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After Oda Nobunaga led the people back to Honnoji Temple, several daimyo sent the latest battle reports from the front. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This battle report was written by Toyotomi Hideyoshi himself, and the Fuso army had made a breakthrough on the eastern front of the Ming Dynasty, and it would not be long before it could capture the defense line of Ludong and drive straight in.

Such news is undoubtedly exciting for Oda Nobunaga, as long as the army of Fuso breaks through the Ming Dynasty's defense line and enters the Central Plains, then the military will be in turmoil, the situation in the northern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty will definitely change, and the Turpan Kingdom in the western Xinjiang will also take advantage of the fire to rob.

At that time, there will be no way to return to heaven under the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Ming's reign will come to an end, thinking that the rotten Zhu Ming will finally be destroyed in his own hands, Oda Nobunaga couldn't help laughing.

But immediately after the sentence mentioned in the battle report, the smile that made him about to bloom converge, it turned out that it was mentioned in the war report that Shenzong Zhu Yijun had issued an order to order Qi Jiguang, the governor of Guangdong, to lead the Qi family army to the north in the starry night.

When the Qi army went north, it was bound to pass through the Shandong border, and with the courage and skill of the Qi army, if Qi Jiguang arrived, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had not yet conquered the Ming court's defense line in Shandong, I am afraid that there would be no chance to enter the Central Plains.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi mentioned his scruples very tactfully in the war report, but Oda Nobunaga could still feel that his cronies' confidence was shaking, in fact, it was no wonder that Toyotomi Hideyoshi, even Oda Nobunaga himself, who was invincible in the East Ying War, did not dare to say that he would definitely be able to take advantage of Qi Jiguang, the contemporary Ming court god of war.

In fact, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's worries may not come true, after all, he will be able to conquer the Shandong defense line in a few days, and the order of the Ming court to recruit the Qi family army has just been issued.

But this time the turmoil in the Ming court is too important for Oda Nobunaga, if this opportunity is missed, when the Ming court recovers from the turmoil, with the strength of the Ming Dynasty, the army of the Fusang State alone is not qualified to compete with it, let alone drag the Zhu family down from the high throne.

Therefore, Oda Nobunaga must ensure that this operation is foolproof.

So Oda Nobunaga immediately ordered many of his generals, such as Akechi Mitsuhide, Hosokawa Tadashiko, Ikeda Tsuneko, Nakafuna Kiyohide, and Takayama Shigetomo, to reorganize their horses and prepare for reinforcements.

The above five generals are all generals relied on by Oda Nobunaga, among which Akechi Mitsuhide is not only a well-educated talent, but also has a brilliant record in the east and west under Nobunaga, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi is called Nobunaga's arms.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was sent to fight by Oda Nobunaga early, and at this time he canonized Akechi Mitsuhide as a general and let him be the vanguard of reinforcements, on the one hand, he was afraid that the situation on the front line would change later, especially when he heard the news that Qi Jiguang, the god of war in the Ming court, was going to lead the army to the field, it was imperative to send additional reinforcements.

On the other hand, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Akechi Mitsuhide, as Oda Nobunaga's right-hand men, appeared together for the first time in the same battle, which is enough to see that Nobunaga is imperative for this battle.

In his plan, Akechi Mitsuhide immediately set off as a fast boat, taking advantage of the wind to be able to rush Qi Jiguang to the north, to assist Toyotomi Hideyoshi to break the defensive line, so as to completely tear the scale armor of the Ming Dynasty, a fierce dragon that dominates the west.

He believed that as long as the Fusang army won a great victory, then the Tatar Jurchen and other tribes in northern and western Xinjiang would definitely take advantage of this good opportunity to rush forward and tear the Ming Dynasty dragon to pieces.

However, it was said that Oda Nobunaga was extremely strict in governing the army, and not long after the order was issued, four retainers, including Hosokawa Tadashiko, Ikeda Tsuneko, Nakafune Kiyohide, and Takayama Shigetomo, had already put on their armor and ordered their respective subordinates to gather their troops and prepare for the attack outside Honnoji Temple.

Only Akechi Mitsuhide, because he had hunted with Oda Nobunaga before, led people to chase the injured black bear and still did not return.

Oda Nobunaga sat alone in the makeshift tent of the Chinese army, and for a moment he thought of the strange draw that appeared on the chessboard of the Honinbo Calculation Sand and Shier Shio, and for a moment he came up with the strange black bear he encountered while hunting, and finally his thoughts turned to Akechi Mitsuhide.

This wise Mitsuhide follows his own time for a long time, not too long, not short, has always been the most effective subordinate, often Oda Nobunaga's mind is a little revealed, wise Mitsuhide will understand the meaning, for Nobunaga to take care of all the chores properly, although Toyotomi Hideyoshi is the same as Wise Mitsuhide is Oda Nobunaga's most relied on subordinate.

But Nobunaga has always arranged Toyotomi Hideyoshi to lead the army outside, but left Akechi Mitsuhide by his side to instruct, this habit Nobunaga has unknowingly cultivated for many years, and now he suddenly issued an order but did not see Akechi Mitsuhide receiving the order, and his heart was a little unstable.

The chess game, the black bear, and Mitsuhide suddenly became a mess in Oda Nobunaga's mind, and the feeling of irritability came back to his heart.

Oda Nobunaga suddenly felt indescribably depressed, and even took off the mask that he never took off easily, but fortunately, there was no one else in the Chinese army's tent at this time except Nobunaga himself, and no one saw the face under the mask.

The fact that Oda Nobunaga likes to wear a mask has already spread throughout Fuso and even overseas.

And the reason why Nobunaga wore a mask naturally spread with the story, people can't help but speculate, some say that Oda Nobunaga was seriously injured on his face during the early years of the war, and he was hideous and terrifying, so he had to wear a mask to cover it all day.

Some say that Oda Nobunaga was so delicate that he wore a hideous mask in order to increase his prestige, so that others would be in awe of him.

Others say that Oda Nobunaga has been ...... since childhood.

There are many, many such rumors, and these people naturally dare not mention them in front of Oda Nobunaga, but when they tell others, it is as if they have witnessed Oda Nobunaga's face with their own eyes.

In fact, even the initiators of these rumors probably couldn't imagine that no one in the entire Fuso country, or even the whole world, had ever seen this face under Oda Nobunaga's mask, because everyone who saw this face died.

Some died of old age, some were killed by the sea, but many more were killed by Oda Nobunaga himself.

This is a very pale and cold face, with a kind of vicissitudes in the roughness, although it is not handsome and beautiful, but there is a majesty and domineering between the eyebrows, if someone sees Oda Nobunaga's true face, they will not help but ask, with such a good-looking man, why do you wear a mask all day long.

I'm afraid that only Oda Nobunaga knows this reason.

The sword on his waist was pulled out in half by Nobunaga himself, this is the masterpiece of the most famous swordmaker in Fuso country, Huoyunzhai, the sword life 'overlord' is the name of Huoyunzhai himself, and since the day it was cast, it has attracted countless people to compete.

But for some reason, everyone who grabbed the 'hegemony' will die tragically after a while, and when more and more people are killed by the 'hegemony', then people remember what Huoyunzhai said before he died: "The hegemony is a sword of the royal road, if you don't have enough luck, forcibly occupying it can only harm others and yourself." ”

Sure enough, every master of the 'hegemon' has never lived for a month, until Oda Nobunaga appeared, and finally seemed to have surrendered to the arrogance of the 'hegemon', and now Oda Nobunaga has been in charge of the hegemony for nearly ten years.

However, the brilliance that bloomed when the 'Hegemony' was unsheathed was still like the moment when Huoyunzhai had just made it into a quenching one.

The sword used by Fusang is very different from that of the Ming State, and it is not a two-sided blade, and if any Han people see the 'hegemony', most of them will think that it is a long knife.

The shiny blade of the sword exposed by the 'hegemon' unsheathed is like the smoothest mirror in the world, through the reflection of the blade, Oda Nobunaga is also looking at his own strange and familiar face.

Although his face is still the same, the grayness of his temples still reveals that he is not young anymore.

Now he wears a long bun and wears a wide robe, if there is really a former old man who is still alive to see it, he will not recognize him.

Over the years, he has given up many things, including the persistence that he was most proud of, and after experiencing all kinds of hardships in the world, he seems to have unconsciously become the person he once hated the most.

He was ruthless, he was domineering, he would do whatever it took to achieve his goals, he dedicated his life to the blood feud that he would never forget, he even gave up everything he had in exchange for his current power, and the once unattainable and seemingly invincible enemy was finally pinched by him.

That person ruined everything for him, and he wanted the other party's entire family to experience the pain he had experienced, but why didn't he have the joy he imagined when he saw that the great revenge was avenged.

The bloodied girl seemed to have become his eternal curse, constantly haunting him in his sleep, stormy and bloody......

Maybe when I have no worries, I should go to the other side to find her......

At this moment, outside the big tent, there was a sudden sound of sporadic footsteps, and Oda Nobunaga put the mask in his hand back on his face, covering the white hair of his sideburns and his sad face, and turned back into the overlord who held the power of life and death in the entire Fuso country.

The curtain of the door of the large tent was lifted, and a man covered in blood staggered in, it was Oda Nobunaga's confidant Akechi Mitsuhide, who was waiting.

Seeing that Achichi Mitsuhide's body was covered with beast blood, his whole body was wrapped in the smell of blood, the armor on his legs was torn to pieces, but he was holding an incomparably huge bear skin tightly in his hand, and the two samurai who followed Akechi Mitsuhide couldn't even see anyone.

Oda Nobunaga had been restless today, and he was even more uneasy when he suddenly saw Aisho's miserable appearance, and wondered in his heart that the arrow he shot had missed, and the huge black bear was only slightly injured and was frightened away.

With the huge size of the black bear, if it was really desperately struggling, it would probably not be pleasing to Akechi Mitsuhide and the two samurai alone, and now that there is no trace of those two samurai, it is obvious that he is killed.

It's not a pity that these two people died, but Wise Mitsuhide was his favorite general, and said with concern: "Mitsuhide, what's wrong with you?"

Akechi Mitsuhide bit his lower lip with a bitter face, and did not answer, but respectfully walked towards Oda Nobunaga with the bearskin.

This black bear is huge, I don't know what kind of artifact it is, although it is dead at this time, but far away, Oda Nobunaga still seems to be able to feel the faint murderous aura on the bear's skin.

Akechi Mitsuhide walked and walked, and suddenly he stumbled......