Astronomical 16th year (1547), June.

Otomo Yoshikan sent his retainer Tsuhisami Misaku to Higo Province to personally settle the Miyahara silver mine dispute between several wealthy families in Kamiyijo County. Under pressure from the Otomo family, everyone had to sit down for a while to discuss how to divide the Miyahara silver mine.

The disposal method proposed by the Otomo family was for each family to distribute the income from the Miyahara silver mine according to a certain proportion. Naturally, everyone has no opinion on this plan, after all, no one has the strength to swallow this silver mine alone, and it is naturally the most reasonable to distribute it according to the ratio.

But then there was a big disagreement about what the percentage of each family should be, and how to monitor the importance of silver mining to avoid being entrained by certain families. The small wealthy families led by the Kikuchi family naturally asked for an equal share, but they were resolutely opposed by the Omiya family. Originally, the place where the Miyahara Silver Mine was located originally belonged to the Omiya Si family, and now you white-eyed wolves have come to get a piece of the pie, and my Omiya Si family has already endured it in every possible way, and now you still want to be on an equal footing with me in the silver mine? Don't even think about it.

So the anti-dumping argument lasted for several days without result, and finally under the direct intervention of Otomo Yoshikan, the plan was forced to be determined. The Omiya family accounted for sixty percent of the production, and the remaining forty percent was divided equally by the rest of the wealthy families. And there is an additional condition for the Kikuchi family, that is, the murderer of Yoshihiro Kenri, Ryuzoji Takanobu, must be handed over.

The reason why the Otomo family put forward such a condition was also due to the pressure of the Toyogo Yoshihiro family. Ever since Yoshihiro was killed, the Yoshihiro family has been asking Otomo Yoshikan to avenge Yoshihiro Kanri. Since the Yoshihiro family is located at the junction of the border between the Otomo family and the Ochi family Toyomae country, it is an important town for the Otomo family to guard against the Ouchi family. In addition, Yoshihiro Kanri's main room is the daughter of Otomo Yoshikan. So the requirements for the Yoshihiro family. Otomo Yoshikan had to be cautious.

Of course, in fact, what Masashi doesn't know is that with the death of Yoshihiro Kanri, the Otomo family has lost a talent because of it. That is Takahashi Shaoyun, who was called one of the "Otomo Twin Walls" by later generations. Takahashi Shaoyun's real name was Yoshihiro Zhenli, and later changed his name to Yoshihiro Zhen, according to historical development, he should have been born in the seventeenth year of Astronomy (1548), and his father happened to be one of the "Three Elders of Toyoshu" Yoshihiro Kanri. As a result, now Lao Tzu was killed years in advance. Naturally, Takahashi Shaoyun could not come to this world.

For the Otomo family's request, Kikuchi Yoshitake naturally couldn't agree to it. But he was unwilling to be excluded from the cake of Miyahara's silver mine, so he simply recruited other wealthy families who were dissatisfied with the distribution plan of the Otomo family, which was obviously biased towards the Omiya family, to oppose the Otomo family.

So, Otomo Yoshikan and Kikuchi Yoshitake, who had just reconciled two years ago, turned their faces again. Otomo Yoshikan was very dissatisfied with Kikuchi Yoshitake's actions, and immediately mobilized in Bunzen and even Higo to prepare to crusade against Kikuchi Yoshitake. And Kikuchi Yoshitake did not show weakness, and also pulled up a camp against the Otomo family.

And when the two camps were completely opposed, the army of the Ichijo sect of Honganji Shoyi had been besieging the main city of the Sagara family, Eagle Peak Castle, for several days.

During this period of time, the army of Honganji Shangyi can be said to be thriving in Yatsushiro County and Reedita County in Minamihigo Province. While the army is advancing, it is fighting the local tyrants. He robbed a large amount of coins and food, and the number of his army also grew larger and larger, and by the time the soldiers came to the city of Eagle Peak, the number of soldiers had exceeded 5,000. Among these 5,000 people, some are die-hard believers of the Sect, and some are just wealthy families and farmers who plan to fish in troubled waters.

Due to the successive betrayals, the two fathers and sons, Sagara Haruhiro and Uemura Yoriko, can be said to have almost become alone, so they had to temporarily gather a part of the peasant soldiers and barely gather 500 people to defend the city.

However, after several days of cage battle, the defenders of Eagle Peak City were obviously unable to hold out any longer. Just when Sagara Haruhiro and Uemura Yoriko thought that the end was coming, they suddenly found that the army outside the city had begun to retreat. The father and son were so excited that they hugged each other and cried at the head of the city.

It turned out that Honganji Shoyi was at the critical moment of the siege, but he received a letter of help from Kikuchi Yoshitake, asking him to go to Shimo-Iksejo-gun to help. For Kikuchi Yoshitake's request for help, Ryuzoji Takanobu, who is Kikuchi Yoshitake's general, naturally fully supports it. However, he was strongly opposed by the mysterious person around Honganji Shangyi, this mysterious person was Kato Duanzang, out of consideration for the interests of the Luo family, he naturally hoped that Honganji Shangyi would lead the army to leave after capturing Eagle Peak Castle.

After some weighing, considering the relationship of mutual support with Kikuchi Yoshitake, Honganji Shangyi finally chose to quickly withdraw his troops and return to support Kikuchi Yoshitake. Kato Duanzo was disappointed by Honganji's decision, and after expressing his opposition, he secretly left Honganji Shangyi's army that night, and rushed to Yashiro Castle, which was secretly controlled by the Luo family, overnight, and sent the latest information to the political good office that was controlling the overall situation in front of Nanfei.

On the second day, the army of Honganji Naoyi officially began to evacuate Yatsushiro-gun. Along the way, at the insistence of Ryuzoji Takanobu, the army advanced cautiously all the way, for fear of being ambushed. The reason why he is so cautious is mainly because Ryuzoji Takanobu Zhilu Dao, in Yashiro-gun, in addition to their army, there is another army.

Previously, whenever the army of Honganji Naoyi had leveled a place, the army would follow it shortly after, and use the grain obtained along the coast to buy off the newly looted local people, as well as accept the territory of the local slain nobles. It can be said that this army is here to snatch the fruits of their victory.

Ryuzoji Takanobu had suggested several times that Honganji Shangyi return to the army to deal with this army first, but Honganji Shangyi refused. At first, Ryuzoji Takanobu didn't understand why Honganji Shangyi would make such a decision, but later he realized that all this was the credit of the mysterious person around Honganji Shangyi. Through continuous persuasion, this mysterious person made Honganji Shoyi pay more attention to the collection of wealth and food, and concluded that as long as he conquered the main city of the Sagara family, Eagle Peak Castle, he could completely control Yashiro-gun.

Since then, Ryuzoji Takanobu has concluded that this mysterious person is in a group with that strange army, and originally according to his plan, after defeating Eagle Peak City, he will first find an opportunity to solve this mysterious person, and then turn the spear to solve the army behind him, so as to completely occupy Nanhigo Yashiro County. It's a pity that all these plans were forced to give up with Kikuchi Yoshitake's letter for help.

Just as Ryuzoji Takanobu and the others were cautiously heading towards Lower Masaki County, Masayo, who was in Fukae Castle in Minamihizen, also received information from Kato Duanzo.

Regarding Kikuchi Yoshitake's confrontation with Otomo Yoshikan again, Masarashi also felt very sudden, in fact, this incident did not happen in history. It is now evident that history has changed due to Masara's early spread of the news of the Miyahara Silver Mine.

Regarding Honganji Shoyi's support for Kikuchi Yoshitake, Masarashi was in favor of it. Masahiro also wished that the two sides of the confrontation would be larger. This would further weaken both sides. Therefore, he immediately issued the first order to Kai kinnao, who was in Yashiro County in Higo Province, that is, to allow the army of Honganji Shoyi to pass outside Takatsuka Castle.

Of course, although Masahiro intends to let go of Honganji Shangyi, he does not intend to let go of Sagara Haruhiro and Uemura Yoriko, father and son. Therefore, at the same time, he issued an order to Jia Fei to immediately carry out a cage battle against Eagle Peak City.

So, the sad Sagara Haruhiro and Uemura Yoriko father and son just looked forward to the army of Honganji Shangyi, and ushered in the army of the Sagara family's bitter lord Kai Kai.

When it was learned that the leader was led by Jia Fei's direct army, the defenders in Eagle Peak City actually collapsed without a fight, and before Jia Fei's army came to Eagle Peak City, the defenders in the city ran out. Sagara Haruhiro, Uemura Yoriko, father and son, who lacked major generals, had no choice but to throw away Sagara Yoshiji's body that had not yet been buried, and fled to Kamimura Castle in Kuma County, the base camp of the Uemura family.

At this point, Yatsushiro County after Nanhi basically fell into the pocket of the Luo family. (To be continued......)