Chapter 474

Ishikawa Goemon

Chapter 474 Ishikawa Goemon
How could someone as smart as Maeda Toshiie fail to understand what Hideka meant, but "Old Loach" was a slippery guy, and sharing the cake was a thankless task, so he wouldn't touch it.

After listening to Maeda Toshiie's answer with a smile, Xiujia looked straight at him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "It's true that the older generation survived."

"Senice Maeda gave us a good idea, but 'Soldiers are weapons, and warriors are dangerous.' We should think about it in the long run."

Since Maeda Toshiie could not get an answer, Xiujia turned his attention to Uesugi Jingsheng again. In order to prevent him from also learning from Maeda Toshiie, Xiujia simply said something more clearly, "Uesugi, as the son of Kenshin, is here You must be experienced. How do you think we should divide our military deployment so that we can be foolproof?"

Sometimes Xiujia even thinks that Uesugi Jingsheng is stupid, facing Xiujia's inquiry, he is silent for a long time before answering Xiujia with "en".

Then you are talking about what you "hmm"? !
Seeing that his lord was a bit embarrassed, Naoe Kanatsugu, who was sitting at the bottom, interjected, "General You is a world-renowned general, and he has the experience of forcing the Hojo Clan back, so he should know much more about the Hojo Clan than we do.

To be honest, since the 10th year of Yonglu (1567), I, the Uesugi Army, have never been out of Ueno. Now that 20 years have passed, I really don't know much about the situation in Kanto.

This matter should be decided by the right general, and I, Uesugi, must obey the order of the right general. "

What Hideka actually wanted was his words, as long as Maeda and Uesugi had no objection to their strategic arrangement, then no one else dared to express their dissatisfaction.

But these words came from Naoe Kanesuke, not from Uesugi Kagekatsu, so it is not countable in terms of legal rationale.

Therefore, even though Hideka had listened to Naoe Kanetsugu's words, he still looked at Uesugi Kagekatsu and asked, "What does Senator Uesugi think?"

Seeing that Uesugi Jingsheng still didn't answer, Hideka asked again and again, "If you have any ideas from Counselor Uesugi, you can express them directly, and we can brainstorm together."

Faced with Xiujia's repeated questioning, Uesugi Jingsheng still did not answer, and Naoe Kentsugu was a little anxious to smooth things over and said, "General right"

Naoe Kanetsugu's voice hadn't finished yet, but was interrupted roughly by Hideka, "I'm asking the Echigo Uesugi Clan's House Governor, Yamashiro Warden, please don't do it for me."

In fact, no one present here knows that the current Uesugi family is a dualistic politics, and Kekatsu Uesugi has granted Naoe Kanetsugu great authority. His words are roughly equivalent to Uesugi's answer.

But it's about equal or not, Hideka is also taking this opportunity to remind Naoe Kanesuke to pay attention to his identity.

After being choked by Xiujia, Naoe Kentsugu was at a loss for words for a while, and everyone was also frightened by Xiujia's sudden serious tone, looking at Uesugi Kekatsu and waiting for his reply.

As a result, Uesugi Jingsheng held back for a long time before saying: "I agree with Yamashiro Mamoru."

After Uesugi Jingsheng got the answer, Xiujia looked at Maeda Toshiie again, and Maeda Toshiie immediately said, "You are the chief general, so naturally you will make the arrangements."

After the two big shots expressed their views, others also expressed their support for Xiujia.

Don't think that the Xiu family is pretending to be coercive, this army is not the Xiu family's own after all, they come from all over the world, they were brought together by Xiu Ji, and the Xiu family is just acting as the commander.

If after the Xiu family made a forced decision, it would be unreasonable for the Xiu family to trouble Hideyoshi because of the issue of credit division.

Now it is equivalent to the Xiu family giving everyone the right to choose, and everyone agrees that the Xiu family will distribute it, so there will be no concealment in the future.

"Okay, since everyone has said so, then I will make a military strategy."

Hideie, who received a satisfactory answer, asked his attendants to fetch a map of Kanto and spread it out in the middle of the evaluation room, and said to everyone, "Now Ueno is in my hands, and Hojo's tortoise shrinks Tahara.

The main force of Hojo has been moved to Izu Sagami to resist His Highness Kanbai. The defense forces in Musashi, Zongbo and other places must be weak, and our army is well-equipped and powerful to defeat the enemy several times.

What I mean is to divide our side into the left, middle and right armies, roughly divide the left, middle and right plates with Tone River and Arakawa as the boundary, and the left, center and right armies are responsible for the strategy respectively. "

Speaking of this, Xiujia paused for a moment, looking at the expressions of everyone.

After confirming that everyone had no objection to this, Hideie continued, "Senice Maeda and Counselor Uesugi are in charge of the right-handed Hachigata, Fukaya, Matsuyama, Kawagoe, Hachioji and other castles.

This is the most core territory of the Hojo Clan. I am not at ease in handing it over to others, so I can only hand it over to the two adults.

As for the area east of Arakawa, I and the other adults will be in charge.

With the Tone River as the boundary, Osafune Misaku and Todo Sado are in charge to the east of the Tone River. I am in charge of the east of the Arakawa and the west of the Tone River. Ogasawara, Sakuma, Kanemori and other adults will follow me. "

The Xiu family's arrangement basically divided the entire Northern Army into three evenly.

The number of the right army Maeda Toshiie + Uesugi Kagekatsu is 2.2, the left army has 2 Ueno people, the captain Funa Sadachi + Todo Takatora, and the middle army has its own team + Ogasawara + Sakuma +The strength of Sanada and others is about 2.8.

Regarding this arrangement of the Xiu family, everyone did not show any significance. From the perspective of everyone, the Xiu family divided the battle lines into three, and their main force needed to be in charge of two battlefields. Toshika and Uesugi Jingsheng joined forces to take charge of a share, which is already a big profit.

In fact, the Xiu family did not have any good intentions to divide them in this way.

The current Maeda Toshiie doesn't know that Uesugi Jingsheng is here to make soy sauce, and he still thinks that with the help of Uesugi's strong soldiers, his right wing should be able to complete the strategy soon.

In this way, the pressure came to Uesugi Jingsheng's side. If only Uesugi and Maeda were next to each other, both of them were big names in Toyotomi's power.

You said that if Uesugi put pigeons on Maeda Toshiie when he was on the right, how pretty would Maeda Toshiie look?

Of course, Maeda Toshiie is a veteran of politics, an old fox, and Hideka would be happy to see him succeed if he can successfully persuade Uesugi Kage to make a contribution.

Anyway, no matter how the two of them broke up, the role of this villain would definitely not be Hideka, and Hideyoshi would be happy to see some unpleasant pasts between the two neighbors.

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Now that the military discussion has been agreed, all the generals will take their own tasks and disperse.

According to the arrangement in the military meeting, the left and right wings will launch an attack first to contain the Hojo forces, Hideka, who is the central army, will cross the river, and it will take some time for the army to move, and Hideka is also happy to spend a few days in Isesaki Castle. One day, he played chess and archery with Hideyoshi Ogasawara.

However, one afternoon, at noon at Hide's house, Ogasawara Hidetada was playing shogi on the porch of the courtyard, when suddenly she heard a sound on the roof.

If the buildings in ancient times were all wooden buildings, except for the houses of the rich and powerful, tiles were rarely laid.

Although Isesaki Castle used to be the main city of the Nawa family, the Nawa family is just a wealthy family in the countryside. Obviously, they don’t have so much money to decorate the house of Honmaru. It is already a sign of wealth to lay a few more layers of wood on the roof and paint it. up.

Hearing the sound of the roof, Ogasawara Hideyoshi raised her head curiously, and said to Xiu's family, "Brother, did you hear it? There seems to be a sound on the roof. Are they running mice?"

The Xiu family also heard the sound, but he was not as curious as Ogasawara Xiuzhen, and replied calmly, "Even if it is running a mouse, there will be a cat to catch it, and it doesn't care about you."

In fact, many people heard this sound. After hearing the sound, the samurai who served in the house ran to the courtyard and looked up at the roof, only to see that there were several people fighting fiercely on the roof.

"There are assassins! Protect the Lord!" The samurai who found the problem shouted loudly, and more samurai were recruited. Someone held a bow and set up an arrow and wanted to shoot, but was stopped by Hideo's attendant Sanada Nobushige. What if the shot misses and hurts His Highness!"

At the same time, more and more people climbed onto the roof from the surrounding materials and joined the battle.

The reason why they are called "people" here instead of samurai or guards is because they wear all kinds of clothes, most of them are servants, and the weapons they use are different from those of samurai. dagger.

It wasn't until then that everyone realized that the "assassin" was a thin and small man, moving back and forth between multiple roofs, and there were 3 to 5 people chasing him, but they couldn't catch him.

In the end, when he landed on another house, the samurai guarding the ground spotted him and actually shot an arrow, forcing him to the ground before he was captured.

Seeing the ninja being dragged away by the crowd, Xiujia said with a smile, "Look, the mouse has been caught. It has come several times in the past few days, and it is known to be the Fumos of the Hojo Clan without interrogation. People do have some ability, but it took a little time."

After finishing speaking, the Xiu family stopped caring about this matter and called Ogasawara Xiuzhen to continue playing chess.

The Xiu family really didn't know how to play shogi, just when the Xiu family was about to lose again, the third prime minister Tsuesaki came over.

Next to him is a fat man dressed as an ape showman, with a bamboo basket on his back, which should be a monkey.And behind them was the thin man who was caught just now.

Xiujia looked curiously at Tsushaki Sanzhicheng, and then at the captured assassin behind him, thinking that he had asked for some important information.

Unexpectedly, the first sentence Zhezhi Sanzhicheng said was "Master, you want the person I found for you to bring it to you."

Then he continued, "Maybe there was some misunderstanding just now. The ninja who was caught is called Qianzuru, and he is the disciple of this ape play master. I implore His Highness to order to spare her life."

A few days ago, the Hide family did ask Tsusue Sannojo to help find someone, and the person he was looking for was his junior brother Ishikawa Goemon, who did not expect to be brought in front of him so soon.

Ishikawa Goemon has been known as a Kinki thief in recent years, meeting him in Hideka's capacity is likely to cause criticism, so Tsusue Sannojo used code words to hint at Hideka.

Hearing the hint from Tsusue Sannojo, Hideka waved the samurai holding the ninja to release her and untie her.

Then he said to Ogasawara Xiuzhen, "Yu Yisong, let's end this game of chess today, I still have something to explain."

Ogasawara Hideyoshi saw that the Xiu family hinted that she was leaving, and understood that the Xiu family had some confidential matters to arrange, so she got up and wanted to leave, but said unforgivingly, "Hey~ Really, every time my brother is about to lose Just lie."

After Hideyoshi Ogasawara and the surrounding guards had left for most of the time, she carefully looked at the ape master next to him. To be honest, she really couldn't see the face of Ishikawa Goemon because he was not the one who introduced Hideka can not recognize.

Japanese ape opera masters are absolute pariahs, they don't care what country they eat, so they often go to the mountains to hunt and eat meat, and they seem to be stronger than ordinary people.

But to be honest, this ape opera master is no longer strong, but a bit fat, and he only feels that the food is better than that of the Xiu family.

Then Xiujia looked at the ninja behind them, with the same short haircut as Ishikawa Goemon, who seemed to be unable to distinguish between men and women. If it weren't for the name "Qianzuru", Xiujia would really regard her as a a man.

Hideka did not immediately agree to Tsusaki Sanzhicheng's request, but said in a slightly teasing tone, "You are indeed your apprentice, Goemon, you are my guest, and you always want to leave the door open for you." Go from above."

When Xiujia was young, the figure of Ishikawa Goemon hanging upside down on the roof really frightened Xiujia, leaving an indelible shadow on Xiujia, and he would mock him whenever he had the opportunity.

"Ah~ It's really troublesome. The kid has grown up and has a wild temper. Please don't take it for disturbing His Highness." Ishikawa Goemon replied in a slightly apologetic tone.

"Hey, Ishikawa Goemon actually apologized to a "power" like me. It's really a strange thing."

Facing Hideka's ridicule, Ishikawa Goemon didn't take it seriously, he still smiled and said to Hideka, "Your Highness is different from those in power, His Highness has a heart.

I hit it off with His Highness, and we are old friends, that's why I came here when His Highness asked me to. "

After all, he didn't hide anything anymore, and even sat down on the ground without any scruples before the Xiu family gave an order, rubbing the mud puddles on his body with his hands.

Seeing Ishikawa Goemon being so disrespectful, Kagawa Kei, who was following behind Hideka, gritted his teeth and said, "You bastard," but before he finished speaking, Hideya reached out to stop him.

In the eyes of outsiders, Ishikawa Goemon's behavior is indeed a kind of disrespect, but in Hideka's view, Ishikawa Goemon has really let go of his guard by doing this to himself.

After all, with his ability, if he is kneeling on one knee, he may attack the Xiu family at any time after exerting force on one foot.

Even after seeing the actions of Ishikawa Goemon, Tsusue Sanzhicheng let down his guard a little bit.

Seeing Xiang Chuanjing, he got angry, Ishikawa Goemon glanced indifferently, and said to Xiujia: "Come on, what's the matter with the young master who is 'high above', looking for a country ape opera master all the way? It’s not that you specially asked me to perform for you.”

(End of this chapter)