In late March of the 18th year of astronomy, the night was full. And they were resting by the fire in the tent.

Regarding the previous bet with Masara, Yoshioka Nagazen was actually very annoyed at this time. But for his oath, he also disdains to break it (most of the ancients at this time attached great importance to oaths and curses), anyway, when the time comes, it will be enough to walk step by step.

It's just that he feels sad about the current situation of the Otomo family. First of all, the death of Otomo Yoshikan has already had a great impact on him. In this regard, Masato also calmly told him that Otomo Yoshikan's death was likely to be related to the injury he was shot by Masayo last year. For Zhengliang, he has no grudge in his heart at all, after all, the two armies are fighting, either you die or I die. If the Luo family was defeated last year, then the fate of the Otomo family at this time would be the fate of the Luo family.

After a moment of silence for Otomo Yoshikan, he found it difficult to understand that Otomo Yoshikan had designated Sueko Shioichimaru as the heir to the family governor. Knowing that Lu Dao himself was about to die, and knowing that Lu Dao's move was likely to cause the classification of his retainers, why did Otomo Yoshikan make such a decision? Although he was dissatisfied with Otomo Yoshikan's contempt, suppression, and even forgetfulness of him before, as a family governor, he always thought that Otomo Yoshikan was still a hero. Such a heroic lord did a wrong thing at the last moment of his life. But in fact, Yoshioka Nagazen is wrong to blame Otomo Yoshikan. Otomo Yoshikan didn't expect him to be by his retainers, and according to his plan, he paved the way for the last son to inherit the family governor before he died.

Next to the fire, Yoshioka Nagazen was thinking a lot here, but the surrounding wealthy families such as Irita Yoshimi already thought that Yoshioka Nagamasa's family had also joined the Luo family. This suddenly made these people secretly happy. The so-called sky falls down and there is a high top. As a big family of Bungo. Now that the Yoshioka family has surrendered to the Luo family. Then the surrender of these families is naturally not afraid of being ridiculed by others in the future. Moment. Their worries about working for the Luo family dissipated a lot.

Looking at the expressions of these wealthy clans through the firelight, the political conscience said that the purpose of what he deliberately said to Yoshioka Nagazen had been achieved. Of course, he also hopes that the Yoshioka family can really surrender to the Luo family in the next strategy. Just as those wealthy families of the Otomo family thought, as a wealthy family of the Otomo family, if the Yoshioka family surrendered, the impact on other Otomo family retainers would be very huge.

In this way, the Luo family spent the night here in a makeshift camp in the valley, each with their own thoughts. Day 2. The army continued to march forward.

Half a day later, it was close to dusk, and it was about to find a place to prepare for camping, and at this time, the black eagle in front finally sent an urgent report, it turned out that he had seen the field outside the forest. When Masashi heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, which means that they have already walked out of the mountains and forests and arrived in Oita County (they have been walking in the mountains and forests for four days, and it is time to come to an end).

"From here, my lord, walk along the edge of this wood, behind the mountain over there. It's Xiong Muli City. The castle was built on the mountainside of that great mountain. At this time, the hunter who was in charge of leading the way also spoke. This hunter is a member of the Minami-Shiga family. Now that the Nan Shiga family has joined the Luo family, he naturally wants to fight for a little more credit for his family.

"Okay, when I go back, I will reward the three anti-paddy fields." Masato immediately said happily. The hunter immediately bowed down happily.

"Follow the path your guide points to, and be careful not to be spotted." Masato then ordered.

Half an hour later, the army quietly arrived at the back mountain of Xiong Muli City (it was already close to dusk at this time, and the peasants at the edge of the forest had already gone home for fear that the wild boars in the mountains and forests would come out and hurt people, so the presence of the army was not discovered). Looking out from the forest, you can see that the west side of Kumamu Castle is backed by the mountain where Masayo is located, the north and south sides are some cultivated fields and tributaries of the Oita River, and the east side is another mountain.

"Hey, I didn't expect it to come to this point in the end." At this time, Yoshioka Nagazen, who was beside him, suddenly sighed.

When Masato heard this, he immediately secretly screamed badly, and he forgot to guard against this guy, if Yoshioka Nagazen shouted loudly and warned at this time, Masato would only have to let people storm Xiong Muli City.

"My lord, I would like to make a request to you." Just as Masarashi was about to launch an attack on Yoshioka Nagamassu at any time, the latter suddenly pleaded.

"Oh?"

"My lord, I will provide you with a secret, but I hope that your lord will promise to spare the lives of his family on this condition." Yoshioka Nagazen stared at Masara and said.

"You're going to break your oath?" After hearing this, Zhengliang immediately understood what the other party meant, his eyes couldn't help flashing with a cold light, and he immediately said coldly.

"Definitely! I will definitely fulfill my vow to the adults, but if the family members are unwilling to follow the decision of the next generation, I hope that the adults will be able to open up. Yoshioka Nagazen calmly faced Masayo's eyes and said slowly.

"The secret you provided is enough to guarantee the lives of your people?"

"It's about the secrets of Xiong Muli City."

"Oh?"

"It will help the adults quickly take down the secrets of Xiong Muli City." Seeing that Masashi was still skeptical, Yoshioka Nagazen explained again. In fact, this is also his helpless move. Because once Zhengliang can't attack Xiong Muli City for a long time, he will first sweep the surrounding wealthy clans. And Yoshioka Nagazen's family happened to be near Kumamu Castle.

More importantly, due to the long-term suppression of Otomo Yoshikan, the Yoshioka family's castle was not tall and strong. After seeing the long-range attack ability of the Luo family's army, Yoshioka Nagazen knew that his family would not be able to resist the Luo family's attack at all. So he simply made a deal with Zhengliang here in advance, and first kept the survival of the family.

After listening to Yoshioka Nagamasa's words, Masara also instantly thought about the gains and losses. In fact, Yoshioka Nagamasa's concern is not unreasonable. The vast majority of the wealthy families of the Warring States were a combination of the interests of many retainers. Therefore, the words of the family governor may not always be effective, and in the case of harming the interests of these retainers (the worst thing is that the family governor generally lacks the means to control the power of the retainers like the Luo family), it is likely to be abandoned by the retainers. Therefore, instead of forcefully asking Yoshioka Nagazen to persuade his family to surrender, which eventually led to the two parties falling apart, it is better to get Xiong Mu Licheng in his hands first and then talk about it. When you get this city, you can slowly find a way to deal with those nearby wealthy families. Thinking of this, Masaro immediately nodded and agreed to Yoshioka Nagassu's deal.

Half an hour later, the sun had begun to set, and everyone was taking out the Luo family's unique and convenient military rations (dried sweet potatoes that had been dried and sandwiched a little coarse salt on top, which felt strange to eat, sweet and salty. But when you're hungry, eat a few, it's really delicious) After eating, I hurriedly took advantage of the rays of the sunset to start the official action.

According to Masayo's arrangement, he and Irita Yoshimi and others were responsible for approaching Xiong Muli Castle from the periphery, and then attacking from the front to ensure that the people in the city could not escape and report the news. And Enjoji Nobuyin, Watanabe-tsu, Kamiyo Shengli and others followed Yoshioka Nagazen with a part of their military strength and quietly entered the city from the secret back door on the side of the mountain side of Kumamu Rei Castle. This secret back door is said to have been used to facilitate the way for the city defenders to flee when the city is broken. Yoshioka Nagazen also learned this secret because his family was once the chief general of this castle.

"Why hasn't there been any movement yet?" At this time, Zhengliang and the others had already touched the vicinity of Xiong Muli City, and as long as there was a noise inside, they would rush to the designated position. Some of them were responsible for the siege, and some of them were responsible for entering the city first.

"Look, my lord, the gates of the city are open." Just when Zhengliang was worried, Fei Duan beside him suddenly said.

"Huh?" Zhengliang hurriedly took a closer look, and sure enough, he saw that the gate of Xiong Muli City was opened.

"Kill me!" It doesn't matter if the city gate was opened by his own people, since the city gate is open now, even if there is a change inside at this time, with the Luo family's military strength outside the city at this time, he can completely take this city.

In an instant, a large group of soldiers with the Black Eagle insignia on their flags rushed out of the mountains and forests behind Xiong Muli City, and then frantically swarmed into the city gates, mixed with the scattered warriors shouting and rushing forward. At this time, anyone understands that the danger factor has been reduced to a pitiful level, and the opportunity to soar is beckoning everywhere.

In less than two quarters of an hour, Xiong Muli City was quickly taken down. It turned out that Xiong Muli City was almost an empty city at this time, and after interrogating the prisoners, Masara learned that most of the troops in the city had gone to support the army of the Otomo family, who was fighting against the second army of the Luo family.

Before Masarashi set out, new orders were issued to the Second and Third Route armies respectively. For the third army that lost the key road checkpoint, Masarashi asked them to immediately launch an attack on the key road checkpoint, and drag down the Otomo family army in the checkpoint as much as possible, so as to prevent it from concentrating its main force on the side of supporting Kakumu Li Castle.

For the second army, Masayo's request was that it must be stuck on the main road between the reinforcements of the Otomo family and the city of Kakumuli, and the two armies and horses could not be allowed to converge. Of course, in this way, the most pressure is the second road army, which has to resist the two-sided attack from the big friends army, Jiao Mu Li City and Xiong Mu Li City. Therefore, Masato had to temporarily issue a recruitment order of 3,000 people to the territory to increase the strength of the Second Route Army.

And now, Masara has quietly taken Xiong Mu Li Castle and hid behind the Xiong Mu Li Castle army that the Otomo family went to support Kakumu Li Castle. Masato instantly became the yellow bird that affected the direction of the entire battle. (To be continued......)