The sky was gradually dawning, and the pale blue sky was inlaid with a few remnant stars, and the earth was hazy, like a light veil shrouded in silver-gray. At this time, the sky has slightly exposed the protein, and the clouds are gathering on the edge of the sky, as if soaked in blood, showing a faint red.

On this night, the combined forces of the Otomo family and the Ouchi family scattered and fled like rats being driven, screaming and hissing intertwined. Countless black figures staggered in the barracks, and in the raging flames, one or two routs who tried to escape from the camp could occasionally be seen, and their heads were cut off by the forces of the Luo family who had caught up.

But there were too many people who fled, even if the Luo family's army pursued them with all their might, they still let some people escape into the woods of the nearby Kora Mountain or simply jumped into the Chikugo River, and the rest of the rout army was either slashed and killed by the Luo family's army or directly threw away their weapons and surrendered.

Masarashi wiped the sweat from his face and looked around. During the night battle, due to a large amount of blood flowing into the ground, coupled with the trampling of everyone, the surface of the camp at this time completely turned into a blood-colored mud field, on top of these mud, scattered all over the ground with blackened tents and other camp materials, and at the same time a large number of cold corpses. In some places, the corpses were even stacked on top of each other, soaked in mud like piles of tabula rasa meat.

Look at yourself again. After a night of fighting, Masahiro didn't know how many people he had killed, and now he suddenly found that his whole body was blood-red, and even the sweat wiped from his face was tinged with a touch of blood. The blood was all from the enemy, but Masato miraculously did not suffer any damage. Of course, this is mainly due to the hard work of several lieutenants and attendants who have been closely surrounding him. It seems that the last attack has made them angry.

As for how many people were killed in this battle, how brave he was. Zhengliang no longer pays attention. Since the last ambush. Masahiro already understands it very clearly. No matter how brave a general is, once he falls into the siege of the enemy formation, if he is single-handed, he will be besieged and killed. Don't look at the description of Guan Yu in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as if he entered a no-man's land to take people's heads, and Zhao Zilong broke into Cao Array single-handedly, these are just plots in the novel.

Back to reality, unless the enemy doesn't intend to kill you or you're invulnerable, you'll be besieged by thousands of troops. No matter how brave you are, you will die. In the last ambush, although Masarashi only killed more than 20 people in the end, he withstood hundreds of attacks, wounded countless enemy troops, and escaped from the constant siege of hundreds of people. At that time, Masashi was indeed very brave, but in the end he almost died of exhaustion. Therefore, Masarashi has already remembered that he must not easily fall into the situation of being besieged by enemies several times his size.

Of course, there were still losses in this battle. Thinking of this, Masahiro touched the word Jigang in his hand like a lover. At this time, several relatively large gaps had appeared on the blade of the Jigang first character, through the blood stains condensed on the blade. You can also vaguely feel that there are a lot of cracks on the blade. This katana, which has been by his side since the beginning of Masasa, has finally come to the end of history today. Masara touched the blade again. Then slowly tucked it into the scabbard.

For this knife. He planned to enshrine it at the Ōji temple of the Luo family located in Notakayama, Matsuura County, Hizen Province, so that future generations and people from the territory could visit it. It will also write its story into words and engrave it on a stone tablet in the temple for future generations to understand. What he didn't know was that this unintentional move caused the knife to become a famous attraction in the temple where he was located. It is even more so that this famous knife that is about to be broken can be kept hundreds of years later. But all famous knives rarely can be kept for that long. Therefore, this Jigang text can really be described as "the end of life and death is deserved".

"Lord!"

Just as Masato was resting for a while, several nearby generals came to Masaliang's side one after another. At this time, the battlefield was basically quiet, except for some of the wounded captives who were still wailing and screaming, the entire battlefield was basically controlled by the Luo family's military momentum.

"The order, Kakuma Ishimune led the rear and the wounded to garrison the battlefield to deal with the follow-up matters, and ordered Yamamoto Kansuke in the rear of Takarajo Castle to send someone to assist. He ordered Togo Heiji to immediately recruit another 3,000 peasant soldiers to come to support. Seeing that all the generals who could be found nearby for the time being had arrived, Zhengliang immediately ordered.

When the three heralds received the order, they immediately trotted down to deliver the order. Since Kansuke Yamamoto and Heiji Togo were still in Takarajo Castle at this time, and Kakukuma Ishizong was still leading his rear formation to treat the wounded of his family and dispose of the prisoners, so these people were not here at this time, so naturally they needed to be notified in person.

"The herald ordered Kinoshita Masanao to hand over the camp of the Ouchi family to the rear formation, and the main formation on the right flank of the city immediately crossed the Chikugo River and marched to the three prefectures of Yosu, Shizaza, and Kaiza in the territory of the Chikuzen Akizuki family on the north bank of the Chikugo River, taking advantage of the emptiness of the enemy formation to seize the castle as much as possible. Remember, do not fight to the death after encountering the enemy, and take the capture of the enemy's fortress as the primary goal. ”

Similarly, since Kinoshita Masanao's right formation was in the Ouchi family's camp at this time, Kinoshita Masanao was not present, so naturally two heralds quickly went to deliver the order.

"Shigemasa Yoshida immediately led his 3rd Standing Ashigaru Brigade back to Hizen Asahiyama Castle and Katsuo Castle, and joined the remnants of the 3rd Standing Ashigaru Brigade and the 1st Standing Iron Artillery Brigade that was assisting in the defense of the castle to take the initiative to attack the two castles of Akaji and Yamanya in Mihara County of Chigo-kuni Province on the north bank of the Chikugo River, and make sure that these two castles were not allowed to leave the castle, let alone go to support the castles of the three counties of Chikuzen Province Yasu, Shimoza, and Kaza."

Since the Ouchi family's camp was built on the south bank of the Chikugo River, tonight's battle inevitably caused many Ouchi families to flee to the north bank of the Chikugo River, and then to these two castles. At the same time, the military strength of the wealthy clans of those countries who are still rushing to converge will not immediately retreat back to their own territory after learning the results of tonight's battle, then they will basically enter these two castles nearby, so the number of troops in these two castles must be quite large, and Masarashi does not expect Yoshida Shigemasa to be able to conquer these two castles, but at least he can't let the troops in these two castles come out to make trouble, and even hinder Kinoshita Masanao on the other side of the strategy of Chikuzen Province.

Andel also rushed to Asahiyama and Katsuo Castle to join the iron artillery team here and assist Yoshida Shigemasa in his strategy against the two cities. The first large cylinder of the family should have arrived in the village castle at this time, and it was passed on to my order, and it was no longer necessary to transport it to Takara Castle, and it was rerouted to Asahiyama Castle. If necessary, you can use a large cylinder to attack. Masato looked at Andre, who was particularly tall on the side, and said. Last night, this guy also stabbed a few people to death with his Western-style swordsmanship, and his record can be described as a list, and he is secretly proud at this time. Now after hearing that he could use the big tube, he was naturally very happy to receive the order to follow Yoshida Shigemasa.

Masara's arrangement for Ander has its purpose, first of all, because tonight's night battle is more of a close combat, so there is no need to use the iron cannon team, so this team rushed to Asahiyama and Katsuo Castle to assist those left-behind soldiers in garrisoning the castle when Yoshida Shigemasa came to Takara Castle to assemble. Arranging for Andel to go back is naturally convenient for him to restrain his command and give full play to the maximum combat power of the iron artillery team, after all, if there is no suitable general, even if the iron cannon is powerful, it will not be able to exert itself.

Secondly, the foreigners in the current territory, whether it is Prussia and others who are in charge of technical skills, or Andel and others, who are in charge of the iron artillery team, basically only obey the orders of Zhengliang, and ignore the orders of others. Therefore, Masaliang deliberately made it clear this time that the strategy of this time is based on Yoshida Shigemasa, supplemented by Ander, in order to avoid conflicts between the two at that time, which will lead to changes in the strategy. These two people are smart people, so they naturally know the meaning of Zhengliang's words very well.

"Kai Jinzhi's left formation immediately set out, the goal is the three castles of Takeno, Myojian, and Nagawa in Chikugo Province, and the Kusano family, Hoshino family, and Kansho family in these three cities must be subjugated, and those who resist will be killed." In tonight's battle, many of the defeated troops of the Otomo family will definitely flee to these three cities to take refuge, and Masara sent a large army of Kai to go, on the one hand, to force these three cities not to dare to open the city to receive the defeated troops, and on the other hand, to force these three cities to surrender.

After this battle, with the crushing defeat of the coalition forces of the Otomo family and the Ouchi family, the Luo family will completely control Chikugo Province. Masayo, who has always been good at "defense and counterattack," naturally wants to immediately go full speed to expand the fruits of victory after the war. And now it's time to blow the horn of a counterattack. (To be continued......)