In addition, there are 200 stones of land that have been reclaimed without permission, making a total of 400 stones. There are more than 70 people under his command plus relatives. Even so, the seventy or so people of Insugi Iga are not the opponents of Hanafang Masayuki and his men at all.

Because the Kuroda family was attacked suddenly, and the blade of the Hojo family could never have imagined that the Kuroda family could penetrate into such a confidant, it was almost completely defenseless. While the Kuroda family's team was attacking, Iga Nisugi himself was outside the castle inspecting preparations for the autumn harvest, but was killed by an arrow from Hanabo Masari.

After that, the Kuroda family Araki Murashige led a team of 200 men and horses to quickly rush into Nitta Castle, without giving the opponent any time to react, and quickly killed two city gate guards, and then controlled the access to the entire city, and then began to kill the defenders in the city.

The defenders were caught off guard at the first time, and when they reacted, especially when they saw the head of Nisugi Iga, almost all of the defenders expressed their willingness to surrender to the Kuroda family.

This also made Araki Murashige, who was holding his stomach angry and wanted to get more combat exploits in the Hojo family, very depressed, why don't you resist for a while! And those samurai, what do you mean when you kneel on the ground, why don't you stand up and hi together! I just want to take your heads, how can you be so stingy?

Nitta Castle is not the target of the Kuroda family, but it just happened to land in this place, and the real target of the Kuroda family is Yamanaka Castle, the home of the Yamanaka family in the north.

Why did the Kuroda family make Yamanaka Castle their goal? In addition to being the residence of the Yamanaka family, Yamanaka Castle is also the only land passage connecting Izu Province and Sagami Province. If Yamanaka Castle can be occupied, then it means that the connection between Izu Province and Sagami Province will be severed, and once the Kuroda family captures Izu Province, Hanafang Masayuki's troops can attack Sagami Province as a partial division with the cooperation of the Kumano Water Army of the Kuroda family.

And not just attacking Sagami Country, they can go straight and cut off the back road of Mt. Hakone, if that's really the case, then then Mototadashi will have a lot of fun. If Tamu Mototada was blocked by the 3,000 people of the Kuroda family, and he had to face the 15,000 people of the Kuroda family head-on, this force would definitely be more than lucky. This is the brilliance of the Kuroda family's attack this time, and it was all the idea of Shigeharu Takenaka.

And here to interject a word, Matsui Shigetaka took all the 5,000 men and horses under his command through Kai Province and came to the Aizu place of Mutsu Province, where he met the 2,000 men and horses of the former Musato Yunobu, and quickly stabilized the place. At the same time, 4,000 members of the Maori family and 3,000 members of the Niko family's army, who had been with Musato Takatomo, were also transferred to Aizu, and then 2,000 people from Musato Yushin returned to Echigo Province.

As a result, there were 12,000 men and horses of Matsui Shigetaka and more than 1,000 men of the Ashina family (after the rebellion) in Aizu, a total of 13,000 men, and 5,000 men from the Muri family and 8,000 people from the Uesugi family in Echigo, a total of 13,000 men, who would attack the Izuwa country in the north in two ways.

Mamiyagi Castle, Log Castle, and Oba Castle to the north of Ota Castle were the residences of the three brothers of the Omi family, and when the three brothers knew that the Kuroda family was coming, the Kuroda family's army had already come to the castle of Mamiyagi, just as the Kuroda family had attacked Nitta Castle before. Because he was defenseless, Miyagi Castle was easily captured.

The problem is that the three elders of the Omi family, Mimi, happened to be in the middle of Oba Castle, so they were not in the city, and they happened to be spared. The problem was that some of the soldiers of Mamiyagi Castle escaped from the castle, and immediately told the defenders of the Kuroda family about the siege of the castle to the defenders of Loggi Castle and Oba Castle respectively.

So the Omi family immediately took action, because the number of stones of the Omi family, plus the concealed land, was only about 720 stone in total, and the territory area was not large, and all the men and horses gathered in the northernmost Oba Castle, and at the same time sent people to tell the news of the Kuroda family's attack to the head of the Yamanaka family in the north, Yamaaka Hikojiro, and the Izu people in the east, Yasuei Shimizu.

The Kuroda family's army burned down Miyagi Castle and Log Castle, after all, these two castles were important to the Omi family, but in the eyes of the Kuroda family, they were useless, and they were all illegal buildings that occupied cultivated land and had to be demolished.

Looking at the fireworks lit in the direction of Miyagi Castle and Log Castle, the hearts of the three brothers of the Omi family were dripping blood, anyway, it was also a castle that their ancestors had worked hard to build, and it was burned down by the Kuroda family, they were really unwilling.

But what can you do if you are not reconciled, in this era, whoever is strong will be able to dominate everything, and the weak will be passively beaten, this is a fact that cannot be changed. Even the Hojo family, who is a sagami lion, has to bow their heads in front of the Kuroda family, let alone a small wealthy family like them!

Soon the Kuroda family's army came to the castle of Oba Castle again. Dachang Castle is also just a small city. It was impossible to resist the attack of the Kuroda family at all, and the three divisions of the Omi family combined were only eighty or ninety people.

Their resistance was quickly futiled by the Kuroda family's attack, and the Kuroda family used only thirty minutes to resolve the battle, and all three brothers of the Omi family died in the Imperial Palace, where they were killed by the Kuroda family's samurai, and Araki Murashige finally got his wish and killed the opposing samurai.

We often talk about a leader, or a samurai, so what is the difference between a leader and a samurai? Samurai is more of a charge, and if you say it well, you are a samurai, and if you don't say it, you are just a relatively powerful high-level fighter.

The leader needs to have a good view of the overall situation, and be able to analyze the situation of the entire battlefield as quickly as possible, and make corresponding and correct responses, which is the leader rather than a simple samurai.

The three brothers of the Omi family told the information to Yasuei Shimizu and Hikojiro Yamanaka, and the response of the two of them is a good reflection of the difference between a leader and an ordinary samurai.

As the head of the Yamanaka family, after receiving the news, Yamanaka Hikojiro immediately ordered the people around him to move closer to his residence, and closed the gate of Yamanaka Castle tightly, preparing for the attack of the Kuroda family.