Not long after the New Year, Niwa Nagahide came forward and concluded an alliance between the Oda family and the Seven Clans of Higashimino Tozan, and Nobunaga chose two of the women of his relatives to marry into Iwamura Castle and Naeki Castle respectively, making the Toyama clan the flank of Oda. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info After months of correspondence between Hiteshu and Tokugawa's Ishikawa Shumasa, the idea of the alliance was basically finalized, and only the heads of the families on both sides were left to confirm the terms.

On the bright side, the Oda family naturally did not extend their hands to the east, and the flat hand was suddenly very leisurely, but the relationship between the three rivers only turned into the dark and was not broken. Honshu also tried to find the person called "Honda Masanobu". Historically, there have been many people who have left the Matsudaira family in Mikawa, but no one can compare to this gentleman. However, in the end, there was no gain, and it was natural to think about it, that person was still down at this fashion, and it is estimated that few people knew him.

On Owari's side, the two men who made the alliance were rewarded - of course, Niwa's share was much larger, after all, the former was made out of nothing, and the latter was just pushing the boat along the way.

The group of generals represented by Shibata and Sakuma, in addition to envy, rubbed shoulders with each other, and looked forward to the summoning order for Cheongju Castle to attack Mino day and night, and they did not wait too long to get what they wanted. In late May, when the news of Saito Yoshiryu's death came, Nobunaga immediately launched a ******, and all but a few remained in Owari went into battle. According to authoritative speculation, the location of the attack will be Anpa-gun, in the Mino hub. Through some memories of later generations, Hirate Hoshu vaguely judged that the specific battle location was likely to be near Moribe Village.

Immediately afterward, an unexpected guest visited the city.

"Brother? Why should you send someone to inform you of something? ”

Fan Xiu looked at the uneasy Hisho Jiuxiu in front of him, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. In the past few years, Nobunaga has not embarrassed him anymore for the sake of Masahide's face, but it is completely impossible to say that it is valuing, and it is not easy to keep the ancestral property of 3,000 stones.

Now Jiuxiu only feels extremely embarrassed in front of his younger brother. If you judge it publicly, the strength and status of your younger brother have far surpassed it, if you judge it privately...... In the past few years, how much brotherhood remains?

Back then, I was so alienated and prevented, but now I ask for help, which is really uncomfortable.

On the contrary, it was Keijiro Hirate next to him, now called Hirate Hideyi, who was not at all nervous, just bowed and sat down with a big grin. Although he is still young, the demeanor of the admirer has already begun to appear.

"Very left, ah......"

After thinking about it for a long time, Hiraku Hisahide still decided to pose as a brother with a cheeky face.

"What?"

Fan Xiu asked with a pleasant face.

"I'm actually here today for Keijiro."

"Oh?"

"That's right. This time I was recruited by the lord to fight, and it was Keiji's first battle, so I wanted to ask the lord for a position where he could make meritorious contributions......"

On the thirteenth day of May in the third year of Eiroku, Nobunaga personally led more than 3,000 people to cross the Kiso and Hida two rivers and set up a formation at Katsumura, and invaded Nishimino on the same day.

Hisashi Hisashi slurred, but he finally finished speaking, and then looked at his brother nervously.

Whenever there is a war, the positions of vanguard and secondary striker must be contested, especially in the eastern country. With Hisahide's status, he doesn't have the ability to speak in front of Nobunaga.

"Hmmm......"

Fan Xiu glanced sideways at Keiji, and although the latter pretended not to care, there was an expectation in his eyes that could not be concealed.

"So, all the candidates for the expedition have been chosen?"

"Yes, I carefully selected one hundred and twenty people, and let one bring fifty people to help."

Seeing that the other party had the intention of accepting, Jiuxiu couldn't help but show joy.

This is really a big deal for the flat hand, who has always been weak, and he does not hesitate to spend money. But even so, Fan Xiu couldn't help but want to pour some cold water.

"For the first time, it's better to be as safe as possible!"

Jiuxiu regarded this as a refusal, and suddenly became gloomy.

"Oh, if it's too much trouble, don't force ......"

Keiji jumped out very dissatisfied, and distinguished:

"Uncle! Don't you believe in my abilities? ”

Jiuxiu hurriedly stopped him.

"Zhizuo, don't care about ......"

Fan Xiu didn't get angry, but replied:

"Fighting together is a dangerous thing, and it is not possible to guarantee safety by being brave enough to be safe."

When Keiji heard this, he calmed down and walked to Fan Xiu and bowed.

"Uncle, six years ago, you were in the chaos to get Lin Meisaku; Two years ago, he went deep into the Imagawa army and sent information about victory. At that time, did you forget that it was dangerous to go to war? ”

These words made Fan Xiu dumbfounded.

"You're right. As a martial artist, in troubled times, he shouldn't have any thoughts of living in peace. Fan Xiu nodded at the nephew, "But I'm afraid it's hard to win the vanguard, but the second striker has a chance." "In my impression, although the Moribe battle Oda family did not take any advantage, it did not suffer a loss, so it should not be too dangerous.

"Thank you very much!"

Hisahide was overjoyed.

And Keijiro jumped up with joy.

Fan Xiu smiled, and then called out his inner relatives to come to salute.

Jiuxiu was quite uncomfortable when she saw Ah Dog, and she didn't dare to let the princess of the main family give her a gift. Keiji didn't care, and ran over to tease Toshi's daughter, Yukichiyo.

"Little sister Yukichiyo, I'm Brother Keiji, Brother Keiji."

"Call my brother......"

"Brother-brother-"

Repeated education has always failed. Yukichiyo is just over a year old now, and she can already call her parents and stagger and walk alone, but she is very unfamiliar with the word brother - no one in the city needs her to call her that.

The depressed Keiji simply put on a grimace, but this time it worked quickly, and Yukichiyo suddenly burst into tears and threw herself into Toyo's arms.

"Your Highness, this kid really likes you!"

Zygote seems to be a little jealous. Seeing that the daughter who was conceived and born in October liked her father, as a mother, she was naturally relieved and disappointed.

Fan Xiu didn't feel it, and reached out to hold her daughter in her arms. Ah Dog stroked his lower abdomen and stood at his side, smiling silently, and the previous envy was completely gone.

"Am I so scary?"

Keiji touched his nose and muttered to himself in a big blow.

For a while, the guests and hosts were happy, as if they had returned to the previous situation without barriers.

It's just that when he was leaving, Hirate Hisashi said privately:

"Zhizuo, it's not that I don't believe in you and deliberately want to alienate you, it's just that there are some things that can't be known to outsiders."

The meaning of these words is not clear, and Fan Xiu didn't pay much attention to it for a while.

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Two days later, Fan Xiu came to Cheongju City with his three hundred men, and at this time the large army had not yet been assembled, but it also had a scale of four or five thousand people. Before the briefing, I met with a few colleagues, especially in front of Takigawa Kazuki, and hinted: Keiji is on your side on blood! Then he found Niwa Nagahide, who was eager to pay off the favor, and he also agreed to it. But I don't want to, the so-called hardcore friendship is also established in this back-and-forth exchange of favors. In the end, Murai Sadakatsu was there, and he also said a few words through Sasa Narumasa.

Then he went to Honmaru with his attendants. At a glance, there are fewer and fewer acquaintances in the crowd, and most of the people who worked together back then have now gone out to take charge of themselves, and the popular person who has just been promoted is a young man named Sugaya Naga, who has not been in service for long.

Oda Nobunaga put on his armor very rarely, and sat down to greet his retainers, which seemed to be very cautious. Last year, he took advantage of the victory to defeat Imagawa and tried to march into Mino, but was defeated by the sick Saito Yoshiryu without leaving home and talking and laughing, which is something that Nobunaga is ashamed of, and it seems that this time he has made up his mind to earn back face.

It was almost time for the people above the Ashigaru Shogun to pat the table with the handle of his sword and silence everyone.

"As you must know, Mino's Saito Yoshiryu has passed away, and now is the best time for the family to seize this inheritance!"

This resolute and resolute face is the ideal samurai leader in legend, but it is rare in this person. Even when the Imagawa army attacked, he just sang "Fifty Years in the World" and went out of battle madly.

Although the first bow of Tokaido is strong, it is far away after all, but Saito Yoshiryu is truly superior to Nobunaga in every way.

In terms of diplomacy, only a few years after Yoshilong succeeded to the throne, he got a high-ranking official of "Doctor Zuojing" and the official service of "Imperial Companion", although Oda Kamiraku was courteous, but the actual benefits were much worse;

In terms of strategy, Saito Yoshiryu repeatedly succeeded in inciting the Oda family's relatives to rebel, often causing Owari's strength to be greatly damaged without a single soldier. On the contrary, Mino was managed by him to an iron plate, and it was difficult to insert needles;

In terms of joint battles, from Oda Nobunaga's rescue of his father-in-law, to the two tentative attacks in the third year of Eiroku, all of them were defeated by the other side. It was only because Saito Yoshiryu was more interested in the Omi Province to the west that he did not wave his army south.

And the advantage of the Sixth Heaven Demon King is that he can learn the other party's means for his own use in failure.

It didn't take long for Fan Xiu to wander, because the person on the stage was not used to talking too much nonsense after all. Nobunaga simply announced to the crowd that he would leave his seat five days later.

However, on this night, several important ministers were suddenly called to Honmaru and received orders to go out immediately.

"However, more than half of the reserve team has not yet arrived!"

Niwa Nagahide objected.

Nobunaga nodded, but he didn't listen at all.

"So Gorou (Niwa Nagahide) you stay, command the remaining team with Gonroku (Shibata Katsuie), and come over to support after concentrating, and I will personally bring the person standing here as the striker!"

Looks like he's addicted to sneak attacks.

At this time, the flat hand also spoke: "The lord ......"

"If it's advice, take it back as soon as possible."

Nobunaga waved his hand impatiently.

"No, I just want to recommend a candidate."

"Oh, who is it?"

"The nephew under him, Keijiro Hisei Hideyi, although he has just served the yuan, his martial arts are quite outstanding."

Takigawa Ichiyi also immediately excused himself and said: "Lord, this person is the son of the Takigawa Masaki clan in my clan, and he was succeeded to Lord Hirate Hisahide, and he is a good material for a samurai." ”

These two people have never been on good terms, so they don't worry about what outsiders think.

Nobunaga was noncommittal, glancing at Niwa Nagahide and Murai Sadakatsu behind him.

These two people were greeted by Fan Xiu before, so naturally they would not say anything bad.

Oda Nobunaga glanced around, thought for a moment, and suddenly laughed.

"If you have this mind, let him follow me! But if you don't have the ability, the four of you will be punished together. ”

Following this general who plays as a striker in person is indeed a relatively safe and easy position to make meritorious contributions.

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Fanxiu's joy is not fake.

……

On May 14, the fourth year of Eiroku, Oda Nobunaga took advantage of Mino's funeral for Saito Yoshiryu to send troops, and temporarily changed the time of the battle, which caught the Saito clan off guard. He personally led the vanguard of 5,000 people, crossed the Kiso and Hida two rivers, and entered the eight counties of Mino on the same day.

The next day, the Saito generals, Nagai Kai Mamoru and Hibino Shimono Nomori, led their troops from the Sumamata area in heavy rain and stationed them in the Moribe. Nobunaga alone led a hundred men to check on the enemy's situation, and when he saw the enemy crossing the river in the rain, his morale was low and he was moving slowly, and he laughed and said, "This is a godsend!" Then the whole army marched, and the enemy army was defeated in an instant, and 170 heads below Nagai and Hibino were taken. Then he refused to defend the strategically important place of Sumamata and built a formation to attract enemy troops to attack, intending to wait for work.

In this battle, the first battle of the tie Keiji, won the head of four people, including the general Hibino Kiyomi, so that colleagues both respect and fear this immature half-grown child, all called "ghost boy".

The situation is very good, but the messenger of the Hiraite family suddenly appeared in the army, saying that the dog, who was less than eight months pregnant, was unwell and might be born prematurely. Nobunaga, although he looked displeased, still approved him to go back quietly, but he did not want to affect the morale of the army. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )