On the third day after the Oda Nobunaga Kitano tea party, I led the troops back to Wakasa, and this time after more than half a year, everyone was already like an arrow! My own mood at the moment can be described as mixed, but in general it is the excitement of joy. After three years of wakasa suffering, I finally waited for this day, and Nagano Yoshimasa's prediction was about to come true!

Strictly speaking, the natural conditions around the mountain* are not very good, that is, they are a little more limited than Wakasa, but the meaning here is absolutely different! San'in is correct to say that it should include Tanba, Tango, Taji, Inaba, Hakuki, Izumo, Iwami, and Oki, the terrain is long and narrow, the land is barren, and Oki is still an overseas outlying island, and the director is that there are some minerals, but the distribution is still very unconcentrated!

At present, in addition to some small wealthy clans that can be almost ignored, there are three main factions in San'in, the Hatano family in the east, the Yamana family in the middle, and the Mori family, which is a large power in the west, among which the Yamana family is divided into the Tajima Yama family and the Inhata Yama family. I don't have the appetite to swallow such a large piece of the cake in one bite, so my main target is only to target the two countries under the rule of Hatano in the east, but the Tamba country, which has the largest stone on the mountain*, is one of them. Oda Nobunaga should have meant the same thing, but I always felt that he didn't want me to completely wipe out the Hatano family, otherwise why would he only lend me 3,000 reinforcements for three months?

Anyway, this is a good opportunity right now, as long as I spread out a "stall" in this area, the current state of the Oda family has almost lost the means to restrain me! I think this is also a way that Oda Nobunaga has no choice, and the forces of the western country have now stepped up their efforts to intervene in, and there is a shadow of the Mori family behind Honganji. So Oda Nobunaga is now anxious to stop the development of this situation, and hopes that Sakuma Nobumori will be able to entangle Honganji in the direction of Sanyo, and at the same time Araki Murashige will assist him in stabilizing the situation in Settsu, and San'in will have to leave it to me if he thinks about it!

In addition to this earth-shaking change, there are also some small "benefits", and Akechi Mitsuhide was really arranged by Oda Nobunaga to Higashimino as I said! On the surface, it is not only a glorious promotion, but the increase in the 100,000 stone territory of Iwamura Castle is even more eye-catching, and the original Zhixing has received close to 150,000 stones, which is unique among the elders in the Oda family! Akechi Mitsuhide is grateful to me now, and although he didn't deliberately publicize it, this kind of thing actually can't be hidden at all.

For this matter, my prestige has increased dramatically again, and I am afraid that no one else can do such a large amount of abdication! While being humble again and again, I couldn't help but smile in my heart: Wise Mitsuhide is in the "refrigerator"!

With the current situation of the "Oda Encirclement Network", I am afraid that no one would have thought that Oda Nobunaga could have a large span of development, so the territory of 150,000 stone is enough to masturbate! As everyone knows, this is just a "chicken rib", and there is no room for expansion in all directions of east, south, west and north!

To be honest, so far, Akechi Mitsuhide has been pretty good to me, but it's just ...... It's hard for me to grasp this person's mindset! Since I don't know what he's going to do when, I'm just going to keep him away from me. In addition, Oda Nobunaga will move his headquarters to the area of Lake Omi in a few years, which also reduces the possibility of the "Honnoji Incident" to some extent. Anyway, Oda Nobunaga also promoted me, and we have always been interesting!

I didn't tell anyone about it because it was confidential! It wasn't until I returned to Kohama Castle that I convened a meeting of the core retainers in a less obtrusive way. Although I don't say anything, which of the people here (except for Ko'er Caizo and Shinhachiro) is not a Seijin Taoist? More or less, they all have a premonition that something "big" is going to happen.

"Ahem, ahem......" Seeing that everyone was either hidden or visibly nervous, I coughed first to calm myself down. You probably feel it! One big thing happened, two big things to be exact! "After a glance, most people were even more nervous." Let's start with the bad one, we're moving again! The lord has already decided to give Wakasa to His Royal Highness Niwa Nagahide, and we still have about 3 months to prepare! ”

"Buzz!" The whole room was in chaos immediately, and Ke'er hid the first to scream. "It's this set again, and I don't let people live! Doesn't going on like this force us to find our own way? Could it be that the world is so big, only his Oda family can't eat! ”

"Let's not go, let's see what he can do to us!" Shinhachiro's face was flushed, and he said childishly, "We blocked all the roads and no one let them in!" ”

"Don't mess around! Don't mess around! "Unexpectedly, it was neither Nagano Yoshimasa nor Takenaka Hanbei who stepped forward to maintain order first, but Keiji Maeda, who often acted more excited than anyone else. I saw him pull out the ribs around his waist and sheath them together, and knocked them on the floor twice. "Don't be rash about such a big thing, listen to the lord first! After everything is clear, if you have any substantive suggestions, if you don't have a good way, listen to others first, and finally everything is decided by the lord! ”

Hearing him say this, the room was quiet, and everyone was watching me again, but the emotions were less intense.

Here's a good thing...... "I'm very happy with the atmosphere, which shows that my retainers are maturing." The lord told us to attack the Hatano family, and promised that all the land we got would be ours when the matter was completed! There were also 3,000 reinforcements led by Ikeda-sama, but the time was only three months...... "I gave a general explanation of what had happened, and the mood of the crowd became more and more excited.

"This time it's good!" Shimakatsu pounded his knee with his fist excitedly. "Wakasa is so small that I always hold back when I can use my fists and kicks in this place! In fact, with our strength, we don't need reinforcements at all, and we have plenty of food and grass supplies. It's better to send troops to attack now, so delayed......"

"Not good! It's not good......" Yoshitsugu Otani shook his head with Fujido Takatora. "Anyway, the Hatano family has an advantage in numbers, after all, Zhan has an advantage, and although we can win with our own strength alone, I'm afraid the results won't be too great! You must know that this acquisition will become the lord's own territory, and it would be a pity to waste this opportunity! Yoshitsugu Otani said with a frown.

"This ......" may feel that he is a little anxious, but Shima Katsutoshi did not answer.

"It's really not easy to achieve too big results!" Gamo Fuxiu also has a "melancholy" face. “…… There are no less than 20,000 Hatano families, and if all the wealthy families under him are mobilized, there will be more than 30,000! However, even with Ikeda-sama's reinforcements, there are only about 10,000 people, and even if we win and break the castle, it will be difficult to guarantee the time! ”

"My lord......" Takenaka Hanbei asked me, "Excuse me, my lord, when will Ikeda-sama's reinforcements arrive?" ”

"About ...... It's going to be half a month! "I calculated the time I had agreed with Nobunaga.

"It's not enough!" Keiji Maeda rubbed his hands a little anxiously.

"Actually...... It's not impossible! Takenaka Hanbei said suddenly.

"Tell me about it!"

"My lord, please think about ......it," Takenaka Hanbei pointed to a map and said to me: "In the past few years, we have been harassing the Hatano family and the Asakura family, and Asakura has responded positively, but the Hatano family is all a kind of performance to deal with the messenger, I think this has something to do with their strategic thinking!" The Hatano family has always regarded fighting us as a favor for the Asakura family, and their strategic focus is the Akamatsu family in Harima, so they are only blindly defending us, and we really don't love to fight and go. This fosters a delusion in them that we won't really put all our power on them! ”

"You mean we're going to take advantage of this?" I continued to ask.

"What the lord said is very true, so this time we should set the first attack target at Dango!" Hanbei Takenaka said and tapped his hand on the map. “…… Tango was originally the territory of the Isshiki clan, and the Hatano family did not control it for a few years! At present, although 10,000 horses are led by the famous general Shikai Jiaoye, the foundation is actually not stable, and there are many wealthy families who actually do not really belong to them in their hearts, and they themselves know this very well! Therefore, as long as we confuse their vision and stir up some more chaos, then our army can take advantage of the hesitation of the Hatano family to dissipate their vitality here, and this will also close the gap between our two sides! ”

"That's a good note!" I nodded in agreement. “…… In that case, our army should act in advance, because it is easy for them to misunderstand because there are no reinforcements to join! As long as they don't transfer all of Tamba's soldiers and horses at once, we will have the initiative on the battlefield! ”

"What the lord said is very true, and Lord Takenaka is indeed a good plan! However, the virtual and the real are not necessarily the same......" At this time, Nagano Yemasa suddenly said: "Although we can't let the Hatano family understand our intentions to sweep Tamba and Tango, we must also make them have a certain fear of our use of troops!" Only in this way will they take the initiative to deploy troops to defend, and only in this way can they provide us with appropriate fighters to destroy the enemy! Besides, creating chaos doesn't have to be all a trick......" He suddenly squinted his eyes and glanced sideways at the still water ghost. "The rebellious hearts of the wealthy families of Dango may really be of use to me?"

"This ......" I haven't heard the scope of contact from the still water ghost fox in detail, and I don't know if it will work here. Are you sure? I asked him.

"I'm really not familiar with several important forces here......" Still Water Fox gently touched the rosary on his wrist. But you can get in touch with them indirectly through acquaintances, so it won't be a big problem! ”

"Good! You just hurry up and do it, and you just have to say what money or things you need! I said to him and looked at the map again. Let's think about it again, how to mobilize the Hatano army! ”