"The matter of the dragon girl... I'm so sorry. Tokugawa Ieyasu didn't understand the entanglement between Ryuko and Yuqiuping, and thought that Ryuko would soon be accepted as a concubine by Yuqiuping, "causing so many casualties to Yuqiu's army... I'm also very sorry. ”

"I don't want to hear sorry, so just tell me why you're out of town." Yu Qiuping shook his head and tapped the tatami mat with his hand, "How many times have I told my lord not to go out of the city, why are you?" ”

"Mainly because I thought it was a good opportunity." Tokugawa Ieyasu hesitated for a moment, then replied in a low voice, "At that time, the entire Takeda army was coming towards the autumn leaves, and the back was empty, and the baggage and grain and grass in the camp were almost unguarded. ”

"Chiyo Take, who are you fooling?" Yu Qiuping raised his head, his eyes staring at Tokugawa Ieyasu stubbornly, "With your steady character, how can you risk doing such a thing at this time?" And I've learned about the battle, and the Tokugawa army has been defeated and wounded and fled back to Hamamatsu Castle, which is not the same as the indomitable Mikawa samurai I have seen. And you obviously want to assault the Takeda Army, but you yourself have listed an unbelievable Crane Wing Formation - a formation used for defense, do you dare to say that you have nothing else in mind? ”

Seeing Yu Qiuping say this, Tokugawa Ieyasu realized that he couldn't hide it anymore. His Adam's apple squirmed violently a few times, and he lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Yu Qiuping's eyes.

"This is a letter from Shigeharu Takenaka from the rear, I only received it after the breakout, you can see for yourself." Yu Qiuping didn't say anything, just took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Tokugawa Ieyasu. Tokugawa Ieyasu was stunned for a moment, took the letter, and after only a few glances, he was speechless in shock.

This letter is a reply from Shigeharu Takenaka to Yu Qiuhei. After deciding on the battle plan for the future, Yu Qiuhei sent a copy of the battle plan to Shigeharu Takenaka, who was recuperating in the rear, which was the plan to support Hamamatsu on the northern line and retreat to the Mikachi Mountains in case of an attack by the Takeda Army.

After receiving this plan, Shigeharu Takenaka immediately wrote a letter asking Yu Qiuping not to act accordingly. He first said that the ninjas of the Takeda family are very powerful, and it is very likely that Tokugawa Nobuyasu's activities in Shirakuhara will be discovered, and the Takeda army can use this to counter Yu Qiuhei. At the same time, he stressed that Tokugawa Ieyasu was completely unreliable in this situation, and he could not be expected to contain any of the Takeda army's forces for Yu Qiuping.

Shigeharu Takenaka bluntly said that Tokugawa Ieyasu was a very smart and sleek person. In his heart, nothing was more important than the interests of the Tokugawa family. Back then, for the benefit of the Tokugawa family, he could defect from the Imagawa family. And now, it's not a surprise to betray Oda and join Takeda.

Even if Tokugawa Ieyasu was not determined to make this decision, it is very likely that he would refuse to cooperate with Yu Qiuping's actions, and instead tried to lead the way to the west, so that Yu Qiuping and Takeda Shingen would fight to defeat both. Of course, if Tokugawa Ieyasu had done this, Oda Nobunaga would definitely liquidate him afterwards. Therefore, Tokugawa Ieyasu would first find an opportunity to fight with the Takeda army, and with a small loss, his troops would collapse and lose their combat effectiveness, so as not to join the decisive battle between the Yuqiu-Tokugawa coalition and the Takeda army.

Afterwards, even if Oda Nobunaga wanted to pursue Tokugawa Ieyasu, he couldn't find a reason. Because Tokugawa Ieyasu had already fought to the death with the Takeda family for the benefit of the Oda family, and it was helpless to lose in the end.

However, Tokugawa Ieyasu's strategy of preserving his strength in advance will drag Yuakihei into a catastrophe from which he will recover. Because after Yu Qiuhei learned that Tokugawa Ieyasu was in battle, he must have advanced at full speed, so as to try to cooperate with the Tokugawa army. However, the Tokugawa army did not aim to win, but to defeat, and it would soon be defeated. When Yu Qiupei arrives - Shigeharu Takenaka doesn't know where the specific battlefield is, but it will always be near Hamamatsu Castle. By the time Yu Qiuping arrived, they would be too close to the Takeda Army. When the Takeda army pursues them, the Yuqiu army may be forced to accept a field battle against the entire main force of the Takeda army on the plain - Tokugawa Ieyasu may not be able to help Yuakihei contain it at all.

Shigeharu Takenaka was not a prophet of the future, and there was no way to anticipate Takeda Shingen's shocking woodpecker plan in advance, but his general prediction was not wrong. If it weren't for the battle of the Water Atom Sutra and the Second Company of Chang Panbei, Yu Qiuping would really have fought against the Takeda Army on the plain terrain, and it would have been defeated.

Shigeharu Takenaka then pointed out that as long as Tokugawa Ieyasu was defeated first, the Tokugawa family would in fact be invincible. He could watch the decisive battle between the Yuqiu army and the Takeda army from the wall without paying heavy losses.

If the Yuqiu army wins, the Takeda army will be expelled from Mikawa-Enoe, and the Tokugawa family's territory will naturally be as safe as Mount Tai. And Tokugawa Ieyasu has already fought with the Takeda family. Even if he was defeated, Oda Nobunaga, who was only an alliance and not the main family, could not blame him.

If the Takeda army wins, Tokugawa Ieyasu can take advantage of the situation to surrender and surrender to Takeda Shingen. In this way, in the eyes of the whole world, Tokugawa Ieyasu is not a capricious villain like Matsunaga Shu, but a reliable loyal and good person. Because the Tokugawa family had been fighting with the Takeda family for a long time, he was unfortunately defeated after fighting hard. It was not until the Alliance's reinforcements were also defeated that they were forced to surrender helplessly. Such an act will not attract criticism under any circumstances. And since the Tokugawa army had already suffered losses and could not pose a threat to the Takeda family in the short term, Takeda Shingen would not wantonly deprive and weaken the Tokugawa family's territory in order to secure a way back. On the contrary, the Takeda army, which was anxious to go to Lo, might have given Tokugawa Ieyasu a more decent terms for peace talks, thus forcing the Tokugawa family to join the banner of Kamiraku.

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In front of Shigeharu Takenaka's letter, Tokugawa Ieyasu felt like a transparent person, and his appearance and heart were clearly peeped at by Shigeharu Takenaka. He showed a somewhat helpless wry smile, handed the letter back to Yu Qiuping, knew that he could no longer hide it, and then bowed down deeply - this is a great gift that courtiers can only do when they see their lords, or when their children meet their parents.

"Takenaka-sama said a good point, I'm very sorry." Tokugawa Ieyasu kowtowed a few times on the tatami mat, "Bringing such a huge loss to the Yuqiu army... Momiji, I'm really... I'm sorry. ”

"What's the point of saying sorry now?" Yu Qiuping whispered in a playful tone, "Hurry up, Your Highness Tokugawa, I am a retainer of the Oda family, and I can't stand such a big gift." ”

When he heard that Yu Qiuping did not use "Takechiyo", but "His Royal Highness Tokugawa", Tokugawa Ieyasu trembled violently and raised his head with some difficulty.

"I thought we were good brothers." Yu Qiuping didn't want to look at Tokugawa Ieyasu again, but turned his head to the other side, and whispered, "I thought the Tokugawa family and the Yuqiu family were best friends. ”

"yes, we met 15 years ago, when we were two teenagers. Do you remember when we first met outside Okazaki Castle? Yu Qiuping said and laughed mockingly, "I really thought that we would always be good brothers." For so many years, I have always regarded you as my own brother. ”

"So I'm willing to go over the mountains and mountains to support you for almost a month. Do you know how hard it is along the way? But I don't want to stop for a moment, because I'm worried about you, I'm worried about my good brother, and I can't wait to go faster every day, so that I can support you earlier. ”

"I treat you as a brother, and I also treat San Lang as a nephew. So even if I didn't have enough troops at that time, even if the Takeda Army was so strong, I didn't dare to bring him to the battlefield, but let him go to Shirakuhara. If nothing else, I just love him, afraid that something will happen to him in the decisive battle. I'm afraid that if something happens to him because of my orders, I really don't know how to explain it to you. ”

"I treat you as a brother, but what about you?" After Yu Qiuping said a long sentence, he suddenly turned his head and stared at Tokugawa Ieyasu's eyes. However, after looking at it for a few seconds, he turned his head again, facing in the direction of the window, hiding his red eyes, "What do you take me for?" Tool? Or an outcast? The kind that you can throw away when you're done with it? ”

"It's not!" Tokugawa Ieyasu hurriedly opened his mouth to object, but was rudely interrupted by Yu Qiuhei: "You shut up for me!" ”

"For your own interests, you can abandon me without hesitation, abandon a good brother who has traveled thousands of miles to support you for friendship, and let him face the army of the Takeda Army alone." Yu Qiuping shook his head, sighed in great disappointment and said, "I'm worried that something will happen to San Lang, I don't want to see him have an accident, and I don't want to take him into danger." And you? Have you ever thought about the death of a child? Do you know how dangerous it is to die in the Mikamachi Basin? The company he was in met 8,000 soldiers of the Takeda family, and seventy percent of the whole company was killed, all the survivors were wounded, and his feet were all broken! He stood in the first row and carried several volleys, and almost died! Have you considered him? You've probably not even thought about it! ”

"Because of your selfishness, because of your interests, so many people have died. Longzi, Faithful, Yiju, Changlai, and so many brothers, I will never see them again, they will never be gone forever. I thought that their hard work was valuable, and my thousand-mile reinforcements were valuable, because the Tokugawa family was saved! The result? Yu Qiuping laughed angrily, pulled out the ribs fiercely, and inserted it into the tatami mat in front of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Yu Qiuping, and poked a hole in the tatami mat, which also made Tokugawa Ieyasu startled. As a result, the Tokugawa family will be fine at all, and your abacus is clanging! You have already paved the retreat of the Tokugawa family, either Takeda or Oda, sit firmly in Diaoyutai, but fight for the life of my Yuqiu army! ”

"Your selfishness and your interests, make their sacrifice ridiculous; makes the battle of the Yuqiu army ridiculous; The thousand-mile support that I have been thinking about for brotherhood has become ridiculous; Let's make our two fifteen-year friendship ridiculous! I now feel that I am so stupid, that the friendship that I myself regard as a treasure is nothing more than an outcast that can be easily discarded for the sake of profit! You know, after I figured out why you were out of town, I felt like so much of what I had done for you, for the Tokugawa family, was like a joke! ”

After saying such a long paragraph, Yu Qiuping's face showed a strange expression that Tokugawa Ieyasu had never seen at this time—it was a smile that was uglier than crying, as if reading a very embarrassing cold joke.

"I should have understood that you are not a good and honest person, but a sinister and cunning turtle!"

"Momiji... That's not true. I also really cherish the friendship between us..."Yu Qiuhei has already said this, Tokugawa Ieyasu understands that no matter how to explain it, it will not help, but he still stubbornly said, "If you and I are both just country husbands, I am willing to be good friends with Momiji for life, because I really appreciate Momiji." ”

"It's just that I'm not just a person, I'm a samurai, I'm the governor of the Tokugawa family, and I'm shouldering the responsibilities that have been passed down from generation to generation in the Tokugawa family." Tokugawa Ieyasu spoke with great difficulty, "As a samurai, there should be no more human emotions. Whatever I do, I must first put the interests of the Tokugawa family first, and it is impossible to let personal feelings take precedence over the interests of the family. Isn't that the same true for autumn leaves? ”

"If the so-called family interests are to abandon their companions, I don't want such interests." Yu Qiuping shook his head indifferently, "If you maintain the family in this way, people's hearts will be scattered." If everyone knows that for the sake of the family, they may become outcasts at any time, what is the point of such a family? Who would have thought that such a family would work? ”

"Anyway, I'm really sorry this time... It's Tokugawa Ieyasu, I'm sorry for the rain and autumn osabu. But that Takechiyo is really, really cherishing the friendship with Momiji..."Tokugawa Ieyasu was a little incoherent by Yuqiu, and his voice changed tone.

"No need. Out of the last friendship between friends, I will not send your wishful thinking to the Lord this time. Yu Qiuping said coldly, and at the same time held the ribs he had inserted in the tatami mat with his hand, and slowly moved sideways, cutting the tatami mat, drawing a chasm between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Yu Qiuping.

"You and I will be separated from each other from now on, and goodbye will be strangers." Yu Qiuping said, got up lightly, and strode away without looking back, leaving Tokugawa Ieyasu alone to kneel there.

Half an hour later, the man who hadn't cried for a long time had two lines of muddy tears on his cheeks.