Masara naturally didn't know about the fact that Masara's letter sent by Masara did not attract the attention of Niko Haruki, and even caused a counter-effect. And what was Maorimoto he mentioned in the letter doing at this time?

Speaking of which, Maori Moon was really smart this time. After seeing the strange actions of Yoshitaka Ouchi and Takamoto Leng Izumi at the banquet, he hurriedly left the Ouchi Pavilion. Why did Maori Moon leave so hurriedly? Because he was cunning, he had long guessed that the Ouchi family would change from the various actions of the Ouchi family over the past period of time. For safety reasons, he had already ordered people to set up a secret stronghold near the Ouchi house. Once the Ouchi family really changed, he would quickly run to the secret stronghold to take refuge.

Just as Mori-moto expected, shortly after arriving at the secret stronghold, he received news that Tao Longfang had raised troops to rebel and that the rebels were coming to the Ouika Pavilion. Then he received news that more than 10,000 troops from Ouika Yoshiro were coming to fight against the Tao Longfang rebels.

Just as Yoshitaka Ouchi thought, Morimoto thought that Yoshitaka Ouchi could use his troops to destroy the rebels of Tao Longfang, so he missed the best opportunity to escape. Until the news that Yoshitaka Ouchi's army was defeated and Yoshitaka Ouchi led everyone to escape from the Ouchi's den, Morimoto realized the seriousness of the problem, so he immediately decided to escape back to Anyiguo's territory from a remote path that Yoshitaka had chosen before. Anyway, even Yoshitaka Ouchi himself had escaped, so even if Yoshitaka Ouchi would return to Ouchi's den safely in the end, his actions of leaving Ouchi without authorization would not be held accountable afterwards.

But Maori Yuan was so cunning. Unexpectedly, he actually rode back to An Yifei from a small trail. He encountered a team of bandits who took advantage of the chaos around the Danui Pavilion to fight the autumn wind. Seeing Maori Yuan's group of fat sheep, the bandits who had eaten wild vegetables for a long time had long been red-eyed, and shouted and chased Maori Yuan and everyone came.

The so-called scholar was indecisive to see a soldier. When there were only five or six people on his side and hundreds of people on the other side, four loyal retainers voluntarily left the emperor's back, and then gave the only war horse to Maorimoto and another retainer.

Seeing these four retainers leaving behind for justice, Mori Moon immediately left a few lines of old tears. He remembered the scene when he was chased by the Nizi army after the disastrous defeat in Izumo Kingdom and cried and called for his parents. However, he did not expect that in several years, he encountered the same scene again.

Finally, as the bandits kept chasing, Mori Mori waved his hand and silently said in his heart, "Everyone, stay with confidence. Your family can take care of you." Then he ran away on the war horse without looking back. After finally escaping from the bandit's pursuit range, it was estimated that the war horse was riding two people at the same time, and he was driven to run with all his strength just now. So when passing a slope, the war horse actually fell off the front and fell directly from the hillside.

Poor Maori Mori. Although his life was saved, he became a lame left leg since then and he had to walk like Kamsuke Yamamoto. The only difference from Kamsuke Yamamoto was that Maori Mori was walking with wooden crutches, while Kamsuke Yamamoto relied on the taidao scabbard he carried as a crutch.

Recall that it seems that after the Maori family met the Luo family, it seems that it is really unlucky. At least now, there are two people in the Maori family who are directly or indirectly disabled by the Luo family. One is Yoshikawa Motoharu, who was assassinated by Kato Takuzo and lost his left arm, and now has added Maori Moto. If it weren't for the series of rumors about the Luo family, Maori Moto would not have stayed in Ouchikan as a hostage, and naturally he would not have encountered the rebellion of Tao Longfang and was chased by bandits, and his left leg would not have been lame. With the help of another retainer, Maori Moto finally returned to An Yiguo and recuperated behind closed doors.

On this day, Maori Mori had basically recovered and called his son Maori Takamoto in front of him and asked:

"Now that Ouchisuke has been killed by Tao Longfang, what do you think our family should do now?"

The main wife of Muri Takamoto was the adopted daughter of Ouchi Yoshitaka, the late Nagato guardian Yoshimori. Moreover, when Muri Takamoto was a hostage in Yamaguchi Ouchi, she also had a deep friendship with young heroes such as Tao Longfang, Eryuen Fang, Hiroaka Takabo, and Hirozaka Takamoto. She was considered a "Ouchi Tongtong". Muri Mori asked him about his advice now, just to see Muri Takamoto's analysis of the current situation.

The legitimate son Takamoto Maori thought for a while and replied: "My father-in-law was cheated by Tao Longfang. My family can defeat the Tao family in the name of revenge for his father-in-law."

But the scheming Maori Yuan laughed softly after hearing this, and then said, "The flag is always a flag. I can use it anytime, but can my current power compete with Tao Longfang?"

After being asked by his father, Takamoto Mori suddenly bowed his head and said nothing. Although his father-in-law Ouchisuke's family suffered civil strife, the foundation he had accumulated over the past few hundred years was still there. Tao Longfang just mobilized the military power of Zhou Fangguo in the territory where the Tao family was located, and there was at least 20,000 people, which was far from what the Ah Yun Maori family mobilized the thousands of mobilization forces. Thinking of this, Takamoto Mori, who had originally planned to suggest to his father that he would take the opportunity to attack Zhou Fangguo, immediately became discouraged.

Seeing his legitimate son Takamoto Mori looked unconfident, Ms. Morimoto patted his shoulder and comforted him: "The military confrontation is like the polarity of yin and yang. It will decline when it is prosperous and the other will decline. The key to the relationship between one and the other is the grasp of the general. With Tao Longfang's current strength, our family cannot swallow him up in one bite, but we can slowly do so."

In fact, at this time, Maori Yuan already had a rapid expansion plan in his mind.

According to the plan, he would send an envoy to Tao Longfang and establish a friendly and mutually supportive relationship with Tao Longfang. He even took the opportunity to praise Tao Longfang's actions, saying that Tao Longfang's move was conducive to the prosperity of the home. In short, it was to use verbal sugar-coated shells to confuse Tao Longfang. Tao Longfang was only thirty years old at this time, and he was indeed determined to rebel with the determination of a strong home, so it would naturally be very useful.

Confusing Tao Longfang. When Tao Longfang's energy is focused on eliminating dissidents and unifying the forces of Zhou Defense, Nagato and even Ishimi, Mori will take the opportunity to accumulate An Yunguo's forces loyal to Ouchi Yoshitaka, first to eliminate the powerful national Takao Hiraga Takao, and then seize the targets of Sakurao Castle, Sato Ginyama Castle and other targets one by one.

Anyun Kingdom's Sakurawei City is "anyun Kingdom's dagger extending towards Itsukushima, which can stab the enemy or be used by the enemy to stab the abdomen." This castle is far away from Itsukushima on the sea, and is very close to it. It can be said that those who want to seize Itsukushima must first occupy the Sakurawei City as a base for advancement.

The Castle of Sakodung Yinshan is located at the critical point at the junction of Zhou Fangguo and Anyun Kingdom. If Maori Yuan could occupy this place, he could block Tao Longfang's power from the gate of Anyun Kingdom.

While gradually completing the unification of Anyi Country, Maori Yuan also planned to gradually control the forces of the country, China and the United States, which were originally large-scale, and subdued a group of people in these areas under their umbrellas.

Of course, since some areas are bordered by the Nizi family's sphere of influence. Therefore, in order not to get involved with the Nizi family much during this period, if necessary, Maori Yuan would pretend to be a grandson and return his power to the Nizi family from areas such as the American Sakuroku region that are far away from the core areas of strength, thus achieving the goal of confusing the Nizi family.

If Masarara knew that Maori Mori was thinking at this time, she would definitely scold Maori Mori Mori for being shameless. Especially Maori Mori's invasion of Sakurao Castle and Itsuki in the future. In Masarara's opinion, it was simply the most shameless trap. This trap was arranged by Maori Mori a few years before the duel with Tao Longfang.

Masayoshi made an analysis on the Battle of Itsukushima.

As Maori Yuan said to Maori Takamoto, the biggest mystery of the Lin Army's battle is how to offset the advantages of the enemy and then develop the advantages of his own army, and to achieve success in this way, the generals who have to make millions of ways to transform the right time, place, people and people into friends. After careful thinking, Maori Yuan believed that the Maori Army confronted Tao Longfang, the "WuShuang General" on land. If calculated based on the current situation of the two companies, the difference in the forces that can be mobilized in their respective territories is too large, and the chance of victory is slim.

So, can we lure the Tao army, which has the advantage to a narrow place, make his advantage a disadvantage, and then use a small number of elite soldiers to gather together and annihilate it? Maori Yuan had considered many locations while recuperating, but he gave up. For no other reason, he had too few soldiers and could not surround the Tao army. Even if he caught 20,000 pigs, it would not be possible to catch them in two or three days. Besides, Tao Longfang was not a pig at all. After the failure of the Yoshitaka Ouchi Expedition, Tao Longfang was responsible for distributing all the dry food to his soldiers behind the land hall, but he used "dry ginger" (dried sardines) to satisfy his hunger. Tao Jun was moved and forced to break through layers of interception and returned to Zhou Fang. Can he expect him to abandon the army and collapse himself when fighting with a commander like Tao Longfang? Obviously it is impossible.

Then, giving up the idea of ​​decisive land battle and luring the Tao army to the island is the best choice: first, the island's terrain is rugged and narrow, and it is suitable for Maori Yuan to use a small battle plan; second, the island is surrounded by sea, and it is easy to climb up to tens of thousands of people, but if you want to retreat, it is not that simple, and it is also in line with the idea of ​​Maori Yuan to fight a large annihilation war.

But the second floor problem also emerged, Tao Longfang was not stupid, and Mori Moto could not learn from Miyamoto Musashi decades later and wrote a challenge book, "Sasaki Kojiro, let's fight on Yanruo Island, see you all." Then Kojiro took a knife and the two fought life and death at the agreed place.

The so-called warrior is a trick. Most of the things that fight according to routines are about the legends in the book, and they cannot be done in real life. Therefore, the second problem facing Maori Yuan is how to lead Tao Long's nose and let him obediently come to the place he chose to accept slaughter.

So Maori Moto finally set his sight on Itsujima, because although this island is small, it is a territory that Tao Longfang must not lose. As long as it moves Itsujima and even shows a little ambition for Itsujima, it will make Tao Longfang furious and "happily" go here to fight the Maori family.

For nothing else, Itsukashima is really important to Taolong House or the entire Da Nei family! What has the Da Nei family relied on for so many years? It is maritime trade with Ming, North Korea, Ryukyu, etc. His family used Yamaguchi Daikai and Hakata Port as a transit base, transporting Japanese knives, fans, pottery, and then rewrote the silk, books and porcelain from the mainland, and then turned them in two rounds to obtain ten or even hundreds of times.

Profit, otherwise how could Yamaguchi Oui Tan absorb so many ministers and monks come here? How could they have money to build palaces and temples? Where can they get the financial resources to support the expensive songs, tea parties and nok? In addition, don’t forget that even if the Yamaguchi Oui Tan buys the mainland’s scarce goods, it will stay in the Yamaguchi Oui Tan’s warehouse. It also needs to transport these things to the inland of Japan to make more money!

How to transport it in? All idiots know that the key waterway connecting the western countries of Japan, Shikoku and Honshu is the Seto Inland Sea! From the Shimon Strait to the trading city of Sezu and Izumi, this route that runs through the Seto Inland Sea is the lifeline of the Ouchi family.

If the Seto Inland Sea is the blood vessel that maintains life in the Ouchi family, then the Itsuki Island located in it is the prostate that determines whether the blood vessel is unobstructed. In this case, Mori Moto occupied Sakurao City and stared at Itsuki Island. What a fatal thing it is for Tao Longfang, which aims to restore the authority of the Ouchi family!

Moreover, for Tao Longfang, Itsuki no longer had to fight for it, but it could not be discarded at all, because it was the most precious legacy of his dead lord, Yoshitaka Ouchi.

This is because there is a huge shrine on the island, so this place has been called "Shenling" since ancient times (not only Itsuki Island, but also some territory in the southern part of Anyun Kingdom). The owner of the ancient Shenling was the Sahiro family of Anyun Kingdom. This family was not only the "national creation" of Anyun Kingdom (the official position of the ancient Japanese dynasty, serving as the military and political sacrificial officials of a place), but also the "Shenling" of the shrine. When Hei Kiyomori was in power, the god lord Sahiro Keihiro eagerly curry favor with Hei Kiyomori, and received strong support from the Hei family, creating the heyday of the Itsuki God lord, but the good times did not last long. After the war, the Hei family's power was destroyed. Sahiro Keihiro was afraid that the Genyo family would settle the accounts after the fall, and he was hot-headed, so he stood opposite the Kamakura Shogunate in the subsequent "Seiko Rebellion". He was really liquidated after the war.

The Kamakura shogunate drove the Sahiro family out of Itsujima and sent a "Mi family member" named Fujiwara Mishi to be the god master to strengthen the shogunate's control over Itsujima Shrine. After Fujiwara Mishi came to the island, he immediately combined the "General Political Department" and the god master into one, and absorbed the indigenous families of Itsujima to join the army, establishing a snail horn regime that integrates politics and religion, called "God Leader" (very similar to Shinno Suwa's God Party). In the Warring States Period,

With the arrival of the God Lord Fujiwara family, they were coveted by the Kozaikawa family, Takeda family and other forces in Anyun Kingdom, and struggled in troubled times. In the tenth year of Astronomy (1541), taking advantage of the civil strife of the Imai God Lord's family, Yoshitaka Ouchi sent a group of troops to easily eliminate the poor God Lord's family (the last God Lord Tomoda Hitoshi ran to Sakurao City to commit suicide), so the Imai God Lord was included in the Imai family.

In this Warring States Period, conquering new territory was not the biggest problem. The difficulty was how to manage and digest the new territory. In order to completely control Yidao Yoshitaka, Ouchi Yoshitaka thought of a solution: among his important officials, there was a named Sugi Takashima, who seemed to be a descendant of the ancient god lord Sahiro family. Ouchi Yoshitaka arranged for Sugi Takashima to marry the daughter of the god lord Kagamori, the same tribe of the god lord, and changed his name to Sahiro Nessia, and succeeded the position of "Yidamiji". However, Sugi Takashima usually lives in Yamaguchi Ouchi and has no time to go to Yidao. Ouchi Yoshitaka announced another order, and all the "Heiji" territories on the island were "Andou" (Andou means that the samurai territory remains the same), as long as you nominally surrender to my Daou family, and then let his branch Shizuo family be the governor of Sakurao City, responsible for commanding Yidao's god lord.
Chapter completed!