Chapter 744 Ten years of changes
Iki Island is located in the country of the West Kitan Beach on the Kin Beach. It is located in the north of Tsukima Strait and across the sea from Tsukima Island. It is a group of islands composed of Iki and several surrounding islands on the northern Kin Beach of Hibimatsu Peninsula in the Kin Beach of Hibimatsu.
A long time ago, natives lived here. There were ruins and ancient tombs from the Yayoi era on the island, and it was also a country mentioned by the Japanese invasions of the Three Kingdoms. It is also a transit station from Kyushu to mainland China and North Korea. Although the area is not large (only Iki and Ishida counties, with a total income of about 150,000 stones), it is also an important window to defend against foreign invasions. It was greatly damaged when Mongolia attacked. As an island country, the fishery was very developed; at the same time, there are plains on the island, with crops such as rice, wheat and soybeans. Although the area is not as good as Tsubasa Island, its arable land and population are higher than Tsubasa Island.
At this time, in Kameo Castle on the southwest side of Ishida County, Iki Island, there were loud noises coming out. It turned out that Hinata Morizuki, who was the lord of Kameo Castle, had just taken a concubine today, so a banquet was held today. Of course, the so-called noisy sound was more complaining.
"The Luo family's sneak attack eagle is getting more and more excessive, and it has actually blocked the waterway."
"Isn't it? We haven't had rice in the pot for a while."
"Now, the only one of the Luo family's naval forces is the dominant one on the Iki waterway. If this continues, we will not be able to pass."
"Hmph, don't you know? The Luo family's naval army is ready to conquer us next month." Hinata Yamato Moritochi, who was sitting on the main seat, suddenly said.
"What? The Luo family's naval army will be killed next month?" Hinata Yamato Moritsu said, which immediately caused a burst of exclamation from everyone in the hall. This is very important news, and these people cannot be shocked.
"Master Yamato Masaru. Do you think this is true?"
"Hmph. It's true!" Hinata Yamato Moritsu affirmed.
"That sneak attack eagle has blocked our waterways. We still have to attack us now?"
"Haha, you don't know, right? At the end of last year, the Iki Castle sent a navy to plunder the food and grass of the merchant ship of the sneak attack eagle. Now the sneak attack eagle must be here to take revenge." Hinata Yamato Morita broke out again with fierce news.
"What?"
"There is such a thing? Why are we waiting for no food and grass support? Are we all a family? Why didn't we support us after looting the food?"
"Yes! Lord Yamato Masashi must ask our family to increase our food supply."
In the hall, there was a sudden rush of emotions. In just a moment, everyone was concerned about food issues, and instead put the upcoming incident of the Luo family.
"Hehe, there is no need for you to ask. I asked Iki County as early as the end of last year." Hinata Yamato Moritsu responded coldly.
"Then?" Everyone looked at Hinata Yamato Moritori immediately, hoping that Hinata Yamato Moritori could give a positive answer. After all, their days have been too hard in recent times. Not only their subordinates, but also themselves, are almost unable to eat enough food. Some people even ate all the food in their territory this year as spring planting. If there is not enough food support this year, the gang members in their territory will be in trouble. If one is not good, even their subordinates will leave them. At that time, they will not have to attack the Luo family's naval army, and they will take the initiative to surrender.
"Are you all pig's heads? It's already June now. Do you have any food from Iki County?" Looking at the group of idiots under his command, Hinata Yamato Moritsu couldn't help but feel angry and cursed.
"What? How can this be done on my family?" Everyone in the hall stopped doing it immediately. But some rational people also thought that the food was robbed by my family, and the situation there was not much better than here. So it was normal not to support this place.
"Okay, don't argue anymore. If the direct members of the Bodu family in the city are alarmed, they will take the opportunity to slander me and wait for me. Even if our family does not support me, our direct members here will not receive support." Seeing that the people around us are becoming more and more indignant, a few people who are still awake immediately shouted loudly. Since the incident of the Higao family being separated from the Bodu family alone, the Bodu family has become increasingly distrustful of their branches or ordinary dependent families, so they usually send some direct members to monitor them.
"Okay, stop arguing." At this time, Hinata Yamato Moritsu also shouted loudly. Everyone in the hall immediately became quiet.
"You should think about how to deal with the attack of the Luo family's naval army next month." Hinata Yamato Moritsu said again.
"Even if the Luo family wants to attack our family, they may not attack from us first, right?" someone immediately questioned.
"Idiot, there are only two counties in Iki Island. This county not only faces the Himemaki and Chikumaki regions of the Luo family, but also has half of the territories occupied by the Himeka family, the Himeka family, which belongs to the Luo family. The ships on our side are the least of our families. Tell me, when the Luo family attacks the family, they will land from where and then attack where first?" Hinata Yamato Moritsu cursed again.
"Boom!" Hinata Yamato Moritsu's words instantly woke everyone up with a huge thunder. Do you still have to think about it? The first target of the Luo family is naturally them.
Damn it? Our family sent people to plunder the food of the Luo family merchants. Not only did they not distribute the looted food to us, but why do we want us to be scapegoats for them now? This time everyone is really popular.
Looking at the expressions of everyone, Hinata Yamato Morita felt relieved. At that time, because he opposed the woman's control of the family, he was sent to this place where grandma didn't love grandma and didn't kiss her, and was angry all day long. Now he was going to incite these people to put pressure on the woman, and then take the opportunity to ask the family for more rights and resources.
"Not good, boats, many boats!" Just as the hall was quarreling, a foot pushed open the wooden door of the hall in a panic, and then threw it to the ground, but kept shouting.
"You damn guy, what are you yelling around? Tell me a little more clearly." A wealthy family near the door stepped to Zuqing's side. He pulled Zuqing up, first slapped Zuqing with a loud slap, and finally shouted.
"Boats, many ships are coming to our harbor."
"Boat, our ships are all in the harbor, where did the ship come from?"
"Kill!" Just as everyone was confused, there was a shocking shout of killing outside the city. Everyone led by Hinata Yamato Moritsu immediately ran to the city wall and looked out.
Good guy, in the mountains and forests near the city, a large number of troops were rushing towards Guiwei City. At the same time, in the bay farther away, countless ships were coming quickly towards the bay.
"What do those guys on the border do? No alarm comes from others when they hit the city. Hurry up, close the city immediately." At this time, Yamato Yuzuki Hyuga had no time to think about it and immediately ordered the city gate to close.
At this time, Zhengliang was standing on a passerby on the sea. This time, the Luo family used the fifty passerby, sixty Xiaoyao, twenty one troop transport ships, four hundred naval armies and one thousand 1,500 temporary naval peasants. The second naval armies sent twenty passerby, thirty Xiaoyao, one hundred naval armies and one thousand naval interim peasants. There were a total of seventy passerby, ninety Xiaoyao, twenty one troop transport ships, five hundred naval armies and two thousand 500 temporary naval peasants. In addition, there were 100 cloaks who were Masayoshi’s personal guards, two hundred samurai warriors and one hundred iron cannons.
In terms of generals, the general is naturally Masaru himself. In addition to Masaru, there are Murakami, the first team of the Navy, Mitsuhiro, Oya, the Nobuya, and the Utsutsuura training school; the second team of the Navy, Fukuda, and Ander, the Iron Cannon team, Yoshimi Irida. Masaru's approach to the Hidden, Ali, the Takeo, the Snake Lanmaru, and the young man, Nobuyoshi Eriguchi, Nobukashi Narimatsu, and Yoshihiro Shimazu.
Although the Luo family had occupied the five island island waters south of the territory a few years ago, ensuring that there was no direct threat to the south of the Luo family, the southern waters of the Luo family seemed to be threatened again after the Shimazu family naval army in the southwest received support from a group of Ming pirates of temporarily unknown origin.
For that group of Ming pirates, although Zhengliang probably expected that they were from that group of pirates. However, since its main base is said to be on the Ryukyu Islands, and at present it is only a place to set up a place on Zhen Island in Satsuma. Therefore, Zhengliang cannot confirm his true identity for the time being.
But no matter what, with the emergence of this group of maritime forces, the threat in the southern waters of the Luo family was undoubtedly increased. Therefore, in order to avoid the difficulties of being besieged from all sides, Masayoshi made up his mind to occupy Iki Island and expand the territory in the west to achieve the goal of defending the enemy outside the gate.
Standing on the bow of the boat, Masarara looked at the bay in the distance. Under the leadership of the Higao family's naval army, the Luo family's naval army was moving towards the bay quickly. The Guiwei City on the shore of the bay was now surrounded by the Luo family army and the Higao family army that were taking shortcuts and suddenly attacking from the land.
"I'll leave it to you next." Seeing that the army had already penetrated into the other party's bay according to the previous deployment, the specific matters would be left to the retainers below to be responsible for the specific matters.
"Yes!" The remaining retainers around immediately led the people away.
"Then I'll wait for everyone's good news in the cabin." Zhengliang nodded immediately and returned to the cabin. After so many years of growth, his retainers should be able to command such a war alone, and Zhengliang has to seize the time to deal with the government affairs within the territory. After all, he must personally review and approve some government affairs involving core issues, so Zhengliang also has a lot of daily government affairs.
After a fierce battle for a day and a night, on the morning of the next day, when it started to rain in the sky, good news finally came from the shore. The military forces of the Luo family and the Rigao family finally completely occupied Guiwei City in the harbor.
Not long after, Murakami and Huna came to Chuanshan to report. The two of them were carrying several head letters in their hands, which slightly smelled blood.
"Meet the lord!" After coming behind Masayoro Chuankou, the two immediately saluted.
"Well, what's going on the shore?" Zhengliang nodded and asked immediately.
"We have completely controlled the shore. In the harbor, except for some ships that were not in good shape at the beginning, the ships that ran away in advance before we surrounded the harbor. The other ships were seized by us. The specific ships, materials, casualties and other casualties were still under statistics. We will report to the lord later." Murakami said immediately. Since joining the Luo family seven years ago, Murakami has been working hard among the navy and cultivated an elite navy for the Luo family. Masara's original promise to assist Murakami, Murakami Bukit and his uncles and nephews to retake Seto Uchimura Mishima was infinitely close to realization after the Luo family occupied the Fenghou Kingdom, so Murakami was naturally more loyal and respectful to Masara.
"Yes!" Zhengliang nodded, then looked at the head letters that had been opened one by several young surnames and asked, "What are these?"
"Report to the lord, this is Hinata Yamato Atsushi, and he is an important official of the Hodo family. He is also the lord of Kamei City in the harbor here. The rest of the people are the heads of the Hodo family and several retainers who are separated." At this time, Hinata, who had been kneeling on the outside, took the initiative to take over the topic and report the report.
Since losing ten years ago in the battle for the hegemony of Matsuura County with the Luo family, the Hodo family has fled to Iki Island with their tyrants to cultivate and rest. In the past ten years, the situation on the island has also changed a lot. First, the Hodo family attempted to forcibly unify all the wealthy families in the family and merged into the Hodo family, but it was resisted by some wealthy families led by the Higashi family and eventually split into two camps led by the Higashi family.
However, the strength of the Higashi family is obviously not a match for the Hokto family, especially the other party received assistance from the Ouka family, so they retreated and retreated again and again. Finally, they retreated to a territory that was only half of Ishida County (this part of the territory accounts for about one-fifth of the area of Iki O), and the Higashi family finally took the initiative to ask for help from the Luo family and gradually became a subordinate family of the Luo family. It was precisely with the support of the Luo family that the Higashi family barely saved the remaining part of the territory on Iki Island (of course, this was mainly because Masayoshi deliberately restricted the support to the Higashi family to prevent him from becoming the dominant person on Iki Island, and the Luo family did not have the energy to take care of Iki Island and became another Hakto family when they became).
Three years ago, when the Luo family was a small wealthy family in Matsuura County, he had provided support to the Luo family, and died of cold infection. His son, Rigaozi, inherited the position of Jiajia Governor and strengthened his ties with the Luo family. Now, the Rigao family has almost become a small wealthy family under the Luo family. Any decision in the family will first consult the Luo family's attitude before making a decision.
Like the situation of the Higashi family, there have been many changes within the Hodo family in the past ten years. The current Hodo family is named Hadoro, which seems to be a second son of Hado family. He was pushed to the stage by the woman from the original Hado family. As for the characters such as Hado Masahisa and Iki's six people who appeared in history, no one of them appeared at this time. This obviously caused them to not appear on the historical stage due to the emergence of the Luo family.
"Is Hinata Yamato Sora?" After hearing the report from Hinata, Masara remembered this. In history, after the death of the Hodo family, this guy took the lead in rebellion, and was killed by Hado family's wife (that is, the woman who still controls the Hodo family behind the scenes) in conjunction with the enemy Ryuzoji family. Unexpectedly, even if the fate of the Hodo family changed, this guy would still die.
"Lord, it's raining lightly at this time. Do you think you will continue to head to Iki County?" At this time, seeing Masaru's sign of distractedness, Murakami immediately reminded him.
"Suspend the attack, let the military force take a break here, and at the same time speed up the time to count the supplies and casualties. As for the prisoners, they should be temporarily closed. Remember not to feed them." Zhengliang finally ordered.
At this time, the Luo family had completely occupied Ishida County on Iki Island (the territory is equivalent to two-fifths of Iki Island), and had completed the first step of the goal. In addition, it was raining at this time, and the power of the roasted jade and iron cannons, which are the main combat power of the Luo family, will be affected and even lose its effect. So it is better to take a break for the time being.
So, with Zhengliang's order, the Luo family army in the bay and on the land of the bay began to rest on the spot.
At noon, after lunch, the rain was getting heavier and heavier. Zhengliang didn't find it strange at all. It was normal for the sea to be rained this month. Fortunately, Zhengliang ordered the rest on the spot in advance, otherwise the fleet would be on the way to another harbor of Podojia. Even if he arrived at the destination, his roasted jade and iron cannons would have lost great effect.
Just as Zhengliang was standing on the bow of the boat wearing a straw raincoat to enjoy the afternoon rain, a Luo family's Xiaozao quickly approached the ship where Zhengliang was located. Soon after, a waterfront standing soaked in the body was brought to Zhengliang.
"Lord, a team of naval ships were found on the sea ten miles away. According to the other party's navigation speed, it is probably less than six miles away from here at this time."
"Oh? Can you see clearly where the other party is?" Zhengliang asked immediately.
"Because the rain is heavy and the distance is far, I really can't see clearly."
"Since we cannot identify the enemy and we can still appear here at this time, it is probably the naval army of the Boduo family. I immediately sent an order to order the naval fleet to fight." Zhengliang immediately ordered. Although the roasted jade and iron cannons at this time lost great effect, the number of ships in the Luo family could defeat the opponent even if they were on the shore battle.
Chapter completed!