Horio Maosuke didn't dare to follow Asano Nagamasa loudly, and entered the tent belonging to Kinoshita Toyoshiro, along the way, from Asano Nagamasa's mouth, he learned that the object of his allegiance was actually the now famous Kinoshita Toyoshiro, and he couldn't help but feel very happy, the Daimyo of the Oda family Kinoshita Toyoshiro and the Takayama clan, in the country of Mino, it can be said that everyone knows, no one knows, Horio Maosuke's biggest ideal is to become a samurai, how can he not know the way, and now he can become a retainer of the Kinoshita family, Presumably, it should not be difficult to earn meritorious service in the future.

Kinoshita Toyoshiro is now excited to get such important information, but also happy to add a new retainer to his family, he was originally a peasant, and it is normal for him to be looked down upon by the samurai, so it is a little difficult to recruit retainers, even if the other party is broken, but in order to maintain the dignity of the samurai, it is difficult to be loyal to a samurai from a peasant, in their opinion, this is an insult, so, until now, Kinoshita Toyoshiro has only two relatives as retainers.

And now, at last, someone is willing to be loyal to him, and looking at the boy's conversational temperament, it doesn't look like an ordinary peasant pretending, it should be after a serious samurai, but now it's broken.

In Kinoshita Tojiro's view, this is a good omen, and with the improvement of his status, there should be more excellent samurai to join him in the future.

Kinoshita Toyoshiro was secretly happy, and at the same time came to Oda Nobunaga's big tent, and reported loudly: "Report, Kinoshita Toyoshiro, the lord's subordinate, has something important to ask to see." ”

"Come in" In the big tent, I only heard Nobunaga's faint voice, although it was getting late, but Nobunaga did not sleep, but kept looking at the map, the map is not the map of Mino, but the map of Minami Omi, now that Mino is in the bag, there is no need to worry about it anymore.

I saw Kinoshita Toyoshiro come to Nobunaga in three steps and two steps, and after making a salute, he said: "Report, lord, according to the report of his subordinate retainers, this morning, Saito Ryuko and his retainers, and Ashigaru have all fled from Inabayama Castle, and I ask my lord to decide." ”

Anyone would be surprised to hear such news, and Nobunaga was certainly no exception. I heard Nobunaga ask in surprise, "What escaped?" Is this true? ”

I heard Kinoshita Tojiro hurriedly say: "My subordinates don't dare to deceive the lord, this matter is true." ”

I saw Nobunaga stand up violently, and reality paced around the tent, and then looked up to the sky and smiled for a long time before calming down and said excitedly: "Good monkey, you did a good job this time......

Before Nobunaga could finish speaking, he heard another voice coming in from outside the tent. "My lord, my subordinate Gaoshan clan has something important to see."

Since Wasuka Masakatsu wanted to occupy the castle after seeing Saito Ryuko and the others fleeing, and after he occupied Inabayama Castle, he would send someone to inform the Takayama clan, so it was a little slower than Horio Masuke, who came directly.

After learning that Inabayama Castle had been occupied by Wasuka Masakatsu, the clan was excited for a moment, and then immediately came to Nobunaga's tent to report this great news to him.

Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro saw that the lord was just about to make a reward for himself, and this Takayama clan came to make trouble, and he couldn't help but feel a little resentful, but he thought that he couldn't run this time anyway, and the decision was the difference between earlier and later, so he eased up again.

"Come in."

As Nobunaga's voice fell, he saw that the clan could not hide the excitement in his heart, strode in, and said, "Report, lordship, Saito Ryuko has escaped from Inabayama Castle......"

Before the clan could finish speaking, he heard Kinoshita Toyoshiro speak: "Lord Takayama, I have already reported this matter to the lord just now. After speaking, Kinoshita Tojiro smiled proudly at the Okinoki clan.

Seeing his villain's triumphant appearance, the clan did not feel angry, but continued to say to Nobunaga: "My lord, what my subordinates want to say is that Inabayama Castle has been occupied by the ninja army under his subordinates, and my lord can enter this city at any time. ”

After hearing this, Kinoshita Tojiro's jaw almost dropped, he had just learned the news of Saito Ryuxing's abandonment of the city, and this Takayama clan had occupied Inabayama Castle, where did he get the news, and even if he got the news, it was impossible to occupy the city, this time was not enough at all, thinking of this, I only heard him shout: "How is this possible, that Saito Ryuxing only evacuated from Inabayama Castle in the morning, and it takes at least half a day's journey from here to Inabayama Castle, which is absolutely impossible"...,

The reason why Kinoshita Tojiro was so anxious was because, he clearly knew that this report could be said to be insignificant compared to the occupation of the city, if there was no clan to report, Nobunaga was overjoyed, and his mind was hot, I am afraid that he would reward himself with something, but in the blink of an eye, the ninja army under the command of the clan occupied it, so what credit can he have, Nobunaga did not blame the monkey for his rudeness, but looked at the clan with interest, and also wanted to know what Lu Dao, for what he used in a short time, he could occupy Inabayama Castle. Although it is now an empty city, the time of this journey is ...... Nobunaga really couldn't figure it out.

I only heard the clan say: "My lord, since the subordinates returned to Mino, in addition to strictly training Ashigaru in the territory, and sent the ninja army under his command to Inabayama to find a path to the castle on the top of the mountain, the subordinates thought, that Inabayama Castle is easy to defend and difficult to attack, although now the Saito family has been dilapidated, and there are less than a thousand ashigaru in the city, but, if it is defended by virtue of the city, it will also cause great casualties to the ashigaru, so the subordinates moved their minds, but I didn't expect that after the Inabayama Castle, there is really a path leading to the back city, When his subordinates learned of this, they did not let the ninja army under their command withdraw, but planned to let them attack the city from behind when the lord attacked Inabayama Castle.

In this way, the enemies of Inabayama Castle are concentrated in front of the city, and the ninja army is sneaking behind the city, and the enemy guards can't care about each other, and it is not difficult to break through the city, but who would have thought that Saito Ryuxing was so shameless, and he led the crowd to flee without engaging in a battle. ”

"Ha Luha, okay, this matter is well done, after entering Inabayama City, there will be a reward." After saying that, I saw Nobunaga stand up and shout to the attendants outside, "Someone is coming."

Hasegawa Shui, who was outside the tent, heard the call of the lord and hurriedly ran in. He saluted and said, "My subordinates are here, please give instructions to my lord." ”

"Immediately give an order, and the whole army will be stationed in Inabayama Castle." ……，