Astronomical 18th year (1549), early April, night.

On the shore of Hakata Bay on a spring night, the sea breeze blows with a slight salty smell.

At this time, in a rocky bush on the coast near Hakata Bay, Masara, accompanied by Yoshida Shigemasa and others, led a 100-man cloaked group, a 400-strong samurai team, a standing ashigaru of 200 people, and a black hawk of 50 people, and hid quietly.

In addition to the crevices of these rocks, weeds are grown, and there is also a flower that the locals name Higan flower, which can be found almost everywhere in the Hakata countryside. It is said that in the understanding of the local people, the other side has the meaning of spring. Therefore, the flower of the other side is also called the flower of spring, so the flower of the other side blooms, which indicates that spring is coming.

It's just that in Masaliang's view, spring represents the graceful hue of sunshine, but the color of the flowers on the other side is a bit like the color of blood, which is really a bit eerie and cold.

The night was not very clear tonight, and through the cracks in the rocks, Masara could only see the sound of waves crashing against the rocks on the shore from time to time, but he couldn't see the dark sea on the surface. It's really just a sound and can't see it.

"Lord, look, there, here." At this time, Shigemasa Yoshida, who was beside him, said.

Following the direction that Shigemasa Yoshida was pointing, Masarashi turned his head to look. I saw that in the night, on the dark sea, a few stars suddenly lit up. As time goes by, there are more and more stars on the sea. In fact, it is not the stars, but the torches on the ship. Because of the distance, it feels a bit like a starry scene.

"And sure enough, it came. Today I want you to wait and have no return. Seeing these ships that suddenly visited in the first half of the night, Masashi in the dark sneered.

Qing Jinglong, who was dressed as a foot monk in the city, thought that he had successfully entered the territory of the Luo family in Chikuzen Province without attracting the attention of the Luo family. In fact, the opposite is true. Because the Luo family practiced a system of degrees for all monks who entered their territory. Plus this time is a sensitive time. As a monk who suddenly entered the Luo family. Naturally, he attracted the attention of the Luo family's intelligence cabinet, so since Qingjing Takashi entered the Chikuzen Hakata area, he was secretly followed by the Luo family's detectives.

But Qingjing Takashi is also a very smart person, and during the period of time he just entered, he stayed in the temple, pretending to be a monk who really returned to the temple to do penance. But he didn't expect that because the Luo family's detectives and Black Eagle had received training in Zhengliang's investigation skills, they specifically mentioned it. During sensitive periods, the more normal the subject of suspicion is, in fact, the person is abnormal. So even after more than a month, the black eagle of the Luo family still followed him. Finally, just when he thought he could act, the horse's feet were finally revealed.

Later, the Luo family paid a lot of money to buy a monk in the temple who was responsible for cleaning the temple, and asked him to secretly monitor the movements of the temple Qingjinglong in the temple. And Qing Jinglong's secret operations outside the temple were also secretly monitored by Black Hawk, so a lot of the power that he instigated and pulled was also exposed. So that the Roche family can prepare in advance.

And tonight's opponent is planning to let the water army of the Zongxiang family sneak attack Hakata, who is piled up with reconstruction materials. Subsequently, with the fire in Hakata as a signal, troops quickly rose up in various places to echo. In order to arouse the return of the troops stationed in the border area of the Luo family. As a result, the Ouchi family and the Zongxiang family, who had long been prepared in the territory of the Zongxiang family, combined forces to attack the front of the building.

Although Yoshitaka Ouchi essentially did not intend to conflict with the Luo family at this time, in the current situation of interests. He still couldn't help it. What's more, even if it fails, he can directly say that this is the sole action of the sect portrait family. Of course, if the Luo family wants to trouble the Zongxiang family at that time, it will be impossible, and he will definitely send troops to help the Zongxiang family at that time.

Just as ships appeared on the Hakata Bay screen, several torches were lit at the same time on Shikashima Island, at the mouth of Hakata Bay.

"Humph!" Seeing such a situation, the political conscience said that these people who lit the torches were naturally responsible for responding to the invading naval army tonight. At this time, Masahiro wanted to break their bodies into pieces. If it weren't for the fact that there were several mistakes within the other party at the same time, and this period happened to be the time when the Intelligence Pavilion was paying close attention to Chikuzen, I am afraid that I would really be recruited this time.

"My lord, it's our people, and the number of torches means that the harbor is safe at this time." Shortly after the torches on Shiga Island were lit, a samurai said to a man in armor beside him on the ship led by the intruding ship that was slowly approaching the mouth of Hakata Bay Port. The person wearing the armor was none other than the general of the Zong Xiang family's naval army this time.

"Well, is it really safe to confirm?" Sakashi reaffirmed as he looked at the dark Hakata Bay estuary. It's not that Ryō is too cautious, but because the geography of Hakata Bay is really unfavorable for sneak attacks. Hakata Port is surrounded by land on three sides, and only the direction of the estuary is connected to the sea, and if a naval force blocks the estuary, the ships inside will become turtles in an urn.

"My lord, according to the agreement, as long as three torches are lit at the port, it means that there are not many guards in the port at this time, and there are not many ships of the Luo family's navy. Now the port agreed to contact the place of contact is indeed lit three torches. The samurai said again.

"Okay, order a quick entry into Hakata Port." After confirming it again and again, Ling Shikan finally ordered. Visibility on the sea is so low that you can't see anything more than a hundred meters away unless you light a torch on your own initiative. Now that they are all here, the family's hososaku lurking in Hakata Bay has sent a message of safety, and he has no choice but to grit his teeth and believe it.

With the order of the Ling clan, the water army of the Zongxiang family began to enter Hakata Bay.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! "When the fleet entered the mouth of Hakata Bay, the fleet was quickly spotted by the guards who were at the port of Hakata Bay because it was carrying torches, and in the dark night, several warning sounds suddenly came to mind.

"Quick, order the ship to speed up and crash into the harbor." Originally, he was worried that there would be fraud in it, and immediately ordered. If the port was still silent at this time, then Ling Shikan would definitely order the return of the ship immediately, but now there is an early warning in the port. Instead, he was relieved. So he had to land the fleet before the harbor guards could react. This time, he brought almost two-thirds of the Zongxiang family army. and the combined army of more than 2,000 people of the Ouchi family and the clan family. According to previous information, the Luo family's naval army stationed in Hakata Port at this time had less than twenty ships and less than a hundred guards. As long as the navy can land, then Hakata will almost fall in one fell swoop.

Suddenly, in the middle of the night, there was a chaotic exclamation of the guards in Hakata Port, and in the distance, at the mouth of Hakata Bay, nearly 200 ships of the Zong Elephant family entered the sea like fire dragons galloping on the sea (because the soldiers on board were holding torches. From a distance, it is indeed very much like a fire dragon) rushed towards the port.

"Bang, bang, bang......"

With the constant sound of ships crashing against the ground on the shore of the port, the flotilla finally came to shore.

"Run, the enemy has come to shore." In the darkness of the night, the guards who had been desperately shooting with bows and arrows on the shore of the harbor shouted. Then the defenders in the harbor began to fight and retreat.

"Kill!" Ling Shijian, who had just jumped off the ship, shouted loudly, and immediately commanded his soldiers to quickly kill the interior of the port. They must hurry up to occupy Hakata, burn the materials they can't take with them, and then defend on the spot, completely disconnect the Luo family with the Tachibana family and the territory of the former Sugi family, and let the Tachibana family cooperate with the Ouchi family's army, which is quickly entering from the direction of Sonataka County, to take these areas again.

And the situation in the harbor seemed to be as he had predicted, due to the small number of people. The Roche garrison in the harbor retreated into the depths of the camp where the supplies were stored, and even abandoned the ships in the harbor. At this time, Ling Shikan didn't pay too much attention to some ships that were no longer empty. After leaving some people to guard his ship, he led the people directly into the Luo family's material storage camp in Hakata.

"Bang!"

Just when the Ling family had already entered the depths of the camp and had seen the Luo family guards who were gathering in the distance, a string of sparks suddenly rose from the Luo family guards, and then with a "bang" sound, starry sparks were emitted in the sky.

"Not good!" After seeing the abnormal behavior of the Luo family, Ling Shiji, who has always been extremely cautious, immediately secretly said something bad in his heart.

"Boom!"

Before Ling could call his soldiers to pay attention, the materials around them suddenly burst into flames.

"Ahh Fire! Some of the soldiers of the Zongxiang family and the Ouchi family, who were unable to react, were immediately ignited by the fire, and immediately shouted in horror. He also shouted and ran wildly, trying to extinguish the fire on his body.

"Boom!"

The entire surrounding area of the camp seemed to be ignited instantly, and under the scorching heat, several explosions were even heard, and more than a dozen soldiers were directly blown up.

"The camp is on fire, and the explosives are working, so presumably the navy is starting to move this way, so let's set off too." Looking at the fire in the port of Hakata, Masaro said to Shigemasa Yoshida, who was beside him.

After learning that the Ouchi family would send people to attack Hakata Port recently, Masarashi had already taken advantage of the past few days to secretly send a large amount of fire oil, flammable materials, and even some explosives to the port under the guise of transporting materials for the reconstruction of Hakata.

In order to avoid arousing the vigilance of the hostile Hosaku who was monitoring the movements of Hakata Port, Masarashi did not increase the number of defenders in Hakata Port, but secretly ordered the defenders in the large camp to bury the useful materials inside to avoid damage in the future battle, and at the same time replace the flammable materials, oil and explosives with the original storage of the reconstruction materials. When the enemy army was led into the depths of the camp, these Luo family guards, who had been prepared for a long time, took refuge in the shelter location that had been prepared for a long time, and at the same time lit the signal that had been agreed with the other armies of the Luo family in advance (that is, lighting fireworks from the Ming Kingdom).

In this way, the fire in the camp was only harmful to the enemy army, and the other Luo family armies also began to attack after seeing the signal in the sky.

Some people may ask, but it seems that the various forces of the Ouchi family instigated in Chikuzen were also called by the fire at Hakata Port, and then they all started to attack?

That's what Masato wants now. Since the other party also burned Hakata, let's let Hakata burn, and this fire will be burned by the Luo family itself (poor Hakata, since he was burned by the Ouchi family Naito Xingsheng in October last year, before he started to rebuild, he was burned by the fire again). In this way, through this fire, all the cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods were attracted out, and they were introduced into the large urn that the Luo family had prepared for them.

With Masara's order, the people who were ambushed in the rocks began to light their torches, and then began to quickly attack the shore of Hakata Port, directly attacking the Munegar clan naval forces there, in order to intercept the rout of the burning camp and seize the enemy ships docked on the coast.

Before leaving, Masara took a look at the narrow waterway at the mouth of Hakata Bay. According to the previous plan, during this time, the first team of the navy army that was ambushed at the mouth of Hakata Bay every night on the other side of the bay of Mt. Mioki would arrive as quickly as possible, and then block the mouth first, and then cooperate with the army of the Luo family on land to encircle and suppress the invading enemy. If the invading Muneka Naval Army can be left here this time, it will greatly weaken the Shoka Naval Army and change the distribution of the sea potential along the coast of Chikuzen Province. (To be continued......)