There is a saying that the strongest fortresses are often the first to break down from the inside. This sentence is the most appropriate for the Puchi family.

Kamachi Kenmori thought that he was responsible for guarding Yanagawa Castle with his family's kinship samurai and Ashigaru, so Yanagawa Castle must be foolproof. It's just that he was wrong.

Although the spirit of bushido is prevalent in this era, there will be many people who adhere to the spirit of bushido. But after all, people are creatures, and there will always be seven emotions and six desires. As a result, several relatives of the Puchi family fell under the sugar-coated cannonballs of the Luo family.

The intelligence cabinet of the Luo family is not an ornamental institution, since Zhengliang established such a mysterious and terrifying institution in the Luo family, Zhengliang has invested a lot of resources in it, and of course, the intelligence cabinet has also achieved a lot of results.

And one of the results is that the information of the surrounding area, from the big names to the small local wealthy families, is very detailed. As early as when Masarashi decided to launch a raid on the southwestern region of Chikugo, the Intelligence Pavilion had already started operating in advance. Not only did a large number of detectives, Black Hawks, and some people who returned to Chikugo with various tasks infiltrate Chikugo, but even some infiltration work into the local wealthy families began at the same time.

The Kuroki family is one of the results of this work, and the current Kamachi family is another achievement.

It's just that the cooperation of the internal response is just the last straw that crushes the elephant, and before that, more straw is needed as a foreshadowing. And the commander of this foreshadowing is Shinnosuke Akabane, one of the two military advisors of the Luo family.

In fact, according to Masahiro's idea, this time the two military divisions should act together. Just before giving the order. Masarashi remembered the agreement he had made with another military advisor, Kakuma Ishimune. That is his reluctance to get involved in anything with the Otomo family. And the Kamaike family and Chikugo. It's all within the power of the Otomo family. Masarashi hesitated, but finally gave up his original idea, leaving Kakukuma Ishimune to remain in charge of Hizen's affairs.

After receiving Masarashi's order, Shinnosuke Akabane immediately began to prepare for the cage battle against Yanagawa Castle.

First of all, according to the order of Masayo, he temporarily recruited a peasant army of more than 1,000 people in Hizen. Coupled with the 300 peasant soldiers who had already besieged Liuchuan City, the total number of peasant soldiers in this cage battle was more than 1,300 people. The number of guards in Yanagawa Castle was less than 200.

While recruiting peasant soldiers, Shinnosuke Akabane also prepared siege equipment and summoned generals according to Masarashi's warrant.

Those who participated in the battle of Yanagawa Castle this time were Oda Masamitsu, Nabeshima Kiyobo, Nafu Nobuyo, Kogawa Nobuyan, Akaka Morikiyo, and Mingfeng Hidemasa, Liu Ye, and Honda Toshimasa who had already stayed in the military camp outside Yanagawa Castle. The above-mentioned people are mainly generals of the Logistics Department and the Cabinet of Internal Affairs.

Except for these people. There are also Ueda Shinji, Uemura Mototsuna, Tetsunosuke, Kumon Shigetada, Roshi Masahide, and Roshi Shinoburo from the Military Cabinet. Even Masayoshi's small surnames Murakami Takeyoshi, Nabeshima Naoshige, and Honda Masanobu participated in this cage battle.

Most of these people were lieutenant generals who remained in the areas occupied by Hizen or Chikugo.

After seeing this list of personnel and the request for a large number of peasant soldiers, Shinnosuke Akabane quickly understood what Masayo meant. Masahiro wants to take the opportunity of this cage battle to train the peasants and soldiers in the territory and these generals on a large scale.

With the series of struggles with the power of the Otomo family in Hizen and Chikugo during this time, in fact, the attrition of Luo's troops is also very powerful. If it weren't for the fact that the Ouchi family alliance army fought with the Otomo family alliance for a few days, which consumed the combat power of the Otomo family to a certain extent, it is estimated that the situation of Luo's attrition would be even more serious.

Soldiers who died in battle, whether standing or farming, were compensated in strict accordance with territorial standards, and their bodies were buried at the Hero's Tomb in Notakayama on the Matsuura Peninsula in Hizen, where they were worshiped by a large number of school students, new barracks recruits, and others every year. Enjoy the treatment of martyrs.

And for the wounded soldiers, after being treated by the temple medical team led by the monk Xuanzhi. Those who can continue to fight after recovering from their injuries will continue to return to the team to fight, of course, they will definitely be promoted or rewarded materially according to their combat exploits. Those who can no longer continue to fight will go directly to the Roche Academy for a month of training and study, and then they will be dispersed to the Luo family's territories in Hizen and Chikugo, where they will serve as local government and military officials, respectively. The worst one also has a village head that can be pawned.

However, since a large number of soldiers have been compensated, there must have been a large number of attrition in Luo's fan, and in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of each team, it is necessary to select and replenish the peasant soldiers who are almost reserve. Due to time constraints, these scattered selected peasants were not able to attend the three-month boot camp before entering the teams. Instead, he directly entered the team to participate in the battle.

Under such circumstances, the battle of the peasants and soldiers directly affected the overall combat effectiveness of the entire team. Although these peasant soldiers are the best in various places, the real battlefield is not the training ground. How to improve the combat power of these peasant soldiers, which is equivalent to the reserves, will be an important indicator of the war potential of the Luo family.

At present, there are several main methods of reserve training for the Roche family. The first is that children over the age of eight and under the age of fifteen in each part of the territory will form a patrol squad in their respective places of residence, and take turns to conduct simple military training on a regular basis.

Secondly, the peasant soldiers in various localities would be trained every month under the leadership of the village chiefs in charge of military training in each locality. These village leaders are generally retired soldiers from various teams, and the training effect can also be guaranteed to a certain extent.

Finally, when each team needs to replenish or expand its troops, after a large number of troops are recruited, a three-month recruit training is held at the new barracks in Notakayama on the Matsuura Peninsula in Hizen.

In the more than three years since the gradual rise of the Luo family, these policies have been greatly promoted in the territory infighting. In particular, in places such as Songura County, which was first ruled by the Luo family, these policies became almost a part of their daily lives.

It's just that these are not enough. These policies will need to be settled in the territory for at least a few years before they can have their real effect. So, for the time being, it's time to find ways to train these reserve peasants.

And this cage battle is a good opportunity to exercise. In the same way, for these adjutant generals, interior officers, logistics officers and even small surnames, this is also a very good training opportunity. In this cage battle, they will exercise their ability to organize logistics, lead troops, and command on the battlefield, and accumulate development potential for the development of the Luo family.

So, after clearly understanding Masara's purpose for Caging Castle this time, Shinnosuke Akabane commanded everyone to launch round after round of attacks on Yanagawa Castle. During this period, it was mainly based on harassment warfare and assault warfare.

Of course, since it is mainly exercise, the casualties must not be too large, so every siege of Shinnosuke Akabane is mainly to the point. But even so, the siege of the city for several days made the people in Yanagawa Castle exhausted, not only exhausted but also panicked.

Finally, on the sixth day of the Luo family's siege, with the help of several internal responses, the Luo family opened the gate of Liuchuan City. The fortified city, which would later become the strongest fortified city in Chikgo, fell. (To be continued......)