Warring States Eagle

A hidden courtyard near Hot Field. ?. .The ground of the courtyard full of cherry blossoms was already covered with a layer of falling cherry blossoms.This courtyard is the place where Takechiyo, the son of the Matsudaira family, and Oda Nobunaga, who were captured from the Mikawa Kingdom, often gather and play.Later, after Takechiyo was sent back to the Imagawa family's Sumfu country, this place fell into disrepair.

In the past two days, several people have suddenly lived here.In the evening, two people braved the darkness to come out of the courtyard and had a whispered conversation with the guards. The two pushed open the wooden door of the courtyard, walked through the courtyard covered with cherry blossom petals, and came to a wooden house.

Through the light of the oil lamp emitted from the opened wooden door, one can see a young man in a state of distress, with a blank face, leaning on a piece of old tatami in a daze.

"Congratulations, Your Highness." After the two visitors entered the wooden house and closed the door of the wooden house, one of them said to the young man who was still leaning on the tatami in a daze.

After hearing the sudden words from the visitor, the young man moved. His eyes turned and he looked at the visitor.The visitor ignored the young man's rudeness, and continued to explain: "His Royal Highness Kanjuro, the lord has just announced that you have been pardoned for your crimes. The two adults Shibata Gonrokusachi and Hayashi Sado Shoutongkatsu have both received the lord's favor." Forgive me, at this time I am assisting the lord to expel those mobs who are still making trouble in His Highness's territory." Yes, the young man in this wooden house is Oda Nobuyuki whom no one has been able to find.The reason why he was under house arrest here was entirely because of his bad luck.

On the same day, after his own army was defeated by his brother, Oda Nobuyuki also hurried to the direction of his residence, Suesimori Castle. Because he was in the chaos of the army, he quickly separated from his many guards, so he had no choice but to Like a fly.He fled in the direction of Mosen City in his memory.In the end, he crashed into a group of seven or eight people led by Kawajiri Hidetaka who was chasing the deserters.So Oda Nobuyuki became a captive of Kawajiri Hidetaka.

After capturing Oda Nobuyuki, Kawajiri Hidetaka immediately sent someone to report to Oda Nobunaga, so Oda Nobunaga temporarily ordered that Oda Nobuyuki be escorted to the current yard and placed under house arrest.Until tonight, Oda Nobuyuki finally got the result of his brother's handling of him.

"Yes, Your Highness, you have been pardoned by the lord. Please get up. We will give you a ride." The visitor confirmed to Oda Nobuyuki again.This person is Oda Nobunaga's confidant Ikeda Hengxing.And it was Hidetaka Kajiri who captured Oda Nobuyuki back then who entered the house with Ikeda Tsunexing.Just as he was about to walk to the wooden door of the wooden house, Kawajiri Hidetaka, who was already behind Oda Nobuyuki and Ikeda Hengxing, suddenly walked over quickly from behind.At the same time, he took out a strong straw rope from his arms and strangled it directly around Oda Nobuyuki's neck. Oda Nobuyuki who was suddenly attacked immediately tried to resist, but was tightly controlled by Ikeda Hengxing who was supporting him hands and body.

Under the sudden force of Kawajiri Hidetaka behind him, Oda Nobunaga immediately felt his neck being strangled more and more tightly, so tight that he could hardly breathe, in order to resist this suffocation.Also for a chance to breathe.He was writhing all over, his legs kicking wildly on the mud floor of the cabin.But all he did was in vain.With Kawajiri Hidetaka's continuous force and Ikeda Hengxing's firm control, his strength to resist became weaker and weaker, and finally his head twisted, his whole upper body softened, and he died like this.But at this moment, his appearance was very frightening. His eyes were wide open, and he seemed very unwilling. His legs also straightened out, and he pushed the mud floor under his feet directly out of two mud pits.

"Okay, pack it up, and send it to the place requested by the lord." After reconfirming that Oda Nobuyuki was dead, Ikeda Hengxing said with a sigh.Kawajiri Hidetaka, who was also panting beside him, nodded.So the two found a straw mat, wrapped Oda Nobuyuki's body, blew out the oil lamp in the wooden house, and carried the body into the darkness...

On the second day, a group of Oda family soldiers who were searching for Oda Nobuyuki finally found Oda Nobuyuki who had hanged himself in a wood in the territory of Oda Nobuyuki.With the discovery of Oda Nobuyuki's body, two rumors began to spread in the territory of the Oda family. One rumor was that Oda Nobuyuki hanged himself in fear of crime. The samurai's most dignified seppuku suicide could not be carried out, so he had to hang himself; another rumor is that the murderers of Oda Nobuyuki were the Ichizo thugs who had just been expelled from the Oda family's territory, because at the scene where Oda Nobuyuki's body was found , People also found a piece of torn monk's robe rags there.

Oda Nobunaga, the governor of the Oda family, was very angry about this. He directly announced that the Oda family would live forever with the Ganshoji Temple in Ise Kingdom.The death of Oda Nobuyuki immediately had a great impact on the Oda family. From then on, the Oda family's retainers became more loyal to Oda Nobunaga. Liu Shengjia and others also seemed to be docile.

Among so many people, only Oda Nobuyuki's mother, Tsuchida Gozen, was the saddest. Although Oda Nobunaga and Oda Nobuyuki were both her own sons, she obviously loved the second son Oda Nobuyuki more, even Once supported the second son to inherit the position of family governor.Seeing his beloved son die suddenly and for no apparent reason, he was naturally sad.In addition to being sad, she also personally interceded with Oda Nobunaga, hoping that Oda Nobunaga would treat the family members and sons left by Oda Nobunaga kindly.

To this, Oda Nobunaga naturally agreed, but he made it clear that because of Oda Nobuyuki's plot to rebel, from now on, later generations are no longer allowed to use the "Oda" Miao character, and since then Tsuda has been used as the Miao character.At the same time, his younger brother's son was handed over to Shibata Quanliusheng's family to raise him.Since then, a civil strife in the Oda family has come to an end.

When the news reached the ears of Imagawa Yoshimoto who was in Suruga, Imagawa Yoshimoto sneered and sighed: "What a cunning little guy!"

Yes, just from getting these scattered news about the internal turmoil in the Oda family, the vicious Imagawa Yoshimoto knew that there must be a secret in the death of Oda Nobuyuki, and even Imagawa Yoshimoto could already be sure that the death of Oda Nobuyuki must be related to him His elder brother Oda Nobunaga is inseparable.Why did Yoshimoto Imagawa make such an inference?In fact, as long as you think about it for a while, you can understand it.

At this time, there were still hostile forces within the Oda family, such as the Iwakura Oda family in the upper four counties.external.In the east there is the Imagawa family of its own, in the west there are the Ichizumune and Kitabata families of the Ise country, and in the north there is the Saito family of the Mino country. The Qingzhou Oda family is in crisis at this time. If it is weakened, it is likely to be invaded by various hostile forces.For this reason, Oda Nobunaga, as the governor of the family, naturally tried his best to preserve the strength of the family.And the killing of Oda Nobuyuki this time naturally preserved the Oda family's retainers and military strength, and the Geng family took the opportunity to unite the strength of the family.Owari Idiot did a great job this time.

In fact.Imagawa Yoshimoto's guess was not wrong at all.In history, during this civil strife in the Oda family.Oda Nobunaga did pardon the crimes of Oda Nobunaga and others while the enemy was looking around.But the following year, Oda Nobuyuki still had plans to rebel, but was reported by Shibata Katsuya, so Oda Nobunaga used the excuse of illness to lure Oda Nobuyuki to come to visit him, and then killed Oda Nobuyuki up.This is only under the condition of ensuring that it does not damage the strength of its own retainers.Completely quelled the rebellion at home.Begin to unify the internal strength of the Oda family.Of course, Oda Nobunaga is also a person who must take revenge.This time, in order to preserve the strength of the family, Oda Nobunaga gritted his teeth and endured it, but after the development and expansion of the Oda family in the future, Oda Nobunaga found an excuse to exile Lin Xiuzhen's family.

As for this time, since Oda Nobuyuki was inadvertently captured secretly, Oda Nobunaga did not need to worry about attacking Oda Nobuyuki who was hiding in the walled city as in history, causing a larger and longer-lasting family riot.What's more, this time Oda Nobuyuki violated Oda Nobunaga's taboo, so he brought foreign enemies into the family's internal strife.Oda Nobunaga is willing to use his strength to fight his younger brother Oda Nobuyuki upright to determine the ownership of the family governor, but he must not allow foreign enemies to intervene, which will bring disaster to the Oda family.So, after some consideration, Oda Nobunaga decided to secretly kill his younger brother Oda Nobuyuki, and blamed foreign enemies.Unexpectedly, all of Oda Nobunaga's arrangements were seen by Imagawa Yoshimoto at this time.

"I really hope to fight this big fool right away!" Seeing that even the Oda family in Owari has begun to become stronger, Imakawa Yoshimoto really started to feel a little impatient.With the strengthening of the Oda family, it will naturally affect Shangluo of the Imagawa family.As for some of the performances of the daimyos from all over the country, he was even more impatient.

In March of this year, Miyoshi Changqing captured the two cities of Akashi and Sanshu in Harima. So far, the power of the Hosokawa Kyozhao family in the local area has almost been uprooted. The pace of the Chuan family's forces has moved forward. As long as the Miyoshi family completely annexes the Miyoshi family and then suppresses the Hatakeyama family in Hanoi, the Gyeonggi area will be completely controlled by the Miyoshi family. This proves that the Miyoshi family has succeeded in going to Luo; Another fierce battle with Harunobu Takeda of Kai on Kawanakajima not only showed Echigo's power that cannot be underestimated, but even seems to be taking advantage of the situation to approach Kanto, the territory of the Yasu family of the Hojo family.These incidents have attracted the attention of the Imagawa family, but a shocking news that followed immediately caused him to miss and break the tea bowl of the Ming Dynasty that he has always loved very much. Yuanjiu occupied the Nagato and Shufang who belonged to the Ouchi family in one fell swoop, and even occupied the Aki of the Mori family. With such strength, he naturally became the well-deserved new overlord of the Western Kingdom. .The situation is forcing Yoshimoto Imagawa, who is about to enter his forties, and he must act quickly.

All the heroes are vying to enter Beijing.Hojo, Nagao, Takeda, Miyoshi, Roche... are now standing in Beijing, and the next step is to see who can reach the finish line first.If you can't bring the Oda family under your command diplomatically, you must destroy them, otherwise you will lose the opportunity to enter Beijing.

As for Shangluo, one person will also play a huge role.Thinking of this, the figure of a boy named Jiro Saburo appeared in Yoshimoto Imagawa's mind. )