As Nobunaga had arranged, two days later, a motofu ceremony was held in Kyoto for his son, Wonder Maru, who was named "Nobutada". And let Kawajiri Hidetaka, Hiromasa Ryoda, Mori Nagahide and others serve as assistants for the second generation. (Historically, this baby has changed its name, it's too complicated, let's not talk about it)

There's nothing to say about the specific process.,The Demon King-sama doesn't seem to pay much attention to this kind of procedural stuff.。 However, Ashikaga Yoshiaki seems to have the idea of taking the opportunity to expand his influence, but he is unable to realize it. The shogunate seems to be languishing, and it will probably take some time before it emerges from Izumi's defeat.

Some old friends took the opportunity to chat with each other, but they were all superficial and could not talk about anything substantive. After all, the Iga crusade promoted by Nobunaga is the focus at the moment, and everyone has no time to worry about it for the time being.

On the second day, Oda Nobutashi assisted Oda Nobutada, inspected the troops together, and met with the generals of all sides.

This time, the personnel arrangement is a little strange.

From the Ise offensive all the way, he was ready for defeat, and the Demon King was naturally not suitable to go. From Yamato, this way is to brush the prestige of the second generation, and the demon king is even more unsuitable to go.

So he could only stay in Kyoto to accompany Ashikaga Yoshiaki.

The task of the pit teammates was given to Takigawa, and the task with the trumpet was given to the tie, in order to avoid interference and ensure the authority of the main general, other important ministers were not suitable for mixing.

Therefore, in addition to Sakuma, who was grounded, Shibata, Niwa, Mori Kasei and others also stayed in Kyoto.

In the end, it was distributed, Oda Nobutada and Tetehide's side had 32,500, Takigawa's side was 17,000, and 15,000 miscellaneous soldiers were selected to be handed over to Murai Sadakatsu to carry out logistics tasks.

There are about 20,000 left, and they will stay in Kyoto with the nobles.

Twenty thousand young men and women are waiting for nothing, eating and drinking one or two hundred times a day, which seems to be a pure waste of food. However, the Demon King is rich and willing to buy this order, and outsiders are naturally not qualified to give opinions.

After a simple mobilization, more than 30,000 horses in the direction of Yamato marched south non-stop that day. After a two-day march, they moved about 15 li (57 km) to Ryuoyama Castle in the northern part of Mt. Yoshino.

This place is already a stone's throw away from Fukuzumi Castle, the stronghold of the "Tsutsui Remnant Party". Standing on a high place holding the "clairvoyant mirror" of the Southern Barbarians, you can see the fence and abandoned camp tent at the gate of the city.

The main source of intelligence for the coalition was the Oda family's direct ninja "Feasting" organization, from which Nobunaga transferred a large number of elites to assist Nobutada. But of course, each family will not completely give up the investigation, for example, Hirate Honhide brought Ishikawa Goemon and Hattori Hideyasu over.

Based on the results of the scouts' work, combined with physical investigations, Oda Nobutada and Hirate Honhide quickly grasped the surrounding terrain information.

Located at the intersection of two mountain ranges, Fukuzumi Castle does not seem to have any special location on the surface, and the scale of the city walls is not large. But those who have dealt with it say that the construction process of the city is very solid, and more than 70% of the structures are made of stone and clay, and they are not afraid of catapults or fire attacks.

What's more, the Tsutsui family has been fighting here for many years and has rich experience, and they have already cut down and burned the trees around the city, cutting off the possibility of the besieging side using local materials to build equipment. If you want to transport siege tools from the outside, the road conditions do not allow it, and in fact, only providing food for the 30,000 army makes Murai Sadakatsu anxious.

According to the report, the enemy had already prepared for a long-term cage city, dug five or six 100-foot deep wells in Fuzhu City, and hoarded as much as 8,000 stone of black rice, enough for 2,000 defenders to support for two or three years. In addition, there are 600 strong bows and 100,000 arrows in the warehouse, all of which are good goods for the monks and soldiers of Xingfu Temple to press the bottom of the box.

It's impossible to play water attack, because you can't find a river more than three feet wide within a radius of five miles.

It seems that there will be a good show of verbal swords - with this thought, Tieshou Tsusui participated in the military conference.

……

The tent was spread out, and the generals were seated.

In the position of the main general is undoubtedly Oda Nobutada. There was also a middle-aged samurai with a mustache standing beside him, holding a sword.

If you look closely, this person is Hidetaka Kawajiri, who has been appointed as the chief assistant of the second generation. This person's affairs are often heard by Hisho Tsuki in Hequan. This colleague has a lot of seniority, and he joined the Oda family twenty-five years ago, but because his background was too low and no one supported him, he has been working all the way to this day, and he is a general who knows how to do a thousand stones.

In the battles since Kamiraku, Kawajiri Hidetaka's martial bravery and military strategy have been widely recognized, and many people privately believe that his talent is not inferior to Shibata, Mori Kosei, Sakuma and other bigwigs, and even more than Maeda, Sasa, and Ikeda's "Nobunaga Children's Group". Now that he is assigned to the second generation, he seems to have the opportunity to make a big difference.

The first seat to sit on the left hand side of Oda Nobutada is Hirate Tsuhide, and there is no need to make the slightest excuse about this, as a deputy general, of course, he should have the appearance of a deputy general.

Further down are Oda Nobubu, Mino, Inaba, and Owari, and Owari.

Sitting opposite were Matsunaga Shu, Hatakeyama Akitaka, Gamo Dinghide, Mizuno Nobumoto, and Ikeda Katsumasa, five forces that Nobunaga regarded as "outside".

The remainder, smaller forces are not eligible to attend.

"Thank you! It is a great honor for me to gather together today and to be in the army of the contemptible people......"

While Oda Nobutada was saying the opening remarks, Hirate Hirata Tsunohide quietly glanced around, assessing the true combat effectiveness of his side.

The 3,000 banners were estimated to be commanded by the general Hidetaka Kawajiri, which can be called a good general.

With a large army of 5,000 people, the enthusiasm should be fine, but the generals' abilities are generally mediocre. Oda Nobubo is a barely qualified level, but he is already a general among the shorts. The young and promising Changyi and Xincheng have not yet held real power.

The 4,000 soldiers of the Minong people are mainly the "Mino Three", so they are naturally old fellows who don't need to be suspected.

But Owari is completely untrustworthy from top to bottom. After all, it is the "place of Longxing", and some local people with some skills have been promoted to important positions in expatriate assignments step by step, and what they left behind can be imagined.

As for the five exterior samples......

Matsunaga Hide's must have wanted to beat the city's old enemy, Shunkei Tsutsui, to death with a stick, but this guy is only good at trickery, and his combat ability is quite average.

The tall and handsome Hatakeyama Akitaka is a fool who is outside the gold, and as Nobunaga's brother-in-law, he can be deceived by his retainers, and he will be a great help if he doesn't drag his feet.

Gamo Dingxiu and Mizuno Shin are fighting against the wind, needless to say.

Katsu Ikeda is an honest and honest man, and the quality of his troops is okay.

In total, only about 13,000 of the 4,000 people, including the Hirate's family, are stable and reliable.

Before the war began, among the 32,500 troops, fully sixty percent were secretly labeled as "no hope" by the tie.

Mr. Nanguo's army is obviously not suitable for a tough battle.

At this time, Oda Nobutada finished talking nonsense, stretched out his hand to invite people on the left and right to speak: "Contemptible people are not deeply involved in the world, and they are shallow and ignorant, so they dare not give military orders. How to march and deploy in this battle, I still have to ask for your advice. ”

The young airborne leader lacks prestige, so he should not easily express his thoughts, but should let his subordinates speak first, putting himself in the position of the center and summarizing.

- Oda Nobutada apparently understands this very well.

Of course, there are also people like his father back then, who insisted on going his own way every time regardless of the thoughts of his retainers, and then won many battles and slapped opponents' faces into pigs' heads......

"Report to the young master, I do have some ideas below." After the coach finished speaking, Hishote Honhide, as the deputy general, immediately took over the conversation, looked at the person opposite with a smile and said: "Matsunaga Dan has been living in Yamato Province for a long time, and he should know the situation in the vicinity best, so you might as well listen to his old man's high opinion first." ”

When Matsunaga Xiu heard this, he was slightly stunned, and immediately reacted, smiled honestly, and said: "Since you are fortunate to be handpicked by the equal, then the old man must try his best to help the young hall counselor." Not...... Speaking of Tsutsui Shunkei in this blessed city, he is my old enemy. This guy has always been stubborn, and he has no respect for Oda Danmasa and Lord Gongfang, and the old man has long wanted to exterminate him, but unfortunately he can't catch it. ”

"I can talk about it later. Today we have gathered such a large army, Matsunaga Dan thinks how to exterminate the Tsutsui family? It was Oda Nobubo who interjected, frowning and staring at Matsunaga's scarred face with a cold expression, making no secret of his disgust.

Look at the posture of people who are not afraid of offending people, they are worthy of Nobunaga's own brother. has a bullish brother who is so willful.

Matsunaga Xiu, who couldn't be provoked, could only pretend that he didn't see it, still maintained a warm smile, and said gently: "Tsutsui Shunkei's subordinates are quite capable, not ordinary thieves. Fukuju Castle...... The walls were strong, and there was plenty of food and water. Coupled with the difficulty of transportation and the lack of trees available, the old decay really couldn't think of any more ways, only two ways: 'ant attachment' and 'hole attack'. ”

Ant attachment is to let soldiers climb the city wall like ants; Cave attack refers to digging tunnels to attack. Both of these are the most traditional and simple ways to siege a city.

Oda Nobubo scoffed at this: "Ant-attached? How much damage would that have? Cave attack? How long does that take? ”

Although this is nitpicking, it also points out the shortcomings of each method.

Mizuno Nobumoto immediately followed the tone of the gang and said: "If you want to attack the ant, it is estimated that there will be more than 8,000 casualties; It will take at least five months until the acupuncture attack is effective. ”

He was clearly slapping Oda Nobubu's ass.

Matsunaga Xiu was calm and calm, and his smile remained the same: "Long pain is better than short pain, and it is worth it to remove a major problem." The Tsutsui family has been rampant in Yamato for hundreds of years, and if it can be wiped out in one fell swoop today, the world will surely praise the name of the young master of the Oda family. ”

At this time, Inaba Yitie suddenly interjected: "As long as you command properly, you won't need such a big price at all." ”

Ikeda Katsumasa also nodded: "Eight thousand people, five months, it's too exaggerated. ”

Mizuno Nobumoto was speechless for a moment.

Oda Nobubao frowned.

Oda Nobutada was slightly uneasy.

Hidetaka Kawajiri looked anxious.

The atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward.

In fact, Inaba Kazutetsu and Katsumasa Ikeda had no friendship with Matsunaga Shu and were not bought. They are purely too straightforward to see Mizuno Nobumoto talking nonsense.

The two stunned people stirred up like this, but it seemed that Matsunaga's view of "strong attack" prevailed.

Hatakeyama Akitaka embroidered pillow is not very useful, Niwa Katsu is not even an embroidered pillow, and Gamo Dingxiu is cunning and cunning, so someone who is a deputy general can only come out to clean up the situation.

"Ahem......" Pingshou cleared his throat, attracting everyone's attention, and then said slowly, "Do you remember why we gathered here?" The one to attack is the country of Iga. Tsutsui Shunkei of Fukuzumi Castle is just a stumbling block at the gateway to Iga Province. If we spend so much effort in front of this stumbling block that we lose our troops and waste time before we even set foot on the territory of Iga Province, we will inevitably become a laughing stock. I don't really care about it myself, but if I let Shaodian bear a bad reputation, wouldn't it be a crime that deserves death. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was awe-struck.

Oda Nobubao and Mizuno Nobumoto were happy.

Kazutetsu Inaba and Katsumasa Ikeda were indignant.

Oda Nobutada, Kawajiri Hidetaka are refreshed.

Matsunaga's smile wasn't as natural as it had been.

After a tie, whoever insists on attacking again will be suspected of "deliberately making the second generation ugly". Who would dare to carry this cauldron?

The old fox Pu Sheng Dingxiu, who had not spoken, came up and asked: "I don't know what the high opinion of the peace is in charge?" ”

"Of course it's appeased." "Since the Tsutsui family is difficult to exterminate for a while, and it is not the main goal of this operation, why do you have to fight each other?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone glanced at Matsunaga Xiu.

And Matsunaga Xiu himself, as the biggest obstacle to appeasement, still tried his best to smile, but it was already very reluctant.

Hirate Honhide pretended not to know, and continued to add: "Of course I also know that the Matsunaga family and the Tsutsui family have some old grudges. But if you think about it, there is no blood feud! With Matsunaga's bright mind and moonlight, we will be able to work together and endure each other for the country. ”

Speaking of which, it's actually a bit of a bully.

With empty mouths and white teeth, why should the Matsunaga family not remember old grudges?

At least give some benefits, right?

So Hite-ho Hoshu paused for a while, and then spoke again: "The Tsutsui family is a wealthy family in the Yamato country, if it can be successfully persuaded, it will be under the command of Yamato Guardian Matsunaga Danmasa in the future, and it is not bad to talk about turning enemies into friends." ”

"Belong to the Yamato Guardian,......" Matsunaga Shu muttered and repeated, as if moved by the words.

None of the others expressed an opinion. Anyway, it's a war that doesn't have much to do with your own family, what's wrong with shedding less blood?

In the end, Oda Nobutada nodded, got up and made a decision: "Since there is no objection, let's try to appease the Tsutsui family first according to what the Taira Sho said!" ”

And all the people fell to the ground and said yes in unison.