"You're Shigesuke Horio?" I looked the man up and down, and a series of sparks flashed through my mind. He is not tall and strong, but his appearance is very kind, which is very in line with the nickname of "Buddha's Heart Maosuke". There is nothing about him and Inabayama Castle in the official history, but there is such a plot in "Taiko Ambition". Either way, it never hurts to try. "Let's go! Let's find a place to talk! With that, I picked him up and walked towards a tent.

"Huh?!" A bunch of question marks rose in everyone's heads, and the "monkey" in particular didn't understand how this new retainer, who was not outstanding in all aspects, had aroused my interest. Everyone consciously followed me, and even Ikeda Hengxing, who had nothing to do, was attracted by curiosity.

"Where are you from?" As soon as I sat down, I couldn't wait to ask.

"Return to Lord Stars!" Although he still didn't understand what was going on, Horio Shigesuke still replied respectfully, "The last general is from this place, and it turns out that the ancestral home has always been 5 miles south of Inabayama Castle. ”

"And what did you do? How did it come to Kinoshita-sama? "It seemed that there was a door, so I decided to move on.

"The last general...... It turned out to be a stonemason...... "His face was a little pale when he said this, and he was not respected in this world by his craft. "But I've always been aiming to become a samurai! I kept ...... "probably thinking that I would feel about him," and Horio Shigersuke eagerly confessed. In his opinion, if he was despised by me, a high-ranking samurai, at this time, he was afraid that his future would be over.

"You don't have to worry, I don't mean to look down on you in the slightest!" I hurried to comfort him. "You go on, be as detailed as possible!"

"Yes!" He froze, and then continued, "I wanted to be a samurai a long time ago, but I really didn't have much chance in Mino! I've known Wasuka-sama for a long time, and I found him two months ago, and he recommended him to my lord, and he knows everything about me! ”

"Yes, I can vouch for Mosuke!" Bee Suga Koroku on the side said solemnly.

"I believe in Little Six very much, and I also believe in you!" I looked at him and said in a sincere tone, "Now the thing I want to know is, have you been a stonemason for a long time?" How's the craftsmanship? ”

"......" It's not just Horio Shigesuke, everyone looks at me with a puzzled look.

"Don't get me wrong!" I hurriedly explained. "I don't mean to insult you at all, this matter is very important, so please tell the truth, otherwise it may delay the big thing!"

"It's Lord Zhuxing, I see!" Shigesuke Horio saw sincerity in my eyes. "The craftsmanship under it is family heirloom, and it is very famous in this radius of more than 100 miles! It turned out that when Mino was prosperous, almost all major projects were attended by people from our family. In recent years, due to the continuous wars, large projects are very scarce, so I have been carving some ornaments such as stone lions and stone carps to make a living! ”

"That's great! Have you ever participated in ...... Oh! No......" I suddenly thought of the loophole in the question. "Not at your age! But...... Did your ancestors participate in the construction of Inabayama Castle? ”

"Huh?!" A simple word sounded in several different mouths at the same time, and many of the people present already understood what I meant, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes were staring at Horio Shigesuke's face in unison.

"My grandfather took my father and uncle to that project!" He replied without thinking. "My father mentioned this more than once before his death!"

"Then did he say that there are any loopholes in Inabayama Castle?" I asked nervously.

He said...... "Shigersuke Horio bowed his head and tried to remember." No! ”

"No?" I didn't expect to wait for such a result. "If you think about it carefully, maybe Ling Zun didn't use the word 'loophole'?" I didn't give up and continued to ask.

"Not really!" Horio Shigersuke said in a firm tone. "Not only my father, but my grandfather often talked about it when I was a child: Inabayama Castle was the most complete castle he had ever seen, with eleven gates in the outer city heavily defended and the walls even more impregnable! There is a watchtower or corner tower less than 20 zhang, and even in the place where the back is close to the cliff, the city wall is as high as two zhang! I've walked through there, and it's really close ......."

"Wait!" I heard something wrong with his words. "You said there was a cliff, but how did you get there?"

"Oh! There was a large clump of shrubs on the edge of the cliff...... "Shigesuke Horio explained to me. "Behind the bushes looks like a stone wall, but it's actually a sheep's intestine path. It was stepped on by the medicine pickers, and I went up four or five times to find stones! ”

"And can you still find that way now?"

"No problem!"

"The rest is up to you, it's up to you to decide whether you take the risk or not!" I set my sights on Kinoshita Toyoshiro.

"It's done!" After a little thought, the "monkey" made a decision. "Jump into the river and close your eyes, it's no big deal!"

"That's it!" I slammed my thigh. "Without further ado! You hurry up and apply to the lord for the mission of sneaking up from behind, and we'll help you design the details. As soon as you get back, get started! ”

"Then please!" As soon as he finished speaking, he ran out of the tent.

"The lord should give three or five hundred foot light, is this enough?" Toshiya Maeda asked worriedly.

"No problem!" It was Masakatsu Wasuka who answered him. At this moment, all the attention of the Saito Army is on dealing with the attack at the front door, and even if there are people on the back, they are basically panicking. I used to do this kind of sneak attack from behind, and I didn't need a lot of people! The more than 100 people under the command of the current lord (referring to Kinoshita Toyoshiro) are all my former subordinates, and they are very familiar with this kind of thing. It's just ......," his brow furrowed. "It's daytime, and although my men also do things like climbing the city, they will inevitably make some noise. To be on the safe side, you'll have to have a few real ninjas! ”

"Since I came up with the idea, I naturally can't sit idly by!" I pointed to the companion letter next to me and said, "He and his two dozen ninjas will go up with you!" First they will kill the sentry and open the side door, and then you hundreds of people will go in and kill along the city wall to the main gate, and after opening the main gate from the inside, it will be done! ”

"I'm afraid it won't work!" Takenaka Hanbei said suddenly. "Even if you enter the city, how can a few hundred people break through the defense of more than 10,000 people and rush to the main gate? At this time, the main forces of the enemy must be concentrated at the main gate, and if they fall into a hard battle, this operation will not be successful! ”

"Yes, that makes sense!" I nodded yes, "So what do you have to do?" ”

"In my humble opinion, the troops will not be in a hurry to act after entering the city!" Hanbei Takenaka said. "The ninjas set fire to the city, giving the illusion that the army has broken the city! At that time, the enemy army will be in disarray, and then it will be possible to seize the main gate. ”

"Okay, that's it!" I slapped the board after getting an affirmative look from Nagano Yoshimasa, and that's when Kinoshita Toyoshiro walked back.

"How?" Ikeda asked anxiously.

"The lord gave 500 ashigaru!" Kinoshita Toyoshiro replied excitedly.

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Bear in Winter: Even though I've been writing a book for so long, I still don't know that there is a starting point community, and it seems that I still lack the spirit of exploration! As I said, I'm talking about some of my ideas. Yesterday, I got the guidance of Jing Keshou's seniors, I went back and thought about it, and it was indeed insightful! So today I'm going to change one of the previous details about "monkeys". When it comes to the problem of "Mino's three", I'm a little difficult to handle! Originally, I was only going to replace them in one stroke, and the words of Jing Ke Shou's predecessors also made sense, but to write about their role, it was inevitable to increase their "role", but from the next volume, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Akechi Mitsuhide, Hosokawa Fujitaka, Matsunaga Hide, "Miyoshi Three", Arakimura Shige、...... and other characters will appear one after another, "Mino's three" is really difficult to arrange, I try my best to only add some side descriptions to them! Speaking of Taoguang Yanghui, I will definitely pay attention to it in the later plots! I expected the protagonist's relationship with Oda Nobunaga to be a dynamic balance, Oda Nobunaga neither fully trusted him nor was reluctant to give him up, and even suppressed the protagonist a little in the middle and late stages of Oda's reign! For a long time, the protagonist will not have that kind of decent territory of tens of thousands of stones, but in the process of release, he must maintain a certain military strength, so spending money is unavoidable! But his "deference" to Nobunaga will be shown through a number of other things.