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However, he said that Oda Nobunaga had won every battle since the rise of Fuso, and he never believed that there would be no victory or defeat in the war, and the chess game was another kind of war in his opinion. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The two of them fought and drew in the chess game, which made Oda Nobunaga depressed after seeing it.

After sending away the two national players, Oda Nobunaga only felt a tightness in his chest, and he reluctantly handled government affairs for a while, and he always felt that it was not very cool.

The subordinates around him saw that he was in a bad mood, and they all trembled, as if they were approaching the abyss, like walking on thin ice.

However, in recent years, Oda Nobunaga has carried out cabinet reforms in Kyoto one after another, and the first to be dismissed was Sakuma Nobumori and his son, who had the largest army under Nobunaga.

This Sakuma Nobumori was originally a retainer of the Nobunaga family, and once assisted Nobunaga's father Oda Nobuhide, after the Nobunaga family suffered a catastrophe, the lost Oda Nobunaga returned, and Sakuma Nobumori led the Nobunaga family samurai to follow Nobunaga.

Who knew that after Nobunaga took control of Kyoto, he actually wrote 19 charges in his own hand, and exiled Sakuma Nobumori to Koyasan.

This is not the end, and then Nobunaga expelled several old retainers, all of whom were the old Nobunaga family who first followed the Nobunaga Long March, and it was supposed that Nobunaga's closest people were the talents, but now they were pulled out one after another, which made his subordinates fear Oda Nobunaga even deeper.

Following these elders, the emerging forces that rose to prominence were none other than Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Akechi Mitsuhide.

Both of them came to take refuge after Nobunaga was overpowering Fuso, but Nobunaga admired the strategy and courage of these two men and promoted them exceptionally, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Akechi Mitsuhide did not live up to Nobunaga's expectations, becoming the most loyal supporters and practitioners of Oda Nobunaga's policies and tactics.

The rise of the new forces and the decline of the old forces made many of Nobunaga's elders feel deeply uneasy, for fear that Nobunaga, who 'likes the new and hates the old', will carry out such drastic reforms, and the next one to fall is himself.

As a result, some people rebelled in order to protect themselves, but these people, without exception, were sent by Oda Nobunaga to Toyotomi Hideyoshi or Akechi Mitsuhide to attack and strangle.

A few years have passed, and the top brass of Nobunaga's army can no longer see the old ones who followed Nobunaga's Long March in the first place, but some of those who later defected to Nobunaga are deeply used.

At this time, Nobunaga read the battle report sent by the daimyo for a while, but his mind was always a little chaotic and he couldn't calm down.

He simply threw away the battle report, ordered the left and right to move the mount, and took down an iron-tired bow more than half a person high from the wall on the side, and turned over on the horse after leaving the tent.

However, it is said that Oda Nobunaga has two major retainers, one is Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the other is Akechi Mitsuhide.

Now the Ming court is in turmoil, Oda Nobunaga ordered the army to divide the land and water to march westward, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is the leading general, Hideyoshi first led the army to conquer the capital of Goryeo, and is now fighting with the Ming court's army in the area of Ludong in the Ming Dynasty.

And Akechi Mitsuhide was left by Nobunaga's side to be dispatched as a weekday envoy.

At this time, Akechi Mitsuhide saw Nobunaga carrying a carved bow and a military uniform, and he didn't know that his master was going hunting, so he hurriedly greeted the guards scattered all over Honnoji Temple, selected capable samurai from among them, and rode horses together to chase Oda Nobunaga's figure.

It is autumn in the current country of Fuso, and the wild beasts are desperately eating to survive the cold winter, which is a good time for hunting.

During the autumn hunting in the Central Plains, there is often a forbidden army to draw a paddock in the forest full of wild beasts, and then the army enters the field to guard and discharge the factors that may threaten the emperor's safety in the paddock.

After that, the Son of Heaven and hundreds of officials came together, and the momentum was huge.

In fact, in this way, the beasts in the paddock were already frightened and fled in all directions, and where could there be any prey left, but in order to make the Son of Heaven happy, at this time, it was necessary to drive some docile animals such as deer and rabbits to the paddock from other places, or even drive them directly to the front of the Son of Heaven.

It's not so much a hunt as a recreation.

However, although Oda Nobunaga is now the nameless emperor of Fuso State, he does not have those royal pretentiousness at all, and at this time, the samurai and retainer Akechi Mitsuhide who came to protect him can only follow anxiously in the billowing smoke.

But look at the outfit on Oda Nobunaga's body, wearing a black Nanban helmet with several sharp bumps on the left and right, a fiery red armor Ayara coat, and the lower half of the body is tiger skin breeches, with a mask of unknown material on his face, and some strange patterns on the mask, and riding a tall and strong chrysanthemum green horse under him.

As the horse galloped, his body also fell together, and seemed to merge with the horse under his crotch.

When the chrysanthemum horse neighed and rushed through a jungle, the foraging beasts in the forest sensed danger and fled from the jungle.

If it is in the Central Plains. At this time, there was naturally a forbidden army to drive the prey to the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven only had to stand tall on the horse, take the bow painted with gold magpie painting sent by the minister, raise his hand and shoot indiscriminately.

But now that he is in Fuso instead of the Central Plains, Oda Nobunaga does not have the same blessing as the Central Plains Emperor, and the guards who came with him are still far behind him, and who can help him stop the prey.

At this time, the prey scattered and fled for a short time, if the horse stopped, and did not wait for the chrysanthemum green horse to stand firm, the wild deer and white rabbit would probably have run away without a trace, but Oda Nobunaga is Oda Nobunaga after all, not the delicate sons of the Ming court who are powerless.

Then he saw that his legs were clasped around the belly of the horse, and with his left hand he took off the great bow from his body, and with his right hand he writhed a wolf's tooth arrow from the quiver beside the saddle, and in the blink of an eye the arrow was on the bow like a full moon.

A flash of lightning shot out, and a mournful roar was heard, and a wild deer fell to the ground and convulsed a few times before ceaseing to move.

Oda Nobunaga seemed to have turned into a galaw on the chrysanthemum green horse, and the iron-tired bow in his hand continued to shoot sharp arrows, and the arrows were not missing.

In a short time the roe deer, wild deer, white rabbit and other wild animals fell to the ground, and Oda Nobunaga did not pick up the prey that had been shot, rubbed his lips and whistled, and the guards who were chasing him scattered in all directions, cheering to pick up the prey on the ground.

These warriors who chased and guarded were all the best in Fuso, and they were all extraordinary, and they often grabbed their dead prey and tied them to the saddle without getting off their horses and reaching out to catch them.

And Akechi Mitsuhide took advantage of Oda Nobunaga's slight slowdown to ride his horse to his master's side.

At this time, Oda Nobunaga had also finished shooting a pot of arrows, and when he saw Akechi Mitsuhide coming, he waved his hand, and Akechi Mitsuhide quickly untied a pot of arrows from his saddle and handed it over.

In this way, Oda Nobunaga shot while walking, once the arrows were gone, he was handed a new one by Akechi Mitsuhide, and after a while, he shot four pots of arrows, and the stuffiness in his heart was finally discharged, and there were many wild things in this forest, and he couldn't stand Nobunaga's arrows of a hundred steps through Yang.

When there were no more wild creatures running out, Oda Nobunaga finally stopped the horse under his crotch.

The guards who followed also packed up the prey all over the ground, and one by one reunited behind Oda Nobunaga, but the eyes that looked at Oda Nobunaga were full of respect.

Some people say that the easiest way to convince a proud person is to defeat him in the area where the opponent is best at it, and there is nothing easier and more effective than showing his hand to impress these arrogant samurai.

Akechi Mitsuhide observed his words and looked at his expression, and when he saw Oda Nobunaga's complexion improve, he said carefully: "Master, where is the Honnoji ......?"

Oda Nobunaga knew what Akechi Mitsuhide wanted to say, and now that the depression in his heart had dissipated, he was ready to order his return.

At this moment, as if he had a feeling in his heart, the iron-tired bow that had been put down was raised high again in an instant, and a wolf-toothed arrow appeared between Oda Nobunaga's thumb and index finger at the same time.

The sharp arrow deflected and shot away into a dense forest in the distance.

Akechi Mitsuhide saw Oda Nobunaga frowning, bent his bow and shot arrows, and sensed that something was wrong, and drew his sword to block it in front of Oda Nobunaga, although if it is about martial arts, he may not be the opponent of Oda Nobunaga, the overlord of the world, and it is not a big role to block in front of Oda Nobunaga.

But his subconscious action still made Oda Nobunaga feel the loyalty of his subordinates, and his frowning brows were slightly flattened.

The rest of the samurai saw Akechi Mitsuhide's movements before drawing their long knives in a daze, but they didn't know what had happened when they pulled out their weapons.

At this moment, in the dense forest where the sharp arrow flew, an earth-shattering roar suddenly erupted, and a huge black bear jumped out of the forest.

This black bear was obviously injured by the sharp arrow that Oda Nobunaga shot just now, and now he is very angry, and he is more than a zhang high, and the people present are all famous martial arts masters in Fuso Country, but seeing such a huge black bear, and everyone is timid, the horses under the crotch are even more trembling, if they are not restrained by their masters, I am afraid they would have run away.

Even Akechi Mitsuhide's hand holding the knife oozed cold sweat.

Only Oda Nobunaga saw the huge black bear appear, and not only did his face not change, but his brow, which had been slightly furrowed before, was completely relaxed, as if some doubts had been resolved.

He then pulled out a wolf's tooth arrow and shot it at the huge black bear that was rushing over, and the arrow obviously used all its strength, and the iron-tired bow more than half a man high was completely extended, and it squeaked.

The wolf's tooth arrow shot like a meteor on the black bear's chest, and there was a ring of white hair in this place where the black bear's heart was located, apparently preparing to kill the bear spirit with one blow.

However, the black bear didn't know if it was really a spirit or how, and it only let out a huge howl when it was hit by an arrow in its heart, and it didn't die immediately, but it finally knew that Oda Nobunaga was not easy to mess with, and turned his head to drill into the dense forest behind him.

Oda Nobunaga saw that the bear spirit was about to run, and was about to draw another arrow, but when he reached out and touched it, he found that the quiver was empty again, and the arrows on Akechi Mitsuhide's side were also exhausted.

At this time, although there were still arrows in the other samurai, Oda Nobunaga did not ask for them again, because he was extremely confident in his arrow, and knew in his heart that although the huge black bear copper skin and iron bone would not die for the time being, it would only live for a moment and a half, and it would still be killed after a while.

Akechi Mitsuhide understood his master's ability, so he took the initiative to ask for orders to lead someone to chase the injured black bear, and Oda Nobunaga saw that the black bear was so tall and very rare, so he also agreed.

Akechi Mitsuhide then led two samurai to chase after the blood trail underground, while Oda Nobunaga returned to Honnoji with the remaining samurai.