Outside Nagashima Castle, in Oda Nobunaga's main battle, all the retainers of the Oda family are sitting here, since they left the army in Ise, they are really in a good mood, especially those samurai who have just returned from taking the city, their faces are full of smiles, even if the credit for this capture of the city is not enough to promote themselves, but the reward is also indispensable, so their faces are full of smiles. At the moment, they were talking to each other about the experience of the last battle.

And some of the other samurai who were not assigned to the task last time, although they were not as happy as them, but they also looked very relaxed, and now it is obvious that the weight of the Gaoshan clan in the hearts of the lord has been greatly reduced, anyway, there will be more battles in the future, as long as he does not take credit with himself, then sooner or later it will be his turn.

And there are a small number of samurai such as Shibata Katsuya, Niwa Nagahide and others are silently holding grievances for the clan, especially those who are still very young and have just been out of the Oda family for a long time, and they feel that the lord does not reuse Takayama Lord, which is simply too much, that is, his status is too low, otherwise he must advise the lord to be.

Looking at the clan again, it seems that there is no trouble, and he is chatting with Sasa Naruma next to him, while waiting for Nobunaga's arrival.

Don't look at this Nobunaga in order to maintain the stability of the family, deliberately suppressing himself, it is difficult for him to perform in this Ise strategy, however, the clan is still very happy, don't look at his hopelessness to get merit, but it's not that he didn't get benefits, in the heart of the clan, to get Hori Hidemasa, a retainer with good ability, is even happier than giving him a thousand stone Zhixing.

In the view of the clan, the territory is dead, and after the change of the Instinct Temple, he can take it if he wants, and he can't run anyway, but the talent is different, people are alive, if they miss it, it will be difficult to include them under his command, especially those capable and brave generals with outstanding abilities, basically they are all tendons, as long as they are loyal to whom, it is difficult to change, so they have to rely on their familiarity with history, get them in advance, and let them play a role in advance.

As long as the retainers of this family can be extremely powerful, then although the land is in the hands of other powerful forces, it is equivalent to guarding it for itself, and as long as they want, they can take it at any time.

After a short time, I saw Nobunaga walk into the tent and walked out, although the retainers were in a good mood at the moment, but Nobunaga's mood was extremely bad at this time.

Since the siege of Nagashima Castle, it has been almost half a month, and before going out, Nobunaga was still thinking that with the elite army of his family, he should be able to capture the entire territory of Ise in a month and a half to two months, and at that time, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who wanted to take refuge in the Rokkaku family, should also be able to understand that the Rokkaku family would never send an army to retake the territory, so as to leave Minami Omi, and the Ise attack on his side was almost over, or it was over.

In this way, the army under his command is repairing for some time, and he can go to Minami Omi, but who knows that things are not as simple as he thought, and as soon as he entered Ise, he encountered such a difficult bone to gnaw on Nagashima Castle.

And,What makes Nobunaga feel most unacceptable is that among the retainers,Except for the Takayama clan is cooperating with his own acting.,That's why they have been grinding on the strategy of the temple for so long.,The other retainers are all smooth.,It can be said that it was easy to take down the castle in charge of the strategy.,Although the military strength in the other castles is much less than that of Nagashima Castle.,But the retainers brought a lot less military strength than themselves.。

Look at yourself again, since entering Ise, personally led the army, it took more than ten days, but it has not been able to capture this small Nagashima Castle, if it continues like this, then he will lose face, the more Nobunaga thinks about it, the more irritated he becomes, and his face sinks. …,

When the retainers saw that the lord was sitting on the throne with an unkind face, how could they dare to laugh with the people next to them, and they all sat up straight, lest the lord take the opportunity to vent the anger in his heart on his head.

Nobunaga saw that silence had returned to the perimeter, and he couldn't help but say, "Now the four prefectures controlled by Honganji, except for Nagashima Castle, have all fallen into the hands of my Oda family, and not only has the rolling wood and stones been consumed in Nagashima Castle, but the army has also suffered heavy casualties, and this is the best time to take the castle."

Therefore, I decided to divide the general forces into four and launch an uninterrupted attack on Long Island Castle with two thousand each, and I vowed to take it by noon tomorrow. ”

As soon as Nobunaga finished speaking, he saw that Hidetaka Kawajiri, who was very active in the Ise strategy operation this time, hurriedly stepped forward and said, "My lord, my subordinates are willing to lead the first army to fight, and I ask my lord for approval." ”

Kawajiri Hidetaka's identity is only a major ashigaru general, and Nobunaga originally wanted to let the important ministers of the family serve as the main generals of these four armies, but Nobunaga thought about it again, this Kawajiri Hidetaka has followed him for many years, and it goes without saying that he is loyal, and he still has the ability, but he lacks opportunities, so he has not been promoted.

And Sazuo Chengzheng, who came out of office at about the same time as him, is now a general, and even the monkey who became a retainer much later than him is also a general, not to mention the Takayama clan, why don't you give him a chance, if he can grasp it this time, then it is not a bad thing to have another general in the family.

Thinking of this, I only heard Nobunaga speak: "Okay, I'll give you this opportunity, if you can attack the city for the first time, I will not only promote your status, but also have Zhixing as a reward." ”

Kawajiri Hidetaka almost fainted with excitement after hearing this, his opportunity finally came, it seems that in the heart of the lord, he still has a place, otherwise, with his identity as a general of the ashigaru, the lord will not be able to let himself command two thousand troops to fight, is it a substitute for the position of the Takayama clan in the heart of the lord?

Just now, the lord said that as long as the first attack can capture Long Island City, not only will he be promoted, but he will also have a reward for knowing and doing, this attack, he will also attack the city, as long as he can be promoted to a general, then he will also be eligible to attend the meeting, so, will a lot of credit be far from himself?

Thinking of this, I only heard Kawajiri Hidetaka answer excitedly: "Thank you lord, my subordinates will take Nagashima City to the death." ”

When Nobunaga heard his confident answer, he was very satisfied, and the retainers of the Oda family should have this kind of momentum, and only in this way would the Oda family accelerate the pace of development.

Nobunaga smiled and replied, "Okay, I'll wait here for your good news, so let's go down and prepare." ”

The retainers here really didn't think that the lord would hand over such an important task to Kawajiri Hidetaka, who only has the identity of the ashigaru general, to complete, they thought that the task of leading the two thousand troops out of the battle to attack, the lord would definitely hand it over to the important ministers in the family to complete, and even the retainers with the status of the general may not have a share, so let alone the general of the ashigaru, many samurai with the status of the general in the field did not expect to apply.

And the important ministers in the family, and their own identity, will generally speak slower, otherwise, such a good thing will never make Kawajiri Hidetaka that kid come out on top, and, listening to the reward promised by the lord just now, it is really a lot, although his status is low, but if he doesn't work hard, how can he be willing?

Thinking of this, regardless of their status, all the retainers couldn't sit still, and they applied to the lord for the task of the commander of the last three echelons.

Among them, only the Takayama clan still sat there straight and didn't speak, and the clan thought to himself, anyway, even if he applied for it, Nobunaga would never approve it, so why bother to say more, but from Nobunaga's promotion of Kawajiri Hidetaka, it has been explained that he began to intend to cultivate some capable low-level retainers, and Nobunaga finally noticed this, which is definitely a good thing for the Oda family. …,

In fact, if he hadn't been born out of nowhere, there would have been a few more important ministers of the Oda family, but it was precisely because of his own appearance that their opportunity was taken away, not to mention others, just this Kawajiri Hidetaka, if he didn't have himself, he would be at least a general now, but this is also a helpless thing, Lao Tzu is committed to unifying the world, and he has to let these people suffer some grievances.

Nobunaga saw that the clan never spoke, and couldn't help but glance at him approvingly, Nobunaga's thoughts were similar to what the clan thought, now, although Nagashima Castle is still in the hands of Honganji Temple, but it is only a matter of time before the city is broken, this is a good opportunity for those lower-level retainers in the family to sharpen, not only that, this Ise simply does not have the power to threaten the military strength of the family, why not take this opportunity to vigorously promote the low-level retainers with good ability in the family, so as to eliminate the resentment in the hearts of the retainers?

Thinking of this, Nobunaga had a plan in mind, and he decided that from now on, until the end of the Ise Raid, as long as there was an opportunity, he would give the lower retainers in his family a chance, so as to enrich Oda's retainers.

Subsequently, Nobunaga completely ignored the application of the important ministers of the family, and instead only appointed the samurai with the status of the chief shogun and the ashigaru general as the main general, and the deputy general who was appointed was only the head of the ashigaru or the future of the ashigaru.

Don't look at their current status is still very low, but it can be said that Nobunaga is very concerned about the retainers of his family, regardless of his identity, and these eight people are even more outstanding talents among the lower-level samurai of the family, so they will give them this opportunity to perform.

When the important ministers who sat down saw that the lord did not use himself as the main general, and even handed over thousands of troops to those low-level warriors, at first, they couldn't help but be very dissatisfied with the lord's approach, but soon they understood the lord's good intentions.

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