003 generals

September winds blew through the north of, and after a hot summer, the weather finally began to cool.

Because it was the first battle, when I first left the city, I was always a little nervous, and I was always trembling when I spoke and acted, and I tried not to look at him when I reported my work and career to my father.

As a time-traveler, I think I have seen the world and have nothing to fear, but after I crossed into this chaotic country in my previous life, I realized that my knowledge was not as good as those ronins who couldn't read a single word.

It was so uncomfortable in the camp that I asked my father to go to Fujita Administration to assist the Imperial Army.

He agreed without much thought.

The palace army department walked at the back of the army, there was a lot less restraint and pressure here, coupled with the beautiful and pleasant scenery along the way, my mood gradually improved, and the initial tension slowly disappeared.

Sakamoto Castle was not far from Tsuruga County, where Nobunaga had asked to go, only a little more than 200 miles, and it took the army a day and a night to arrive at breakfast the next day.

Just after breakfast, we were warmly visited by a group of people.

Because of the distance, another of Nobunaga's retainers who had been asked to send troops had arrived as early as last night.

Hideyoshi Hashiba!

As described in many books, Hideyoshi does have a "monkey face", which, combined with his height of less than 1.6 meters, makes him look quite obscene, and if no one introduces him, I would really kick him out as a ruffian.

"Your Highness Wise, I'm so glad to see you!" Hideyoshi greeted his father with his usual loud voice.

"Yes, Your Highness Yuchai, I am also very happy to see you." The father smiled, showing enough enthusiasm that as a person, as a "high-level intellectual", he could not be as excited as Hideyoshi.

"Kogoro, come and salute Mr. Hashiba!"

As soon as my father's words fell, I hurriedly stepped forward and bent down at ninety degrees, "Meet His Royal Highness Yuchai, the kid is in battle for the first time, and he doesn't know anything, and I hope you will give me more guidance in the future." ”

"How dare you, how dare you," Hideyoshi hurriedly grabbed my shoulders, "Ling Zun is the most learned person in the Oda family, and I am just a ...... 'monkey' who has always been vulgar (speaking of this, everyone laughs, including himself), who is worthy of pointing out His Highness with a sword?" ”

I have to admit that although Hideyoshi is not high in appearance and cultivation, his bold and generous personality is that people can't help but want to be close to him, and my father is far behind in this regard, putting on a serious face all day long, and even I feel pressure around him.

Both sides are still wearing armor at this time, I took a closer look, and the style of the helmet worn by Hideyoshi is not conspicuous and gorgeous, it can only be said that it is more practical, after all, he is only a small daimyo with a territory of no more than 100,000 stones, and he can't afford to equip such high-end goods as Maran Goli Fudou (in fact, even if he can equip it, he probably won't dare, because Nobunaga won't allow it).

As for the retainers behind Hideyoshi, I don't know any of them, after all, they are not "celebrities" yet. We said hello one by one, and I got to know Takenaka, Kato, Asano, Fukushima, Ishida and other people who would become famous in the future, but their appearance was very ordinary, and I guess I would forget about them when I looked back, especially Takenaka Hanbei, who was not at all as handsome as described in later graphic novels, and looked like an ordinary "middle school teacher".

The camps of both armies were in Tsuruga, no more than five miles apart, and at noon, Hideyoshi refused his father's offer to keep him and went back with his men.

The "food" in the army is not abundant, and ordinary soldiers add a large bowl of chazuke rice with a pickled salmon rice ball. We, the "leaders", are a little more upscale, and you can add a cucumber with sauce on top of the chazuke. My father was very strict in governing the army, and he was not allowed to drink alcohol in the army, and those who violated the law were to be seppuku.

By the way, I've always looked forward to hunting, because it's the only way to improve my diet.

"Big brother, is it interesting?" When I was doing the final "hard struggle" with the rice balls, I felt that someone was pulling my sleeve, it was Hosokawa Yoichiro Tadako who was sitting next to me, Tadashi was the eldest son of Fujitaka, who was twelve years old this year, and a few months ago he was in the gento with me, and by the way, he also married my sister (Hosokawa Garcia in the future), this time, Fujitaka got his father's consent and sent Tadashi to the army, because of his father's friendship and I was still a childhood friend with him, so I put him by his side to make a flag book.

"What's interesting?" I didn't know anything about him.

"It's His Royal Highness Yuchai."

It turned out to be the monkey! He's funny, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with me.

"What do you mean?"

This time he was surprised, "You've been staring at him for a long time, don't you know?" ”

"I've been staring at him for a long time?"

"Don't pretend to be garlic," he said in private, never politely to me, "but I noticed by your side, when my father-in-law met with him today, you kept watching him without blinking. ”

So that's the case, I was relieved, at that time I was really rude to stare at him for a long time "contact feelings" before I noticed.

To be honest, I've met Nobunaga several times, and since my father joined the Oda family when I was a child, every year at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, my father would take me and my mother to see the "holy face", and he presided over my Motofu ceremony.

But this monkey ...... Although he also attends the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet every year, I have a vague impression of him because I focus on Nobunaga and unconsciously "PS" him, and I have never seen him in the front.

In addition to the above reasons, I also want to compare the difference between him and my father.

Historically, he and his father have always been compared as "rivals", and some night markets have even portrayed them as bitter enemies, but from today's visit, it seems that he and his father have a good relationship, because although their conversation is more polite, I noticed that the mood of both parties is indeed quite pleasant.

I finished my last bite of food and said, "yes, he's so funny, I can't help but look at him a few more times." As I spoke, I handed the bowl to the attendant on the side, and of course I wouldn't be so stupid as to tell him what was in my heart.

As soon as he heard this, he was not happy, "You are all idiots, why don't you just look at him a few more times...... "Accompany me to check the post later!" I interrupted him unceremoniously, how could I not find this kid so verbose before?

If you want to prove how "iron" the relationship between the monkey and his father is, there is still a chance in the afternoon.

Before dinner, the chief general of the Oda family, Shibata Shuryo Katsuya, rushed to Tsuruga with 10,000 horses, and set up camp not far from the two armies of Hashiba and Akechi.

When I heard the news, my father sent me and Isshiki Fujicho to visit my home.

History books always portray this Shibata-sama as arrogant and stupid, and he is simply a good-for-nothing fool.

But that's not the case.

Although the Katsu family himself did not personally go out of the camp to greet him, he sent his subordinates Maeda Toshiya, Bu Po Guangji and his adopted son Shibata Katsutoyo to greet him, which can be regarded as giving us a lot of face.

Much like what is described in the history books, Katsuya has a rugged appearance, dark skin, and a long scar on his left cheek, but this does not affect his image, but on the contrary, it adds a touch of majesty to him. His eyes were piercing, exuding confidence and determination.

Katsuya wasn't wearing armor, just a black kimono, and although I was wearing a kimono, I could still feel a body of muscles that erupted at any time. He is 1.75 meters tall, which is already considered a "giant" in Japan.

I praised it in my heart, and I really deserved to be the first fierce general!

My father didn't have much contact with the Shengjia, so I only exchanged a few polite words with him, although the Shengjia spoke with a very loud voice, but the words were not vulgar and rude, and even quoted a few classics that I didn't know much about, which added a few points to my good impression of him.

On the way back to the camp, I suddenly asked Zhongxing: "Who do you think is stronger between His Royal Highness Shibata and His Royal Highness Yuchai?" ”

This visit to Shibata, Hosokawa Tadashiko, as a flag book, also followed.

Without thinking too much, Zhongxing replied, "His Highness Shibata is stronger. ”

"Oh." I nodded, didn't say anything, but thought to myself, "Sure enough." ”

By the way, unlike us, until dark, the monkeys, oh no, Hideyoshi did not send anyone to the Shibata military camp. It seems that the rumors of these two people fighting each other are still true. However, in this battle, Katsuya is not the general general, and Hideyoshi has no need to see him, maybe Katsuya will feel out of sight and out of mind about this "stinky monkey".

When I returned to the Chinese camp, I found that the atmosphere inside was rather strange.

"This is ......" As soon as I walked into the shogunate, I found a man lying on the ground.

It is not accurate to say that he is a person, because his blood has been drained, his whole face is extremely pale, his eyes are wide, but there is no trace of life. He was dressed all over his body, with many small holes in it, and I had hunted, so I could tell that it was a wound from a bow and arrow. There are also two military flags on their backs, which are painted with the "bellflower pattern" of our wise clan, but the "bellflower" that was originally sea blue has now been dyed dark red by blood.

From here, I roughly judged that this was a samurai of my wise family (judging by the style of the armor, the status was not too low, but not too high), and he was besieged by the enemy and shot with a bow and arrow from the front!

My father didn't speak, everyone remained silent, and Zhongxing and I didn't say a word.

After holding it for a quarter of an hour, my father finally spoke: "Do you have any opinions on this?" ”

"Lord!" The person who spoke was Miyake Yahei Asadatsuna, the general of the family, "It is really hateful to be a traitor all the time!" Please allow me to lead a team of soldiers to patrol the vicinity of the camp all night, even if I can't catch the murderer, I can't make the people slaughter the samurai of my own family so unscrupulously! ”

My father admired his determination, but shook his head and said, "Then I'll leave the reinforcement of security tonight to you, but do you know what it means that Okuda-sama (the one who died on the ground) and his patrol were killed near the big camp?" ”

Could it be that the Sect is really so strong that it can already kill enemy soldiers at will? Everybody asks this question in their hearts.

"My subordinates don't know." Chao Gang shook his head ashamedly.

I looked at Miyake Chaozuna, if I remember correctly, he should be the wise Zuo Ma Jieshu in the future, it seems that the history books are right, he is only a martial artist, not suitable for "deep" strategizing.

My father was a little disappointed, and his gaze turned to me, "Kogoro, tell me about it." ”

All eyes were on me, I was a little at a loss, I usually accept orders from the silent, and today I am not used to letting me speak on my own.

"Erchen...... Ozutomi believes that the death of Okuda-sama and others near the barracks does show the arrogance of the Ichijo sect, but as far as the retainers know, this time Echizen has always been a one-sided fight, and the rebellious local tyrants of Echizen and Kaga's Ichijo sect are not in unison, so when Okuda-sama was killed, the number of enemies was not large. Moreover, Echizen does not produce horses in the country, and the horse farm in Hokuriku is in the sphere of influence of Uesugi Kenshin, so Ichijo has not been able to form a fast enough cavalry, and they dare to travel long distances to attack our army's camp, which can only show one point, there are people nearby to pick them up, so Erchen boldly speculates that they are now in the nearby Tsuruga Town, and they have not yet withdrawn! ”

"Huh?" After I said the last word, my father cast a strange look at me.