With a "boom", the torch in the hand of the Rotten Net Town fell on the pyre, and the pyre suddenly burst into flames.

It's just that most of the firewood is not dry firewood, so while burning, it also emits a thick black smoke. The pitch-black smoke instantly rose into the air, forming a rolling black column.

"Pedal Pedal Pedal T

At this time, Shiga Qindu, who was monitoring the defense situation in the castle from the highest point in the high castle, suddenly saw the black smoke in the air, his face changed drastically, and he immediately walked to the mouth of the city wall in a few steps, and looked at the place where the smoke was emitted.

I saw that in a clearing hundreds of miles away from Gaocheng, a pile of firewood was emitting thick black smoke. And not far from the fire, the town of Decay Net was facing Gao Cheng and smiled bitterly. This time with the Luo family's actions, he has almost completely pushed him into the camp of the Luo family, if the Luo family's attack on the Bungo Kingdom this time is fruitless and finally has to withdraw from the land of the Bungo Kingdom, then he will have to retreat with the Luo family with his vassals, otherwise he will definitely be attacked and retaliated by the wealthy families of the Otomo family in the future.

"Rotten Net Town, damn it! Damn it! Yes! Damn! ”

Just as he had predicted, Shiga knew everything in an instant when he saw him standing not far from the fire. He immediately shouted angrily. The town under the city was so frightened that he hurriedly retreated to the ranks of the retainers of the Luo family, for fear that Shiga Qindu in the city would be killed immediately.

According to the agreement made by everyone when they learned that the Luo family was out of Fenghou Kingdom, once they could not resist the attack of the Luo family, everyone could light the smoke. When the other wealthy families see this, they will find a way to come to their aid. Until the various wealthy clans have completely merged into an army that is strong enough to confront the Luo family's army head-on.

Previously, Masara launched an attack on Takajo in full view of everyone. It is for the wealthy families hiding nearby to take a closer look. Then deliberately postponed for a period of time, so that these fine works had enough time to transmit the battle situation of Gaocheng back to their respective families at this time, Masara asked the cavalry team to start imposing a curfew within two miles of the vicinity, causing these nearby wealthy families to not be able to understand the situation on Gaocheng's side in a short time.

Then, it was to use this time to ignite the black smoke that heralded the critical situation in the high city. The location where the black smoke was lit was very close to the high city, and under the action of the evening mountain wind, it was almost equivalent to the black smoke burning in the high city. In the case of becoming blind. The other wealthy clans in the vicinity must have thought that Gao Cheng was on the verge of breaking the city.

And the moment he saw the Rotten Net Town, Shiga Qindu learned of the Luo family's treacherous scheme. So he was so angry that he wanted to go out of the city immediately to extinguish the fire, and then cut the town of Rotten Nets with a thousand knives, but he soon tried his best to endure it. In the end, he had to order his subordinates to start shouting on the city wall: "Don't come, this is the trick of the Luo family." ”

For Shiga Qindu did not attack with anger, Masarashi felt a little disappointed, and he originally hoped to use this to lure the other party to attack. As for the shouts on the city wall, Masahiro simply ignored them. Now there are no other wealthy clans within two miles of Gaocheng, even if there are still them. It's impossible to get so close to Takashiro. Their shouts were in vain.

In fact, Shiga still guessed wrong. After threatening to slaughter his people and retainers, and forcing the town of Rotten Nets to communicate with them by lighting up a thick smoke, Masato immediately thought of this plan. Of course, his purpose is not to use this to surround the point and send reinforcements, but to secretly Chen Cang, and have another goal.

"Look at the sky, they should have arrived too, right?" Masarashi first looked at Shiga Qindu, who was still scolding angrily in the city, and then looked at the sky that was gradually sinking westward, and then muttered to himself.

In the evening, as night came, torches began to light on the walls of Okajo Castle of the Kita-Shiga family.

Kita-Shiga Ieoka Castle, which was later famous on the Kyushu mainland, was still a small castle at this time. Masa-liang's real goal this time is precisely this city.

In the 14th year of Tensho, after the defeat of the Battle of Ogawa, the Otomo family declined rapidly, and by this time, even the national Bungo began to waver. In February of that year, the Shimazu family soldiers were divided into two routes, with Shimazu Yoshihiro leading 30,000 main forces from Higo to the western part of Bungo to encroach on Otomo's territory, and Shimazu Iehisa also led an army of 10,000 from Hyuga Bungo Kaibe to attack. Under the soldiers of the Shimazu family, many local wealthy families of the Otomo family surrendered to the Shimazu family. Just when the Shimazu family's army was seizing the territory of the Otomo family like a split bamboo, the Shiga family Shiga himself led the army at this time to directly resist the attack of the Shimazu family with this castle, until the following year, at the request of Otomo Sorin, Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent troops to Kyushu to force the Shimazu family army to retreat. Later, Shiga kinji was also praised by Toyotomi Hideyoshi because of this incident.

At this time, Okajo had not yet undergone the continuous construction of the Kita-Shiga family for several generations, so it was still a little narrow and low. However, because it was built right next to the Rojigawa River (in fact, the locals prefer to call the Rojigawa River), the Kita-Shiga family dug a deep ditch along the castle and channeled the rivers of the Ono River into the ravine, forming a moat. The bridge over the moat called the Slip Bridge is the only way to enter and exit the castle.

The main reason why Masarashi chose this castle as his target was that as long as he captured this castle and built a camp on the mountain next to it, then he could completely isolate the southwestern part of Zhiru County and completely lose contact with the other territories of the Otomo family. At that time, the Luo family will be able to slowly conquer the wealthy families in this area.

In addition, this castle is also the gateway from Nao-gun to Ono County in Bungo Province, and for the Luo family, it is completely a fortress that can attack Ono County and retreat to defend the southwestern part of Nao-gun.

Yesterday, because he temporarily learned that the Luo family's army had invaded the nearby territory, his own lord temporarily drew half of the defenders from here to intercept the Luo family's army from crossing the river smoothly, so the defenders who seemed to be a little weak at this time seemed a little noisy. What alarmed the defenders even more was that just before the sun went down, they witnessed a column of black smoke appear in the sky. That direction is the direction of the family's high city, is it possible that the city's own city is about to fall so soon?

Just as the guards were in shock, a somewhat scattered group of troops approached from a distance.

"Stand still, the people in front of you stand still, don't board the bridge, otherwise I'll wait for the archery." Seeing that such a group of troops suddenly appeared outside the city, the guards on the city wall immediately shouted.

"Help, we are the soldiers of the lord, we are the soldiers who followed the lord to intercept the Luo family along the Ono River." After being stopped, the group of men who had planned to step on the bridge stopped immediately, and one of them stood by the bridge and shouted at the castle.

"Our people? Do you know each other? When the guards heard this, they immediately asked the others around them.

"It's pitch black, how can you see it clearly from such a distance." Someone muttered.

"Let's let Shou decide in the future." Someone else suggested.

So, everyone quickly found the guards in Okajo. Later, after figuring out the way of the group of people on the opposite side, the guard general immediately shouted:

"In Shimono and Goro, you will bring a few people who are familiar with Zai Xia over as soon as possible." As Shiga Qindu's personal soldier, Matagoro naturally knew a lot of soldiers who followed Shiga Qindu to the river beach to intercept the Luo family's army, and now it was an extraordinary time, so he naturally asked a few people he was familiar with to come over and ask for it in order to be on the safe side.

"Quick, carry a few samurai over." After receiving the order from Matagoro, the leader of the opposite bridge immediately ordered.

Soon, several samurai, who were still stuck in feathered arrows and were already dying and could barely breathe, were carried by several people onto the bridge, and then sent to the gate on the other side of the bridge.

Through the firelight, Matagoro carefully looked down from the city wall at the faces of these people. Seeing that the few people who could still stand on the bridge were all fresh faces, Matagoro immediately doubted in his heart, but when he saw a few people lying on the ground, he was suddenly shocked in his heart, so he immediately asked:

"Say, what's going on?" (To be continued......)