Recently, the good news has been coming back indeed.

The first is the situation of Kansuke Yamamoto and his second son Nobuyo Roche, who were sent back from Tokaido half a month ago. Once again, they defeated the combined forces of the Suruga Imagawa family and the Hojo family, and even captured the Imagawa clan, the governor of the Suruga Imagawa family. It was a big win.

The only pity is that because Hojo Tsusunari organized a rout defense on the border of Suruga Province in time, Kansuke Yamamoto and others could not take the opportunity to enter the territory of Suruga Province, so as to obtain greater results.

However, in any case, with this great victory, Kansuke Yamamoto and his second son Nobuya and others have also completely gained a foothold in Tokaido, and the support of the Luo family for them will gradually be reduced in the future, thus reducing the burden on the family.

Moreover, due to the lack of Kansuke Yamamoto, the fourth battle between the Takeda family and the Uesugi family on Kawanakama Island was even more evenly matched, and the two families were still in a standoff until the time Kansuke Yamamoto transmitted information to him. As a result, the Suruga Imagawa family was completely unable to ask for support from the Takeda family, an ally, and the Takeda family did not have any more energy to covet the Ene and Mikawa regions for the time being.

As for the Hojo family, although Hojo Tsusunari sabotaged the Luo family's plan to take the opportunity to enter the territory of Suruga Province, the Hojo family was also fighting on two sides at this time, on the one hand, helping the Suruga Imagawa family to guard against Yamamoto Kansuke and others, and on the other hand, they had to recapture the territory that had been captured by the Kwantung coalition some time ago, and continue to expand the territory of the Hojo family in the Kanto region. In this way, as long as the Luo family is instigated in Kanto, it will naturally be able to cause a lot of trouble to the Hojo family.

If he could make Hojo Shiyasu, he would have to summon Hojo Tsunari back to the Hojo family. Then Kansuke Yamamoto and the others will have a chance to invade the Suruga Imagawa family. To know. In just two years. has experienced three fiascos in a row (one is the fiasco of Imagawa Yoshimoto Kamiraku, and the other two are the fiasco of fighting with Yamamoto Kansuke, Roshi Nobuya and others), which has caused the strength and heritage of the Suruga Imagawa family to decline a lot, and now when the Takeda family has not had time to withdraw (in the eyes of Masaara, Takeda Shingen is really not a person who pays attention to credit and righteousness, after seeing the decline of the Suruga Imagawa family, and he also has energy, Takeda Shingen will definitely be like the destruction of the Imagawa family in history. Tearing up the alliance with the Suruga Imagawa family, and then intervening in the dispute over Tokaido), it was the perfect time to invade and even annex the Suruga Imagawa family.

What made Masaro even happier was that from the information sent back by Kansuke Yamamoto, Masarashi learned that Takahashi Shaoyun had entered the Kanto region with the purpose of containing the Hojo family, and he must have been able to do something shocking.

In addition to the good news from the Tokai region (although the Ezo region of the Roche Masamune and others have also arrived at their destination, and according to the previous arrangement of Masarashi began to be laid out in the Ezo area, due to the distance, the information about the Ezo area is still being sent back to the Roche family), there are also two good news from the Shikoku area.

One is to act as an intermediary in a family. The Changzong family also became an ally of the Luo family with the same status as the Ichijo family in the Luo family; The second is that under the continuous attack of the north and south sides of the Shimazu family and the Nishito temple family. The Utsunomiya, Kono, and Ohno families of the Yiyu Kingdom surrendered and surrendered to the Luo family. Considering the feud between the Utsunomiya family and the Saitoji family (the only biological son of Nishitoji Minoru died at the hands of the Utsunomiya family), Masarashi transferred the entire Utsunomiya family to Higo Province, and the Utsunomiya family's territory in the Shikoku region in the Iyu Province became the direct domain of the Luo family.

This territory of the Utsunomiya family is located in the coastal area at the intersection of Uwa Island Bay in the Southern Iyu Province and the Iyu Beach in the Northern Iyu Kingdom, and after the Luo family takes control of this area, on the one hand, they can strengthen the control and surveillance of the sea area between Kyushu and Shikoku through Guò, and on the other hand, because this territory is also located on land between the territories of the Nishito Temple family, the Ohno family, and the Kono family, it can be used as a transition zone to alleviate the contradictions between the three parties, and it can also be used as a good position to monitor the three families.

As for the Shimazu family, after two years of development in the area of Northern Iyu Province, at this time the Shimazu family had occupied almost half of the territory that originally belonged to the Kono family, and it can be said that they had occupied nearly a quarter of the land of the Iyu family in the territory.

Finally, in addition to the good news from Tokaido and Shikoku, the Roche Gakuin branch in the southern Kyushu region finally began to recruit new students at the beginning of this year.

This move indicates that the Luo family's control over Minami Kyushu has been completely settled, and Minami Kyushu will gradually become one of the foundations for the future development of the Luo family. With the expansion of the influence of the Luo School in the local area, it will also be more closely united with the Luo family, and gradually accept the culture and laws of the Luo family, and finally completely integrate into the Luo family's ruling system.

With the arrival of these good news, it indicates that the Luo family's recuperation and recuperation of the family in the past two years, as well as the external layout have been extremely successful, so the matter of Shangluo, which had already been concluded and secretly arranged, was finally secretly launched.

In the past two years, on the one hand, the Luo family has been in accordance with the plan discussed by Zhengliang and the retainers, and has continued to lay out for the Luo family's Shangluo cause inside and outside, and on the other hand, they are also discussing the final road of the Luo family's Shangluo.

In general, there are two main ways for the Luo family to go to Luo.

The first seemingly easiest way is the waterway. There are two waterways to choose from: one starts directly from the Seto Inland Sea, passes through the Awaji waterway, and goes ashore in Settsu Province or Izumi Province, and then gradually proceeds to Kyoto; The second is from the Bungo Suido, passing through Tosa Bay and Kii Suido, and then disembarking in Settsu Province or Izumi Province as well, and then gradually heading to Kyoto.

On the way, you will encounter many pirate forces and the Miyoshi family's naval forces, and even if you can finally go ashore in Settsu Province or Izumi Province, you will encounter a lot of difficulties.

As for Izumi Province, it is a country within the five kis facing Osaka Bay. It is bordered by Settsu to the north, and the Guò and Izumi Mountains to the south are bordered by Hanoi and Kii. Osaka Bay is connected to the Seto Inland Sea by Guò Akashi Strait, and is located at the key point of the Kitam Strait. At the same time, Sakai Port in the north has been a hub for trade with the Ming Kingdom since the Muromachi period, and as a result, Sakai Port, the largest trading port in the Sengoku period, has been established. At present, the Sakai Port has been organized into a collegiate system called "Sakai Thirty-six Members", which has turned the area into an autonomous port. In addition to Sakai Port, the Miyoshi family and the Tayama family are all powerful local daimyos.

Therefore, if the Luo family plans to go to Kyoto after landing in Izumi Province, then they must obtain the permission of these forces, otherwise they can only fall into the siege of the local forces led by the Miyoshi family.

As for the Settsu Province, it is located on the west side of Kinai, and to the north is the Tamba Province of the Northern Settsu Mountains; To the west is the Harima country of the Rokko Mountains; Tohoku is the Yamashiro Province of the Kyoto Basin; The south-southeast plain is Hanoi country; To the south is the port of Guò Sakai, which is connected to Izumi Province; Across the sea from Osaka Bay is Awaji Province. The north of the land is mountainous, and the south is plain. To the south is Osaka Bay, at the eastern end of the Seto Inland Sea, and it has been called Nambatsu since ancient times, and it is a major point of maritime communication. Such an important strategic location, and at this time it is controlled by the Miyoshi family, if the Luo family wants to land from here and go to Kyoto, then naturally they will also be in control of Kyoto at this time and do not want other forces to fight against the Miyoshi family who has seized its power.

Therefore, as long as it is from the waterway to Luo, it will inevitably collide with the Miyoshi family, and judging from the control of the Miyoshi family in Kyoto at this time, it will inevitably not allow the Luo family to succeed in Shangluo, so a big war will inevitably break out between the two sides, and first of all, a large-scale water war between the two.

With the current strength of the Luo family's navy, if it is in the open sea area, it should be the Luo family's more powerful, but after all, these two waterways will involve offshore waters, and the Miyoshi family's navy can also get logistics support from the coastal areas at any time, so the Luo family's navy can only be on par with the Sanyoshi navy in these two waterways.

Even if the Luo family's navy won in the end, as long as the Luo family's Shangluo team landed on land, it would still have to fight another fierce battle with the Miyoshi family on land, and in this process, because there was no foundation in the local area, it was necessary to obtain logistical support from the distant Kyushu region through the guò waterway, which would inevitably affect the combat strength of the Luo family's Shangluo army, so choosing to take these two waterways would inevitably start a protracted and unpredictable war with the Miyoshi family, which was not advisable.

Since waterways are not advisable, then the only way to go is to take the land route.

There are also two roads on the land route, one is from the Shikoku region, directly occupies the Sanki and Awa provinces of the Miyoshi family in the Shikoku region, and then enters Settsu Province through Awaji Province, and finally arrives in the Kyoto area.

Taking this land road, it is also necessary to fight to the death with the Miyoshi family, which is like the sun at this time, and when the Miyoshi family is in a fierce battle, the rear of the Luo family are allies such as the Shimazu family, the Kono family, the Nishitoji family, the Ichijo family, and the Chozong family.

Although these allies are all credible for the time being, in this Warring States era when fathers and sons, brothers and brothers will draw their swords for the sake of interests, Masara has never dared to hand over his death to these so-called allies, so it is also unsafe to take this land route.

In this case, there is only one last land route to go. (To be continued......)