When Ii Naomasa came to see Toyotomi Hidetsugu with an important mission, it was when Luo Shanghai led his army to attack. Of course, neither Toyotomi Hidetsugu nor Ii Naomasa knew that Luo Shanghai was planning to attack them.
Ii Naomasa was highly praised by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In order to win him over, Toyotomi Hideyoshi even tried to bestow his Toyotomi surname on him. However, Ii Naomasa rejected the offer. He continued to follow in the footsteps of the Tokugawa Clan.
Toyotomi Hidetsugu did not treat Ii Naomasa so well.
He had dealt a heavy blow to his own army and was then defeated by Ishida Mitsunari. The Red Guards were almost completely annihilated. Moreover, the Toyotomi Clan now had an absolute advantage. Toyotomi Hidetsugu would not treat Ii Naomasa well no matter what.
Not to mention that he was surrounded by a large number of generals. Toyotomi Hidetsugu had to show his dignity and dignity.
"If you're here to talk about what happened in the past, you can go back now. I've spoken to Mr. Tokugawa's messenger many times. Because of what happened in the past, I don't trust Mr. Tokugawa at all. I'm suspicious of everything he says. Please don't waste your breath."
Toyotomi Hidetsugu showed his attitude right from the start. Ii Naomasa felt his heart tighten and quickly tried to salvage the situation.
"In the struggle for world hegemony, everyone serves their own master. Everyone has their own schemes. This is the rule in troubled times. No one can say that this is wrong. What do you think, Your Highness?"
Toyotomi Hidetsugu felt that Ii Naomasa's words made sense, so he nodded.
"This is correct."
"Therefore, in the past few decades of wars, both of us served our own masters and carried out our own schemes. This is also reasonable."
Ii Naomasa quickly followed up with another attack.
"Other than the incident where Mr. Tokugawa killed the Cabinet of Elders, I can understand everything else."
Toyotomi Hidetsugu blocked Ii Naomasa's thoughts.
Ii Naomasa shook his head.
"That matter is related to this matter. That matter and this matter are related to Xiao Ruxun. It's just that at that time, he was still a general of the Ming Kingdom. Now, he has betrayed the Ming Kingdom and established the Qin Kingdom, becoming the emperor himself."
"Does Mr. Tokugawa not have any problems at all?"
Toyotomi Hidetsugu asked sternly, "What do you want to say? Just say it!"
"Xiao Ruxun is ambitious. He wants to destroy our country completely, so he sent an army to attack us. Now Qin's army has been dispatched, but we are still fighting here. If we can't concentrate all our forces to fight against Qin, Country R will definitely be destroyed!"
Many generals of the Fengchen Clan snorted in disdain at these words.
"I'm afraid that you will be the ones to be destroyed. That's why you're so anxious to sue for peace!"
Asano Yukinaga did not have any good impression or trust of the Tokugawa clan. He had always been a staunch advocate of war.
"That's not true! In the face of foreign enemies, we are the same. If we don't join forces to fight against the enemy, just like how we fought against Yuan Kou hundreds of years ago, we will definitely be defeated by Qin one by one, and our country will be destroyed directly. That's not good! "
Ii Naomasa said sincerely, "I know that Your Highness has doubts about my master. But my master has never relaxed his intelligence collection on Qin for seven years. But more than a year ago, after Qin was established, my master's spies were all caught."
Toyotomi Hidetsugu frowned.
It was also at that time that the spy operation led by Ishida Mitsunari was also comprehensively attacked. All the spies were killed. Since then, he had become blind and deaf when it came to Qin.
"So where did you get the news?"
Toyotomi Hidetsugu asked immediately.
"Since the last batch of spies were all killed, my master immediately trained new spies to investigate. But Qin was too meticulous in identifying spies, so the spies couldn't do anything. Until recently, some spies in Korea saw a large number of Qin's navy arrive in Korea and sail to our country."
This was more detailed than before. Toyotomi Hidetsugu frowned, so did Ishida Mitsunari. The generals also whispered to each other in private. It seemed that they had a lot of opinions on this matter.
Toyotomi Hidetsugu and Ishida Mitsunari exchanged their opinions.
"Just this alone isn't convincing enough. How can we believe empty words without any proof?"
Ishida Mitsunari spoke on behalf of Toyotomi Hidetsugu.
"I'm afraid this kind of evidence can only be produced when Qin's cavalry appears in front of us, right?"
Ii Naomasa looked at Ishida Mitsunari with a bitter face.
What he said made sense.
Ishida Mitsunari and Toyotomi Hidetsugu discussed again.
"Your Excellency, you can stay in our camp for a night. We'll make a decision after discussing it."
Then, Ii Naomasa was taken out of the big tent.
Walking out of the big tent, Ii Naomasa was relieved, but he was not completely relieved.
At present, it probably only made them more suspicious of this matter. But the lack of decisive evidence was a major flaw that he couldn't avoid.
If they didn't believe him and insisted on fighting, there was nothing he could do.
Everything was up to God.
After Ii Naomasa left, Toyotomi Hidetsugu held the letter written by Tokugawa Ieyasu and frowned.
The generals were also divided into two groups. One group advocated treating with caution, and the other group advocated that they should just kill their way over.
The argument between Asano Yukinaga and Ukito Hidetsugu was very fierce.
And in the midst of this intense debate, death was quietly descending.
The argument between Asano Yukinaga and Ukito Hidetsugu annoyed Toyotomi Hidetsugu. He had to order them to stop the argument and let them arrange the troops to sleep. They would talk about it the next day. He only asked Ishida Mitsunari to discuss with him alone.
The two discussed until the second half of the night, but they still couldn't come up with a final plan.
But there was still a way to deal with it, which was to send people back to the base camp to continue recruiting soldiers for war. Whether it was the battle with Qin or the decisive battle with the Tokugawa clan, the reserve soldiers couldn't be missing. This was for sure.
Then, the tired Toyotomi Hidetsugu also decided to continue the discussion the next day. He was going to rest.
Only Ishida Mitsunari returned to his tent and continued to deal with military affairs with a worried face. He stayed up all night to fight.
In this moment of absolute silence, Luo Shangzhi's men quietly snuck up to them.
They hurried through the night and reached their destination by taking a shortcut under the guidance of the secret agents of Black Water. Behind them, part of the main force of the army had already landed to help the rest. They could set off at dawn at the earliest.
Luo Shangzhi decided to take advantage of the dark night to divide his troops into two groups. They would attack the Tokugawa clan and the Toyotomi clan respectively. So he asked Qi Jin, an old acquaintance who was sent to conquer the Nihon country, to lead a group of troops and advance with him.
Luo Shangzhi found the vicinity of Toyotomi's army, and Qi Jin found the vicinity of Tokugawa's army.
Luo Shangzhi's face showed a bloodthirsty smile. He was extremely excited about the upcoming cruel killing.
Qi Jin was the same. He felt extremely lucky to be able to participate in this very meaningful war.
Among the two camps, only Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari remained sober.
They were worried, thinking about their own future and the trend of the world.
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