Chapter 38: The Great Crisis

"My lord, why is Inuyama Castle closed in broad daylight?"

"If you do something wrong, will you open the gates to meet those who punish you?"

"No, it won't."

"That's it."

Guo Jia's brows furrowed tightly as he looked at the gate of Inuyama City, and he had a bad premonition in his heart. But this feeling is definitely not transmitted by Inuyama Castle.

"Move like thunder, open the gates for me."

To put it bluntly, it is a group of legions formed by talents from various industries, some of whom can farm, some can strike iron, and some are fugitives who kill people without blinking. Thieves, robbers, and bandits have everything in this regiment. In the troubled times, everyone is a soldier, so Guo Jia has long changed the crime that can be crowned with death to confiscate the army. In the same way, if you are a soldier and a soldier escape, you will be charged with a greater crime, ranging from direct execution to torture to death in prison.

However, there must be heavy and light, since Guo Jia gave them a way to live, then go over and become soldiers, the entire Owari people know that the welfare of the Oda Army is not a star, especially the four legions of the Wind Volcano Forest, each of them has more than 50 yuan per year! In this way, Guo Jia single-handedly built a powerful Oda army.

At this time, Guo Jia asked the people who were like thunder to open the door, which meant to let the thief among them go to the small door next to the city gate.

"Master Guo Jia, after we go in, will we still tie them up like we did just now?"

"I guess it's not that easy this time."

Guo Jia shook his head, and turned his gaze to Oda Nobuyo and Okabe Motonobu, this time it was definitely not as easy as then, there was not only a messenger from Yuanjiang but also a person here, and that person would definitely not let Guo Jia take Nobuyuki away. Tsuchida Gozen, the biological mother of Oda Nobuyuki and Guo Jia.

"Your Excellency's door opens." The thief in the middle of the thunderstorm quickly opened the gates, and how could he survive if he didn't master this skill.

"Let's go."

The group entered Inuyama Castle, and the scene that caught their eyes made them worry for a while, and then they became angry!

It is not yet spring, and the weather is even colder at this time, and the places where the residents live are either broken or lack tiles, and the unclothed houses and unbunkered houses are what they see. And the inhabitants who live here have no expression in their eyes, as if they have long been accustomed to all this.

Guo Jia clenched his fists and walked up to a resident who was slumped on the ground, took off his clothes and draped them over the man's body.

"What's going on here?"

Hearing Guo Jia's question, the man raised his head and looked at Guo Jia sluggishly.

"What's going on here? My name is Oda Kakuka, can you tell me what's going on here? ”

The man was either frightened or insane.

"Who are you?" A weak voice sounded from his mouth, and he didn't know why the person in front of him was giving him clothes to wear.

"I'm Owari Daimyo, Oda Kakuka! What's going on here? Why did Inuyama Castle become like this? ”

"You're Oda Kakuga-sama? Are you really Lord Oda Kakuga? ”

Guo Jia's eyes brightened again when he saw this person.

"Your Excellency! Please, save us! O Lord! Help us. ”

When this person saw Guo Jia nodding and knowing his identity, he instantly knelt down and wept while kowtowing.

"You tell me slowly, what the hell is going on here, I will call the shots for you."

"It's Nobuyuki-sama, Nobuyuki-sama! He wants to become a daimyo independently, and they continue to expand their military power in Inuyama Castle, my son is only thirteen years old! Lord Guo Jia, save us. ”

"Then why is this city so dilapidated!"

"It's Lord Nobuyuki who raised the tax, and those who can't pay it will be strong enough to fill the army, and those who don't have strong men will be robbed, and those who resist will either be beaten half to death or demolished their houses!"

The man cried as he spoke, tears couldn't stop flowing, he was already unkempt, and now his whole face was gone, and Guo Jia and the others couldn't laugh at all with such a laughing appearance.

Guo Jia now understands the situation of Inuyama Castle, and the leader here is now killing chickens and eggs to prepare for a rebellion, which is even more tricky than that of Qingzhou Castle. Because Oda Nobuyuki definitely has enough confidence in rebellion by doing this, Guo Jia will definitely be captured by this so-called younger brother if he acts rashly.

"Takigawa Kazuki, you go and explore the depths for me." After thinking about it for a long time, Guo Jia still felt that there was too little information in his hands, and Inuyama City became like this, and he was inseparable from it! It must be dealt with here, and it must be handled properly, otherwise it will inevitably cause a series of problems.

Guo Jia's order seemed to be said to the air, but he knew that the person had already left, and now he was waiting. Just wait for him to bring the information back.

"Nobuyuki Oda! Are you really going to make this step! Guo Jia's eyes were gloomy and he looked at the city tower in the distance.

At this time, Imagawa Yoshimoto had already led a large army to move around Okazaki Castle, and from the northeast of the entire Okazaki Castle, towards Inuyama Castle in Owari. The full 15,000 troops, the forward is about 4,000 troops of the Mikawa Army led by Matsudaira Motoyasu of Mikawa Province, the middle army is about 3,000 powerful elite troops of the Suruga Army, and in their camp is the Imagawa Army led by Imagawa Yoshimoto! Twelve thousand!

However, although all this information was difficult to know, Ruyin knew, but they couldn't find Guo Jia's whereabouts at all, they went to Qingzhou City, not to mention anything else, even the city lord of Qingzhou City disappeared, and there was Guo Jia's whereabouts there. Now they can only rely on the falcon to find Takigawa Kazuki or Guo Jia faster.

"Your Excellency!" After everyone waited for a while, Takigawa Kazuyi finally returned.

"What's the situation?"

"My lord, as far as I know, there are nearly 1,300 soldiers gathered here, and even Inuyama Castle has nearly 700 troops left, and there are probably those who are left in the barracks behind the city."

"And I didn't find any whereabouts of Nobuyuki-sama in the castle tower. It should have been transferred. ”

Guo Jia touched his chin at this time, transferred? Leaving so many soldiers transferred? Not a mutiny?

"What about the messenger of the Imagawa family?"

"Didn't find it."

"Tsk. What's the situation? Guo Jia was stunned and asked himself.

Oda Nobuyuki disappeared, the entire Inuyama Castle couldn't see this person, and the messenger of the Imagawa family also disappeared, so where did these two people leave so many soldiers? Who would believe it if it is said that it is not a rebellion! So why is that?

"My lord, what are we going to do next?" Of course, Takigawa Yiyi realized the seriousness of the matter, so he hurriedly asked Guo Jia, only Guo Jia was the smartest of all the people here.

"Ahh Guo Jia couldn't figure it out, but at this time, the bad premonition in his heart was strong again.

"Phew!" It's a falcon that is as unknowable as the shadow!

"Your Excellency!" Takigawa Kazuyi raised his hand high, and the falcon saw him from afar and immediately flew to his arm.

"Your Excellency, please take a look."

There is also a difference between the contact falcons that are difficult to know as yin, and this one is the one used to transmit emergency information. And often this kind of information must be passed to Guo Jia through the hands of Takigawa Kazuyi.

Guo Jia took the wooden tube and took out a roll of letterhead.

"Urgent. The night before yesterday, the Iga ninja Hattori Hanzo came to Nakono Castle, and wrote that Imagawa Yoshimoto had raised troops to attack Owari, and in order to understand the truth, he sent thirteen ninjas to investigate the matter, and there were indeed signs of sending troops to Enoe Province, and now the route of the march is unknown. ”

The content of this information made Guo Jia chill, and he failed to drive the tiger and devour the wolf!

Guo Jia's original intention was that the Ise Miyoshi and the Imagawa army would compete with each other for Narumi Castle and then let the Miyoshi people who had tasted the sweetness attack Yuanjiang all the way, and when they were short of troops, they would all be in their hands in one go, and at this time, what Guo Jia didn't expect was that the group of Miyoshi people had not yet pocketed Narumi Castle, and Imagawa Yoshimoto actually sent troops.

Guo Jia began to analyze at this time, since the tiger devoured the wolf failed, the tiger also came, and the wolf also came The situation of Owari collapsed in an instant, the key is that at this time, it is difficult to know that Ruyin has not yet investigated the marching route of Imagawa Yoshimoto's army, which shows that Imagawa Yoshimoto definitely did not follow Okazaki's route, so where is his goal?

"Pen and paper!" Guo Jia said directly to the monkey, although the monkey was Guo Jia's general at this time, he still helped Guo Jia in a state of running errands.

"Order! The wind volcanic forest prepares the army for battle. Guo Jia just wrote such a note, rolled it up, stuffed it into a bamboo tube, and handed it to the falcon, who caught it and flew away directly.

It is not known what the strength of Imagawa Yoshimoto's army is, what the route of the march is, and how fast the Miyoshi people will attack Narumi and whether they will continue to send reinforcements. This time, Guo Jia never fought uncertain battles, and this habit was about to be broken.

His eyes are black now, so he can only prepare first and wait for them to come.

"My lord, you haven't said where Nobuyuki-sama has gone!"

"Huh? Damn it! ”

The monkey was puzzled, but Guo Jia's eyes were shining, the movement of Xinxing!

If Nobuyuki was rebelled, then it was definitely the messenger of the Imagawa family, and Nobuyuki's actions were also like preparing to rebel, and the troops that had been taken away were now expanding to this point, not ready or something.

Therefore, if Xinxing, a person with such a small courage, dares to rebel, he must have his own reasons, what is the reason for him to dare to rebel? The answer should be the strength of the Imagawa army, in other words, Nobuyuki knew how strong the Imagawa army was, and it was possible that he knew their marching route. So where is he now? If nothing else, I think I'm going to meet Imagawa Yoshimoto.

"This fool!" Guo Jia laughed angrily, this Oda Nobuyuki didn't move his brain at all, and now going to meet Imagawa Yoshimoto is not equivalent to a sheep in the mouth of a tiger. I guess he was already kidnapped at this time.

"Alright, let's prepare to defend the Imagawa army from attacking." Guo Jia smiled, if the guess is correct, the march route of the Imagawa army should be towards Inuyama or Kiyosu.

"Huh?"

"The route of the Imagawa army is not surprising, and the target is here. First, Nobuyuki's courage to rebel should be related to the strength of the Yuanjiang State. Second, since he had already prepared so many things, he should have planned to rebel a long time ago. Third, since it was the envoy of the Imagawa family who rebelled, what does it mean that these two protagonists are gone? It shows that Imagawa Yoshimoto should have received a message from the messenger that he was planning to attack Inuyama. This place is almost a free gift, so ......"

Guo Jia smiled mysteriously, and another plan emerged from his heart. Given away for nothing? Let you have no return!

"Let's go, go to Mino!"