Sabei immediately questioned his own speculation, Tokugawa Nobuyasu was not twenty years old at this time, but he was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, it was Takeda Shingen, the tiger of Koshu, and he didn't expel his father so early. But Sabei thought about the Warring States Period, the son killing the father, the father killing the son, and so on, so he thought of the mother of Xinyasu who he saw a few years ago.

Tokugawa Ieyasu saw Sabei standing in a daze, so he laughed and said, "Sabei, there are reinforcements from the Shintada Palace, so we don't have to worry!" ”

Tokugawa Ieyasu walked out of the castle tower and left a shaky back to Sabei. Sabei, who was still in a daze in the castle tower, saw Tokugawa Ieyasu leave, so he set his eyes on the flickering candle flame on the side, but the candle flame didn't seem to pay attention to the confused Sabei Guard, so he summoned a gust of wind to extinguish himself.

Sakuma Nobumori saw that Sabei was standing still, so he stepped forward and patted Sabei and said, "Sabei, what are you still in a daze in the castle tower, the lord said in the letter that he sent you over first to coordinate the coalition forces, in this case, I have something to ask you!" ”

Sabei, who was relieved, said to Sakuma Nobumori on the side: "If that's the case, please speak up to Nobumori-sama!" ”

After hearing this, Sakuma Nobumori smiled and said, "When will the lord send grain to Makinohara Castle again, there is not much food delivered before!" ”

Hearing this, Sabei looked at Sakuma Nobumori with his eyes, and asked in a low voice to Sakuma Nobumori, "The Tokugawa clan has no more food?" ”

After hearing this, Sakuma Nobumori glanced at Sabei, and then said, "Didn't Mikawaden explain the situation to you?" ”

Seeing that Sabei was at a loss, Sakuma Nobumori was about to speak, but was stopped by Sabei's words, "Let's go back to the station!" ”

Sakuma Nobumori nodded, and then walked out of the castle tower with Sabei, Ikeda Tsuneko, and others.

At this time, the flag outside the castle tower no longer had the posture that it had been waiting for, and Fushiwa Akijiro and others, who were stopped outside, were also let in.

Fushiwa Meijiro watched Sabei and several adults walk out of the castle tower, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to Sukeemon and Kaima Yoshiya behind him, "The lord is fine!" ”

Sakuma Nobumori saw Fushiwa Akijiro and others waiting for Sabei, and immediately said to Sabei: "This Meijiro is really a fierce general under Sabei, I heard that at that time, in order to report the news of Tomita Nagashige's rebellion to Sabei, he broke out of the siege with a wonderful swordsmanship, and his wife was killed by the rebels, this is really a loyal samurai of the Meiwei clan!" ”

After hearing this, Sabei put aside his speculation for the time being, and said to Sakuma Nobumori: "Now Mingjiro has taken the initiative to ask to be the captain of the family's shackle team, this is the model of the family's samurai!" ”

Sakuma Nobumori nodded after hearing this, and then said: "The lord didn't order me to withdraw this time, this is a great trust in me, I can't live up to the lord's trust, if Sabei needs my help with something, I will definitely try my best to help!" ”

After the two booked a time to talk, they went about their own business first. Sabei took Fushiwa Akijiro and the others back to the station assigned to him, and after motivating his samurai and ashigaru, he ordered them to rest well at night without the need for additional inspectors. After all, Sabei still believed in the sentry set up by Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Although it was to coordinate the coalition forces, Sabei's mission was to convey Oda Nobunaga's determination to win to the coalition forces, and at the same time to motivate the samurai and ashigaru of the two families, and finally to coordinate the skirmishes and contradictions within the coalition forces.

At night, Sabei took Akijiro Fushiwa and Suzuki Heavy Industries and walked slowly towards Sakuma Nobumori's station. Although Sakuma Nobumori was not friendly to him at first, a bitter war quickly warmed up the relationship between the two, after all, after Lin Xiuzhen's death, as the two Oda generals in the coalition army, if they were not united, they were afraid that not only would their lives be difficult to protect in the battle, but also make the Tokugawa generals lose confidence in the Oda clan.

After all, there is a lack of trust in the military, and neither side can guarantee that the other party will be the first to escape, so how can they rest assured that they will hand over their backs to each other, let alone cooperate with each other!

After the relationship between the two warmed up, they moved more and more with each other, and Sakuma Nobumori also valued this new member of the public as a sect more, although the identity of this sect was not very important. Sabei no longer worries too much about Sakuma Nobumori's attitude towards him before, after all, he is still one of Oda Nobunaga's most trusted ministers!

Sakuma Nobumori told Sabei in the house about the refusal of the Tokugawa lords of Mikawa and Toe to pay the temporary additional taxes, and said to Sabei with a puzzled face: "This matter is completely without warning, especially the lords of Togae, in fact, most of the lords have not been plundered by the Takeda army, but only the castles of the Togae have been plundered, and the Takeda army has no time to loot the remote towns!" ”

Nobumori added: "After the people of Mikawa were rectified by the Mikawa Temple a few years ago, although there are still the people of the Faith Sect, they are much smaller than before, and the Ichissho Sect has also signed a contract with the Mikawa Temple and handed over most of its temples, so it should be powerless to continue to resist the Mikawa Temple. ”

"This..."After hearing this, Sabei didn't need to think too much to know that there must be other forces involved, which made the relatively stable people of Mikawa and Yuanjiang gradually agitated, and even broke out.

Sakuma Nobumori saw that Sabei's eyes were bright, so he approached Sabei and whispered, "It is said that this matter is related to Okazakiden!" ”

After listening to Sakuma Nobumori's words, Sabei immediately said to Sakuma Nobumori: "Lord Nobumori, don't believe rumors! ”

Sabei glanced at Sakuma Nobumori, and then wrote on the tatami mat with matcha, "Wait, observe!" ”

Sakuma Nobumori nodded after hearing this, and said to Sabei with a smile: "The young master will lead the army on the way to help Okazaki Hall calm down, I don't have to worry, I will also jointly inform the lord with Lord Nobumori about the food!" ”

Leaving Sakuma Nobumori's station, Sabei hadn't taken two steps before he saw Yasumasa Kamihara walking towards him. Sabei stepped forward and was about to say hello loudly, when he heard Kamihara Yasumasa say: "Sabei, the 5,000 Hojo Army set out from Nirayama Castle the day before yesterday and has arrived at Suruga today, and the general general is the Hojo clan!" ”

Sabei frowned slightly after hearing this, the Hojo family sent out all the troops on the western front, and it seems that they are determined to fight with the Oda family, but aren't Izu and Sagami more suitable for defense? Hojo Clan is not so ignorant that he can't even distinguish between offensive and defensive advantages, right? Moreover, the Hojo clan still has many living fierce generals and good ministers.

Sabei couldn't understand the current situation in the eastern country for a while, and the Hojo family, who had always been good at guarding the imperial family, took the initiative to send people to support the Takeda family, and there were battles with the Satomi and Satake clans on the eastern front, and there was also the Uesugi clan on the northern front, could the Hojo family be so strong? Or is there something in it that I don't know?