Kirito Castle, also known as Wonniu Castle, is located in the southwest of the Kirito Peninsula, bordering the Kochi Bay to the east and Yasakagawa to the south. It was originally the residence of Otomo's retainer Kirito. After the Furu battle of Otomo Yoshitong was changed, Kirito Town and Tongzhi committed suicide one after another, and Kirito Castle was taken into the Taige. After the battle of Keicho, the reward of Hosokawa Tadao won the territory of 60,000 stones of Kirito and the surrounding area. However, because the Hosokawa family's ability was located in Tango, the enclave was always managed by the retainers Matsui Sado Moyashino and Akiyoshiro Zuemon Lixing. There were 1,800 people in the castle, but was later summoned by Hosokawa Tadao, leaving only 800 to maintain the public order within the territory.

The superior geographical location of Kitsuki Castle is not only reflected in the surrounding environment, but also in terms of transportation, it is connected to Kitsugogo's Nakazu and Okura through Hinata Street, and the south is Usuki Castle in Naoki, Kurota Naoki Castle in the south, and to the east is Anqi Castle in Naoki, and to the west is Taigao Castle. It can be said that once Kitsuki is captured, Futsuki, other than the Kitsuki Peninsula, can be included in the bag. Therefore, in order to obtain food and salary as soon as possible, suppress Futsuki, Kuroda Rushui ignored Takada and Torai Castle controlled by Otomo and directly attacked Kitsuki through Hinata Street, intending to end the battle within three days.

According to Kuroda Rumi's vision, given his powerful military power, Ototo Yoshito would never send troops to reinforce Hosokawa or attack the Kuroda army. In this way, once the army captured Kitsuki Castle and obtained sufficient food and supplies, and turned around to attack the Ototo family, Ototo Yoshito could only be forced to surrender, and the general was handed over to the Kuroda army, and then attacked the basically unguarded Minamifenggo and Kitahiga, to complete the suppression of Higashi Kyushu.

However, he did not expect that the important minister of Ototo Yoshiron, the commander of Ototo Yoshiron, actually realized the strategy of fighting to support the war and persuaded the Ototo family to send troops to support Yasuo Matsui. Not only that, he also sent people to Kiyomasa Kato, who was from the Hachigo, to seek help, intending to work together to suppress the newly emerging Kuroda family.

In fact, Kato Kiyomasaki, who is fat, has always been the agent of Hideo in Kyushu, monitoring the every move of Shimazu and Kuroda families. At first, when he learned that Kuroda Nagamasaki led the main force to support Hideo, Kato Kiyomasaki was relieved, thinking that the Kuroda family had never forgotten the grace of Taigao after all. Unexpectedly, an order of ignorance in Osaka that did not know the authenticity actually made Kuroda Rushui have a bad idea. These days, they spent all their wealth and recruited soldiers. Not only the surrounding little daimyo, but Kato Kiyomasaki, who is far away from Hideo, and Shimazu Tadaetsu, who is far away from Satsuma, all saw it.

As an ally of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shimazu, like Kuroda, did not put eggs in a basket. Not long ago, Shimazu Yoshihiro led 1,500 people to follow Hideo to conquer Aizu, which proved this. For the Shimazu family, who is 650,000 stones, recruiting 15,000 people is not difficult. However, the scheming Shimazu Yoshihiro warned Shimazu Tadahoshi before leaving that he must not be the first to do this matter. If Kuroda had not moved first, the Shimazu family must remain neutral.

When he learned that Kuroda Rumizu was recruiting soldiers, Tadao Shimazu immediately took action and deployed a huge army of 12,000 people on the border with Himeguro and Hinata, while Kiyoshi Kato led the seven thousand troops eastward to Uemaki Castle near Asu Mountain, which was only a few miles away from the border with Himeguro and Fenghou.

On April 14, on the day when Otoyo Yoshito received a letter of help from him, Kato Kiyoshimasa crossed the border between the two countries and entered Feng, Nakagawa Ieoka Castle Castle, who had received notification from Tahara Shounin in advance, welcomed the Kato army, provided food and grass, and led 500 people to help. When he walked along the Hinata Street to Sunrise Castle, Mori Takamasa and Hayakawa Nagamasa led 600 people to ginseng. When he arrived at Yasakagawa on the evening of the 15th, Kato Kiyoshi had already gathered 8,700 people, plus Otoyo Yoshito was stationed on the 2,800 mountains and rivers on the north side of Kitsuki

In just two days, Toyotomi's army's strength suddenly increased to 12,300, far higher than the 9,000 Kuroda's family. Faced with this situation, negative voices began to appear in the Kuroda army, and some even fled at night, which made Kurotian Rushui very worried. The mob was originally pulled up by money, and he was not a match for Kato and others in the war. It was okay to say that he had the advantage. Now that he had no advantage in terms of the number of people, how could he win this battle?

Thinking of this, the black sky was like water to write a letter, and asked his trusted retainers to Shimazu Tadaetsu, who was in Satsuma Mizu City, to send troops to attack Minamikai immediately to shake the morale of the Kato army and achieve the goal of besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao.

Although the messenger traveled in a long distance and needed to avoid Kiyoshi Kato's suspicion, it was two days after arriving in Satsuma. During these two days, Kurotian Rushui launched a night attack and an ambush. The night attack mainly targeted the Otoyoshi Yoshito army on the north side. At first, it achieved some gains and beheaded more than 200 people, but when they retreated, they encountered Kiyoshi Kato's ambush in the mountains and suffered heavy casualties. Then, Yoshihiro Yoshihiro also slashed and killed. The two thousand night attack team left only 300 people to escape back to the Rushui main formation. Most of them were not beheaded but fled in chaos. Some ronin even turned against Toyotomi army on the spot and attacked the Kurota army together.

Although the number of people is much higher than that of Kuroda's army, the Toyotomi army is unwilling to take the initiative, but waits for the Kuroda army to run out of food and collapse on its own. Kuroda Rushui knows his situation better than anyone else. Given the arrogance of dissatisfaction in the army, he once decided to give up attacking the attack on the Katsurai Castle and instead attack the Otomo family's own castle of Furai Castle. But at this time, the Kuroda army was already full of eyeliners, and the trend of transferring positions was just now by Kiyo Kato.

As he noticed, on the way the Kuroda Army pioneers were required to march into Tori Castle, Kato's general Naoke Iida and the Otomo family's important minister, Tahara Sakorin, successfully ambushed. More than 300 Kuroda's army were killed in battle. Kiriyama Nobuyuki and Kurooshiji, among the twenty-four generals of Kuroda, died in battle one after another, and more than 1,300 people retreated back to the formation. Hearing this bad news, more than 300 people escaped that night, leaving Rushui's hands with only 6,400 people left.

The attack was powerless and the sneak attack was not successful. Kuroda Rushui was already in a dilemma at this moment, while Kato Kiyoshimasa and Ototo Yoshito frequently sent envoys to meet him, hoping that he would not be confused by the rumors about the Osaka monks, and immediately handed over the military power and left the army and returned to the field. Otherwise, he would launch a general attack on the Kuroda army on April 20th.

Before a city was cut off, he surrendered. Kuroda Rumizu Takago, one of the "Two Guards in the World", was really unwilling to accept this reality. However, rumors in the army have become more and more intense. Deserts and set fires occur frequently. At first, they can use money as bait to appease these soldiers. However, with the exhaustion of money and food, there is no better way to maintain the unity of this temporary piece of equipment besides killing a few deserters to stabilize the morale of the army.

Late at night on April 20, although the deadline was passed, Kato Kiyoshi gave him two days to keep his Kuroda Army calm for the time being.

"If the sky does not help, like water, how can you go against the sky?" Black Sky Rushui convened a military discussion in our formation and finally decided to surrender to the Toyotomi army. "In the entire Kyushu, only my family moved by looking at the wind. It's ridiculous to think about it. It seems that I was thinking too simple, and Toyotomi's fate should not be eliminated."

"Where is the Shimazu family, the old lord is not waiting for news from the Shimazu family?" Yuemon Inoue asked unwillingly.
Chapter completed!