"Where the hell should I go?"

As time passed, Saito Rizo thought as he led everyone away from Sagiyama Castle, which was being besieged by Saito Yoshiryu. With Saito Yoshiryu completely occupying Sagiyama Castle, the fact of his disappearance will be discovered by Saito Yoshiryu sooner or later, so Saito Yoshimyu will definitely block all the checkpoints of Mino Province and search for him with all his might, so he must do his best to determine where to hide.

After thinking about it, Saito Michizo finally thought of his last son-in-law, Masahiro Roshi. It is said that due to the distance between each other's territories, even if they go to the Luo family at this time, there will not be too many intertwined interests. As a result, Daosan's own safety will be more guaranteed.

While thinking of Masaliang's son-in-law, Dao San instantly thought of his own pearl Saito Guidie. Calculated that Dao San has not seen this daughter of his for many years, although he receives a letter of peace from this daughter every year, but every time he thinks of the appearance of this daughter before he was kidnapped, he feels a little embarrassed.

It's not that Michizo didn't ask the Luo family to let Saito return to Mino to visit relatives, but this was naturally rejected by the Luo family, and from the letters of this second daughter, Michizo also realized that his second daughter seemed to be living happily in Kyushu and didn't seem to be willing to return to Mino. Dao San also tried to use this second daughter to further understand the Luo family's sudden rise of power, after all, with the spread of more and more merchants, many strange systems and technologies in the Luo family's territory naturally attracted Daosan's attention.

It would be a good thing for Mino to be able to obtain these strange systems of the Luo family and the technology in them through this second daughter of Guò. But to Michizo's disappointment. Not only Nohime herself. Even Nohime's bodyguard, Mori Ke Castle, politely declined Michi-san's request in a letter (Michi-san knew that Nohime and Sanke Castle's correspondence with him was closely monitored by Roche).

Daosan, who was rejected, naturally did not give up, and tried to directly send someone to infiltrate the territory of the Luo family in Kyushu, trying to persuade Nongji and the others directly face to face, but the Luo family's actions surprised him again. Because the personnel he sent to the Luo family's territory were almost never heard from again. Later, he learned that the Luo family's territory was a notoriously accessible place, and if he did not get the permission of the Luo family and entered the Luo family's territory without permission, it would be basically difficult to escape from there again. Ultimately. Dao San's attempt to learn the secrets of the Luo family had to be abandoned.

Now that Dao San has become a lost dog, he naturally won't think about such a thing anymore, but what he is thinking about now is whether to go to the Kyushu region to join the Luo family (at this time, the Luo family intervened in the battle of Itsukushima, and the news of the attack on the Western Country region had not yet spread to the Mino region, and Dao San naturally knew nothing about the latest situation of the Luo family).

After thinking about it carefully, Michizo decided to go to Kyoto first, where he would make a final plan after meeting with the members of the Luo family. Michizo clearly knew that the Luo family had set up a diplomatic officer in Kyoto who was responsible for dealing with various forces in Kyoto. This person is none other than a Sheng Long. After establishing diplomatic relations with the Luo family, this person also came to Mino to visit the third aisle. It is believed that with the help of a Moritaka, the people of the three provinces will be able to temporarily gain a foothold in the Kyoto area.

And at this time. Regarding Saito Michizo's decision to go to the Kyoto area to join the forces of the Luo family, Masarashi naturally did not know. Due to the distance. At this time, the information about the Mino upheaval in Masaliang's hands was just information that Saito Michizo and Saito Yoshiryu began to turn against each other. And the news of Saito's defeat had just begun to spread from the Mino region to the western region at this time.

Although at this time, Masaro did not know who would win and who would lose between Saito Michizo and Saito Yoshiryu, but Masa's conscience had already stamped Saito Michizo's final fate according to the results recorded in history. Due to the fact that the Luo family's territory is far away from the Mino region, Masara can only be helpless, and as for his previous attempt to disturb the situation in Mino and Owari, delay the expansion of Oda Nobunaga's power and Imagawa Yoshimoto's Kamira, it can only be declared a failure at this time.

Even so, Zhengliang was not discouraged, after all, it is naturally good to be able to succeed, but failure is just to let the wheel of history rotate according to the established trajectory, and it is not necessarily a good thing for Zhengliang to grasp the direction of history, after all, this is conducive to Zhengliang's control of the current situation.

Of course, taking the Ouchi family's territory in the western region as much as possible is the most important task of Masarashi at this time. Previously, among the several armies of the Luo family against the territory of the Ouchi family, the first army led by Aguta was besieging the Zhiyue Castle of Nagato Province, because the resistance of the defenders in the city was very tenacious, so in order to avoid excessive casualties, Masara ordered this army to use the method of encirclement and reinforcement to delay the Yoshimi family of Iwami Province, so that it could not get involved in the benefits brought by the change of the Ouchi family.

The Second Route Army, led by Isono Motomasa and Oishi Tomohisa, successively captured the castles of Seokeijo, Okabe Castle, Shinda Marujo, and Takayama Castle, and at this time was besieging Arataki Castle, which was defended by the remnants of the Naito family, and violently attacking Mt. Utadagashi Castle, which was defended by the Uda family. At this point, the entire Nagato country, except for the three counties of Abu-gun, Atsusa-gun, and Mijima-gun, which were still controlled by the enemy, the rest of the three counties of Toyoura, Miyu, and Otsu have also been completely included in the territory of the Luo family.

The army led by Masara himself also captured the three counties of Oshima, Kuke, and Kumamao in the eastern part of Zhou Fangguo, and recently captured Iute Castle in Tono County and Iwatomiruyama Castle in Saba County, which blocked the advance of this army. At this time, except for the Marsh Castle, which was surrounded by mountains on three sides and swamps on the other, it had not yet fallen, and the entire Tono County and Saba County of the Zhou Defense Kingdom had almost fallen into the hands of the Luo family. After besieging Numajo with a portion of his army, Masarashi led a large army and began to head towards Yoshiki-gun, the center of the Zhou Defense Kingdom. The primary target was Utadagake Castle, the gateway to the coastal area of Yoshiki-gun.

At this time, it was the beginning of February in the second year of Koji (1556), and the breath of winter had not completely left, and along the way, the surrounding trees were still covered with snow and frost. And the mountain roads along the coast. It's also because of the melting snow and the humidity from the sea. So after the constant trampling of the army, it began to become muddy, which severely delayed the march of the army.

What's even more helpless is that such weather also affects the power of iron cannons and gunpowder, and at the same time makes the soldiers feel a little cold. Fortunately, since the textile mill in Hizen Province, which was mainly based on Nishijin weaving, had gradually developed, the workshop provided enough cotton clothes for the army of the Luo family this time. As a result, the army of the Luo family could continue to march in such weather.

On this day, Masayo's army was resting in an open flat area in the coastal mountain road, when Takahashi Shaoyun suddenly entered the military tent and reported: "My lord, the people of Lord Akuta have come to the tent, accompanied by a messenger from the Iwami Yoshimi family. ”

"Oh?" Zhengliang immediately felt a little abrupt. You must know that at this time, the Yoshimi family is still in a fierce battle with the main family, and it is still relatively far away from here, and it is blocked by the right field of Yoshiki County in the middle, and it is obvious that the other party's envoy came to Masayo's tent after a lot of twists and turns.

"My lord, the messenger of the Yoshimi family is Soma Yushin, and this person is an important minister of the Yoshimi family. The other party came to sue for peace this time. Seeing that the expression of the lord Zhengliang was a little surprised, Takahashi Shaoyun immediately analyzed.

"Sum?" After hearing this, Masahiro muttered to himself. "It seems that the Yoshimi family is a little unbearable. Gather all the generals of the army to meet the envoy of the Yoshimi family. ”

"Yes!" Takahashi Shaoyun immediately went down to gather the generals.

The waiting time was not long, and Soma Yushin, who was the envoy of the Yoshimi family, waited for about a cup of tea outside the big tent, and finally got an audience with the head of the Luo family, Gong Zhengliang. In fact, they were the first to make a request for peace with the army of the Luo family, who were besieging the Yoshimi family's Tsugetsu Castle in Abu Prefecture in Nagato Province. However, as the main generals of the army along the way, Akuta, Asakura Sodra and others naturally could not reply, so Soma Yushin took the Luo family's naval ships along the coast of Nagato and Zhou Fangguo to the military camp of Masahiro under the arrangement of Aguta.

Originally, for this peace, Soma Yushin was extremely unwilling. If it weren't for the fact that Yoshimi Masari, the family governor in Fingermoon Castle who was on the front line of the family territory, was besieged in the city by the Luo family's army that was suddenly killed, and the family's several rescues of Fingermoon City ended in failure, and what was even more serious was that the Masuda family, who was a neighbor of the Yoshimi family, seemed to have changed (the governor of the Masuda family, Masuda Ikane, was a person who was extremely greedy for money, and this time he was bought by the Luo family's money, so he cooperated with the Luo family to make an attempt to take advantage of the emptiness within the Yoshimi family to get into the Yoshimi family's territory), In order to avoid being attacked by the Luo family and the Yitian family, they had no choice but to take the initiative to sue for peace.

It's just that with what he saw and heard along the way, especially after seeing that the army of the Luo family had occupied most of the territory of Zhou Fangguo, Soma Yuxin's original unwilling mentality has changed dramatically. At this time, he felt that it was an extremely wise decision not to fight hard with the Luo family.

As Soma Yushin followed Takahashi Shaoyun into Masahiro's military tent, Masara began to look at the envoy of the Yoshimi family, only to see that this envoy was in his thirties, wearing a rather formal Matsutsuru kimono, wide and pleasant, looking very polite, very dashing, indeed a diplomat's dress, but Masara could clearly see that the other party's body was trembling from time to time at this time, and I didn't know that it was because he felt a little cold in such weather, or because of his inner tension.

Masara was observing Soma Yushin, Soma Tomoshin was also observing Masayo, tall figure, square face, slightly bald sideburns, thick black and neat eyebrows, under the eyebrows, flashing a pair of shrewd, deep eyes, the age looked like he was only in his twenties, and he looked very young.

But such a young samurai actually won the hegemony of the six countries of Hizen, Higo, Chikuzen, Chikugo, Bunzen, and Bungo in Kyushu in one fell swoop, and now he has begun to get involved in the territory of the Ouchi family, the original overlord of the Western Kingdom, which really has to make people pay attention to him, and even more so that people have to stand in awe. Looking at the powerful Luo family retainers sitting in the entire tent at this time, all of them show the strength of this family, and it is even more admirable that Luo Zhengliang, the overlord named the Kyushu Eagle by the world.

"My lord, this is the messenger of the Iwami Yoshimi family, Lord Soma Yushin!" As the two entered the military tent, they came to Masahiro, who was in charge of leading the way, Takahashi Shaoyunyu, who was in charge of leading the way, reported.

"Foreign Minister Ma Youxin Jin saw Lord Dazai Datong to explore the topic, and greeted Lord Dazai Dabi on behalf of the Emperor Zheng Laigong!" Although Soma Yushin is not a well-known diplomat in the history of the Warring States, he eats this line of food anyway, and the etiquette on the scene is impeccable.

"Thank you for your kindness, please take a seat!" Zhengliang smiled and pointed to a marching horse beside him, and after seeing Sanzhi Shou Friend sitting down, he asked with concern: "Is Zheng Lai Gong okay?" ”

"There is Lao Dazai's big sword to explore the question, and the Yoshimi family is a qiē Shunda!" Soma Yushin politely owes the debt. He said so on his lips, but he was depressed in his heart. Soma Yushin felt that the British lord above the main throne was obviously sarcastic about his master's family, knowing that at this time his own family governor was besieged in Zhiyue City (in fact, Soma Yushin was misunderstood, at this time Masara and others did not know that the other party's family governor was besieged in Zhiyue City), and the family was coveted by other heroes because of the emptiness, so where would it be? (To be continued......)