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The news of Oda Yoshinobu's capture of Nakaise soon reached Kitada Gukyo's ears, but at this time, he didn't even have the strength to be angry.

"The order went down and strengthened the gates again, and hastened the construction of spikes on the walls. At the same time, let everyone as much as possible only need to mobilize troops. Kitada Gujiao said weakly.

The reason why this was done was purely to guard against Oda Yoshinobu. Kitada Gukyo had heard the legend that Yoshinobu Oda had single-handedly broken the gates, and although he didn't fully believe it, he didn't scoff at it like the others. Because he is a powerful swordsman himself, he understands some incredible things in this world better.

Therefore, with the idea that it would rather be believed that there is something and that there is no none, Kitada Gujiao decided to strengthen the city gate. At the same time, in order to prevent Oda Yoshinobu, who is good at ninjutsu, from directly climbing over the city wall and directly building various spiked barbs on it. Well, isn't that too much emphasis on Yoshinobu Oda? However, even if Oda Yoshinobu's rumors were really exaggerated, it didn't matter, because they could have been used to defend against the attack of the Oda army.

"This ...... Father, but if you continue to mobilize, it is likely that the people will complain......" Kitada Gufang cautiously persuaded.

"Stupid! Do as I say! When Kitada Gukyo heard this, he immediately scolded in annoyance, but in the end, he still explained, "If you can't hold it in the end, then Ise will belong to the Oda family sooner or later." In that case, what does it matter if those people make trouble? ”

"Yes......" Although Kitada Gufang felt that Kitada Gujiao was just a strong word, he was weak by nature, and he really didn't have the courage to say anything more. Strictly speaking, the sentence he had just persuaded had already made him lose all his courage.

Looking at the figure of Kitada Gufang leaving, Kitada Gujiao shook his head helplessly again, but for his useless son, he had completely lost all patience.

"If you can block Oda Yoshinobu's attack this time, let's just remove Gufang." Kitada Gukyo thought secretly in his heart, but when he thought of this, he suddenly felt a wave of weakness again, "What can you do even if you block Oda Yoshinobu?" Oda Nobunaga's army didn't go out at all......"

Kitada Gukyo is constantly preparing for defense on the other side, and on the other side, Oda Yoshinobu seems to have no reaction at all, while continuing to inquire about all the news about Kitada's family, while continuing to let the troops repair. Although the Oda army did not fight too many hard battles for a month, it was indeed a very tiring thing to fight continuously for a month.

By the way, Oda Yoshinobu once again straightened out those families in North Ise and Middle Ise. Well, the main thing is that those family territories that have been wiped out in Northern Ise need to be taken over. However, Oda Yoshinobu only casually assigned a few wealthy clans from Northern Ise to help manage it, and only after he completely took Ise Province did he have the mood to tidy up here.

Well? What if the wealthy families of Northern Ise took the opportunity to steal the territory or money of those places? Hawkers, doesn't this give Oda Yoshinobu a chance to continue to reduce the wealthy family?

Moreover, he still has a matter that needs to be dealt with urgently, and if he doesn't deal with this matter well, Oda Yoshinobu doesn't want to fight the Kitada family at all.

The situation in Ise Province has calmed down for the time being, but what is happening here has made the outside world boil. Who would have thought that in less than a month, the Oda family would take most of Ise Province. And more importantly, the Oda family even sent only Oda Yoshinobu.

This situation made the surrounding forces, even if they looked down on the Oda family, have to keep their eyes open and take a serious look at this emerging force that is beginning to rise.

Echizen, one by valley castle.

"The general's messenger wants to see me?" Akechi Mitsusu looked at Akechi Suman strangely and asked.

"Yes, I heard it's called Hosokawa Fujitaka." Akechi Xiu replied, "But I see, it must be that Hosokawa Fujitaka found that His Royal Highness Asakura had no intention of going to Luo at all, so he could only come to us." Hehe, hey, he's working in vain~"

"Repaired!" Wise Mitsuhide drank and Wise Hideman. However, he didn't blame Akechi Hidemitsu, in fact, he himself was quite dissatisfied with Asakura Yoshikage.

It's been five years since I came to Echizen. Although Asakura Yoshikage is quite good to him, and he will be taken with him at many poetry meetings and banquets, but other than that, Asakura Yoshikage has not asked Akechi Mitsuhide to do anything else. This situation obviously can't satisfy the ambitious Akechi Mitsuhide, and Akechi Mitsuhide is dissatisfied, and Akechi Hidemitsu, who is only his brother with a saddle, is obviously difficult to accept.

After all, as a samurai, the dream is to be able to make achievements, not to be like a literati, chanting poems and songs every day, and living a life of drunkenness. In fact, during this time, Akechi Mitsuhide was already thinking about whether to leave Echizen.

After a moment of silence, Akechi Mitsuhide said to Akechi Hidemitsu, "Let Hosokawa-sama wait a moment, and I'll come over immediately." ”

Akechi Mitsuhide's mansion is still quite good, perhaps because Asakura Yoshikyo really appreciates Akechi Mitsuhide's knowledge, so in the castle town of Ichijo Valley Castle, he got him a rather luxurious mansion. And when Akechi Mitsuhide came out, he saw Hosokawa Fujitaka watching the scenery in the courtyard.

"Let Hosokawa-sama wait for a long time, and please atone for your sins!" Akechi Mitsuhide said loudly, while carefully observing Hosokawa Fujitaka.

"Hehe, Lord Wise is polite, I came to visit in the next, but I am not in the next." Hosokawa Fujitaka smiled, also observing Akechi Mitsuhide.

For Akechi Mitsuhide, Hosokawa Fujitaka still knows a lot, in fact, all the forces that can help Kakukei or help the shogunate, up to the daimyo and the heavy ministers, he knows it very well. And although Akechi Mitsuhide does not belong to any of them, he is very valued by Asakura Yoshikage, so Hosokawa Fujitaka also got to know him.

And in this brief look, both of them have a good impression of each other. In many cases, just by dressing up, it is enough to see the essence of this person. Although this sounds a bit mysterious, it is true, but it requires quite a lot of people-watching skills, and Hosokawa Fujitaka happens to be one of the best hands.

The two of them took their seats, and Akechi Mitsuhide personally served tea to Hosokawa Fujitaka, looking at his exquisite tea art, Hosokawa Fujitaka suddenly sighed in his heart and thought, "No wonder Asakura Yoshikage values this person so much." ”

The art of tea is easy to learn but difficult to master, especially in this era when almost all cultural scholars are concentrated in. This is why people such as Asakura Yoshikei and Imagawa Yoshimoto raised the ministers who had neither fought nor knew how to govern the territory in their own territories, hoping that they would be able to spread the culture of Kyoto in their territories.

After a period of greetings, Hosokawa Fujitaka suddenly asked, "I heard that Lord Akechi-sama turned out to be a retainer of the third prince of Saito Michiko?" ”

"Exactly!"

"I see, then do you know that Mino has been occupied by the Oda family?" Hosokawa Fujitaka asked curiously.

"Alas, I have heard that in the past, before the death of the third prince of the Dao in the past, he entrusted the country of Mino to His Royal Highness Oda, but I really didn't expect that in just a few years, His Royal Highness Oda would really take Mino." Akechi Mitsuhide sighed.

For this, he really didn't expect that although Saito Michizo had always said how strong Oda Nobunaga was, Akechi Mitsuhide had always regarded him as a potential opponent. After all, he, Saito Yoshiryu, and Oda Nobunaga are all considered the descendants of Saito Michizo, but now it seems that Oda Nobunaga has already thrown Akechi Mitsuhide so that he can't even see a shadow.

"Yes, but recently, the Oda family has done another big thing!" Seeing this, Hosokawa Fujitaka said mysteriously.

"Oh? What is it? Akechi Mitsuhide asked curiously.

"In August, Oda Yoshinobu sent troops to Ise, and in mid-September, he took North Ise and Middle Ise, and today, only the Kitada family is left in the entire Ise country." Hosokawa Fujitaka said in a deep voice.

"What?!" When Akechi Mitsuhide heard this, he immediately looked at Hosokawa Fujitaka in disbelief, obviously unable to accept this fact. After all, Ise Province has been in chaos for so many years, and if you want to attack it, in the opinion of Akechi Mitsuhide, you can't attack with an absolutely superior force. But now, Oda Nobunaga didn't even make a move, and only Oda Yoshinobu took most of Ise, how could this not shock Akechi Mitsuhide?

Thinking about his current situation, Akechi Mitsuhide didn't know why, and suddenly felt a desolate sadness from the bottom of his heart.

However, Hosokawa Fujitaka didn't care about Akechi Mitsuhide's reaction, because when he first heard the news, he was also shocked to be crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. "Yes, who would have thought that Oda Yoshinobu would be so pretentious, and wherever the army went, those wealthy clans in Ise were almost in the wind. Occasionally, there was some resistance, but they were instantly wiped out by the army led by Oda Yoshinobu. Hosokawa Fujitaka sighed, with a hint of anticipation at the same time.

When Ashikaga Yoshiteru was still alive before, Ashikaga Yoshiteru had always been full of expectations for the Oda family, and at that time Hosokawa Fujitaka didn't quite understand it, but now it seems that Ashikaga Yoshiteru's vision of people is much better than him. He couldn't have imagined that the Oda family would be able to rise so quickly, let alone develop into the huge power it is today.

"It's just a pity...... Lord Kakukei-sama......" Hosokawa Fujitaka shook his head helplessly, his heart full of bitterness.

(To be continued.) )