Kyushu Bungo Province Onogawa on the east bank of the Kita-Shiga family outside Takajo Castle.

At this time, the little surnamed Shenya Zongzhan shook the white fan, as if he had just finished reciting the pre-war greetings. Masara immediately stood up, and then put his hand into the pouring rain.

Not long after everyone finished inspecting the high city, a light rain began to fall in the sky. It was a light rain that was almost as light as a hair. This is a common weather in the mountains of Kyushu in early spring, and it has no effect on the local Kyushu soldiers who have long been accustomed to this kind of weather. And even other people who are not natives of the country have lived in Kyushu for so long and are already used to this kind of weather.

The foggy light rain was still falling slowly. Masarashi also held a military fan, which was sent to Masarashi by the shogun not long ago to the Roshi family who was stationed in the Kyoto area, mainly to thank the Roshi family for their support to the shogunate. Zhengliang took him with him, mainly to play the role of supporting his identity. This has an effect on both the ordinary Luo family retainers and other ministers.

Yoshihiro Shimazu Matashiro, who had been coiled, stood behind Masarashi with his head held high, holding Masayo's Black Eagle Horse Seal. With a grim expression, Masahiro opened the military fan and tossed the raindrops. Honda beside him gestured with confidence and understanding, and the herald next to him immediately straightened his chest and blew the conch horn.

"Woo woo woo ......"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

With the blowing of the conch horn, the army of the Luo family, which had long been assembled outside Gaocheng, shouted the slogan of Xiao Kill while preparing to start attacking Gaocheng.

"Ready!"

"Shoot!"

"Bang, bang, bang......" With the order of Prussia, the commander of the iron cannon team, the iron cannon ashigaru hiding in the temporary canopy decisively ignited the ignition line of the iron cannon, and the projectiles of the iron cannon were immediately shot out of the barrel of the iron cannon. With an irregular line of movement, he shot at the soldiers of the Kita-Shiga family on the walls of Takajo. After years of research in the Roche workshop. The problem that the iron cannon ignition line is not easy to ignite in wet weather has finally been solved. Ignition lines with cotton as the main raw material are mass-produced. At this time, there were already iron cannons produced by the people of other countries in Satsuma, Kyoto and other areas of the Wa Kingdom, but at this time, the Luo family was one step ahead in technology.

"Shoot!" The iron cannon was followed by a bow and arrow shooting team drawn from various formations.

"Whoosh ......" In an instant, a dark rain of arrows fell in the sky.

"Damn, a brave horseman, who has the ability to get close to the city wall and kill him." Shiga Kinto, who was originally boosting the morale of the soldiers defending the castle on the castle walls, was unfortunately shot in the right arm by a rain of arrows scattered during the first attack of the Luo family, and he had to curse the Luo family for only attacking from a distance outside the castle and not close to the siege castle, while retaking the castle under the escort of the relatives samurai.

Yes. Masarashi is now just making an all-out appearance of attacking Takashiro, but secretly, he has another target.

"Heihachi! Let's go. ”

After witnessing the long-range attack team storming Takashiro for several rounds, Masarashi immediately said to Isono Yuanchang, who was standing beside him.

"Yes, my lord! Guaranteed completion of the task. After receiving the order, Isono immediately bowed and saluted Masayo, and then walked quickly to the cavalry team that had been waiting not far away.

"Get on the horse! Let's go! With one foot and a, Isono Yuanchang, who jumped directly on the war horse, immediately shouted at the cavalry team behind him.

"Let's go! Let's go! Behind him, Akaxue Mitsukiyo and Tao Nakamoto also echoed and led the standing cavalry to start the cavalry while shouting. So the entire cavalry squad divided into several groups and began to sweep towards the area near Gaocheng one by one. This is the task assigned to the cavalry by Masahiro. Be sure to expel all local residents in the vicinity into their homes within a short period of time, and impose a curfew on the local area. The curfew will not be lifted for a moment. Outdoors, no unrelated personnel are allowed for a moment, otherwise they will be directly cut and killed. In doing so, Zhengliang wanted to purge all the wealthy clans in the territories east of Gaocheng and make these wealthy clans blind.

An hour later, after several more rounds of attacks on Gaocheng, and the cavalry sent back to report that the area had been cleared within two miles, Masa-ra immediately said to the town of Ranwang, which had been standing anxiously near Masa-ra:

"Lord Rotten Net, it's time to light the fire."

Hearing this, the town immediately smiled bitterly, and then slowly walked to the pyre that had already been stacked in the distance, and several logistics peasants guarding here immediately began to pour fire oil into the pyre, and after everything was ready, one of the peasants lit a torch and handed it to the town of the net.

Rotten Net Town took the torch in a daze, and looked up at Gao Cheng, who was still under long-range attack from the Luo family in the distance, with a complicated expression. Just a few hours ago, while under house arrest by the Luo family, he was received by the fat eagle of the Luo family, and then he went through a series of interrogations. After directly pointing out to the Luo family, if he did not cooperate, his people would be slaughtered, and he finally gave in.

Before Masayo went out to Bungo, he had a detailed investigation of the situation on the Bungo border. For example, the Otomo family's defense of the bridge connecting the east and west banks of the upper reaches of the Ono River that was burned before, in his opinion, it is difficult to send people to sneak in and then forcibly seize the bridge, because if there are too few people who sneak in, it is impossible to protect the bridge before the Luo family's large army arrives, so he asked the logistics team to prepare the materials for building a raft before he went out, which is to prevent the Luo family from quickly building a raft to cross the river once the bridge is burned.

In addition, he also investigated in detail the Decay Net Family and his family Governor Decay Net Town. As the border area between Bungo Province and Aso County in Higo Province, it should have been taken seriously, and with the territory of only 300 people and an army of less than 50 people, it is entirely possible that it will be swallowed up by a wealthy family such as the Shiga family, so why has the Immortal Netfamily survived to this day?

The main reason is that the territory of the Rotten Nethers is too barren (originally located between many mountain ranges, and the land is mostly rocky, and even the land they cultivated at this time was formed by the accumulation of mud from the source mountains of the Ono River on top of the rock layers). The fertility of this kind of soil is limited, and after several times of cultivation, if the fertility of the land cannot be replenished, it will decline rapidly), and there are few people, and for a wealthy family like the Kita-Shiga family, the rotten net family is a chicken rib, tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to abandon it.

Especially after the Luo family occupied the Higo country, the territory of the Rotten Net family was even more chicken, and the reason why the territory of the Rotten Net family was not confiscated by the trend, it is estimated that the Otomo Yoshikan and North Shiga and other families all took the Rotten Net family as an early warning zone for the Luo family. In fact, Ranwang Town also knew about his own situation, so when the Luo family's army pressed the border, when the people and retainers asked not to participate in the war, he simply surrendered directly to the Luo family. Otherwise, just relying on the resistance of the Immortal Netfamily on the dangerous mountain roads along the way, the advance of the Luo family's army would also be delayed for a lot of time.

Of course, it is precisely because the territory is too barren that the whole family is very good at farming, and in order to keep the people, they are also very merciful. Historically, Kanyasu, the son of the town of Kuwang, was reused by Otomo Yoshijin because of his outstanding agricultural and civil talents, and his official position even reached the rank of Nakabu Shaofu and Mikawa Mamoru. Of course, in order to raise funds for the shogunate and to obtain support from local daimyos, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, the 13th shogun of the shogunate, and his successor, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, began to sell a large number of official positions, and even sold the same position to several people.

As for the Ranwang Town, the current territorial tax implemented is even smaller than that of the Luo family. It is precisely because of this benevolent government that the father and son of Rotten Net Town have won the love of all the lords, and in turn, Rotten Net Town also values their lords and retainers very much, so Zhengliang is using his weakness to force him to cooperate with the next series of schemes of the Luo family.

Outside the city, the light rain in the afternoon had receded a long time ago, and then the sun was about to set. The setting sun shone on Zhenze's face, making him stand out both inside and outside the high city.

"Hey!" After a long sigh again, he resolutely threw the torch in his hand into the pyre next to him. (To be continued......)