Although Kinoshita Hideyoshi was full of confidence, Yu Qiuping was worried about whether his trip would be successful.

However, Kinoshita Hideyoshi soon proved with his strength that it was not for nothing that he could become the world's best in Japan in his previous life. His excellent ability to adjust is jaw-dropping.

On June 16, the lord of Unuma Castle, Jiro Osawa, who was known as the "Tiger of Unuma", was persuaded by Kinoshita Hideyoshi to declare his return to the Oda family. Unuma Castle has an important geographical location, opposite Inuyama Castle across the Kiso River, and can be said to be the eastern gate of Mino's Owari Line. After learning that Unuma Castle had surrendered without a fight, the entire Higashimino was shocked.

"Fujijiro, how the hell did you do it!" At the celebration banquet held by the Oda family for Kinoshita Hideyoshi, Niwa Nagahide repeatedly deigned to toast Kinoshita Hideyoshi.

"Don't dare, don't dare! How dare I let His Highness Niwa toast me! Kinoshita Hideyoshi thanked him again and again, and drank all the wine in his cup. But as soon as he talked about how he persuaded Jiro Osawa to surrender, Kinoshita Hideyoshi, who was so happy, immediately couldn't hide the joy in his heart, and said with a fluttering eyebrow: "As long as there is a seam egg, flies can bite it!" ”

"Oh? Fujiyoshiro! Tell me where this seam is! Maeda Toshiya asked with a smile on the side.

"It's the contradiction between them, the small wealthy families on the front line, the Saito family and the big wealthy families!" Kinoshita Hideyoshi waved his hand excitedly, "Didn't His Highness Takikawa's information say!" When Saruki Castle was besieged, Nagai Michitoshi and his army stayed in Seki Castle and did not want to come to fight, but waited for us to retreat! These little tycoons call the heavens and the earth unspiritual, how desperate they should be! His Royal Highness Daze watched Ape City fall due to water cut-off, but no one had to save him, how chilling it must be! I just took advantage of his frustration with the Saito family to persuade him to surrender him, telling him that the Saito family could abandon Saruki Castle when Tajimi repaired and was besieged, and he could also abandon his Unuma Castle! He's just a pawn of the Saito family! It's better to submit to our Oda family, our Oda family will definitely help each other! ”

"Brilliant plan!" Ikeda Hengxing exclaimed, "Fujiyoshiro's hand is really good! It's almost time to catch up with me! It's worthy of being brought out by me! ”

"Don't brag about you there, when did you bring Fujiyoshiro." Yu Qiuping laughed and said, "Just your stupid mouth, I dare to pack a ticket, if you go to persuade you to surrender, you will be pushed out and cut if you don't open your mouth for more than three sentences!" ”

Yu Qiuping's words caused everyone to laugh, and after the laughter, Niwa Nagahide spoke again: "Fujiyoshiro's discovery this time is very good!" This may be a breakthrough for us to make up for the shortcomings of our troops! ”

Niwa Nagahide didn't say it, Yu Qiuping almost forgot, Niwa Nagahide was also a master of tweaking in the history of his previous life.

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After the surrender of Unuma Castle, the Oda family did not take away the military power and control of Unuma Castle, but gave Osawa Jiro great freedom. When Oda Nobunaga, who was far away in Kiyoshu Castle, received the news, he also personally sent someone to Jiro Osawa to send a letter of affection and the security of the leader, and awarded him the position of the lord of the castle of the Oda family. With such a positive example, for a while, the minds of the wealthy families in Dongmino were lively.

Niwa Nagahide took advantage of the situation to launch a series of strategic activities, and began to persuade those who were also close to the border and exposed to the Oda family's soldiers. Niwa Nagahide served as an envoy three times in person, and went to Kajida Castle, Yoneda Castle, and Matsui Castle to persuade him to surrender. Under the persuasion of Niwa Nagahide, Tadano Sato, the lord of Kajida Castle, Tadamasa Hitada, the lord of Yoneda Castle, and Tsubouchi Toshita, the lord of Matsui Castle, surrendered to the Oda family one after another. In just half a month, five castles along the Higashimino Kiso River with a total of tens of thousands of stone territories were taken by the Oda family, which shook Mino up and down.

At this moment, Saito Ryuxing couldn't sit still anymore. The current Oda family division is not the kind of guerrillas who will leave when the autumn harvest arrives—they have already taken root in Higashiminon. He immediately ordered Nagai Michitoshi, who was located in Seki Castle, to immediately lead his army south, and make peace with Kishi Nobushu, the lord of Tangdong Castle, and Tajimi, who had defeated Saruki Castle, and counterattack Kajida Castle. At the same time, he also executed the daughter of Tadano Sato, the lord of Kajita Castle, who remained as a hostage in Inabayama Castle.

The Oda family, who learned the news, was not ambiguous and immediately took action. Mori advocated immediately going north to attack Tangdong Castle, and preemptively defeat the two before the main force of the Nagai Michichi Leader and Kishi Nobushu and Tajimi Repair Society, so as to avoid the confluence of the other party. Although Akihei felt that it was too risky, Niwa Nagahide took this advice and asked Mori and Takigawa Kazuyi to go north immediately, with Akihei and Niwa Nagahide following as the second formation.

On June 19, Mori Kecheng and Takigawa Kazuyi arrived at Tangdong Castle and launched a random onslaught. At that time, Kishi Nobu Shu and Tajimi were sending their auxiliaries everywhere to cut wood in the nearby forests to build siege equipment, and they were ready to wait for the arrival of Nagai Michitori's army before counterattacking Kajida Castle. Where did they think that it was not the Saito family's reinforcements that came first, but the Oda family's army. The auxiliaries who were outside the city did not have time to retreat, so they had to flee in all directions in the forest. The defenders of the castle were insufficient to withstand the attacks of Mori Kosei and Takigawa Kazuki. Due to the hot and dry weather, Takigawa Kazuyoshi decided to have the archers tie the lighted Songmei to the arrows and shoot them into the city to launch a fire attack. Ninomaru in Tangdong Castle is randomly caught in a raging fire, and the scene is chaotic. Mori Kecheng took advantage of the situation to break through the city gate and occupy Ninomaru. The main force led by Niwa Nagahide then arrived, broke into Honmaru, and took the castle after nightfall, Kishi Nobushu and his wife committed suicide in defeat, and Tajimi repaired and fled again in embarrassment. And Nagai Michitoshi, who was originally on the way to Tangdong Castle, realized that Tangdong Castle was attacked, and hurriedly accelerated to come to the rescue, but was blocked by Yuqiuping's Tokiwabei in the west of the city. Under the defense of Tokiwabei, Nagai Michitoshi's 1,000 soldiers could not break through and failed to reach Tangdong Castle in time. After nightfall, realizing that Tangdong Castle had fallen, Nagai Michitoshi had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat overnight with torches.

After learning that Tangdong Castle had also fallen, the joint meeting of important ministers composed of Saito Ryuko and the Nishimino wealthy clan was shocked. The two sides hurriedly joined forces and led 10,000 troops eastward to the confluence of Guancheng and Nagai Daoli, with a total strength of 13,000 troops. Subsequently, on July 2, the army marched south through the hub of Jinshan Fortress to counterattack Tangdong Fortress. Yu Qiuping believes that there is a huge disparity in strength at present, and the city defense of Tangdong City has not been completely repaired after the fire, and the people's will is not stable, so it should be retreated immediately. At his insistence, Oda Kazushi abandoned Doto Castle and retreated in the direction of Unuma Castle and Kajida Castle, while asking Oda Nobunaga for help.

Before this battle, neither side expected that the battle situation would develop to such a point. A good attack on the division and the encroachment of the territory, but because it went too smoothly, the whole division of the Saito family came.

Saito Ryuxing didn't hesitate much, and seemed determined to regain all the lost ground. On July 3, they again counterattacked Kajida Castle in the south. The lord of Kajida Castle, Tadani Sato, fought hard, and his eldest son, Tadayasu Sato, died in the battle to defend the castle, so he barely held Kajida Castle.

Oda Nobunaga has a keen eye and a good grasp of strategy. By the time he noticed signs of a large army gathering in the Saito family in mid-June, he had already begun to assemble troops on a large scale in the territory of Owari. After receiving a messenger from Niwa Nagahide asking for help, he immediately led an army of 6,000 troops assembled in Owari to cross the Kiso River and arrive at the rocks on Mt. Iki.

However, Oda Nobunaga was not led by the nose by the Saito army, and instead of rescuing Kajida Castle, which was in danger, he went straight north and launched a fierce attack on Kanayama Castle, the road from which the Saito family came and an important strategic hub of Higashimino. At the same time, he also ordered Niwa Nagahide's partial division to send troops to attack and harass the Saito family's army.

Saito Ryuko learned that the back road was lost, and immediately ordered the whole army to retreat, but was attacked by Niwa Nagahide and others. Akihei's Iron Artillery Team once again shone in the raid, seriously disrupting the Saito family's retreat with elusive snipers and salvos. As a result of all this, when the Saito family finally retreated to Tangdong Castle on July 5, Kanayama Castle had already fallen to Oda Nobunaga.

Not satisfied, Oda Nobunaga immediately launched an attack on Seki Castle, a key point connecting Inabayama Castle and Higashi Minon. At this time, the city was almost empty. Even if Saito Ryuko sent Nagai Michitoshi as the vanguard from Tangdong Castle and marched back to Seki Castle, it would be a drop in the bucket. Nagai Michitoshi's army was defeated by the Shibata Katsu family outside Seki Castle, and the Toyama family, Endo family, and other Tomino clans led their troops to withdraw their skills, and Seki Castle also fell. Saito Ryuko, who arrived in a hurry, failed to catch up with the rescue of Seki Castle, and had to retreat to Tangdong Castle in embarrassment.

And because Seki Castle fell into the hands of the Oda family, the road for Saito Ryuko and the Nishimino wealthy clan to return to Inabayama Castle and Nishimino was also cut off, and an army of 10,000 was trapped in Higashimino. The Oda family divided their forces to garrison Seki Castle, Kanayama Castle, Kajida Castle, and Unuma Castle, and firmly locked the retreat of the Saito army.

Although the Oda family was scattered, they all had a castle to rely on, and they were fighting each other to rescue each other, and the Saito army had nothing to do with them. The army of the Saito family gathered in Tangdong Castle, and the remaining troops of Nishimino were also stationed in Kana Castle under the leadership of the remaining clan Naomoto, threatening the flank of the Oda family, so that the Oda family did not dare to move. As a result, the situation has been stalemate, and no one can make progress.

However, as the days passed, the autumn harvest was imminent. The armies of Nishimino and Owari were in a hurry to return to the autumn harvest and were unwilling to confront each other here, so they both had the idea of peace. Due to the large number of standing soldiers in the Oda army, the impact on the autumn harvest was less than that of the Saito family; And the Oda family had an advantage in this battle, so Oda Nobunaga was particularly confident. After five days of negotiations, an agreement was finally reached that the Oda family would let the Saito family leave, but the Saito family would have to withdraw from Tangdong Castle.

On July 16, the Saito family, under the watchful eye of the Oda family, left Higashi Mino in disgrace and rushed back to Nishimino for the autumn harvest. And this battle also ended with a complete victory for the Oda family. Originally, the Oda family, who only wanted to send a partial division to encroach on some Mino land, obtained results that they could not have imagined when they sent their troops. Not only did it occupy nearly 70,000 koku of the Higashi-Mino Kore-gun, Kamo-gun, and Minakano-Take-gun, but it also captured Seki Castle, an important castle connecting Mimino and Higashi-Mino, as well as Kanayama Castle, the hub of Higashi-Minon, and almost severed the connection between Inabayama Castle and Higashi-Mino-kamo-gun, Toki-gun, and Ena guns. This is also the first time that Owari has won such a hearty victory in decades after being suppressed by Minono.

Oda Nobunaga was excited and praised the meritorious man this time. Mori was finally able to return to Mino's hometown and was appointed by Oda Nobunaga as the lord of Kanayama Castle, becoming the head of the Oda family's occupation of Mino. Niwa Nagahide became the commander of Niwa Gun, Owari Owari Prefecture, and a large number of domains were sealed. And Kinoshita Hideyoshi was also promoted to a general, and was highly praised by Oda Nobunaga. Other meritorious figures, such as Yu Qiuping, Takigawa Kazuyi, Maeda Toshiie, and Ikeda Tsuneko, have also been rewarded to varying degrees.