On March 22, 1545, after half a month, the first standing cavalry of the Luo family in Chikugo finally arrived at the Luo family's camp in Kikuchi County under the leadership of Isono Yuanmasa, Akaxue Mitsukiyo, and Tao Nakamoto.

This march can be regarded as a long-distance training for the cavalry team. In the past, in Hizen and Chikugo, their marching roads were relatively flat, and there were even marching avenues specially built by the Luo family to walk, but this time it was necessary to go from Chigo to Higo, during which they needed to pass through the mountain roads of Yuming and Yamaga counties, which were numerous and had not yet been repaired.

At the same time, there were new changes in the battalion of the Higo coalition army.

First of all, the reinforcements of the Bungo Otomo family and the Ito family reinforcements of the Hyuga country also arrived at the camp of the coalition army at the same time. Since the Kikuchi family expressed their attitude that they were not secretly united with the Luo family by attacking the Sekipo ninjas who were employed by the Luo family, and because Sagara Nagayuki of Minami Higo was directly supervising the castle, the reinforcements of the Otomo family and the Ito family first converged at Yuura Castle in Aso County, where the Omiya family was located, and then passed through the vicinity of the castle at a very fast speed, and finally came to the main camp of the Higo coalition army.

The main commanders of the Otomo family's reinforcements this time are Yoshioka Nagazen and Takita Jiansheng, with a total of 1,000 reinforcements, among which there are many young samurai of the Hao family, which can be described as the elite of the Otomo family. In terms of the Ito family's reinforcements, the main ones will be the Ito family's fierce generals Panic Takeshi and Mitai Youwu, with a total of 300 reinforcements.

Secondly, although the wealthy clans in the camp retreated into the camp due to rumors, each family recruited a part of the peasant soldiers from their respective territories to reinforce the troops in the camp. At this time, in the large camp of the Higo coalition army. Except for the reinforcements that have just arrived in Otomo and Ito. There were already about a thousand people in the big camp.

As a result, the total number of people on the side of the coalition forces has reached more than 2,000 people. After last year's big battle with the Luo family and the rebellion of the Ichizong Sect in the territory, it was not easy for the Higo side to still be able to put together such an army.

At this time, both the Masayo side and the Higo coalition side already had the idea of ending the war as soon as possible. For the Higo side, the reason why they were eager to drive the Luo family's army out of Kikuchi County was mainly because spring ploughing was about to begin. After a territorial riot last year, the fields within the territories of various wealthy clans were damaged to varying degrees. They are also eager to take advantage of this year's spring ploughing to recover. In addition, once it is April and May, it is the most significant rainy season in the region, and fighting in such weather is not a good task for everyone.

And Masayo's side,It's also hoping to get out as soon as possible.,First, I hope to be able to concentrate on the complete control of the newly occupied territory.,Although it's now at peace with the local native people for the time being.,But if you occupy Kikuchi County this time.,Then there are also a lot of aboriginal tribes in the northeast of Kikuchi County.。 Once these tribes come out to make trouble at the critical juncture of the war, it will cause great trouble to Zhengliang.

Furthermore. As the climate of Xiaoice becomes more and more pronounced, the weather conditions are becoming more and more difficult to explore. Generally speaking, in the two or three months after April, the local area will enter a continuous rainy season, in this case, the power of the Luo family's iron cannon will be greatly reduced by the influence of the weather. Moreover, according to historical records, in fact, the coastal areas of Wa have been hit by typhoons in recent years. Higo also belongs to the coastal area, and under such weather conditions, it will inevitably bring uncertainties to the two sides of the battle. Therefore, Zhengliang also hopes to be able to fight as soon as possible under the current situation where the Luo family has a relative advantage.

Based on this consideration, Masarashi sent a letter of decisive battle to the Higo coalition on the second day of the arrival of the cavalry, and then personally led the army on March 24, 1545 AD, and began to press towards the Qingpu area, where the Higo coalition was located.

"Hmph, an army of less than 2,000 people dares to come to challenge?" After hearing that the Luo family's army was beginning to approach, Tian Beijiansheng, one of the general generals of the Feihou coalition this time, snorted coldly and said.

In the past few battles between the Otomo family and the Luo family, Tian Bei Jiansheng did not participate, but even if the famous general of the Otomo family, Yoshihiro Jianli, was killed in the battle because of the Luo family, and even Toji Jianlian was beaten by the Luo family and lost his armor and jumped into the water and fled, but in Tian Bei Jiansheng's heart, he was quite resentful, and he had the determination to meet Luo Zhengliang for a while.

Just when Tianbei Jiansheng was not angry, the army of the Luo family had already arrived on a plain less than half a mile away from the camp of the Feihou coalition army, waiting for the arrival of the Feihou army.

This is the location of the decisive battle that Masahiro chose in advance based on the terrain information detected by the reconnaissance. To the east of this plain, the mountains east of Kikuchi County go deep into the corner of the Kikuchi Plain, where the terrain is quite complicated. To the west of the plain is a wide stretch of the Kikuchi River that runs through the Kikuchi Plain from south to north.

Masayo placed 500 trained standing units on the flat ground of the plain, and the front was empty, which was suitable for the western phalanx to fight on the plain.

At the same time, Masato also arranged military formations on the left and right sides of the Western military formation and in the rear, mainly in case the Western military formation failed in battle, so that these long-prepared military formations could immediately replace the Western military formation.

The specific distribution of the military formation is that the western military formation of 500 people is in the center as the backbone, the Yuancheng Temple Xinyin is the main general, and Indel and Luo Zhengzong are the deputy generals; On the right flank of the Western Army was a standing army of four hundred men, with Tomohisa Oishi as the general; The left flank was also a standing army of 400 men, with Asakura Munetsu as the general.

In the rear of the Western military formation, there is the 500-man main formation of Masarashi, Masarashi is the main general, Yamamoto Kansuke is the military division, Watanabe Tong, Ahri, and Hiduan are the deputy generals, in addition to the close attendants Taketori Snake Ranmaru, Tatao Mitsuryūjun, and the small surnames Nabeshima Naoshige and Shimazu Yoshihiro.

At the rear of the Masarashi main camp was the first standing cavalry team of 500 members of the Luo family under the leadership of Isono Yuanchang, Akaguchi Mitsukiyo, and Tao Nakamoto.

An army of 2,300 men. If Tian Bei Jiansheng knew the true number of the Luo family's army, it was estimated that he would vomit three liters of blood immediately, because the information he received was that the Luo family's army was less than 2,000 people.

In addition to the above-mentioned generals who followed Masayo, Shinnosuke Akabane, as the chief general, led more than 500 peasant soldiers and wounded soldiers to stay in the original camp of the Luo family, along with the military physician Akimine Hidemasa, the weapons chief Liu Ye, and the ashigaru general Honda Toshimasa, responsible for stabilizing the rear for Masayo.

At this time, it was almost noon, and the sun shone like gold on the plain where the Luo family's military array was located.

Masara rode on top of the hundred miles of black, and looked in the direction where the Higo coalition camp was located, if the other party did not come to fight this time, it could only mean that they were timid, Masara was confident that he would wave his army directly to take the coalition camp, and drive these Higo wealthy clans and even the Otomo family reinforcements from Bungo and Hinata home.

This time, the Luo family's military strength is extremely advantageous. First of all, most of the army strength of the Luo family is professional soldiers who have been trained for a long time, although there are some peasant soldiers mixed in it, but the overall combat quality is obviously higher than that of the Feihou coalition army formed by the mixed military strength of various families.

In addition, in terms of the number of troops, the Luo family is also higher than the number of the Higo coalition army.

In the end, in terms of morale, the Higo coalition had just experienced a failed night raid campaign, and they were plagued by rumors that made them wary of each other, and their morale was obviously inferior to that of the Luo family, who had won consecutive battles. Therefore, in such a situation, the Luo family can't win, so Zhengliang really wants to find a piece of tofu to die.

It is precisely with such a guarantee that Zhengliang dares to come out with a long-trained Western military formation to meet the enemy. The purpose is to test the power of the Western military formation in actual combat. Of course, this adds an uncertain factor to the outcome of this battle. If the Western military formation plays well, it can naturally add points to the attack power of the Luo family's army, and if it is not played well, it is very likely to cause the Luo family's attack to be blocked.

Just as Masara was pondering, the military strength of the Higo coalition finally appeared in front of the Luo family's military strength.

Immediately, all the troops of the Luo family stood up from resting on the ground and entered a posture of preparing for battle. Even the cavalry of the Luo family in the back stuffed a ball of cotton into the ears of their beloved horses, and then rode on their war horses, ready to fight at any time.

After the army of the Feihou coalition entered the battlefield, it was at the other end of the battlefield, about a hundred meters or so from the front of the Luo family's phalanx, and began to form a formation.

At the same time, the opponent's cavalry team rushed forward and cruised in front of the Luo family's army to prevent the Luo family's army from suddenly attacking before the army fell into battle.

There were also several brave samurai from Bungo in the opposing horseback team, who deliberately showed off their good riding skills on the horse, provoking the side of the Luo family's army.

One or two horsemen even deliberately rushed within the range of the iron cannon of the Luo family's army, galloped quickly, and brandished their spears on their horses to fight loudly at the Luo family's army.

But the Luo family's army has already received a strict order from Zhengliang not to fight, so the formation is motionless and ignores it.

Therefore, the enemy cavalry was even more presumptuous, and more than a dozen horsemen successively attacked the side of the Luo family's army, performing the excellent equestrian skills of galloping forward, and then pulling the horse back sharply, and once again fighting against the Luo family's army.

When the enemy cavalry saw that no one had come out to meet him, he could not help but laugh loudly on his horse.

As the general of the general of the Otomo family Tian Bei Jiansheng is even more Ha Lu Ha Da smiled, pointed to the direction where the main flag of the Luo family was, turned his head to the generals behind him and said: "This is what you call the invincible and invincible Eagle of Hizen?" (To be continued......)