On the evening of August 14, the ninth year of astronomy.

After a brief cleanup of the burned Vanhori Castle, the sky was already dark. Masaroshi gathered the people to discuss how to defend the city. At this time, a scout was carried to the door of the military tent by two guards at the city gate.

After learning about it, Kuna, who had been promoted to a close attendant by Masayo because of his military exploits, immediately walked into the tent and reported: "My lord, the detective who came from Yuno Tail Castle urgently asks to see you. And the detective seems to have exhausted himself. ”

"Huh?" After hearing Kunatong's words, the political conscience sighed in his heart, could it be that something happened to Yuno Tail City?

So he walked quickly outside the tent, and in the hazy moonlight, he could vaguely see that the detective lying on the wooden board still had blood on his face, obviously with an injury.

"Big... "Due to the long time of telling and running, and also with wounds, Detective's body has shown signs of collapse, and his voice is a little weak. Masarashi hurriedly stopped the other party from continuing to speak, took the water handed by the samurai behind him, and slowly poured the water into the mouth of the detective.

"My lord..."After Detective Fan drank the water, his complexion slowly turned around, "Soup... Noo Castle... Sneak attacked. ”

What the? Zhengliang was stunned, really something happened? Yinuo, who was behind Zhengliang, trembled even more after hearing Detective's words.

"Tell me, what the hell is going on?" Masarashi asked anxiously.

So, under the questioning of Masayo, the detective intermittently told the story of the sneak attack on Yuno Tail Castle. It turned out that this morning, when Masara led the Luo family's troops into the Akasaka family, he happened to be seen by the Dono family spies hiding nearby. Such important information, of course, the other party's spies immediately passed it on to the Dono Jingzong in the Tanoo Tail Castle.

After determining that there were not many defenders in Yunoo Castle, the head of the Tangno family, Tangno Jingzong, immediately gathered hundreds of troops in the territory, and at the same time united dozens of troops from the Tateishi family, and secretly crossed the border this afternoon to carry out a sneak attack on Yunoo Castle. Fortunately, the standing ashigaru guards of Yunoo Castle were alert, and they spotted the enemy who was not far from the castle gate in advance, and closed the castle gate before the enemy reached the castle gate. Seeing that the sneak attack failed, the coalition forces of the Dono family and the Tateishi family had no choice but to start caging the city.

And there are only 20 standing ashigaru and 25 peasant soldiers who have just returned in the afternoon, even if you add the general Luo Shi Masahide and several scouts who defend the city, there are only 50 people in total, and in the case of the enemies outside the city constantly storming the city gate, Luo Shi Masahide had to send people to sneak out of the city from the wall to ask for help. Tangye Jingzong had long expected that the people in the city would ask for help, so he secretly ambushed a lot of people outside the city, and the 4 Luo family detectives who had just come down from the city wall were immediately attacked, and finally only escaped from the detectives who arrived at Wanheli City at this moment to report the news.

After listening to the detective's report, Masato waved his hand, signaled to carry him down and settle down, and then walked back to the tent without a sound, and Heizo Masataka and Yinuo behind him glanced at each other and cautiously followed.

"Plop" just entered the military tent, Yinuo pulled out the threat, and then knelt directly behind Zhengliang, "Your Highness, this time it was completely the negligence of your subordinates, if your subordinates didn't leave without permission, they would not have been attacked by the other party so easily, please allow your majesty to apologize." ”

Hearing this, Zhengliang turned around, walked quickly in front of Yinuo, kicked the threat in Yinuo's hand away, and then roared angrily, "You're damned!" But shut up now, and kneel here without my command. ”

Masara was indeed very angry, and before the war, he had clearly asked Yinuo to sit in Yunoo Castle, which was responsible for compiling information from various places, and was also responsible for keeping a close eye on the movements of Haoqiang in the vicinity. As a result, it was his departure that led to the lack of unified jurisdiction and supervision of the rest of the detectives in Yunoo Castle, so that the other party had already reached the bottom of his nose and did not know what to do. Once the throat position of Yuno Tail City is seized by the other party, then the territory of the Luo family will be divided into two pieces, and in the case of limited military strength, it is necessary to give up part of the territory that has been occupied. It seems that Dono Jingzong is not stupid, obviously he also saw the strategic location of Yuno Tail City, and inadvertently disrupted the strategic deployment of the Luo family. …,

"Zhengzhong, what can you do?" Zhengliang also knew that he had to stay calm at this time, so after calming down slightly, he turned to look at Heizo Zhengzhong and asked.

"Your Highness, judging from the distance, the closest to Yunoo Castle are Mizuiwa Castle and Notaka Town. But at present, the other party has blocked the road from Yuno Tail Castle to Shuiyan Castle, and the first thing the family needs to do is to do a good job in the defense of these two places, once the other party knows the truth of these two places, I am afraid that they will pretend to besiege Yuno Tail Castle on the one hand, and sneak attack the above two places on the other. ”

"No, the other party won't. Yuno O Castle is a choke point, and even if these two places are captured before Yuno O Castle is taken, the other party will be in a dangerous situation. What's more, although the Dono family and the Tateishi family are now united, the number of troops is limited, and it is obvious that the number of people has reached the limit if they want to cage the city and block the road," Masarashi said with a frown.

"However, these two places must not be guarded against. Now that the road is blocked, Notaka Town must not know the situation of Yunoo Castle in Yunoo, "Hirasa Masadada said worriedly, "Your Highness, we can first send someone to inform Tadajiro of Mizuiwa Castle to strengthen precautions, and at the same time, have someone go back to Notaka Town along the path that Shingoro opened up at the beginning, and inform Kosuke there to take precautions." ”

"Hmm," Masarashi lowered his head and pondered, "No, it's just that the defense is too passive, and the more time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for us, and once the situation on the side of the Kamikura family in the north is known, there may also be some changes." At that time, I'm afraid that even these places that my family has managed to lay down will have to be handed over. ”

"What ......?" Heizo Zhengzhong couldn't think of a better way for a while.

"Well, the people still have to send the wolf, but instead of Tadajiro and Kosuke defending, they will mobilize the peasants and march towards Yunoo Castle," Masarashi decided.

"Your Highness, this is very risky, and it is very likely that you will be ambushed by the other party on the way," Heizo Masataka advised.

"Hmph, they don't have a chance," Masaro said with a light snort, "This place is closer to the Dono family's Field Tail Castle, right?" ”

"Huh? Your Highness, you don't plan to rescue Yuno Castle immediately? It was obvious that Masarashi meant to directly attack the main castle of the Dono family, so Hirasa Masataka was very surprised.

"You have to believe Masa-hide, he will be able to hold out until the other two reinforcements arrive. Besides, we're closer to Tanoo Castle, right? Once the Dono Keizong knew that the Daoju Castle was attacked, he would definitely withdraw his troops and return to help, and at that time, the defensive pressure on Yuno Tail Castle would be greatly reduced. What is in our favor now is that the other party still doesn't know that we have destroyed the Akasaka family" Masarashi put forward various favorable conditions, while secretly feeling sorry for the Luo clan Masahide. With the current scenario, it seems that only Roche Zhengxiu can be sacrificed.

"Your Highness is planning to leave immediately tonight?" Heizo Masataka also knew that Lu Dao Masaliang's current approach was the most correct, so he no longer advised.

"Yes, I'll lead most of the people here to set off and kill the main city of the Dono family overnight," Masarashi nodded and said, "After I leave, this place will be handed over to you." Take advantage of the night to cut some thatch from outside the city, and then find someone to tie this thatch into a human shape and place it on the city wall, taking care not to let the people outside see the details clearly, so that the pirates outside and the Kamikura family on the other side of the river should be temporarily confused. I will arrange for Tadajiro to send some reinforcements as soon as possible, and only need to hold on to the castle, and don't leave the castle no matter how provocative the other party is. ”

"Yes, Your Highness" Hirasa Masataka also knew that it was time to race for a few seconds, so he immediately bowed down and received the order.

After "Yinuo" finished instructing Heizo Masatdada, Masashi looked at Yinuo, who was kneeling beside him.

"Your Highness" heard the head of the family calling for him, and Yinuo immediately knelt down and came to Zhengliang. …,

"Send several detectives to inform Tadajiro in Mizuiwa Castle, Kosuke in Nodaka Town, and Sun Goro in Itayawan. Let Tadajiro find a way to mobilize a team of more than 100 people, half of whom will come to Mangari Castle to help defend the castle, and the rest of the people will immediately go to Yunoo Castle to rescue, and tell Tadajiro that if those peasants of the former Akasaka family are not willing to mobilize, they will be killed," Masarashi said viciously.

"Yes, Your Highness," Yinuo, who had been listening respectfully with his head down, shuddered all over his body when he heard this.

"Now the road to Yunoo Castle and Notaka Town has been blocked by the other party, so inform the people of Kosuke that they need to follow the forest path that Shingoro secretly opened up to go back to Notaka Town. Let Kosuke mobilize a force of more than 100 people and also go to Yunoo Castle to rescue", Masarashi ignored Ichino's reaction and continued to command, "At the same time, I will find a way to inform Sun Goro in Itaya Bay, and let him lead the navy to go ashore and attack Sayama Castle, the castle of Tateishi's family." The three men will set off immediately, and you will be responsible for this matter, and if you do not receive my orders along the way, you can come to me. ”

"Yes, Your Highness, your subordinates will complete the task even if they die," Yinuo immediately kowtowed and promised. He is now out of the way, this time causing his family to face such a crisis, he should have committed suicide a long time ago to apologize, and now seeing that the head of the family intends to make him guilty and make meritorious contributions, of course he is desperate to complete it.

"Alright, you all go down and make arrangements. Zhengzhong, I'll leave in a quarter of an hour, and you can prepare military rations for me immediately," Zhengliang said later.

"Yes, Your Highness", the two took the order and left.

"Hehe, Tangye Jingzong, you are really bold enough. At this time, it probably took a lot of money to unite with the enemy to abandon his previous suspicions. I'm going to see if you're more courageous or I'm more courageous. If you are willing to gamble, I am willing to accompany you to the end" After the two left, Masara looked up at the top of the military tent and muttered to himself.