Chapter 161: Stirring Up the Storm

Imagawa Yoshimoto was a little lazy lying on the rocks on the outskirts of Sunfu, looking at the big tea party organized by him himself, countless down-and-out ministers from Kyoto and celebrities from the three countries of the East China Sea gathered here, many people even composed waka on the spot, and ordered people to record it, which effectively imitated the meaning of the Ming Kingdom and Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi and other celebrities made the Lanting Collection.

At this moment, Taiyuan Xuezhai quietly whispered a few words in Imagawa Yoshimoto's ear, and Imagawa Yoshimoto immediately got up, avoided everyone, and came to a remote pavilion. "Is the information reliable?"

"Although Oda Nobunaga has also begun to pay attention to ninjas, after all, the family has been in business for a long time, and it is not something he can catch up with in the short term, so it is very credible." Taiyuan Xuezhai said slowly.

Imagawa Yoshimoto's eyes flickered, and he immediately ordered the little surname next to him: "Get a pen and paper immediately, the Kitabatake family must move, and we ourselves must step up our actions, and send troops to Owari in a month." ”

"What about the Kanto side?"

Kanto? Imagawa Yoshimoto frowned a little distressedly, "Make every effort to promote harmony between the Hojo family and the Tsukahara family, if it really doesn't work, increase the assistance to the Hojo family, and definitely can't let the Kanto family drag down the energy of the family anymore." ”

Just when Imagawa Yoshimoto made every effort to adjust, Oda Nobunaga had preliminarily completed the great cause of damming the water, not that the amount of the project was small, but the location of Nagashima Castle was quite delicate, surrounded by water, which was equivalent to being built on a sandbar, so Oda Nobunaga adopted Kinoshita Toyoshiro's suggestion, and immediately ordered Niwa Nagahide, who stayed in Owari, to recruit people to come and build the embankment, in order to grab time with Imagawa Yoshimoto, Oda Nobunaga even braved the heavy rain, rolled up his sleeves, and went to work in person. The top leaders all started to do it, and the younger brothers below naturally didn't dare to watch from the side, so the Oda army except for the Sakuma family and the Shibata family left the military strength of the Sakuma family and the Shibata family just in case, and the rest of the army took turns to rush into the construction of the embankment.

The fact that the Oda Army planned to flood Nagashima Castle was too big to hide it from people at all, and Rao was Takigawa Kazuki and Liang Tian Masatsuna and others desperately covered it up, but it gradually flowed into the ears of those who cared. In particular, the Kitabatake family, the overlord of Southern Ise, was extremely concerned about Oda Nobunaga's blatant behavior of driving troops into the border, and after receiving Imagawa Yoshimoto's letter and 3,000 kan labor expenses, Kitabatake Harumo, the governor of the Kitabatake family, made up his mind to send troops, and immediately gathered all the generals to prepare for the dispatch of troops. The Ishiyama Imperial Workshop also sent a fang official to bring a letter from Honganji's current Dharma Master, Honganji Zhengru, and gave him a hundred iron cannons, hoping that the Kitabatake family would send troops north to reinforce Nagashima Castle. This makes Kitabatake Haruhi feel very good, since the battle of Shomonyama Sasaki Nagahide with outnumbered soldiers to the enemy, with the iron artillery team to bombard the 38,000 coalition troops into slag, the value of the iron cannon weapon suddenly doubled, the price that was originally reduced because of the expansion of production has a trend of rising, Ishiyama Yufang sent a hundred iron cannons can be said to be sleepy and someone came to send pillows.

Kitabatake Haruku is not as famous in history as his young and vigorous and famous as the sword lord in later generations, but in fact, Kitabatake Haruku is the family governor who really established the hegemony of the family. In the early years, as a national secretary, the Kitabatake family was also extremely desolate, and he was tragically emptied by his retainers, and he was left with an acre and three points of land to struggle to survive, but after Kitabatake Haruka was born, he turned his hands into clouds and covered his hands for rain, and overwhelmed Yamada Mikata and other Ise land snakes, and successfully achieved family revival, which is no less than Takeda Shintora. After suppressing the southern Ise and Shima countries, Kitabatake Haruku is also always thinking about how to realize the unification of Ise country, but Ise has always had the nickname of a small warring state, and Kitabatake Haruko is the hardest hit area in the disaster area, Kitabatake Haruko claims to have forty-nine powerful families, and if there is nothing to do all day long, it is to bloodlet and fight with each other, but once there is an invasion of foreign forces, they will immediately fight together, and Kitabatake Haruku also feels very tricky. But Oda Nobunaga led his troops to Nagashima Castle, but it gave Kitabatake Haruhina a wonderful excuse! You see, Oda Nobunaga led his troops to fight Nagashima, and he came up with a clever plan to flood Nagashima Castle, is that the power of the Oda family about to extend into Ise? Can you beat Oda Nobunaga? You can't beat it! It's okay, the National Division can send troops to help you defend against the Oda Army, what? Worried that I'm not strong enough? You can't trust me, can you? It's okay! See, this is a letter from Yoshimoto-sama Imagawa! You should believe the words of the first bow in Tokaido, right?

Trapped in Nagashima Castle, Honganji Zhenghui is not as good as Imagawa Yoshimoto and Kitabatake Harumu, due to the siege of the Oda family army and the siege of the ninjas, the entire Nagashima Castle is cut off from the outside world, Honganji Zhenghui stands anxiously on the city wall every day and looks at the Oda army camp, not knowing that Imagawa Yoshimoto and Kitabatake Haruhuko are trying to rescue him.

"It seems that we may have to go to the Buddha together this time." Honganji Zhenghui sighed, her eyes bloodshot from panic.

The monk on the side hurriedly relieved: "I think that I won't give up on us when I come to Shishan, and I must still be trying my best to maneuver." ”

"I just don't know if it's still too late......" Honganji Zhenghui pointed to the moat, "You see that it has been raining heavily these days, but the river is not very turbulent, I'm afraid Oda Nobunaga wants to follow the example of MoryΕ«ko in the Black Dragon River and flood Nagashima Castle......"

"Flooded Long Island City!" The monks who accompanied him were all shocked, this was not a small river like the Black Dragon River, the Oshio River, the Ogi River, and the Saya River converged in the land of Nagashima Castle, and the entire area was a wide tidal flat, and in order to achieve the effect of flooding the city, it was necessary to mobilize manpower and material resources far more than the Battle of the Black Dragon River, that is, Oda Nobunaga probably mobilized the forces of the entire Owari Province to prepare for this......

"This may be our chance." A monk who was not good-looking suddenly spoke, and as soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes immediately focused on him. It turned out to be the official of Kaga Ichimune who came here to contact: Sugiura Genren!

"Tell me about it." Honganji Zhenghui seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and hurriedly asked.

Sugiura Genren first bowed to Honganji Temple, "Owari is the place of the four wars, and the Imagawa family may send troops at any time, so there should be a large number of soldiers in the Oda army who have also been transferred to build the embankment, and there should not be many soldiers left behind." I need 500 elites who can dedicate their lives to the Dharma, led by me personally, to swim out of the moat at night and launch a surprise attack on the Oda army! ”

Honganji Zhenghui grabbed Sugiura Genren's shoulder, "So please!" ”

"If you enter, you will enter the Pure Land of Bliss, and if you retreat, you will fall into the Infernal Hell, which is what a poor monk should do." Sugiura Genren nodded to everyone, "So I'll go and prepare." ”