Oda Nobunaga in Sumamata Castle didn’t know that he had countless loyal Minohime warriors at his disposal.
She was having a secret conversation with Tsuneaki Ikeda indoors, with a crumpled letter in her hand and a sneer on her face.
"The handwriting is indeed Ando Mamoru's personal handwriting. This idiot is really unreliable."
Ikeda Hengxing said angrily.
"After His Highness gave the order, I kept an eye on her camp.
The next night, someone tried to leave the city secretly, but I sent someone to follow him far away before intercepting him so as not to be noticed by her.
This is a letter found from the emissary. Most likely he wanted to find Isshiki Yoshiryu's army and present the letter.
What a good person who can cooperate inside and outside! What a good person who can offset the merits!
Your Highness, what should we do next?"
Oda Nobunaga stared coldly at the letter in his hand, murderous intent gradually revealed on his face.
"Now the troops in the city are disorganized and their morale is low. We cannot leave this scourge behind. You..."
Before she finished speaking, there was a rapid knock on the door. Oda Nobunaga was upset and cursed.
"Bagya Road! I told you not to disturb me! Who is it?"
Takigawa Kazuki's voice came from outside the door, and he couldn't restrain his joy even though he was cautious.
"Your Highness, there is an urgent military situation."
Takigawa Kazumasu is Ikeda Tsuneaki's deputy, and he is also the leader of Oda Nobunaga's mother-in-laws.
Ikeda Hengxing opened the door, and Oda Nobunaga strode out and asked.
"What's up?"
Takigawa Kazuki couldn't hide his excitement, he handed over the military information letter with both hands and said.
"Your Highness, Kaneyama Castle has been captured."
"What!"
Oda Nobunaga took the military information and looked at it carefully, and said happily.
"Okay, okay, Quan Liu is indeed the most powerful general of our Oda family."
Although the war in West Mino was unfavorable, East Mino opened a gap. While the west was not bright and the east was bright, the Oda family still had the upper hand.
As long as Oda Nobunaga can defend Sumamata Castle, the Mino strategy will have taken another step forward, and it will just be a waste of time.
Oda Nobunaga smiled, turned around and was about to finish his previous words to Ikeda Tsuneaki and take the life of Ando Mamoru.
At this moment, there were hurried footsteps outside, and Sen Kecheng rushed in. She ignored the salute and said.
"Your Highness, the troops of Simeon have descended from the city. There are no less than fifteen troops in reserve. They say they are raising the flag to attack the matricide Saito Yoshiryu, and they want to serve you as the master.
Go and have a look!"
Not to mention that Oda Nobunaga was confused, Mori Katsunari himself was also confused. The Nishimino samurai family has always had an ambiguous attitude. They would not refuse if they disagreed, but they were just hanging on to the sincerity of the Oda family.
Now, suddenly, the flag is so clear that people have come to vote, which makes people confused.
Several people were eager to go to the top of the city. As soon as they arrived at the bottom of the city, there was another noise, and Oda Nobunaga helplessly shouted.
"what happened again!"
She was so dizzy with all kinds of news today that she couldn't figure out the situation for a while.
Hidetaka Kawajiri on the top of the city had a face of surprise and bowed to Oda Nobunaga.
"Your Highness! Hinano Hiroshi sent an envoy to discuss the surrender. Inabayama Castle is going to surrender! Isshiki Yoshiryu is dead!
The envoy is at the bottom of the city and is asking for the hanging basket to pull her up to the top of the city."
Oda Nobunaga was stunned for a long time, and silently tore up Ando Mamoru's letter of collaboration with the enemy in his hand. The scraps of paper were scattered in the air and flew away with the wind.
She suppressed her excitement and turned back to Ikeda Hengxing in a low voice.
"Kill Ando Mamoru's emissaries, clean them up from beginning to end, and leave no traces.
Don't touch her yet, lest the Mino warriors who come to join me misunderstand that I am killing the donkey and spoil the overall situation."
Ikeda Hengxing nodded in agreement, and Oda Nobunaga finally couldn't help but look up to the sky and roar.
Even the heavens are helping me! I am indeed a woman destined to become a world-famous woman!
Although Mino has not yet been pacified, Oda Nobunaga has never been so confident, confident that the world will belong to him sooner or later!
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While the battle on Kawanakajima was fierce and all parties in Mino were fighting secretly, Jinji, which had not seen peace for a long time, ushered in a rare calm.
The Miyoshi family and the Rokkaku family are busy fighting among themselves. Without these two families, where would the chaos be in recent times?
Ashikaga Yoshiki of Kyoto took the opportunity to regroup, pressed forward step by step, and gradually gathered power in the hands of the shogunate.
At this moment when the samurai families in Kyoto were eagerly anticipating the resurgence of the Ashikaga clan, some people were secretly frowning.
Fujibayashi Anzu lay on the ground and waited for orders. Mitsuhide Akechi looked at the information with an unhappy face. She rubbed her eyebrows with her right middle finger and asked.
"No chance at all?"
"Hi! Mr. Nizi is very strict in internal management, and no one dares to talk nonsense.
I reluctantly provoked three or two people, but they were reported, and the Yagyu group immediately dispatched. The principal culprits were beheaded in public, and the remaining ones committed seppuku and apologized."
Akechi Mitsuhide raised his head and took a long breath and sighed.
"Ni Ziji, you are really embarrassing me."
Fujibayashi Anzu was below, already sweating profusely. She invited herself into the urn and became a pawn in Akechi Mitsuhide's hands.
Fujibayashi Mukuro was responsible for the intelligence on the Central Team, but he didn't know that his sister had fallen into hell and was unable to extricate herself.
Akechi Mitsuhide keeps giving Fujibayashi some dirty work, from shallow to deep, and now it has developed to sowing relationships among various families in the Spurs in recent years.
Fujibayashi Anzu was horrified, not knowing what Akechi Mitsuhide did and what the purpose was.
But once her actions of sowing dissension are exposed, she will die, and the whole family will suffer. In desperation, she can only be manipulated by Akechi Mitsuhide and go all the way to the dark side.
Akechi Mitsuhide didn't care about the chess piece's thoughts. She was just worried that Nizi Katsuhisa's powerful tactics would make her internal provocation strategy fail.
Time waits for no one, and the shogun has gradually taken over the power of the shogunate. The Ashikaga family is physically strong, and Ashikaga Yoshiteru's attitude has become increasingly tough.
The internal strife between the Rokkaku family and the Miyoshi family has become increasingly intensified, but Mitsuhide Akechi has been unable to detonate the internal conflicts in the Shibo region in recent years and keep up with them.
The interests of Takada Harano and Maeda are not good, and their responsibilities are completely opposite, and they look down on each other.
It stands to reason that this provocation couldn't be easier. The Wu family looks down on Shang Fengxing, and a spark can explode.
But Nizi Katsuhisa insisted on using Yagyu Munenuki's eyes to pay the Yagyu-gumi, suppressing the family to the point where there was no spark, which stumped Akechi Mitsuhide.
There is no trouble within the Shiba family, and in the eyes of outsiders, they are a powerful and famous samurai family, enough to unite the powerful local factions of the shogunate such as Hosokawa Hatakeyama Mibuchi.
Akechi Mitsuhide needed the Shiba family to reveal their weaknesses, and the local powerful factions in the shogunate to have their own agendas, in order to seduce the general to go further.
Ashikaga Yoshiteru has a tough personality. This passionate father-in-law has no room for disgrace in his eyes, and he has long been resentful of the Ashikaga family's power.
As the two pillars of the shogunate, she now suppresses the shogunate faction. If she sees an opportunity and can overwhelm the powerful local faction, she will truly become a powerful general who sticks to her word.
Ashikaga Yoshiteru will never miss this opportunity.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that civil strife between the Rokkaku family and the Miyoshi family is inevitable.
When the two families are weakened and the shogunate becomes dominant, what will Ashikaga Yoshiteru, the passionate prince, do?