Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 829 Tianhai?Knowing Hideman?
Although Tokugawa Ieyasu did have the idea of ​​jumping ship, he had to stabilize these daimyos before the final negotiation results came out, and these daimyos would be his bargaining chips in the negotiation.

The army continued their journey after some comfort, but after only one day of departure, they received news from Honda Tadakatsu from Ogaki: "Owari fell, Aoki Kazuki abandoned the city and fled to Ogaki Castle, and I have persuaded him to return to Gifu to reorganize. "

Honda Tadakatsu did not give Aoki any face, and directly used words such as "escape", "persuade", and "reorganize" in the text, and at the end of the letter, he eagerly persuaded Tokugawa Ieyasu to come to Mino as soon as possible stabilize the situation.

Tokugawa Ieyasu did not dare to slacken the slightest slack, and he did not show this letter to anyone. He immediately ordered the regiment to be divided into two. He set up the main formation at Ogaki Castle, and ordered the entire army to form formations along the Kiso River.

He originally planned to send a lieutenant to take his headquarters to Gifu.

But he can't believe Jing Gao's high-level ability, and he has the Toyotomi banner in his hand.At the moment when Tokugawa Ieyasu only has 4000 Tokugawa banners, the Toyotomi banner is the most important army he can hold.

Originally, Maeda Toshinaga was the most suitable candidate, but he has been a colleague of Maeda Toshie for so long. You say that he judges others by himself, but Tokugawa Ieyasu still can’t believe that in this case, Maeda Toshinaga who leads the army alone .

After thinking about it, only the Maoli family is the least likely to betray. They have already jumped back and forth between Xiuci and Osaka, so can they jump to Youfu again?Can the Youfu still trust them?
Tokugawa Ieyasu's movements were quick, but Hideya on the opposite side was even more of a fool.

When he arrived in Ogaki, two troops from the Hide family had already crossed the Kiso River.Along the way, Toyotomi Shige's family took Mino's bamboo nose castle from the Kisogawa River in the west of Ichinomiya Castle.

On the other hand, the Ashikaga family crossed the Kiso River from Inuyama to the north and entered Mino, and met Yoshishige Satake and Masatoshi Suga who had previously attacked Higashi Mino and brought Teruma Ikeda into Mino. The daimyos such as Satake Yoshishige, Suga Masatoshi, and Ikeda Terumasa who covered the north side of Mt. Myo, invaded Mino Ota and Mino Sekijo areas.

The situation was far more dangerous than what the daimyo received when they were at Fushimi Castle.

At this moment, Hideie has moved his main formation north to Ichinomiya Castle, and is sitting in the main formation watching the information sent by the Ninja Army from the northeast.

"The Tokugawa House is really scary. Some promises almost made my Northeast a mess." Xiujia said to himself with a deep breath after closing the information.

What the intelligence said was what Tokugawa Ieyasu and Hattori Hanzo discussed when they were in Osaka a few days ago about Satake Yoshinobu, Nakamura Ichie and Honda repeatedly causing trouble in Tohoku.

However, unlike Tokugawa Ieyasu who thought Hideo would be shocked when he heard the news, after showing surprise at the beginning, Hideo kept the information very calmly, lowered his head and said to the attendants behind him, " Write a letter and send it to Fukushima.

Inform Tokushima attendants and Maori attendants and others that there is no need to go out of the city to fight in the field. The fighting here will end within a month, and by then the Xiaoxiao people in the northeast will collapse without fighting.

Then send a letter to Kanto to Osafune Higo and Narita Hall in Shirakawa, asking him to guard Shirakawa City and limit the riots to Koriyama. "

The attendant next to the Xiu family wrote down the order of the Xiu family in shorthand, handed it over to the Xiu family's monogram, and handed it over to the envoy in charge of delivering the order.These envoys with centipede banners on their backs will take the Xiu family's orders to where they should be delivered.

Many of the servants around the Hide family have been with the Hide family for many years, and they didn't understand why the Hide family's most trusted housekeeper, Hachisuka, was left there when they formed the formation in Koriyama.

What the Xiu family said meant that he was temporarily responsible for the follow-up army's marching support task, but seeing that the army had already moved from Kanto to Junyuan San, this Xiu family ally still did not appear in the army formation.

Until this moment, after the Hide family received the news that the Northeast was in chaos, they calmly sent a letter to Hachisuka's housekeeping, and the attendants realized that their Patriarch had quietly left that lord in the Northeast just to deal with the current situation. Condition.

The reason why Izumi Suga Kasuke is not the others is very simple, because his relationship with Hideya is good enough and core enough, and his knowledge and deeds are in Awa, which is [-] miles away from the northeast. Hideya has absolute confidence in him. .

In fact, this move was left by Xiujia to deal with unexpected needs, including the fact that Xiuyuan Maoli was also left there because Xiujia promised that he would not fight against Maoli's family.

At that time, the Hide family didn't know that Mori Terumoto would surrender Tokugawa Ieyasu, but in his appeal against thieves, he only said to help Hideji get justice, but he didn't mention anything about the Mori family.

Because Hideya himself has not thought about how to deal with the Maori family. If he is regarded as an ally, the Maori family will have to be granted a title after the war. How can the Maori family add to the already 100 million koku?
Therefore, in the Xiu family's initial plan, the attitude towards the Mao Li family was very ambiguous, mainly based on procrastination.Even after beating Tokugawa Ieyasu and Osaka, Hideka is planning to continue beating the Mori family.

In order to prevent Maori Xiuyuan from causing trouble, he was simply left in the Northeast.

Mori Hidemoto led 2000 Maori soldiers, and Hachisuka Housemagi led 1200 recruits from his own territory and 3000 flag books from the Toyotomi family. The total strength of the two sides was 6200, stationed in Fukushima and Nihonmatsu Castle respectively.

It is very difficult for this person to break through the repeated disturbances of Satake Yoshinobu, Nakamura Ichie and Honda, but it is not easy for the opponent to take down Nibonmatsu and Fukushima.

Don't look at Hattori Hanzo's report to Tokugawa Ieyasu as if the Northeast is in good shape. In fact, only Nakamura Kazuei led 5000 soldiers of the Nakamura clan out, and the goal was Fukushima Castle.

Satake Yoshishige took away the main force of the Satake family, and Satake Yoshinobu could only mobilize 1400 people.

Honda is even worse. Because Toyotomi Xiuzhen has ruled Koriyama for many years, its core is divided into Shinano faction, Tokugawa faction and Xincan faction. Chuan Jiayasu's exhortation and kindness.

Honda contacted multiple groups and finally mobilized 1100 people. That is to say, Satake and Honda were more like a riot than a rebellion except that the Nakamura family was relatively powerful.

With just a few of them, as long as Shirakawa and Nihonmatsu Castle are defended well, they can't even try to capture it. Then they are just a bunch of bandits causing trouble in Iwa City.

"This Tokugawa House, after so many years, still only knows how to play these tricks behind the scenes." He painted the three letters and joked to the retainers on the side, "Fortunately, I have known him for a long time. One hand has long been prepared."

After finishing the affairs in the Northeast, Xiujia turned his attention back to the sand table in front of him. This was the sand table of the Three Kingdoms of Nong, Wei, and Shi recently made by the attendants. From time to time, the attendants would put the latest political situation on it. Mark it out.

In the past few days, many new flags have appeared along the Nobi border, indicating that the reinforcements from Osaka have arrived here one after another.

And the person in charge of commanding these attendants is the Privy Council envoy of the Xiu family, Ying Wa Jiuhu.

At this moment, he was unwrapping a piece of beeswax, unfolding the curled note and said to Xiu's family, "My lord, Omi is here to report: the Neifu has arrived at Sawayama Castle, and it is expected to arrive at Ogaki Castle later tomorrow."

As he spoke, he placed the sunflower pattern flag representing Tokugawa Ieyasu on the edge of the sand table, and placed 8 chess pieces next to him, each chess piece representing 1 people.

"Then the battlefield will be in Noobi~?" Xiujia said with a long tail, "This situation, this scene, why does it feel so familiar, especially after I just experienced the 'Mihe Surprise Attack' by Jibu."

In fact, Hideyoshi is not the only one who has this idea. Tokugawa Ieyasu, who is far away in Wakayama City, feels familiar. The current situation is like an enlarged version of the decisive battle between Hideyoshi and him, except that at that time, he was sitting in the east and facing the west. He was on the defensive side, but now that he is sitting in the west and facing the east, he is still on the defensive side.

Just when Hideka was feeling down, a samurai suddenly ran into the shogunate in panic, and told Hideka, "My lord, there is a man outside who claims to be Meiji Samasuke Hideman asking to see you!"

"Meiji Shuman!"

This name is already a bit unfamiliar to many people present. How many years has he not appeared in their cognition?
"Impossible! Akechi Zuomasuke Ming Ming Ming Ming Ming"

The speaker was Inaba Norimichi. He was Oda Nobunaga's attendant during the Honnoji Incident. He survived by luck and later became Hideyoshi's attendant.

As a witness of the change in Honnoji Temple, he knew very well that Mitsuhide Akechi and Hideman Meiji were both dead in the official statement.

But when the words came to his lips, he couldn't come up with any results, and his eyes kept glancing at Xiujia.After all, a retainer of the Hide family had obtained Akechi Mitsuhide's head, and was therefore awarded the title of Ten Thousand Stones.If you know that Hidemitsu is not dead, then Akechi Mitsuhide
"Akechi. Zuomasuke." Hideie was also murmuring this name repeatedly. Hideie was still full of curiosity about this fierce man who burned down Azuchi Castle in history and disappeared after being carried across Lake Biwa on his mount.

"I'll go meet this man who claims to be wise Zuomasuke first, Your Highnesses will wait a moment." After thinking about it, the Xiu family still did not meet this man publicly, but chose to let the attendants lead him to the side hall Let's meet first and then talk.

Hideya first came to a room on the side of the side hall. He opened a gap in the sliding door and quietly peered into the hall. Not long after, an old warrior was led in and sat down.

Hideya's eyes looked up and down at the bald warrior, but his eyes suddenly shrank. Isn't this old man the same Nanguangfang Tianhai who talked about "dragon" and "not dragon" with him back then?

"Shua!" Without the slightest scruple, Xiujia directly opened the sliding door, walked up to the old warrior and bent down to look at him.

The samurai didn't have the slightest fear, and kept smiling towards Xiu's family with a smile on his face.

"Tianhai? Knowing Xiuman?"

Hideie called out these two names, nodded slightly to the sitting warrior and said, "These two names are mine, Youfu. One is for the first half of my life, and the other is for the second half of my life."

At this moment, Xiujia was only surprised. He finally understood why he felt that look a little familiar when he saw Tianhai for the first time.

It turned out that when I first entered Azuchi Castle to meet Oda Nobunaga, the samurai who helped Mitsuhide Akechi with his broken head to leave glanced at me.

Although more than 20 years have passed, Xiujia still remembers this look freshly.

He knew that there was no doubt about Xiuman!
"Hahaha~" Xiujia laughed and sat on the Mazha opposite Tianhai and said, "Everyone is looking for you, but they can't find you no matter what, they would never think that you are right in front of their eyes, and Go in and out of the temple in a grand manner. Master Tianhai, are you from the Yin tribe?"

"Hidden clan?" Zhizhi Xiuman obviously didn't expect the Xiu family to mention this word, and in his understanding, it was an evaluation of his hidden traces.

Then he explained to Xiujia, "I learned a few ninjutsu when I was young, and I have some experience in disguise."

"Changing appearance?" Only then did the Xiu family notice that Mingzhi Xiu Manju in front of him was wearing a fake mustache.

Also, monks have to clean themselves every day, so how could this beard grow so quickly.

"Does a beard really change his appearance so much?" Xiujia knew that Xiuman had taken away his brain circuits, so he didn't care what happened to this person, and began to care about his disguise technique.

Mingzhi Hideman also cooperated and explained: "It has a certain impact, and it will also affect the bun, eyebrows and cheeks. Disguise is holistic. If His Highness needs it in the future, I can also disguise Him."

"Hahaha, I'm afraid I won't have this chance." The Xiu family ignored Mingzhi Xiuman's temptation to him in the opposite direction, and said to him: "You can teach the inner government how to escape from the ninja army with ease. Probe."

Hideo deduced the current relationship between Tianhai and Tokugawa Ieyasu based on his own information and the relationship between Tianhai and Tokugawa Ieyasu in history.

If Mingzhi Xiuman in front of you is really Tiankai in history, it would be understandable that Nakai assisted Tokugawa Ieyasu in overthrowing the Toyotomi regime for more than ten years after the Battle of Nobi.

Knowing that Xiuman obviously didn't expect Xiujia to reveal the connection between him and Tokugawa Ieyasu so quickly, but thinking about it, with Xiujia's ability, maybe he had the answer a long time ago.

"I said why the master didn't tell the Zuo Mansion what you and I said against you that day after he switched to the Zuo Mansion. As a reason for attacking me, it turns out that you and I have the same goal."

"You went from supporting the inner government, supporting me, and then supporting the left government. After Guan Bai died, the three most powerful people in the Toyotomi family were all under your control~"

Faced with Xiujia's accusation, Tianhai.
Ah, no.

The samurai who should now be called Mingzhi Hideman did not panic, but said very calmly, "It is my wish to destroy the Toyotomi family, and it is also a promise I made to my lord."

"It's really funny, a vassal who betrayed the lord who gave him the name of the lord, actually hates a loyal vassal who avenges his lord so much.

When you rebelled and killed Youfu, why didn't you think that there would be a day of defeat? "Hearing that Mingzhi Xiuman said that he wanted to seek revenge from the Toyotomi family, the Xiu family thought it was funny, making themselves like a victim, and even made a moral criticism of him.

"Oh~?" Mingzhi Xiuman didn't feel guilty when he heard Xiujia's accusation, but said in surprise, "It seems that you don't know the secret of the past in Youfu? The secret about the change of Honnoji Temple"

"Do you think my lord really has the determination to overcome it by himself?"

(End of this chapter)