The draw did not forget to let people go to the imperial palace to report - or to inform it, into the "slander" said: Our Matsunaga Danzheng said this, I can personally accept it, but the soldiers below are not at ease! After all, apart from such a big mess, how can you win people's trust with just your tongue?

This lawsuit broke the sky, and the roots were also stable.

Sure enough, Matsunaga Xiu of Xingui Mountain City suddenly couldn't sit still, and he didn't have the intention of pretending to be aware of the righteousness, but said softly: "The eldest son and eldest grandson of the old decrepit are all dead, although they themselves take the death of others, but in any case, there is only one young grandson left by their side, I am really reluctant to care, I am willing to donate military resources and grain to show sincerity, and please raise your noble hand and take back your life for good!" ”

In this regard, the tie was of course polite but unceremoniously refused.

"It is of course human nature that adults are reluctant to give up their young grandchildren. However, isn't it normal for the generals to wonder about your family's true position? Of course, I can understand Danzheng, but who can understand me? ”

The words were passed back, and after more than half a day, I received news that Matsunaga Xiu had further succumbed and wrote a letter in his own handwriting: "I am dying of old age, and my life expectancy is probably in the middle of nowhere, and only my young grandchildren can inherit the bloodline, how can I stay away?" Xiang has the world's treasures, Tang Wu ninety-nine eggplant, after Nara pearl master, Echizen Zongdi Palace, by chance, dusty in the Xingui mountain city, temporarily returned to the contemptible people, for decades as if the life of the general, dare not ignore a little...... Now I wish to use this treasure to replace the humble grandson and talk about the heart! ”

Seeing it, the tie is not good.

The power of this precious tea set was very unusual in the eyes of the group of ministers, monks, and cultural people in Kyoto, and when this matter spread, people felt that "the extremely vicious Tieshou Punishment Department forcibly seized the famous object from the knowledgeable Matsunaga Danmasa", and the public opinion was very unpleasant.

So he couldn't let it out, and immediately replied:

"I'm a Samurai from the countryside of Owari, and I don't know the elegance and etiquette of the Kyoto people, and I don't know anything about the nobility of the tea ware. This time, I only recognize hostages, not others! ”

Command Horio Yoshiharu to convey such a meaning.

Then, there was no follow-up.

Horio Yoshiharu set off for an hour or two, and Hite, Hite, finally realized the risk and hurriedly sent someone to pay attention. But there was no news for a whole day and night.

It was not until the morning of the third day that it was basically confirmed that Matsunaga Shu had given up the illusion of negotiating a solution to the problem, raised troops to cage the castle, and hastily recruited thousands of people from the neighborhood to defend Shinguiyama Castle, completely firming up his position against Takeda and assuming a confrontational posture.

And so it goes, as I had hoped it would be.

It's just—

The envoy Horio Yoshiharu, his own situation is unknown, I don't know whether he is dead or alive, and the two cronies around him, one called Mitani Otobei and the other Asahi Tomitaro, were all cut off by the Matsunaga family and hung at the gate of the city to show the public.

At this point, the flat hand was careless, but he had no choice but to urge the reinforcements of Izumi, Awaji, Kii, and even Shikoku to hurry up and capture the castle as soon as possible.

On the other hand, it is to hurry 1510 (add oil and vinegar), the original (exaggerated), and widely publicize the change in the Matsunaga family, in order to gain an advantage in public opinion.

At the same time, he ordered to worship Xiangjiajia and Xiangxi Naganobu, each leading more than 1,500 people, one to take the front road, and the other to bypass from the east side, holding the suburbs of Shinguishan Castle hostage and preventing the minions of the Yamato family in the country from continuing to gather.

One order after another was carried out vigorously, and the trend of the situation was fully grasped.

However, the mood of the tie is still very bad.

He felt that it was his own wrong judgment that caused Horio Yoshiharu to be in danger, and he was quite frustrated about it.

So what...... Mitani Otobei, Asahi Tomitaro, sounds like a low-level samurai, and it doesn't matter if he dies. But Horio Yoshiharu has been relatively active in the center for most of the past six months, and now he is vaguely a lowly and powerful new cadre, and this kind of person is easily damaged, which will have a negative impact on morale.

……

Four days later, Asano Nagayoshi, Nobuyasu Ataka, and Kazuki Nakamura brought a total of 6,800 troops from Izumi, Awaji, and Kii (the mobilization rate did not reach 100 percent for some reason) to join up with Hirate Tsunohide's main team, and arrived at the foot of Yamato Kuninobu Takayama Castle, where they looked at the recalcitrant Matsunaga clan from afar.

Kawada Naga mobilized a lot of friendly forces in Shikoku, including Tokawa Depository of the Miyoshi family, Izuoka Sakyo of the Ichijo family, and "Himeko" of the Chosamune family personally went out, originally saying that they would try their best to gather 3,000 people, but 4,500 came, and they had already assembled and were preparing to cross the sea.

Sitting in Kishiwada Castle, Ina Tadaji, who was in charge of the operation of money and grain, came by the way to bring someone to bring a letter, saying that the recent economic pressure has been very huge, not only has his own warehouse been emptied, but the reserves of its three merchants, Yukotsuya, Chuntianya, and Sankaya, are also close to running out. It all depends on the 50,000 yuan donation of the new brother-in-law Tsuda Muneki, but it may not be able to withstand it for too long.

However, Hirate Honshu was very confident that he would be able to defeat Takeda, and he replied very resolutely asking for the continued support of the Imperial Merchants, and reminded that if necessary, he could further negotiate with other merchants in Kai Town.

Bai Xiang Jiajia and Xiangxi Changxin were very excited to see the lord, they each took a force of men and horses, and were ordered to set off in advance, one south and one north besieged without attacking, cutting off the communication channel between Xingui Mountain City and the outside from two directions, and repeatedly thwarted the enemy's assault actions, and the two of them captured a total of four or five hundred enemy troops, and the results were quite fruitful.

A few months ago, Matsunaga responded to Takeda and besieged the Imperial Palace, which was basically equivalent to pressing all his net worth and then losing the bet. Now these remnants of the defeated army in front of them are really as expected, and they can't stand the fight very much.

According to the analysis of Baixiang and Xiangxi, the defenders in Xinguishan City should not exceed 4,000, and the food, grass and ordnance will not be sufficient. There were still many forces outside the city that supported the Matsunaga family, but they were all stopped in time, and they all became a rabble that did not matter to concern.

Yanagi Soyan, a well-known local force in Yamato Province and known as the "Sword Hero", seemed to have been dissatisfied with the Matsunaga family for a long time, so he took this opportunity to take the path of his senior brother Keikane Hita and hooked up with the Heite family, promising that as long as the territory of the 53 villages in the four townships of the Yanagi family did not carry out land inspection, he would be willing to lead the way for the "Wang Shi".

Normally, Tie Shoshu would not agree to such a condition, but considering that the other party has a good reputation and Yamato is unlikely to fully grasp it in the short term, he made an exception and generously agreed to this rude request.

So the Yanagi family made a big fanfare, and it was made public anyway, and the sword lord Yanagi Zongyan himself was unwell, so he sent his eldest son, Yanagi Yansheng, with 480 soldiers, to join the besieging team. This led to more than a dozen wealthy families in the two counties of Tianshang and the mountainside, with a total of nearly 2,000 people changing their courts.

All in all, with the exception of Horio Yoshiharu's unknown life and death, progress at the military level is completely satisfactory.

And at the diplomatic level—

The Asai family has no intention of returning to Kinai at all, and it seems that they don't even plan to ask for the hometown of Kita-Omi; Hanoi and Shancheng are in the midst of the tide of "rebellion" set off by the shogunate, and they have no time to take care of anything else; Under the leadership of Shigeharu Takenaka, the local tyrants of Minami Omi formed a loose alliance against Asakura in the north; Takigawa Kazuki of Northern Ise and Kitabatake Gukyo of Southern Ise are still in confrontation, and the poor people of Iga have always ignored what is going on outside the window...... None of these people can make much difference.

The main interest in mixing is the two.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki verbally supported the "rebellious" behavior of Hisho Tsunohide, and at the same time proposed with ulterior motives: The local tyrants and landlords of Yamato Country are just bewitched, and they should not be greatly involved, and only the Matsunaga family can be pursued.

Tsutsui Shunqing personally led the troops into battle to beat the water dog Matsunasaki, and specially emphasized: In addition to the first evil, those accomplices who act for the tiger and help the abuse should not be spared, so as not to cut the grass without removing the roots, and the spring breeze blows and grows again.

Obviously, the former was far away in Kyoto and wanted to take the opportunity to collect the old part of the Matsunaga family and use it for the shogunate, while the latter was close at hand, intending to keep the land and not people, and take the territory and digest it by itself.

And the tie was only vague about both of them.

Spending so much money, using so many people, and spending so much effort, is it for the sake of good deeds? Of course, it is to give priority to the interests of their own family, and after the appeal of the two friends, they will do their best.

Considering the internal and external situation, Hirate decided to use the tactics of attacking the heart to solve the last resistance of the Matsunaga family under the guise of a strong attack and a long siege.

The enemy is already in decline, and I do not believe that there will not be a few traitors who are greedy for life and afraid of death.

In this process, the focus of the Pingshou Army is to put on a posture of wantonly creating city-breaking equipment and ninja attacks to burn materials, and exaggerate the constant supply of reinforcements from their side, regardless of actual success.

Through the Yanagi sect of "reforming the evil and returning to the right", this information must have been transmitted to the city by this law.

After waiting for more than ten days, 4,500 troops from the Shikoku side were in place, and the 6,000 reinforcements promised by Tsutsui Shunkei also appeared on time, plus the convergence of Oda Nagayi and other forces, the total strength of the siege was nearly 30,000.

The head relatives of Changzong and my department, who came with 2,000 elites in person, had just dismounted, and before he could untie his armor and drink hot tea, he first took his retainers around the city to observe, and then took the initiative to ask for his life and said: "I see that Matsunaga is a rebel, and it is already the end of the crossbow, please allow my Tosaro Party to fight!" The contemptible people are willing to issue a military order, and within three hours, the head of the old thief will be taken down! ”

And the flat hand Fan Xiu smiled and comforted: "Since it is the end of the strong crossbow, it is vulnerable, so you don't have to bother the strong men of Tosa, and you use a knife to kill chickens?" When you fight Takeda, let me see your demeanor again! ”

As soon as these words came out, the head of the Changzong and my department obeyed the order very politely and retreated with an expression of excitement and not impulsiveness, regret and grace.

Seeing that the conditions were ripe, the tie was ready to launch a wave of onslaught to promote surrender with battle.

At this time, an old friend, Tiger Zai Zongyi, came from Kyoto in a hurry, saying that there was something important to report.