report, there will be a sum of his own Kumano navy, even if there is no credit after that, his own navy at least has a hard work in it.

But what you want is not just this hard work, you look at the Murakami Water Army, how nourishing is the life under the Kuroda family now? Not to mention that all the ships have been replaced, and the long-range weapons have also been replaced with shotguns (all of which are long-range weapons that the Kuroda family has eliminated and are not used).

So this time he was able to raid the Izu country of the Hojo family with Masayuki Hanabo, and the nine ghosts Yoshitaka had his own little Jiujiu from the beginning, and he felt that as long as he could capture the Izu Islands and eliminate the Izu Kunomaru Mountain Water Army belonging to the Hojo family, he would definitely be able to report on the battle this time, as long as he could leave a name in the heart of the new lord of the Kuroda family, and leave an impression, the nine ghosts Yoshitaka felt that he had earned it this time.

Therefore, the Nine Demons Yoshitaka also blocked all his net worth this time, pulled out all the ships and men, and added the dozens of large ships distributed to him by the Kuroda family (ships that the other naval forces of the Kuroda family did not want), and all began to attack the Izu Islands.

In fact, the Navy of the Nine Ghosts Jialong was not hit too hard by the Kuroda Family's Navy before, so the manpower of the Navy was still relatively complete, and at the most, there were more than 2,000 sailors plus various miscellaneous servants, and now there are more than 1,800 people, and more than 140 large and small warships.

The Nine Demons Yoshitaka himself led an army of 500 people to attack the completely defenseless Oshima at night, and his eldest son, the Nine Demons Narita, his retainers Toyoda Gorou Uemon, Koga Sama and others also took 3 or 400 people each to attack other places.

Oshima is the largest of the Izu Islands, and the Kuki Yoshitaka team landed at Hazu on the island without attracting the attention of the Hojo family defenders. Luckily, the Nine Demons were lucky to find a family near Hazu, who told them that all the defenders on the island were gathered in the east of the castle of Nosusu.

Yessuo Castle is not only the only city on the island, but also the gathering place of all the prisoners on this island, but in the north of Yessuo Castle, there is also a small outpost for reconnaissance in the place of Chashuidi, according to the family, this outpost usually has only three or five people patrolling inside.

Speaking of why the island's defenses are so lax, the first is that the island has not been attacked by other forces since the Hojo Sakumo period, so the defenders appear to be relatively lax; The second is that all the prisoners here are short of food and clothing, so basically there is no attack power, and the defenders are not afraid of their riots; There was no means of escape from the area around the third largest island, and all the ships were in the vicinity of Nosusu, under the unified care of the defenders. It is precisely because of the above reasons that the people of the Hojo family are not vigilant.

Sure enough, in the outpost of Chashuidi, there were three soldiers guarding, but all three of them fell asleep without exception, and in the middle of the night, they felt that there should be no danger, so they all slept boldly with confidence, it seems that this is a habit that has been cultivated for a long time. It was because of this lack of vigilance that they were all killed by the pirates in their sleep, only unfortunately this time they would never be able to wake up.

Nine Ghost Jialong with his men, a group of ferocious sailors, but also a group of poor fishermen in order to be able to fill their stomachs, quickly came to Yezeng City, they were very vigilant at first, but found that not only did not set up any torches outside the fence, even the basic defense facilities were not complete, and there was no one to defend the Otemen.

Nine Ghost Jialong felt that this time it was really pie in the sky, and it seemed that he had really earned money by attacking the Izu Islands this time, which was simply a gift away! Nine Ghost Jialong sent a few nimble subordinates, climbed over the wall into Yezeng City, and quietly opened the big hand gate, even so, the movement of Nine Ghost Jialong's men and horses was not discovered by the dozens of defenders in the city.

As you can imagine, the 400 men of the Nine Demons took only ten minutes to capture the largest castle in the Izu Islands and kill all the defenders in the city.

There were a few clever ghosts in Yezeng City, and when they saw that an unknown enemy army had entered the city and had already controlled the overall situation, they saw that the situation was not right, so they prepared to surrender the Nine Ghost Jialong's naval army immediately.

But in the end, they were all killed by the men of the Nine Ghosts Jialong, why? These people are all merits! Isn't there a head missing if you surrender? The Nine Ghosts Jialong, who had already immersed himself in the merits, and his subordinates did not leave a single prisoner.

Only one guy with relatively good luck escaped from the city as soon as the Nine Ghost Jialong attacked Yezeng City.