The Chikuzen and Chikugo countries of Kyushu were indeed at war at this time.

On the day that Masato led the army to pursue Otomo Yoshikan. The generals of the Luo family began their strategy against Chikugo and Chikuzen in three ways according to Masaliang's previous orders.

The first to make contributions was the army of Kinoshita Masanao. On the same day, Kinoshita Masanao led a large army to quickly cross the Chikugo River and arrived on the north bank, and then took advantage of the lack of troops and negligence of the soldiers defending the city to capture the Iwakiriyama Castle of the Akizuki family in Chikuzen Province, and then he took advantage of the night to sneak attack the Madiliang Castle of Kamiza County, which had become a lonely city, and at this time he had already waved his army to surround the castle of Sugi Castle, the residence of the Akizuki family.

This time, the Qiuyue family was forcibly recruited by the Ouchi family into the strategy against the Luo family, and suffered heavy losses in the previous night battle, and now it was attacked by Kinoshita Masano, obviously caught off guard, and before he could react, the castles near the city fell one by one. And when Kinoshita Masanao's army appeared outside Sugi Castle, the Governor Akizuki Fumitsuki had just returned from the battle that night. Seeing that it was not good, the Qiuyue family had no choice but to make peace. At this time, the envoy of the Qiuyue family to sue for peace was already on the way to Riyu City.

And the army of Kai Qinzhi encountered a little difficulty.

As Masara had predicted, after learning that the combined forces of the Otomo family and the Ouchi family were defeated by the Luo family overnight, the Kusano family, the Hoshino family, and the Kansusho family all closed the city gates one after another, refusing to accept the defeated troops of the Otomo and Ouchi families outside the city, and unwilling to send personnel out of the city to contact the military forces of the Luo family. In desperation, Jia Fei had no choice but to send a large army to closely monitor the movements of these wealthy clans on the one hand, and on the other hand, to start chasing the defeated soldiers hiding everywhere in the countryside. to prevent these routs from causing chaos everywhere.

As for Shigemasa Yoshida's side. At this time, Mihara-gun, which was in Chikugo Province, confronted the army of the Ouchi family. After being hit hard by the Luo family's iron artillery team. The army of the Ouchi family fled back to the two castles of Yamaji and Akaji in an attempt to defend the castle.

In addition, Shinnosuke Akabane, who was in Mise Castle in Hizen Province, received an order from Masarashi to resolutely climb over the Miseka Castle located in the mountain road of Mt. Yama and began to march towards the Harada family Imori Castle in Chikuzen Province. At the same time, he also requested that the head of Harada, who had unfortunately been trampled to death by the fleeing soldiers, be sent to his station, and seemed to be plotting some plot against the Harada family.

At the same time, in order to cooperate with Shinnosuke Akabane's actions, the 6th Standing Ashigaru Brigade and the 1st Navy Brigade of the Matsuura Army in the Karatsu area of Hizen Province also began to march towards Chikuzen Province, aiming at Takazu Mountain Castle and Hakata Bay, respectively.

Besides. With the Cabinet of the Interior making every effort to clean up, the general situation of the First World War three days ago has been determined. In this battle, the Luo family killed a total of 33 cloaked people, 33 samurai, 122 standing ashigaru, more than 500 peasant soldiers, more than 2,000 wounded, 53 cultivated cattle were lost, and the rest of the injured cultivated cattle were either being searched or being treated. Among the soldiers of the Ouchi family and the Otomo family, more than 1,600 bodies were found in the vicinity of the camp alone (the bodies sunk into the Chikugo River could no longer be recovered, and it is estimated that there were at least several hundred dead here), and countless wounded, and more than 18,000 prisoners so far. The rest of the supplies are being sorted out.

In terms of generals. No generals were killed on the Luo family's side, and only eleven were injured to varying degrees. And the side of the Ouchi family and the Otomo family. The most unlucky is the Harada family's governor, Harada. In the process of escaping, this guy lost his center of gravity due to heavy armor, and fell from his horse to Chikugo Kawanaka. With the help of an entourage. It was only with great difficulty that he climbed out of the water to the shore, but was squeezed and trampled by the rebels. There was even a fight between each other (no one could see who was blind in the dark, and in order to escape for his life, he had to die with his fellow people and not die in poverty), and finally died on the bank of the Chikugo River with his relatives.

The second unlucky one was Tachibana Michiyuki. On the night of the attack, this guy broke one leg before he could get up from the ground bunk by two fire bulls that suddenly rushed into his tent, and although he almost escaped from the camp with the help of several retainers, he finally surrendered with his retainers in order to heal the broken leg in time. At the beginning, due to Masayo's reasons, he was transferred out of his original station, so as to avoid being struck by lightning under the big tree during the thunderstorm, resulting in the end of being half paralyzed. As a result, the same fate suffered here in the end. The only good news is that this time he only broke one leg.

In the end, the Intelligence Pavilion also arrested Sugi Shigeki, the sister-in-law of Sugi Xingyun, who tried to hide in the crowd, in the group of captives. And his Lao Tzu Shan Xingyun was much luckier, and he escaped a catastrophe and escaped safely to the mountain city. And the next day, he went out of the city to attack the Luo family's Shengwei City, and gathered the rout troops outside the city, but he ran into the iron artillery team of Andel, who was just in time, and was beaten to the point that he lost his armor and fled back to the mountain city to hold on. In addition to these big fish, the corpses or captives of some small Hao clan generals were also found, and they were all disposed of one by one.

After reading this letter, Zhengliang immediately made a few points of approval.

The first is the issue of disposing of prisoners. At this time, the number of prisoners was too large, and it was obviously inappropriate to continue to merge into the three-way army. Therefore, on the one hand, Masarashi asked Togo Heiji to continue to recruit temporary peasant soldiers in the territory, and on the other hand, he continued to support the various armies. On the other hand, the Internal Affairs Pavilion and the Intelligence Pavilion were required to classify these captives, and those with a good attitude could consider merging them into the three-way army, and the rest of the remaining people were directly incorporated into the slave army of the Luo family, so that they could be reformed in the process of building the marching road and cultivating the fields.

As for the corpses. Naturally, the corpses of the family will be sent back to the hero's tomb in the territory for burial, and the family will also be extremely comforted. At this time, the pension system for the soldiers killed in the war of the Luo family was almost the best system in the whole country, which greatly increased the confidence of the people to join the army.

And the corpses of those enemy formations are not treated so well. In order to avoid the occurrence of the plague, after the weapons and armor and other wealth on their bodies were scavenged, they were all buried in a large pit. Since it was impossible to fully identify whether any of them were ordinary peasant soldiers or wealthy warriors in front of them at this time, they were buried together. At the same time, it is necessary to send people to salvage the bodies that have surfaced along the Chikugo River and dispose of them properly to avoid spreading diseases.

For the army of Kai Qinzhi all the way, Masarashi asked to continue to maintain the siege of the territory of the three wealthy families of the Kusano family, the Hoshino family, and the Kansuo family to prevent them from concatring, but there was no need to take the initiative to attack for the time being.

At the same time that Masarashi was approving the actions of the various armies, a good show was being staged in front of the mountain castle in Gohara County, Chikugo Province.

On the wall of the Ouchi family mountain outside the castle pill, Sugi Xingyun, Chikushi Weimen, as well as Tachibana Jianguang, Ohashi Toyogomori, and Kitahara Zhenjiu, these "difficult brothers" are looking down at the Luo family's army outside the city at this time.

Among these people, Sugi Xingyun was able to return to this castle by fleeing for his life, while Tsukushi Weimen was the original guard of this castle. As a wealthy clan of the former Hizen country, after being defeated by following the young family to attack the Luo family, Tsukushi Yuimon decisively took refuge in the Ouchi family, and although he eventually lost his territory in Hizen, he gained a new world in the Chikuzen country controlled by the Ouchi family. This time, he was appointed by Naito Xingsheng as the general of Yamaya Castle, and as the second group of troops to attack the Luo family. It's just that he didn't wait for the Ouchi family and the Otomo family to attack the Luo family, but he waited for Sugi Xingyun, who returned in embarrassment. Now it is even more besieged in the city by the army of the Luo family, and has become a turtle in the urn.

Of course, among these people, the most unlucky is Tachibana Kanmitsu. As the governor of the Tachibana family, this time he was encouraged by Naito's prosperity, and on impulse, he personally led troops to crusade against the Luo family, but before he arrived at the battlefield, he learned the news of the defeat of the Ouchi family's coalition army halfway, so he quickly hid in the nearby mountain castle.

And this choice is the most wrong choice in Tachibana Jianguang's life. Because of this, he was also trapped in the mountain city. He had already heard of the bravery of the Luo family's army, and he had witnessed it with his own eyes yesterday, and the terrifying sound of the iron cannon firearm still lingered in his ears, making him frightened.

Compared to the Tachibana Jianguang, the head of the Takahashi family, Takahashi Nagashi, is much smarter. He didn't have the heart to respond to Naito's call to prosper, so he simply pretended to be sick and asked the fierce general of the family, Kitahara Jinhisa, to go out in his place. didn't expect such a move to save his life in the end, but it made Kitahara Zhenjiu a substitute for the dead.

Of course, in fact, among these people, the one who is most frightened at this time is the Ohashi Toyogo Mori. He was also separated from the family governor Qiuyue Wenzhong during the retreat that night, and finally fled to Shancheng City with Sugi Xingyun.

Compared to others, he had already seen the bravery of the Luo family's army several times. And because the family has always had close contacts with the Luo family before, the understanding of the Luo family is even more profound. Last time, he saw the courage of the "Eagle of Hizen" Luo Zhengliang head-on, and personally participated in the pursuit of Luo Zhengliang. Now he was really a little afraid of being recognized by the Luo family's army outside the city. When the time comes, he will definitely be dismembered.

At the head of the city, the people had different thoughts.

As the temporary commander at this time, Shan Xingyun obviously didn't want to weaken his momentum, so he squinted his eyes at the formation of the Luo family's army outside the city, and said to everyone: "With the Luo family's people, dare to attack the city?" Judging by his tone, it seemed that he was dismissive of the number of the Luo family's troops.

Tsukushi Yumen, who was almost wearing the same pants as Sugi Xingyun, immediately echoed: "Such a force is not to be feared. ”

(Thanks to the "zj_gold" commuter pass!) (To be continued......)