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In the fifth year of Tensho (1577), the tenth lunar month of winter, the smoke of war was once again ignited in, and the Oda clan and the Matsunaga clan, two opponents with complete asymmetry in terms of strength, were about to start a major war in the Yamato Kingdom.

Both Oda Nobunaga and Matsunaga Shu racked their brains in an attempt to maintain a strategic advantage.

Oda Nobunaga himself did not leave Kyoto, but sat in Nijo Castle and watched the situation change behind the scenes, and at the same time, he commanded the lords of each city, demanding that every effort be made to maintain local stability during the war.

Matsunaga Hide, on the other hand, was much busier, on the one hand, he asked the people to send troops to Yamato to help, and on the other hand, he sought to form an alliance with Kii's Saga people behind him.

The location of the battle, first of all, was in Tsutsui Castle in the northern part of Yamato.

I won't introduce much about Tsutsui City.,Listen to the name and know that it's the original nest of the Tsutsui family.,Oh no.,It's Jucheng.。

On the north and south sides of Tsutsui Castle is the flat and smooth Jingluo Avenue, but in the east-west direction is a small basin surrounded by mountains, although it is not easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is definitely not a bone to gnaw on. In addition, Yamato-gunyama Castle, the stronghold of Matsunaga Hide, is only more than 20 miles away.

Raising troops here, for Matsunaga Hide, must feel that the opponent is killing in front of him, and he has to get up and respond. It's risky, but it's useless not to.

Therefore, it is very necessary for Matsunaga to defend Tsutsui Castle.

From the Yongroku period, when Matsunaga Shu was still serving as a family elder under Miyoshi Chokei, that is, from that time, with the support of Miyoshi Chokei, Matsunaga Shu began to slowly encroach on Yamato's territory, and thanks to the sudden death of Tsutsui Shunaki, a generation of heroes of the Tsutsui family, Tsutsui Shunaki, so that Matsunaga Hide's offensive succeeded step by step.

In the Motogui period, when Matsunaga Xiu had left the Miyoshi family and became a self-employed person, it was more convenient to do things, and even Yamato Koriyama Castle was also taken, so that Nandaiwa's territory of nearly 300,000 stone was all under his Matsunaga's control.

However, there is one characteristic of Masunaga Shu that is very good, and that is his aggressiveness!

Before he won Peking University, he would not be easily satisfied.

It was also at that time that Matsunaga Shu continued to build fortifications around the Tsutsui Castle, the last stronghold of the Tsutsui family, and launched attacks on the castle more than once.

However, until after the Battle of Tetori River, the castle was still in Tsutsui's hands, surrounded by layers of Matsunaga Hide......

"Qingxing, Chongxin, now that you're back here, do you feel anything else?" My father asked the two new generals.

"What a humiliation it was when I was driven away from here," Matsukura Shigenobu's face was filled with a faint murderous aura, "In this battle, although I may not have the opportunity to meet or even kill Matsunaga and his son, I must kill a few more Matsunaga soldiers to relieve my hatred!" ”

"I don't care," Shima Kiyoxing said calmly, "If His Highness Tsutsui had accepted my tactic of 'holding on to the city and waiting for reinforcements', he would not have been defeated and fled, and then he would have fallen to the point where he is today." ”

I smiled, "Shimazuo Jin" really spoke very directly, I really don't know how he got along with Ishida Mitsunari in history?

"What? Qingxing: Do you think your set will work? I asked.

Dao Qingxing shook his head in a flat tone: "No, it may not work, but it is more suitable than fighting in the field." ”

"What do you say?"

"The combat effectiveness of the Matsunaga army is stronger than that of His Highness Tsutsui, and it is not a little bit stronger, about that, I can assure," Shima Kiyoxing's expression stiffened like a stone, as if what he was saying had nothing to do with himself.

"Since I entered the Tsutsui family in the Motokami period, I have been fighting with the Matsunaga army, the Matsunaga army has been following the Miyoshi army for a long time to fight in the south and the north, and the combat experience is quite rich, and Matsunaga Shu wantonly used the treasury silver of the Miyoshi family to buy the best equipment and weapons for his soldiers, not to mention anything else, the iron cannon alone, Matsunaga is stronger than all the strength of.

Although Shigenobu and I have also won some battles for His Highness Tsutsui over the years, in general, it is always us who are on the disadvantaged side. ”

"Woo~~~" the conch sounded.

"Well, that's all for it," the father pulled out his sword, "two adults, you are more familiar with the enemy, so you will be the vanguard of your own family formation!" ”

"I can't ask for it."

"Gladly."

The Matsunaga army in Tsutsui Castle was only seven or eight thousand, while the Oda army that became a city numbered tens of thousands, and the worst thing was that the reinforcements that had always been numerous were firmly nailed to death by Sakuma Nobumori who was deployed in Ishiyama, and they couldn't move.

In this case, the castle lord Matsunaga was certainly not stupid enough to fight hard and fight a field battle with the Oda army, and he followed Matsunaga Hide's order to stick to Tsutsui Castle and not move an inch.

Again, no matter which way you look at it, Oda Nobunaga, who has a heavy army, is in a strategic advantage, so on the front, Oda Nobunaga ordered Oda Nobutada, the nominal commander-in-chief, to drop heavy troops on the front of Tsutsui Castle and launch an attack.

At the same time, Takigawa Kazuki and Niwa Nagahide led 15,000 men and horses to the south of Tsutsui Castle to cut off the castle from other castles in Matsunaga's domain, and in this way, Matsunaga was in a dilemma of being attacked on his back and besieged on all sides.

History likes to joke with people.

A month ago, when Matsunaga Hide-and the others were storming the city, Tsutsui Shunkei did not receive reinforcements from Oda Nobunaga, and the castle lacked soldiers and food, so it was finally captured.

And this time, in the face of the strong Oda army, it was the turn of the Matsunaga clan to wait for reinforcements here.

October of the fifth year of Tianzheng is destined to be a murderous autumn, as if from the gusts of autumn wind, people can smell the strong smell of gunpowder and the smell of blood carried on the knives and guns.

From October 10 to October 12, Oda's army stormed the city for three days, which means that he held the city for three days in isolation!

However, his abilities were limited to this, and when the Oda army attacked Tsutsui Castle, which had been battered by a thousand holes, Matsunaga had already quietly committed suicide in the castle tower.

I once promised Tsutsui Shunkei that even if Matsunaga had turned into a dead body, I would give him to Tsutsui Shunkei.

However, Oda Nobunaga, who was far away in Kyoto, received an order: Matsunaga was beheaded, and then beheaded for ten days!

Well, Matsunaga has to die again!

"Chang'an, after the head of the owl, ten days after Matsunaga Tong was beheaded, what will happen?"

"I guess I'll be thrown into a mass grave along with the corpse."

In ancient Japan, mass graves were called "animal mounds", probably because they thought that people who died in mass graves would eventually fall into the animal mound.

"Who's going to throw it?"

"For a person like Matsunaga Tong, His Royal Highness Major General (Oda Nobutada) should only find some untouchables to deal with," Wise Chang'an thought for a while and asked, "Although the young master can rest assured, when the beheading is over, I will go to the person in charge of disposing of the corpse, and I will definitely let them take good care of the corpse." ”

It was Okubo Chang Yasan (although he didn't use the name anymore), and he understood it all when I was halfway through my sentence.

"Okay, I'll rest assured that you can do something! It's up to you! ”

Shima Kiyohei and Matsukura Shigenobu thanked each other: "We are here to replace His Highness Tsutsui, thank you, young master!" ”

"This is just a promise I made to His Highness Tsutsui, samurai are based on integrity, this little thing is not worth worrying about!"

Listening to what I said with a clear conscience, even I began to believe it, am I really so "moral"?

That being said, I saw the eager eyes that everyone threw at me...... Well, compared to this, that incident is really not worth talking about.

Matsunaga Dan is sixty-seven years old, of medium height, skinny, with a long fair face, except for a scar, there are no overly conspicuous features on his face,

As for the figure, it looks a little slender, not like a samurai, but a bit like a priest in a shrine or a minister of the imperial court.

He had a short mustache with a sparse touch of red, so he did look more like a civil official of the imperial court, dressed in light armor and a brocade robe with a blue background.

The old family Hidekatsu Takeuchi came to report: "Lord! The head of the young lord has been hung by Oda Nobutada on the castle tower of Tsutsui Castle, so please mourn and change. ”

"I know," Matsunaga Xiu said lightly: "Since Jiutong is my son, he should do a good job, and one day he will end up with the consciousness of being in a different place, so I don't have any sadness, you can rest assured!" ”

"Okay." Having said that, Hidekatsu Takeuchi still noticed that his master's body was constantly trembling.

"Xingui Mountain City is easy to attack and difficult to defend, and the food and grass are enough for two years, so the next tactics of our family are still based on Cage City!"

"Yes!"

"You say, if Changqing Gong is still here, what will he do when he sees my current scene?"

"This ......" suddenly pulled a person who had been dead for more than ten years, and Hidekatsu Takeuchi didn't react.

When Matsunaga Shu said this, the clear eyes that did not match his age stared into Takeuchi Hidekatsu's eyes for a while, and then suddenly stood up

Come, walk to the castle tower of Shinkiyama Castle.

Hidekatsu Takeuchi also got up and quietly accompanied him into the entrance.

For some reason, Hidekatsu Takeuchi cared very much about the meaningful glance just now.

He thought all the way: "What's the point of that vision?" What was the lord thinking at that time......"

"It's snowing!"

Walking up to the castle tower, the two noticed that at some point, white snowflakes were floating in the sky.

"It snowed very early this year."

"yes, in previous years, it would have been until November."

The wind was blowing, and the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and it didn't take long for a slightly thicker layer of snow to accumulate on the ground.

Probably because of the reflection of snowflakes, the entire Xingui Mountain Castle became brighter!