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Celebrating October 27, 5 -
Two letters sent by Toyotomi Hideyoshi,
Three letters sent by Tokugawa Jiayang,
One letter sent by Naomi Hot Island,
A total of six letters reach their respective destinations.
Of course, they were separate when we received them, but those letters will have a huge impact on the strategy of Willow River Castle.
First of all, we shall look at the whereabouts of the three letters sent by Jiayang Tokugawa.
Two of them were delivered to Kiyoshi Kato and Rushui Kuroda, forming a formation at Tenmangu Mita.
"In the middle of next month, let's move on to Satsuma... so?
Yeah, people are rough!
Isn't this as if we were Tokugawa ministers!! What do you think!? Master! "
And, suddenly, Kiyoshi Kato.
But Rushui Kuroda, called the "Master's Palace," replied with a sigh.
"Ha... your lord is like that, so you will always be Tiger Nosuke..."
So said Purity, pointing his suspicious face like water.
"What does that mean? That's the name Tiger Nosuke from a very young age."
"If you are from a friend, be a little ashamed that you will always be called by my childhood name.
Well, Sakichi, the great idiot, will always be Sakichi...
One day, I will call you the Lord. "
Purity, which was so annoyed, objected with a muddled face.
"So the Master didn't feel anything when he saw this letter?
"That's not what I said."
"Then tell me what you felt.
You must be thinking of something very noble, Lord Rushui. "
"Hmm, be careful because such a clear aversion seeps out the Lord's degree of low instead.
You're gonna hate me in the stomach. "
I finally told her to scream for the purity that turned her face bright red.
"Enough! Tell this Tiger Nobusuke, my lord!
The heart of the Tokugawachi Prefecture!
"I was going to tell you even if you didn't ask me.
This letter...
"Drop Yanagawa Castle ASAP"
It's like a kind of threat. "
"Ha...? I wonder where such things were written?
"Moving on to Satsuma in the middle of next month… doesn't that mean that if you return the back, you will settle for Yanagawa by the end of this month or at the end of next month"
"Mmmm... why would that be?
Even if the Willow River is settled a little later, if it goes south as it is, I was wondering if I could put it in Satsuma halfway enough... "
"Does your lord leave his soldiers tired in the Willow River Castle offensive, heading to Satsuma?
"But since our army is not at war, there is no weariness."
"Our soldiers didn't fight, so you don't mind if Lord Tokugawa finds out you're well? The Lord..."
"Yay! That's not good!
"Even though our movements may no longer be known.
Either way, it would be unnatural not to open it for at least ten days if we were to re-establish our attitude, from the time the Yanagawa Castle case was settled to the attack on Satsuma, such as resting our troops and replenishing our troops "
"I see... if you think about it, you have to settle for your head next month at the latest..."
"Exactly.
Now, I'm still selling oil in Gouda, how does Naomi Hot Island work? "
And Rushui looked at Gouda and snapped.
But Qing Zheng asked Rushui in haste.
"Master! Doesn't that have to make us do something too!?
Are you sure you want to stay still!?
Even if it stays this way next month, if it doesn't move, the Tokugawachi Prefecture will stare at you!?
The water as I saw such purity with cold eyes,
"Hmm, is your lord the minister of Tokugawa?
Lord Hideyoshi has been ordered to delay the opening of the castle until November 6.
I was not a minister of Tokugawa, but a minister of Lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Therefore, I intended to obey his word, but the Lord is not?
And I told him to throw it away.
"Yay! This, do it!
That's what happened!
"Well... I can't die until Lord Hideyoshi is fine."
"Ha! If it's that diminution of the Master, I think we'll live another fifty years!
Against the laughter of its purity, the purity could not overlook that the indelible shadow fell on Rushui's face.
"Mm-hmm? Master Hall? How'd it go?
As soon as Rushui returned to me, he smiled.
"Ha! While the Lord is Tiger Nosuke, he will live even for a hundred years!! Ha ha!
And I laughed it off.
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Needless to say, the remaining one letter from Jiayang had been sent to Naomi Hot Island, who would set up a formation in Gouda.
And within that day, when the Hot Island Army resumed its march towards Willow River Castle, it surrounded the castle in the evening.
Though many casualties were killed and wounded in the Battle of the Eighth House, it was still possible for some 30,000 soldiers to fight, including Chungmao Hot Island, the wounded vanguard general.
Naomi, who was based a short distance from the castle, sent a messenger to recommend the opening of the castle to Yanagawa Castle.
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Until a single letter arrived, Yanagawa Castle was divided into two main parts: the "Kaiseki" during Masahiro Nono and the "Kaiseki" of Kono Zhenxi et al., who regained consciousness.
Even after the deadline of "three days respite," a harmonious condition set by Naomi Hot Island, it should be noted that the groove between the two was difficult to fill, and our Lord Somo Tachibana was pressed to make a painful decision.
That's where the reports from the lookout came up.
"Hot Island Army, Move"
It goes without saying that this newspaper has greatly upset Yanagawa Castle.
And when the crisis became realistic, when the great army was imminent, the voice of the Opencastle became stronger at once.
So Zongmao opened his urgent reputation.
Regardless, it goes without saying that the discussion is in terms of whether or not to open a castle.
First, the increase in the number of opencastles preached its legitimacy aloud.
"What matters is not whether we can defend the castle in this battle!
With the defeat of Lord Jibe Ishida and Lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi as a young man, it is imperative that Tokugawa Uchi become the ruler of the world!
The army now approaching this castle is exactly what its inner palace will be.
Don't you think continuing the resistance here is the same as going blade to the Tokugawachi Prefecture!?
If you infuriate Lord Tokugawa any more, you will not just destroy your house, below Master Somo, all your clans should be punished!
That's all we have to avoid!
At last, we should dawn the castle as soon as possible!!
"More about the battle in front of you than about the decision to look to the future... you mean? It's time for an increase."
And, as Zongmao tried to calmly, he nodded strongly during the increase.
And Zongmao saw Yubu Weishin.
As the spokesperson for Kono Makoto, who was unable to participate in this assessment because of a major injury, he made words on behalf of the Cage Castle faction.
"At a time when we no longer attacked Ozu Castle in the war ahead, the treatment of Lord Tokugawa's Tachibana family will be determined to be harsh.
Besides, it is a cowardly act that defiles the name of Tachibana, such as surrendering without fighting the enemy, and it is absolutely unacceptable!
Nor can we ignore the orders of Lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi, to whom His Highness devotes his loyalty, not to open the castle until November 6th!
This place should be caged in a castle and have a fight!
"Should I follow Lord Hideyoshi's intentions..."
Afterwards, the Opencastles and the Cagecastles collided with each other's opinions, and it became a fierce argument.
Zongmao was watching that in silence.
"What's wrong..."
And I still couldn't decide in my stomach, but there's a time when I have to finally let him make a decision like that.
As a messenger from Naomi Hot Island, Shinzo Hot Island arrived.
"My lord, this is your last chance! I'm sure Lord Hot Island and Lord Kato will take it for you!
Let's dawn the castle here!
"No! Wait! The last time I turned over the castle. Your Highness and many Tachibana families will be lost in the streets.
You must never give me a castle here!
To the Apostle's Raw Third Hall, please pick it up!
"No, no, what are you talking about!
Now is your last chance to serve Lord Hot Island against Lord Tokugawa! If you miss this time when your lords will not get lost in the streets, there will be no more!
The messenger should be polite and arrange for the opening of the castle quickly!
"Shame on you!! Increase time! I don't think he's in Tachibana's house, abandoning his pride and tailing his enemies!
"Rude! Only Shinji!! Isn't it faithful to protect Tachibana's family name and his lord to a later life!?
Lord Dao Yue, who was without the men, bowed his head many times and welcomed Master Zongmao to succeed him in order to leave Tachibana's house!
and not a single step toward each other. But as the sparks continued to scatter, Zongmao ordered the one from Kinki to entertain his messenger, Shisezo, in another room.
Is extraction on the battlefield and politics in the castle something so different to treat the same person on its own… he laments in his heart.
How easy it would be to get out of this place without deciding anything...
He was known by name without distinction, but in the circumstances in which he was now placed, he was the "ordinary man" himself.
In the midst of the oppression that seemed to crush him, Zongmao, who felt he could not postpone his decision any further, had decided to keep one decision in his heart and to go tell the messenger who was holding it back in a separate room.
"Let's give up the castle to protect Tachibana's house and the minister's life..."
and…
But it was then.
When one of the young protagonists, with a blue face, came into the room of his reputation there as well as thanksgiving, he tried to roll over and came all the way to Zongmao.
"What? Noisy..."
Its young proximity, who can't afford to care about such a thing against Somo in a tough tone that could be perceived as an eight-hundred hit,
"Give me this one!
And, in short words, he offered Somo a single letter.
Probably a letter from Kiyoshi Kato or Rushui Kuroda reminding him to open the castle...
He was Zongmao, who decided to open the castle, but still thinks of it as a reminder letter, makes me feel heavier.
When I received the letter with a blunt hand, I checked the sender of the letter, still moving slowly -
"Ma... no way... Lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi...!?
The ministers of the Opencastles and Cagecastles, who were staring at the words, simultaneously turn their gaze to the Lord Zongmao.
Without a glance at the confused and bothering ministers, Zongmao glanced at the contents of the letter as he quickly widened it.
All the ministers are nailed to the eyes that make them run to Zongmao's writ, groaning their throats, and eager to hear his reaction.
How long has it been since...
From the side, that could have been just a short time.
But as much as it seemed eternal to the ministers, they were so focused that they missed the microscopic facial expressions of Zongmao.
Zongmao finished reading the script and when he took his gaze off of it, he looked up at the ceiling and exhaled heavily.
Sooner or later, the tension in my shoulders is relieved, and instead, my strength sticks to my stomach.
When I returned the raised head to its original position, I saw the ministers quiet, with sharp eyes that shot through them.
The view he was looking at, losing color, regained color all at once, and until now he didn't know no matter how close he was, it's strange because the look on each person's face, as you can see, is in his hands.
And… he told one minister in a low, but passing voice.
- I want you to call Guiguang Palace in the castle.
The meaning of that instruction could not have been understood by everyone on this occasion.
Because the other day they were heard of the 'stunning Battle of Caged Castles' at the widely bred Castle of Castle Island, and they had just been danced their breasts.
And the next instruction was such a thing as to turn their understanding into certainty.
- We will carefully escort you out of the castle so that you can return to the third temple of Hot Island Raw.
In this way, the reputation of discussing the opening of the castle was replaced by a military council to protect the castle at the next moment.
At this time, history changed dramatically.
Not in historical fact, the Battle of the Caged Castle of Willow River Castle will open.
And on the same day, from the south side of Kyushu, another "two" army began marching.
Needless to say, one of them is an army led by Yoshihiro Shimazu, who headed Tachibana Somo to rescue him.
But there is no such thing as a historical fact, another army has marched toward Willow River Castle.
The soldier, approximately five thousand.
Soldiers who were gathered in a few periods, but who are so inflexible that they do not seem to be gathered together.
The Admiral, who leads such soldiers,
"Tachibana time, don't get on well"
And I shrugged.
The expression was distorted by an ugly smile.