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However, the lovely demi-mods could be, as could tech support for Rome, possibly
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Chapter IV: Of Courts and Conquest
With the conquest of Ashikita, Kiyoshi looked to the east; Hata Akira, leader of his clan and lord of Kishima, had been engaged in a war with the Harada clan for the past several years, and it was likely that his luck would fail him; not wanting the Harada to gain even more control of Hizen, Kiyoshi declared war on the Hata only days after his last had ended. Yoritada and his five hundred men reached Kishima first, and began laying siege to the Castle on 25th of July (Kiyoshi’s forces arrived three days later). After a breach was made in late August, the first assault on Kishima Castle was launched.
Lord of Kishima (formerly)
The assault lasted from the fifth to the sixth of September, and cost the lives of almost one hundred Matsura troops; however, all but the keep itself had been taken, and the Hata garrison would not last much longer. Giving his men a month of rest, the second, and final, assault was made on October Thirtieth, with the entire garrison being slaughtered at a low cost to Kiyoshi and his army.
The following week, Kioyshi, Yoritada, and their three thousand man force, began marching towards the land of Matsura, coincidentally owned by the Harada; from there, they planned to sail across the strait and capture Goto.
However, on the 12th of November, the Shuin clan, led by the arbitrary and deceitful Yasukane, declared war, forcing Kiyoshi and his men to march southwards; on the23rd of January, 1200, the siege of Taki castle began. With no sign of opposition from the Shuin, the siege went quickly, and Kiyoshi began planning his next moves.
Whilst the wooden walls of Taki Castle were being torn down, the walls of Sunao Castle and the key towns of Takaku were finished, and Yoritada’s agents headed south to aid in the siege; shortly thereafter the lumber mill in Nagasaki was finished, and Kakomu was sent to build a smithy in Sonooki.
On the 21st of October, Taki Castle fell, right as Yasukane began a half-hearted siege of Ashikita. Kiyoshi quickly marched north, embarked his troops, and landed on south of the castle on the 22nd of November, where he and 3,500 men fought against the 2,750 man Shuin army; Kiyoshi’s better grasp of tactics, his army’s experience, and sheer numerical superiority won the day, with the Matsura losing 1,375 men to Yasukane’s 2077.
With no real Shuin force left to oppose him, the siege of Satsuma began on the 3rd of January, 1201, and after a quiet siege, fell in September. The following month, Kagoshima was besieged and met the same fate as Satsuma castle on the 12th of April, 1202; the Shuin were crushed.
Now a powerful landowner, worthy of recognition, Kiyoshi petitioned the Emperor for the rank of Jugoi Ge, the same day Akira’s first daughter Kaji, was born (22 June, 1202).
Whilst he was waiting for the Emperor’s reply, Kiyoshi realised that he held almost enough land to declare himself Daimyo of Satsuma; as such, he declared war on the Satsuma-Taira on the 31st of July, 1202. On the 7th of April, the siege of Aki ended, and Kiyoshi was declared Daimyo of Satsuma; he held many banquets celebrating this and soon gained a reputation for generosity. The following week, the Emperor formally granted the position of Jugoi Ge to Kiyoshi, and he was granted his first bureaucratic position, which he worked at loyally, if not particularly effectively.
Another former leader that was deposed
Kiyoshi, flushed with success, offered peace to Tadazumi, leader of the Satsuma-Taira, which he agreed to only after his small army was crushed at Kagoshima in mid-August.
Kyushu after a spree on conquests; the island was consolidated by the five families. Note that the Kusano and Ogata are at war.
