Chapter 621: The Choice of Qiuyue Family
Asking the surrender of the family made Zhengliang feel relieved in secret.
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Secondly, first of all, suppressing the squad can help save a lot of time. Masayora had calculated that whether it is to first attack the Kusino family and the Hoshino family, or to strongly attack the squad, they may even have to use a big bullet to attack during the next period. Even if these powerful families finally surrender, it will take at least several days during this period. This is obviously the worst situation for the Luo family, which is racing against time to expand the results of the battle. Now, the squad family surrenders without resistance, which actually saves a lot of time for the Luo family.
In addition, since there is no need to use force, the Luo family also reduced unnecessary casualties, and did not need to waste unnecessary military rations. This is because Changyan City was located on a high mountain at this time. It was a huge lake to the west (due to the influx of a large number of mountain streams, this lake was still retained even in later generations, and was even transformed into a lake for power generation). There were steep mountains to the east and south. Only the north faced the direction of the Chuhouchuan River can enter Changyan City. If the attack was carried out, the casualties caused during the period could be imagined.
Finally, the Wenzhusou family has always been accused of by the rich families of the Chihou Kingdom as a die-hard supporter of the Otomo family. Now even such supporters have surrendered to the Luo family. It can be imagined how much impact this has had on the remaining Kusino and Hoshino families. So just like the first domino to be pushed to. As the Wenzhusou family's military power appeared outside their city, the Hoshino family and the Kusino family quickly made the decision to surrender.
Of course, in order to avoid wasting more time, Zhengliang did not make too many demands on these wealthy families. He just asked their family governor to personally lead the family army into Zhengliang's army and participate in the next strategy. This not only achieved the temporary stabilization of these families, but also achieved the monitoring and use of these families.
So, after immediately gathering the military forces of the three families on the same day, Masara immediately led 60 cloaks, 200 Luo family samurai, 153 Luo family members, more than 500 Luo family peasant soldiers, more than 1,000 prisoners and more than 300 three-way joint forces, a total of nearly 3,000 troops arrived at the Akitsuki family in the dusk of the day.
In order to race against time, during the reception of the three families of Hoshino and Kusino, Masara did not even enter their fortress. He just accepted the surrender ceremony of the three families outside the city, and then urged everyone to join in urgently and start heading towards the country of Chimachi.
During the march, in order to speed up, Masayora even ordered people to cook food along the way in advance, then put the food on a wooden cart, and then mixed it with sea salt. When Masayora's army passed by, all the soldiers lined up along the way to grab the food mixed with grains and rice, and marching while eating. Then, before nightfall, they arrived at the Luo Family Military Camp outside Sugimoto Castle.
At this time, Sugimoto Castle of the Akitsuki family and the nearby Ancient Mountain Castle were besieged by a large army of more than 4,000 people from Kinoshita Masato Naoki for two days and one night. In the past two days, Kinoshita Masato Naoki fully learned the harassment tactics that Masayoro used before, and constantly adopted the tactics of harassment during the day and harassing at night, which made the Akitsuki family miserable.
"Lord, you're really too ignorant. Why don't you rush out of the city and fight the Luo family to the death." The retainer Minomi Fukae, who has always been irritable, suddenly said furiously.
It is hard to be so angry that Mio Fukae was so angry. It turned out that just now, the envoy of the family, Zhan Zhan Ke, who had just returned from the Luo family, told the terms of the Luo family's peace talks one by one. The harsh conditions immediately made everyone in the meeting hall angry. Some retainers even cursed:
"This is simply a loot!"
Indeed, Qiu Yue Wenzhong, who was sitting in the first place, thought it was a looting of his family. According to his idea, this peace negotiation was decided. As long as he compensated some money and grain, the two counties that had been occupied would be sent out at the worst, and the result of peace negotiations with the Luo family could be basically reached.
As a result, the envoy came back and told him that he would not only pay the money and food, but also give up Yesu County where the Qiuyue family is located and send his legitimate son as hostages. Isn't this looting or something?
What made Akitsuki Wenjun even more angry was that the envoy on this mission did not see Masara Luo at all. When the envoy arrived at Rijicheng, Masara had already rushed to Jihou Kingdom in advance, while the envoy of the Qiuyue family only saw Masara Takasaka, the guardian of Rijicheng. Masara Takasaka was not polite at all to the envoy of the Qiuyue family. Not only did he directly scold the Qiuyue family's previous betrayal of the alliance, but he also directly put forward the above seemingly unacceptable conditions.
Qiuyue Wenzhong was really annoyed. He felt that he had been cheated by the Da Nei family (if it was not for the pressure from the Da Nei family to let them betray the alliance and pay the Luo family more, how could they be attacked by the Luo family now), and he felt that the Luo family was quite rude at this time. According to the thinking between the two countries of the Warring States Period, although the two counties in the upper and lower seats of the Qiuyue family had fallen, it was originally from the Qiuyue family, so now the Qiuyue family accepted the situation and pinched their noses to give the two counties to the Luo family was the biggest concession. After all, this was a concession of righteousness, and it also allowed the Luo family to occupy these places legitimately, which allowed the local lords to quickly accept the new lord.
But in Zhengliang's thinking, the two counties in the upper and lower levels were built by the Luo family and the Luo family spent manpower and material resources. At the moment they were occupied by the Luo family, they were already the territory of the Luo family. As for your Qiuyue family to negotiate peace, you naturally have to take out other things to negotiate peace. Now you have to treat the things he already has as something from your Qiuyue family to deliver to your door. This is really not even a door.
At this moment, invisibly, two different thinkings were obviously in conflict.
"Lord, the Luo family army outside the city has begun to increase its troops again." At this moment, a retainer hurried in to report.
Chapter completed!