Nobunaga's Bastard

Episode 43 - Allied Forces South Down

Mount Usa is about half a mile west of Lake Biwa. In this Mount Usa my father commanded me to build a mountain castle. What is required is not luxury, not a symbol of authority, but simple defense. As a defensive facility against Asakura, Lord Mori Kasei began building Uzayama Castle.

In the castle, the first of the required defensive facilities was the stone walls. Lord Kecheng hired a group of famous masonry masons, the Hole Tai people, to build the stone walls of Usa Yamajo. It is said that the Hole Tai people are from Yuen-ji Temple and Nikki Taisha's Gateway Town, or from around Omi Sakamoto, and are descendants of a masonry who used to build ancient graves, etc. It was supposed to be a group of righteous artisans who had been entrusted with the masonry of the temple, but he followed without any particular resistance to the hired job of commissioning stone walls with money. Lord Kasei said it has become a kind of mercenary group that sells technical skills rather than force.

Having led 600 soldiers, I will rush under His Highness Kasei once the troops are disbanded. Of all the ancient times I led, two hundred were ministering as direct soldiers, and the other four hundred were contracts to hire until this battle, the attack on Kanagasaki. It is therefore necessary to pay wages to them as originally planned now that those series of battles are over and to re-employ soldiers who will fight against the Asakura family who should come from Uzayama Castle Tsukijo in the future.

It was on the fourth day that Lord Kasei began building the castle, gathering about eight hundred more people to go to Uzayama Castle, employing those who seek employment again as they were, those who go home, show their faces to their families, and then say they will leave again, those who receive money and beg for free, and those who have done less to finish their processing.

"Ishigaki is very expensive."

Lord Kecheng seemed to know that I had asked my father to "see and hear the castle" and he showed me how the stone walls were piled. At the top of Mount Usa, which is difficult to say high or large, a stone wall appears that you cannot pass without suddenly climbing.

"If we are surrounded, we will cage here, and if the enemy pulls, we will strike out, and even if tens of thousands of enemies fill the perimeter, we will have to somehow stop the enemy until his main unit returns. Four thousand soldiers at most. As long as enough food could be stored for another ten days, the stone walls alone were thus expensive."

There are about a thousand soldiers led by Lord Kosei. Together, my soldiers are a thousand and eight hundred, and there are about two thousand marines stationed in Kyoto who can serve as immediate reinforcements. Four thousand in total. Asakura will roll out 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers. Hit him and frighten him, striking back hard and protective. If you endure, my father will surely come to help you. If you are a castle soldier who knows that, you should also have a higher morale.

"Master Bandage, for the first time I have seen you come true and I am in an unwanted delight. Some of the ministers of the Mori family are named Kiyomigato."

The castle was built in a great hurry, and the eight hundred soldiers I took also carried stones to the summit, dug dirt and knocked down trees, and lent them all to civil works. I was in command of those works again, too, but I was spoken to by a small, warm-looking man who had refrained beside Lord Kasei. I actually did when I heard that I thought it was the minister of the Saito family, Yuanzheng Kiyomoto, each of them. After the demise of the Saito family, he served in the Mori family, and when he was younger, he killed his colleagues and was disposed of. It's surprisingly belligerent even though it looks kind. I feel something close to Lord Left again.

"This man, when he was younger, he woke up somewhere rough, and recently he wrote a diary, no, an autobiography."

"Ho."

Lord Kasei taught me. When I asked why, I didn't have much time left while I was being disciplined, so I wrote what I thought and beat him up for hand games. In the case of the left-hand lord, although he lived in the same place as exile, there was no extra money around that time, and he learned arithmetic and arithmetic as a result of his struggles to light a nail. Sentences and calculations are different, but they are still close to the left palace.

"When it comes to the Oda family's writer, he's famous for his knife, so he wanted to see you once."

"That's an unbearable word. Talk to someone and see if there's anything I can do for you."

"What did I tell you? It's only written in this man's autobiography after all."

That's how Lord Kasei said it, so we laughed, and we all laughed and continued to work hard. Laughing, we were watching when the situation in Hokuriku would be settled and Asakura would come at the soldiers. In the south, the battle between Honganji Temple of Ishiyama and Sanho's coalition forces is prolonged due to the inability to defeat the castle built on Fukushima Noda. Most other fronts are glued or disadvantaged. I had an increased chance to have nightly conversations with three Mori family members, including the Aoyagi Mao Tsuna Temple, attached as a Mori family power, and three people from Changzhu, Jinglian and Gu Left combined.

"Drive out the gun with a bow. I know this is the dream story and the heavens will laugh, but...... but!

The three Mori family members are good at getting people to drink, Jinglian, who usually cares about regeneration, and me, who don't drink in the first place, got drunk easily.

"No, no, that intent or okay. I was born in a time like this, so it's not worth being a man if you don't show any of the will to be laughed at as an idiot."

"You know what I mean!? The boulder will sit at Kannonji Castle, the only Pusheng man who has shown his will, and it will make you strong and strong! I respect you."

Aotearoa Mao Tsuna is the only real brother of Hakusei Hyun-soo, who led a thousand soldiers of the fall of Kanyin Temple Castle to show the structure of resistance. Chiyo Tsuru, son of Lord Hyun-soo, is the pardon of his sister minister. Not only did his father give his favorite daughter, Chiyo Tsuru, but the Pusheng clan has a lot of trust from his father. As if to live up to that trust, Lord Hyun-soo continues to refuse the Hexagon family's invitation to cooperate in overthrowing the Oda family, and all the letters sent to him have been submitted to his father.

"For example, if it's from beyond the wall, which is blocked by stone walls, the bow can attack and the gun can't attack. I've thought about it."

"Ishigaki, or if there was a stone wall, it would be."

As drunk as Jinglian was, he said consciously that he was a helo voice, said Lord Kecheng. Exactly. And not many places like that.

"How about poisoning the arrow butt? Doesn't it improve your ability to kill?

"If that's the case, then there are those who have already come. Besides, if the lead balls didn't hit the body and get rid of it, it wouldn't be much different than if the poison had been planted in the body. Some have had their arms rot and cut off."

Even to the words of Lord Aotearoa, Lord Kasei returned an immediate answer. The person who drinks the most in a row is supposed to be Lord Kosei, but he doesn't look drunk at all. The two of us laugh out loud when we make jokes about the long rules we drink to the extent that we can counter them. The chief secretary listens to those conversations and listens seriously. Are you thinking about how to write it in your autobiography?

"Too much restraint is barren. It is inevitable that one day a famous family will fall and that a prosperous nation will perish."

Ancient left gently slapping Jinglian on the shoulder as he was drinking with Niyaniya laughing. He grinned when Jinglian, who had paid off his hand, was told that he would curse 'annoying this object' and that the ancient left had been badly spoken.

"So is the bow, but the knife is also becoming an outdated relic already. Don't be hostile in the length of time. And most importantly, it's not for mass combat."

Sometimes I was quite drunk, and I talked to him about what I had been thinking about. There's a bow in me that's giving up somewhere. He wants to use it while loading the cannon, or he wants to make it survive with a combination.

"If it's a place where we can't fight as a group, a place where we have to fight as white soldiers, we might beat the spear."

At that time, the chief executive officer who was listening to Ji opened his mouth.

"Where you have to be a white soldier war?

For example, on board.

On the ship, that's what I heard, and I thought it was true. They don't hold spears. Hip a knife familiar to your hand, punch it into the enemy ship and cut it into pieces. You can't put together a candlestick on a boat, and it's inconvenient to carry on a narrow boat. If it were the smallest ship, two or three would already be full, so if we push each other with a sword and push our enemies out of the ship, we would win.

"Chengcheng, where else, where similar situations are located"

"How are things indoors? Castle attack finally punches into the enemy's main circle. When it does, the sword is better than the spear."

"No, it doesn't necessarily look like a forest. If it's a narrow, long corridor, it's best to keep your enemies away with a single Ningro spear."

Lord Kasei Mori and the Long Rule continue to say. Both arguments make sense. I cannot say enough that the spear is absolutely advantageous.

"When you think about it, the scaffolding is definite, you can take a wide area, and that's the kind of condition that confirms the spear's advantage."

I thought it was complete when I was told. If we can find a place that doesn't fit into the two now, and make our ancient crossroads a professional group to fight in those circumstances, something may open up another path.

"As for the bow, maybe you shouldn't think what you have now is a finished product"

"And my name is?

I urge you to continue with the remarks of Lord Aotearoa.

"The weapon" Iron Cannon "continues to be improved so that the Miscellaneous and Root study how to make it every day, and the range is even longer, and the aim is more accurate. A bow may also push back a force called an iron cannon if it can be improved to make it easier to use on the battlefield."

At least I waited for the day to be banished as it was, and when I heard those words I tightened, I thought I was sure. Keep your head down and say thank you.

"No, I said it was very helpful. If the three of you come by, my name is literary wisdom, but Makoto is right."

"Seven of you might be able to preach to the Buddha."

"That's good, Gu Left, now climb Mount Bee and preach. They're better at handling mala than sutras."

We laughed a lot at the nasty jokes about the long rules.

Later, Uzayama Castle Construction went well and the castle was almost complete. I wondered if it was possible to crush my enemies with falling stones and falling trees, and I advanced and accepted a method of roping thick round and large rocks over stone walls and dropping them when the enemies approached me. It is the form in which Lord Masaki Nanki once trampled the way he did at the Battle of Chiharu Castle. While doing so, there were no major moves on the Regent side, and the Oda army was unable to achieve a decisive victory. In Yamato, Shunking Shirai, once driven down by Master Bullet Masayama, breathed back and showed him the structure to ask Tatsuyama Castle. The Great Sage of Simultaneous Heaven is a boulder, showing him that he will draw into Kanyin Temple Castle and destroy the hexagonal armies that came out alarmed with ambushes, raising many ranks, etc. And before the 19th of March, two ferocious reports descend into the formation of Uzayama Castle.

"Furukie Castle fell due to the attack of the Nagashima Traditional Sect! Dear Lord General Hikochiro, self-harm!

At last, there were war victims in the Oda family. And for the first time since the barrel narrow, it fell into a situation where enemy forces attacked the tail tension.

"What happens to Ozhang's protection?

Iseh Nagashima is located in a delta where the Kiso, Nagasawa and Tefi rivers meet. Across from that delta is already Ogi Castle, the tip of the land across the street, Ogi Castle, the first defensive wall of Ogi Castle. Just as the egg shell was broken, it could also mean that the inside of the tail is always ravaged by the sect. For a moment, an ancient castle burst into flames in his head, and he shook his head sideways in a panic. There is also Lord Riku. That mother can't be so easy to handle. Though I think so, I solicit anxiety.

"Tokugawa Shisan entered Ozhang, and Nagashima Ichizo caged in the castle after attacking surrounding villages."

I sighed heavily. A man who achieved independence while sandwiched by two houses, Oda and Imagawa, and became the lord of two countries in the Tokai. No one can rely more on it. It seems that he has always crusaded the sect severely in the fold of the unification of the Three Rivers, and it would be undesirable to him that Ozhang would always be ravaged by the sect.

"Will Father remain calm?

"That's the one who also has the determination to cut his real brother. Anger doesn't make it so depressing and retreating."

I was told by Lord Kasei Mori that I was taking into account the feelings of my father, who was too deeply in love with his family. Sure, he's not that weak.

Wherever we shared information and confirmed that we would not work closely with other battlefields, another vicious report was delivered.

"Asakurashi 25,000, exiting Ichigo Valley and ending at Kanagasaki Castle! Responding to this, five thousand Asai have entered the northern shore of Lake Biwa! Head south through the west bank of Lake Biwa!

Finally. That's what I thought. The same was true of Asakura's run, and I felt like I somehow knew Asai would be added there.

"Do you know who the general of Asakura is?

"With the view of our doctrine itself!

I got a tongue punch. Has the smell of trouble come out this time? If he didn't move a step from the valley, his enemy's morale would have dropped somewhat.

"What about Asai? Your Majesty?

"No, as a nominee, the former emperor Kuzheng leads the soldiers."

"Kuzheng Asai?

The figure of that old man, who once met only once, turns his head. Though he was in hiding, his influence seemed strong, physical and mental, and his brain did not fade. But Oda or Asakura are halfway through this opportunism before they decide on their attitude. Why would Asai send a nominee when Asakura is sending out the owner? The opposite would be acceptable due to the relationship between the two countries, but it is not a good thing that Asai did.

You said five grand.

"Ha ha."

You can say that you gave all you could if you just said it with your strength. Three hundred for 10,000 stones, six thousand for 200,000 stones, four thousand and five hundred for 150,000 stones. Either way, it's not the number you can prepare in one hassle.

That the Lord will not appear in battle and that He has squeezed out the power to say five thousand. It seemed to me that this was a terrible thing to do. My father said he couldn't read the movement. I still can't read. I can't read my stomach rather than move. Reasons for not attacking the Oda family to withdraw from Kanagasaki, Reasons to be hostile to the Oda family now, Changzheng Asai, Kuzheng Asai, Oda, Asakura, Hiwami, Kanji Temple.

"... right"

Thus, when various matters were combined in my head, at one point I gave one answer so that the light could dwell.

"Lord Kosei, reward your father."

"Pay off, is it? I understand that the Asai move of the Asakura family will reach His Highness sooner or later."

"That's not true. I've learned one thing about the Asai family."

Hmm, and leaning his neck, Lord Kosei nevertheless prepared a brush, a pen, and a piece of paper for me immediately. Write down only what you need there. It won't be that long. Father's comprehension should make sense soon.

"This is... well, if that's true, no, otherwise it's weird"

While reading the text I wrote, Lord Kasei convinced me again. The sentence will be carried as soon as the ink is thirsty and will be delivered to my father by the end of the day.

"Now you're clear why Asai's inexplicable move so far, no, inexplicably didn't"

"Yes. Originally the Asai family appeared to have had a conflict with Asakura's Kuzheng, Oda's Changzheng, and his parents and children. Oda or Asakura, the confrontation between Oda Asakura began without that answer. Both forces continued to draw, and the movement stopped because of it. But the settlement has arrived. Ishiyama Honganji Temple march, Miscellaneous Battle, Asakura's Youshu invasion, they all helped the Asakura faction move"

"In other words, the Admiral of the Asai family is Kuzheng."

"That's right. And more than that, now Lord Changzheng has been shot in the neck with good, hidden, bad."

And that means you can't even guarantee the safety of the city sister.

The next day, Asai Asakura's army rendezvoused and overtook seven Takashima heads. Later, Mount Bee and the Kinda Gatekeepers also showed their plans to join the Asakura coalition forces, and on March 20th, we celebrate our first battle with the coalition forces in the West Bank of Biwako.