In the fourth year of the Yuan Turtle, July 28.

Just after Ashikaga Yoshiaki was released, Nobunaga asked the emperor to change the era name from Motogui to Tensho.

Tianzheng is derived from "Lao Tzu", which means that the quiet person is the right person in the world.

In fact, after the self-confidence of Naga changed from Yongroku to Yuanyuan, he handed over his bad luck all the way, and since the retreat of Kanegasaki, Asakura, Asai, Miyoshi, Honganji, Takeda and other daimyo all competed with Nobunaga, and the two siege networks made Nobunaga almost struggle to survive.

For Nobunaga, this year of the turtle is simply a birth date.

Therefore, Nobunaga also hoped that through this change, he could bring good luck to himself.

And now Nobunaga's fortune has indeed undergone an incredible reversal, since the defeat of the Asakura family, the Asai family's Kotani Castle has also fallen.

The head of the Asai family, Asai Nagamasa, refused the persuasion of Fupo Mitsuji and Hashiba Hideyoshi to surrender, and also knew that Kotani Castle would inevitably fall, so he sent his wife Aichi and the three women Chacha and Jiang to the camp of the Oda army.

In the end, Kotani Castle fell under the attack of the Oda army, and Asai Nagamasa and his father Asai Hisamasa committed suicide.

After the fall of the Asakura family, the Asai family only supported the fall of the Makura family.

The land of Kita-Omi is owned by Nobunaga.

In order to reward Kinoshita Hideyoshi for his outstanding performance in the Asai family's strategy, Oda Nobunaga rewarded the peasant general with 100,000 koku in the three counties of Kita-Omi.

Kinoshita Hideyoshi also officially stepped into the powerful retainers of the Oda family, alongside Shibata, Sakuma and others.

Kinoshita Hideyoshi, in order to show his humility, changed the Miao character to Yushiba, and took one character from each of the Miao characters of Niwa Nagahide and Shibata Katsuie, who were also important ministers.

At the same time, Hideyoshi Hashiba received Nobunaga's long character and renamed the present-day Hama Castle on the shore of Lake Biwa as his residence.

The first year of Tensho, August 12.

Li Xiao succeeded in adjusting the Hatakeyama family according to Usami Nami's strategy.

First of all, one of the Hatakeyama Seven, Onai Keitaka returned to Paradise City from Nanao Castle and announced that he would break away from the Hatakeyama family and subdue Takeda.

After Wenjing Jinglong subdued Takeda, he immediately led his army into Zhuzhou County on Li Xiao's order.

Zhuzhou County was led by Yu Zuo Xuguang, another powerful minister of the Hatakeyama family, and in the face of Wenjing Jinglong's defection, the You Zuo family was immediately caught off guard.

After a slight resistance, You Zuo Xuguang also announced that he would subdue Li Xiao.

After Wenjing Jingtaka and Yusa Xuguang defected, the situation between the two armies of Takeda Hatakeyama was reversed, and the powerful ministers of the Hatakeyama family were left with only one person to support Nanao Castle.

And Onkai Jinglong, Yu Zuo Xuguang, and the rest of the important ministers of the Hatakeyama family, such as the Kai family, the lord of Awaso Castle, Awaso Shichiro, and the lord of Yoneyama Castle, Makino Kamisuke, have surrendered one after another.

And after these retainers of the original Hatakeyama family were subdued, in order to show their loyalty, they all led their respective armies to the foot of Nanao Castle and joined forces with Li Xiao's army.

At one time, under the Seven Tails, Takeda's besieging army reached nearly 10,000 people.

Nagajiren saw at the head of the castle that the flags that originally belonged to the retainers of the Hatakeyama family appeared in the lineup of the Takeda army, and he was so angry that he almost fainted on the spot.

After hearing of this great change, Nagatsuren only trusted his relatives, and no longer believed in the retainers of the original Hatakeyama family, and his sons Nagasuna and Nagalianlong firmly guarded the important places of Nanwei Castle.

And the head of the Hatakeyama family, Hatakeyama Yoshikei, was also monitored.

While preparing to defend Nanao Castle, Nagasuren sent three dead soldiers to sneak out of the castle and go to Gifu Castle to send a letter to Nobunaga, who had just taken Asakura and Asai, asking the Oda family to lead an army to help Noto.

One of the three dead soldiers was intercepted on the spot, one was captured by the Takeda ninja in Echichu, and only one broke through the blockade and reached the foot of Gifu Castle. …,

Gifu Castle.

Oda Nobunaga, who pacified the Asai family for a month, is sitting in the castle tower at the moment.

In front of Nobunaga, there are three heads on them, each with three heads.

Judging from the faces of the head, one is an old man, one is a middle-aged man, and the other is a young man.

Of course, these three people are Nobunaga's sworn enemies, Asakura Yoshikage, Asai Hisasa, and Asai Nagamasa.

And Nobunaga was in the dark room, as if admiring the Western oil paintings on the wall, looking at the heads of these three people, and from time to time let out a rude laugh, which made the new Nobunaga surnamed Mori Ranmaru who was outside feel creepy.

Soon after, a samurai reported to Nobunaga, "My lord, the governor of Noto has sent letters asking for help. ”

Nobunaga did not turn around, but simply stretched his hand back, and the samurai immediately placed Nobunaga in his hand.

Nobunaga opened the letter and said to his subordinates, "Peel off the skulls of these three men and paint them with gold paint, and I will use them as wine glasses." ”

Nobunaga's tone was calm, and the samurai stepped back with a sigh.

"Also, let the Ten Guards come here."

Dressed in black feathers, Mitsuhide walked up the wooden steps and slowly walked up the third floor of the castle tower.

After being a famous Toki family, Akechi Mitsuhide has always maintained a very orthodox samurai demeanor, his forehead hair is shaved cleanly, and there is not a trace of wrinkles on the corners of his clothes before meeting Nobunaga.

"Meet my lord."

Akechi Mitsuhide bowed down in front of Nobunaga, and when the self-sufficient Yoshiaki broke with Nobunaga, he abandoned his old master and chose Nobunaga's side.

Akechi Mitsuhide has his own concept of righteousness, and in his eyes, Ashikaga Yoshiaki turned his back on Nobunaga, the benefactor who helped him in the first place, such a lord is not worthy of loyalty, but on the contrary, Nobunaga's determination and strength are unmatched by anyone in the world.

Akechi Mitsuhide knows how to be pragmatic, and before Nobunaga swept the world, he naturally knew that he should choose a position.

His act of turning his back on resistance and choosing to be loyal to Oda was recognized and trusted by Nobunaga.

At present, Akechi Mitsuhide is already a trusted confidant under Nobunaga.

According to the description in the letter of Chang Xulian, three of the four counties of Noden have changed hands, and now Li Xiao is gathering a large army to besiege the Seven Tails City, if the Seven Tails City is lost again, the whole territory of the Seven Tails will be controlled by Takeda. This kind of offensive is really powerful, what do you think? ”

"Oh!" After listening to Nobunaga's words, Akechi Mitsuhide didn't think much about it, and blurted out, "My lord, Li Xiao is the opponent of the Takeda family worthy of our attention after Shingen, and his art of war and strategy are all the choices of the world, and now he dares to attack a country with a crowd of 6,000, and if he is allowed to gain power in the future, I am afraid it will be a great obstacle to the hegemony of my Oda family." ”

Nobunaga listened to Akechi Mitsuhide's words, nodded and said, "Yes, I thought that after Shingen's death, there would be no one to be my opponent to seize the world, but I didn't expect that there would be such a person in the Takeda family, which made me feel a little palpitated." At the beginning, I let the monkey sleep against Li Xiao, as my city guard of one city and one place, but I underestimated the strength of this person, and it is really a pity to think about it now. ”

"But it's come to this, it's nothing, but anyone who hinders me from seizing the world will only die, hmph, I already have the wine glass of the Asai Asakura family, and the Takeda family still lacks two pairs."

Of course, Akechi Mitsuhide knew that Nobunaga used the skulls of Asai and Asakura as wine glasses, and he didn't expect Nobunaga to hate and fear Li Xiao so much, and almost treated him as the same as a daimyo of a country.

Wise Guangxiu said: "My lord, the matter of rescuing Nengden must lie in the land of a country, but in Li Xiao. At present, Li Xiao's momentum has a scale, if he captures Noeng again, his strength will go to a higher level, so it is definitely not what we want to see, so we must do everything we can to curb the growth of Li Xiao's power, and stop Li Xiao from seizing Noeng at all costs. ”…,

"Yes, I'll lead the army through Kaga and rescue Noto!"

Akechi Mitsuhide smiled secretly, only to see that when Nobunaga said this, his eyes kept looking at him, and it was obvious that Fang Cai's words were not the words of his confidant.

Akechi Mitsuhide also knew that Nobunaga had already made up his mind, and he deliberately said a plan that was contrary to his own judgment in order to test his loyalty to the Oda family.

Akechi Mitsuhide immediately said: "My lord, there are three disadvantages to the current conquest of Noto, first of all, the army has just ended, and the soldiers are tired and it is not easy to fight again, and Echizen, the new place of the northern Omi, the rule is not stable, and it needs to be suppressed to convince the people. The expedition to Hokuriku was blocked by the forces of Kaga Honganji, so it was not easy to cross. ”

"And what do you think?"

Nobunaga didn't show any anger when he saw that his opinion was refuted, which confirmed Akechi Mitsuhide's thoughts.

Wise Mitsuhide said with a smile: "It's very simple, Kaji Tiancheng is Meinong's henchman, the lord has wanted to recapture it for a long time, and now he is taking advantage of Li Xiao's troops in Nengdeng, and he can attack it in one fell swoop, if he captures the best, if he can't attack it, he can also besiege Wei to save Zhao." It also avoids expeditions and abandons the near and far. ”

Seeing Nobunaga smiling and nodding, Akechi Mitsuhide was even more confident in his heart, and said with a mysterious smile: "Besides, Li Xiao is attacking Noto, and he is deeply afraid of taking Noto, it is not my Oda family, according to me, Echigo Kenshin Gong will also take the opportunity to make a move." ”

After hearing this, Nobunaga laughed, waved his folding fan, and said, "Very good, Shibei, I will leave the matter of Kajida Castle to you and the monkey, and you two are my Nobunaga hand, don't disappoint me." ”

Monkey? That firewood...... Hideyoshi? The pariahs who came from the little house.

Wise Mitsuhide held his own identity and had a little disdain for the humble-born Yushiba Hideyoshi, so he thought of being jointly responsible for Li Xiaojia's strategy for Tiancheng with Yushiba Hideyoshi, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

When Akechi Mitsuhide still obeyed Nobunaga's orders.

Just when the two generals of the Oda family, Hashiba Hideyoshi and Akechi Mitsuhide, were preparing to send troops to Kajida Castle.

On the other hand, Uesugi Kenshin in Echigo will not sit idly by and watch Li Xiao annex Notomine, and Kamilo Kamisugi Kenshin is the final goal at the moment, so if Li Xiao can climb Echichu and completely take it, then Uesugi Kenshin will independently face a more powerful Hida Echichu Army.

This is something that Kenshin Uesugi will never tolerate.

Therefore, at the end of July, Uesugi Kenshin himself led an army of 12,000 from Kasugayama Castle to attack the front line of Matsukura Castle in Echichu.

And the army of the Oda family has been dispatched at this moment, and all of a sudden, Kaji Tian Castle and Matsukura Castle have two urgent documents of 100,000 urgent letters on Li Xiao's desk.

After learning that Kajida Castle and Matsukura Castle were attacked by the two major forces of Oda and Uesugi, Li Xiao made a ball of letter paper rolls and said with a sneer: "It's a two-front attack again, and Nobunaga and Kenshin still don't have any new ideas!" ”

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