.lā

However, Echizen and Kita-Omi were taken with lightning speed, and although the daimyo of the head of the family was destroyed, many small lords in the territory were not completely subjugated, and it still took some time to slowly calm down.

Fortunately, these two countries are not like Kaga, and there are not so many stubborn followers, so it is much easier to calm down.

Just as Long Tao was leading his troops to tour the two countries, an envoy came to his tent.

The envoy came from the Owari Oda family and brought a letter from Oda Nobunaga.

"Wen Gong recently conquered Echizen and Omi, the enemy was invincible, the world was shaken, and the heroes did it, which was fascinating! It's a pity in life that such a character is close at hand, but he hasn't met! Nobunaga wants to meet with his husband to comfort his life, but I don't know if it's okay? If it is fair, please choose a treasure land, and Nobunaga will wait for good news! ”

Nobunaga wants to see me?

Long Tao's mind turned, and then he understood Oda Nobunaga's intentions.

At this time, Nobunaga had already pacified the entire territory of Owari Province, and with the power of the great victory of Tsukasama, the next target was his father-in-law's territory, Mino.

Since ancient times, there has been a rumor in the region that "whoever wins Mino will win the world", and this place is not only a fertile field, but also a strategic point, and Nobunaga is determined to achieve his ambitions.

And after Long Tao took Echizen and Kita Omi, the territory was not only adjacent to Mino, but also formed a semi-encirclement of it, in the eyes of outsiders, with his momentum like a rainbow at this time, it was very likely to attack Mino.

Nobunaga must have come to him for Mino's business.

Long Tao estimated that there were two possibilities for Oda Nobunaga's purpose of meeting him, one was to befriend him, and the other was to take the opportunity to kill him, only these two ways could prevent him from attacking Mino, and with Nobunaga's person, it is likely that these two sets of plans have been prepared, after all, this person can do anything for the ambition in his heart.

"Go back and reply to Lord Ling." Long Tao put away the letter and smiled at the envoy, "You don't need to choose any location, I will go to Qingzhou City to visit Nobunaga in person!" ”

The envoy was stunned for a moment, and glanced up at Long Tao, the two had never met, and they were both big names, a safer way should be to choose a place outside the two territories to meet, this person dared to enter the other party's main city without knowing the other party's purpose, this is tantamount to bravely entering the tiger's den in Longtan!

"Yes! In the next farewell! Seeing that Long Tao looked calm, not like a joke, the envoy bowed down and withdrew from the tent, got on his horse and left.

In Qingzhou City, in the city lord's mansion, Long Tao finally met Oda Nobunaga, who was known as "Owari Big Fool Melon" and was actually a son of the Warring States Period.

He has a very heroic face, sword eyebrows flying obliquely, the bridge of his nose is straight, he has a very imposing short beard, and a pair of bright eyes, flashing with fierceness and domineering.

On Nobunaga's left and right sides sat two long rows of people, the left side of the faction was wearing orthodox kimonos, which looked like his subordinates, and the right side was all armored and solemn and mighty, and they should all be military generals.

Looking at this posture, the famous ministers and fierce generals of the Oda family should have come, and Long Tao only brought Kenzaburo with him on this trip, and the two of them only wore loose samurai clothes and two long knives at their waists.

Nobunaga introduced all his subordinates to Long Tao one by one, and first pointed to the first one on the left who faced the loyal and honest young man and said, "This is the head of the Matsudaira family, Matsudaira Motoyasu-sama, and the Matsudaira family has just concluded a brotherly alliance with my Oda family. ”

Matsudaira Motoyasu is the future Tokugawa Ieyasu, this person is known as a loyal name, a lifetime of forbearance, first with Oda Nobunaga, then Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and finally after Hideyoshi's death, unified Japan, established the Tokugawa shogunate.

After Hideyoshi's death, Tokugawa Ieyasu used means to annex the Toyotomi family and provoked the Sekigahara War, but his actions were not very glorious, and his reputation for loyalty throughout his life was ruined, and he was named the "old fox" by later generations.

The alliance between the Oda family and the Matsudaira family, known as the "Kiyoshu Kai Alliance", had a great influence on the Warring States, and from then on, the two families expanded back to back, with Nobunaga unifying and Ieyasu gradually annexing the Imagawa family's Tokai Sea.

However, although the two families are allied, due to the difference in strength and weakness, Ieyasu has always treated Nobunaga as a brother, and the two families are more similar to a master-slave relationship, so Ieyasu will sit under Nobunaga.

Ryutao nodded to Matsudaira Motoyasu, and Nobunaga continued to introduce the other military generals, Murai Sadakatsu, Niwa Nagahide, Hayashi Hidesada, Shibata Katsuie, Sasa Narumasa, and Tatsukawa Kazuki...... Those characters that Long Tao is very familiar with in the game are all here.

At the end of the row of samurai on the right was a young man who looked like a monkey, and Nobunaga pointed at him and smiled, "That's a monkey named Kinoshita Toyoshiro." ”

Long Tao looked at the future Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and saw that his appearance was really a little obscene, only the bright eyes were particularly attractive, and there seemed to be infinite wisdom hidden in them, and there seemed to be endless ambition in the depths of the eyes.

"Hello, Kinoshita-sama!" Long Tao nodded and smiled.

Fujiyoshiro was stunned for a moment, looking flattered, Long Tao just nodded to the other retainers, but never said hello.

"Ashikaga-sama, I really don't dare to be here!" Kinoshita Tojiro hurriedly leaned over and kowtowed.

Long Tao smiled, pointed to Kenzaburo beside him and said, "This is the entourage below, Takekawa Keno." ”

Nobunaga praised: "Sure enough, he is a talent, he must be a person with strong martial arts." ”

Long Tao said with a smile: "Where and where, the generals of the Oda family are the true colors of samurai, and they are also armored at such a gathering, it seems that they are always ready for war!" ”

The faces of the generals of the Oda family froze, and some of them blushed slightly, their appearance as if they were facing a great enemy, compared with Long Tao and the others, it really seemed that they were making a big fuss.

Oda Nobunaga laughed and stared straight at Long Tao, "Speaking of which, I also admire Ashikaga-sama very much, you only bring one retinue, no armor, aren't you afraid of any accidents?" ”

Long Tao didn't expect him to be so direct, but this is Nobunaga's personality, and immediately smiled: "It's not that I'm bold, to be honest, even if I'm in the battle array, I'm not armored, if someone in this world can be injured, then he must be the strongest person, in the face of the attack of such a person, even if he wears an extra layer, I'm afraid it won't help!" ”

As soon as these words came out, the hall suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at Long Tao in surprise, but they didn't expect this person to say such arrogant words with a calm and breezy appearance, which obviously didn't take everyone seriously.

Many generals even glared angrily, but Long Tao was still indifferent.

A young and handsome military general suddenly stood up on the right side, copied the ten-character spear behind him, and shouted: "Ashikaga-sama boasts of being invincible, and I am willing to learn the master's high moves!" ”

Nobunaga shouted, "Dog, don't be rude! ”

Long Tao recognized this person as Maeda Toshiya, who was a gun master of the Oda family, known as "the gun and the left".

Maeda Toshi's young name is Chiyo, who served Nobunaga at a very young age, and was a well-known upright person in the Warring States period, and even a smart slippery head like Hideyoshi respected him a lot, and later became one of the five elders of the Toyotomi family.

Long Tao sat without getting up, stretched out his right hand, and said with a smile: "It's really an honor to be able to teach the Oda family's 'gun and left' marksmanship, Maeda-sama, please take action!" ”

Maeda Toshiya's face turned red and said angrily, "You ...... Your Excellency is going to sit down against me? Is this contempt?! ”

Long Tao smiled and said, "If you commit a crime and be rude to me, don't you allow me to despise you?" ”

"Ah......" Maeda Toshiya was angry, shouted, and raised his gun to stab Long Tao.

When the sharp tip of the spear pierced half a foot in front of him, Long Tao made a move, and his two fingers quickly clamped the tip of the spear, no matter how Maeda Toshiya struggled, the spear never moved.

Everyone didn't see how Long Tao made a move, but in the blink of an eye, Maeda's spear was clamped, and Maeda Toshiya, who had always used guns like a god in their eyes, turned red, and couldn't even pull the spear in seven or eight postures.

The corners of Long Tao's mouth raised, his fingers exerted force, and the snapping sounded, and the spear began to break inch by inch from the tip of the spear.

Everyone was completely stunned, even the barrel of the gun made of fine iron was shattered, was it still done by man?

The two boys behind Nobunaga hurriedly rushed in front of him, holding the hilt of their swords and looking guarded.

Maeda Toshiya was affected by the shock, took three steps back, and when he was about to sit down, Sasa Narumasa on the right got up and held him up.

Sasa Narimasa is good friends with the Maeda Toshiie, and when he sees his friend being humiliated, he can't bear it, so he takes a step forward and stretches out his hand to draw a knife.

However, when his long knife was only half removed, the figure flashed in front of him, and the blade of the cold knife was already on his neck.

"Hugh be presumptuous!"

It was Kenzaburo who made the shot, he was extremely fast, and when the people of the Oda family didn't see it clearly, Sasa Naruma had been restrained, and everyone couldn't help but draw their swords, and the scene was suddenly chaotic.

Long Tao snorted coldly: "I advise you not to act rashly!" Even if you have 200 iron cannons facing us today, it will be difficult for you to keep the two of us, and, to tell you the truth, Saburo alone will be enough to take off your heads! ”

Everyone was stunned, thinking back to Kenzaburo's terrifying speed just now, there was indeed no one here who could stop it, of course, what surprised them the most was that Long Tao was really right, there were indeed two hundred iron gunners ambushed outside at this moment!

Of course, Long Tao didn't guess casually, with his perception, the movements of the entire Qingzhou City were under control, not to mention the two hundred iron gunners who were close by.

"Sit down, you're so out of shape!" Oda Nobunaga shouted.

The generals took their long knives and sat down in their places.

Long Tao also raised his head and said, "San Lang, you should come back too." ”

Kenzaburo snorted coldly, let go of Sasa Naruma, turned around and walked to the door, and swung a knife at a large tree ten steps away in the courtyard.

With a sound, a thick branch broke neatly and smashed to the ground, and Kenzaburo returned to Long Tao and sat down.

"Jian Hao!"

Several Oda retainers exclaimed in surprise, the sword just now was a real sword qi, but I didn't expect this tall and thin young man to have such attainments in sword skills in addition to being extremely fast!

Everyone looked at Long Tao's gaze and became even more fearful.

The sound alarmed the guards in the courtyard, and the two soldiers ran to the door to look, and Oda Nobunaga waved his hand, signaling that there was nothing to do and let them go back.

"Hehe, I didn't expect Lord Wuchuan's sword technique to be so clever! Nobunaga admired! ”

Among them, the only one who has not changed his face is Oda Nobunaga.

Hearing that he was so polite, Kenzaburo hurriedly bowed and replied respectfully: "Don't dare, all the martial arts in the next body are taught by the lord, and this achievement is less than one-ten-thousandth of Ashikaga-sama!" ”

Nobunaga looked at Long Tao and laughed, "Okay! Today, I finally see the heroism of Ashikaga-sama! ”

Maeda Toshiya suddenly walked in front of Long Tao, knelt down, kowtowed, and said: "Ashikaga-sama, your martial arts are far superior to mine, and the Toshiya bow down!" ”

"Maeda-sama doesn't have to be polite!" Long Tao smiled.

Nobunaga suddenly clapped his hands, a small door behind him opened, and a girl wearing a light red kimono walked in gracefully.

At the same time, Long Tao also detected that the iron artillery team lying in ambush outside had withdrawn, and Nobunaga finally pressed the killing machine against him.

And this beautiful young girl, Long Tao has long sensed it, and from the beginning she hid quietly in the back room, waiting for Nobunaga's call.

"Aichi, I've come to see Ashikaga-sama!" Nobunaga commanded.

Sure enough, it was her!

When Long Tao looked at the girl's appearance with his perception, he had already guessed that there could be a stunning woman with such a look, and the Oda family would not be the second person, it must be Oda City, which is known as the "first beauty of the Warring States"!

Nobunaga, are you finally going to use your killer weapon?