At the last moment, Takeda Yoshinobu, who was stained with blood, finally came back, and blocked the deadliest knife for Takeda Harunobu, but the long-tailed Jinghu's little bean Nagamitsu was so sharp that he directly cut off Takeda Yoshinobu's cross spear and cut off the opponent's head.

"Drink!" Takeda Yoshinobu burst into a shout, immediately shook off the spear, and performed the sword drawing technique taught by Tsukahara Molong, and sealed the knife momentum of Nagao Jinghu between the electric light and flint. Seeing that his son rode the Savior alone and was so good at fighting, Takeda Harunobu couldn't help but feel relieved, and just wanted to say something, but the long-tailed Jinghu didn't love to fight, so he turned his horse and left.

"Taro, chase quickly! Don't let the long-tailed tiger leave this place! Takeda Harunobu understood that it was the army that he rescued arrived, so Nagao Jinghu had to retreat, and hurriedly patted his son on the shoulder, encouraging Takeda Yoshinobu to continue fighting, but this shot didn't matter, Takeda Yoshinobu was actually patted and knelt down. At this time, Takeda Harunobu found that his son's hands had cracked, and the whole person was constantly trembling, obviously exhausted, so he had to sigh and watch the long-tailed Jinghu approach to the side and fight his way out of the encirclement.

Hachioji Castle in Musashi Province

Originally, the Hojo family built a fortress specially built to guard against the Takeda Army, but in the hands of the Takeda Army, it was expanded again, making Hachioji Castle no less than the Kunimine Castle in Nishi-Ueno and the Ninja Castle in Kita-Musashi. In order to keep the enemy out of Kai and prevent the main force of Takeda Harunobu from catching fire in the backyard when he went out on the expedition, Nobuyo Koyamada, one of the two mountains of Takeda, and Tadayi Ichichi, an old minister of the family, sat here, and the strength of the entire castle reached as many as 3,800 people, which can be described as impregnable. In the words of Kansuke Yamamoto, who presided over the renovation work, even if 30,000 people came, he would not want to capture the castle in the short term.

However, Nobuyo Oyamada and Tadayori Ichijo are not in such a good mood. Since Toishi was seriously injured, Nobutomo Oyamada's health has not been very good, although he can still go into battle to fight, but he is no longer the heroic of the past, and the most elite under the command of Ichichi Tadashi is the cavalry, and it is not much effort to defend the city, it is more of a strategic mobile force. Of course, the foundation of the Koyamada clan is still there, and nearly 3,000 people in the entire city are Ashigaru of the Koyamada family, and the mobilization power alone is already the first of the Takeda family. The problem is that the Kanto region where they are located is almost all giants, whether it is the Hojo family or the Uesugi family, they are both huge forces that can pull out an army of 30,000, not to mention that there is a Kanto magic dragon in charge, and the two of them often feel a lot of pressure.

Fortunately, since the two of them sat here, the surroundings have been peaceful, but the battle of Kunimine Castle, the news of the defeat of the Hojo Army has been received, and the two who understand that the days of peace have not been a few days have finally received a distress letter from the Hojo Army: Nearly 40,000 people of the Tsukahara Army surrounded Kawagoe Castle, although Hojo Tsusunari fought to the death, but the situation was still precarious, and the support of the Takeda Army was urgently needed.

At the beginning, both Nobutomo Koyamada and Ichijo Tadadayi didn't want to take the initiative to provoke right and wrong, and the 40,000-strong army made my scalp tingle when I thought about it...... However, the messenger who came to ask for help persuaded them to send troops, even if they were pretentious, they could encourage the Hojo army to hold on. Otherwise, without the containment of Kawagoe Castle, the 40,000-strong army would definitely be happy to come to Hachioji Castle and pull out the nail that the Takeda family had planted in the Kanto region.

In desperation, after discussing with Nobuyo Oyamada, Ichijo Tadadayi decided to jointly send 1,500 cavalry, led by Ichijo Tadadayi himself, and he should go for a ride, anyway, he must not take the initiative to provoke the Tsukahara army and give Tsukahara Molong a pretext for war. I have to say that although Tsukahara Molong has been cutting people everywhere since he started the army, his reputation is still good, at least he hasn't played such a thing as raising troops for no reason, so he still has a trace of fantasy in his heart. After all, when Tsukahara Molong was in Kai, the relationship between the two was not bad.

By the time Ichijo Tadalai led his army to Katsunuma, it was already evening, and he drove up the mountain alone, looking at the brilliant fire in the distance, Ichijo Tadalai only felt the bottom of his heart, the scene of 40,000 troops encircling was too terrible, since he was born, the battle of thousands of people has been regarded as a big war, like that kind of 10,000 or 20,000 people are very terrible battles, 40,000 people...... He's never seen so many people in his life......

"My lord! My lord! A person who approached the side ran up from the bottom of the mountain in a panic, and without waiting for a loyal lai to ask, he fell to his knees: "It's a big deal, Hachioji City...... Hachioji Castle has fallen! ”

"Bastard! Do you know what you're talking about? Like a cat that had been stepped on by its tail, he jumped off his horse, grabbed the man who was approaching, and roared with tears in his eyes: "We only left in the morning, and now it is not dark yet, how can we have already been attacked!" ”

"Yes, it's Tsukahara Moryu...... The ...... who led the army to capture was close to the side and said tremblingly.

Tsukahara Moryu! Ichijo Tadashi instantly felt that the world was spinning, that terrible man, it seemed that he had defeated the main force of the Hojo Army in Kokufutai, he actually did not come to Kawagoe Castle, but went directly to Hachioji Castle. Even if it's a fortified castle like Hachioji Castle, I'm afraid it won't be able to stop him...... "But, but why is that...... He's not the kind of person who raises troops for no reason......" a loyal, distracted muttered to himself.

"Listen, I heard that it was because the lord attacked Nagao Keitora in Kita-Shinano......"

A loyal Lai was suddenly struck by lightning, and almost subconsciously scolded, this time he was really going to be killed by Takeda Harunobu! Tsukahara Moryū actually did not lead the army to send troops from Kunimine Castle and directly attack the rear of the main force of the Takeda Army, but took Hachioji Castle first, and it seems that he planned to start a full-scale war in the future. As an old minister of the Takeda family, Ichijo Zhonglai is also a heroic person, stamping his feet, and Jia Fei has to tremble, but he has never felt his insignificance and powerlessness as he does today. Tsukahara Moryū, who captured the Kanhachi Prefecture, is probably able to dispatch an army of 100,000 troops......

"What do we do now?" Asked cautiously.

"What else can I do? Give up all the baggage, throw away everything that can be thrown, and let's go to Tianmu Mountain to withdraw to Jiafei! A loyalist said in despair.

At this time, the news of the fall of Hachioji City had spread, and the 1,500 elite horsemen were panicked, but Ichijo Loyashi couldn't care about these anymore, and it was only right to bring everyone back to Kai. He has already adjusted his mentality, anyway, this disaster is caused by Takeda Harunobu, and he must keep the elite of the Ichijo family, so that he can have enough right to speak, otherwise he will be easily used as a scapegoat.

The army marched through the rugged mountain roads, which were already difficult to walk, and even more difficult to walk at night. But at this time, no one dared to stop, because a large number of torches had already appeared behind him, and the Tsukahara army could chase after him at any time. Just after Ichijo Tadalai led his army through the mountains all night, and finally arrived at Tianmu Mountain at dawn, the exhausted Takeda army could no longer walk, and Ichijo Tadalai had to order a short rest. Theoretically, they had returned to the Kai Mountains and could be said to be safe.

Just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief and planned to take a nap and rest, there were suddenly shouts of killing all around, and countless soldiers and horses poured out from around, and the Takeda army, which had no time to react, was subdued. A loyal Lai and the side wanted to resist, but the other party directly threw out the iron hook, and after the hook was down, it was tied like a zongzi.

Nagano Yemasa came to the sweaty Ichijo Tadalay, picked up a bamboo tube, and handed it over with a smile: "Do you want to drink saliva?" ”

On the other hand, Hachioji Castle was really captured, but not at the time when Ichijo Tadashi thought it was, but when Ichijo Tadashi was trekking in the mountains, it was captured in the middle of the night. Kanzo Kato led some ninjas to pretend to be a rout of Tadarai, falsely claiming that Ichijo Tadarayi had been ambushed, claiming that everything was a hoax, and that 1,500 people were almost wiped out. Nobuyo Oyamada was frightened, and like Ichijo Tadayori, he didn't choose to confirm the news again and again. After all, at this time, Kanto is already the world of ninjas under the command of Tsukahara Molong, and the wind demon ninja that was once in full bloom, because the Hojo family can give less and less financial support, under the strong suppression of Kato Duanzo and others, it is already yesterday's yellow flower. The Takeda family's Toba Shinobi's main focus is on Kita-Shinano, and it is difficult to compete with the Tsukahara ninja in the Kanto region, which leads to a great asymmetry of information.

In the evening, Tsukahara Molong led the main force of the army to arrive at Hachioji Castle, which immediately caused a burst of chickens and dogs jumping, and when everyone stared nervously at the city wall, Kato Duanzo led people to set fire to sabotage everywhere very happily, and even touched the residence of Oyamada Nobutomo at one point, if it weren't for the iron artillery team stationed there, Kato Duanzo almost completed the beheading operation. However, the huge chaos created by Kato Duanzo made the perfect defense system in the city useless, and the Tsukahara army easily attacked it without much effort, and according to Tsukahara Moryu's order, they directly began to slaughter and slaughter the castle.