War is a wonderful sport.

When the two sides are anxious to fight and are unwilling to wait, a few hours may be like a mountain of bones and a river of blood, which will change the belonging of the world. But sometimes both sides have their own plans, and they both want to brake quietly, and they may not move for a year and a half, confront each other, and the sword does not need to be unsheathed.

The Hirate Honshu faction divided into three routes, and successively besieged Hakutaka Castle in Mino, Nagashino Castle in Mikawa, and Fumata Castle in Enoe, but they were not in a hurry to launch a strong attack, but only cut off internal and external communications, and waited for enemy reinforcements to come to fight.

The 32,000-strong army behind it is located in the Okazaki area, and it is ready to set off at any time.

However, Takeda Katsuyori doesn't seem to be in a hurry.

White Eagle Castle had Akiyama Nobuyomo, about three or four thousand soldiers, and was besieged by Oda Nobutada's 17,000 men.

Changshino Castle has a mountain of Changjing, with about four or five thousand soldiers, and was besieged by 18,000 people of Hirate Xiuyi.

Futamataki Castle had a baba letter house with about three or four thousand soldiers, and was besieged by 15,000 Tokugawa Ieyasu.

In terms of proportion, it vaguely corresponds to the gist of the art of war of "ten rules to surround it, five to attack it".

At this time, Takeda Katsuyori's main force, numbering between 15,000 and 20,000, was stationed in Minami Shinano and stationed at a location only about two days away from the three fronts.

Let the cities be divided and cut off.

With such a huge disparity in numbers, the cautious attitude of the attackers, and the fact that the rear has not been answered, it is obvious that they will not rashly engage in any breakthrough counterattack.

Just sit down in place, everyone confront each other every day, go back to eat and sleep, and repeat the next day.

According to the military order, the attackers remained three hundred paces away from the city wall.

At this distance, the vast majority of ranged weapons in this generation are useless, and there is almost no possibility of being able to effectively hit and inflict damage.

There are about 20 large cylinders that can fight one or two thousand steps, but there are about 20 in the flat-hand barracks, but the Takeda Army does not have this condition, lacks R&D investment, and cannot build it at all, and there is no place to buy it.

Honshu lent Tokugawa and Oda three each, and transferred five to Hirate Hideyoshi.

The attacking and defending sides are separated by the city wall, routinely, and in order to shoot at each other, except for the large cylinder team that can cause a little damage, the other archers and iron gunners need to have a burst of luck to have one or two wins.

And even if it is a large cylinder team, facing a large-scale stone city wall, the power is relatively limited, and it mainly plays a role in listening to the sound. A frontal bombardment can scrape off a shallow layer of wall skin, and if it hits the city at an elevation angle, only the devil knows what it hits, and it is pure luck.

Time flies like a white horse, fleeting.

From the end of August until the end of the year, there was still no major battle.

According to the statistics of the 120 days, a total of more than 80 people have unfortunately been killed, 3,400 have been injured one after another, more than 1,000 have fallen ill, and 80 percent of them have been attrition in non-combat.

The proportion of enemy soldiers in the three cities is estimated to be the same, which is not much higher.

The two sides sat and confronted each other in such a sit-down, and the main thing they did was to eat, drink, and lazar.

If Tokugawa and Oda are included, the total number of soldiers on the side of Hirate Honshu is 83,000, and the monthly food consumption is as high as 27,650 koku.

However, an inventory of 180,000 stones had already been prepared, which was enough to cover most of the year.

Now, four months have passed, and I have asked Ina Tadaji, Nagashu Masake, and the newly recruited Ishida Mitsunari to plan and deploy 50,000 koku of fresh rice to change the taste of the soldiers. At the same time, a large amount of winter clothes and firewood were raised to cope with the cold winter.

If you have a lot of money, you just have a lot of money.

At the same time, various intelligence shows that the life of the Takeda defenders is not very good.

Since the grain market in Tokaido had been disrupted by traitors on the tie side, it was difficult for Shirataka Castle, Nagashino Castle, and Futama Castle to temporarily stock up on enough rice, so they had to replace it with mixed grains.

Then, the resourceful "Lieutenant General Naka-na-yan" rushed to launch a campaign in early August, and the officials in the Takeda domain had to force the peasants to harvest early, and a large amount of grain was not yet fully ripe.

There is a big difference between eating fresh rice and eating stale grains, miscellaneous grains, and unripe grains at the same time.

There was an anecdote that was not officially confirmed.

It is said that Changjing, the guard of Changshino Castle, sent someone to shoot a letter with a bow and arrow to go out to make an appointment, to the effect that if you are a man, you will come to the front, and what kind of ability is it to rely on food to drag supplies, is it great to have money, right?

Then Hiraite Xiuyi replied in the same way: "I'm sorry, it's amazing to be rich!" As for the question of whether I am a man or not, if you have any doubts, how about letting your mother experience it? ”

Although it is just an anecdote that I don't know if it's true or not, it also shows the difference in the situation of the two sides.

However, Takeda Katsuyori is still not in a hurry to rescue any way.

Even due to supply problems, half of the soldiers were asked to retreat to Kai, which greatly lengthened the distance of the reinforcement front, and it seemed that there was no will to fight at all.

He still had a fluke mentality, and pinned his hopes on Uesugi and Hojo to stop the dispute and unite with the outside world.

He did not dare to send troops to fight, but kept sending envoys to plead in two places.

However, the Hojo clan has always refused to give up the hat of "Kanto Governor", and under the cheeky lobbying of Takeda Katsuyori, he finally did three painless things.

The first is to send 2,000 yuan of gift money resources to the Kushizaki Pavilion.

The second is to send Itabe Okae Yukisai to the Hirate house to mediate.

The third is to transfer 3,000 Chen soldiers to the Izu Peninsula as a reinforcement gesture.

Anyway, I try to express my heart as much as possible, but I resolutely don't clash head-on with the tie family.

The Hojo clan himself personally led a main force of 30,000 to launch a fierce attack to the north, and within a few months, he destroyed many "Kanto nail households" such as Liangtian, Oyama, and Yusei.

Fight further into Ueno and invade the Uesugi family's sphere of influence.

The prestige advantage of the Kanto Governor obviously played a role.

However, Uesugi Kenshin, who was slightly more "righteous" than the Hojo clan's masa, faced with such an offensive, only personally led more than 10,000 people to Ueno to fight, focusing on appeasing the northern people, winning over the Ashina clan, and contacting the Satomi family of Anbo to contain them in the south.

In such an operation, Shengsheng sent out 8,000 troops, let Uesugi Keikatsu take command in the name, and handed it over to Saito Asanobu, Honjo Minoru and others, and invaded Echichu and Noto.

The result was a little surprising, this seemingly weak and weak slow hand almost made big news.

The origin is that the island of Kiyoxing, who stayed in Noto, was too upright and inflexible, and there was a conflict with the local people. It is said that a man named "Barrel Mouth" took the opportunity to fan the flames and create chaos. So much so that when the Uesugi army marched quickly by water to the city of Wajima, there were only 500 guards available to Shima Kiyoxing.

The situation was very critical at one point.

Then Daoqing excitedly started fighting, held on to it, slept and ate at the top of the wall, and stubbornly resisted for seven days without losing even the outer city.

Finally, when Kawada Nagakin's and Honda Tadakatsu's reinforcements arrived, Uesugi was short of troops after several days of strong attack, and he did not dare to respond to the battle and had no choice but to retreat.

After the count, the defenders were killed 200 and seriously wounded, and only 194 people were left around Dao Qingxing to fight.

When this matter came back, Hirata Tsuno, who has always been considered good at recognizing people, couldn't help but be very surprised.

Shima Kiyoheung's mishandling led to a conflict, leading to a situation of five hundred against eight thousand.

But he stubbornly held on to the situation of five hundred to eight thousand!

In terms of consequentialism, or in terms of the values of the samurai, it should still be rewarded.

Besides, the relationship between the acting official and the local people is sinister, in a sense, isn't it necessarily a bad thing!

In this way, even if the rhythm of Hokuriku is first suppressed and then raised, the ending is satisfying.

Shima Kiyoko was rewarded, Kawada Naga and Honda Tadashi were verbally commended, and the wealthy landlord who was bewitched by the barrel mouth and continued to bewitch was punished in the eyes, and the situation in Noto stabilized again.

Then the tie has the capital to continue to adopt siege tactics.

Hojo was reluctant to move, Uesugi was weak, and there was no reason for Asai Sai, Ukita, and Maori to suddenly turn their guns, and other forces farther away were beyond their reach.

Takeda Katsuyori really can't find a reliable ally.

If the standoff continues, sooner or later the defending side will find itself in a desperate situation.

In addition to the fact that the environment in the city is deteriorating due to the war, the wounded are not provided with ideal medical conditions, the probability of epidemic occurrences is increasing, the tension caused by the lack of understanding of the outside world will not be able to obtain firewood for winter heating, and the morale of the army will become more and more difficult to maintain, and many troubles will follow.

According to the experience of the public, no matter how elite the subordinates, once they are cut off from internal and external contacts, there is a possibility that there will be serious problems if they hold on for about six months, and the example of holding out for one year is extremely rare in the history of Fuso.

It is imperative to either break through or break out.

Otherwise, it is tantamount to giving up those loyal ministers and good generals who are fighting alone.

Hirate Honhide lives in Okazaki and waits with peace of mind to see how the heir of the "Kai no Tiger" will decide.