In the second year of Yonglu (A.D. 1559), mid-July.

The dazzling sunlight fills the corridors and courtyards of Matsuo Castle, an important town in the northern part of Hyuga Province, and the cuckoos call from time to time. Masahiro was dressed very neatly today and sat upright in the bedroom. On the pacification letters sent to various parts of southern Kyushu, he personally stamped the big seal of "the world Buwu".

Eleven-year-old Honda Tadakatsu was also smiling and kneeling beside Masayo at this time, and he was naturally very happy to be able to follow the side of the lord Masara and personally assist the lord in handling government affairs as the lord of the lord's small surname.

At this time, Masarashi was no longer the former Masara, he had pacified most of the territories of the Shimazu and Ito families, and almost the entire southern Kyushu region had been incorporated into the territory of the Luo family, as powerful and majestic as his Great Seal "Tianxia Buwu" claimed. And Honda Tadakatsu is no longer the Honda Tadakatsu he used to be. After participating in this tournament, with his cleverness and appearance, Honda Tadakatsu has begun to make great strides in the direction of a famous general.

"How are they?" Masara asked.

What Masara asked at this time was Shimazu Takahisa and others. After meeting with Togo Heiji, who had come to persuade Masayo, Masarashi told Togo Heiji about his thoughts and worries, and after a deep conversation with him all night, Togo Heiji finally decided to support Masayo's decision. Although Togo Heiji also had the idea of adding a piece of glory to the Togo family that could be passed on to future generations, he had always advocated that it should be safe, and after thoroughly understanding Masayo's thoughts, he immediately decided to act as Masayo's messenger, and instead persuaded the retainers who advocated doing his best to Kamiraku and invited him.

In addition to acting as a persuasion envoy for Masayo, Togo Heiji was also appointed by Masayo. Became the head of the negotiation on the side of the Roche family who negotiated with the Shimazu family. When Togo Heiji appeared in front of everyone in the Shimazu family. First of all, it was a little embarrassing for the Shimazu family. Because Togo Heiji was originally from the Togo family under the command of the Shimazu family, strictly speaking, Togo Heiji was originally a retainer of the Shimazu family.

It's just that when the branch of Togo Heiji was annexed by the main family of the Togo family, the Shimazu family, which was the clan family, did not stop it, and acquiesced in the actions of the Togo family, and the director was exiled to the Matsuura Peninsula area of Hizen Province, so that Togo Heiji met Masayo.

The present time has changed. It is ironic that Togo Heiji, who was abandoned by the Shimazu family at the beginning, became a powerful daimyo who could decide the life and death of the Shimazu family, but the people of the Shimazu family wanted to negotiate with the Luo family in order to gain more benefits for the Shimazu family.

Of course, Togo Heiji would never have the idea of the so-called old man to help the people of the Shimazu family in front of him, on the contrary, he directly proposed that the Ito family, as their ally, also proposed to the Luo family not long ago. This news really made everyone in the Shimazu family nervous.

People's minds are so strange, there is no one to compete with you, so it is natural to appear fearless, but suddenly there is a competitor, so you will lower your posture. So after some negotiations with Togo Heiji and others. The Shimazu family finally decided to surrender to the Luo family.

After surrendering, the Shimazu clan left the southern Kyushu region and transferred to the northern region of Shikoku Iyu Province. All of his possessions in Minamikyushu will be handed over to the Luo family, and their naval ships will be confiscated by the Luo family, but the naval force Ashigaru can return to land and decide whether to stay in the Minami-Kyushu region or follow the Shimazu family.

As a condition for the transfer of the Shimazu family, most of the people of the Shimazu family, who were trapped by Shimazu Takahisa, who needed to stay in Matsuo Castle as hostages, could immediately return to the southern Kyushu region. At the same time, the Luo family will be responsible for transporting all the people of the Shimazu family and some of the materials that originally belonged to the Shimazu family to the Shikoku Iyu region, and will be responsible for providing a temporary territory for the Shimazu family in the Iyu country as a temporary place for them to live.

During this period, the Shimazu family will provide the necessary material support for the Shimazu family (the materials are limited to the materials that are common in the Warring States period, and will not provide the unique materials, strategic materials, and technologies of the Luo family), and even in the future, after the Shimazu family has gained a foothold in the Shikoku region, if the Shimazu family continues to request material support, the Luo family will also provide material support according to their own situation.

First of all, the premise of the establishment of the agreement is that in the future, all minerals such as gold, silver, and copper in the Shimadzu family will be unconditionally owned by the Luo family, and if the assessed value of these minerals cannot be offset with the value of the materials provided by the Luo family, the Shimadzu family will also use the materials in their own territory or even the territory to offset the value of the materials owed to the Luo family.

In addition, after the Shimazu family seized the Kono family's Kenzan Castle and returned the temporary territory provided by the Luo family, the territory captured by the Shimazu family in the Shikoku region in the future will be owned by the Shimazu family. At the same time, all the people in the Shimazu family's domain (except for the Shimazu Takahisa family who needed to stay in Kyushu as hostages), whether they were retainers of the Shimazu family or ordinary lords, as long as these people were willing to follow the Shimazu family to leave, the Luo family could not stop them, and on the other hand, if there were retainers of the Shimazu family and ordinary people who were unwilling to leave, then the Shimazu family could not force it.

All in all, the two sides have obtained the benefits they have fought for in this agreement. On the Shimazu family's side, they actually had to surrender and surrender, because not only did this part of the Shimazu family's elite led by Shimazu Takahisa run out of materials and could no longer resist the attack of the Luo family, but as for Shimazu Yoshihisa and others in the territory, although they were still resisting the invasion of the Luo family's army, they were already tired of coping, and the territory had fallen one after another (in order to increase pressure on the Shimazu family's negotiations, the Luo family had previously informed the Shimazu family of the situation in the southern Kyushu region in a timely manner. In addition, in order to convince the other side, the Shimazu family retainers captured in southern Kyushu were constantly sent to the negotiation site, and the captives were asked to explain the situation to the Shimazu family in detail.)

What's even more strict is that the Shimazu family had previously purchased a large number of iron cannons from the Ming pirates along the coast. At the same time, a large number of horses were purchased in order to prepare for the cavalry. And so it goes. As a result, the Shimazu family has limited internal materials. Now in the face of the full-scale invasion of the Luo family, even if Shimazu Yoshihisa gritted his teeth and resisted with all his might, the material reserves of the Shimazu family could not hold on, so Shimazu Takahisa finally accepted the Luo family's transfer conditions after pondering alone for a day and a night.

Although they surrendered to the Luo family and accepted the conditions of submission that were somewhat humiliating to the Shimazu family, the Shimazu family not only ensured the continuation of the family, but also survived as the elite of the family. In Shimazu's view, the territory can be recaptured again after it is lost. However, the elite of talents who are the pillars of the family must not be damaged, and in the future, with this part of the elite, it will inevitably be able to make the Shimazu family strong again.

For the Luo family, not only did they obtain all the territories of the Shimazu family in the southern Kyushu region, but they also weakened and restricted the Shimazu family geographically, economically, and militarily, which was already a good gain.

So under the witness of the minister who represented the imperial court, the Shimazu family officially surrendered to the Luo family, and on a moonlit night, the Shimazu family officially left the valley that had been besieged for nearly half a year and entered the Luo family military camp in the north (of course. All of their weapons were confiscated, and they were only able to obtain a barely adequate supply of food.)

And at the time of leaving. At the request of Masahiro, the Shimazu family burned down the Shimazu family's military camp in the valley before the last person left the camp. The red fire not only represents the decline of the Shimazu family, but also expresses the departure of the Shimazu family to the Ito family camp next to it.

The news that the Shimazu family had abandoned their camp and surrendered to the Luo family (the Luo family had loudly proclaimed it in front of the Luo family camp in the south when the Shimazu family camp was burning) immediately shocked everyone in the Ito family camp, and then, due to the oppression of the long-term siege and the dissatisfaction caused by the lack of supplies (especially food), the camp immediately caused a camp roar in the Ito family camp, and a large number of Ito soldiers began to rush towards the Luo family's camp, they were ready to surrender to the Luo family.

Under the instigation of the Shimazu family, there were too many Ito soldiers who tried to rush out of the camp and surrender in front of the camp of the Luo family, and even if some samurai retainers loyal to the Ito family drew their swords and began to kill people in an attempt to prevent these soldiers from escaping, it still did not help, and even caused a scuffle.

In the past, when everyone's food was guaranteed, these Ito samurai and retainers would naturally be much better than ordinary soldiers in terms of force, but now everyone is hungry and powerless, and the fleeing soldiers also inspire greater strength because they need to escape to survive, so it has caused continuous casualties among these Ito samurai and retainers.

The scuffle lasted for most of the night, until the early morning of the next day, when Ito Yoshisuke counted the number of people again, there were less than 100 people in the entire Ito family camp who could still stand up, and the rest either fled to the Luo family camp and surrendered, or were killed or seriously injured in the fierce battle last night.

And just as Ito Yoshiyu fell directly to the ground for this, the army of the Luo family, which was located on the north and south sides, also began to slowly approach the camp of the Ito family. In this regard, the people of the Ito family, who were less than 100 people led by Ito Yoshiyu, showed their backbone and bravery, and rushed out of the camp directly to the army approaching the Luo family, but unfortunately, under the shooting of the arrow rain of the Luo family, everyone in the Ito family, including Ito Yoshisuke, fell in the way of the impact. With the fall of the Ito family's camp, the fierce battle that lasted for more than half a year around the Saeki family's territory finally came to an end.

In fact, the Ito family did make a request to the Luo family to surrender not long ago, but Masarashi did not accept it.

The reason why Masarashi accepted the submission of the Shimazu family and transferred it to the Shikoku region (this area is indeed a good place to besiege people, the most obvious example is that the Nagasho Ibu family, who unified the Shikoku region in history but eventually submitted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Shikoku conquest army, was divided and limited to Tosa Province, and the family governor Nagamune Ibu Motoko had the ability to die of depression, and his family was almost wiped out later), mainly because the Shimazu family experienced several generations in southern Kyushu and became entangled with local forces. And even in the face of the invasion of the Luo family's several armies, he was able to retreat slowly, and he did not lose too much territory at once.

In comparison, if Yoshisuke Ito had surrendered to the Luo family before the Hyuga country was invaded by the Luo family, Masarashi might have given the Ito family the same transfer treatment as the Shimazu family. However, with the fall of the northern and central regions of Hyuga Province respectively, and the surrender of Kaesong, which is located in the border area of Ogawakan and Kakuto Castle, even if Ito Yoshisuke does not surrender at this time, it will be a matter of time before Hyuga Province is occupied by the Luo family.

What's more, the Ito family has only just risen in the Hyuga region, and there is still a period of time before it reaches the peak of the forty-eight city lords in history, and its influence is only relatively strong in the Ito family in the central plain of Hyuga country, but in other regions, its influence is actually very average, which can be seen from the fact that after the Luo family's army entered these areas, the local forces surrendered one after another.

Therefore, under such a form, the Ito family is no longer qualified to surrender to the Luo family. More importantly, if the other party's submission is accepted, then a group of retainers in the southern Kyushu region led by Ito Yoshisuke will naturally be formed in the Luo family, which will increase the influence of the Ito family in the southern Kyushu region.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Masarashi finally did not respond to the other party's request for submission, and even used the evacuation of the Shimazu family to trigger the camp of the Ito family, thus directly destroying the camp of the Ito family led by Yoshisuke Ito.

Almost all of the people who died in battle with Ito Yoshiyu were the important ministers and elites of the Ito family, and it can be said that with their deaths, the decline of the Ito family is inevitable.

After accepting the submission of the Shimazu family and the fall of the Ito family's camp, Masarashi led the group to Matsuo Castle in the northern part of Hyuga Province, and after a short rest, a part of the Shimazu family returned to the Shimazu family's territory accompanied by the representative of the imperial court, Nakamon Nobuhide, and began to arrange for the evacuation of southern Kyushu.

As for the Shimazu family, led by Shimazu Takahisa and Ijiin Tadaro, they remained in Matsuo Castle as hostages (although a surrender agreement was signed and there were witnesses from the imperial court, this was just a piece of paper after all, and for the sake of safety, the Shimazu family had to leave some important people as hostages).

And what Masara just asked the little surname Honda Tadakatsu about the recent situation of Shimazu Takahisa and others in Matsuo Castle. So after thinking for a while, Honda Tadashi immediately replied:

"The adults seem to be very quiet, almost never go out of the house, and even their daily life is carried out in the house."

"Is that so?" After hearing this, Zhengliang also thought for a while, and finally nodded: "Since this is the case, it is very good." ”

Since the other party is so knowledgeable and does not secretly make small moves, Zhengliang is naturally satisfied. But is that really the case? Of course not.

In fact, for some time, the governor of the Shimazu family, Takahisa Shimazu, decided to give Masato a rebellion in his own way after thinking about it several times.

Masayo, who didn't know about this, was naturally defenseless, so at the beginning of August of the second year of Eiroku, the Shimazu family retreated from the western and central parts of Osumi Province, as well as the northern and central parts of Satsuma Province, and retreated to the southern part of Satsuma Province starting from Shimizu Castle, the castle of Shimazu, and after the Luo family also smoothly handed over the above-mentioned territory surrendered by the Shimazu family, Masarashi also ordered Shimazu Takahisa and others to return to the Shimazu family.

It's just that Shimazu Takahisa's departure this time has created a lot of trouble for Masara. (To be continued......)