Since being besieged in the mountain road, the coalition forces of the Shimazu family and Ito family have launched an attack from time to time, but the targets of the attack were the moat positions near Matsuo Castle to the south where Iino Toshino and Irida Yoshi are located.[

However, after the continuous harassment of the pursuit army led by Masarakuto in the north and the reinforcement of the trench position in the south received more than 1,000 troops from the Hirakuto Kingdom, the attacks of the Shimazu family and Ito family coalition forces ended in failure. Moreover, the fortifications similar to the southern position of Masaraku were also taken advantage of the opportunity to build them during this period. Now, even if the joint forces of the Shimazu family and Ito family turned the gun tip to the Masaraku army and ito family launched an attack, they would be as difficult as they attacked the trench position in the south. Due to the situation in the mountain road at this time, the joint forces of the Shimazu family and Ito family were surrounded by the two turtle shell formations.

Moreover, at this time, the military forces concentrated near the Mandiya Mountain Road were more than 3,000 troops from the Shimazu family and Ito family (thousands were lost during the attack on the southern positions of the Luo family during this period), while the Luo family had more than 9,000 troops (of which Masarae was located in the north, while Isono Tomosa and Irida Yoshimi were located in the south). Of course, generally speaking, Masarae could only judge the approximate number of enemy troops from the enemy formation, but who said that "betrayers" from the Sahiro family appeared one after another in the opponent's camp, so after some calculations, Masarae naturally knew the number of troops from the opponent.

Judging from the above situation, the Luo family obviously has an advantage in military strength. If Masayoshi's original intention is to launch an attack on the coalition forces between the Shimazu family and Ito family, and thus take them down in one fell swoop.

But Masara did not do this. Instead, he only restrained him from behind when the Shimazu family and Ito family coalition forces attacked the Nanmen Yamadao position.

So why did Zhengliang do this? After all, with such a large-scale military force, every day it delays, it consumes a lot of his own materials.

The reason is very simple, because compared to taking the initiative to attack, delaying the attack is more beneficial to the Luo family.

First of all, although the two groups of Luo Family have a total of 9,000 troops in the south and north, the mountain road is very narrow, which directly causes the Luo Family to be unable to exert its military advantages (just like the two coalition forces of Shimazu and Ito attacked the southern positions of the Luo Family at the beginning). When the opponent also built fortifications, if the Luo Family attacked, it would change the role of both offensive and defensive forces with the opponent's coalition, and the Luo Family also became a passive side.

Secondly, as the saying goes, trapped beasts are still fighting. In the face of the dilemma of dying, it is inevitable that the Shimazu family and Itong family will be red-eyed and directly attempt to exchange their own sacrifices for greater casualties. After all, compared to ordinary daimyos, the Luo family's regularity, reserve service, and even temporary farming soldiers are much more expensive. You should know that the regularity and reserve service of the Luo family consume a lot of resources. As for the dispatch of temporary farming soldiers, they also need to provide certain compensation to their families. In a word, it is expensive.

Finally, the two positions of the Luo family are connected to the territories in their rear, so they can maintain long-term logistics supply. As the Shimazu family and Ito family coalition forces were besieged, all the supplies were almost reduced every day.

This can be seen from the recent situation where the Shimazu family and Ito family's iron cannons and bows attacks are getting fewer and fewer. In fact, the most miserable are the wounded soldiers. In the absence of medicine, unless their bodies can survive, they can only stare and wait to die.

Of course, Zhengliang was also very kind. For this reason, he recently sent people to shoot the cloth that removed the arrow but tied up the words of surrender into the coalition camp, persuading the other soldiers to find an opportunity to surrender. Even Zhengliang deliberately roasted a wild boar or cooked a delicious meal in front of the coalition forces, and invited the coalition soldiers to come and have a meal together. However, until now, no coalition soldiers have come to surrender.

Masayoshi naturally doesn't care about this. Anyway, your Shimazu family and Ito family's coalition attack positions will then the two positions of the Luo family will fight back at the same time, but they will also rely mainly on their own positions to fight back, and never pursue too much. Everything is based on relying on positions to block Shimazu and Ito coalition forces.

As long as we persist for a while, after all the materials within the coalition forces, including food, were consumed, at that time, it was estimated that the Luo family army would not have to spend much effort to take the coalition forces.

Of course, the coalition forces can also escape into the dense mountains on both sides of the east and west sides, but first they have to cross the steep mountains that are more than ten meters east of Wandi Valley. As for the west of Wandi Valley, there is a five- or six-meter wide and fast-water Beichuan, and after crossing Beichuan, it is also a steep mountains that are more than ten meters high. It was precisely when the intelligence officials pointed out such a terrain that Masayoshi Isono and others quickly blocked the northern exit of Wandi Valley.

However, if the coalition forces were really helpless, there would be people who would venture to climb the mountain. Under the surveillance of the Luo family, they would naturally not climb the mountain during the day, otherwise they would be harassed and attacked by the Luo family. But if they climb the mountain at night, they would have to "hehe". After all, in this era, most locals are night blind. If they fire a torch, they still find it difficult to escape from the surveillance of the Luo family. If they wait for them to survive the disaster and finally climbed the mountain, they found that there was a team of Luo family troops waiting there on the other side of the mountain, so they would really cry.

So in the confrontation between each other, it was soon late April of the second year of Echoro. During this period, the water and land army led by Li Huamei and Masato Takasaka from the Hinata country quickly entered the central Hinata region from the Kita Hinata region, and even captured the Ito family's Jushimai capital. Kata Hinata, Yuangiji Nobuo and other troops also entered the Satsuma and Hinata countries respectively. These two things directly led to the ups and downs of the entire Mikyushu region (that is, the incident mentioned earlier and the incident of Masara's pursuit of Shimazu, Sahiro, and Ito coalition forces occurred at the same time).

At this moment, Zhengliang's camp also welcomed a group of special guests.

This group of guests will accept an expedition task assigned by Zhengliang before, and then divide it into two teams. They travel through mountains and rivers to two places and start to implement the special tasks given by Zhengliang. Since they will go far away from the territory of the Luo family, not only will they not be able to obtain military support from the Luo family, but also the general material support needs to be done very secretly. What is even more dangerous is that the powerful reputation of their place is likely to pose a threat to them. Therefore, before the task is officially granted to these people, Zhengliang personally met them one by one and asked them one by one whether they were willing to accept the task.

"Have you decided?" Zhengliang asked helplessly when the last of these guests walked into Zhengliang's military tent.

"My father, I have made a decision. Please allow me to go with you."

Facing Zhengliang's inquiry, the visitor said firmly. This person said this secretly farewell to his brother Luo Shi Huiliang in Feiqianguo, and then rushed to here without stopping.

"Hey!" Seeing that the second son Luo Shi Noriyao's attitude was so firm, Masayoshi was really a little troubled, so he had to try to persuade him at the end, "You know, do I really want you to go there? And it's not easy to explain to your mother when you leave secretly this time." Thinking of the expression of Shi Ji who was sad when he learned about Luo Shi Noriyao's long-term departure, Masayoshi felt a little unbearable.

Although the two teams have already made preparations and management in advance for several years when they went to the place, it is still very dangerous. As a father, although he knows that in the Warring States Period, he should not be too concerned about family affection. He should also pay attention to training his descendants, but as a person from later generations, he has to watch his son enter the danger, so Zhengliang really can't bear it.

In Zhengliang's opinion, if he needs to train his descendants, he would just stay by his side and watch the exercise. In this way, he could at least deal with it at any time. But the place where the task was headed this time was too far and dangerous. Once something happened, Zhengliang could not reach out for help in time. But he also knew the stubborn personality of the son in front of him, so he could only try his best to persuade him in the end.

As for why Zhengliang did not cancel this task? This is impossible. After all, the opportunities that arise will determine the future layout of the Luo family in the entire Warring States Period. Moreover, such opportunities will not be available again, Zhengliang will naturally not give up.

So why not force his second son to stay at home? This is mainly caused by Zhengliang's own temporary negligence. When the expedition was released, Zhengliang did not say exactly what the task was for the purpose of keeping it confidential, but he clearly pointed out that this was a task that was far away from the territory and had been away for a long time.

As for Zhengliang's failure to directly assign personnel to participate in this task, it is mainly because the task is too important and cannot be neglected. If a retainer who is unwilling to come, it is very likely that the entire expedition team will be destroyed by accident. Zhengliang's general will not only lose this team of troops, but will also attract the attention of the local powerful and famous people, thus losing this opportunity. Therefore, Zhengliang would rather his retainers participate voluntarily.

Of course, in order to avoid the voluntary participation of the retainers who are hindered by other factors such as clan members (after all, people are selfish, and not every retainer is willing to give up everything to serve the Luo family. This is the fundamental reason why Zhengliang has been fully promoting the Luo family's laws. The purpose is to use a set of laws to support the stable development of the Luo family rule. According to the current development of the Luo family, just staying at home to participate in some tasks close to the territory is enough to achieve good achievements. Why stay away from the territory and take risks? So if your own clan members or family members participate in such a task, naturally, some people will secretly create obstacles. Even if Zhengliang is determined to prevent this situation, there will inevitably be moments that cannot be noticed. In this case, Zhengliang simply blocks the minds of these people and directly makes it clear that as long as they are voluntary, they will never be blocked).

But shortly after the order was issued, Masayoshi took a slap in his mouth because his second son actually volunteered to participate. The so-called selfishness of people was really reflected at this time. After learning the news, Masayoshi privately called his second son Nobuya and told the son the specific content of the task privately in advance. The purpose was naturally to hope that his son could understand the dangers and voluntarily give up the task.

As a result, Nobuo refused. Masaru had no choice but to clearly express his desire for Nobuo to participate (as for not directly excluding Nobuo on the surface, it is mainly because Masaru wants to maintain his majesty and fair appearance in front of his retainers, otherwise it will be difficult to convince the public, and then a family will be difficult to rule). He also hopes that Nobuo will think carefully again.

However, since the second son Noburaki came directly to Masaraki from Feimaki, he had already expressed his determination to Masaraki. Even though Masaraki still did not give up now, it was obvious that this son would not really change his decision.

"Hey!" Looking at the stubborn look of the son in front of him, Zhengliang could only sigh again in the end. This reminded him of the Luo family's one-eyed dragon, Masato Sect, who had just been sent away.

This guy was injured while fighting against the Shimazu family, Ito family, and Sabuki family coalition forces, and didn't know where he got the news that everyone was about to set off for this mission, and he even came to join the expedition and asked to participate in this expedition mission. Finally, after confirming that his injury could be cured during the journey, Masayoro reluctantly agreed to the request of the little surname beside him.

"Since that's the case, it's good to have some experience on the journey." After confirming that he could no longer persuade his stubborn son, Zhengliang had to consider his safety. "Look here." Zhengliang then opened a wooden box beside him. A pair of armor was exposed inside.

"This armor is called Jin Xiaozai Se Se Wei. It is a thin piece of gold foil connected with four colors of silk threads." In fact, in history, this pair of armor was owned by Oda Nobunaga, and after Oda Nobunaga learned that Takeda Shingen came west, he also presented it to Kenshin Uesugi as one of the tokens of the two families' alliance.

Now that the Luo family has obtained this armor from the merchant in advance, it is naturally left to their own people for use. As for why Zhengliang did not use the armor and weapons such as the Luo family armor to his son and other retainers who are about to travel far this time, it is mainly because these weapons are unique to the Luo family and have almost no exodus. If these people suddenly wear these equipment a lot outside, it would be equivalent to telling them that their relationship with the Luo family was very unusual, and their identity would naturally be exposed.

After arriving at their respective destinations, these people should still pay attention to lurking at the beginning, wait for the opportunity predicted by Zhengliang, or make preparations in advance for the upcoming opportunities, and develop their own power. In this way, during this period, their own preparations should be best based on the best weapons and equipment that are common during this Warring States Period.

"And, here." Zhengliang pointed to the knife holder on the other side, where a knife was placed. "This knife is called small chest cut. It has been with Youfu for many years. It is a very sharp and strong knife. When you encounter difficulties or dangers outside in the future, take it out and take it out and take it out, so you will see how Youfu developed his family from a small local tyrant to the current Warring States overlord."

"Preparing them well. Today, it will be difficult for you, my father and son to meet again in the short term. Let's have a good conversation tonight." Zhengliang said at last.

"Yes!" Luo Shi Huiliang's face was a little flushed at this time. It was obvious that he felt Zhengliang's care and reluctance to him as his father.

"But, please forgive my father and all the mothers who are still in the dark for your stubbornness. After all, my samadhi also has his own dreams!" While listening to the precautions that his father Masayoshi began to talk about, Luo Shi Nobura said to himself in his heart.
Chapter completed!