Shibata Katsuie heard Sakuma Morimasa convey the news I had brought, and although he had considerable trust in me, he still did not fully believe in the authenticity of the information. After all, every piece of news and the movement of each side will greatly affect the trend of the battle, and it is by no means something that can be decided by the words of one family.

However, as the information from all sides continued to gather in his ears, Shibata Katsuya was sure that what I gave him was true news, but at this time he was regretting, regretting again, not believing my words, and seizing the first time to fight for the forces that might be included in his camp, and after delaying this time, the situation has become more and more confusing.

The forces of all sides gathered more and more around the small place of Jieyue Mountain, and within a dozen days, more than 200,000 troops had been hoarded on the surrounding land within a radius of 50 miles. Mount Shiyue is like a * barrel, and it may change dramatically soon! It's like an active volcano that may erupt at any time, and sitting on the crater of the volcano are the people hoarding around Mount Mt. Ez!

The eyes of the entire Dongying are focused on this small land, the situation is obvious, now the Cheap Mountain is like a gladiatorial arena, and the last surviving person who walks out from here is likely to be the future lord of the world in Dongying!

And the forces that have been involved in this period are also inaudible and subtle chemical reactions.

After a while, it was rumored that Nagasō and my head relatives saw that Shibata Katsuie and Tokugawa Ieyasu were not marching into the army, so they stayed still on the sea outside Sakai Port and took a wait-and-see posture.

I also heard rumors that when Mori Terumoto's army reached the edge of Hideyoshi's territory, he saw that Hideyoshi was firmly pinned down in Mt. Shidake and could not move, so he began to talk about remuneration and even put forward territorial claims, and the relationship between the two sides cracked.

There was also talk that Tokugawa Ieyasu and Hideyoshi Hashiba had held secret talks to re-establish the heir to the Oda family, and the two reached some level of agreement. However, Shibata Katsuya remained silent at this time, and the situation was very treacherous.

For a time, an inconspicuous battle around the Cheap Mountain turned into a wrestling field for the eight immortals to cross the sea and show their magical powers. I can see it clearly when I am in the game, but I am outside the game. There are some truths and some falsehoods in these messages, but what is true or false is the most likely to deceive people.

People inside and outside the bureau were all thrilled by this whirlpool of situations. For a while, the entire Dongying people were panicked, as if they had just seen that the hope for reunification and peace was disillusioned again, and disorder and fighting would come again!

Time passed little by little, and the emotions of all parties became more intense little by little, I have heard of several small-scale frictions, and no more than 100 people were killed or wounded, but this sign is very terrible - in order to increase their own voice in this silent wrestling, almost all the troops of the whole country have gathered here, and by this time, the number of troops around the mountain has been no less than 300,000!

This is a huge destructive force, as long as one aspect is not careful to cause fluctuations, it may brew into an irreducible destructive force at any time!

To be honest, I was also a little nervous in the middle of it, not because I was afraid that my own interests would be affected, but because I was afraid that I would play too big and cause greater disasters to the people! If that's the case, I'll have a troubled conscience.

I admit that I am not a good person, but I also do not want to hurt the innocent, especially when such a large-scale destruction and rampaging is definitely not what I want to see!

Until one day, I suddenly received a letter from a person I would never have imagined - Hideyoshi Hashiba!

The letter is not long but very sincere, to the effect that the bet with me was made before, and now it has become this situation, which is no longer beyond the control of the two of us, and far exceeds the scope of the gambling contract. So he urged me to sneak into his camp, to go in secret, and to discuss with me the way forward. As for the bet, he suggested making a tie.

In his letters, I read the deep apprehension and broad feelings of a wise man, whose main purpose was to hope that I would put aside my old suspicions and discuss with him a proper solution to the present predicament.

To be honest, I actually feel very ashamed of Hideyoshi in my heart. It stands to reason that he should be a victor, at least in his lifetime. It's a pity that for the sake of my promise to the second uncle, I inserted a bar sideways and forcibly mixed up his good chess game.

I don't hate Hideyoshi, the so-called "father was robbed to death by the Kumano water army" is just a pretense, similar to the excuses that wolves make to eat lambs. But now, I feel really ashamed that Dongying, which was about to usher in reunification and peace, at least for a short period of time, is full of the possibility of continuing the war because of my appearance.

The peace of the Ming Dynasty is not easy to come by, and the people of the Ming Dynasty need peace in the world, so don't the people of Dongying need it? Although there is a difference between friend and foe, or a difference between intimacy and alienation, but then again, although I am a descendant of China, Dongying also has twenty-five years of nurturing grace for me! The love of childbirth and the grace of nurturing, in the end, it seems that it is worth scrutinizing.

So I decided to go to the appointment! Go to the meeting alone! It may seem like I'm helping Hideyoshi, but in fact, it's my hope that with his wisdom, we can solve this problem that is bothering me and leaving me helpless!

So I immediately gave Hideyoshi a reply.

Nothing to say for a day.

That night, I changed into my night clothes, took the light-swallowing sword, and quietly slipped out of the barracks. You don't need to bring people, it's useless to bring people, and I don't believe that Hideyoshi will suddenly turn his face - if that's the case, he doesn't deserve to be the lord of the world in Toei!

The cold winter wind blew on my face, but I didn't realize it, my heart had already flown to Hideyoshi's camp, longing for this wise man to explain the doubts in my heart.

Outside the camp of Hideyoshi's army, I turned over slightly, jumped into the main camp, and after a few ups and downs, I evaded the patrolling sentry, and almost effortlessly found the location where Hideyoshi's letter was located.

Lift the curtain and go in, and the big tent is brightly lit. Hideyoshi was sitting diagonally on the tatami mat, playing Go quietly with Hidecho Hashiba opposite.

When he heard the voice, he glanced at me and smiled, "Commander Sun, you're here!" ”

After speaking, he turned his head and fell heavily, shouting, "Pick up!" Then he smiled without looking back: "I knew that those guards couldn't stop you, so I didn't make any special arrangements!" ”

Yushiba Hidecho also turned his head, looked at me and smiled slightly: "Sit!" ”

I walked over silently, holding the Light-Swallowing Sword to my chest with both hands, but lowered my head to watch their chess game. Hideyoshi holds Kuroko, and Hidecho holds white characters. At this time, the field was occupied by Baizi, and the four corners occupied three of them. Hideyoshi's sunspots are struggling to devour the other sides and the chicken ribs in the center. When Fang just shouted "pick up", it was the stage of rescuing a sunspot that was eaten by Xiu Chang and breathing a sigh of relief.

When the two brothers saw me approaching, they didn't speak, they still watched the chess game, and Hidecho saw that Hideyoshi had saved the small area of sunspots, and he was not in a hurry, but he still maintained the posture of the main attack, and kept calling for killing!

Hideyoshi dodged left and right, obviously at a disadvantage, but he was very strong to maintain a hedge with Hidenaga. But after all, I fell behind and never got too good a chance.

Seeing that his brother refused to admit defeat, Hideyoshi pressed Hideyoshi with one hand or no hand, and went down to the fifth hand where I came in, Hideyoshi still had no room to hedge with Hideyoshi, and began to think about it, his brows furrowed tightly, completely forgetting my existence.

I watched the game for a while, and suddenly smiled. Hideyoshi looked up at me and smiled in surprise: "Sun Xiang is from the Heavenly Empire, so he must be proficient in chess!" I don't know how to break this game? Hope to teach me! ”

I laughed again, and then said lightly: "I'm just a layman, and I don't know much about chess." But I know that chess is like life, as the so-called rigid can not be long, soft can not be guarded, blindly hard is not the best policy, since you can't rush the other party, there is a way forward, to overcome the rigid with softness! ”

Hideyoshi thought about my words and suddenly shouted three times, "Okay! Good! Good! ”

Immediately, he changed his chess path, changed his rush to seal, and began to deal with Xiuchang's rush with a defensive attitude!

This time it was Xiuchang's turn to frown and remain silent. The reason why he took the lead was that he saw that Hideyoshi didn't like to defend, so he used the attack he was better at to seize the opportunity. At this time, Hideyoshi began to defend - who is the opponent of Hideyoshi who is defensive? So the game fell into a predicament for a while, like a bottomless quagmire, and no one could get out!

As the chess game deepened, Hideyoshi made steady progress, and actually won a few cities in a row, and in the end, the two sides fought into a draw!