On August 24, the eleventh year of Eiji (1568), the wealthy families and important ministers of the Oda family in Naka and Nishi-Mino had already begun to gather in Omi Province after the autumn harvest. Among them, more than 2,500 people from Yuqiupei,
There are more than 2,000 people from Mori Katsunari, more than 6,000 people from Simino Sanzu, and more than 1,000 people from Ikeda Tsuneki, who was sent by Oda Nobunaga to supervise the army, totaling nearly 12,000 people. The general of this advance team,
It is Ame Akihei. And General Ashikaga Yoshiki and his Feng Gong will also arrive in Omi at the end of August. After the main force of the Asakura family and the Oda family arrive in Omi, the army will begin to attack Luo. The total strength of the coalition forces may be
Close to an astonishing 70,000 people - this is a huge army that Kinki has not seen in many years.
On August 28, Yu Qiuping led the vanguard to arrive at Omi.
At this time, he was sitting on the third floor of the Odani Castle Castle Tower, and Asai Nagamasa and his wife personally took care of him.
I have to say that after a year of not seeing each other, Ah Shi has become even more beautiful. As a married woman, her figure and curves are no less than those of Kaede Imagawa. And her face is even more beautiful than the one Yu Qiuping met by chance before.
She is endearing because of her exquisiteness. And the gentle and pitiful temperament in her behavior is enough to make everyone fall in love. Even though Yu Qiuping and Ah Shi are already familiar with each other, the moment they see Ah Shi again after a long separation,
It was still unavoidable to be a little shocked. Yu Qiuping now understood why his buddies, even though they were already very familiar with Imagawa Kaede, would still lose their temper every time they met.
Not long ago, Aichi just gave birth to a baby boy, and Asai Nagamasa and the Asai family were overjoyed. Asai Nagamasa named the child after his previous childhood name, Shinkuro. If nothing goes wrong, he will be born.
Become the next governor of the Asai family.
"Where are Chacha and Ah Chu, why didn't you see them?" Yu Qiuping looked around, but didn't see the two cute little girls, and asked with some confusion.
"The two sisters are coaxing Shinkuro." When Ashi heard the names of his two precious daughters, a smile appeared on his face unconsciously, "Achu is not very old yet, but he especially likes to coax his younger brother."
"This is a good thing." Yu Qiuping smiled when he heard this, looking at Asai Nagamasa and Ashi with envy, "They say girls are their parents' little cotton-padded jackets. You two little cotton-padded jackets can take care of people at such a young age, but in the future
You can enjoy it! How can I be like that Cen'er in my family, who is more naughty than boys at a young age."
"Brother, there is no need to belittle yourself. Cen'er is so smart and sensible, and she will definitely be a good girl in the future." Asai Nagamasa had no sense of humor as always, and did not hear that Yu Qiuping was joking at all, but replied seriously. Yu Qiuping said
Ah Shi looked at each other after hearing this, and then laughed.
"Ashi? Brother? What's wrong?" Asai Nagamasa saw Yu Qiuping and Ashi suddenly laughing. Monk Zhanger was confused and asked in confusion.
"Nothing, nothing, Changzheng is right." Yu Qiuping smiled from ear to ear and raised the wine glass in his hand, "Come on, Changzheng, cheers!"
Asai Nagamasa's face turned red when he heard this, and he glanced at the glass filled with wine in his hand with some embarrassment, hesitating whether he should drink it. After drinking this glass of wine, he would probably be half drunk.
"By the way, Brother Hongye." Ashi on the side seemed to suddenly remember something, stretched out her hand and rubbed something in her arms. After a while, she found what she was looking for and handed it to Yu Qiuping's hand.
"What is this?" Yu Qiuping took it over with some surprise and found that it was something with a doll-like structure. He slowly unfolded the thing and found that it was a glove embroidered with cloth, with some cotton stuffed inside.
"This is what Chacha embroidered. She said she wanted to give this hand to Shang'er." Ah Shi thought of his daughter's embroidery, and complained with a little distress: "Chacha is disobedient, and she's not very good at being a prostitute.
I had to embroider it by myself, and my hands were pricked in many places."
"For Shang'er?" Yu Qiuping seemed to have no response and asked again.
"Yes." Ah Shi smiled gently when he heard this and blushed a little embarrassedly: "Chacha always talks about Shang'er to me after she met Shang'er and asked me to tell her stories about Shang'er.
But how do I know anything?"
Yu Qiuping looked at the silk stuffed with cotton in his hand, and his thoughts suddenly drifted far away. The memory seemed to return to that snowy day ten years ago, when a girl who was also not very good at female celebrities was hiding in the mountains.
In a small wooden house, I was embroidering a shawl for my sweetheart, stitch by stitch, even my fingers were pricked in many places.
Thinking of this, he subconsciously raised his hand and gently touched the red leaf shawl on his shoulder. The smile on his face suddenly became very gentle and gentle.
"What's wrong, brother?" Asai Nagamasa asked with some confusion when he saw Yu Qiuping suddenly smiling foolishly.
"It's okay, it's okay. I remembered your sister-in-law." Yu Qiuping happily stuffed the cloth glove into his arms, nodded to Ashi and said, "Ashi told Chacha to reassure her that she will definitely bring her.
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On August 29, Ashikaga Yoshiteru himself also arrived at Omi Otani Castle. Along with him, there were 2,000 armed forces directly under the Ashikaga family - that is, the public. In the morning, all the Asai family and origami in Omi
Under the arrangement of Mitsuhide Akechi, who arrived earlier, the senior warriors of the Tian family went out of the city to greet the general's carriage. And their armies were also gathered around Otani Castle to demonstrate the power of the coalition forces.
At six o'clock in the morning, the two-horse seal symbolizing the general appeared on the north road. To everyone's surprise, Ashikaga Yoshiteru did not sit in the bullock cart obediently, but took the lead and rode his horse on the road.
At the front of the team, I saw him dressed in a heroic Jinhaori, wearing two world-famous swords, namely Doji Kiriyatsuna and Onimaru Kunitsuna, on his left and right. The Feng Gong behind him seemed to be well-trained, and at first glance, he looked a bit a bit shaky.
The majestic spirit of the general's inspection. Many low-level ashigaru from the Oda family and the Asai family who had never seen the world saw this for the first time and cheered excitedly. For them, their lords and governors
No matter how illustrious his status is, he is just a powerful mortal. But with such a noble status passed down from generation to generation as Ashikaga Shogun, no matter how downcast he is, he is like a god-like existence.
Ashikaga Yoshiteru seemed to be very satisfied with the etiquette of the coalition forces to welcome him, and he was also very pleased with the cheers of the Ashikaru. He smiled slightly at this moment with a sullen face. When he rode his horse slowly past the cheering Ashikaru, he came
When he arrived at the place where senior warriors such as Yu Qiuping and Asai Nagamasa welcomed him, everyone knelt down and kowtowed, expressing their respect for the supreme warrior.
Before Amakihei and the others set out, Oda Nobunaga specially met with several of their retainers from the vanguard. When asked how to treat Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Oda Nobunaga said rather disdainfully:
"Just pat him on the back and kowtow a few times. Don't listen to any orders."
Therefore, Yu Qiuping and several people around him naturally saluted very respectfully, and they definitely did not intend to treat the general badly in terms of etiquette. Ashikaga Yoshiki passed by them slowly on a tall horse, and seemed to mutter a few words to himself.
It was a sentence, but Yu Qiuping didn't hear it clearly.
After a set of ceremonies, before the Ashikaru could disperse, Ashikaga Yoshiteru seemed to have lost his patience and asked to set up his marching shogunate on the spot to hold the first evaluation meeting of the coalition forces. Ame Qiupei and Mori Katsunari
, Ikeda Hengxing and others were slightly resistant, because according to the previously agreed terms, Ashikaga Yoshiteru could only serve as a signboard and had no right to interfere with military command matters.
However, they don’t have any particularly tough characters here. When the general made such a request in public, he was embarrassed to disgrace the general, so he had to agree silently. Yu Qiuping felt that if Shibata Katsuie and Sakuma Nobumori were two tough characters,
With seniority here, he probably wouldn't be at the mercy of Ashikaga Yoshiteru. For the first time in his life, he actually missed Shibata Katsuie and Sakuma Nobumori.
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The shogunate was hastily set up, and a somewhat crude map of Kinki was placed on the table. Yu Qiuping was no longer used to this crude map. It only marked some important cities and the general outline of important places.
The location and the outline of Lake Biwa. Important roads and the hydrological and geographical environment are almost not covered. After Yu Qiupei established the Military Intelligence Department, he has begun to ask Sanada Masayuki and others to draw maps with simple contour lines, including rivers and roads.
They were all asked to mark it out, and they were even starting to make a sand table. Not only was the map brought by the general inferior to his own, it was even inferior to Oda Nobunaga's map.
Can you command a war with such a map? This is an antique from many years ago. If the Ashikaga shoguns are so ambitious and have high vision but low hand, it is no wonder that they have fallen like this.
"If you have any suggestions for the action plan for this Shangluo battle, please tell me, General." After Ashikaga Yoshiki pondered for a moment, he looked around at everyone present and asked this question.
Yu Qiuping, Mori Kacheng, and Ikeda Hengxing looked at each other and remained silent in a tacit understanding. And the three people from Simeon next to Yu Qiuping were all veterans of the martial arts world. There was no need for Yu Qiuping to remind them.
Each one is like a sitting Buddha with a face as still as water.
Retainers such as General Kai Akame and other retainers of the Asai family are also familiar with this. They understand that if they start a strategic discussion with the general at this time, then they will most likely have to adopt the general's opinion. They are not willing to let it go.
It was at the mercy of the general, so they all kept their mouths shut. Only Asai Nagamasa, a stupid young man, didn't seem to understand the details. When he saw that everyone was silent, he felt that the general was a little embarrassed, so he cleared his throat and was about to speak.
However, Tsunahimika Kaiboku, who was sitting next to him, knew his lord too well. When he noticed that Asai Nagamasa had spoken, he immediately held him down with quick eyes and hands, preventing him from standing up. Asai Nagamasa looked at him in surprise.
The latter glared at Asai Nagamasa fiercely. Even though Asai Nagamasa didn't understand what was going on, he still obediently complied.
Just like that, after Ashikaga Yoshiteru said these words, the entire shogunate was quiet, and no one spoke. Standing behind him, Wada Yui looked angry, while Hosokawa Fujitaka and Akechi Mitsuhide also sighed helplessly.
Ashikaga Yoshiki himself looked livid, and for a while he felt a little unable to get off stage.