"Why did you start so early?" Sneaking into the camp, I came behind Toshiya Maeda, and I arrived a little later than expected due to the episode of Fujido Takatora in the early hours of this morning. At this time, the troops in the camp were marching out of the main gate in a row, and many generals were also clustered, and Oda Nobunaga was standing outside the main gate, looking up at Inabayama Castle. There, large small black dots kept moving towards the city gates and city walls, and from time to time there were faint shouts of killing.

"The lord is a little anxious!" Maeda Toshika quietly pointed to Nobunaga's back not far ahead. "This morning, the lord saw that the people were almost there, so he didn't wait for the appointed time, and the attack was an hour earlier than he had promised!"

"How's that going?" I asked, looking at the city gate in the distance.

"It doesn't feel great in my experience!" He shook his head worriedly. "Just now, His Highness Inaba Ischitetsu and Mamoru Ando made a tentative attack on His Highness, and it seems that the effect is not very good. Now on top are the troops of Shibata-sama-sama and Sakuma-sama, and they don't see much progress. The city defense here is so good, it's almost perfect! The guards are also abundant, and it seems that it will be difficult to conquer in one fell swoop. I do not know...... Maybe the lord is really in a hurry this time! ”

"Hmm...... "At this time, my retainers came over, and Shimakatsu handed over a monocular, and Masuda brought another one from Sakai Matsuchi shortly after the last one was given to the Nine Demons Yoshitaka." Not bad! The attack above did not go very well. "After looking at it for a while, I handed the telescope to Toshiya Maeda and taught him how to use it.

"This thing is amazing!" Toshiya Maeda looked at it and said, "You always have so many weird things!" ”

'That's right!' Where did the monkey go, and why wasn't he here? I scanned the crowd with my eyes, but I couldn't find the short figure.

"You don't know him yet!" Maeda Toshi's hand pointed in the direction of Inabayama Castle. "Above, in the Sakuma reserve team, it was he himself who repeatedly requested!"

"His enthusiasm is really high!" I shook my head helplessly, I really can't compare to this kind of self-motivation.

"You're here!" At this time, Ikeda Hengxing suddenly trotted over from the front. "You're here! How is it, is my sister-in-law born? ”

"Hey! Not yet. I let out a long sigh. What's going on here, can you still stand it? ”

"Tell me more!" He said with a look of "indignation". "It's not once or twice that my lord has come to you! Such a cooked duck can't eat in his mouth, do you think he can't be in a hurry? The important ministers asked him to ask him one by one, and at the same time scolded him all over again, and now I will send you. Just now he asked if you came! As soon as I saw that the situation was not good, I said that I saw you, but I didn't know what I was busy with, so he told me to come to you again. If you don't come again, brother will really be able to play this time! ”

"Enough buddy!" I slammed him on the shoulder. "When I left Komaki Mountain City, I had already sent a batch of the latest 'Yangluo' to your house, pocket watches, table clocks, and the latest short-barreled iron cannons, so you will go home and go crazy!"

"Really?!" A look of excitement flashed across Ikeda's face. "Yes...... That's a later story, you can make up the things in front of you first! The lord is still waiting for you over there, come over quickly! ”

"Lord, are you looking for me?" I followed him to Oda Nobunaga.

"Your 'big driver' can be counted, it's really 'rude' that I didn't go to greet it in person!" Oda Nobunaga said as he squinted at me.

"Look at what you say!" I put the most humble smile on my face. "The subordinates are just doing their part for the great cause of the Oda family!"

"What have you been doing all this time? Where is your 'mental strength'? "Oda Nobunaga didn't just say a few words.

"Yes, my lord!" Fortunately, I had already come up with a set of rhetoric in advance. "The subordinates don't know much about the details of Mino, and there are not many Mino people among the retainers, and there are even very few Owari people! Therefore, the subordinates wanted to inquire more, so they talked to some locals along the way, wanting to see if they could find some loopholes in the defense of Inabayama Castle! ”

"Oh~! Did you find it? Oda Nobunaga turned his gaze back to the battlefield ahead.

"Oh...... Not yet! There was no preparation in advance, so the time seemed a little tight. ”

"Then you go and keep looking!" I didn't expect him to let me go so easily. “…… It's no use for you to stay here anyway! He grunted.

"Yes, my subordinates are going!" I bowed and retreated, walked a few steps and turned back to say, "Lord, it's better to withdraw the army and rest for a while, I just saw that the sequence above is already a little messy!" ”

"Huh......?" Oda Nobunaga and a few people around him looked at me in astonishment.

"Lord, I have an urgent report!" As soon as I walked back to my retainers, Ishikawa Tadatsuna and his companion Nagasogin suddenly appeared in front of me.

"What's the matter?" Coming to a secluded place, I asked.

"That's the case...... Ishikawa Tadsuna said nervously, "Urgent news from Kyoto: Two days ago, the Miyoshi and three people colluded with Matsunaga to raid Nijo Castle!" Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru resisted and was martyred after killing nearly 100 enemy soldiers, and the shogunate officials have now fled from Kyoto! ”

"It still happened......" I muttered. I only met Ashikaga Yoshiteru in a hurry, and I still have a good impression of him. He has mistakes but these mistakes are not his own problems, he has ambitions but the external pressure is fierce, he has the ability but is not born at the right time, this is also a matter of no way. "You transferred the people who were originally in charge of the shogunate to Nara, and the work for the next period of time will focus on that Kakukei!"

"Yes!" Ishikawa Tadatsuna agreed and went to carry out the order.

"What are your men doing?" I said to the companion letter on the side.

"Back to my lord, my men are concentrated around here! In the past few days, we have been constantly monitoring Inabayama Castle, but ......" Ban Changxin said helplessly: "The whole city is too big, and the structure is very complicated, so we haven't found any good way so far!" ”

"Thank you for your hard work, there is no way to do it!" I didn't blame them, after all, ninjas aren't omnipotent. "Come with me and see what the others can do!" I'm not in a hurry, Inabayama Castle is definitely going to be breached anyway.

"It's disgusting!" I was still far away when I heard Kinoshita Toyoshiro's loud voice. "I can't imagine that this 'turtle shell' is so hard!" Glancing over his hateful countenance, I saw that all of his men were disgraced.

"It's hard, isn't it?" I walked over and asked.

"Brother Zhongbei, you're here!" Fujiyoshiro gritted his teeth and said: "I can't imagine that the defense is so strong, there is really no way for a while!" ”

"Fortunately, there is no loss of manpower!" I looked at them one by one. Koroku, Maeno Nagayasu, Asano Nagamasa、...... "Who is this?" "I saw a new face in the crowd.

"Oh! Him! Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro glanced back and said, "He just joined my disciple, his name is Horio Shigesuke!" ”

"I've seen Lord Zhuxing below!" He stepped forward and bowed to me.

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Winter Bear: Take advantage of some time today to explain some of the doubts about returning my name. I don't know exactly if there were bills of exchange in this era, but it is recorded that the Mitsui family's Echigo Oofu store was engaged in extremely complex financial business at the beginning of its establishment, in the early Edo period. In the early days of Japan, industry and commerce were extremely underdeveloped, and only the financial (or money loan) industry has been developing abnormally. At the end of the Edo period, "the rich people of Osaka were angry, and the princes of the world were shocked." "I won't say more, just talk about the Warring States period. The number of wealthy merchants that emerged in various places in this era cannot be compared with any peaceful and prosperous era, and the reason for this is that the "imperial merchant" system of the daimyo in various places cannot but be said to be an important factor. Whether it was Shimazu and Ryuzoji in Kyushu buying horses, or Hokuriku Mogami and Date buying iron cannons, they were all mediated by merchants, and they were all regular. It would be unimaginable in such a situation without a convenient financial instrument! That is why I would venture to assume that even without bills of exchange, there was some kind of credit accommodation among the big merchants everywhere.

Speaking of eating pork, many people have asked me this question, and I have also carefully searched for information. There are a lot of such claims, but I have not seen the official academic literature. Of course, there were no pigs in Japan at that time, and the only meat dish at official banquets was fish, but I remember that in "Wise Ikkyu-chu", there was a scene in which Ashikaga Yoshimitsu hunted wild boars and rewarded his men. Since the Japanese don't care about it themselves, I think I'd like to ask you to watch it!