It is a valley sandwiched between two mountain forests.

The humid and rainy weather in the south has allowed the entire canyon to be almost overgrown with pine and cypress trees and low shrubs.

"Whoa!" As the sky darkened, a strong wind blew in the empty canyon, blowing the sound of brushing the entire canyon.

Night falls, and the cold moon hangs high in the sky.

"Stepping on ......"

At this time, a group of troops slowly walked into the valley with torches.

"My lord, this is the valley." A man who was a little short, but who looked very athletic, turned to one of the men in the group, wearing a white star pocket with an eight-phase front finger attached to it, and a beautiful katana at his waist.

"Well, give the order and rest here tonight." With this man's order, a large group of troops entered the valley one after another, and then quickly set up a temporary camp on the spot. And the person who gave the order was none other than Masara himself. In order to avoid being attacked by the enemy as the primary target because he was wearing too conspicuous armor, Masarashi chose to wear such a slightly ordinary armor.

This was already the third night that Zhengliang and the others had entered the Jiulianzhong Mountain Range.

Three days earlier, Masarashi had made a condition that he would hand over the territory of the Kita-Shiga family that had directly entered the Kohara family to the Minami-Shiga family, and then let Irita Yoshimi enter the castle single-handedly to persuade him to surrender.

There is a reason why Mashiro set this condition for the Minami-Shiga family, and Irita Yoshimi told Masahiro that the Minami and Kita-Shiga families were originally a family, but later they split up because of the competition for the position of family governor, and the elder brother took control of the Kita-Shiga family. And the younger brother took control of the Minami-Shiga family. It turned out that the Minami-Shiga family also had a territory on the east bank of the Ono River. As a result, it was later occupied by the stronger Beizhi family. Since then, the Minami-Shiga family has been driven to the barren area of Minamiyama Castle, which is infested with ash from the Kuren Heavy Volcano that erupts at any time. The fertile land of the Ono River basin is far away.

At this time, the father of Shiga Kantaka, the governor of the Minami-Shiga family, was also reported to have been assassinated by the Kita-Shiga family. So the two families have always been at odds, and if it hadn't been mediated by the Otomo family before, the weaker Minami-Shiga family would have been annexed by the Kita-Shiga family. The Minami-Shiga family has always had the intention of regaining their original territory on the east bank of the Ono River, and now Masayo has promised to give the territory of the North Shiga family to the Minami-Shiga family as long as the Minami-Shiga family is willing to surrender.

At present, coupled with the fact that Nanshan Castle has been besieged by the right side of the Luo family's first army, the two brothers Shiga Kantaka and Shiga Yoshikina have tried to go out of the city to fight. However, he was defeated by the two of Yuancheng Temple Xinyin and Kumon Chongzhong, so they had to retreat back into the city and defend the city.

Although they had been reminded by the Otomo family before, beware of the invasion of the Luo family in the west of Higo Country, so they also prepared some materials to defend the city in the city, but because the Minami Shiga family was not very wealthy, the materials in the city were not enough to support two months, if the Luo family army outside the city did not retreat, and the Otomo family did not have reinforcements to come, they would suffer. When the two brothers were melancholy, Yoshimi Irita entered the city to persuade him to surrender. In the eyes of the two brothers Shiga Kantaka and Shiga Yoshikin. Previously, the Otomo family had always favored the Kita-Shiga family, even when supporting the various families to prevent the invasion of the Luo family. It only supported the North Shiga family, and really ignored their South Shiga family, coupled with the emotional persuasion of Irita Yoshimi, driven by interests, the two brothers decisively surrendered.

After receiving the surrender of the Minami-Shiga family, Masarashi decisively left some of the generals and military forces responsible for staying in the local area to ensure that the siege of the Kita-Shiga family would continue to be maintained and the Otomo family would be on guard against the strength of the Otomo family in Ono County, and then under the leadership of the mountain hunters provided by the Kita-Shiga family, he led the remaining army to march towards the Kuryūshige mountain range.

To Masara's delight, there is indeed a mountain road leading to the Oita Prefecture area. The only problem is that this trail is just a way for hunters to enter the mountain, so it's quite narrow and winding.

"My lord, please be seated." While Masarashi was standing in place and waiting for everyone to arrange the big tent, Irita Yoshimi and Shiga Kantaka and several other wealthy families who had already surrendered to the Luo family had placed Maza for Masahiro (this time, Masara also brought the military strength of the wealthy clans who had entered the county). Due to the new addition to the Luo family, these wealthy families were also worried about Zhengliang crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, so they all rushed to show goodwill to Zhengliang along the way.

Masara nodded slightly to a few people, sat on top of Maza, and then said to the person standing beside him: "Changzeng, I am about to enter Oita County, don't forget your bet with me at that time." ”

The people beside Zhengliang immediately smiled bitterly when they heard this. And several other wealthy families who had already taken refuge in the Luo family were overjoyed when they heard the words.

The person Masara is talking about is none other than Yoshioka Nagamasa, a retainer of the Otomo family who was captured by the Luo family two years ago. The Yoshioka family is a tributary of the three generations of the Otomo family, Yorimune, and is therefore a retainer of the Otomo family for generations. It was only a dozen years ago that Yoshioka Nagazen was defeated again and again in a battle with the Ouchi family in Kitakyushu, and even surrendered to the Ouchi family (not to surrender and become a retainer of the Ouchi family), although he later returned to the Otomo family. But Yoshioka Nagazen has been despised by Otomo Yoshikan ever since, and the Yoshioka family has also been suppressed by Otomo Yoshikan. Historically, Yoshioka Nagamasai was also reused after Otomo came to power in the town of Otomo, and gradually showed his talent in diplomacy and strategy, and eventually grew into one of the famous "Three Elders of Bungo" in the Otomo family.

Now, Yoshioka Nagamasa's fate has changed with the arrival of Masara. In the Otomo family's strategy against the Luo family two years ago, Yoshioka Nagazen unfortunately became a prisoner of the Luo family. He was then placed under house arrest at the Tadako Temple of the Luo family in Notakayama, Matsuura County, Hizen Province. Originally, he thought that Otomo Yoshikan would find a way to redeem him, but Otomo Yoshikan not only did not redeem him, but even prevented the Yoshioka family from redeeming him, and sent a message hoping that the Yoshioka family would choose another governor. This caused Yoshioka Nagamasa's loyalty to the Otomo family to be dealt a great blow.

Of course, Yoshioka Nagamasai is not such an easy person to lose his temper. After experiencing several persuasions from Masayo to surrender, he still remembers the Otomo family (after all, it is also a split of the Otomo family, and it is estimated that he is worried that his surrender will bring bad luck to the family). It's just that in the past few years, the Otomo family has continued to lose miserably at the feet of the Luo family, and Yoshioka Nagazen has become more and more disappointed in the Otomo family. He is also becoming more and more dissatisfied with Otomo Yoshiken, the family governor.

It wasn't until last year that the combined forces of the Otomo family and the Ouchi family were defeated by the Luo family in one fell swoop, that he realized that it was not that the Otomo family's family governor was incompetent at this time, but that the Luo family's family governor was too strong. In the past, his thinking was mainly focused on his own family (which is also one of the reasons why he has never surrendered to the Luo family, and the Luo family didn't even get a chance to face it up to him), and now he finally began to look at Luo Zhengliang, the young Luo family governor.

And this time, Masarashi specifically found him before going out and asked him if he was interested in following the Luo family's army to the Otomo family's base camp Bungo.

After hearing the news that the Luo family was about to come out of Fenghou, he was stunned at first, and then immediately laughed. He recognized the ability of Luo Zhengliang and the strength of the Luo family, but he thought that the Luo family planned to fight Fenghou soon after a big battle last year, which was too delusional. Let's not talk about whether the Luo family can still support another big war in such a short period of time after experiencing a big war last year, just with the strength of the Otomo family, the Luo family can be driven out of Fenghou in ashes. So he immediately said that the Luo family would be defeated this time.

Masato immediately ridiculed Yoshioka Nagamasa, and in anger, Yoshioka Nagazen simply swore that if the Luo family could hit his family's territory, then he would surrender to the Luo family. After all, the Yoshioka family's territory is in Oita County, the hinterland of Bungo Province, and if the Luo family's army can really march here, it means that the Otomo family is not far from extinction.

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