In August, although typhoons still blow from time to time and rain rain, there is already a hint of autumn in the air. All the Haoqiang have also invested in the intense autumn harvest, even the Luo family's territory is no exception. The entire autumn harvest lasts for almost a month, from mid-August to mid-September. At this time, the powerful soldiers of each family will return to their own fields to be busy, so the powerful people generally have a tacit understanding not to attack each other.

But secretly, the Luo family was completely prepared for war. On the morning of 14 August, the war, which Masayo named "Autumn Wind Strike" (meaning that the battle will easily crush the enemy like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves), officially began. On this day, Masara, who had been waiting at Yunoo Castle for a long time, received a report from the detective who had infiltrated the territory of the Higashiyama family, and the team led by Tadajiro and Shingoro successfully followed the temporary path along the Ishigawa River to the vicinity of the Higashiyama house, and after a full rest, they were ready for a surprise attack.

The battle was launched first from the side of Yunoo Castle. After leaving Masahide of the Luo clan in command of 20 Fourth Team Standing Ashigaru to stay in charge of Yunoo Castle, Masarashi and Heisa Masataka led 40 cloaked people, 20 low-ranking samurai, 30 First Team Standing Ashigaru, 30 Fourth Team Standing Ashigaru, and 50 temporarily recruited peasant soldiers to kill the Akasaka family's main city, Mizuiwa Castle. After the team marched to a valley, it quickly divided into two teams, one team led by Masayo to continue to advance with great fanfare, responsible for attracting and confusing opponents head-on; The other team is led by Hirasa Masatada, scattered and infiltrated the designated location of the Akasaka family's territory to converge, and then secretly waited for an opportunity to sneak attack.

Akasaka Shizhong, the head of the Akasaka family in Shuiyan City, was stunned for a moment after suddenly receiving the news of the Luo family's invasion, and then looked up to the sky and shouted: You can't bully people like this, aren't you not able to attack each other during the autumn harvest? How can this be?

In fact, Akasaka Shizhong has been very busy recently, first of all, when he was driving away the pirates who invaded the territory of the Akasaka family, he was attacked by the three scoundrels of the Dongshan family, the Hanoi family, and the Guan Mu family.

Then, it took a lot of effort to drive those hateful pirates out of the city, but the territory was a mess by the pirates, and the people were also complaining.

In the last case, there have been recent rumors in the territory that the Uekura family will unite with pirates to invade again, and it is spread that there is a nose and eyes, which makes people suspicious, just in case, Akasaka Tokitaka transferred half of the standing forces in the city to Mangari Castle, another branch city close to the Uekura family, and at the same time sent an envoy to the Uekura family to question.

The rumors were spread by the Luo family's detectives, of course the Uekura family would not admit it, but instead scolded the Akasaka family for their pig brains, and they still shouted everywhere when they invaded others? After receiving the reply from the Kamikura family, Akasaka Shizhong was furious, you are an ancestor Banban, the last time the joint army Tang Ye family, you Shangcang Yuno Laoer deliberately dragged his feet, waiting for the Akasaka family to do the urgent vanguard, you Shangcang family in the back to pick up cheap, this matter has not been settled with you yet, now it is so arrogant, so the big book sent to the Kamikura family, the letter greetings the ancestors and family members of the Kamikura family, Kamikura Yuno saw the letter and was so angry that the seven holes smoked, and vowed to destroy the Akasaka family, Of course, at the same time, I did not forget to greet the ancestors and family members of the Akasaka family. That's it, the two have been fighting back and forth recently.

Complaining is complaining, but the enemy still needs to find a way to deal with it, the problem is that now there are only more than 30 people in Shuiyan City with all the samurai and ashigaru combined, and the Luo family has hundreds of people, so it seems that they can't fight the enemy and can only defend it. So Akasaka Shizhong was very single, on the one hand, he integrated everyone in the city and prepared to defend the city, on the other hand, he sent people to mobilize peasants and soldiers in the towns outside, and even went to the sub-city of Mangari Castle to ask his son to send people to help. However, Akasaka Shizhong waited from morning to noon, and from noon to afternoon, looking forward to the stars and the moon, except for waiting for a few peasants and soldiers from the castle town to respond to the call to help defend the city, neither waiting for the brigade's own peasant soldiers nor waiting for the strength of the Luo family. …,

With the return of a tour, he learned the truth that after the Luo family entered their own territory, they did not go straight to the city, but instead killed the farmland that was harvesting grain.

Masara is busy right now, really. After entering the territory of the Akasaka family, he didn't even think about attacking the opponent's own city, which would be too time-consuming, and the loss would definitely be not small, so Masarashi was luring or forcing the other party to take the initiative to face the battle. Now the other party is having a dead vein, which is food. The fields to the east of the Akasaka family have been made a mess by the pirates who invaded last time (in fact, these pirates were indeed instructed by the Uekura family to weaken the Akasaka family, but now they are cheapening the Luo family), and a poor harvest is inevitable. Now Masarashi does not plan to follow the example of the pirates in destroying the fields, but he is going to work as a porter, driving the peasants of the other territory to harvest grain, and then carry it to Yunoo Castle.

The farmers who were grabbing the grain, whether it was the peasant soldiers brought by the Luo family or the farmers of the Akasaka family, were also very excited now. As the Lord said just now, all the grain of the harvest belongs to them, and they will be given as much as they can harvest. For the farmers of the Akasaka family, as long as they are willing to immediately relocate to the territory of the Luo family, the grain they harvest belongs to them. Most of the peasants chose to move to the Luo family, not only did they not have a grain of grain to stay here, but they also had to be exploited by the lord afterwards, and they couldn't live this winter, and now this lord gave him a way to live, and he also guaranteed that he would have a field to cultivate after he arrived in his territory, as long as he was willing to work, he would have food, so do you still need to think about such good conditions? Therefore, in the towns where the Luo family's troops passed, the farmers all went out as a family to harvest grain frantically, and then took care of their belongings to prepare for the big relocation.

Of course, there will always be some peasants who will be suspicious or difficult to leave their homeland, for these people, Masashi did not prevent them from joining the ranks of the harvest, but let people keep publicizing, do not follow the big army, after the Luo family's troops leave, the Akasaka family will definitely snatch the grain from the farmers who stay here, and the grain left for them at that time is estimated to not survive this winter.

As a matter of fact, Zhengliang provided these peasants with two multiple-choice questions that they had to choose. First of all, everywhere they went, they hyped up that the Luo family would harvest the grain in the fields, telling those farmers that they could also harvest together, and if they didn't come out to harvest, the Luo family would take away all the grain. Do these peasants hiding in the town have a choice, and after seeing that a few of the Luo family's peasant soldiers really started harvesting, they also immediately joined the ranks of harvesting.

Secondly, all the Akasaka farmers can't take the harvested grain home, or else they will all take it home and hide it, then Masahiro will have no way, and he can't get caught up in the people's war, right? Those who are willing to relocate to the territory of the Luo family, after going home to pack their luggage, can come here to pick up the grain they harvested, and then set off directly; If you don't want to go, the Luo family will take half of the grain, and the rest can be taken home. If they are not willing to cooperate, let them take a good look at the strength of the fully armed Luo family, and then they will all cooperate obediently. In such a situation, thinking about the situation when the Akasaka family came to collect taxes, the farmers with a little brain chose to move to the Luo family. Eventually, the samurai and the standing ashigaru team maintained a battle formation, and at each place, Masarashi arranged for several peasants to go down to spread the word and then begin to harvest the grain. That's right, the peasant soldiers who followed this time were not participating in the war, but propagandists and carrying brigades.

People have a herd mentality, some people start to act, and the people behind will automatically follow; When one town starts moving, the nearby towns will start to follow. When most of the people decide to move, the rest will follow. As a result, where the Luo family's troops passed, a unique scene was formed, that is, all the people were harvested. This also achieved the ultimate goal of Masahiro's premeditated plan, making it impossible for the Akasaka family to effectively mobilize the peasants. If the grain is not harvested, it will be someone else's, so there will be time to defend the city with you. …,

Did Zhengliang really plan to move all these peasants to the Luo family's territory? No. If it goes well, by the time the battle here is over, the farmers who set off first will probably have just arrived at Yunoo Castle, and some of them are even rushing to harvest grain. As long as the Akasaka family is destroyed, they can return to their homeland. Of course, the sequelae of this are also very serious, in such a chaotic situation, their own grain will inevitably be harvested by others, when these farmers become the Luo family's leaders and return to their homeland, they must be dissatisfied, and the Luo family must also pay for these problems. However, the peasants of this era are the best to get along with, mainly so that they can not go hungry, they will obediently cooperate, and Zhengliang firmly believes that with the implementation of the territorial law, and even if necessary, give strong relief and compensation, these people will soon settle down. For this reason, Zhengliang has prepared the reserves of most of the grain reserves in the territory.

On a hill a mile away from Shuiyan City, Masashi looked at the castle tower of Shuiyan City from afar, and said with a slight smile, "I have already made a move, Akasaka Shizhong, how should you dismantle it?" ”

"Damn the Luo family", with a bang, the sound of broken porcelain bowls sounded in the castle tower, and the maids outside hid far away, for fear that the lord would be unhappy and angry with herself, "Are you forcing me to fight a decisive battle?" Akasaka Shizhong looked at the mountains and forests in the distance and shouted.

The current Akasaka Shizhong is in a dilemma, let's fight, now there is really no capital for such a person to confront head-on; Not to fight? Then it means that the territory has almost no harvest this year, and in order to stabilize the territory, it is necessary to take out all the food reserves to ensure that the people of the territory will not starve to death on a large scale. As for the purchase of food, there is no need to think about it, and now even the only Banya Bay outlet that can be used in the past has been lost with the friendship with the Tateishi family. So once even the food reserves are exhausted, the Akasaka family will be in crisis. What's more, will the surrounding Haoqiang let go of such an opportunity? Akasaka Shizhong can be sure that as long as the surrounding Haoqiang learns about the situation of the Akasaka family, he will immediately send troops to constantly harass him, so that the Akasaka family will not be able to organize the spring ploughing next year. At that time, the Akasaka family did not need to attack with other heroes, and they perished on their own.

"My lord, my lord" Just as Akasaka was distressed, a samurai rushed in, "My lord, the young master has sent a team to support, and it is expected that he will be able to arrive here in half an hour." ”

"Great, God bless the Akasaka family" Akasaka Shizhong let out a long breath after hearing this, "Quick, gather people, let's go and answer." ”

Akasaka Shizhong is not a fool, the other party's invasion so quickly is obviously premeditated, it is difficult to predict whether the other party will sneak attack the team that came to support.

"The Luo family, wait, I'll come and make a decision myself," Akasaka thought as he walked down the castle tower.