A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

After listening around, I knew Oda Nobunaga's original plan.

Shibata Katsuie and other generals surrounded the Nagashima Ichikuzu, who had a large number of people and high morale but relatively weak combat effectiveness. He himself took action to deal with the Asakura family, which had more combat effectiveness and was more threatening.

The plan is good. Even now, the general perception of the world is that scabies has always been a problem, and the Asakura family and Miyoshi are the main force in the fight against Oda.

Oda Nobunaga dealt with it this way, and now he will definitely be surprised to find out how his combat power, which has always been so popular, suddenly skyrocketed!

It’s hard to ride a tiger!

Now I have entered Echizen, and the fire in the backyard is not blocked, so I can't leave even if I want to. Even if he wanted to leave, Asakura Yoshikage would not let him leave easily.

"It seems that the Gifu bomb is about to attack Echizen and win a complete victory." Xiaodaita muttered.

"It's hard to say. After five generations of Echizen Asakura's accumulation, Gifu Dansheng will not be able to decide the winner so easily!" Uncle Tsunaliang believed that the Asakura family had a great family and a great business, so they were not easy to kill.

"Captain Kasugayama won't be able to fight this year?" Uncle and nephew Kodaira were discussing the Asakura clan, and Hosokawa Saime suddenly asked Murakami Yoshimitsu.

"There is no news about this."

"Your Majesty, your Highness, is standing still..." Hosokawa Takame seemed to have thought of something.

"What do you mean, Cainuo? The leader of Kasuga Mountain is also at peace with Hezhou Kanazawa and rushing to help Echizen?" Naturally, the Yamauchi chief also thought of it.

"It's not impossible!" Xiao Pingtai felt that his uncle was not overthinking it.

Not to mention Asakura Yoshikage. He changed the strategy of previous Asakura family heads to suppress the Ichigo clan, reconciled with the Hokuriku Ichiga clan, and even made a large donation to the Ichibo clan, becoming the "Datan Yue" of the Ichibo clan! The direction of the attack was changed to Wakasa Country, and a stage victory was achieved, and Obama, a major trade town in the north, was captured.

In the middle of last summer, Uesugi Kenshin also received a secret letter from Ashikaga Yoshiaki, asking him to temporarily make peace with the Ichiko clan and remove the siege of Kaga Kanazawa Gobo.

In fact, it was Ashikaga Yoshiaki who came forward to mediate the path of peace and even alliance between Ichibashi and Uesugi Kenshin, who had always suppressed Ichibashi.

"When did the last letter from the Guanling Palace come?"

"I received a letter in April, saying that I would send Yangbei Kurokawa and others to attack Sado." Imagawa Yoshiuchi thought for a moment.

"Sado?" All the ministers, including Ashikaga Yoshiaki, were confused.

What does Uesugi Kenshin do with that little corner? Not to mention Sanchuan Sand Gold Mountain and Hezi Silver Mountain, they are all gone now. Those were all mines mined by the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period. Nowadays, Sado only produces a small amount of placer gold and silver, and it is not worth Uesugi Kenshin to do it in such remote and remote areas.

"Why haven't I heard it mentioned by Suruga-den before?" Koheita was a little confused.

"Because His Highness the Commander's letter stated that only eight hundred soldiers and twenty warships would be mobilized. It is really not worth mentioning. The letter should still be there." [Note 1]

"..."

It’s really not worth mentioning! After all, when Uesugi Kenshin was doing well, he commanded an army of 110,000 and sent 800 people out to fight a battle. No matter who looked at it, it was something that could be ignored.

Kodaira only knew that during the Uesugi Kenshin era, the Uesugi family's rule over Sado Island was very weak, and it basically relied on several wealthy families such as the Sagen family and the Shirakami family who were close to the Uesugi family to maintain it.

It was still necessary to wait until Uesugi Kagekatsu attacked Kawarada Castle and killed Hamo Mikawa Mamoru (Hamo Honma clan) before Sado Country completely became the territory of the Uesugi clan.

Murakami Yoshimitsu also took the letter from Kenshin Uesugi and showed it to everyone.

Sure enough, it was just that Umo Mikawa was holding Mizuhata Castle and causing trouble and had the potential to expand. So Uesugi Kenshin asked Kurokawa Minoru and other Yangbeizhong to bring some of their troops, with Zenjiro Hirata as the naval general, to quell the riots in Sado.

"Then the Commander-in-Chief has indeed not moved his troops." He folded the letter and gave it to Murakami Yoshimitsu to put away. Chief Yamauchi was noncommittal.

"Let uncle Danmasa draft a letter to his uncle and send two baskets of plums to Kasugayama to greet him." Ashikaga Yoshiaki thought for a while.

"That's fine."

In an impromptu meeting, everyone had different thoughts. Koheita and Hosokawa Saime no longer had the mood to continue investigating the school foundation, and followed Uncle Tsunaliang, the three of them walked back silently.

Uncle Tsuna was getting older and walked slowly, so Koheta and Hosokawa Saime also accommodated him.

"How long do you think it will be, Xiaopingta?"

"It depends on how long Asakura and Miyoshi can hold on."

Xiaopingta knew that these two were just trash fish. Nobunaga exerted a little force and was completely overturned like a melon and a vegetable. Xiangzhong, who has good combat effectiveness, can be regarded as a "self-defending thief" due to his own problems. The place where the monastery of the Guarding Order is located has amazing fighting power and can defeat invading enemies time and time again. But letting them go out of the monastery to fight for world supremacy would be a bit inadequate.

Asakura and Miyoshi, each with tens of thousands of troops, were the only ones who could compete with Oda Nobunaga in a head-on wild battle. Once these two families are finished, Nobunaga will truly dominate Kinai and have no rivals.

"Odaira, are you saying that once those two families are defeated, the next target Gifu Bomb will target will be Yamauchi?" Hosokawa Saime can understand even if she has no wit.

"Tianxia Buwu is not joking!"

"Then we still need to prepare early. The more prepared we are, the easier it will be to deal with it in the future."

"Don't worry! In addition to the reserve of military rations, I have ordered people to build gunboats in Hamamatsu." Kodaira knew that to participate in the war in Kinai, a naval force was necessary.

"Gunboat?"

"Yes, after the Thousand Stone Ship was renovated, each ship was equipped with eight large blunderbuss, and a bronze cannon was placed on the bow."

Last year, Shimizu Yoshizuna, Omura Masuji and Kobayashi Motoharu in Hamamatsu received orders from Koheita. It was impractical to build a European-style sailing ship and it did not meet the sea conditions in Japan's offshore waters.

Especially in sea conditions like the Seto Inland Sea, where there are dense reefs and dangerous shoals, and there are swells and eddies everywhere, a Japanese-style rowing sloop is more suitable.

After modifying the existing Sengoku ship, its hull was reinforced so that it could withstand the recoil caused by cannon firing. In this way, it doesn't matter whether you are a ship, an house, or an armored ship, you will all take advantage of me.

If you can't hit it, take another shot from my smoothbore rapid-fire cannon!

"Is this Kobayashi Motoharu who was originally from the Hatakeyama clan in Kawachi and served in the Kii Navy?" Hosokawa Saime was somewhat impressed.

"Yes! Masujiro was born in Mikawa and has a clean family background. As for Qingshui, he was appointed as the captain of the ship when the former prime minister was still alive."

"What about Anzai Jintaro?"

"I'll let him go back to Awaji for the time being. If necessary, I can provide support!"

[Note 1]: It comes from "Historical Materials of Yue Zuo" and "Talk about the North Vietnamese Army". However, except for the same time period in the fourth year of Yuangui, the two books have many different contents.