Before the afternoon of 16 July, Kawada Nagajin led a reinforcement force to the front line, and with 1,500 troops of Nagamune's own department as the main force, he supplemented the 800 troops of Yamauchi Ichitoyo and ordered him to attack Takeda Katsuyori's position.

Along the way, the other party basically had no reaction actions worth mentioning, and after a while, they found that there were only a large number of empty tents left, and a very small part of the finishing work was being processed.

The sword in front of him was about to be added, and the group of men and horses, who were obviously not soldiers in front of them, immediately knelt down and raised their hands in surrender, obediently becoming prisoners.

Counting statistics, there are only 110 people.

After a little interrogation, I learned that Takeda Katsuyori was very well informed, and he left as early as dawn, presumably because the other party had understood the overall situation.

The generals who had just arrived at the front line and had not yet tasted the sweetness obviously could not stop there, and consciously quickened their pace from top to bottom, followed the traces of the enemy's retreating movements, and quickly pursued them eastward.

In just a few days, the identities of the hunter and the prey changed again.

Sasa Hidesei, who participated in the whole process, already understood what was going on, and followed Kawada Nagajin to the front again. Then he was completely in a state of confusion, and he couldn't figure out what kind of attitude to approach the battle. He saw with his own eyes the bloody battles and tragic casualties of the soldiers, which was by no means something to laugh at, but the repeated change of initiative undoubtedly seemed very childish and ridiculous.

Samurai and peasants from Owari, Mino, Kai, and Shinano were forced to throw their flesh and blood into the place where the swords intervened, and risk their lives for a trivial future. But their efforts and bravery are not necessarily the decisive factors in determining the outcome of a war. Sometimes lords can get more in political and diplomatic situations than on the battlefield.

It is said that it was Honda Masanobu, a name that had become increasingly appreciated by the lords of the world, who traveled to Hokuriku with a close confidant of the Venerable Master of Ishiyama Honganji Temple, where he settled the dispute between the central and local areas within the monks, and had Ichimune and Uesugi Kenshin make peace on the issue of Noto and Etsuchu.

In other words, after this year's autumn harvest, the "Dragon of Echigo" will refocus on Kita-Shinano or Nishi-Ueno and engage the old enemy "Kai no Tiger" again.

This can contain at least 20,000 troops of the Takeda family.

And what a difficult task it is to defeat the enemy's 20,000 troops in a war!

What is Ikeda's desire to win back the military honor and respect of the Owari people on the battlefield, and even to die on the battlefield?

"Although the sword of a warrior is sharp, there are more intangible things in the world, and its benefits are a hundred times greater than that of swords." - This was said by Yukichiyo Hirate at the time of the engagement, presumably relaying his father's point of view.

At that time, the eldest lady saw that Zuo Zuo Xiucheng was long and strong, and she was skilled in arching horses, and she was very satisfied in her eyes, but she wanted to say the strange sentence above - listening to the brother-in-law, this is a temperament called "rubbing tired......

That kind of thing is good no matter what, let's put aside the wind and moon affairs, now it seems that what the eldest lady said is really reasonable.

Hidesei Sasa feels that his life credo is gradually crumbling.

Everything that my father taught in the past, whether it was swords, guns, martial arts, or books and military law, once thought that this was the whole of the samurai's body and mind, but now it seems that it is far from it.

After a day of rapid marching, less than 5 kilometers to the Oi River on the border between Enoe and Surugawa, the army finally caught up with the larger enemy army, and worked together to kill more than 300 enemy leaders, but had to stop the operation because it was getting late.

Confused, Sasa Hidesei, who doesn't belong to his mind, has been following the paddling and playing soy sauce, although he also personally bent his bow and shot an ashigaru head of the Takeda family, but he didn't have any joy at all.

However, Kawada said to the young man: "Your Excellency's heroic posture will be reported to the contemptible people as it is, and I believe that the Lord of the Criminal Department will be extremely pleased when he learns about it." ”

This only made Sasa Xiucheng even more uncomfortable.

It's not just a matter of "being deserved", but a further realization that tangible swords are really not worth mentioning in front of "invisible things".

On the surface, he also strives to be proper, deserved, and fully reserved.

Of course, Kawada Changqin can see at a glance that this "new aunt" seems to have something on his mind, but he has no time to think about it when he is responsible for the army, so he is not very suitable for the first battle of his youth.

On the second day, everyone got up early, hurriedly crossed the Oi River, caught up with the main force of the Takeda family's Suruga ancestors, and routed this enemy army, which had no fighting spirit, and killed nearly 500 enemies in front and back.

In the middle of the night, a team that looked like homeless people and beggars sent tokens to vote, and after receiving them, it was found that it was Kinoshita Hidenaga who was on a "special mission"!

hurriedly welcomed in and spoke carefully.

Only then did I know that Kinoshita Hidecho made up and changed his appearance, and he traveled thousands of miles, and the back was fake, and the destruction was real. Hundreds of death squads intercepted Takeda's transportation route, but it was just a pretense, and the main owner, with the response of a small number of scouts and moles, infiltrated the Kurokawa Gold Mountain in Kai, and stabbed the secret of the doping of brass in the coinage, causing a crisis of confidence among the people outside Takeda's family.

Many wealthy families in Kitashinano and Nishi-Ueno had serious dissatisfaction and worries about this, and their positions wavered, which was also one of the important bargaining chips to persuade Uesugi Kenshin to turn his gun.

Kawada had only heard about it before, but this time I listened to the story of the person concerned and was amazed.

As for Sasa Xiucheng, it was as if he had listened to a book from heaven, and asked blankly: "The Takeda family minted coins and mixed copper, how did the Lord of the Criminal Department know?" ”

Kinoshita Hidecho replied with a smile: "The spies sent to Kai sent back all kinds of information, which were analyzed and sorted out by the staff around the Lord of the Criminal Department, and after communicating with the wealthy merchants in Kai Town, they speculated. ”

Hearing this, Zuo Zuo Xiucheng's eyes were dazed for a long time, and the speed of the collapse of the old three views has accelerated a lot.

By the way, Kinoshita Hidecho also said: "The journey to Kai was quite smooth, but the return was difficult, and the soldiers were gone, and there were less than 100 people left by my side...... This afternoon, when I saw the monarchs killing and retreating from Takeda Suruga, a high-ranking young general on the enemy retreated in a panic, and I took the opportunity to shoot with an iron cannon, and I don't know if I have gained anything......"

Yamauchi Kazutoyo immediately stroked his palm and said, "Okay! It is estimated that it is the son of Naito Norimu (Masato), whose name is Masatsuki, and if the news of this person's death comes out in the future, there is reason to claim that it is the capture of your Kinoshita Palace. Even if this person is still alive and well, we can still claim that it was an injury! ”

As soon as these words came out, Kinoshita Hidecho said yes again and again, and Kawada Naga also nodded.

And Sazuo Xiucheng, it may be that he has a lot of experience in breaking the three views, and he doesn't feel that there is anything wrong at this time.

On the third day, the eighteenth day of July, everyone discussed with each other, and even if the other side sent someone to negotiate peace, they could pretend not to know for a while, and continue to fight for a while. Everyone knows that Suruga has always been rich, and it is not easy to make a trip to get his brothers to scrape a little oil and water back.

Unexpectedly, the Takeda family also reacted quickly, and quickly sent two big Buddhas that could not be slackened-

The first one, it was the Hosokawa Warbu Daisuke Fujitaka who was ordered to go to Kai for questioning last year, but was placed under house arrest! This will Takeda Shingen finally let people go, and it was used in a very delicate occasion.

The second one, however, is the great master of the Rinzai sect, the master of the tiger Zai Zongyi, and the righteous brother of the presiding officer of the "Masasu Temple", Sahiko Zongen, whose legal name is Kuaikawa Shaoxi, is currently working at Mino's Chongfu Temple.

Helplessly, behind a famous family in front, a key member of the shogunate, a world-famous cultural person, and a Buddhist bigwig in the back, peach and plum all over the world, and there are inextricable links with the flat family.

Seeing these two, Kawada Changqin didn't dare to be rude, so he could only honestly send someone to escort him to Hirata Tsunohide.

The tricks I thought about in private naturally couldn't be played.

……

After another two days, the messenger finally met with a tie.

During this period, Oda and Tokugawa both launched some counterattacks, and it seems that they made progress in Higashimino, Kita-Mikawa, and Kita-Enoe, recovering a small part of the lost territory.

But a complete return to the pre-war situation is certainly impossible.

Not to mention anything else, those people who have defected to the Takeda family will not eat back grass at least for the time being. Although people don't have much discipline, they still have to face, and they can't be so fast.

Hosokawa Fujitaka was forcibly used as a "peace envoy", but in fact, it was just to get out, and when they met, they only kept thanking "Thanks to the Lord of the Criminal Department, I was able to regain my freedom", and said nothing else.

The main speaker was Saki Kuakawa.

Hirate Honhide knew that the Takeda family was more anxious than himself, so he deliberately held his identity and did not take the initiative to attend, but appointed Kinoshita Hidenaga, who had just returned from a special mission, as a reception envoy.

This is also a means of recognition for it. With such a faceless position, the following promotion and salary increase are logical, and it is a matter of course.

Of course, these details are actually insignificant, and what determines the strength of the negotiating table is not the eloquence and personal charm of the envoys, but the strength and situation of the bigwigs behind them.

The main appeal of this draw is for the Takeda family to "change their ways, reaffirm their absolute support for the current Gongkata lords, and draw a clear line with the other parties (that is, the orphans of Yoshiki who succeeded to Asakura)." The second is to "hand over the enemy guards for a long time".

In other words, it is to eliminate the righteous name of "going west" this time, so that the other party has no reason to say anything in the short term.

Kuaikawa Shaoxi agreed to the first request, and the latter one was a little hesitant.

After all, after Konoe carried the black pot to the imperial court a long time ago, the Takeda family took the initiative to recruit it, and now it is thrown out again, and the reputation is really not good.

As for the land in Mino, Mikawa, and Enoe, Hiratite Honhide didn't care too much, and the nominal guardian position was still on Oda and Tokugawa.

From his standpoint, as long as he ensures that Oda and Tokugawa are still alive, there is no need to live too nourishingly.

Therefore, the disagreement between the tie and Takeda, after the latter recognized the reality and was willing to admit defeat, was actually not much.

The peace negotiation process went smoothly.

However, there is an episode in this issue.

It was Takeda Shingen who wrote a letter of false greetings to Heite Tsunohide, which said: "I have seen the iron walls of the northeast of the Guan, and the thunder of the Hokuriku Uesugi are not as powerful as the instruments of the criminal department. ”

The implication is that he seems to be not convinced by the defeat of "KitKat Tricks".

And when he saw it, he laughed instead of being angry, and said to himself: "This big tiger actually wants to be with me with this prestige in words!" These ancients didn't know how ruthless the scolding war of the forum in later generations was! It just so happens that I don't think this win is enough to be enjoyable, so I'll let you see what it means to kill people......"