004 to the sea

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Dare to stop the searchers! No mercy! ”

On the 2nd day of September in the third year of Tensho (1575), the most prosperous commercial town on the North Road, Tsuruga Town, fell into the encirclement of the whole town, and the young lord of the Akechi family, the sword master appointed by the imperial court, Akechi Nobumitsu, with 3,000 men, blocked Tsuruga Port and other intersections in and out of Tsuruga Town, and then began a town-wide search!

The town commissioner was so frightened that I told them with a very ugly face that there was a party in the town that had always been chaotic, and Nobuto would be "lucky" to Tsuruga tomorrow, and if he didn't "work hard", he would invite him to tea.

No one knew Nobunaga's "murderous name", and when this group of commissioners heard this, their faces suddenly became whiter than flour, and one of the timid even fainted directly.

So, with their cooperation and help, a chicken-fly-dog hunt became a little more clueless.

About half an hour later, another group of people arrived, and when they saw it, the leader was actually the "middle school teacher" Hanbei Takenaka who had just met during the day.

It turned out that they were the ones who were attacked.

Thousands of people searched from house to house in the huge town, and those with wounds on their bodies, swords at home, and even Buddhist scriptures on their bodies became the targets of our investigation.

Now, the doctors, the patients, the butchers, the monks and the monks were so miserable that they had to come up with all sorts of reasons to clear their suspicions, so I handed this person over to the thoughtful half-guards and continued to search for him.

In order to speed up the efficiency, in addition to proposing a heavy reward, I also issued a ban like Shang Ying: those who know but do not report will be fined half of their property (originally I said that those who know but do not report are guilty of the same crime as the offender, but later I thought that this article was too brutal and would cause adverse effects before I changed my words)!

Well, this one is the most effective, and after a while, there will be more "prisoners" who have been collected, but many of them are ruffians and hooligans who take the opportunity to rectify the people, making the half-guards big for a while.

After almost a night's tossing, the half-guard reported to me the "fruits of his labor", which frightened me a lot, and the identified "suspects" turned out to be more than 300 people! However, only a very small number of them are disciples of the Sect, and the rest are thieves and evil parties that they have paid for.

I wanted to pry something out of these people's mouths, but I didn't expect these guys to know anything.

Those disciples of the sect were very "tough", but after my "patient teaching", they were covered with injuries and swore with tearful gambling curses that they were just "little shrimps" in the sect, but they had only received a task to find the bad luck of the Oda army, and they didn't know anything about the other things of the big people above.

I didn't sleep all night, and in exchange for such a result, my blood surged, and I was so angry that if it wasn't for the half-guards to stop me, I would have immediately pulled out my sword and cut people.

"Your Highness with a knife should not be impulsive, let's wait for the arrival of the Shin Elder Hall before dealing with it."

"Doesn't His Highness Takenaka still know the temper of the main hall, and when he comes, this group of guys ...... Direct beheading or hanging is considered a gift, cannon branding, heart gouging, disembowelment, Ling Chi, skinning, car splitting, ...... "Every time I say a punishment, the bodies of the "prisoners" kneeling below tremble a little more.

I am not alarmist, Nobunaga's cruelty is obvious to all, and even without the propaganda of the Tsuyoko, the people of the world are full of fear of him.

The half-soldier smiled slightly: "Even so, before the main hall has an order, His Highness with a sword can't take action without permission, even if you take the initiative to help them 'get out of the sea of suffering', you have to have his approval." ”

When things got to this point, I was filled with a sense of powerlessness, "Forget it, I'll take care of everything by Shin Naga's palace." ”

I would have liked to hand over half of these guys to the half-guards as the "fruits of his hard work" for a night's work, but he waved his hand modestly and took his leave.

"Your Highness Wise!" I was about to leave here as well, when the town commissioners surrounded me and said, "Please save our lives, Your Highness!" ”

"Well, if something so big happens, Senator Oda (Nobunaga's current official position is the fourth senator) is probably going to be furious again," I said, looking very pained, "I'm afraid that the positions of several adults will not be kept." After saying that, regardless of their reaction on the kneeling on the ground, they walked straight out.

But when they heard what I said, they were overjoyed, and I only mentioned my duties, but not their lives, which shows that all this is "negotiable".

In the morning, Nobunaga arrived at Tsuruga with an army of 30,000 men.

In fact, on the night of the accident, my father and Hideyoshi's messenger rushed to Nobunaga to report the incident.

Sure enough, the brutal Nobunaga was furious at the provocation of the Ichijo sect, and directly issued an order to throw these more than 300 people into the sea and drown!

In this regard, I say that I am not surprised at all, this criminal law is not cruel, but if so many people are put together to "enforce the law", then the matter will be "bigger", and I don't know if the water quality of Hokkaiku will be affected......

As for the poor townsmen, after offering me 30,000 kan of "life-saving money" (most of that money went to my father, and only he had the ability to "blow the wind" from Nobunaga), he finally escaped, but was exiled to Wakasa.

This is the end of the matter.

Nobunaga's appearance is similar to that in "Shinno", with a wide forehead, slender eyes, a high nose bridge, thin lips, two mustaches, and no shaved head.

In the main castle tower of Tsuruga Castle, Nobunaga presided over a military meeting to conquer the Ichijo clan.

"Jubei (father's full name is Akechi Shibei Mitsuhide), monkey!" Nobunaga began to issue military orders.

"The lord commands!"

"You two are the vanguard, lead your men and horses by sea, attack the north coast of Echizen, and arrive at noon the day after tomorrow and besiege Fuchu Castle!"

"Yes!"

"Kwon Six!"

"In!" ……

By sea? Fortunately, the Katada people were brought out. I thought to myself.

At this time, in Japan, the number of naval battles was definitely not less than that of land battles, but limited to the problem of strength, those daimyo who had naval forces generally did not have the ability to make large sailing ships, and the naval battles of the Warring States were all coastal battles except for the "Battle of Keichaga Bunroku" (at least I haven't heard of the naval army on Kyushu Island running thousands of miles to the Izu Peninsula to play for their lives), so except for the Ataka ship, Japan did not invent a long-sea warship!

Let's talk about Ataka boats.

Ataka ships are large warships that began to appear around the Warring States period, and their largest ships can be 50 meters long and more than 10 meters wide, and they are called "Oyataku". The Ataka ship is large and can carry an army of more than 100 people. Although it is not very fast, it has the advantage of being able to operate flexibly with only a few dozen sailors in battle. At that time, the Japanese navy often used the Ataka ship as the main warship, and the smaller clippers such as Sekifune and Kohaya as escorts to form the naval fleet.

On this voyage, my father and Hideyoshi requisitioned a total of more than 120 Ataka boats, coupled with hundreds of boats to close the boats, a joint naval army is not majestic!

Originally, I wanted to fight a few naval battles, but the wind and waves were calm along the way, and I didn't even encounter a single fishing boat that went out to sea to fish.

I wonder a little here, the countries of the North Continent have long coastlines, and it is impossible not to know the importance of "sea dominance".

I don't know if the Buddha who has always believed in the sect really understood my thoughts, but just as I was guessing, a small morning boat in charge of the herald was a hundred meters away from my Da'an house, and while waving an orange order flag, it was speeding towards us.

My heart tightened, there was an enemy.

When the small morning boat approached the Da'an house less than a meter away, a "spider herald" with a command flag all over his body jumped onto the Da'an house.

The father quickly asked, "What's the matter?" Who is the enemy? ”

"There is an enemy ahead, and it is estimated that there are nearly two hundred ships, judging from the family crest, the enemy should be Wakabayashi Nagato Mamoru and his son under Shichiri Raishu and Echizen local pirate Shichiro!" The herald took a breath, "His Highness Yuchai, who is close to us, has already fought with them!" ”

"Good!" Father's praise was regarded as an encouragement for this person's work, "You go and inform His Highness Lin Yuanqing and His Highness Maba, who are at the forefront, to attack the entire navy with all their might, burn their warships with rockets, and force them into the water, without rushing to kill them all." ”

After the herald stepped back, I asked my father, "Why, Nagato Wakabayashi (sorry, I can't find his name) are they weak?" All they had to do was get them diving. ”

As if thinking of something funny, my father smiled rarely, "I'm very familiar with this Wakabayashi Nagato Mamoru and Shichiro." Wakabayashi was actually a useless person, he was originally just a bandit in Settsu, and later took refuge in Honganji, and made some merit when he instigated to be the lord of the castle, and he was promoted to Kaga as the lord of the castle, he had instigated a few times in Echizen, and I was still working for the Asakura family at that time, and I also participated in the campaign against him, but every time before we could call, he fled in disgrace, so that he was ridiculed by His Royal Highness Asakura (Yoshikei) as a 'rat Wakarin'. ”

There is still such a person, and he has become a general, I express my sincere admiration for the wisdom of those "great wet" people in the Yizong Sect.

"What about Shichiro?"

“……”

What my father said was right, these two people were indeed "very capable", and a naval army that was not small in number was actually commanded by them in a mess. Under the action of the rockets, most of the ships were burned, even Shishiro was killed by random arrows, and his generals and the rest of the ships surrendered to us.

The defeat was decided, and the rat Wakabayashi retreated to Kono Castle, his stronghold in Echizen.

At this time, the iron cannon had already been used in the Japanese naval battle, but neither of us used it, but the reason for this was that the people did not have this capital (I don't believe it anyway, but the wealth of the Ichōmuna was more than that of Uesugi Kenshin), and my father and Hideyoshi were too lazy to greet them with such a high-end product.

Seeing the enemy, my father continued to give orders.

"Login! Target Sugizuura! ”