Warring States Eagle

Entering the second half of March in the 21st year of Tianwen ([-]), during the busy season of spring plowing, the Kitakyushu and Nishikoku areas experienced continuous torrential rain, and even hailstones fell in some areas.

The Luo family's army, who was going to enter the southeastern region of Buzen Kingdom in one go, had to temporarily station at the junction of Zhucheng County and Shangmo County of Buzen Country.Prepare to wait for this special weather to pass before moving forward.

But what the Luo family didn't expect was that due to the continuous torrential rain, a huge natural disaster occurred in the Luo family's territory.The source of the disaster was Mount Goku, which separated the Chikuzen Kingdom from the central and northern regions of the Buzen Kingdom.

Last year, a fire in Yuxu Mountain lasted from September to the end of the year. After burning continuously for more than three months, it was finally extinguished in a spring rain at the beginning of this year.It's just that a large amount of vegetation in Yuxu Mountain has been burned, and new saplings have no time to grow again in a short period of time.So in this continuous torrential rain, large torrents and mudslides formed in Yuxu Mountain.These flash floods and mudslides continue to flow down along the terrain.In this way, the three prefectures of Onga, Ante, and Kama in the Chikuzen Kingdom to the west of Oxu Mountain, and the three counties of Buzen Country, Tagawa, Qijiu, and Kyoto located in the east of Oxu Mountain were all damaged to varying degrees.A large number of fields and villages were submerged by floods and mudslides.

What's more serious is that as the precipitation continued, the water levels of the Chikugo River, Onga River and other rivers in the Luo family's territory began to soar.Although due to the previous water conservancy construction, the Chikugo River may not be flooded, but the rivers such as the Onga River in the newly occupied territories of the Chikuzen Kingdom and Buzen Kingdom have not yet had time for water conservancy construction.As a result, the Chikuzen Kingdom and Buzen Kingdom instantly became the areas most affected by natural disasters in the Luo family's territory.

In such weather.It is not only impossible to continue military operations.It is even necessary to quickly invest in the rescue of the disaster-stricken areas.Otherwise, the autumn harvest in these areas will be greatly affected this year, and the food and other materials that the Luo family has saved up with great difficulty in the past two years will be consumed again.

In the tense disaster relief, the time soon came to May, and the disaster was finally greatly prevented.But just as Luo's family took a breath, the typhoon season came again.This year's typhoon was particularly violent, not only the entire Kyushu, but even all parts of the Wa country were affected to varying degrees.Therefore, under such weather, most of the powerful families in various places stopped fighting each other.Start to deal with the typhoon's invasion.

September, autumn harvest season.Zheng Liang, who had finally rested from months of natural disaster response, received a piece of news that made him hesitate.

It turned out that the Nagato and Zhoufang regions suffered famine on a large scale this year.

The cause of the famine was both natural disasters and corruption.Needless to say about natural disasters, even the Luo family, which has always attached great importance to internal affairs, was exhausted by the continuous special weather this year, not to mention the local wealthy families in Changmen and Zhoufang who did not attach much importance to internal affairs?

**It is due to Tao Longfang's rebellion last year, after killing Ouchi Yoshitaka, the chaos caused in Nagato and Zhou Fangguo continued until May and June this year, resulting in spring plowing in many places in the local area. was delayed.

In addition, Yoshimi Masahiro, a wealthy family in Iwami country, invaded Nagato country on a large scale under the banner of avenging his brother-in-law Yoshitaka Ouchi during the period from the end of last year to the beginning of this year.For this reason, Tao Longfang had no choice but to fight with his army.Since the western and northern parts of Nagato Kingdom are mountainous, it is too troublesome to transport food, so Tao Longfang simply increased the food tax to the local people.This move and the successive battles with the Yoshimi family also greatly affected the local internal affairs of Nagato and Zhou Fang.The evil consequences finally broke out after this year's autumn harvest.Due to the lack of food, a large number of people formed a famine tide.

In history, the great famine between Nagato and Zhou Fang did indeed happen.It's just that Zheng Liang always thought that the famine was caused by the epidemic, but now he understands that the influence of natural disasters is also indispensable.The civil strife between Changmen country and Zhou Fang country is just a good time for the Luo family to seize the opportunity to invade the area.But Zhengliang hesitated because of this.

For a long time, among the goals set by Zheng Liang, completely taking down the Bungzen and Bungo countries is the first goal that the Luo family must achieve in the future.As for other goals, they can be postponed.

Now if the Luo family sends troops to the Nagato and Zhou Fang countries, then after being devastated by such a natural disaster this year, the strategic materials stored in the Luo family's warehouse do not allow simultaneous raids in multiple directions. The family is likely to suspend the raid on the eastern part of the Bungzen country and the northeastern part of the Bungo country controlled by the Otomo family.

Just when Zheng Liang hesitated about this, Zhou Fang's Tao Longfang sent an envoy to Zheng Liang.Tao Longfang actually planned to exchange one county of Fengpu County in Nagato Kingdom, plus 3000 people, in exchange for [-] shi of grain support from the Luo family and an alliance with the Luo family.

Seeing Tao Longfang's conditions, Zheng Liang first scolded Tao Longfang for being shameless.The Nagato family's Toyoura County is actually controlled by the Naito family in the southern area bordering the Luo family.Tao Longfang now only controls the western and northern parts of the county, which are dominated by mountains and forests.It was written that this county was handed over to the Luo family. In fact, Tao Longfang just lost the barren western and northern regions. As for the relatively flat and fertile southern region, the Luo family should fight for it themselves.

But Zheng Liang felt strange again.Looking at the situation, it seems that the Naito family, who has been wearing the same pair of pants as the Tao family, has fallen out with the Tao family.You know, since Tao Longfang said that he was giving up Fengpu County to the Luo family, this naturally included the old nest of the Naito family, the southern area of ​​Fengpu County.In other words, if the Luo family went out to fight in the area, Tao Longfang would not go out to support the Naito family.Tao Longfang is borrowing a knife to kill again!But why did Tao Longfang borrow a knife to kill someone?

How did Zheng Liang know that Tao Longfang was in trouble at home and abroad at this time.

Since negotiating peace with Luo's family last year and taking Ouchi Yoshinaga back to Zhou Fang's family.Ouchi Yoshinaga (actually called Ouchi Haruki at this time) became the governor of the family under the protection of Tao Longfang. Tao Qingxian.However, Haruhide Ouchi, who is an outsider, can't win over Zhou Fangguo and the wealthy people of the Ouchi family from all over Nagato, and there are still turmoil in various places.

Later, there were rumors that Tao Qingxian colluded with the Luo family in private to assassinate Toyozen's guardian Daisugi Shigemo's family.It made Tao Qingxian even more disappointed.It made the family panic and torn apart.At this time, Naito Xinglong (also known as Naito Takatoki), who happened to be one of Tao Qingxian's hardcore fans, died suddenly.

In fact, Naito Xinglong has always been weak and sick (it is estimated that his father Naito Xingsheng planned to let him marry the young and beautiful Aso Nozomi, in addition to strengthening the connection with Aso's family, he also had a plan to celebrate the joy), in fact, he died in history. It was earlier than his father Naito Xingsheng.So Naito Xingsheng, who was still alive at the time, made his grandson Naito Takashi (that is, Naito Xinglong's son) the governor of the Naito family after the death of his son Xinglong Naito.

Unfortunately, due to the appearance of the Luo family, Naito Xinglong died several years earlier than the historical records, and now Naito Xinglong, who had only succeeded the family governor for two or three years, suddenly died suddenly, and even the successor of the family governor was not appointed. .Although traditionally, Naito Takashi, the eldest son of Naito Xinglong, should inherit the family governor, but at this time, Naito Takaharu, the uncle of Naito Takashi, who is very powerful in the family idea.So Naito Takashi and Naito Takaharu started to quarrel.

But whether it was Naito Takashi or Naito Takaharu, after the rumors about Tao Longfang's collusion with the Luo family came out, they were all very wary of Tao Longfang.They even have the idea of ​​breaking away from Tao Longfang's control, and then monopolizing the Nagato Kingdom. (The emergence of the Luo family has greatly changed the history of the Naito family. In history, thanks to the help of the surviving grandfather Naito Xingsheng, Naito Takashi will successfully inherit the position of family governor, and even Tao Longfang's Die-hard ally, now Naito Takashi not only wants to compete with his uncle for the position of family governor, but also has a great conflict with Tao Longfang.)

After learning about Naito Takashi and Naito Takaharu's idea of ​​independence through the secret writer lurking in the Naito family (the latter is an important minister of the Naito family), Tao Longfang simply decided to take advantage of the opportunity of the Naito family's discord to come Since he had killed Sugi Shigemo with the help of the Luo family's sword before, he might as well kill the Naito family now, as he could take the opportunity to annex the Nato family's territory in Nagato country.

But now there are still turmoil in Zhou Fangguo and Nagato Kingdom, and Yoshimi Masarui of Ishimi Kingdom comes to Tao Longfang from time to time to fight (Jijian's family and Tao's family have a deep blood feud, since Yingren's chaos From the very beginning, the two families have been fighting endlessly for decades. When Ouchi Yoshitaka was in power, in order to win over the Yoshimi family, he married his sister to Yoshimi Masahiro, the governor of the Yoshimi family. Yoshimi Masahiro is a honest and honest person. After becoming Ouchi Yoshitaka's brother-in-law, he has been loyal to the Ouchi family. Now his brother-in-law Ouchi Yoshitaka was killed by the traitor Tao Longfang. It is naturally obligatory to hold up the banner of revenge for Ouchi Yoshitaka for the feud of the family), so Tao Longfang had no time to allocate more troops to deal with the Naito family.So Tao Longfang thought of Luo's family again.

Tao Longfang's idea is very simple. With the help of the Luo family, he will remove the Naito family, and then give the Toyo family controlled by the Naito family to the Luo family. He himself annexes the Naito family's forces in other counties of Nagato . (To be continued..)