The Oda army burned Mount Hiei, and Kitakami and the Asai Asakura family clashed again. The Takeda family happened to mobilize Kamiro at this time, and the sword pointed directly at the Noubi Plain, the core territory of the Oda family.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki seemed to have seen an opportunity again and began to think wildly again.
But after several attempts, she had already lost the last bit of the Ashikaga General's prestige. Now, who within and outside the shogunate was willing to accompany her in her madness?
No, Ashikaga Yoshiaki had just tried something in Kyoto, and the news quickly reached Oda Nobunaga.
Oda Nobunaga shook her head. She was tired of continuing to play this boring game of cat and mouse with this ignorant and poor man.
“After we defeat the Asai Asakura family this time and defeat the Takeda family’s Kamiro, let’s exile this troublesome guy.
The people in Kyoto were keeping a close eye on her first, and they would take action after the military dust settled. "
The Ashikaga General cannot be killed. Although the Ashikaga Shogunate has declined, the direct descendant of Kawachi Genji is the pillar of the samurai family after all. Even if he is angry with Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Oda Nobunaga will not kill her.
The Oda family, which has eliminated Asai Asakura's family, has almost completely established a foothold in Higashikon. Oda Nobunaga is now qualified to not care about Ashikaga Yoshiaki and can kick her out.
If Ashikaga Yoshiaki continues to stay in the capital and lets her pretend to give orders, it will cause a lot of trouble for the Oda family. It is better to expel her to facilitate the construction of a new political territory.
In the Oda family's plan to rule the world, there was never a place for Ashikaga Yoshiaki. Once the situation was stabilized, Oda Nobunaga began to dismantle the decadent shogunate in Kyoto and establish his own regime.
Having made up his mind, Oda Nobunaga said.
"Asakura Yoshikage can no longer control the Asakura family, now is the best opportunity to pursue her and destroy the Asakura clan in Ichijogani City.
Hideyoshi Hashiba, guard the Tora Gozen stronghold and guard against Asai Nagamasa's counterattack.
Sakuma Nobumori, take your troops to the Yuanjiang Kingdom to support His Highness Tokugawa.
The rest of the troops will follow me into Echizen Country and take off Asakura Yoshikage's dog head! "
Originally, Oda Nobunaga was still hesitating whether to kill Asai Nagamasa first, or take a risk and try to destroy Asakura Yoshikage.
Yoshigami Shiba's non-interference and Yoshiaki Ashikaga's eagerness to make a move allowed her to finally make a decision.
Asai Nagamasa is already a trapped beast, and it is only a matter of time before she is killed. On the contrary, Asakura Yoshikage could not give her a chance to breathe. He had to take advantage of the internal disagreements in the Asakura family to kill her in one go.
As long as the Asakura clan is destroyed, the various forces in Echizen, which were already torn apart, will be able to spread the word.
Without the foreign aid of the Asakura family, Asai Nagamasa is no longer a problem, so it is worth taking the risk to attack the Asakura family first.
As for the Takeda family, Tokugawa Ieyasu will fight to the death in order to preserve his family business. Oda Nobunaga is not in a hurry to rescue, and can wait until the Asakura family is settled before sending troops.
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Yuanjiang Kingdom, Hamamatsu City.
After Tokugawa Ieyasu conquered Toe Province, he occupied Hima Castle and expanded it into his own castle, called Hamamatsu Castle.
At this time, the atmosphere in the city's council hall was solemn, and bad news came from the front one after another. Takeda's army broke through very quickly, and almost all the important towns in the northern and eastern parts of Toejiang Kingdom fell.
Tokugawa Ieyasu looked at the letters on the case and felt sad.
She wrote to Oda Nobunaga to complain and ask for help, but Oda Nobunaga's reply was filled with complaints, even worse than hers.
It was clear that he had gained an absolute advantage in Kitaomi, but Oda Nobunaga would rather counterattack the Asakura family than look back at Tokugawa Ieyasu, and just sent Sakuma Nobumori to deal with it.
Sakuma Nobumori's troops numbered only 3,000. This time Takeda went to Luo, and Takeda Shingen devoted all his resources to mobilizing no less than 27,000 people.
What use are these meager reinforcements?
What's even more annoying is that in his reply, Oda Nobunaga kindly reminded Tokugawa Ieyasu.
She believed that the Tokugawa family could trade space for time, withdraw from the Toe Country, retreat to the Mikawa Country, wait for the Oda family to settle the Asai Asakura family, and then come to the rescue with all their strength and counterattack together.
Tokugawa Ieyasu looked at the letter in front of him and wanted to tear it into pieces.
Tokugawa Ieyasu was very clear about Oda Nobunaga's thoughts. He managed the Toe Country with his heart, and his strength increased greatly, which made Master Yoshi's sister feel uneasy.
Oda Nobunaga wanted to use the Takeda family's hand to weaken the Tokugawa family, so that the Tokugawa family would continue to be willing to bow their heads to the Oda family and pretend to be allies, but in fact they were tools of lackeys.
After a long silence, Tokugawa Ieyasu said bitterly.
"What do you think of His Highness Oda's suggestion?"
Sakai Chuji bowed and said.
“The Takeda family is coming with a menace, and our military is not strong enough to fight it.
What His Highness Oda said is not unreasonable. Our army can set up defenses at all levels to block the Takeda army's advance.
After the Takeda army was exhausted and the battle line entered the Mikawa Kingdom, they waited for His Highness Oda to calm down the recent chaos and come to the rescue in a large scale, which would definitely defeat Takeda. "
Tokugawa Ieyasu frowned slightly, and his eyes subconsciously glanced at Ishikawa Sumasa.
Ishikawa Tsumugi met his master's eyes, bowed and said.
"Your Majesty seconded the proposal."
Tokugawa Ieyasu was already unhappy.
Oda Nobunaga didn't know who leaked Takeda Kamiro, but with the excellent intelligence capabilities of the Hattori family ninjas, Tokugawa Ieyasu had already figured out who was leaking the information to him.
Tokugawa Ieyasu was actually surprised that Terutora Uesugi would reveal the secrets of the Takeda family to him. Is she planning to attack Takeda Shingen?
Because of the imperial decree of peace in Kanto, Tokugawa Ieyasu did not dare to place hope in Uesugi Terutora, but she had a feeling that as long as she gritted her teeth and held on, the war situation would definitely turn around.
But now, his ally Oda Nobunaga wants to weaken himself. And these important ministers of the Tokugawa family also harbored some bad intentions, which made Tokugawa Ieyasu extremely angry.
In order to stabilize the new territory, Tokugawa Ieyasu moved his residence to Hamamatsu Castle and concentrated on management.
In the Mikawa Kingdom, she appointed Tadashi Sakai as the head of the East Mikawa flag, and Ishikawa Sumasa as the head of the West Mikawa flag to manage the old territory.
The Mikawa Princess warrior is famous all over the world as Mikawa Soul, but as long as it is a samurai group, it has its own little ideas, even the Mikawa Soul, which is famous for its loyalty, is no exception.
The Tokugawa family started from Okazaki Castle in Nishi-Mikawa and conquered Higashi-Mikawa. There were also many conflicts between the East-Mikawa samurai families.
Sakai Chuji and Ishikawa Tsumasa represent the interests of the two princess warriors respectively. Naturally, they have constant quarrels on a daily basis, and their relationship is not much better.
But today, it was rare for the two to stand together, because they both represented the interests of Samurai Mikawa.
In the past few years, Tokugawa Ieyasu had devoted himself to the Far River Kingdom and devoted himself to governing this new territory. It was inevitable that he would focus on one thing and neglect the other in his governance.
The rapid improvement of the Yuanjiang people's status and your long-term residence in Yuanjiang Kingdom have already made the Mikawa Princess warriors dissatisfied.
The Mikawa people claim to be conquerors, and of course they don't want to see the conquered Tojiang people on an equal footing with themselves, not to mention Tokugawa Ieyasu's deliberate show of favoritism.
On weekdays, Tokugawa Ieyasu could still live in peace. But this time the Takeda family went to Luo, and all the important towns in the northern and eastern parts of the Toe Country were vulnerable, allowing the Takeda army to quickly attack.
The Mikawa people despised and despised the Tooe people even more. They didn't really care about Oda Nobunaga, they really felt that they should return to Mikawa Kingdom to defend themselves.
These weaklings in the Tokugawa Kingdom are unreliable. Only the Mikawa Princess warrior with the soul of Mikawa is the power that the Tokugawa family can rely on.
This little thought of the Mikawa people made Tokugawa Ieyasu very troubled, even more than the Takeda army who had attacked in front of them.
The expansion of the Wu family was not as centralized as that of the Celestial Dynasty. If they wanted to establish an effective feudal and feudal system, it would take several generations of efforts to draw strength from new territories and strengthen themselves.
Before the effective feudal transformation is completed, the new territory is often a burden to the master family, rather than a help to the master family.
But when is it now? It’s troubled times!
It’s a troubled time when you go out during the day and act arrogant, but when you come home at night, your whole family will be killed! Who has time to wait for several generations to slowly transform the territory?
The great names of the Wu family abandoned the original guardianship system one after another and moved towards the Warring States Period reforms, pursuing rapid centralization of power and turning new leaders into supporting forces as soon as possible.
From the Yashiro Shogun Rebellion to the present, there have been hundreds of years of troubled times, and many heroes have succeeded us. Oda Nobunaga's innovations are not new; they are all paths that have been traveled by predecessors for a long time.
But no one was as ruthless as Oda Nobunaga, who could persist in these innovative policies for a long time despite the dissatisfaction of the retainers.
Tokugawa Ieyasu was not as decisive as Oda Nobunaga. She chose a compromise approach, concentrating on running the new territory and leaving the old territory to trusted retainers.
But even though she was so careful, she still couldn't avoid the narrow and xenophobic nature of the island nation's culture.
In this resource-poor island country, tolerance and generosity do not exist. There are only short-sighted greed among small groups snatching resources from each other, and few people have a broad and far-sighted vision.
Perhaps this is the nature of the islanders.
Tokugawa Ieyasu's dissatisfaction lies in the undisguised statement of the Toishi Mikawa banner, which negates her efforts in running the Toe Country in recent years.
If she really listened to the Sanhe people and retreated while fighting, she retreated to the Sanhe Kingdom. Even if Yuanjiang Country can be taken back in the future, this land has been devastated.
Tokugawa Ieyasu will not only lose the results of his hard work over the past few years, but also lose the loyalty of the people of Tokugawa. The people of Tokugawa will no longer trust her, the master who abandoned him at a critical moment.
This actually fulfilled Oda Nobunaga's wish. The Tokugawa family was brought back to their original shape and could only continue to live as dogs for the Oda family.
Tokugawa Ieyasu is unwilling to take this path, so she must react strongly to the Takeda family's Kamiro to let everyone in Tokugawa understand that her master will not give up on her.
Whether you win or not is a matter of ability, but whether you win or not is a matter of attitude. This is a political battle, and political scores need to be settled.
Tokugawa Ieyasu was very confident in the expanded Hamamatsu Castle. Even if he failed in the field battle, he could withdraw to Hamamatsu Castle and wait for reinforcements after expressing his attitude.
She didn't believe it. Could Oda Nobunaga really watch Takeda Shingen kill him? Let the Takeda family's soldiers advance into the Nobi Plains and destroy the Oda family's lair?
And the sneaky Uesugi Terutora, who worked so hard to deliver a message to herself, could still watch Takeda Shingen kill her and take over the entire Tokaido?
In order to make a political statement that he would defend the Toe Country, Tokugawa Ieyasu had to get the Mikawa people in front of him who were reluctant to bleed for the Toe Country to send troops to fight against the Takeda army.
But at this point, it seems that this is not easy.
Just when Tokugawa Ieyasu was at a loss what to do, a man jumped out.
Honda Tadakatsu, who was petite but had a sinister look in his eyes, suddenly burst out laughing in this serious military meeting, rolling on the ground with laughter, very unscrupulously.
When Tokugawa Ieyasu saw her being so dissolute, instead of being angry, he felt happy.
On the contrary, Sakai Chuji and Ishikawa looked at each other with bad expressions, and Sakai Chuji shouted.
"Honda-hime! This is a military meeting! Please be decent!"
Honda Tadakatsu picked his ears and glanced at Sakai Tadashi, as if he was too lazy to talk to you. She has a child-like lolita body, but this posture actually makes her look cute.
But Tadashi Sakai and Tsukumasa Ishikawa were both the bosses in the family, and they were both furious when they were so slighted by her.
But before they could speak, Honda, who had never spoken at the side, sighed again and said.
"Zhongsheng, don't act nonsense in front of His Highness."
The Honda clan is a major clan in the Mikawa Kingdom. They are all descendants of the same people who originated from Honda Village. Although they are not necessarily related by blood, they are always one and the same to the outside world.
Honda was Tokugawa Ieyasu's teacher and an elder. Although Honda Tadakatsu was from the Honda clan, he still had to give her three points of respect.
But she didn't care about the embarrassment on the faces of Sakai Tadashi and Ishikawa Sumasa, and bowed and apologized to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
"Your Highness, forgive me, because it was so funny and I really couldn't hold it back."
Tokugawa Ieyasu raised the corners of his mouth and asked.
"what's so funny?"
Honda Tadakatsu shrugged and said.
"We, the Mikawa Princess warriors, will follow His Highness to the death and stand firm in troubled times. We will always be the first to fight and never back down, so that we will admire the martial arts all over the world.
His Highness also once said that the Tokugawa family has no treasures that can be obtained, but the Mikawa Princess is the family treasure that our family has inherited and established. It is irreplaceable, and it makes me and the Mikawa Princess even more excited.
I originally thought that Yuanjiang Country was the land that we and the Mikawa Princess warriors fought in battle and exchanged for their blood. Anyone who wanted to take our land from us would have to step on our corpses first!
But today, someone actually made nonsense in front of His Highness, wanting to give the Toe Country to the Takeda family, so that I and the Mikawa Princess warriors would go back to Mikawa Country in despair.
Your Highness, do you think this is ridiculous? "
Honda Tadakatsu has a childish face and a voice that is as ethereal as a young girl's. But the fierce words in his words were as sharp as a knife, causing pain on people's faces.
Honda frowned again.
"Tadakatsu be careful, Lord Sakai and Lord Ishikawa don't mean this."
Honda Tadakatsu glanced at Honda several times and said.
"Sir, although I respect you as an elder, I am a senior soldier of the banner personally entrusted by His Highness. It is my responsibility to speak out and impartially in military discussions. Please respect my speech!
I don’t care what other people think, I am a Mikawa Princess warrior loyal to His Highness, and I will never give up my territory for Your Highness and embarrass my fellow Mikawa people! "
Honda Tadakatsu was so upright and majestic, but Honda was eclipsed again and again. The two exchanged words like a double act. Sakai Tadakatsu and Ishikawa Shusei were immediately put on the fire. They were both red-faced and speechless.
Tokugawa Ieyasu couldn't help but praise in his heart. The old man and the young man in this family, one wise and one brave, are really the treasures of the Tokugawa family.
Honda is the teacher of Tokugawa Ieyasu many times. He is highly respected and deeply trusted. He has always been in charge of the internal affairs of the territory.
If the Tokugawa family really gave up the Tokugawa Kingdom, used their own territory to fortify themselves layer by layer, and retreated step by step, the entire route would be scorched and the logistics would collapse.
In addition, the troubles of post-war reconstruction will also hit Honda's head many times, and of course she is dissatisfied.
If the Tokugawa family can't defeat them, that's fine. But before the battle started, the two flag-bearers from the East and West Rivers were trying to persuade their lord to withdraw his troops for their own selfish reasons. Isn't this a bastard?
There are also several Mikawa Banner shoufu led by Honda Tadakatsu, all of whom were promoted by Tokugawa Ieyasu himself. They have always led elites and suppressed them on the front line.
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the governor of the family whose hostage daughter returned to the throne, could not suppress the senior officials of the Matsudaira family, so she chose to promote young people among the Mikawa Princess samurai and make them her own.
Compared to the East and West Mikawa Samurai Group, the emerging samurai group Mikawa Hatamoto was closer to Tokugawa Ieyasu and had a closer interest relationship.
The territories where they were rewarded for their military merits were all new territories established by the Tokugawa family, and they were in the Tokugawa Kingdom. The old guys are murmuring that they want to give up the Toe Country. How can Honda Tadakatsu not be angry?
Just because you put the overall situation first, you are going to make me lose the territory I gained through hard work and meritorious service. Why? You old cowards don't even have the courage to fight, you're nothing like the Mikawa Princess samurai!
After Honda expressed his stance to Honda Tadakatsu several times, the atmosphere of the military discussion changed. Both the Mikawa clan and the Toe clan were unwilling to be followed, and the important ministers came forward one by one to express their intention to show off with the Takeda family.
In order to prove themselves, Sakai Tadashi and Ishikawa Sumasa had to go out and ask for a fight, and they were unwilling to be the cowards that Honda Tadakatsu said.
Tokugawa Ieyasu was overjoyed when he saw that his army was ready, and he was ready to join forces with Takeda Shingen to hunt in the wild and have a good fight.
(End of chapter)
