In the early part of November of the 22nd year of Astronomy (1553), on the second day after Kinoshita Masanao's army attacked Ichinoto Castle in Shimo-gun, Toyozen Province (in fact, no matter how the army progressed, the rest of the armies would attack separately according to the time set by Masayo before), the first, fourth, and fifth armies of the Luo family went out on the same day from Yamagunkuji Temple in Chikujo-gun, Toyozen Province, Nikishi Castle in Kuju County, Bungo Province, and Takasaki Yamajo in Oita County, Bungo Province, under the banner of the Luo family.

The Luo family's four-way army marched together for a while, which made the wealthy clans in the area where the four-way army was pointing to urgently prepare for war. Since these areas are adjacent to the Luo family's territory, at this time, their borders have gathered a lot of displaced people to varying degrees. So these wealthy clans immediately took out the grain reserves and began to recruit these homeless people to help resist the invasion of the Luo family.

Whether it is the southeastern region of Fengzen Country or the northeastern region of Fenghou Country, since their land border and sea border are blocked by the Luo family, the Luo family is equivalent to fighting against the wealthy clans in these two regions behind closed doors this time, and there is no need to worry about the intervention of other powerful people.

At this time, on the coast of Beppu Bay in Sumi County, Bungo Province, the field road leading to the Otomo family in the important town of Kamei-etsu Castle in Awami County. A half-mile army of the Luo family was marching.

Along the way, there are paddy fields alluvial by mountain streams on the west side of Beppu Nada. On the west side, there is still a lot of fertile land hidden in the mountains and forests that are still full of primeval forests, and there is even a large grassland. According to later records, there was still a large herd of wild horses in that steppe. If you thoroughly master Ami-gun in the future. Masato plans to develop the fields and pastures in the mountain forest. The field will become the new village settlement of the Luo family. The grassland will become the second pasture of the Luo family after the Hizen Kunino Alpine Ranch.

After two years of continuous invasion by the Luo family, the plain area near here, which was originally a granary in the territory of the Otomo family, has long been abandoned due to war, and those fertile paddy fields have been overgrown with weeds. In the vicinity of these paddy fields, the remains of several houses can be seen, and there is even a collapsed torii archway, which is the remains of the shrine guarded by the town. These local peasants, in the midst of the war, were not looted by the Luo family to settle in the Luo family's territory. It was moved to Kunisto County by the Otomo family.

Ashigaru soldiers dressed in the armor of the Roche family's armory workshop were marching, stepping over puddles on the road, leaving mud on their straw sandals. This army, both the ashigaru soldiers and the samurai on horseback, carried the Luo family's flag on their backs, and marched silently.

The setting sun shone obliquely through the treetops, and the surroundings were extremely silent except for the sound of birds and cicadas.

Dressed in Luo's armor, Masayo rode his horse across the ditch, and now his main camp was uniting with Tomohisa Oishi's Fifth Army to march towards Bungo Ami-gun, which was controlled by Otomo's family.

"Oh!"

As they were marching, a loud eagle chirping rang from the sky. When Masato heard this, he immediately stopped the Nanban war horse "Lightning" under him. Then look up at the sky. I saw that in the clear sky, a black dot was shooting quickly in the direction where Masato was. As the distance gets closer. The black dot eventually evolved into a sea dongqing gliding in the sky.

In order to keep abreast of the progress of the various armies, in addition to using sea and land routes to communicate with the armies of all routes, this time Masahiro also used two Haidongqing to establish an air intelligence network in the air.

"Papapa...... Hai Dongqing flapped his powerful wings and slowly landed above everyone, and finally landed on Zhengliang's shoulder. Zhengliang untied an envelope from Hai Dongqing's feet, and then asked the entourage behind him to take out some specially prepared dried meat and throw it to this Hai Dongqing to feed, and then he opened the envelope, took out the letters inside and looked at it.

This letter was sent this morning by Kinoshita Masanao after taking Ichinoto Castle and discussing with Takahashi Shaoyun about the resettlement of the displaced people.

"Good!" After reading Kinoshita Masanao's letter, Masarashi seemed quite happy, "The third army of the main family has taken Ichinoto Castle in Shimomo County, Toyozen Province yesterday. ”

"Wow!" After hearing the news suddenly, the people around Zhengliang immediately started talking. Among these people, Tachibana Michiyuki, Joi Nagabo, Hatata, Aokei Takashi, Sagara Takeren, and Ryosen Takatoyo were the most surprised. From the words of Zhengliang, they got two messages in an instant. First, this time, the Luo family attacked the hostile areas of Fengqian and Fenghou at the same time (for the sake of secrecy, only some important ministers in the family know about the simultaneous attack of several road armies); The second is that the Luo family's strategy this time is progressing quite smoothly, and they have taken the lead in winning a city.

"Report, lord, the information that has just arrived." Just as everyone was talking, another cloaked man walked quickly to Zhengliang's horse with a letter. Masahiro took the letter, then tore it open and read it.

After reading it, Masara thought for a while, and immediately asked Isono Yuanchang beside him, "How far is it to go to Otomo's house from now on?" ”

"Report to the lord, there is still less than a day to go, but there are still two castles built by the Otomo family on the way." Isono reported immediately.

"Okay, since this is the case, then immediately order the fifth army of the former army to speed up, and strive to take these two cities today, and tomorrow I will surround Luming Yuecheng. Remember, on the way forward, you must make the momentum a little bigger, so that the other party will know that the army of the Daoist family is coming. Zhengliang immediately gave the order.

This time, for the strategy of the southeastern part of the Bunzen Kingdom and the northeastern region of the Bungo Reach, Masayo adopted a strategy of fiction and reality, and reality is fiction. The specific method is to let the first, fourth, and fifth armies invade with great fanfare, attract the enemy's attention, and if they find that the enemy's blocking force is too great, they will not fight the other side, and adopt bluffing delaying tactics to delay the enemy's main force at the border; If you find that the enemy's blocking power is limited, then turn into a real attack and directly take the opponent's border, so as to drive straight in.

In short, these armies are not only the main marching forces of the actual offensive, but also the bait to attract the enemy's main forces under the guise of invasion. In this way, the second and sixth armies, which are maneuvering to carry out landing operations, will be able to carry out landing and sneak attack operations along the enemy's coast. After all, Zhengliang is a person from later generations, and it is impossible for Zhengliang not to take advantage of this advantage when the Luo family's naval army has already controlled the enemy's coastal waters. Therefore, when studying how to implement this strategy, Masashi immediately thought of landing sneak attack operations that were not commonly used in this era.

The letter that had just been sent was the letter sent by the Sixth Route Army, in which Murakami Takeyoshi and Wakabayashi Echigo Mamoru had reported to Masayo that their army had successfully landed and had lurked along the coast of Kunisaki-gun, which was controlled by the Tomo family of Bungo Kunigo.

Why are they able to appear in the enemy's Kunisto County? It all started one night before the Third Route Army left Ichinoto Castle.

That one was a dusk when the sun was about to set. On the shore at the junction of Beppu Bay and Iyo Bay off the coast of Kunito Prefecture of Bungo Province, several figures are hiding among the rocks along the coast.

"How? See a boat shadow? A man who looked to be about thirty years old asked. This person is the Ahri who was previously ordered to lead people to infiltrate the territory of the Tomomo family of Bungo Kokudai in advance.

Since the largest naval army in the Fengqian Kingdom, the Shanjia Navy, was collected by Tao Longfang, the naval armies of the wealthy families of the Fenghou Kingdom were eliminated one by one during this period of time due to the loss of the protection of the Shanjia Naval Army. The coastal areas of Fenghou and Fengqian have almost become the monopoly of the Luo family's naval army. This time, Ahri was ordered to enter Guodong County, which was to lay a preemptive station for the Luo family's landing operation in Guodong County this time.

Tonight, according to the previous agreement, it is the day when Ahri and the others are here to receive the landing of their army.

(Sorry, in the cold and fever, the state is not too good, and now it is a cold sweat knocking out word by word.) Previously, more than 10,000 words have been updated every day for more than 60 days, and there is no manuscript left. I'll try to keep this update as fast as possible. Conditional book friends, please try to support the genuine version.,Recently, even the mobile phone has been shut down in arrears.。 (To be continued......)