In order to be able to catch up with the confluence with Asakura Yoshikei's army, after breaking through the castle of Gawaria, Oda Nobuhide, Owari's big cat, spent only one night resting and reorganizing, and the next morning he led the army again and hurried towards Inabayama Castle, the main city of Saito Michizo, the "Mino pit viper".

Speaking of which, the original name of Saito Yamajo Castle was Kankuro, and after he became the actual owner of Mino Province during the Sengoku period, his reputation was called "the three heroes of the Warring States" by later generations, along with Hojo Sakumo, the head of the first generation of the Gojo clan, and Takematsu Nagahide, the head of the first generation of the Gojo clan. Saito Yamajo Castle is a generation of heroes among the three, nicknamed "Pit Viper", or "Mino's Pit Viper", "Pit Viper Road Three".

The discovery and loss of Minong, a pit viper, is a complete embodiment of the spirit of the Warring States period! Wang Tianxie remembers that in his previous life, he once read the book "Theft of the Country" (国囜り物語) by a novelist Sima Ryotaro, and he was used as the object of description. Moreover, this girl is extremely cruel and ruthless, and will do whatever it takes to achieve her goals. According to the "Tale of the Thief", he once put the prisoner into a large pot to boil, and at the same time, he even ordered the prisoner's wife to add fire to her husband in the pot by the stove.

It is said that when Kankuro was young, he was nothing more than a small merchant selling oil in Kyoto. At that time, the prestige of the Mino Kingdom to protect the Toki clan was already under the river, and after the cannibalism of father and son in the "Noshu Rebellion" and the struggle of important ministers in the "Funada Rebellion", the Toki clan actually elected Toki Yoriyi, who was later called one of the "three major countries of the world", as the eleventh generation of Mino Guardian. In the hearts of the elders and important ministers at that time, it may be very appropriate to nominate Toki Laiyi, but no one can imagine that it was this person who eventually led to the complete decline of the Toki clan.

One day after Toki Yoriyi became the 11th guardian of Mino Province, when he was walking on the street to inspect his territory, he accidentally met this young oil merchant named Kankuro, only to feel that this person has a very fine mind, and the whole person is full of vitality, and he immediately appreciates this person, so he decided to recommend him immediately.

However, although Kankuro was recommended to the Toki family because of this, he was firmly rejected by one of the family's old ministers, Toki Morori, who was said to have seen Kankuro's cunning.

In 1523, after the continuous promotion of Toki Yoriyi, Kankuro finally succeeded in becoming a member of Toki Yoriyi, serving under the Nishimura clan, a retainer of the Nagai clan, an important minister of the Toki family, and changed his name to Nishimura Masatoshi.

Nishimura Masatoshi's martial arts and talents are very trusted by Toki Tsuki, and the relationship between the two is even more friendly. In December 1526, Toki gave his concubine, Fukayoshino, to Nishimura Masatoshi as a side room, and gave Kaixi Castle to Nishimura Masatoshi! Relying on these two consecutive rewards, Nishimura Masatoshi became the first minister of the Toki family at that time, and Nishimura Masatoshi began to plan his plan to steal the country.

On July 8, 1527, Fukayoshino gave birth to a son named Toyotamaru for Nishimura Masato, which was Saito Yoshiryu, who later rebelled against his father.

Because Fukayoshino's pregnancy is too short, there have always been rumors that Toyotamaru is actually the son of Toki Tsuki, but because of Nishimura Masatoshi's power at this time, everyone doesn't dare to seriously investigate it. And the main room that Nishimura Masatoshi later married was the uncle of the wise Shibei Mitsuhide-Komi. This girl gave birth to a daughter for Masatoshi Nishimura, named Guidie, that is, Nohime, who later married to Owari Province, and two sons, Sun Shiro and Xi Heiji, of course, these are still a later story.

In July 1527, when Toki Masachi was competing with his brother Toki Masato (土岐頼武) for the position of guardian of Mino Province, Nishimura Masatoshi saw an opportunity, and in August 1527, he offered advice to Toki Masayi and led his troops to attack the castle of Gete, where Toki Masashi lived, forcing Toki Masato to leave even his own home and flee to Echizen, and Masa's power was suddenly swept away.

After the death of Toki Masa, his son Toki Junjun continued to counterattack Mino Province with the support of the Asakura clan and the Rokkaku clan, but after many battles, he still could not resist the Toki art that had become the trend of the times.

Also in the same year, in order to sweep away all opposing forces, Nishimura Masatoshi united with Nagai Toshitaka to instigate Toki Yorii to send 5,000 troops to attack Toki Morori, who lived in Kawate Castle, on the grounds of rebellion. As a result, soon after, Kawate Castle was breached by Nishimura Masayoshi, and Toki Moriyori fled to the Asakura family, while Nishimura Masanori became the lord of Yuxiang Mountain Castle after the war.

After becoming the lord of the castle, Nishimura Masatoshi immediately carried out his next plan, and through the confrontation and dispute with Nagai Nagahiro, he sent ninjas to assassinate Nagahiro on January 13, 1530, and succeeded the Nagai family in the name of a retainer, and renamed himself Nagai Norihide, thus obtaining Inabayama Castle, which was already a super fortress at that time, as an important base for himself.

Of course, the Nagai clan was very dissatisfied with Nishimura Masatoshi's approach, not only did they not admit that he changed his name to Nagai Norihide without authorization, but they even sent troops to retaliate! Nagai Norihide, who was still weak at the time, immediately rushed to Osang Castle to ask Toki Yorii for help.

In the end, under the mediation of Yoshihide Sasaki, the guardian of the state of Jiangzhou, the two sides were reconciled, and Nagai Norihide finally established his position; At the same time, in order to win over the wealthy families of the Mino Kingdom, in February 1533, he married the daughter of the famous clan of Higashimino Akechi Mitsutsugi - Kominokata.

At this time, Nagai Norihide has become one of the three giants of Nongzhou. In 1536, with the support of Nagai Norihide, Toki won the final victory and officially became the guardian of Mino Province.

Until September 1538, the guardian of Noshu, Saito Toshira, died of illness, but he had no heirs, and Toki Yorigi, who was the guardian of Minokoku, ordered Nagai Norihide to succeed him, and officially changed his name to Sato Toshimasa, becoming the new guardian of Noshu.

In order to further consolidate his position, Sato Toshimasa greatly expanded his Inabayama Castle in the following year, strengthening the defensive strength of the mountain castle, making it a super fortified castle at that time.

Due to the continuous expansion of Sato Toshimasa's power, it gradually threatened the main family, the Toki clan. In 1541, Toki Yoriyi's retainer Yi revolted, but Sato Toshimasa had already formed a large number of surrounding clans at that time, making it impossible for him to do much at all, and finally fell into a stalemate. In the end, the head of the Oda family in the four counties of Owari Province - Oda Nobuhide, the eldest cat of Owari Province, Yoshihide Sasaki, the guardian of Esu State, and Yoshikei Asakura, the guardian of Echizen, came forward as intermediaries to reach a settlement.

Michizo Sato realized that the Toki clan would be his biggest obstacle afterwards, so he began to gradually eliminate the bloodline of the Toki clan, and secretly killed all the sons and relatives of Toki Yorigi by poisoning and plotting.

It wasn't until 1542 that Irido Itoyama Castle finally attacked his old master, Toki Yorii. He raised an army to attack the main city of Osan Castle, but Toki Yorigi was defeated because he was unprepared, and was forced to flee to Owari Province with his son Toki Koji, where he took refuge with Oda Nobuhide, the eldest cat of Owari.

Since then, Saito Yamajo Castle has been known as the "pit viper of Mino", and the daimyo of the neighborhood have been awe-inspired.

All in all, in short, Mino Country, especially Saito and Akechi, seems to be a place dedicated to the villains of troubled times. It's as if all of them are the reincarnation of a general named Wei Yan in ancient times in the Ming Kingdom on the other side of the sea, and everyone has a backbone in the back of their heads!

First of all, Saito Yamajo entered the Taoist Michizo, a guy known as "Minong's pit viper", and the most famous thing in his life is to be an anti-bone boy! Ya is almost like a white wolf with empty gloves, from an oil seller to a country, and then the ending is anti-bones, and it is by his own son!

Not to mention the wise Shibei Mitsuhide later, the most famous arsonist, Erwuzai, and anti-bone boy in history!

It can be said that the lord of the United Nations seems to have always had the fate of the backbone, and few of the masters here can have a good death, and most of them were killed by the anti-bones!

In 1544, Asakura Yoshikei and Oda Nobuhide, at the request of Toki Yorigi, joined forces to attack Mino, but were defeated by Michizo. Later, the two sides finally reached an agreement to reconcile, and Saito Yamajo Castle returned to Kawate Castle and Daisan Castle to Toki Yorii.

It was not until September 1547 that Saito Yamajo Castle Norido Michizo once again sabotaged the peace agreement and prepared to send troops to attack Toki Moriyori and Toki Yorigi. This led to the exile of Owari Toki Yorii hurriedly asking Oda Nobuhide, the big cat of Owari, for help, while Toki Morori hurriedly asked his father-in-law, Echizen Asakura Yoshikei, for help, and finally made the two families join forces and attack Inabayama Castle where Saito Yama Castle is located from the south and north respectively, which is the battle this time.

From Kana Castle to Inabayama Castle, you will also pass through Kawate Castle, which we mentioned earlier, which originally belonged to Toki Moriyori. The current lord of this castle is the head of the Saito family in Minokoku - Takei Sukunao, but what is very surprising is that when the big cat of Owari Province led the army to Kawate Castle, Takei Sukuno, who was supposed to lead the army to resist as the lord of the castle, was not in the castle!

As a result, it took less than a day for the city to be breached by the Oda family's first hardcore war maniac, Oni Shibata-Shibata Katsuie!

Although Oda Nobuhide was very worried about the lack of Takei Sukunao, after receiving information from the ninjas that Asakura Yoshikei's army had arrived fifty miles outside Inabayama Castle, he still decided to continue the rapid march and rush to Inabayama Castle to join the Asakura army.

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"Catch snakes, catch snakes, as long as you give Mr. Toi a ticket such as a recommendation or evaluation, you will be able to get a Inabayama Castle and hundreds of handmaidens after catching a pit viper. In addition, I heard that Mr. Tuyi opened a book group, the group number is 281565552, interested friends can join in, communicate together, and give Mr. Tuyi more advice...... "Our next sixth day Moe King Oda Nobuko is very excited, very energetic shouted.