Warring States Eagle

"My lord, a large army suddenly appeared in the enemy's position."

On a low-lying flat ground in the blocking position, an ashigaru came to report to Saeki Zhenzhong.

Not long ago, after leading the brigade to the blocking position, Yoshitada Saeki immediately gathered all the people in the position on this flat ground, but before he could speak, the ashigaru who was in charge of staying on the periphery of the position to guard Come to report.

"Well, I see, you go down."

Saeki Masatada who heard this frowned, and then ordered.Baoxin Zuqing immediately took orders and left after hearing the words.

"My lord, the enemy seems to be planning to launch an attack on us." Seeing that the news had left, Saeki Masataka was still thinking about it, and he had no intention of responding at all. He was willing to stay and take on the blocking task A retainer of the Saeki family immediately asked.

"Yeah." Saeki Zhenchu ​​nodded, but soon fell into deep thought again.

"My lord..." The loyal retainers who stayed behind were really a little anxious. You know, the army of the Luo family on the opposite side has already attacked, and its purpose is obviously only on your own side. Two or three kittens are guarding the outside, and the rest of the people have gathered here. It is really dangerous now.

"Don't worry too much, our family still has reinforcements." After looking at the retainers in front of him again, Saeki Shinchu finally spoke.

"Reinforcements?" After listening to Saeki Shinchu's words, the retainer immediately shut up.In fact, he had only received instructions from the family governor Saeki Yoshikado before, and his task was to cover the retreat of the three-party coalition forces in the position, and then wait for the arrival of Saeki Zhenzhong.It is fine to take orders directly from Saeki Zhenchu.

Judging from the situation in the opposite Luo family's position at this time.Obviously, his mission to cover the retreat of the three-party coalition forces in the position had failed.The Luo family's army on the opposite side would definitely attack after discovering the abnormality in their own position.And now Saeki Zhenchu ​​suddenly proposed reinforcements at this time, which really surprised him.But soon he calmed down. Anyway, his task is to cover and obey orders. Although he felt a little strange about Saeki Zhentada's behavior at this time, since Saeki Zhentada proposed that there are reinforcements, then it is better to wait for the reinforcements, saying Not good, before leaving, my house governor did have other plans with the lord in front of me.

only.After the retainer calmed down, the crowd gathered in the rear gradually became agitated.The reason is that just now, some guys who were unwilling to be forced to stay as scapegoats had taken advantage of the opportunity of the rally to secretly convey the news that the three-party army had retreated to other people around who didn't know.All of a sudden, the crowd became agitated.In fact, not everyone is willing to die.

But for the crowd that was gradually commotion at this time, Saeki Zhenzhong completely ignored it. Seeing that the commotion was getting bigger and bigger, the retainer who had doubts just now had to lead those who knew in advance that the main force of his side was retreating, and were willing to stay. The personnel who came down to take on the blocking task suppressed the rioting crowd.

It's just that the number of rioting crowd is more after all.So the suppression of them led to more fierce resistance from these people.In the flat ground, it was about to turn from a commotion into a melee.

"grown ups!"

at this time.The vassal had no choice but to find Saeki Zhenchu, who was still watching the show, for help.

"Don't worry, the reinforcements will arrive soon." Saeki Zhenzhong said calmly.

"Reinforcements? Before the reinforcements arrive, there will be chaos here, and the Luo family's army that has already attacked outside is about to kill them." After hearing the same words from Zueki Zhenzhong, the retainer almost didn't wave his sword. Knocked down.

However, before he could continue to ask questions, Saeki Zhenchu ​​suddenly said: "The reinforcements have arrived."

"Huh? The reinforcements have arrived?" The retainer was taken aback for a moment, and then he seemed to see something, and the whole person was stunned.It turned out that he saw a large number of soldiers of the Luo family coming out from the slope behind Zhenzhong Zuobo.

"Enemy attack!"

At this time, some people in the flat ground finally saw the soldiers of the Luo family who were constantly surrounding them.The ground immediately fell into chaos.

"All right!"

But when everyone hurriedly raised their weapons, but didn't know how to deal with it, as the chief general, Saeki Zhenchu ​​shouted loudly, and saw him jumping directly onto a military weapon that was originally used for him to rest. Above Maza, he waved his hand and continued to shout: "Listen to my order, everyone put down their weapons. We surrendered."

"Ah?" Saeki Zhenchu's words immediately caused another exclamation.

"My lord... ah!" The loyal retainer who had woken up from the panic immediately wanted to object, but before he could finish his words, he was directly chopped off by a loyal servant behind him. first level.On the face of the head that rolled to the ground, there was even a look of anger.

"My lord!" The sudden killing of this loyal retainer aroused the dissatisfaction of another part of the loyal retainers of the Saeki family, and they raised their weapons one after another.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..." But before these people could make a move, the soldiers of the Luo family surrounding them shot a rain of arrows at them.So amidst the screams, all the loyal retainers were shot down.

"Hmph. Those who don't want to surrender will end up just like them." Facing the bloody scene in front of him, Saeki Zhenchu ​​seemed very calm, but continued to shout again to the troops of the Saeki family in the flat ground.

The rest of the Saeki family really couldn't figure out what happened.As the main general of his own family, he voluntarily declared his surrender without any resistance?And also shot and killed another samurai master who was obviously planning to resist?What is even more puzzling to everyone is why these Luo family troops can appear around them without making a sound?The guys in charge of security outside didn't even give any warning?

"Okay, those who are willing to surrender, put down their weapons and come over here." Just when everyone was still confused, Saeki Zhenchu ​​directly ordered.

The scene was still silent.

"What? Is no one willing to surrender?" Seeing this, Saeki Zhenchu ​​shouted again.

"Bang!"

An ashigaru finally dropped the sword in his hand and walked over slowly.The people behind him immediately stared at this ashigaru, until the ashigaru came to the side of Saeki Zhenzhong and stood still, and then they all looked away.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of "Kang Dang, Kang Dang..." began to sound continuously, and people kept putting down their weapons and began to walk towards the ashigaru who surrendered first, until everyone surrendered.In fact, no one would be willing to die when they were at an absolute disadvantage.

"See your lord!"

After the surrendered Saeki family army was guarded by the Luo family army, Masara finally appeared wearing a Luo family chain mail, a Nanban helmet on his head, and a famous sword on his waist. A few people immediately met with Taoism.

"Very good, you have done a good job." Zhengliang looked at Saeki Jinchu and the others who were kneeling on the ground and nodded in satisfaction.

In fact, the secret letter Zhengliang received in Zhou Fangguo was written by Saeki Zhenzhong.In the letter, for the sake of the continuation of the Saeki family and his own survival, Saeki Zhenchu ​​took the initiative to express his intention to surrender to Zheng Liang.

Immediately, Zhengliang secretly contacted Saeki Zhenzhong several times through the intelligence cabinet, and began to plan for the strategy of Southern Kyushu.Not long after, when the Luo family officially launched the Southern Kyushu strategy and attacked the Saeki family's Umemure Castle, it was Saeki Shintada's intentional surrender that allowed the city to be captured smoothly and quickly.

In fact, the fire that the Saiki family used to store materials in the city was actually prepared by Saeki Zhentada a long time ago, and then it was finally triggered by the Black Eagle of the Luo family who was lurking in the Saiki house as a subordinate of Saeki Zhentada.As for the fact that Saeki Jintada fled back to the city to assist Saeki Yoshio against the Luo family, it was naturally a play jointly performed by Masahiro and Saeki Jintada.In fact, after deciding to retreat today, Saeki Zhenzhong sent his subordinates to secretly report to the Luo family's position (these subordinates are actually members of the Luo family, and they only sneaked into the Saeki family in the name of Saeki Zhenzhong's retainers before) ).

As for the surrender this time, it was naturally also the action of Saeki Zhenzhong after receiving Masaragi's reply.He deliberately gathered most of the people in the low-lying flat ground in the position, firstly, so that everyone could not see the attack situation of the army in the opposite Luo family's position in time, and secondly, deliberately let those who were unwilling to stay and die There was a commotion, and thus entangled with those loyal retainers, buying time for the arrival of the Luo family army.

At the same time, he also sent his own subordinates (actually, they were all members of the Luo family) to be on guard outside, in order to be responsible for the Luo family's army that arrived quickly.However, an accident almost happened during this process, and even he himself didn't notice that he left an ashigaru who was not his own on guard outside, which led to the ashigaru reporting incident at the beginning. To deal with it, as for the poor reporter, he was subdued, gagged and tied up after returning to the alert position again.

Why did Saeki Zhenzhong take the initiative to surrender to the Luo family and act as an undercover agent for the Luo family?In the final analysis, it was also caused by the family governor Saeki Yoshikado.

Saeki Yuikao was really too stubborn. When he was obviously not the opponent of the Luo family, he ignored the general situation and acted as a pawn of the Ito family and the Shimadzu family.In fact, Saeki Zhenzhong is not optimistic about the Shimadzu family and the Ito family at all. He feels that if he continues to follow behind these two tyrants, the Saeki family will either be destroyed by these two tycoons, or be destroyed by the Luo family. .

He didn't want his family to be destroyed, and he didn't want to lose his life and the glory and wealth brought by his own identity. Finally, he voluntarily surrendered to Zheng Liang under the adventurous appearance and persuasion of a member of the intelligence cabinet of the Luo family who was lurking beside him (the Luo family The members of the intelligence cabinet also made meritorious deeds, and thus became a leader of the intelligence cabinet, and were able to live safely in the territory of the Luo family).

(Thanks to "One Generation Diao Ge" for the monthly ticket support.) (To be continued..)