When Yu Qiuping walked out of Oguchi Castle in a daze, there was already a bag of beans in her hand. It was stuffed into his hands by Ashi before leaving. This miserable woman was about to witness her brother and her husband fighting on the battlefield. The tragedy of family interests and political marriage still came to her. Whether it is the Building Mountain Palace, Imakawa Kaede, or Ashi, this may be the fate that women in troubled times cannot escape.
"His Highness Changzheng told me that he was going to be enemies with his brother and everyone. I really don't want to see such a thing...I don't want to see my beloved husband and my family meet on the battlefield." Ashi, who was wearing the rain, walked to Yu Qiuping who was about to leave, and the makeup on his face was already burst into tears. "But I understand His Highness Changzheng's position. He is fighting for his righteousness. I can't stop him for my own personal affair."
"I am His Highness Changmasato's wife, the mistress of the Asai family. I am already a member of the Asai family." Asichi sobbed, he took out a bag of beans from his arms, and the ends of the bags containing the beans were densely sewn with thread. "When the Asai family and the Oda family were against each other, I could only stand on the side of the Asai family, and I hope Brother Hongye and everyone should not blame me." Asichi wiped his tears and stuffed the bag of beans into Yu Qiuhei's hand. "The Asai family is about to send troops. Please ask Brother Hongye to help me bring this beans to my brother. If my brother could understand, he might have reacted for an hour earlier. This is what I can do for the Oda family as the princess of the Oda family."
"I understand, I will bring it." Yu Qiuping endured the sadness that was not inferior to Ashi at all, and forced a smile to comfort her, then turned around and left, "Ashi should also take good care of her health and take good care of Chacha and the others."
"Brother Hongye, this time the alliance is broken, the Asai family and the Oda family won't really be to the point of death!" Just as Yu Qiuhei was about to walk out of the gate of Honmaru, Ashi suddenly took a few steps forward, grabbed Yu Qiuhei's sleeve, and cried in tears: "No! Brother Hongye, tell me, no! You will still make up in the future, right?"
Yu Qiuping's body was stunned for a moment and turned around dullly. Although he didn't say anything, the sadness on his face had already given the answer. Ashi's face suddenly turned pale, and his body suddenly began to tremble unstoppably.
"If the Asai family wins, there may be a possibility of reconciliation." Yu Qiuhei swallowed and retelled the history of his previous life with some difficulty. "But if the Oda family wins, the history of the Asakura family and the Asai family as daimyo may have come to an end. Because the lord will never let Echizen and Kitaoe fall into the hands of others."
He could actually comfort this heartbroken girl with clichés like "everything will be fine" and "The Asai family and the Oda family will be reconciled". He knew that this is what Ashi wants to hear now, which can support her to come out of her grief. But when he thought that history was about to repeat, when he thought that Ashi's warm family was about to be broken, and when he thought that she would spend the rest of her life in tragedy, Yu Qiuping's lies could not be said.
"This... is this..." Asichi was so breathless by Yu Qiuping's heavy tone, and asked timidly: "If the Asai family loses, how will his brother treat His Highness Changzheng?"
Ashi's words seemed to penetrate Yu Qiuping's heart, forcing him to think of the cruel "human bone wine cup" in the history of his previous life."
Oh my God...
Yu Qiuping did not dare to answer Ashi's words, but tried hard to squeeze out a smile at her, and then rode his horse and whipped away.
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By the time Yu Qiuhei rushed back to the Oda family camp on April 2, Kanezaki Castle had been captured by the Odori Alliance. Kanezaki Castle's guard Keiyoshi Asakura did not have much time to organize defense, so he had to abandon the city and flee.
The military power of the Asakura family is roughly divided into three branches: the Asakura family's direct troops, the Atsugaki who is stationed in the western part of Echizen and Wakasaka area, and the Onochi who is stationed in the eastern part of Echizen. The once famous military general Asakura Sodi was once the commander of the Atsugaki. The current commander of the Atsugaki is Asakura Keiho, who is known as the first general of the Asakura family. A few years ago, he led the Atsugaki to conquer Wakasaka.
However, the first general had to give up his strategic location at Kanazaki Castle at this moment. Because the Oda family launched a hasty attack, although the Atsuka people were able to gather, the Asakura family's direct troops and the Onoba people further east had not arrived yet. The Atsuka people's total strength was only more than 8,400, and they could not resist the military force of the 45,000 Odori coalition forces. In order to retain their strength, Asakura Keihoku abandoned the city and left.
However, the main force of the Asakura family also arrived at Bofu, 30 miles east of Kanazaki Castle on April 2, and met the Atsugaki clan of Asakura Keiho, with a total force of 25,000. The southwest and southeast of Echizen Kingdom are mountains. If you want to enter the plains of the central Echizen Kingdom, you can only pass through the official road. The Bofu, which is guarded by the main force of the Asakura family, is an important pass on the official road. Therefore, the Oritoko coalition was also ready to attack the Asakura family's troops heading.
Just when the Odori coalition was about to advance eastward and was holding an evaluation meeting outside Kanazaki Castle, Yu Qiuping rushed back in turmoil. After entering the main account, he did not say much, but directly handed the bean bags from Ashi to Oda Nobunaga.
"This is what Princess Ashi asked her to bring to the lord. Please take a look." Yu Qiuping looked cold. After saying this, she looked at Oda Nobunaga without saying a word.
Princess Ashi's bean bag made the samurai in the main tent talk. Everyone stared at the bag containing beans for a long time, but couldn't see any name. Could it be that Princess Ashi still had the leisure and elegance to send a bag of beans in such a nervous situation?
"So what does the Asai family mean?" Ninoha Nagahide saw Yu Qiuhei and seemed to be angry with Oda Nobunaga again, and deliberately spoke to revitalize the atmosphere, "Have you accepted our conditions?"
"What are you accepting? Asai Nagamasa is going to send troops!" Before Yu Qiuhei could answer, Oda Nobunaga laughed first. He raised the bag in his hand and smiled at the samurai who were present, "The bag is sewn in front and back, which means that the Asakura family and the Asai family are going to attack each other. The beans in this bag are talking about our coalition forces!"
"Do you think so, Yu Qiuhei?" Oda Nobunaga sneered, stared at Yu Qiuhei with his falcon-like eyes, and asked in a deep voice.
As soon as Oda Nobunaga said this, everyone in the tent took a breath. According to the custom of the Han people, it is very impolite to call others by name. Although Yu Qiuhei is a time traveler and does not have this habit, he has not been called directly for more than ten years. It can be seen that Oda Nobunaga said this that he was very dissatisfied with Yu Qiuhei.
"Report to lord, yes." Yu Qiuhei bowed to Oda Nobunaga and replied in a low voice.
"Didn't Yu ask you to appease Nagamasa Asai! What's wrong with you? Why did the Asai family break the alliance and send troops?" After seeing Yu Qiuhei's guilty, Oda Nobunaga broke out completely and scolded everyone in front of everyone: "Why didn't there any news about Nagamasa Asai before, it's just a fair wife. Asai Nagamasa will break the alliance and send troops? I remember, you have an old friend with Nagamasa Asai, you are still the ethical brother of Nagamasa. Did you advise him to break the alliance and send troops? Then the Asai family and Asakura family attack us, are you fighting back from behind? Hum? Are I talking about it?"
"Isn't it normal for the lord to do such a thing that hurts the world and is it a normal thing for His Highness Asai to fight for justice?" Yu Qiuhei was not afraid of Oda Nobunaga's accusation, and replied with a straight chest out loud, "As for being in a low position, you are not afraid of being slanted by the shadows, and you will definitely not do anything to betrayal!"
"What do you mean? Are you scolding Yu? Hahaha..." Oda Nobunaga laughed furiously, threw the fan in his hand on Yu Qiuping's face, and whispered to Sasa Natsumasa beside him: "Asura, take people to arrest Yu Qiuping for Yu, imprison him behind the battlefield, and hand over his troops to Takenaka Shigeji!"
"At the time of the disaster, the lord doesn't think about how to retreat from the desperate situation, but instead suspicious of each other?" Yu Qiuping was held by the two horsemen led by Sasa Chengzheng and pulled them out of the tent, but he still said with a firm voice: "Now our coalition forces are lonely outside the country, and the retreat is not guaranteed, and they will be attacked on both sides. Why don't the lord consider it early?"
Yu Qiuhei's words caused many samurai to worry. Tokugawa Ieyasu, Niba Nagahide, Morikozen and many other samurai were worried about the situation of the coalition forces. Yu Qiuhei's words are true. The Odo Tokugawa coalition forces are now attacked on both sides and are still located in the territory of the unfamiliar Asai family. If the Asai family rebels, the retreat for the Oda family to withdraw from the Minami Ori has been cut off. The 45,000 army is already in a desperate situation at this moment. Only by striving to break the Asai Nagamasa to regain the road to return will there be a chance. It is not wise to have internal strife now. Therefore, many people in the tent made a clear statement to Yu Qiuhei, reminding Oda Nobunaga that the situation is at a critical moment and should unite as one.
"Oh?" After seeing the reaction of the people in the tent, Oda Nobunaga raised his eyebrows proudly, without any nervousness. "Do you really think that we are in a desperate situation?"
Before everyone could react, Oda Nobunaga had waved his hand. Several horsemen behind him immediately presented a map and hung it on the wooden board behind the main tent. Everyone looked closely and found that it was a map of the area of ​​the Kuangyue-Changfaji-Kanzaki Castle.
"Yu deliberately angered the Asakura family and attacked the Asakura family across its territory, either for anything else, or for the purpose of leading the Asakura family to break the alliance and send troops." Oda Nobunaga sneered and looked at the other side of Lake Biwa from afar. "The Asakura family took the initiative to break the alliance, so Yu had an excuse to attack Kitao Omi. Yu had already agreed with Captain Euemon that as long as the Asakura family headed north to attack, he would immediately lead the 20,000 troops left behind in the Kyoto area to advance eastward and attack the empty Kitao Omi!"
"And here!" Oda Nobunaga became more and more proud of himself, and he knocked heavily on the map with his hands. "Since the Asai family has sent troops, our retreat has been cut off, and there is only one way to retreat. The Asakura family, who could not defend the dead, will definitely emerge from his tightly defended turtle shell and come to chase us. Yu gave Kanezaki Castle to him and tempted him to continue to go deeper."
"Then, we go from Kushita to Nagata Temple and set up heavy defenses!" Oda Nobunaga pointed at the official road from Kushita to Nagata Temple with his right hand, and automatically pulled a long line westward. "This place is surrounded by mountains in the north and water in the south, and there is only a not-wide official road. As long as we stick to the official road, we can block Asai Nagata's army here for several days!"
"At this time, the pursuit troops of the Asakura family are about to chase to the Changfa Temple. He must have thought that we were fleeing in a panic, and just wanted to fight back from the Asakura family. He was definitely not willing to stay for a long time, so he must pursue them carelessly." Oda Nobunaga sneered again, and said in a deep voice: "Then we will set up an ambush on the mountain road from Kanezaki Castle to Changfa Temple, and defeated the careless Asakura family in one fell swoop. Then turn around and eliminate the Asakura family!"
After Oda Nobunaga said that, he grabbed the beans in the bag that had just been placed on the table, glanced at him with disdain, and then pinched them down hard. The simple sewn bag was squeezed and exploded by Oda Nobunaga, and the beans in the bag collapsed and spread all over the floor.
Chapter completed!