December 25, 9th year of astronomy. Mt. Kishigake Mountain Castle.

More than half a month has passed since the last war, and the traces of the war in Anyue City have long since disappeared, and the villages under the city have also gradually accepted the new lord of the Luo family under the implementation of the Luo family's law. And with some immigrants from other places who migrated from the Luo family to settle down, it became more and more lively.

In the council hall in the city, Masara was carefully looking through the income of the territory sent by Togo Heiji.

"Your Highness, something big has happened" At this time, a rapid shout from Shinnosuke Akabane came from the courtyard outside the council hall.

Masarashi closed the book, and then looked at the gate of the council hall.

Soon, a pair of big feet in straw sandals walked in.

"Your Highness, something is wrong" Shinnosuke Akabane said loudly before he had time to salute Masayoshi as a retainer.

"Big deal?" Masarashi asked, staring at the comer.

"Your Highness, something has happened to the Matsuura family," Shinnosuke Akabane finally realized that something was wrong, and immediately bowed and said.

"Change? "Hearing the news that it was the Matsuura clan, Masara became anxious. At present, among the Haoqiang bordering the Luo family, only the Hirado Matsuura family has maintained a good relationship with the Luo family for the time being. So Masato didn't want any temporary changes in this family, but now it was the first to have a change.

"The latest news from the detective is that the Matsuura family, which is attacking the Goto family, was ambushed and defeated, and now the coalition led by the Omura family is attacking the territory of the Matsuura family," Shinnosuke Akabane said quickly.

"What?" Masara exclaimed, "How is this possible? I only received information yesterday. The combined forces of Hirado Matsuura and Kamimatura are attacking the territory of the Goto family? Why is this the way it is today? With the usual style of that guy Matsuura Mitsunobu, he definitely wouldn't have been ambushed so easily. ”

In fact, Masara got the news of the Matsuura family the day before yesterday. This time, the Matsuura family indirectly benefited from the conflict between the Roche family and the Wave family. After the Goto family, who had been badly damaged in the battle outside Kishidake Castle, returned to the territory, they were worried that the powerful forces around them would take advantage of the situation, so they directly transferred the troops that were fighting against the Matsuura coalition back to the territory. Directly led to the defeat of the Omura family's coalition forces. What is even more unexpected is that the Goto family lifted a stone and shot themselves in the foot, and the Matsuura family coalition actually placed the main direction of the attack on the territory of the Goto family.

The Matsuura family's coalition forces pursued the retreats of the Goto family all the way to the foot of Takeo Castle.

After getting this news, Masara already thought that even if the Matsuura family did not win this time, they would be able to retreat with their whole body. As a result, he now received the news of the defeat of the Matsuura family, which surprised Masara.

"Do you have any detailed information?" Masara immediately asked.

"Your Highness, this is the briefing that the detective has sent back as quickly as possible. For more details, you still need to scout into the vicinity of the battlefield to get "Shinnosuke Akabane's return to the road."

"What do you think about this?" Masarashi asked with a frown. With the current strength of the Luo family's detectives outside, it is already good to be able to pass the news back as soon as possible. Or wait until the interior of the territory is completely settled. Send more people to the surrounding powerful territories to investigate the intelligence.

"Your Highness, Your Majesty thinks that this is an opportunity for the family" Shinnosuke Akabane habitually took out his Akabane fan and fanned it.

"Hmm" Masarashi nodded, pondering. Masara understood what Shinnosuke Akabane meant. is to take advantage of the defeat of the Matsuura family this time to see if there is any advantage to take advantage of.

"It's not clear what happens there now. It's really hard to judge," Masashi said later.

"Do you want to send Black Hawk into it?" Shinnosuke Akabane suggested.

"Okay, immediately convey the order to Onishi Kuniji and send the Black Eagle to infiltrate the Matsuura family's territory and grant him the right to make a temporary decision," Masarashi decided. The Black Hawk also suffered heavy damage in the last big battle. Unless they were forced to do so, Masahiro didn't want to call them again.

"Nope. Let's be like this" Just as Shinnosuke Akabane was about to take the order, Masarashi suddenly said again. "I'll go to the city myself."

"Huh?" Shinnosuke Akabane was startled, and hurriedly admonished, "Your Highness, don't." It is already the border of the family, and it has just been occupied by the family, so it is inevitable that there will be some people with different intentions, for the sake of the territory, it is appropriate to ask His Highness to stay here. ”

"Hehe, it's okay," Masashi said. If you are afraid of even some small things, then this lord really doesn't need to be a fool.

Eventually, accompanied by Shinnosuke Akabane, Masara's Cloak Clan, who had been promoted from among the best of the various standing ashigaru schools, as well as the newly reported Side Guards, Yoshira Nobukei, Ueda Shinji, Hidan, Uemura Hontsuna, and Tetsunosuke began to rush to Hijo.

All the way up the mountain road. I saw that there were already people organized by the territory on the road to expand the road. It's winter season, and although it doesn't have cold temperatures like snow, the ground is still cold and hard, so the construction progress is slow.

Riding on a pony and under the escort of everyone, Masara came to the city of Ri.

As it guards the confluence of the Matsuura River and the Momogawa River, Imari Castle can be reached along the Momogawa River, and Takeo Castle, which is controlled by the Goto family, is strategically located along the Matsuura River. Now it has become an important town on the border of the Luo family.

After receiving the news of Masaliang's arrival, he led the first standing ashigaru team stationed in Richeng and hurriedly brought people out to greet him.

"Your Highness, this is the information that the detective of this family has just sent" As soon as he sat down, he handed over a sealed letter to Masayo, "Your Majesty is preparing to send a fast horse to deliver the letter to Kishigaku Castle. "After capturing the territory of the Bo family in Songpu County this time, a total of eight war horses were captured, and the number of war horses of the Luo family has reached fifteen. Masara left a war horse in charge of communication in each of the station's stations.

Zhengliang took the letter, quickly tore open the seal, took out the letter and read it.

As the information in the letter poured into his brain, Masarashi's brow gradually furrowed.

"Your Highness?" Shinnosuke Akabane on the side saw that Masara had finally finished reading the letter, and his expression was a little wrong. Hurriedly asked with concern.

"Hey, I'm afraid the Hirado Matsuura clan will be doomed," Masarashi sighed and handed the letter to Shinnosuke Akabane.

"Huh?" Shinnosuke Akabane was also taken aback, and hurriedly picked up the letter and read it.

The letter gave a detailed account of the whole thing.

The Hirado Matsuura clan was defeated. And it was a fiasco. Now it is under siege from the Omura family, the Saigo family, the Fukabori family, and even the Kamimatura family. Yes, it was not the Omura clan coalition that caused the defeat of the Hirado Matsuura clan, but the Kamimatura clan, allies of the Hirado Matsuura clan.

Benefiting from the impact of the first battle between the Luo family and the Bojia coalition army, the Goto family hastily withdrew their troops in order to ensure the stability of the territory, causing Matsuura Xingxin to see the dawn of expanding the territory and took advantage of the retreat of the Omura family's coalition army. Entered the territory of the Goto family.

Now it seems that this homeopathic retreat of the "Goto family" seems to be a conspiracy in itself, and he is just luring Matsuura Xingxin under the guise of "being defeated by the Luo family". Originally, Matsuura Koshin saw the retreat of the Omura family's coalition forces. is scruples, and even tends to quit the army, after all, the Luo family suddenly replaced the position of the Bojia family in Songpu County, which has a great impact on him, and he still needs to weigh the relationship with the Luo family.

But the head of the Kamimatsuura clan. Matsuura Konobu's son-in-law, Matsuura Masa, repeatedly instigated Matsuura Koshin to take the opportunity to occupy the territory of the Goto family, and even led the troops of the Kamimatura clan into the territory of the Goto family without authorization, despite Matsuura Konobu's opposition. The Goto family never seemed to have expected the Matsuura family to attack. Although he resisted, he failed. Had to retreat. The Kamimatsuura clan then pursued all the way.

Matsuura Konobu, who was still hesitating, saw that the Kamimatura clan was going well at this time, coupled with the instigation of the retainers such as Yasukei Cageateda. In the end, he also joined the camp of the Goto family. With the support of the Hirado Matsuura family, the Matsuura coalition attacked more fiercely, and finally successfully reached the bottom of Takeo Castle.

Just as Matsuura Konobu was dreaming of subduing the Goto family and expanding the territory area, a sharp change protruded. A large number of large coalition troops appeared on the mountains around the barracks. At this time, Matsuura Xingxin realized that Lu Dao had fallen into someone else's trap. What he didn't expect was that at the moment when the coalition army of the Omura family appeared, the forces of the Kamimatsuura clan were the first to mutiny and were defeated. As a result, Matsuura Koshin was completely unable to resist the attack of the coalition forces on his own.

In the end, in desperation, he had to lead the army to withdraw to the territory. In order to ensure the smooth retreat of the main force of the family, and also to be responsible for the mistake of instigating the head of the family to enter the trap, the important minister of the Hirado Matsuura family, Kage Yasukei, resolutely led a part of the samurai to break the queen, although he finally died a heroic and tragic death, but it bought precious time for the evacuation of the head of the family and the young master.

However, the suffering of the Hirado Matsuura clan is not over. Just when Matsuura Xingxin thought that he had escaped, the Kamimatsunura clan, who were the first to evacuate in front, suddenly blocked the forward passage. At this moment, Matsuura Xingxin realized that he had been betrayed by this son-in-law.

Under Matsuura Masa's desperate resistance, he finally let the Omura family coalition forces in the rear arrive. Under the attack of the coalition forces, the Hirado Matsuura clan was defeated, and the main force of the family was almost completely wiped out, and Matsuura Konobu's sister-in-law Matsuura Takanbu was also killed in this battle, and Matsuura Konobu broke out under the desperate protection of several loyal retainers, but was also seriously wounded.

After the Omura clan joined forces with the Kamimatura clan, they officially stepped into the territory of the Hirado Matsuura clan and began to attack the various castles of the Hirado Matsuura clan. The destruction of the Hirado Matsuura clan is imminent.

After reading the contents of the letter, Masahiro sighed. Historically, the Hirado Matsuura clan actually annexed the Kamimatsunura clan (i.e., Aijinura) clan, but now this has happened. The initial cause of this accident is related to the conflict between the Luo family and the Bo family. Masato couldn't help but muttered to himself, his butterfly seemed to be starting to take effect.

Now, Matsuura Takanobu, the head of the Matsuura clan, has been killed in battle, and the current head of the family, Matsuura Konobu, has been seriously injured.

But geographically, the only one who has the ability to intervene in time is the Luo family. Moreover, as the nominal allies of the Hirado Matsuura clan, the Luo family also had enough righteousness to intervene in this war.

Is there really a need to step in? The political conscience pondered this question.

(At the end of the month, I would like to ask for a commuter pass.) ）……)

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