In early March of the second year of Hongzhi (1556), after the capture of Yuda Yue Castle in Yoshikishiro County, Zhou Fangguo, for several days, the army led by Masara continued to march to the Yamaguchi area in the center of the rule of Ouchi family...

When the black eagle flag on white background appeared in the array of the marching Luo Family army, the people who had just been "invited" back from the nearby mountains and forests by the Luo Family peasants, couldn't help but look at it.

After several days of getting along, these people found that the soldiers of the Luo family did not loot everywhere like other daimyo soldiers, but seemed very military discipline. Some people who were in trouble because of this war had recently received food assistance from the Luo family's army. So gradually, these people who originally belonged to the Da Nei family began to come out of their homes and boldly watched the Luo family's army with a neat military appearance.

In this battle in the cage of Yutianyue City, the Luo family killed a total of 45 regular soldiers, 133 peasant soldiers, more than 200 local surrendered soldiers. In addition, more than 400 people, including warriors, regular farmers and peasant soldiers, were injured to varying degrees. As for the enemy guarding the city, there were more than 450 soldiers killed, including injured prisoners, more than 2,800 prisoners.

These prisoners will, together with their families, move to various territories of the Luo Family family under the escort of the Luo Family's Inner Political Pavilion and the navy of the Luo Family, and become slaves of the Luo Family. These slaves will work for the Luo Family for a certain period of free time (during this period, the Luo Family only ensures their food and clothing and health, without increasing any additional rewards). The extremely sinful slaves will become the training targets for the recruits to see blood in the Luo Family's recruit training camp. Their fate will only be death. And their families will become slaves on the slave farm; ordinary slaves. Soldiers such as ordinary hostile forces will become slaves on the Luo Family's road construction and demolish cities, and their families will become slaves on the slave farm; prisoners forced by the hostile forces to fight against the Luo Family's family, and their families will become slaves on the slave farm, and participate in various workshops and planting work on the farm.

Of course, slaves with different levels of hostility will have different enslavement time and degree of enslavement. These slaves will be free after working for a certain period of time for the Luo family and gain freedom according to the labor performance formulated by the Interior Government Pavilion. Thus, they will become the people of the Luo family and obtain certain land and houses to live in.

As for the food, weapons, coins and other materials collected this time, they were still under the cleaning of personnel urgently sent by the Interior Affairs Office.

In addition, the Luo Family Interior Pavilion, which followed, also began to accept the newly occupied territory with the help of the soldiers guarding the city. While they resettled local people who gradually returned to their respective homes, they compiled household registration books and other work. The Military Pavilion was counting military merits and preparing to pay rewards for those who died and obtained military merits (usually they will be directly distributed to the soldiers' families in the Luo Family territories. If there is no family, they will be collected by themselves from the military merits of each team afterwards), and assisted the logistics department in treating the wounded.

Just like the fortress that had been captured before, leaving wounded and some soldiers to guard Yuda Yue Castle, Masara's army immediately set out again.

Because they gathered some of the soldiers of the second army led by Isono Toshimasaki. Although there were certain losses caused by the first battle that had just ended and some soldiers were left to stay in the newly occupied area, the two teams of troops preparing to go out of the battle also had an army of more than 3,000 people after the two teams were gathered together.

Among them, Masarae, as the main general of the formation, was Kato Duanzo, Ander, Yoshimi Ida and Shaoyun Takahashi. He was composed of eighty-person cloaked people, three hundred-person samurai team, three hundred-person iron cannon team, three hundred-person sermon team, five hundred-person reserve peasant soldiers (equivalent to the reserve reserve), a total of one thousand five hundred people.

The first-mover leader is Isono Toshimasaki, and the deputy general is Yoshikawa Xingjing, Kalai Chengheng, Akao Kenzen, and Akazu Mitsuki. The second permanent cavalry team is equipped with fifty people (each person and one horse), and the regular 200 people are equipped with 550 peasant soldiers, totaling 800 people.

The leader of the formation was Honda Toshimasato, who followed the military physician Akimoto Hidemasato, deputy generals Yamazaki Yoshimori (the old minister of the Ouchi family), Yokoyoshi (the old minister of the Tao family), Noda Nagata (the old minister of the Tao family), Du Longkang (the chief of the Du family of Zhou Fangguo), temporary peasant soldiers, more than 300 surrendered tribes from all over the country, totaling more than 800.

Youdayue City is built at the foot of Youdayue Mountain, and is the only way to go to the mountain pass area from the east. After passing Youdayue City, it is the canyon road formed by Youdayue and Ximu Mountain. More than 3,000 Luo family troops advanced along the rugged mountain road. After entering Chichimao, the army accelerated its pace and finally entered the wide canyon zone formed between Yueshan and Jishan on the afternoon of the same day.

In the center of this canyon is a river called Kosaguawa, and a castle called Himeyama Castle is located on the east bank of the river. Although the army can walk around the other side of the castle and then go straight to the mountain pass area, there is a time bomb behind the army ready to attack at any time, which is also very dangerous, so Masayoro is preparing to clear the final obstacle to the mountain pass area.

But what Masarong unexpectedly was that before the Luo family's army set up camp under the fort to prepare for the attack, the defenders in the city took the initiative to open the city gate. As the old minister of the Ouchi family, Uno, who was the city's guard, personally led the defenders of only more than 100 people to surrender to Masarong.

In fact, this is also a helpless move by the guard general Uono. After learning that the fall of Uedagata Castle in the east, more than 200 deserters had appeared in Himeyama City in just a few days. Even the defenders who remained in the city had no intention of fighting at this time. Seeing that the Da'ui family was not far from being destroyed, Uono had to be a smart person so as to preserve the lives of himself and his subordinates.

With the surrender of Kaicheng in Jishan City, the eastern gateway to the Yamaguchi area of ​​the central rule of Ouijia was completely opened. After leaving some defenders to take over the Yamaguchi Castle, Masara immediately led an army of nearly 3,000 people into the plains of the Yamaguchi area, and arrived in front of the Yamaguchi Castle in Ouijia in the evening of the same day.

Yamaguchi Castle in Ouchi's Yamaguchi Castle is located in the center of Yamaguchi Basin, with its outer edges near Yamaguchi River. After years of operation, Yamaguchi Castle is also a strong city. From the topography, the entire Yamaguchi area is a basin surrounded by mountains, and there are three paths to enter this basin, one is a mountain path among the mountains to the north, the other is a river beach alluvial along the Yamaguchi River to the west, and the third is a mountain road to the southeast by Masayoshi's army.

The mountain path to the north is the most difficult to walk, because not only do we have to cross the towering mountains and forests, but the mountain roads are also very narrow, and Daneijia also built a mountain city on the mountain path where one man is the pass and ten thousand men cannot open.

The road to the west is the most convenient passage among the three roads, but at the narrowest point of this passage, the Ouchi family also built a Rakko-shi City. Since the village is deeper into the Yamaguchi Basin, it is easy to be attacked from the rear by the enemy from Utakasaki in the east of Rakko-shi. If the enemy from Utakasaki in the east of Rakko-shi, the Luo family army will be trapped in a dangerous situation of being attacked by front and back. Isono Tomosaki also saw this, and in order to meet with the lord Masayora's army in advance, he gave up this road and instead attacked Utakasaki on the east coast.

The road to the east is that since Utada Yuecheng is at the intersection of the east and west areas of Zhou Fangguo, it is a place where the army led by Masayoro needs to enter the Yamaguchi area and passes, so the previous battle of the Cangcheng. After capturing Utada Yuecheng, the fastest road to enter the Yamaguchi Basin is naturally the road to the east of the nearby Himeshan City.

The Yamaguchi area is filled with a large number of nobles and various artists. It is the place with the strongest cultural atmosphere in the Western country. It is known as the "Little Kyoto". A few years ago, Tao Qingxian rebelled and forced Yoshitaka to death in the battle of Ouchi Yoshitaka, which once caused a lot of damage to the place. After several years of recovery, it soon became a cultural place again. However, with the arrival of the Luo family army, the place immediately fell into panic. Many people here have experienced the disaster of the last Tao Qingxian rebellion. Now that they are facing military disasters again, they are naturally very nervous.

Since it was already evening and Zhengliang did not intend to cause local chaos, Zhengliang arranged personnel to start camping and sent people to rectify local public security.

At this time, the arrival of the Luo family army seemed to be in a panic. Hundreds of guards who were responsible for guarding the city climbed to the top of the city and looked nervously at the large camps of the Luo family outside the city.

At this time, Yoshikazu Ouchi, the governor of the Danei family, did not go to see the military camp of the Luo family army outside the city like others. On the contrary, he himself sat quietly in the room, looking at the sky that was sinking outside the window.

"Ding, ding, ding..." At this time, a sound of wooden board being trampled came. The person who came was obviously very anxious, so he made such a loud noise. Soon, a middle-aged man pulled away the wooden partition from the room of Ouchi Yoshikazu and walked in.

"Lord, the soldiers in the city seem a little shaken because of the appearance of the enemy outside the city. Please encourage the soldiers as soon as possible!" The visitor said earnestly.

"Fang Zhong, I've become a lonely man!" Yoshinaga Ouchi did not respond to the request from the visitor, but instead said to himself.
Chapter completed!