In the northern mountains of Chikugo Province on the border between Mii and Yamamoto, the dark mountains resemble monsters lurking in the night, and at this time, a low sound of "rope, rope" whipping grass suddenly sounded in the dense bushes at the foot of the mountain.

Soon, a group of blackened heads poked out of the bushes.

The people who came were naturally Zhengliang and others. With the help of the fire of the enemy camp and the small flashlight in his hand, Masara quietly touched the vicinity of the enemy camp. The place where the enemy camp was camped was chosen quite cleverly, deliberately choosing an open area, and deliberately clearing the bushes and weeds near the camp, and the bushes where Masashi and the others were already the closest to the enemy camp.

Through the gaps in the bushes, Masara carefully looked at the Otomo family and the Ouchi family coalition camp hundreds of meters away. The two camps didn't seem to be far apart. This made Masa's originally worried mood suddenly better.

Originally, Masara was still a little worried that the Otomo family and the Ouchi family deliberately set up each other's camps far away because they were wary of each other, but now he didn't expect that they were almost next to each other. This is in line with the mind of Zhengliang. Otherwise, if the two armies are too far apart, the distance in the middle will be a little detrimental to the effect of the next attack.

At this time, there was silence in the camp of the Otomo family and the Ouchi family, and several fires were piled up outside the tents of both families. The light of the fire illuminated almost every ten meters of the camp. Occasionally, night watchmen can be seen walking around the barracks. Looking at this situation, as Zhengliang had expected before, the two families were fully prepared to deal with the night attack of the Luo family's army.

It's just that neither Otomo Yoshikan nor Shanxingyun expected that the Luo family did not come to attack at midnight as they expected. On the contrary, it was quietly approaching the dawn.

It's time to come. The nerves of the soldier in charge of the guard had been crumbling for a full night. The soldiers in the big tent, who had been given the order to die of sleep and be ready to fight at any time, were a little tired, and even fell asleep because they couldn't stand the fatigue of their bodies. In short, as dawn approached, everyone began to relax. It was at this time that Zhengliang chosen.

While thinking about it, Masara suddenly felt a pain in his neck. He reached into his collar in an instant, and sure enough, he touched a slick object there. With a slight force of his right hand, he grabbed the object directly. In the darkness of the night, although it is impossible to discern the exact shape of this object in detail. But you can feel from the touch between your fingers that the "criminal" is struggling between your fingers.

Apparently, it was a locust that fell from the bush onto Masaara's collar. For grasshoppers, Masahiro is no stranger to them. In his previous life, when he was a child, because his family was relatively poor, he followed his mother to work in the fields at a very young age. In the process, the biggest fear for him was the locusts hiding in the water. When it is time to plant rice, while you are still struggling to plant rice in the paddy field, these locusts will silently stick to your legs, and then suck a full meal of blood. The most terrifying thing is that due to being in the water. These locusts are very slippery all over, with exaggerated suckers on their mouths. So it will generally take you some time to pull them off your feet.

When he grew up, he once traveled to the forests of Tibet with his friends, and he was even more impressed by the dryland locusts that fell on the trees like rain.

Compared to the grasshoppers in the water, the grasshoppers in the dry land are more blatant. They tend to climb on top of you from dry ground or from trees, and then give you a hard bite and bite at you. Because the wild environment at this time is much better than the wild environment in the previous life, and it also provides more convenient conditions for the breeding of these locusts, there are often many locusts in the woods. This brought great inconvenience to ambush operations in the field. Especially when it comes to night raids.

In the Luo family's army, several soldiers have been infected due to the bite of the locust, and eventually died as a result. In this regard, Zhengliang was also helpless. After all, this is not a previous life, the level of medicine is still very poor, and it is completely impossible to have drugs such as antibiotics. The only medicine that can be called advanced is the cold medicine that Masahiro brought with him when he came to this world. It's just that so much time has passed, and these medicines have long since passed their expiration dates. What's more, at this time, these medicines were still protected by the territory's physician Qu Naase Michizo like a rare treasure, and no one wanted to easily obtain these expired medicines from him.

"Lord, the military formation in the rear has been prepared." Just as Masarashi quickly threw the locust out of his hand, Kato Duzo's soft voice came from his ears.

Masato nodded, and then led everyone to immediately retreat back into the bushes, and quickly walked towards the location of the Luo family's military formation.

The military formation of the Luo family was actually less than 800 meters away from the camp of the combined forces of the Otomo family and the Ouchi family. Due to the unknown reason of the night, coupled with the deliberate concealment of the Luo family's army and the quiet arrival in batches, the enemy troops defending the camp also seem to be a little negligent (even if they hear the noise, it is estimated that they will think that it is a noise made by wild boars and other animals in the woods), so even now, the camp in the distance still has not found the anomaly here.

Before he could get to the front of the military formation, Masarashi saw a large group of huge guys from a distance being arranged in a linear formation. A few short figures were busy around these large figures.

Not bad. Those huge figures were the cattle that Masarashi ordered to forcibly collect from the villages near Takarajo overnight. For the average lord, these cattle are almost their most precious possession. This forced levy order did cause great complaints among the people.

And in order to quietly transport these cultivated cattle to their current predetermined location in the night, the Luo family also worked hard. First of all, the mouth of the ploughing ox is tied with thatch, and at the same time, in order to prevent the ploughing ox from rubbing the thatch off the mouth, they are also specially brought some small bamboo cages made to prevent them from eating crops indiscriminately during farming to cover the whole mouth. Later, strips of cloth were tied to the four hooves of these ploughing cattle.

Of course, the biggest difficulty during this period was how to solve the problem of night blindness in the people. Fortunately, because Masayo implemented a strict nutritional diet strategy in the army, there were still some people in the army whose symptoms of night blindness were greatly alleviated. In addition, with the help of the artifact "solar flashlight" in the hands of Masato (this small flashlight was promoted as an artifact given to Masara by Hachiman Bodhisattva with the help of the information cabinet and the assistance of the shrines and temples), the ploughing ox and the Luo family's military formation were able to reach the position in front of them more secretly.

"Lord, the strips of cloth on the legs of the ploughing cattle have all been removed, and these ploughing cattle are being tied with fires at this time." When Masara came to the front of the battle, Nabeshima Kiyofu, who was in charge of managing the cattle, came to report.

"Hmm!" Masarashi nodded. In fact, there was some heartache in the political conscience at this time. This heartache is not a heartache for the next damage to these ploughing cattle, but a heartache for the loss of the territory invested in this great battle.

Just tying strips of cloth to the four long hooves of these ploughing oxen, I don't know how much cloth in the treasury of the territory was consumed by Lu Dao, and if it were not for the support of the merchant house with several wives and concubines in the family, it is estimated that it would be difficult to collect such a large amount of cloth in such a short time.

As for why it was not forcibly requisitioned from the nearby people. The reason is very simple, first, because the problem of ploughing cattle has aroused the dissatisfaction of the people, if the cloth is still forcibly requisitioned, it is estimated that the people will riot; Second, even if it is collected in the hands of nearby lords, it is difficult to meet the actual needs in a short period of time (after all, for ordinary lords, cloth is also a valuable property, and with the current income level of the lords, even rotten cloth will not be much); The third is to avoid letting the fine work mixed with the people smell the wind in advance and cause unnecessary variables.

In addition to cloth, there are also such as oil, weapons, food, etc., after a big war, it can be said that the consumption is huge, and it can really be said that the war is fighting the economy.

"Have them speed up the strapping in case the sentries in the barracks ahead notice the anomaly." After looking up and glancing at the large array of cultivators that had basically lined up again, Masashi commanded again. After Nabeshima Qingfang got the order, he immediately went down quickly to carry out the order.

The tying of these cattle is very simple. They were first clothed in simple quilts, then sharp knives were tied to their horns, and grease-stained weeds were tied to the tails of oxen. And that's it.

(Thanks to "Little Lee, Mizuwakaba, and Sky!") I rely on the "monthly pass"; Thanks to "honest people, book friends 140322114115552, and Ryan Stein" for their tips; Thank you for the evaluation vote of "Book Friends 140322114115552". (To be continued......)