Chapter 356: Future Heavenly King
After having lunch in the ancient city of Su, leaving some peasant soldiers to guard the ancient city of Su, Masara led the army to embark on the journey again.!
This time, the target is Lu Kari Castle of the former Takashoji family.
It has been three days since the flood passed, and on the second day after the flood receded, seeing that Luo Clan's fierce slaughter was coming, and the coalition soldiers in front of him surrendered one after another, Shao Erdongshang decisively chose to flee. Guarded by Kamidai Shengli and others, he fled while gathering his soldiers, and when he returned to Lujia City, he had gathered more than 300 troops.
When Masato led the army to set off again, he had already received this information from the hands of his family's detectives. However, Masara still decided to storm the castle. In Zhengliang's view, although Shao Erdongshang gathered a lot of soldiers, these soldiers were all from different powerful families, and they were completely a rabble, and they might not be able to obey orders in wartime. This is exactly the opportunity for the Luo family to capture Lujiao City.
With this purpose, the army marched all the way, and the villagers along the way came out to greet them. The rape and plundering of the Shao Er family some time ago had already been outraged, but on the contrary, the Luo family gave these villagers the grain obtained from the attack on the allied army's grain transport team, and gained an excellent reputation. Now that they heard that the Luo family had defeated the great villain, these villagers all came out to greet them.
The army marched unhindered, and in the afternoon came not far from the city of Lujiao. Rukari Castle was built in front of the Kase River on the border between Ogi-gun and Saga-gun. To the north through Ryugari Castle, you can reach Ojo Castle, Omine Castle, Hariki Castle, Senyu Castle, and Gannambo Castle, which are divided into Ojo-gun and Saga Prefecture, and their territories are occupied by the Shoji family, the Senjo family, the Egami family, the Oda family, and some local small wealthy families. To the east and south of Rukari Castle are Mizue Castle, Saga Castle, Murachu Castle, Hasuike Castle, Mutian Castle, and Sefukuji Castle, which are divided into Saga and Kanzaki Counties, and their territories are occupied by the Shoji family, the Oda family, the Baba family, the Yatsuro family, the Yokogaku family, the Honsuke family, and the Inuzuka family.
In the battle of Rokkakugawa, on the surface, the Shaoji family was defeated, but in fact, the biggest losses were the Oda family, the Baba family, the Yokogaku family, the Honsuke family, and the Inuzuka family, and not only did their families die or be captured in this battle, but also the main samurai and soldiers in the family suffered heavy losses. Precisely because of this. Masayoshi decided to capture Rokugari Castle and open the gates to Ojo-gun, Saga County, and even Kanzaki County, and took advantage of the heavy losses of these wealthy clans to attack the city and plunder the land. As the saying goes, after this village, there will be no such shop, so don't seize such a good opportunity. It's wasted. Once these wealthy families recover. It's not good to say that they will unite against the Luo family, which is obviously what Zhengliang does not want to see.
In line with the purpose of weakening the enemy is to strengthen himself, Zhengliang led the fierce Luo clan to kill under the city of Lujiao.
However, there was only one person who faced Roche.
Yes. When the army reached the bottom of the city, Masara saw the city gate wide open, and a thin figure standing alone not far from the city gate.
"What's going on? Are you going to go head-to-head? Or are you going to deal with the whole Roche by yourself? Masato thought suspiciously.
"Your Highness, the other party asks to see Your Highness." At this time, a herald from the forward formation came to report.
Those who had been allowed to surrender were soon brought to Masayo.
The man who came was a teenager. It seems that he is only fifteen or sixteen years old, and it seems that he has suffered a leg injury, and he was helped to come to Zhengliang. The moment he saw this young man, Masahiro couldn't help but secretly sigh at the perversion of this young man, who participated in the battle at such a young age. Of course, what he didn't realize was that he was only one or two years older than this teenager, and he was actually one of the people who belonged to the ranks of perverts.
"Before the next fat, the Yuancheng Temple, a tributary of the Qianyu family, the Yuancheng Temple family, and the Yuancheng Temple Xinyin have seen His Highness." The boy saluted calmly.
Enjoji Shinyin? That's not in history. Is it a fierce general of one of the four heavenly kings of the Ryuzoji family? He fought bravely and brilliantly, and accompanied Takanobu of Longzoji Temple to various places. In 1584, during the battle of Okita with the Shimazu Arima, he wore the same "bearskin armor" as the lord in the battle of Okita. After the death of Takanobu himself, Enthiroji Shinyin died in battle as a shadow warrior of Takanobu. And. Although the date of his birth has not been determined, it is generally believed that he was born in the 11th year of Astronomy (1542), but the Enjoji Nobuyin, who is kneeling in front of Masayo, is already more than ten years old.
So at this moment, Masato couldn't be sure that the one in front of him was the Enjoji Shinyin, one of the four heavenly kings of the Longzoji family in history.
"Saemon-sama. On behalf of the defenders of the castle, he went out of the castle to offer the castle, hoping that Saemon-sama would save everyone in the castle from death. Enjoji Shinyin pleaded. He actually knew the official position of Lu Dao Zhengliang. This made Masahiro slightly surprised.
"As long as you are willing to sacrifice Lujia City, you will make a promise that you will never kill a single person in the city." Zhengliangtong agreed. It is of course the best thing to be able to occupy the city without losing a single soldier. Of course, what Zhengliang didn't know was that he had fallen for the scheme of Yuancheng Temple Xinyin, and in fact, there were only about twenty wounded soldiers in Lujiao City who were injured and could not leave the city, which was completely equivalent to an empty city that was unguarded. It's just that these wounded soldiers are hiding in the city, which makes Masahiro suspect that there is an ambush in the city and dare not enter directly.
"Everyone in the castle will be grateful for Saemon-sama's kindness." Seeing that Masahiro readily agreed to his request, Yuancheng Temple Shinyin looked very excited.
"In addition, Lord Saemon, there is another important piece of information here, as long as the lord can promise to let go of the Enjoji family, a tributary of the Thousand Men family, and he is willing to dedicate important information to the lord, otherwise he is willing to die." Seeing that Masato had already sent forward troops to start entering Lu Ka Castle, Yuancheng Temple Shinyin immediately seized the time and said. The real purpose of his coming alone to sacrifice the city this time was to save the Yuancheng Temple family.
"Oh? The Enjoji family must have settled near Senju Castle, right? And the current military front of this family is only Lu Jiaocheng, how can you let go of the Yuancheng Temple family? Zhengliang said indifferently.
"With the strength of Saemon-sama, it's a matter of time before dominating fat, and I'm asking Saemon to be able to open up to my family when I am in the world." Yuancheng Temple Xinyin said immediately.
"Whether the net is open or not, it depends on how the Yuancheng Temple family chooses." Masahiro smiled slightly. But I was completely shocked in my heart. Judging from the current performance, the young man in front of him shows a city government that is completely inconsistent with his age, not only can he take the opportunity to make a request through the dedication of the city, but more importantly, he actually sees the general trend of Hizen. Masato is becoming more and more interested in the young man in front of him.
"I'm willing to go back and persuade my father to surrender to Saemon-sama." Yuancheng Temple Xinyin hurriedly said. As the heir to the next governor of the family, Yuanchengji Nobuyin obviously has the qualifications to make the following promises to Masahiro.
"If the Yuancheng Temple family is willing to surrender to the family, then I promise to forgive the Yuancheng Temple family for participating in the invasion of the family this time, and you, after surrendering to the Yuancheng Temple family, will be my close member." Zhengliang promised.
"Lord Sezaemon." Yuancheng Temple Shinyin said. He knew that the other party had made himself his closer, both to appease the Yuancheng Temple family and to make him a hostage. But he had no objection to this.
"Tell me, what kind of important information is there?" Masara asked. Just now, Masara had already learned from the soldiers who entered the city that the city was actually just an empty city. In fact, Masahiro is also wondering, why did the originally heavily guarded Lujiao City suddenly become an empty city? Obviously, the defenders of the castle had just retreated, otherwise their own scouts would have come to report it.
"Because His Majesty is the tributary heir of the Qianyu family, he was fortunate to get an important news, the Ouchi family officially went out from Chikuzen early this morning, and came to Hizen, after getting the news, the Shao Er family and other heroes immediately abandoned the city, and led the remnants back to the reinforcement territory, leaving only these wounded soldiers to guard the city." Yuancheng Temple Xinyin said extremely indignantly.
What the? Did the Ouchi family send troops? It was not out early or late, but it was only after the Luo family defeated the Shao Er family coalition that they went into battle. The implication is evocative. Obviously, after getting the news that the Ouchi family came out of the battle in front of the fat, of course Shao Er Dongshang had to come back to help, and the territory of Kanzaki County was the foundation of the Shao Er family. And even if Shao Erdong is still unwilling to retreat, the rest of the heroes can't sit still. This time, the ones who fled to Lu Ka City with Shao Er Dongshang were the victory of the gods, the thousand Xi Yin, and the tsukushi only gate, and from the front of the tsukumae into Dongfei, there were only two roads, one was to go to Kifu County, and the other was to go to Kanzaki County through Beizhen Mountain, and the territories along these two roads were the territories of the Kamidai family and the Chikushi family, and after hearing the news of the Ouchi family, the most nervous were the two of the Kamidai victory and Chikushi Weimen.
In fact, Shao Erdongshang's level of tension is not much less than that of the above two. Shao Er Dongshang's father was forced to death by the Ouchi family, and he was also exiled to Chikugo, if it weren't for the support of many important ministers, he recaptured Kanzaki County, he Shao Er Dongshang would not be where he is today. It's a pity that this time the Luo family, in the case of occupying a good situation, was defeated by the Luo family, as the Ouchi family who still controls Hizen in name, of course will not let go of such a good opportunity, in the end, this time the Ouchi family is out, what is the purpose? It also made Shao Erdong still suspicious.
So after some discussion, Shao Er Dongshang and the others decisively chose to retreat, leaving only some old and weak soldiers to stick to Lu Jiaocheng in order to achieve the purpose of blocking the speed of Luo Shifan's pursuit, and then fled in disgrace. Injured in the thigh and unable to move, Nobuyin of Enjoji Temple unfortunately became the general who was ordered to stay behind, responsible for acting as a substitute for the dead ghost and blocking the progress of Luo Shifan.
Xinyin of Yuancheng Temple, who was tragically abandoned by his family, finally made a sacrifice of the city, and surrendered to the Luo family on the condition of preserving the family, and even said the shocking news before the Ouchi family officially went out to fat.
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