Chapter 24: Outside the Valley of Deadwood
Kuroki Valley is located in a valley in Omi.
A place surrounded by mountains is dominated by the Oe Kingdom's lord, Kuriki Mototsuka. There are two cities and one horse, namely Nishiyama Castle, Kuriki Koriki Koriki and Kuriki Castle.
The three cities are obviously a little less than such a large place, but this is not a major transportation route. Although it is close to Kyoto, the current Japanese exchange center, it is always just a mountain village. If you go to Echizen, most traders will choose to go to the Minamio River instead of the Kuraki Valley.
Because you can also take a boat in Minamiomi, the roads in Kuriki Valley are mostly mountain roads, and Wakasa along the way are not considered prosperous places, so it does not have much attraction for businessmen who want to make money.
There are not many pedestrians, so the road conditions will naturally not be good, so this road is even more difficult than Nobunaga imagined...
"Lord, Lord Nishiyu's front army is almost at Xishan City!"
Nishiyama Castle is one of the cities dominated by the Kuriki clan. It stands on the Nishiyama Mountain and serves to monitor the entrance in Wakasa, which is the current Nobunaga's marching route.
Nobunaga nodded, "Go and contact Kuriki Mototsune, I don't want any unnecessary killings."
Although there was no one pursuer during the journey, the entire army still could not relax because too many local Chinese people who originally supported the Oda family were tempted by Asai, Asakura and Ashikaga, and instead attacked Nobunaga.
Nobunaga actually didn't mean to kill all these people, but the warriors who followed the military force, all felt that they wanted to kill these traitors. Especially Nobumasa, who was hostile to all the people and samurai on the way, they directly massacred the whole city, the whole family, and the whole household without any reason.
Resist?
Most of the Chinese people have only less than 500 troops, and they are all poorly trained peasant soldiers. Compared with the loyal dogs under Xin Zheng, it is much worse.
From Echizen to Wakasa to Kitaoe, in just three days, Nobuma had already slaughtered three Yamaka, two houses and six villages, and killed them regardless of gender, age, as long as they had a sense of resistance.
The name of the little evil ghost became louder again.
Nobunaga, who was dissatisfied with this, once warned Nobumasa, that he would kill him without saying anything, which was extremely dangerous, but he was like a copy of Ah Goun, with a sincere attitude and accepted opinions, but his actions remained the same.
If he was another retainer, Nobunaga would definitely lock him up. Even if he was capable, as long as he was disobedient, the Oda family would not have a place. But Nobumasa was different. He was Nobunaga's son, and he was also Azuki's son. If he was really locked up, the martial arts faction of the kissing Azuki side would have complained, and Azuki was still in person at the moment...
The consequences of abandoning Nobunaga's death were not even dared to try. It was so tough that Nobunaga could only use another method, first using Nobunaga as a bridge of communication, and at the same time, he moved Nobunaga, who was originally responsible for ensuring Nobunaga's safety in the Central Army to the Back Army, and joined the Mikawa Samurai in the Back Army.
"They probably won't fight, right?" Nobunaga was a little curious about whether Nobuka would fight with the Tokugawa family's samurai when he made this decision.
Fortunately, both sides knew the right degree, especially the general of the Tokugawa Army was Tokugawa Ieyasu himself. With his patience-oriented character, he controlled some of the hot-tempered samurai in the Tokugawa family well. The three brothers Nobumasa and Nobuku were not A-gou. Only Mikawa was a lower-class person in his mind, and he did not want to kill all the Mikawa people.
In fact, under the teaching and actions of Ah Quan, the second generation of Xiaoling and Shin Zheng have a natural sense of superiority. They are both the most advanced in food and accommodation, and have outstanding abilities among their ages, so they naturally regard people outside their circle as second-class people.
Nobunaga could also vaguely feel this incident, because he had a hint of invisible self-sadness in front of Nobujin...
After the arrangement, Shin-zheng did not start a massacre this day.
"Lord! My subordinates have friendship with Kuroki, can I leave it to my subordinates to negotiate?"
The sudden self-recommendation brought back the memory of Nobunaga back to reality. The samurai in front of him was Matsukura Hide. Before becoming the actual guardian of Yamato Kingdom, he had given up his independent Danaga and directly served his loyalty to Nobunaga.
This behavior became an example for Kinki samurai and Daime, which made many samurai join the Oda family. Even though Nobunaga was dissatisfied with the samurai who betrayed the master family twice, his current affairs and ability were real, so Nobunaga still valued him and promoted him to the ranks of important officials of the Oda family.
"Then you can do it!" Nobunaga waved his hand and handed over the task directly to Matsunaga.
"yes!"
But Nobunaga did not notice the strange smile that Matsukura Nagahiro showed after turning around...
Half an hour later, Matsukunaga Nagahide came to the city of Nishiyama. The temporary military camp established by the Nishiba Nagahide's former army, and met the Oda family's important official named Kinosara Nagahide.
Since being shot by Yoshida Chongtaka's arrow, this is the first time that Ninoha Nagahide has played. However, he has recovered from injury more than half a year ago, and has just been preparing for the horse's domination and has not yet appeared.
"I have already expressed my intention to Kuriki Mototsuru and am currently waiting for his reply." Ninoha Nagahide glanced at the retainers behind Matsuezuki.
There are quite a lot of samurai, but there are not many who know each other. Ninoha Nagahide thinks that they may be all Chinese in Yamato and do not pay much attention.
"Then let's wait here first!"
Niba Nagahide nodded. He had no good feelings for most of the samurai who joined the Oda family after joining Luo, especially Matsukura Nagahide and Akichi Mitsuhide, because they were both people who betrayed the main family and were not worthy of being samurai.
In the eyes of Ninoha Nagahide, even if there is any reason, he should not betray the master's family. Only when the master's family is destroyed can he turn to other places. What he admires the most is a samurai like Yamaakana. Even if the master's family is destroyed, he has been working tirelessly to restore the family name for the master's family.
However, Niba Nagahide did not expect that in the short time waiting for a reply, the conspiracy had already opened to Nobunaga with his teeth and claws-
"Master, please report it urgently!"
The central army where Nobunaga was also stopped and waited for the reply from Kuraki Sototsu ahead. If Kuraki Sototsu had a strange intention, Nobunaga would be sure to return to Kyoto through Kurakiya, but it might lose a lot of money by then.
"What's the matter?" Nobunaga looked at Takigawa Yishi, who was walking over quickly.
"This...this...this...this...this...a large number of military forces have emerged toward our army five miles southeast!"
Nobunaga took a deep breath, and he immediately figured out which army was...
"Asai Nagamasa!"
Coming from Lake Biwa, if no one else had betrayed, then only Nagamasa Asai would be the brother-in-law.
"Immediately, Nobumasa of the Later Army and Lord Tokugawa come!"
"yes!"
"Rei Nagashui and Kusaki immediately convinced Kuriki Mototsu, and you can agree to anything first!"
Nobunaga now had only 5,000 troops in the central army, and the narrow terrain here was the mountain pass outside the Kuriki Valley, which gave the raiders the possibility of a small number of troops breaking through a large number of enemy troops.
"That……"
"Go now!"
"yes!"
Nobunaga was a little regretful at this time that he transferred Nobunaga to the rear army. There are not many outstanding samurai in the central army now, and there are also some samurai whose loyalty is not guaranteed and who may turn against you at any time...
Chapter completed!