Within a few days, new news came from Minami Omi.

After the death of Nakagawa Shigemasa and Tsuda Moritsuki, who were in charge of Kuritai County, Nakagawa Yoshitoshi, the youngest brother of the family, stepped forward to unite one family and his retainers, and raised troops to join forces with Sakai Masasho, the Daisakai of Koga County, to form an offensive and defensive alliance, and together condemned the shameless actions of Shibata, Takigawa, and Sakuma.

In a hurry, the two men mobilized only about 3,500 soldiers.

In addition, Nobumori Sakuma, who is considered the biggest suspect, and his son Nobuei, claimed to have received false accusations and threats and were "forced" to protect themselves. Then he returned to his former residence, Yongyuan Castle, took out a large amount of gold and silver to recruit the old troops, and immediately gathered more than 2,000 troops. And bribed more than 1,000 Iga ninjas to assist in the battle.

This is a naked gesture to provoke chaos.

The forces of the two counties of Kurita and Koga were divided into two factions, and the tension was on the verge of breaking out.

The affiliated Chinese wealthy families, as well as the Rokkaku Yu Party that had not been subdued for a long time, basically all supported Tsuda and Sakai.

In the past few years, Nobunaga has successively transferred to this place, and most of them tend to be the "old leader" Sakuma Nobumori.

A quarter or so remain neutral.

Shibata Katsuie, who was nominally the guardian of the five prefectures in southern Omi Province, was of course surprised by the tragic death of his colleagues, but he was even more angry at Nakagawa and Sakai's actions, and sent someone to communicate, promising to do his best to investigate the truth of the matter and catch the murderer behind the scenes, and ask them to lay down their arms and stop resisting.

Then there was an unsurprising rejection.

Yoshitoshi Nakagawa and Masasho Sakai scoffed at this and scolded them.

Shibata then became angry and issued a mobilization order to the territory, claiming that he would crusade against the rebels.

If you don't realize the suspiciousness of Sakuma Nobumori until now, it would be too much to say. It is more likely that he knew that he had been deceived, and he couldn't admit it for the sake of face, so he fought to the end.

If he really forced it over, it would be fine.

However, the largest group of people in the southern part of Omi Province, with a territory of more than 50,000 koku, had the right to pass over Gamo Dinghide, who was guarding the Ashikaga family, and decided that it was a reckless and unwise move that would lead everyone to disaster, and flatly rejected the request for mobilization.

This person was deeply influential in the Rokkaku family before, and later became the in-laws of the Oda clan, and his status was very transcendent. Under his influence, the local tyrants and landlords in the vicinity were all passive and slacking off, and they had no desire to fight.

At the same time, Takigawa Kazuki resolutely said goodbye to Shibata Katsuya and returned to Kita-Ise to be cautious and self-contained, putting on a posture of standing by and having nothing to do with the matter, in an attempt to prove his innocence.

Obviously, his political sensitivity is also somewhat lacking. They have all been involved, and they don't think about the aftermath and just care about getting out, which can't alleviate the suspicion on their bodies, and it just makes Shibata unhappy in vain.

He also thought that just like when Nobunaga was in power, he just had to explain the reason and clear up misunderstandings. But I never thought that the current situation is completely different, and many people around me don't care about the truth, they just want to create chaos.

How can you clarify someone who pretends to misunderstand?

Takigawa came to such a hand, and Shibata Katsuya almost fell into a lonely situation.

Among the five prefectures of Minami-Omi, except for the two counties of Kurita and Koga, which were in the confrontation between Sakuma's father and son and the combined forces of Nakagawa Sakai, the other three counties of Yesu, Gamo, and Kanzaki had a total of less than 3,000 people who responded to the call, and with the soldiers of Shibata's direct team, it was enough to fill the number of 5,000.

This is clearly not enough to calm the situation.

However, Shibata Katsuya had already boasted that he wanted to quell the chaos by thunderous means, and he was embarrassed for a while.

When Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Oda Nobutada heard this, they unanimously made a very similar conservative reaction - they refused to give accurate qualitative opinions in advance, but said high-sounding and ambiguous words like mud, which roughly meant "We will not let go of a bad person, nor will we wronged a good person, everyone must believe in the leader, believe in the organization, and do not go to extremes and resort to violence to drive yourself to a dead end" and so on.

That's to be expected. Ashikaga Yoshiaki really has no resources in his hands, so he can only rely on the good name to mediate for profit; Oda Nobutada had strength but lacked courage to subdue his retainers.

On the surface, it is estimated that they will use covert pressure to solve the problem to avoid unexpected risks.

Of course, this cannot be miscalculated, but in the current situation, it will appear very weak.

In particular, Oda Nobutada will either use thunderous means to deal with it, or he will simply admit that he is unable to govern Omi's affairs, and if it is so unclear, there may be big problems later.

The only good thing is that Asai Nagamasa is far away in Kansai and can't get involved for the time being.

Looking at the information that was urgently collected, Hirata Tsuno's mood was a little heavy. After all, Oda Kamiraku's great cause also has his contribution in it, and I can't bear to watch it be destroyed so quickly.

However, after carefully considering the pros and cons, Hisho still felt that it was not appropriate to rush into the Kinai vortex at this time.

He made up his mind that even if he was invited to "go back to Kyoto to clean up the situation", he would politely decline. It doesn't matter who makes the invitation.

It just so happened that Kii had an accident, and even the excuse was ready-made.

By the end of April of the third year of Motogame, Herate Honhide mobilized his own personal guards, Bannermoto, Izumi, Awaji, and Kii countries, and obtained some symbolic reinforcements on Shikoku Island, with a total of 14,000 people on land and water, and vigorously crusaded against Tsuchihashi Morishige and others who resisted the seizure.

The enemy, numbering about 2,800 soldiers, gathered in four strongholds with Dasu as the core, forming a situation of horns against each other, as if they were planning to resist stubbornly to the end.

As the vanguard, Iwanari Yumotsu and Konishi Yukinaga's 4,000 men were fully prepared and neatly erected garrison fortifications and siege equipment.

When Hirate arrived at the front with the rest of the army, he was very satisfied with this, and then announced that the military affairs that had previously belonged to Kawada Naga would be handed over to Iwanari Tomotsu and Konishi Yukicho in the future. These two men were officially appointed as military commissioners and assisted by military commissioners.

During this period, Hirate was not as tough as he appeared, but maintained good communication with the religious forces of Kii.

On the condition of "resolving the Awa Hokan and assisting the missionaries of Shikoku", Shingon and Ichijo have explicitly agreed to the Kii Mission. Neither monk had any intention of breaking his promise immediately.

In fact, the scope of this year's land inspection is very carefully delineated, basically picking soft persimmons, and not touching the interests of the bigwigs too much.

There is no reason for "vested interests" like Tsuchihashi to stand up against it.

The real troublemakers are Inoue, Okazaki, and Fujii, the three minions who add up to less than 10,000 stone territory.

Other "vested interests" will only feel that Tsuchihashi is serious and ignorant of current affairs.

Therefore, after the mobilization order was issued, most of the powerful Chinese and wealthy families in Kii responded as promised, and there was no "reluctance to attack their fellow villagers". Only a handful of people made up excuses to pass the buck and were then blacklisted.

However, Tsuchihashi has a strong identification with the traditional tenets of the "country samurai", which means that he has a strong sense of mutual assistance in the countryside and feels that he needs to stand up for the "little brothers".

At the same time, he also believes that as long as he can tell the name, it is not a big deal to offend the guard. Even if you can't beat it, you can regret it later.

In areas with a weak sense of centralization, there are really many wealthy families who have this kind of thinking.

There are a lot of people who intercede for Tsuchihashi Morishige - which is probably one of the reasons why he has no fear.

Hatakeyama Takamasa, who was pulled out as a banner and puppet, as the adoptive father of Yakshamaru, personally spoke to Hirate Tsunohide: "Although Tsuchihashi Wakatai is reckless and ignorant, he is not a treacherous person, and he has done something wrong this time, probably because he was bluffed, and his crime will not lead to death, so I beg the Lord of the Criminal Department, Haihan." ”

Yorino Yoshino, the lower part of the Ichikozong sect, wrote to him: "The Tsuchihashi clan has always been kind and charitable, and is widely supported by believers. ”

The Sugi of the Shingon sect is considered to be more conservative, and only mentions: "One of the four major officials of this gate, and Saga Tsuchihashi is the same clan, but it is not the same advance and retreat, please also be clear." ”

Tsuchihashi Morishige himself was not stupid, and realized that the matter was serious, so he hurriedly sent someone over to explain: "It's not that I am against the land inspection, but I just see some injustices in the process of land inspection, and I want to appeal to the Lord of the Equal Punishment Department." ”

However, in front of all the Kii people, he sneered, slapped the case, and angrily reprimanded the messenger: "Dare to shelter the murderer who killed me, and what kind of 'unfair appeal' do you have the face?" Go back and tell Tsuchihashi Shouzhong, take off his armor within three days, and tie himself down, I can be a little more tolerant, otherwise the day the city is broken, it will be the time when the butcher's knife falls! ”

The messenger was like chaff, sweating profusely, trembling with fear, stammering, and fled back in embarrassment.

Then the tie issued a high reward and ordered the troops of all sides to storm the city.

But if there is a catch, one or two will be given; Those who enter the city first will be given ten taels of gold; Whoever captures or captures 100 enemy generals alive shall be given 30 taels of gold; Whoever captures or captures the enemy's generals alive shall be given a hundred taels of gold; Those who beg for or capture the earth bridge guard alive will be given five hundred taels of gold!

It is conceivable that if these words are conveyed, the wealthy families who had old grudges with the Tsuchihashi clan in the past are eager to try. In the past, there was a friendship with the Tsuchihashi clan, and those who were in the body were all hesitant.

Nakamura Kazuji, who had just taken office at the beginning of the year, naturally joined the fight. When he heard about this, he immediately came to admonish him: "Report to the lord, my subordinates have learned in the past few months that this person has a very good reputation in the local area, and if he kills him rashly, I am afraid that he will be a little shocked." At the very least, a thick burial ...... should be given"

Tie the hand.

In the past, the core reason for Nakamura's rapid reuse was that he was able to resolutely carry out orders regardless of whether he understood it or not, without dragging his feet and without bringing his emotions into his work.

Now that he has only been a magistrate for three or four months, he inevitably begins to have his own ideas about the trade-offs between interests.

This is human nature, not a wavering of loyalty.

Therefore, the flat did not reproach, but responded with a smile: "There is no need to worry about this. I don't know that Tsuchihashi Shouzhong has a good reputation? But it is precisely because the reputation is so good that some people try their best to kill him! ”

Kazushi Nakamura was stunned as if he understood or not.

But the tie didn't go any further.

If Nakamura was still the intelligence head of the center, rather than an external general, he might have said a few more words to him.

But now......