With the defeat of the Kobayakawa family by the Luo family and the occupation of Mihara Castle, the western gateway of Bigo Province, it also indicates that the Luo family's power has officially extended into the Bigo Province region. The impact was enormous, even reaching the Bichuku region to the east of Bigo Province.

In particular, many small wealthy families in Bigo Province who participated in the First Battle of Itsukushima and were later abandoned by the Maori family, with the help of the Luo family, they all followed the Luo family's army back to Bigo Province and Bei China, and after returning to the family, they betrayed the Maori family and moved closer to the Luo family, helping the Luo family gain a foothold in Bigo Province.

For the rebellion of these small wealthy families, Mao Li Yuan had no choice, after all, in order to avoid being besieged by the Luo family in Itsukushima and becoming the turtle in the urn of the Luo family, he could only give up these small wealthy families in the case of limited ships. So as to choose those powerful wealthy families to flee together. As a result, the Luo family took the opportunity to envelop these small wealthy families, making them the vanguard of the rebellion against the Maori family in Beiguoguo, Bei China, and even Beiqian Guo.

As for the big tycoons who were rescued from Itsukushima by Maori Yuan at the beginning, they finally returned home at this time. Indeed, in accordance with the original plan of the Mori Yuan, they are doing their best to help the Mori family maintain their influence in Bigo Province and other places. However, because these families were also heavily damaged in the First Battle of Itsukushima (basically only a few important members of the family fled home, as for the ordinary retainers and soldiers, they were all abandoned in Itsukushima, and at this time they have either become prisoners of the Luo family, or have become a dry bone), so the family's own strength has weakened and there has been a commotion, and it is impossible to suppress the small wealthy families who were allowed by the Luo family to return to Bigo with their own military strength.

To the east, there were those wealthy families who did not respond to the Maori family's request to participate in the First Battle of Itsukushima. Among them, whether it is a big or small wealthy family. They are all watching the changes in Bigo Province. Always ready to make some amazing moves. Therefore, at this time, in Bigo Province and Bi Chugoku, after the First World War of Itsukushima, the power of the Maori family weakened and had to weaken the power in these two places, and the Luo family entered strongly, there was already an undercurrent at this time, and there would be a storm at any time.

Fortunately, before the First World War of Itsukushima, Maori Moto inherited some of the big families in these regions with his son. It also ensured the stability of the Maori family's sphere of influence in these areas.

And the newly established "four-person collegiate public" system also ensured the stability of the family. Before the decisive battle of Itsukushima, Mori Yuan originally planned to give up the position of family governor to his sister-in-law Mori Takamoto after the end of this battle, but he retreated to the background to support, after all, he was already very old, and he should take a little rest. As a result, when he encountered the current situation, he had no choice but to hold on to his old bones, personally preside over the family affairs, and carry the Luo family to the end.

It can be said that in the face of the invasion of the Luo family. Maori Yuan has almost exhausted all his resources. He first sent people to secretly rush to Zhou Fangguo, Nagato Kingdom, An Yi Country and other places, in an attempt to incite the local temple and shrine forces to resist the Luo family together with the Maori family. However, until now, there has been no response from the temple and shrine forces in these areas.

Secondly, he also sent envoys to the Niko family, the Miyoshi family, and the powerful places in southern Kyushu, hoping to establish diplomatic relations with these wealthy families.

For the Nizi family, Maori Yuan naturally hopes to establish an alliance with the other party to avoid the Maori family falling into the dilemma of being caught between the Nizi family and the Luo family. Unfortunately, the emissary sent to the Niko family was soon driven back, and Niko Haruhisa apparently planned to take advantage of the Maori family's loss of power to bring the Maori family to a downturn. For this reason, Maori Yuan was even more eager to promote a truce with the Luo family.

Sending an envoy to the Miyoshi family naturally hoped to unite with the Miyoshi family to deal with the Luo family, after all, with the Luo family entering the coast of Bigo Province, it was obviously in conflict with the interests of the Miyoshi family in the local waters.

As for the southern Kyushu region, it is hoped that the pressure from the Luo family will be relieved for the Maori family, and the two sides will cooperate with each other to contain the expansion of the Luo family's power from the north and south.

In the end, Mori Moto also sent envoys carrying a large amount of money and gifts to the Kyoto area to meet with the head of the Ishiyama Imperial Sect, hoping that the other party would call on the followers of the Ichijo sect in Zhou Defense Province, Nagato Province, Aki Province, and even Bigo Province to support him. At the same time, he also hopes to invite the Shogunate and the Imperial Court to mediate.

Mori Moto's ultimate goal is to make a truce with the Luo family so that the Mori family can breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he hopes to exchange his third son, Kobayakawa Takakei, from the Luo family. Although the Kobayakawa line in the Mori family's Liangchuan system was dissipated due to the capture of the Luo family's Governor Kobayakawa Takakei and the complete occupation of the territory by the Luo family, as long as Kobayakawa Takakei, the third son with good ability, was exchanged, Mori Yuan was confident that he would build another Kobayakawa system. Of course, Maori Yuan is also ready to be asked for a lot of benefits by the Luo family.

It's just that Mao Li Yuan is disappointed that he has made so many countermeasures, and so far only the Nizi family has responded, and it is a failed response, as for the other places, due to the distance, there is no response at this time or the messenger who responded is returning, which makes Mao Li Yuan feel a little urgent.

Just as Mori Moto was sighing in his own courtyard, in a courtyard in Tsukiyama Tomita Castle in Izumo Province, the governor of the Niko family, Niko Haruhisa, was also sighing.

Previously, he had just finished his appearance in Misaku. The reason for the battle was that the Urakami family of Bizen Province actually tried to get into the sphere of influence of the Niko family in the Mimasaka country, so Niko Haruhisa in September last year (it happened to be the time of the Battle of Itsukushima, it is estimated that this matter had the calculation of Mori Moto, and Mori Mototo's obvious intention was that he did not want to be attacked by the Niko family when the Mori family was fully committed to the battle of Itsukushima, so after some calculations, the Niko family had something to do), he led the army to officially go out to Misaku, although he repelled the invasion of the Urakami family, but also took the opportunity to attack Bizen country, He was knocked back by the Urakami family.

When he returned to Izumo Province with his army, he learned the details of the Battle of Itsukushima, but by this time the battle had already ended. There are three main reasons why he sighed.

First, the envy and jealousy of Luo's Zhengliang. Compared with Luo Masara, he found that his family's power and his own merits were not comparable to the other party, although the shogunate had previously given him the official position of guardian of the Eight Kingdoms (in fact, he did not fully control the territory of the Eight Kingdoms), but it was too far from the territory in the hands of Luo Masara.

The second is that he only now realizes the importance of the Shingu Party to his military power. After the absence of the Shingu Party, the combat effectiveness of the army of the Niko family has dropped significantly, otherwise they would not have been driven out of Bizen Province by the Urakami family this time.

The third is that because they have just returned from the battle, the army needs to rest before they can go out again, and at this time, the Maori family, the sworn enemy of the Nizi family, is suffering from the invasion of the Luo family, and it is the best time for the Nizi family to go out of the Maori family.

Just as Niko Harumu sighed for a long time, in Otoko Castle in Bizen Province, the Ukita family's governor, Ukita Naoya, also sighed. Of course, he is not lamenting, but admiring.

As a wealthy family of Bizen Province who are good friends with the Mori family, in fact, the previous Mori family persuaded the Ukita family's Urakami family to go to Misakuni, and it was he who secretly led the needle, and even when the Urakami family was hesitating, it was the Ukita Naojia who made up his mind to the Zong family. Of course, although this time the Urakami family's strategy in Misasaka was repelled by the Niko family, the Zong family also got a lot of benefits from it, and the Uki family, which was secretly allied with the Maori family, naturally also benefited a lot from the Maori family.

Since they are secret allies of the Mori family, the Uki family naturally wants to become the military force of the Mori family in the Battle of Itsukushima in the name of the retainers of the Urakami family this time. And Togawa Hideyasu, an important minister in the family, is the main general who led his own army this time. Originally, after learning the news of the Mori family's defeat in the Itsukushima War, he thought that Togawa Hideyasu and the others would not have a chance to return home, but Togawa Hidean unexpectedly led people back safely.

At this time, the details of the First Battle of Itsukushima gradually spread among the mouths of those samurai Ashigaru and others who escaped from the battlefield, and the Ukita Naoya, who was extremely concerned about this battle, naturally immediately asked Togawa Hideyasu to give him a detailed account.

"Xiu'an, in the future, you will be the messenger of the family and the Luo family, and this matter must not be known to others." After Togawa Hideyasu recounted in detail what Togawa Hideyasu experienced in the First Battle of Itsukushima, the Ukita Naoya immediately decided to send Togawa Hidean to the Luo family secretly to establish diplomatic relations with the other party.

As for the allies of the Mori family, the Ukita Nao family didn't think much about it at all, anyway, as long as they didn't let others know, especially the Mori family, besides, the reason why Togawa Hidean and the others were able to come back safe and sound this time was entirely because Togawa Hidean and others pretended to be ordinary ronins and handed over to the Luo family after capturing the third son of Mori Motosaku, Kobayakawa Takakei, as a bargaining chip to gain their own freedom.

And the Uki family also got into a relationship with the Luo family because of this, which is simply the best result. Although he didn't know why the governor of the Luo family paid attention to himself as a small wealthy family in Bizen Province (of course, the Ukita Nao family at this time did not know how famous he would be in history in the future), but as long as he got in touch with a giant like the Luo family, the Ukita family would definitely be able to get enough benefits from it.

The Ukita Nao family on the side of Bizen Province is planning to get more benefits, but Kono Tsunao in the Northern Iyu Province in the Shikoku region is not thinking about his own life and death. (To be continued......)