13. The news came

I'm a soldier! I'm really a soldier!! And I'm standing outside the assessment room of the castle tower in Cheongju Castle right now!!

More than a month ago, my plan was implemented "perfectly", but the result was that I changed from a "peasant soldier" in the reserve to a professional "ashigaru".

This is really a matter of man, and it is up to heaven to make things happen. I'm distressed! I'm depressed! I'm messing with someone! 5 times a year can buy 10 stone of rice, which sounds like two people are too full. You can carefully calculate the food, clothing, rent, water and electricity ......! Restrained! Restrained! I'm sorry! I'm getting a little impulsive! This is a far cry from my bright future at the Wooden Bird House, and from my bright future as a successful businessman!

Countless acquaintances, both familiar and unfamiliar, came to congratulate me on becoming a member of the "ruling class". My face is smiling, but my heart is bleeding! I can't tell anyone else about this feeling, and I guess no one will believe it. It was only when I was alone with Xianzhi that I could open my heart. Xianzhi's understanding eyes and gentle words are the only medicine that can heal my soul! In the face of the possibility of going to war at any time, that is to say, I may die at any time, I am really terrified! So when Toshiya Maeda asked me what my surname was, I replied "Stars". I hope that Rumiko Takahashi's "lucky star" can bring me some luck! In this way, I became the "Loyal Guards of the Stars" again.

Just when I was in a state of wandering and falling into the infinite darkness, Lord Maeda Toshiie suddenly lit a beacon of hope for me. He's been retired! Chased and released! That is, he was expelled from the Oda family. I didn't know the specific reason, I thought it was nothing more than trivial things (big things should have been cut). When I went to his house to see him, his wife Ah Song came out and said that he was in a bad mood and closed the door! That's a good idea! Just make a mistake that is not too big or too small and you will be fired! I have hope again.

But this measure is very difficult to grasp, and I can only look for opportunities while doing it! The daily job of the soldiers was to guard the inner city and serve as a servant when the lord traveled. You have 1 day off every 5 days, and you are not allowed to go home except for a break. I volunteered to work an extra night shift during each work period so that I could go home for two more nights to accompany Xianzhi!

Today is May 12th. Early in the morning I stood at the door of the assessment room, and this is where I am today. As usual, the retainers walked in one after another, and soon Oda Nobunaga also came. Just as the door of the assessment room was about to be closed, Takigawa Kazuki hurriedly ran in.

"Yiyi! You're late today! Sit down! "It seems that Oda Nobunaga is in a good mood today.

Takigawa Kazuki didn't seem to hear it, and knelt down with a "bang".

"What's wrong?" Oda Nobunaga seemed to have a premonition of something.

"Temple...... Your Highness! Just ...... I just got the news......" Takigawa Kazuki said with a sweaty face. "A few days ago, Yoshimoto Imagawa announced that he would ...... We will start our troops in Shangluo today! (Probably influenced by the princes of various countries in the Spring and Autumn Period of our country to make a pilgrimage to Zhou Tianzi in Luoyi, the Japanese daimyo also called entering Beijing as Shangluo.) )

The Imagawa family of Suruga was famous during the Warring States period and the entire Muromachi shogunate period, and was called "the famous family of famous families". They are the branch of the Ashikaga clan in the Tokai region, and they continue the lineage of the Ashikaga clan, the first great shogun of the Muromachi shogunate. Even among the small people in the market, it is often sung that "the public family has no son Kiraji, and Kira has no son Imagawaji." The ballad.

The head of the Imagawa family in this generation, Imagawa Yoshimoto, was chosen from among the four brothers to succeed to the throne after the death of his brother Imagawa Clan. Assisted by the monk Taiyuan Yukisai, he finally took control of the entire territory of Mikawa after more than ten years of non-stop combat with Oda Nobuhide (Oda Nobunaga's father) and extended his tentacles into Owari. On the eastern front, Imagawa Yoshimoto also struck a delicate balance in the battle with Hojo Shiyasu, who was in touch with the eastern power, and Takeda Shingen, who was in contact with the northern power. He made himself a powerful Sengoku daimyo who commanded tens of thousands of troops in Suruga, Enoe, and Mikawa. Accolades such as "the giant of the East China Sea" and "the first military commander of the Tokaido" followed.

In the past few years, the neighbors to the east of Imagawa Yoshimoto have had a little "little trouble".

First of all, it's Shingen Takeda. After more than ten years of arduous struggle, Shingen's "Shinano Raiders" is about to be completed. But at this moment, at the invitation of the lord of Katsuo Castle, Murakami Yoshikiyo and other wealthy families of the Northern Shinano, Nagao Jinghu, known as the "Dragon of Echigo" and "God of War", sent troops to intervene! The two sides fought several times near Kawanaka Island, only to lose both sides in the dark. Especially in the fourth time, even Takeda Shingen's younger brother Nobu Shigeru and military advisor Yamamoto Kansuke were killed! Takeda Shingen had to pull all the main forces to Shinano for this protracted "dragon and tiger fight".

Then, there is Hojo Shiyasu. Uesugi Kenmasa, the Kanto governor who was defeated by Shiyasu in the Battle of Kogoe, fled to Echigo and took refuge under the Nagao Keitora Gate. In order to say that Jinghu avenged him, Uesugi Kenmasa gave his surname to Jinghu along with the title of Guan Ling (Nagao Jinghu eventually changed his name to Uesugi Kenshin). Nagao Jinghu really lived up to his expectations, and once again broke out his incredible sense of justice in this era, and gathered anti-Hojo forces from all walks of life in Kanto to attack Odawara Castle, Shiyasu's old nest, with more than 100,000 troops, and took a hard bite on the body of the "Sagami Lion". Although Hojo Shiyasu finally survived by relying on Odawara, the world's first strong city, it was already five tuberculosis and seven injuries!

In view of the interests of all parties, of course! It was mainly to deal with the "Pei Duofei Club" that Nagao Keitora set up for the exiles in Echigo. Under the mediation of the monk Taiyuan Yukisai, Takeda Shingen, Hojo Shiyasu and Imagawa Yoshimoto concluded an alliance at Zentokuji Temple. In order to strengthen the alliance, the three families also exchanged marriages.

It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Nor did Imagawa Yoshimoto think that the Covenant would be able to tie his neighbors to his neighbors forever. In order to realize the dream of Kamiraku for many years (whether to defeat Miyoshi, Matsunaga and other "traitors" to revive the shogunate's majesty, or replace them, only he knows!) ), Imagawa Yoshimoto is going to raise troops!