Saeki and Saeki finally decided to stick to the castle, regardless of the Luo family's series of actions, and wait for the arrival of reinforcements from the Ito family and the Shimazu family before negotiating.

It's just that the decision of the two of them has only been discussed for a short time, and the Luo family has made a new move. Originally, when the Luo family's army looted the population and materials of the Saeki family's territory, it was all carried out quietly, but soon, the Luo family's actions evolved into blatant.

Every day, Saeki Weijiao receives urgent requests for help from all over the territory, but Saeki Weijiao knows at this time that the more this time, the more calm he must be, and he must not lose an inch, so that the Luo family has a chance. With the limited number of troops defending the city, he really did not dare to send troops to attack lightly to stop the other party's looting in his territory. Otherwise, once it is ambushed, then under the attack of the Luo family's army of tens of thousands of people, the city that is not as strong and towering as Meimuli City will face the danger of being lost.

And he didn't dare to call the people in the surrounding villages outside the city to the city, because the previous fire had burned most of the grain stored in the city, and the remaining grain would not even support the current army in the city for a month.

Just don't protect the people, is that okay? Of course not. After all, most of the relatives of the defenders in the city were in the territory outside the city. After the Luo family began to loot the local population, rumors began to spread in the city, although Saeki began to investigate it thoroughly. But the person who spread the rumors could not be found. Only temporarily suppressed the wavering of the defenders.

It's just that the Luo family doesn't plan to let Saeki go just like that. After determining that the Saeki family did not dare to send troops out of the city, the army of the Luo family actually escorted the looted population, materials and property, and swaggered past the vicinity of the city. The cries of the looted population caused the defenders of the city to rush to the city walls. After discovering that their relatives were in the ranks of the looted population, many soldiers defending the city even rushed directly to the city gate, trying to go out of the city to rescue, but were stopped by the Saeki family samurai who were in charge of guarding the city.

"Luo's child, I am deceived too much!" Saeki Yukyo, who rushed to hear the news, was furious. Immediately decided to open the door and go out of the city to attack. Being so humiliated by the Luo family, where is his prestige? The morale of the soldiers in the city will also be greatly shaken.

"Brother grows up, and slowly." Seeing this, Saeki Zhenzhong on the side immediately blocked the road.

"Huh?" Saeki Yukyo looked at Saeki Zhenzhong with fire-breathing eyes.

"Brother, please look at the woods near where the other person is."

When Saeki heard this, he immediately turned around and looked in the direction that Saeki Zhenzhong was pointing, and saw that there seemed to be a lot of small birds flying around in panic in the woods.

"There was a fraud?" Seeing this scene, the fool knew that there must be an ambush army in the woods, and it was obvious that the Luo family was planning to take advantage of the opportunity to escort the Saeki family's leaders outside the city to lure the Saeki family's army to attack, so as to implement an ambush. Come to think of it. Saeki Weijiao couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and his irritable mood immediately calmed down. The order to go out of the city and attack was immediately revoked.

As a result, the soldiers who defended the city outside the city were immediately unwilling, so Saeki had no choice but to put these people under house arrest temporarily to avoid more incidents, but the morale of the soldiers defending the city of the Saeki family was shaken because of this, and many rumors that had been finally suppressed began to circulate among the soldiers again. In this regard, Saeki Yukyo was also helpless.

"Hmph, sure enough, as the lord expected, the other party is really still cowering in the city and not going out of the city." Just when Saeki Weijiao had a headache, on the top of a hillside outside the city, two generals of the Luo family were standing there, looking at the city of Saeki from afar, and one of them suddenly sneered and said.

"The lord has always been like a god!" The other person calmly replied that this person was none other than Yoshida Shigemasa, the elder of the Luo family.

After glancing at the city gate again and using it without moving, Yoshida Shigemasa said again: "Since the other party does not go out of the city, then let's act according to the second plan ordered by the lord." Remember, before the reinforcements from Hyuga's side arrived, you can't leave a person, a grain of grain, or a plank on the territory of the Saeki family, and if you can take it, you can take it, and if you can't take it, you will burn and destroy it, including the grain crops that have been planted in the field. ”

"Okay, I'll know it below, and then it's up to me to see who does it more beautifully, haha!" Asakura Muneta, who spoke at the beginning beside him, responded. Then the two of them glanced again at the closed gate of the city, and then turned and walked down the hillside. In the ravine below the hillside, the army of nearly 2,000 members of the Luo family was resting quietly there......

This time, on the one hand, Masarashi made every effort to arrange strong fortifications on the terrain he had chosen early on, and prepared to use this place as a basis to fully deal with the Saeki family and the Ito family and the Shimazu family that were about to arrive.

Of course, if you want to clear the territory of the Saeki family smoothly, you must first let the troops in Saeki Castle obediently stay in the city and not come out to block it. In the beginning stage, in order to achieve his goal, Masahiro planned to fight the other party fiercely first, and directly beat the other party into fear. But if the other party hides in the city and does not attack, this method will not work, but will make the army of the family be pinned down under the city, and as long as the reinforcements of the Ito family and the Shimazu family in the rear arrive, the army of the Luo family will fall into the situation of being attacked on the back.

Therefore, after thinking about it repeatedly and analyzing the information about the Saeki family and his family governor Saeki Weijiao in the previous intelligence cabinet, Masara decided to take a suspicious strategy after approaching the castle, and directly stationed himself in a selected position, and began to build fortifications, making a posture of preparing for a long-term battle with the Saeki family in the local area, and at the same time sent the scouts and other cavalry around him to secretly bypass the castle and enter the rear of the Saeki family, and began to loot the other party's population and materials. Anyway, it's just to make a look of preparing to attack and not preparing to attack.

So, why did Zhengliang do this?

(Thanks to "Midoria" for the tip!) (To be continued......)