The castle tower of Inabayama Castle is high and high, and the walls are also heavy and heavy, and Sasa Narumasa couldn't help but wonder if it would be possible for Shigeharu Takenaka to take the castle if Yoshiryu hadn't died of leprosy.

But this question only lingered in his mind for less than a quarter of an hour, because his eldest brother, Saito Yoshiryu, threw him a big question:

"Now that I'm the lord of Mino, I don't have to be incognito with you anymore, and I live as a politician in Sazuo, this time, do you want to stay in Mino to help me?"

Cheng Zheng was stunned when he heard this, but he hadn't thought about returning to Mino.

"This time, I'm here as an envoy from Oda, and as for the rest of the matter...... More on that later. ”

Cheng Zheng politely declined.

Although Yoshiryu thinks that he is the son of Toki Yoriyi, Seimasa does not think so. What if one day after the incident, Yilong finds out that he is the son of Daosan?

What's more, there is another important reason why Narumasa stayed in Owari......

"Oda Nobunaga's messenger? Nothing interesting. ”

Seeing Chengzheng's refusal, Yilong was also a little unhappy in his heart, and snorted coldly:

"Nobunaga asked you to come here just to let me fight this battle, so that he can successfully quell the civil strife. As for why you came here...... I'm afraid I'm taking you hostage. ”

Cheng Zheng was a little surprised by Yoshiro's wisdom, before that, the world thought that Saito Yoshiryu was a strong and reckless man, but he didn't know that in his majestic body, it was the intelligence and ambition that matched his height.

"To tell you the truth, I won't send troops to support Oda Nobuyuki, let alone Oda Nobunaga, because if Nobunaga can't even defeat a weak person like Nobuyuki, how can he be my opponent? I just don't understand, why do you want to stay in Owari? What's so good about Oda Nobunaga, what he can give you, I can give it to you, is it enough for Toki Prefecture? ”

Toki?

Narumasa's heart skipped a beat, and he didn't know if Yoshiryu's mention of Toki was intentional or not, but regardless of his relationship with Oda Nobunaga, he had a reason to stay in Owari.

"Please forgive me, elder brother, I can't come back to serve at this moment, but to return to the butterfly."

Cheng Zheng finally confessed frankly, but when he said Gui Die's name, he suddenly remembered Gui Die's poignant expression when he learned that he was in the third hand of the blade, and he couldn't help but feel a little confused in his heart.

"Although Gui Die is the daughter of the third enemy, the matter of her father's generation has come to an end, and I don't want to be entangled anymore."

Speaking of this, Cheng Zheng took a deep breath:

"If my brother can't let go of Guidie, then I won't come back!"

Yilong stared at Cheng Zheng with wide eyes, a slight disappointment in his eyes, and after a long time, he sighed:

"Forget it, whatever you want, I'll get busy first."

He got up to leave, and was about to walk through the room when he stopped:

"I won't give reinforcements, I heard that Oda Nobuyi has also reached an offensive and defensive alliance with Nobuyuki, I'm afraid it's a little difficult for you to go back through Inuyama Castle, go to Ena County to find Akechi Mitsuhide, he will send troops to escort you back."

After speaking, Yilong didn't look back, and walked away.

Wise Mitsuhide?

Cheng Zheng couldn't remember what friendship he had with Akechi Mitsuhide, he only knew that the Akechi clan was a branch of the Toki clan, so roughly speaking, he and Mitsuhide were also considered to be the same clan.

The day after leaving Inabayama Castle, Narumasa came to the castle of Akechi.

Coincidentally, Cheng Zheng saw the military appearance of the wise family.

The wise family owns a county territory in Mino, which is enough to draw up 2,000 troops according to the common law, but surprisingly, the wise family only has a total of 500 soldiers.

These 500 people are lined up in a total of 500 people at the moment, although they are all ashigaru, but they are too different from the common Japanese ashigaru.

The 100-man phalanx is a formation of 10×10, the first and second columns are ashigaru with shields and swords, the last 4 columns are iron cannon ashigaru, and the next 4 columns are pikemen!

This is an unprecedented configuration in the Warring States, and this kind of phalanx with mixed arms is more inclined to be the product of modern warfare.

And then there is the number of their iron cannons, a phalanx of 100 people has 40 iron cannons, so what about 500 people?

That's two hundred!

That's more than the number of iron cannons in Chiefari combined.

Looking at the mighty and majestic wise army, Cheng Zheng's saliva flowed, and he also broke out in a cold sweat.

Where did Akechi Mitsuhide come from?

…… This kind of thing can't be made by the original Warring States people.

After the meeting, Sasa Narumasa took out Yoshiryu's letter, Mitsuhide skimmed through it roughly, and immediately agreed to the request to send troops to escort Narumasa.

Then there was the reception banquet held for Cheng Zheng, and at the banquet, Cheng Zheng cautiously asked:

"I was fortunate enough to see the military appearance of the wise family, and found that it was very different from the ordinary, I don't know what is so particular about it?"

The armament situation is a secret for many lords, but the army training of the wise family is in the field outside the city, and I think it is Mitsuhide himself who doesn't care about it, so Cheng Zheng dares to ask such a question.

In the same way, if you say it to someone else, I am afraid that you will have to eat a closed door to become a politician.

"Formation? I learned it from the Southern Barbarians. ”

Akechi Mitsuhide seems to have long been accustomed to such a question, and he brought it lightly and skillfully, and Cheng Zheng couldn't help but be even more surprised after hearing it.

In addition to some Nanban objects and iron cannons, is there anything else that the Nanban people have brought?

The training of the modernized army was by no means a day's work, and even if the modernization of the army began in the West, it would never be possible for the missionaries at this time to master the formation of training the army.

There is no doubt that Akechi Mitsuhide is lying.

Since the other party had no intention of confessing to him, Sazuo Chengzheng also praised it pretending not to know, and revealed it.

The two chatted happily and bragged, and after the banquet, they also had their own little surname to lead Chengzheng to rest, but they were wise and beautiful, and they still stayed in the room with a heavy heart.

Hearing the footsteps of Chengzheng gradually disappearing, Guangxiu took out Yilong's letter again and read it carefully.

The content of this letter is mediocre, it is nothing more than asking him to escort Sasa Naruma back to Owari Qingzhou City with three hundred ashigaru lights, but who is Sasa Narumasa who deserves so much attention from Yoshilong?

Or was Yoshiryu planning to let him go to Owari to participate in the war between the two brothers, Oda Nobunaga and Oda Nobuyuki, in order to profit from it?

Mitsuhide quickly dismissed this conjecture.

If you want to send an elite army south to Owari and profit from the civil war of the Oda family, the leader must be a close confidant of Yoshiryu.

Although he is nominally Yilong's cousin, the two are not related by blood, not to mention that since Yilong usurped the country of Mino, there has not been much contact between the two.

"What is it for? Sasa Chengzheng, what do you have to do with Yilong? ”

In the bright moonlight, Wise Mitsushi wore her long hair and frowned, and she fell into incomprehensible thought.

The next day, Akechi Mitsuhide personally led 300 standing ashigaru to escort Sasa Narumasa south to return home, they only walked thirty miles a day, and the speed of the march was only a little faster than that of the turtle.

There was a wave of uneasiness that Sasa Naruma didn't come.

If I'm not mistaken, Oda Nobunaga should have successfully quelled the civil strife, so what do I have to worry about?

Although he comforted himself like this, Cheng Zheng was still not shocked.

A few days later, they successfully crossed the territory of Oda Nobuyiyoshi in Inuyama Castle, and the news of Oda Nobuyuki's rebellion reached the army on the same day.

Sasa Narumasa suddenly had a palpitation, he finally remembered something, and roared on horseback:

"Cimata!"

It turned out that he finally remembered that in the Inao Battle of Oda Nobunaga to quell the civil strife, the Sasa family was used as the vanguard to seize the Inao Heights, and was severely damaged by the Shibata Katsuya on Nobuyuki's side.

Daddy Sasa Morimasa is in danger!