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"So, how about you leading the headquarters and assisting His Highness Fujitsu in pursuing the remnants of the Kitabatake family?" His Royal Highness Fujitsu needed this prestige to stabilize the Nagano family, and our troops in the war were in the city to recuperate. I said.

"Nagano Castle, have you already made arrangements?" Atsushi Nagano asked. The inner correspondence in the city was communicated by him.

"Before I informed you that the castle tower would be lit, His Highness Ryono had already led a thousand troops forward, and now he must be under Nagano Castle! Please rest assured, the remnants of the Kitabatake family will not have a chance to enter the city. "I reassured him.

"Then it's no problem at all," Nagano Fujitotsu nodded and bowed solemnly, "I was able to turn the situation around this time, thanks to the help of the Kira family, and His Royal Highness Xuanjing still thinks about me like this...... In the future, but there is a fate, and I, the Nagano family, will do my best. ”

His Highness Teng Dun spoke seriously. After attacking the Kitabatake family, you have to rely on the power of the Nagano family! I politely replied to him with a half-salute. At this time, I don't need to be too polite with him.

Most of the witnesses to the re-establishment of the covenant this time were my personal guards, so I don't have to worry about spreading the word. Of course, there is no need to hide it from some people. The next day, at Annongtsu Castle, Shigeharu Takenaka found me early in the morning.

"My lord, my lord heard that my family is going to attack the Kitabatake family?" Shigeharu Takenaka asked.

"Of course, taking advantage of the great injury of the Kitabatake family's vitality and the collapse of their prestige, they just took it down in one go!"

"Your Majesty doesn't doubt that the main family and the Nagano family have this ability...... But is that appropriate? The main hall is still in the middle of the Sino-American strategy! Shigeharu Takenaka reminded.

"I understand your concerns," I nodded, "I will report the situation of this battle and ask the main hall to preside over it himself." And our task is to use the prestige of this battle to get the various wealthy families in Northern Ise who have not yet surrendered to hand over the hostages, and open a land passage for the main hall to facilitate the entry of the army. ”

"It turns out that the lord has already calculated. But the subordinates were too worried. Shigeji Takenaka's face was full of relief.

And I am also very pleased to see him think of me in this way. If last year, he hadn't been completely convinced of me, but now he has fully identified with his family.

"Chongji, I'm glad you think so much about your family," I patted him on the shoulder, "There will always be times when people don't think about it, so please continue to remind me in the future!" ”

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After a short rest at Annongtsu Castle, and after receiving the news that Yoshiyuki Sawaki had successfully captured Nagano Castle, I led the Standing Reserve and the Reserve to another battlefield to prepare for the complete elimination of the two families of Kobe and Shikafuto. At present, although Nagano Fujitsu has regained a firm grasp of the Nagano family, and is about to officially serve as the governor, the Nagano family is greatly damaged after all. If you want to fight for the Nagano family's position in Nakaise, you must vigorously weaken the Guan clan, and you must take the lead with a thunderbolt before the Kobe and Shikafutu families see the opportunity to join the Oda family.

And this has the added advantage of freeing up more land, so that Nobunaga can reward the generals and less sand into my northern Ise. Compared with Northern Ide, the newly pacified Central Ise is more necessary to strengthen control......

Soon, the battle report signed by me and Oda Nobubo was soon sent to Komakiyama Castle. When Nobunaga received the news of our defeat of the Kitabatake family, the beheading of more than 4,000 people, and the destruction of the Kobe and Shikafu-ha families, he was extremely happy to present the reward. While ensuring the security of the Nagano family and the Seki family, he really transferred Sawaki Yoshiyuki, Nakagawa Shigemasa and Ikoma's parents to Amaki Prefecture, bordering the Nagano family's Anno County and the Seki family's Suzuka County, in order to strengthen his control over Nakaise; The territory of the three of them has also increased, from the three to five thousand koku promised before the war to eight thousand koku, and the other 6,000 koku in the county was originally the territory of the Chigusa family, which was divided by the Nagano family, and this time it was returned to the Nagano family as a reward; In addition, for his contribution to persuading the Guan family to surrender and participate in the destruction of the Kobe and Shikafutu families, he was promoted to the general of the family, and transferred the old 15,000 stone of the Shikafutu family in Suzuka County, and the remaining 5,000 stone was given to the Guan family; Sanmangoku of Kawako-gun, located between the three counties of Mie, Suzuka, and Amaki, became Nobunaga's direct leader; And the whole county of Chaomei County was taken over by me, and at the same time, the 7,000 stones of Cape Kiso were enshrined in the public service, and I myself was promoted to the elder of the Oda family; Naturally, Oda Shinho will not come in vain, and all the territories of me and Naomasa will be handed over to him, so that he will completely get the 30,000 stone territories that I had served before.

At this time, Nobunaga's Sino-American strategy was at a critical stage.

Last year, Shigeharu Takenaka captured Inabayama Castle, which destroyed the last vestiges of prestige of the Saito family, and Tadano Sato of Kajigi Castle immediately surrendered to Nobunaga, opening the passage to Inabayama Castle for the Oda family. As a last resort, the trio had no choice but to use Michitoshi Nagai, the third brother of Saito Michiro and assist Saito Yoshiryu in getting rid of his two younger brothers, and he guarded the castle as a new barrier for Inabayama Castle.

According to the original history, in August this year, Nobunaga will capture Tangdong Castle and Seki Castle, and take Mino in his pocket. However, now due to the defeat of the Kitabatake family, Nobunaga keenly saw a great opportunity to unify Ise, and temporarily shifted the focus of his strategy to Ise. He ordered Oda Nobupo to reach an agreement with the Ichisho clan forces on Nagashima, and at the same time asked me to immediately coerce the wealthy clans of Kuwana and Benzen counties to hand over the hostages, and quickly sweep away the entire northern Ise and open the passage to Ise.

Judging from the current situation, the relationship between the Oda family and the Ichijo sect is still good. In the major temples of the religious group, there are forbidden signs set up by Nobunaga himself, giving each temple the privilege of "guarding the envoy not to enter" and prohibiting any military force from entering. Last time, the Mikawa riot has always been a rampant, and the momentum is extremely huge, but it has never affected the Oda family. After sending an offering, Oda Shinho quickly accomplished its mission.

I've had a slight problem with my strategy. First of all, it was impossible to fully surrender to the Ben-gun, the largest power in this county was the Ume family, the former head of the family, Ume Takashi, who was originally the son of Rokkaku Takayori and the younger brother of Rokkaku Takurai, and after his death in 1561, his son-in-law Ume Takamune inherited the family business. With such a background, the Meihu family naturally did not take it easy. However, most of the area is mountainous, and although the area is large, the stone height is very low, so I don't have to worry about any trouble from the Umedo family, and I don't have much interest in playing hide and seek in the ravines; And Yuanbenjun didn't completely block the passage, so you can leave him alone.

Then it was in Sanna Sanjo. These three castles are Ito Shinobu's East Castle, Higuchi Uchizo's West Castle, and Yabe Youmayo's Misaki Castle, among which the East Castle is the strongest, close to Nanrito, and controls Kuwana Yakudo Town, and the lord of the castle is the same clan of Ito Shigeharu of Nagashima Castle, and Kuwana Castle of Gohonda Tadakatsu is expanded on the basis of this castle...... Although they were willing to hand over the hostages, they demanded that the Oda family recognize their control over Kumanakajuku. For Nobunaga, this condition is too harsh, the Kuwana Yakudo Town of Shichirito, which is a major source of tax revenue for Kuwana County, must not be placed in the hands of the wealthy family, the Mie Town under my name, used to be the Shisai Shizaku Town of Shirito, and when it was under the control of the Sensa family, the income was not much higher than here.

Then there is no way, sweep and flat......

In August, Nobunaga sent 14,000 troops across the Kiso River into Kita-Ise and joined up with my Northern Ise coalition forces, bringing the total number to 19,000. Subsequently, the Nagano clan and the Seki clan also joined in, and 25,000 troops crossed the Kumoidegawa River and invaded the territory of the Kitabatake clan.

Along the way, we encountered little decent resistance, and by the 28th of August, we had reached the city of Okoi. There were also 1,000 people from the Kuki's family, and the Kukiri Yoshitaka humbly pleaded guilty to Nobunaga and me, saying that they couldn't go to Kita-Ise to join us because they were separated from the Kitabatake family. For the sake of him crossing mountains and mountains, Nobunaga praised me a little, but it made me have a bad seizure.

Okochi Castle was built by Kitabatake Manya, and was later given to his younger brother Kitabatake Hideya, where the Okochi family was founded. However, once the territory was invaded, the Kitabatake clan would abandon the more elegant Tayun Imperial Palace and rely on the castle to defend against enemy forces.

This time is no different. After receiving the news of the Oda family's large-scale invasion, Kitabatake Gujiao and the current family governor Kitabatake Gubo entered Okochi Castle, and then sent a conscription to the various families and wealthy clans. Unfortunately, due to the defeat of the Kitabatake clan at Anontsu two months ago, the prestige of the Kitabatake Gukyo himself was greatly damaged, and the major divisions that were the pillars also suffered serious losses, and in the end they only gathered 4,000 people, which was less than a fraction of our side.

Shogun Nobunaga was divided into four and surrounded Okochi Castle. The Otemon Gate in the south was the main direction of attack, and was in charge of Shibata Katsuya with 2,000 men, Kira with 2,000 men, Ikeda with 1,000 troops, and 3,000 with the Northern Ise coalition army. The new subjugation was used as the vanguard, which was the practice of siege warfare. Out of the balance of the previous merits, I did not participate in the offensive in this battle, and after the military situation was handed over to Hidekei, I served as Nobunaga's lieutenant general.

In the face of an attack that was several times more powerful than his own army, although Kitabatake Gujiao tried his best to support it, he was clumsy on the left and right, and he was overstretched everywhere. Half a month later, due to the internal communication of the wooden utensils through our side, the Kitabatake Furniture Sect had no choice but to surrender.

As in history, Kitabatake's daughter, Yukihime, as the current governor of the family, the adopted daughter of the eighteen-year-old Kitabatake, made a marriage with Nobunaga's second son, Cha Shimaru, who succeeded to the Kitabatake family as the adopted heir of the Kitabatake house, and took over as the head of the Kitabatake family when he became an adult.

As a result of my meeting in Anotsu, Nobunaga's unification of Ise was brought forward by four years. With the current strength of the Oda family, the appetite for subduing such a powerful division is a little bigger. As a result, Nobunaga had to rely more on the power of the Kira family and the Nagano family. For me, it's a good thing.

But Nobunaga's Sino-American strategy has encountered a crisis.

At the same time as our attack on Okochi Castle, the Oda family's fulcrum in Central America, Kajigi Castle, was besieged by Kishi Nobushu, the lord of Tangdong Castle, and Nagai Michitori, the lord of Seki Castle. In order to force Sato Tadano to go out or surrender, the Tangdong Castle side even brought the main room of the family's sister-in-law, Kishi Nobubo, and the daughter of the Sato family, Yaegen, to Kajiki Castle and used a bamboo gun to wear it on the mountain opposite the castle to expose it. In the face of this situation, Tadani Sato showed extreme determination until his daughter died of blood and thirst, and did not give in to the enemy.

After receiving the battle report from the front, Nobunaga showed a rare feeling of emotion and decided to return to the army immediately.

However, will Kajigi Castle be able to hold out until Nobunaga's reinforcements arrive?

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