October 2 of the first year of Koji, early in the morning.

After a night of continuous attack, whether it is the Ashigaru team or the water army, these troops of the Luo family are already a little tired. As a result, they all suspended their attacks and, after a short rest, intensified their control over the newly occupied areas.

At the same time, the second-line troops of the Luo family, who had received the news from the Honkina detective in time, also began to board ships from the coast of the Zhou Fangtan of Fengzen Kingdom, and they would rush to Aki Country to take over the defense of the newly occupied territories by the first-line Ashigaru teams and the naval forces, and assist the personnel of the Luo family's various institutions who arrived at the same time as them, such as the Internal Affairs Pavilion and the Luo Academy, to begin to receive the territory.

At this time, the captives of the Maori family, who were starving on a small island in the Seto Inland Sea, were about to be freed from starvation, and they would be escorted by the second-line troops who were about to arrive to the area occupied by the Luo family in Aki Province to be guarded, and became the first slave team of the Luo family in the local area, responsible for building a marching road for the Luo family. It can be said that once the war starts, the system of the Luo family's military and internal affairs running at the same time will automatically operate.

Compared with the Zoshigaku and the Navy that launched the blitzkrieg strategy overnight, the Second Standing Naval Force where Kanatsu was located first escorted the Fifth Standing Ashigaru Squad of nearly 5,000 people under the command of the executive species to the coast of Saeki Prefecture in Aki Province and landed on the coast, and then quickly rushed to join up with Masarashi's fleet, which had arrived in the waters around Itsukushima overnight, and then blocked the waters near Itsukushima, not allowing even a small boat to pass by. Immediately, Masahiro and the others spent the night directly on the ship. Both passes were well rested as a result.

The Mori family's garrison off the coast of Itsukushima also spotted boats with torches in the distant waters. But because the Roche ship did not come close. And they didn't have the ships to send anyone to confirm. At night, it was dark again, and they all thought that their own sailors had returned, so they didn't pay much attention to it. As a result, in the early morning, when the Luo family's navy officially began to approach the coast of Itsukushima, they found that all these ships were flying the eagle flag with black stripes on a white background.

"Huh? The Luo family's water army is here! In an instant, the news of the killing of the Luo family's naval army quickly spread throughout Itsukushima.

In order to frighten the already terrified Maori coalition soldiers, Masara even deliberately asked Li Huamei to sail the ship close to Itsukushima, and fired several shells at the camp set up by the Maori coalition on the coast of Itsukushima. Suddenly, the Maori allied soldiers in the camp cried and cried for a commotion.

Masara then sent ships to patrol the coast of Itsukushima, during which the loud-voiced soldiers specially selected on board began to shout at the island. The main content of its shouting is:

First, tell everyone on the island that the Tao family's navy has all surrendered to the Luo family, and the Maori family's navy has been wiped out by the Luo family's navy. In order to prove this information to the people on the island, not only did the propaganda ships fly the flags of some Maori United Naval Forces, but some ships captured from the Maori United Naval Forces served as patrol boats, and some Maori naval captives would loudly "speak by example" on the boats to persuade the Maori Coalition on the island to surrender.

Meantime. The ships of the Tao family navy that surrendered to the Luo family will also fly their own flags and follow the patrol propaganda team of the Luo family's navy. Take on the role of persuasion.

The second is to tell the people on the island that they are regarded by Maori Yuan as a substitute for the Luo family. And after Mao Liyuan learned of the arrival of the Luo family's sailors, not only did he not inform the people on the island, but also deliberately left them to contain the Luo family, and he himself escaped by boat overnight.

The third is to encourage the Tao family's defeated troops who are hiding in the mountains and forests of the island to spontaneously organize themselves to resist the Maori family's coalition forces, and gather at Itsukushima Shrine, where they will receive support from the Luo family after surrendering to the Luo family. As for the Maori coalition army, if they choose to surrender to the Luo family at this time and submit to the Luo family, the Luo family will not be responsible for the past.

Fourth, let Ouchi Yoshizun and others show their faces and persuade the Tao family in those islands to defeat the defeated soldiers.

For most of the day, the ships of the Luo family's navy were divided into more than a dozen patrols around Itsukushima, constantly shouting along the coast. And this content quickly spread around the island.

The first to be hit was naturally the coalition forces left on the island by the Maori family, especially those local tyrants and small landlords who were basically not known as Anyi Country, Bigo Country, and Bei China, and these forces were basically dispatched by the elite of the whole family under the conscription of the Maori family (but at most, including the family governor, there were at most about a dozen people). These people are not fools, after the Luo family's water army publicized it, they thought about it for a while, and immediately found that something was indeed wrong.

What's more, they found that the well-known governors and important retainers of the wealthy clan in their local area were all picked up by Maori Yuan last night, and only they, who were the lowest level of the wealthy class, were left behind. If it is really as the Luo family's navy said, once they are destroyed on Itsukushima, then their family's territory will be annexed by those more powerful local wealthy families who were taken over by Maori Yuan.

This is really not only a substitute for the Maori family, but also a fat meat for the local powerful wealthy families. They were naturally unwilling to accept such an outcome, so they immediately became the first force to break away from the Maori family alliance and surrender to the Luo family.

At this time, among the Maori clan alliance forces on Itsukushima, the biggest force was actually those low-level soldiers and retainers of the Maori clan and the famous wealthy families in various places. These powerful people are naturally not stupid, and after a little inference, they basically confirmed that what the Luo family said is likely to be true. So there was an immediate split in this camp.

Some of the retainers and warriors of the Hao family, who were originally loyal to their own family governor, even after learning that they were abandoned by their own lord, still chose to fight to the death and resolutely refused to surrender to the Luo family. But others don't think so, especially the lowest-level Ashigaru peasants. After all, people are selfish, after being besieged by the Luo family on Itsukushima, and abandoned by their own lord, they will naturally not be stupid enough to die for their own lord, so most of the people chose to surrender to the Luo family, as for the part of the people who are unwilling to surrender, but under the encouragement of the Luo family's patrol fleet, they have become the "letter of submission" for the part of the people who are willing to surrender to the Luo family.

However, the instant split and even infighting of the Maori coalition army gave the Tao family on the island a chance to breathe. Especially the father and son of Hongzhong Takaho, who have been besieged in Komabayashi, the most rearmost position of the Tao army on Itsukushima. They took the opportunity to break out of the encirclement and fled into the mountains and forests. At this time, Hongzhong Longbao father and son still held the hope of finding Tao Longfang in their hearts.

So where is the Tao Long House at this time?

It turned out that after the defeat, he had reached several places where there might be a fleet and tried to find a ship to escape back to Zhou Fangguo's Taolongfang, but after finally finding that he could not find a ship, he immediately hid in the mountains and forests deep in Itsukushima in order to avoid the pursuers. At this time, he also took his few remaining subordinates to climb the mountains and mountains in the depths of the mountains and forests.

And just when Tao Longfang was still hiding everywhere, in the afternoon of the same day, as people from the Maori family and the Tao family came to the shore to surrender to the Luo family, Zhengliang also quickly got two pieces of information.

The first piece of information is that Maori Yuan really escaped overnight after realizing that something was wrong last night. There is no way to deal with Maori Yuan's escape, after all, people who are good at strategy are basically very vigilant and cautious, and they are very good at analyzing information, and they are really cunning.

But Masato did not give up the pursuit of Mori Yuan and others, he immediately sent someone to convey the order to the team that was attacking An Yi Country, on the one hand, to inform them that Mao Li Yuan had also fled back to the shore of An Yi Country overnight last night, and asked them to be careful not to fall for Mao Li Yuan's conspiracy; On the other hand, they also set up checkpoints in the newly occupied areas to hunt down Maori Yuan and others.

And the second information, that is, Tao Longfang should not be dead, after all, Mao Liyuan was still vigorously sending people to search for Tao Longfang everywhere before leaving.

As for Tao Longfang's whereabouts at this time, Masahiro naturally didn't know about Lu Dao, although he also had a general understanding of history, but at that time, he only knew that Tao Longfang died on Itsuku Island in this battle. Although Itsukushima is only a small island on the map, in fact, it is a large island with valleys and forests for most of the island, and it is really not easy to find a person in such a place in such a short period of time.

But even so, Masayo issued a reward order to the many powerful forces of the Maori and Tao families on the island. That is, whoever can find Tao Longfang first can directly become a direct retainer of the Luo family.

This reward order immediately caused a stir on the island. Why such a huge reaction?

Because for those retainers and samurai of the wealthy clan who were abandoned by their own lords at this time, even if they have the opportunity to return home in the future, and they don't care about the past suspicion of being abandoned by the lord, but after all, there is a rift between the monarch and the ministers, and these people will basically have no chance to be reused in the family in the future, and they may even be eradicated by the lord's family. Now, as long as they can find the Tao Long room, then they can get a place as a direct minister of the Luo family, which is simply a good thing like pie in the sky.

You must know that the Luo family is now a well-deserved super overlord of Saikaido (i.e., the Kyushu region)! Isn't it okay to become a retainer under such an overlord? is so fragrant, where will they not be tempted? (To be continued......)