April 8 of the second year of Yonglu (1559 AD). In Kyushu Bungo Kunikusugawa, the battle between the Luo family and the Saeki family, the Shimazu family, and the Ito family is still going on.

"From the opposite side to the front of the family's position...... All the mountain roads are full of enemy soldiers and banners, and there are probably at least 20,000 of them......" Luo Masamune muttered to himself as he climbed to the top of the highest hill to observe the formation. By this time, the mountain mist, which is most common in the region during this season, has disappeared.

"Huh! It looks like there are 20,000, but in fact it is only 30%. I was still in a panic, and I didn't expect the enemy to come and die. Fukuda Nobukiyo, who was followed by Luo Masamune, said with a smile.

"Huh!" Luo Zhengzong also smiled slightly when he heard this. As Fukuda Nobukiyo said, in the eyes of the generals of the Luo family, these expressions of the other party are just suspicious situations, which surprised the family. But this is just a disguise, after all, when the other party came out of the southern Kyushu region, it was already closely monitored by the small work office hidden in the territory of southern Kyushu, so how many people the other party actually had, the Luo family would have learned from the main family information cabinet a long time ago. No matter how quickly the other side sent reinforcements from the rear to support, it was impossible to present such a large force in front of them in such a short period of time. Therefore, just as the lord Zhengliang, who is in charge of the overall situation in the rear, pointed out sharply, this qiē is just a trick of the other party.

However, even so, in the past few days, the two sides have been fighting for the position he presided over before, which can be described as quite tragic. On the side of the Luo family, there were thousands of casualties alone. In addition, the Luo family is located in the front four fences of the five-fold fence in the left, center, and right positions at the front of the east bank of the Kurusu River. It was destroyed by the other party several times. In the most critical time, even the opposing coalition almost broke through the fifth fence, but fortunately, the family had been prepared for it, so they were able to retreat the opponent's attack. It's just that the damage to the family is really quite tragic, and even the three people who are the main generals of these three positions, Kamidai Shengli, Luo Masamune, and Ueda Shinji, were also injured one after another and were forced to withdraw from the battlefield. Even Nobukiyo Fukuda, one of the two generals who came to support Asakura Soteshi and Fukuda Nobukiyo, was also injured and had to withdraw from the battlefield.

At this time, the forward positions were already presided over by Yoshida Shigemasa, Takeuchi Hisamori, Asakura Munetsu, Kalai Tongnao, Hirochu Takasuke, Kawada Yoshiro and others, while Akuta and others were the main positions of the main Nagarusugawa family on the west bank, and the main Gongmasa was the main camp in the rear as the general general. As the wounded, he and Fukuda Nobukiyo, because the injuries were relatively minor, so after treatment, they returned to the forward position again as the chief general of logistics behind the position.

"Oh!" Just as Masamune Roche and Nobuyoshi Fukuda were talking in the improvised pergola on the top of the mountain, the shouts of the enemy camp at the foot of the mountain suddenly erupted.

"Oh, it's up again." Roche Masamune built a pergola. His eyes narrowed. It is clear that the enemy is going to attack again.

Immediately, the gunfire of "tom tom tom ......" was deafening again. From the top of the hill, the enemy's flags poured out again like a flood of broken embankments.

"The whale waves shake the earth, and the wolf smoke is in the sky."

"What did you say?" Fukuda Shinqing on the side asked.

"Nothing. The momentum of the enemy's attack is really like a flood of beasts. Even though they are our enemies, their momentum is extraordinarily magnificent. With that, Masamune once again shifted his gaze to the direction of the enemy's home in the distance.

There were also several bands of fog over the enemy's main formation at this time - no, it was not a fog band, but white smoke, which should be the white smoke of the iron cannon. Flocks of small birds, frightened, also rush into the air from the woods and mountains near the battlefield from time to time, flying far away, away from the battlefield.

Speaking of the enemy's iron cannons, Luo Masamune couldn't help but remember that in the previous meeting of the main family before the war with the enemy, the lord Gongzheng Liang had emphasized that the Shimazu family also made their own iron cannons, and at the same time bought a lot of iron cannons from the Ming pirates entrenched in the coast of Satsuma Province, and even in this joint battle with the other party, the Shimazu family is likely to hire these Ming pirates to secretly participate in the war, so the Luo family is required to be careful of the iron cannon attack of the Shimazu family.

In the previous battles, the iron cannons in the opposing formation did bring a lot of threats to the Luo family, and even caused a lot of casualties to the Luo family. Although the number of iron cannons participating in this battle in the opponent's formation is not large, and the range does not seem to be as powerful as the iron cannon of the main family, the shooting accuracy of the iron gunners of the opposing side is very good, which leads to many standing guards in the formation of the family suffering from the opponent's fire. And according to the news from the main intelligence cabinet, the iron gunners in the opposing array are likely to be Ming pirates under the banner of the Shimazu family.

In this way, it was strange to the Masamune of the Roche family. As far as he knew, the Ming pirates entrenched in the coastal areas of Satsuma Province seemed to be led by a guy named Wang Zhi. And Wang Zhi signed a trade agreement with his family, and agreed not to intervene in the battle between his family and the powerful in Kyushu. So why did the other party suddenly allow his subordinates to be hired by the Shimazu family?

Just as Masamune of the Luo clan thought, this time some of the more than 200 pirates under Wang Zhi's command did participate in the joint battle of the Shimazu family. And in order to avoid attracting the attention of the Luo family, these people also put on the local clothes and equipment of the Shimazu family. It's just that what they didn't expect was that Masara had always been very concerned about the movements of the pirates led by Wang Zhi and others, and not long after these people joined the reinforcements of the Shimazu family to support the Saeki family, they were informed of the situation by the personnel of the Luo family's intelligence cabinet who were monitoring them locally and quickly reported it to Masaliang. Zhengliang also immediately sent an envoy to Wang Zhi's fleet to negotiate.

However, before the envoy of the Luo family sent by Masato arrived at Wang Nao's territory along the coast of Satsuma Province in Kyushu to negotiate, the Shimazu family, as the employer, was annoyed by these Ming pirates.

"Damn, these Ming pirates who only have gold nuggets in their eyes." In the position of the Shimazu family on the east bank of the Kurusu River, Tadaro Ijiin scolded angrily. Just now, the retainers came to report that more than 200 Ming pirates in the rear refused his order to go out of battle. Obviously, these Ming pirates suffered dozens of casualties due to their previous joint battle with the Luo family. So now he simply hides in the rear and does not participate in hand-to-hand combat with the Luo family. Although these Ming pirates fought bravely. And because of the frequent use of iron cannons, the accuracy of their iron cannons is very good. But after all, they came to participate in the battle this time because they received a lot of gold nuggets from the Shimazu family, not to send them to death, so after discovering that the enemy Luo family was a hard bone, they simply hid in the rear of the battlefield, only providing support for iron cannon shooting in the rear, and did not participate in hand-to-hand combat in the front battlefield.

"Hey!" After thinking clearly about the calculations of these Ming country pirates, Ijiin Tadahiro couldn't help but sigh, and then thought to himself. "Even so, no matter what, we must open a bloody path in the position arranged by the Luo family, otherwise this time the coalition composed of the main family, the Saeki family, and the Ito family will definitely not be able to expel the army of the Luo family who came to invade."

"Just, is this possible?" As soon as he recalled the battle between the two armies in the past few days, Ijiin Tadaro couldn't help but muttered to himself. In this way, with mixed feelings, Ijiin Tadaro continued to organize a large army to gradually pour towards the Luo family's position. At the same time, the nearby armies of the Saeki family and the Ito family also began to march towards the Luo family's position.

Soon, the three families and two armies were less than four or five towns away from the position of the Luo family. The soldiers couldn't hold back for a long time, and hurriedly opened fire and fired arrows.

"The enemy is still far away. Don't be fooled just yet! ”

Ijiin Tadaura dismounted, took a spear and said. He has been fighting for the Shimazu family for more than 20 years, and in retrospect, it is rare to be alive today. I thought that he would follow the ancestor of the Shimazu family during the war to unify Satsuma Province, but under the wise leadership of the former governor Tadaya Shimazu and the current governor Takahisa Shimazu, he has been able to defeat the enemy, but this time, I am afraid that he will die for the Shimazu family. Life is unpredictable.

It's just that, even so, he is still fearless, and even occasionally laughs. He firmly believed that after his death, the Shimazu family would hold a grand funeral for him and sing praises to him.

"Tom tom", a few puffs of smoke rose from the feet of Tadaro Ijiin, a few bullets whistled past his ears, and an arrow almost hit him. As the coalition forces continued to approach, the defenders of the Luo family on the defending side immediately began to fire iron cannons and bows and arrows. At the same time, a rain of arrows fired by the archers of the Luo family also fell in the sky. Under the fire of the iron cannons and bows and arrows of the Luo family, soldiers fell to the ground from time to time in the tripartite coalition army.

"Kill!"

Under the command of Tadaro Ijiin, the Shimazu family also launched a counterattack, and immediately fired arrows like locusts at the position of the Luo family. The only dozen or so iron cannons were also spewing tongues of fire in the opposite direction. After several fierce battles, although the forward position of the Luo family has not been captured by the coalition forces of their own side, the fences and trees in the opponent's position have been damaged by different paths, which has also caused the defenders to lose a lot of defensive barriers, so that they can naturally get their own arrows and iron cannon projectiles into the opponent's position, thus causing a lot of casualties on the other side.

When the advance of the tripartite alliance forced the Luo family's position twenty or thirty miles away, the soldiers of the three parties immediately became excited, because the Luo family's position was in front of them. For a moment, as if they had heard someone's order, they saw seventy or eighty people spontaneously gather together, and then rushed to the position of the Luo family desperately.

"Kill—"

"Kill—"

The shouts of the attackers and defenders were inseparable from each other under the clear sky, but they only lasted for a moment. None of the soldiers who rushed forward as an attacking party were still standing.

The sun had risen high, and it was scorching the helmet of Tadaro Ijiin. But he still held a nine-foot spear, standing still.

The second group of men and horses rushed from the right side of Tadaro of Ijiin to the position of the Luo family's army again. By this time, the arrows had run out, and the iron cannons were dumb.

I don't know the situation on the battlefield at this time, but the main Gongjima Takahisa in the rear sees it...... When Ijiin Tadaro suddenly remembered this, the third death squad rushed to the Luo family's position. It was a completely suicidal battle, and the howls of both sides quickly drowned out his thoughts.

"Your Excellency!" A retainer hurried from behind, "All the men and horses have already gone out of battle. ”

Hearing the report from the retainers, Ijiin Tadaro grabbed the spear in his hand, and the cat bent down.

"Hachiman Bodhisattva, please see the last moments of my Ijiin Genshiro Tadharo." With that, Ijiin Tadaro held a spear and rushed straight to the position of the Luo family. A few scattered guards and retainers followed—less than twenty men.

It was about four o'clock in the morning, noon was approaching, and the fresh green leaves reflected the sun's brilliance.

At the same time that Tadaro Ijiin led the army of the Shimazu family to rush to the position of the Luo family, in the mountains and forests near Matsuo Castle of the Ito family of Hinata Province in southern Kyushu, a group of men and horses were quietly resting.

In the midst of this group, three people were sitting in a flat field in the middle of the mountain forest, carefully looking at a detailed map spread out on the ground, and at the same time whispering from time to time. If the guards of Matsuo Castle were here, they would suddenly find that this detailed map was a topographic map of Matsuo Castle and the vicinity of the castle. This detailed map is the work of the Luo Family Intelligence Pavilion for several years in the Hyuga Kingdom.

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