Miyao Castle is in crisis, and Māori Mori was expected to be a long time ago.

As early as the third day after Tao Longfang set out, on September 24, Maori Moon left the Nado Takashi family to guard against Yama Castle of Yoshida-gun to prevent the Niko family. Then, with his three sons, Maori Takashi, Yoshikawa Takashi and Kobayakawa Takake, gathered the troops of Anyun Kingdom and rushed to Kusatsu to help. Unlike Maori Moon in history, Maori Moon had only four or five thousand people, this time, due to the integration of the power of some wealthy families of Beihou Kingdom, BeiChina and even Beiqian Kingdom, Maori Moon had gathered more than 10,000 troops at this time.

But even so, although the Tao army's attack on Miyao Castle became more and more intense, Mori Moto stopped at Kusatsu Castle and stopped moving. He just gave an order on the 26th: Kumaya Nobuki led dozens of ships and carried more than 200 people to Miyao Castle for support.

At this time, the defenders of Miyao Castle were hungry and thirsty, looking forward to their reinforcements. When they saw Kumagaya's fleet, they immediately cheered loudly. Kumagaya Nobunaga also used the path that had been prepared long ago on the side of the bay to quickly send the reinforcements into Miyao Castle, and then surrounded Miyao Castle, and finally turned around and escaped. The defenders who received reinforcements and materials helped him suddenly increased their morale. He immediately took up weapons and continued to fight with the Tao family's siege army.

"Baga!" Tao Longfang, who learned that Miyao Castle had received reinforcements, was furious and immediately ordered the navy to block the waters near Miyao Castle to prevent the Maori army from coming to support again.

After Maorimoto learned that the waters near Miyao Castle had been blocked by the Tao family's naval army, he immediately thought of Miyao Castle's embarrassment and felt very uncomfortable, but he could not attack hastily now. Since the Daning Temple Incident, he has been making continuous efforts to seize the key points of the southwest of Anyun Kingdom, siege against Iran Island without fighting, pretending to be grandson in front of Tao Long's house, constantly winning over the people of Anyun Kingdom, China, and even the former country, secretly training the navy, etc. All this was to decide the victory and defeat with the Tao family army on Iran Island.

Now, it has reached the last step of the decisive battle, which is to wait for a new reinforcement from the sea, namely the "Murakami Navy". In order to delay the waiting time for reinforcements and continue to make arrangements, Miyao Castle, as bait, not only cannot have too many troops, resulting in the loss of the role of bait, but also has to make huge sacrifices when the troops seem to be small and stick to the fort!

In fact, in history, since Maori Yuan had only four or five thousand troops, he chose this strategy. Now Maori Yuan has an army of tens of thousands of people on the land. He can fight against Tao Longfang's army head-on, but why did he still choose this strategy now? There are two main reasons:

First, although Maori Yuan had tens of thousands of troops on the land at this time, there were actually only two of them, and three thousand could be called elite soldiers, and the rest were just here to fight. Tao Longfang had an army of 20,000 people at this time, and many of them were elite soldiers who had followed Tao Longfang for many years. If the two armies really had to fight face to face, Maori Yuan would still suffer. So Maori Yuan would definitely not choose to face the head-on battle with Tao Longfang so quickly.

Second, due to the problem of the navy, the Tao family's navy had at least five or six hundred warships. What about Maori Moon? His subordinates only "Kawanokushimaku" (this navy was originally a subordinate of the Takeda family of Anyun Kingdom, and now it is controlled by Maori's retainer Kotashima, and Iida Yoshito), 5 or sixty ships, plus "Numatashimakushimaku" (formerly belonged to the Numada Kohayagawa family, first Maori Moon's third son Kohayagawa Takake, but in fact it was commanded by Nomi Sokatsu) 70 ships, and there were only about 130 warships, which was simply incomparable to Tao Longfang's navy. In this case, the Maori family's navy fought harassment wars and transported

It is still competent to send the army. It is a dream to fight the Tao family naval army directly with hundreds of warships. In addition, Maori Yuan also deeply realized that the reason why Tao Longfang was able to come to Itsudao to fight happily was entirely due to his powerful naval army, and he was confident that he could advance and retreat freely. Therefore, if you want to annihilate the Tao family army, the battle on Itsudao land was secondly, annihilation and expel the Tao army naval army and cut off Tao Longfang's retreat was the key to this victory. But with the power of the Maori family's current naval army, this is an impossible task. Only the only way to ask for a powerful neutral force like the Murakami naval army to help him.

In order to invite the Mishima Murakami Navy to help, Mori Moto also made a lot of blood.

The Murakami Navy is actually a group of pirates in the Seto Inland Sea. And they are in the same race with the "General Shinno" Murakami Yoshiki! The "Qingawa Genji", a pillar of the descendants of the Qing Dynasty, is known as the descendant of the Qing Dynasty. The origin of his family is like this. The first generation is called Genji, the second generation is called Genji, and the third generation is called Genji, and the third generation is called Genji, and the fork in Genji, where he is the first generation is called Genji, and Genji and Ashikagashi Tsuna.

The biggest noble race; Man Shinin's second son was named Lai Qing, and Lai Qing's son was named Nao Zhongzong. He was originally a servant of the Shirakawa Dharma Emperor. Because he cursed the Dharma Emperor, he and several sons were exiled to all parts of Japan. One of them was named Xianqing, who was exiled to Murakami Township, Shinno's higher-level county, and was the direct ancestor of "Shinno Murakami". As for Genon Nao himself, he was exiled to Zhou Fang in the Western Kingdom. Later, he built a castle on Nojima opposite Iyu Imaji and absorbed a large number of pirates to join him. It was the source of "Setouchi Murakami" (also known as Iyu Murakami). From then on, this noble race of the Wu family became pirates.

The pirate heads like the Murakami family are descendants of the Emperor, and the many pirates under him were originally the official army of the Emperor's government. In order to show their majesty to the small countries surrounding the tribute, the Japanese country recruited many local tyrants from the Seto Inland Sea, Osaka Bay, Kii Waterway and other places, and arranged for them to stand guard in Kyoto and called "Eifusans". However, the court was defeated and could not afford the salary of these "Eifusansans", so they laid off a large number of employees.

The laid-off "The Mansion Sheren" was extremely sad and angry, so after returning to his hometown, relying on his familiarity with sea transportation geography, he started to rob the "Kyoto ship" (ships that transported mizubo to Kyoto from all over the country) and became pirates. Over time, the pirates and the Oji Temple (such as Kii's Kumano Navy, were the leader of the Kumano Miyama Shrine), and the Great Samurai Lord (such as Iyu Murakami) mixed together and evolved into the "pirates" who dominated the waters of each.

Later, the pirates became more powerful and had to clean themselves up. They no longer had the small act of robbing and killing people. After all, they really wanted to rob and burn all the ships and trade withered, and they would drink the northwest wind. In addition, after entering the Muromachi era, Daming's power gradually extended to the coast, and many pirates began to retreat to the islands and built dock castles in order to protect themselves. At this time, the pirates' way of hard money also changed quietly. They gave themselves the name "Ping Guzhong", just like bandits would call themselves "Jing'an Army" and "Preserve the Min Army", and then reached an agreement with the trade fleet or local Daming. Don't hide from me and suppress me. I'll help you.

How to help? There are several ways: for example, "Official items are transported to police" and "Official items are transported to police" to help you escort bodyguards at sea, protecting people or guarding guests are invited to the public; there is also "difficult road support". When your fleet encounters complex and rugged lands, we pirates will help you navigate; there is also "drag ship", your ship is stranded, we will help you to drag. When your ship sinks, we will help you salvage, and the price is fair and fair.

There is a deep reason why the pirates do this, that is, they require Daming to recognize their "sea autonomy". As long as they have this power, they have the right to charge protection fees from passing fleets, which are of various names, such as "police and solid materials", "sails and other money", "carrying other money", "high-quality materials", etc. In this way, the pirates transformed from simple pirate road bullies to "intermediate forces" that draw money from maritime trade.

In fact, for the powerful names in various places, these pirates will hinder their own interests and power, and should be completely wiped out (think, the merchants in your country go out to sea and hand over all the money to the pirates, how much can they be left for you), but the powerful names in Japan are often limited in strength, and they are not convinced by the Chinese people on land, and they can't destroy the pirates at sea, so they have to endure the pain of making peace with the pirates. Many daimyos even specially set aside some farms as the fiefs of the pirates in exchange for their "police". This is really good. Daming's maritime trade is protected, and when encountering war, they can also rely on the pirates' water power under the umbrella.

In order to request the support of the Murakami Mishima Navy, this time Murakami not only paid a lot of money, food and weapons, but also promised them the maritime control of most of the Seto Inland Sea, and also reminded them that if Itsuki is occupied by Tao Longfang again in the future, you will not have a good life.

Why did Morimoto say this? The reason is that when Ouchi Yoshitaka was alive, although he occupied Itsuki, he still sent an envoy to negotiate with Murakami Mishima to continue to ask Murakami Mishima to collect "police and solid materials" and "high-quality materials" as a condition to exchange for an agreement with the Murakami Mishima Navy, ensuring the safety of the routes of Itsuki and even the entire Seto Inland Sea. But everything was different after Tao Longfang came to power. Half a year after the Daning Temple Incident, he specially released the "Tao Longfang Izuki" (the meaning of the law), which contains seven items, including the first four items:

First, residents outside the island are strictly prohibited from opening shops and building houses on Yidao; second, unidentified ships are strictly prohibited from docking and mooring; third, unidentified ships are strictly prohibited from collecting "police and solid materials" from ships; fourth, gambling is strictly prohibited on the island.

The first one is to protect the local tyrants from Itsukuo and win the hearts of the local people, and the fourth is to consider local public security. It is understandable. The second and third ones are to stab the hornet's nest, which makes the Murakami navy angry when he saw it: "What unknown ship? Isn't it just our navy! Isn't it the one who collects police and solid materials for us, so let us eat the northwest wind!"

In fact, Tao Longfang's purpose is very simple. He prohibited Mishima Murakami from collecting police materials in order to omit the profit-fighting link of the Murakami dropping water army and attract more pilgrims to come to Itsuki to catch a scent, and monopolize the interests of the Seto Inland Sea and Itsuki Shrine. However, Tao Longfang's policy naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the Mishima Murakami Navy. Therefore, when Maori Moto said that if the Maori family failed in this battle, once Tao Longfang controlled Itsuki and Seto Inland Sea, the Murakami Navy would be in trouble, so the Mishima Navy agreed to Maori Moto's request for help.

However, although the Mishima Navy did agree to Maori Yuan's request, they were aristocratic after all, so it was understandable that they came late. Maori Yuan was too anxious. Because even with reinforcements, Miyao Castle might not be able to hold on. Under the absolutely superior Tao family army, the fortifications in the city were destroyed and the water source was cut off. If the last nail in the Miyao Castle, Yidao, was pulled out, Tao Longfang could completely rely on Ishima and Maori Yuan to fight a head-on battle, and even divided his troops to land in various parts of the western and southern Anyun Kingdom. At that time, even if the army of Maori Yuan had tens of thousands of people could not resist it.

Miyao Castle must not be lost! But even if the Murakami navy arrives late, we must prepare for all aspects of the curious attack before we can launch our army! Maori Moto set the attack time on the evening of September (the last day of September, the 30th day). So how can Miyao Castle hold on to the time before this surprise attack?

Fortunately, Maori Moon had made some arrangements before. On the night of the 28th, Tao Longfang in Tanooka received a secret letter, and the person who wrote the letter was Kei Moon-suma Guardian. The content of the letter was: "The failure of the Maori family is inevitable. I, Kei Moon-suma, am willing to offer Sakura Moon-suma on the first day of October (October 1st), and cooperate with the Zen masters inside and outside to completely eliminate the Maori army in the Kusatsu area." Tao Longfangxian was overjoyed after reading the letter. Sakura Moon-suma and Miyao Castle were separated by straight lines. Once Kei Moon-suma turned against him, then Maori Moon-suma's army would have to be made into dumplings.

Moreover, in Tao Longfang's eyes, there is a reason for Gui Yuancheng to turn against the enemy. His father Gui Guangcheng and uncle Saka Hirohide died at the hands of Maori Mori. In addition, the Gui family also hopes to preserve the family name in front of the Tao army. It is normal for Gui Yuancheng to make contributions to the Tao family temporarily!

Gui Yuancheng did make contributions, but he made contributions for Mao Riyuan. Gui Yuancheng was Huang Gai, and Tao Longfang was Cao Cao. Tao Longfang was immersed in his dreams and did not realize that this was just Gui Yuancheng's Huang Gai's bitter trick.

As a result, on the 29th, Tao Longfang actually ordered that the entire army rest for one day on the 30th day, and then attacked the city with all their might on October 1st. After hearing the order, Hongzhonglongbao was shocked and hurried to question him. Tao Longfang was very vague: "The day of the three corpse insects is on the body, and it is unlucky to fight." Hongzhonglongbao asked Tao Longfang to take down the Miyako City in one go, but was rejected by Tao Longfang, who was full of confidence. No one could explain clearly why Tao Longfang, who was praised as the "unparalle general of the Western Country", was like this.
Chapter completed!