After the competition in front of Tianzheng, Rihai offered to learn from Yu Qiuping. Naturally, Yu Qiuping would not refuse this Go genius in his previous life, so he had a monk attendant beside him. Rihai had a good personality and was smart.
He was eager to learn, and after only half a day he got to hang out with young guards like Asahina Taihei and Mori Ranmaru.
The next night, at Rihai's request, Yu Qiuping took some time to review the chess game with him. When Yu Qiuping reviewed the game, he kept sighing. He didn't pay attention to Rihai at first.
Playing chess, now I see that my game is really full of mistakes. And the layout of Rihai's opening seems a little immature to Yu Qiuping, but it is obvious that this young man has tried his best. After the middle game, he has to pay attention to the details.
In handling battles and battles, Rihai did it in a orderly manner, and it seemed that he had a solid foundation in basic skills - he was a good prospect.
However, in the middle stage of the review, Rihai's face was already a little solemn - he kept staring at the corner where he was overturned by 33 points at the end. It was obvious that his arrangement outside had already taken shape, even if Yu Qiuping
It doesn't hurt that Point Thirty Three gave him a strong momentum, but Yu Qiuping was still reluctant to move. Rihai was stunned as he watched his flaw from the middle to the end, and was finally killed by Yu Qiuping with one hit.
"Your Highness, why didn't you order it before?" Ri Hai raised his head and asked Yu Qiuping in confusion.
Yu Qiuping pretended to smile mysteriously and replied in a low voice:
"Of course the killing move must be hidden."
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On October 30, Oda Nobunaga held an evaluation meeting in Nijo Castle Castle, and all the daimyo and important ministers went there. Everyone knew that this was to discuss the combat arrangements against the Miyoshi family.
When Yu Qiupei arrived at the door of the evaluation room, he found that the people who came this time were all real high-level officials. Oda Nobunaga, Niwa Nagahide, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Matsunaga Hide, and then the commanders of the major legions: Yu Qiupei, Saku
Nobumori Ma, Mitsuhide Akechi, Hideyoshi Hashiba, Murashige Araki, and Toshiie Maeda who came on behalf of Katsuie Shibata.
"I didn't expect that my lord would actually ask His Highness Tokugawa and His Highness Matsunaga to send troops." Hashiba Hideyoshi, who was also standing at the door, whispered in Yu Qiuping's ear, "It's really strange. His Highness Matsunaga hasn't participated in our operations for a long time. Originally,
There were rumors that the lord was going to support Tsutsui-dono to replace him, but now he was suddenly pulled over."
"Those who do not follow common sense should be careful." Yu Qiuping commented noncommittally, "Let's go, it's a meeting."
After the meeting started, the retainers of the Oda family all smiled knowingly, and were pleased with their decision to do nothing at the previous ventilation meeting - Oda Nobunaga really had no intention of listening to everyone's opinions, spread out the map, and took care of everything.
The ground began to introduce military information and assign tasks.
"This time, there will be about 45,000 Miyoshi troops opposite us. Miyoshi and the four brothers are all here. Miyoshi Yoshihiro seems to have gone to guard Shikoku to guard against the counterattack of Nagasoga. The Awaji navy has also come, but Settsu is east of the Akashi Strait.
, the Harima coast is all controlled by our Momiji fleet. They can’t reach the shore, so it doesn’t matter.” Oda Nobunaga waved his hand and pointed to the west in a smart way, “The total of the remote areas of the Maori family is estimated to be only 50,000.
Come on, 25,000 troops were sent to support Harima this time. The leader was Takakage Kobayakawa, one of the two Maori rivers, which is quite interesting. Then, the Urakami family and the Uki family of Bizen country and Mimasaku country are from the Miyoshi family and the Mori family.
The subject country also gathered 10,000 people to support."
After being betrayed by the Ukita Hideie, the Urakami family was once at the end of their rope and was forced to surrender to the Miyoshi family. With the help of the Miyoshi family, they returned to Mimasaku and tried to regain Bizen. However, the clever Ukita Hideie
He immediately surrendered to the Mori family. With the support of the Mori family, he was not afraid of the Urakami family, which was backed by the Miyoshi family. Later, the Miyoshi family and the Mori family jointly joined the second Nobunaga siege network under the banner of Ashikaga Yoshiaki.
The main family was reconciled, and the enemies of the Urakami family and the Uki family had to pretend to be reconciled. The Uki family returned Tenjinyama Castle, the main city of Bizen Province, and Sanishi Castle in the east of Bizen Province to his former home.
The main family, the Urakami family, apologized for the sake of the Miyoshi family.
"A total of 80,000 people..." Yu Qiuping muttered to himself and repeated this number, which was similar to the information obtained by the Military Intelligence Department's prior investigation.
"There are only 80,000 people, what are you afraid of?" Oda Nobunaga took Amakihei's words as cowardice, "The people I brought this time, including those of Inuchiyo and Hengxing, are 70,000 people, as well as His Highness Tokugawa's
10,000 people and the 10,000 people of His Highness Matsunaga. Momiji, you also brought almost 10,000 people. Jubei and Youemonwei also have 10,000 people. Yonegorō has 5,000 people. The Sanyodo Army has 20,000 people. Let’s add up.
, a total of 135,000 troops, this is a huge army that has never been seen in hundreds of years, what is there to be afraid of?"
"However, the bald donkeys at Honganji Temple are probably ready to take action again, and the small wealthy families in Tanbo Tango Tajima are probably not honest either." Oda Nobunaga snorted disdainfully, "Yonegorō, take yours with you.
My subordinates stay in Kyoto. Lieutenant Youemon, your people will return to Settsu in a few days and continue to surround Honganji Temple. This time I must capture some rock fortresses for Yu. If this continues to be in vain, what do you think about Yu?
!”
"Yes." Niwa Nagahide and Sakuma Nobumori responded immediately. After excluding their troops, there were still 120,000 people left in the army, which was still one and a half times the number of the Miyoshi-Maori coalition forces.
"I believe you all know that there are three ways to enter Harima from Settsu: the North Road, the Middle Road, and the South Road. The North Road passes through the canyon in the Rokko Mountain Area. The road is not conducive to the passage of large armies; the middle road goes directly through the Rokko Mountain Area.
, it is even more difficult to walk; only the south road is easier to walk." Oda Nobunaga took a folding fan and clicked on the map from north to south, and then tapped hard on the middle road with the fan, "The middle road is difficult to walk, almost
No one would think of taking the middle road. What’s more, even if we take the middle road and cross the mountains and ridges to enter Harima, we still have Tamhe Castle across the front. The troops finally got over it, and they couldn’t bring much siege equipment and baggage. What can they do to capture Tamhe Castle?”
"So we are going to make a surprise attack from the middle?" Hashiba Hideyoshi continued excitedly after hearing this, "The Miyoshi family and the Mori family would definitely not have thought of it."
"Shit." Oda Nobunaga cursed mercilessly at Hashiba Hideyoshi, "Didn't I already tell you that walking in the middle is useless, so why go in the middle?"
"Because it's useless to take the middle road, the Miyoshi family won't be wary! Only then will we have a chance to succeed! If they set up troops to obstruct the mountain road, we won't be able to get through!" Hashiba Hideyoshi was a little surprised by Oda Nobunaga's attitude.
——Their lord has always loved surprise attacks.
"You will think so, and the Miyoshi family and the Mori family will also think so. It is true and false." Oda Nobunaga laughed happily a few times, "We set up suspects on the north road, and set up a big fanfare on the south road to let the Miyoshi family
The Maori family mistakenly thought that we wanted to attract their attention and then break through from the middle. However, our middle is also a suspect. When they move their troops to defend the middle, we let the main force break through from the south in a dignified way!"
"Sanyodo Army, lead 20,000 people to the middle road to act as suspects." Oda Nobunaga was the first to name Hideyoshi Hideyoshi and Araki Murashige, "If you really have a chance, you can also fake it and make a breakthrough.
Give it a try.”
"Hongye, His Highness Tokugawa, His Highness Matsunaga, the three of you will lead the 30,000 people under your command to take the northern route as suspects." Oda Nobunaga looked at Yu Qiupei again, "Be sure to make the noise louder."
"I personally led an army of 70,000 people to go south. After arriving at Akashi, I stayed put. As soon as the Miyoshi family and Mori family's armies arrived at Tamhe City in the middle, I led the entire army to storm Miki Castle behind the west side of Tamhe City and cut off their retreat.
Then our three armies will return and annihilate them all in Tamhe City." Oda Nobunaga clenched his fist with his right hand and knocked heavily on the location of Tamhe City, "That's it, go back and prepare!"
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When Yu Qiupei walked out, he was still complaining that Oda Nobunaga's arrangement this time was a bit simple. In front of famous generals like Miyoshi Nagakei, Kobayakawa Takakage, and conspirators like Miyoshi Yoshiken, he probably had little chance of success.
However, as soon as he arrived at the samurai house, Oda Nobunaga's men called him back to the secret room for another meeting. The confused monk Yu Qiuping arrived at a secret house in the honmaru and discovered that the meeting was held this time.
There are two less people - Matsunaga Hide and Tokugawa Ieyasu, and one more person - Lin Xiuzhen.
"Do you think Yu's plan is too simple?" Oda Nobunaga sneered, "Yu is not a fool, how could he fight with such a simple arrangement?"
"Bring it up to them and show them the secret letter intercepted by our Oda family ninjas." Oda Nobunaga nuzzled at Lin Xiuzhen, who immediately handed the letter to the important ministers on the table and asked everyone to circulate it in turn.
Qiupei didn't know that this letter was a secret letter between Matsunagahide and Miyoshi Yoshihide. Matsunagahide promised Miyoshi Yixian that he was willing to defect to Miyoshi's family, and took advantage of the opportunity of the army's expedition to Harima to suddenly rebel.
Cooperate with the allied forces encircling the network and defeat the Oda army.
Before everyone could recover from such a big shock, Oda Nobunaga was already talking to himself, "So our battle plan this time is not to fight against the Miyoshi family and the Mori family, but to fight against the Miyoshi family and the Mori family."
Let’s get rid of this borer named Matsushita Nagasaki.”
"Based on the plan just now, he must think that our main force is in the south, and the troops in the middle are in the mountains and cannot return." Oda Nobunaga smirked and hit his head with a folding fan, "And in
On the north road, I will make this arrangement. Momiji, you take the first one, Tokugawa Ieyasu takes the second one, and Matsunaga Hide takes the third one, which is at the end of the line."
"If what I expected is true, Matsunagahide will definitely have an internal connection with the Miyoshi family and let all the troops of the Miyoshi family and the Maori family gather on the North Road. By then, after you enter the canyon in the Rokko Mountains, he will rebel behind
Chapter completed!