"It seems that this mountain castle will be taken down soon."

Hirate honshu looked at the scene in the distance, made such a judgment, and then handed the thousand miles to his son beside him.

Yoshimitsu took it and replied casually, "Yes." The fall of Takeda Castle, about, is only in the evening, right? Maybe there will be news in two or three days, and we don't know. ”

Then look at it again.

Hearing this, Pingshou Fan Xiu frowned and shook his head secretly, and then smiled as if he had no intention of leaking: "What you say, as the heir of the world, your tone is inevitably too weak!" Why use so many uncertain words? ”

“…… You're teaching. Yoshimitsu buried his head, and after a moment he raised his head again and asked, "Yet—if it is really not clear, how can we avoid a weak tone?" ”

Pingshou Fan Xiu was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and replied: "The only thing to do is to try to say as little as possible, and the joy and anger are invisible." This is enough to deal with most of the problems. It is just a matter of discerning the occasion, and it is not feasible to assume that it is a critical moment when a decision has to be made on the spot. ”

“…… I see. Yoshimitsu hesitated for a moment and then bowed in reply.

Pingshou Fan Xiu doubted: "There are no outsiders now, if you have something to say, you might as well say it bluntly, why do you want to do this?" ”

"Uh......" A hint of embarrassment drifted across Yoshimitsu's face, and he had no choice but to speak: "Actually, what I want to say is that people who already have the ability to easily distinguish the size of things from the big to the bottom of the urgency probably don't need to worry about how to choose words and form sentences, right?" So, Father, what you just said is really ......."

"......" Pingshou Fan Xiu smiled bitterly and nodded: "What you said makes sense!" This is the principle of governing the government for the monarch and governing the people by the general, and it is true that I can't understand one or two sentences, but I just tried to cover it up, but I was too eager. ”

“…… The child is terrified......"

"Righteousness comes first, and we don't avoid going up and down."

“…… Uh......"

After being embarrassed for a while, Yoshimitsu suddenly quipped, "I think of an anecdote for this." It is said that it is the middle hall...... That is, when the son of the second brother of Qing was practicing martial arts, he asked him, what should he do with one enemy and three enemies? Father, what do you think is the answer of the second brother Qing? ”

"What could it be?" Although he vaguely understands the meaning of the tendency, he can't guess it, so he only feels slightly curious.

Yoshimitsu added with a smile: "At that time, Brother Qing said - first take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold, exert an all-out slam blow, and knock down one; Then use the space to maneuver around, so that the remaining two cannot be taken into account, waiting for the opportunity to defeat another one; Then, you only need to defeat the last one with real skills, and you can call it a successful conclusion. ”

"Haha!" Pingshou Fanxiu smiled dumbly: "He does have this ability, how can ordinary people have such courage?" It's like the pony I told you about crossing the river......"

"That's what my father said." Now Zi Yiguang gradually became more relaxed.

Hirata Hanxiu laughed while talking, and secretly speculated about the reason why his son lost his mind just now.

Obviously, he was burdened with the meritorious work of "pacifying the two kingdoms of Tanba and Tango", and was touted as "a successor" by both the government and the opposition. Why is there a lot of trouble all of a sudden?

Come to think of it, it is probably that the victory came too mediocre.

As a result, instead of cultivating the child's self-confidence, it made him have useless thoughts of worrying about the sky.

This baby always thinks too much, and her mind can't even be completely grasped now as a father.

……

From June of the second year of Tensho (1577), the Taisho army began the Kansai War, and it continued for a long time.

Capture and kill Asai, pacify Harima, and appease the Ukita Naoya and don't Nagaji. At the same time, the second generation of eyes descended to Isshiki, Hatano, Akai, Tanba, and Tango. Returned to one place, and then attacked Danma, and surrounded the two cities of Zhutian and this corner mountain.

In both cases, very simple and crude tactics were employed.

After laying an ambush on ten sides, cutting off internal and external communications, bombarding large barrels for days, firing salvos of bows and arrows and iron cannons, and destroying the morale and vitality of the defenders, they then selected those in armor from the army to form a gun and forcibly break in.

It took less than three months to conquer this mountain castle first, destroy Hengya and Otagaku, and then go down to Takeda Castle to sweep away the Yagi clan. It can almost be said that Tajima will be taken under its umbrella.

In the newly occupied land, there will naturally be a public security war to be busy in the future, but the guerrilla forces that the feudal lords can organize are very limited, and under normal circumstances, they are not enough to deal with.

Heite Yoshimitsu sighed with emotion: "But although the horse has a mountain of silver, it seems that it is not used by the people of the country, its equipment and armor are lacking, and the courage is not superior, but the fighting spirit of dying with the city is quite tragic." ”

Many people on the left and right said, "It seems that this is the temperament of the Kansai people!" In the battle, it is far from being able to catch up with Kai and Echigo, and the stubborn temper may be even better. ”

This raises another question - since these sub-Kansai turtles are so resolute as if they have eaten a scale, and are bent on opposing the Tie Sho, then why don't they simply retreat in the direction of Inaba and Bichu, and merge with the main Maori forces, and the troops are not at a great disadvantage, and then come to fight?

They still defended the two cities with a total of 10,000 peasants and soldiers, the quantity and quality were worrying, and the supplies were completely insufficient.

After discussing it, I have to say that in addition to stubbornness, it may be that "never leaving the homeland" is also the disposition of Kansai people.

These subjective speculations aside, all in all, the insistence of these people fighting independently to defend their hometowns for unknown reasons gave the Tiers a good opportunity to break through and outnumber the outnumbered, without any additional strategic maneuvers.

Its mediocrity may be better than the 27,000 people of the second generation who forcibly took Tamba and Tango.

At this time, the Maori family focused on encircling and suppressing the Nizi Revival Army, and only sent about 10,000 people to Inaba, but they were unable to penetrate into Tajima.

Mori Terumoto personally sat in the center, and Yoshikawa Motoharu actually commanded the battle, gathered nearly 40,000 people, and defeated Yamanaka Yukimori and Nanjo Motosuke in two months, basically leaving only the area near Haai Beach to hold. However, due to the fact that the tie was transported by water to provide material support at any cost, this hard bone was extremely difficult to gnaw in the end.

Moreover, the time for the autumn harvest had come, and the conscription troops, which were mainly peasant soldiers, could not be successfully maintained, so they had to be disbanded.

But the Equestrian coalition was annihilated, and the Nizi Revival Army was still holding on, and the precedence of the whole battlefield was quite obvious.

Of course, this situation is not surprising.

Hite-hoshu left Asano Nagayoshi as the acting official of Tajima, and Hasegawa Munehito as Ikuno Ginzan to serve, and then put on a non-stop posture of pointing directly at Inaba.

And appointed Ukita Naoya and Beschoji Naoji to march into the army after completing the autumn harvest.

The advantages of "Shinong separation" are finally revealed here.

The long tug-of-war began to exhaust the rival daimyo with little foundation.

Speaking of which, the total strength of the Maori family is estimated to be as high as 60,000 to 80,000, while the Pingju family is only about 57,000 if it is not a subordinate force, which is not advantageous but slightly disadvantaged.

But the nature is completely different.

In the current Fanxiu system, the flag is the first elite of the formation, and the soldiers directly under the national division are the main force in daily life.

Those who have already achieved high merit, such as Honda Tadakatsu and Shima Kiyoshi, try to win over and divide, even if the actions are ugly and a little criticized, they don't care.

This is probably also an important reason why the course of the war is becoming more and more "mediocre".

After the summer of "six fronts", the world has temporarily calmed down, and the conflict between Hokuriku and Kyushu has calmed down a little, allowing Hirate Honhide to concentrate on dealing with the Mori clan.

However, some changes in the Kanto region have had a ripple effect, and it can even be said that it has indirectly affected the entire island of Honshu.

It was started when Katsuyori Takeda approached Yoshihiro Satomi, the daimyo of Anbo.

The Satomi family's "anti-Hojo faction" was encouraged to perk up a little, and for a moment the momentum came up, and they began to openly gather people, but they were suddenly attacked, and a group of important ministers led by Masaki Kentoki were killed in broad daylight in the castle town, and many people who claimed to be eyewitnesses said that they had seen the traces of the "Wind Demon Party", and it was difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake.

As a result, the "pro-Hojo faction" gained absolute upper hand in one fell swoop, but they did not dare to bear the notoriety of killing the lord, and sat back and watched the dying Satomi Yoshihiro and his son Umeomaru be protected by loyal servants, and came to Sunfu Castle by water to seek direct protection from the Heite family.

Pity a pair of exiled father and son, Jing Yi Zhihu only had time to protect the younger one, but unexpectedly, the old one couldn't withstand the toss, and within a few days, his condition worsened, and he died of worry, and he didn't even blink his eyes.

When the news spread, Takeda Katsuyori's reaction naturally did not need to be mentioned, and Tokugawa Ieyasu also began to actively ask for war, willing to be the vanguard of the crusade against Hojo, and even Oda Nobutada also symbolically expressed his position.

After all, the signs of Hojo Clan's involvement in it are too obvious, and it can be said that they can only coax the blind!

It may be inferred that there is no evidence, but what evidence is needed for this kind of thing?

Naturally, Naohu Jing hurriedly sent a letter to give a report and ask for instructions.

Hinohide was really happy beating Mori in Kansai, and felt that the time was not yet fully ripe to go through Kanto. But the Hojo clan was so free of himself, but he couldn't let it go, so he sent Hirate Hideyoshi with 5,000 soldiers, and Kuki Yoshitaka led 400 boats to Suruga, cooperating with Takeda and Tokugawa to exert pressure and make a posture that would attack at any time.

The Hojo clan was not ambiguous, and seeing that the picture was poor, he immediately contacted the Uesugi family.

The old rivals have become an "unbreakable alliance" again.

Then the younger brother of the Hojo clan, Shihide, who once went to Echigo as a hostage and was adopted as an adopted son by Uesugi Kenshin and later sent out of the country, entered Kasuga Mountain Castle again and reunited with his father-in-law.

That's how clever things are.

On the other hand, Murakami Buyoshi, who was released back to the Mori family during the last negotiation, had always been angry about the defection of Kurushima Tsuto, and now that he learned that half of the Heite family's sailors had gone to Kanto, he could no longer hold back his resentment, and mobilized all the sailors and ships to unite with Kobayakawa Takakei and Naomi Munekatsu to sharpen their swords.

Without a tie and a tie, Tsunohide himself was in charge, and Lai Dao was always very afraid of Murakami Bukitshi, so he hurriedly asked for help everywhere. As a result, the remaining naval forces of the Herate family received orders and rushed from all over Awaji, Sanuki, and Izumi to help in the battle.

It is said that although the Nine Ghosts Jialong is gone, there will be no big incidents, but no one expected that several lords of the four countries would be involved.

The eldest son of the head of the family, Chio Maru, who was thirteen years old, was going to prepare the Yuan suit, hoping to get the word Hisho Hide, and it was best to win the marriage, and came to via Sanuki to meet him, and when he was about to land in Settsu by boat, he ran into Murakami Buyoshi's guerrilla troops and was shot by bows and arrows.

More than a dozen masters and servants fled to the beach in a hurry, but saw that the heir was shot in the chest and was already dying.

After the news of this incident, the relatives of Changzong and my department were struck by lightning, and they had no intention of continuing to fight in Kyushu, so they hurriedly led the army back, and when they welcomed back the body of Chio Maru, they were full of sadness and anger, and they were tired of traveling and driving, and suddenly fell seriously ill.

Fortunately, his second son, "Shikoku Maru", had already been sent to Hirate Hoshu as a hostage and adopted son, and he is now ten years old and sophisticated.

This resume can still suppress the scene, so as not to make the family and retainers have any undeserved ideas.

After some communication, the two sides decided to immediately let "Shikoku Maru" return to Tosa and establish him as a hereditary successor, and at the same time set an in-law with the second lady of the Heite family, "Akemi", and booked "Xiuqin" as the Miao character after the Yuan Suit.

Fang only slightly diluted the grief of the loss of the son of the head of the Changzong Sect.

But he still couldn't let go, and dragged his sick body to visit Hirata Honhide, begging to lead troops to kill Xiang Nojima, and beheaded Murakami Takeyoshi to take revenge.

There is an impulse to ignore nothing in his words and deeds.

It is said that it is definitely not the state of mind that a hero of this grade should have. At least the tie has never seen the other party so out of shape.

It can be seen how much this matter has dealt a big blow to the relatives of Changzong and my department.

Therefore, his request could not be refused.

Tieshou Honhide decisively promised: "The Maori family is such a murderous and heinous crime, and it should be listed as the enemy of the DPRK, and call on the people of the world to fight it together." In particular, the wolf's ambition is like Murakami's Takeshi, which is unforgivable. ”