In other words, in last year's crusade, Suganuma Dingcun, the culprit, did not receive much substantial punishment, at most he lost a lot of money, and the rest of the situation was not serious.

Even the dismissal of those thieves in the gathered city was just a formality, and as soon as Asahina Motocho retreated, he immediately returned to matching.

The pacification of Kuanren in the Junfu Province obviously did not make Suganuma Dingcun repent, but intensified it more and more, and even relied on these military forces to constantly coerce other wealthy clans in the south of the county to join and hand over money and grain for the use of his Hemao people to raise troops.

Suzuki redirected Isshiki Sadahide to report the first, but he didn't want to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, hoping to get Gao Shisheng, the prosecutor, to come forward and stop his wanton behavior in the south of the gun.

In the process of resisting Gao Shisheng's entry into the county, Suganuma Dingcun's attitude was even more resolute than that of the Yada family.

Especially when Gao Shisheng was expanding his influence to the south of the county, he was considered to have been instructed by Junfu behind him, and his purpose was to turn his back on the original security and forgiveness, and then find an excuse to deal with his own family.

Looking at the Noda Castle in front of them, Ono Tadaaki and others temporarily reined in their horses and watched from afar, only to see that the city wall was towering, there were many military houses around, and the banners were waving in the wind in the heavy rain.

Ono Tadaaki lifted the curtain of the chariot, looked at the left and right of the congregation, pointed to the camps in front, and said, "The land of elite soldiers in the world, Kanto is one of them, Wu Yue is one of them, and Sanhe is also one of them. I have heard the name of Suganuma Shima for a long time, when he was thirteen years old, the first battle, he dared to take dozens of Lang party, regardless of the dissuasion of his family, blocked Toyokawa, and repelled the three attacks of the Matsudaira army in succession. ”

After the collapse of the mountain, Changshino, Tian Feng, and Shimada each family have all surrendered to Shunjun Mansion, only this person is based on the city, and the battle is not surrendered, loyal and brave, and it is very human. After entering Noda Castle today, when you see him, you should not be arrogant, and be courteous, in case you annoy him, ruin the trivial matter of your own life, and misunderstand the judge's intention of harmony and friendship in this trip, when you go back, the family will not spare you. ”

Therefore, before entering Noda Castle and meeting Suganuma Village, Ono Tadaaki still had to remind them a few words first, so as not to miss the judge's major affairs.

These envoys are arrogant and arrogant, but they all know the importance of the matter, and they all promise at the moment.

Shimazaki Keishinobu watched sideways, looking at the rosary in Ono Tadaaki's hand, and kept secretly wondering in his heart, I couldn't guess why this bald thief suddenly came to Mikawa Country, why he was suddenly ordered to go to Noda Castle, and most importantly, what did these words mean?

When the order was finished, the horses were beaten and continued on their way, and the horsemen followed them. I didn't go too far further, and I saw two or three horsemen galloping from the side road in the distance.

Although there is no war at present, Noda Castle is the cantonment of the Suganuma clan's troops, and there will naturally be no patrols around it, and the two or three horsemen galloping from the side road should be the rangers sent out by Suganuma Dingcun.

Suganuma Dingcun is not only the official of Zenshu Temple, but also the former minister of the Matsudaira clan, and also secretly colluded with the Owari Oda clan, this time to see the other party, I am afraid that it will not be easy to achieve the goal, so I am very cautious, seeing two or three horsemen galloping from a distance, I immediately stopped the horse and waited for them to come.

Although Noda Castle is adjacent to the two counties of Atsumi and Hohan, it is considered the Quchengguan Road in the south of the county, and there is no war at the moment, and the nearby castle towns and lodging fields are still quite businessmen and pedestrians, and these rangers sent by Suganuma Dingcun usually pay little attention to those merchants and pedestrians.

But at this moment, there were several horsemen galloping from the rain shelter on the side of the road in the distance, but it was because Ono Tadaaki and his party were all riding horses, and in addition to Ono Tadaaki, a monk, they were all wearing armor and knives. Galloping on the road in the rain, it was very conspicuous, and it was not an ordinary business trip at first glance, so since they saw it, they had to come over to inquire and see where it came from.

After a short time, the two or three horsemen came to the front, ran from the path to the avenue, and turned in front of Ono Tadaaki and the others.

Ono Tadaaki took a look and saw that these horseback envoys were all strong Lang party, although they were not wearing big armor, but they also had their own belly rolls, two of them held tassel guns, and one of them carried a bow and a sword. The man of this saber should be a warrior in front of him.

Ono Tadaaki said in his heart, "Looking at the standard inscriptions of these people's abdomen, swords and guns, they should all be from the imperial loan armament of Owari, the Oda clan has been fighting with Mino Saito in recent years, but he is really not stingy with this Suganuma Shimamori who accepted the strategy." From this point of view, Weizhou is indeed worthy of being a rich and powerful country. ”

He also looked at the mounts under the crotches of the three envoys, all of whom were Shinano horses, not those produced by Tokaido, ordinary inferior horses used to plow the land and pull carts, and said to himself, "Maybe not only for the military equipment, but also for the Noda family a lot of good horses." ”

Horses are easy to find, good horses for samurai to ride out of the battle are difficult to buy, good horse team is not lighter than standing ashizu, it is the Imagawa clan of Sunfu, painstakingly operated for many years, and now the good horses that can be out of the army are only 1,500 horses,

Suganuma Dingcun has a martial name in Higashi-Mikawa, in the final analysis, it is just an ordinary country, and Mikawa is not a place to produce horses, and he alone can not afford to raise too many good horse teams, but he can now release more than one group of envoys to patrol and cruise, so it is obvious that even if the good horse team under his command is small, it is estimated that there must be dozens of horses, of which there are ten, so that relying on the help of the Owari Oda family.

Ono Tadaaki did not expect badly, the Owari Oda family not only helped him on a good horse, but also was very generous to Suganuma in terms of food and money.

Cavalry is difficult to raise, one is because good horses are rare, and the other is because the consumption of horses is too large, Gao Shisheng is now equipped with four hundred horses, and the banner is only thirty-seven horsemen, but if it is only about military supplies, these thirty-seven envoy horsemen account for almost half or more.

Last year's rebellion, Hachiguna was the main battlefield, although the Noda Suganuma clan kept the castle and Wangyo, but the countryside under his rule was sacked by the Asahina column, and it was intended to force Suganuma to surrender to Kaicheng, but who knew that the army under it was not composed of ordinary people.

However, it is also because of this that the Noda Suganuma clan has a huge loss of money and food, and if it weren't for the fact that the Oda family secretly funded Suganuma Village through the sea through water thieves, it would have been difficult for that Onishima to raise thousands of foot soldiers and spare energy to raise expensive cavalry.

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