Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 139 How many lives will this cost?
Yuanye waited for another two days before receiving new news from Aman, and found out why Oda Nobunaga easily captured Kiyosu Castle this time - Oda Nobunaga's third uncle, Oda Nobumitsu, the lord of Moriyama Castle, was an extremely ruthless man.

It was obvious that Oda Nobunaga would not let go of Kiyosu Castle. Oda Nobutomo and his elders and retainers were well aware of this, but they lost both battles to Oda Nobunaga, and suffered heavy losses at Shinganji Temple in Anshoku Village, with more than 30 samurai killed. The Shinganji Temple, which was a cornerstone of the alliance, was directly burned down. Even defending the castle began to become difficult, so the Kiyosu Oda family no longer had any hope of defeating Oda Nobunaga.

So they came up with a crooked idea and planned to directly instigate a rebellion against Oda Nobunaga, who was an important member of Oda Nobunaga's family, Oda Nobumitsu, Oda Nobunaga's third uncle and the lord of Moriyama Castle.

The price they offered was very generous. As long as Oda Nobumitsu was willing to cooperate in killing Oda Nobunaga, the Kiyosu Oda family would be willing to support him to become the new head of the Oda Danmasatada family. At the same time, they were willing to make him the "Owari Koshugodai", which means dividing the four counties under Owari again, giving him two counties, and handing over the Kiyosu Castle South Tower where the Sasaki family used to live to him.

This was a huge investment that would allow Oda Nobumitsu to rise to fame overnight, but Oda Nobumitsu seemed unable to resist the temptation. After thinking for a while, he agreed directly.

The Oda clan of Kiyosu was still not at ease. After all, they had to pay too much and the risk was too great, so they asked Oda Nobumitsu to make a "covenant before the gods". If Oda Nobumitsu broke the covenant, he and his descendants would be cursed forever and would all die miserably.

Oda Nobumitsu was also a straightforward person. He did not refuse at all. He swore an oath before the gods in front of the Kiyosu Oda family. Then the two families joined forces and prepared a "plan within a plan" to lure Oda Nobunaga to his death. Oda Nobumitsu went to tell Oda Nobunaga that the Kiyosu Oda family was instigating a rebellion against him, and offered to pretend to be rebellious so as to take the opportunity to enter Kiyosu Castle and open the city gate. Oda Nobunaga only needed to lead a small elite force to rush there and take advantage of the situation to launch a surprise attack, and he could easily capture this important castle ranked first among the four counties under Owari.

In fact, as soon as Oda Nobunaga led a small force into the city, the two families immediately surrounded and killed him in the city.

This was a vicious plot to use Kiyosu Castle as bait to directly eliminate Oda Nobunaga. As long as the four counties under Owari were free of this scourge, everyone would be able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Oda Nobumitsu cooperated very well and carried out the plan, and then... nothing happened. His fake undercover agent became a real undercover, and he really opened the gate of Kiyosu Castle and let Oda Nobunaga in, or he let him in secretly in advance. The two families together surrounded and killed the Kiyosu Oda family. In the end, a large number of Kiyosu Oda family's retainers died in the battle. The rest fled back to their own territory to resist stubbornly, and some abandoned their homes and fled to the Imagawa family to prepare for revenge in the future. The head of the family, Oda Nobutomo, was trapped in his home and committed suicide in despair.

After reading the detailed intelligence, Yuan Ye didn't know what to say for a moment. The Kiyosu Oda Clan was powerless to fight against the increasingly powerful Oda Nobunaga. After all, they had lost two battles and the castle town had been burned down twice. If it happened again, they would be doomed. So they wanted to lure Oda Nobunaga to death. He could understand this, but the strategy they used...

It's not impossible. Oda Nobunaga trusted his third uncle very much. If Oda Nobumitsu was really willing to betray, this plan would have a certain possibility of success. However, Oda Nobumitsu was so cruel to himself that he even dared to treat the Covenant before the God as nonsense. In this era, he was definitely a ruthless person - the nature of the Covenant before the God would be similar to "swearing by the Luo River" in China. One had to swear to the patron saint worshipped by the family for generations. If one broke the oath, he would immediately become a "person hated by the God", and the family would immediately lose protection and their reputation would be extremely bad.

Even though many modern people have received higher education and know what feudal superstition is, they still don't dare to swear to gods and Buddhas easily. An ancient person dared to do this, and even dared to swear that his descendants would be cursed forever, and finally dared to break the oath. The psychological pressure must have been huge.

It can only be said that the death of the Oda family in Kiyosu was not unjust. They did not want to die a slow death, so they took a risk. As a result, they met a ruthless person, and that's why they died. This allowed Oda Nobunaga to get a big advantage and take over Kiyosu Castle without paying much price.

After reading the intelligence, Yuanye sighed for a moment, then felt disappointed for a moment, and then asked Aman who had just come by boat, "Has Oda Nobunaga discovered our unusual movements?"

Ah Man looked exhausted. She had been ordered to stay in Wanjin, isolating the inside and outside, observing Oda Nobunaga's movements to determine whether to activate the emergency plan, and to supervise the transportation of personnel and supplies. She didn't dare to sleep much, she was exhausted. Even if she took a nap on the boat, she didn't recover. Now she said in a daze, "Not yet. He is preparing to move his residence to Kiyosu Castle. He is ordering people to clear out the remnants of Oda Nobutomo around Kiyosu Castle and sort out the area. He has no time to care about us."

"What is he going to do about Kunojo?"

"I heard that it was handed over to Oda Nobumitsu." Ah Man said with his eyebrows raised, trying to be energetic, "Oda Nobunaga seemed to have publicly promised to jointly rule the four counties of Owari with Oda Nobumitsu to reward him for his extraordinary achievements, but Oda Nobumitsu did not agree, and even repeatedly declined to accept the Furuno Castle. Finally, he was willing to move his residence from Moriyama Castle to Furuno Castle because he could no longer refuse."

Yuanye nodded slightly. To let Oda Nobumitsu become the lord of Kuno Castle was definitely a reward of sufficient magnitude and absolute trust. It was not in vain that Oda Nobumitsu swore his entire family. Moreover, this should be good news. Oda Nobunaga was busy moving away and Oda Nobumitsu was busy moving here. They should not notice the abnormality of Wanjin for a while, which could buy a lot of time. It seemed that emptying Wanjin would not be affected too much.

That’s not bad!
Finally, he asked about the specific situation in Wanjin. After learning that all the personnel had been basically transported away and most of the gendarmerie had been brought here this time, Wanjin was left with only an empty shell. Only a small team of gendarmerie remained to continue to hold on and protect the dock and warehouse so that various materials could continue to be transported here. He felt relieved and sent Aman, who had successfully completed the important task, to take a nap. After waking up, he went to be the supervisor in order to continue to speed up the project.

Aman didn't even say a word, and just lay down on the spot. At present, this place is a large construction site, and everyone lives in shacks again. Only Yuanye's place is still decent. She was too lazy to find another place, so she just slept here. Yuanye didn't care, and took a piece of clothes to cover her belly. She felt that although the plan did not meet the best expectations - it took the enemy seven or eight days to find them, and Oda Nobunaga and the Kiyosu Oda family were fighting so hard that even if they wanted to dig out his lair, they were powerless - the best expectations were not met, but there is no perfect thing in the world, so this is also acceptable!

Next, it depends on hard power.

If you can hold on, you will be free and in charge of your own destiny, which can lay a good foundation for realizing your ultimate plan. If you can't hold on, all your work over the past year will have been in vain, and you may end up on an island and become a pirate.

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Asahina Yasunaga (Hirakusuke) was the general of the Imagawa clan stationed on the Owari front line. He actually didn't care much about the affairs of Chita County. After all, the fighting power of these powerful families was worrying, and they were all fence-sitters who would side with whichever side was more powerful. They were not trustworthy. After the Imagawa clan took over Owari, the Chita Peninsula would definitely be cleaned up and replaced with a group of relatively reliable samurai from Suruga Province. However, they were still needed to pay annual tribute on time to supply the needs of the Shirakawaguchi defense line, so they were not touched.

Before, powerful families such as the Takeda family had come to ask for help, claiming that Oda Nobunaga had been sending people to plunder their population. That was why he ignored them and even scolded them, telling them to solve such trivial matters on their own and not to bother him for no reason. But this time the situation was different. The Oda family actually sent people to the Chita Peninsula to build a city.

Although he didn't know what kind of crazy idea this was and it was completely incomprehensible, but if the Oda family really succeeded, it would be like burying a nail in their back, and there would be a possibility of attacking them from two sides. At least he could create trouble on their flanks and make it difficult for them to concentrate on breaking through the Oda family's defense line.

So this time Asahina Yasunaga took it seriously. Even when he heard that Oda Nobunaga's most elite "Oda Cannon Team" was also coming, he could be considered cautious. While assembling elite troops, he ordered the Chita clans to begin mobilizing and prepare to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop. In his opinion, it was very easy to drive the enemy away. If he really wanted to make military achievements, he still had to completely eliminate the enemy on the Chita Peninsula. If he could even seize a few hundred cannons and get this huge fortune worth tens of thousands of kan, he would make a lot of money and might even be immediately named the lord of a city.

He planned to fight a decisive battle, so he led 1,500 people southwards, brought along powerful families along the way, collected food, horses, and vehicles, and arrived at Yuya Castle in less than ten days. He did not even attend the Fengyan, but went to investigate in person. However, he was stunned after just one look from a distance, and turned to the head of the Yuya family and asked in surprise, "How long have they been here?"

Given the current situation, he would not even believe someone saying the enemy had been here for a year!

The head of the Miya family had just returned from the army, and he hadn’t even had a say in his retainers. He was stunned by the scene in front of him and said in disbelief, “Less than…less than fifteen days…it should be less than fifteen days, this…”

But he said so, and he didn't dare to believe it after he said it. Originally there was nothing in the wilderness, but now suddenly there was a bright and beautiful, brand new "stone city". The only strange thing was that there was a layer of wet linen on the top of the city wall. Apart from that, it was definitely a good city. It was made entirely of stone, which was simply luxurious.

And on a hill not far from this "Stone City", a rock fortress made of the same material and equally beautiful suddenly appeared. Currently, there are a group of people busy around this rock fortress, digging on the ground in various ways to continue to increase the strength of the attackers.

The river bank on the other side of the city also became abnormal. Two small rock forts appeared, supporting each other. They were located slightly backward and could receive long-range fire cover from the strange "stone city".

This……

Clearly, when he left more than ten days ago, there was nothing here!

He was confused and could not comprehend what was happening. It felt like the castle and rock fortress had fallen from the sky. Asahina Yasunaga's face darkened. Field battles and sieges were two different things. The enemy suddenly had castles and rock fortresses. How many lives would be lost?

(End of this chapter)