At the beginning of December, winter has arrived. But the Luo family's various armies in various parts of the Western Kingdom still did not stop the pace of attack.

The First Army still surrounded the Yoshimi family's Tsugetsu Castle on the northern border of Nagato, and routed several groups of Yoshimi family's forces that came to the rescue. The second army captured the Shinda Maru Castle of the Nagato Kunisugi family in one fell swoop. With the fall of Shinda Marujo, only the remnants of the Naito family were left in the central region of Nagato Province. The armies of the 3rd and 4th Routes, on the orders of Masayo, simultaneously advanced from the border of Komiya and Shatin counties in the south to Yoshida-gun, the old nest of the Mori family, in the north.

And since the army of Masaliang landed in the area of Zhou Fangguo Iwakuni, it has played the banner of Ouchi Yoshizun (this banner also helped the first and second armies that were attacking the Nagato country and Zhou Fangguo a lot, so that many local wealthy families took the initiative to surrender to them, which is why the two armies advanced so quickly at the beginning), and at the same time, with the help of the Tao family and other wealthy families who had surrendered to the Luo family in the First Battle of Itsukushima, they quickly took the three counties of Oshima, Jiuke, and Xiongmao in the east of Zhou Fangguo. In these areas, such as the Tao family, the Shudu family, the Jiang Liang family, the Yamazaki family and other wealthy families, they have joined the camp of the Luo family under the call of the Luo family governor who has surrendered. For a time, the army of Zhengliang increased to more than 5,000 people with the addition of people from all walks of life along the way.

Such an imposing army, in Masaara's opinion, should soon be able to reach the center of the Ouchi family's domination in the Yamaguchi region of Yoshiki-gun, and mainly take here, then it will also be declared the end of the Ouchi family. The Luo family will replace him as the new masters of Zhou Fangguo and Nagato Kingdom.

It's just that to Zhengliang's surprise, in his heart, the easiest to take down was the Tono County that belonged to the Tao family's territory (before entering Yoshiki County. It also passed through Tono County and Saba County respectively), but at this time there was a heavy dà change. The reason is that after learning that Tao Longfang was defeated in the battle of Itsukushima, and the Luo family immediately invaded the territory of the Ouchi family on a large scale, in the eyes of the Ouchi family, there was neither blood legitimacy nor actual prestige, and they all relied on Tao Longfang to support behind their backs, and now that Tao Longfang is dead, the outsider and puppet Ouchi Yoshicho actually has a little courage to fight against the Luo family. Immediately ordered Zhou Fangguo and Nagato to mobilize all parts of the country to resist the invasion of the Luo family.

Ouchi Yoshinaga's deployment was like this, the remnants of the Naito family held on to the former Naito family's residence in the central region of Nagato Province, and the Zhou Fangsugi family held on to the Shinda Maru Castle near the castle, forming a mutual support with the castle. Takashi Uda held on to Udagake Castle in Saba County, Zhou Defense Province. Tao Nagabo, the son of Tao Longfang, held on to Tomita Wakayama Castle (at this time, Ouchi Yoshinaga did not know that the Tao family's clansmen in the First Battle of Itsukushima had all surrendered to the Luo family), and Ouchi Yoshinaga himself sat in the Yamaguchi area to support the Quartet at any time.

Ouchi Yoshicho was still very confident in his arrangement. What he didn't expect was the result. Soon after the order was transmitted, it soon came that the governor of the Zhou Fangshan family, Sugi Takatai, took the opportunity to raise troops and raided the Futian Ruoshan Castle where Tao Changfang was located. It is in response to Yoshitaka Ouchi's passing sentence, "Those who ask for others, and those who are begged, are all equal." Died in battle with Tao Changfang. There is also Iwami Guardian asking Takamori on behalf of Ada.

It turned out that before the Toyozen Sugi family was destroyed by the Luo family, Sugi Shigesuke, the last governor of the Fengzen Sugi family, sent someone in advance to secretly send a letter to Sugi Takatai of the Sugi family of Zhou Fangguo's relatives, and the letter bluntly said that Tao Longfang colluded with the Luo family to jointly murder the Sugi family. So from that moment on, Sugi Takatai waited for the opportunity to take revenge on Tao Longfang and avenge his relatives in the Fengzen country, the Sugi family. Now that he has finally waited for the opportunity, where will he let it go?

After capturing Tomita Wakayama Castle, Sugi Takayasu marched into the Yamaguchi area in the name of killing Tsurujumaru, the youngest son of Tsurucho, who was by the side of Ouchi Yoshinaga, and quickly controlled Ouchi Yoshicho after killing Tsurujumaru, thus controlling the power of Ouchi's family.

After a little rectification, in order to resist the attack of the Luo family, Sugi Takayasu quickly reached an agreement with the Naito family, the Utian family and other wealthy families to divide the territory of the Ouchi family and the Zhou defense country in the future, and immediately united everyone to start arranging the defense of the Luo family. In addition to the Naito family and the Ukita family continuing to defend their original castles according to the previous orders of Ouchi Yoshinaga, Sugi Takayasu gathered a large number of small wealthy clans and stationed them in Numajo, Itejo Castle, Tomita Wakayama Castle and other castles in Tono County, in an attempt to resist Masayo's army in Tono County and prevent it from entering Sugi Takayasu's old nest Saba County.

Masahiro, who suddenly encountered an interception, was immediately taken aback, and then recalled the general process of the demise of the Ouchi family in history.

Historically, after the Taulongbo was defeated by the Mori family in the Battle of Itsukushima and committed suicide, and the Mori family immediately took the opportunity to invade the territory of the Ouchi family, Ouchi Yoshinaga also sent a strong order to mobilize all over the country to resist the invasion of the Mori family. At that time, the Tao family was also attacked by the Shanjia family, and was exterminated because of this. And the main general of the Sugi family who attacked the Tao family was Sugi Shigesuke who escaped from the fierce battle of the Taolongfang to destroy the Tozen Sugi family (but the military strength was the military strength of the Sugi Takayasu clan). And after the fall of Tomita Wakayama Castle, Sugi Shigesuke marched into Yamaguchi Castle again, because Tao Takabo also had a younger son, Tsurujumaru, who was a small surname next to Ouchi Yoshinaga, and Sugi Shigesuke was red-eyed, and he wanted to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.

It's just that before the army of the Sugi family reached the Yamaguchi area, a group of men and horses came out sideways, blocking the way, and the first to be killed was Naito Takayo, the grandson of the Naito family's Naito prosperity (who had not died at this time in history). Originally, Naito Xingsheng used to be the main force of the Ouchi family's arbitrary faction, and Tao Longfang could be regarded as half an ally, plus the prestige of the old qualifications, he could completely act as the mainstay of the Ouchi family, but the bitter thing is that Naito Xingsheng died a year before the Battle of Itsukushima (in reality, because he was so angry that he was bedridden, and he was worried about the rise and fall of the Ouchi family, he died a few years early), and what is even worse is that Xingsheng's daughter Ozaki Bureau married Maori Takamoto, and her granddaughter married Tao Longfang, and she is not a person inside and out, The Naito family was divided: the prosperous grandson (the eldest son of the prosperous grandson died early and was succeeded by the grandson) was his own sister and was a pro-Tao faction; And the prosperous fifth son Longchun also supports his sister and is a pro-Maori faction.

Mori Moto marched into the Ouchi family's territory, and Naito Takaharu immediately announced that he had parted ways with his nephew and took some of his men to join the Mori Army. Takashi Naito also arched his hand to the fifth uncle: "Don't send it slowly, let's see you on the battlefield." "The Naito family, the last hope to save the Ouchi family, has also been torn apart. When Takayo Naito heard that Sugi Shigesuke had killed Tao Nagabo's brothers and marched to the mountain pass, he immediately led his troops to stop him and wanted to fight Sugi Shigesuke.

The two armies confronted each other at the foot of Yamaguchi Castle, and Ouchi Yoshinaga sent a letter: "Everyone should be united in good faith and not lose their own position." "Takayo Naito and Sugi Shigesuke saw Yoshinaga's letter, and reached a consensus for the first time: tear up the letter, and then set the battlefield in Yamaguchi Town, and set fire to it, and finally Sugi Shigesuke was killed in the chaos, and Yamaguchi Castle, which was destroyed in the Daning Temple Incident, was now being burned again, and the once prosperous Yamaguchi culture was wiped out.

In this way, the foreign enemy's Maori army has not yet been killed, and the Tao family, the Sugi family, and the Naito family, who are important ministers of Ouchi, collide with each other, causing the Tao family to fall, the Sugi family to be defeated, and the situation of internal strife in the Naito family is really a mess, full of gunsmoke, and the fate of the Ouchi family is the sunshine and the sun, and there is no way to recover. And the historical Maori Yuan also took advantage of such an opportunity to enter the Ouchi family. But even so, it took him nearly two years to completely conquer the Ouchi family's territories in the Nagato Kingdom and the Zhou Defense Kingdom, and forced Ouchi Yoshicho to death.

Now with the appearance of Sugi Takayasu, the Ouchi family is in civil strife again. It's just that unlike history, the civil strife initiated by Sugi Shigesuke in history has now been changed to Sugi Takayasu. What's even more different from history is that because the forces of the Naito family and the Tao family at this time have suffered great blows before and after, Sugi Takayasu, who initiated the civil strife, actually took the opportunity of the family dominance to control the right to speak in one fell swoop. Compared with the internal strife in the Great Inner Family in history, the resistance faced by the Luo family at this time will be even more tricky.

Therefore, Masato had to curse the dead Tao Longfang fiercely in his heart. Ya, I really don't understand how he was called the unparalleled general of the Western Kingdom, after assassinating his relatives in Fengqian, he even left the Sugi Takatai family in his own home, and the director of his own family also brought him such a trouble.

was arranged like this by Sugi Takatai, and the army where Masahiro was located was really not easy to attack! This is especially true in the northeast. It is a fortified city surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only one side for attackers to operate, and this side is full of difficult swamps, which is how the name of the swamp city came from. After several discussions with the retainers, they bypassed Numa Castle and concentrated their forces on attacking Imate Castle on the coast and Toyama Wakayama Castle behind Imate Castle, cutting off Numa Castle from the Sugi family's base camp and opening the road to Saba County, the Sugi family's old nest.

Then, the fierce cage battle began. To Masara's surprise, due to the stubborn resistance of the wealthy clans and the Sugi family defending the castle, as well as the reluctance of his own servant army to fight in winter, Ide Castle and Toyama Wakayama Castle, which Masarashi had originally planned to take within a month, were not finally breached until the end of January of the second year of Koji.

With the fall of Imate Castle and Toyama Wakayama Castle one after another, it not only greatly dealt a blow to the determination of the Ouchi family to resist the Luo family, but also opened the door for Masayo's army to enter the Ouchi family, which was still entrenched in the two counties of Saba and Yoshiki. Just as Masara was about to attack again, an urgent letter from the Intelligence Pavilion was delivered to Masa. (To be continued......)