On the second day of the seventh month of the third year of Motokame (1570), Hirate invited the celebrities of the left to Kishi Wada Castle for a gathering, solemnly introduced Hatakeyama Takamasa as a guest, and announced that the second son of the side room, Yakshamaru, would be succeeded to his name. This incident focused on informing the many forces in Kii one by one, demonstrating the willingness of the Hirate family to officially visit this country.

The old ministers of Hatakeyama everywhere were overjoyed—at least on the surface, and sent people to congratulate them, verbally expressing their obedience to the leadership.

A day later, on the morning of the third day of the seventh month, the second four-nation expedition officially began.

A total of 1,450 members of the spectrum, 1,680 new members of Izumi, and 970 new members of Awaji were gathered, totaling about 4,000 soldiers, and 250 large and small ships, 700 sailors were used as transports, and 8 Nanban gunboats were used as escorts.

The remaining guards were 300, the banner was 1,500, the gate was 1,000, and the three rivers were 350, totaling more than 3,000 soldiers who stayed in the city with the lord and waited for the next wave of action.

The newly acquired Kii country has not yet issued a mobilization order.

On the fifth day of the seventh month, the Cedari Workshop of Genrai Temple carried the first batch of 2,000 stone old grain with 100 ox carts as agreed. The tie Fan Xiu settled 800 yuan in cash for him at a clear price.

The grain was immediately counted by people, and the brown rice with better condition was allocated to the "Sanlu House" for the exchange of military ration coupons, followed by the military rations of their own troops, and again used for processing and making dim sum for sale, which was really not good for feeding livestock. Hirate Fanxiu specially instructed that now that there are conditions, in addition to ploughing cattle and serving horses, you can try to raise more edible livestock.

On the ninth day of the seventh month, Sanuki sent back the news that the rescue goal had been achieved, and Kagawa no Kagawa was hidden in the mountains, and there were only three loyal servants left by his side, and his only adopted son unfortunately died young, but he himself survived after all.

At the same time, Otomo and Mori once again fought in Iyo on the island of Shikoku, and each supported their own agents to fight, and the war situation also affected Tosa for a time. The head of the Nagamune clan was originally in a stalemate with the Shinohara Nagabo of the Miyoshi family, but the flank and rear were suddenly attacked by a partial division of the Otomo family, so they had to hastily withdraw their troops.

Shinohara Nagabo took advantage of the situation to attack, poured out the nest, fortunately there was Tosa warrior Fukuru pro-government, only with more than 200 soldiers, resisting several times his own pursuers, indomitable, invincible, beheading the enemy thirty levels and returning, which kept the army from completely dispersing. Back to Gangfeng City to point troops, 7,000 people are more than half, and they can still fight in the city.

As a result, in desperation, the head of Changzong and my department wrote again to ask for the assistance of Hisho Tsuno. However, after discussing with Kawada Naga and Iwanari Tomotomo on the front line, they did not dare to ignore the enemy's strength, and slowly advanced from Sanuki to Awa to attack and harass them very cautiously, and did not dare to come directly to relieve the siege of Tosa.

At this time, the nobles of were still busy with other affairs.

On July 14, south of Ishiyama, north of Kaimachi, Sumiyoshi Township in Settsu Province, and on the territory that Oda Nagayoshi had just acquired, Hirate Honhide and Honganji Kenru each brought their families and had a simple meeting to avoid the eyes and ears of everyone.

Mikawa has always been the most suitable guard this time. Of course, Fan Xiu will still bring a personal guard.

The congregation was pretending to be relaxed, but the atmosphere was quite solemn.

It is as burly as the Venerable Master, with a majestic instrument and a solemn treasure, and only slightly weaker than Nobunaga and Yoshiaki. Its magnificence is inviolable, and it is indeed the face of the hero.

Regardless of the talents, this appearance is enough to make the officials surrender.

Seeing this, the Tie Punishment Department chuckled, sat and lay down as usual, so tidy, graceful, showing more than enough, unfathomable situation, in response to the principle of softness and rigidity, vaguely better than three points.

Even Nobunaga and Yoshiaki are in front of each other, and they are not afraid at all, not to mention that they are "a little weaker"?

As soon as the male hosts of the two families met, before they could speak, they secretly competed first.

And the mothers, according to the prior arrangement, were taken by close retainers, pretending to meet each other by chance when worshipping incense and worshipping the Buddha, and observing each other's children by the way - this is actually not very in line with the etiquette system, but Heishou Hoshu has never been very particular, and Honganji is a little too doting on his wife and daughter, so he is a little presumptuous to engage in such a play.

The monk and the warrior sat quietly opposite each other for a moment, and finally the bald one couldn't help but speak first.

After saying to each other that there were some unnutritious words such as "long admiration", "fortunate to see", "great righteousness of the world" and "compassion of my Buddha", Honganji Xianru said directly: "What the poor monks want, but three things: the autonomy of the stone mountain, the inaccessibility of the imperial workshop, and the permission to preach." ”

Pingshou Fanxiu immediately responded: "I have never ordered a ban on preaching in the countryside; In all the imperial squares, where there is a right of 'no loss and no entry' recognized by the imperial court, it will not be infringed, and as for the stone mountain, I have never coveted it. ”

"In this way, I thank the Punishment Department for the believers." He folded his hands, bowed, and then asked, "I wonder if what I say today will always be effective in the future?" ”

Heite said calmly: "I can promise that within ten years, the Heite family will be allies of Honganji." ”

Xianru was not angry but happy when he heard this: "The Tie Punishment Department is really very sincere." It was not easy for the covenant to last for 10 years. ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and they tacitly agreed.

About half an hour later, the two ladies entered the venue together.

Ruchunni of Honganji Temple nodded towards Xianru: "Zhong Lingyu is beautiful, the amount of equipment is extraordinary, and he is really a good son-in-law!" The dog of the flat family covered his mouth with a fan and pretended to be a lady in Kyoto and said politely: "The dog will be entrusted to the virtuous lady of your family in the future." ”

The decision on whether or not to marry politically is certainly on the men, but it would be better if the women did not object, and many potential troubles would be avoided.

In fact, if you look at it in such a hurry, you can only know whether you have a physical disability, whether your intelligence is normal, whether your appearance is different from ordinary people, and so on. How can intelligence and temperament be so easy to see? The two mothers are nothing more than self-comfort and business blowing each other after knowing that things cannot be changed!

At this point, the matter was settled.

On July 17, Honganji sent an envoy to Kyoto to invite the son of the two powerful Nayan Yamashina Kenji, who is now from the three senators, to be the nominal adoptive father of his daughter, in order to avoid some sensitive issues.

Yamashina Yanji is a relative of the Honganji family, and he has a close relationship with Hite's father, Masahide, so he is the most suitable candidate. However, his old man has passed the age of ear shun, his health is not safe, and it is inconvenient to travel, so he simply let his son replace him, anyway, it is not too much.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki was very surprised to learn of this, and he couldn't close his mouth for a long time, but to stop it at this time would be tantamount to offending both sides at the same time, and the dignified public lord could only push the boat down the river to wish him a while.

It is said that after returning to the palace, the general sighed: "I pity that I have no children who are suitable for the age!" However, this rumor is obviously not officially recognized.

On July 20, Yamashina Kantra officially recognized this adopted daughter, and Honganji Xianru summoned the officials to announce the matter, and Hirata Honhide also sent a letter to the deceased to inform them, and the heroes were greatly shaken.

After making a series of preparations, Hirate Honhide, as a guardian envoy, issued a mobilization order to the seven prefectures of Kii, ordering the local tyrants and local servants to assemble at Kishiwada Castle within ten days, and promised to bear the corresponding military food supply.

On July 22, Tsuchihashi Morishige, the leader of the hybrid faction who had been condemned by the Hirate family for rioting in Izumi, took the lead in leading 450 people from his headquarters to report.

Obviously he had old grudges, but he came the earliest and dispatched about two-thirds of his mobilization force, which can be described as quite sincere.

Hisho Tsugashi was quite surprised, but Tsuchihashi Mamoru suddenly bowed down when he saw each other, and said: "Contemptible people only know the truth, not like the Suzuki family's rhetoric, since there is the old Kingo Hall (Hatakeyama Takamasa) and the Venerable Master, I will recognize you as a guardian, and you can only command when you are born and die!" ”

This fierce gangsterism is an eye-opener, and I don't know how to evaluate it.

Then the Suzuki clan and the Oka clan also sent people, but the sincerity was much lower - although they were more respectful on the surface. A total of 1,800 people from the Saga Party came.

Two years ago, it was directly smashed with 5,000 yuan, and 3,000 people were hired, but now with the guardian status, it can only be called 1,800, which is actually not satisfactory. However, given the actual situation, it is good enough to reach this number, and the remaining problems can only be solved slowly.

On July 25, the Genlaizhong mobilized 2,500 troops, led by a new old friend, Suginobo, to respond to the call.

Only 2,500 of the 8,000 monks and soldiers came out, and it seems that the proportion is far inferior to that of Saga, but in fact there is a problem: the root people have always been loosely structured, have not strong political desires, and are good at defending the territory and fighting, but they are not used to going out on expeditions. These 2,500 people were already made up by the high-level people in the temple, considering that the Hiraku family would be the big benefactor in the next few years.

Suginobo explained repeatedly, and Hisho Tsusuku could believe it.

Indeed, Genraiji only seeks self-preservation, not expansion, and is considered a less harmful organization in comparison. However, there are more than 400,000 stones in Kii, and your family accounts for more than 40%, and the taxes are not paid at all, and there are not many soldiers in the war...... Even if it's not a lot of trouble, it's hard to accept.

On July 28, before the deadline, the teams of the Kii people arrived at the designated place one after another. 1,200 members of the Yukawa clan, 800 members of the Horiuchi clan, 350 members of the Ota clan, and 300 members of the Yamamoto clan...... The total was thirty-one coalition troops, four thousand four hundred men.

Judging from the numbers alone, these wealthy families are still more face-saving than the temple and community forces, at least every family is present, and the mobilization rate is generally more than 50%. However, the composition of these motley armies is too complex and is obviously not as reliable as the troops of Nerai and Saga.

After the second son and Hatakeyama, the financial support of Genraiji Temple, and the marriage of Ishiyama Ichisaki - with the foreshadowing of these three strategies, within ten days of the tie, 8,700 people responded. Although it is not as dominant as the old guardian Hatakeyama clan at its peak, it is far from being an empty shelf in name only.

With his personal prestige and financial resources, coupled with some diplomatic means, he squeezed out half of the war potential, but the number of troops obtained was equivalent to the sum of the two countries of Izumi and Awaji.

Kii is a country that obviously still has a lot of oil and water to dig up, but that won't be a matter of time and a half.

In a hurry, to the extent in front of him, the tie is already satisfied.

Originally, the men and horses on standby in Kishiwada Castle had more than 12,000 rounds with Kii soldiers, and with the current capacity, it would take three trips back and forth to land all of them. Counting the 4,000 partial divisions that had already set foot in Shikoku, the military strength was enough to fight against the Miyoshi remnants who occupied Awa and Sanuki.

In addition, Tosa Nagamune's relatives can respond, and there are still a few potential reinforcements in that can be turned to, and on the whole, it should be a good chance of winning.

Hirate Honhide completely ignored the political quagmire of and devoted all his energy to Shikoku Island.