Chapter 586 - Overwhelming

On the night of June 21, the 17th year of the Astronomical Year, when Masato led the standing and temporarily recruited miscellaneous soldiers along the way to the fortress of Uto County with torches, it was the wealthy clans of Uto County led by the Ukawa family who greeted Masa.

Under the call of the Neihe family, these local landowners and wealthy families expressed their submission to Zhengliang. When he received the name of the young master of the name and the head of the line shortly after officially entering Fengfu City, it was even more surprising to Zhengliang. After getting known and Xingzhi was killed, although Masahiro admired the wealthy clans led by the Neihe family on the surface, he sentenced these wealthy clans to death in his heart.

With Zhengliang's character, he categorically would not allow these revolutionary anti-bones to exist, but in order to assess the fat queen as soon as possible, Zhengliang had to temporarily agree to these people's request to keep their original territory. Anyway, it's time to appease them for the time being, and then slowly eradicate these guys one by one after they have completely controlled the situation in Higo afterwards. This time, Masarashi is ready to take a gentler approach. For the Neihe family, it is to send a cup of poisoned wine to their father and son, and then arrange for the meritorious people of the Luo family to inherit their family name, and the rest of the people are uniformly sealed, if they do not cooperate, they will be directly exterminated.

After getting the head of Nawa Yukinao, Masarashi sent Takasaka Masanobu to rush to Kawajiri Castle overnight with the heads of Nawa and Taketo's father and son. As a result, before Takasaka Masanobu's army could reach Kawajiri Castle, the defenders of the castle fled after learning that the castle lord had been killed. Takasaka Masanbu took Kawajiri Castle bloodlessly.

On the second day, after leaving some people to temporarily close the castle to guard Toyofuku Castle and Kawajiri Castle, Masarashi and Takasaka Masanobu once again led a large army to Uto Castle, the last rebel stronghold in Uto Prefecture, under the Uto Castle of the Nawa family.

At this time, as the first standing ashigaru team of the Luo family, who was the main attack on Utu Castle, Tankane, Tetsunosuke, Asakura Sodra and others were indeed in trouble. Although there were only about a hundred defenders in Uto Castle at this time. However, due to the fierce resistance of the castle's defender, Uto Yukiko. They didn't succeed in taking Uto Castle last night.

"Send the heads of the two fathers and sons, Na and Wutou, to the city. At the same time, he told the people of the Utu family in the castle that if Kaejo surrendered, he would guarantee that his territory would remain unchanged. After learning the details of Uto Castle, Masarashi said.

The Utu family is one of the most powerful wealthy families in the region, and although they were later subdued by the Nawa family, even Utu Castle as the main city was taken by the Nawa family, but the Utu family has always regarded this city as theirs, so the execution of the species and others will encounter such fierce resistance.

At this time, Masato really needs to pacify the fat queen as quickly as possible. Therefore, they had to temporarily adopt a policy of compromise and tenderness, promising to the Utu family to guarantee their roots. Anyway, after he frees his hands, how to deal with it will still have to be dealt with, and it will not be the turn of these wealthy families to oppose it at that time.

Sure enough, after seeing that the heads of the two fathers and sons, Nawa and Taketou, had been destroyed, and after receiving a written promise from Masara to retain his territory, Uto Yukiko finally surrendered Kaiseong.

After the complete occupation of Uto Prefecture, Masarashi joined forces with the first standing ashigaru team of Tankane, Tetsunosuke, Asakura Sotetsu and others, and officially crossed Midorikawa to Kawajiri Castle, which had just been occupied.

Here, the army rested for a while. Masahiro used this time to order the bodies of the two fathers and sons, Ming and Wutou, to be buried thickly. And the family members of the Nawa family were properly housed. This move was immediately favored by the retainers and the people of the original name and family.

In the afternoon, the army led by Masayoshi crossed the Shirakawa River and arrived at the Kikuchi family's home castle in Mitsuta-gun. Masahiro's army has reached the size of more than 1,000 people. Among them, the main force is Masaara's 100 cloaks and more than 300 samurai team samurai, as well as more than 300 standing ashigaru teams of the Luo family. The remaining more than 300 people are the troops of various small tyrants and small tyrants who surrendered along the way. In the future, with the implementation of the Luo family's law in Feihou, these enemy forces will disappear, but in this critical period when it is necessary to quickly conquer the city, these counties have indeed brought a lot of help to Zhengliang, so Zhengliang decided to give these wealthy landowners some additional benefits in the future.

Compared to other castles, because the army of the Kikuchi family and Kikuchi Yoshitake suffered huge losses under Kenshida Castle, and the fleeing defeated soldiers did not have time to flee back to the castle, after seeing Kikuchi Yoshitake's head, the guards of less than 30 people in the castle wisely chose to surrender in Kaejo.

"My lord, I am very happy! Congratulations to the Lord on his successive victories! Just as Masarashi was kneeling down on his seat in the council hall of the castle, Kansuke Yamamoto walked in with a smile.

"Oh? Strategist? Aren't you supposed to be stationed at Kenshida Castle? Why is it all of a sudden? It is important to know that at this time, other areas in the central part of Higo are still in danger. Zhengliang wondered. Because of Masarashi's request that the military advisor enter the council hall without notification, Yamamoto Kansuke was able to come to Masarashi so smoothly.

"Hahaha, my lord, it's okay, Your Majesty has come here to say hello to the Lord." After Kansuke Yamamoto finished saluting Masahiro, he said with a smile.

"Oh? What's the joy? Masari asked. If it is said that Masahiro's record of winning several cities in a row today is really not something worth showing off.

"Congratulations to my lord, just now, my subordinates received an urgent report from Jia Fei's relatives." Kansuke Yamamoto said as he presented a letter to Masarashi.

"Oh? How did it go so well? When Masahiro opened the letter, he couldn't help but be surprised. Originally, in his original plan, several castles belonging to the Omiya family would be the most difficult to capture, but at this time, the information sent directly by Jia Fei said that he had taken Daoshang City and Jinsen City overnight last night, and then personally entered the city today to persuade the defenders of Wuzi City. At this time, he had already left some soldiers to guard the castles, and then led his army to Takekashi Castle of the Hezhi family, preparing to join the army of Isono Yuanchang, Enjoji Nobuyin and others who were attacking there.

"Congratulations, my lord, after getting Wuzi City, the family will open the door to enter the Aso Basin, the hinterland of the Omiya Division." Kansuke Yamamoto said.

"I didn't expect it to be so fast!" Masashi also nodded in praise.

"Lord, please don't forget, Lord Kai was once the premier minister of the Omiya family, and his prestige in the Omiya family is quite huge, even if he is no longer a retainer of the Omiya family, his influence is still not to be underestimated, in addition, at this time, Lord Kai Qinzhi also has the captured governor of the Omiya Si family." Kansuke Yamamoto said.

"Hehe, that's good." Masato said with a smile. With these two trump cards, it is indeed possible to make the strategy of Kai Fei go a lot smoother. It seems that his previous arrangement was to take advantage of this advantage by mistake. (To be continued......)