In a military tent outside Mizui Iwa Castle, Masara held a temporary assessment. Those who participated in the assessment included Masatara Hirasa and Tadajiro.

"Your Highness, the battlefield has been cleaned. In this decisive battle with the Akasaka family, a total of 17 people were injured in our family. Two people were estimated to be unable to participate in the battle after recovering from their injuries, but no one died. A total of 18 people in the Akasaka family were killed, 26 were captured, and the rest fled. As for other materials, it is necessary to be later recorded," reported by Masatoshi Hirasa.

"Taijiro, how about you?" After hearing the report from Masato Hirasa, Masara nodded, then looked at Tadajiro and asked.

"Your Highness, there are 12 people injured on this side, all of which are slightly injured, and no casualties are also killed. In addition, the subordinates have completely controlled the territory of the Higashiyama family, the Hanoi family, and the Guanmu family, and the Akasaka family, Mizui Castle have just been captured. All the male men in the city in these places have been cut and killed. As for the female family, they have been temporarily taken into custody and gradually escorted to Notaka Town to settle down later. In terms of materials, your highness needs to arrange personnel to go and count them," said Tadajiro.

"Very good. You are temporarily in charge of the occupied areas. It turns out that the peasants and soldiers who followed you are under your jurisdiction. I will leave all the wounded soldiers in this battle and 10 standing footholds for you. At the same time, you will immediately gather 50 peasants who are still snatching food nearby to collect food. Half of them will help you manage the newly occupied territory, and the other half will immediately return to Yunoo Castle to help defend the city." Masarara quickly ordered, "Send someone to notify Hiroji Togo to come and receive all the affairs here, and tell him that all the materials will be collected this time and allocate them to him, but the territory must be settled tomorrow."

"Yes, Your Highness."

"Zhengzhong, you go down and arrange for everyone to have a good meal, and then gather and set off. We will arrive at Wanheli City before evening." Zhengliang turned around and ordered Zhengzhong to Pingzuo.

"Yes, Your Highness" Ping Zuo Masatoki took the order and left.

As an important river northwest of Higashimatsuura, the Mangari River divides several powerful forces from west to east. The north bank of Mangari River is mainly the Uekura family; the south bank is mainly the Akasaka family and the Donoya family. The south bank is more low-lying, so several fertile flat land are alluvial by the Mangari River. Therefore, although the Uekura family owns the north bank, in fact, agriculture is less developed than the two companies on the south bank, and its overall strength cannot be compared with the two companies. If it weren't for the good relationship with many pirates on the coast, every time they were attacked by the two companies, there would always be pirates to help, and the Uekura family would have disappeared long ago.

Recently, the head of the Ukura family, Yuno, Ukura, was very proud. First, when he joined forces with the Akasaka family and the Tateshi family to send the Dono family, he arranged the other two companies to join forces and collected many benefits from the two companies. After not only did he not attack the Dono family as agreed, so that the two other companies could launch a surprise attack from the other side, but also attacked the Dono family when the two companies were in a tough battle. Not only did they destroy the neighbor's fields, but they also robbed a lot of supplies.

Secondly, he secretly instigated the pirates to attack the territory of the Akasaka family, causing the Akasaka family to lose a lot. Why did Yuye Gun do this? The answer is very simple. In order to survive the Ukrakura family, Yuye Gun is not a fool. If the Dono family is destroyed, it is likely that the Akasaka family will be dominant. Can the Ukrakura family resist alone? Even if he asks for help from the pirates, it will be in danger. So he has to use a stumbling block from it, not only to make the conspiracy of the Akasaka family and the Tateshi family unable to succeed, but also to damage the powerful forces, including the Dono family, and it is best to suffer all the losses, so that the Ukrakura family can have more time to develop. In the end, his goal was achieved.

Just when Ukurakura Yuno was content, in recent days, rumors suddenly emerged in the territory about being ready to enter the Akasaka family. Some people even pretended to be his samurai to mobilize peasants. In response, Ukura Kurakura Yuno was furious and immediately sent people to search for these cheating guys. At this time, the envoy of the Akasaka family arrived, and the envoy condescends to ask whether the incident of Ukura Kurakura Yuno invading the Akasaka family was true. He realized that the strength of the Akasaka family was damaged, Ukurakura Yuno no longer needed to be humble and mocked the envoy without hesitation. As a result, it triggered a saliva battle between Ukura and Akasaka families.

At noon on August 14, when he received the news that the guards of the Akasaka family had been reduced by half, the cunning Ukrakura Yuye did not act immediately, but encouraged the pirates to go to loot again. He personally led the Ukrakura's troops to the shore of the northern shore of the Mangarichuan River and waited for an opportunity to act. These pirates were just for money. Now they received rewards from the Ukrakura family, and they could also gain a lot from the subsequent looting. Of course, they were happy to agree. So a coalition of several pirates rushed to the territory of the Akasaka family. The Akasaka family's hierarchy, who had just recovered from the peace, fell into dire straits again.

The young master of the Akasaka family in Mangari Castle just sent reinforcements to support Mizui Castle in the morning. Before he could mobilize some peasant soldiers to help defend the city, he received news of the pirates' invasion. The young master of the Akasaka family was immediately frightened. How long has it been since the last attack of the pirates? Why did it come so soon? In desperation, he had to lead his troops to drive him away (it would be impossible not to drive him away. If the remaining fields were destroyed by the pirates, the Akasaka family would not be able to spend the winter safely this year, and the leaders would riot). The Akasaka family soldiers who were hastily left the city were ambushed by the pirates in a narrow path. The young master of the Akasaka family died on the spot, and the remaining Akasaka family soldiers were defeated. The pirates who had won a great victory took advantage of the victory and rushed into Mangari Castle directly.

Masara and Masatara Hirasa led 36 cloaks, 27 low-level samurai, and 50 regular samurai to a hill one mile away from Manhari City. From a distance, they saw thick smoke rolling over Manhari City, and the scattered smoke almost blocked the afterglow of the setting sun.

"What's going on? Is it too late?" Zhengliang was shocked, and everyone behind him was also surprised. Then he looked up at the Lord, waiting for his final decision.

"Damn it, who can tell me what's going on?" Zhengliang was a little annoyed. He rushed forward, but he was still one step too late.

"Your Highness, Your Highness" At this time, a call came from behind the crowd, and a familiar figure walked through the crowd and came to Masayoro.

Masara looked closely and found that it was Yinuo. He became furious and cursed at Yinuo, "What's going on? Why are you here? Shouldn't you summarize the information from various places for me in Yunoo Castle and report it to me in time? Why are you here now?"

"Hao...Your Highness" Yinuo knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately, "There is a special situation here. The minister thinks it is necessary to come over and confirm it in person, so he came over and asks His Highness to punish him."

"Hmph, let's settle the accounts with you when you go back." Now that matter is over, Zhengliang can only temporarily put aside his crime of leaving his post. "Tell me, what's going on?" Zhengliang pointed to Wanheli Castle in the distance and asked.

"The pirates along the coast attacked the territory of the Akasaka family again and burned and killed and looted everywhere. The young master of the Akasaka family in Mangari Castle had no choice but to attack, but was ambushed by the pirates and died on the spot. The troops of the Akasaka family were defeated. The pirates took advantage of the situation to capture Mangari Castle. After looting, they set fire to the city." Ichino briefly reported.

"Pirates?" Masayoshi didn't expect that even the pirates would participate. "So, have these pirates indirectly helped us?"

"Yes, Your Highness" Yinuo immediately echoed, "But it will only belong to us after the pirates have withdrawn. Moreover, the subordinates have just received the news that the troops of the Ukrakura family have gathered on the north coast of Mangarikawa."

"Hmm?" It seems that it will not be so smooth to get here, "Let's go ahead and take a look."

Zhengliang decided to go to Wanheli City to see what happened before making a decision.

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"Ah? No? Please don't." When the Luo family's troops arrived near a town, they happened to encounter several pirates surrounding a woman on the side of the road, constantly tearing her clothes. The woman made a helpless beg for mercy.

"Kill" Zhengliang, without saying a word, directed everyone to kill him.

"Ah? Who are you? No, it's the Akasaka family that's here, run away quickly." Several pirates saw a large group of people suddenly appearing, and rushed towards them with a fierce spirit and shouted immediately. When they found that the other party was not good, they left the woman and were afraid of throwing her legs away. The two slow-running pirates were shot through their calves by arrows, and they fell to the ground and screamed in pain.

After the woman was placed, two injured pirates were brought to Masayora.

"Sir, please spare me, please spare me." The two pirates kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Hmph, if you answer my question obediently, I can agree to let you go. If you don't cooperate, hum..." After saying that, Zhengliang pulled out Jigang's words with a "Cheng".

"Ah! Sir, we say everything, we say everything." The two pirates were frightened by Masayoshi and shouted immediately.

"Very good, tell me now, are you from that pirate? Where are the other pirates?" asked Zhengliang.

"Sir, the younger ones are from Sugino; since the guards here are all killed and stolen, after robbing the things in the city, everyone dispersed and went elsewhere to look for things," said one of the pirates Zhan Zhan.

"Well! Take them down." Masara Liang winked at Pegasama Masachi and ordered. Pegasama Masachi understood and immediately asked someone to pull the two pirates down. After a while, two screams came.

The pirates are separated, which is both good news and bad news! The good news is that you don’t have to face the large number of pirates that have gathered together. The bad news is that you cannot defeat these pirates at once. You can’t drive them out and kill them one by one, right? It seems that you should go to Wanheli City first to take a look.

"Your Highness, Your Highness" Zhengliang had just issued an order to continue moving forward, and Yinuo hurriedly ran over, "More than 30 pirates are coming here on the other side of the woods."

"Hide" Zhengliang made a quick decision and prepared to attack these pirates. Even if he occupied this place, he would still face these pirates in the future. Since there will be a battle sooner or later, why not take this opportunity to weaken them? Soon, a team of more than 30 pirates came to the place where the Luo family set up an ambush.

"Hahaha, leader, the next town is very rich, and there are a few very good women." A thin man said charmingly at a big man with thick eyebrows.

"Oh? You guy knows how to do it. If it is really as you said, you can choose one of those women from it."

"Ah? Thank you, leader, thank you." The pirates were moving forward while fantasizing about a great harvest later.

"Swoosh, swosh, swosh" The Luo family's sneak attack was launched as scheduled. The pirates in the mountain road were suddenly hit and instantly fell into chaos. Zhengliang immediately led more than 100 Luo family soldiers to kill them.

"Ah? It's from the Akasaka family. Kill me, kill me." Some pirates exclaimed.

"No, that's not the Akasaka family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family

The battle lasted less than half an hour before it ended. After leaving more than 20 corpses, the pirate leader escaped in a panic. Masayoro didn't know that this time he let the pirates who had a very good relationship with the Guaikura family.

After clearing the battlefield, the Luo family soldiers set off again. They wiped out several pirates along the way and finally arrived in front of Wanheli City. What they expected was that the city gate was still intact, but it was already in a mess. The main buildings were basically burned down, leaving only a few small wooden houses that still emitted blue smoke. From time to time, you can see burnt corpses from the ruins.

"Clean inside. Although the buildings in this city have been burned down, they can still be used for defense. We will spend the night inside tonight," Zhengliang ordered. After leaving some people on alert, the rest immediately cleaned up the city according to Zhengliang's order.

Just when the Luo family officially occupied Wanheri City, in the camp of the Shangkuang family separated by a river, Yui Ye from Ukuang also received information from the crowd of people who fled back.

"Is that true? Fortunately, I didn't send troops there, otherwise I would definitely be ambushed by Akasaka Toshitaku." Although Man Yuezhong who fled back could not determine who was ambushing them, Uekura Yuno, who had been fighting against Akasaka Toshitaku for more than ten years, concluded that it was Akasaka Toshitaku's actions.

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