In a military tent outside Shuiyan City, Masato held a temporary assessment. Participating in the evaluation were Masada Hirasa and Tadajiro.

"Your Highness, the battlefield has been cleaned, this decisive battle with the Akasaka family, a total of 17 people in the family were injured, and 2 people are estimated to be unable to participate in the battle after recovering, but no one died. A total of 18 members of the Akasaka family were killed, 26 were taken prisoner, and the rest fled. As for the rest of the supplies, it will be a little later to be counted," Hirasamasa reported.

"Tadajiro, how are you doing over there?" After listening to Hirasa Masatada's report, Masarashi nodded, then looked at Tadajiro and asked.

"Your Highness, there are a total of 12 people injured on Your Majesty's side, all of them are minor, and there are no casualties. In addition, the subordinates have completely controlled the territory of the Higashiyama family, the Kawachi family, and the Guanmu family, and the Akasaka family's Shuiiwa Castle has just been captured, and all the men in the city in these places have been cut down, and the female dependents have been temporarily detained, and they will be gradually escorted to Notaka Town to settle later. In terms of supplies, His Highness needs to arrange personnel to go to the inventory," Tadajiro said.

"Very well, the place that has been occupied is temporarily guarded by you, and the peasants who followed you are under your jurisdiction. I will leave all the wounded in this battle and 10 standing ashigaru who are not injured for you, and at the same time you will immediately gather the 50 peasants who are still looting food nearby, half of them will be left to assist you in taking care of the newly occupied territory, and the other half will immediately return to Yunoo Castle to help defend the castle," Masarashi quickly ordered, "Send someone to inform Togo Heiji to come and take over all the affairs here, and tell him that all the materials collected this time will be arbitrarily deployed by him, but the territory must be settled tomorrow." ”

"Yes, Your Highness."

"Masataka, you immediately go down and arrange for everyone to have a full meal, and then assemble and set off, we will rush to Wanheli City before evening" Masato Masaka turned to Heizo Masataka and ordered.

"Yes, Your Highness," Heisa Masataka took the order and left.

The Mangari River, as an important river northwest of Higashimatsuura, divides several Haoqiang north and south from west to east. The north shore of the Manga River is dominated by the Kamikura family; The south shore is dominated by the Akasaka family and the Dono family. Among them, the south bank is more low-lying, so it was alluvial by the Manga River several fertile flat land, so although the Uekura family alone occupies the north shore, in fact, agriculture is even less developed than the two on the south bank, and the overall strength cannot be compared with the above two, if it were not for the good relationship with the many pirates along the coast, every time they are attacked by the above two, there will always be pirates to help, and the Uekura family has long disappeared.

In recent times, the head of the Uekura family, Uekura Yuno, is very proud, first of all, when he joined forces with the Akasaka family and the Tateishi family to send troops to the Tangno family, he put the other two families together, and after receiving a lot of benefits from the two families, not only did he not attack the Tangno family first as agreed so that the two foreign families could carry out a surprise attack from the other side, but also attacked the Tangno family when the two families were in a bitter battle with the Tangno family, not only destroying the neighbor's field, but also robbing a lot of supplies.

Secondly, he secretly instigated the pirates to sneak attack the territory of the Akasaka family, which caused the Akasaka family to lose a lot. Why did Yuno Uekura do this? The answer is simple, in order to survive the Kamikura family. Uekura Yuno is not a fool, if the Dono family perishes, then it is likely that the Akasaka family is dominant, and when the time comes, will the Uekura family be able to resist alone? Even if you ask the pirates for help, it's a precarious situation. Therefore, he wants to make a stumbling block, not only to make the conspiracy of the Akasaka family and the Tateishi family unable to succeed, but also to damage the Haoqiang, including the three Tangno families, and it is best to lose all three, so that the Kamikura family can have more time to develop. Eventually, his goal was achieved.

Just when Uekura Yuno was complacent, in the last few days, rumors have suddenly appeared in the territory that he is preparing to enter the Akasaka family, and some people even pretend to be his samurai to go to the town to mobilize farmers. In this regard, Kamikura Yuno was furious and immediately dispatched personnel to search for these swaggering guys everywhere. At this time, the envoy of the Akasaka family arrived, and the envoy condescendingly asked if the invasion of the Akasaka family by Kamikura Yuno was true. Realizing that the strength of the Akasaka family had been damaged, the Uekura family, who no longer needed to keep his voice down, did not hesitate to laugh at the envoy. As a result, it sparked a war of words between the Uekura and Akasaka families. …,

At noon on August 14, when he received the news that the Akasaka family's spies had halved the number of defenders of Manheri Castle, the cunning Uekura Yuno did not act immediately, but once again instigated the pirates to plunder, and he personally led the Uekura family's troops to the shore on the north bank of the Mankori River, waiting for an opportunity. These pirates are also just for money, and now they have not only been paid by the Kamikura family, but also can gain a lot from the next robbery, of course, they are happy to agree. As a result, a coalition of several pirates slaughtered the territory of the Akasaka family. The people of the Akasaka family, who had just regained their calm, were once again in dire straits.

The young lord of the Akasaka family of Manhori Castle had just sent reinforcements to support Mizugan Castle in the morning, and before he could mobilize some peasant soldiers to help defend the city, he received the news of a large-scale invasion by the pirates. The young master of the Akasaka family was immediately stupefied, how long has it been since the last attack of the pirates, why did he come again so soon. In desperation, he had to personally lead his troops to drive them away (if they didn't drive them away, if the only remaining fields were destroyed by pirates, the Akasaka family would not be able to survive the winter this year, and the lords would riot). The Akasaka family's troops, who left the city in a hurry, were ambushed by pirates in a narrow passage, and the young master of the Akasaka family was killed on the spot, and the remaining Akasaka family's troops were defeated. The victorious pirates pursued and directly entered the castle.

When Masarashi and Heisa Masataka led 36 cloaked people, 27 low-ranking samurai, and 50 standing ashigaru to a hill one mile away from Mangari Castle, they saw thick smoke billowing over Mangeri Castle from a distance, and the scattered smoke and dust almost obscured the afterglow of the setting sun.

"What's going on? Is it too late? Masara was taken aback, and everyone behind him was also amazed, and then looked up at the lord, waiting for his final decision.

"Damn, can anyone tell me what's going on?" Zhengliang was a little annoyed, and he was still a step too late.

"Your Highness, Your Highness" At this time, a shout came from the back of the crowd, and a familiar figure came to Masahiro through the crowd.

Zhengliang looked at it fixedly, and it turned out to be Yinuo. Immediately became furious, and scolded Yinuo, "What's the matter? How did you get here? Shouldn't you have gathered information from all over the world at Yunoo Castle and reported it to me in time? How did you get here now? ”

"Temple... Your Highness" Yinuo knelt on the ground, kowtowing desperately, "There is a special situation here, and His Majesty thinks it is necessary to come and confirm it in person, so he came over and asked His Highness to punish the crime." ”

"Hmph, I'll settle accounts with you when I go back" The matter has come to this, and Zhengliang can only temporarily put aside his crime of desertion, "Say, what the hell is going on?" Masarashi asked, pointing to the distant city of Wanheli.

"The coastal pirates invaded the territory of the Akasaka family again, burning and looting everywhere, and the young lord of the Akasaka family of Wanheri Castle attacked helplessly, but was ambushed by the pirates and died on the spot, and the Akasaka family's army was defeated, and the pirates took advantage of the situation to capture the castle, and after looting, they set fire to the city", Yinuo made a brief report.

"Pirates?" Masara didn't expect even the pirates to get involved, "So, these pirates have indirectly helped us?" ”

"Yes, Your Highness," Ichino immediately chimed in, "but this place will not belong to us until the pirates have withdrawn, and Your Majesty has just received news that the forces of the Uekura family have been assembled on the north bank of the Manga River. ”

"Huh?" It doesn't seem to be going so well to get here, "Let's go, let's take a look at the front."

Masara decided to go to the vicinity of Manhori Castle to see what was going on before making a decision......

"Huh? No? Please don't" When the Roche family reached the vicinity of a town, they happened to encounter several pirates surrounding a woman on the side of the road, constantly tearing the woman's clothes. The woman let out a helpless cry for mercy. …,

"Kill" Zhengliang without saying a word, he directly ordered everyone to kill him.

"Huh? Who are you? It's not good, it's someone from the Akasaka family who is here, run" Several pirates saw a large group of people suddenly appear, and rushed to their side viciously and immediately shouted, and when they found out that the other party was not good, they were afraid of leaving the woman behind. The two slower pirates were shot through the calves by arrows and fell to the ground screaming.

After the woman was placed, the two injured pirates were brought to Masa-ra.

"My lord, spare my life, spare my life," the two pirates kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Hmph, if you answer my question obediently, I can promise to let you go, if you don't cooperate, hum...", after speaking, Zhengliang pulled out the word Jigang with a "Cheng".

"Ahh My lord, we say everything, we say everything" The two pirates were stupid and immediately shouted.

"Very well, you tell me now, you are from the pirates? Where are the other pirates? Masari asked.

"Adults, the small ones are from the Sugino people; Since the defenders of the city here were all killed, after robbing the contents of the city, everyone dispersed and went to look for something elsewhere," said one of the pirates.

"Hmmm! Take them down", Masarashi glanced at Heisa Masatada, and then ordered. Heizo Masataka understood, and immediately asked people to pull the two pirates down, and after a while, two screams were heard.

The pirates are separated, which is both good news and bad news! The good news is that you don't have to face the large number of pirates gathered head-on, and the bad news is that you can't defeat these pirates at once, so you can't go and kill them one by one, right? It seems that it is better to go to Wanheli Castle first.

"Your Highness, Your Highness," Masahiro had just given the order to move on, and Ichino hurriedly ran over, "There are more than 30 pirates coming this way on the other side of the woods. ”

"Hide" Masarashi immediately decided to attack these pirates. Even if you occupy this place, you will still face these pirates in the future, and since there will be a battle sooner or later, why not take this opportunity to weaken them? Soon, a team of more than 30 pirates came to the place where the Luo family set up an ambush.

"Hahaha, chief, the next town is very rich, and there are a few very good women," said a thin man flattering a big man with thick eyebrows.

"Oh? If it's really as you say, you can choose one of those women."

"Huh? Xie Lu Xie Chief, Xie Lu Xie Leader "This group of pirates is moving forward, while fantasizing about the harvest that awaits it.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" The sneak attack of the Luo family was launched as scheduled, and the pirates in the mountain road were suddenly hit, and instantly fell into chaos, and Masashi immediately led more than a hundred Luo family troops to kill.

"Huh? It's someone from the Akasaka family, kill, kill me," a pirate exclaimed.

"No, that's not the family crest of the Akasaka family" There are pirates who still have time to carefully observe the enemy's family crest.

The battle lasted less than half an hour before it ended, and the pirate leader escaped in embarrassment after leaving behind more than 20 corpses. Masashi didn't know what to do, and this time he let go of the leader of the Manyue pirates who had a very good relationship with the Kamikura family.

After clearing the battlefield, the Luo family's troops hit the road again. Along the way, he eliminated several groups of pirates in a row, and finally came to the front of Wanheli City. Surprisingly, the city gate was still intact, but it was already a mess inside, the main buildings were basically burned down, leaving only a few small wooden houses that still emitted green smoke, and from time to time you could see charred corpses in the ruins.

"Let's clean up the inside, although the buildings in this city are burned, they can still be used for defense, and we will spend the night in it tonight," Masara commanded. After leaving some of the people on alert, the rest of the people immediately cleaned up the city according to Masayo's orders.

Just when the Luo family officially occupied Wanheli City, in the camp of the Kamikura family across the river, Kamikura Yuno also received information from the Manchu people who had fled back.

"Is that really the case, fortunately I didn't send troops over, otherwise I would definitely be ambushed by Akasaka Shizhong" Although the Manyue people who fled back could not be sure who ambushed them, but Kamikura Yuno, who had been fighting against Akasaka Shizhong for more than ten years, concluded that Akasaka Shizhong did it.

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