The second year of Yonglu (1559 AD), mid-July.＄↗,w≧ww.23≧wx.co＠m

The dazzling sunshine filled the corridors and courtyards of Matsuo Castle, an important town in the northern part of Hinata. The cuckoo cries were sometimes close and far away. Masayora was dressed very neatly today and sat upright in his bedroom. He personally stamped the "Tianxia Buwu" seal on the comforting examples sent to various parts of the Southern Kyushu.

The eleven-year-old Tadao Tada was also kneeling beside Masara with a smile and a smile. He was naturally very happy to be able to follow the lord Masarara and personally assist the lord in handling government affairs.

At this time, Masara no longer was the Masara of the previous one. He had pacified most of the territory of the Shimazu family and Ito family, and almost the entire Mikuzu area had been included in the territory of the Luo family, as powerful and majestic as his seal "Tianxia Bubu" claimed. And Tada Honda is no longer the Tada Honda before. After participating in this battle, with his intelligence and performance, Tada Honda had begun to make great strides towards a famous general.

"What's wrong with them?" Zhengliang asked.

Masara was asking about Shimazu Takahisa and others. After meeting Hiroki Togo who came to persuade Hiroki, Masara told Hiroki Togo all the thoughts and worries in his heart. After a night of deep conversation with him, Hiroki Togo finally decided to support Masara. Although Hiroki Togo also had the idea of ​​adding a glory to the Togo family that could be passed down to future generations, he had always advocated the steadfastness. After thoroughly understanding Masarara's ideas, he immediately decided to act as an envoy of Hiroki, and instead persuaded the retainers who advocated that they would invite him as soon as possible.

While acting as the envoy of Masaru's persuasion, Togo Heiji was also appointed by Masaru and became the negotiator of the Luo family who negotiated with the Shimazu family. When Togo Heiji appeared in front of the Shimazu family, it first made it a little embarrassed when he arrived at the Shimazu family. Because Togo Heiji was a member of the Togo family under the Shimazu family, strictly speaking, Togo Heiji was originally a retainer of the Shimazu family.

However, when the division of Togo Heiji was annexed by the Togo family's Hon's family, the Shimazu family, as the sovereign family, did not stop it and agreed to the Togo family's actions, resulting in Togo Heiji being exiled to the Matsuura Peninsula area of ​​the Hibimakikuoku, which led to Togo Heiji meeting Masara.

Nowadays, time has changed. Togo Heiti, who was abandoned by the Shimazu family, has become a powerful official of the powerful daimyo who can determine the life and death of the Shimazu family. However, the Shimazu family members wanted to negotiate with the Luo family in order to gain more benefits for the Shimazu family. This is really ironic.

Of course, Togo Heiji would never have the idea of ​​helping the Shimazu family in front of him. On the contrary, he directly suggested that the Iton family, as their ally, also submitted the news of surrender to the Luo family not long ago. This news really made the Shimazu family nervous.

People's minds are so strange. No one competes with you, so they naturally seem fearless. As a result, a competitor suddenly appears, so they will lower their attitude. So after negotiations with Togo Heiji and others, the Shimazu family finally decided to surrender to the Luo family.

After surrendering, the Shimazu family will leave the Mikyushu area and transfer it to the northern part of the Shikoku Iyu country. All its territory in Mikyushu will be handed over to the Luo family. At the same time, its naval warships will be confiscated by the Luo family, but the naval army can return to the land, and it will decide whether to continue to stay in the Mikyushu area or follow the Shimazu family.

As a condition for the Shimazu family to be transferred, except for some of the Shimazu family members who were trapped in Shimazu Kiyoshi, who needed to stay in Matsuo Castle as hostages, most of the rest could immediately return to the Mian Kyushu area. At the same time, the Roh family will be responsible for transporting all the Shimazu family members and some of the materials originally belonging to the Shimazu family to the Iyu-kui region, and is responsible for providing a temporary territory for the Shimazu family in the Iyu-kui country to serve as a temporary place to settle down.

The Shimazu family will take over the Kenyama Castle, the strategic city of the Kono family in the Iyu Kingdom region within the time specified by the Roh family. During this period, the Roh family will provide the Shimazu family with necessary material support (materials are limited to common materials in various parts of the Warring States Period, and the unique materials, strategic materials and technology of the Roh family will not be provided). Even after the Shimazu family gains foothold in the Shikoku region in the future, if the Shimazu family continues to make a request for material support, the Roh family will also provide material support to them according to their own circumstances.

Of course, these materials are not provided free of charge. First of all, the premise of the establishment of the agreement is that in the future, all minerals such as gold, silver, copper ore and other minerals in the Shimazu family will be unconditionally owned by the Luo family. If the value of these minerals cannot be offset by the value of the materials provided by the Luo family, the Shimazu family will also use the materials in its own territory and even the territory to offset the value of the materials owed to the Luo family.

In addition, after the Shimazu family seized the Kenyama Castle of the Kono family and handed over the temporary territory provided by the Roh family, the territory captured by the Shikoku family in the future will be owned by the Shikoku family. At the same time, the owners of the Shimazu family (except for the Shimazu Kiku who needs to stay in Kyushu as hostage), whether they are retainers of the Shimazu family or ordinary entourage members, as long as these people are willing to leave with the Shimazu family, the Roh family cannot stop them. In contrast, if there are retainers of the Shimazu family and ordinary entourage members who are unwilling to leave, the Shimazu family cannot force them.

In general, the agreement between the two sides has obtained the benefits they have fought for. In fact, the Shimazu family had to surrender and surrender, because not only did the elite Shimazu family led by Shimazu Kiku exhausted their supplies and could no longer resist the attack of the Luo family. As for Shimazu Yoshihiko and others in the territory, although they were still resisting the invasion of several large army of the Luo family, they were already exhausted and their territory was lost one after another (in order to increase the pressure on the Shimazu family's negotiations, the Luo family would have promptly informed the Shimazu family of the Shimazu family to learn about it, and in order to make the other party believe, they continued to send the Shimazu family's retainers captured in the South Kyushu to the negotiations, and let these prisoners explain the situation in detail to the Shimazu family).

What's more serious is that the Shimazu family had previously purchased a large number of iron cannons from the Ming pirates along the coast, and at the same time, they purchased a large number of horses in order to prepare for cavalry teams. This caused the internal materials of the Shimazu family to be limited. Now, facing the full invasion of the Luo family, even if Shimazu Yoshihisa gritted his teeth and resisted with all his might, the Shimazu family's material reserves could not be maintained. Therefore, after thinking alone for a day and a night, Shimazu Kiku finally accepted the conditions for the transfer of the Luo family.

Although he surrendered to the Luo family and accepted the conditions for surrender that were somewhat humiliating to the Shimazu family, the Shimazu family not only guaranteed the continuation of the family, but also preserved the elites of the family. In Shimazu Kiku's view, the territory can be seized again after it is lost. However, the elite talents who are the pillars of the family must not be damaged. In the future, with this part of the elite, the Shimazu family will definitely become stronger again.

For the Luo family, not only did they obtain all the territory of the Shimazu family in the Mian Kyushu area, but they also weakened and restricted the Shimazu family from geographical, economic and military aspects respectively, which was a good harvest.

So under the witness of the minister Nakano-gate Norihide, who represented the court, the Shimazu family officially surrendered to the Luo family. On a good night, the Shimazu family officially left the valley that had been besieged for nearly half a year and entered the Luo family military camp in the north of Masarae (of course, all their weapons were confiscated, and they could only obtain food that could barely guarantee physical strength).

When leaving, at Masarara's request, the Shimazu family directly burned the Shimazu family's military camp in the valley before the last person left the camp. The red fire not only represents the decline of the Shimazu family, but also indicated the Shimazu family's departure to the Iton family camp next to it.

The news that the Shimazu family gave up their camp and surrendered to the Luo family (the Luo family loudly promoted it in front of the Luo family camp to the south when the Shimazu family camp was burning) suddenly shocked everyone in the Itong family camp. Immediately, due to the long-term oppression of being besieged and the dissatisfaction caused by the lack of supplies (especially food), the camp roar was immediately triggered in the Itong family camp, and a large number of Itong family soldiers began to rush to the Luo family camp, and they were preparing to surrender to the Luo family.

Induced by the Shimazu family, there were too many soldiers of the Ito family who suddenly tried to rush out of the camp and go to the Luo family camp to surrender. Even though some samurai retainers loyal to the Ito family drew their swords and began to kill people, trying to stop the soldiers from escaping, it was still useless and even triggered a melee.

If everyone's food was guaranteed in the past, these warriors and retainers of the Ito family were naturally much better than ordinary soldiers in terms of force, but now everyone is hungry and powerless. The escaped soldiers have stimulated greater power because they need to escape to survive, which has caused constant casualties among the Ito family's warriors and retainers.

The melee lasted for most of the night until the early morning of the next day. When Ito Yoshiyuki counted the number of people again, there were less than one hundred people in the Ito family camp who could stand up. The rest either fled to the Luo family camp to surrender, or died or were seriously injured in the fierce battle last night.

Just as Ito Yoshiyuki fell to the ground for this, the Luo family army located on both sides of the north and south also began to slowly approach the Ito family's camp. In response, less than 100 people led by Ito Yoshiyuki showed their backbone and courage, and rushed out of the camp and rushed towards the Luo family's army. Unfortunately, under the shooting of the Luo family's arrow rain, everyone in the Ito family, including Ito Yoshiyuki, fell on the road of attack. With the fall of Ito family camp, lasting for more than half a year, the fierce battle surrounding the Sabuki family's territory was finally over.

In fact, the Iton family did make a request to surrender to the Luo family not long ago, but Masayoshi did not accept it.

The reason why Masayoro accepted the surrender of the Shikoku family and transferred it to the Shikoku area (this area is indeed a good place to besiege people. The most obvious example is the Nagazomoto family, who unified the Shikoku area in history but eventually surrendered to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army, was confined to the enfeoffment of the Shikoku family after Tosa Kingdom. After being in Tosa Kingdom, the family's governor, Somamoto Motoko, had all his skills and could only die of depression. His family was almost wiped out later). It was mainly because the Shikoku family had experienced generations in Mian Kyushu and was mixed with the local forces. Even when facing the invasion of several large armies of the Luo family, they could retreat slowly and did not lose too much territory at once.

In comparison, if Ito Yosuke surrendered to the Luo family before the Hinata was invaded by the Luo family, Masara might have given the Ito family the same treatment as the Shimazu family. However, with the northern and central regions of the Hinata country falling respectively, after its Ogawadang and Kazuki Castle in the border areas surrendered, even if Ito Yosuke did not surrender at this time, it would be sooner or later that Hinata would be occupied by the Luo family.

What's more, the Iton family has just risen in the Hinata region. It is still a while before it reaches the peak of the lord of the Forty-eight Cities in history. Its influence is only when it starts in the Iton family in the central plains of the Hinata country, but its influence is actually very average in other regions. This can be seen from the surrender of the local forces after the Luo family's army entered these areas.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the Ito family no longer has the qualification to surrender to the Luo family. More importantly, if it accepts the other party's surrender, a group of retainers in the Nankyushu region led by Ito Yoshisu will naturally form in the Luo family. This will increase the Ito family's influence in the Nankyushu region. Even if it is transferred, as long as Ito Yoshisu exists for one day, its impact on the central region of Hinata will still exist. Since this is the case, it would be better to solve it directly.

Therefore, after considering it, Masarara did not respond to the other party's request for surrender. He even used the evacuation of the Shimazu family to trigger the roar of the Ito family camp, thus directly destroying the Ito family camp headed by Ito Yoshiyuki.

Almost all those who died in battle with Ito Yoshiyuki were important officials and elites of the Ito family. It can be said that with their death, the decline of Ito family was inevitable.

After accepting the surrender of the Shimazu family and falling into the camp of the Ito family, Masarara led everyone to Matsuo Castle in the northern part of Hinata. After a little rest, some of the Shimazu family members returned to the Shimazu family's territory accompanied by the imperial representative Nakamori Nori and began to arrange the evacuation of Minami Kyushu.

As for Shimazu Takahisa and several Shimazu family members led by Ijiyuan Tadaro stayed in Matsuo Castle as hostages (although a surrender agreement was signed and there were witnesses from the imperial representatives, this was just a piece of paper after all. For safety reasons, the Shimazu family must leave some important personnel as hostages).

What Masara just asked the little surname Honda Tada Katsuka was the recent situation of Shimazu Takahiko and others in Matsuo City. So after thinking for a while, Honda Tada Katsuka immediately replied:

"Those adults seemed very quiet, almost never left the room, and even their daily life was carried out in the house."

"Is this how?" Zhengliang thought for a while after hearing this, and finally nodded: "Since that's the case, what's the point."

Since the other party was so tactful and did not make small moves secretly, Zhengliang was naturally satisfied. But is this really the case? Of course not.

In fact, over the past period of time, after several thoughts, Shimazu Takaha decided to resist Masara in his own way.

Masaru, who was not aware of this, was naturally unprepared. So when the time came to early August of the second year of Echonro, the Shimazu family gave in to the western, central, northern and central regions of the Satsuma country, and returned to the southern region of the Satsuma country, starting from Shimazu family city, Kiyomizu Castle. After the Ro family successfully handed over the above-mentioned regional territories that the Shimazu family had abandoned, Masaru also ordered Shimazu Takahiko and others to return to the Shimazu family.
Chapter completed!