Civilization Guardian Front

Nobuna's tone didn't fluctuate, as if he was just telling everyone about an unimportant matter.

"It's only less than [-] troops, let me be the vanguard to defeat them!" The militant madman Shibata Katsuie waved his fist and said.

"The point is, what is the purpose of the Imagawa army? The 1-strong army can indeed bring some pressure to the family, but it is a bit difficult to annex Owari... The situation is unclear and needs to be analyzed. Fifty points."

Niwa Nagahide brushed a strand of black hair from his forehead behind his ears with a slender hand, and gently shook the folding fan with one hand, falling into deep thought.

"Well, I don't understand such complicated things. I only know that when others call, we will fight back hard!" Shibata Katsuya was full of momentum, and he wanted to kill him immediately.

"Is it possible that we just want to force the defenders of our Marugen Village and Jiujin Village back?" Said Sasa Naruma, a female warrior with a cold face and sharp eyes.

The new vassal Chios was also present and quietly listened to the discussion of the crowd. The ashigaru general belongs to the middle-level samurai, but his qualifications are too young, so he sits in the middle and rear seats.

The kimono he wore today really amazed the Oda family officials. From the moment he entered the imperial palace, many eyes always glanced at him repeatedly.

"Chios, tell me your opinion."

As soon as Nobuna finished speaking, all the eyes on the scene focused on Chios.

Chios poked out half of his body from the left and right retainers, facing the direction of Nobuna at a 45-degree angle.

"I support the idea of ​​Sasaka Narita... The purpose of the Imakawa Mikawa coalition forces should be to remove the five strongholds built by the Oda family near Narumi Castle and Odaka Castle, so that the two castles and the garrisons of the Kukake Castle can be linked. In this way The Imagawa family can use these three cities as a base to invade Owari at any time."

Chios made an analysis based on the information he had collected recently, and finally did not forget to remind:

"If we judge the Imagawa family's movements in this way, then the 1000 members of Motonobu Okabe of Narumi Castle, the 700 members of Uden Chosho of Odaka Castle, and the 400 members of Asai Masatoshi's Department of Kutakake Castle should not ignore their role. "

"Master Chios' analysis is indeed very possible."

Snapped!Niwa Chohide closed his folding fan, and said with a stern expression:

"So, what we have to face is nearly [-] Jinchuan troops, and I didn't think of this link. I was negligent. Zero points..."

"Since this is the case, we must not let Imakawa Yoshimoto succeed, Your Royal Highness, let's send troops!" Shibata Katsuie said.

"Okay!" Nobuna stood up from the main seat, the girl's slender body exuded the arrogance of being in charge of a thousand troops, and waved her plain hand and ordered:

"Wan Qiandai (Changxiu), Zhensheng, Yiyi, Fanxiu, you stay in Qingzhou City, and the rest follow me!"

""""yes! """" Everyone responded in unison.

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Due to the wealth of the Owari Kingdom, Oda Nobuna's army has a considerable proportion of standing ashigaru. These professional soldiers usually receive training in Kiyosu City. Once a war occurs, they are mobilized very quickly.

"Hurry up, take out the results of the previous training, get the equipment and set off immediately!"

Several rows of weapon racks were placed in the open space of the Sannomaru Castle of Kiyosu Castle. The Ashigaru members of the Oda family followed the training route to get their equipment and left the city under the leadership of the Ashigaru group leader.

In just half a day, Oda Nobuna gathered six thousand troops and marched towards Narumi Castle without any delay.

Narumi Castle is located in the south of Aichi County in Owari South Four Districts, only about 18 kilometers away from Kiyosu Castle. The Imagawa family's garrison here cut off the Oda family's control of Chita County's [-] stones.It is also a serious threat to the safety of Kiyosu Castle. After the unification of Owari, Nobuna's greatest effort is devoted to how to remove the Imagawa forces in Narumi Castle.

After a quick march in the afternoon, the Oda Army came to the ruins of Zenzhaoji, east of Narumi Castle.The Zenzhao Temple Village was built on this site. The Oda Army Ashgaru on the wall of the village is fully armed, and their eyes are fixed on Narumi Castle.

Seeing that his soldiers are in good order, they don't relax.Nobuna was obviously in a good mood, pointing to the gate in front of him and said to Chios:

"What do you think of the defenders in this village?"

To be honest, looking at the past in this way, Chios really couldn't see any characteristics of discipline deployment at the moment, and could only talk about the morale of the equipment.

"The well-armed and condensed eyes indicate that the sentry soldiers are in good spirits, and the defenders have great insights on how to arrange the soldiers to take turns to watch the sentries."

As soon as the words fell, the gate of the village opened, and a burly male warrior and his four attendants trotted in front of Xinnai.

"Your Highness, Sakumaemon Nobumori is waiting for you."

"Sakuma, we were talking about you just now, Chios said that you are very good at running an army."

"Ki-Kios-sama, that's really an exaggeration...haha."

Nobumori Sakuma, who was guarding Zenshoji Temple, didn't know Chios, almost mispronounced his name, and scratched the back of his head in embarrassment.

After exchanging pleasantries and introducing the new retainers, Nobuna looked west.

The sun has already set halfway below the horizon, and it is about to enter the night, so it is not suitable to continue marching.With a wave of her hand, the girl gave the order to station:

"It's getting late, we'll stay here overnight, and we'll continue our journey tomorrow morning."

that night...

The interior space of Zenzhao Temple is not large enough to accommodate [-] Oda troops. Oda Nobuna, Maeda Inuchiyo, and Shibata Katsuie lived in the main building converted from an abandoned Buddhist hall. The inner camp took a tent to rest, and the rest of the ashigaru went to sleep outside the village, finding a flatter ground with their arms directly on their pillows.

At midnight, except for the sentry soldiers, almost everyone in the village fell asleep, only the chirping of insects and the snoring of the sleeping people continued.

Chios suffered from insomnia abnormally. He usually sleeps very well. Whether it is in his own bed or a camping sleeping bag, he can always sleep until dawn after closing his eyes.

After tossing and turning, he put on his clothes and walked out of the tent.

Walking out of the camp without a sound, Chios followed the brazier set up by the road wall and walked into an open space in the temple. Judging from the surrounding archery targets and weapon racks, it should be the place where the guards of Shanzhao Temple are training.

(How can I be so uneasy about going to war...)

Chios sighed, and held his hand outward, and a broad-bladed long sword appeared in his hand.

He posed in the bull pose of German long swordsmanship, imagining an enemy in his mind, and then stepped forward, swinging the long sword towards the imaginary enemy.

The sharp blade sliced ​​through the air with a sharp howl.As he plunged into the sword dance in front of him, the sword became more and more ruthless, clusters of silver cold lights bloomed repeatedly in the center of the training ground, and the original continuous sound of breaking through the air even appeared to overlap.

Since the last time he competed with Katsuie Shibata, Chios felt that his mind and body had been polished for a while, his sword swinging movements were more refined, he had fewer worries, and his strength was more fully displayed.

Perhaps it was the only time since he learned swordsmanship that he used all the skills he had learned to the fullest. At this moment, Chios put aside all kinds of thoughts about the mission world, immersed himself in swordsmanship physically and mentally, completely ignoring time.

Whoosh!

A flying stone came straight from the blind spot on the right side of Chios. Although he didn't see it, he could hear it. He swung half of the sword under the control of his waist twisting and wrist changing direction, and he changed the trajectory. Before the flying stone.

The flying stone hit the long sword and was chopped into two pieces.

"who is it?"

Chios turned his head and stared straight at the attacker.After seeing the familiar figure of the other party clearly, the originally terrified eyes immediately turned to astonishment.

"your Highness..."

The person who threw the flying stone and attacked him was none other than Owari Kingdom Lord, Oda Nobuna.

"In the middle of the night, I saw a figure moving in the yard. I didn't expect it to be you. Don't you need to sleep?"

Nobuna yawned slightly as she spoke, and approached slowly.

"It's hard to sleep..." Chios explained.He stared at Nobuna in front of him, the thin light cherry-colored yukata, the usual tea whisk-like hairstyle was gone, and the straight golden brown hair unreservedly showed his own beauty.

From Nobuna's outfit, it can be seen that she should be getting ready for bed.

"Sorry, Your Highness should be tired, I will escort you back to the main building."

Feeling guilty, Chios wanted Nobuna to go back to rest, but as soon as he walked to Nobuna's side, his sleeves were tightly grasped.

"stop..."

Nobuna tugged on his sleeve to make Chios turn around. The distance between the two was within half a step, and the girl's clear eyes met the person in front of her without dodging.

"Just tell me what's on your mind, can I sleep well with you like this?"

"..." Chios was silent for a while.

"Actually, I have never really set foot on a battlefield, nor have I personally seen tens of thousands of people fighting together, so I didn't care about such things..."

Speaking of this, he hesitated to speak, but the serious eyes of the girl in front of him made it difficult to disobey. In the end, he continued slowly:

"However, when I was sleeping tonight, I suddenly realized that tomorrow seems to be my first battle? Thinking about it, the sleepiness disappeared."

Nobuna suddenly burst out laughing.

"Haha, what is this! I thought it was some kind of trouble. It turns out that you, Chios, are also nervous."

Being ridiculed in front of the face by the beautiful lord, Chios was rarely embarrassed, put his hand on his forehead and said:

"...It should be, mixed with tension, anticipation, and excitement, I can't calm down."

"It's normal to be nervous at the beginning, but you're actually shy."

Nobuna suppressed the laughter, her body trembled slightly, and it took a while before she stopped.

"Want to hear the story of my first battle?"

"Can I laugh?"

"Of course you are not allowed to laugh. If you laugh, you will be deducted half a year's salary." Nobuna stared at Chios and threatened.

After Chios made a gesture of surrender, Nobuna snorted softly.He turned sideways, squatted on the ground with his knees in his arms, and gently poked the weeds on the ground with his fingers.

"When my father passed away, the Oda family was in a situation where both internal and external troubles coexisted. On the one hand, many veterans of the Oda family were dissatisfied with my succession as the governor of the family. At that time, the Owari family was not unified, and the Imagawa family was ready to invade again at any time and take it down completely. Owari."

"It's not easy for you to survive until now." Chios sighed.

At that time, the situation Oda Nobuna was facing was unprecedentedly difficult. It was hard to imagine what kind of belief this thin girl in front of her, who shrunk like a princess in a fairy tale, lived through those days.

"Yeah... I didn't live a stable life for a few days. Yamaguchi taught his stepfather and son to defect to the enemy and fell to the Imagawa family." The girl looked at the ground in a daze, lost in memory.

"If I didn't send troops to attack Yamaguchi's stepfather and son, Oda's retainers would look down on me. So I took the only 500 troops at that time and attacked Yamaguchi's [-] troops in Akatsuka."

"This is my first battle, the first time I put on armor and went to the battlefield. I stayed up all night before I went out and thought about a lot of things, from strategy, delusion of victory, to the unfortunate ending of death in battle... "

Perhaps recalling the bewildered mood at that time, Nobuna's body trembled slightly.

"To be honest, I was very scared at the time, but I couldn't rely on anyone. If I was scared, others would not dare to follow me."

The wind at night is a bit cool...

"After actually going into battle, my mind went blank." Nobuna laughed lightly at himself and said:

"Feathered arrows flew over the top of the head and the sides of the ears, and every time I took a breath, I realized that I was still alive. The command of that battle was also messy. Fortunately, the enemy's ability was not very good, and the end was a tie."

Standing up and patting the non-existent dust on his knees, Nobuna's eyes became firm again.

"Afterwards, I have never directed so badly again, but the memory of the first battle is always very clear, and I will probably never forget it... eh!"

A large feather was draped over Nobuna's shoulders, and the remaining warmth on the clothes wrapped the girl's body like this, as if being hugged by someone, and Nobuna could even smell the faint smell of the owner of the clothes.

Knowing this, the Owari King could not restrain his cheeks.

"Chios, you, you, you..."

"Thank you tonight, Your Highness Nobuna." Chios had a faint smile on his face, just like the calmness he had when he first met the girl Daimyo in front of him.

Compared with Oda Nobuna's blushing appearance now, the complicated thoughts on the eve of the war seemed not very important.

"The wind at night is very cold, don't catch a cold."

Chapter 10? Encounters

Early the next morning.

Chios put on the improved black carcass that he had obtained after leaving the Oda family, and added shoulder armor, hand armor and combat boots; Taisao and Wakizashi were tied around his waist; there was no helmet on his head, but a piece of forehead iron tied to his forehead; The hair is tied behind the head and blows in the wind.

Ashi lightly handed over a bowl of ochazuke that had just been poured with hot water and miso, he shook the bowl to let the soup mix into the rice and swallowed it with his head tilted up, even if he had eaten his breakfast.

The vigorous Six Thousand Oda Army continued to march southward.

Katsuie Shibata led a strike force of [-] troops, of which [-] ashigaru belonged to Chios.

On horseback, Katsuie Shibata was dressed like a European knight, and walked in the front of the army. Chios was slightly behind her by half a horse, and the rear team was more than ten meters away from the two of them.

"Qios, in this battle with Imagawa, I will definitely win the most enemy troops, let's decide the outcome!"

Singer was full of fighting spirit and waved his gun.

Clang!Wakizawa blocked the big gun when it was three inches away from Chios' neck.

"Master Sheng Jia... do you want to ask for my head first?"

With the edge of the big gun fired by Wakizashi, Chios's smile turned cold, and this sudden shot would have killed someone else if he had come to pick it up.

"Huh..." Sheng Jia was also stunned, as if he only now understood what he had done...

"I'm really, really sorry! I get excited easily when I go to the battlefield, and I can never get rid of it...I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I didn't mean it! I swear!"

Sheng Jia put his hands together and kept apologizing, even throwing the big gun on the ground.

"Forget it, at least I finally understand why you leave your subordinates far behind..."

Chios said half-jokingly, half-sarcastically.

As soon as this sentence was finished, an ashigaru risked his life to pick up the big gun on the ground, handed it to Singer, turned around and ran away.