The dead cherry blossom trees in the courtyard outside the Takara Castle Hall are covered with fallen leaves, and only a few green citrus trees stand out in the wind before the rainstorm.

At this time, under the cherry blossom tree, he was sitting in the red hole Guangqing, he found a straw mat out of nowhere, spread it out and sat on it, and then began to bandage the wound on his arm. Today, they suddenly received the news that the Lord Gongzheng Liang had been ambushed, so they immediately went to the rescue. Since they were cavalry, they were the first to arrive at the ambush site.

When they arrived at the location, they were immediately shocked by the tragic situation at the scene. Almost half of the cloaked people led by Masashi were killed or wounded, and Tomohisa Oishi's second standing ashigaru team was almost disabled. Of course, the enemy also paid twice as much casualties.

Seeing such a situation, he almost thought that Zhengliang was already more than lucky. Luckily, they found Masaya and others in hiding in the grass of a tributary that flows into the Chikugo River. Although the lord is a little out of strength, fortunately he only suffered a little trauma.

After guarding Masayo, they immediately began to leave the battlefield. It was at this time that Mitsukiyo was shot and wounded by enemy archers who were withdrawing from the battlefield.

"I don't know what the lord is thinking." Tao Nakamoto, who was also sitting on the ground next to Mitsukiyo Akagu, said while eating rice balls. Masara suddenly gave everyone an order to immediately rest and heal and replenish food, which immediately made everyone mumble.

"Could it be that the lord is ready to fight back immediately today?" Oka Tani asked.

"No, no." Akaxue Guangqing shook his head, and then began to pull out some fried beans from the dry food bag around his waist to satisfy his hunger.

"The enemy forces have withdrawn from the battlefield and have begun to set up large battalions. Again. Seeing that the rainstorm is coming, the lord will not fight back at this time. ”

"I thought that the Lord would take advantage of the torrential rain to fight back at the enemy. Wasn't it always like this before? ”

Just as the retainers were talking outside the council hall. The evaluation was also carried out in the council hall.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this time we were ambushed. It was really negligence, so it also caused the elite of the family to suffer great losses, and I sincerely apologize again. Looking at the important ministers who came urgently from the house sitting in the council hall, Masahiro bent down with his hands on the ground and apologized.

As Masashi said, he did make a lot of mistakes when he was ambushed this time.

This time, Masara was indeed a little arrogant and self-serving, he didn't listen to Yamamoto Kansuke's advice at the beginning, and ran to take risks as the head of the family. This is a complete lack of awareness of the importance of one's own safety to the stability of the family as the head of the family. And his habit of personally leading the army to the front line was also expected by the enemy army. All of this is an ambush.

It is precisely because some of Masaliang's habits have been clearly grasped by the enemy that in the ambush, the enemy specially used the means of concentrated attack to forcibly force Masahiro to break away from the main formation, so that the Luo family army that was ambushed lost its backbone and finally suffered heavy losses.

Of course, this mistake was not only a mistake by Masayo, so when Masato apologized in person, Kansuke Yamamoto was the first to stand up and admit his mistake:

"My lord, this time you were attacked. It is the dereliction of duty of his subordinates, and he also asks the lord to punish the crime. ”

This time Zhengliang was attacked, and it did have a lot to do with the fact that the black eagle of the Luo family and the detective did not find the enemy's trace in time. Of course, this can't be blamed entirely on Kansuke Yamamoto. After all, ninjas are not omnipotent, and manpower is also limited, plus this time the enemy has the cooperation of the Luo family. There had been preparations for a long time, which also led to the fact that Black Hawk did not detect the anomaly in time.

"My lord, Lord Yamamoto. This is not the time to argue about whose fault it is, so let's discuss how to deal with the assembled Otomo and Ouchi coalition forces next. Kakukuma Ishimune on the side saw that Masara and Yamamoto Kansuke were still admitting each other's mistakes. He spoke immediately. Kakukuma Ishizong was lucky, although he also followed Masarashi into an ambush this time, but it seems that his student Toji Kenren did not embarrass him, so after he hid in a forest near the battlefield, he was not attacked, and finally returned to the Luo family unharmed.

"Yes, at this time, we should first discuss how to deal with the menacing enemy army." Hearing Kakuma Ishizong's words, Masarashi immediately looked solemn, and then said, "Kansuke, tell me about the information you have received so far." ”

The latter immediately reported with a solemn expression: "I have just received information that the Otomo family and the Ouchi family have stopped fighting in Chikugo Mihara County, and when they ambushed the lord, the two families have begun to assemble their main forces on the south bank of the Chikugo River. In addition, a large number of troops suddenly appeared from the castles of the Ouchi family, such as Sugimoto Castle and Iwakiriyama Castle in Chikuzen, and a large number of troops also appeared in the Otomo family's Higashi Castle in Bungo. These troops will presumably arrive at the Otomo family and Ouchi's camp on the southern bank of the Chikugo River tonight. ”

"Hmph, it seems that after the other party's ambush failed, he planned to attack directly." After hearing this, the general Isono said immediately.

"If that's the case, I'm afraid these forces are only the first batch of troops, I'm afraid that the Ouchi family and the Otomo family will continue to have troops to converge in the future." Kakukuma Ishizong said.

"No, Your Majesty thinks that the other party is afraid that before the follow-up army arrives, he will immediately launch an attack on his own family." Kansuke Yamamoto judged. In his opinion, this time the Luo family was ambushed, although the lord Zhengliang escaped, but the main force following Zhengliang suffered a heavy blow, and they would definitely not let go of this opportunity to take advantage of the victory.

"In this way, today's rainstorm is indeed a great favor for my family." Kakukuma Ishizong immediately said.

"If that's the case, it's expected that after the rainstorm, tomorrow at the latest, the other side will attack the house with all their might." Togo Heiji said worriedly, "Lord Yamamoto, if the first batch of the opposing party's troops converge, how many people are expected?" ”

"I'm afraid there are no less than 30,000 people." Kansuke Yamamoto's face was solemn. This time, the Otomo family and the Ouchi family really plan to do their best to wipe out the Luo family.

"What? 30,000? Damn, why didn't the Black Eagle and the detective of the previous family know anything about it? This time, even Kinoshita Masanao was shocked.

Kansuke Yamamoto, who was in charge of the Intelligence Pavilion, couldn't help but bow his head a little ashamedly when he heard this. Previously, due to the need to take over the newly occupied Feihou territory with all its might, and to strictly prevent another rebellion in the territory, most of the strength of the Luo family's Black Eagle and the detective was almost concentrated in these two tasks, so it was indeed negligent to monitor the foreign heroes. In addition, the Otomo family and the Ouchi family have been plotting against the Luo family a long time ago, especially the Otomo family, he learned the lesson of being discovered in advance when he conquered the Luo family last time, this time it can be said that he adopted the method of ant moving to secretly gather the army, and the Luo family's intelligence cabinet naturally did not know what to do.

"Thirty thousand people, besides, this is the first army to attack our family tomorrow. If the enemy has a follow-up army, then ......," Togo Heiji said with a little bitterness. Indeed, it is not to blame Togo Heiji for behaving like this, after all, at this time, there were only less than 3,000 troops gathered near the Luo family's Gaoliang Castle. Three thousand versus thirty thousand, it is already a huge disparity, if the other party still has a follow-up army, then the situation of the Luo family is even more critical.

What Togo Heiji can imagine, the rest of the retainers can also imagine. So as soon as Togo Heiji's words came out, everyone couldn't help but fall silent.

"My lord, why don't you ask the other party for peace?" After everyone was silent for a while, Togo Heiji continued.

"Summation? How to sum? It was Isono Yuanchang who spoke up.

"Hmm. The Otomo family will definitely not accept the family's request for peace, after all, the family has already formed a life-and-death enmity with it. The only thing that can be negotiated is the Ouchi family. Kansuke Yamamoto said.

"My lord, the family can marry Mei Ji to the Ouchi family, and even cede some territory to the Ouchi family. As long as the Ouchi family is stabilized first, and the family can concentrate its forces to defeat the army of the Otomo family, the crisis of the family this time will naturally be solved. Togo Heiji said. From the perspective of the retainers, there is indeed nothing wrong with Togo Heiji's suggestion. It's just that he didn't know the way, but because of this, he touched the scale of political goodness.

"Hehe, do you think the Ouchi family will accept the family's request for peace?" Masarashi glanced at Togo Heiji coldly, and then continued, "Besides, if you ask Zai Xia to sue for peace with a treacherous person, it will definitely not be possible. This time, the family can only fight to the death! (To be continued......)