Chapter 956
As early as when Zhengliang was in the battle of the Western Region, he learned that his son Huiliang was defeated in the Southern Kyushu, Zhengliang began to make arrangements for the strategy of Southern Kyushu.
At that time, Zhengliang had already secretly issued preparations to the Interior Government and Military Master to start mobilizing temporary peasant soldiers and preparing materials. Of course, as the Western State was being carried out at that time, some peasant soldiers had been mobilized on a large scale. In order to ensure the stability of the territory, he could only use rotation to mobilize another part of peasant soldiers.
In order to avoid the leak of news of the Southern Kyushu's launch, the mobilization orders for these peasant soldiers were all based on temporary drills. Such a large-scale drill suddenly appeared in the territory, which indeed added a lot of work to the territory. Moreover, at that time, the Luo family was still conquering the Western region. While making preparations for this part, they also had to ensure the logistics support for the Western country strategy at that time, which once again brought even greater challenges to the various institutions of the Luo family. Fortunately, these institutions and retainers successfully completed the tasks assigned by Zhengliang.
At the same time, since the Luo family's standing guard was already a little tired in the Western strategy, Zhengliang had to rest for a while after the Western strategy ended, so that the standing guards, who were the main combat forces, had to rest, and also timely replenish personnel and maintain weapons.
When everything was basically ready, Masara deliberately spread the news that the Sahiro family, Shimazu family, Ito family and other forces were about to go out of the battle with the Sahiro family, which had been lurking in the territory of the Luo family, and the Ito family, which had been discovered by the Luo family's intelligence cabinet. This attracted the attention of the Sahiro family, Shimazu family, and Ito family to the border of the territory of the Sahiro family of the Toyoko family, and then secretly dispersed the prepared peasant soldiers to the pretext of drilling.
As for the other part of the peasant soldiers who were originally going to gather in the Fenghou Kingdom area, they also blatantly began to gather in the local area. The navy also gathered along the coast of Fenghou Kingdom. Anyway, the purpose of everything was to give the Sahiro family, Shimazu family and Ito family an illusion. That is, the Luo family is preparing to attack the Sahiro family's territory in Fenghou Kingdom.
In fact, while doing these actions on the surface, Masara also secretly sent regular services to the borders between Higashigo, Hinata and Satsuma. Of course, whether Masara would send troops to these areas or not, once the Ito family and Shimazu family decided to support the Sahiro family, just in case, they would inevitably mobilize the troops in the territory to send troops to the borders on the borders with the Ro family.
Such a large-scale mobilization of personnel is in the spring plowing season. It naturally caused great trouble to the Shimazu family and Ito family territory, but the Luo family itself also consumed a lot. After all, it was just a short time ago that mobilized tens of thousands of people. Now, after a little rest, it is about to start implementing a new strategy for Mian Kyushu.
Although according to the laws of the Luo family, after the main labor force of a certain household is mobilized, the Luo family's internal affairs cabinet will hire another unmobilized member to help the people who stay at home to farm for spring farms, or send slaves from slave farms to help. Anyway, according to the laws of the Luo family, the people only need to pay taxes within the prescribed time. As for corvee and temporary mobilization within the general time, the Luo family's internal affairs cabinet will give the people corresponding remuneration through coins, grain and even labor assistance.
In the eyes of later generations, this method is actually an investment in the people. The wealth invested in the people is returned to the rule of the Luo family through the taxation and commercial actions of the people. This investment, even if the wealth that is not spent, ensures the stability of the territory to a certain extent and promotes the development of the territory, so it is beneficial in any case.
Of course, the sudden temporary mobilization investment for war is very huge, and the income will only be rewarded after a period of time. This time, more than 90,000 people were mobilized, including several armies arranged by Zhengliang and retainers of various institutions of the Luo family. The number of people is even larger than the last Western strategy.
And because the Western State Strategy had just been completed, this suddenly caused a large amount of consumption of various materials and wealth in the Luo Family Warehouse. In addition, the current consumption of various internal construction in the territory (especially the newly occupied territory construction in the Western State region) will be added to the local construction consumption after occupying Nanjiuzhou in the future. According to the budget of the Internal Affairs Pavilion, after the Nanjiuzhou strategy is over, our family will need to rest for at least a period of time to supplement the various combat preparations and materials consumed.
Of course, if the Mitsukushu fails this time, the Luo family will really make a loss-making investment. But Masara is indeed willing to gamble for such investment. After all, according to Masarara's previous layout, it is entirely based on the resources of more than ten territorial territories such as the Hinata State, the Hinata State of Hinata State of the Mitsukushu Shimazu family, and the Hinata State of the Ito family, which is currently controlled by the Luo family, and the resources of more than ten territorial territories such as the Hinata State of the Satsuma State of the Ito family, and the Sahiro family, which are now in charge of more than ten territorial resources, to fight with the Satsuma State of the Shimazu family, the Ito family and the Sahiro family. In fact, in this battle, from the Shimazu family, the Ito family and the Sahiro family, they have gradually begun to become losers.
With the manpower and material resources of their territory, how can they gamble with the manpower and material resources of the Luo family in such a huge territory? What's more, from the information reported by the Intelligence Pavilion, Masara also knew that the Shimazu family had already sold out a lot of war horses and iron cannons in order to deal with the Luo family, which caused a lot of resources to be consumed. Therefore, under Masarara's layout, as long as he delayed it, the powerful people in the Southern Kyushu would be dragged to death by the Luo family.
Now that Matsuo Castle is occupied by the Luo family, the army of the Shimazu family has been blocked in a fixed area. To the south is a narrow and resource-poor mountain road, and to the north is the Sakai family territory, which has been sent by Masara to plunder thousands of caves. Without enough manpower and material resources, they cannot use this area to reliably fight against the Luo family army that besieged them.
As for the Hinata country, the Satsuma country was even the Osumi country area, which had already occupied a lot of territory by the Shimazu family. How can we resist the invasion of the Luo family when we lack the command of our own supervisor and the loss of a large number of its elite troops? After all, according to Masara's second plan, after the three armies of the Shimazu family, Ito family and Sahiro family were blocked in place. On the one hand, the Luo family adopted a strategy of sticking to the local area to intercept the other party, and on the other hand, several armies that had already gathered in the border area of the Nankaigo country began to erode the territory of the Hinata country, the Satsuma country and even the Osumi country.
At the same time, it was supplemented by spreading rumors, assassination and other means. After all, when we learned that our family's governor and the main elite troops were besieged and the Luo family began to attack multiple times, the Shimazu family and Ito family would inevitably be panic.
Moreover, after so many years of development of the Intelligence Pavilion, it has long been based on the strategy set by Zhengliang when he established the Intelligence Pavilion. In recent years, a large number of chess pieces have been arranged in various places. Of course, in fact, these chess pieces were not arranged for this guide to the Southern Kyushu, but the consistent style of the Intelligence Pavilion.
In the intelligence cabinet, according to different levels, a large number of people will be arranged in various places. For example, now, the intelligence cabinet has even arranged chess pieces in the easternmost area of Xiayi. These chess pieces generally settle in various places as normal people. In addition to occasionally passing local intelligence through Luoshi House and other shopping malls, the intelligence will be summarized into secret stations in each area in a password, and then the station will be summarized and the information will be sent back to the territory of the Luoshi family. Once the territory where these chess pieces are located becomes the guide of the Luoshi family in the future, these chess pieces that are no different from ordinary people will turn around and start to play a greater role.
In addition, the closer the area of the Luo family, the more chess pieces there will be. In terms of the treatment of these chess pieces, generally, their families and clan members will settle in the Luo family and receive good treatment. Even if the chess pieces themselves establish a new family in the local area, the intelligence cabinet will regularly provide compensation to these chess pieces. As for occasionally having chess pieces leave the Luo family's intelligence cabinet, they actually only know their own situation but not the other people's situation. Therefore, if they do not actively disclose the information of the Luo family's intelligence cabinet, they will become ordinary people from then on and will not be retaliated by the Luo family. Of course, if their families or clan members stay in the Luo family's territory, they will not be able to contact them from then on unless the other party takes the initiative to settle in the Luo family's territory.
I believe that with the help of these chess pieces in the intelligence hall that had settled in the local area as ordinary people a long time ago, Masayoshi's second step of encroaching on Nan Kyushu will make great progress.
As for why Masara suddenly had such a layout, it was entirely due to a secret letter. This secret letter was delivered to Masara with the news of his father-in-law Saito Daozo being rebelled by his son Saito Yoshiro. After receiving this letter, Masarara was indeed very happy. Then he remembered the Zhongshan Castle of Mita's family, which was secretly controlled by the Luo family, which provided great help to Masarara's layout that Masara immediately thought of.
Of course, Masara is not an omnipotent person. When he captured Midai Yuwu, Masarara only planned to control Zhongshan Castle through Midai Yuwu, and then acted as a pawn to seek Hinata. However, this unintentional act provided great help to Masarara's layout this time.
Now, with the back road where Matsuo Castle is located, the main forces of the Shimazu family, Sahiro family, and Ito family are besieged, Masaru's first step of layout is completed, and the second step of layout is about to begin immediately. In this layout, Masaru is in conflict with the entire family of the Luo family and the three powerful men of the Mikushu. Such a conflict is qualified to initiate, and can initiate it at any time, and can afford to lose. The three Mikushu tycoons, which are much less territory and family, are much less than the Luo family, are no longer qualified to initiate such a conflict. They can only fight against the Luo family in a specific local area, but cannot initiate a full-scale battle.
In fact, neither Shimazu family's head, Shimazu Takahisa or Ito's head, Yoshiyuki, did not realize this problem. It was not that they were not smart enough, but that they lacked understanding of the overall situation. What they cared about was their own territory, and even Shimazu Takahisa was not more concerned about the Satsuma Kingdom, Osumi Kingdom, and Hinata Kingdom, these three places ruled by the ancestors of the Shimazu family. They did not completely realize how big the territory their opponent, the Luo family, had mastered at this time. They would not completely compare the territory they had with the Luo family's territory. So in their subconscious, they would have to fight with the Luo family in a certain local area, and the Luo family's family's foundation could only be like this.
But in fact, with the Luo family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family's family can be completely engaged. Even if a local area fails in the fight, it will not have much impact on the overall situation. According to the language of later generations, they are using the mentality of a frog in the well to fight against the Luo family, just like a county and a district to fight against a large province and region.
As the saying goes, knowing oneself and the enemy is a disadvantage in fighting without grasping others. Both Shimazu Takaha and Ito Yoshiyuki not only do not know the strength of the Luo family, but also troubled the previous combat methods, thinking that defeating the Luo family on a battlefield can win, so they united and came to support the Sahiro family's actions.
More importantly, Masara was from later generations. He had a map of the entire Warring States Period in his mind, so he not only knew his own situation clearly, but also roughly estimated the enemy's situation and made arrangements based on the intelligence cabinet's investigation of the enemy. Moreover, Masara's combat method did not follow the old methods, and paid more attention to reality and results, and everything was based on victory. In this way, it would be strange that Shimazu Takaha, Ito Yoshiyuki and others did not fall into Masara's layout.
So, since the Shimazu family and Ito family entered the chess game arranged by Masara, they have gradually become losers.
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