In late February of the second year of Yongroku, under the leadership of Masayo, the army of more than 20,000 people of the Luo family advanced by land and water, and rushed towards the Plum Castle of the Saeki family.

On the land route, the army of the Luo clan officially marched from Kuriyama Castle in the northern part of Kaibe County in Bungo Province, marched along the coast, and after crossing the Mt. Kohira and Mt. Hikodake in the border area, the whole army crossed the Tokigawa River, and finally took up a position at the foot of Mt. Chima in the southern part of Kaibe County to face the Ume-Rei Castle on Mount Ume-rei on the opposite side.

At the same time, the navy led by Li Huamei also went out from Beppu Bay in Bungo Province, and slaughtered into Saeki Bay with great momentum, because the Saeki family's navy had already been wiped out by the Luo family's navy a few years ago, so Saeki Bay in the east of Meimuli City instantly became the world of the Luo family's navy, and nearly 500 warships cruised in the surrounding waters in the sky.

On the second day of the Luo family's land and water army, more than 2,000 reinforcements led by Xiyuan Temple's adopted son, Xiyuan Temple Gongguang, finally arrived by boat (its naval army was also merged into the Luo family's naval army at the same time), landed safely on the coast east of Meimuli City, and joined the Luo family's large camp army along the way.

After arriving at the camp of the Luo family, the Gongguang of Xiyuan Temple also asked to meet Luo Zhengliang for the first time, and completely handed over the command of the Xiyuan Temple family to Luo Zhengliang.

In fact, for the order given to him by his father Xiyuan Temple before leaving, Xiyuan Temple Gongguang had some objections in his heart. Although the Xitu Temple family and the Luo family are allies, and the strength of the Luo family is also in full swing at this time, but even so, the Xitu Temple family does not need to hand over the most important military control to the other party, right?

You must know that the military strength of more than 2,000 people is the lifeblood of the Xitu temple family. In order to make up these more than 2,000 people. Father gritted his teeth and made a bloody capital to mobilize the territory. Although due to the invasion of the Luo family into the Northern Yiyu region. The Kono family, the Iyu Utsunomiya family, and the Ohno family, were all threatened by the Luo family on land and sea. Thus unable to be distracted from the Xitu temple family. As for the Ichijo family to the south of the main family, because the main family is an ally of the Luo family, he took the initiative to show favor to the main family, so that the shape around the main family has been greatly improved.

But after all, more than 2,000 people are the main military force in the territory of the family, once Yan zhòng is damaged in this raid, then the strength of the main family will also be affected, and it will even be invaded by the Kono family, the Yiyu Utsunomiya family, and the Ohno family.

It is really difficult for Xiyuan Temple Gongguang to understand this, and recently Xiyuan Temple Gongguang also discovered that since the last time the old Tuju Qingzong of the family was sent to the Luo family by his father, he brought back a secret letter written by the Luo family governor Luo Zhengliang himself. His father, Saionji Minoru, was in a mood that suddenly improved, and he even held several banquets recently. Such a strange change in his father recently naturally made Gongguang of Xiyuan Temple deeply uneasy.

Naturally, Masahiro didn't know about the worries of Xiyuan Temple Gongguang, but according to the previous agreement in the letter, this time Xiyuan Temple had to send reinforcements to support. In fact, at this stage, it is still impossible for the time being to completely surrender to the Luo family if Xiyuan Temple is really full, but when the Luo family captures the last remaining half of the Haibe County of the Bungo Kingdom. He even directly marched into the Hyuga Kingdom and Southern Kyushu, making the Luo family directly the only daimyo across the sea from the Saionji family in the west. Then Xiyuan Temple will be subdued, and it is even possible that the Xiyuan Temple family will become the first foreign name of the Luo family.

In fact, with the continuous development of the Luo family and the continuous advancement of the wheel of historical time, at this stage, in Zhengliang's view, the foreign policy of the Luo family should be changed. In the past, due to the weak strength of the Luo family and the implementation of a different system from this historical era, the Luo family had to ensure that all voices in its territory were consistent, so that almost every step of expansion indicated that it was mortal enemies with those local daimyo and wealthy families.

Now, after more than ten years of development and expansion, the Luo family has established a large and solid base in Kyushu and the western region, and has a guarantee of self-protection. Then, if the Luo family continues to implement the strategy of fighting to the death with the local wealthy clans every time they go to a new territory, if this continues, although the expansion of the Luo family will not be affected, but the speed of expansion will be greatly delayed.

However, the wheel of time in history will no longer wait for the Luo family, and now is an important historical turning point in the entire Warring States Period, if Masahiro hopes to take advantage of this moment to make the Luo family leave a strong mark in the annals of history, then it is necessary to avoid being delayed by the surrounding forces. In this way, the Luo family naturally needs more allies and more helpers, and the Xitu Temple family is one of the helpers appointed by Zhengliang. This raid on southern Kyushu is the first step for Masato to win this helper.

Just when the army of the Luo family accepted reinforcements from Xitu Temple, the defending troops of the Shimazu family and the Saeki family alliance in the opposite city of Meimuli City were in the midst of a storm. Since the army of the Luo family crossed the mountains and forests into the territory of Umemurai Castle, the two people of the Shimazu family, Shinna Tadamoto, and Saeki Zhentada, who were the main generals of the castle guards, immediately withdrew the defenders outside the city into the city, and then stood still, waiting for the opportunity to attack on the one hand, and waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from the rear on the other.

In fact, it is not that Xinna Zhongyuan and Saeki Zhenzhong are unwilling to take the initiative to meet the Luo family's army, in fact, their strength is too small compared to the number of the Luo family's army.

Ever since the Luo family destroyed the Otomo family and occupied most of the Bungo country, and even targeted the remaining half of Nankaibe Prefecture, the Saeki family has been attacked and harassed by the Luo family. First, the few and limited naval armies were attacked by the Luo family's naval army one after another, until they were finally destroyed by the Luo family. Then, after mastering the control of the coastal waters of the Saeki family's territory, the Luo family began to constantly harass the Saeki family's territory from the coast. During this period, the Saeki family also united with the Ito family's navy in the southern Hyuga country in an attempt to drive the Luo family's navy out, but even the Ito family's navy was defeated by the Luo family's navy several times, so the Saeki family could only endure the constant harassment of the Luo family alone.

In the past few years, after being constantly harassed by the Luo family from the land and the coast, the peasants outside the city were either looted by the Luo family or moved away by the Saeki family, so at this time the outside of the city was a wilderness and due to the limited military strength of the defenders, even if the land was cultivated by the army, it would be destroyed by the harassment of the Luo family. It's just that in this way, since there are no peasants, the number of defenders in the city is even smaller. Under such circumstances, how could the defenders in the city dare to go out of the city to conduct a field battle against the Luo family?

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