In the First Battle of Higo, the army of the Luo family with Shinnosuke Akabane as the general was only for the purpose of defeating the wealthy clans of Higo, and in this battle, their main purpose was to focus on dealing with the army of the Otomo family from Bungo. After killing and capturing most of the Otomo family's direct forces, and defeating the Higo coalition army, the Luo family stopped it, and did not continue to pursue the various wealthy families who were fleeing.

But if the Luo family doesn't pursue, it doesn't mean that the army that the Kikuchi family came to attack won't pursue. After the Suwa Shrine besieged Yoshihiro Kenri and his party, Ryuzoji Takanobu led a team of hundreds of people to intercept and kill the wealthy families of Higo. It was also the bad luck of Akashi's in-laws, and he led his two brothers and dozens of subordinates to evacuate from the battlefield when he met the menacing Ryuzoji Takanobu. Seeing that it was the family crest of the Red Star family, Ryuzoji Takanobu directly led his men to kill it without saying a word.

The remnants of dozens of people are opponents of hundreds. In this battle, dozens of troops led by the Chixing family were completely wiped out. Ryuzoji Takanobu also became the number one general under Kikuchi Yoshitake because he successively won important figures such as Yoshihiro Kanri, the general of the Otomo family, and the Akashi family, and since then he finally has the hope of reviving the family after the demise of the Hizen family.

And when Ryuzoji Takanobu was fighting hard, Kikuchi Yoshitake was not willing to be lonely. He cooperated with Higo's Ichijo sect, and in the case of the retainers of the Akashi family, he took the castle that was the guardian of Higo for all generations, and the son of the Akashi family was finally forced to abandon the castle and fled to Bungo to the Otomo family.

After occupying the castle, Kikuchi Yoshitake kept contacting the old parts of the Kikuchi family in the past, and even blatantly made eye contact with some wealthy families of Higo. There is a great tendency to continue to expand the momentum.

And the wealthy families in the central and northern parts of Feihou, who had just lost to the Luo family, were also busy licking their wounds. Naturally, he didn't have time to take care of the Kikuchi family's actions. In addition, the Kikuchi family's current occupation of the mansion happened to occupy an important transportation artery connecting central and northern Higo to Bungo, and after the Kikuchi family imposed martial law on the border, it was difficult for the wealthy families of Higo to contact the Otomo family in time for a while. As a result, Higo fell into a period when Kikuchi Yoshitake was making waves everywhere.

And the side of the Goto naval army, after learning that the Otomo family had suffered a crushing defeat in Higo and withdrew its troops in Chikugo, they also sent the detained Luo family envoy Tao Masanatora back to the Luo family with great interest. At the same time, he also withdrew the navy on the edge of the Luo family's territorial waters, and after returning to the five islands, he made a strict defense.

After the great battle between the Luo family and the Otomo family, the situation in Kyushu has also changed a little.

The Luo family, in addition to the Goto region, had almost completely occupied Hizen Province at this time, and in addition, it also occupied most of Chikugo Province and part of Higo Province and Chikuzen Province, with a stone height of about 530,000 stone and a population of more than 250,000 people. For the time being, he maintained an alliance with the Ouchi family. But the relationship already seems a little delicate. At the same time, he also established an alliance with the Shimazu family in Satsuma. And with the Otomo family, it is a hostile relationship.

Ouchi family. Although the Iwami country was caught in the battle with the Niko family, at this time it still controlled the five kingdoms of Shubo, Nagato, Aki, Bunzen, and Chikuzen, and the stone was more than 900,000 stones, plus a part of the Iwami region that still controlled it, and it was still known as a daimyo of one million stones. And the current relationship with the Luo family and the Otomo family has also fallen into a delicate state. As for the Nizi family, they are still his number one rival.

The Otomo family, after fighting the Luo family repeatedly in the past two years, has lost a lot in strength. However, it still controls the whole country of Bungo Province, and also controls part of Chikugo Province and Higo Province, and its strength has dropped from nearly one million stone at its peak to about 600,000 stone, which is comparable to the drumming of the Luo family. Diplomatically, as the hegemon of the north-central part of Kyushu, it is still a mediator for many powerful people in the Shikoku region, which is separated by a sea, and at the same time maintains a close relationship with the Ito family in close proximity. Since Yoshicho Ouchi became Yoshitaka Ouchi's son, the relationship between the Otomo family and the Ouchi family has become a bit delicate. And the Luo family is a sworn enemy.

The Ito family, at this time, was the governor of the family, who was known as Yoshisuke Ito, who created the largest territory of the Ito family. This Yoshisuke Ito is also a figure. Yoshisuke Ito had trouble at the beginning of his succession, and at the end of Tenmon 6 (1537), a fire broke out in the castle of Satohara Castle. After only living for a year, Sadogaha Castle was also reduced to ruins in the fire red lotus, and Ito Yoshisuke had no choice but to move to Miyazaki Castle again.

If the fire in the castle was a natural disaster, then the Nagasura rebellion between the ninth and tenth years of Astronomi was doomed to an inevitable man-made disaster. The mastermind of the rebellion was none other than Nagakura Noto Shouyu Province, who had taken the lead in opposing Yoshisuke Ito. In addition, Nagakura Noto Mamoru also sought reinforcements from the Shimazu Toyoshu family, a branch of the Shimazu family, who was sitting in Obi at this time. Shimazu Tadahiro, the head of the Toyoshu family at that time, sent reinforcements of 3,000 horsemen to participate in the battle.

The Nagasaki rebellion lasted for more than a year, until September 1541, when the combined forces of Yoshikiyo Ito, who had changed his name to Yoshisuke Ito, broke Nagakura and Shimazu, and won a final victory. In this battle, the culprit of the rebellion, Nagakura Notomori, was killed in battle, and the head of the army fled, and the anti-righteous forces within the Ito family were swept away. After five years as the head of the Ito clan, Yoshisuke Ito finally gained a foothold. This year, Yoshisuke Ito was thirty years old. And the Ito family also controlled the territory of Hyuga Province with tens of thousands of stones, and officially became a daimyo from a wealthy family.

After implementing a series of goodwill measures for the shogunate and the imperial court, Ito Yoshisuke not only received a high-ranking official position, but also received the support of the imperial court and the shogunate in general righteousness. As a result, Ito Yoshisuke changed the territorial policy of Yuyoshi and Yukichi and restarted the expansion of the Ito clan. At this time, Yoshisuke's main opponents were the Hokago's family in Shonai Metropolitan Castle and the Toyosu Shimazu family in Obi. However, because Shimazu Tadahiro, the head of the Shimazu family in Toyoshu, had no children, he accepted Tadashi, the son of the head of the Hokago, as his adopted son and inherited the position of the lord. The head of the Hokgo clan was succeeded by the eldest son of the loyal family, Shi Jiu. In fact, the two have become one.

In order to seize the dominance of southern Hyuga, the Ito family will not only have to deal with the Kitago family and the Toyosu Shimazu family, but more problematic is the Satsuma Shimazu family, the powerful rivals behind the two families. With the power of the Ito family alone, I am afraid that it will be difficult to compete with the power of the three, so Ito Yoshisuke must seek help. Through frequent marriages and diplomatic activities, the eldest daughter Takajo married the seventeenth generation of the Osumi liver Fu family, and the liver Fu Liang kan; The second daughter, Aso, married Kitahara Kanemori, who occupied Hinata Makoin at this time; Secretly preparing to win over the Sagara family of Higo, Yoshiyu is preparing to form an encirclement that relies on the three families of Hetoko, Kitahara, and Sagara as foreign aid, in order to deal with the alliance of the two families of Kitago and Toyoshu and contain Shimazu Takahisa of Satsuma. According to historical development, in the following decades, these families will be caught in frequent intrigues and conquests.

Liver pay home. As the most powerful and powerful in Osumi, the liver Fu family at this time held the territory of nearly 100,000 stone in Osumi. At this time, the sixteenth generation of the liver payment family was the master, and the liver payment was also a person who made a difference. In 1527, he married the Shimazu family in Satsuma, and continued to marry Shimazu Tadashi's eldest daughter Anan as the Masashi clan, and he also married his sister to Takara's son Takahisa, and relied on political marriage with the Shimazu clan to maintain a temporary armistice. On the other hand, while strengthening diplomacy, he continued to build walled castles in 39 places in the territory, subordinated the Youneto clan of the Great Akira, repaired the road from Takayama Castle to the inner bay of Kunimi Mountain, and opened the sea route, so that the strength of his domain gradually increased. But as the Satsuma Shimazu family next to him became more and more powerful, he also felt a deep sense of crisis. So when the Ito family came to the door to seek covert cooperation, he was also quite moved.

The Satsuma Shimazu family, after more than ten years and two generations of continuous efforts, the Satsuma Shimazu family has subdued the Izumi Shimazu family and the Toyosu Shimazu family respectively, and has also completely occupied the Satsuma Peninsula, becoming a daimyo with tens of thousands of stones, and at the same time becoming a veritable Satsuma guardian. Now he has formed alliances with the Sagara family in Higo and the Luo family in Higo, and at the same time strives to maintain friendly relations with the Liver Fu family in the Osumi area, in order to eliminate the rebellious clans in north-central Satsuma as soon as possible. Satsuma Shimazu has expanded his territory with the help of Takahisa Shimazu and his growing sons.

As for Higo, the situation is the most complicated. (To be continued......)