After receiving permission, Maeda began to contact nearby temples and shrines to negotiate with the Takeda Army of Mino and Mikawa.

This is the first time in four months that the two sides have stood at the negotiating table.

Previously, due to various reasons, the two sides could not find a suitable opportunity for contact, so they did not think about this aspect at all.

Although the Itabe of the Hojo family, Okaye Yukisai, pretended to be "mediated in the middle", but everyone, including himself, had a perfunctory attitude to deal with the errands, and everyone knew that it was fake.

Heide Honhide specially instructed the besieging armies to pay special attention to cutting off the rear of the city, building a separation zone through which no one was allowed to pass, and digging down to deal with possible tunnels, so as to strictly prevent any form of communication between inside and outside the Takeda army.

Ensure that the three besieged cities do not get the slightest effective information.

This is something that has been done all along, and the emphasis is placed on it once to strengthen it again.

In addition, taking advantage of the lack of supplies of Takeda Katsuyori to return to Kai, Mikumo Nariji, who was good at mountain warfare, as a vanguard, bypassed the fortified castle and penetrated deep into the southern Shinano border, followed by the armies of Iwanari Tomotsu and Nakamura Kazuji in turn.

Further add obstacles to the enemy's contact.

The Takeda army was very cautious, and after receiving the letter from the bow and arrow into the city, White Eagle Castle replied that only neutral monks were allowed to enter the city according to the agreement, and the number of them should not exceed three, and they must be strictly searched, and they could not bring any weapons and dangerous goods, and no samurai could hide their identities to participate in it.

Futamatajo replied later, and the requests were roughly the same. Finally, there is Nagashino Castle, and the conditions are not far apart.

Genyi Maeda said that there was no problem with this, and he said a believable and ingenious strategy to the draw.

First of all, he aimed at the weakest willed Tomino White Eagle City Akiyama Nobuntomo.

After entering smoothly, he got straight to the point and proposed: "There is no hope for reinforcements from the Kusaki Pavilion, and you must know this." Your Excellency's army is obviously unlucky, and its future is hopeless. However, the lieutenant general did not want to see too many casualties, and allowed you to surrender and abandon the city, and could spare the lives of the defenders, please consider it carefully! ”

In the White Eagle City, there was already an atmosphere of poverty and panic, and the walls were littered with broken waste, and the soldiers were generally covered in dirt.

Disorganized and lifeless.

Even with minimal shooting and bombardment, more than 300 defenders were killed after 120 days, hastily wrapped up and buried in the corner of Ninomaru, which could not be considered a good burial.

Granaries, arsenals, and wells are located in such a way as to keep visitors from approaching. The soldiers guarding the door were either numb and dull or sighed, and there was no military appearance to speak of.

The only ones who remained in a normal state seemed to be the handful around the main general, only one or two percent of the total number.

Therefore, Akiyama Nobuyo was somewhat moved by the proposal for peace, but he hesitated and refused to answer, and after repeated urging, he spoke: "I will seriously consider the attitude of Lieutenant General Hira, but for a while, I cannot make such a major decision. ”

Maeda expressed his understanding and said respectfully, "Then I'll bother you in a few days." Today, please provide a token and reply to the little monk to go back and make a good deal! ”

After thinking about it, Akiyama Nobutomo agreed, gave a family heirloom sword with an intricate inscription, and wrote a letter with ambiguous wording.

This concludes the meeting.

Then Maeda Xuanyi disappeared from sight, and immediately rushed to Yuanjiang Futamatata Castle with a light car, still saying the same words: "The reinforcements of the Hesaki Pavilion are hopeless, and you must know this." Your Excellency's army is obviously unlucky, and its future is hopeless. However, the lieutenant general did not want to see too many casualties, and allowed you to surrender and abandon the city, and could spare the lives of the defenders, please consider it carefully! ”

The difference is that he took out the saber of Akiyama Nobuyomo and added a cleverly altered letter to the letter, declaring that "the Akiyama Hall of White Eagle City has reached an agreement, and I advise you to meet the sages as well." ”

The situation of Futamataki Castle in the Baba Nobubo is slightly stronger than that of White Eagle Castle. But when he heard that some of his colleagues had laid down their arms and retreated from the city, they were so shocked that although they refused to give in immediately, they also sent tokens and letters.

Then, Maeda Gen rushed to Nagashino Castle, where his attitude was the most rigid, and visited Changjing, a mountain county.

The opening line remains the same: "There is no hope for reinforcements from the Ashizaki Pavilion, and you must know this." Your Excellency's army is obviously unlucky, and its future is hopeless. However, the lieutenant general did not want to see too many casualties, and allowed you to surrender and abandon the city, and could spare the lives of the defenders, please consider it carefully! ”

Attached this time are two tokens, as well as two delicately scribbled letters.

The integrity of the city defense and army of Changjing, Shanxian County, is the strongest of the three.

But when he saw the tokens and letters of Akiyama Nobuyo and Baba Nobubo, he was extremely surprised, and his eyes were rounded for a long time, and he finally gritted his teeth and decided: "In this case, there is no need to be contemptible people, please report on your behalf, I am willing to retreat from the city and lead the troops back to Kai in three days." ”

Maeda Gen was very pleased, and asked a nephew of Changjing in Yamayama County as a hostage and went out of the city.

Then he hurriedly went back to report and said solemnly to the tie Fanxiu: "The enemy general Changjing of Shan County has a strong temperament and is well known. It's unusual to give in so easily today. The little monk looks at its color, it seems to have the intention of death, three days later, I am afraid that the retreat is fake, and the opportunity to raid is real! ”

Hikawa Honshu immediately made arrangements and ordered Hideyi on the front line to "make a decision and act cheaply".

Three days later, the troops besieging Changxiao Castle made room for Changjing to calmly leave the city to line up.

Lieutenant General Nakayan's son-in-law, Hidenari Sasa, led the Isebing to meet the meeting, and the level can be described as very high.

But Shan County Changjing did not come forward to talk, but suddenly ordered the soldiers to launch a fierce attack.

Sasa Hidesei was caught off guard, frightened, and fled.

Yama County Changjing sneered and said, "The daughter of the lion and tiger, married to a chicken dog", and immediately personally led the elite Chibei, took advantage of the victory to pursue, broke the Ise coalition army, beheaded countless people, and was invincible.

But half an hour later, I suddenly saw a fence and a ravine in front of me, and ambushes were launched on the left and right, and there were people outflanking them in the rear.

Hirate Hideyoshi, Iwanari Tomotsu, Nakamura Kazuji, Mikumo Narumochi, Oda Nobutaka, Tsugawa Yoshitoshi, Tsutsui Shunkei...... Many troops form a net of heaven and earth.

Eight hundred red preparations, under the leadership of the main general, Ling Ran did not mess up, fought to the death and did not surrender, and after causing more than 1,000 kills and injuries, all of them were punished, and no one remained.

In the chaos, Shan County Changjing was besieged by several people, stabbed to death with random guns, and the head did not know who should be counted as taking it off.

Ke Er Caizang complained: "He is not pretending to show weakness, he is really ......", and his mouth was blocked left and right before he finished speaking.

Kazushi Nakamura suddenly thought, "What will Miss Yukichiyo think when she knows today's battle plan?" This scared the "ghost boy Keiji", who was not afraid of the sky and the earth, and sweated profusely.

In short, everyone is happy.

The rest of the Mikawa people under Takeda, such as the Oupira clan and the Guannuma clan, trembled and fled in all directions, and they were already sitting and waiting to be killed. However, Hirate Hideyi showed a gesture of leniency, telling them that as long as they were loyal to the legitimate Lord of Mikawa in the future, they would be pardoned by Lieutenant General Nakayan, saving their lives and part of their territory.

Of course, Tokugawa Ieyasu was happy to obey his fate and would not have any opinions, even if the corners of his mouth twitched twice when he learned the news, it must have been because he was too happy and excited.

After the war, Maeda Xuan came to White Eagle City for the second time as the head of the bearer Yama Prefecture Changjing, and directly presented the past, saying: "The Yama County Palace can be described as loyal and brave, even if the ammunition is exhausted, and there are no reinforcements outside, it is still desperate to fight, and it is possible to sing and cry." ”

Akiyama Nobuyo was greatly gaffe, his eyes were moist, his face was red and blue, he sighed for a long time, his face was full of bitterness, and he spit out a sentence with difficulty, "Let's follow the meaning of the lieutenant general in the hands of Ping!" ”

By retreating from the city.

The local wealthy clan of Higashimino is led by the Toyama clan, Okawa, Osato, Mamu, Kubo, Subuchi, and Sawachu...... A total of 2,000 people, after swearing allegiance to Gifu Castle, they were disbanded on the spot.

Oda Nobutada's reaction was different from that of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and he was very honest in complaining to Maeda Genyashi: "Lieutenant General Hirasho advocates forgiveness, and contemptible people will never dare to violate it." However, these Chinese people defected to the enemy many years ago, but now they are not punished and are easily forgiven, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to govern in the future! ”

I don't know if it's sincere, or if it's deliberate.

And Akiyama Nobuyo's subordinates, a total of 1,500 Kai soldiers, laid down their weapons and were allowed to leave on their own.

Tieshou Fanxiu specially instructed strict orders that he must keep his promise and not hurt any of them.

Having won the second castle in this way, Maeda Genyi rushed to Toe Futamata Castle again, trying to repeat the old trick.

Unexpectedly, when the racecourse letter learned of the death of Changjing in Shan County, he ignited a huge fighting spirit, and said angrily: "My Jiazhou boy, is it just a brother in Shan County?" I don't know about it, but now I know it, and I can only fight to the death! ”

So the negotiation failed.

Maeda Gen didn't do his job and came back to report in frustration.

Pingshou Fan Xiu said with relief: "Helping me to link the White Eagle City and Changxiao City is already a miraculous achievement, so why bother asking for it again?" ”

The order was awarded to Zhixing 1,000 stones, for the second deputy of Honda Zhengxin, and the matter of the pen and paperwork was jointly controlled.

As for the remaining Futamata Castle, there is really no way to outwit it, so let's simply attack it!

Hite-hode left 10,000 men in Mikawa and put pressure on Shinano by working together with Oda Nobutada, Higashimino.

The remaining 40,000, except for a small number of Changxiao, all headed east to the Yuanjiang battlefield.

At this time, news came that Takeda Katsuyori, who had been immobile for several months, finally couldn't bear it anymore and personally led the army, left the Tsugasaki Pavilion, and marched to the southwest.

It seems that after losing two cities in a row, he could not accept to sit back and watch the fall of the third city.

Persuading Hojo and Uesugi to strike together to deal with the extravagance of a draw is probably no longer a fluke.