Chapter 49: Entering Tsushima Town

Tsushima Town is a municipality centered on the Ushitou Tennosha, located between Owari, Mino, and Ise, with Kuwana County of Ise Province to the southwest and Mino Province Yoro County to the northwest, and is located at the confluence of the Tennogawa River and the Sumata River, a tributary of the Kiso River, forming a triangular area between independence and land, and the Tsushima Port of Tsushima is more than 650 meters wide.

Not far from the northeast of Tsushima is Katsuhata Castle, Katsuhata Castle is the former residence of Oda Nobuhide, when Oda Nobunaga was born, Oda Nobuhide was only one of the three Oda commissioners, as the retainer of the Oda Yamato Mori family acting official Shimoto Prefecture, and later the reason why he was able to turn over and defeat the Yamato Mori family to seize the power of the lower four prefectures is because his residence Katsuhata Castle is close to Tsushima, and he can easily control the Tsushima port of Tsushima, so that Oda Nobuhide's finances are abundant and can easily recruit a large army.

On August 30, Kira Manmatsumu entered Tsushima Town with the Kira Kamiraku Army, and after entering Tsushima Town, he received news from Mikawa Province that a total of 12,000 troops from Imagawa Castle had left Okazaki Castle.

Whether it was the detached upper and lower Yoshira, or the ambiguous neutrals such as Nakajo, Suzuki, and Miyake, all of them cooperated with the Imagawa army to fight in Anxiang Castle, and before they knew it, the Imagawa family formed a powerful army of 18,000 people, and its influence was even more far-reaching than the Battle of Shodozaka.

Oda Nobuhiro seems to have despaired, he didn't send people to contact the people of Mikawa again, and he didn't even let the people of Mikawa be stationed in Anxiang Castle, but just drove them to various branch cities to be cannon fodder, in this case, is the Oda family still guarding? Almost everyone can be sure that the Imagawa family will win, and the Oda family will of course face another crushing defeat.

This news seems encouraging, but it's not necessarily a good thing, for example, Oda Nobuhide finally remembered that there was still a stay in the territory of the Kamijira family's Shangluo army, so he immediately sent someone to Tsushima to intercept it, but the Tsushima people are not vegetarians, and it seems that Tsushima, a freak like Tsushima who combines the union and the village with relatively developed commerce and agriculture, doesn't care much about what Oda Nobuhide, the ruler of the four prefectures under Owari, thinks.

What's more, Oda Nobuhide has suffered defeats in Mino and Mikawa in the past two years, and he has already lost the prestige he has accumulated, and the battle of Kana Kou the year before last was 12,000 troops in Inoguchi Town, and more than 3,000 people were killed by Saito Toshimasa, who had not yet become a monk and changed the law to Michisan, and more than 2,000 people were drowned when Oda's army fled, and 5,000 people died in the blink of an eye.

Oda Nobuhide, who was defeated in Ghana, was anxious to find the field and establish the image of the collapse, so there was last year's Battle of Shodozaka with 4,000 to 10,000, and was ambushed by Taiyuan Xuezhai with superior forces, and exchanged minor losses for an almost catastrophic rout, and more than 2,000 people were killed on the spot, and only after crossing the Yasakugawa River and drowning a few hundred people barely escaped.

This series of catastrophic defeats knocked out the spirit of the Oda family, since the defeat of Oda Nobuhide with the remnants of the defeated general returned to Furuto Castle, in order to save the precarious family business, had to reach a peace with the old rival Saito Toshimasa, so there is his own sister-in-law Oda Nobunaga married Saito Toshimasa's daughter Gui Die.

As far as the Oda family is now, like a phoenix that has lost its hair is not as good as a chicken, in the past, Oda Nobuhide's prestige has dropped to a pitiful level, this time seeing that the Oda family is going to be defeated again in Anxiang City, the Tsushima fifteen families will be afraid that he will have ghosts, and the three hundred troops sent by the Oda family also know their situation, and after a few days of confrontation between the two sides outside Tsushima Town, Oda Nobuhide's army began to retreat, and this skirmish was eliminated.

The current governor of the Ohashi family, Ohashi Shigetas, is a loyal elder in his forties, and he set up a banquet with great enthusiasm to invite the governor of the 15th party of Tsushima to treat Kira Manmatsumaru and his party with great enthusiasm, and during the banquet he expressed his willingness to buy the seventy-five stones of refined sea salt at a preferential price, and it was really easy to do this with the financial resources of the Ohashi family, and even after the banquet, someone specially sent three hundred and forty pieces of good quality money.

In addition, he promised Kira Manmatsumaru that he would contact Kawa and pass through the Kiso River smoothly for them, and there was a reason why Ohashi Shigetsu dared to say so much, and almost everyone knew about the Tsushima 15 Party in Tokaido.

As the No. 1 family of the Tsushima Fifteen Parties, the Ohashi family was originally from the Huan Wuhei clan, and because it was subordinate to the Southern Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was highly valued by the Southern Dynasties, so the fifth grandson of Emperor Go-Daigo, Izumi Morigen Nobunshige known as Tsushima Daiyana, inherited the family business of the Ohashi family, and the reputation of the Ohashi family grew day by day, and they became the veritable elders of the Tsushima Fifteen Parties.

The former governor of the Ohashi family, Ohashi Shigeichi, is actually a family of the Okochi family, Ohashi Shigeichi's father, Okochi Mototsuna, is also the son-in-law of Tsushima Daina Ohashi Nobushige, so Ohashi Shigeichi is also the grandson of Tsushima Ohashi Nobushige, and Okochi Mototsuna's brother is Ohashi Nobuta's sister-in-law.

In the generation of Ohashi Ding'an's son, he gave Okochi Mototsuna's son Okochi Shigeichi to come over and be his adopted heir, and thus renamed Ohashi Shigeichi, this Okochi Mototsuna is the uncle of the current governor of the Okochi family, Okochi Nobusada, and the relationship is just like Kira Manmatsu Maru and Yoshitomi Kira, the former governor of the Ohashi family, Ohashi Shigeichi is his uncle of Okochi Nobusada, so the relationship between the Ohashi family and the Okochi family is very close.

The current governor of the Ohashi family, Ohashi, redefined this generation, and married his daughter to Okochi Kunitsuna, and the two families became close to each other, so Okochi Nobusada asked his nephew Okochi Kunisuna to follow Kira Manmatsumaru, which also has the intention of using the Ohashi family's financial resources to support his son-in-law every year, which is not a problem at all.

After the banquet, Kira Manmatsumu decided to rest near Tsushima for a few days, because he had to wait for Oda Nobuhide's army to go to Mikawa Province to rescue his stupid son first, otherwise even if he had the heart to leave, Hattori Tomosada would not dare to plant him to cross the Kiso River, since he did not leave for the time being, then he could only find a place to live first, the army of the Kira family was arranged to camp in a field outside the town, and the family craftsmen were arranged to live in the town, Kira Manmatsumu naturally lived in the Nono Castle re-established by the bridge, accompanied by two hundred horse-bound samurai and the people who were close to him.

Because Tsushima is very prosperous, and there is even a saying that the town of Sakai in the East China Sea, not only is there a huge shopping town with complete facilities, but there are thousands of townspeople living in the town, and the town is really densely populated, and the business in the town is thriving, and there is a Buddhist temple that can be seen almost every time you walk through a town, whether it is the Gozan sect of Kinai or the new method of Zen Buddhism in the Kamakura period.

Of course, the largest of them is the branch temple of the Ichijang sect and the Hokke sect, and hundreds of believers go to worship the Buddha every day, and there are many ronin, merchants, and pilgrims who come and go to Tsushima in and out of the two branch temples, but the relationship between the two families is very bad, because the Yamashina Honganji burning incident has made the two sects mortal enemies, and most of the conflicts that often occur in Tsushima Town come from the contradictions between the believers of the two sects.

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