Chapter 497
On August 4, 1544, after learning that Otoyo's army was retreating, Masara immediately ordered a 2,000-strong army with Kinoshita Masaru as the general to follow and pursue it from behind.
Shortly after setting off, Kinoshita Masaru's army encountered the 2,000-dead army led by Toji Ken Company, who was ready to fight. The two sides immediately launched an attack.
At this time, Toji Kenlian was not struck by lightning. The reason was that Masarara's appearance made him transferred from Akashi Castle in the Turkishun, thus avoiding the occurrence of a thunderstorm when he was resting under a big tree in the territory, which allowed him to escape. If Masarara knew about such a fact, he would regret it. He actually kept his body healthy because of his appearance. This added a strong enemy to himself.
After seeing Masato Kinoshita leading his troops to kill, Toji Kenlian led his troops to kill him without being outdone. As the general of the general, Toji Kenlian, the two of them were even more heroes, and they were particularly grateful to each other, so they rode their horses and started killing each other.
Although Masaru Kinoshita is better at long spears, and Toji Kenshin is good at Taidao, they have one common feature, that is, their kung fu is not very good, and they can be said to be half a pound of kilograms, so the two rode their own short horses and danced with spears and killed each other for more than half an hour. Even so, they still did not distinguish between the superiority and inferiority. What's even more strange is that after the two armies fought for so long, neither side died.
Seeing that the battle was fruitless, Kinoshita Masaru and Toji Kenlian looked at each other and set off their troops, preparing to rest for a while before continuing to fight. But soon after, Toji Kenlian received support from nearly a thousand people. It turned out that after Otomo Yoshikazu learned that the Luo family had indeed sent pursuers, he immediately sent a thousand reinforcements to support the downward Toji Kenlian. He ordered him to counterattack the Luo family's pursuit troops.
Seeing that the opponent's strength not only increased, but also his morale also increased a lot, Kinoshita Masaru immediately decided that the hero would not suffer the loss in front of him and retreated with his subordinates. Seeing this, Toji Kenren would miss such an opportunity, he followed his subordinates with a fierce pursuit. In an instant, the roles of the offensive and defensive sides were immediately exchanged.
Toji Kenlian was also a cautious person. While chasing Kinoshita Masaru from behind, he sent people to detect the situation along the way in advance in order to prevent repeating the mistakes that Shiga personally guarded. In this way, the two armies chased and fled, and soon arrived at the camp that had been abandoned by Otomo's house.
Seeing that the Luo family's army rushed into the camp without hesitation, the Oto family coalition forces, who had become addicted to chasing behind them, also roared into the camp, and no matter how Toji Jian, who noticed something was wrong, it would be useless to even shout.
"Kill!" For a time, a large number of Luo Family soldiers emerged from the main camp and from the woods near the main camp.
"Not good, there is an ambush, evacuate quickly!" Hoji Jianlian shouted.
"Report, a large number of Luo family troops appeared on the way behind!"
"What? How is this possible?" Toji Jianlian was shocked after hearing this. He had sent someone to investigate the terrain along the road and confirmed that there were no ambushers to pursue them. Now where did these Luo family troops emerge?
There was nowhere in Toji Kenlian. Since he began pursuing Kinoshita Masaru, he had fallen into a trap set by Kinoshita Masaru. Following Kinoshita Masaru to pursue the Otomo family's army, they are all regulars of the Luo family. Running, especially long-distance running, has always been one of the training contents of the Luo family's daily mornings. Just imagine, with the running speed of the Luo family's regular trained running speed, how could it be possible to maintain a close distance from the army of soldiers composed of private soldiers of various wealthy families behind them? This is Kinoshita Masaru's intentional way. However, this intentional way, according to the running standards of ordinary wealthy soldiers, has no flaws, so that the careful and cautious Toji Kenlian is also deceived.
After Toji Jianlian began to lead the army to pursue, Kinoshita Masana had an idea and sent someone to go back and notify Masara who was still in the formation at the foot of Gaoliang Mountain. Masara was very knowledgeable and immediately sent someone to sneak into the secret hiding spot established by the Black Hawk of the Luo family in Gaoliang Mountain a long time ago. After Toji Jianlian led his army by and received the attack from the Luo family army ahead, he immediately appeared and blocked the return of Toji Jianlian's army.
At this time, the Luo family's army of nearly 6,000 people rushed towards the army of Toji Jianlian from the front, back and left directions. The panicked soldiers of the Otomo family were even defeated and surrendered. Even Toji Jianlian was forced to abandon their horses and fled to the riverside of the Chigo River.
At the end of his life, Toji Jianlian had to take off his armor, and then jumped into the Chugo River with the "Leiche", who was supposed to be a famous sword because of Thunder, and hid directly in the water grass of some small branches of rivers by the Chugo River. The soldiers of the Luo family who were chasing him seized the Toji Jianlian's armor and left after searching for nothing. Toji Jianlian escaped the disaster.
In this battle, more than 100 generals of the Otomo family, a total of 3,000 people were conquered, nearly 2,000 people became prisoners of the Luo family, and the remaining hundreds escaped by chance.
After the Luo family cleaned the battlefield, the Otomo family's original formation had completely escaped from the Luo family's pursuit. Masayoro had to leave a portion of the soldiers to continue to guard the temporary fort built at the foot of Gaoliang Mountain, and then led the victorious army back to Anyue City in a mighty manner.
At this point, after half a year of secret military equipment, the Otomo family launched an expedition against the Luo family. After more than two months of confrontation with the Luo family, the Otomo family finally retreated in shame.
This battle has had a profound impact on both the Luo family and the Otomo family.
For the Luo family, after repelling the Otomo family twice in Feihou and Chuhou, the Luo family's reputation in Kyushu became more prominent, and even overwhelmed the Otomo family and the Otomo family. Many refugees and ronin came from various parts of Kyushu to the Luo family's territory.
Secondly, in the Feihou and Zhuhou War, the Luo family added nearly 3,000 prisoners, plus the prisoners that were originally in the territory. At this time, the Luo family's territory had nearly 5,000 prisoners. These prisoners would be divided into several groups and guarded by temporarily recruited peasants, responsible for building free marching avenues for the Luo family.
Finally, this great victory made the Luo family unite unprecedentedly, making everyone feel more belonging to the Luo family, the morale of the generals and soldiers became higher, and they worked harder in training and doing things, and the leaders also lived and worked more peacefully.
Compared to the joyful atmosphere inside the Luo family, the Otomo family is much more miserable.
Due to the death of Shiga's son Shiga's son's death, not only did the Otomo family's reputation be damaged, but the families where these two people were also in turmoil, adding unstable factors to the Otomo family's territory. Another general, Toji Ken, lost his helmet and armor, also greatly damaged the Otomo family's reputation and the morale of the soldiers. With the promotion of the Luo Family's detective fan in the Otomo family's territory and other places, the Luo Family's reputation became more prominent and more attractive to talents.
The Otomo family's army was defeated by the Luo family several times in Feihou. This not only damaged many soldiers and reduced the military strength of the Otomo family, but also caused the families who lost their main labor force to fall into trouble, making the situation in the Otomo family suddenly unstable. After the Luo family's investigation fan went to the areas where the prisoners' hometowns to lobby based on the clues provided by the prisoners, many families would go to the territory of the Luo family to settle down, which to a certain extent once again caused the strength of the Otomo family to suffer.
The battle with the Luo family took more than half a year from preparing for the army to confronting the Luo family. During this year, a lot of the Otomo family's arms and other resources were consumed. This greatly consumed the family background accumulated by the Otomo family for generations. With this defeat, the Otomo family not only gained nothing, but also lost all their troops and generals, which reduced the overall strength of the Otomo family to a great level. In the past, the strength of the Luo family was stabilized, but now it has completely equalized.
The most important thing is that after this battle, the Luo family became famous, while the Otomo family's reputation suddenly declined. This made the Luo family more united, while the Otomo family seemed a little undercurrent.
Of course, there was another profitable person in this battle, that is the fat queen Yoshitake Kikuchi.
Chapter completed!