In the upper reaches of the Ono River, the river is tens of meters wide and tumbling rapidly, making it difficult to cross.

Standing on a rock on the shore, Masara threw the branch he had broken off into the river, only to see a splash roll up and down the emerald green branch that had been tumbling up and down the river surface, and set up a silver light, and the branch rushed away until it finally disappeared with the current.

"Let's get started!" After pondering for a while, Masato decisively ordered.

With Masayo's order, hundreds of wooden platoons were pushed out by the logistics peasants in the rear, and then pushed into the river of the Ono River. The soldiers of the left formation, who had long been ready on the shore, boarded the raft one after another, each holding a bamboo pole cut down nearby, and a long knife pinned to their waists (the rest of the equipment such as foot equipment were all taken off to avoid sinking to the bottom of the river due to excessive weight after accidentally entering the water), and after boarding the raft, they used the bamboo pole to start rowing the raft and struggled to the opposite bank.

These rafts were built overnight by a thousand peasant soldiers in the rear, with the aim of using them to row to the other side. The North Shiga family's army was frightened by the covering long-range fire of the Luo family, and before the main general Shiga gave the order to retreat, these soldiers began to flee one after another. In the case of being beaten and unable to fight back, even the most heroic soldiers will escape. Almost instantly, Shiga Kinto was almost alone, and finally had to leave angrily under the protection of several kinship samurai, leaving behind only the corpses lying on the river beach on the east bank and the wounded soldiers who were still moaning in pain but unable to escape.

At this time, the army of the Luo family must take advantage of the time when the enemy has been blinded and has not yet reacted to quickly ferry part of the army to the opposite bank, and then set up a temporary camp on the other bank. In addition, the Luo family on the west bank used the piers left in the river by using the piers left in the river by the burned bridge to rebuild the bridge. Only in this way can the large army of the Luo family be able to reach the other side.

And just when the First Route Army led by Zhengliang was stepping up to cross the river. The Otomo family finally reacted. Irita Qincheng immediately invaded by foreign enemies, and everyone should be united. And Otomo Yoshijin, who is his son-in-law, disappeared as a slogan at this time. He called on everyone to immediately serve Shioshi Maru as the governor, and then unanimously to the outside world.

Although the retainers led by Saito Harima Mamoru did not agree to immediately serve Shioichimaru as the governor, they also agreed to temporarily resist the invading Roshi family under the leadership of Shioichimaru (it is estimated that Masarashi did not expect that due to his premature intervention, the Otomo family temporarily united).

However, the situation faced by the Otomo family at this time is not optimistic. Due to the long distance and the lack of rapid transportation, so far they have only received an early warning that the upper border of the Ono River has been invaded by the Luo family. As for the current situation, they do not know anything. In addition, the most serious thing is that the Luo family's army that attacked the road directly into Mie Town, the county was stuck in the way that the rest of the counties had to rescue Kakumu Li Castle in Jiuzhu County, according to the news that came back from Kakumu Li City before, the Luo family blocked the rescue artery of Kakumu Li Castle at the same time, and also drove another army from Hita County to attack Kakumu Li Castle. Therefore, the city of Kamuli is in danger of being besieged.

More importantly, at this time, Kakumu Licheng not only parked the remains of the previous family governor Otomo Yoshikan, but also the three important ministers of the family, Kosai Yamato Mamoru, Tsukumi Misamori, and Taguchi Tibetan Saku, stayed there. Thankfully. At this time, there were still 3,000 garrison troops in the city, plus the army organized by the local wealthy gods. At least 4,000 troops can be formed to meet the Luo family's military strength. Even if it doesn't work, it's okay to defend Jiaomuli City.

After some discussion, the reinforcements of the Otomo family were divided into two routes, and the group led by Saito Harima Mamoru and Usuki Kansu quickly returned to their respective territories to organize the army, and immediately went to Kumamurai Castle in Oita County, and made every effort to pull out the third army of the Luo family stuck in the rescue artery, and then rescued Kakumuli Castle.

And the group led by Irita Qincheng quickly organized an army to rush to the Ono River valley area, and made every effort to drive the invading Luo family army out of Bungo. As for the naval army led by Wakabayashi Echigo Guard, it was to cooperate with the remaining defenders to guard the inner hall of the palace.

When the retainers of the Otomo family had completed their deliberations and began to raise troops, the army led by Masarashi had also built a temporary bridge in the upper reaches of the Ono River, and most of the troops of the Luo family stranded on the east bank were able to reach the west bank smoothly and began to assemble.

At four o'clock (1 p.m. to 3 p.m.), after leaving the rest of the formations to camp on the east bank and reinforcing the bridge, Masayo and the commanders of each formation led their own troops to the first place hundreds of miles away from the Takajo of Kita-Shiga's house.

After the battle in the morning, the fugitive army of the North Shiga family, which had been intercepted on the river beach on the west bank, fled directly back to Takajo, and then closed their doors, and did not even come to harass and intercept the Luo family when they used a raft to cross the river. It seems that Shiga is ready to defend the high castle.

Indeed, Shiga Qindu, who was in the high castle at this time, was indeed preparing to defend to the death, in order to temporarily delay the Luo family's attack, so that the wealthy clans in the rear would have enough time to raise troops to defend on the spot and even come to the rescue. He believed that with enough food in the city to feed more than 1,000 defenders in the city for a year, a mountain spring that was sufficient to feed itself in the mountain wall behind the city, and a wall made of rocks as high as three zhang (nearly ten meters), he could support it until the Luo family withdrew from the territory of Bungo.

"What do you think of this city?" Looking at the castle-like castle hundreds of meters away, Masahiro spoke. Since the Luo family occupied Higo Province, it seems that in order to prevent the Luo family from invading Bungo Province through the border of Higo Province, Otomo Yoshikan has long been interested in continuously supporting the Kita-Shiga family to build this high castle located on the border of Bungo Province. After such a long period of construction, this castle suddenly became the strongest and tallest castle in the border area of Bungo Province, and even Masara had a feeling of insignificance standing in front of it.

"Strong and tall, fearsome, a fortress." The left commander behind him, Masanobu Takasaka, replied. In fact, there is one sentence that he did not say later, that is, "difficult to overcome".

"Ha Luha, it seems that everyone thinks this city is difficult to attack!" After turning his head and glancing at the generals behind him, he found that most of them were concerned, and he couldn't help but smile and said.

"Hmph, lord, what's so difficult to break through the second city? All you need to do is break through the only weak point of the city, the wooden gate. Prussia, the craftsman who participated in the battle of the Luo family for the first time, spoke out at this time.

"If you storm the city gate, I'm afraid that my army will have a lot of casualties!" Isono Yuanchang said something else. His words were not unreasonable, for the passage leading to the gate of the high city was a narrow mountain path, and the whole mountain path was within range of the bows and arrows of the walls of the high city on both sides. It is conceivable that during the siege of the city, if you want to force your way close to the city gate, you must make a bloody path on this mountain road.

"Even if they can get close to the city gates, how can the family break down the city gates? At this time, there are no siege vehicles in the army, and there is no big cylinder, even if you rely on the fire oil in your hand, you may not be able to quickly burn down the city gate! "This time, it was the left front army who made a statement.

After several years of careful cultivation by Masayo, coupled with the fact that he is smart enough, the current Honda Masanobu can be called a strategist. This can be seen from the fact that he was sent to the 7th Standing Ashigaru Brigade for just one month, and quickly gained a firm foothold in the 7th Standing Ashigaru Brigade, and was recognized by all the generals and soldiers of the 7th Standing Ashigaru Brigade. Of course, due to his lack of experience and the fact that he did not know all about the situation of his own family, although this issue was raised after taking into account the situation and materials in this military situation, this consideration was still lacking.

So, as soon as Honda Masanobu finished speaking, Prussia on the side immediately reminded him: "No, my family still has a way to break through the city gate in an instant." ”

"Well, ladies and gentlemen, the lord of the country did not say that he must conquer this city!" Just when Prussia's words aroused the curiosity of the retainers, Masashi spoke. Masahiro was naturally clear about what Prussia said about breaking the city, but Masayo didn't want to waste his hole cards on this city, so he decisively interrupted Prussia's words.

"Everyone, in the military academy, you should have heard the story of Chen Chuang, the secret crossing of the Ming Kingdom, right?" Just when all the retainers looked at Masahiro in surprise and puzzlement, Masahiro said with a smile. (To be continued......)