In front of the gate of Shenwei Castle, a straight black smoke rushed into the sky, and a raging fire burned in front of the wooden gate of the city gate, roasting the curl wheel and the gate to black. Although the Ashigaru of the Otsuyama family, who was guarding the castle, kept pouring water on the wooden gate, it was all to no avail, and the gate was almost charred.

"Boom!"

The fragile crown wooden gate was smashed by the Luo family's giant tree in the city, and then hundreds of Luo family warriors with eagle flags on their backs, Ashigaru, braved the arrows shot from the oars and rushed into the city gate. And on the city wall, the siege force of the Luo family gradually gained the upper hand.

As the Luo family's army continued to increase, the resistance of the Otsu Mountain family was broken through in an instant.

It was already afternoon, the two armies were still fighting fiercely, and the noise under the city never stopped for a moment.

Soon, the outer pills of the main castle of the Otsu mountain family, Kamio Castle, had been breached, and now the remnants of the Ashigaru peasant soldiers of the Otsu mountain family have regrouped outside the main city of the Honmaru to resist again. At this critical moment, everyone couldn't help but think of the lord of the castle and his samurai, but at this time, they could no longer be found.

After being at a disadvantage in defending the city, Otsuyama Shito finally chose to secretly escape from the secret path in the back mountain of Kamio Castle under the persuasion of his retainers, and he was followed by more than a dozen remaining samurai of the Otsu Mountain family. With the departure of the main force defending the city, the remaining defenders of the city were naturally defeated, and soon the Luo family gradually began to occupy various positions in Shenwei City.

Soon, this siege battle had come to an end.

"Back to my lord, our army has already attacked the main pill of Kamio Castle."

At this time, a samurai with a face covered in other people's blood. Came to the front of Zhengliang and knelt down.

"Good."

Masarashi nodded forcefully. Cover your head with a folding fan. Blocking out the slanting rays of the still a bit of a fierce afternoon sun, looking towards the city.

I saw that although the pill outside the city of Shenwei was filled with gunsmoke and blocked the view, I could vaguely see a long dragon-like army of the Luo family, rushing towards the main pill from the mountain road. With the cloaked people around Masarashi into battle, the defense of the Otsuyama family Honmaru becomes even more precarious.

The generals of the Luo family on the side were all happy, even those who didn't understand military affairs could see that Shenwei City would fall soon. And those local small lands and small wealthy clans who decided to surrender to the Luo family fell to their original boss within a day after seeing the Luo family. I can't help but secretly rejoice in their original choice.

"Thank you for your hard work, today the banner of my Luo family will be planted on the head of Shenwei City." Zhengliang turned around and bowed deeply to the generals under his command and the newly surrendered local wealthy families.

The retainers and these local tycoons bowed down one after another and spoke in unison.

"Congratulations to the lord, pacify the country after fattening, and the achievement of hegemony is just around the corner."

When Zhengliang heard this, he smiled happily, and then he looked at the local tycoons and small landowners of Yamaga County who had just surrendered. The betrayal of these people was a huge blow to the Otsuyama family. It can be regarded as an indirect contribution.

So Masara said to them, "Ladies and gentlemen, you have done a great job for my Luo family to unify Higo Yamaga County. I have a good conscience in mind, and you can rest assured that what I promised at the beginning will definitely be fulfilled. ”

These wealthy landowners were all overjoyed after hearing Zhengliang's promise, and hurriedly bowed and thanked: "Thank you for the generous gift of the lord, and your subordinates will definitely swear to serve you to the death." "It's just that they will know that even if they keep their original territory, after the Luo family completely pacifies Yamaga County, the people under their leadership will be relocated to other places, and the new people who support the Luo family's policies will enter their territory. Moreover, in the future, the military strength and taxes of these small wealthy clans will be implemented in accordance with the laws of the Luo family, and in fact, their power will be greatly weakened.

Of course, they will definitely be reluctant at that time, but by that time, the Luo family has completely controlled Yamaga County, even if they want to resist, it is just in line with Masahiro's idea of taking the opportunity to get rid of them, anyway, these people are just grass on the wall, and if the power is strong, they will take refuge in that, and Masahiro will never be soft on these unstable internal factors. And now it's just a temporary stabilizer of them.

"It's really disgusting, I let that guy from Otsuyama Shidong run away." In the main pill of Kamio Castle, Watanabe Tsuri, a retainer of the former Mori Motosho, cut off the head of a samurai of the Otsuyama family, and said with a curse.

At this time, the battle in Kamio Castle was over, but after some searching, everyone found that the big fish Otsuyama Shidong was missing. You must know that as long as Otsu Mountain Zidong dies or is captured, then the remaining cities and territories of the Otsu Mountain family will surrender.

At this time, Datsu Mountain Zidong didn't know that the soldiers of the Luo family in Shenwei City were remembering his head, and at this time he was walking in the territory of the Heren family with a few of his subordinates in embarrassment, because the place in Higashisaka had been occupied by the Luo family, so at this time they had to detour to the Nanguan Castle of the Otsu Mountain family.

"My lord, there is an unknown army blocking the road ahead." At this moment, one of the samurai who was in charge of the front of the road hurriedly ran back to report.

"Huh?" Otsuyama Zidong, who had already been frightened in Shenwei City, immediately exclaimed. Could it be that the unknown army in front of them is an ambush that the Luo family has been ambushing here for a long time? No matter how wise and brave the fat eagle is, it is impossible to even calculate the temporary decision to escape.

"Hahaha, Lord Otsuyama Shidong, I've been waiting here for a long time." It was an arrogant laughter coming from the front.

"Not good, my lord, please evacuate this place as soon as possible, and let the subordinates and others intercept the enemy army here for a while." When the samurai who had just returned to report heard the laughter of the Great Gang coming from the front, he immediately knew that he had accidentally attracted the army blocking the road in front of him, so he pleaded with him to make meritorious deeds.

"Let's go? Let's see where you can go today. Just when the chief minister of Mt. Otsu was panicking, more than a dozen enemy troops jumped out of the mountains and forests on both sides of them, and quickly surrounded Mt. Otsu and the others.

"Lord Otsuyama Shidong, don't come unharmed!" At this time, the army blocking the road in front also quickly killed, and after coming to the side of Otsuyama Zidong and the others not far away, one of the generals led by him said loudly.

"Yes...... It's you? Otsuyama Shidong, who woke up from the panic of being surrounded, immediately found that the person in front of him was Kazuhito, and immediately exclaimed.

"Hehe, it's in Xia, Dajin Mountain Zidong didn't expect it, I've been waiting here for a long time." Kazuhito replied with a smile. Just yesterday afternoon, when he led the army back to the main city Tanaka Castle, he was ambushed by the army of the Luo family halfway.

This ambush army was the 400-strong Luo family's fourth standing ashigaru team led by Kinoshita Masanao. As early as a few days before Masarashi launched his march against Higo, Kinoshita Masanao led this team to secretly come to Kokuri Tsukami on the border of Higo Yamaga County through the mountain trail of Chikugo Kamitsuma County, and then quickly took the checkpoint here, and secretly bypassed Tanaka Castle, the main city of the Kazuhito family, and ambushed Kazuhito's army in the middle of the road according to the information provided by Black Hawk, and finally captured Kazuhito Kotsugi himself alive, forcing the Kazuhito family to surrender to the Luo family.

At this time, Kazuhito took the initiative to ask for orders to come to attack the Otsu Mountain family. He Ren, who is familiar with the local terrain, will inevitably choose to return to his other city, Nanguan City, from this mountain road once the Otsu Mountain Zidong is defeated by the Luo family and escapes. Now he really saw it.

"You...... What are you doing? Seeing that Kazuhito was obviously not a good person, Otsuyama asked a little timidly. Of course, since he didn't know that Lu Dao and Ren Qinji had already taken refuge in the Luo family, he really couldn't understand why the two families who were dying and cold in their lips were still fighting at this time when the Luo family invaded on a large scale.

"Without him, I just want to borrow your head for a purpose." Kazuhito replied bluntly. Although he was forced to surrender to the Luo family because of his capture, after his main foundation, Tanaka Castle, was completely controlled by the Luo family, Kazuhito's mind has slowly become active. Now that the Luo family has surrendered, it is better to surrender completely, and even behave well, so that it can be rewarded and reused by the new master. Now it's time to use the head of Otsuyama Shidong to add some merit to yourself. (To be continued......)