In the case of realists, it is not miracles that produce faith, but faith that produces miracles.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky (a preeminent representative of Russian literature, one of the most complex and contradictory writers in the history of Russian literature)

As long as Takanobu Ryuzoji, the governor of the Ryuzoji family, can contain part of the Maori family's army in Saikaido, the post-war Saikaido will belong to the Ryuzoji family, which is Oda Nobunaga's promise in black and white.

It is normal for the Ryuzoji family, the Shimazu family, and the Otomo family to plant some spies and other spies among each other, but no one thought that a little surname next to Ryuzoji Takanobu was actually a secret agent of the Shimazu family!

Oda Nobunaga's handwritten letter, which was supposed to be absolutely secret, was read by Takanobu of Ryuzoji Temple, and after reading it, he let the small surname around him take it and burn it immediately; coincidentally, among the small surnames who served Takanobu of Ryuzoji Temple that day, there happened to be this secret agent of the Shimazu family.

The contents of this top-secret letter were thus known to Shimazu Yoshihisa, the governor of the Shimazu family, and after learning the contents of Oda Nobunaga's promise to Ryuzoji Takanobu, the shocked and angry Shimazu Yoshihisa did not delay and immediately informed the Otomo family and the Mori family of the incident.

As Takanobu Ryuzoji confidently expanded his armaments, Shimazu Yoshihisa, Otomo Sorin, and Mori Moto held a secret meeting in Nagato about the three governors, and as a result of the meeting, the Shimazu and Otomo families agreed to join the alliance organized by the Mori family, and promised that if the Ryuzoji family's army attacked the Mori family, the Shimazu and Otomo clan's armies would attack the Ryuzoji family.

The price paid by Maori Yuan for this was to mobilize two batches of military supplies to donate to the Shimazu family and the Otomo family free of charge, and after the outbreak of the war, the Maori family also needed to pay 200,000 yuan each to the Shimazu family and the Otomo family to help the two families expand their armies.

Is a batch of military supplies worth 150,000 guan and military expenses worth 200,000 guan worth the Shimazu family and the Otomo family fighting hard for the Maori family? The answer is naturally no, and Shimazu Yoshihisa and Otomo Sorin, who are more concerned about their own family's interests.

Why did the Shimazu family, the Otomo family, and the Mori family form a targeted alliance after learning of the secret alliance between the Oda family and the Ryuzoji family? In the final analysis, it was Oda Nobunaga's commitment to Ryuzoji Takanobu that seriously endangered the interests of the Shimazu family and the Otomo family.

If Saikaido really becomes the Saikaido of the Ryuzoji family, then how should the Shimazu family and the Otomo family, both of the overlord families of Saikaido, deal with themselves? People who have no foresight must have near-term worries, and Shimazu Yoshihisa and Otomo Sorin would not dare to risk the life and death of their own family.

An alliance with the Mori family was the only choice for the Shimazu family and the Otomo family, and knowing that the other party could only choose to ally with his own family, Mori Motoshi still met the two conditions put forward by Shimazu Yoshihisa and Otomo Sorin.

The actual production cost of military materials worth 300,000 kan will not exceed 200,000 kan, plus 400,000 kan of military funding, the Maori family exchanged 600,000 kan for at least 200,000 troops of the Shimazu family and the Otomo family.

As long as the Shimazu family and the Otomo family go to war against the Ryuzoji family, the Mori family will have no worries at all on the one hand, and on the other hand, two new forces will be added; when the Ryuzoji family is destroyed, will the Shimazu family and the Otomo family, who have already tied the chariot of the Mori family, be able to escape the war between the Mori family and the Oda family? From the moment they entered the war, it was impossible for anyone to unilaterally end the war.

With the passage of time, the Maori family has gathered more and more troops on the border, and in order to gather more troops on the front line, many Maori families have not even left a single soldier to guard the territory far from the front line, and all of them have been transferred to the front line by order of the Maori Yuan.

The Mori family, which owns the two provinces of San'in and Sanyo, is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and there are Murakami Buyoshi's Murakami naval armies, and no family's naval army can threaten the rear hinterland of the Maori family; the only Ryuzoji family that can sneak attack the territory of the Maori family with its geographical advantages has been contained by the Shimazu family and the Otomo family, and the Maori Yuan, who has all their worries, only retains a reserve army of 30,000 in the family capital.

The tense Maori Army and the Oda Army could fight a life-and-death battle on the border at any time and place, and this battle would determine the hegemony of the Empire, and it was also the first decisive battle in the history of the Empire in which a million troops would participate!

When the unreserved Oda clan meets the Maori clan, the clouds of death and destruction are no longer the gloom of war over the middle of the empire, and even the vultures that fly in from time to time are ready to feast!

Oda Nobunaga, who had not given the order to attack for a long time, and Mori Motosa, who was still a little inexplicably worried, were all waiting for news from the side of Saikaido;

In the middle of the empire and the western part of the empire, where the smell of gunpowder was everywhere, the war had not yet officially begun, and a great war broke out in the northern part of the empire, which had been in a state of fighting and fighting, and this time the great war broke out in Tsuruoka Castle, the capital of the Daihoji family of Hago.

Because of Oda Nobunaga's promise, Hakumine added Marcus's Sixth Army to Ishikawa Castle, and with the addition of the Sixth Army, the Yanhuang family army that rushed to the aid of Yugo was composed of three troops: the Izumiyama Standing Army, the First Aceni Army, and the Sixth Army, with a total strength of more than 60,000.

The 150,000 allied troops of the Uesugi family, the Tozawa family, and the Onodera family, crossed the border into Yugo, and Marcus led his Yanhuang army into Yugo from north to south, and set the meeting point of the coalition forces at Ducobalt Castle of the Anton family.

According to the original alliance agreement, in addition to the 60,000 troops of the Yanhuang family, the coalition army should also have 40,000 troops of the Dabaosi family and 60,000 troops of the Anton family, but the reality is that after Marcus's assembly order was issued, the army of the Dabaosi family did not come.

The Dabaoji family's governor, the Daihoji Yoshi, sent a letter of explanation to Marcus, and the content of this letter was not so much an explanation as a request for help; the 150,000 Uesugi coalition troops went north, and the first thing to bear the brunt of the Dabaoji family's territory was that the Dabaoji Yoshi, who put his family's interests first, naturally could not let his family's army go north to converge, on the contrary, he also asked the Yanhuang coalition army to go south as soon as possible.

Regarding the Daihoji Yoshishi's self-assertions, the general of the Andong Army, who had already led his army from Hiyama Castle to Ducoo Castle, Namioka Xiancun, only said a few casual words insincerely, as if he did not take it to heart, but Marcus condemned the Daihoji family very seriously.