As early as that year, when Masara learned that his son-in-law Teirau was defeated in southern Kyushu during the conquest of the western region, Masara began to lay out the strategy for southern Kyushu.

At that time, Masarashi had already secretly reached the Cabinet of Internal Affairs and the military to start the mobilization of temporary peasant soldiers and the preparation of supplies. Of course, due to the ongoing strategy of the western kingdom at that time, a part of the peasant soldiers had already been mobilized on a large scale, and in order to ensure the stability of the territory, the other part of the peasant soldiers could only be mobilized in a rotational way.

In order to avoid leaking the news of the departure from southern Kyushu, the mobilization orders for these peasants and soldiers were all under the pretext of temporary drills. At the beginning, such a large-scale drill suddenly appeared in the territory, which really added a lot of work to the territory. And at that time, the Luo family was still attacking the Western Region, and while making preparations for this part, it was also necessary to ensure the logistics of the Western Raiders at that time, which once again brought more challenges to the various institutions of the Luo family, but fortunately, in the end, these institutions and the retainers completed the tasks assigned by Zhengliang.

At the same time, because the standing reserves of the Luo family were already a little tired in the western strategy, after the end of the western strategy, Zhengliang had to rest for a while, so that the standing reserves, which were the main combat forces, were rested, and the personnel replenishment and weapon maintenance of the standing reserves were also carried out in time.

And when the first qiē was basically ready, Masara deliberately lurked in the territory of the Luo family, and the Saeki family, the Shimazu family, the Ito family and other forces that had been discovered by the Luo family's intelligence cabinet, and spread the news that the Saeki family was about to go out of the Bungo country, thus attracting the attention of the Saeki family, the Shimazu family, and the Ito family to the border of the Saeki family in the Bungo country, and then secretly dispersed the prepared peasant soldiers to the Higo country under the pretext of drills.

As for the other part of the peasant soldiers who were originally going to gather in the Bungo Province area. The same is a blatant start to gather locally. The navy also assembled along the coast of Bungo Province. Anyway, the purpose of a qiē is to give the Saeki family, the Shimazu family, and the Ito family an illusion. That is, the Luo family is preparing to attack the Saeki family's territory in Bungo Province with all their might.

Actually doing these moves on the surface at the same time. Masara also secretly dispatched permanent units to the borders of Higo Province, Hyuga Province, and Satsuma Province in a decentralized manner. Of course, in fact, regardless of whether or not Masarashi will send a large army to these areas, once the Ito and Shimazu families decide to support the Saeki family, they will inevitably mobilize the troops in the territory and send troops to the border with the Luo family.

Such a large-scale mobilization of personnel, again in the spring ploughing season, naturally brought great trouble to the territory of the Shimazu family and the Ito family, but the Luo family itself also consumed a lot. After all, not long ago, a Western Raid that mobilized tens of thousands of people was carried out, and now after a little rest, a new raid on Minami Kyushu will be launched immediately.

Although according to the law of the Luo family, after the main labor force of a certain household is mobilized, the internal affairs cabinet of the Luo family will hire another part of the unmobilized subjects to help the people who stay at home to carry out spring ploughing, or send the slaves from the slave farm to help. Anyway, according to the law of the Luo family, the people only need to pay taxes within the specified time, and as for the forced labor and temporary mobilization in the general time, the internal affairs cabinet of the Luo family will give the corresponding remuneration to the people through guò coins, food and even labor help.

In the eyes of later generations, this method was actually an investment in the people. The wealth invested in the lords was returned to the rule of the Luo family through later taxes and commercial actions of the lords. And this investment. Even if the wealth spent cannot be recovered, it must have ensured the stability of the territory and promoted the development of the territory, so it is beneficial in any case.

Of course, the sudden investment in temporary mobilization for war like the present one is very costly, and the income will not pay off until some time has passed. And this time, a total of more than 90,000 people were mobilized, including the armies arranged by Zhengliang and the retainers of various institutions of the Luo family. The number of people is even larger than the last Western Kingdom Raider.

And because it has just ended the Western Kingdom Raiders, it has suddenly caused a large amount of consumption of various material wealth in the Luo family's warehouse, plus the consumption of various internal affairs in the current territory (especially the construction of the newly occupied Western Region), if you add the local construction consumption after the occupation of Southern Kyushu in the future, according to the budget of the Cabinet of Internal Affairs, after the end of this Southern Kyushu Raider, the family needs to recuperate for at least a period of time to replenish the various war preparations and materials consumed.

Of course, if Minami Kyushu fails this time, then the Roche family has really made a loss-making investment. But with such an investment, Zhengliang is indeed willing to gamble. After all, according to Masaara's previous layout, it is completely based on the resources of more than ten territories such as Hizen Country, Higo Country, Chikuzen Country, Chikugo Country, Bunzen Country, Bungo Country, Zhou Defense Country, Nagato Country, and Aki Country that the Luo family currently controls to wage a war of attrition with the Satsuma Country of the Shimazu Family and the Hyuga Country of the Ito Family. In fact, in this big battle, after the Shimazu family, the Ito family, and the Saeki family entered the battlefield that Masarashi had prepared for them, they had gradually begun to become losers.

With the manpower and material resources of their territory, how can they gamble with the manpower and material resources of such a huge territory of the Luo family? What's more, from the information reported from the Intelligence Pavilion before, Masato also knew that the Shimazu family had already prepared a lot of war horses and iron cannons in order to deal with the Luo family, which caused a lot of resources in the family to be consumed. Therefore, under the layout of Zhengliang, as long as it is delayed fiercely, then these heroes in Southern Kyushu will be dragged to death by the Luo family.

And now that Matsuo Castle is occupied by the Luo family, the armies of the Shimazu family are blocked in a fixed area. To the south is a narrow and resource-poor mountain road, and to the north is the territory of the Saeki family, which has been plundered by an army sent by Masaara. After not having enough manpower and material resources, they simply could not rely on this area to fight against the Luo family army besieging them on their own.

As for the Hyuga Kingdom, Satsuma Province, and even the Osumi Province region, which has already occupied a lot of territory by the Shimazu family, how can they resist the invasion of the Luo family without the command of their own governor and the loss of a large number of their own elite troops? After all, according to the second plan of Masahiro. After the Shimazu family, the Ito family, and the Saeki family were stopped in place. On the one hand, the Luo family adopted the strategy of sticking to the local area to intercept the other party. On the one hand, it is to make several large armies that have long been assembled in the border area of Minamihigo Province begin to encroach on the territory of Hyuga Province, Satsuma Province and even Osumi Province.

At the same time, it is supplemented by various means such as spreading rumors and assassinations. After all, when they learned that their own family governor and the main elite army were besieged, and the Luo family began to attack from multiple directions, the Shimazu family and the Ito family must be panicked.

Moreover, after so many years of development of the Intelligence Pavilion, a large number of chess pieces have been arranged in various places in the past few years in accordance with the strategy set by Masahiro when he established the Intelligence Pavilion. Of course, in fact, these chess pieces were not arranged for the purpose of this raid on southern Kyushu, but the consistent style of the Intelligence Cabinet all along.

In the Intelligence Cabinet. According to different levels, a large number of people will be arranged in various places, for example, now, the Intelligence Pavilion has even placed chess pieces in the easternmost shrimp area. These chess pieces generally settle in various places as normal people, except for the occasional local intelligence to the Luo family and other trading houses, and collect the information in a password form to the secret sub-stations in each region, and then the sub-stations will collect the information before sending the information back to the territory of the Luo family. And once the territory where these chess pieces are located becomes the Luo family's strategy in the future, these chess pieces that are no different from ordinary people will turn around and begin to play a greater role.

In addition, the closer to the area of the Roche family. The more pieces there will be. And the treatment of these chess pieces, in general. Their families and clansmen will settle in the Luo family and be treated well. Even if the chess pieces themselves have established a new family in the local area, the Intelligence Pavilion will regularly pay these chess pieces. As for the occasional chess pieces who leave the Luo family's intelligence cabinet, because according to their rank, they actually only know their own situation and don't know the situation of the rest of the people, so if they don't take the initiative to leak the information of the Luo family's intelligence cabinet, they will become ordinary people from now on, and they will not be retaliated against by the Luo family. Of course, if they have family members or clansmen who stay in the Luo family's territory, then unless the other party takes the initiative to settle in the Luo family's territory, they will not be able to contact them from now on.

I believe that with the help of these chess pieces of the Intelligence Pavilion, who have settled in the area as ordinary people a long time ago, Masara's second step of the cannibalization plan against southern Kyushu will be greatly advanced.

As for why Masahiro suddenly had such a layout, it was all thanks to a secret letter. This secret letter was sent to Masaliang along with the news that his father-in-law Saito Michizo was rebelled and disappeared by his son Saito Yoshiryu when he was in charge of the Western Kingdom Raiders in Zhou Fangguo. At that time, after receiving this letter, Masashi was indeed very happy. Immediately, he thought of the Zhongshan Castle of the Mitai family, a place that the Luo family secretly mastered, which provided great help to the layout that Masahiro immediately thought of.

Of course, Masashi is not an all-powerful person, and after capturing Mitai Youwu, Masara only planned to pass Guò Mitai Youwu to control Zhongshan Castle according to zhì, and then use it as a pawn to seek Hyuga Kingdom. It's just that this unintentional move has provided great help to Zhengliang's layout this time.

Now, with the back road where Matsuo Castle is located blocked, and the main forces of the Shimazu family, the Saeki family, and the Ito family besieged, the first step of Masara's layout is completed, and the second step of the layout will begin immediately. In this layout, Masahiro is based on the entire family background of the Luo family and the three powerful families of Southern Kyushu. Such a confrontation, the Luo family is qualified to initiate, and can be initiated at any time, and can afford to lose. And the three southern Kyushu Haoqiang, who have much less territory and family background than the Luo family, don't even have the qualifications to initiate such a confrontation. They can only fight against the Roche family in a specific local area, and cannot start a full-scale battle.

In fact, neither the Shimazu family, the governor of the Shimazu family, Shimazu Takahisa, nor the Ito family, Yoshisuke Ito, was aware of this problem. It's not that they're not smart enough, it's that they lack an understanding of the big picture. All they care about is their own territory, and even Shimazu Takahisa doesn't care more about Satsuma Province, Osumi Province, and Hyuga Province, the three places that were ruled by the ancestors of the Shimazu family. They were completely unaware of how much territory their opponents, the Luo family, had at this time. He will not compare the territory he has mastered with the Luo family's territory thoroughly. So in their subconscious, they will collide with the Luo family in a certain local area, and the Luo family's family can only be like this.

But in fact, with the Luo family's background, it is completely possible to fully collide with them, even if a local area fails in the confrontation, it will not have much impact on the overall situation. According to the language of later generations, they collided with the Luo family with the mentality of a frog at the bottom of the well, just like a county and a large province and region.

As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is a great disadvantage to fight without mastering others. And both Shimazu Takahisa and Ito Yoshisuke not only did not know the strength of the Luo family very well, but also troubled by the previous way of fighting, thinking that defeating the Luo family on a battlefield would win, so they joined forces and came to support the Saeki family.

More importantly, Masayo came from later generations, and he originally had a map of the entire territory of the Warring States in his heart, so he not only knew his own situation clearly, but also roughly estimated the enemy's situation in combination with the intelligence cabinet's investigation of the enemy, so as to make a layout. Moreover, Zhengliang's combat method does not follow the methods of the old era, but pays more attention to reality and results, and is based on victory. In this way, it is strange that Takahisa Shimazu and Yoshisuke Ito and others do not fall into the layout of Masayo.

Therefore, from the time the Shimazu family and the Ito family entered the chess game arranged by Masayo, they have gradually become losers.

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