Kurume. It is located in Mii-gun, Chikugo Province, Kyushu.

At this time, Kurume was still a beach between the Chikugo River in the north and Mt. Kora (later renamed Mt. Dou) in the south. It's a narrow strip of land less than a mile away. Excluding the shrubs and weeds that are close to the Koliang Mountains, the area that can accommodate the march here is actually less than half a mile wide.

Due to the backward level of production, some local farmers only cultivated some fertile fields along the banks of the Kurume River near the Chikugo River. But even so, Kurume was already a famous granary in the Kyushu region at this time. With the continuous development of the land, it will even become one of the granaries of the entire Wa Kingdom in the future. It was also the site of the famous Kurume University (which was founded as a medical university).

At this time, due to the recent battle between the Luo family, the Otomo family, and the Ouchi family in this area, the nearby farmers have long abandoned their homes and fled to the mountains and forests for refuge.

At this time, in the rice fields that had been harvested, the Luo family's army was arranging into a large square formation between Mt. Kora and the shore of the south bank of Chikugo River.

This time, before setting off from Takara City, Masara had already arranged it.

At the front of the phalanx were naturally more than 100 ploughing cattle. By this time, the ploughing cattle had already put on simple quilts, had sharp knives tied to their horns, and had grease-stained weeds tied to their tails. Behind each ploughing ox stood a peasant soldier. They were holding something burning in their hands.

Behind the ploughing formation, dozens of drummers are evenly and sparsely distributed in front of the real formation. All they had to do was have some horns and snare drums and other instruments.

Behind these drummers is the real battle of the people.

Masahiro is the main general this time. It is located in the center of the large array. Nabeshima Kiyobo, Murakami Takeyoshi, Asakura Sote, Tetsunosuke, Kato Duanzo, Hidan, Ahri, Taketori Snake Ranmaru, and Roshi Masahide are the lieutenants. On the right flank of Masayo, it was Kinoshita Masanao as the main general. The lieutenants will be the executive Tankane, Masamune Roche, Shinji Ueda, Nagaren Akaike, Gunbei Owatani, and Inudo Ryan. The general on the left is Jia Fei (Dharma name Zongyun). The lieutenants will be Isono Motomasa, Takasaka Masanobu, Roche Sasuke, Uemura Mototsuna, Akaguchi Mitsukiyo, and Tao Nakamoto. The military advisor Kakuma Ishimune is the main general of the rear formation, and the deputy generals are Hidemasa Akimine and Toshimasa Honda.

The old Togo Heiji stayed in Takara Castle to coordinate the rear, and the military advisor Yamamoto Kansuke also stayed in Takara Castle to coordinate intelligence. The military advisor Shinnosuke Akabane was sent to Mise Castle in Hizen Province. Previously, due to an ambush, the second standing ashigaru team was almost disabled, the main general Tomohisa Oishi was also seriously wounded, and the deputy generals Samuta Nagaken and Kamachi Kenhiro were even killed in battle. Mise Castle, where the second standing ashigaru team was originally stationed, was left with the deputy general Fukuda Nobukiyo with more than a dozen standing ashigaru and fifty peasant soldiers, which was obviously inappropriate, so he had to temporarily send Shinnosuke Akabane to garrison.

This time participated in the war. There were 63 cloaked men (the remaining 30 were killed, scattered, or wounded in the previous ambush and did not participate in the battle), 327 samurai, 1,565 standing ashigaru, 113 scouts and Black Hawks, 52 heralds, and more than 2,600 peasant soldiers. Coupled with the hundreds of people led by Yoshida Shigemasa and Andel in advance, in fact, there are about 5,000 people in the Luo family's army formation today. This is the largest number of recruits that Masaro can raise in a single day.

On the other hand, in the military camps of the Otomo family and the Ouchi family on the opposite side, according to the information reported by Black Eagle before, after the arrival of scattered troops one after another overnight, there were already more than 20,000 troops in the large camp of the coalition forces on the opposite side. Counting the scattered forces still on the road, by tomorrow afternoon, the enemy position is estimated to have at least 30,000 men.

Five thousand against thirty thousand. This is the contrast of military forces presented in today's World War I. For the Luo family, this battle can really be described as a ruin. It's just that neither the generals of the Luo family nor the standing soldiers of the Luo family are panicked. Because since the Roche family made its fortune, is there less of a situation of less to more? But how have they ever seen their lord fail? Even if it was an ambush that was several times larger than his own before. Isn't the lord of his own family still standing in front of them unharmed at the moment?

In the eyes of the Luo family, they have a strong belief. That is their god-of-war lord, and the unyielding Luo soul in their hearts.

As for the enemy army. Although they seem to be large in number, as their military commanders have been preaching in the army, most of them are temporary conscripted peasant soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of their own long-term training standers. Even the peasant soldiers of their own house are much more trained than the peasant soldiers on the other side. So on his side is a flock of sheep led by lions, and on the other side is a flock of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

In the dark night field, more than 5,000 Luo family troops stood there quietly. In the night, there are occasionally a few glimmers of cold light reflected by the pre-dawn rays. The cold light reflected from these ice blades. All of them had drawn their weapons. Of course, in order to avoid accidental injury in the dark, they are far away from each other.

There is no main flag, and there is no flag signifier. In order to make it easier to sneak through the night, all of them wore only armor, the only thing that stood out was the strip of white cloth tied to the right arm to distinguish between friend and foe. In the same way, there were no torches, because the ploughing of the oxen ahead would illuminate the road ahead, and the light of the fire in front of the enemy's camp was the light of their advance.

"Ignition!" In the dark night of Xiao Killing, there was a sudden shout from Zhengliang. This shout was particularly harsh in the night.

......With Zhengliang's order, the peasants and soldiers standing behind the ploughing ox immediately quickly untied the bamboo cage and thatch rope from the ploughing cow's mouth, and then ran back to the ploughing ox and lit the fire in his hand, and finally quickly ignited the flammable material on the ploughing ox. The ploughing cattle were instantly transformed into fire bulls.

"Baa, baa......" Suddenly, frightened by the light of the fire, the ploughing cattle shouted loudly in unison, and at the same time began to run forward like crazy.

"Woo woo woo ......" Immediately after, the conch trumpeters behind the fire bull formation also sounded the conch trumpet. The drummers also beat the snare drums desperately. Their purpose in doing this was to prevent the fire bull in front of them from suddenly turning around and rushing towards their own formation, and on the other hand, to confuse the enemy formation, so that the enemy formation would mistakenly think that the Luo family's army was large in number this time.

"Kill!" With the sound of the conch, it also heralded the official start of the night attack of the Luo family tonight, Zhengliang immediately shouted, raised his knife and rushed away behind the fire bull array.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! The people behind him also shouted and rushed forward to kill after the fire ox formation.

The Great War is on the verge of breaking out. (To be continued......)