A samurai who doesn't want to be a daimyo is not a good onmyoji

Chapter 220
Half a day later, Asai Nagamasa, who had captured thousands of prisoners, did not continue the pursuit, but led his army to temporarily withdraw to Sagiyama Castle.

Although the Yilong Army suffered a water attack, he initially claimed to have [-] troops. Even though he suffered certain losses in the Nagara River and was attacked by a water attack, he still has nearly half of the combatable army and an unknown number. monster.

In contrast, the Asai Army did not dispatch its entire army to begin with, but had to allocate part of its manpower to escort the prisoners, so the number of troops was even smaller. Now is really not the best time to attack.

Asai Nagamasa decided to suppress the situation, and first publicized the details of the Battle of Nagara River. He even did not hesitate to use the channels of Iga ninjas and some Koga ninjas who had recently defected to him.

He wanted to know how many Saito family retainers and the surrounding major forces would react when they knew that Yilong could create and control monsters.

In addition to fear, are they becoming more hostile to Yilong, or are they overwhelmed by his power?
If it's the former, that's fine. If it's the latter, he has to consider the Asai family's attitude towards him.

At the same time, Nagamasa Asai once again launched a small-scale mobilization order to Kitaomi, asking the retainers to send a certain amount of troops to prepare for the march to Mino, especially to defend the bridgehead of Sagiyama Castle.

This is a mountain city that Dao San has spent decades building. It would be a pity to give up so easily.

Of course, before that, the monsters in Lushan City must be completely cleared away. Dao San needs to rely on monsters for defense, but he doesn't need it.

So in the next few days, Axiu and Wuming led the ghost-killing team to get busy again.

Although Lushan City doesn't look very big from the outside, in fact most of the mountain has been hollowed out. There are secret passages everywhere, and more forks and ideas appeared in the earthquake caused by Dao San's spell. This is not a task that can be accomplished casually.

Hashihime and Hachisuka Koroku took their respective men and returned to Kitaomi with Ryo Asai's team escorting the prisoners, where they had new tasks.

Hashihime needs to continue to be responsible for the safety of the entire Lake Biwa, as well as to guard against Rokkaku's dog jumping over the wall and sneaking into Kotani Castle from the water.

Haizuka Xiaoliu, on the other hand, has to prepare for a simple wedding first, and then decide when to go to Izumo to join Aguo.

Yes, it's a wedding.

I don’t know whether it was love at first sight or whether he had been single for too long. In short, without any hesitation, Hachisuka Koroku agreed to Asai Nagamasa’s previous proposal and decided to marry Hashihime’s clam girl. A pair of sisters.

Although his ferocious back armor looks very scary to humans, the clam girls like it very much and think it is a symbol of bravery. It can be said that it is a combination of two emotions, ah no, three emotions.

So Asai Nagamasa directly decided to hold a wedding for them on Lake Biwa, with Hashihime and the little miko Kaga in charge of assisting.

It's a pity that the scene won't be too lively by then. After all, even within the Kawabizhong, only a few people like Maeno Nagayasu and others know the true identity of Habisuka Koroku. The intelligence of those kappas is too low. I'm afraid I can't understand the meaning of the wedding.

However, the war in Mino will not be needed for the time being, so it doesn't matter if they give him a wedding leave. The next focus is on Yoshitsune himself, as well as Mino's important ministers, and even Oda Nobunaga and Imagawa. Movement at home.

I don’t know how much progress Akechi Mitsuhide has made?Moreover, I have seen the banner of the Takenaka family in the Yilong Army before. If it is Hanbei, maybe Ando Mamoru's attitude deserves further attention.
While he was thinking about it, the guard reported that Saito Toshiji wanted to see him.

Without wasting too much time, Saito Roshiharu, who looked a little lonely, quickly held a sword in both hands: "Your Highness, this is one of my father's favorite swords. It was killed by the Yogis during the last battle of Nagara River. The dragon captured it, and now it has been lost and recovered, and I would like to offer it to His Highness."

"Only in your hands, Your Highness, can its true power be unleashed!"

In the Battle of Nagaragawa, Saito Yoshiryu escaped by chance, but in addition to the prisoners, he also had a large amount of supplies that were obtained by the Asai Army.

According to the regulations promulgated by Asai Nagamasa before, participating samurai are also eligible to share a portion based on their merits. This sword was allocated to Saito Toshioharu. Others may not have thought that this was actually the one used by Dosan.

Asai Nagamasa looked at this young man who was slightly younger than himself. In just a few days, after suffering several drastic changes, he had obviously lost weight, but he seemed to have suddenly become thinner. Much stronger.

"Okay, then I'll just accept it."

He reached out and took the relic of Dao San. As soon as he took it, Asai Nagamasa noticed a unique magic power flowing through the blade. It was obvious that this was a magical sword forged by special means.

Although it is not particularly powerful, it is better in all aspects. It has a certain increase in various spells, and this sword has obviously been forged for a long time. It is indeed rare for Nibon to be able to do this before the spiritual energy was revived. Maybe this is also the inheritance of Chu Ye Yanzhong?
Unfortunately, in Dao San's treasure house, he only found records about the training method of Chu Ye Yazhong, but there was no relevant information about making naginata sickles, machine sticks, or magical weapons. Probably those exist in Dao San. It's in San's head.

But it's not a big deal. Not to mention that Wuming has the same record. In Abe Seimei's inheritance, there are many more powerful magic weapons. The only thing he lacks now is time, energy, and materials.

With a flick of his thumb, the sword was unsheathed, and a cold sword light immediately caught Asai Nagamasa's eyes. Even Asai Nagamasa had to admit that this was indeed a precious sword.

"Does it have a name?"

"My father called it impermanence, which means 'all things are impermanent, and everything that comes into being must also perish'."

"Impermanence?"

Sighing slightly, Asai Nagamasa felt it was a pity that such an interesting person like Dao San died in Sagiyama Castle. If he could have lived a few more years, his life would have been a lot more fun, right?

Asai Nagamasa stretched out his hand and brushed the Impermanence Knife. As the fire flashed away, these two sentences appeared on the sword.

With the Thunder Knife and the Jade Fan in hand, it would be a waste to have this knife in his hand. He should give it to others when he has the opportunity in the future.

Putting away the Impermanence Sword, he looked at the other party seriously: "Riji, what do you think about Yilong and the Saito family he leads?"

Saito Roshi's expression suddenly became stern, and then he bowed deeply without hesitation: "Everything is in compliance with His Highness's instructions. I am only willing to be loyal to the Asai family and Your Highness forever for the sword in His Highness's hand."

"For Meinong and Yilong, I only have one wish, and that is that I hope that His Highness can send Yilong to apologize to his father in person!"

Asai Nagamasa narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard this. Judging from the other party's performance, he knew that the other party had already prepared a response before, so he could be so decisive at this moment.

Perhaps Yilong inherited Dao San's talent in magic and snake-like temperament, but the boy in front of him also inherited part of Dao San's wisdom.

He may have already understood it. In any case, after Yilong showed the power to create and control monsters, and when the Asai family, the Oda family and even the Imagawa family all reached out to Mino, with the help of His power, Saito Toshioharu, cannot protect Minon's land no matter what.

He could only settle for the next best thing, not fight or grab, and take the initiative to show his loyalty to himself, so that he might be able to keep his name as the Saito family.

I have to say that he is very smart, and his luck is also very good, because Nagamasa Asai has already decided to give him a chance.

"Very well, Liji, I already know your wish, but I want you to know that as long as you are alive, the Saito family will eventually have a chance to rise again, and I will give you this opportunity."

Nippon farmers have a very unique sense of local sentiment and empathy, that is, they only identify with local lords.

No matter how badly the local lords treat them, once the lord is defeated and conquered and replaced by a new lord from outside, even if the new lord treats them ten times better than before, it will have almost no effect.They will still be treated with great sympathy by the local lords, and there will even be spontaneous resistance and rebellion, just to get the local lords back.

This may be completely incomprehensible to the Cathay people, but it is a matter of course for the Nibon people.

It is precisely this kind of other mentality that has made it so that in the past hundreds of years, even if the wars between the Nippon daimyo have a winner or a loser, it is rare that they are truly wiped out.

The winner will still appoint the original lord and continue to rule his original territory. At most, he will impose some punishments, confiscate part of the territory, or impose some restrictions and require the other party to hand over protons.

When the Asai family captured three counties of the Rokkaku family, the local lords and high-ranking samurai were either killed in the Norada battle, or people such as Migumo Kenmochi, Takamiya Katsuyoshi and others had officially joined. Asai family, so this problem is not particularly serious.

But if Mino is the next opponent, the problem will be much bigger. This is one of the important reasons why Nagamasa Asai treats Inaba Kazutetsu and Saito Toshiharu so favorably.

Because without the surrender of the local lords, even if the Asai family finally defeated the Yilong Army and successfully occupied Mino, it would probably take at least three, five, or even longer years to gradually transform this place into a relatively stable rear area. .

But in this turbulent era, it would be a waste of time to waste five years just because of Meinong.

But if it is replaced by a local lord to assist, the time cost will be greatly reduced, and the consequences will be much smaller.

As for the over-dispersion of power caused by this, Asai Nagamasa actually doesn't particularly care. He has no intention of completely changing Nibon's tradition, because from the beginning, he did not launch this war for land.

The reason why he tries to conquer more territories is just to collect spiritual stones more conveniently and to promote Huanglong's belief!
Saito Roshi immediately burst into tears of gratitude and kowtowed repeatedly. After his father's death, he suddenly became much more mature. No matter how things would develop in the end, with His Highness's words, he and the Saito family would not be completely reconciled. decline!

Not long after he left, the military adviser Numata Yuguang walked in with a strange expression: "Your Highness, Oda Nobunaga sent an envoy here, and it seems that he intends to use his younger sister, Princess Ashi, to marry the main family and establish a stable covenant. In addition, his wife Nohime also has another letter here."

When he was traveling, he had met Oda Nobunaga in Qingzhou City. At that time, the other party declared that if he wanted to marry his sister Aichi, he would at least have to wait until he occupied the north and south Omi.

But he didn't expect Nobunaga to break his own words so quickly?
Asai Nagamasa, who took the letter smoothly, hadn't opened it yet. Seeing the extremely strange expression on the other side, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: "Oh, that's right, I know, but why do you have this expression, Yuguang?"

Hearing Asai Nagamasa's question, Numata Yumitsu couldn't restrain himself: "Because the person he wants to marry is your highness!" "It's just a mere Oda family. He can't even completely unify Owari. Once Imagawa If the family goes to Luo, the destruction of the Oda family is imminent. What virtues and abilities does Oda Nobunaga have that he dares to marry His Highness?"

Asai Nagamasa suddenly burst into laughter, he understood.

Only with the memory of the parallel world did he know what kind of storm that Owari's storm might cause in the future.

But in the eyes of the Nippon people, Nobunaga is just a small daimyo from Owari. After succeeding as the governor of the family, it took several years to barely calm down the civil strife in the family, and then he had to face the challenge of "the number one archer in the Tokaido". Strong pressure.

Although he also showed some strength in the battles of the past few days and was able to escape unscathed thanks to the joint efforts of the Saito family and the Imagawa family, this only barely took off his "Owari fool" hat. .

Regardless of reputation, power, record, or personal strength, in the eyes of many people, the opponent is inferior to fighting Rokkaku first and then defeating Yoshiryu. Even wise men like Numata Yumitsu are no exception.

Therefore, it is not surprising at all that Yumitsu Numata would have such thoughts and expressions.

"Haha, it's probably because he has an amazing-looking sister. Maybe he won't necessarily be number one in Nippon, but at least the top three should be no problem."

Although Ah Shi is only in his teens now, and his face and body have not grown yet, he still remembers the surprise when he saw Ah Shi last time. Of course, this has something to do with the lustful lovebird inside him .

However, if Ah Shi can really marry him, the two guardian spirits of a female and a male may have a chance to meet again.

After hearing this, Numata Yumitsu suddenly realized that this was the case. His Highness had already served Yuanfu, and it was indeed time to find a suitable wife.

Although in his opinion, neither the Oda family nor the main family, nor Oda Nobunaga and His Highness, are completely equal. Owari may be taller, but there are strong enemies all around, and Kita Omi, however, truly has no worries.

But if Princess Ashi is beautiful enough, then it won't be a big problem.

"Your Highness, how should we reply?"

Asai Nagamasa pondered for a moment: "Well, let's just say that I agree in principle, but Ashi is still too young now. Let us first find opportunities to cultivate more relationships, and Ashi must be willing. "

Cultivate feelings?Do you still want Ah Shi to be willing?
When will the daughter of the Wu family be able to make her own choices?
Is this His Highness deliberately stalling for time, or is this actually a weapon that makes His Highness different from other martial arts families?
Numata Yumitsu has many thoughts in his mind. Although he also considers himself a smart person, the longer he has been in contact with His Highness since he joined the family, the more he feels His Highness is mysterious and powerful. He still has many things to learn. ah!
"Yes, Your Highness, I will start writing immediately, and your Highness will take a look at it after completion."

This is also the current situation of the Asai family. Asai Nagamasa is only responsible for the general outline. He will not be involved in the specific details casually because there is no need and he does not have that much energy.

He will give his retainers considerable freedom. After the matter is completed, he will reward those who are qualified and punish those who are not.

Many retainers were very unsuitable at first, because in the current Nippon, almost all daimyo have a very strong desire for control. They would like to know how much land and food each of their retainers has, but most of the time they don't. That's just the strength to do it.

But now the Asai family is completely different. His Highness does not seem to be very interested in land or gold and silver. As long as loyalty to him can be guaranteed, His Highness can even be said to be incredibly generous.

Even some veterans soon discovered that compared to the previous "collegial system of important ministers", the current system of His Highness's decision-making was obviously many times better in terms of efficiency and other aspects.

The discussion among the important ministers was not only a waste of time, but the final decision may also be wrong, but His Highness almost never makes any mistakes!
Numata Yumitsu left, calm returned to the house, and Asai Nagamasa also opened the letter from Nohime.

And as he expected, in addition to saying something about Ah Shi, she also wanted to bury Dao San's body herself.

A few days after the Battle of Nagaragawa, Asai Nagamasa spread the news that Dosan had died in the battle, but he did not say that the other party was killed by Yatogami, only that he died because of Yoshiryu.

And now as the news continues to spread, there are all kinds of speculations and rumors. Many people even firmly believe that Yilong drove the monster to kill his father, because Asai Nagamasa released this news At the same time, the news that Yilong could create and control monsters also spread in the blink of an eye.

It was obvious that in addition to the ninjas he sent, there was more than one hand in the dark pushing this matter. In addition to the Asai family, the Oda family and even the Imagawa family were almost certainly involved.

Nohime's purpose in asking for Dao San's body at this time was not so simple.

You must know that Saito Douzan himself said that he gave half of Mino to his son-in-law Nobunaga. Combined with the fact that Douzan and his six sons disappeared for no reason, there has been no news about it until now. Asai Nagamasa guessed It was most likely that he went to Owari with this piece of information, and he would not be surprised at all if there was a letter written by Douzan himself.

If he hands Dosan's body to Nohime again, Nobunaga will surely make use of these things soon and claim his ownership of Mino, right?

Oh, what a wonderful thought.

You are not the only daughter of Dao San who can collect his corpse, and not all of Mino is yours, Nobunaga.
Making a decision secretly in his heart, Asai Nagamasa decided to give orders to Numata Yumitsu, Kato Danzo and other ninjas soon, so that this information must be spread throughout Mino as soon as possible.

He was really looking forward to the reaction of Mino's important ministers. After Yoshitsune showed such evil and cruel methods, and when he knew that Daosan still had two heirs in the Asai family and the Oda family, what would these samurai think again? What choice to make?
(End of this chapter)