On the 13th day of November in the 10th year of the Astronomical Decade (1541), the town of the Nizi family died of a long illness. All kinds of favorable circumstances made the proud Yoshitaka feel that the opportunity to uproot the Nizi family had finally come. At the request of Yasu, Iwami, and Bigo and other countries, Yoshitaka decided to go on an expedition to Izumo and wipe out the Niko family in one fell swoop.

On January 11, 1542, Yoshitaka Ouchi appointed himself as the commander-in-chief, and with Tao Takafang, Sugi Shigeju, Naito Yoshimori, and others as generals, he personally led 15,000 Ouchi troops from Yamaguchi. The lords of the Ouchi camp of the countries of Shubo, Nagato, Yasui, Iwami, and Bigo formed an alliance of about 50,000 people, including Mori Motoyasu and Takamoto father and son, Kumagai Nobunao, Amano Kosada, Shinto Takaie, Yoshikawa Kokyo, Kobayakawa Shohei, Hiraga Takamune, Kagawa clan, and Yamayama clan; Masuda Fujikane, Yoshimi Masanori, Honjo Tsunemitsu, Fukuya Masakane, Zhou Butakekan, Saba Koren, Dewa Yumori, Ogasawara Nagao and other Iwami Kunitude; Miyoshi Hirotaka, Yamana Riko, Yamauchi Takatsuri, Miyawakasa, Tagayama Tsusu, etc. Yoshikawa Kokei, Honjo Tsunemitsu, Misawa Weiqing, Santoya Kuyu, Honjo Jingguang, Shinji Masataka, Furushi Yoshinobu and other Nizi core forces even abandoned Nizi Eye for a long time and took refuge in Yoshitaka.

Of course, the above news is the latest information received by Zhengliang. Some of them did not come directly to the Ouchi family's territory to converge, but gathered their troops and horses in their own territory, and waited for the Ouchi family's army to pass by.

Everything is surprisingly consistent with history, the only exception is that as the army of Kyushu, there is more Luo family.

This time, I went to the same time as Zhengliang. There are more than 4,000 troops in total, including the Tokuzen guardian Daisugi Shigeju, the Ouchi family Iida Kohide, the Chikuzen Akizuki family, the Chikuzen Tachibana family Tachibana Kanko, the Chikuzen Harada family, the Chikuzen Muneka family, the Chikuzen Takahashi family, the Chikuzen Takahashi family, the Toyozen Kamimo Yamada family, the Yamada Narichi, the Toyozen Joi family, and the Toyozen Joi family, the Joai Nagabo, etc., with a total of more than 4,000 troops.

As the two people who are the highest in terms of strength and official position, Masahiro and Sugi Shigeju have become the temporary leaders of this passerby.

"Saemon Hizen Mamoru Lord, this trip to Yamaguchi Castle is up to you." The treacherous and cunning Sugi said politely to Zhengliang.

"But at the behest of Lord Guardian." Masashi said immediately. Both Chikuzen and Fengzen were unconvinced by Masayo, especially after the incident that Masara had previously sent to hunt. Although most people maintain a polite attitude, they obviously will not listen to the instructions of Zhengliang. And this is just a temporary commander, and after arriving at Yamaguchi Castle, it will be redistributed. It can be described as a task that is extremely weak, so why should Zhengliang touch a nose of ashes? Now that this guy is saying such polite words, it's not that he saw that Masato was less than nineteen years old, and he sincerely came to tease. Once Masahiro is young and vigorous and accepts this "kindness" of Sugi Chongju, it is likely that he will have a bad relationship with the rest of the heroes.

"Isn't that a bit of an outrage when you say that?" Cedar smiled at Masaka, whether it was true or not, he was very affinity.

"How dare you do this!" A set of "masks" from later generations of Masahiro has long been trained and become more and more proficient, and he is not afraid of these little tricks at all, so he immediately pretends to be afraid. This surprised expression was neither stiff nor exaggerated, "Guardian Lord is a strong man who guards the side!" He has repelled attacks from the Otomo family several times. I have always sincerely admired this, how dare I have the slightest disrespect. ”

"Hahaha. Saemon-sama has won a prize. Originally, Masahiro thought that the other party would pretend to be modest after receiving his compliment, but he didn't expect the other party to accept it so generously, and by the way, he also took the power of the temporary general of the army. Perhaps because he was able to show off in front of the recently famous "Hizen Eagle", Sugi Shigeju looked very proud.

"I'm so proud!" After the other party walked away, Shinnosuke Akabane said in a low voice.

"Hehe, it's okay!" Masarashi said with a smile. According to the development of history, after Tao Takabo's rebellion forced Yoshitaka Ouchi to death, when consulting Sagara's most relatable pleadings, Tao began to suspect that Toyozen guardian Sugi Shigeju had also made his slander to Ouchi Yoshitaka. In a fit of rage, he attacked Chongju without hesitation. Chongju had expected this moment in advance, so he had passed the position of family governor to his son Shigesuke in advance, trying to resolve Tao's dissatisfaction, but in the end he failed. At the moment when the great enemy was present, Sugi Shigesuke advocated a resolute war of resistance, and he knew that there was a huge disparity in strength between the two sides, and he said with the consciousness of death: "The Tao family also has a day of weakness. At that time, you will fulfill my father's regrets! After Shigesuke and his brother Masashige fled to Aki, Sugi Shigeju was also killed by Tao.

"His Highness Zhengliang!" At this time, Iida Kohide, one of the commissioners of the Ouchi family, came over and saluted, "I will be in charge of the rear of the army. Since he has always been in love with His Royal Highness Zhengliang, I wonder if His Royal Highness can guard the rear together with His Highness? ”

"Just what I want!" Masashi said immediately. It seems that this is the arrangement of Sugi Shige. The rear is also the logistics army that escorts the grain, and Luo Shifan's task is to ensure the safety of these logistics personnel. It is estimated that Sugi Shigeju deliberately arranged for the Luo family to be in charge of this task, but he was worried that Masahiro, who had an official position higher than him, would directly refuse in front of everyone, thus losing his face, so he first sent Iida Xingxiu, who had a bad personal relationship with Masahiro, to greet him in advance.

When Masaro led the army into Chikuzen, it was Iida Kohide who was responsible for accompanying and guiding him throughout the process. As a result, Masara established a good personal relationship with Iida Kohide. Iida Kohide is a native of Toyozen and is the lord of Iida Castle. When Masahiro proposed to hunt in the wild, he also accompanied Masato on a safari. In Masaliang's opinion, his bow and horse skills are already very good in the Ouchi family.

After accepting Iida Kohide's invitation, Masara met with Akizuki and Muneka Shiji respectively.

The Akizuki clan is a family of Chikuma-e-gun since the Kamakura shogunate, and is known as the "Three Wealthy Clans of the Ōzo Clan" along with Harada and Takahashi. It is said that the Ōzō clan is the last descendant of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty of the Han dynasty in China, and according to the records of the Kojiki, the Japanese Shoji and the Kiki, he crossed to Japan at the end of the Han Dynasty and was in charge of the storage of official property during the Japanese Imperial Court, and held the position called "Daizo". Of course, there are other theories, and some people believe that because they lived in the Bichu Daizo Valley, this Daizo was not an official name, but a place name. In the fourth year of Tenkei (941), the Saikai Rebellion launched by Iyo Fujiwara Juntomo was known as the "Tenkei Rebellion" in history. Harumi Ozo joined the army led by Yoshiko Ono, and because of his contribution to quelling the rebellion, he was assigned to Chikuzen in Kyushu, where he served in Dazaifu and built the defense system of Kitakyushu. The main stream of the Ōzo clan was the Harada clan, and later the wild branch became Akizuki, Takahashi, Tajiri, Egami, Mihara, Togami, and Koganimaru.

And Qiuyue Wen is the current governor of the Qiuyue family. Since Shenwu Shaozhan is his relative, and there is a visit from Duanmu Kiyomasa before, the Luo family and the Qiuyue family can be regarded as almost an alliance. This time we went out together, of course, to talk to each other first.

As for the visit of the Zongxiang clan, it was for the purpose of making friends. On the Chikuzen coast, in addition to the naval forces of the Ouchi family, there are mainly naval forces of the Muneka family, the Sugi family, and the Harada family. The latter two sailors, compared to the Luo family's navy, actually do not pose a threat, and Zhengliang believes that as long as the Luo family's standing navy team is used, it can defeat the two sailors. The naval army of the Muneka family is different, he is the most powerful naval army along the coast of Chikuzen, and his strength is even the Ouchi family. In order to avoid unnecessary friction with the Luo family's navy, which is becoming stronger and stronger, the Zongxiang clan can also be said to express friendship after coming this time. After all, after making friends with each other, you can also avoid the misunderstanding between the two sailors on the sea.

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