Oda Hidenoon was not stupid either. He could hear Hideopo’s implication, and immediately kowtowed to Hideopo’s mistake. While following Hideopo and his party along Nakayama Road to the northern city, he ordered the Hokutao family to immediately withdraw from the city they had captured before. Even the territory of the Simino family agreed with Hideopo was to withdraw. Although he was reluctant to leave, in this era of the strong, what he could do was to act within the red line set by the strong. Otherwise, he might face a more tragic ending than Honnoji.

On May 14th, Hideopo arrived at Gifu Castle. After a short stop, he arrived at the northern castle belonging to Takato Fujido the next day at noon. In this important town in Miino, Hideopo praised the daimyo Naoshima and other stationed here, and listened in detail to their reports on the activities of the Oda army in the surrounding areas. He also further understood Oda Hideono's behavior.

According to the plan, Hideopo would enter Oe Country through Seihara two days later. After a short stop at Saihara Yama Castle, he went to Otomotoyama to express his condolences to Toyotomoto and Maeda's soldiers. But just before entering Seihara, he received a secret letter from Ogasawara Takaki and learned that when the Maori army attacked Yutoyama Castle, the nearby Saihara Yama Castle, Ishida's father Masatsuki Ishida was unwilling to send troops to help. When the Masatsuki Arrived at the city, Masatsuki Ishida was unwilling to open the castle to provide supplies, which forced the Masatsuki Army to bypass Saihara Yama Castle to support Otomotoyama Castle, because the soldiers who ran long distance were exhausted, if the raid was not successful, it would be difficult to say who would win the battle.

Although he had only half a day left before Satoshi Yama Castle when he received the news, Hideopo ordered the army to take a break in Sekihara and then turn south.

Seihara is a basin surrounded by four kilometers east-west and two kilometers north-south, surrounded by Ibuki Mountain to the north, Sasuo Mountain to the west, Matsuo Mountain to the southwest, and Nangong Mountain to the southeast. Seihara is connected to Hokuriku Road in the northwest direction, and Mino Road to the southeast direction, and the surrounding area is Bafeng Road and Ise Road. The most important thing is that the Nakayama Road crosses, which is an extremely important transportation location and an excellent place for field battles.

Japanese people often say "Kanto" and "Kansai". The "guan" among them refers to the Suzuka Pass set up in Tokaido in ancient Japan, the Bubang Pass set up in Hokuriku Road, and the Aifa Pass set up in Toyama Road. As the name suggests, Seihara is a small plain before the Duansai. To the east of Seihara is Kanto, and to the west of Seihara is Kansai.

A war that should have taken place here that determined the fate of Japan was gone because of Hideo. Looking at the mountains on both sides of the road and several small villages on the side of the mountain, Hideo was deeply moved. In comparison, although the decisive battle with the Tokugawa clan moved from here to Muro, the situation he faced was much more relaxed than that of Mitsunari Ishida in history. In history, Mitsunari Ishida had only one chance, and he could not turn over if he failed, but Hideopo was different. Even if Aizu was defeated, he had an advantage in Kinki, Kyushu, Kanto and other places. As long as he organized it carefully, he could compete with the Tokugawa army again.

In addition, although Mitsunari Ishida was the commander of the Western Army on the battlefield of Seihara, the Western Army was disinterested and destined to be independent. San was not well-known, which seriously affected the combat power of the Western Army and laid hidden dangers for defeat. However, the Toyotomi coalition led by Hideopo was much united, not only with the help of the Okawa faction, but Hideopo's own prestige and strength were also enough to suppress the forces at both ends of the head and rat, thus ensuring the unity of the coalition forces and forming a suppression of Tokugawa and Uesugi Army in morale.

Thinking of this, Hideopo secretly was glad, and at the same time he also breathed a sigh of relief for Mitsunari Ishida. Overall, Hideopo believed in Mitsunari Ishida's loyalty to Hideyoshi, Hiderai and Toyotomi's family; but from Toyotomi's internal clan, 30% of loyalty would undoubtedly have an impact on Hideopo's hindsight and weaken Hideopo's status and prestige in Daemin's heart.

After experiencing this war, Hideopo regards his conflict with Mitsunari Ishida as an "internal conflict" and can be resolved through means other than war. Therefore, even if I get the news that Masatsugu Ishida is unwilling to support Mitoyama, Hideopo is not too resentful to Mitsunari.

The reason why he avoided Sawa Yama Castle was to show his attitude to Mitsuna and the world's daimyo. On the one hand, he gave Mitsuna Ishida to make him clear about his temperament; on the other hand, he also told other daimyos that even though Mitsuna stayed at Osaka to guard Hiderai and his son, he would not give 30 too high a comment after the war. Now, it is time for these daimyos to choose sides. In Toyotomi, it is necessary to establish absolute authority. Hideopo will never allow a confrontation and control each other again.

Going south through Ogaki Castle, Katsuba Castle, and Hideo finally arrived at Nagashima Castle, which borders Ohashi and Ise on May 18th. This city located on the northeastern border of Hideo's territory is an important part of the Yamato Toyotomi family's northeastern defense line. It was originally a residence in Shikiyoshi Shi, and was temporarily handed over to Fukushima Takahiko's father Fukushima Takaharu.

After the envoy's advance notice, when Hideopo arrived at Nagashima Castle, the retainers of the Yamato Toyotomi clan who had already been lying outside the city, nervously and excitedly waiting for the arrival of an unprecedented army of this scale.

It was learned from the people who stayed at home that on May 13, Kuroda Rumi and Mori Hiromoto rushed to Osaka Castle alone and met with Ishida Mizunai and others who had previously become popular with the Maori family. The specific content of the conversation was unknown, but according to the Ukita family's envoy and the Ninjas placed in the Osaka Castle by Yamato Toyotomi, Ishida Mizunai arranged for Maori Hiromoto and Kuroda Rumi to temporarily live in Yashiki, each in Osaka, but they were not allowed to enter Honmaru to meet Hiderai and his son.

At the same time, Shimazu and Kato coalition forces suppressed the empty defense Tosako in less than eight days, and then crossed the sea to Mihara Castle in Maori's territory, and met with the Kyushu coalition led by Kato Kiyomasa, who was chasing behind the Kuroda army. The two armies followed Kuroda's route and rushed day and night, but in the end, it was still late. Maori took a step and arrived at the bottom of Osaka Castle in the early morning of May 15th.

During this period, there was almost a misunderstanding. Since the first one to arrive was the Shimazu army, the Ukita Hide family stationed outside the city thought that it was the Kato army that was defeated in Kyushu, which led to the Shimazu army being able to directly attack Osaka, and cooperated with the Mori Fumimoto who had arrived before to seize the city.
Chapter completed!