On May 18, Kira Yoshitoki sent someone to contact Tennoji House in Sakai Town with an offer to purchase 300 iron cannons, and Tennoji House attached great importance to this business, and when Tsuda Munekazu, the future proprietor of Tennoji House, personally came to Sakamoto Castle by boat to visit Kirayoshi, although he came with sincerity, the price he proposed was not sincere at all.

"A hundred pieces of text per cannon? Or Yongle Qian Twenty-five Guanwen? Kira Yoshitoki repeated in an accentuated tone, his eyes staring at Tsuda Mune's smiling face like a falcon, and after a while, he suddenly smiled lightly, and turned to Matsui Yukan and said, "The three hundred iron cannons must be taken, and the rest will be left to you, understand?" ”

"Your Highness Kira, please rest assured, I will do my best." Matsui Tomokan is also a man with a flawless smile, although he is still very young and far from the moment of transformation into the most powerful, but Tsuda Munekichi is also young, isn't he? There's always a lot of spark between young people and young people.

Since the introduction of iron cannons to Tanegashima in the 12th year of Astronomy, there are only four iron cannon manufacturers in the origin of Tanejima, Kii Tsuda family's Kishu barrel, Sakai barrel in Sakai Town, and Kunitomo barrel controlled by the shogunate.

After a whole day of verbal warfare, I don't know how many brain cells were consumed, Matsui Yukan finally won, he knew that Kira Yoshitoki would never accept such a high unit price, so he put on a pair of you don't sell it to us at a low price, just find the Kunitomo iron cannon that belongs to the shogunate to purchase, anyway, the quality is not much worse than your Sakai barrel, and finally Tsuda Muneki still had to make concessions, he said that he wanted to go back and discuss with his father, and returned to Sakai Town by boat that night without stopping.

Seeing Tsuda Munekazu leaving in a hurry, Kira Yoshitoki summoned Matsui Tomotoshi and asked, "What is the price you negotiated with him?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness Kira, the price negotiated with Tsuda Hall is sixty pieces."

Kira Yoshitoki couldn't help but wonder in surprise: "Oh? Sixty runs? I almost cut it in half! How do you talk about it and tell my family? ”

"Yes! Forty kan under the counteroffer was rejected by Tsudaden, and then ......"

After understanding, I learned that the price proposed by Matsui Yuxian was very outrageous, and he returned the mouth with forty runs, not only that, but also equipped with a sufficient amount of gunpowder and iron cannon projectiles, this price almost made Tsuda Zonghe brush his sleeves away, fortunately, both sides are well-educated people, after pestering for most of the day, the price was finally set at sixty runs, although the price has increased by fifty percent, but it is much stronger than before, and it should be equipped with a lot of things.

Two days later, Tsuda Munekazu brought new news, and Tennoji agreed to the offer, sixty kan plus a matching gunpowder and iron cannon projectiles, and Kira Yoshitoki quickly transferred the 18,000 kan currency stored in the treasury to Tsuda Munekazu, and 300 iron cannons entered the hands of the Kira family.

Kira Yoshishiki handed over the three hundred iron cannons to Takigawa Yoshige, and told him not to spare ammunition, as soon as possible to arm a qualified iron artillery team, Takigawa Yoshige with Kira Yoshitoki's order directly to Saijo Bei and Akabi's generals, asked him to allocate two hundred people and one hundred people to assist in the formation of the iron artillery team, for this matter several ashigaru generals also made trouble to Kira Yoshitoki, and finally he was pressed down, new troops must be on, no matter how much opinion must be followed.

For half a month, the sound of the iron cannon sounded from morning to night, from the beginning of the target to be tied up animals, animals jumping around, according to Takigawa Yoshige's calculations, the maximum range of the iron cannon is thirty, the effective range is twenty, the best killing distance is fifteen, the quality of the Sakai barrel can be comparable to or even slightly exceed the level of the original Portuguese iron cannon, of course, this original is the original iron cannon of the 12th year of astronomy.

In June, Kira Yoshitoki felt that 300 iron cannons were not enough, and gritted his teeth to find Tsuda Soge, telling him that the Kira family planned to order another 200 iron cannons, but Tsuda Sokazu's words began to be delayed, first saying that there was not enough supply, and then changed his words to say that he could book but would not be able to get it for a few months, because Sakai Town was also short of iron cannons now.

"Muneki Tsuda is lying! How could there be a shortage of goods in Sakai Town, they must have heard something and suddenly closed their mouths! Kira Yoshitoki was keenly aware of the difference in tone before and after Tennoji House, and immediately called Hattori Koshiro and asked, "Tell me the latest news in Kinai, and tell me everything." ”

"Yes......" Koshiro Hattori was puzzled, and just wanted to speak, he suddenly stopped and looked out, his father was already standing behind him.

"Father's ......"

"Stand down! Shiro! Hattori took his son out, then saluted, and said, "The latest news, Hosokawa Kyozhaoden led 3,300 people from the headquarters out of Kyoto, and his current whereabouts are unknown. ”

"What? Out of battle? Kira Yoshitoki's eyes were like fire, and he glared angrily at the Hattori security chief, who was as silent as a stone, and raised his voice and said, "Bastard! Hosokawa Harumoto, this is trapped in the shogunate for injustice! Is he crazy? ”

Of course, Hosokawa Harumoto is not crazy, but it is really natural that he was forced to be anxious Since the Zhengdan Dynasty meeting, the development of Hosokawa Harumoto and Kira Yoshitoki is like ice and fire, earth and sky, Kira Yoshitoki soared into the sky and became the most relied on general of the shogunate, while Hosokawa Harumoto drove high and walked low, and the worse and worse his bad luck along the way.

Kira Yoshitoki only fought a not too fierce siege battle to obtain 150,000 stone in the two counties of Omi, so that the strength of the shogunate side did not rely solely on Hosokawa Harumoto, and then quietly pulled up an army of 7,000 cavalry to become the first general of the shogunate, compared with Hosokawa Harumoto's influence was rapidly weakened, and even had a tendency to be gradually marginalized by Ashikaga Yoshito, which is probably the reason why Hosokawa Harumoto did not hesitate to go out to kick off this war.

When Kira Yoshishi let out an angry roar, Ashikaga Yoshito was also furious, the fifteenth shogunate general almost pulled out the ancestors of the Hosokawa family and scolded him, including the shogunate famous general Hosokawa Yoriyuki did not let go, the fairy Ah Nakao Castle only more than a hundred were guarded by the public, and even the defense force of Jishoji Temple was withdrawn, and the Sakamoto Imperial Office was completely handed over to Kira Yoshitoki to manage enough to see how dangerous the shogunate was, if it weren't for the fact that Kira Yoshitoki was still training hard as the main force, Ashikaga Yoshito couldn't help but transfer the Kira family to garrison Nakao Castle.

Ashikaga Yoshito, who was not stupid after venting his followers, saw that the last quiet period was finally broken by Hosokawa Haruhoto, and the prince sitting in Nakao Castle also showed the courage of a general, and issued several imperial teachings in a row, first appointing Kira Yoshitoki as the shogunate's acting commander of the shogunate army, and then issued a coordinated battle order to Rokkaku Yoshiken, mobilizing the army out of Yamashiro Province within a month to cooperate with the shogunate's plan to seize Kyoto.

The last order is to contact the back of the Miyoshi family, calling on the people of Settsu, Izumi, Hanoi, Kii and other countries that currently belong to the Miyoshi family's camp to rise up against Miyoshi Chokei, this order is the most unreliable, of course, Ashikaga Yoshito did not expect a miracle at all, probably that means that it is better than nothing.

On June 10, Hosokawa Harumoto attacked Koizumi Castle, so that the quiet wind direction in Kinai changed abruptly, the strange silence of the Miyoshi family and the constant movement of Settsu and Izumi made the people of Kinai breathless, Ashikaga Yoshito successively sent envoys to contact Echizen Asakura and Wakasa Takeda to try to persuade them to assist the shogunate in the battle, this attempt failed, the reason of the Asakura family is that he is tired of dealing with Koga has always been unable to go out of battle, Wakasa Takeda is almost the same, but his reason is to resist the harassment of the Asakura family, these two are really strange enough.

In the assessment room of Akutagawa Mountain Castle, Miyoshi Changqing, who had newly moved into this city, was still a little uncomfortable here, looking at the high-spirited behavior of the Miyoshi retainers who started with it, the governor of the Miyoshi family smiled faintly and said, "You have all seen it, right?" Hosokawa Harumoto came out of the battle, and it took three days to break through Koizumi Castle, which was guarded by the people of the mountain city, it was really not easy! ”

"Humph! I think he's getting older and more confused! Compared to the time when Ishiyama Honganji Temple was almost destroyed ten years ago, tsk! Miyoshi Changyi smiled disdainfully.

Shihe Yicun, who was shaving a strange moon leader, clenched his fist and hammered the case, and yelled: "Haha...... Brother! Hosokawa Harumoto dared to do such a thing as a light war, isn't this a good opportunity for this family? Let me lead the army to completely wipe out these clowns! ”

"Yes! Please let me go out with you! "The three good retainers are all poured in a swarm.

"Good! Your morale is really a blessing for our family! How's the preparation going? ”

Faced with Miyoshi Nagakei's inquiry, Matsunaga Xiu hurriedly replied: "His Royal Highness Yixian is gathering a large army, and the 5,000-strong army can be assembled within ten days, and it will land in Kinai before June 20. ”

"Excellent! Then it's scheduled for June 25th! There are 15,000 art of war, and you will be the general in chief! Mamoru Hinata as a lieutenant! ”

"Yes!" Tokawa Ichiku and Miyoshi Hinata were happy to receive the order, while Matsunaga Hideki stepped aside with a disappointed face, and after a while, he showed a gentle smile and congratulated the two members of the Miyoshi family.

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