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Celebration 7 years (1602) September 5 -

The unrest in Kyushu had been quietly dropped by cutting its lid as Hideyoshi Tokugawa left Osaka Castle and slowly went down the Mountain Yang Road.

The army of great friends who left Mortar Castle were marching west. And finally, it came to the border of the post-Tsukuba country, the territory of Yoshimasaki Tanaka.

Yoshin Tanaka, the second son of Yoshimasaki Tanaka, who had taken soldiers there, was blocking the way.

"From here it is the preserve of my lord, Yoshimasaki Tanaka!

I see you as Lord Otomo's army, but what brings you here!?

In that loud enquiry, Yoshioka Apricot, the side-general, descended from the bright white Ashi-haired horse and came forward.

And she answered Yoshin with a clear voice.

"I am Yoshioka Apricot, Admiral beside the Otomo family!

My Otomo family is therefore on their way to Yanagawa Castle, protected by Tachibana Somo Temple!

I want to go through here at last!!

Yoshishin, who remained on the horse to the word, replied with a mockery as he proceeded to the front of the apricot.

"Otomo, who allies himself with the rebel Tachibana, who disrupts the proverb under heaven, is also of the same kind!

Make you a blood festival here now!!

This man, Yoshishin Tanaka, is known as an outrageous man who preferred to fight his hands, and said that more than fifty small names had died unemployed by his hands. What a spear he has stabbed from the top of the horse toward the apricot he was dealing with by getting off the horse and keeping it courteous.

Back off a little bit, a spear-pushing avoided apricot at the soot. Soon around her, several soldiers gathered and blocked in front of Yoshin in an attempt to protect her.

And they all put up their spears, and tried to strike Yoshishin.

But the apricots shouted loudly at them like that.

"Stop!! Our enemy is not Lord Tanaka! Avoid obnoxious killing!!

Seeing her like that, Yoshishin laughed out shards.

"Ha ha! You can't get your hands on that! If you get your hands on me here, you'll be dealing with the Tanaka family, the great name of 300,000 stones! However, you will not be opponents of 50,000 small masons of stone!

If you don't want to fight with the Tanaka family, you're going down a different path!

Ha ha!!

and it was then…

- Pan!!

and a dry bursting sound stuck around.

"Hey... what..."

and Yoshishin couldn't tell what had happened to him. But how he fell off his horse as he leaked blood out of his mouth when his body was completely deprived of it. Earlier the bursting sound was the sound of an iron cannon, which struck Yoshin brilliantly.

Without knowing what had happened, he approached the confused apricots and the soldiers around them with a horse to the point of Yoshishin, where one old man had fallen. The soldiers of Yoshishin, who had been wanting to see what was going on a short distance away, are also finally approaching the Grand Friend Army for the care of the Admiral.

Then the old man… Tae Jun turned from above his horse to Yoshishin, who was falling on his back with a short barrel called the Horseback barrel.

"Stop... stop... what would happen if I did that..."

And, Yoshin is desperately trying to wake up a body that can't move, but he can't really move about what was wrong with hitting the cannon earlier.

Then Tae-jun said coldly.

"Even this short cylinder, which rarely hits, will not come off at this distance"

"Stop... stop. I'll do it through here, and I'll work to make sure Father doesn't ask about this every time, so please, just your life..."

And, Yoshishin began begging for his life in tears, unnecessarily, altering his earlier transgressive attitude. But Tae-gi sees how it is and smiles like ice.

"Yoshimasa Tanaka?

Originally a small village peasant.

The son of a dwarf to such an extent that the ape was in a good mood and taken up by his great name did not slap his big mouth.

Besides, disrespectful tens of millions of things, such as spears poking at them from horseback to horseback what they got off the horse thankfully.

It's not worth living for, like, a fool begging for his life or the sound of a bug. "

And...

- Pan!

and when the dry bursting sound sounded again, Yoshin's face became bloody, and as it was, he stopped moving.

In the return blood of that auspicious letter, Tae-jung ordered out loud with a creepy smile on his face.

"Kill all who stand in our way!

I don't care who they are!

Kill him! Kill him and move on!!

- Whoa, whoa!!

And, when the Great Friends raised their earthquake voice, they began their assault against the Tanaka army, which was about to rush to Yoshin.

And the Tanaka army, which lost its general, escaped most of it without taking its lead either. Few fought valiantly, but they were swallowed up by the great army's assault during the turbulence of the great friends.

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- The Great Friends show up! Yoshinobu Tanaka is dead!

This report was also passed on to Yoshimasaka Tanaka of Kurumi Castle by the soldiers who fled the scene.

The soldiers of the Tanaka Army, who were already in a position to appear at any time, were angry that the Lord's second son had been disputed, and had roughed his nose without revenge.

But Yoshimasaka Tanaka, the master, only calmly deceived the soldiers.

"Now is not the time! Don't act unsolicited until His Excellency General Tokugawa has arrived at this castle and is ordered to leave!

It is this calmness of his that makes him Toyotomi Hideyoshi's next leading elder, but without being ordered to cut his stomach in a syndicate, let's say that he continues to be the favored genius of Hideyoshi Tai. Although Yoshin's unselfish actions resulted in a slight sacrifice, it kept to a minimum and avoided clashes with the Great Friends, who continued to march with increased momentum.

In the meantime, the Great Friends march west.

He then occupied the site of Yoshimi Yueko Castle, at the top of a mountain stretched from Takayama, close to Kurumi Castle. This castle is also once known as the castle where Toyotomi Hideyoshi was the home of the Kyushu Ping. To see the Tsukuba Plain from the top of the mountain, Tokugawa Hideyoshi entered the castle as an excellent place to admire Kurumi Castle.

However, the castle is already abandoned and can barely function as a castle. Still, the Grand Friend Army did not envisage a cage in the castle, so he laid a barracks on the ground considering his location.

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Around that time, the army of the Ryuji Temple High House, which had left Lotus Pond Castle in the pre-fattening country, had crossed the Tsukuba River and entered from pre-fattening to Tsukuba.

Katsumo Hot Island, who was at Saga Castle, grabbed behind it and hung with his father Naomi Hot Island in an attempt to get permission to go out many times, but Naomi finally never shook her head vertically.

- Leave the rest to me. That's my son, though.

Naomi believed strongly in the words of the Dragon Built Temple politician, the former head of the Dragon Built Temple family. But if at this time, according to Katsumo Hot Island's prophecy, it had blocked the way of the army of Ryuji Temple, it might have blocked the path of fate too sad for Takaya Ryuji Temple and the politician's parents and children, who would be the last principals of the Ryuji Temple family.

Of course, they couldn't have noticed that at this time...

At this time, what was the future of the High House, dreams, fulfilled?

If you weren't in person, you wouldn't have any reason to know about that or anything, but if you look at his hopeful side at this time, it's not hard to imagine that it was glorious for him. His army stepped into the territory of Somo Tachibana when he finished crossing the Tsukuba River.

As it was, he entered the castle at Sakami Castle where he was offered to use it as a formation room from its Zongmao.

Originally, this Sake Castle was built by Ryushin Ryuji, the grandfather of the high house and dubbed "The Bear Before Fat". At this time, he was one of the four kings of Tachibana, guarded by Yubu Ushin, the lead elder, but Takamitsu felt even better about being filled with an itchy castle by the Ryubuji family, and lowered his back in one of the castles.

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And the army led by Yoshihiro Shimazu also continued on a smooth northward course.

At Tokuma Castle, a large army stands by to stop its march on Yoshihiro, but Tadahiro Shimazu, who is supposed to lead it, never showed up caged in his inner castle chamber.

For that reason, nothing stops Yoshihiro from marching.

The Shimazu army went straight into the fattening country, but our Lord Kiyoshi Kato allowed the Shimazu army to move across the territory to the post-construction country without resisting.

In other words, Yoshihiro Shimazu, who marched without obstacles or anything, entered the post-construction country in just five days.

Shimazu troops who entered after the construction were provided with Imaguga Castle on the side of Yanagawa Castle by Tachibana Somo, and Yoshihiro quickly entered the castle and rested his soldiers.

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Seven Years of Celebration (1602) September 7 -

The first and final reputation was opened at Yanagawa Castle, the residence of Tachibana Somo and the first target of this attack by Tokugawa.

There, the generals of the armies of Somo Tachibana, Yoshihiro Shimazu, Yoshio Otomo, and Takaya Ryuji, and Rushui Kuroda, faced each other. There, of course, were the figures of the vicinity of each general, who discussed the placement of each army and how it would move in the future.

So Rushui cuts out the topic about Hideyoshi Tokugawa's move, the current general of Tokugawa Fang. That is, three days after this, the Tokugawa main unit, led by Hideyoshi, and the troops led by Honda Tadashi and other ministers of the spectrum will enter Kurumi Castle. And it was that Tokugawa's home of the Kyushu conquest would become its Kurumi Castle, waiting for the great army led by Tokugawa Jiayang, who would arrive late in the future, and until then would only come under pressure without waging a war in order to start a full-scale invasion.

Ryuji Temple Takaya and others insisted that Hideo Tokugawa should start attacking Kurumi Castle before he showed up, but Rushui flaunted it.

However, just because he was holding his hand like this, there was a high risk that he would be surrounded by Willow River Castle, so he decided to place an army to surround Kurumi Castle with the aim of sealing Tokugawa's movements near Kurumi Castle.

Celebrating September 9, 7 -

The placement of each army of the anti-Tokugawa forces was completed.

At the foot of the Feiyue directly across the Tsukuba Plain from Kurumi Castle is about eight thousand of the General's Tachibana Somo army.

Based around its Tachibana army, at the foot of Takaryama, north of the Yue as the right wing, about eight thousand troops of the Otomo lineage, and Yoshioka and Yoshihiro Toshiyuki, the side-generals, were to lead the soldiers one thousand at a time in front of them.

In addition, as the left wing of the Tachibana Army, about 10,000 troops of Yoshihiro Shimazu are on a high platform in the middle of Tsukuba Plains. And in order to thicken the left-wing soldiers to allow the invasion of Yanagawa Castle when its left wing was broken, Kono Zhenyu, one of Japan's three spears and known as Shiteno Tachibana, separated the soldiers from the army of the Ryukyuji Temple High House near Tsukubakawa River, formed a formation with about 2,000 soldiers, which became the last wall blocking the way to Yanagawa Castle.

The main armies of Tachibana, Shimazu, and Otomo placed their ranks on high ground in an effort to gain a little ground in the vast Tsukuba Plains, as well as laying the formation of crane wings that surrounded Kurumi Castle.

Celebrating September 10, 7 -

As soon as Hideyoshi Tokugawa arrived at Kurumi Castle and saw the formation of anti-Tokugawa forces, he instructed each general of Tokugawa forces to lay the formation.

But it's never a formation that fits the other party's lineup.

- Lay the long snake formation in such a way as to follow Tsukagakawa River, so as to aim for Yanagawa Castle...

That's how I did it, following Father Jia Kang's instructions. It should be noted that the formation of long serpents is a formation suitable for making a single point breakthrough by arranging soldiers in a single column in the longitudinal direction.

Namely, Hideyoshi Tokugawa was placed at the headquarters of Hideyoshi Tsukuba on the back of Tsukuba Castle, and along Tsukuba River on its left, he lined up Huizheng Ikeda, Takati Fujido and Kaming Kato, rushing from China and Shikoku to reinforcements, and on Hideyoshi's left he placed the forces of Tadahiro Hoshikawa.

And in front of Hideyoshi's army, the warlords of Tokugawa Spectrum, placed Honda Chusei, Okhei Jiachang, and Sakahara Yasukeshi, and placed them to stare at Tachibana Somo's army.

Further in the direction that leads to Hideyoshi's army's right hand, or Yanagawa Castle, Naomi Hot Island leads the most soldiers of the Tokugawa forces at the beginning. Next to it were Yoshimasaki Tanaka and Hirosaka Terasawa, as well as Nagata Kuroda's army to protect Hideyoshi's right hand.

From the perspective of the anti-Tokugawa forces, it could be said that Tsukagakawa was a lateral formation of the leeward formation.

Thus the two armies finally revealed their formation and began confrontation.