After holding the card of Ashikaga General in his hand, Oda Nobunaga sat with Du Fei and Tokugawa Ieyasu and began to study the next move.
"Needless to say!" Oda Nobunaga looked very impatient: "We hold the Ashikaga card in our hands, what we have to do now is to recruit troops, and then march all the way into the capital!"
Tokugawa Ieyasu immediately said: "If it's possible, you must know that what we have to face in the end is the powerful Miyoshi family! And on the way to Beijing, the Rokkaku family will block us. In addition, the Matsunaga family will also interfere with us."
"Tokugawa! You don't have to worry about things here. Just guard your own territory. That guy Takeda Shingen has been staring at your territory recently. Don't underestimate him!" Oda Nobunaga mentioned Takeda Shingen.
, there was a slight trace of fear on his face.
Du Fei carefully saw all this in his eyes, and he thought to himself: What kind of powerful character would Takeda Shingen be, who could frighten a fearless guy like Oda Nobunaga?
"No problem, Takeda, you don't have to worry. I've found a way to deal with him. Just don't fight with him in the field! Because the Takeda family's cavalry is so powerful! I'll eat it near Iida Castle from now on.
After that loss, I realized that a head-on confrontation with the Takeda family's soldiers and horses is really asking for death! The only way to deal with them is to defend the city and clear the country at the same time!" Tokugawa Ieyasu said with a trace of bitterness on his face. Yes.
Being surrounded by others in the city is really unpleasant.
"Tokugawa, thank you for your hard work!" At this time, Oda Nobunaga finally felt that his conscience was a little hard to bear: "After our entry to Beijing is completed, neither Takeda nor Uesugi! Nothing can stop us! We can
Support Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and then continue to command the world in the name of the public! At that time, anyone who opposes us will commit rebellion! Haha!"
Du Fei looked at the map of the westward march and murmured: "It seems that the Asai family of Kitaomi Kingdom is also on our westward march. Will they have any trouble?"
"Absolutely not!" Oda Nobunaga said triumphantly: "I have long since married my sister Aichi to Asai Nagamasa, the governor of the Asai family! Now he is my brother-in-law. Do you think he dares to fart?
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"Then our only obstacle now is the Liujia family." A smile appeared on Du Fei's face: Liujia family! It's not that I want to kill you! It's that you have run out of energy!
"However, the Rokkaku family suddenly became wealthy for some reason recently, and they suddenly expanded their army by several thousand. That miser Rokkaku Seizada also spent a lot of money to renovate his castle. It seems that it is not easy to deal with." Tokugawa Ieyasu
He could always pour cold water on him at the right time and bring Oda Nobunaga back to his senses when he was overly optimistic.
"Yes." I saw that Oda Nobunaga, who had been furious just now, also calmed down: "The Rokkaku family's archers are famous all over the world. If we attack hard, I don't know how many soldiers will be shot to death and wounded."
The Rokkaku family's archers are more powerful? Du Fei also made a calculation in his mind. Once the Rokkaku family and the Oda family start a war, they will definitely go on the defensive immediately. The Oda family who is attacking the city will suffer heavy casualties from the deadly bows and arrows of the Rokkaku family.
How to deal with bows and arrows?
Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Du Fei were all thinking about the same question.
Suddenly Du Fei remembered that in the Three Kingdoms era in China, when Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times, Meng Huo brought a kind of barbarian soldiers wearing rattan armor to fight. The rattan armor was not afraid of swords, guns and arrows, and was cheap to build.
I didn’t know the secret method of making it, but I didn’t know until I conquered Meng Huo. In fact, the so-called rattan armor is made from mountain vines, soaked in oil and then dried in the sun. It is actually very simple to make. Why not expose this hand at this time and let them
Is it an eye-opener for these island country bumpkins?
So Du Fei told the two of him his idea of building a rattan armor.
Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu were shocked when they heard this: "Sir, you actually know such a wonderful method."
"Dusan, do it boldly! Maybe the key to victory or defeat lies in this rattan armor! I will provide all the materials and manpower you need! Please personally supervise the work and hurry up!" Oda Nobunaga said excitedly.
Rubbing hands: Now I have another secret weapon! Now the road to Beijing is easier!
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Du Fei began to regret that he had said such heroic words in a flash of his mind, but when he actually made it, he found that there were many difficulties: there was no such vine needed to make rattan armor in Oda's territory! Du Fei's faction
People searched all over Owari and Mino but couldn't find it. He even suspected that there was no such vine in all Japan.
But I have already boasted about Haikou, so I can’t give up now? In that case, I really won’t be able to gain a foothold.
So he began to expand the scope of his search, and even ventured to the Rokkaku family's territory to search.
In order to avoid attracting attention, he only brought Kobata to the territory of the Rokkaku family - Van Gogh Town.
According to reliable information, someone once saw thick vines growing in the mountains here. They wanted to find a local guide, but found that everyone in the town hid after seeing them, as if they would bite people.
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"What seems to be going on?" Du Fei deliberately did not take the kappa out in order to avoid complications, but he did not expect to receive such treatment.
Xiaoban looked around and then said quietly: "The people here seem to be not only targeting us, they are also afraid of strangers with knives. Look over there!"
Du Fei looked where his finger pointed and saw a wild samurai walking swaggering through the town. The townspeople were all avoiding him as if they were the king of hell.
"What exactly happened here? Why are people so afraid of people with knives?" he said to himself suspiciously.
It seemed that they wanted to know the reason, so they had no choice but to hide the sword first. So the two of them took off all the swords they carried and hid them in a tree.
The two of them were walking on the streets of the town with empty hands, and they suddenly felt that the townspeople looked at them with less vigilance and fear. Du Fei saw a middle-aged man selling fish on the street, so he walked up to him and asked, "Is this
Brother, why do the people in the town seem so weird? What are they afraid of?"
The dirty fish seller raised his head, looked at them carefully with his small eyes, and said, "Are you foreigners? No wonder everyone is now scared of the murderer.
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"The knife-killer?" Xiaoban exclaimed after hearing this: "You mean, the knife-tester murderer has appeared again?"
I saw the man with a bitter look on his face frowning and saying: "Isn't that right? The knife-thumbing murderer who appeared in Kyoto ten years ago seems to have appeared here. I don't know why he would like our small place. He has been found for more than ten years."
The corpses of all the individuals were so miserable that it’s unbearable to look at this place.”
"Should the Liujia family just leave it alone?" Du Fei said angrily after hearing this.
"You expect them to care?" The man smiled bitterly: "They will just pretend to hang around here, collect a large amount of money and then leave! They don't care about the life and death of the people!"
Just when Du Fei wanted to continue asking, a shrill female voice suddenly shouted: "It's killing! It's killing! Here comes the murderous maniac!!"
I saw a disheveled young woman running over in a panic. She was so nervous that she accidentally tripped over her own feet and fell to the ground!
Behind her, there was a tall, fat man holding a nodachi in one hand and walking towards her with a lewd smile: "Hey, if you run away again, I will test the sword on you."
The young woman crawled forward desperately, shouting to the sparse pedestrians on the street as she climbed: "Help! Help!"
But when the people on the street heard that the murderer was coming, they were so frightened that they all ran away. No one dared to move forward.
In an instant, only Du Fei, Xiao Ban, the man with the knife and the young girl were left on the broad street.
Du Fei suddenly asked Xiaoban quietly: "Is that sword-testing murderer very good at swordsmanship?"
"Yes!" Xiaoban seemed to be a little frightened at this time: "It is said that that guy was originally a swordsmanship teacher of a famous master. Later, he wandered around because he devoted himself to practicing swordsmanship. In the end, he fell into the trap of pursuing the lethality of swordsmanship one-sidedly.
He actually sneaked into Kyoto, where the emperor was, and killed people everywhere! Even the hordes of guards could do nothing to him, but he killed him and fled away! It is said that Urahara Michizan, the famous swordsman in Kyoto, also died in his hands!"
After hearing this, Du Fei walked forward without saying a word, standing between the girl and the giant man holding the nodachi.
"What? Do you want to be my knife tester?" Du Fei, who was as strong as a tiger and looked like a giant man, seemed a little timid.
"Why would a friend pretend to be someone else?" Du Fei looked at him contemptuously: "Does your Majesty have very little confidence in yourself?"
The giant man was at a loss for words after hearing this. He could only see his eyes rolling around, with an expression as if he was a thief who had been caught. At this time, Xiaoban also saw that someone like this could never be a terrible knife tester.
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"Are you looking for death? I can tell you! I have killed hundreds of people!" The giant man gestured with the nodachi in his hand in a bluffing manner, but his panicked expression had completely given him away.
Suddenly Du Fei kicked him hard and hit him in the abdomen!
The giant man howled like a killing pig and fell down all of a sudden!
The disheveled woman cried and threw herself into the arms of an oncoming old man: "Father!"
The giant man cursed and tried to get up to fight back, but was unexpectedly kicked in the face by Xiaoban again. His face suddenly looked like a soy sauce shop, his lips and teeth were shattered by the kick, and his nose was bleeding. He fell to the ground!
The townspeople hiding in the dark ran out one after another when they saw this scene. The old man holding his daughter said with tears: "Thank you, two samurai-samas. If you hadn't got rid of this murderous maniac, our entire town would be here."
All will live in peace forever”
"This is not the knife tester!" Du Fei looked into the distance with bright eyes: "There must be someone else who is the real knife tester!"