However, from the perspective of an outsider like Yu Qiuping, the conflict between Simino and Omi is very likely to be a divorce plan used by Rokkaku Yoshiken. It is true that the wealthy Simino family is very close to the Rokkaku family.

, but it should not be enough to make an agreement with the Rokkaku family to send troops without going through the master's family. The reply letter was probably deliberately forged by Rokkaku Yoshihide, and then sacrificed a ninja and sent it to the Asai family - during the Battle of Noragada.

, the Rokkaku family once sacrificed ninjas.

As for the Asai family, it is very likely that they are just pretentious. They knew it was a divorce plan, but they invaded the fertile land of Simeon in the name of intercepted letters. However, Yu Qiuping believes that this may be the calculation in the minds of the Asai family retainers.

.And his sworn brother Nagamasa, who was full of justice, may simply want to punish the treacherous Simeon wealthy family, and did not realize that this was a counter-intuitive plot.

Then, the subsequent progress in the Kinki region also surprised Yu Qiuping.

Rokkaku Yoshiken contacted Ise's Kitahata Gukyo and Hatakeyama Takamasa, who had been defeated by the Miyoshi family before, and launched an attack on the Miyoshi family. General Ashikaga Yoshiteru also raised the flag to respond. Miyoshi Nagakei, Miyoshi Yoshihide and Anzai Fuyasu led the attack

The army crossed the sea from Shikoku to come to the aid. Juga Ichitomi, who was originally stationed in Settsu, also stopped suppressing the opponents and rushed to the aid of Izumi.

However, something different from history happened. In the Battle of Kumeda, Miyoshi Yoshihide, who was supposed to be killed by the Nerai people under Hatakeyama Takamasa, was still defeated. However, in the original history, the ten who should have died a year ago were killed.

With the rescue of Kawai Icun, they successfully retreated into Kishiwada Castle and stood firm. Afterwards, the Miyoshi family, which had gathered the main force, with the help of Yamato's Matsunagahide, defeated the Rokkaku and Hatakeyama coalition forces in the Battle of Kyokoji Temple. However, the Miyoshi family seemed to suddenly

As if they had lost interest in Kinki, they withdrew their main force from Kinki again. Not only did they let go of the opposing Ashikaga Yoshiteru, they even relaxed their guard against Kyoto and evacuated hastily as if they had lost the battle.

"Wouldn't all the prophecies I told that gambler have been conveyed to the top management of the Miyoshi family?" Yu Qiuping held his forehead deeply, "The Miyoshi family seems to be focused on stabilizing its foundation and does not want to fall into the quagmire of Kinki anymore.

ah!"

However, Yu Qiuping soon ran out of time to pay attention to information about Ximenong that had nothing to do with him.

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In the early morning of May 23, the fifth year of Eiroku (1562), urgent news came from Qingzhou City - Oda Nobukiyo of Inuyama Castle announced his rebellion the night before and had turned to the Saito family. And Oguchi Bungo Mamoru of Nakajima Castle near Inuyama Castle

The castle, as well as Wada Shinsuke's Ogusa Castle, also rebelled with Inuyama Castle. Following the defection of these three major cities, many small wealthy families in Niwa County who followed the Inuyama and Oda families also followed Oda Nobukiyo and wore the Saito family's wave pattern.

flag.

Yu Qiuping was woken up in the middle of the night by Ikoma Chizheng who came to report the news. He was still in a daze, but when he heard the news, he broke into a cold sweat and lost all sleep. He hurriedly changed into

Clothes, ran to the assessment room on the third floor of the castle tower, and temporarily summoned Naoe Tadayei, Amano Keitoku, Sanada Masayuki, Anayama Nobuyuki, and Omaezaki Nakahide, Yoshioka Katsumasa and Aoki Kazuki who were not sent to the north bank for duty.

It was not that Oda Nobunaga had no premonitions about Oda Nobukiyo's rebellion. Due to the death of Oda Nobukiyo's younger brother last year, Oda Nobukiyo was already deeply resentful of Oda Nobunaga. After that, there were constant minor frictions between the two parties, and Oda Nobukiyo also frequently came into contact with the Saito family.

.

However, everyone in the Oda family still did not expect that Oda Nobukiyo would rebel so simply, taking with him many small wealthy families in Niwa County and important branch cities such as Oguchi Castle and Ohakusa Castle. The territory controlled by the rebel Oda Nobukiyo may be

It is already close to 700 million koku. If he is given time to digest his territory and eliminate those wealthy families who still support Oda Nobunaga, his territory can even be expanded further.

When everyone arrived, Yu Qiupei had been staring at the simulated sand table map on the table for a long time, and his face was very solemn. The Haguri County where Yu Qiupei's fiefdom is located is located northwest of Owari. And the Niwa County where the rebel Oda Nobukiyo is located

, in the northeast of Owari, there is a large area bordering the two counties. With Oda Nobukiyo's rebellion, Oda Nobunaga's residence, Seiju Castle, was also exposed to Oda Nobukiyo's military front, and he had no time to take care of himself.

In other words, the defense within Yu Qiuping's territory would have to rely on himself in a short period of time. After listening to the information, everyone immediately understood the seriousness of the situation and began to discuss anxiously.

When it was just dawn, Qingzhou sent another messenger to deliver orders - it seemed that Qingzhou was also very busy at the moment. The messenger was Maeda Toshiie, and he conveyed to Yu Qiupei what Oda Nobunaga had given him.

The latest appointment - Yeli County County Representative. In addition to his own 10,000 stone territory, the remaining 4,000 stone lords in Yeli County also obeyed his unified dispatch to guard against possible attacks by Oda Nobukiyo.

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"Your Highness, the top priority now is to guard against the Inuyama direction," Sanada Masayuki pointed to the location of Inuyama Castle on the map and said, "A total of nearly 2,000 people could have been mobilized in the Inuyama direction. However, heavy losses were suffered in the previous nineteen villages. Now it is estimated that

Only more than 1,500 people can be mobilized, including more than 500 soldiers."

"Then why are we panicking?" Gomaezaki Nakahide said with a smile: "We also have 400 soldiers and 20 cavalry, but the auxiliary soldiers are a little less, maybe only 400 people. But our Tokiwabei has more than 200 elite veterans, which is enough

One against ten. We don’t have to wait for them to come over, we might as well fight over directly and seize this great achievement!"

"Zhongxiu, now is not the time to joke," Yu Qiuping shook his head and said, "It's not just the problem of the Inuyama and Oda families, in our position, we must also consider the threat of the Saito family!"

Indeed, when the Oda family faced the Mino Saito family, Akihei Ame and Nobukiyo Oda shared only half of the defensive pressure. However, with Oda Nobukiyo's defection, the Saito family's troops were not only able to use the troops originally used to defend against Oda Nobukiyo

If the troops are mobilized to attack Amakihira, they can even cross the Kiso River calmly through Oda Nobukiyo's territory and attack the rear of Amakihira's territory from the east - and Amakihira's defense line on the north bank of the Kiso River will be bypassed.

"Maginot Line of Defense". If you want to defend the defense line on the north bank, you have to invest a lot of troops, which will lead to the emptiness of Yu Qiupei's abilities - Yu Qiupei has not built any fortifications in the territory. If Oda Nobukiyo wants

If we come to attack, we can quickly reach Kuroda Castle in a smooth battle.

"Immediately withdraw our troops on the north bank and abandon the three rock villages." After thinking for a moment, Yu Qiuping decisively ordered, "Bring all the ferries to the south bank. If the Saito family wants to attack, send the rock villages

The village and floating bridge were burned down, preventing them from crossing the Kiso River easily!"

"Your Highness!" When Ji Gang Shengzheng heard what Yu Qiuping said, he suddenly became anxious: "We just built those rock villages with great difficulty! How can we just give up?"

"The purpose of building Yanzhai is for defense. If they cannot help our defense, we must abandon them. We now have insufficient troops and cannot hold the north bank. Only by retreating to the south bank and relying on the Kiso River for defense can we have any hope of victory. We There are only a small number of people in the first place, and they are divided into two places. Isn’t this asking for death and being defeated by each one?" Yu Qiuping said decisively: "Those who can’t give up anything can’t save anything. There is nothing to hesitate in this choice. Yanzhai It's dead, and the worst it can do is repair it. Brothers, if their lives are gone, they won't be able to come back."

"Understood." Everyone understood Yu Qiuping's defense concept, but they were still reluctant to let go when the situation came. If the Saito family took advantage of the situation to attack, those rock strongholds would be burned down.

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Before noon on May 23, the Yu Qiuping family's troops on the north bank of the Kiso River withdrew all their troops. The four wealthy families who had a no-war contract with him were very puzzled and sent envoys to ask Yu Qiuping if something had happened. Yu Qiuping also responded readily. Tell the truth - they will find out from the Saito family soon anyway. Yu Qiuping also threatens these four wealthy families. If the Saito family makes any move to attack Yu Qiuping's territory, he must inform Yu Qiuping immediately.

On the afternoon of May 23, Yu Qiuping asked Naoe Tadayei to start urgently summoning auxiliary troops in the territory. Yu Qiuping himself led the two infantry platoons and cavalry of Yoshioka Katsumasa and Aoki Kazuki to take the lead and advanced that night. At the border of Yuri County and Niwa County, a guard was started on the official road. Other troops stayed in Kuroda Castle as a reserve force.

Early the next morning, Tanma discovered the flag of the Inuyama Oda family and was heading west.

The Lord of Inuyama Castle, Oda Nobukiyo, is leading his men all the way to the west at this moment, intending to quickly kill Amekihei and break one of Owari's arms before Oda Nobunaga can react. The Saito family leader has made an appointment before, On this day, we attacked together and attacked Yeli County where Yu Qiuping was located.

Oda Nobukiyo had heard before that Amekihei seemed to have advanced to the north bank of the Kiso River, leaving nearly half of his troops on the north bank of the Kiso River - which made him secretly happy. He had long heard that Tokiwa Bei was good at fighting, and he was originally determined to defeat them. He doesn't have much confidence yet. But naturally Yu Qiupei only has half of his troops left on the south bank of the Kiso River, so he still thinks he can defeat Yu Qiupei. Even if he can't win, he only needs to hold Yu Qiupei back in his territory. A large raid can severely weaken his vitality. And the Saito family's troops coming from the north will definitely be able to defeat Ame Akihei's troops on the north bank of the Kiso River with more strikes and fewer attacks, and they will attack together with Oda Nobukiyo.

No matter what, he still had the advantage of a surprise attack, and Yu Qiuping would not have had time to prepare.

However, something unexpected happened to him. When he rushed to the border between Niwa County and Yeli County, he actually saw nearly 100 Joban warriors and a dozen cavalry.
Chapter completed!