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There is a small castle on Iwami Ginzan, and although it is old, it is very strong.

On the outskirts of the castle, there were many branches of new buildings, scattered like stars, and became a defensive zone on the perimeter of the city walls.

It was often garrisoned by a strong army, and at the moment it became the command center of the Yoshikawa Army, an important military force of the Mori family.

There is a small high ground in the middle of the city, and there are several new large houses called "Jinya", which can overlook the whole city.

The house is surrounded by an oval gray-black wall, which has only one gate and a small gate.

This is the camp of Mr. Yoshikawa Jibu Shosuke Motoharu, a famous general known as "Onimotoharu".

On either side of the gate, two Hachimoto samurai, dressed in chain mail and chain helmets, with katanas on their shoulders, take turns standing every other hour.

Although Mr. Yoshikawa Motoharu has already entered middle age, he has a short beard. But his hair was black and shiny, neatly combed upside down. The chest is protruding, the eyes are level, and there is no one around.

With a slightly wide mouth, he speaks eloquently. He wore a black kimono and a katana belt that never left his waist, and he looked like a martial artist.

Sometimes he sat in front of his desk (which was actually a small coffee table) to read papers, sometimes he left his desk and looked at the map facing the surrounding wall, sometimes he clasped his hands behind his back, and lowered his head to make a slow circle around the desk.

Sometimes when I look proud, I say to myself:

[What is the Oda Army? The same can be destroyed! 】

That being said, but he didn't dare to be careless in his heart, the battle with the Oda family over the years was very unsmooth, not only the loss of troops and generals, but also the fall of a large territory, the local tyrants in Kansai were hesitant to continue to support the family, and at home, civil officials like Kuniji Genxiang even advocated following the example of the Uesugi family and reconciling with the Oda family, the most unbearable thing for Yoshikawa Motoharu was that his younger brother, the chief thinker of the family, Kobayakawa Takakei, also revealed such a tendency!

How can this be?! Do you want to give the foundation of Motoshoko to Oda Nobunaga?!

Yoshikawa Motoharu is indeed very stubborn, but he is not a fool, he sees the situation in the world very clearly, in the past few years, with the advancement of the Oda family [Tianxia Buwu], he slowly feels that the era of [One Character Three Striped Stars] is really coming to an end, especially last year, Oda Nobunaga announced the opening of the shogunate in Kyoto, which especially shocked him.

Is there really only ...... No! No! If you surrender like this, the family will definitely be despised by the shogunate! You can't just leave it at that!

He wanted to win a battle to prove the Maori family's ability and win more benefits for it.

At this moment, a flag book walked in.

[General, Mino Mamoru Kumagai sent a letter.] 】

[Huh? 】

Motoharu Yoshikawa took the letter from the flag book.

Before he had seen a few lines, he could no longer bear it, and he took the letter, threw it at the table, and then kicked it away and stood up, frowning, and said angrily:

[This guy doesn't move, and he makes up some reason [the ninja failed too quickly, he can't catch up] to prevaricate me, this is what a fool I am?!!! 】

The young Qiben had not yet left, and he was startled, his body stiffened, and he did not dare to speak or move.

Yoshikawa Motoharu couldn't wait to pick up the knife and kill his incompetent, but clever nephew.

He recalled that in the past two years of war against the Oda family, because it was very unsmooth, his subordinates, in order to avoid being punished by him, sometimes reported the truth with the false, the false with the true, the black said white, the white said black, and the dead said alive, so that he sometimes could not distinguish between the true and the false.

(It seems that lying about the military is not only a habit of the national army, but also the imperial army.)

Especially for Kumagai Motonao, he was even more dissatisfied.

He had recently reported from several sources that in the Battle of Shattered Wind Mountain, Kumagai Motonao could have followed his orders and arrived at his destination on time to cooperate with the ninja army to flank the Akechi army, but he stood at the bottom of the mountain and watched the battle.

That's it, and in his report to him, he blamed others for not destroying the enemy.

At the same time, he also doubted whether the report of Kumagai Motonao was completely true. He couldn't help but jump up and scolded Kumagai Motonao, then looked at the map, looked at it for a while, and then turned his back to his hands, around the desk, slowly making a circle, and the horsewhip gently landed on the tatami mats, making a rhythmic sound.

At this time, a flag book walked in.

【General! There is an enemy! 】

[What's wrong?! 】

Motoharu Yoshikawa asked distraughtly.

[The enemy's main position has moved!] 】

[Nani?! 】

His attention was attracted, the Einsatzgruppen was just a small miscellaneous fish, and it couldn't be a climate, and the camp where Wise Kogoro was located was the one that should really be taken care of.

[The Wise Army advanced westward, and is now only fifty miles away from Silver Mountain. 】

[Fifty miles? 】

He looked at the map, and according to the drawing scale, the distance of fifty miles was the length of a middle finger on the map.

[Wise, has that little imp finally come to me again?] 】

Because of his age, he always contemptuously calls the other party [little ghost], and never treats him as an equal opponent, although he has been defeated by the other party more than once...... [Hurry up, hurry up, the general is in for a treat!] Hosokawa Tadashi and a few guys surrounded me and walked towards the [Niohya] hotel in the center of the town, and a few people who looked like flags followed me in.

The owner of the hotel saw that a samurai master was coming, and he greeted him with a smile:

[Ladies and gentlemen, please come in, sit here, sit here--]

[Hmm...... Then! 】

Hosokawa Tadashi threw a golden judgment into his hand with a parabolic trajectory, and he suddenly smiled even brighter-just the tip is so much, these [Kaizi] must serve well, and slaughter two more knives when checking out.

Don't look at Hosokawa this guy is so generous, in fact, that little judgment is mine.

The boss arched his hand and let us and the others into a [private room] in the southeast corner of the room.

It's a private room, but it's actually very simple, but it's a little quieter than the outside.

On the north side of the private room is a shelf on the left hand against the wall, displaying some groceries, as well as four or five sealed jars. The first two steps of the shelf are the counters. There are two tables on the west side of the counter, and a few customers don't seem to be afraid of us, and still sit at the counter and eat and drink.

In the middle is the door and the inner room passage. In this small hotel, only the private rooms are a little more decent.

The town is actually quite poor, and this tavern is the only place to eat and drink in town.

The boss naturally didn't dare to offend the samurai master, and before we came in, he had already packed up the tables and chairs.

He saw several samurai with swords entering the hotel, the first one was slightly tall and thin, with small but round eyes, and the kimono he was wearing was very ornate, and there was a layer of feather weaving on the outside, which made people know at a glance that his status was very high.

He invited them to sit and shouted in a loud voice:

[Maji, prepare wine and food for these masters! ] 】

Maji is probably a guy in his shop.

I walked in front, and the people who came in with him sat at will, and they didn't care about what they were up and down, and there were a few empty seats.

The guy at the hotel brought a pot of tea first, according to Japanese custom, you must have a cup of tea before drinking, but I am not very interested in this kind of tea that is obviously not very good.

I waved my hand and said:

[We entered a tavern, not a teahouse!] 】

The shopkeeper improvised and said:

【Good, good! In the end, if you are a samurai, you have to be like a samurai, Maji, remove the tea, and serve the wine and food. 】

The boss was just about to leave, but he was pulled by me again:

【What good wine do you have here?】 If there is any good dish, tell me about it! 】

[The sake is a cloudy sake that has been stored for five years. Dishes include stir-fried burdock, tempura, ayu fish cake, water tofu, carrot slices, ......]

[Okay, give me the best!] 】

Actually, there is nothing good to eat.

[Yes, it's the best!] We will not lose you. 】

Hosokawa Tadashi vouched for me without blushing.

【Good, good! Come the best! 】

The boss agreed, and he got busy.

A few [eaters] fought with me haha:

[General, let's have a few drinks today. 】

[I want to meet with the lord! 】

In fact, how can these guys compare to me in terms of drinking, and in the end, except for two people, Keiji Maeda and Tadashi Hosokawa, the rest of them were wiped out.

[Lord, I'm full, let's go, let's go back~~~]

[Don't be busy walking yet, look outside, what is the owner of the store doing? 】

My voice was completely different from when I was drinking, cold and hard, not an exhortation, but an order.

Keiji Maeda has been with me for many years, and he immediately reacted that I switched to [Home Governor Mode].

He glanced out twice pretending to be inadvertent, and then whispered to me:

[That boss is settling accounts, obviously it's not a word, but it's quite [understandable], hehe......]

Rather, Hosokawa Tadashi said:

[My lord, if you have something to tell us, it would be good to say no in the barracks, why do you want to come to such a place? 】

[I just think it's been a long time since I've improved my food, and I want you two guys who like to eat and drink to have a good time.] 】

[Hehe, there is really nothing to eat in this small place. 】

[Don't be satisfied......]

I drank the cloudy wine.

[Yamazaki's Einsatzgruppen is now deep behind enemy lines, so I think it's almost time.] 】

[Almost?] Lord, are you going to go to war with Yoshikawa Motoharu? 】

[Well, that's pretty much what it means, Major General Hashiba (the monkey's official position is from the five lower left guards, slightly higher than me) beat Kobayakawa Takakei in the Seto Inland Sea to the point that he can't hold his head up, and if I don't fight on my side, the shogun will be angry. 】