On April 26, the tenth year of Tensho (1582), Yu Qiupei led almost the entire Hongye Army to march toward China. Since Oda Nobunaga requested the Nankaido Army to mobilize the entire army, Yu Qiupei only left behind Yu Qiupei.
Qiu Shang's Nirvana Bei and the garrison troops of the wealthy families from various countries stayed in the territory, while he led Changpan Bei, Mingdi Bei, Xiliu Bei, Liaoyuan Bei, Lujiu Bei, Wanjun Bei, Jincao Bei, Xinghuo Bei, and Tianhe Bei.
, Jingzhe Bei and Tongqiang Bei - a total of nearly 50,000 troops crossed Settsu along the land route, merged with 8,000 people from Ikeda Hengxing's command, and then headed for Sanyo Road. The Momiji Fleet and the Awaji Navy set off from Kishiwada Port.
Picked up Mori Kotaka, Sawaki Yoshiyuki, Miyoshi Yoshihiro's troops on Shikoku Island, and the Nagasogabu Motochibu troops who marched to Fuuchi Castle, a total of more than 30,000 people, and then wandered around the Seto Inland Sea looking for fighters. Due to the sea route troops
A commander-in-chief was needed to coordinate the various daimyo, and Yasuki Itami's prestige was insufficient, so Yu Qiupei sent Naoe Tadayei, who had always been the second-in-command in Yu Qiu's family, to send out the troops.
At the same time, other daimyo on the island of Kyushu, under the unified command of Oda Nobuo and Oda Nobutaka, crossed the Shimonoseki Strait with an army of 30,000 to attack Shufang Kingdom and Nagato Kingdom. Akechi Mitsuhide will also lead Sanin (
) Taoist army of more than 20,000 people attacked Yatsuhashi Castle, while Hashiba Hideyoshi led the Sanyo Taoist army of more than 40,000 people to attack Bitchu Takamatsu Castle. The Oda family only summoned the deployment around the Mori family to launch the first round of attack, and the number of people would reach about 200,000
——This does not include the army that has been gradually assembled from all over the country and the 200,000 troops directly under Oda Nobunaga. If the entire army expires, the 60,000 people of the Mori family will face an enemy force that is nearly ten times their own.
——But Yu Qiuping estimates that the war will not be delayed until that time. The Mori family should have been defeated before the Tohoku daimyo arrived in Kinki.
The more he thought about this aspect, the more Yu Qiupei doubted Oda Nobunaga's motives, and the more he felt that Takenaka Shigeharu's suspicion was justified. Oda Nobunaga summoned a meaningless army from all over the world, and he must be a drunkard who did not care about drinking.
Oda Nobunaga himself was also very arrogant and did not join the army to fight in person. Instead, he lived in Honnoji Temple in Kyoto and waited for the famous names in the world to come to Luo.
After the uneasy Ai Qiupei met with Ikeda Tsuneaki's troops, he temporarily entrusted the command to Ikeda Tsuneaki and Fukuzawa Yunan, and he rushed to Kyoto with his guards and horses to pay a visit to Oda Nobunaga. However,
Before he stepped into the border of Shancheng Kingdom, he saw horseshoe dust rising in the distance, and a small group of Oda family cavalry came towards him. He met them unexpectedly on the official road. Yu Qiuping saw that the people on the other side were riding horses.
Under the banner of the Tian family head family, he ordered his subordinates to come to the right side of the official road and give way. Although as the commander of his army, as long as the person on the other side is not Oda Nobunaga, all the people of the Oda family should give way to him. However, Yu Qiupei recently
The relationship with Oda Nobunaga was not good. He was used to seeing the Oda family's domineering Hatamoto, so naturally he didn't want to cause more trouble at this time.
However, Yu Qiuping did not want to cause trouble, which did not mean that the cavalry on the opposite side would let him go. The Hatamoto knight of the Oda family not only did not walk on the official road where Yu Qiuping gave way, but instead faced the official road where Yu Qiuping was.
Rushing over from the right side. Mori Nagako, Asahina Taihei and others were a little unhappy because of Amehei's avoidance behavior just now, but now when they saw Hatamoto of the Oda family on the opposite side, they were rubbing their noses and faces, and they were all very annoyed. Ame.
While Akiuhei comforted his subordinates, he led everyone to simply withdraw from the official road and went to the nearby hills to wait for the pair of arrogant Hatamotos of the Oda family to pass. However, things immediately exceeded Akiupei's expectations again. The team of Hatamoto knights slowly
He slowed down his horse and stopped beside Yu Qiuping and the others.
"What do you mean?" Seeing this, Chief Mori couldn't bear it anymore. He raised the Human Boneless Bone in his hand and pointed it at the knights of the Oda family on the official road, and cursed, "We are the bodyguard of His Highness Hongye. We have to make way for you."
You have such a big face? What do you want to do?"
"What? Musashi?" As soon as Morinaga finished speaking, the Oda family's Hatamoto team remembered that familiar voice, and saw Oda Nobunaga wearing a swan red cloak stepping out of the queue, using the folding fan in his hand to
He nodded in the direction of Sen Changke and said, "Are you so reluctant to ask Yu Qiuping to make way for Yu?"
"Lord?" "Main Hall?"
Everyone in the Yuqiu family was shocked when they saw Oda Nobunaga himself appearing in the team.
"Lord, what are you doing..." Yu Qiuping bowed forward in great surprise and said, "Why did you come here suddenly? Do you want to go on a personal expedition? I have never heard of such an order before..."
"What, are you going to do something on the front line? Are you afraid that it will be inconvenient for you to move after I arrive? Do you want me to tie you back to Kyoto to keep you company with Ashikaga Yoshinishi, who was tied up by Kobayakawa Takakage?" Ori
Every word Tian Nobunaga said today was very harsh, and Yu Qiuping was choked and didn't know how to answer.
"Lord..." Yu Qiuping thought about his words and was about to speak, but Oda Nobunaga simply turned away with his horse's reins, showing no intention of listening, "If you want to persuade Yu not to recruit soldiers from all over the country, then forget it.
Come on. Migoro said the same thing much more eloquently than you. He has been repeating it for several days but I am still unmoved. Do you think you can move it?"
"Lord." Yu Qiuping sighed upon seeing this, then gritted his teeth, silently took a few steps forward, brought his horse to Oda Nobunaga, and whispered in a voice that the guards on both sides could never hear.
He asked, "Is this move to declare to the world the power of the Oda family to lead all samurai families?"
"Otherwise?" Oda Nobunaga had no intention of lowering his voice. Instead, he sneered at Yu Qiuping's caution in lowering his voice, and continued to speak to all the people around him at the same loud volume as before, "It's just to let them
You know, in this world, Yu always says the same thing! Whoever dares to disobey, I want him to look good!"
"Lord." Yu Qiuping saw that Oda Nobunaga made it clear that he didn't want to have a good conversation with him, so he looked serious and said in a lower voice, "I dare to speculate on Shang's intentions. Are you trying to use gross profit?
Let’s use our country as an excuse to lure all the daimyo and their armies to Kansai, coerce them in Kansai far away from their base, and then forcibly send them to Korea.”
As soon as Yu Qiupei's words came out, Oda Nobunaga's face instantly darkened. He tilted his head and squinted his eyes to look at Yu Qiupei, while the latter looked at Oda Nobunaga without hiding.
"I advise you not to think too much, don't think too much, just do what you should do." Oda Nobunaga's voice suddenly dropped, his tone became as cold as ice, and he threatened viciously, "
Yu has already promised you not to have anything to do with the National Assembly, and promised not to send you to fight in North Korea, and now you still want to point fingers. Do you really think Yu dare not touch you? Do you dare not touch your Yuqiu family? "
"True words are harsh to the ears, and it is inevitable that my lord will be angry." Yu Qiuping bowed slightly and apologized.
"Stop being like that. This is what Mr. Hirate talks about every day. Did you hear it?" Oda Nobunaga snorted twice and continued to curse, "If you really want to dissuade me, then commit seppuku if you can."
ah?"
"To be honest, I am not as enlightened as the late Hirate-sama. I have never shied away from admitting that I have a selfish motive for admonishing my lord not to go to Korea. It's just my lord's tolerance. Going to Korea is really...
"
"Shut up!" Before Yu Qiuping could finish his sincere words, Oda Nobunaga yelled at him, "That's enough, don't say any more, I've heard enough! Do you think Yu
How patient I am, how can I endure you for so long and still not be satisfied?"
Seeing Oda Nobunaga's resolute attitude, Yu Qiupei had no choice but to remain silent and slowly lowered his head. Before he could say something different, Oda Nobunaga suddenly softened his tone, rarely seen in his life.
He called out in a gentle tone: "Red leaves."
"Lord?" Yu Qiuping was startled when he heard Oda Nobunaga's voice. He raised his head and looked at Oda Nobunaga, only to find that the latter's expression was also very strange.
"Have you made up your mind not to agree to Yu's expedition to Korea, and have you also made up your mind to stop Yu at all costs?" Oda Nobunaga stared at Yu Qiuping and confirmed word by word.
"No matter what, I will never give up on preventing Japan and the Ming Dynasty from fighting each other." Yu Qiuping swallowed and answered word by word, showing his unwavering determination to Oda Nobunaga.
, I hope he can change his mind.
However, this was obviously impossible. Oda Nobunaga was speechless. After being stunned for a while, he sighed reluctantly, then shook his head and looked to the east. After a moment of silence, he asked casually
He said in one sentence: "If Imagawa Administrative Department gave you an order to go to North Korea, would you agree?"
"Huh?" Yu Qiuping was confused by Oda Nobunaga's words. Suspecting that he had not heard clearly, he opened his mouth to confirm, "What are you talking about?"
"Nothing." Oda Nobunaga shook his head again, and then suddenly laughed loudly. Then, he clamped the horse's belly hard and walked east toward the official road to Kyoto.
"Lord? Are you going back now?" Yu Qiuping raised his hand and looked at Oda Nobunaga, who was returning the same way, with a confused expression, "Then what are you doing here?"
"I said that I came here to see you, do you believe it?" Oda Nobunaga said with a smile. He did not look back at Yu Qiuping, but slapped the horse's butt hard with the whip and led the guards to ride it.
Juechen left, leaving everyone in the Yuqiu family looking at each other.
"I always feel that my lord is acting weird today." After Yu Qiuping returned to the team, he gave a wry smile to his guards, and everyone nodded.
At this moment, there was a burst of horse hoof dust on the way from the west. Yu Qiu Ping and others looked over again with puzzled faces, and found that the people coming were actually carrying the red leaf flag of Yu Qiu's family. When they approached
Finally, Yu Qiuping was surprised to find that it was Imagawa Kaede who came.
"First I met the main hall, and then I met the lady. Today's official system is really evil." Asahina Taihei glanced at the official road in front of him with lingering fear, and the other guards around him also nodded in sympathy.
"Feng'er." But Yu Qiuping was even more surprised than his guards at this moment. He hurriedly came to Imagawa Feng and glanced at the guards following her. He knew that based on Imagawa Feng's habit, she had rarely seen him in the past ten years.
Will come to a place so far away from Maple Leaf Mountain City, "Why are you here suddenly? Is there something urgent?"
Imagawa Feng shook his head, and took a step forward, leaning closer to Yu Qiuping, and looked at Yu Qiuping's face carefully.
"What's going on?" Yu Qiuping became even more anxious when he saw this. Just when he was about to raise his hand to hold Imagawa Feng's shoulder, Imagawa Feng himself ignored the many guards around him and leaned his body to the side on the horse, leaning against him.
In Yu Qiuping's arms, his two hands wrapped around Yu Qiuping's neck.
"What's wrong?" Yu Qiuping also hugged Imagawa Feng's body and patted her back gently. He knew that Imagawa Feng was always embarrassed to make such intimate gestures in front of everyone.
"I just had a nightmare." Imagawa Feng raised his head in Yu Qiuping's arms and looked at Yu Qiuping uneasily.
"You are such a big man, why would you come all the way to see me if you have a nightmare?" Yu Qiuping laughed when he heard this, but Imagawa Kaede's serious expression gradually turned his smile into an embarrassed grin.
"Did you see the Oda Hall just now?" Imagawa Kaede glanced at the troops and flags in the distance, and then at the Yuqiu family's guards waiting on the roadside. She was so smart that she guessed what was going on.
The whole story, "Did you go to persuade him not to go to Korea? What was the result?"
"Why did you guess everything?" Yu Qiuping read Imagawa Kaede's thoughts from her eyes, and then sighed, "The result is terrible, the lord has already made up his mind."
"What are you going to do?" Imagawa Kaede's eyebrows became even more uneasy.
"Stop this, I will never let this happen." Yu Qiuping gave a very firm reply, while slowly stroking Imagawa Kaede's long hair with his hands, trying to calm her emotions. Imagawa Kaede was silent.
After waiting for a long time, he finally said slowly:
"Will you come back safely?"
"Of course, and there is no danger in this expedition." Yu Qiuping glanced in the direction of the West Country, "The Maori family has been like a candle in the wind. This is probably the most relaxing expedition I have ever taken."
"Then you have to promise me that you will come back safely." Imagawa Kaede seemed to have suddenly returned to the little girl twenty years ago, asking Yu Qiuping for his oath in a coquettish tone.
"I swear that I will come back safely. I, Yu Qiuping, always keep my promise." Yu Qiuping raised his finger with a smile and swore to Imagawa Kaede, "Don't I always say this before every expedition, these twenty
Haven’t I come back safely after so many years?”
Chapter completed!