While Fujiro and Kizo Shigetachi were drinking, due to the previous disturbances of Fujiro and others, Lin Sado Mōkashi could no longer fall asleep. He sat in the outer courtyard and heard deafening drum beats from the castle, staring at Shibata Kiyoshiro's family who had just been visiting.

As the main war faction, Shibata Kiyoshikaya was frustrated that Oda Nobunaga was still indifferent when the army of Imakawa Yoshimoto was about to arrive, so he came to discuss with Lin Sado Somato Toshikazu to see if he could go together to persuade Oda Nobunaga.

"Don't be angry, Satoshi. The lord is not such a stupid person." This sentence is not so much to comfort Satoshi, but to comfort himself. Lin Zuodu Shutongsheng has been thinking hard.

"I want to think that way," Katsue sighed, "but I haven't discussed it well so far. I only play with my wives and concubines every day, and I'm indulging in Yale. The enemy's main force is about to enter Okazaki Castle." In fact, Shibata's Kojiro Katsue's information was already behind, and Imakawa Yoshimoto had already entered Okazaki Castle.

"I'm afraid it will be useless to go out and advise. The lord is not the kind of person who easily accepts advice."

"With that being said, are we here waiting for death for nothing?"

Lin Zuodu didn't answer.

"Pioneer Matsuhei Motoyashi probably set out from Jun Mansion on the 10th of this month?" Kwon Liu looked back and asked his younger brother Misato Mizukura, who was also accompanying him.

"Yes. The main force left Jun Mansion on the 12th and went to the East China Sea and Honsaka. All of this information has been clearly reported to the lord."

"What do you say about the lord?"

"He just responded simply and changed the subject."

"We..." Quan Liu became excited again, "We want to know the lord's thoughts!"

Lin Zuodu seemed to want to adjust the atmosphere. He said, "The monkey and the Mu Zao Chongzhong said again that they would buy Dajiang for the battle to defend the city. Perhaps that was the true thought of the lord. This is the root of destruction. It is hard to violate the destiny!"

"You have already realized the destiny of heaven. But it's okay to fight according to the city. Just prepare according to the method of the cage battle."

"So the monkey said he wanted to buy dashes again."

Shibata Kiyoshikazuki stared at Lin Zuodu with sharp eyes and fell into deep thought. No one said that he guessed the thoughts of the lord Nobunaga. It was him, even if he asked Nobunaga, he was just asking tentatively. But when he recalled the previous inquiry, he only felt more embarrassed:

"I want to know what the lord is thinking."

Faced with the inquiry from Shibada's Kiyorokashi's family, Oda Nobunaga picked up his pen and wrote some small songs casually. "I don't have any ideas." He replied casually, "It's impossible to have ideas. Do you know how big the territory of Imakawa is? Suruga, Tomyo, Sanhe, and Ohashi. It has exceeded one million stones. Today, only the Luo family in Kyushu can compare with it. It is really worthy of being widely praised as the "Two Warring States Period" that the two can meet at this time, how wonderful it would be!"

"I know." At this time, he actually sighed like this? Shibata Kiyoshirokashi almost got angry to death by Oda Nobunaga.

"Since I know, don't ask again. My territory has up to 180,000 shi. The strength of 10,000 shi is counted as 250 people, which is only about 60,700 or less than one-sixth of Imakawa."

"Since that is the case, do you still have to fight on the city? Why not..." He wanted to say that it would be better to bow down and submit to the lord, his proposal to go out of the city to fight was rejected by his lord Oda Nobunaga. So he simply turned to advocate surrender, hoping that this would persuade the lord to succeed.

"Bastard! Get out!" After hearing this, Nobunaga Oda shouted loudly. Then he calmly revised the lyrics and sentences of the song.

So Shibata Kiyoshikashi had to retreat in embarrassment. Although the advice was not successful, he was even more dissatisfied with the others not persuading the lord Nobunaga. Tonight, the more he thought about it, the more dissatisfied, so he ran to find Lin Zuodu and Shuitongsheng.

"Master Sado, you can only come forward. Go and tell your lord that Imakawa Yoshimoto is about to arrive. Ask him what he plans, we need to make it clear that I am not waiting for it."

Lin Zuodou stared at Shibata's Kiyoshikazu family, "Let's go and let it go. The lord doesn't allow anyone to ask him casually. If he scolded me, I can only shake my determination."

"determination?"

"It's my determination to die together..." He said with a serious expression, and then there was a conversation between the two at the beginning.

In this way, the night passed. Under the arrangement of Fujiko Fujiro, Kizao Shigetachi and others also set out quickly on the second day to inquire about the news, especially Kizao Shigetachi. He quickly contacted the Luo Family Intelligence Pavilion staff who had previously closely monitored the movement of the Imakawa family army, and was ready to participate in this war as a retainer of the Oda family in accordance with the requirements of the lord Masarara.

During this period, Imakawa's army was already pressing forward step by step.

On May 17, the third year of Yonglu (1560), Okazaki Castle had decided to provide the entire army. Imakawa Yoshimoto then led his five thousand troops to advance slowly, passing by Yutou in Bihai County, Imamura, and finally entered the Dagucheng on the 18th.

The weather was still quite hot. However, the morale of the Imakawa family army was very strong. The civilians on both sides of the road, as Imakawa Yoshimoto passed by in a sedan chair made of gold and silver, all bowed down to the ground to welcome his arrival.

"How many retainers do this colonel has? What are the subordinates?"

"That's right! Since yesterday, his subordinates have passed by this street. I originally thought they had arrived, but I didn't expect that now it was a general who came in person... If all of these people entered Weizhang, they might have submerged Weizhang!"

"I really deserve to be the chief minister who is known as the "Two Heroes of the Warring States Period" together with the Luo family of Kyushu!"

"Swish! What is that Kyushu eagle? Kyushu is just a remote place. Only the great-minded Colonel Imagawa Oshima, Takeda Katsuki Tiger, and Nagata Echigo Ryu can be regarded as the 'Warring States' heroes', and even the three good families in the four countries are just like this."

"Yes, yes, yes, if the so-called Kyushu eagle was not in the deserted Kyushu, but here, it would have been beaten down by such adults as Imakawa Oshima, Takeda Katsuki, and Nagata Echigo Ryu..."

This is because there are troops advancing west for three consecutive days, which surprises the leaders, ronin and others along the way, and then starts to discuss.

"Odaguchi plans to defend Kiyosu City to the death. If he decided to come out to fight the enemy, I believe that as soon as he sees this grand army, he will be defeated soon. However, according to this situation, even if he wants to defend the city, he may not have been defending it for a long time."

"Oh! Regarding this matter, a guy who came here to buy Osuke yesterday said that because he thought it was too troublesome to go out of the city to meet the enemy, the dad, Oda Nobunaga decided to have a good sleep before the enemy arrived."

"Haha! He didn't just go to bed because he was afraid of trouble!"

"Then why did he sleep?"

"Because he has no confidence in winning! What can he do if he doesn't sleep?"

...

While such whispers were spreading everywhere, I was called the "Two Heroes of Warring States" together with Masaru Luo (in fact, Imakawa Yoshimoto was very angry that Masaru could be called the "Two Heroes of Warring States" with him. After all, he was much older than Masaru. While he was fighting desperately in the "Hankuang Rebellion" to fight for the position of family governor, Masaru Luo was still playing with mud everywhere without even wearing pants. If it weren't for the persistent persuasion of his mother Shouguini, and the second son Imakawa Jungre, who might cause unstable family, was sent away as a hostage, and could also support each other in the Kyoto shogunate and the court, he would not have formed an alliance with the Luo family). Imakawa Yoshimoto arrived at the Dagucheng with strict escorts in front and behind.

But even at this moment, there were still two large round fans around Imakawa Yoshitomi who kept fanning him. Imakawa Yoshitomi said to Asagawa Masatomi who came first:

"The people of the wild samurai nearby must guard it. Today is a day without war. Everyone should rest for a day and prepare for tomorrow. Before tomorrow, war will be started in Washizu, Marukeen, Danxia, ​​Shinzhao Temple, Nakajima and other places!" He told Masato happily.

Dagucheng is located west of Ozawa Sanhe border. It is only about three kilometers away from Hirota, and there are very ancient Kamakura Street and Horse Train Station.

Of course, Imakawa Yoshimoto's five thousand troops could not all enter this small town. Now the small streets were already crowded with people. Each unit was planting flags on the side of the road and burying pots to make rice. The scene was as chaotic and commotion as the situation came with the Chinese New Year and other big worship days.

However, for Oda Nobunaga, who had already arrived at the forefront, now had to come forward to face the enemy, what was going on in the city of Kiyosu?

In fact, at this time, the large living room of Qingzhou City was already full of anxious officials, but today they still couldn't see the shadow of the lord, Xin Chang. Instead, they saw a large piece of paper on the left side of the living room sticking on the wall with the words:

"The weather is so hot, I think you don't have to wear war shoes!"

Lin Zuodushou looked at the words "Dabi, Yubi, Takei Xi'an everywhere, sighed several times, and finally said:

"The enemy is almost entering the silence. He even said that because the weather is too hot, he doesn't need to wear war shoes... Is this his idea to comfort everyone?"

The person who urged Nobunaga to defend the city was Lin Zuodu, but he really regretted it now. If he had known this, he would have advocated going out of the city to fight like Shibata Katsuki. Even now, he still clearly remembers the scene at the time of discussion:

"According to all intelligence, the total force mobilized by the Imakawa family army is more than 40,000, but our strength is less than 7,000! If we fight on flat ground, we are not sure of victory, so it is better to concentrate all our forces on Kiyosu Castle and make the final defensive battle."

However, at that time, the lord Nobunaga refused to follow his advice and retorted:

"Oh my God! No one has ever been able to defeat the city by just guarding the city, right? Once you decide to defend the city, it will cause the military and civilians to lose their morale, and someone will definitely start cooperating with the enemy. Therefore, this is a method that must not be adopted. Don't say it the second time!"

At that time, when the lord Nobunaga said this, Sado thought to himself: "Oh my God! Is the Oda family over like this?"

Later, after thinking about it for a night, Lin Zuodu also figured it out. Just as the lord Nobunaga was criticized by the lord Nobunaga, he also understood in his heart that this was a war without any chance of victory. Being on the city walls and waiting for the enemy to attack would indeed make the morale in the city depressed, so he no longer made such suggestions to the lord Nobunaga.

However, the Lord Nobunaga not only rejected his suggestion for the battle of the cage, but also rejected the suggestion of Shibata Katsuya's departure from the city to fight. So even now, no one understands how the Lord Nobunaga planned to deal with the invasion of the Imakawa family:

"Since the lord refused whether it was a battle in the cage city or a proposal to fight out of the city, it means that he was sure to win, but what exactly was he going to do?"

Endless speculation and long-term waiting are very tormenting, so the retainers asked the lord Nobunaga and said:

"Lord! Please hold a military assessment meeting as soon as possible!"

Faced with the requests of the retainers, the lord Nobunaga still laid on his wife's knees, and his hands kept digging his nostrils, and replied in a very contemptuous tone:

"Don't you understand yet? It's still early!"

"But...but, but the team of the Colonel Oshima has arrived at Dagucheng!" The retainers were almost angry to death by Nobunaga's words.

"I said it's too early! I have the final say in the Oda family. I am also instructing the military operations of the family. Before my orders, everyone can rest assured to have a sleep! Just tell others like this!" After saying that, Oda Nobunaga simply drove all his retainers away.

Not long after, a little guard from Nobunaga came to the hall where the retainers were, and another piece of paper was posted in the hall with the words:

"Because the weather is too hot, everyone should take off their shoes!"

"Oh my God!" The retainers were really exclaimed after seeing such a sentence. They didn't know whether it was because the lord was too bold or gave up on himself or went crazy, or had other plans... But no matter what he thought, he still didn't understand what he was going to do? Is it to defend the city? Perhaps the lord now has the meaning of defending the city, but he was embarrassed to say it clearly because of what he said before? These thoughts have been rumbling in the minds of the retainers, making the retainers unable to grasp the lord's thoughts for a while. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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