Oda Nobunaga's move of the main castle to Inabayama Castle was a major event, and not only Yang Guang was invited, but various forces large and small throughout the region also sent envoys to watch the ceremony, believing that they all had the same mind, assessing the military strength of the Oda family, and providing first-hand information for their future diplomatic strategies. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is no wonder that so many people pay attention to it, Owari and Mino are important food producing areas in Japan, in the war-torn world, there may not be food for soldiers, but there must be soldiers for food, and now these two areas are all in the hands of Oda Nobunaga, he only needs to spend a few years to develop the territory, he can get a lot of food, and the hard-working farmers can also join the army in the idle time, so that Oda Nobunaga can mobilize more troops.

As the number of "guests" increased, the castle town of Inabayama Castle became overcrowded, and the treatment became worse, so Oda Nobunaga had to let several of his important ministers lead troops to patrol, which was able to barely suppress the brave and ruthless from different places, and finally maintained order and did not get out of control.

Yang Guang, as a special guest invited by Oda Nobunaga, of course, did not need to go to the castle town with these people with other thoughts, and he lived in the castle tower on the day he came to Inabayama Castle. In addition to Yang Guang, the only person who has such treatment is Hosokawa Fujitaka, the representative of the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru from Kyoto.

Yang Guang met this Hosokawa Fujitaka once, the other party was not very old, but he was proficient in Japanese waka and was quite familiar with the history and culture of the Ming Dynasty. Hosokawa Fujitaka treats people very kindly, and there is no condescending contempt of the minister, which makes the maverick Oda Nobunaga appreciate him very much.

Of course, Oda Nobunaga can't snub Yang Guang, it's important to go to the top or something, but if you don't have enough strength, you don't even have a chance to survive, so what is there to talk about development and growth?

For the tea party invited by Oda Nobunaga, Yang Guang naturally would not refuse, and this opportunity for face-to-face communication could allow him to achieve the purpose of his trip. In addition, Yang Guang has been to Japan three times, and he has never seen what the so-called tea party is all about, so it is good to have the opportunity to experience the original taste in person.

As a result, the two of them sat on tatami mats, and before a pot of hot water had boiled, a ninja leader urgently asked Oda Nobunaga to see him. In order to envelop Yang Guang, Oda Nobunaga not only did not avoid it, but asked the leader to report back in front of two people, and he heard a news that shocked him extremely much.

In the Kanto region of Japan, the original Kanto commander Uesugi Kenmasa was expelled by the forces of the Hojo family, of course Uesugi Kenmasa was unwilling to accept this reality, but he was alone and had no chance of turning the tables at all, so he directly approached Nagao Keitor, a daimyo in the Echigo region, and asked him to help him administer justice.

Nagao Keitora seems to be particularly fond of this kind of thing to fight for goals such as common people and justice, completely ignoring the reality that the Echigo area is 108,000 miles away from the Sagami area of the Hojo family, and actually directly dispatched south just to help Uesugi Kenmasa get back the territory.

I have to say that Nagao Keihu is really a great character, through his efforts, he actually mobilized dozens of daimyo and heroes in the Kanto region, and gathered 120,000 troops to besiege Odawara Castle, the main city of the Hojo family.

Oda Nobunaga, who heard the news, stood up involuntarily, 120,000 troops was definitely an unattainable number for him now, so that Oda Nobunaga couldn't help but walk out of the room and head towards Odawara Castle. Yang Guang noticed that his gaze became hot, and he seemed to have the urge to try to go head-to-head with the strongest people of this era.

However, in the end, Oda Nobunaga still restrained his emotions, turned back to his original seat and sat down, and continued his tea party, but the hand holding the tea set trembled slightly, indicating his inner excitement at this time.

The war, which took place in a distant place, did not have any impact on the ceremony of renaming the castle, and Oda Nobunaga completed everything on time, and from this point on, Inabayama Castle was renamed Gifu Castle and became the main castle of the Oda family.

After the ceremony, Oda Nobunaga intended to show off his strength in the name of hunting outside the castle. Compared with the decent cavalry and infantry teams, the iron artillery force of more than 2,000 people shocked everyone who saw it.

Oda Nobunaga, based on Yang Guang's inspiration and guidance, came up with a method called "three-stage shooting", which simply means that the iron gunners are divided into three groups, the front group has the best marksmanship, and is responsible for aiming and shooting, and the two groups in the back take turns to reload ammunition, and then hand it over to the front group to fire.

The biggest advantage of this is that Oda Nobunaga only needs to have one-third of the number of skilled gunners with firearms to give full play to the advantages of firearms, which will make Oda Nobunaga's iron artillery unit quickly become an army, after all, it is certainly faster and easier to train three farmers to become iron gunners.

On the third day after the ceremony was completed, many people were still waiting to contact others, but suddenly came even more hot and shocking news, Takeda Shingen, the daimyo of the Kai region, suddenly tore up the contract and led his troops south to invade the territory of the Imagawa family.

Most of the Imagawa family's forces were engaged in the Togawa Ieyasu region against Tokugawa Ieyasu's army. Tokugawa Ieyasu's domain broke out in a rebellion of believers of the Honganji Ichijo sect, and in order to quell the rebellion, Tokugawa Ieyasu had to shrink his forces and turn to defense. Such an opportunity was a gift from heaven to the Imagawa family, so they mobilized more troops to participate in the counteroffensive, hoping to take advantage of the Tokugawa family's civil strife to regain everything that had died as much as possible.

At this time, the Takeda family, which was originally a solid backing, put the Imagawa family together, in order to play a surprise effect, Takeda Shingen let the Goho iron gunner ride on the war horse, and quickly moved towards the target with the help of the horse's mobility, and the Suruga area of the Imagawa family is mostly plain terrain, which naturally gives full play to the speed advantage of the Takeda family's cavalry.

These five-peaked iron gunners used their war horses to divide and surround the Imagawa family's castle, and actually fought a blitzkrieg that was rare in this era. The Imagawa clan was defeated and almost organized a decent resistance, and many important ministers took the opportunity to re-establish their positions, allowing Takeda Shingen's troops to appear outside the main city of Sunfu in only four days.

With the secretly bribed Uchio to open the gates of Sunpu Castle, Takeda Shingen's troops invaded the city, which was full of honor and shame, but instead of capturing the daimyo of the Imagawa family, he escaped under the protection of his cronies. (To be continued.) )