Mino, Gujo-gun.

On the southern slopes of the flying alpine area.

It's getting colder, and as usual, it's about to snowfall for the first time since the beginning of winter.

Towards evening, Hachiman Castle in the county suddenly welcomed a large army.

Outside the castle town, the lord of Todenyama Castle, Shima Katsuto, the lord of Hachiman Castle in the gun, Higashi Tsuneyao, the lord of Kikoshi Castle, Endo Yinjun, and more than a dozen general-level retainers of the prefecture, all braved the cold wind to wait for Li Xiaobai's standing army.

And Li Xiao, who had just crossed the Flying Mountain Range, rushed to Hachiman Castle in the county.

Groups of ashigaru carrying various weapons appeared on the mountain path and entered the castle town.

As the general of the original Kamioka Bei, many of the people in the standing reserve were originally subordinates of Shima Katsuto.

Because there are strict rules in the standing reserves, and they are not allowed to talk freely during the march, so when they see Shima Shengmeng, they all nod to him.

Shima Katsutaki saw that these foot light legs were wearing leggings, and the straw shoes were wrapped in straw on the outside in order to keep out the cold, and everyone's face had the color of a dusty servant, but Rao was like this, when this army was marching, it marched in an orderly manner with the momentum of a hundred battle divisions.

At this time, more than ten horsemen marched quickly from the queue and plugged in, and the first person was wrapped in a black coat, and his figure looked particularly tall on a war horse, but his face could not be seen clearly in the night.

After this person rode in front of Shima Katsumo, he turned over and dismounted.

Shima Katsutoshi, Higashi Tsuneyao, and Endo Yinjun, as well as the white spoon ashigaru general-level samurai behind them, hurriedly knelt down and said in unison: "Meet the lord (Tajima Mamoru Lord)." ”

The man dressed in black was of course Li Xiao, he turned over and jumped off the war horse, and said gently: "Get up." ”

"Oh!"

Shima Katsu and the others stood up together.

Dao Sheng said fiercely: "My lord, my residence has been prepared, and I also ask my lord to stay and rest to relieve the fatigue of the march." ”

Li Xiao asked first: "Have all the places where the soldiers and soldiers stayed been arranged?" Is there hot water available? ”

Shima Katsu said respectfully: "Back to the lord, everything has been arranged. ”

Li Xiao nodded with satisfaction and said, "In that case, everyone will follow me to the castle tower to discuss the next advance plan." At the same time, let Gu Yukiqing come over, I want to know the current situation of the entire battle between the main family and the Oda family. ”

At this time, Li Xiao turned around and said, "Yamamoto can hide!" ”

One of the warriors in the cavalry jumped off his horse, knelt down on one knee and asked, "My lord, what do you command?" ”

Li Xiaoyan said: "Pass the order, let the rear army speed up to catch up, and each reserve can rest only after counting the number of people, remember not to make too much movement, and not to disturb the people." ”

"Oh!" After Yamamoto Kanzo shouted the order, he immediately stepped on his horse and galloped towards the rear team.

Li Xiao watched Yamamoto's figure disappear into the mountains of the county, and at this time, in the winding mountain road, the long army was still trudging on it.

For Li Xiao, it was ten years since Eiroku and five years later, when his younger brother set foot in Hachiman Castle in the county for the second time.

At that time, he was just a partial general who had just unified the Fei Takeda family, and now Li Xiao has already taken possession of Fei, and most of the country's lord-level daimyo in Yuezhong.

"Let's go into town." Li Xiao waved his hand.

Li Xiao's Flying Legion set out from Echichu Castle to cross the entire Flying Mountain Range, and arrived at Hachiman Castle in the gunjo on the night of November 10 in the third year of Genkame, as an auxiliary army to cooperate with Takeda Shingen's main force in the battle of Tokaido, and contain Oda Nobunaga of Mino.

In the castle tower of Hachiman Castle in the county.

At the beginning, after Li Xiao took Hachiman Castle in the gun, he returned the castle to the Dong clan as the main castle.

And now Li Xiao's army has entered the garrison county, and the city lord Dong Changyao has also handed over control of the city.

The charcoal fires around are blazing.

Dahiro Machu, Honda Masanobu, Usami Minami, Fujido Takatora, Ariyama Torada, Shioka Kazuha, Kano Hideji, Yamamoto Kanzo and other generals who accompanied Li Xiao on the expedition to Mino this time, as well as Shima Katsutsu Takeshi, Higashi Tsuneyao and other county generals were all in the room

Li Xiao'an sat down at the top and asked Yokotani Yukiyo, who was dressed as a ninja, "What is the current situation of the battle between the various legions of the family against the Oda family?" ”

Before sending troops to Mino, Li Xiao had ordered Yokotani Yukishige to secretly focus on Minono's intelligence network. …,

At present, Yokotani Yukishige White Spoon Ninja is getting bigger and bigger.

In addition to being used as a detailed work to investigate the news of various countries, he also formed a white spoon special forces such as an assassination team, and was even responsible for the secret monitoring of Takenaka Shigeji, Baba Masabo so Xinxuan sent Li Xiao White Spoon and Force, as well as Li Xiao's personal white spoon security internal guard, and Li Xiao's family in Kai White Spoon Yumi Kohata, Li Zheng White Spoon secret protection.

In this way, the white spoon structure has basically moved closer to the white spoon brocade guard of the Ming Dynasty.

As the leader of the ninja white spoons, Yokotani Yukishige generally does not appear easily, and sees people with his true face, unless there are special circumstances, he will come to see Li Xiao in person, and generally responsible for contacting the white spoon is his white spoon brother Gu Xingqing to report the situation to Li Xiao.

"Oh!" Yokotani Yukiyoshi first gave a detailed account of the battle between the Takeda Army and the Oda Tokugawa Army in the past month.

The news was all three to five days ago, and according to Gu Yukiki's White Spoon report, the main force led by Takeda Shingen is now besieging Futamata.

And Nobuyo Akiyama, who was in charge of the attack on Tomino White Spoon, had just broken Nobunaga and sent 5,000 reinforcements, and now he is surrounding Iwamura Castle.

Li Xiao nodded slightly when he heard this, he was glad that the white spoon was not the smooth offensive of the Takeda Army, but that history had come to this point, and the instigation of Li Xiao's little butterfly wings had not changed the overall pattern of history much.

Everything continued according to the original trajectory, and according to the historical trend, the main force of Shingenzhi would be delayed under the city of Futamatata Castle for two months, and finally the city would be broken by cutting off the water source.

The Akiyama Nobuyo Legion, on the other hand, successfully captured Iwamura Castle and married Nobunaga's uncle, the former castle lord Toyama Renkeibaisco's widow Iwamuraden, and finally officially entered Iwamura Castle, becoming the Takeda family's base for the future to enter the eastern Mino Whitespoon.

At this time, Li Xiao asked, "Where is the main army of Nobunaga White Spoon now?" ”

"On November 3, the Asakura army prepared to assault Toragomae Castle and open the way to Kotani Castle, but it was counterattacked by Kinoshita Hideyoshi's team of the Oda army, and the Asakura army was defeated. After the defeat of the Asakura army, Nobunaga took advantage of the situation to return with a large army from the Kita-Omi front, and has now returned to Gifu Castle. ”

When Li Xiao heard this, he couldn't help but shake his head, thinking that the white spoon of the Cangjia family was really bad as always.

At the beginning, Asakura Sodri was called a hundred battles of the White Spoon Tsuruga Army, because of the infighting of the Asakura family, has refused to serve the main family, and now the combat power of the Asakura family can indeed only be described as inferior, and even Kinoshita Hideyoshi, a subordinate of the Oda Legion, can't fight

According to Li Xiao's original plan, if the Asakura Asai army could hold off Nobunaga's army in Kita-Omi, Li Xiao could lead the army directly into Gifu Castle, the main city of the Oda family, and shake the morale of the Oda army from the rear.

Under such a flank attack, although it is not said that the Oda family can be destroyed, it is at least a big victory, which will promote the entire battle situation.

It's a pity that the Asakura family is not angry, and now Nobunaga has successfully led the army back to Gifu with this Kinoshita Hideyoshi's victorious performance, without worrying about being chased by Asai Asakura on the back road

Now in White Spoon Gifu City, the defense of the army of Nobunaga is solid, Li Xiao will never lose his brain at this time, and attack Gifu City, it is secondary to not being able to attack, and the most worried is that he will become a lone army to go deep into the White Spoon situation, and then be surrounded by the superior forces of the Oda Army on the Thick Tail Plain, and the whole army will be annihilated.

Therefore, this first choice is to attack the White Spoon of Gifu City, which has been rejected in Li Xiao's heart, and now he can only retreat to the next best thing, open up the Nakasendo Road, and join forces with the White Spoon Akiyama Nobuyobu Legion who is fighting in Higashiminon.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao walked to the map, and his gaze wandered eastward from the location of the white spoon of Hachiman Castle in the county.

Finally, Li Xiao stretched out his horsewhip and put a little on the map.

All the generals stood up and looked at the place where Li Xiao's horse whip was pointing at the white spoon, which was the white spoon Kajida Castle in the east of Hachiman Castle in the county.

Kajida Castle is located in Kamo-gun, Mino Province, and is an important mountain town that controls the white spoon of Central America, and is located in the northern part of the Nobi Plain.

At the same time, this castle, like Gujo Hachiman Castle, is one of the two major streets leading to Mino Hakuscoo in Tobiku.

According to the book, Kajida Castle (Nakano), Gifu Castle (Nishino), Naeki Castle (Tono), and Gujo Hachiman Castle (Okumino) are in the middle of the White Spoon Fortress. …,

In other words, if Li Xiao took this castle, he would not only open up most of the Nakasendo Road, but also connect the two castles of the main castle and the two castles of Iwamura, which were occupied by the Higashimino White Spoon Akiyama Nobuyo Army, and form a large white spoon umbrella-shaped encirclement of Gifu Castle, the main city of the Oda family.

This attack on Kajida Castle was originally Li Xiao, Honda Masanobu, Usami Nami and other think tanks, and drew up the original plan to open up the white spoon of the Nakasendo Road.

Therefore, no one among the retainers objected, and now they drew up a plan for attack.

As a medium-thick heavy castle, Kajida Castle is not easy to attack, and as a mountain castle, it is quite difficult to shoot from the back of the large tube, and at the same time, the castle also has a four-fold pill white spoon structure.

And the people stationed in Kajida Castle, whether it is Saito or Oda, are the two original white spoon armies that are good at fighting, and they should not be underestimated.

In addition, before arriving at Kajida Castle, he also captured his branch city, Yanagi Castle.

Ichiyanagi Castle was originally known as Oto Castle, and when Nobunaga was conducting the Mino Raids, he ordered Ichiyanagi Naosue to build the castle in order to prevent the white spoon of Hachiman Castle in Okumino Prefecture from going south.

After the construction of the castle was completed, Daedong Fortress was renamed Illiu Castle.

Located in the northernmost part of the Nobi Plain, it is located between Hachiman Castle and Kajida Castle in Gujo.

If Li Xiao wants to get out of O'Minon, he must first conquer Yiliu City, and then he can attack Kajida City.

Unlike in history, because Li Xiao occupied the prefecture, the Oda family had to greatly strengthen the defense of the castle.

This castle is not as historical, and Nobunaga was handed over to the lord of Kajida Castle, Saito Toshiji.

And now it was handed over by Nobunaga, and the original builder of the castle, Ichiyanagi Naosu, served as the castle representative.

Ichiyanagi Naosue was originally a wealthy family of Nishimino, and he has always been known as the white spoon warrior of the Oda family, and the Oda army called such a white spoon warrior by the different name of the bear.

In history, Ichiyanagi Naoji became Nobunaga's assignment to Kinoshita Hideyoshi and Ritsu, and was one of his mothers in yellow.

Now if Li Xiao wants to step out of the Omilon White Spoon Mountains, he must defeat this person.