At the end of May in the third year of Eiroku (1560), at the end of May, Sunpu Castle Castle Town, night.

"The fire is ready and ready to act."

Matsuzaburo threw away the note in his hand, took out the tinder from his bosom and blew it twice, and threw it on the haystack piled in the corner, and the hay that had been sprinkled with sulfur powder quickly ignited.

At the same time, thirteen of the castle towns were set on fire. Matsuzaburo guarded the fire and knocked out several people who came to put out the fire. Then, when the surrounding residents began to be confused, he took a few of his men and other people who set fire to them in the crowd and lurked in the moat of Sunfu Castle, and finally escaped from Sunfu Castle along the secret waterway.

Matsuzaburo knew that this was the last time they had lurked in the vicinity of Sunfu Castle, and with the outbreak of this fire, their secret passage would also be exposed, and their hidden personnel had all been completely evacuated tonight, and at this time, the guardian of Sunfu Castle, they would not be able to return to the local area for a long time in the future.

Since the last time he took Sena Ji and the family members of the Imagawa family out of Sunfu Castle overnight with the help of Mrs. Ii and Sena Hime, Matsuzaburo handed over the hostages of the family members to the members of the Luo family at the seaside, and then lurked back to the vicinity of Sunpu Castle.

The sudden disappearance of the retainers' families did indeed cause a great shock to the whole of Sunfu Castle, and the lord of the castle, Imagawa Shin, was furious and killed dozens of people in a row, and at the same time sent a large number of people to search everywhere for the whereabouts of those hostages.

Since the hostages had been sent to sea by Matsuzaburo and secretly placed by the personnel of the Luo family, the Imagawa family naturally could not find them. And for those who were killed, these people were all known to Matsuzaburo before. But after that night. The hidden personnel of the really Luo family have all been evacuated. The people who are now being killed by the Imagawa clan are actually loyal to the Imagawa family.

And not long after the mysterious disappearance of the hostages, Matsuzaburo and others poured (3) in the secret waterway on the bank of the moat

The fire burned for three days and three nights. Half of the castle town of Sunfu Castle was burned down, and rumors began to circulate in Suruga Province that the head of the Imagawa family had blasphemed his ancestors and that the ancestors were angry. At the same time, the previous rumor that wrote the will of Imagawa Yoshimoto in blood rose again. Originally, this rumor had been gradually suppressed after the return of the army of the Imagawa family. Now no matter how much repression is suppressed, it cannot disappear, but it is becoming more and more intense.

"It's fake, it's fake, it's all fake, it must have been premeditated. I am the heir of the Imagawa family. In Sunfu Castle, after hearing this rumor again, the Imagawa clan did not care about the burning of the castle town anymore, but instead shouted and declared that the blood letter of Imagawa Yoshimoto's decision to bury his second son Imagawa as his heir was false.

Seeing that their lord was so panicked, the Imagawa generals all shook their heads and thought that the Imagawa family was finished.

In retrospect, a series of events that took place in Sunfu Castle before. It seems that they all have a great conspiracy. In fact, after the family members of the Imagawa family suddenly disappeared, the Imagawa family members who stayed in Sunpu Castle realized that something was wrong. If these family members are controlled by forces with ulterior motives, so as to blackmail the Imagawa family, then the Imagawa family will be in trouble, and even if those hostages are finally released and returned to their respective homes, this is not a good thing for the Imagawa family, after all, the Imagawa family previously controlled the families of these retainers in Sunfu Castle, in order to avoid any changes in this special period when the wealthy families of Suruga Province, Enoe Province, and Mikawa Province were killed in battle. Now that these hostages have returned to their respective homes, it means that those wealthy families have lost control, and then there is a big problem.

It seems that as these retainers expected, on the second day after the disappearance of the hostages, not only did the news of the sudden disappearance of the hostages suddenly spread widely in various places, but there were even rumors that this was an act of salvation made by many wealthy families, and some of the wealthy families seemed to be preparing to become independent, and the Matsudaira family in Mikawa was particularly highlighted.

Realizing the problem, the retainers of Yan zhòng immediately established a new governor, the Imagawa clan, on the one hand, comprehensively suppressed the rumors, and on the other hand, sent people to demand that all the wealthy clans in various places need to come to Sunfu Castle within the specified time.

It's just that their measures are still a little late, and many wealthy families have postponed the Imagawa family's request for various reasons when they received this request, and as for the Enoe Province and Mikawa Country regions, before the Imagawa family members arrived at the Hao clan's homes in those areas, in the western part of the Enoe Province and the eastern part of Mikawa Country, there was a sudden burial of Imagawa Yoshimoto, the second son of the former governor Imagawa Yoshimoto.

In the name of "Imagawa Yoshimoto's bloody will, it was decided that he would inherit the position of family governor", and began to gather people in the western part of Ei Province and the eastern part of Mikawa Province in an attempt to seize the position of Imagawa family governor.

The sudden appearance of Imagawa Burial Zero really scared the Imagawa family, after all, Imagawa Burial Zero has been away from home for a long time, and now no one knows when he returned home, so everyone quickly thought of Mrs. Iyiju as the biological mother of Imagawa Burial, but at this time everyone realized that Mrs. Iyiju and her personal maid Ah Chun seemed to have disappeared together on the night of the hostage's disappearance. Thinking about it this way, the mastermind behind the disappearance of the hostages is most likely to be the sudden Imagawa burial.

Just when everyone in the Imagawa family suddenly realized, the rumor that Imagawa Yoshimoto's blood book would designate Imagawa's burial was as if it had been dormant for a long time, and it spread throughout the Imagawa family at an unimaginable speed. Originally, because of the disappearance of the hostages, the hearts of people in various parts of the Imagawa family were different, but now there was a sudden incident of the Imagawa family's family governor, so the wealthy families in various parts of the Imagawa family were even more unusual, and even some of the wealthy families near Sunfu Castle had to be prepared to accept the order of the Imagawa family to go to Sunfu Castle because they were relatively close to Sunfu Castle, but now they simply turned back to their territory and watched.

With such a huge impact of rumors, the Imagawa family could only issue a negative statement on the one hand, and on the other hand, they tried to suppress the continued spread of rumors with all their might. Fortunately, at this time, the main force of the Imagawa family's army in Kamiraku gradually withdrew to various parts of Suruga Province, so the Imagawa family immediately used this force to gradually suppress this rumor. Of course, this is an improvement in Suruga Province, but it is still increasing in Enoe Province and Mikawa Province.

And just when the situation improved, such a fire suddenly broke out in the castle town of Junfu Castle, so the local rumors that had gradually subsided flourished again, until now the Chuan clan is really not qualified to inherit the position of family governor, and at the same time, there have been changes in the wealthy families in various places.

Imagawa Shizhen,At this time, he was also a family governor who was born at an inopportune time.,When his father Imagawa Yoshimoto was alive,Because of the surrounding environment Taiping,Most of them just educate him on the knowledge of dealing with political affairs (Imagawa Yoshimoto's thoughts are similar to those of later generations.,Daddy I work hard.,Son you will keep doing it),Who wants to be the governor of the house now.,I encountered these tricky things.,So for a while,He can only keep stating that the Imagawa burial zero inheritance will is fake.,But still can't respond.。

Seeing that the new family governor Imagawa clan was really so decadent, Okabe Motonobu, who had just retreated, was quite stable, so he said to the Imagawa clan: "Now regardless of the truth or falsity of the rumors, if you can quickly solve the Imagawa burial zero, then all the qiē will naturally be resolved." ”

"Huh? So, what do you say should be done? ”

"Your Majesty thinks it's better to raise troops to attack."

"I'll leave it to you. Well, I will appoint you as the general of the crusading army of my family, and all the armies will be at your disposal. "The Imagawa clan really saw that there was a heavy general, and the host came out to relax.

"Against!" At this time, Sekiguchi Qinyong said resolutely: "The city has just encountered a fire, and there are changes in the wealthy clans in various places, in order to ensure the safety of Junfu City, it is necessary to leave a part of the army, so that the family does not have much military strength to crusade, why don't you ask the lord to stabilize the other wealthy clans first, and after all parties in the territory are stable, it is not too late to attack Imagawa with all its might?" ”

"Hmm. That's fine. Hearing Sekiguchi Qinaga say this, the Imagawa clan immediately changed his mind after thinking about it for a while.

"My lord! How can you change the order overnight? Okabe Motoshin immediately said angrily.

"Lord, you can't beat Ah!"

The "lord ......" The important ministers in the family have different opinions, and the Imagawa clan really doesn't know what to do, so he simply asks the retainers to step down first, and he himself goes to ask his grandmother Shouguini's opinion.

And the strong woman Shou Gui Ni also proposed to the Imagawa clan to "vigorously restore the Enoe and Mikawa territories and strengthen friendly relations with Go-Hojo" (Hojo Shiyasu is the son-in-law of the Imagawa clan). Then he taught some coping strategies to Imagawa in detail, and on the second day, the Imagawa family's coping strategy was finally introduced. Ordered Okabe Motoshin to go to the Enoe and Mikawa regions as the general general, and after solving the Imagawa burial first, he would take action against those wealthy families who had abnormal movements.

It's just that before Okabe Motonobu's army was gathered, new news came from Mikawa Province, and it turned out that Matsudaira Motoyasu had also made Okazaki Castle independent in the Nishi-Mikawa Province region in the name of not recognizing that the Imagawa clan was really the governor of the Imagawa family.

After the Matsudaira family declared independence, Suganuma Shoei, the lord of Noda Castle, who was also in the Higashi-Mikawa area, was a neighbor of the Matsudaira family, and took the opportunity to raise an army to stand on his own.

As a result, for a time, the wind of independence in various places intensified.

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