From the time he arrived at the front line, he almost "coerced" the Oda family to fight a battle, consolidating the situation in Nishimikawa, and also consuming a lot of prestige and favor.

From the atmosphere of nothingness, you can feel that since these recent events, his popularity among the lower classes of the Oda family has plummeted.

But there is no time to think about this little detail at the moment.

Mizuno Nobumoto's defection at Kariya Castle had a great impact on both land and water lines of communication, and it was difficult to sit still if he did not resist for a day. I left the army a few times, out of necessity, and the matter was over, so I should return.

Fortunately, Oda Nobutada and Tokugawa Nobuyasu did not have the ability and willingness to continue to fight back for the time being, and Takeda Shingen did not seem to be in a hurry to advance westward, and the pressure on the front line was not too great.

So he stayed alive for one night, and early the next morning, he turned back to the south without stopping, and returned to his military camp at noon.

In addition, after staying for enough time and letting everyone in the neighborhood know that the first of the recovering Cheongju belonged to their family, they finally withdrew from the city and came to join the Pingshou army.

The two divisions of Hirate Hideyi and Nakamura Ichishi also moved closer to the main formation, and the people around Hiratade Hirata Hideki increased at once, and once again had more than 20,000 troops.

Oda Nagayi and Matsukura Shigenobu who represented Yamato Tsutsui finally caught up with Oda Nobutada's team - these two relatives are really unreliable, they fell out of the team inexplicably when the battle was most fierce yesterday, and they disappeared without a trace, and they appeared inexplicably just after the battle, which makes people wonder if it was intentional......

For their slack attitude, it is not that there is no way to pressure them to make changes, but he feels that it is not too necessary - anyway, the team that is only in their early 3,000s can't eat much food, can't take up too much baggage, make up a number of people, play soy sauce, and the momentum of the strong coalition army is good.

At least it can show a tendency to "get the right way and help a lot".

But after the fact, they don't have their share of the spoils.

In the past two days, Kawada Nagakin, Iwanari Tomotsu and others organized troops to carry out two fierce attacks on Kariya Castle, but due to their unfamiliarity with the local terrain and lack of relevant equipment, they achieved average results in the face of Mizuno Nobumoto's tight defense, and it is estimated that less than 100 enemy soldiers were killed.

Not long after the return of Hite, four Nanban gunboats, twenty Ataku ships, one hundred Sekibunes, and 1,000 sailors from Hequan arrived with the corresponding baggage supplies.

Feeling the pressure, the Nine Demons personally accompanied Kinoshita Hidecho to the audience, gritting his teeth and promising to strengthen the support on the water again within three days.

Seeing this, the retainers made requests one after another, hoping to launch an artillery bombardment from the sea to cooperate with the siege.

However, in actual operation, it was found that the city seemed to be near the sea, but in fact it was not so close to the water, and with the range of naval guns, it was very reluctant to attack the city wall, so it could only be stopped.

If you look closely, the scale of this Kariya City is not large, but it is a solid material, compact structure, and reasonable layout, as long as there are appropriate troops to defend, it is indeed not easy to overcome.

The small size of the city is sometimes an advantage, as it is difficult for the attacking side to deploy. The narrow passage is easy to play the state of "one husband is closed, ten thousand people are not open".

Now Mizuno Nobumoto is said to have 1,500 to 2,000 men and horses, and he has the will to die and is unswerving, which is really not easy to deal with.

The generals believed that it would take at least 20 days or so to take the castle, while the conservative ones thought it would take 30 to 40 days, or even longer. Of course, if you don't count the sacrifices, the onslaught day and night will definitely greatly speed up, but the casualty figure alone will definitely be very staggering, and the demoralization of the soldiers will also be very serious.

How will they fight against Takeda Shingen's main force again?

Since he came to Owari, it only took more than ten days to gather people's hearts, boost morale, recapture Cheongju, repel Takasakayama County, etc., but I didn't expect to have such a headache in the face of the small Kariya Castle.

Suddenly, I could quite understand the sense of loss that Zhuge Wuhou was blocked by Chen Cang Hao Zhao during the Northern Expedition.

In this era of lack of heavy firepower, once the defenders of the city are fully prepared in all aspects, even Wolong can only cry out in vain, let alone the rest?

There seems to be no choice but to wait for time to pass.

Generally speaking, in the face of the Chinese people who do not have a firm position, they should give priority to the means of adjustment. And Mizuno Nobumoto would definitely not be a hardcore "traitor" who firmly defected to the Takeda family.

But the man didn't know what he had been deceived, and mistakenly thought that he would be purged by the hirate Tsunohide, so he struck first and booby-trapped nearly 1,000 Izumi people led by Dr. Yasuda Terada.

There's no way to do it now.

The people of Izumi died so tragically, Awaji, Kii, Shikoku and other wealthy clans in various places, how much will there be a mentality of rabbits and foxes and sad things, if they can't take revenge, it shows that the Heite clan has the ability to maintain the safety of their retainers, so how can the team be good in the future?

Although, from a macro and long-term perspective, the death of Dr. Yasuda Terada and others actually outweighed the disadvantages - this kind of dark mind obviously cannot be told to the public.

So there is no need to think about a peaceful solution.

So he ordered the troops of all sides to assemble in order, count the number of people, return to normal establishment, and then build civil works, build fortifications, build equipment, and prepare for a long siege for at least a month.

In the next two or three days, according to the predetermined plan, he patiently weakened Mizuno Nobumoto's city defenses step by step, and at the same time always watched for whether Takeda's vanguard troops had the momentum to advance westward again.

Oda Nobutada and Tokugawa Nobuyasu were in a hurry to regain lost territory and re-establish defensive bases in Owari and Mikawa.

Then I waited for news from Tokugawa Ieyasu.

The envoy who broke through from Hamamatsu Castle appeared in front of Hirate Hide, covered in blood, and sent an urgent report.

Contrary to the past, "Yuanjiang is still firmly defending, please move with the camera of the criminal department, there is no need to rush forward for my family, but for Takeda Daizen".

The letter bluntly said: "Recently, Takeda Daizen suddenly attacked, my family Futamatata Castle was attacked and fell, and the granary of Noda Castle was destroyed and forced to retreat from the city. Within a few days, the barrier in front of Hamamatsu Castle was lost, and the siege outside the city was greatly strengthened. ”

Such a complaint is not at all Tokugawa Ieyasu's style.

It can be seen that the situation is indeed very critical.

Dexin Pingshou Fan Xiu was suddenly shocked.

Immediately, Tokugawa Nobuyasu personally came to the front of the battle, eagerly pleading for troops to come to the rescue, and Oda Nobutada also sent Sasa Narumasa to discuss and express his concern.

Tokugawa Nobuyasu certainly can't watch his father fall as a son of man (what his mother thinks is another matter), and Oda Nobutada is also reluctant to lose this buffer that separates the big tiger.

But they don't think they have enough power to turn the tide.

We have to make a decision sooner rather than later.

Tie Tsusho is also anxious.

Whether Tokugawa Ieyasu is killed in battle, or if he can't withstand the pressure, it will lead to a serious setback to the grand strategy of "crusading against Takeda", and the plan to brush up on prestige will also be ruined.

Faced with the situation of gaining and losing a large area of land and succeeding in failure, Takeda Shingen was not moved by the "sunk cost" at all, but invested all the people and horses that Takeda Katsuyori, Yamaguchi, and Takasaka had withdrawn to Enoe, striving to solve Tokugawa Ieyasu in one fell swoop.

Originally, the idea of a tie was to build a defensive line and wait for the enemy to attack by braking quietly in Owari and Mikawa, waiting for work at ease. According to common sense, ordinary people must not be able to accept the duck flying off their mouths, and they must come to find the scene!

Then the siege of Hamamatsu is undoubtedly self-explanatory.

I didn't expect Takeda Shingen to be so pragmatic.

Now there are some encirclement points to help.,Siege Tokugawa and lure the meaning of the draw is in it!

The small city of Kariya has suddenly become an extremely difficult problem.

It must be known that Tokugawa Ieyasu has experienced a siege for many days, and the morale and supply of the army in the city may not be better than that of Mizuno Nobumoto. And his prestige status is much higher than that of Mizuno Nobumoto.

If Kariya Castle is delayed, but Hamamatsu Castle has a problem, the situation can be described as very bad.

But it would also be unwise to leave Kariya Castle behind and go to a decisive battle with the Takeda Army.

The composition of the coalition army on his side is complicated, and the people's hearts are uncertain, but on the other side, they are bent on moving west to Shangluo, and the field combat ability of the Fei Army has always been very famous......

What to do?

Iwanari Tomotsu, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, analyzed: "In another month and a half at most, it will be the autumn harvest season, and Takeda, Oda, and Tokugawa will have their main combat strength of peasants and soldiers, and they will inevitably return to their hometowns to recuperate." Takeda Daizen gathered heavy troops in Enoe, and even if Hamamatsu was conquered, there would be no more spare strength to set foot in Mikawa and Owari in the first half of the year. In other words, the enemy's appetite has been greatly reduced! ”

In this regard, Nakamura Kazuji, Asano Nagayoshi and others were proud: "Originally, the 'Kai Tiger' had a situation where the three kingdoms of Ensano swept in one breath, and as soon as the lord arrived, their goal became limited to the country of Enoe in less than a month, and it seems that although Takeda Daizen lives in the eastern country, he also knows the prestige of my Hirate clan!" ”

Kawada's chief kin, who acted steadily, advised only a few high-ranking officials in the presence of "The loss of Enoe is certainly a pain for Oda and Tokugawa, but it is not necessarily beneficial to us. The battle with Takeda has been fruitful so far, it is better to harvest it when it is good, and how about the decisive victory in the coming year! Otherwise, the nail of Kariya has not been pulled, but it has waved its army eastward, and it seems to be in the hands of the enemy! ”

Honda Masanobu retorted very bluntly: "If it is carried out according to what Kawada-sama says, the time when the lord will become the model of the world will be postponed by ten years, or even longer!" Since he has already declared that he wants to rebel against the law, how can he ignore Tokugawa? ”

Hearing this, Kawada Changqin didn't make a fuss or get angry, but just asked indifferently: "Su asked Honda Hall to be strategic, the temple is a god, and he is the world's first-class wise man, I don't know what good strategy there is, can you teach me?" ”

"Hehe......" Honda Masanobu smirked, "How dare you, when it comes to military studies, government affairs, strategy and other righteous and bright skills, you are far inferior to you, Lord Kawada, so naturally you don't dare to say anything." It's just that the contemptible people have been accustomed to seeing chickens and dogs and thieves since childhood, and they probably know more about the dark places of people's hearts than you do......"

"What do you mean by that?" Kawada Nagajin was still expressionless, and his voice was indifferent.

"I don't believe in it, I barely came up with three strategies, and I ask the lord to make a decision......"