"Du, du, du..."

"Dang, dang, dang..."

In the spring of the first year of Hongzhi (1555), along the coast of Anyiguo, a large group of craftsmen were busy building a city in an area surrounded by the sea on three sides, like a prominent nose.

On a small hill far from the construction site here, a group of people were standing there watching the work on the construction site. Among the people, the three people in the group were Mori Motozumi Mouri, and the important officials of the Mori family, Tori Koba and Sadatsu Fukuhara.

"Lord, according to the current construction progress, it will take two months to complete the construction city." Fukuhara Sasatoshi, who was responsible for organizing the construction of the castle in front of him, named Miyao Castle, was reported to Mori Moon.

"Yes." Mori Moon nodded after hearing this, then looked at Tuoliang Kouha on the other side and asked, "What are the movements of the Nizi family and the Luo family at this time?"

Although Maorimoto was determined to fight Tao Longfang to the death, if he wanted to fight Tao Longfang with peace of mind, he could not ignore the Nizi family and the Luo family. Naturally, there was no need to say much about the Nizi family. Previously, Maorimoto also learned through the detailed work of lurking in the Nizi family that the Danai family had formed an alliance with the Nizi family. He was really worried that the Nizi family would join forces with the Danai family to attack the Maori family. Fortunately, under his previous provocation, Nizi Haruki finally cut off his arms and cleared the most elite New Palace Party of the Nizi family. But even so, Maorimoto still sent a large number of Xinzi families to sneak into the Izumo Kingdom to monitor the Nizi family's movements.

As for the Luo family in Kyushu, it made Maorimoto even more afraid. Maorimoto always felt that the rumors of Luo family Masara and Tao Longfang secretly colluded from Fengqian Kingdom were true. Because the destruction of the Sugi family in Fengqian Kingdom and the Nagato family in Nagato family was too strange. And it was originally the Da Nei family who was attacked from three sides. At this time, the border with the Luo family unexpectedly entered a state of peace. All these signs indicate that the Luo family and the Da Nei family had secretly traded.

If the Luo family and the Tao family really colluded with each other as the rumors said, then this time Tao Longfang might really bring the Luo family into the camp against the Maori family. Moreover, even if the Luo family did not join the Tao Longfang camp, the Guanmen Strait of the Luo family and the Zhoufangtan area on the coast of Fengqianguo can easily reach the coastal areas of Anyiguo through naval forces. Mao Ri Yuan was really worried that the Luo family would suddenly send the naval forces to intervene in this decisive battle he prepared for Tao Longfang. In this way, the things he arranged had variables and the consequences could not be predicted.

Although suddenly intervening in An Yiguo from a geographical and strategic position is not a good thing for the Luo family, and it may even return to Kyushu in a big loss, after analyzing the previous achievements of the Luo family’s general Luo family’s general manager, Mao Ri Yuan was really worried that this fat eagle would make such a choice. Therefore, the Luo family also needs to be closely aware of it.

What just made Maori Yuan a little headache was that surveillance of the Luo family was much more difficult than surveillance of the Nizi family. First of all, the Luo family implemented a border blockade policy, and basically it could not come out so easily after entering its territory. Even commercial areas such as Hakata and Hirado Island were strictly blocked, and it was difficult for outsiders to take the opportunity to escape from the Luo family's territory. Secondly, based on the previous detailed reports that were fortunate to escape from the Luo family's territory, the Luo family implemented a very strange household registration system, and also adopted generous reward methods to encourage the entourage to actively report suspicious people. Therefore, it is easy to detect suspicious people, and even if they are mixed into the Luo family's territory, it is easy to be discovered.

It was precisely because of the above strange systems that the Maori family sent to monitor the Luo family suffered heavy losses. Even if a few people escaped by chance, the information they brought back was quite vague. But even so, Maori Yuan still gritted his teeth and continued to send the Maori to the Kyushu area to monitor the movements of the Luo family that he was most afraid of.

"Lord, since the backbone of the New Palace Party in his family was removed at the end of last year, Nizi Harujiu has continued to gather the remnants of the New Palace Party and accept the territory of Nizi Guojiu and his son." When he heard his lord ask him, Kouyu Tongliang, who was in charge of the intelligence work at home, immediately replied, "As for the Luo family, the ministers found that there was no excessive movement around their territory, and everything seemed very calm."

"Is this true?" Mori Moto thought after hearing the return of Tsukira Kazuya. After a while, he suddenly said, "Since that's the case, then the family will cause some trouble for the Luo family. Send someone to envoy the Toyogo Fei Sakai family, the Ito family in Hyuga, and the Shimazu family in Mian Kyushu. The family must make the Luo family have no time to take care of the decisive battle between the family and the Tao family."

"Lord is wise!" Kou Yu Tongliang was stunned at first after hearing this, but then suddenly realized and exclaimed.

Just when Mori Moto discussed with his retainers such as Guyu Toraki and the Luo family to deal with the Tao family and other daimyos, at the construction site called Miyao Castle, a villager hid in the bushes next to the construction site while others and the guards were not paying attention and then escaped. After the villager escaped from the construction site, he rushed to the Immoji Shrine directly, found a priest named Shed Guardian and told the priest the construction site to the priest.

This priest named Peng Shufangxian (historically, he witnessed the entire process of the battle between Iran Island, and his work "Fang Xian Jue Shu" has extremely precious historical value), and his relationship with Tao Longfang is quite good, so he became a spy who Tao Longfang monitors Iran Island. After receiving the information sent by the villagers, Peng Shufangxian immediately sent someone to urgently send the information to Tao Longfang, who had returned to the Yamaguchi Daou Pavilion in Zhoufangguo.

After learning about this situation, Tao Longfang immediately held an evaluation meeting with his retainers.

"Lord, this city is probably a bait to lure my family forward. In the eyes of my ministers, my family should take advantage of the number of troops in our family, take the lead in attacking Sakurawei City from Iwaku, and attack the city of Sakurawei by land." The important minister of the family, Hirozuka Takaba, spoke first.

"I followed this route in the battle of Zhefuhata before? Is it a crushing defeat?" Tao Longfang said with a frown. Obviously, he didn't really hope to enter this route that had just experienced a crushing defeat.

Seeing that his lord disagreed with his opinion, Hiroaka Takaba still insisted on his own opinion and said, "In the battle of Zhefuhashihata, the military situation was not the main force of our army. But this time it was very different. Our army could completely mobilize 20,000 elite troops. We could attack Sakurao Castle to the west to aim at Izushima. We could also go north to take Yoshida-gun Yama Castle, the old nest of the Mori family, and surround Wei to save Zhao. According to the previous detailed returns, Muri Mori's troops were only four or five thousand ears, and were still scattered in the defense of Sakurao, Kusatsu, and Miyao. Once we fought with our army on land, our army would definitely be able to win."

"Hahaha, Hirokazu Sanhe Guard! Do you know that I, Ouchisuke, have always been a navy leader in the world. His hundreds of warships were shipped by him, and our army was able to advance and retreat from the sea, while Maori Yuan did not have a decent navy under his command. After our army landed in and captured this city, the Maori family died without a fight. From the previous battles, it can be seen that Maori Yuan was good at ambushing and attacking in the mountains, but he was destined to be a rival to our army. When the two armies faced each other, how could there be a reason to avoid the strengths and make the weaknesses?" Tao Longfang laughed to the sky.

"Lord, no! My subordinates think that the city that the Maori family is building is the bait that the old Maori thief lured the family to attack from the water. I can't underestimate the enemy anymore!" Hiroaka Takaba Hirokazu couldn't help but persuade him in shock when he saw his lord underestimate the enemy so much.

However, Hongzhong Longbao's words of "understanding the enemy" directly hurt Tao Longfang. After all, the last miserable defeat was caused by his underestimation of the enemy. In anger, he simply ended the evaluation meeting directly.

However, although the evaluation meeting ended badly, the result was beyond doubt. After all, Tao Longfang was the boss, and he had the final say. So, at the beginning of the first year of Hongzhi, the Danaga navy, who received the order from Tao Longfang, began to show off his power in the waters near Itsushima, and continued to attack Kusatsu, Yaga, Inboshima, Okama, and Haida, along the way, and made a big splash.

"My father, please let the Koji fight, so that he will definitely be able to repel the enemy's navy." Seeing that his territory was constantly invaded, his second son Yoshikawa Motoharu could no longer bear it, so he asked Mori Moto.

"No. This is my father's plan to lure the enemy." At this time, the third son Kobayakawa Takake said.

"A plan to lure the enemy?" Yoshikawa Motoharu was not a reckless and stupid person. After a little thought, he suddenly realized, "So that's it. Did my father deliberately show the enemy as weak and then lure the other party to come for a decisive battle?"

"Well, the child can be taught!" Seeing that his sons were so smart, Maori Yuan couldn't help but be happy.

So, as Takake Kobayakawa and Motoharu Yoshikawa said, in order to lure the Tao army with weakness in order to mortal enemies, Muri Moto not only hid nearly half of the troops (historically, in the Battle of Itsujima, the Maori family had only four or five thousand troops at that time. However, this time, because the Maori family unified the power of the Beihou Kingdom and other places, the troops were more than twice as many), but also strictly ordered these defenders who were attacked by the Daoujima naval army to be a turtle and never fight back, allowing the Daoujima naval army to make a random exchange, and sent rumors everywhere: "Muri family only had those broken ships, and they really didn't have the ability to compete with the Daoujima naval army. It seems that my Moto is going to fall on Izujima."

Tao Longfang, who received the report, was proud: "It seems that I am going to fight the old thief in Itsujima and Maori Yuan. This move is the right one. It seems that Hongzhong Sankawa Masaru is getting more and more timid!"

However, Hongzhong Sankawa Shulongbao, who was determined to be a coward by Tao Longfang, was drinking with his younger brother Hongzhong Fangming in a slut. After the last evaluation meeting ended unhappily, Hongzhong Sankawa Shulongbao was still unwilling to accept it. So he immediately found Tao Longfang's wife and asked him to persuade Tao Longfang to give up the idea of ​​attacking Yidao by sea. Unexpectedly, Tao Longfang joked about Hongzhong Longbao as a "coward" in front of his wife. In this era, mocking a warrior in front of a woman was a great humiliation to a warrior.

So when Hongzhong Sankawa Matsubata was angry and felt insecure about the Maori family's appearance. According to the resolution that Tao Longfang had already determined, he would lead the subsequent troops to stand by in Iwaku, and then follow the first echelon of Tao Longfang to attack Itsuki.

Thinking of this, Hirozhong Mikawa Mōtakaba directly picked up the wine bowl in front of him, drank a bowl of sake, and then burped, he immediately said to his younger brother Hirozhong Fangming: "Brother, I will take Taro to join us this time. If something goes wrong with us, remember to pass on the name of our family no matter what."

Hong Zhongfang Ming, who was drinking opposite him, was shocked when he heard this. He also knew that his brother was ridiculed as a coward by his lord, and thought that his brother was still troubled by this matter. He even worried that his lord Tao Longfang would attack him in this battle. So he immediately persuaded him: "Brother, you are drunk. Don't worry, you are a general under the lord, and lord was just a moment of distortion. Besides, as the lord said, our naval army is extremely powerful, and only the surrounding countries can compete with our naval army. This time, our family will definitely win."

After hearing this, Mikawa Shuratabata, Hongzhong Sankawa, heard this, Ai Ye did not make a sound, but picked up a bottle of sake and raised his neck and drank it "gulp" and started to drink it, but he smiled bitterly in his heart: "Even his brothers think so, no wonder the lord underestimates the enemy so much." At this moment, he was a little missed by Jiang Liangfang Rong, who was killed by himself in the Amber Temple of Iwaku.

If Jiang Liangfang Rong was still talking, he would not only join forces to persuade his lord Tao Longfang, but also because he had been responsible for offensive and defensive affairs in the Yidao area before, he was very familiar with that area. Even if he was on the water route, they would not become blind. They needed to be prepared for the sneak attack of Maori Yuan, who was good at conspiracy and tricks, at any time.

Just as Tao Longfang and Maori Yuan were preparing for a decisive battle, the Luo family, who entered the spring of the first year of Hongzhi, became busy. On this day, the first team of the Luo family's naval army, the second team of the naval army, the first standing football team, and the first standing football team, were summoned by Masayoshi to the meeting hall of the seventh floor of the Tianshou Pavilion in Xuefu City.
Chapter completed!