Chapter 974: Maritime Hegemony (3)

Although both Ukita Naojia and Araki Murashige can become resourceful and broad, but this question is really difficult to answer, if you want to eliminate him, it is easy to say, as long as you use the 20,000 elite troops of your family, then the strength of the Nagazong family is absolutely irresistible, but even Kinoshita Hideyoshi can think of things, how can the two of them not think that after the elimination of Changzong and my department, the 20,000 army will probably be trapped and killed in Shikoku, besides, once the family really sends 20,000 elites to attack Shikoku, Then it won't take long for the Takayama clan to receive the news, they don't believe that they will not attack the Kinoshita family at this time, if the family loses 20,000 elites, it will be too difficult to win in the decisive battle.

The move of the Gaoshan Clan Sect is so subtle that the family has no way to deal with this weak Changzong and my family.

After a while, Araki Murashige and Ukita Naojia could only shake their heads helplessly after thinking about it carefully, and said, "Please forgive the lord for the incompetence of his subordinates, there is no good way to eliminate the subordinates of Changzong and my family." ”

After the two of them finished speaking, Kinoshita Hideyoshi suddenly began to miss Kuroda Kanbei, although his military advisor was a little radical in his actions and a little invincible, but he had to say that as long as he had something to ask, he could give an answer no matter what, no matter whether the answer was good or bad, but he could let things continue, not like now, he couldn't continue at all, but now he can only think about it.

And just when everyone present felt that there was nothing to do, Ishikawa Shumasa, who was sitting behind Tokugawa Ieyasu, kept moving his body forward imperceptibly, until he was not far behind Tokugawa Ieyasu, and then he whispered a few words in the ear of the lord without caring about the rudeness.

Tokugawa Ieyasu began to feel a little dissatisfied with his retainer for doing such a rude thing at such an important meeting, but when he listened, this emotion had completely disappeared with the words falling, and even he didn't even notice that he couldn't stop nodding his head at the moment.

And such a small action naturally couldn't escape Kinoshita Hideyoshi's eyes, so I heard him quickly ask, "What can Tokugawa-sama do?" ”

"Kinoshita-sama, there is indeed a way to deal with the Changzong family here."

As soon as Tokugawa Ieyasu finished speaking, Kinoshita Hideyoshi's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he hurriedly asked excitedly: "Lord Tokugawa, tell me quickly, how can I eliminate the Nagasame family?" If it can be achieved, then the Kinoshita family is willing to divide the four countries equally with the Tokugawa family. ”

After listening to Tokugawa Ieyasu, his nose was almost crooked, Kinoshita Hideyoshi obviously wanted to take advantage of it for nothing, whether the broken place in Shikoku was good or not, let's just say the location of this place, which is close to Himeji, but it is separated from the entire Kinoshita family's territory, even if it is divided equally with himself at that time, how can he guard it, it is obvious that even if it can be achieved, the Tokugawa family will not be able to benefit at all, but can he hold back the solution, obviously he can't, because he knows very well that he has no choice at all, if there is, He will not hesitate to leave the Kinoshita family and switch to Takayama, but he knows that since the Takayama clan was born, for some reason, the other party hates the family to the core, and the heart of destroying the family is obviously exceeded, eliminating Kinoshita, in this case, the family can only follow behind the Kinoshita family, and the road goes to the dark.

It's just that the future of the Tokugawa family is worried even to him, on the surface, the Kinoshita family does own the West Country Kinai, and can compete with the other party, but in fact, he knows that the Kinoshita family is controlled by a large amount of land in the hands of foreign retainers, not Kinoshita Hideyoshi, such a system is nothing if it is faced with weak forces, but once it faces forces that are stronger than itself, it is easy to have problems from within, and once it appears, it will inevitably lead to a big problem of losing the whole situation. So he has always been not very optimistic about the Kinoshita family, and there is no way to form an alliance with him.

And if Tokugawa Ieyasu was still thinking about taking advantage of Kinoshita's hostility with Takayama to make the Tokugawa family gradually stronger, so as to complete the creation of three points in the world, with the failure of the last capture of Mino, this kind of thinking has faded. He knew that the Tokugawa family no longer had such an opportunity, because in the allocation of territories, it was obvious that Kinoshita Hideyoshi was much smarter than Oda Nobunaga.

Oda Nobunaga is eager to keep all the forces that are difficult to control away from his center, if this is the case, then the Tokugawa family can take advantage of this to get room for development, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi is putting the unstable factors around him, so what else can he do, plus now the territory controlled by the family has been completely surrounded by the other party, and there is no chance of development at all, so what he can do now is to keep the existing power. As for the reward or something, it is best to have it, and if there is none, as long as the Tokugawa family can survive forever, it is not unacceptable.

So when the other party asked, he still said: "Kinoshita-sama, if the Changzong family is wiped out, then a large number of elite troops will inevitably be used, and the Takayama clan will definitely not be killed, and what we need to do at present is not to eliminate it, but to limit it to the four countries, as long as it is not allowed to cross the sea to attack the territory when we dispatch a large army to fight the Takayama family, then the goal can be achieved." ”

"Don't let it go to sea? How is this possible, do you know that now that the Seto Inland Sea has been controlled by the Ataka Navy and the Takayama family's Awaji Navy is controlled, how can we limit each other? After hearing this, Takigawa Kazuki couldn't help but speak.

"Don't interject, let Tokugawa-sama continue." Kinoshita Hideyoshi was listening energetically at this time, and was suddenly interrupted by Takigawa Kazuki, and said with some dissatisfaction, he thought that since Tokugawa Ieyasu could say this, then there must be a way, otherwise with the other party's character, how could he speak indiscriminately.

Tokugawa Ieyasu didn't care about being interrupted by Takigawa Kazuyi, let alone him, even if he was listening to Ishikawa Shumasa just now, he was a little out of shape, if this strategy can be successful, then he can definitely let the other party be trapped in Shikoku.

"Kinoshita-sama, although the Ataka Navy has many ships, but the Maori Navy and the Shimazu family's Navy are combined, then they will surpass each other in the number of ships, plus if it is a surprise attack, there is a high probability that it will be wiped out in one fell swoop, as long as the Awaji Navy is eliminated, then it is equivalent to controlling the Seto Inland Sea, how can I get by with only those small boats of the Nagamune family...