#interesting garbage

Mino Territory 

1. Nobunaga Oda wants unification of Japan

2. Nobunaga requires middle territories, starting with the territory Mino, which is adjacent to their main territory Owari, for unification

3. Nobunaga orders Katsuie Shibata to work on middle territories but Shibata fails to achieve anything

4. Nobunaga orders Hideyoshi Toyotomi to work on middle territories. Their plan is to ally with Osawa Jirozaemon

Osawa, the Tiger of Unuma, has close ties with Hachisuka Kuroku, the lord of Kawanami Shu

Hachisuka has an alliance of clans along all the Kiso river territories

Nobunaga/Hideyoshi need their help to build Sunomata castle

From Sunomata castle, attack Inabayama castle

From there, attack Mino

5. Thanks to MC, Osawa serves Hideyoshi and gets Hachisuka to serve Hideyoshi as well

6. Hideyoshi and Toshiie go to battle, succeed (1).

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HARIMA TERRITORY

Noto Reinforcements

1. Kenshin Uesugi, the Dragon of Echigo and God of War, is attacking the Hatekayama clan of Noto

2. Hatekayama clan requests reinforcements from Nobunaga

3. Nobunaga sends Toshiie to reinforce Noto and fight Uesugi

Harima Conquest

Himeji Castle

1. Nobunaga, simultaneously with helping Noto, plans to attack the Mouri clan. Between Mori's territories and Nobunaga's are middle territories, the closest one to Nobunaga being Harima.

2. Nobunaga appoints Hideyoshi, of peasant upbringing, to be a general for the Mouri clan attack in recognition of his success in Sunomata, to the disdain of the samurai born Bessho Nagaharu

3. Nobunaga orders Bessho to also join the middle territories attack

4. (Hideyoshi crew dick around for half the story, with Toshiie + village arc. I guess since Harima is a distance away from Owari, they spend this time building how life is as a result of war + character interactions as they travel)

5. Hideyoshi crew starts campaign in middle territories at Himeji castle in the Harima province

6. Bessho expected to have gained control of at least east Harima (Mitsunari says Bessho won't be able to take west, likely due to Mouri clan).

7. Hideyoshi gives a shout out to Ukita Hideie of Bizen

Kozuki Castle

8. Bessho starts a rebellion

Slaughters armies in Omura (???) (not sure what Nobunaga's influence on Omura's trade was in this timeline, nor Nagaharu and Mouri's relation to Omura, nor how it was relevant)

Allies with enemy Mouri clan

9. Mouri soldiers headed from west (an insecured area) to Kozuki castle

10. Bessho from east, Mouri from west => flank Himeji castle, the very castle the Hideyoshi crew just arrived at

11. Split into two groups

Hideyoshi and Mitsunari go west to Kozuki castle to enforce against Mouri

Hanbei go east to Miki castle to hold back Bessho

12. Hideyoshi forced to give up Kozuki castle to Mouri => Hideyoshi crew may have to withdraw entirely from Harima territories, cannot help Kozuki castle's lord Amago Katsuhisa (2)

13. Nobunaga orders Hideyoshi crew to reinforce Noto since they are losing to Uesugi

Nobunaga has major conflict with the Ikko-ikki, Buddhist warrior monks and people who opposed samurai rule (3)

Uesugi allied/has positive relations with Ikko-Ikki (?)

Nobunaga prioritizes fighting back Uesugi over conquering middle territories

14. Hideyoshi leaves Himeji to Mitsunari

Miki Castle

15. Mitsunari and Hanbei plan to isolate Miki castle

Bessho is attacking Miki castle

While Bessho is attacking Miki, Bessho's own castle will be defenseless

Mitsunari will attack Bessho's vulnerable castle, cutting off supplies to Bessho's seige of Miki castle

16. Thanks to Hanbei, Ukita of Bizen (territory adjacent to Harima, mentioned earlier) allies with Oda

17. Mitsunari and Hanbei tricked in Miki castle - need reinforcements (4)

18. After events that won't be spoiled: victory for Oda!

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Maps

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References

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Inabayama_Castle

(2) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Kōzuki_Castle

(3) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikkō-ikki