This was the seventh time that Monk Myomei visited Nojiri Castle, and it was also the first time that Nojiri Castle had been under siege for more than a year. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, this is not because of the need to persuade to surrender, but because this is a heavy snow that has not been encountered in Hyuga Province for ten years.

After all, after the capture of Kushima Castle, Shimazu Tadanaga led the army to merge with Shimazu Yoshihiro, and the offensive of the city did not slow down in the slightest.

A monk with a cold nose standing barefoot under the castle in short clothes, his hands together, and a Buddhist trumpet knocked on the gate of Nojiri Castle.

The retainers of the Fukunaga family, who were familiar with him, thought it was a wild monk who didn't have long eyes, and when he saw Miaoming, he hurriedly opened the city gate and led the master to the inner room of Fukunaga Tanba Mamoru.

There is no longer the leisurely and calm of the tea room in the past, but also because of the lack of food and the blockade of the Shimazu army, the elegant lord of the castle and the samurai next to him are emitting an unpleasant smell.

"Master, please be seated!" Now the chaotic Fuyong City Lord had no time to entertain this elegant guest, but he immediately gave his subordinates orders on how to prepare for war and raise supplies.

Monk Miaoming looked at the retainers sitting on both sides, and also crossed his legs at the end, put his hands together, and silently chanted the scriptures,

It is true that the Fukunaga family has time to gather important ministers in the leisure time of such a battle, but they are not discussing the future of the Ito family, but the future of the Fukunaga family.

Maybe they all have no future, and the cage city has been around for more than a year, will the besieging Yoshihiro still be polite to his territory.

Not to mention that the siege is so long, the harvest of a year is about nothing.

How could the mountaineers and villagers who had not been brought into the city by him escape the indiscriminate arrest of the Shimazu army, knowing that the fires that burned in the village in the previous months could be clearly seen from miles away.

However, the defense to the south of the Ito family is simply only the two cities of Tozaki Castle and Nojiri Castle, and it is only a matter of time before the Hyuga country is about to change, which is the general trend.

However, now the retainers of the Fukunaga family are also divided into two factions of fierce quarrels, one faction thinks that knowing the times is a good man, and surrendering at this time may be able to keep their territory, and the other faction thinks that sticking to it, in addition to proving their courage, it is also possible to wait for reinforcements from the Otomo family.

After all, Yoshiyoshi Ito's wife, Mrs. Akita, is the niece of Otomo Sorin, and the Otomo family doesn't want to join Hinata.

The two factions quarreled fiercely, the monk suddenly coughed hard, everyone was silent, Miao Ming stood up, his hands together,

"Have you ever wanted to hear from the little monk!"

This is a person who is familiar to Fukunaga Tanbamori, and the retainers do not dare to make a mistake. The city lord waved his hand, but it didn't hurt.

Monk Miaoming also played a dumb riddle first: "Have you ever seen a celestial phenomenon a month ago?" ”

The so-called people who can understand the heavens are all people of great wisdom, but after holding on for a long time, everyone is nervous and will not look at the stars in the sky, they whisper below, and those who know Myoaki also guessed that it should be a lobbyist of the Shimazu family.

"Before January, there was a comet in the southwest. Do you remember the blue-white comet that trails its long tail and shines like a full moon across the night sky and then fades away? ”

Saying this, the generals in the hall also remembered the difference that day, and their hearts were broken by Miaoming, and they couldn't help but want to ask.

"What clues can the master get from the heavens?"

Of course, Fukunaga Tanba Mamoru has already had a different heart, and now his hesitation is just the favor of the Ito family and the glory of Ito Yoshiyu, and there is only one reason missing, a reason to convince himself.

Maybe it's not to convince yourself, but to make surrender a reason to tell your ministers for granted.

It's not that he's disloyal to the Ito family, and he's not a cowardly samurai, but now that the Ito family is gone, everything he does is to save everyone's lives.

The monk did give this reason: "The repair doctor, the big meal doctor, and the three righteous princes who entered the Tao once received the destiny of heaven, and it is precisely because of this that they can repeatedly and repeatedly beat the Satsuma Shimazu family to the southwest of the county."

In the 12th year of Tenmon (1543), he captured Uden Castle in Shimazu Tadahiro. In the 16th year of Astronomy (1547), Kumaya Castle was captured. In the 7th year of Eiroku (1564), Shimazu Yoshihiro captured the present castle, and in the 11th year of Eiroku (1568), Obi Castle was captured, and in its heyday, it had 48 castles, that is, the 48 castles of Hinata, which were the great martial arts of you.

But two months ago, two months ago, a comet appeared in the southwest, and the light was so dazzling that it disappeared without a trace, do you know what this means?

This is a bad omen, this is the glory that hangs over Ito Yoshisuke, and it will eventually dissipate like a comet, everyone, have you ever obeyed the destiny of heaven! ”

This rumor spread in the territory of the Ito family as early as two months ago, and it was also intentional by the Shimazu family.

However, after this reason was broken by Monk Myomei, it was enough, and it was enough for Fukunaga Tanba to make up his mind to open the city, not to mention that a letter brought by Monk Myoaki was the recognition of his territory by Shimazu Clan.

So Fukunaga Tanba Mamoru decided to surrender in Kaejo, and Shimazu Yoshihiro led nearly twenty or thirty horsemen to enter Nojiri Castle.

That night, the 300 Shimazu troops of Kogen Castle entered Nojiri Castle, and then gathered more than 700 troops to attack Tozaki Castle, which was defended by Ushino Toyozen.

The soldiers were very fast, or the incident happened suddenly, and the next day Tozaki Castle fell.

Immediately after the third day, the lord of Uchiyama Castle, the Shaosuke of the Nomura Criminal Department, and the lord of the paper house, Yakura, the lord of the Shosuke, were forced by the long-standing rebellion and the military strength of Shimazu Yoshihiro, and they defected one after another.

On December 9, the fourth day of the surrender of Nojiri Castle, the Shimazu army broke through Ayajo, the last line of defense of the Ito clan in the west of Satowara Castle, and laid siege to the county town the next day.

It has only been five days, and the county has fallen into chaos.

Yoshisuke Ito, who had nothing to do, urgently ordered the generals of Yamada, Arabus, Fujita, Kawarada, and Hirabe to come and help defend the castle. However, the Ito clan has gone, and no one responded to Yoshiyu's summons at all, on the contrary, more than half of the Ito retainers surrendered to the Shimazu clan, and rebellions were frequent throughout Shandong.

The military momentum came too fast, and the Ito family collapsed too quickly, and in only five days, only the Ito family's own residence was left, and no matter how powerful the sixty-five-year-old Ito Yoshiyu was, he didn't expect the Ito family's current status to be like paper paste.

At this time, Yoshiyu, seeing that the Shimazu clan was about to cage the city, what else could he do except hold feasts and pleasures day and night to deplete the food stored in the county town?

This is also the twilight of a real hero, the end of a generation of heroes.

However, when the Shimazu army really came to the castle, Ito Yoshisuke also chose to abandon the castle quite happily and led his relatives to flee to Sadohara Castle. After meeting with Ito's soldiers who had fled from Obi, Ito, who had heard that the Shimazu Army's vanguard 700 would soon be chasing him, did not put up any resistance and abandoned the castle again.

The Ito clan's 11th generation of headquarters were all in the county town, and Satohara Castle, which Ito Yoshisuke had built with a lot of manpower and material resources, fell into the hands of the Shimazu family in one day with little respectful resistance.

This is an accident or an inevitability, when the battle flag of the Cross Wheel sweeps Hinata, the Shimazu family will also face an even more powerful enemy, the Daimyo of the Six Kingdoms.