On August 4, 1544, after learning of the retreat of the Great Friendly Army, Masaro immediately ordered an army of 2,000 men with Kinoshita Masanao as the general to follow from behind.

Soon after Kinoshita Masanao's army set out, he encountered an army of 2,000 people led by Toji Kanren, who was waiting for him. The two sides immediately launched an attack.

At this time, Toji Jianlian was not half struck by lightning. The reason for this is that because of the appearance of Masayo, he was transferred to Chiji Castle after Chikugo, so as to avoid the occurrence of a thunderstorm when he happened to encounter a thunderstorm while resting under the big tree in the territory, so that he escaped. If the political conscience had explained such a fact, it would probably be regretful, and it was because of his appearance that a generation of Thor had maintained his health. Thus adding a fierce opponent to himself.

After seeing Kinoshita Masanao leading the troops to kill, Toji Kenren was not to be outdone and led the troops to kill head-on. As the general of the general Kinoshita Masanao and Toji Kenren, the two of them were even more heroes who cherished each other when they met, so they rode horses and killed each other.

Although Kinoshita Masanao is better at spears, and Toji Kenren is good at swords, but both of them have a common characteristic, that is, the kung fu on the horse is not very good, it can be said that half a catty is against eight taels, so the two of them rode on their respective small horses and danced with spears, and you killed me back and forth for more than half an hour. Even so, there is still no distinction between the superior and the inferior. What's even more strange is that the two armies have been fighting for so long, and there are no deaths on either side.

Seeing that the battle was fruitless, Kinoshita Masanao and Toji Kenren glanced at each other and then collected their troops, preparing to continue fighting after a short rest. But soon after, Toji Kanren was supported by nearly 1,000 people. It turned out to be Otomo Yoshikan after learning that the Luo family had indeed sent a chasing army. A thousand reinforcements were immediately dispatched to support the Toji Kanlian after the break. and ordered him to fight back against the Luo family's pursuers.

Seeing that the other party's strength had not only increased greatly, but also his morale had improved a lot, Kinoshita Masanao immediately decided that the hero would not suffer the immediate loss, and retreated with his subordinates. Seeing this, Toji Kanren would let go of such an opportunity, so he pursued it with his subordinates. In an instant, the roles of the attacker and the defender were suddenly reversed.

Toji Kanren was also a cautious man, and while he pursued Kinoshita's army from behind, he sent people to probe the situation along the road in advance. In order to avoid repeating the mistake of Shiga himself. In this way, the two armies chased me all the way and escaped, and soon came to the front of the barracks that Otomo's house had abandoned.

Seeing that the army of the Luo family rushed into the camp without hesitation, the alliance of the Otomo family, which was already addicted to chasing behind him, also roared into the camp, and even how to shout no matter how Tojijian, who sensed that something was wrong, could not even shout.

"Kill!" For a time, a large number of soldiers of the Luo family were killed from the camp and the woods near the camp.

"It's not good, there's an ambush, retreat!" Toji Jian shouted loudly.

"Report, there are a large number of Luo family troops on the way from the rear!"

"What? How is this possible? Toji Jianren was shocked when he heard this. He had sent someone to investigate the terrain along the road before he made sure that there were no ambushes before chasing him, and now where did these Luo family troops come from?

Toji Jianlian knows the way there. Ever since he began to pursue Kinoshita Masanao, he has fallen into the trap set by Kinoshita Masanao temporarily. Follow Kinoshita Masanao to pursue the army of the Otomo family. All of them are the standing equipment of the Roche family. Running, especially long-distance running, has always been one of the daily morning training contents of the Roche family. Just imagine, with the well-trained running speed of the Luo family, how could they only maintain a close distance from the miscellaneous army composed of private soldiers of various wealthy families behind them? This is what Masanao Kinoshita deliberately did. It's just that this kind of deliberateness is like this, but there are no flaws in the running standards of ordinary Hao soldiers, which can make the cautious Hu Jijian Lian also fooled.

After Tojikanren began to lead the army in pursuit, Kinoshita Masanao had an idea and sent someone back to inform Masayo, who was still in the great array at the foot of Mt. Takara. Zheng Liang comprehended, and immediately sent someone to take the lead in infiltrating the secret hideout established by the Luo family's black eagle in the Gaoliang Mountains a long time ago, and when the Toji Jianlian led the army to pass by and received the attack of the Luo family army in front, he immediately appeared to block the return of the Toji Jianlian army.

At this time, the army of nearly 6,000 people of the Luo family came from the front, rear, and left directions to kill the army of the Toji Jianlian. The panicked Otomo soldiers were defeated and surrendered one after another without even being able to organize a decent resistance. Even Toji Kanren was forced to abandon his horse and fled to the riverside of the Chikugo River.

In desperation, Toji Kanren had no choice but to take off the armor on his body, and then jumped into the Chikugo River with the "Raiche", which was supposed to be a famous sword because of the thunderbolt, and hid directly in the water and grass of some small branch rivers by the Chikugo River. The soldiers of the Luo family, who pursued him, seized the armor of Toji Jianlian and left after a fruitless search, so that Toji Jianlian escaped.

In this battle, more than 100 people were taken by the 3,000-strong Otomo family coalition army, nearly 2,000 people became prisoners of the Luo family, and the remaining hundreds of people escaped by luck.

When the Luo family finished cleaning up the battlefield, the main camp as the Otomo family had completely broken away from the scope of the Luo family's pursuit, and Masara had to leave some soldiers to continue to guard the temporary fortress built at the foot of Mount Takara, and then led the victorious army back to Kishigaku Castle.

At this point, after half a year of covert armaments, the campaign against the Luo family initiated by the Otomo family finally ended with the Otomo family retreating in disgrace after more than two months of confrontation with the Luo family.

This battle has a far-reaching impact on both the Luo family and the Otomo family.

For the Luo family, after repelling the Otomo family twice in Higo and Chikugo, the Luo family's prestige in Kyushu became more prominent, and even overwhelmed the Otomo family and the Ouchi family. As a result, many homeless people and ronins have come from all over Kyushu to the territory of the Luo family.

Secondly, in the Higo and Chikugo wars respectively, the Luo family added nearly 3,000 prisoners, plus the original prisoners in the territory, and at this time there were nearly 5,000 prisoners in the Luo family's territory. The captives were to be divided into groups and guarded by improvised peasant soldiers, who were responsible for building marching avenues for the Luo family free of charge.

In the end, this big victory brought the Luo family together like never before, making everyone have a stronger sense of belonging to the Luo family, the morale of the generals and soldiers was higher, the training and work harder, and the people lived and worked more peacefully.

Compared with the joy inside the Luo family, the Otomo family is much more miserable.

Due to the death of the retainer Yoshihiro Kanri and Shiga Kinmori, not only the prestige of the Otomo family was damaged, but the family of the two people was also in turmoil, adding an element of instability to the Otomo family's territory. And another general, Tojikan, lost his armor and lost his armor, which also greatly damaged the reputation of the Otomo family and the morale of the soldiers. With the promotion of the Luo family's detective in the territory of the Otomo family and the rest of the country, the reputation of the Luo family has become more prominent and more able to attract talents.

The Otomo family's army suffered several defeats to the Luo family in Higo and Chikugo, which not only damaged many soldiers and reduced the military strength of the Otomo family, but also put those families who had lost the main labor force in the family into a difficult situation, making the situation in the Otomo family unstable all of a sudden. And as the Luo family detectives go to the area where these captives are located according to the clues provided by the captives, many families will go to settle in the territory of the Luo family, which will once again cause the strength of the Otomo family to suffer losses to a certain extent.

The battle with the Luo family, from the preparation of armaments to the confrontation with the Luo family, took more than half a year. During this year, a lot of the Otomo family's armaments and other resources were consumed. This greatly consumes the family heritage accumulated by the Otomo family for several generations. And with the defeat this time, the Otomo family not only gained nothing, but instead lost their troops, which made the overall strength of the Otomo family drop by a big step. In the past, the strength was stable and the Luo family was at the same time, but now it is completely flattened.

Most importantly, after this battle, the Luo family became famous, while the Otomo family fell sharply. The Luo family is more united because of this, and the Otomo family seems to be a bit undercurrent.

Of course, there is also a profit in this battle. That is Higo Kikuchi Yoshitake.

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