"My lord! Now that the next step has been clarified, the minister believes that in order to avoid the enemy's harassment of Komakiyama and to divert the attention of the Saito family, it is necessary to build a castle in Minamata in Nishimino at the same time, so that the Saito family can misunderstand the specific policy of their own strategy. Hosokawa Nobumoto put forward his own opinion at the right time.

"Well~~ It's good, then build a castle in Sumamata and attract the attention of the Saito family. Well~~ Migoro has already built a city in Komaki Mountain, who should be sent? Oda Nobunaga glanced around, looking for the right person, not only to build the castle, but also to prepare for a head-to-head confrontation with the Saito army.

"My lord! Your Majesty is willing to go! Since the battle of the barrel and narrow, it has been more than two years since the subordinates washed the troops and herded the horses, and the Mikawa side has reached an alliance, and there is no need to worry about the future, hoping that the lord will be fulfilled. Oda Nobunaga looked at the person who spoke, it was Sakuma Nobumori, the banner leader of the Mikawa side.

"Good! I'll give you 2,000 troops, and be sure to hold on to Sumamata before Komaki Mountain is built! "Oda Nobunaga was overjoyed and handed over this important task to the old retainer of the family, Sakuma Nobumori.

"Yes! The minister is determined to live up to the high expectations of the lord! Sakuma Nobumori was grateful, and he was finally able to do something again.

Hosokawa Nobumoto looked at Sakuma Nobumori with a foolish look on the side, they still underestimated the heritage of the Saito family, although the head of the family, Saito Ryuxing, did not care about political affairs, and his actions were extremely absurd, but the reason that a skinny camel was bigger than a horse was still very correct.

With the withdrawal of the Oda family, the reinforcements of the Saito family also withdrew to Mino Province after staying for a few days, and the head of the family, Saito Ryuxing, was still drunk every day and had nothing to do. In fact, it is no wonder that since his father died suddenly and succeeded to the position of family governor, he also wanted to create a reputation of "the unparalleled general of the Eastern Kingdom" like Hosokawa Nobumoto at the same age, as can be seen in the battle of the nineteen bars in which he personally participated. But the old ministers in the family deceived him for being young, and the military and politics have always been controlled by the "Meinong Liusu Lao", and over time, at the age of fourteen or fifteen, he naturally overindulged.

"Okubo Changan! You go buy some paper and wood. Hosokawa Nobumoto in Tokubun Castle estimated the amount needed, wrote it down on a piece of paper and handed it to Okubo Yashiro.

"Yes! Please rest assured that his subordinates will raise it as soon as possible. Okubo Changan took the order excitedly, he is still close to the crowd, and Masuda Nagamori and others at the same time as him have become followers. There's no way, who made his specialty mine geology, but Owari didn't have minerals to let him play to his strengths.

Ten days later, Sakuma Nobumori came back embarrassed, the defense of Sumamata failed, Oda Nobunaga did not criticize him too much, and arranged for the first fierce general of the Oda family, Shibata Katsuie, to lead 1500 troops and continue to go to Sumamata to build a castle for defense.

Nobumoto Hosokawa, who got the news, summoned Masayuki Sanada, Kazuji Nakamura, and Miyata Miyata. "The three of you will now immediately set off for Wasuka Township, Kaito Prefecture, Owari, find Wasuka Koroku, and forward this letter to him, and if he agrees to what he wants, report it immediately."

"Yes, my subordinates have orders!" The three of them happily accepted the order, but they didn't expect that a task would be assigned to them so soon.

"Go ahead! Things have been prepared by Okubo Changan, be careful on the road. Hosokawa Nobumoto motioned for them to step down.

Soon half a month passed, and Hosokawa Nobumoto came to the assessment room of the Cheongshu castle tower, and today was the day when Oda Nobunaga held the assessment.

"The lord has arrived!" As the little surname sang and harmonized, Oda Nobunaga strode to the main seat and sat down.

"Kwon Six! Did you lose too? Oda Nobunaga looked at Shibata Katsuie, who bowed his head in shame.

"I didn't expect that even the first fierce general of the family was defeated, and Komaki Mountain Castle was about to be built, but the nail of Ximino was not able to be planted for a long time." Oda Nobunaga's rare frown, feeling a little tricky.

"Your Excellency! The subordinates are willing to go! Stick to the sumamata! Do your part for the Lord's policy! Suddenly there was a scream, it was Kinoshita Tojiro who grabbed the task again.

Hosokawa Nobumoto frowned, thinking that when Oda Nobunaga opened his mouth to ask, he would take on this thorny problem, but he didn't expect the monkey at the end to come and grab the food.

"Bastard! Do you have a part in your talking? Get the hell out of here! The grumpy Shibata Katsuya directly reprimanded, and none of the other samurai present played a round for the monkey, which shows how unpopular it is.

Also, when Kinoshita Tojiro and Ning Ning got married, none of the Oda samurai went to congratulate, only one Maeda Toshika, and the Maeda Toshiya was still a criminal at that time.

"That's it! What's up to you here! Stay and go! The lord has no worries, and the ministers are willing to go! Hosokawa Nobumoto also unceremoniously reprimanded Kinoshita Toyoshiro and made a mission application by the way, for fear that Oda Nobunaga would agree as soon as his head was hot, as was the case in history.

"Oh? Rokuro is willing to go? Well, since the first general of the family failed to succeed, let the first general of the family go and give it a try, how much military strength do you want this time? "Oda Nobunaga originally heard Kinoshita Toyoshiro's application, and he was really moved, but now that he has a more reliable one, he will naturally fall into the Hosokawa family again.

"The lord praised it falsely, his subordinates didn't dare to be it, it was his minister's duty to be able to share the worries of the lord, and his subordinates didn't need the lord to send troops, just bring the military strength of the headquarters." Nobumoto Hosokawa told the shocking news.

"What? You don't need a single soldier of your family? "Even Oda Nobunaga thought he had heard it wrong, knowing that the Hosokawa family now only has 100 bowshigaru and 100 horseback teams (the ninja army is not part of the armament), and the horseback team is still being reorganized.

"Rokuro, wouldn't it be too hasty? You must know that the previous defeat in Xia was because the Saito family sent 5,000 troops, and there were only 1,700 people in Xia, so they couldn't hold it, and you, you, it's too much. Shibata Katsuya opened his mouth to remind kindly, and finally said that he was out of words.

"Hehe, thank you for the care of Lord Shibata, I dare to say this naturally with confidence, I can't hide it, the bee Suga Koroku of the Bee Suga family and the lord of Matsukura Castle in Haguri County, Mino Province recently found Zaixia, hoping to be used as an intermediary to officially join my Oda family. It's just that they feel that they haven't made an inch, and they are ashamed to face the lord, so they want to take this opportunity to contribute more to my Oda family. As soon as Hosokawa Nobumoto said this, everyone became clear, in fact, this was Hosokawa Nobumoto's request to agree to the two of them in advance, and only then did he say the request for meritorious service, and I think Oda Nobunaga would gladly accept it when the time came.

"Haha! Okay, since that's the case, presumably Rokuro is already in the chest, so you will be the main general, and the monkey will be the deputy general, and go to Sumamata! Oda Nobunaga was really happy, and he hadn't forgotten the monkey who shared the worries of the Lord.