Astronomical 9th August 14th, night.

Fortunately, the moonlight was hazy tonight, otherwise in this era of night blindness, the idea of Masayo marching overnight would definitely have been ruined. After leaving 25 standing ashigaru under the command of Hirasa Masatada, who was responsible for defending the castle, Masarashi quietly sneaked out of Mangari Castle in batches with 36 cloaked people, 27 low-level samurai, and 25 standing ashigaru. After meeting in a small forest, we immediately headed along the shores of the Mangari River towards the Dono family's Tanoo Castle.

The pale white half-quarter moon is reflected in the river, and the dark surface of the river occasionally reflects wisps of phosphorescence. The mountains and woods in the distance were hazy. The team walked along the narrow field path, deep and shallow, and after a day of fighting, everyone was almost a little tired, but they still gritted their teeth and persevered. Half an hour later, the procession was already far away from the city, and Masato ordered everyone to immediately light torches and speed up the march.

After more than an hour, everyone finally came to a hill near the Dono family's field tail castle.

After letting everyone put out their torches and rest, Masara climbed to the top of the hill and looked out over the field from afar. As the residence of the Dono family, Tanoo Castle is indeed much larger than Yuno Castle, but even so, there is only one pill. It seems that if Masahiro wants to see the modern city that really has more than two pills, it will be time for the Luo family to have the opportunity to attack the city of a country's great names. Inside the castle gate, the light of the fire can be faintly seen, and it seems that the ashigaru guarding the gate was used for lighting. Except for the city gates, the rest of the city was pitch black. On the whole, the city is not heavily guarded. Now that the Tateishi family to the north of Tanoo Castle has allied with the Dono family, the Kamikura family to the west is separated by a river, the Akasaka family to the south is fighting with the pirates, and the Yuno Castle to the east is about to be recovered by the Dono family, and it is estimated that because of this, the defenders of the castle have relaxed their vigilance.

After resting, the team lurked in batches under the castle of Tianye Tail City. The entire city was built on top of a hill, and even a ladder could not be used to attack directly. Masara led a few climbers to the back of the castle, which was still a bit steep, but it was already possible to climb with bare hands. Thankfully, the walls of the castle are made of stones, and many of the corners of the walls protrude from the corners, which in turn create the conditions for climbing. After nearly an hour of busy work, three samurai finally climbed the city wall, and Masarashi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this. He was worried, although the city wall was only 5 or 6 meters, if someone fell halfway, it would definitely wake up the guards in the city.

When the three samurai entered the castle, they quietly touched the side of the two sleeping gatekeepers, killed them, and quickly opened the wooden gate. The sound of the wooden door opening alarmed several samurai in the nearby room, and someone immediately ran out from inside to check, and when they found that they did not know someone, they immediately shouted, "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! ……”

"Killing", who had already entered the city gate with most of the personnel, immediately pulled out the word Jigang and commanded everyone to kill in the city. Since most of the people in the city had been dispatched to attack Yunoo Castle, the forces of the more than a dozen Tangye families who remained behind were quickly eliminated by the Masayo people. After simply cleaning up the lower city and imprisoning the female relatives who were not killed, the tired people quickly fell asleep.

On the 15th day of August in the ninth year of astronomy, early in the morning.

Masayo had the firewood undried and lit it in the city, and thick black smoke rose into the sky, which could be clearly seen even from miles away. After leaving 20 men who were either slightly injured or overly tired to guard Tanoo Castle, Masarashi led the rest of the men to kill Yunoo Castle......

In a military tent outside Yunoo Castle, Dono Keizong was anxiously pacing back and forth. After the failure of the sneak attack yesterday afternoon, he immediately launched a cage castle against Yunoo Castle with the Tateishi family, but he did not expect that although the other party had less than 50 people, he was very tenacious and repelled the attacks of the two coalition forces several times. The battle continued into the evening, and he had to suspend the attack when the troops were tired of it. He's anxious! Upon learning that the Luo clan had fewer troops defending the castle, he realized that the opportunity had come to retake Yunoo Castle. After several discussions with his retainers, he finally decided to abandon his previous suspicions with the Tateishi family and take the initiative to form an alliance with the other party. For this reason, he not only returned all the territories that he had recently seized from the Tateishi family, but also married his daughter, who was only 8 years old, to the head of the Tateishi family, who was only 9 years old, as a hostage of cooperation. Yunoo Castle must be taken this morning no matter what, otherwise the other side's reinforcements will arrive. …,

"Father, all the troops are ready, and they can attack the city again at any time", at this time, the sister-in-law of Dono Jingzong walked in and reported.

"What's going on with the Tateishi family Kanzaburo?" , Dono Keizon asked. This time, the leading general of the Tateishi family is none other than the three masters, Kanzaburo. Although the head of the family is the orphan of his eldest brother, Kanzaburo, who has the advantage of overall strength, has become the most decision-making person in the Tateishi family, and this cooperation with the Dono family is what he has contributed to, and of course he has also received a lot of benefits from the Dono family.

"We're gathering our troops, and we'll be able to join the fight later."

"Hmph, he's just a wild wolf who can't get enough to eat," said Tang Ye Jingzong angrily, "Immediately go and urge again, with less than a hundred troops in his own family, he can't break through the city." ”

"Yes, Father", the sister-in-law of Dono Jingzong took the order and left.

At the same time, in the gate of Yunoo Castle, Masahide Roche, whose arm wound was simply bandaged with rags, was directing the peasants and soldiers to gamble the gate to death with various collected materials. After last night's battle, the wooden city gate could not hold out for long, and once the city gate fell, these people in the city alone would not be able to withstand the nearly 200 enemy troops outside.

While commanding everyone, Luo Zhengxiu looked up in the direction of Shuiyan City. I wonder when reinforcements from the Lu Dao family will arrive? Yesterday, with the 5-meter-high city wall, the Luo family withstood several attacks by the coalition forces outside to climb the wall with their bare hands, for which the Luo family also paid the price of 3 standing ashigaru being killed by bows and arrows, and 8 peasant soldiers were injured. If the reinforcements hadn't arrived in time today, then without the other party continuing to attack, these Luo family's forces would have collapsed first. And I have to be ready to be loyal to the head of the family.

"Look, what's that?" , a standing ashigaru who was in charge of monitoring the castle wall suddenly pointed to the sky and said. Roche Masahide looked in the direction pointed by Ashigaru, and saw a black pillar of smoke rising into the sky in the distance, looking like a black dragon from a distance. Isn't that the direction where the Dono family Tanoo Castle is located? Well? This is a good opportunity to boost morale, huh? Thinking of this, Luo Shi Masahide immediately shouted, "Everyone, the main city of the Tangye family has been attacked by a sneak attack, as long as we hold on for a while, they will have to retreat." Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come to show your martial arts, let them see the bravery of the warriors of the Luo family. ”

"Ahh Are you sure? That's great......", the surrounding soldiers shouted excitedly.

Compared with the jubilation in the city, the troops of the Tang Ye family outside the city were a little nervous, and the soldiers pointed to the black smoke and discussed, and the offensive that had been prepared was also suspended.

"Lord Jingzong, is the direction you are looking at?" , Kanzaburo said with great concern to the already suspicious Dono Jingzong on the side, but no matter how you look at it, this guy has a little bit of a sense of gloating.

"Quick, send someone back for me to see what's going on?" , Tangye Jingzong shouted at several retainers. Soon a nimble ashigaru was sent to spy on the news, but within a quarter of an hour, the ashigaru returned, followed by a few peasants.

"My lord, this is a farmer from the castle town of Tanoo Castle, and they just came to report the news," Ashigaru reported.

"Say, what the hell is going on?" , Dono Keizong asked, pointing to the dark night in the sky.

"My lord, Tianye Tail City has been captured by the Luo family," several peasants shouted at the same time.

"Huh?!" , Tangye Jingzong suddenly settled there, as if he had become a stone man, and the people around him also exclaimed, and they were secretly worried about their families. A few peasants knelt on the ground and did not see the expressions of the crowd, so they still said to themselves, "The little ones heard shouts of killing from the city last night, but they quickly stopped. Early this morning, several fierce samurai suddenly broke into the house, and asked us all to gather in front of the gate of Tanoo Castle. After the assembly, an adult with a few heads told us that Tianye Tail City had been captured by the Luo family, and that we should hurry up and report to the adults, otherwise they would kill us, so we came here under their drive. ”…,

After several peasants finished speaking, they all lowered their heads one after another, waiting for the lord's lecture, but after waiting for a long time there was no movement, a bold peasant raised his head slightly and peeked at it, only to see that the lord still maintained the original posture when he asked them, just when the farmer was secretly muttering in his heart what was wrong with the lord, Tangye Jingzong looked up to the sky and sprayed a mouthful of blood, and fell to the ground after screaming. The lord's sudden move surprised everyone, and while calling for his father, Dono Keizun had Dono Keizune carried back to the military tent.

Originally, after hearing that the city was occupied, the people around had already been fluctuating, but when they saw the situation of the head of the house, all the people were in a commotion, and the last had to be quiet after the young master of the Dono family stopped drinking. But when the young master of the Tangye family returned to the military tent to check on the condition of the Tangye Jingzong, everyone started talking again. As an ally of the Dono family, Kanzaburo of the Tateishi family withdrew directly with the Tateishi family's team without any greetings. In fact, after injuring more than a dozen people in last night's siege, Kanzaburo had a plan to withdraw his troops, anyway, according to the agreement, the captured Yuno Tail Castle still belongs to the Tangno family, so why should the Standing Stone family lose their strength for the sake of others?

Soon after the Tateishi family's forces left, deserters also appeared in the Dono family's army, including even the Dono family's retainers.

An hour later, when Masarashi arrived with his team, there were only a dozen or so of the Dono family's kinship samurai left in the camp of the Dono family. Together with the Luo clan Masahide who rushed out of Yunoo Castle, the Luo family quickly killed these samurai.

"My lord, the bodies of Keimune and his son were found in the military tent, and the two died by caesarean section," a cloaked man reported to Masahiro.

"Let's bury them," Masarashi said. To be able to force Masahiro to such a point of collapse, Dono Jingzong is already the first person. So such an opponent deserves respect, since he is dead, let him have a good beginning and a good end.

"Your Highness", at this time, Luo Zhengliang, whose arm was still bandaged, walked over.

"How's it going in the city?" , Masarashi looked at the gate of Yuno Tail Castle, and then asked.

"Your Highness, this time 3 standing ashigaru were killed, 11 standing ashigaru and 8 peasant soldiers were seriously injured, and the rest were slightly injured to varying degrees," Luo reported in a somewhat choked voice. At the age of 16, he has experienced a life-and-death battle, and now he can still maintain his composure, which is already commendable.

"You're doing a great job. All of them are rewarded with 5 stone grains. The wounded were placed on the spot, and Master Xuanru of the family would arrive soon. Ashigaru who died in battle was buried at the hero's cemetery near Notaka Mountain, and the family was rewarded with an additional 20 koku of miscellaneous grain in addition to the resettlement of the territorial law," Masarashi comforted.

"Yes, Your Highness", Luo Zhengxiu bowed and took the order.

"Alright, you can clean up the battlefield," Masarashi said, waving his hand. Suffering such an injury, he was not in a good mood.

An hour later, the reinforcements led by Tadajiro and Kosuke arrived at Yunoo Castle one after the other.