After the initial construction of Komakiyama Castle was completed, Oda Nobunaga couldn't wait to move in, and gathered heavy troops here, posing as a strong attack on Minosaito and Inuyama Castle Oda Nobukiyo. The brave generals up and down www.biquge.info Owari also burst out with extraordinary enthusiasm in order to get rid of the shadow of the defeat in the first two joint battles.

In the autumn of last year, in order to isolate the rebellious Inuyama Castle, Oda besieged Oguchi Castle, a branch city on the west side of Inuyama Mountain, with several thousand troops. After that, Nobunaga regrouped and marched into the Kana Gate, the hub of Mino, in an attempt to cut off the Saito family's southward route. At first, he relied on the hard work of Shibata Katsuya and Mori Kosei to gain the upper hand, but then he was counterattacked and retreated. The name of Mino Kirin Takenaka Shigeji resounded again, but this time there was much less water.

These two battles fully exposed Oda Nobunaga's side of being only good at strategy and not good at tactics. Although he was able to select the appropriate campaign objectives, he did not have the ability to complete them, and this was the current situation in the military area of Owari.

On the surface, the unruly Sixth Heaven Demon King (there is no word yet) is a man who will never admit defeat, but that is just an illusion created by his character. For a pragmatist, the saying that you get up from where you fall is not reliable - as long as you can get up at the end, why bother with where you get up?

As a result, Shibata and other generals' repeated requests for war were ignored, and it was Niwa and Hirata who were hand-picked as the two capable "wise generals". The former said that he could try to plot against a few retainers in Inuyama Castle, and with his usual steady tone, he could be at least six or seven percent sure of using this tone. And the latter...... But he just raised a few idiotic questions in a row on the collegial meeting of the important ministers.

"Hasn't the family been using troops against Mino for several years? Why a sudden change of strategy? ”

Nobunaga sat motionless on the stage, listening and not listening, seemingly disdainful of answering the question.

Shibata Katsuya couldn't help but open his mouth to take over the conversation:

"Of course it's because of the defeat in the battle!"

After repeated defeats, Shibata's voice as the chief general is also much worse than before, and many proposals that have been drafted have no shame to continue to be published, so naturally he has no good temper.

"Is it really a failure?"

Tieshou asked softly.

This time, even Shibata didn't answer, as if he was worried that this level of conversation would lower his IQ.

"When the family was defeated, you were in the Three Rivers! Although we are incompetent, we still have a sense of shame. ”

With this provocative tone, there will be no one else except Lin Xiuzhen.

Shibata and Mori were silent, but Nobunaga glanced downward, but what he was dissatisfied with was not a tie but Hayashi.

Fan Xiu just smiled and replied, "This year is the sixth year of Yongroku, and the family started to attack Mino from the third year of Yongroku." ”

It's still completely meaningless, but because it's so meaningless, it's confusing and hard to guess what his purpose is.

Then Honxiu bowed to Murai Sadakatsu, who was present, and asked:

"Murai Hall ......"

"What do you command?"

"I don't dare to take the word order, but in the past three years, the injuries of our side and the Meinong side in all the battles should be recorded in you, right?"

"Oh, yes."

"So ......"

Honhide turned his gaze to Nobunaga, who nodded slightly and agreed with Murai Sadakatsu.

"Yes."

Murai has always been known for his memorization, but at this time, the atmosphere in the hall was serious, and he didn't dare to hold it up, so he got up and left the table, took the relevant files, and announced them one by one.

"In August of the third year of Yonglu, he sent troops to intimidate Ximeinong, and his own family lost one hundred and six people, and the enemy killed more than eighty people."

"In May of the fourth year of Eiroku, Moribe fought together...... Fifty of the family were killed, and more than 170 were killed by the enemy. ”

"In the fifth month of the fourth year of Yonglu, the light sea ...... Article 14 ......"

"Yonglu Five-Year ......"

……

In three years, Owari lost about a thousand people, and Mino also lost eight or nine hundred people. From the perspective of generals, two of Saito Rokujuku were lost in the battle, and there were no people of the same rank on Oda's death list.

"Although I haven't been able to capture a large area, judging from the statistics of the number of people, this family is not the side that has completely lost, and ......" Hisho Hasuhide paused, and the corner of his eye saw that Niwa Nagahide was already clear, but he didn't mean to stand up and explain at all.

So I can only continue to say it myself:

"And every battle is fought in enemy territory, so the losses are ......"

At this point, he stopped. Recently, the actions on the front line of Sanhe have been very conspicuous, and there is no need to compete for the limelight here. It is enough to show Nobunaga that he has indeed made a meaningful analysis of the situation.

"That's right!" Shibata Katsuya finally reacted, but he didn't have the same obscure mind as Niwa, "Every time you go to war, you can at least get the other party's supplies, and it is inevitable that you will destroy the town and the grange, so the losses will accumulate, and the Saito family will gradually decline." It turns out that I didn't understand the lord's intentions before. ”

"Then will the family strengthen the hunting and indiscriminate hunting in Mino in the future?"

Lin Xiuzhen proposed. The so-called human hunting was the seizure of the enemy's people for trafficking, and indiscriminate hunting was the taking advantage of the chaos to rob the enemy's people's materials, which was the norm for daimyo at that time.

"Absolutely not!"

Shibata Katsuya refuted without giving face, which made Lin Xiuzhen suddenly embarrassed, but the former was as if he hadn't seen it, and still loudly announced his theory:

"If there are only a few hundred Saito families, then you can take Sado (Hayashi Xiuzhen)'s proposal, but the purpose of this family is to occupy Mino, and if you cause excessive damage to the land over there, it will be more than worth the loss."

Then Shibata ignored Lin Xiuzhen, who looked embarrassed, and continued to speak:

"My lord, Nishimino is led by three people, and the brave and good fighters are like clouds, after the family moves to Komakiyama Castle, they can bypass these people and attack the weaker central part of Mino instead, and open the gateway to Inabayama Castle from the other direction......"

He had been thinking about this case for a long time, and finally took this opportunity to say it freely. However, although Shibata Katsuya spoke impassionedly, Oda Nobunaga did not mean to be happy at all, and still sat silently.

Militarily speaking, it is a good idea, but it has not changed qualitatively compared to the previous battle plan - of course, Tsunosu commented on this proposal, of course, he will not say it explicitly.

"What your lords say makes sense......" Mori Kecheng, who has never been very open-mouthed, spoke at this time, and according to his previous habits, he first said nonsense without offense, and then asked: "As Shibata and Heide said, it is certain that the Saito family can be weakened continuously, but ...... If it goes on like this, it will take too many teenagers for the Saito family to be weakened enough to be wiped out? ”

Honest people occasionally use their brains to think, and they can often get to the point. So what he said was right on Nobunaga's mind. Although Mino is constantly weakening, the extent is limited, and if it continues like this, I don't know how long it will take to capture it? If it turns into a tug-of-war for many years, even if Mino is obtained in the end, it will only be a state and county where the two countries are desperate and their people's livelihoods are withered.

"Actually, you don't have to think of Mino as one!" At this moment, Lin Xiuzhen had recovered, and in order to save face, she had to try her best to come up with some clever opinions, "Those Saito retainers who have repeatedly fought and gained nothing, must have been dissatisfied, if the family sends someone to adjust it......"

If it's so easy to figure out how to figure it out, why sit here?

"Mamoru Sado, I guess there is already a belly case, right?" Tie Fan Xiu deliberately ridiculed him.

Lin Xiuzhen was speechless.

This time, the disgruntled gaze from above shot towards the drawer.

When the two families first married, Nobunaga had a good relationship with his father-in-law, but Saito Yoshiryu killed his father and stood on his own, and those Mino people who were close to Michizo either fled to Owari like Mori Koseru and Beeya Yoritaka, or like Akechi Mitsuhide and Takenaka Shigenmoto. Although the current Saito retainers are not monolithic, they do not have much intersection with Oda.

After some discussion, there were no decent results other than Niwa Tsuki's plan to oppose the retainers of Inuyama Castle. But because of Niwa Nagahide's words and deeds, he didn't feel that he was Muxiu Yulin at all.

By the time the meeting ended, Nobunaga did not say a word.

However, soon after, he sent a side to secretly find the flat hand back.

"You can't finish your words!"

Splitting the head and covering the face is this reprimand.

"I can't hide your insight."

The latter also confessed bluntly.

Nobunaga's face showed a fierce face, and he reprimanded the flat hand to show 1510, but in his heart he attached great importance to it.

"It's true that through a layer of relationship, I got in touch with the samurai of Mino."

"Bold! Why didn't you say it? Nobunaga feigned anger.

"It's really not appropriate to talk about it in public......"

"Speak!"

"Because it depends on the relationship of the Zong sect. The Minohori family is the owner of the local Honkotsu. ”

Sect of the Beginning.

These three words made Nobunaga frown, and he was noncommittal to Tsunohide's words. At this point, however, it seems that this is simply a consistent antipathy to the native religion, not a hostility to a particular sect.

"The Pure Land True Sect (Ichikozong) is a pseudo-Buddha, and its reasoning is not advisable."

Oda Nobunaga ostensibly claimed to be a follower of the Nichiren sect, so this sentence is also very much in line with the image of a believer.

However, Hijo pondered for a moment, understood what he meant, and then said: "It doesn't matter whether the reason is desirable or not, the key is whether its sect can be used by me." ”

"Let's let those Three Rivers disciples belong to you first, but this matter is really not suitable for publicity."

And so it was.

"Your Highness is complete."

"What the hell is going on with Mino?"

"According to the owner of the Hori family, the chief of the three people of Nishimino Mamoru Ando is lobbying his colleagues to deliver a letter of advice to Saito Ryuko next New Year, asking him to posthumously release the ......."

"It's too long-winded!"

Nobunaga waved his hand impatiently. But he didn't want to at all, when he was in a good mood, he often said something cloudy and misty for his subordinates to guess.

"Yes. During the Saito Yoshiryu period, Mino was based on the collegial system of the six yakus. Now Saito Ryuxing favors his ministers, alienates his family elders, and acts arbitrarily, so he gradually opposes his ministers. ”

Hearing this, Nobunaga nodded approvingly: "My nephew is quite ambitious. "In terms of the relationship between Mrs. Guidie, Long Xing is indeed his nephew. And this kind of attempt to take back power from the old man was exactly what Nobunaga did in his early years.

Fan Xiu pretended not to hear this, but continued to elaborate:

"In the past, the main family repeatedly sent troops to Nishiminon, and the persecution was too tight, but the Saito family made peace with each other, so it is better to concentrate on attacking Inuyama Castle first, and sit back and watch the civil strife in Mino......"

A few days later, Mino spread a ballad, praising Saito Ryuxing's successive victories and being far above his father and ancestors, and saying that his close ministers Nagai Shinhachiro and Saito Hida Mamoru were all heroes. When Long Xing heard this, he was more and more disdainful of the three of them and the elders. (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!) )