In late March of the 18th year of Astronomy, night was filled with darkness. Everyone was sitting next to the fire in the big tent to rest.

Yoshioka Changzeng was actually very upset at this time when he made a bet with Masara. However, he didn't bother to violate his vows (most of the ancients at this time valued vows and curses). Anyway, he would just take a step at that time.

But he felt sad about the current situation of the Otomo family. First of all, Otomo Yoshimi's death had already had a great impact on him. Masayoshi also told him frankly that Otomo Yoshimi's death may be related to the injury caused by Masayoshi last year. However, he did not have any grudges about Masayoshi. After all, when the two armies were in war, either you die or I died. If the Luo family was defeated last year, then the fate of the Otomo family at this time would be the fate of the Luo family.

After observing a moment of silence for Ototo Yoshiki, he felt it was difficult for Ototo Yoshiki to decide the Shikoshi Maru as the heir of the family governor. Knowing that he was about to die, and knowing that this move is likely to cause the classification of retainers, why did Ototo Yoshiki still make such a decision? Although Ototo Yoshiki's contempt and suppression and even forgetting of him before made him dissatisfied, as a family governor, he always believed that Ototo Yoshiki was still considered a Heizhu. Such a Heizhu did something wrong at the last moment of his life. But in fact, Yoshioka Nagato blamed Ototo Yoshiki. Ototo Yoshiki did not expect that he would be angry to death by his retainers. According to his plan, he paved the way for the Heizhu to inherit the Heizhu before his death.

Next to the fire, Yoshioka Changzeng was very thoughtful here, but the surrounding Ototo family members such as Irida Yoshimi had already thought that Yoshioka Changzeng had surrendered to the Luo family. This immediately made these people secretly happy. The so-called sky fell and there was a tall top. As the big family of Fenghou, since the Yoshioka family had surrendered to the Luo family, their families naturally did not fear being ridiculed by others in the future. In an instant, their worries about their hard work for the Luo family disappeared a lot.

Looking at the expressions of these wealthy families through the fire, Masara knew that the purpose of what he said to Yoshioka Nagato was achieved. Of course, he also hoped that the Yoshioka family could really surrender to the Luo family in the next strategy. As the Ototo family thought, as the Ototo family's important wealthy families, if the Yoshioka family surrendered, it would have a huge impact on other Ototo family retainers.

In this way, the Luo family spent the night here in a temporary camp in the valley. The next day, the army continued to move forward.

Most of the day later, it was almost dusk and was about to find a place to prepare for camping. At this time, the black eagle in front finally heard an urgent report, and it turned out that it had already seen the fields outside the forest. Masayoro was immediately happy when he heard this, which meant that they had already walked out of the forest and arrived in Oita County (it had been in the forest for four days, and it was the end of the day).

"Sir, walk along the edge of this forest from here. After crossing the mountain there, it is Xiong Mouli City. This fortress is built on the hillside of that mountain." At this time, the hunter who led the way also spoke. This hunter is a member of the Minami Shiga family. Now that the Minami Shiga family has surrendered to the Luo family, he naturally has to compete for more contributions for his family.

"Okay, I will reward the Sanbian Shuida after I go back." Zhengliang said happily immediately. The hunter immediately took the lead.

"Go along the path pointed by the guide and be careful not to be discovered." Zhengliang immediately ordered.

Half an hour later, the army quietly arrived at the back mountain of Xiongmuli City (it was almost dusk at this time. Because they were worried that the wild boars in the forest would come out to hurt people, the farmers on the edge of the forest had already gone home, so the appearance of the military was not discovered). Looking out from the forest, I saw that Xiongmuli City was backed by the mountain where Masayoshi was located, on the north and south sides were some cultivated fields and tributaries of the Oita River, and on the east was another mountain.

"Oh, I didn't expect that it was finally here." At this moment, Yoshioka Changzeng, who was beside him, suddenly sighed.

After hearing this, Masayoshi immediately called out a bad thing, and even forgot to guard against this guy. If Yoshioka Changzuo shouted for fear of warning, Masayoshi would have to force someone to attack Xiong Mouli Castle.

"Sir, I'll ask you a request." Just as Masara was about to launch an attack on Yoshioka Changzeng at any time, the latter suddenly asked.

"oh?"

"Sir, I will provide you with a secret. But I hope that you will promise to let the family go with this condition." Yoshioka Nagato said, staring at Masarara.

"You want to break your oath?" Zhengliang immediately understood what the other party meant after hearing this. His eyes couldn't help but flash a cold light, and he immediately said coldly.

"No! I will definitely fulfill my vow to the adults. But if the family members of this family are unwilling to follow the decision they make, I hope the adults can open their minds." Yoshioka Nagato faced Masara's eyes calmly and said slowly.

"The secrets you provide are enough to guarantee the lives of your tribe members?"

"It's the secret about Xiong Mouli City."

"oh?"

"It helps the adults to quickly take down the secret of Xiong Mouli City." Seeing that Masara was still skeptical, Yoshioka Changzeng explained again. In fact, this was also his helpless move. Because once Masara could not capture Xiong Mouli City for a long time, he would first mobilize the surrounding wealthy families. Yoshioka Changzeng's family happened to be near Xiong Mouli City.

More importantly, due to the long-term suppression of Otoyo Yoshiki, the castle of the Yoshioka family was not tall and strong. After seeing the long-range attack ability of the Luo family's army, Yoshioka Nagazuki knew that his family could not resist the attack of the Luo family. So he simply made a deal with Masara here in advance and preserved the family's survival first.

After hearing Yoshioka Changzeng's words, Masara suddenly thought about gains and losses. In fact, the concerns that Yoshioka Changzeng said just now were not unreasonable. Most of the wealthy families in the Warring States Period were a combination of the interests of many retainers. Therefore, the words of the family may not be effective. If the interests of these retainers are damaged (the worst thing is that the family governor generally lacks the means of controlling the power of retainers like the Luo family), and may be abandoned by the retainers. So instead of being tough and letting Yoshioka Changzeng persuade his family to surrender, which eventually led to the two sides being disbanded, it would be better to get the Xiong Mure Castle first. After getting this fort, you can slowly find a way to deal with the nearby wealthy families. Thinking of this, Masara nodded immediately and agreed to Yoshioka Changzeng's transaction.

Half an hour later, the sun had already begun to set. After everyone took out the convenient military rations unique to the Luo family (dried sweet potatoes dried and a little coarse salt was added to it. It tasted strange, sweet and salty. But eating a few pieces when hungry is indeed delicious). After eating, they quickly took advantage of the sunset to start formal action.

According to Masarara's deployment, he followed Irida Yoshimi and others to approach Kumamuri Castle from the periphery, and then launched an attack from the front to ensure that the people in the city could not escape and report the news. However, Nobuyuki Nobuyuki, Watanabetsu, Seiri Kamiya and others followed Yoshioka Nagato and quietly entered the city from the secret back door on the side of Kumamuri Castle. This secret back door is said to be to facilitate the way for the guards in the city to escape when the city breaks. Yoshioka Nagato also knew the secret because his family was the leader of the city.

"Why is there no movement yet?" Zhengliang and others had already touched the vicinity of Xiong Mouli City. As soon as there was a noisy inside, they would rush to the designated location. Some were responsible for surrounding the city, and some were responsible for rushing into the city first.

"Look, lord, the city gate is open." Just as Masayoshi was worried, Hiduan beside him suddenly said.

"Hmm?" Zhengliang quickly calmed down and saw that the gate of Xiong Mouli City was opened.

"Kill me!" Regardless of whether it was the city gate opened by our own people, since the city gate is now open, even if there is a change inside at this time, the Luo family's military power outside the city can completely take down the city.

So in an instant, a large group of soldiers with the black eagle emblem printed on the flag rushed out of the mountains and forests behind Xiong Mouli City, and then rushed into the city gate frantically, mixed with samurai warriors shouting and rushing forward. At this time, everyone understood that the danger coefficient inside had been reduced to pitiful levels, and the opportunity to become successful was waved everywhere.

In less than two quarters of an hour, Xiong Mouli City was quickly dropped. It turned out that Xiong Mouli City was almost an empty city at this time. After interrogating the prisoners, Masayoshi learned that most of the military forces in the city were going to support the Otomo family's army, which was fighting against the second army of the Luo family.

Before Masayoshi set out, they issued new orders to the second and third armies respectively. For the third armies that lost the main road level, Masayoshi asked them to immediately launch an attack on the main road level and delay the Otomo family's army in the level as much as possible to prevent them from concentrating the main force to support Kakumuli City.

For the second army, Masara's requirement was to be stuck on the main road between the Otomo family reinforcements and Kakumuli City, and not allow these two armies to join. Of course, in this way, the most pressure was the second army, which had to withstand the attacks from Kakumuli City and Kakumuli City on both sides of the Otomo family army. Therefore, Masara had to temporarily issue a recruitment order of 3,000 people to the territory to increase the military power of the second army.
Chapter completed!