——Besieged again.

This is the idea of ​​the group of Saito soldiers outside the Minomaru's walls when Hideyoshi Kinishi was looking at the Sannomaru city walls. However, unlike half a year ago, this sentence is not an exclamation, but a statement.

You should know that Kinoshita Hideyoshi spent a lot of effort on Sumata Castle in the past six months.

First, he found half of the craftsmen of Xiaozhai for a large sum of money, then built Minomaru and Machu within two months, and then used another two months to dismantle Ninomaru, which had only four walls, and then rebuilt it with stone. Finally, it was the Tianshou, which had not been completed until now.

During this period, some Saito family members wanted to come and test, but they were all scared by this rising city. Most of their thoughts were - this is not a small city that was described by those who had seen the One Night City without even the Heavenly Shou!

Although Kinishi Hideyoshi is only a Shishiji Castle, the cost of building the city was actually funded by Nobunaga, but in fact he invested a lot of money in building the city. He paid half of the construction cost of the entire Sumata Castle, and the other half was paid by Nobunaga.

This is not a free construction, and Nobunaga could not do such a thing, so at the beginning, Nobunaga handed over the taxes in Sumata Castle and surrounding areas to Kinishi Hideyoshi for three years. This incident caused dissatisfaction among the Lin clan family at the assessment meeting, and even the martial arts school Shibata Katsue, Sakuma Nobumoto, Takigawa Ichie and others who were also strongly opposed it.

But Nobunaga alone used the reason "This is my direct way, I don't want you to take care of it."

If the person who received this order was Ah Gou, then the Sumata area would be in poverty for about three years, because she would definitely push up the tax amount and then push all the city construction costs, her own expenses and foot training costs to the farmers. The purpose is to force them to leave the land that could no longer support them, and embark on the only way to write about eating food in the army and robbing families.

Because of this, whether it is Ono Castle or Komakiyama, all the taxes paid are collected by Nobunaga's officials in person in the countryside, rather than being collected by ordinary city lords and then handed over.

Of course, as the landlord of these lands, Ah Gou still has the right to collect other miscellaneous fees. However, these things cannot be handled by Ah Gou. As the chief manager of the Ah Gou family, Nobumasa Oda, would not make Ah Gou so crazy, because Komakiyama Castle is different from the remote place like Ono Castle. This is a place where people talk a lot. If you do something randomly, you will soon cause other people's bullets. Ah Gou has been criticized by Lin Xiuzhen and others in every assessment...

Although there is nothing wrong, being pointed at and scolded is definitely not a happy thing.

On the contrary, Kinoshita Hideyoshi, who obtained this power, did not act like Azuki, but instead joined forces with many merchants from Ohara and other places to invest. Therefore, he did not transfer the pressure of building a city to the people, and directly relaxed the tax amount. Anyone with a business mind can see the benefits of doing this: attracting surrounding farmers to settle here, thus driving the commercial exhibition.

However, this is not a huge profit, because the disadvantages are also obvious - it destroys the storm of the original area, and engages in evil with neighboring city lords and lords, and may even have disputes.

Unfortunately, Kinshita Hideyoshi was not afraid. In the vicinity of Sumata, except for the cities where the family belonged to the south and north, the rest were all enemy-occupied areas. How could he be afraid of having evil with others? Besides, Nobunaga also encouraged Kinshita Hideyoshi to continue doing this, and the Saito family might enter the dilemma of no soldiers to call.

With more money, more people; with more people, more soldiers.

Kinshita Hideyoshi no longer felt as panicked as more than half a year ago, because now there are 500 foot-shots in Sumata Castle. Although three of them are peasant soldiers who have trained less than half a month, they are still very sufficient as the defending force. Moreover, one of the remaining four is a professional foot-shot changed by the Hinasuka Party. The combat power is comparable to that of ordinary chauma. Even if three thousand people come to attack, Kinshita Hideyoshi is not afraid.

"Are there any reinforcements from Iketo Kazumabe coming?" Kinish Hideyoshi asked Kinish Hidenaga next to him.

"No... it's been half a day, maybe there is also being besieged there?"

"Has it been half a day? It's true that the Saito Army still did not attack the city?" Kinishun Hideyoshi shook his head. He was so relaxed now because the Saito Army only sieges and does not attack.

"No, even the siege tool doesn't seem to be made, I don't know what it is going to do."

"Have you found out the number of Saito Army?" Kinish Hideyoshi asked again.

"Master Kusuka said he was not sure, it was probably between 1,000 and 3,000." Kinisha Hidenaga said an answer that he thought was funny even himself.

"One thousand to three thousand? What's going on? Why didn't you find out clearly?" Kinishi Hideyoshi was dissatisfied.

"Because the Saito Army's military force is like flowing, there may be thirty smoke in the morning, but it increases to forty by noon. Moreover, the siege of the city is constantly changing for several hours, so it is difficult to find the number of the opponent." Kinishun Hidenaga truthfully told the difficulty of Masaoka Hinata.

Kinisha Hideyoshi frowned and looked at the two wave flags flying in the distance again. He knew that Saito Ryuki was there.

"Brother?"

Kinishi Hideyoshi scratched his chin gently and asked to himself, "I don't know what medicine he sells in the gourd, and why is the reason for using this method?"

"Of course, it is concealing the problem of insufficient power in our army."

Takenaka Shigeji, who was far away in the military tent outside the city, answered the same question as Kinishi Hideyoshi.

"But Kinish Hideyoshita from Yiyan Castle is so smart, he shouldn't be fooled like this, right?"

Takenaka Shigeji shook his head and disagreed, "The smarter the person is, the more he thinks about ghosts. The more he thinks, the more he will plan to see the situation clearly before he can control others. In short, he will hold on to the army first-"

"But he always figured out that this was just a trick of doubting the military. Wouldn't it be bad to go out of the city to fight with us? There is only a military force of less than 300 in this formation!" Saito Ryuki felt that it was not good.

Takenaka Shigeji opened the folding fan in his hand, and a hint of ruthlessness appeared in his eyes. "The first step we have to fight for is to figure out the period before. If we cannot complete our mission during this period, we can only return the two cities of Bingcao and Moribu, then retreat to Shinjo Castle, and summon the peasant soldiers to fight head-on with the Oda family. Of course, we must also see if Oda Nobunaga has the courage to fight with them once and for both sides."

Saito Ryuki turned his head a little bit, let alone whether Oda Nobunaga had such courage. He absolutely did not. He did not want to get a half-dead man with the Oda family, and then he was taken away from the guardian position by Minori's ambitious family.

"But... are you really sure she will come to Sumata for support? Could it be that she will go to Izui Kamoribe first?" Saito Ryuki asked with a suspicious look.

"No, she knew that Sumata was the focus of the entire line of defense. Without Sumata, it would be a failure, because the lord not only obtained a strong city, but also regained the hub of business."

"Yes, now I think about it, why didn't you build a castle in Sumata before?"

"No need, Sumata is the center of our family." Takenaka Shigeji explained.

"Um……"

"So she will definitely come, and the time she comes will not be slow. Everyone is a cavalry and is the advantage of being a vicious dog, but it has become their disadvantage. This has long been my calculation trap. I don't need to worry about the problem that Kanshita Hideyoshi's "thinking" is not long." Takenaka Shigeji said affirmatively.

"But only this time can we really kill the evil dog in one fell swoop?"

Takenaka Shigeji suddenly stopped shaking his fan's hand, closed his eyes, as if he was thinking about the answer to this question. After a long time, he shook his head and said, "I don't know."

"There is something that Bangui doesn't know?" Saito Ryuki was curious.

"Although the time, place and people are on our side, we have calculated step by step, and we have pushed the chances of winning to the greatest extent, and we have done everything we can do before the fight, and calculated everything we can, but... I really don't know." In the past six months, the focus of Takenaka Shigeji was on Ah Gou. Only after he dismantled all the stories that had been circulated one by one, he realized that he seemed to have no idea about this person.

Will that sword tomb, which can turn the outcome alone, really be defeated by a trap?

"Then I can only look at Makimura Naosuke and Nagai Dori."

Takenaka Shigeji looked east. Although he couldn't see it in his sight, there was a force of nearly a thousand people in that direction, lying on the necessary road from South American to Sumata, waiting for the support of the evil dogs to fall into the trap.
Chapter completed!