"The Rokkaku mother and daughter started an uprising in Minami Omi, what about us? Where should we fight?"
Asai Nagamasa said seriously.
"His Majesty Oda is making preparations in Gifu City, and mobilization in various places has not yet been completed.
Our two families attacked Mino Country with all their strength, broke through Sekigahara by force, took the Tarui Akasaka line, and threatened Ogaki Castle.
Naomoto, the lord of Ogaki Castle, was one of the three people in Siminion and had a strong influence in Siminion.
The Mino samurai family did not have no complaints about His Highness Oda's various innovative policies. In particular, the Nishi Mino samurai family took the initiative to surrender and was stronger than the suppressed Higashi Mino samurai family.
If we can win the support of the powerful people of Simino, turn against the local samurai, and bring some of the Mino samurai into our camp, we will be able to fight against the Oda family."
Fuwaguan is actually a small plain surrounded by Mount Ibuki, Mount Gio, Mount Tenman, Mount Matsuo, and Mount Nangong. It is about the size of twenty football fields and is also called Sekigahara.
Sekigahara, as one of the geographical dividing lines between Kanto and Kansai in a broad sense, is the most suitable place for field battles among the three major passes.
Breaking through Sekigahara and entering Mino Country, heading east is Tarui, and further east is Akasaka, followed by Ogaki Castle. As the western part of the Noo Plain, this is very suitable for large army movements.
Since the area was conquered by the Oda family, it has not been invaded by foreign enemies for several years.
Now that the summer harvest has just passed and there is abundant food, the logistical pressure on the two coalition forces of Asai and Asakura will be very small, which is conducive to a long-term confrontation.
Oda Nobunaga's innovative policies were actually very objectionable to traditional samurai.
But the problem is that the warrior family is strong, Oda Nobunaga is getting stronger with each fight, and the Oda retainers have been reduced to hawks and dogs in front of her. Who dares to attack her?
But on the other hand, Oda Nobunaga can only go from victory to victory. As long as she shows weakness, all the contradictions buried by the radical policies along the way will explode in an instant, blowing her to pieces.
Asai Nagamasa does not expect to defeat Oda Nobunaga. The only thing that can defeat Oda Nobunaga is the hidden dangers she planted herself.
What Asai Asakura's coalition forces need to do is to plant a thorn in Nishimeno so that the local samurai will see that Oda Nobunaga is unable to expel foreign enemies, and they will naturally start to think carefully.
The longer time passes, the greater the trouble for Oda Nobunaga will be. As long as there are signs of disintegration within the Oda family, Asai Nagamasa's goal will be achieved.
When Oda Nobunaga lost the ability to invade the Asai family, Asai Nagamasa was willing to restore peace with the Oda family, which was a strategy to promote peace through fighting.
Yoshikage Asakura admired Asai Nagamasa's use of offense instead of defense, she said.
"His Royal Highness Asai is determined to forge ahead, and I must cooperate.
Let’s do this, Jingjing, you will lead all your troops to follow His Highness Asai to Mino Country, and you must let the Oda traitors know how powerful my Asakura family is!”
Asai Nagamasa was shocked when he heard this.
"Your Highness Asakura, are you not going to lead the troops south yourself? Are you just going to send a few troops to participate in the Meinong War?"
Asakura Yoshi's face froze.
"Your Highness Asai, do you want me to take all the troops to Meino? Is this too risky?"
Oda Nobunaga brought 30,000 people to Echizen Country to look for trouble.
Asakura Yoshikage sold iron and steel to raise more than 20,000 troops, and only then did Asai's family rebel.
The more than 20,000 people are not her direct descendants, but a combination of various forces of the Asakura family.
Asakura Yoshikage himself controls the territory around Ichijodani Castle in the middle of the Fukui Plain, the various Asakura branches in the north, and the old guardian forces such as Makabe in the south are actually not very obedient.
Oda Nobunaga entered the Echizen Kingdom. Everyone shared the same hatred and joined hands to deal with Oda's army. Naturally, they had money and strength to contribute.
Now that the Oda army has retreated, it will be difficult for Asakura Yoshikage to order these forces to follow him across Kitaomi River and directly into Mino Country.
Who is willing to use up his own strength to fight in Meinong Country, which is beyond the reach of eight poles?
Although Echizen Country is said to be adjacent to Mino Country, the two sides are separated by two mountainous areas. The mountain road makes it difficult to travel, let alone operate logistics lines.
If the army attacks, they can only follow Asai Nagamasa through Sekigahara and detour to Kita Omi to Nishi Mino. Who is willing?
Asakura Yoshikage had selfish motives and wanted to keep his troops in Kanazaki Castle, preparing to encroach on Asakura Kageki's Tsuruga County.
She had given Asai Nagamasa enough face by asking her sister, Asakura Keike, who controlled the Ono people, to send troops to Mino Country.
The Ono clan and the Tsuruga clan were both the two most powerful soldiers in the Asakura family. Asakura Yoshikage arranged for Asakura Keika to be the Chief of Ono County in order to control the elite Ono clan.
Asai Nagamasa never expected that Asakura Yoshikage would underestimate his enemy so much.
Oda Nobunaga is such a terrifying figure. The best chance for Asai and Asakura's family is to attack with all their strength now and push the front to Oda's territory.
But Asakura Yoshikage didn't realize the importance of this matter at all. She was still thinking about the balance of the various forces in the family, and she also wanted to find an opportunity to swallow up Asakura Kageki's Tsuruga County.
Asai Nagamasa understood Asakura Yoshikage's thoughts as soon as he heard this. His eyes suddenly darkened, and he suddenly felt a little desperate. His teammates were cheating!
When Asakura Yoshikage heard Asakura Yoshikage's instructions, he also froze and hesitated before bowing and accepting the order.
Although she is Asakura Yoshikage's biological sister, as the leader of the Ono Group, she must first consider the interests of her own samurai group.
At that time, in order to help share the pressure on Shiba Yoshigan, Asakura Sotechi forced a military negotiation and sent troops to attack the Kaga Ichikou clan, which made Asakura Yoshikage, the governor of the family, look disgraced.
In order to win over the Ono people who were as famous as the Tsuruga people, Asakura Sotechi gave all the Kaga country land that was captured in the Battle of Daishoji River to the Ono people.
From then on, the Ono clan and the Kaga Ichikō sect started fighting around the Daishoji River. Although the two sides did not start a large-scale war, small-scale wars never stopped.
This time the Oda family invaded, for the benefit of the entire Asakura family, the Ono people also came to participate in the Tsuruga County war, leaving a relatively empty Daishoji River on the northern front.
Now that the Battle of Kanazaki is over, the Ono people just want to return to the northern front and keep their victory in the Daishoji River, but Asakura Yoshikage orders Asakura Kageyoshi to go to Mino Country to participate in the war. What should we do?
The Oda family is coming fiercely, Asai Nagamasa's strategic arrangements are in place, and Asakura Kagekage knows that he has no reason to oppose his sister Asakura Yoshikage's arrangements.
But there is no problem in letting Ono Zhong fight in Mino Country for a while. If he is away from home for a long time, or if there is a problem with the Daishoji River, the morale of the military will definitely be shaken, and Asakura Keijing's prestige will be damaged.
Once the Ono family withdraws from Mino, Asai Nagamasa's strategic intentions in Mino will be impossible to realize. The Asai family only has a mobilization force of hundreds of thousands of koku and does not have the strength to confront the Oda family.
Asai Nagamasa looked at Asakura Yoshikage, no longer knowing how to convince this stupid ally.
Asakura Yoshikage thought that he had fulfilled the requirements of his allies, and began to think about how to further improve his control over the various forces of the Asakura family through the Battle of Kanezaki.
Asakura Kageki's eyes flickered in the crowd. She had to find a way to delay time. When Shiba Yoshigan came back, Konju would definitely support her so that Asakura Yoshikage would not dare to touch her Tsuruga County.
Asakura Keijing was thinking about how to persuade the Ono clan to go south to fight, and how to find an opportunity to leave and return to Echizen country at the right time, so that he would not be caught and accused by his sister, the governor of the family.
The two groups of warriors in the room seemed to be united, but in fact, the Asai and Asakura coalition forces had not yet sent out troops, and people's hearts were already scattered, casting a shadow over the future.
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Just after the summer harvest, Asai Nagamasa was ready to survive and personally led his troops to raid Mino Country. However, he was helplessly angered by the stupidity of his allies and his eyes went black.
As far away as Kanto, through the Grand Council and the Standing Council, Yiyin distributed the responsibilities of the entire Kanto Shrine and further established its image and influence as a martial arts saint.
Just as the status of the United Front was further improved, and Yoshihiro was carefully observing the fermentation of public opinion in various places, Maeda Toshiie unexpectedly came to the imperial palace to pay an audience, which shocked him.
Imperial Palace, Sibo Yiyin's inner room.
Even though he saw with his own eyes the Maeda Toshiie who was brought in by the Kamao clan, Yoshigan was still a little unbelievable. After the two girls bowed, he smiled.
"Lijia, why are you here?"
Maeda Toshiie was a little dazed when she looked at Yoshigan. She had known Yoshigan for five years, but because they were separated more and less together, every time she saw her lord and sweetheart, she always felt as if she had lived in another world.
Yiyin has changed too much. On the one hand, it is the effect of the system's continuous increase in charm value, coupled with the aura of never making mistakes in his career, and the special effect of being forever sixteen, making his temperament more and more out of the ordinary.
On the other hand, as his status continues to improve, his aura of being a man of power gradually permeates his body. The sense of being a humble social animal in his previous life gradually disappears, and he emerges as a confident person in power.
The physique from his previous life transformed the childlike fifteen-year-old into the heroic physique of a twenty-year-old. His height increased from 160 centimeters to 180 centimeters. He was no longer as majestic as a man in this world could be.
In this world where daughters are respected, he is like a god descending to earth. He is expelled from the male status by more and more Ji warriors and is not treated as a man.
Five years passed by in a blink of an eye, but Yoshigan Shiba was completely transformed, as if he was a different person. Toshiie Maeda had mixed feelings. Is the boy he fell in love with beyond his reach, or does he still have a chance?
Seeing that Maeda Toshiie was distracted, Kamaojigo coughed slightly and woke her up. Maeda Toshiie smiled awkwardly and bowed to apologize.
"I'm very sorry. I haven't seen you in person for a long time. I'm really rude."
Kamojigo felt something was wrong, and her words didn't sound like an apology, but rather like teasing. But seeing that her master didn't feel anything, her heart skipped a beat again.
The master's reaction... Could it be that Maeda Toshiie is also... Kamao Clan lowered his head slightly, feeling a little sad.
Neither Shiba Yoshigan nor Maeda Toshiie noticed that the atmosphere between the two was somewhat ambiguous, perhaps in the minds of both parties, it was taken for granted.
Yoshigan Shiba left Owari for several years, but Maeda Toshiie never left Owari. He gritted his teeth and dealt with Oda Nobunaga to make Owari Shiba even bigger and stronger. Only she herself knew the hardships best.
From the moment she insisted on sticking to the Owari Shiba territory and insisting on dedicating the territory as a Shiba base, Yoshigan understood her thoughts.
The two of them have had skin-to-skin contact, which is different from outsiders, and it is normal for them to have some ambiguity.
Yoshigan waved his hands to show that he didn't care, and Maeda Toshiie said after coming back to his senses.
"This time I am actually on business at Nanao Port in Noto Province. I remembered that your Majesty is currently in charge of the imperial palace and that the road between Nanao Port and Naoetsukai is convenient and quick, so I came here to pay my respects."
With outsiders present, Maeda Toshiie couldn't explain the pain of lovesickness in the second half of the sentence, but Yoshigan understood it and nodded silently.
"You walked the mountain road to reach Vietnam, China and Noto? It was very hard."
Maeda Toshiie shook his head and smiled.
“It’s not enough without hard work.
Most of the territory of Owari Shiba Territory was transferred to the northern part of Gujo County by His Highness Oda. Although the stone height remains unchanged, the environment is much more closed than the old land of Owari.
Fortunately, thanks to the kindness of the king, Shiba Ling also started to receive the annuity from the Shiba Chu Fund at the end of this year, and allowed me to participate in the Hokuriku Trade Route. The situation in the territory is not bad.
The purpose of my visit to Nanao Port this time is to discuss with the local port town regarding Owari Shiba's participation in the Hokurikudo trade route."
Yiyin sighed.
"Lijia, it's really not easy for you."
Yoshigan herself understood Maeda Toshiie's dilemma best. When she sent the news to Kanto that Oda Nobunaga was connected with Ashikaga Yoshiaki and intended to go to Luo, she was doomed to be unlucky.
Oda Nobunaga was originally half-trusting of Maeda Toshiie, and he used this to see her true nature.
That man had a surly and fierce personality, so he naturally would not let Maeda Toshiie go, so he left her to die in the county.
The name of the Owari Shiba Territory was Owari. In fact, only the 1,500 koku Kashimura territory of the Shiba ancestral land remained untouched. The other territories had long been transferred by Oda Nobunaga to the northern part of Mino Kuni County.
Gujo County is located in the mountainous area in the northern part of Mino Country and does not have access to the good land of the Nobi Plain. The Owari Shiba Territory was moved to the northern part of Gujo County, which is a ravine where birds do not poop.
Oda Nobunaga did this to prevent Maeda Toshiie from being inconsistent with his words. After confirming that Maeda Toshiie's heart was towards Shiba, uu Kanshu www.uukanshu.com immediately closed the door and left Owari Shiba in the mountains to eat dust.
The special status of the Owari Shiba leader was related to the political cooperation between the Shiba and Oda families. Oda Nobunaga was unwilling to break up with Yoshihiro Shiba, but he would not make things easier for the Maeda Toshiie.
Without the support of the Oda family, life in the mountains would be very difficult. This was how Oda Nobunaga punished the Maeda Toshie for his betrayal, and also made it impossible for Yoshigan Shiba to catch anything.
Maeda Toshiie is not afraid of hard times, but she is afraid that the samurai under her command will be shaken if they cannot endure it.
The Owari Shiba collar is her capital to fight for her husband. Once there is a riot, it will give Oda Nobunaga a reason to punish and reduce the title. What qualifications does she have to compete for the Maeda Toshiie?
Moreover, the Owari Shiba leader had been isolated for a long time, and the local Hime Samurai did not have a close relationship with the Shiba family, but had close contacts with the Oda family.
Even if the Maeda Toshiie maintains the stability of the territory, if there is a conflict between Shiba and Oda in the future, how can she guarantee the absolute loyalty of the samurai under her command to the Shiba family?
In order to solve this problem, Maeda Toshiie is also trying to find a way out.
On the one hand, she wrote to her lord, hoping to include the Owari Shiba clan within the welfare scope of the Shiba Tadashi Fund as soon as possible and to buy off the middle and lower class Hime warriors in the Owari Shiba clan.
On the other hand, she implored Owari Shiba to participate in the Hokurikudo trade route and use business profits to buy off the high-ranking samurai of Owari Shiba.
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