The result of Takeda's hesitation was that the tie made the assertion that "what you can't negotiate can only be obtained with a sword."

The Hojo clan also stated that he was "benevolent to the fullest" and no longer provided support.

On March 12, 1576, the Kinai coalition army was restarted and marched in the direction of Suruga and Kai.

Bearing the brunt of the blow, facing the last nail of the Dongyuan River, the guard of the High Heavenly God Castle, Okabe Motonobu. The striker was Imagawa Shima, and the only remaining loyal ministers around him - Asahina Taichao, Ebi Eri Katsu and others.

A series of Kyoto ministers, monks, and cultural figures who could speak well in front of Hikawa Honshu, such as Yamashina Yanjing, Sawaan Sopeng, and Satomura Shaoba, tried their best to mediate in this process, showing a scene full of high-ranking friends and going back and forth.

Correspondingly, there was hardly any samurai with real power who came forward to make a little recommendation.

I can't help but have the illusion that the Imagawa clan is not so much a daimyo as a Gao family.

Or maybe it's not an illusion.

When the defenders of High Heaven God Castle saw the banner of the old lord, their mentality was greatly shaken, and after confirming that it was the Imagawa clan himself, they no longer had the slightest intention to fight. Only Okabe Motonobu lamented that "no shame will change his master" and committed suicide by seppuku, ordering his two sons to surrender in Kaejo.

After entering the castle, the Imagawa clan heard about this and mourned: "Everything is caused by my incompetence, and I have never blamed Goroubei (Okabe Motoshin Tsumoto) for the matter of throwing Takeda!" ", ordered a thick burial.

After a short rest, he continued eastward, and two days later, he entered the territory of Suruga Province and was blocked by Utsuyama Castle.

At this time, the Takeda family already had Takasaka Masanobu, Anayama Nobuyuma, Katsuyama Nobutada and others to the front line to be urgently stationed.

They secretly sent a message, saying: "I have asked for a little more time, but my family has no intention of contending with the heavenly soldiers, and is willing to bow down to the vassals." ”

However, Tieshou Fan Xiu was too lazy to distinguish the truth from the false, and replied directly: "I have not received any letter from Takeda Daizen himself, and the rest of the remarks are not effective, and they are all regarded as a strategy to delay the army, how can they be fooled!" ”

The two sides face off at the foot of Utsuyama Castle.

Not long after, he had been retreating to the mountains and villages, refusing to accept the Suruga countrymen Anhara Motomasa, Abe Motoma and others who worked for the Takeda family, and brought a group of remnants to "welcome the king", met with the Imagawa clan, hugged his head and cried, and was full of emotion.

At the same time, Fuji Nobutada, who were suppressed under Takeda's rule, or thought that they were suppressed, immediately changed their flags, turned against each other, abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, and ran in the starry night.

There are also Okabe Masaoka, Ichinomiya Motomi and other generations, saying that "neither dare to add the sword with the old master, nor have the shame to turn their backs on the new monarch like this, so they can only close their doors and not help each other."

Only the likes of Asahina Nobuji and Sena Nobuki were left, or they were promoted and reused to a high degree under Takeda's rule, and they still maintained their positions.

It accounts for about one-third of the people of Suruga Province.

Trying their best to mobilize, whether it is a rabble of old, weak and disabled soldiers, there are only four or five thousand people, how can they be worthy of a war?

In view of the grim situation, Takasaka Masanobu had to abandon Utsuyama Castle in advance, and retreated dozens of miles to garrison closer to Kai while the back road had not yet been cut off.

Although the draw was also a tired division and did not rest for most of the year, the generals arrived at the front line and observed the situation, and they all showed optimism.

In the words of "Oni Boy Keiji", it is: "If Kai does not have reinforcements, Suruga will be completely pacified in ten days." If you have reinforcements, it is better to spend more effort to pack them all together to avoid trouble in the future. ”

The army was still driven by the Imagawa clan, with 20,000 men slaughtered Sunfu Castle and besieged various nearby branch cities at the same time.

Observing that Ejiri Castle adjacent to the bay was originally a commercial town, and that the temporary civil engineering works were not strong, Kato immediately applied for a large bombardment and had gunboats provide fire support from the water.

This option was agreed.

Sixteen large barrels and seven battleships, totaling more than thirty gun ports, roared for a whole day, shooting hundreds of huge projectiles, and beating Ejiri Castle into a smitherere. Then Kato Mitsutai led the charge and broke into the door, killing a hundred enemies and taking two hundred, and it took only two quarters of an hour to take it.

Later the next day, the "Young Army" of the second generation of the second generation of Hirate Yoshimitsu launched a night attack, mobilizing the enemy troops in a strategy of attacking the east and west, and burned the granary of Yokoyama Castle in one fell swoop, forcing the defenders to open the castle and surrender.

Now, Takeda Katsuyori finally stopped hesitating and sent someone to formally submit the document requesting peace.

But now the price code has changed.

Hirate Honhide only agreed that the soldiers of Sunfu Castle could retreat to the city to save their lives and return to Kai, but he refused to make a promise to "stop the army and take Mt. Fuji as the boundary".

He didn't even say anything about the new conditions, but said unceremoniously, "I'm tired of the long letter delivery, and next time I will ask Takeda Daizen to talk about it in person!" ”

The attitude is as if he is angered by the hesitation of the other party and wants to kill them all.

In late March, Hosokawa Fujitaka, the ruling power of the shogunate, was summoned to the front to accompany the imperial court's envoy, Gondai Nayan, Saionji Minoru.

In the northern part of Sunpu Castle, at the Dairyuji Temple on Mt. Shikiki, the Imagawa clan worshiped the tablets of their ancestors and deceased fathers, and received the title of "Guardian of Suruga Province", and officially inherited the official position of "Daisuke from the Four Lower Rulers".

These two appointments were actually roughly confirmed in the Ashikaga Yoshiteru era, and now they can only be said to be further certain, but sometimes the significance of this is very significant.

Of course, people from Kyoto will definitely not go to Tokaido for this purpose.

The affairs of the Imagawa family are just incidental, and the main thing is to come to the main owner.

The imperial court believed that the successive victories against the Takeda family proved that the tie Tsunahide did have the strength and ambition to help the world, and it was worth communicating as soon as possible to determine where the real ambition was, so as not to be embarrassed in the future.

Witnessing the attitude of Hosokawa Fujitaka and Saionji Minoru, the Imagawa clan decided to let go of his hatred for the Tokugawa Peace Hand and the past, and took the initiative to make a suggestion: "I heard that Lieutenant General Nakayana has a son with the widowed daughter of the Toei Yi clan, called 'Ume Wakamaru'. The Iyi clan and my Imagawa have a lot of origins, and the dog girl is just the right age, and she is willing to make an alliance between Qin and Jin with the son of 'Mei Ruomaru' and become a good family. Although I have two sons, neither of them is successful, how to pass on the heir in the future, I am afraid that you will need to take care of it. ”

Such a move shows that he has not been displaced in vain for so many years, and his brain has grown a little.

Such a move is indeed the best means to keep the name and business of the Imagawa family.

In order to encourage this practice of "knowing the current affairs and knowing how to advance and retreat", Hirate Honshu temporarily gave up the idea of sending a delegation to settle in and put Suruga in the air.

Such a toss back and forth put the matter of the front line on hold. Takeda Katsuyori gasped for a while, still unwilling to really come over to sue for peace in person, but he didn't dare to refuse easily.

Seeing this, Yoshimitsu became impatient, and said privately, "With such a head and a rat, looking forward and backward, I'm afraid the Takeda family is going to be dealt with by my father!" ”

But Maeda Xuanyi said to him: "The young master is a little restless. Perhaps in the long run, it is precisely because of this that the Takeda family can survive. It's just that more meat must be cut at the moment. ”