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The loss of Asai Nagamasa's army to Urakami is not very shocking news. It was only because of the gimmick of "the wise general Ukita Naoya set up an ambush to lure the enemy deeper" that it was preached. Many people who hoped that Asai would be unlucky were encouraged by this.

Stories of overcoming the strong with the weak and turning defeat into victory are always fascinating.

Those who follow the situation in the West can see many signs worth mentioning from this incident.

The Ukita Nao's family had already changed their banner under the tone of Mori Motosaki and turned against each other, but after only about a year, they ate the grass and became the patriarch of Urakami Sokei again.

In this way, the frequency of swaying with the wind is amazing.

In this process, the only winner was Ukita Naoke himself, and Urakami Munekei and Mori Moto were both victims. The Urakami family was powerless to punish them, and easily forgave the traitors, revealing their weak side. And the Maori family is even more regarded as a big joke, and will temporarily become the laughing stock of the world.

After defeating the Asai army, the prestige of the Ukita Naoya will surely go further. Will he completely elevate or even wipe out the Urakami family? It is obvious that it is no longer possible for Mori Moto, who is on the verge of dying, to stand up and call for wind and rain, can his descendants suppress the Ukita Naoka?

Or can this Bizen conspirator follow the example of the god of Aki in the past and stand out between the two forces?

What about the sudden rise of Asai Nagamasa? Slump or do you want to do it all over again? If you can't respond immediately to save face, is there a danger that the loose internal structure will collapse?

All in all, there seem to be many possibilities for the future development of Harima and Bizen, which is both exciting and unsettling.

And what happened in Tokaido, the momentum is obvious.

Kai Tiger will not be satisfied with capturing only a few castles on the border of Suruga and Enoe, and it will not be long before he will launch a large-scale invasion of the Tokugawa family, and then look at Kyoto from afar.

This is not the first time he has torn up the Entente and attacked his allies, and I wonder if it will be the last.

As long as there is a chance to eat, the greedy tiger will not take face and reputation too seriously.

Correspondingly, Hojo Masa is a ready-made negative example.

Judging from the posture, it is obvious that he is ready to abandon Tokugawa and reconcile with Takeda, but he still holds his identity and refuses to say it clearly, engaging in some unnecessary acting, which is really self-deception.

During the war years, why did you pay so much attention?

Perhaps he was concerned about his father's opinion. But didn't Hojo have already had a stroke? All in all, no matter how you look at it, I only feel that the Hojo clan lacks courage.

However, such hesitation is good news for the people of. Hojo was unable to make up his mind to formally change his diplomatic strategy, and Takeda Shingen was constrained from concentrating on attacking Tokugawa.

In response to Takeda's westward expansion, the Hirate family had some informal discussions in their spare time, and their predictions varied.

Honda Masanobu believed that Takeda Shingen could only occupy Enoe at most, and it was impossible to take Okazaki Castle. Perhaps it comes from his self-confidence in his hometown as a native of Mikawa.

Iwanari Tomomici estimated that Tokugawa would be defeated, but the Takeda family would inevitably lose their troops and eventually confront Oda Nobutada in the area of Kiyoshu Castle.

Hirate Hideyoshi felt that Tokugawa and Oda were rookies, and the Takeda army would play a triumphant song all the way to the vicinity of Minami Omi, and then be limited by the supply distance and unable to advance again.

Hite-so, on the other hand, felt that empty talk without first-hand information was pointless, and had no interest in having low-quality discussions with his retainers.

No one thought that Tokugawa could defeat Takeda, and no one thought that Takeda would be good enough to go to Rakuro in one fell swoop.

After all, Owari Oda and Mikawa Tokugawa are both deep-rooted local snakes, and if they can't fight head-on, they can also be reduced to pieces and relegated to rural guerrilla warfare.

At that time, Takeda Shingen will face a quagmire, whether by means of repression or strategy, it will take ten or eight years to extend his power to the vicinity of Kyoto.

Compared with the threat of being too far to the east, the people of Kinai are most worried about the chaos in Minami-Omi.

Since the Rokkaku family declined, this plaster land with a total of three or four hundred thousand stones seems to have been firmly grasped by the Oda family. However, Nobunaga was suddenly shot and forced to live in seclusion in order to protect his family's business, and his son Oda Nobutada's prestige was insufficient, and it was already quite difficult to manage Omi and the two countries, and he was really powerless to do other places.

The situation is similar in Kitaise, Kitayama Castle, Tajikuno Ginzan, and Izumi-Awaji.

This is both a danger and an opportunity for the defenders everywhere.

Niwa Nagahide and Mori Kecheng unfortunately died, and naturally everything was over.

The tie show was the most treacherous and cunning, and he patted the shogun's ass at the right time, not only keeping the territory, but also obtaining the title of Kii's guardian, sending troops to spread influence in Shikoku, and even inherited a large amount of inheritance from the Oda family at the commercial level.

However, the experiences of Shibata Katsuya and Takikawa Kazuyi are completely different.

Far from taking advantage of the opportunity to expand, they are all embroiled in thorny regional contradictions.

At that time, Nobunaga was still alive, and all crises were suppressed by the infinite brilliance of his old man's house, and most of the important ministers were bent on aggressively attacking cities and lands, and they were not very concerned about the minutiae. It was only the draw that put a lot of effort into putting things in order, establishing effective laws, and suppressing potential opposition.

It was as if he had known for a long time that the Oda family was going to collapse.

The fruits we get today come from the roots that were planted in the past.

The current turmoil in Minami-Omi may become a wire for triggering a powder keg, which is not trivial.

Looking at this matter alone, Shibata Katsuya moved out of his old friend Sakuma Nobumori, and specially asked Takigawa Kazuki to help, spending so much effort, it can't be all out of friendship, and the ultimate goal must be to strengthen the domination of Minami Omi.

Although "Retreat no Sakuma" is keen on fighting for power and profit, has a nasty side, and is deeply persecuted by outsiders, he is still a famous general after all, and his military command and political skills are not bad, and he has a lot of prestige in Owari.

His son mistakenly killed the Kaimachi tycoon Ikenaga Heihisa, and he himself contradicted Nobunaga in the face of questioning, so he was locked up, and the territory and troops were taken over by Sakai Masanori and Nakagawa Shigemasa in half. Many generations of pedigree are sympathetic to this.

All things considered, it's certainly no problem to use this guy as a pawn.

But only if you can control it.

Sakuma Nobumori is a person who dares to make small moves under Nobunaga, how can ordinary people control it?

Shibata Katsuya is obviously playing away.

According to the intelligence officer's description, Shibata called Takigawa and Sakuma to Chokoji Castle, and summoned Shigemasa Nakagawa Shigemasa of Kritachi-gun and Masashi Sakai of Koga County to be guests, asking them to return some of their powers to Sakuma Nobumori.

Nakagawa and Sakai were both born fighting generals and had strong temperaments, so they replied on the spot, "Such an impertinent request has no reason to be followed, please forgive us for refusing!" ”

Shibata Katsuya, who regarded himself as the big brother, couldn't hold it on his face, and immediately said a few hard words, and the two sides broke up unhappily.

Then, Nakagawa Shigemasa and Sakai Masao, who were lightly armed, were unexpectedly attacked on their way home.

The former was seriously injured, and was barely carried on the back of the guards for a while, and said, "He died at the hands of Owari ancestors!" "Breathe in the stool; The latter escaped by chance, returned to the city, and immediately raised troops, regarded Shibata, Sakuma, and Takikawa as murderers, and announced the Quartet to condemn them sternly.

It's all eerie from beginning to end.

Trying to persuade others to give up their territory and military power by relying on friendship and relationship, I really don't know whether to say that it is straightforward or stupid, it is indeed something that only Shibata Katsuya did.

It is clear that this approach will not achieve its goal.

It's not the same time now, and it's not the time for everyone to give you face as Big Brother.

Shibata Katsuya should not be murderous to the two old comrades, Nakagawa Shigemasa and Sakai Masao, and even if they want to kill, they will not make themselves the biggest suspects in a big way. He's just politically insensitive, not a fool.

But it is unreasonable to say that someone else framed it.

According to public accounts, Shigemasa Nakagawa and Masamasa Sakai were cautious, each with a guard of nearly 100 men, and they were not confronted by a handful of Assassins, but hundreds of heavily armed troops.

Whether it is Takeda, Asai, or hostile forces such as Asakura and Urakami, it sounds like a fantasy to quietly send so many people to carry out secret operations.

With hundreds of people ambushing a convoy on Minami-Omi's territory, Shibata Katsuya could not have been innocent, and even if he was not involved, he would never be able to escape a crime of unfavorable public security.

Logically inferred, the most outrageous speculation is that Sakuma Nobumori instructed his cronies to kill people.

However, Sakuma Nobumori was originally living in seclusion, but Shibata Katsuya took the initiative to find it, and if he was the first offender, Shibata Katsuya would also be to blame.

As for Takigawa Kazuki...... Who told you to stay in Minami-Omi? Joint and several liability cannot be run.

Hiteshu can only be glad that he avoided the political vortex of Kinai under the pretext of conquering Shikoku, and did not have anything to do with this messy.

Leaving aside the affairs of the west and the east, there must be an explanation for the turmoil in Minami Omi.

After careful consideration, Hirate Shu believes that his strength is not enough to distract himself from the Kii inspection to intrigue in Kinai.

So he ordered people to write several letters with rhetoric but no actual content, and sent them to Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Oda Nobutada, Shibata Katsuie, Takigawa Kazuki, Sakai Masanori, and others.

In the letter, he expressed his awe-inspiring feelings of loyalty to the government and the righteousness of the country, and then explained that he had encountered a rebellion among the people of the country and had no time to go to Kyoto to discuss the matter.

Then, the army of the flat army gathered seven or eight thousand troops, rejected all the envoys who were not of good grade, and assumed an attitude of seriously dealing with the matter of Tsuchihashi Shouzhong's resistance to the seizure of land.

Hirate Shu himself also traveled south from Kishiwada Castle to Sengokubori Castle on the front line.

At the same time, he also prepared good horses that could set off at any time, and ordered people to keep a close watch on the situation in Kyoto, and set off as soon as possible if there was a need or opportunity.