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To be honest, I didn't like the character of Akechi Mitsuhide.

When I first read "Oda Nobunaga", I didn't have any good feelings for such a stubborn and narrow-minded man who saw the wind and steered the rudder, abandoned the old master, and finally ended up with a misunderstanding of Oda Nobunaga's great cause.

Later, many things happened, I left the university and went into society, and my life began to be no longer controlled by myself, I did business I didn't like in the company, I was ostracized by my colleagues, and I was bullied by my boss. When I got home, I had to face a lonely and miserable situation with no one to talk to, and at that time, I pulled out "Oda Nobunaga" that had been neglected for several years and was covered with dust from the bookshelf, and suddenly found that

Actually, I myself and Akechi Mitsuhide have a lot in common......

Noden Nanao Castle.

This place was later known as Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture.

However, it can't be said that the former site of Nanao Castle is located exactly in this place, but it is six or seven kilometers southeast of the center of Nanao City, and I once traveled there when my name (the protagonist, not the author) was still Ye Ye.

It was the night of September 3rd.

Unlike China, most of Japan, with the exception of southern Kyushu and Okinawa (which was still called "Ryukyu" at this time), has distinct seasons, and there is no such thing as an unseasonable climate such as "short spring neck" or "autumn tiger".

So, although it is only early autumn, the heat has been carried away by the wind blowing from the North Japan Sea, and the weather has already turned cool.

In front of Uesugi Kennobu's eyes, with a cool wind, Nanao Castle and the sea were all bathed in a silver light, and wild geese flying south flew over his head from time to time.

"The moonlight is beautiful tonight~"

In ancient Japan, there was a unique sake vessel called the horse bottle.

It is generally believed that the horse bottle was invented by Kenshin Uesugi, but in fact, as early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, some military generals who were addicted to alcohol carried this kind of convenient drinking utensils when they went out on expeditions.

Similar to his predecessors, Uesugi Kenshin also loved this kind of sake, and for this reason, he also specially asked people to create a "glass horse bottle".

"It's rare to see such a good moon......" Kenshin Uesugi looked at the moon as he drank his wine, reminiscing about the past.

Since I was a child, I have been most passionate about martial arts, military strategy, Buddhism, and popular poetry in Kyoto...... Speaking of poetry, he suddenly thought that when he was young, he pretended to learn to recite the ancients in an elegant manner, but he always ended up being ridiculed by his brother Qingjing and his sister Ayahime.

He had rarely spent time looking at the moon until one day, when his father, who cared little about himself, died.

It was rumored that the retainers were going to get rid of the two brothers at the funeral, so the elder brother Qingjing was worried about the safety of the funeral, so he had to put on armor and act as a guard to protect his safety.

Fortunately, there were no accidents at the murderous funeral.

At the funeral, in the courtyard, I occasionally raised my head, and the waning moon in the sky rested there, and I kept staring at it for a long time, and I couldn't say anything in my heart.

Many years later, he set up a battle on the mountain of his wife and daughter in Shinano Province to deal with Takeda Shingen, who was his enemy in the distance.

At that time, the moon was neither waning nor perfect, but a half-moon.

That night, he was inspired by this imperfect moon with unparalleled pride, and vowed to fight Takeda to the death!

"Don't be discouraged!" Uesugi Kenshin's mind quickly returned from the past to reality.

"Although those guys in Honjo suffered a small loss in Kaga, this does not affect the overall situation," he said loudly on his horse: "Noto has already been in my hands, and the Buddhist monks of Kaga are also willing to help, although Oda Nobunaga's men are numerous, but they came from afar, and the consumption is huge, we only need to unite sincerely and fight hard, and we will make that fight without a place to die!" ”

"Hey~hey~hey~huh~"

The passion and enthusiasm of the officers and men were quickly aroused by him, and he couldn't help waving the weapons in his hands, and excitedly shouted out bursts of magnificent and loud "whale waves"!

For the Echigo samurai, Uesugi Kenshin was not only their lord, but also a great hero in their hearts, and even in the hearts of many lower-class samurai, he was really the "King of Bishamon"!

Isn't it a "miracle" that he has been in a hundred battles and has never been defeated?

"It should be something I humbly believe I deserve, and I will never let it go!" Uesugi Kenshin waved his hand and motioned for everyone to be quiet, "This war is different from the past, we must defeat Oda Nobunaga as quickly as possible, so that he has to withdraw from Hokuriku!" ”

"My lord," Minister Se said excitedly, "everyone can't wait, let's send troops!" ”

"Okay, those who fight bravely live, those who are greedy for life are afraid of the dead, please fight hard! Deliver my orders and march to Kaga!! ”

"Yes!"

Uesugi Kenshin looked up at the bright moon in the sky again, and suddenly came to Shixing.

Autumn is high and frosty

There are several rows of geese in the night

Over the mountains and mountains to see Nengzhou

Say goodbye to your hometown

Writing this, this legendary general, who has never been defeated in his life, seems to be not happy enough, and reads two more sentences.

The samurai stood in armor for the last night, and the sound of the first geese was still heard on the pillow.

Oda Nobunaga seems to have a better sense of time than Uesugi Kenshin, and on September 5, a day before Uesugi Kenshin, he came to Sarusaka.

He was followed from the Mahayana temple by Shibata Katsuie and his son Iga Mamoru Katsutoyo, nicknamed Monkey Hashiba Hideyoshi; There are also military generals who originally belonged to the Hokuriku lineage, such as Maeda Toshiie and his descendants Shiro Toshinaga, Sasa Narumasa and Fupo Saburo Koji, as well as some middle-level samurai who originally belonged to the Oda family.

So many people gathered in this small Sarusaka, and it was suddenly very lively.

"Kogoro, with Sanemon (Mori Nagaka) and Katsuzaburo (Ikeda Nobuki), the three of you have done a good job," Oda Nobunaga praised the three of us, "First teach me a little lesson, this credit, after returning to, I will reward them one by one." ”

"Thank you, lord!"

"That's right! There is also Hikoemon (Takigawa Kazuki), this is your battle commander, and you should be given the first credit. ”

"Don't dare to be."

"I'm sorry, Chiyo Ino, I won't reward you for what you didn't do." ……

Finally, I finished the "Meritorious Service Conference" and finally returned to the main topic.

Everyone gathered around Nobunaga, staring intently at the map in front of them.

"Judging from the current situation, Kenshin will definitely come to Kaga," Oda Nobunaga suddenly asked, "Gonroku!" Tell me, how do I get the head of that old fellow? ”

"This ......" Shibata Katsuya, who has always been very arrogant, has a rare "pretending" today, "This, under the dull!" ”

It's not that he deliberately wants to make it bigger, but it's a question that is too difficult to answer, and too bold ideas will make people feel arrogant, and answering too carefully will certainly not be in line with Oda Nobunaga's intentions.

Since Zhu Bajie looks in the mirror - he is not a person inside and outside, it is better not to look at it.

"Humph! Useless stuff! Oda Nobunaga snorted disdainfully: "Monkey! Tell me about it! ”

I'm KAO! Don't bring it like that! If he can't say anything, why can he push it to me for no reason?

I think so in my heart, but I must not say it on my lips.

Yushiba Hideyoshi thought about it and said hard-headedly, "Well! If it's me...... I will retreat to the Kuuryu River, so that if something happens, I can immediately cross the river and return to Kitanosho Castle, where I will wait for the snow season to come, and the Uesugi cavalry will not be able to advance in the deep snow, and then I will have a chance! ”

"Oh, monkey! You've got a great idea! Oda Nobunaga pretended to be ignorant and said, "Leaving aside whether this plan will succeed or not, there is one thing I really don't understand, since you have decided to defend the castle in Kitanoso and wait for the snow to fall, will it be that when the snow falls, Kenshin's head will automatically fall off?" ”

"This ......"

"Hikoemon, what are you going to do?"

"I have an idea ...... below."

"Speak quickly!"

"Our army, like the Uesugi army, fought far away from home, and depended a lot on the environment of the place of battle, but almost all the people on Kaga's side believed in Ichijomune, so it was difficult to win it over."

"And what are you going to do?"

"Clear the walls and four fields, so that the Ichijo Sect and the Uesugi army have no one to rely on!"

"And then?" This somewhat ridiculous note obviously did not satisfy Oda Nobunaga.

Now, Director Takigawa had no choice but to stubbornly say: "At that time, Uesugi Kenshin, who had lost his support, will inevitably ask for a quick battle, and he will definitely cross the river to fight a decisive battle with our army, and the terrain of the Tetori River is similar to that of the Lianzi River, as long as our army has an iron cannon, the Uesugi cavalry will definitely ......."

"Enough, shut up!" Oda Nobunaga scolded: "Could it be that Uesugi Kenshin's brain is as stupid as Takeda Katsuyori?!" ”

“……”

"But then again, your idea just now isn't completely useless," Oda Nobunaga calmed down after a while, "It's okay to make some trouble for Uesugi Kenshin and force him to do it." ”

This is when he looked at the map carefully, "Imai, Kiba, Mohashi, Komatsu, Ataka ...... There are a dozen or so villages around here, and Hikoemon did as you said, and went and set fire to them. ”

"Yes."

"Katsuzaburo, you take those two little guys and help Hikoemon."

"Yes."

"My lord, I have a little problem." I looked up and said.

"Say!"

"I want to ask, is it just a matter of setting fire to the villagers? Or kill them all, burn them all, and rob them all? "If I had pursued the "three-light policy", then I, who considered myself benevolent, might not have been able to do it.

"You can do it," Oda Nobunaga looked indifferent, "If those untouchables are willing to get out of here, even if they are believers in the Tsuyoko, I won't embarrass them, and if they don't leave, you can just use the knife." ”

"Yes, I see."

It seems that Oda Nobunaga is much better than the scum of later generations, Tojo, Matsui and the like.