Sabei listened to Fushiwa Akijiro's words, shook his head at the three of them and said, "Don't act rashly, I have already sent someone to deliver the letter to Gifu Castle, and the lord has his own decision." After saying that, Sabei said to Fujido Takatora: "With Youemon, come with me to see Sakuma-sama!" ”

Sakuma Nobumori, who was sitting in the house, had a very ugly face, and Sabei was sitting opposite Sakuma Nobumori, and his face was also not good. After the two of them were silent in the room for a long time, they both sighed, and then Sakuma Nobumori sighed in a low voice: "Life is really impermanent! ”

Hearing this, Sabei nodded, and seeing that Sakuma Nobumori's mood was stabilizing, he immediately spoke: "Lord Nobumori, I don't know what the plans of the Mikawa Hall are?" Our army is newly defeated, and the morale of the army has not yet stabilized, and defending the city at this time is the best plan, but..."

"The lord should be about to lead the army, after all, if we delay the Takeda army here for a moment, the less burden the young lord will have to recover Dongminon." Sakuma Nobumori did not answer Sabei's question directly, but gave this ambiguous sentence.

Hearing Sabei's return, he glanced up at Sakuma Nobumori, and then secretly wondered if Oda Nobunaga had already confessed to Sakuma Nobumori, and he and Lin Xiuzhen were kept in the dark.

Thinking of this, Sabei looked up and glanced at Sakuma Nobumori again, and saw that Sakuma Nobumori didn't say any more**, so he immediately got up and said goodbye.

Sabei, who returned to his house, was a little confused, and in the battle on Makinohara, the Takeda army defeated the Oritoku coalition army, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was forced to retreat to Makinohara Castle, thus losing the initiative. But in front of the Takeda army were the castles of Enoe, which had almost no garrison troops, and the Oda army, which did not know when it would advance eastward. Could it be that Oda Nobunaga deliberately wanted to let the Takeda army go deeper? Now even I don't know what medicine is sold in Oda Nobunaga's gourd.

Sabei, who had a headache in his thoughts, lay in the middle of the room, his eyes becoming a little hollow. At this time, Sakami Heiji, who was on duty outside the door, suddenly entered the house, and before he had time to salute, he said to the Sabei who got up: "Lord, the Takeda army has begun to attack the city!" ”

Sabei, who heard the news, was stunned for a moment, then took the pressure cut and the small knife on the knife holder in the house, and when he walked outside the door, he saw Fushiwa Akijiro and Youichisuke and other retainers walking towards him in full armor.

Seeing this, Sabei instructed the retainers: "Meijiro and Youemon follow me to the castle wall, and you and everyone will stay and straighten out the army." "Yan Bi Sabei glanced at the Honmaru of Makinohara Castle, saw that there was movement on the side of the castle tower, wiped his face and walked towards the castle wall.

As soon as he stood on the castle wall, Sabei saw the Takeda army attacking Makinohara's castle with projectiles and bows on top of wooden planks. It didn't take long for the Takeda Iron Artillery and Bow Corps, which were ready, to launch a counterattack under the city.

Blazing projectiles and flickering arrows flew between the two armies, and the surface of the walls of Makinohara Castle was soon filled with craters and arrows that could not fly up the walls. The Oride coalition army, which was backed by the city walls, obviously suppressed the Takeda army attacking on the back, and the Takeda army under the city would pay the price of dozens of dead or lost the battle for each previous section of the Takeda army.

With the migration of time, the Takeda army under Makinoha Castle was obviously a little panicked, not only did the firing interval of the iron artillery team become much longer than before, but also some of the arrows released by the bow-wielding ashigaru flew out weakly because of the loss of arm strength, and landed lightly under the walls of Makinohara.

Seeing that the Weaving De coalition army was defending the city, Zuo Bingwei's half-hanging heart was also relaxed. After repelling the invading Takeda army, Sabei exchanged a few words with Yasumasa Kamihara, who was in command of the defense, and then returned to Yashiki.

In the next two days, although the Takeda army attacked the city several times, it began to retreat after being severely attacked by the Weaving Virtue coalition forces each time. During this period, the Sabei Department also participated in the defense of the city, because the Takeda Army did not attack the castle wall, and the Sabei only put iron cannons a few times, and I don't know if they hit anyone.

After these two days, Sabei saw that the Takeda army had no intention of attacking the city, nor did he have the intention of attacking Enoe. When Sabei was wondering, he saw Fujido Takatora walking towards him quickly. Sabei was about to ask, but he heard Fujido Takatora whisper in his ear: "The Suruga Navy plundered the Enoe Castle yesterday, and the looting of supplies is not counted, and now it is heading for Makinohara Castle by land. ”

Zuobei was stunned when he heard this, and then he grabbed Fujitang Gaohu and asked, "How did you know this news?" ”

Seeing that Sabei's face was serious, Fujido Gaohu immediately bowed his head and replied, "This news has spread in the army!" ”

Sabei stopped talking, and immediately said to Fujido Takatora: "You tell Mingjiro and let him restrain the army!" After speaking, he took Sakami Heiji and rushed to Honmaru in Makinohara Castle.

As soon as Sabei arrived at Honmaru, he saw that the Tokugawa family's retainers and Sakuma Nobumori had gathered in Honmaru. Seeing this situation, Sabei understood why the "rumors" could be spread in the army, and the people who found the problem had already come to report it, but they were all stopped at the door, and it seemed that Tokugawa Ieyasu was closed to no one.

Sakuma Nobumori saw that Sabei was also coming, so he stepped forward and said to Sabei: "Mikawaden, I don't know what it means, even Lord Okubo, who first discovered the problem, is not seen, and now there are more and more people gathered here, but I am afraid that the rumor has spread in the army." ”

Okubo Tadashi on the side saw Sakuma Nobumori and Sabei talking to each other, for fear that the two would have some misunderstanding about Tokugawa Ieyasu, so he stepped forward and said to the two: "Don't worry, the lord may be thinking about countermeasures, and I hope you two will forgive me!" ”

At this time, Ishikawa Shumasa walked to the door, turned to everyone and said: "We will gather here, it will only make the coalition army's morale more unstable, everyone should go back to restrain the army and appease the army's morale, just leave me and Shinjuro here!" ”

Sabei listened to Ishikawa Shumasa's words, glanced at Sakuma Nobumori, and saw that Sakuma Nobumori nodded, so he said hello to Kamihara Yasumasa and Honda Tadakatsu and others who came, and then took Sakami Heiji to pacify his troops.

At this time, the coalition army can no longer be described as panicked, and the Tokugawa army, which learned that Yuanjiang had been plundered, was now a mess, and if it weren't for Honda Tadakatsu and Kamihara Yasumasa who quickly suppressed it after returning to the camp, I am afraid that someone would have opened the city gate and returned to Yuanjiang's home without permission.

And if you want to say how stable the Oda army's military spirit is, it is only fifty steps and a hundred steps, and now it is rumored in the Oda army that the Takeda army has sealed the retreat and is ready to besiege the coalition army in Makinohara Castle. If it weren't for the fact that Sabei sent Fushiwa Akijiro to help Sakuma Nobumori pacify the remnants of Hayashi Xiuzhen, I am afraid that they would soon give up resistance and wait for death.

As soon as the morale of the army in Makinohara Castle was stabilized and it was about to collapse, a poorly armored team outside Makinohara Castle was carrying mountains of supplies to the Takeda Army.