This time, Zhengliang summoned his retainers responsible for the farming of the territory to a slave farm at the foot of the Yegao Mountains. In addition to inspecting the first slave farm of the Luo family, he also had an important purpose.

This is the technique that guides them to become familiar with field management.

Zhengliang was born in the countryside in his previous life and had a certain understanding of farming. During this period of inspection of the spring farming situation in the territory, he realized that the field management level of the people in the territorial population was still very low, which would cause a decline in grain crop yield. Therefore, in order to promote the knowledge of field management to the people in the territorial population, Zhengliang decided to first summon some of the retainers and leaders in the territorial population to learn from him, and then they would teach it to their subordinates and other leaders.

The so-called field management mainly involves weeding in the field, catching insects, clearing canals, reasonable distance between crops, cutting during crop growth, the depth of crop planting, the timing of fertilization and watering, the mixed planting of crops between fields, etc. In view of the actual situation of various crops in the current territory, and combined with the knowledge he mastered in later generations, Zhengliang explained in detail to the retainers and farming experts one by one in the next few days.

The explanation went smoothly, but Zhengliang did not expect that his unintentional teaching would bring great shock to everyone.

As the retainers who had been with Zhengliang for a long time, they knew that their lord was a talented person in the internal affairs, but they had not heard Zhengliang's personal explanation in such detail. Many of the views and farming methods mentioned by Zhengliang during the explanation benefited them a lot. The admiration and loyalty for Zhengliang in their hearts could not help but raise a very high level.

And those new retainers who have joined the Luo family in recent years have not always followed Zhengliang. Although they have heard some old retainers privately praise the internal affairs ability of the family governor, they are actually hearing it. They have always been skeptical of such praises. Now they have finally seen Zhengliang's real materials and are immediately impressed. They are filled with hope for following Zhengliang to do something big.

Finally, there were those folk farming experts. They have always believed that almost no one could be better than them when it comes to farming. If it weren’t for the fact that Daming personally ordered them to be summoned, they would have already started to complain. But after hearing Zhengliang’s description of farming with their own ears, they even turned red and green. With their previous farming skills, they were really showing off their skills in front of Zhengliang.

After this incident, Zhengliang formed an omnipotent image in the hearts of these people, and his personal charm was greatly improved. This matter was also recorded in the family history of the Luo family and the records and accounts of the internal affairs cabinet. After the measures mentioned by Zhengliang were confirmed, they would be written into the agricultural laws of the Luo family and promoted them in the form of a law. These well-founded records also provided powerful data for historians hundreds of years later to study the powerful Luo family Empire, and further proved the historian's statement that Luo family, the founder of the Luo family Empire, was an outstanding civil affairs expert.

Just as Zhengliang was teaching internal affairs knowledge to the remaining officials and the people on the farm, the conflict between the Luo family's border areas and neighboring countries continued.

In late April, Kinishmasaki, who was stationed in Takasakiyama Castle along the Beppu Bay coast of Oita County, Toyogoku, received a command from Masara, personally led a 500-strong army into the Bepputan Plain in Sumi County, began to sweep the fields in the plains, and plundered the local population and property.

War is always cruel. Even though most wealthy families generally do not choose to fight at this time of spring farming, the Luo family will never care about these things. Masaroshi came from later generations only knows. Since it is a war, he must do everything for victory. So when the army of Kinoshita Masaru suddenly entered, Beppu Beach instantly became a sea of ​​fire. Wherever the Luo family's army passed, all the population and property were looted, the houses of the Otomo family's people were burned and the fields were destroyed.

Since the entire Beppu Beach is a plain area and there is no danger to defend, Masayoshi did not intend to occupy this difficult place to defend, so just a policy of robbing and burning it out. Masayoshi wanted to treat this place as a bait and constantly harass the territory of Otomo's family through it, and at the same time lure their military force out.

The Luo family cannot afford large-scale battles and long-term attrition, but it is good to fight guerrilla wars occasionally. Anyway, the Da Tomo family also urgently needs time to recover. Moreover, the Da Tomo Yizhen, who had just inherited the position of the governor of the family, also needs time to integrate the retainer group. He is even more reluctant than Masayoro to launch the full battle in such a quick way.

After learning that the Luo family's army was invaded Sumimi County, the two garrisoned in Sumimi County, Kantae and Matajiyashi, the Kiba, and Matsushima, also emerged from the battlefield to block the attack. The Otomo family's army was sent to closely monitor the Luo family's army located on the edge of Sumimi County. Almost as soon as the Luo family's army was launched, the nearby Xizao immediately ran back to report the news.

Unfortunately, Beppu Beach is a plain area. The Otomo family did not expect that this hinterland would be invaded for one day, so they did not build a city fort in Beppu Beach. If they go to build a city fort at this time, they will inevitably be attacked by the Luo family's army at Takasaki Yama Castle on the border. It will take a lot of military force to defend on the plain for a long time, otherwise it will definitely not be able to stop the attack of the Luo family's army. Moreover, the field ability of the Otomo family's army is indeed not as good as that of the Luo family's army, so the Otomo family's army finally had to choose to station in Mingyue City on the border between Sumi County and Guodong County.

However, the Takasaki Yama Castle of the Luo family is located at the southernmost end of Beppu Beach, and the Naruto Castle is at the northernmost end of Beppu Beach. So when the 500-man army of Kitakashita Masaru came to the central area of ​​Beppu Beach in a hurry, he met the 800-man army of Otomo family who rushed to the rush. The two armies immediately started a war. As the chief general of the Otomo army, Kyoto and Matajiyashi tried to jointly attack Kitakashita Masaru, but were stabbed by the latter two shots. In the end, the two fled in a panic under the protection of their personal guards. Seeing that the main general fled, the Otomo family's army also began to defeat and flee. With less than three quarters of an hour of fighting, the war was declared over. No one on the Luo family's army was injured.

After defeating the Otomo family's blocking army, Masana Kinoshita did not take advantage of the victory to pursue it. Instead, he stationed on the spot and sent people to start looting nearby areas.

When I learned that my army was defeated in Mingyue City, Otoyoshi Town immediately issued a mobilization order to the nearby wealthy families again, and quickly recruited more than 1,000 troops to defend Mingyue City and wait for the arrival of the Luo family's army, but in the end, I only waited for the Luo family to station on the spot without any news that the Luo family was approaching Mingyue City.

Since the Luo family did not continue to attack, Otoyoshi Town simply gritted its teeth and issued a new mobilization order to the rich families in other areas of Guodong County, ordering them to recruit their own territory and immediately rushed to Mingyue City to gather.

At 1:00 am on April 27, the army of nearly 3,000 Oto family set out from Mingyue City and headed towards the Luo Family Camp in Beppu Beach. Oto Yi Town did not hesitate to let the various families temporarily suspend the spring farming in the territory and also wanted to repel the Luo Family's invasion force. This was used to establish his prestige in the hearts of the Oto family.

At 7 o'clock in the morning of April 27, Kinoshita Masato raised a large tent in a area near Daping, Beppu Beach, and held an evaluation meeting.

The curtains were surrounded on the position, but there was no ceiling. The sunlight in late April shone hotly, and the curtains blocked the wind. The thirty-year-old Masato Naoki Kishita was neatly dressed at this time, and he was sitting on the military tent.

"Sir, come and report that the enemy's formation is less than two miles away from the original formation." The retainer reported. According to the laws of the Luo family, retainers can lead fifteen of their own subordinates to fight with the army.

"Yes." Kinoshita Masaru nodded after hearing this.

"Sir. According to the news from the Black Hawk, there are nearly two thousand troops outside the Mingyue City. Why doesn't the other party attack in full? This is really a bit puzzling." Another retainer said.

"Hehe, such a small plan is really not comparable to my lord!" Kinoshita Masaru said suddenly with a smile.

"Sir, are you?" The retainers in the military tent looked at Kinoshita Masaru in confusion, all of whom were puzzled.

"Appoint the army to prepare for departure. Since the opponent has mobilized more than 5,000 troops, it indicates that the battle we have been waiting for has been won. The opponent's spring farming this year will naturally be greatly affected, and the income from autumn harvest will be reduced sharply. At that time, as long as the family takes the opportunity to go out again, the Otomo family will inevitably have internal and external troubles. As for the military force that stayed in Mingyue City, it is just planning to surround Wei and save Zhao."

"Ambassading Wei and saving Zhao?" The retainers still couldn't understand the meaning.

"Send the order, start the army, be careful to retreat slowly, do not let the other party catch up, and do not let the other party return to Naruto City." At this time, Kinoshita Masaru did not directly analyze to everyone, but began to order. After all, the other party had a military force of more than 3,000 people. It was six times the number of Luo family troops of 500 people at this time. It is better to retreat on caution. Anyway, this time, not only did the population and property, but also affected the other party's spring farming. The strategic goal has been achieved, and it is safest to slowly return to Takasaki Yama Castle.

Just as Kinoshita Masaru expected, Otoyoshi's mind was active this time. He wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to repel the Luo family's army invading Beppu Beach to build his prestige at home, and also wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Luo family sent troops to Beppu Beach to send people to land on the sea and attack Qibu City (Jifu Inner Hall). Even if the sneak attack was not successful, the Luo family's army invading Beppu Beach could return to rescue Qibu City! In his opinion, he was the victorious party in any case.

Otoyoshi Town had a good idea, but he met an unexpected opponent. This person was Kakuma Ishisou, a military advisor in the Luo family who was responsible for the Fenghou Kingdom.

Kakuma Ishisen was originally a retainer of the Otomo family. After he became a retainer of the Luo family, he always tried his best to avoid directly facing the old master Otomo family on behalf of the Luo family. It was not until Otomo Yoshiki died, and the traditional territory of the Otomo family, Tomomo family, almost fell into the hands of the Luo family. Masaro also married Otomo Yoshiki's daughter that he took the initiative to ask to take charge of Tomomo.

Considering that Kakukuma Shisen was originally an old minister of the Otomo family, he was very familiar with the situation of the Toyoko country and the retainers of the Otomo family. Moreover, Black Hawk was secretly monitoring him, Masara approved his request.

Kakukuma Shizong's proactive request was actually an indirect expression to Masaru Masaru that he had completely surrendered to him. From then on, he only had the Luo family in his heart but no Otomo family, or Masaru Masaru had replaced Otomo Yoshimi in his heart. After Masaru married Otomo Yoshimi's daughter, almost all the former Otomo family surrendered to him had such an idea. In Masaru's view, perhaps these retainers regarded him as his former family governor Otomo Yoshimi. He became a new spiritual sustenance for these retainers to fight for. But no matter what, as long as these retainers were loyal to the Luo family, it was enough. Masaru could not force all retainers to be loyal to the Luo family from the deepest part of his heart.

Before leaving Otomo's house, Kakukuma Ishisong had been a military strategy teacher in Otomo's town. Now it was the students' teacher who had already known every move and gesture of the students. Kakuma Ishisong naturally had a long time to guard against the students. After the Otomo's house's military situation secretly landed from Beppu Bay, they were attacked by the Luo family army that had been prepared on the beach.

The Otomo family's army, who was caught off guard, was defeated immediately and fled to the ships still on the sea. At this time, the big tube on Qibu City also fired.

It was also the head of the Otomo family who was responsible for the sneak attack this time, Tian Bei, who was in charge of the sneak attack, was unlucky. At this time, he happened to stand on the bow of the ship to command his subordinates to fight with the Luo family army that was chasing, trying to gather the defeated soldiers of the Otomo family as much as possible. If he didn't pay attention, he was hit by the rushing iron projectile.

Tian Beijianzhong was not smashed to death, but was knocked unconscious and then fell into the sea. What's even more unlucky is that he was wearing a heavy body, so he quickly sank to the bottom of the sea as soon as he fell into the sea. Even though several relatives of samurai tried to salvage him from the sea, he could not find him. Alas, Tian Beijianzhong, who had just inherited the Tian Bei family for several months, sank into death and feeding the fish. Before his death, he claimed to be the number one general of the Otomo family, didn't even have time to pull out the samurai sword.

Speaking of which, the Tian Bei family, who is separated from the Otomo family, seems to be in trouble when they meet the Luo family. Tian Bei Jian's father, Tian Bei Jian, was defeated twice before and after. When he met the Luo family's army for the third time, he was even more surrounded and beaten by the Luo family's army to protect the Zong family's governor Yoshiki, and finally died of septum.

Now, Tian Beijian's son, Tian Beijian's new governor, was knocked unconscious by a shell from the Luo family, and then sank to the bottom of the sea to drown. How sad! How sad!
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