Chapter 508: Deterring Neighbors (3)
The news of the Luo family's complete occupation of the waters of the five islands soon reached the ears of Otomo Yoshikan through the merchants.
"Hurry up and invite the military advisor to come." After reading the information about the Luo family, Otomo Yoshikan immediately ordered. Previously, he secretly concocted two schemes against the Luo family, one was naturally to personally lead the army, unite the relatives and friends of the Higo family, and the Wudao naval army to conquer the Luo family; The other is to let the Amakusa family, who secretly took refuge in the Otomo family, join forces with the Goto Navy and the Hakata family in Iki to frequently intrude on the coastal border of the Luo family.
It's a pity that the first plan was defeated head-on by the Luo family, and the second plan, with the destruction of the Amakusa family and the Goto water army, also declared bankruptcy. Despite repeated failures, Otomo Yoshikan still did not give up, and after he had just quelled the rebellion of the peasants and monks in the domain, he once again thought about how to deal with the Luo family.
Here, Otomo Yoshikan is planning a plan to deal with the Luo family, but the Kusano townspeople who are far away behind Chikugo are worried that the Luo family will send troops to deal with him.
Standing at the top of the Bamboo Castle and looking out into the distance, you can see the beautiful flags embroidered with the family crest fluttering in the wind, and the beautiful spring begins to descend on this small hill close at hand, and you can listen to the shouts of the ashigaru people mixed with the sound of the rushing water of the Chikugo River in the distance, forming a beautiful sound of nature. However, the townspeople of Kusano have no intention of enjoying the great scenery in front of them.
Although he had sent a lot of treasures to the Luo family in order to marry the Luo family, but since the Goto Navy, who also expressed his friendship to the Luo family, was attacked by the Luo family, his heart, which had been a little calmer, beat violently again.
"It seems that this is a fat-faced eagle that will be rewarded for its flaws! What if the other party does call? These days, the townsman has been repeating to himself. He knew that the ground beneath his feet would soon be stained red with blood. Become a bloody battlefield. He might be one of them himself. At the thought of these, my body trembled involuntarily. Cold sweat covered his forehead, and he wiped it gently, then glanced left and right at the others.
When the Luo family rose in Hizen two years ago, he just thought that it was just Hizen's matter, and the Luo family did not have the strength to penetrate into Chikugo. But only two years later, things have greatly surprised him, and now the Luo family has begun to build a new city at the border of his territory, from now on. His territory will become a battlefield between the Otomo family and the Luo family, and he is the first line of defense against the Luo family.
As the Luo family built a fortress at the foot of Gaoliang Mountain at the border, news began to spread in the territory that the Luo family was about to attack the family, and the people in the territory were panicked for a while. Just like now, when he looked left and right, he found that most of the people were as solemn as his expressions, with a little fear, more fear of the Luo family. If it was a fluke to defeat the tens of thousands of troops of the Otomo family in Hizen, then after repelling the Luo family's expeditionary army led by Otomo Yoshikan himself this time, the strength of the Luo family has been undoubtedly revealed.
"The Otomo family is starting to decline? Do you want to take refuge in the Roche family? This sentence suddenly appeared in the brains of the townsman Kusano for no reason.
Just when the Kusano townspeople were thinking a lot of things, the inner space family and the Kazuko family in Higo's Yamamoto and Satsuda counties were also in the same complicated mood.
Because it's today. The inner space of the Luo family, the town house and the deer wood inspector are about to be sent home. According to the previous agreement with the Luo family, as long as the Luo family's army passes through their territory. They pretend that they don't know anything, so they can get the release of the Inner Space Town House and the Shikako Wood Inspector afterwards.
Today, the Inner Space and Kagoziki families each sent a cronie to the shore of Shimabara Bay with about 20 people. When they arrived at the place designated by the Roche family to release the hostages, everyone became cautious. Now everyone knows that it is not a safe place on the shores of Shimabara Bay, and it can be said that it will be attacked at any time by the forces of the Luo family who sneak into here from the water. Since the Luo family's navy completely controlled Shimahara Bay, their territory near the coast has almost become the territory of the Luo family, and the Luo family's army has secretly landed from the coast from time to time, and then looted the grain and even the people here, and over time, this has become a place where only desperate farmers are willing to stay.
Fortunately, until they saw the two people in the inner space, the town house and the deer wood, the succession teams of the two families did not suffer any attacks. It was washed over and over again with a brush, and the inner space was washed by the town house and the deer wood appraiser, and it took several prescriptions to wash it up, and at the same time, the two people who were neatly dressed were finally handed back to the two welcoming teams.
The moment he returned to his own team, both the inner space town house and the Luzi Mu Inspector instantly recovered their great spirits, and then raised their heads at the same time, staring at the Luo family warriors who were in charge of escorting them, their eyes were full of resentment and hatred, and even the Luo family warriors who were in charge of escorting them couldn't help but tense their bodies, and their cold hairs stood on end.
"What a scary look, how much hatred should be like this!" The warriors of the Luo family couldn't help but think.
Of course, they must not know how much suffering the empty town house and the Luzi wood constructor have endured during the period of the Luo family. They were sent to a troop of dozens of Luo family slaves, and then built roads for the Luo family's territory every day. Such a day is simply hell for the two who used to be pampered at home. What frightened them the most was that since they were less than twenty years old, and their skin was tender and tender, they would always receive a lot of malicious glances since they entered the slave team. The kind of gaze that is like a pervert seeing a beautiful woman makes them wake up from their sleep from time to time. Fortunately, now they have finally ended their days of daily fear and innocence.
When they completely walked into their own greeting team, and were completely protected, the inner space town house, the two of them were still a little dreamy, never thought that it was really so simple to let them return home, there was no mud and water as imagined before, and they used the stall of the big victory Otomo house to play scoundrels and delay time, which is really puzzling, but doubts are doubts, it is better to return home than to continue to stay in the Luo family's house every day to be afraid of a hundred times a thousand times. In the Luo family, they were not even as good as a dog, and they were often extremely humiliated by some irrelevant slaves, but when they returned home, they could continue to live as if they were heaven now.
"Okay, the previous agreement has been fulfilled, please tell the two family heads, the family governor is very satisfied with the cooperation of the previous three, if there is a chance, the family will cooperate with you again." One of the samurai leaders of the Luo family, who was in charge of escorting the inner space town room and the two of the Kagoko wood connoisseurs, said later.
When the two cronies heard the Luo family warrior say this, they were startled, and they responded in unison: "The ghost wants to cooperate with you devils!" ”
So they immediately bid farewell to the escort team of the Luo family, and took the inner space town house and the two of them immediately began to return to their respective cities, not wanting to stop for a moment.
Just as the two greeting teams escorted the inner space town house and the Luzimu inspector back, the inner space family's family governor Neikong Zhenzheng and the Luzimu family's family supervisor also fell into complicated thoughts.
This kind of thinking is mixed with many things.
First of all, he was worried that the Luo family would continue to detain the inner space town house and the two of them.
Secondly, this time, they were secretly indifferent to the Luo family's military situation and the matter of passing through their own family, and they did not warn the families in advance, once this matter was exposed, their family would fall into the condemnation of the wealthy families in Feihou. Of course, they didn't want to deny it, but this time in the defeat in Higo Tamina County, almost all the wealthy clans in Higo were damaged to varying degrees, and the Chixing family was even almost wiped out, but only the armies of the two of them were intact, and not even a single one was injured. How does this make them parse something like this?
At this time, they realized the sinister intentions of the Luo family. Deliberately passing through their territory, and then alerting them, in the end, only the old and weak soldiers were sent to participate in the Otomo family's Higo expeditionary army. Later, he deliberately let go of the two armies on the battlefield. Once the matter is exposed, they really have no silver three hundred taels here. If the Luo family deliberately spread the matter, and then threatened to secretly form an alliance with them, then it would really be said that they would be isolated from the wealthy clans of Higo. At this time, they finally experienced what it was like to be in the previous situation of the Nawa family.
The Luo family is a conspiracy and a conspiracy, so they can't avoid it.
In the end, with the Otomo family once again defeated in the hands of the Luo family, this made the two or even more Higo wealthy families wonder, could it be that Higo is about to change winds?
Whether or not it will change after fat is inconclusive, but in Iki, it is about to change.
In a wooden house in one of the courtyards of Iki, Hidaka Soyoshimasa was engrossed in reading a secret letter that had just been sent from the Luo family.
During this period of time, the camp led by Hidaka Soyoshi and Hinata Yamato Shouzi was more and more opposed to the attempt of the Hata clan to unify all the wealthy clans on the island. Not long ago, their camp was almost in a big battle with the camp of the Bojia clan. But at this time, there was news that the Tsushima clan was trying to take advantage of the chaos to invade Iki, so in order to fight against foreign enemies, both camps temporarily withheld it.
However, just a few days ago, news came from Tsushima. More than 20 Japanese ships, mainly Tsushima soldiers, attacked the town of Seokliang in Gyeongsang Province, North Korea, triggering a discussion in North Korea about "eliminating Japanese soldiers." As a result, Joseon ordered the severance of communication with the shogunate, the Ouchi clan, and the Muneshi clan, and the communication between Tsushima and Korea was interrupted.
At this time, the Tsushima clan naturally had no time to take care of Iki's situation, so both the Hidaka sect and the Hata clan were immediately ready to move. At the moment when the two sides completely tore their faces, Hidaka Zongyi received a letter from the Luo family, and of course he was overjoyed. (To be continued......)