Outside the Kyushu Hinata Kyoto Castle, shortly after Sahiro Yuuji entered the Menkawa Castle, Yuki Ito Ito and Yuba Ito finally waited for the military force of the Ito family, but they only saw Yuan Ito who was lying on a wooden board.**

"What's going on?"

Seeing this situation of Yuan Ito, Yuki Ito Ito and Yuan Ito immediately asked with anger. Faced with their reproach, Yuan Ito's retainers were all ashamed. Finally, an older retainer told them in detail about Yuan Ito's injury and his subsequent actions under the auspices of Yuan Sabunarok, who was forced to carry Yuan Ito for thousands of lives to escape.

"hateful!"

Sabuki Yui Nao's decision to retreat and escape not only made all the efforts of Ito Yui'an and the Luo family's army in vain, but also made another effort after Ito Yui'an was seriously injured, which also increased Ito Yui's injury. Isn't this equivalent to murder? Ito Yui Ki and Ito Yuiba immediately entered Menkawa City and found Sabuki Yui Nao to settle the score.

"Not good, no good." Just as Yuki Ito Ito Ito and Yuba Ito Ito were preparing to take action, a foot from Menkawa Castle hurriedly ran over.

"What's the matter?" Yuki Ito immediately asked.

"Sir, it's not good. After that Lord Sabuki took his people to the warehouse in the city to collect some food, he now left the south gate." Zu Qing replied immediately.

"What?" Yuki Ito, Yuki Ito Ito and Yuba and others were shocked after hearing this. After a little startled, Yuki Ito immediately changed his face and said with a ignorant look: "Does Sabuki Yuzumaki plan to rebel?"

In Yuki Ito's opinion, Sabuki Yui Nao's actions were too much. Originally, there was not much food in the city. And after fleeing here yesterday, the two brothers sent people to urgently warn the forts in the rear and request reinforcements. On the other hand, they urgently sent a few of the city's smallest villages to recruit peasant soldiers and food from nearby villages. After some hard work, they finally added a little food to the warehouse of Menkawa Castle (the grain that was hoarded in the city in the past was transported to Matsuo Castle in order to support the three armies' and the two armies' strategy to the Luo family in the Fenghou Kingdom region). Now Sabuki Yui Nao actually went straight to the warehouse without saying a word to rob the extremely important food. Isn't this a rebellion?

Originally, Sabuki Wei Nao's move to reach an agreement to escape with the Luo family, who seized Matsuo Castle and caused Ito Yu'an seriously injured Yu'an, has made Ito Yu'ki very dissatisfied. Now Sabuki Wei Nao has acted such an rude way again. Can Ito Yuki still endure it? Anyway, the two sides are just an alliance. In his heart, he also regards the Sabuki family as a pitiful chess piece begging for the family. What's more, with the loss of Matsuo Castle, his lord will inevitably lead his army to return from Fenghou Kingdom. So after no one's protection, the Sabuki family's foundation in Fenghou Kingdom will be seized by the Luo family, so the Sabuki family is worthless in his eyes at this time.

Thinking of this, Ito Yuki immediately shouted, "Send the order..."

"Not good, no good..." Before Ito Yuki finished speaking the order, he was behind the fleeing Ito family army. He shouted and ran over quickly.

Yuki Ito, who was suddenly interrupted, almost pulled out the sword from his waist and ran to him, and then slashed the foot that was breathless and ran to him.

The news that had just arrived at Shin-Kan seemed to have noticed that the atmosphere was wrong, especially after seeing Ito Yuki's gaze that was so sucking. He even tried his best to reduce his breathing movements.

"Tell me, what's the matter?" The younger brother Ito Yuban, who saw that the situation was wrong, distracted the attention of the scene, glared at his feet, who had already knelt on the ground, and then asked.

"Sir..., the pursuers behind... have accelerated their marching." At the request of Ito Yuba, Zuo Chuan finally replied tremblingly.

"What?" The news was so light that everyone was shocked.

"Bastard, why didn't you say it earlier?" Yuki Ito, who was already very popular, kicked the news foot down with one kick.

"Quick, speed up into the city and prepare to face the enemy." After kicking the rogue to the ground, Yuki Ito no longer looked at the rogue to the ground, but ordered directly.

"Sir, sir, ship... ship..." Before everyone could take action, another footsteps of news came from Menchuan City.

"What's the matter?"

"Ship, many warships." Zu Qing, who had just arrived, immediately reported.

"Ship? What ship?" Yuki Ito asked.

"Sir, there are many warships appearing on the sea. It seems that the Luo family's naval warships are."

"Ah?" This time everyone was not as simple as exclaiming, and some people even sat on the ground in fear.

"No, it must be the Luo family's naval army. We were attacked by the other party on the coast last night." A retainer of Iton's family in the escape team immediately said.

"Hurry, enter the city immediately and prepare to fight against the pursuers in the rear. The rest of the people followed the city to check." Since they confirmed that the visitor was the Luo family's naval army, Yuki Ito gritted his teeth and immediately ordered.

So after the injured Yu'an Ito was placed and leaving enough personnel to arrange the defeated troops that arrived one after another, Yuki Ito Ito and Yu'an Ito immediately took some of its retainers to the top of Menkawa Castle.

Just now, since they were at the north gate where mountains and forests blocked their sight, Yuki Ito Ito Ito Ito, Yuba Ito Ito and others naturally could not see the situation on the sea. Now, after reaching the highest point at the city top, everyone finally saw the situation on the sea far away.

I saw that the sea was really overlapping with shadows, especially the three giant ships, which caused a great impact on everyone. The largest of these three giant ships was naturally the large blessing ship brought by Li Huamei from the Ming Kingdom, and the two smaller ships were small blessing ships built by the Luo Family Shipbuilding Workshop as commanding ships of various water armies of the Luo Family. Since the speed on the water was obviously much faster than on land at this time, Li Huamei's naval army, who was on the battlefield at the same time, rushed in front of the Takasaka Masatoshi's army that marched on land.

"Such a large-scale naval army?" After seeing the situation at sea, Yuki Ito Ito Ito and Yuba Ito both looked at each other, and saw a hint of fear in each other's eyes. What's even more annoying is that yesterday they saw their own naval army in Matsuo Castle pass directly from the nearby waters. Judging from the situation, these naval armies were going to the coastal area of ​​the largest plain in central Hinata. In this way, there are really no naval army nearby that can stop the Luo family naval army on the sea. Once the other party lands from the south coast, even if they guard Menkawa Castle, they will sooner or later besieged by the other party to death with limited food.

Thinking of this, Yuki Ito couldn't help but look at the expressions of the other people on the city wall. What made him feel even more helpless was that from the eyes of these retainers and warriors, he only saw fear, and he had no intention of fighting to the death. It was really a loss before the battle.

"Hmph, no wonder Sabuki Yuu Nao was so panicked and went straight through the city. But, what should I do if I continue like this?"

"Not good, no good..." At this moment, a retainer who stayed in the city and was responsible for taking care of Yuan Ito ran up in panic.

"Um?"

"Sir, lord... lord he..."

"What?" Although the retainer had not explained clearly, Yuki Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Younata and Yuba Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito Ito It

When the two of them came to the cottage where Yuan Ito was placed, they only saw the body of Yuan Ito, who was lying on the tatami, with wide eyes and unwilling faces, but had already died.

In fact, when Yuki Ito Ito and Yuba Ito ito met with the fleeing Ito family members under the city gate, Yuan Ito came to a little awake. Although he was unable to open his eyes or move his hands at that time, he could barely hear the movements around him. So he heard the conversations about Sabuki Sabunaga leaving the city and fleeing, the constant pursuits behind him, and the hostile navy appeared at the sea.

Yua Ito, who suddenly learned about this news, was really angry. He tried to defend the city to the death, but he eventually lost it. At this time, he felt that the act of governor Yoshiyuki Ito protecting the Sabuki family and arranging the Sabuki family in Matsuo Castle was completely a move of death. Ordinary retainers did not see the impact on the Ito family after losing Matsuo Castle, but in Ito Yua's view, this was almost the beginning of the demise of the Ito family.

As an important town in the northern part of the Hinata Kingdom, the Ito family's support army went to the Toyoko country to support the Sakai family to resist the invasion of the Luo family's army, and became the only way for the Itoko family's expeditionary army. In order to ensure the safety of the retreat, the family governor Ito Yoshiyuki not only arranged three coalition forces with more than 2,000 people in the city (the main force of the Ito family's army of more than 1,000 people), but also arranged a total of more than 2,000 water and land troops in the Nagata Fort, Aiwa Fort, and coastal areas near Matsuo City. If the Luo family attacked Matsuo City from the coast, then the joint defense system composed of these strongholds would be able to resist the attack of the Luo family, so that the expeditionary army of the Toyoko country could return to aid in time.

As for the rugged mountain road from the Mida I family to the west, Yiyu Ito was not careless. Instead, he sent more than 300 troops to Zhongshan Castle, preparing to join forces with the defenders of the Mida I family there to protect the border. In addition, Yiyu Ito Ito also set up several checkpoints in the mountain road along the way, and once the direction of Zhongshan Castle is missing, the forts will be promptly informed and warned Matsuo Castle in time. After receiving the warning, the Matsuo Castle can set up blocking formations in time in the mountain road along the way. With the help of the rugged and narrow terrain of the mountain road, it can resist the invasion of the Luo family with one man as a man, and get the timely return of the expeditionary army of Fenghou Kingdom.

But after all the calculations, Matsuo Castle was finally attacked by the Luo family. When it was attacked, Yuan Ito had not yet figured out how the other party's large-scale military force suddenly appeared outside Matsuo Castle. Later, when Matsuo Castle was lost and forced to retreat, he realized that it was. Since the other party suddenly appeared from the West Gate, naturally something happened to the mountain road in Zhongshan City. All the arrangements of the Ito family in the mountain road ended in failure.

Although he still hasn't figured out how the Luo family army broke through the main family's arrangement in the mountain road of Zhongshan City, after Matsuo Castle was lost, he knew that the crisis of the Ito family had arrived. If Matsuo Castle cannot be recaptured, it will lead to the retreat of the Fenghou Kingdom Expeditionary Force where the family governor is located. The army led by the family governor includes a large number of elite troops in the Ito family. Once the family governor and the elite troops of the Ito family are besieged in Fenghou Kingdom, the strength of the Ito family army left behind in Hinata will be greatly reduced.

What's even more terrifying is that since a large number of troops in the family had been concentrated on the borders everywhere, the territory of Ito family in Hinata was empty at this time. The Luo family army, who had obtained a breakthrough from Matsuo Castle, would inevitably invade the territory of Ito family after learning about this situation.

As for the people left behind in the family, will anyone stand up for the overall situation at this critical moment? This is basically impossible. After all, the legitimate son of the family governor Ito Yoshiyuki died of illness before, and the second son is only five or six years old now. The third son (that is, the next heir of the Ito family governor Ito Yubing in history) has just been born this year. At this time, he was appointed as the host and was injured again. In this way, go there to find a new host for the overall situation?

It was precisely because of this that Ito Yuan decided to defend the Aiwa Fort on the south side of Matsuo Castle. On the one hand, he tried to defend the bridgehead from the northern part of Hinata to enter the empty central part of Hinata, so that the rear could be prepared to be invaded by the Luo family in time. On the other hand, he also had the intention to jointly regain the lost Matsuo Castle after the governor who was waiting to withdraw from the Fenghou Kingdom, leading the expeditionary army back.

However, Hachiman Great Bodhisattva did not favor the Ito family at all. When I was patrolling the defense preparations of Aiyan Fort, Yua Ito was unfortunately shot into the abdomen by the Raya from the Luo family outside the city, and was seriously injured and unconscious.

After he finally woke up from his coma today, he suddenly heard that the Aiwa Fort, which he had previously decided to defend, had been directly contributed to the Luo family by Sabunarok. What made him even more desperate was that the Luo family had also added reinforcements from the coast in time. In this way, he lost all the chances of recapturing the Matsuo Castle to rescue the Fenghou Kingdom's army and blocking the Luo family's invasion of the empty territory in the central part of Hinaga.

Finally, he even learned that the Luo family's naval army had actually headed for the central area along the waterway. He was really worried and angry about this. He had accumulated a lot of blood stasis in his body because of the injury, so he was so angry that he simply burped and turned aside.

Yuan Ito's sudden death became the last straw that crushed the persistence in the hearts of the people in Menkawa Castle. In a sad state, after discussing with everyone, Yuan Ito and Yuan Ito finally decided to abandon the city and flee.

It is impossible not to escape. There were only less than a hundred defenders in the city, and the food was limited. Among the newly arrived defeated troops, not only were everyone exhausted, but most of the people were limited in food for convenience when they retreated yesterday. When they arrived at Menchuan City, most of the people had very little food left. This naturally caused great pressure to reserve grain in Menchuan City. With such a grain reserve, if they were besieged by the Luo family army for a period of time, and before the opponent could attack the city, the defenders in the city would be unable to fight due to insufficient food.

What's even more annoying is that before, Sabuki Wei Nao not only robbed some of the reserved food from the city, but also fled directly with the more than 200 Sabuki's defeated soldiers. This resulted in the end that the Ito family's defeated army, which was only 800 left, remained. Even if they joined forces with the defenders in the city, there were less than 1,000 people in total. With this situation, how can we deal with the front and back attacks of the fierce Luo family army?
Chapter completed!