Under the Kono Castle of Owari Province, an army of about 800 people has been assembled, unlike the dark complexion of the Kanto or Koshin samurai, these people have plump cheeks, and their skin is much more delicate than those Kanto samurai who have been practicing martial arts all year round, and the average age of this army seems to be only about twenty years old, and veterans with old faces and resolute eyes are very rare among them. The first young man had sharp eyes, dressed in gray-black Nanban Foot, and looked quite strange and mighty, but his eyes showed a trace of exhaustion and helplessness from time to time.

"My lord! Everyone is assembled and ready to go. The burly young man, who was about 1.7 meters tall, said to the young man with a big gun on his shoulder.

"Well, go get the order, Inuchiyo." The young man pulled the reins, and the war horse suddenly jumped up with its front hooves, and he also swept away the gloom and commanded domineeringly. It turned out that Oda Nobunaga, who had suffered a huge blow because of the death of his father Oda Nobuhide and his teacher Hirate Masahide, although he tried his best, but the tendency of the Oda family to split became more and more obvious, and even his wife Gui Die could feel that it was difficult for her husband to command those important ministers.

Not long ago, Imagawa Yoshimoto, who had been resting and recuperating, suddenly rebelled against the lord of Narumi Castle, Kyotsugu Yamaguchi, and the eastern gate of Owari Province instantly fell into the hands of the Imagawa family. This is something that Oda Nobunaga will never tolerate, and it is precisely under the banner of fighting foreign enemies that Oda Nobunaga dares to mobilize his troops to attack, otherwise even he himself is not sure what those relatives of the Oda family will do after he leaves Nakono Castle. But with the pressure of Imagawa Yoshimoto, those members of the Oda family and important ministers did not dare to act rashly, so as to prevent the hard work from being picked by Imagawa Yoshimoto. Although Oda Nobuhide did not leave a reliable retainer group for his son, he also made arrangements in advance, and many of the second sons of each family were sent to Nakono Castle as hostages, but Oda Nobuhide did not raise them as rice worms, but handed them over to Oda Nobunaga to train into mothers and small surnames with considerable combat power, and these people are Oda Nobunaga's greatest reliance at the moment.

Oda Nobunaga needed a hearty victory to establish his prestige and subdue the people in his family with ulterior motives, but Oda Nobunaga had hardly commanded such a battle of hundreds of people before, so he still had worries that could not be concealed under his confidence.

"My lord! Top Secret Intelligence! A diminutive samurai crept forward and presented a bamboo tube to Oda Nobunaga's horse. Oda Nobunaga bit his glove, took out the letter from the bamboo tube with his slender fingers, and after just one glance, Oda Nobunaga's pupils shrank suddenly, and his voice trembled a little and asked, "Yiyi, this, is this news reliable?" ”

Takigawa Yiyi nodded hurriedly and said, "The small one has been confirmed by many parties, and it can be guaranteed with his life!" ”

"Hahahaha!" Oda Nobunaga looked up to the sky and laughed, looking at the people around him confused, but he didn't dare to disturb his own temper a little strange temper of the lord, for a long time, Oda Nobunaga seemed to vent all the depression in his heart, laughed and said to everyone: "Do you know why the fat man in Imagawa is so impatient to attack the family? ”

"Uh......" Everyone was silent for a moment, and many clever people even thought that Oda Nobunaga was thinking about himself, so he hurriedly typed a draft, and was just about to open his mouth to state his views on the general trend of the world, Oda Nobunaga smiled contemptuously: "Because he is afraid!" ”

Scared? Even the most hot-blooded and loyal Maeda Inu Chiyo Riya was a little confused, and after thinking about it, it should be the main man's mobilization before the war, or hurriedly flattered: "Yes, my Oda family samurai is the best in the world, and there is a more eloquent lord, how can Imagawa Yoshimoto not be afraid?" As he spoke, he picked up his spear and roared, "The Oda family is mighty! ”

"The Oda family is mighty!" The mother-clothed people and the people with small surnames hurriedly shouted, although the words of the Oda samurai who are the best in the world are harsh when they hear it, but they can't lose the momentum before the war, right?

"The Lord is mighty!" Maeda Toshiya roared again, and everyone responded in unison, and their morale was actually so high. Those who knew knew that they were going to crusade against the rebellion of Narumi Castle, and those who didn't know thought that they were going to start a full-scale war with the Imagawa family.

Seeing his subordinates like this, the corners of Oda Nobunaga's mouth twitched and he opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything. He received information that Tsukahara Molong came back from the dead, and annihilated the combined forces of Shimono Province and Hitachi Province under the Shomen Mountain, and attacked the land of the two countries, and now he is already the overlord of the Five Kingdoms! Even if the Uesugi army and the Hojo army join forces, it will be difficult to resist, so the Takeda family and the Imagawa family will inevitably go to the opposite side of Tsukahara Molong. Imagawa Yoshimoto, whose territory was only about 800,000 koku, was obviously in a hurry, so he began to act against Owari Province when Mikawa Province had not yet fully digested it. This is both good news and bad news for me. The good news is that he has already established contact with Tsukahara Molong in advance, at least he can ensure that Tsukahara Molong is inclined to his attitude in attitude, which is enough to deter many people in the Oda family. Moreover, Imagawa Yoshimoto hastily raised troops, and the preparation was inevitably insufficient, so there was an opportunity. But again, he is far from ready, and even the Oda family is not completely unified, so the future will also be very difficult. Thinking of the grandeur of the Oda family's eastward expedition to Mikawa and the Northern Expedition to Mino when his father was alive, Oda Nobunaga's heart couldn't help but rise with a wave of grief and confusion: Father...... Teacher...... What will you do in the face of your family's current predicament?

Not to mention that the young Oda Nobunaga is about to usher in his first battle, and the entire region is already in flames. In his prime, Miyoshi Changkei, who was in his prime, led the army to fight in the south and the north since he was nineteen years old, and made great achievements for Hosokawa Harumoto, who had forced his father to death. However, it was a high achievement, which aroused the suspicion of Hosokawa Harumoto, and Miyoshi Changqing was angry and raised troops to fight. After leading the army back from Shikoku Island, with the support of his excellent younger brothers Miyoshi Yoshiken, Miyoshi Fuyasu and Miyoshi Ichiku, he was like a bamboo, and he pushed the battle line to the Kyoto area. Hosokawa Harumoto fled in a hurry with the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru and asked for help from the Rokkaku family in Omi, and the two sides once gathered tens of thousands of troops to engage in a tug-of-war in Kyoto, with the intention of reducing the entire to ruins.

A middle-aged man with a somewhat thin figure, but his hands were full of knuckles, and his eyes were like sharp blades, sat on a war horse, looking at the tragic situation of the once prosperous Kyoto, which is now ten rooms and nine emptiness, but sighed softly: "The peaks and mountains are like gathering, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are like Tongguan Road." Looking at the western capital, hesitating, sad Qin and Han meridians, the palace and thousands of rooms have been made of soil. Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer. ”

"What the lord is reading is the poetry of the Ming Kingdom?" A middle-aged man with a sly look flashing in his eyes asked tentatively.

"Yes, Hisahide." This emaciated middle-aged man is Miyoshi Chokei, the No. 1 general of who is in the limelight at the moment, and the person next to him is Matsunaga Xiu, who has surrendered to him. "This is a famous poem written by a grandmaster named Zhang Yanghao of the Ming Kingdom," worried that Matsunaga Hide, who was a businessman, could not understand the meaning of the Ming Kingdom's poetry, Miyoshi Changqing continued: "What this poem says is the harm of war to the people. ”

"The lord is really a man who is both civil and military." Matsunaga immediately put on a teachable look and complimented.

Miyoshi Changqing waved his hand: "It's just reciting other people's poems, Tsukahara Molong's "Sakura Samurai" is a poem that makes people fear." ”

Tsukahara Moryu! Matsunaga Hide's pupils shrank suddenly, he was also a business tycoon who used to be very sensitive to information, and now Sanjo Tsunamoto, a business rookie who is now in, is said to be loyal to this person, but ...... Didn't Tsukahara Ink Dragon already die in the mountains of Ueno Province?

"Hehehe," Miyoshi Changqing smiled self-deprecatingly: "Tsukahara Molong did not die, but took the opportunity that we all thought he was dead, and successfully captured the country of Hitachi and Shimono. ”

"What?" Matsunaga Xiu's complexion changed greatly, 530,000 stone in Hitachi Province, 370,000 stone in Shimono Province, Tsukahara Molong can be said to have doubled his power overnight, becoming a super force with 1.7 million stone in the land of the Five Kingdoms! Looking at the world, even the Chinese overlord Nizi family and the Kyushu overlord Ouchi family are not Tsukahara Molong's opponents! Although the Miyoshi family's power developed rapidly, it was blocked in Kyoto by the Hosokawa and Rokkaku coalition forces, and Kasai Motonari of Tanba Province also led his army south to attack the flank of the Miyoshi army, making it difficult to open the whole situation. A sense of urgency and powerlessness suddenly surged into Matsunaga's heart.