"Your Highness, I think he is a liar! Why don't you kill him immediately!?" Kahi Soyun glanced at Heiji Fuang with a cold look, and muttered a few words to one of his ninjas.
"Okay! Organize the army as quickly as possible, leaving 600 people to clean the battlefield, and the rest will follow!" Du Fei was noncommittal, and turned to Oura Shinobu: "Directly attack the Kono family.
Main city!”
"Ah? So fast!?" Oura Weixin asked in surprise.
Du Fei fiddled with his sword and said: "Once the enemy is given a chance to breathe by the speed of the soldiers, it will be difficult to move even an inch. The Maori family will definitely send troops to support them later."
"That is to say, we are very likely to face the attack of the Mori and the Kono family?" Kai Soun was a little worried: "Then we need to prepare more food and grass, maybe we will get into a tug of war."
"Lord! The grain and grass shipped from Tianwu City has arrived! Is it stored in the city?" Oda Shisheng, who had not shown up at this time, walked in. It turned out that he was assigned to transport the grain and grass.
Upon seeing this, Oura Weixin and others praised him repeatedly: 'It turns out that my lord has been thinking ahead of us for a long time. He is really far-sighted! I admire him!"
"Okay! When did you learn this trick?" Du Fei seemed to be a little helpless and shook his head: "Hurry up and act!"
While Du Fei and others were busy trying to dominate the four countries, Tokichiro had already fallen into despair, Sasanagi Masa's voice was getting stronger and stronger, and the opposition in Kitanomi Country became more and more fierce and began to spread to nearby areas.
Among Oda's former ministers, except for Niwa Nagahide, who still supports him as always, almost all his supporters have changed their stance.
Oda Nobuo even summoned everyone and asked Tokichiro to let Oda Nobutaka live, and said that Tokichiro "if he doesn't let him go, it will show disrespect for Oda's descendants, and he will be a traitor and traitor!"
The aura of Tokichiro personally strangling Mitsuhide Akechi's rebellion was receding little by little. When he felt more and more isolated, the battle reports from Shikoku made him feel a little relieved.
He understood that Du Fei was supporting him in disguise, and he felt a little warm in his heart. However, this warmth did not last long before he was broken by another bad news: the long-awaited Uesugi family governor Uesugi Yunobu passed away from illness!
This news was like a thunderbolt from the clear sky! You know, the young master of the Uesugi family, Uesugi Kagekatsu, had secretly reached an agreement with him, and the two parties would form a steel alliance. But Shibata Katsuiehō rushed to Kyoto in time to strangle Akechi Mitsuhide, who was Uesugi Kagekatsu.
Leading soldiers to obstruct it.
Tokichiro shook his head after reading this secret letter from the ninja: Once Uesugi Yushin died, Uesugi Kagekatsu, who had not yet gained full-fledged wings, had not yet received the support of all his retainers, and changes were bound to happen!
Sure enough, the date in the second secret letter was only three days different from the first one, and it already explained the outbreak of the "Otate Rebellion"!
It turned out that Uesugi Konobu did not name an heir before his death, but two people who were qualified to inherit the position of family governor were Uesugi Kagekatsu and Uesugi Kagetora.
This directly led to the rupture of the Uesugi family. The retainers were immediately divided into two factions with clear-cut flags. The pro-Hojo family forces headed by Hojo Takahiro, Honjo Mino and others naturally sided with Uesugi Kagetora, who had adopted the Hojo family.
The conservatives Yamamotoji Nagasada, Naoe Keetsuna and others firmly stood on the side of Uesugi Kagetora.
Judging from the overall deployment of forces, Uesugi Kagetora has a great advantage, but Uesugi Kagetora is intimidated by the fact that he has the strong backing of the Hojo family.
Tokichiro put down the secret report and collapsed on the tatami in frustration.
Du Fei couldn't exert himself, Tokugawa Ieyasu was indifferent, and everyone in the Oda family seemed to be inseparable from him. He originally expected the Uesugi family to help him, but he didn't expect that his good friend Uesugi Kagekatsu was already in trouble.
"Brother! Please don't be so frustrated!" Kinoshita Koichiro advised: "At least we still have strong troops! Only during this period of time will we carefully guard the territory, and gradually blockade several rebels, and finally kill them all.
!I believe that the other old Oda generals will obey obediently!"
"Wrong" Tokichiro said impatiently: "You don't understand these people of the Oda family very well. They sometimes advance and retreat together because of a very inconspicuous thing, and their positions are extremely firm.
They disappear en masse during important events.
He couldn't help but think of the Lords of Oda City and the Kingdom who were holding heavy troops but looking around during the Incident at Honnoji Temple, and he couldn't help but sigh heavily.
"Your Highness! I think we should take the initiative at this time!" Kuroda Kanbei has been extremely active recently, which has won the appreciation of Tokichiro. He has the potential to surpass Takenaka Hanbei and become a military advisor. His calm and careful analysis
He said: "Now the old generals of the Oda family have been dissatisfied with you because you caused the death of Miss Aichi during the siege. As long as you do a small thing, you can change it and alleviate these people's resentment towards you!"
"What? Is there such a thing? Tell me quickly!" Tokichiro was very excited after hearing this. In fact, the key to making him suffer from all sides was this matter. Tokichiro always wanted to remedy it, but death could not bring her back to life.
I saw Kuroda Kanbei talking and gesticulating: "You should erect a monument for Miss Aichi and build her a Saharatsu Shrine and a mausoleum with great fanfare!"
"What!" Tokichiro sweatdropped when he heard this. He knew that it would cost a lot to build a decent mausoleum suitable for Ashi's identity. The money used could help him recruit thousands of troops. But he then thought: Not now
The issue of strength is more about reputation and prestige. If this situation continues, it will be a matter of time before the Oda family falls apart.
So he gritted his teeth and made up his mind: "Order! Concentrate all manpower and material resources to build a mausoleum for Miss Aichi at Xiguang Temple near Kyoto! Build it into the largest and most gorgeous one!"
Ah Shi, since I was sorry for you and caused you to be separated from your family twice (last time in Odani Castle, Tokichiro was in charge of attacking the city), then I will build you the most luxurious mausoleum in the world! Let future generations come to admire your beauty.
And chastity! Tokichiro thought silently in his heart.
As a result, a large-scale mausoleum was built, and with the support of strong manpower and material resources, it was built very quickly.
The old generals of the Oda family who knew the news didn't take it seriously at first, but when the mausoleum was built a month later, they were shocked when they saw it!
It turns out that this mausoleum, Tokichiro, was modeled after the Afang Palace built by Emperor Qin Shihuang for his tragically deceased daughter Afang during the Qin Dynasty in China. However, the financial and material resources were far less than that, and the layout and appearance were slightly similar.
Even so, everyone was amazed. You must know that at that time, there were years of war. In order to save money, the daimyo could not even build city walls and did not even want to spend money to buy new weapons for the soldiers. However, Tokichiro came up with such a plan.
A lot of money for a dead man
Kuroda Kanbei's plan has indeed achieved the expected results. Although several rebels are still arrogant, the resistance of the truly powerful old Oda generals towards Tokichiro has been greatly weakened.
Fujiyoshiro finally breathed a long sigh of relief, and the big stone that weighed on his heart finally fell.
So he began to use various means to bribe and infiltrate the rebels of Kitohimi. After his wise generals tried to sow discord, two voices began to appear within the rebels of Kitohimi.
Abeno and Goshang Ryuukiken began to argue over the position of their leader. Finally, Abeno, who wanted to become the daimyo of Kitaomi Province, led the cavalry and ninjas to attack Goshang Ryuukiken's mansion on a dark night and massacred him.
He killed hundreds of his clan, but at the critical moment, Yu Shang Longzhijian was rescued by his cronies and escaped.
The Kitanomi Kingdom was completely broken. The surviving Goshang Ryuuzuki gathered his own troops and began a massive counterattack. The two companions who were originally in the same trench now became sworn enemies!
"Great!" Tokichiro and others who controlled all of this began to carry out their next plan, which is to completely eradicate Sasaki Naimasa who has been bothering them!