The Akitsuki family is a family of Sujun, the eve of the building of the Kamakura Shogunate. It is known as the "Three Heroes of the Ozang Family" together with Harada and Takahashi. It is said that the Ozang family is the last descendant of Emperor Ling of Han in the Chinese Han Dynasty. According to the records of "Ancient Times", "Japanese Secretary" and "Kiji", it was a travelling east to Japan at the end of the Han Dynasty. It was in charge of the storage of official goods during the Japanese court era and held a position called "Dazang".

Of course, there are other statements. Some people believe that it is because they live in the Dazang Valley of Beizhong. This Dazang is not named for an official, but a place name. In the fourth year of Tianqing (941), the West Sea riot launched by Iyu Fujiwara Junto, which is the "Tianqing Rebellion" in history. Harumi Ozang joined the legion led by Yoko Ono. Because of his contribution to quelling the rebellion, he was enfeoffed to Kyushu Shuqian, and served in Dazaifu to build the Kitakyushu defense system.

The original current of the Ozawa family was the Harada family, and later the nova divided into tributaries such as Akitsuki, Takahashi, Tajiri, Jiangsaka, Mihara, Tokami, Kokimaru and Kokimaru. With the development of history, the wealthy families such as Sanhara, Tokami, and Kokimaru have gradually been overwhelmed by the trend of history. During the rise of the Luo family, the Ekimaru family was exterminated and the Tajiri family defected to the Luo family. However, Akitsuki, who was far away in the Kazuki country, was facing the problem of how to make a decision when the Luo family army arrived.

As for the Qiuyue family, the political lion now asked the Qiuyue family to give up Yesu County like a big talk, which was obviously difficult for the Qiuyue family. After all, this is the place where the Qiuyue family started, and most of the Qiuyue family members live here. Therefore, the Qiuyue family firmly denies the unreasonable demands of the Luo family. Some of the retainers even asked to leave the city to fight the Luo family. In fact, they were not clear about the situation outside the city at this time, and they thought that the Luo family was just pretending.

Of course, Qiuyue Wenzhong finally decided to fight the enemy's proposal to go out of the city to fight to the death with the Luo family. After all, negotiations can continue, and there are always conditions for both sides to reach a consensus. What's more, the defenders with less than 2,000 people in the city are fighting field battles with thousands of troops outside the city. Isn't this the advantage of using one's own shortcomings to fight the enemy? Qiuyue Wenzhong has not been angry yet.

In his eyes, the Luo family needs to race against time to expand the results of the war. Since this is the case, the Qiuyue family can naturally be confident and negotiate slowly. But he didn't know that in the eyes of Masayoshi, the Qiuyue family's power in Yesu County has seriously hindered the Luo family's pace of continuing to expand its power to the Chuqian Kingdom. Unless the Qiuyue family voluntarily surrendered Yesu County, the two families will inevitably have a battle. This cannot be resolved by negotiation.

At night, just as Qiu Yue Wenzhong was about to supervise the battle himself again to deal with the harassment that the Luo family army must come every night, a person was hung in the city wall at this time. Just when he was about to ask the soldiers guarding the city why they hung up without permission at this tense moment. However, he found that the person who was hung up was an acquaintance.

This acquaintance is the Qiuyue family's retainer, Ohashi Fenghoushou, who had been voluntarily surrendering in Shanxi City. As soon as he saw Qiuyue Wenzhong who had met again for a long time, Ohashi Fenghoushou immediately knelt down on the ground, shouting with tears:

"Master! I finally saw you."

In the past few days, the Queen of the Great Qiao Feng has experienced many lives one after another. He originally thought that this time was dead, but he personally received the legendary character this evening (I saw only a substitute when I was ambushed). Finally, he even unexpectedly gained freedom, so after seeing his familiar lord and colleagues, he couldn't help but feel sucked.

Similarly, Akiyue Wenzhong was also surprised when he saw Toyotogo Ohashi. After losing contact with this retainer on his way to escape, he once thought that the other party was in danger, and even the bad news of the other party's death had been passed on to the other party's family. Now he suddenly saw that the other party came back safely, he was naturally very happy. Similarly, Minomiya Fukae and others were also surprised.

"Lord, my subordinates have important information."

After a ceremony between the king and the minister, Toshigotsuba Ohashi immediately said. This time he came back, it can be said that he was both forced and voluntary. He was forced, naturally, because he was entrusted by the legendary master. And voluntary was because he came back voluntarily after learning about the difficulties faced by his family.

"oh?"

Qiu Yue Wenzhong paused when he heard this, then nodded, and then signaled everyone to follow him to return to the meeting hall. In fact, he also knew that at this time, Ogashi Toshihou could pass through the encirclement of the Luo family's army outside the city and came back safely, so he naturally had no connection with the Luo family outside the city, and even came back to act as the messenger. He wanted to know what else to say when the Luo family let his retainers come back.

"Lord. Just tonight, Master Zhengliang has personally led an army of more than 3,000 people outside the city." Ohashi Toshimatsu reported directly after sitting down. This information was specially asked by Master Zhengliang to come back before leaving.

"Yeah." Qiuyue Wenzhong nodded after hearing this. In the evening, retainers came to report that the Luo family's military power had increased. Now, when he heard the exact report from the Guardian of Ogashifeng, he naturally didn't feel nervous. In his opinion, with nearly 2,000 defenders in the city, and many of them were warriors from Qiuyue's family. As long as he did not leave the city to fight, it would be difficult to conquer the city without tens of thousands of people. He had also carefully checked that before Zhengliang's military power came, the Luo family's military power outside the city had only more than 3,000 people (the remaining more than 1,000 people were sent to besiege nearby Guchushan City). Even with the newly arrived military power at this time, it was only 5 or 6,000 people. Qiuyue Wenzhong could naturally be able to defend the fortress.

Qiu Yuewenzhong's idea is a fact. In the Warring States Period, it would be difficult to conquer if there were no siege weapons and only relying on the tactics of the sea of ​​people and the defending generals were brave and resourceful. But what Qiu Yuewenzhong didn't know was that the Luo family had a lot of siege weapons.

"The Castle of Ouchi Yama to the west and north, Akashi Castle has been captured by the Luo family, and Sugitsu and others have died." Ohashi Toyoshi followed by important information.

"What? Yamaki Castle and Akashi Castle have fallen?"

Before Qiu Yue Wentian could react, the retainers in the meeting hall were the first to exclaim. The news was too unbelievable.

"This matter is serious?" Even Qiuyue Wenzhong confirmed to Ohashi Toyokotsu in surprise.

After hearing this, Toshimoto Ohashi smiled bitterly. In fact, he also hoped that this was fake, but this incident was experienced by him personally. Even the gate of Shanjicheng was opened by him. So he nodded immediately and said:

"The lord is absolutely true. If the lord doesn't believe it, look at the wooden boxes I brought back. Among them is Sugiyoshi's head." In fact, Toshimoto Ohashi did not dare to say that this was Masayoshi's order, because before he came back, Masayoshi had already decided that Akitsuki Wenzhong and others would definitely not believe his words, so he specially asked him to bring the heads of Sugiyoshi and others back.

So after obtaining the permission of Qiuyue Wenzhong, the attendant outside the meeting hall immediately brought the three wooden boxes brought back by Ohashi Tomotomosa. When the first wooden box was opened, it was the head of Sugi Xingyun, which had been treated with lime. The second box contained the head of the Chuziwei Gate. When the third box was opened, Qiuyue Wenzhong, who had already confirmed Ohashi Tomotomosa's words, immediately asked in confusion:

"Who is this person?"

"Lord, this person is a student of Takita Saemon, the important minister of the Otomo family. He was recruited by the Luo family to protect the escape of Otomo Yuki's master Otomo Yuki's master Otomo Yuki's master Otomo Yuki's master Otomo Yuki's master Otomo Yuki's master Otomo Yuki's master Otomo Yuki was also seriously injured by Masara, and the important town of Otomo Yuki's master Otomo Yuki's master Otomo Yuki's master at the border of Toyogo's country has also fallen into the hands of the Luo family." Ohashi Toyogomo once again revealed the important news.

"In addition, the three families of Hoshino and Kusino in the country have also surrendered to the Luo family. The ministers witnessed the military power of these three families and the governors of the three families in the camp of the Luo family this evening." As if afraid that everyone would not believe it, Toshino Ohashi continued to say.

Then, Toshigoshi Ohashi explained what he saw, heard and did since his escape that night. In particular, it was clear that the Luo family had a siege weapon that could emit huge projectiles, which could directly break through the city gate.

The Qiuyue family kept listening quietly, and the originally active atmosphere gradually became solemn. It was obvious that the current situation was very unfavorable to the Qiuyue family. The Luo family, which solved the troubles of the Otomo family in the Chihou Kingdom and the nearby Dawen family, could already do its best to deal with the Qiuyue family. Previously, Qiuyue Wenzhong thought that he would rely on the city's forces to resist the offensive of the Luo family, whose troops were scattered. It was obviously a bit difficult at this time.

After sending all the retainers back with a serious mood, Qiu Yuewenzhong returned to the backyard with a dark face, where he usually reads books, and then began to think about it alone.

The Luo family's good general, Toshiro Ohashi, was released. Although he did not clearly state the conditions for the Qiuyue family to accept peace talks, his purpose was self-evident.

"My husband." Just as Qiu Yue Wenzhong was pondering, a gentle sound rang behind her. Qiu Yue Wenzhong turned around and saw that the person who came was his favorite side Motori. He saw that the latter was kneeling on the ground at this time, but he was holding two letters in his hand.

"Zhi Ji, what's this?"

"Honey, have you forgotten? I once said that someone from my family will come to contact me recently." Zhiji said immediately.

"Oh!" Qiuyue Wenzhong also recalled at this time. Zhiji's original family was the Shenwu family of the Chuanqian Kingdom (now moved to Feiqian Kingdom). Yesterday, the letters from the Shenwu family were shot into the city from outside the city. Qiuyue Wenzhong had also read these letters, which were nothing more than understanding the situation of Zhiji who was trapped in the city, and stated that the letters of contact would continue to be shot into the west wall tonight.

Under normal circumstances, this situation would be considered a collusion. However, Chihime was indeed very favored at home, and she gave birth to a second son for Akimoto Mitsuki at the beginning of this year (Akimoto Mitsuki, who was famous for resisting the Otomo family and nicknamed "The Tiger of the Former Cultivation"), and the guilt that the in-laws, the Shenwu family fell into an embarrassing position in the Luo family (the Shenwu family was the most active in the process of forming an alliance with the Luo family and made a lot of efforts), so he agreed to let Chihime go to the west wall to wait for the letter at home tonight. Now it seems that Chihime has already received the letter from her family.

"Mr. Husband, this time, my elder brother sent someone to shoot two letters into the city, one for my concubine and the other for my husband." Zhiji, who was still in a state of physical weakness due to the next son, continued.

Women in the Warring States Period were generally miserable. Once they gave birth, many people would die early due to difficult labor or physical weakness. Even if the child was saved, many would die because they could not be well raised. Therefore, for men in the Warring States Period, having children with their own women is definitely a major event that needs to be taken seriously. If you don’t pay attention, it will be the end of losing your wife and the child. Moreover, due to the harsh living environment, women in the Warring States Period generally have only thirty years of their lives.

Even the daughters of wealthy families actually have a miserable fate. In addition to being a political tool, once the husband dies or the family makes an unfavorable choice, they either remarry or become monks or even commit suicide in order to save their lives and their children. Moreover, they cannot avoid the fate of generally short-lived life due to the harsh living environment.

The most typical of these are the most beautiful woman in the Warring States Period, Ashi died for her husband, Nohim was inexplicably missing in historical records, Tatehana Chiyo died in poverty, Tatehana Yuki's Sumuki's Sumuki committed suicide because her brother, Suma Satoshi, betrayed the Otomo family and eventually led to the demise of the family. After marrying Takeda Katsurai's adopted daughter Yuki (Nobunaga's sister-in-law Toyama Katsurai's eldest daughter) died of postpartum weakness.

Of course, women in the Warring States Period were also intelligent and even bold, such as Zhiji at this time. Although she was very favored at home, she abides by her own wife's manners and hardly participates in the jealousy of the women in her family. When her husband's family was in a battle with the head of the family, she resolutely assumed the role of communication regardless of her own weakness.

At the same time, in her heart, she always remembered the kindness of Masayora who rescued her from the pirates in Matsuura County, Himekiko, and escorted her back to her family. So after she learned from her brother's letter that there was an opportunity to improve the relationship between her husband's family and the sect leader's family, she couldn't wait to participate.

When Qiuyue Wenzhong received Zhiji's letter, his heart felt warm first. Because at this time, Zhiji not only handed him the letter written by Shenwu Shaoce to him, but also handed him the letter from Shenwu Shaoce to Zhiji alone. This shows that Zhiji has not concealed anything. This is to take the initiative to avoid suspicion to avoid dissatisfaction at home and reduce his burden for extinguishing the fire.

Gently took the letter, Qiu Yuewenzhong tore open the seal of the fire paint, and then slowly started reading.
Chapter completed!