At the end of November of the first year of Koji.

During this period of time, the various armies of the Luo family have made a lot of progress in the four regions of the Nagato Kingdom, the Zhou Defense Kingdom, and the Anyi Kingdom, as well as their surrounding areas.

In terms of the navy, with the continuous sweep of the three-way navy in various places, at this time, the Seto Inland Sea, Anyu Beach, Zhoufang Beach, and Iyu Beach between Kyushu Island, Honshu Island, and Shikoku Region have completely become the inland sea under the exclusive control of the Luo family's naval army.

With the end of the war in this water, the Luo family's naval army also liberated the blockade of this sea area, and a large number of merchant ships that had been stopped due to the previous war and some powerful spy ships from all over the world also quickly poured into this area. After all, the Seto Inland Sea is the most important maritime trade route in the Japanese country, and if it is blocked for a long time, it will not only affect the Luo family's own business income and the collection of tolls, but also offend the power of many merchants, so after weighing the pros and cons, Masato finally issued an order to lift the ban. As for the leakage of the situation of the First Battle of Itsukushima, anyway, with the Luo family's attacks in the Seto Inland Sea, the Western Country, and Sanyo Road, the surrounding powerful names will know the result of the Lu Road as long as they are inferred, and the various armies of the Luo family have also attacked, so there is no need to hide it at this time.

After mastering the Seto Inland Sea, a water trade route, the Luo family's navy not only did a good job of protecting the local waters, but also sent people to assist the various land armies along the coast of the four countries of Zhoufangguo, Nagato Province, Aki Province, and Bigo Province to continue the attack, and at the same time began to infiltrate the Suitan sea area, which was also contaminated by the Miyoshi family's Tanlu naval army.

On the part of the navy, because the main force of the local navy had been defeated in the Battle of Itsukushima, great progress was made in the strategy during this time. comparatively. The armies on the land route were not so easy.

Akuta's First Route Army attacked Kameyama Castle in Otsu-gun, Nagato Province. At this time, it was still surrounding the Tsugetsu Castle in Abu County, Nagato Province, which was controlled by the Yoshimi family. As for Watagawa Castle in Abu County, it was still in the hands of the Ouchi family at this time. As a result, Masara's original strategy of quickly taking the three castles of Kameyama Castle, Shigetsu Castle, and Watagawa Castle in order to prevent the Yoshimi family, which was located on the border between Abu Prefecture and Iwami Province in Nagato Province, from taking the opportunity to enter Nagato Province and Zhou Fangguo to go deeper into the region, ended in failure.

Fortunately, when the army of the Luo family surrounded Zhiyue City, the governor of the Yoshimi family, Yoshimi Masanori, happened to be in the city, and because the governor was besieged in the city, this caused the Yoshimi family to fall into a state of leaderlessness, thus indirectly achieving the purpose of blocking the Yoshimi family from influencing the Luo family's strategy against the Nagato Kingdom and the Zhou Defense Kingdom.

Since the situation in Zhiyue City had evolved into such a situation, Masato simply ordered the first army led by Aguta to adopt the strategy of encircling and sending reinforcements instead. Try to contain the Yoshimi family as much as possible. In order to better achieve this goal, Masarashi also sent an envoy to the Yoshimi family's neighbor Masuda family not long ago, in an attempt to encourage the Masuda family to go out and attack the Yoshimi family back and forth with the Luo family.

The second army led by Tomohisa Oishi, Isono Motomasa, and Takasaka Masanobu. Because this army is coordinated by cavalry, and they have cleverly played the name of Ouchi Yoshizun, the progress of the strategy is good.

From the beginning of the strategy, they divided their troops into two routes, all the way along the southern coast of Nagato Province to the east of the Zhoufang Beach, along the way to capture the inner county city, Eagle Mountain Castle and other fortresses, directly captured the southern area of the Nagato country, and then quickly entered the southern area of the Zhou defense country through the border area of the southern region. However, here he encountered fierce resistance from Youda Takeshi Castle, which was garrisoned by Uchi's Ukita Takashi, and was still in the midst of a fierce battle at this time. Just take the city. The Yamaguchi region, the center of the Ouchi family's rule, was exposed to the Luo family's army.

On the other hand, the army chose to attack Yada Castle, which was controlled by the Luo family in the northwestern region of Nagato Province, and first went out from here and attacked Qingkei Castle in the northern part of Nagato Province (ensuring that the first army of Akuta in the northern area could concentrate on dealing with the Yoshimi family), and then quickly conquered Okabe Castle in the central region of Nagato Province, but when it continued to attack the central region of Nagato Province, it was resisted by Shinda Maru Castle and Panic Dragon Castle, which were guarded by the remnants of the Nagato Sugi family and the Naito family respectively. The pace couldn't help but stop.

Similarly, as long as the central region of Nagato Province is completely taken, then the entire Nagato Kingdom, except for a part of the border area in the north controlled by the Yoshimi family at this time, the rest of the area will fall into the pocket of the Luo family. In addition, from the central part of Nagato Province, it is also possible to quickly enter the Yamaguchi area, which is the center of the Ouchi family's rule.

On the Aki side, the Third Route Army, which completely occupied the western, southern, and central regions of Aki Province, began to attack Yamasan-gun and Yoshida-gun, which were still occupied by Mori in the northern region. However, in order to prevent the Niko family in Izumo Province in the north, before leaving for Itsukushima, the Mori family had deployed a lot of soldiers and horses in these two prefectures, and the Mori family itself had built many satellite castles in these two places over the years to defend the mountain castle of Yoshida County, the center of its rule. At this critical time, these arrangements finally showed their defensive value, and the strategy of Kinoshita Masanao's army was also slow.

In order to find a breakthrough, Kinoshita Masanao later focused his attack on the county side of the prefecture. Because that side is not only the base camp of the Yoshikawa family in the Maori family's Liangchuan system, but also has a local silver mine rich in minerals, as long as it takes here, it is equivalent to cutting off the Maori family's arm again, so that the Maori family will be destroyed by the Luo family sooner or later.

It's just that what Kinoshita Masanao didn't expect was that the Maori family seemed to be aware of his intentions, and actually set a trap in Yamasanao County, trying to let Kinoshita Masanao's army get in. Fortunately, Kinoshita Masanao was careful, and after noticing that something was wrong, he led the army back to the border of Takamiya County, which is adjacent to Yama County and Yoshida County, and avoided a crushing defeat. If Kinoshita Masanao's army were destroyed, the western, central, and even southern regions of Aki Province would instantly fall into the hands of the Mori family again. Then the previous efforts of the Luo family were in vain.

For the sake of safety and to ensure the results of the battle in Aki Province at this time, Masarashi ordered Kinoshita Masanao's army to be only responsible for harassment warfare on the border between Yama County and Yoshida County for the time being, and there was no need to continue to penetrate into the two counties.

(Khan, for Internet reasons, it took half a day to log in and be able to come in and update the release!) (To be continued......)