"Could it be that the Kikuchi family and the Otomo family have reached an agreement to negotiate peace?" After learning that the Otomo family sent troops to fatten, Masato muttered to himself in confusion.

From the point of view of distance, if the Otomo family wants to quickly rush to the aid of Kikuchi County, the fastest path is naturally through the Kufu Castle controlled by the Kikuchi family, but with the grudge between Kikuchi Yoshitake and Otomo Yoshikan, under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the Otomo family's reinforcements to pass through there smoothly. It's just that in the Warring States, there are only eternal interests and no eternal enemies. Combined with the various abnormal behaviors of the Kikuchi family, Masara had to guess that the Kikuchi and Otomo families had secretly reached some kind of agreement to deal with the Luo family.

Thinking about it from Kikuchi Yoshitake's point of view, Masara thought that in the eyes of the Kikuchi family, last year, because the power of the Luo family had not yet penetrated into Higo, there was no problem at all to cooperate with the Luo family, and now that the Luo family was coming to grab his foundation, naturally the Luo family was not welcome, but Kikuchi Yoshitake also did not trust the Otomo family very much, so he made such an abnormal move.

Since he sensed that there was an abnormality in the Kikuchi family, Masara naturally had to deal with it immediately. He immediately ordered several detectives who were in charge of daily contact with the Kikuchi family at the Kikuchi family to return to the Luo family's territory, and at the same time, those detectives who had been confirmed to be exposed and the relevant Luo family personnel also received an order to evacuate. In the end, Kikuchi Yoshitake was left with only a few deeply hidden dark chess pieces and secretly listening to the information of the Kikuchi family. The sale of weapons and food related to the Kikuchi family was also suspended.

Such a series of actions were quite fast, and before the Kikuchi family could react, all the members of the Luo family who were in the Kikuchi family's territory disappeared. At this time. Kikuchi Yoshitake sensed the horror of the Luo family. I couldn't help but feel a little regret for the decision I had just made. It's just that. There is no turning back from the bow. Kikuchi Yoshitake can only go all the way to the end.

In addition to issuing a series of orders in response to the betrayal of the Kikuchi family, Masarashi also deployed two reinforcements from the Otomo family. First of all, Masanao Kinoshita, who was in charge of law and order in Yamaga Prefecture, was ordered to immediately lead his Fourth Standing Ashigaru Brigade back to Chikugo Takara Castle and meet the invading army of the Otomo family together with the provisional general Yoshida Shigemasa there.

As for Yamaga Prefecture, after temporarily stabilizing the local aborigines, Masarashi immediately transferred all the troops in Yamaga County to Masara's main camp in Kikuchi Prefecture, and at the same time, Isono Yuanmasa, who was resting at Yanagawa Castle, immediately led the first standing cavalry to converge. Previously, because Yamaga County was full of mountain roads along the road, the role of cavalry in these mountain roads was limited, so Masara did not let the cavalry participate in the Yamaga County raid. Now that you have entered the plains of the Kikuchi Plain. Naturally, the cavalry was going to come in handy.

At this time, Togo Heiji had also been ordered to recruit 500 peasant soldiers again, and they would enter Yamaga County to cooperate with the Cabinet to fully implement the laws of the Luo family, and at the same time be responsible for the security of Yamaga County.

At noon on the 13th day of March 13, the 14th year of Astronomy, Masaro was studying the topographical information map of the Kikuchi Plain with Kansuke Yamamoto and Shinnosuke Akabane, when a cloaked group came in and reported: "My lord, the castle family has secretly sent a messenger, and the other party seems to be preparing to surrender to the family. ”

"Surrender?" Zhengliang sneered when he heard this. If the other wealthy clans of Kikuchi County came to surrender, Masayo might still believe that if it was the castle family, it would be impossible. Politically good people who are familiar with Higo's history, but they know that the city family is famous for Higo's opposition to external forces and the vanguard of Higo's rule. At this time, when the wealthy clans of Higo gathered to support and the Otomo family was about to send troops, how could he surrender?

It's just that. Although he didn't believe that the other party would surrender voluntarily, Masara decided to personally decide to meet the visitor and see what tricks the other party wanted to play.

Soon, the messenger of the castle family was brought to Masayo. In order to let the Luo family see its sufficient sincerity, Cheng Qindong made a heavy contribution this time, and even sent the important ministers of the family at the risk of being killed by the other party.

"Tell me, does the city want to fight or surrender?" Masahiro asked straight to the point.

After hearing this, Detian Zhengdong's face suddenly changed slightly, and he secretly looked at the faces of everyone in the military tent, he immediately knew that the young man in front of him should be the terrifying Eagle of the Fat Front, he didn't expect the other party to be so young, and he sighed in his heart, he immediately bowed and saluted: "To be honest, the head of the family doesn't want to surrender in Kaicheng, but at this time, the road between the family and the rest of the wealthy families in Higo has been cut off by the army of Lord Dazai Shaoji, and there is a shortage of food in the city, and he just experienced a temple riot last year, led to the displacement of the people under the city. If there is another dispute, the people around will suffer. For the sake of the people, the head of the family finally sent me to pay homage to you, and at the same time was willing to move the city to join the Luo family. Please also ask for Dazai's consent. And the only additional condition is to be able to let the people under the city survive the famine year and start this year's spring ploughing in peace. ”

For the people? It's a good thing to say, but in the troubled times of the Warring States, which samurai master is really comfortable for the sake of the people? So as soon as I heard this, I knew that the Tao was a lie. And the road connecting Jomura City and other Haoqiang in Kikuchi County was blocked by the Luo family, and this reason is reasonable. It is true that the Honjin established by Masayo is between the Yumachi Castle of the Ryo family and the Jomura Castle of the Jo family, completely isolating the castle family in the north of Kikuchi County. But if the city family wants to contact the rest of the wealthy clans, it doesn't necessarily have to go through the Luo family's main formation, so if you really explore it, this is also a lie. Zhengliang really can't think of such a wrong excuse that the other party can say. It's just that in the form of watching a play, Masahiro did not demolish the other party in person, but immediately pretended to happily agree to the other party's request for surrender.

In the end, the two sides even agreed to officially accept the city's surrender on the second day.

"Lord, this?" Shortly after Ideta Masato left, Kansuke Yamamoto, who had not spoken, immediately said in confusion.

"Huh, surrender? Naturally, it's fake, and the order will go down, and the vigilance will be strengthened in the past few days, especially tonight, to prevent the other party from coming to sneak attack. After snorting lightly, Masato commanded directly.

"Yes!" Kansuke Yamamoto and Shinnosuke Akabane in the military tent immediately received the order, then turned around and walked out of the military tent and went down to carry out the order.

Soon, evening came.

As the saying goes, the moon is dark and the wind is high on the night of killing. Tonight it wasn't dark at all, and it was even bright. This allows people with night blindness to walk at night. At this time, a team of more than 100 people quietly came out of the city and village and headed in the direction of the Luo family's main formation.

At the same time, in the main formation of the alliance of the wealthy clans of Higo, more than 500 people also walked out one after another. Its destination is also where the Luo family's home camp is located.

At this time, in the army that came out of the city and village, Cheng Qindong was covered all over his body, and while he walked forward, he asked in a low voice about the Izuda Masato beside him: "Are you sure that the Luo family has completely relaxed?" ”

Ideta Masado hurriedly replied, "Yes." According to the information obtained from the investigation later, the Luo family's army broke out in cheers soon after his subordinates left, and some people even seemed to be preparing to return home. ”

After Cheng Qindong got a definite answer, a smile suddenly appeared on his face, No matter how powerful your Fat Front Eagle is, you will be beaten by the alliance of the Fat Queen Clan tonight.

"Lord, is this plan really feasible?" Just when Cheng Qindong was fantasizing about the scene of the Luo family's fiasco, Izuda Masato, who was beside him, asked a little nervously. It's no wonder that Izuta Masato is nervous, after all, it is the Eagle of the Luo family that shocked and frightened all the heroes in Kyushu tonight.

"Don't worry, this plan was conceived by Jia Fei Zongyun, and then determined by the allied family governors, tonight in addition to the main family, there will be other allied forces attacking the Luo family at the same time." Seeing that his right-hand man would be so worried, Jo Qindong finally revealed some inside information to Ideta Masato.

"Is it the Jiafei family governor of Xiayicheng County?" Ideta Masado immediately asked.

"Exactly!"

"I see!" After learning that it was the plan of the famous general Kai Fei of Higo, the uneasiness in Detian Masato's heart finally eased a little, but the uneasiness in his heart always lingered. After sneaking a look at his family governor Houcheng Qindong again, he secretly decided to find an opportunity to run to the back of the team tonight, and if there was any abnormal movement in front of him, he would quickly escape.

"It's here!" Soon, Cheng Qindong and the others came to the vicinity of the Luo family's camp.

"Lord, shall I rush in now?" At this time, the samurai beside him asked.

"No, when there is a commotion in the camp, that's when I'm going to strike." Cheng Qindong ordered. According to the plan, when the main force of the coalition army rushed into the camp of the Luo family, he would lead the troops into the camp of the Luo family.

Sure enough, after a while, there was a burst of earth-shattering shouts of killing from the camp on the other side of the Luo family.

"Hahaha, ready!" Cheng Qindong laughed when he heard this, looked at the campsite close at hand, and felt a burst of excitement in his heart, so he licked his chapped lips and shouted loudly towards the camp in front of him with a knife in his hand: "Kill in." Set fire to me to burn, kill, and rob me. ”

When the soldiers behind him heard this, they immediately let out a roar before the battle, and then each weapon took Cheng Qindong as the central arrow and killed the camp that loomed in sight.

When they stormed the camp, they found not a single person fighting back. Cheng Qindong immediately felt bad.

"Lord, those people are thatched people made of thatch!" At this time, a soldier pointed to a humanoid object standing on the edge of the fence of the Luo family's camp and shouted.

"It's not good, I'm in an ambush, get out of the city quickly!" (To be continued......)