Editing Horizon:Volume 5A Preface (section)

==World==
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About Mouri vs. Hashiba



Mouri and Oda were not originally enemies. After Mouri protected a general exiled by Oda, the two clans negotiated and ended up on friendly terms.

But when Mouri acted in concert with <span style="border-bottom: 3px solid #ED121D;">the Honnouji forces that opposed Oda</span>, the two nations became enemies.

This was their general’s idea and <span style="border-bottom: 3px solid #ED121D;">it left Oda surrounded due to the Uesugi clan in Jouetsu and the Takeda clan to the east also taking action.</span>



Name: Takenaka Hanbei



Map:

Top right: Uesugi

Top left: Mouri

Far right: Takeda

Center: Oda

Middle left: Honnouji

Bottom right: Shikoku

Bottom left: Kyushu

Arrow from Oda to Mouri: Hashiba



The two clans settled things after Nobunaga’s assassination. At the time, Mouri Terumoto and others confronted Hashiba who had besieged Mouri’s Bitchu Takamatsu Castle and <span style="border-bottom: 3px solid #ED121D;">flooded it.</span><span style="color:red; font-size:120%;font-weight:900;"><span style="font-size:200%;">&larr;</span>Important!</span>

But neither side could back down and Mouri sensed things turning against them. Hashiba was prepared to win through a war of attrition, but <span style="border-bottom: 3px solid #ED121D;">when word arrived of Nobunaga’s assassination, Hashiba negotiated terms of peace while hiding that fact from Mouri.</span>

With that, Mouri’s fighting with Hashiba came to an end and Hashiba made a <span style="border-bottom: 3px solid #ED121D;">Great Return to their headquarters</span> to strike back after Nobunaga’s assassination.



Name: Djinn
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