At night, after arranging everything, Harunobu Takeda, who finally made up his mind to exile his father, lingered aimlessly under the corridor of Ashida Castle.

However, all of a sudden, a sharp arrow shot at Takeda Harunobu, and it happened to hit the pillar only a few inches in front of him.

"Could it be that my father is going to kill me!" Takeda Harunobu didn't think much about it, and quickly rolled under the porch into the grass and hidden.

"Kill!" The blow failed, and in an instant, more than a dozen ashigaru appeared out of nowhere and rushed towards Takeda Harunobu.

"Damn!" Seeing that he really couldn't hide, he thought about it, so he raised his knife to meet him.

Rushing towards him were three gun-wielding ashigaru, and Takeda Harunobu was not afraid to first swing away the stabbing foot gun, and then slashed one ashigaru to death in the face.

After that, Takeda Harunobu saw that there were more and more ashigaru people around, so he stopped fighting, and after a few slashes, he found a corner of the wall to rely on.

"Hugh hurts the young master of my family." Fortunately, at this time, the Takeda army that remained in Ashida Castle finally rushed over.

The two sides combined to defeat this group of unknown enemies, but in this gap, an enemy Ashigaru rushed to Takeda Shintora's residence.

"Father!" Takeda Harunobu was immediately shocked, and hurriedly raised his knife to chase after him.

When they arrived at Takeda Shintora's residence, five or six enemy Ashigaru had already rushed inside, and Takeda Harunobu didn't dare to hesitate when he saw this, and hurriedly worked with everyone to drive this group of enemy troops out.

"You're not hurt, are you?" Taking advantage of this gap, Harunobu Takeda comforted his father who was trembling with a katana, and commanded the enemy in a rage.

"What kind of thing is the mansion besieged! Don't let your guard down, go quickly!"

"Huh."

"Who are they?" Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, Takeda Shinhu asked very scared.

"I don't know."

"I see death!" Takeda Shintora, who had palpitations, said to his son beside him while holding the katana.

Takeda Harunobu glanced at his father without saying a word, and then rushed out of the door to arrange defense. "The safety of the lord is the most important, go and investigate!"

"Yes."

"The enemy is more than that, find out for me!"

"Yes."

"Please rest assured!" After arranging all this, Takeda Harunobu returned to his father's room to guard in front of him.

However, Takeda Shintora looked at the back of his eldest son, but his face was fierce and he slowly pulled out his katana, and at this time, Takeda Harunobu suddenly turned around without warning and happened to see this scene.

Instantly, Takeda Harunobu was taken aback, but Takeda Shintora hesitated and slashed at the screen behind him, and sure enough, an assassin was hiding here and happened to be killed with a knife.

"If I die, isn't Kai yours? Why did you save me?" Takeda Shintora, who had killed the assassin, asked his eldest son as he collected his sword.

"Father's life can't be replaced by the whole Kai, please take care!"

"Tonight, you're doing a great job!" The softness in Takeda Shintora's heart seemed to be touched for a moment, and he reached out to pat the eldest son's shoulder but turned away helplessly. Father and son have come so far that even if they value each other's lives, they can't turn back.

At this time, in another part of Ashida Castle, an ashigaru seems to be reporting something to Yorishige Suwa and Yoshikiirin Murakami.

"I'm so sorry!"

"Failed?" Suwa Yorishige asked in extreme disappointment.

On the other side, Murakami Yoshikiyo comforted him and said, "Suwa-sama, don't be discouraged, there is still a chance!"

"Alas~~~" Suwa Yorishige sighed and said to himself: "If we can take the lives of the Takeda family father and son tonight, our Shinano will be at peace for a while!"

It turned out that this assassination was actually planned by the allies of the three coalitions, Suwa Yorishige and Murakami Yoshikiyo, in order to get rid of the Takeda father and son, who had great ambitions for Shinano.

On the other side, Sunfu Castle, Imagawa Yoshimoto also summoned Kansuke Yamamoto at this time to prepare something to arrange.

"Give this to Harunobu Takeda." Imagawa Yoshimoto took out the letter he had prepared and threw it to Yamamoto Kansuke and instructed: "This time, Takeda Harunobu said that he wanted to exile Takeda Shintora and wanted us to accept it, and I agreed. However, if Takeda Harunobu becomes the lord of Kai, I don't know what the next attempt will be, so you must check the trend in this regard. ”

Saying that, Imagawa Yoshimoto pointed to the book handed to Kansuke Yamamoto and continued: "Then you take this letter to Takeda Harunobu, and then I hope you can manage to become his retainer.

At the end of this letter, I recommended to Harunobu Takeda a samurai named Kansuke Yamamoto who was proficient in martial arts and strategy as a gift in return for this covenant. Okay?"

"Yes."

"I hope you're ostensibly a retainer of Kai, but behind the scenes, you're an undercover agent for our Suruga. Maybe Harunobu Ichitakeda will doubt you at first, so be sure to act well. In short, everything can be planned, and before I receive Suruga's order, I can be a retainer of Kai Zhen with peace of mind!"

"Yes." Yamamoto Kansuke respectfully obeyed Imagawa Yoshimoto's arrangement, but they didn't understand that sometimes the mask could not be taken off after a long time.

"Hahahaha." At this time, Imagawa Yoshimoto, who did not know what the future would do, was still immersed in his own plans. "In this way, Kai will be Imagawa's in five years at most, and you will be rewarded by then."

"Thank you very much."

"Ah~~~" Imagawa Yoshimoto, who seemed to remember something, assured Kansuke Yamamoto again: "Please rest assured, your position in Sunfu will not change until then, and you will remain here." ”

"Yes."

"Kansuke!" Imagawa Yoshimoto continued to order Yamamoto Kansuke: "After you meet Takeda Harunobu, tell him this, and let him lead a hundred soldiers to meet the retainer of the family, Goro Takama. ”

"Yes, I see." Kansuke Yamamoto took his order and left.

"Come out, Goroubei." Soon after, Imagawa Yoshimoto called out Gorou Takama, who was hiding behind the screen, and said, "Did you hear everything?" If we send Kansuke, Takeda Harunobu won't suspect us. He will wait for us to receive Xinhu, and you will leave tomorrow morning to wait for our commander at the junction of Suruga and Kai.

In addition, Takeda Nobuto's side has also sent an envoy, and the place where Takeda Harunobu was extradited was when they passed through Nirazaki in Kai after the small prefecture. ”

"Yes, I see."

"Next, it depends on when Takeda Shintora withdraws his troops from the small county." Imagawa Yoshimoto sighed and said, "For us Suruga, it is more dangerous than the old fox who exiled his father, Takeda Harunobu. ”

Between father and son, Imagawa Yoshimoto is actually still eager to help his father, after all, there are more possibilities for young people than the aging Takeda Shintora.

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