When Oda Nobunaga heard the news of the loss of Kajida Castle, his tiger body was shocked and he shouted: "Where is Toshiharu Saito, is it life or death?" Does he understand the importance of this castle to Mino, and even to my Oda family? ”

The warrior said in embarrassment: "My lord, the city has just fallen, and the specific battle report is still unknown. (It only takes 3 seconds to remember the genius)"

"Bastard!" Oda Nobunaga scolded angrily, and then said, "We must not let the Takeda army seize this castle, gain a firm foothold in Mino, pass the order, immediately march into the army, send troops to Kajida Castle, and return to the territory for maximum mobilization, and lead the army to Kajida Castle to join our division and fight a decisive battle with the Takeda army!" ”

Hearing Oda Nobunaga's words, all the generals of the Oda family sighed.

Oda Nobunaga watched his retainers retreat, his eyes were different, and he thought in his heart that if Kaji Tian Castle was lost, Mino would be in danger, and if Shingen took advantage of the situation to advance again, I could only retreat to Owari, and the only choice for a decisive battle with Takeda was to defend my place.

This must not be allowed to happen, so Kajida Castle must not fall into Takeda's hands.

Kajida Castle was captured by the Takeda Army after two days of siege.

Now the city is somewhat dilapidated, the ditch under the city has been blocked, and several sections of the city wall have collapsed, leaving traces of artillery bombardment.

And the half-collapsed arrow loafer on the outer no maru, the corpse hanging on it is still half-hung outside, and the sparks are still burning on the arrow oar.

In the midst of the rubble, the bodies of Ashigaru with papaya flags were searched and removed, thrown onto small carts, and ready to be dragged out of the city for burial.

Now that Kajida Castle has returned to peace, the banner of Takeda Ryoshi is flying high in the castle.

Li Xiao was standing on the windowsill of the castle tower at the moment, looking down, and the law and order here had stabilized after the city was broken.

The cavalry of the Takeda Army, carrying the flag of the sun and moon with the double pattern of the sun and moon on their backs, are now patrolling the castle town in a group, and there are no looting incidents.

Li Xiao turned around, and there were three warriors kneeling in front of him.

The three of them, one in front of the other and two in the back, knelt on the ground, and the current one was a little old, about seventy years old.

Li Xiao looked at the other party and said: "Kajida Castle is a heavy city in the middle of the country, connecting Hida, Okuminon, Higashiminon, since the Heian period, it is the heart of the world. What I promised you in advance, I will do as I say. ”

It turned out that after Li Xiao defeated the Shibata Army in the battle of Kajida Castle that day, Saito Toshiji saw that the situation was unfavorable and led his army to retreat to the castle to defend.

So Li Xiao led the army to besiege the city, but the Kaji Tianzhong also defended the city, in the two days of fierce fighting, Li Xiao even with the assistance of the big cylinder as a siege weapon, successively broke through the two city turrets outside the city, as well as the city outside the pill.

However, the resistance of the Kajida people was very fierce, and there were many casualties on both sides.

In the middle of the night of the second day, Mitsuyoshi Oshima, a retainer of Toshiharu Saito, took the initiative to contact the Takeda Army, asking the Takeda Army to guarantee the conditions for the security of the Oshima family's territory, and promised to secretly surrender the castle.

Li Xiao immediately agreed.

That night, the Oshima family set fire to the castle, and the city was in chaos, so the Takeda army took advantage of the chaos to attack Kajida Castle.

The lord of the castle, Saito Toshiji, was protected by loyal retainers such as Yuasa Shinroku and escaped in a desperate fight, and Kajida Castle finally fell into the hands of Li Xiao.

For this Oshima Mitsuyoshi who turned his back on the lord, Li Xiao knew that in history, the other party was the lord of the Mino-Seki Domain, who defected to the Eastern Army in the Battle of Sekigahara, won a political future, and received 18,000 stones, and this person actually lived to be ninety-seven years old, and he can be regarded as a person who witnessed most of the Warring States Period.

And now Mitsuyoshi Oshima is out of the Oda family as a bow-foot-light head, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi is a bow-foot-light general all the way in history, and the bow general is promoted to the rank of archer, and he can be regarded as a famous archer.

At the moment, Mitsuyoshi Oshima and his two sons were very happy when they heard what Li Xiaoyun promised before, and it was a great luck to be able to keep his family's name after the defeat, and it was already an extra preferential treatment to get the security of the territory.

Although the conditions have been negotiated in advance, Li Xiao is now a figure who is determined to kill and plunder, even if he repents of his previous promise now, it is nothing.

So seeing Li Xiao fulfill his promise, the three fathers and sons were all happy, thanked him and left.

Li Xiao also turned around and walked into the corridor, looking down at the city.

Li Xiao is not defenseless against the three fathers and sons, he transferred the two sons of Oshima Mitsuyoshi, Guangcheng and Guangzheng, into the flag and appeared as a foot lighter. …,

It can also be regarded as holding the hostages in his hands, so as not to make another rebellion against the Oshima family.

Li Xiao's policy in Meinong is still the same as in Vietnam, whether it is fighting for the world or digesting the territory on the spot, the role of the leading party is absolutely impossible to ignore.

Li Xiao didn't kill Yiliu Zhimo, and he blocked the Oshima family, all in order to win over the local wealthy families in Meinong.

Of course, for such a person, Li Xiao can not only use it, but also cannot trust it, and he must appoint his confidants to take charge of Jiazhi Tiancheng in order to control this important city of Mino.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao patted the railing of the railing, and after capturing Liucheng and Kajida Castle, so Omino and Midano were connected, and now they are waiting for Akiyama Nobuyo to clear the power of Higashiminon, so that it will be connected with the Takeda family's skills.

At this time, a samurai walked upstairs and reported to Li Xiaoyu: "My lord, I just received a secret report from the ninjas that in the direction of Mino, the Oda family has begun to mobilize troops in the territory?" ”

"Oh?" Li Xiao was slightly surprised, because he was worried that Oda Nobunaga would lead the main force and come to the county to trouble him and fight a decisive battle. Therefore, Li Xiao spread a lot of fine works, and in the vicinity of Gifu Castle, he monitored Nobunaga's every move.

So right now, there is a slight disturbance in Gifu City, and the ninja will pass it on to Li Xiao as quickly as possible.

Li Xiao paced in the room and suddenly asked, "Is Oda's movement eastward or southward?" ”

To go east is to send troops to Kajida Castle to deal with Li Xiao, and to go south is to go to Enjiang to meet the main forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Takeda Shingen for a decisive battle.

Li Xiao thought about it, if Nobunaga entered the army, there were only these two choices, and there was no third answer.

The warrior was stunned for a moment and said, "This subordinate doesn't know. ”

Li Xiao sighed and said, "Stand down." ”

"Oh!"

The samurai retreated, and Li Xiao thought about it carefully, feeling that it was more likely that Nobunaga would personally lead the army to find trouble than a decisive battle with Takeda Shingen.

So if Nobunaga led the main force of the Oda family to come, with Li Xiao's current strength, with the current ruined Kajida Castle, it would still be impossible to resist.

If this is the case, doesn't it mean that Li Xiao has to give up, this Kaji Tiancheng that has just arrived, this is simply food in Li Xiao's mouth.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao immediately ordered the city to be guarded, and repaired the city walls, and on the other hand, he wrote letters to Takeda Shingen and Akiyama Shintomo, asking for help from the two of them.

Ominon, the county of Hachiman Castle.

Right now, it's a snowstorm.

Due to the heavy snow blocking the road, the front army of the Takeda Army had to shovel snow to advance, so the speed of progress along the way was extremely slow.

At this time, the envoy in front saw the head of Hachiman Castle in the county and the flying Takeda Ling banner, so he was overjoyed and immediately rushed back to the palace.

Therefore, when the Takeda army, who was marching, heard that the place where they were resting and stationing was in front of them, they couldn't help but be overjoyed, and cheers rang out from the head of the team to the end of the team, and their morale was boosted for a while, and they accelerated the pace of the march together.

Seeing this scene, Maba Masafu, who was worried about marching in the wind and snow, which greatly affected his morale, breathed a sigh of relief.

Baba Masabo led the 3,000 troops of the Hida Echichu Army to Echizen along the Hokuriku Province, and then turned into Mino, which has now arrived in Gushang.

Soon in the direction of Hachiman Castle in the gun, he had already seen the Takeda army on the march, and immediately sent someone to contact him.

"In the lower banner samurai Yamamoto to explore the treasure, meet the Lord Baba and Lord Uchijima, everything in the city is ready, just wait for the arrival of the two adults with the army."

The other party saluted to the Baba Masabo and the Uchijima clan.

Baba Changfang, Uchijima Clan and the two glanced at each other, knowing that the other party was the son of the former first military division of the family.

Maba Changfang asked: "It's hard work, I don't know how much grain is still stockpiled in the county?" How long is enough for our army? ”

Yamamoto Kanzo said: "When the lord went out to fight in Nakano before, he took some of it with him, and now the military food in the city is enough for the army of the horse farm lord for two months, but I just learned the news that the lord has captured Kajida Castle." Kajida Castle is the granary of Mino, and the matter of military rations must be worry-free at the moment. ”

"My lord, have you captured Kajida Castle?"

Racecourse Shofang, Uchijima Clan and Li both looked happy.

The Uchijima clan said, "If you capture Kajita Castle, you will be able to use it as a horn with Hachiman Castle in the gun, and the strength of the garrison will be greatly increased, and it will not be possible to obtain reinforcements from Shinano at any time, which will greatly benefit the lord." ”

Baba Masabo nodded and said, "Uchijima-sama, what you say is reasonable. ”

"However, the two adults, according to the following opinions, the current situation of the lord is not very good."

People always love to listen to good words, and they don't want to listen to opposition.

So now Maba Masafu lowered his face and asked, "Why?" ”

Yamamoto Kanzo said, "The role of Kajida Castle on Mino is known to the lord and all the adults, and it is impossible for Nobunaga not to know about it. If this castle is lost, the impact on the Oda family will obviously be greater than that of the main family, and I am worried that Nobunaga will send a large army to attack Kajida Castle. ”

As soon as Yamamoto's words came out, Masabo Masabo and Uchijima were both stunned.

The opponent's prediction and judgment of the future of the battle situation are not unreasonable.

If Nobunaga led a large army to Kajida Castle, with Li Xiao's current strength, it would be far from being able to resist.

Baba Masabo said in a deep voice: "Lord Yamamoto, what you say is reasonable. I don't think we can delay too long in the county, and tomorrow we will rest for a day, and then immediately go to Nakano and the main guild master. If it is too late, and the snow comes, the Omilino mountain road will be even more difficult to walk. ”

Uchijima nodded and said, "I agree with Lord Baba's decision, and I guess Shioya-sama has no problem with that. ”

Seeing that his opinion had been adopted, Yamamoto said happily, "This would be great, with the help of these 3,000 troops, the military disadvantage of the lord in Nakano and the Oda family would be greatly improved." ”

Baba Masabo said, "Then without further ado, our army will immediately enter Hachiman Castle in the gun. ”

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