In a mountain col less than a mile away from Tahara's home city, Tahara Hiroyoshi's group who were about to torture Kosuke to extract confessions were wiped out. Luckily, he escaped death.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, if you are one step late, Your Majesty will be in a different place, although it is not a pity for Your Highness to die, but Your Highness has lost a loyal retainer", seeing that Zheng Zhengliang looked over, Xingsuke knelt on the ground, tears were rampant, and he felt like he was living for the rest of his life. Seeing this, Zhengliang's lips turned up slightly, but he scolded in his heart, you guy disturbed my sleep, and I haven't settled accounts with you yet.

Secretly looking at Masahiro's expression, Kosuke also knew that his performance was going to be stopped, and then wiped his tears and continued, "Congratulations to Your Highness, you easily captured the young master of the Tahara family." At this time, Tahara Hiroshi had been tied up and a rag was stuffed in his mouth. The samurai he had brought with him had been disposed of, and his belongings and swords had been left behind. In the point that Yan Guo does not leave hair, the Luo family's troops have learned enough of Zhengliang's style.

"Oh? The young master of the Tahara family? Hahaha, Kosuke, you did a good job this time, if you can successfully take Tashiro Castle this time, you will be credited with the first credit, and I will raise your Yulu to forty koku", Masara was obviously in a good mood as well, and he also rewarded this guy who had inadvertently made a contribution.

Forty Shi Yulu is already the same as Onishi Kuniji and Tsuda Guangzong, doesn't this mean that his status has risen a lot? Kosuke was so excited that he quickly kowtowed and thanked him.

At this time, a cloaked man hurriedly came to Zhengliang's side and whispered softly. After listening to the report, Masara Ha Lu laughed and said to everyone, "Everyone, the Kogi family and the Fujiwara family have officially joined forces and started to march towards the territory of the Tawara family, and Tadajiro has already led the team to follow Tahara Tadayoshi to meet the two coalition forces, it seems that our opportunity has come." ”

"Ahh God help the Luo family! The crowd exclaimed.

"Your Highness, Tashiro Castle is now empty, and Your Majesty is willing to take the lead in taking Tashiro Castle as a vanguard," said the big bald head Tsuda Hiromune as he took a step forward and curtsied at Masayo.

"Well, now is indeed the time to attack Tashiro Castle, everyone, listen to my orders", Masarashi shouted, "Kuniji, you lead twenty cloaked people to ambush and harass Tahara Tadayoshi along the way back to Tashiro Castle, and try to delay Tahara Tadayoshi's return to Tashiro Castle, but remember not to engage them head-on. The rest of the men followed me in the attack on Tashiro Castle. ”

"Yes, Your Highness", everyone agreed.

The townspeople under Tashiro Castle were already in the thick of the news, and when they heard that the powerful forces in the vicinity had attacked the territory, the townspeople took refuge in their homes and closed their doors, praying for the war to end as soon as possible and for the families who participated in the war to return safely.

Masarashi and his entourage changed into the clothes of Tahara Hiroyoshi's original guard samurai, and hurriedly walked through the town with Tahara Hiroyoshi, who was already dying, until he walked towards the gate of Tashiro. I saw that the road along the road was empty, and through the gap in the wooden house, I could see that there were eyes in the house watching their team.

"Who?" The samurai who was in charge of staying behind saw a group of men and horses quickly approaching the city gate from a distance, and immediately shouted a warning. More than a dozen ashigaru standing on top of the earthen wall immediately drew their bows to defend against the enemy.

"Wait, this is His Royal Highness the Young Lord. His Royal Highness was injured by a wild boar attack, hurry up and open the city gate", Kosuke, who was walking in the front, immediately shouted, for fear that half a second later in shouting, the bow and arrow on the earthen wall would shoot at his body, and at the same time, he kept complaining in his heart, how could he be bumped into such a thing every time, it was really unlucky recently.

"What? Your Highness? The samurai who had given the warning immediately looked at the wounded man who was being carried, and at this time the procession had already come under the city gate. Quick, what are you grinding? Are you planning to murder the young master? Kosuke once again shouted outside the city gate. …,

"Quick, open the city gate, that's the young master", the samurai in charge of guarding the city wall obviously recognized Tahara Hiroyoshi, and immediately ordered Ashigaru below.

"Squeak", the wooden door slowly opened. Masarashi quickly pulled out Yoshioka's words, and took the lead in dodging in through the crack in the door without saying a word, and everyone behind him also drew their weapons and followed closely.

"You, who are you?" , The remaining guard Ashigaru, who was opening the city gate, was startled by the people who flashed in, and when he looked at it, he found that these people had never seen it, and immediately asked.

"Brush", the knife flashed, and the questioning Ashigaru had already figured out what was going on, and he was already in a different place.

"Huh? Enemy attack, enemy attack", Ashigaru behind him realized that something was wrong and immediately shouted.

"Kill!" , Masarashi shouted, killing the enemy in front of him, and everyone behind him shouted and followed, only Kosuke hid under the city gate, and even smeared some of the blood that had been killed lightly on himself, and then lay aside, pretending to be dead. Outside the city gate, Tsuda Hiromune, who received the signal, immediately led the people who were ambushed in the woods on the side to kill the city gate that had been wide open.

The remaining Ashigaru was the opponent of Masarashi and the others, and after being killed several people in a row, they began to retreat, and everyone was afraid of being targeted by this killer king. And the samurai, who was the first to shout and organize everyone to resist, had already been cut off by the devil in front of him just now. For a time, the dragons were leaderless, and the remaining ashigaru retreated. With the addition of a large army led by Tsuda Hiromune, the resistance in the city was broken down in an instant.

After gaining the upper hand, Masara immediately ordered the city gates to be closed and began a great purge of the city to eliminate the diehards in the city. In less than half an hour, the resistance in the city completely collapsed. Part of the Tawara family Ashigaru was killed, and the rest were imprisoned in a dungeon in the city.

In the meeting hall of the Tahara family, the retainers who participated in the siege battle gathered together.

Masarashi slowly glanced at everyone, and then spoke, "Ladies and gentlemen, this time the family successfully won Tashiro Castle, thanks to everyone's courage to kill the enemy, and if the word continues, everyone will be rewarded with one stone of miscellaneous grain." Now, let's talk about the situation in the city. ”

"Your Highness, the city has been cleansed, all the men and diehards of the Tahara family have been slashed and killed, the women and others have been kept under centralized custody according to His Highness's requirements, and the captives have been tied up and locked in cells in the city, and personnel have been arranged to keep them closely guarded. None of the samurai of the Honda family or Ashigaru were injured in battle, except for a few unlucky ghosts who were injured," said Tsuda Hiromune.

"A large amount of money, food, and weapons were found in the city, and further checks were needed to confirm the exact amount," Kosuke, who was in charge of the inventory, reported.

"Well, Kosuke, you stay, lead the wounded samurai and ashigaru to guard the castle, and at the same time immediately send someone to inform Togo Heiji to send someone to come and count the supplies", Masara thought for a moment, and then ordered, "Hiromune, immediately arrange for the uninjured samurai and Ashigaru to rest and prepare for the next big battle." ”

"Yes, Your Highness", the two took the order and left.

(PS: The new book release is about to enter the fifth week, and it has been signed A, and it has been updated with more than 170,000 words, and it will never be updated, at least more than 1.5 million words.) In the third week, it was on the Sanjiang potential list, last week it was recommended by new books in the classification, and this week it was on the list of strong promotion in the history category. No. 1 on the list of new history books for newcomers. Everyone, don't be in a hurry to leave after reading, if you don't have a ticket, you can put it on the shelf, and the little brother kneels and begs. Dear friends, my purpose is to write more than 1.5 million even if I hit the street, and I will fight vigorously! Enjoy writing, enjoy loneliness. ）