When Fujiyoshiro and Kizo Shigetada were drinking, due to the disturbance of Fujiyoshiro and others, Hayashi Sado Mamoru Tsukatsu could not sleep, he sat in the outer courtyard, heard the deafening drum beat from the city, and stared at Shibata Gonrokukatsu who had just come to visit with a sullen expression.

Shibata Gonrokukatsu, who was the main battle faction, was still irritated that Oda Nobunaga was still indifferent when Imagawa Yoshimoto's army was about to arrive, so he came to consult with Hayashi Sado Mamoru to see if they could go together to persuade Oda Nobunaga.

"Don't be angry, Singer. The lord is not such a stupid person. These words are not so much to comfort Katsuya as to comfort himself, and Hayashi Satomoru has been thinking hard.

"I want to think that way below." Singer sighed, "But so far I haven't discussed it decently." I only play with my wife and concubine every day, and I am in Yale. And the enemy's main force is about to enter Okazaki Castle. "In fact, Shibata Gonrokukatsu's intelligence has lagged behind, and at this time Imagawa Yoshimoto has already entered Okazaki Castle.

"I'm afraid it's not helpful to go and admonish you. The lord is not the kind of person who takes advice lightly. ”

"That being said, can't we just wait here for nothing?"

Lin Zuodu did not answer.

"Pioneer Matsudaira Motoyasu probably came out of Junfu on the 10th of this month, right?" Kwon Roku-hoku asked his younger brother Misaku Mori Mitsuharu, who was also accompanying him.

"Yes. The main force left Sunfu on the 12th and passed through the East China Sea and Honsaka. This information has been clearly reported to the lord. ”

"What did the lord say?"

He only responded with a simple sentence and diverted the topic.

"We ......" Kwon Roku was in high spirits again, "We want to know the mind of the lord!" ”

Lin Sado seemed to adjust the atmosphere. Said: "The monkey told that Kizo Shigetada, and said that he was going to buy miso for the defense of the city. Maybe that's what the lord really thinks. This is the root of perdition. It's hard to disobey your destiny! ”

"You've already comprehended your destiny. But it's good to fight in the city. Just prepare in the same way as the cage battle. ”

"That's why the monkey said he was going to buy miso again."

Shibata Gonrokukatsu stared sharply at Hayashi Sado. Lost in thought. No one said that they had guessed the mind of Lord Nobunaga. It was him, and even if he asked Nobunaga, it was only tentatively asked. But recalling the previous sniffing, it only made him more embarrassed:

"I want to know what's going on in my lord's heart."

Faced with Shibata Gonrokukatsu's inquiry, Oda Nobunaga picked up a pen and wrote some small songs at random. "I don't have any ideas." He replied nonchalantly, "There can be no ideas either." Do you know how big Imagawa's territory is? Suruga, Toe, Mikawa, plus Owari Ichi. It's already over a million stones. For example, today, only the Luo family in Kyushu can be compared. It is really worthy of being widely praised as the 'Warring States Twin Heroes', if the two can meet each other at this time, how wonderful it would be! ”

"I know." At this time, there is such an exclamation? Shibata Gonrokukatsu was almost by Oda Nobunaga.

"Now that you know, don't ask again. My territory is at most 180,000 or 90,000 stones. The strength of 10,000 koku is counted as 250 people, which is only about 6 or 7,000 people, less than one-sixth of Imagawa's. ”

"In that case, you still want to fight in the city? It's better to ......" he wanted to say, it was better to bow down to the vassal for the time being, after his proposal to go out of the city to meet the battle had been vetoed by the lord Oda Nobunaga. So he simply turned to advocating submission, hoping that this would persuade the lord to succeed.

"Bastard! Get lost! After hearing this, Oda Nobunaga reprimanded loudly. Then he happily revised the words of the song.

So Shibata Gonrokukatsu could only retreat in embarrassment. Although the persuasion was unsuccessful, he was even more dissatisfied with the fact that others did not persuade the Lord Nobunaga. Tonight, the more he thought about it, the more dissatisfied he became, so he ran to find Lin Sado and Shou Tongkatsu.

"Sado-sama, it's up to you to come forward. You go and sue the lord sù, Imagawa Yoshimoto is about to be killed. Ask him what he is going to do, and we need to make it clear. ”

Lin Zuodu stared at Shibata Quan Liukatsu tightly, "Let's let it go." The lord does not allow people to ask him casually. If he reprimanded me, it would only shake my determination. ”

"Determination?"

"All together...... That's my determination. He said with a stern expression, and then there was a conversation between the two at the beginning.

And just like that, the night passed. Under the arrangement of Fujiyoshiro, Kizo Shigetada and others also rushed out on the second day to find out the news, especially Kizo Shigetada, he quickly contacted the personnel of the Luo Family Intelligence Pavilion who had been closely monitoring the movements of the Imagawa family's army, and prepared to participate in this war as a retainer of the Oda family according to the request of the lord Gongzhengliang.

During this period, the Imagawa army was already pressing forward step by step.

On May 17, 156o, Okazaki Castle had decided to equip the entire army. Imagawa Yoshimoto then slowly advanced with his 5,000 troops, passing through Uzu and Imamura in Bikai Prefecture, and finally entered the castle on the 18th.

It's still quite hot. However, the morale of the Imagawa family was very strong. The civilians on both sides of the road, seeing Imagawa Yoshimoto riding in a palanquin made of gold and silver, prostrate themselves on the ground to greet him.

"How many retainers and subordinates does this Zhibu Dazuo have?"

"That's right! Since yesterday, this street has been lined with his subordinates, originally I thought they were all here, but now I didn't expect the general to come in person...... If all these people enter Owari, I'm afraid I'll drown Owari entirely!"

"It's really worthy of being the Great Zoa of the Governing Department who is known as the 'Warring States Twin Heroes' along with Luo Masashi of Kyushu!"

"Whew! So what is the Kyushu Eagle? Kyushu is just a deserted place, and only adults like Imagawa Jibe Osa-sama, Takeda Kai no Tiger, and Nagao Echigo no Ryu can be regarded as 'Sengoku Heroes', and even the Miyoshi family of the four countries is nothing more than that. ”

"Yes, yes, yes, if the so-called Kyushu Eagle is not in that deserted Kyushu, but here, it would have been beaten down by adults like Imagawa Jibe Osa-sama, Takeda Kai no Tiger, and Nagao Echigo no Ryu......"

This was due to the fact that the 16th, 17th, and 18th had troops advancing westward for three consecutive days, which surprised the people and ronins along the way, and then there was a lot of discussion.

"Odagami always intends to defend Kiyosu Castle. If he had decided to come out and fight the enemy. I believe that once I saw this grand military situation. It's going to be a rout soon. However, according to this situation, even if he wants to defend the city, I am afraid that it will not be long before he defends it. ”

"Oh! Regarding this matter, a guy who came here from Owari to buy miso yesterday said that because he thought it would be too troublesome to go out of the city to meet the enemy, the dumb Oda Nobunaga decided to sleep well before the enemy arrived. ”

"Haha! He didn't just sleep because he was afraid of trouble!"

"And what did he sleep for?"

"Because he is not sure of victory! What can he do if he doesn't sleep?"

……

And when this kind of whispering spread everywhere, he was called the "Warring States Twins" together with Roshi Masarashi (in fact, Imagawa Yoshimoto was very resentful that Masarashi could be called the 'Warring States Twins' with him, after all, he was much older than Masayo). If it weren't for the persistent persuasion of his mother Shou Guini and the fact that he was able to support each other in the Kyoto shogunate and the imperial court, Imagawa Yoshimoto arrived at the castle with strict guards in front and back.

But even at this moment, Imagawa Yoshimoto still had two large round fans around him who kept fanning him. Imagawa Yoshimoto said to Masatoshi Asakawa, who came first:

"The wild warriors and the people around here must be well guarded. Today is a day when there is no war, so everyone has a good day of rest and is ready for tomorrow. Tomorrow, when the sky is not clear, we will start a war against Washizu, Marune, Tange, Zenshoji Temple, Nakajima and other places!" He was happy to say so.

The castle is located on the western side of the Owari Mikawa border. It is only about 3 kilometers away from Atsuta, and there is a very old Kamakura town and a horse station.

Of course. Imagawa Yoshimoto's 5,000 troops could not all enter the small city, and the small streets were now crowded with people. The various troops planted flags on the side of the road and cooked in pots, and the scene was as chaotic and tumultuous as the arrival of the New Year and other big worship days.

However, what about Oda Nobunaga, who had already come to the front of the castle and now had to come forward to meet the enemy, what about his situation in Kiyosu Castle?

In fact, at this time, the large living room of Cheongju City was already crowded with anxious ministers, but today they still could not see the shadow of Lord Nobunaga, but they saw a large piece of paper pasted on the wall on the left side of the living room, which read:

"It's so hot, I don't think you need to wear combat shoes!"

Lin Satoshi looked at the Dabi, Youbi, and Wujing Xi'an characters everywhere, sighed several times, and then finally spoke:

The enemy was already about to enter Owari, and he even said that the weather was too hot to wear combat shoes...... Is this what he wants to comfort everyone?"

The person who persuaded Nobunaga to defend the city at the beginning was Lin Sado, but now he really regrets it a little, he knew that this was the case, so it was better to advocate going out of the city to meet the battle like Shibata Katsuya. Even now, he clearly remembers the scene at that time:

"Based on all the information, the total number of troops mobilized by the Imagawa family is more than 40,000, but our strength is less than 7,000! If we fight on flat ground, we are not sure of victory, so it is better to concentrate all our forces on Cheongju City and do the final defensive battle. ”

However, at that time, Lord Nobunaga refused to listen to his advice at all, and retorted:

"Oh my God! No one has ever been able to defeat just by defending the city, has he? Once the decision is made to defend the city, it will demoralize the army and the people, and someone will definitely start to collaborate with the enemy, so this is a method that must not be used, and no more will be said a second time!"

At that time, when Lord Nobunaga said this, Sado thought to himself, "Oh my God! Is this the end of the Oda family? ”

Later, after going home and thinking about it all night, Hayashi Sado also figured it out, just as Lord Nobunaga accused, and he also knew in his heart that this was a war with no chance of winning at all. Defending the walls and waiting for the enemy to attack would indeed demoralize the city, so he no longer did this to Lord Nobunaga.

It's just that Lord Nobunaga not only rejected his construction of the cage battle, but also rejected the Shibata Katsuya's building of the castle to face the battle, so even now, no one understands how the Lord Nobunaga intends to deal with the invasion of the Imagawa family:

"Since the lord of Jianyì, whether it is the battle of the cage city or the battle out of the city, has refused, then this means that he has the certainty of victory, but what exactly is he going to do?"

The endless speculation and the long wait was very torturous, so the retainers pleaded with the lord Nobunaga:

"My lord! Please hurry up and convene a military assessment meeting!"

In the face of the pleas of the retainers, the lord Nobunaga remained on his wife's lap, digging his nostrils with his hands, and replied in a very contemptuous tone:

"Don't you understand? It's still early! ”

"But...... But, but the main team of Jibe Osa has arrived at the castle!" The retainers were almost angry with Nobunaga's words.

"I said it's early! I have the final say in the Oda family, and I am also in charge of the actions of the military forces in the family, so you can sleep without my orders! That's what you say to the others!" After saying that, Oda Nobunaga simply drove the retainers away.

Soon after, one of Nobunaga's little guards came to the hall where the retainers were, and pasted another piece of paper in the hall that read:

"Since the weather is too hot, everyone should take off their shoes!"

"Oh my God!" The retainers were really shocked when they saw such a sentence. They don't know if it's because the lord is too bold or self-defeating, or if he is crazy, or if he has other plans...... But no matter how you think about it, you still don't know what the lord is going to do? Is it the defense of the city? Perhaps now the lord has the intention of defending the city, but he is ashamed to say it because of what he said before? These thoughts were churning in the minds of the retainers, so that they could not grasp the thoughts of the lord Nobunaga for a while. (To be continued!)

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