"The young master is not afraid, I'm Sakagaki Xinfang."

At this moment, Sakagaki Nobukata finally arrived and grabbed the reins of the horse, which was able to save Takeda Harunobu, who was about to hit the rain of arrows.

It took a long time for Takeda Harunobu to come back to his senses, and when he looked down, a cold sweat broke out in an instant, and it turned out that the nearest bow and arrow on the ground was only one step away from him.

"Thank you Lord Bantan this time, I can't control this horse when I was shocked." After Takeda Harunobu pulled the reins of the horse, he breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Sakagaki Nobukata who came to the rescue, as his auxiliary, the relationship between the two of them was not comparable to that of ordinary master-slave relationships.

"Where! Where!" Sakagaki was about to humble himself a few words, but was awakened by the sound of rushing and killing from afar, and it turned out that hundreds of spearmen of the Hiraga army were rushing towards him.

"Formation, formation." Sakagaki Nobukata was immediately terrified, and hurriedly arranged for the cavalry around him to form a formation to protect the young master, and soon the hundreds of cavalry of the Takeda side all dismounted and formed a circle formation with bows to protect Takeda Takeda Harunobu.

At this time, the hundreds of Heiga spearmen who were chasing Takeda Harunobu also caught up, but after a fierce bow shot from the Takeda side, they had no choice but to let Takeda Harunobu calmly retreat.

Umi no Kou Takeda family main camp.

At this moment, Takeda Nobuta has learned the news of his eldest son's shocking horse, but he is not worried at all, which is of course because he is a samurai who must be inherently indifferent, but more often than not, Takeda Nobuta began to be jealous of his eldest son Haruma.

As the head of the family, Takeda Shintora easily sensed that he seemed to prefer his eldest son, Harunobu, to his own retainers, which the power-hungry Takeda Shintora could not bear. As a result, as he grew older, he became more and more disgusted with Takeda Harunobu, a kind of natural instinctive reaction of an adult tiger when faced with the provocation of an imbiting tiger cub.

"Repay the lord, the young lord has returned safe and sound." At this time, Ashigaru, who was in charge of delivering the news, finally sent the news that Harunobu Takeda was safe and sound.

"Got it!" However, Takeda Nobuta said very happily: "Go, pass the word to Harunobu." Even if it is the first time to fight, even if it is the eldest son of the Takeda family, if he destroys the formation of the army formation indiscriminately, he will be beheaded. Also, tell Harunobu that guy to come to the honjin to see me right away. ”

"Haha." The herald staggered and left.

A quarter of an hour later, Takeda Chaishin, who had survived the catastrophe, rushed to the Takeda main camp accompanied by auxiliary officer Sakagaki Shinman.

"Harunobu Sakagaki Nobukata to meet the lord."

"What a coward!" However, Takeda Nobutoka scolded Takeda Harunobu and picked up the horsewhip and was about to beat him.

"Bastard! As the eldest son of the Takeda family, how can he be so cowardly and unable to control the war horse, even if it is my son's guilt for destroying the military formation, it is unforgivable. ”

Takeda scolded and whipped Takeda Harunobu with his horsewhip, but Takeda Harunobu seemed to be used to it, but this undoubtedly made Takeda Shintora even more annoyed.

"Lord, lord, please calm your anger." At this time, Sakagaki Nobukata, who was the guardian of Takeda Harunobu, couldn't stand it anymore and hurriedly got up to dissuade him. "Lord Qiqi, after all, this young master is still in the first formation, if there is anything wrong, he is willing to bear it as his guardian."

"Bastard!" Takeda Nobukata, who was a heavy minister, could not ignore the request of the important minister Nobukata, and whipped his horse to the ground with a roar.

"Withdraw tomorrow! If you have such a coward, your family will not be able to win the battle. In the end, Takeda Nobuta left with such a sentence and left angrily, and he attributed the reason for the withdrawal to the timidity of his eldest son.

The Kai Genji Takeda family is a famous samurai family that is the lineage of Silla Saburo Yoshimitsu, so if Takeda Harunobu, who is the eldest son, is unable to establish meritorious deeds at the beginning of the battle, he will inevitably lose his heir status, which is obviously the punishment of Takeda Shintora, who was extremely dissatisfied with his eldest son. Takeda Harunobu and Sakagaki Nobukata naturally understood this, but they were helpless, but although Takeda Harunobu was silent, there was a flash of perseverance in his eyes.

On the second day, Takeda Nobutora led 8,000 Koshu soldiers to prepare to return to Kai, but at this time, Sakatan Nobukata, who was Takeda Harunobu's assistant, quickly chased after him from the rear.

"Your Excellency."

"Hmm~~~" Takeda Shintora turned around with some curiosity.

"There's something to ask for below!"

"What's the matter?"

Sakagaki Nobufang Enso hurriedly said: "I want to lead 300 soldiers back to Uminoguchi Castle with the young master, and sneak in again to attack the Heiga family. This is the first time the young master has gone out with the army, and the family has a tradition of winning the first battle, if you go back like this, then the prestige of the young master will be greatly damaged!"

"Hehe~~~" Unexpectedly, Takeda Shinhu sneered and said decisively: "If it's Qingxin, then don't take it to heart, even if his reputation is damaged, it doesn't matter." ”

"Yes." Sakagaki Nobukata hurriedly dissuaded: "If the eldest son of the Takeda family can't get merit on his first expedition, he will become the laughing stock of the world, so is it okay?"

"It's okay!" Takeda Nobuta impatiently interrupted Sakagaki Nobukata, who wanted to dissuade him. "Harunobu that coward, how can he have the courage to be willing to fight?"

"Then please allow this expedition on the face of I, Sakagaki, who is the guardian of the young master! If you fail, you are willing to bear all the blame. "Nobukata Sakagaki once again solemnly asked to go on the expedition.

"It's okay to go." Takeda Shintora, the face of the important minister, couldn't help but give it, but he said extremely sarcastically: "You just take that coward to enjoy the moonlight at night, even if you don't do anything, it doesn't matter." ”

Obviously, Takeda Nobuta didn't think that the eldest son Harunobu would do anything this time, in his opinion, this was just a cover for Sakagaki Nobukata to make the eldest son's first battle less humiliating.

That night, outside the mouth of the sea, there were dark clouds covering the moon.

At this time, Sakagaki Nobukata and Takeda Harunobu were leading 300 Koshu soldiers to ambush here, preparing to raid Uminoguchi Castle, but Takeda Harunobu, who was the nominal commander, seemed a little panicked, after all, this was a castle that his father could not capture with all his Koshu troops.

Nobukata Sakagaki, who was next to him, noticed this and immediately encouraged him: "We are not here tonight to attack Uminoguchi Castle to die, but to establish meritorious deeds, so don't be afraid to cut down the enemy in front of you without hesitation." Either you die or I live, and only by killing the enemy can you live to build up your deeds. ”

"Haha." Takeda Harunobu immediately nodded firmly, indicating that he had the consciousness of conquest.

At this time, Sakagaki Nobukata replied, "If you die, you won't be able to build your deeds." ”

"Crunk ~~~, squeak ~~~" Suddenly there was a sound in the distance.

"Who!" The crowd was immediately alarmed.