Halfway through October of the 17th year of Astronomy, Naito has been staying in Hakata for dozens of days.

He looked blankly at the southeast and northeast of Hakata, where the Luo family's camp stretched for half a mile. Looking from afar, he saw that there seemed to be people walking around the camp there, and he even saw that someone was building some kind of house there. He couldn't help but wonder, could it be that the Luo family was ready to confront each other for a long time?

This time he failed in the Luo family's strategy, and he did find that he had made a lot of mistakes. Previously, he secretly instigated the various wealthy clans in Chikuzen to jointly send troops to the Luo family, and even secretly scattered a large number of weapons, grains and grass into Hakata, making Hakata the logistics base camp of the Ouchi family to fight the Luo family. All of these operations were quite successful, at least they completely confused the Luo family, causing the Luo family governor to fall into the ambush circle they had set up and almost lost his good fortune. Although Masara escaped in the end, the two reinforcements of Ouchi and Otomo still maintained an absolute advantage over the Luo family.

In retrospect, it was at this time that he realized that he began to make mistakes. First of all, he should not be obsessed with the strategy of attacking Roche from both sides. It was he who made Sugiko operate as the temporary commander of the Chikugo Ouchi family's army, but as the real commander, he stayed in Hakata, and began to strategize how to start from the Harada family's Ichito County, climb over the back earthquake mountain and cross Karatsu Bay respectively, and when the main forces of the Luo family were concentrated in Chikugo Province and confronted the Ouchi and Otomo families, they entered from Matsuura County, Hizen Province, where the Luo family was empty, and even directly attacked the Luo family's home city, Kishigakuyama Castle, and dealt a fatal blow to the Luo family.

And at this time, he forgot to think about people's hearts. Yes, it is indeed a matter of the human heart. As the guardian of Chikuzen Province, Sugi Xingyun was already dissatisfied with Naito's prosperity in his heart. Originally, it belonged to the Chikuzen country of the Sugi family. Now it's been intervened by the Naito family. Even the wealthy families of Chikuzen Country, who had always obeyed the orders of the Sugi family, ignored the Sugi family. Instead, he obeyed Naito's orders. This caused ripples in Sugi Xingyun's heart, and even when Otomo Yoshikan discussed with him to attack Luo's Gaoliang Castle overnight, Sugi Xingyun chose to postpone the attack.

No one knows why Sugi Xingyun rejected the Otomo family's suggestion at that time, perhaps thinking that even if he defeated the Luo family this time, the most credited was Naito's prosperity. Anyway, the most rearly coalition forces just didn't attack Takara Castle overnight. If the coalition forces had attacked immediately that night and besieged Takara Castle, then Masarashi would have no time to prepare for a night attack, and the outcome of this battle might have been different. It's just that if there really is, there won't be so many wandering beggars in the world.

After learning of the defeat of the coalition forces. At that time, Naito Yoshimori, who was discussing with Tachibana, Takahashi and other wealthy families in Hakata, immediately dispatched the Tachibana family and other troops to rush to Akaji Castle in Mihara Prefecture of Chikugo Province, while he stayed in Hakata to continue to organize reinforcements. In his opinion, although the coalition army was defeated, as long as the defeated army could gather on the north bank of the Chikugo River, then Akaji Castle would be the front line for another confrontation with the Luo family. As long as they can temporarily stabilize the front in Akaji City, then the coalition forces will still control the initiative.

That's the second mistake he made. He overestimated the strength of the coalition army, and even more overestimated the strength of the reinforcements of the Tachibana family and other wealthy families, but underestimated the strength of the Luo family (which is no wonder, after all, this is the first time that the Ouchi family has officially fought against the Luo family, and the previous information about the Luo family is just someone else's personal experience. This led to an error in Naito's assessment). As a result, he soon received the news that Akaji Castle and Yamaya Castle were besieged by the Luo family's army, and the Tachibana family and other reinforcements he sent to support were even more trapped in the local area. Since then. He found that he could no longer successfully command the wealthy clans around Hakata. As the Luo family's army continued to expand its successes, these local wealthy families gradually developed some thoughts and no longer firmly supported Naito's prosperous command.

Seeing this, Naito Xingsheng immediately had a plan. He simply wrote to Yoshitaka Ouchi. Let Ouchi Yoshitaka immediately organize new reinforcements, and then enter the territory of the Autumn Moon family under the banner of supporting the Autumn Moon family, and take the opportunity to annex the Autumn Moon family. At the same time, he deliberately delayed the reinforcements to support the footsteps of the wealthy clans, so that the army of the Luo family would be stumbling with these wealthy clans, taking the opportunity to reduce the combat power of the Luo family and these wealthy clans, and delaying the army of the Luo family in the local area, and after the new reinforcements of the Ouchi family came out of the ancient mountain city of the Qiuyue family, they could directly surround the army of the Luo family. This was the third mistake made by Naito.

His thoughts were good, but he didn't estimate the original friendship between the Qiuyue family and the Luo family, so he didn't expect that the two families would make peace after the end. He didn't expect his family's reinforcements to move so slowly. By the time the main force of the Akizuki family returned to the territory in the eastern region of Chikuzen Province, the new reinforcements of the Ouchi family had just set foot in Enga County of Chikuzen Province. And the wealthy families who originally pinned their hopes on interception surrendered one after another.

So, in the case of mistake after mistake, the army of the Luo family has come to Hakata. And because the reinforcements of the Ouchi family, who could not take the opportunity to annex the Akizuki family, due to the temporary diversion, they had just arrived in the territory of the Zongxiang County at this time, and it was still at least two days away from here.

At this time, looking at the continuous camp of the Luo family outside Hakata City, he seemed to be laughing at Naito's prosperity: "What, you understand my power." ”

It was the morning hour, and the sea breeze swept the moisture of the morning sea against the buildings of Hakata, making people feel as if they were sitting in a castle in the fog, and standing on a high place proudly looking down on the walls and streets of Hakata, Naito Xingsheng saw only a dead Hakata. Due to the arrival of the Luo family's army, the people who originally lived in Hakata Castle and nearby fled to distant places to avoid their lives due to the war.

"Report!"

At this moment, there was an urgent sound of news downstairs, and I saw a samurai riding a war horse galloping towards the building where Naito was located.

"Report, sir. Near the mouth of Hakata Bay, a large-scale Luo family warship was discovered, and the naval army of the Zongxiang family, who was in charge of blocking the sea, had already confronted them. ”

"The Luo family's water army? How can it be? Naito Xingsheng was shocked when he heard this. Previously, in order to prevent the Ouchi family from sneaking up on Karatsu Bay and Yitu County, the Luo family's navy had been staying on guard in the sea of Karatsu Bay, so how could they take the initiative to run to the sea of Hakata Bay at this time. And his guesses were soon answered. I heard the retainers around me suddenly be surprised and pointed in the direction of Hakata West, it turned out that a large army was coming at a rapid pace.

"It's broken! Something happened to the Harada family. As soon as Naito saw the approaching army from the west, he immediately spoke. According to Naito's previous arrangement, no matter what the situation on Hakata's side is, they should not send troops to this side. Now a group of troops suddenly appeared from that direction, and this must not be the army of the Harada family. (To be continued......)