Tennoji Tatsui was not too surprised to hear Ueda Nobukata's question, Tsuda Munekazu is still staying at Katsuo Castle, and he is also collecting information about Ueda Nobukata.

As for Ueda Nobukata's behavior in Saku-gun, Tsuda Munekazu did not investigate it for the time being, but he also knew that Ueda Nobukata was going to attack Saku-gun.

Tennoji Tatsui asked, "Does Ueda need money to gather soldiers to attack Saku-gun?" ”

Ueda Nobukata smiled: "It doesn't hurt to tell you this, I have already captured more than a dozen castles in Kitasaku County, and even Mochizuki Castle in a small prefecture has been captured by me and burned most of it." ”

Tennoji Tatsui was frightened this time, after all, Tsuda Zonghe predicted that Ueda Nobukata would ask them to borrow money for attacking Saku-gun, but he didn't expect Ueda Nobukata to occupy more than a dozen cities in Kita-Saku-gun quietly.

He hurriedly said with sincere fear: "What Ueda Hall does always surprises little people like us, you are really amazing.

A little person like me is really not worthy of communicating with a noble person like you, please allow the villain to go back and tell the young master that he can serve Ueda Hall. ”

Ueda Nobukata wondered, "Oh? Haven't you returned to Sakai Port yet? ”

Tiannoji Dayi shook his head and said, "Of course not, the young master needs to see the first batch of papers before he can go back." ”

Ueda Nobukata nodded understandingly, and said, "Okay, the money I want to borrow is not a small amount, so let him come and talk to me." ”

Tennoji Tatsuki respectfully exited the room, then asked for a fast horse from Azuma Kiyotsuna, and despite the mud on the road, he galloped back to Katsumi Castle and found Tsuda Muneki, who was practicing the tea ceremony.

Seeing Tennoji Tatsuki's embarrassed appearance, Tsuda Munekazu couldn't help but wonder, "Tatsuki, aren't you discussing things with Ueda?" How does it look like this? ”

Ignoring the relationship between master and servant, Tennoji Tatsuki hurriedly walked to Tsuda Zongji and said in his ear: "Young master, Ueda Hall has captured more than a dozen castles in Kitasaku, and even Mochizuki in the small prefecture has also taken it. ”

Tsuda Munekichi was shocked by the news, his hands shook, and the teacups fell on the table.

He repeatedly confirmed: "Is this true? Ueda said it himself? ”

Tennoji Tatsui nodded hurriedly, looking at Tsuda Soji with blazing eyes.

Tsuda Sokazu didn't care about the teacup, lowered his head and thought about it, Ueda Nobukata's actions were too surprising, completely unexpected, it was only March now, the snow began to melt, and he had already taken Kitasaku, which was tens of thousands of stone territory, and occupying it there could also be said to be a lord of the country.

For Tsuda Sokazu, Ueda Nobukata is a potential person who can invest with confidence, not to mention the paper business that has been negotiated, and even the swift military action of Ueda Nobukata is also admirable.

Tsuda Sokazu hurriedly said: "I will personally go to talk to Ueda about the loan, you immediately send someone to Kitasaku to inquire about the situation, and you will also go to Takeda's house to inquire about the situation!" ”

After he had finished speaking, he hurried away, and immediately asked the servants to change his new clothes, and then gathered the guards and hurried to Hushi City.

Tennoji Tatsui didn't care about the stains on his body, and immediately found his buddy and asked him to find someone to go to Kitasa-Sakugun and the Takeda family's territory to find out the news.

At this time, Minamihiro Ninan arrived at Katsuo Castle with a letter from Ueda Nobukata.

When Murakami Yoshikiyoshi heard that Ueda Nobukata had sent an envoy to come, there was a military meeting being held at home, and that was to support the Ogasawara family.

Anyway, it had been debated for several days, and there was no new conclusion, so Murakami Yoshikiyo asked Minamihiro Ninan to come and visit.

Minamihiro Ninan arrived at Ohiroma, met with Murakami Yoshikiyo, and said, "Kaiyu Goten, my lord Ueda Nobukata has conquered Mochizuki Castle in the small prefecture, and there are more than ten castles in Kitasaku County, including Maeyama and Uchiyama!" ”

"How is that possible?" Kiyono Nobuhide was greatly surprised, he couldn't believe that a big family of their Kiyono family had been defeated miserably in Kitasaku. How did a small samurai take down Kitasa.

At this time, Kiyono Kiyohide had already apologized, and the position of the head of the family was succeeded by the eldest son, Kiyono Nobuhide.

The news that Minamihiro Renan said was so powerful that even Murakami Yoshikiyo was a little unbelievable.

Murakami Yoshikiyo also said: "Is this true? ”

Nanguang Ren'an opened the box he was carrying, took out the head of Banno Sadaxiang, and said, "This is the head of the former mountain city lord Banno Sadaxiang. ”

Kiyono Nobuhide recognized at a glance that this was indeed the head of Sadasho Banno, and said in surprise: "How did Ueda Nobukata do it?" ”

Nanguang Ren'an suddenly said: "Seven days ago, my lord took advantage of the time when the snow began to melt, and took Sanada Danmasadashi as the first hand to attack Xiaozhu Castle.

At the same time, Mrs. Satomi led 500 Saku people to set up a formation in Mochizuki Castle, attracting the people of the Northern Saku Kingdom and the Hao clan to send troops to support, and once again defrauded Iwao Castle that day, and attacked the empty Maeyama Castle in the middle of the night.

Later, taking advantage of the fact that the Northern Sakusu coalition army was fighting against Mrs. Satomi in Mochizuki, the news of the fall of the former mountain castle was spread, leading the coalition forces to fight out of the city.

Hidden in the coalition army, our army defected, the coalition army was defeated, the Mochizuki defenders were defeated and retreated to the city, and Kurihara Masakiyo and Mochizuki Nobuya fought infighting in Mochizuki Castle that night, and were captured by our army.

After that, my lord swept the northern Saku county, as if in a no-man's land, and now my lord Chen Bing is in the former mountain castle, hoping to get reinforcements from the palace. ”

After listening to Minamihiro Renan's words, Murakami Yoshikiyo greatly appreciated Ueda Nobukata's behavior and said, "Okay, Nobukata really didn't disappoint the old man.

As long as the letter can block Takeda's invasion in Saku County, then half of the more than 20,000 stone territory in North Saku is his Zhixing land! ”

As soon as these words came out, whether it was Kiyono, Yashiro, Rakuyanji and other bigwigs, or Muroga, Ando, Nakazawa and other retainers were greatly surprised.

More than 10,000 stones can be said to be a big name, of course, just a small daimyo, compared to Ueda Nobukata was still an intermediate samurai before, that is also a change between heaven and earth.

Kiyono Nobuhide already had a grudge against Ueda Nobukata, and immediately objected: "The lord must not be! It is our duty as retainers to open up territory for our family.

And it is also our duty as retainers to defend the land for our family, and it is up to Ueda Nobukata to capture Kitasaku or defend it.

The lord only needs to take out two or three thousand stone territory as a reward, and it is already extremely merciful! ”

Yadai Masakuni also said: "My lord, this kind of decision still needs to be carefully considered, the other courtiers in the family have always been doing things like Ueda conscientiously, and the lord has rewarded Ueda so heavily, I'm afraid the hearts of the rest of the retainers are not very comfortable." ”

Murakami Yoshikiyoshi frowned and said: "This matter is something that the old man has already said to ask the letter to attack Saku-gun, do you want the old man to go back on his word?" ”