The First Battle of Itsukushima also had a profound impact on the Kono family.

First of all, as an ally of the Maori family, at the invitation of the Maori Motosho, in this war, the Kono family sent almost all of their own sailors to support the Mori family, but after the first battle, the Kono family's sailors did not even float back to the Kono family.

What's even more serious is that the Luo family's naval army took advantage of the victory to dominate everywhere, not only annexing the three naval armies of Injima Village, Noshima Murakami and Laidao Murakami in the waters near North Yiyu, but also taking advantage of the situation to attack and capture the nearby Jinye Port, Gaoxianshan Castle and Guofen Mountain Castle. At this point, the Luo family not only completely controlled the Seto Inland Sea at once, and the naval forces infiltrated the Suitan Sea, but also obtained the entire Noma County and half of the Kochi County of the Northern Iyu Kingdom. What makes Kono feel depressed is that this half of the county is the territory of the Kono family.

Just when Kono was depressed, the Luo family's navy attacked again, and in a very short period of time, the ships on the Iyu Beach (the sea area west of the Iyu Kingdom, which is connected to the Seto Inland Sea in the north and the Bungo Waterway in the south, and after mastering here, the Luo family will turn the entire sea area around Kyushu, Xiguo, and Shikoku into the inland sea of the Luo family) and the shipbuilding docks along the coast to loot or destroy, and in the Iyu Beach, it is basically dominated by the Kono family's navy. So, this time, the Kono family suffered again.

Seeing this, the Kono family really wanted to cry without tears. Kono Tongzhi really doesn't know where the Kono family offended the Luo family, even if he sent his own water army to support the Maori family's Itsukushima War, it was also a water army that went to attack the Ouchi family, not to mention that your Luo family didn't even let go of a piece of the Kono family's water army in the end. In this way, the main force of the Kono family's water army was destroyed by the Luo family. Now the Luo family has come to kill them all. As a direct result, Konoya lost all of its water boats and facilities.

You know, the territory of the Kono family is surrounded by the sea on three sides, isn't your Luo family cutting off the Kono family's financial route? Kono doesn't know what kind of mold he has fallen into. Roche family, aren't you bullying people? In desperation, Kono had no choice but to dispatch troops to the border while sending envoys to the Luo's family water military camp in Imaye Port to sue for peace and a truce.

And this time, Kono Tongzhi finally knew why he was always bullied by the Luo family, because the messenger who went there to ask for peace found that the main general of the Luo family in the Yiyu region at this time turned out to be Hu Natong.

Who is Sunatong? He was the son-in-law of the Kono family's naval general, and because he was taken advantage of his father's death by the wealthy families of the Kono family, he secretly united with the second brother of the Kono family to rob the interests of his family. and supported his younger brother to obtain the position of the governor of his family, and as the lord of the father-in-law, Kono Tongzhi ignored the mother and son, and finally led the mother and sister to be driven out of the territory by their second brother and embarked on a wandering journey.

Kono Tongzhi really couldn't imagine that this little guy he completely despised back then would grow into the general of the Luo family's navy today, and because he accepted a bribe from his younger brother, he secretly supported his younger brother to inherit the position of the governor of the Hu Na family, and it is estimated that Hu Natong has always held a grudge against this, so this time he deliberately targeted the Luo family.

As a matter of fact. It's just that Kono has become a frightened bird, and he thinks too much. All the qiē that Kunatong had done before was in accordance with the orders of Zhengliang. Since Kyushu, Xiguo, and Shikoku are going to turn the entire sea area into the Luo family's inland sea, it is natural to go all out to crack down on the forces around this sea area, especially their sea power, and Zhengliang only allows the Luo family to dominate the sea area, and will never allow the emergence of sea forces that can threaten the Luo family's security in this sea area. Of course, in the process of executing Masahiro, Masato also allowed his subordinates to take revenge if they completed his orders, after all, this was the promise made by Masahiro when he recruited these generals.

When they learned that the head of the Luo family would be Kunatong, the Kono family was really panicked, and this panic was even worse than facing the Luo family's previous series of invasions, because the Kono family had more or less participated in the murder of Kunatong, and among these people, the most feared was naturally Kunatong's younger brother, who snatched Kunatong's position as the governor of the family.

Of course, in fact, before this, Kuna Tonggong had already received the revenge of his brother Kunatong, because the main territory of the Kuna family in the Yiyu Kingdom, the seven islands of the Kuna in the Yiyu Beach, including Taishan City, the residence of the previous governors of the Kana family on the main island, had all fallen into the control of the Luo family's naval army, and Kuna Tonggong only had a small piece of territory left on the main island of the four countries at this time, and this territory was still on the coast of Yiyu Beach, and it could be harassed by the Luo family's naval army at any time.

The reason why Kuna Tonggong was frightened was not only that his brother had become a big man who could threaten him, but also because he was worried that the daimyo Kono Tsunao would give himself to his brother in order to stop the war with the Luo family.

It is also true that just as Kuna Tonggong expected, not long after, Kono Tongzhi and other wealthy clans actually sent him as one of the conditions for requesting a peace truce in order to truce with the Luo family.

After receiving the Kono family's request for an armistice, Hona sent someone to report the situation to the lord Masayo, who was in charge of the takeover of the Ouchi family's domain in the Yamaguchi area of the Zhou Defense Province. After Zhengliang understood the situation, he immediately wrote a letter and ordered someone to bring it to Kunatong.

After reading the petition of the lord and the lord, he closed his eyes and pondered for a while, and then immediately found the messenger of the Kono family, who had been waiting for a reply, and said:

"If you want to hope for a truce, please hand over the remaining half of Yuezhi County."

"My lord, this is too difficult for my family. Besides, this family can send the Kuna Tonggong, who was unpleasant to the adults back then, to the adults, and ask the adults to be gracious. The envoy of the Kono family was immediately startled when he heard this, and immediately pleaded. You know, it is humiliating enough to send your own generals out in order to ask for an armistice on the invading side, and now you have to cede the land and sue for peace, then this envoy can only be prepared to go back and be cut off by his own lord to vent his anger.

"Hmph, if you don't want to hand it over, as for what the outcome will be, you will be responsible for it. That villain, let him survive on the little land that is left. In the face of the request of the envoy of the He Ye family, after giving such a reply, Su Natong ordered the envoy to be driven out of the camp of the Luo family. (To be continued......)

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