In the first year of Eiroku, the situation in the eastern part of Honshu Island began to enter a decisive stage. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In mid-August, the Takeda Army began its invasion of the Missile Country. A war broke out between the sister Koji family and the Takeda family, who belonged to the Uesugi family. Only half a month later, the Takeda Army drove straight into the southern part of the missile country.

At the beginning of September, Kenshin defeated the Rokkaku family and the Ise family in half a month, and caused the Rokkaku family to resubmit to the shogunate. At the same time, the court will also calm most of the country of Deyu. The separatist forces in the central part of Dewa Province, including the Yuri Twelve, the Tozawa family, and the Hondo family, went to Yonezawa Castle to present gifts such as military horses and swords to the court. The Mogami family of the Hashu exploration can only survive in the only remaining Yamagata Castle.

And the war in the southern Kanto region is getting smoother and smoother. On the night of September 6, the defenders of Jade Rope Castle broke through to the death under the leadership of the samurai of the Jade Rope Castle, including the defender Zhai Fang Fan, and only a few people fled to Misaki Castle, and the rest were killed in battle. After the Hojo family, there were only six important towns left, including Odawara Castle, Misaki Castle, Kamozawa Castle, Oshikiri Castle, Ashigara Castle, and Kawamura Castle.

Previously, when Chaoding left the Kanto region, he had handed over the major affairs of the family to the old Ota Zimasa of the pen family. At this moment, in order to prevent tens of thousands of Uesugi troops from being pinned down in the Tashiro Pavilion in Nishi-Ueno, Ota Shikamasa ordered the Uesugi family to soon have a friendship with the Tashiro Pavilion guard Naito Masatoyo, and Nanbu Dingxiu began to tease Naito Masato. He also ordered the governor of the Koyama family, Koyama Asayaki, to start a plan to disturb the Takeda family.

In order to completely lose Naito Masato's fighting spirit and become hostile to the Takeda family, Koyama Asayaki thought of an indispensable figure in the plan - Kudo Masasuke. Kudo Massuke now has the treatment of a member of the Takeda family and a retainer of the Pudai family, and also serves as the head of the Izu side. Once he is killed, then Naito Masatoyo will definitely go to the "culprit" and fight hard.

However, with more than 23,000 troops including Momoi Yoshitaka, Ogasawara Nagasawara Nagasaki, Nishirita, Honjo Shienaga, Numata Yumitsu, Izukawa Kiyonaga, Oishi Tsunamoto, Kohata Keisumi, Izuwa Ichisen, Nagao Keitaka, Uesugi Keimitsu, and Shinbata Nagatsu, a total of more than 23,000 troops surrounded Naito Masataka's Tashirokan, and repelled Sanada Yutakabe, who intended to attack and harass, several times. The food and grass for talent have begun to gradually decline.

Seeing that there was no hope of guarding the city, Naito Masatoyo also wrote a suicide note at this time, always ready to break the city and cut the abdomen. However, at this time, Nanbu Johide appeared under the castle of Tashirokan. After informing Nagano Yemasa and other important ministers, Nanbu Dingxiu shouted under the castle: "Naito repair Ryū! In the subno, it is the southern Shimono Moratori show! Please open the door and let you see you in the next city! ”

Masahiro Naito, who was guarding at the head of the castle, hurriedly entered the castle to inform Masahiro Naito. After a while, Naito Masatoyo came to Ninomaru's arrow oar and saw Nanbu Dingxiu, who had already changed his Miao character and name.

"It turned out to be Manxiu, you and I haven't seen each other for a few years, and I never thought that at this time, we belonged to the Takeda family and the Uesugi family." Naito Masatoyo was full of emotion. Then he personally went to the dilapidated Otemen to greet the southern Dingxiu. And take him to the Great Hiroma for a while.

"Xiu Liang, Your Excellency's achievements in Nishi-Ueno are very much appreciated by my lord Fujiwara Town, and he has successively repelled the two armies of Numata Uenosuke and Ogasawara Shinano Mori." As soon as Nanbu Dingxiu sat down, he first began to praise Naito Masato's "glorious deeds".

"What's the use of repelling the Ten Ways Army? Am I still surrounded by the Uesugi army? Naito said with a wry smile.

"Repair Liang, the Takeda family is no longer the Takeda family it once was. Now it's just a strong outsider. Even if Takeda Daizen now builds a larger territory than the previous Kyozhao, will he be able to defeat the Uesugi family, which is in full swing? The town government has ordered the Yohoku, Shonai and Onodera families to send troops to attack the Mogami family, and once the Mogami family is defeated, it will only be a matter of time before the Date family, the Osaki family, and the Kasai family are destroyed. And you still have a chance to surrender in Kaesong, if the prince of Zhenfu goes south and returns to Hayue City, then do you still have a chance to open the city? Nanbu Dingxiu said to Naito Masatoyo endlessly.

"Shimono Mamoru, you should know the sentence that loyal ministers don't care about the two masters. This time it's like a meeting of friends, you and I can talk about something else······" Why didn't Naito know the stakes? It's just that he still has to take care of Kudo Masuke who is far away in Izu, and he can't sell his brother to save his life.

Tomono Juro Saemon, a retainer on the side of Naito Masatoyo, couldn't listen anymore, and saw that he was short of breath and the corners of his mouth trembled.

"Your Highness, this war can no longer continue!"

"How so?" Naito Masatoyo was taken aback by the sudden advice of his retainers.

"The enemy army has the advantage, our army is trapped in the lonely city, this is no longer a joint battle, this is sitting and waiting to die!"

"Bastard! You are shaking the hearts of our army! "If Naito hadn't seen the presence of Nanbu Dingxiu, he would have kicked Tomono Juro Saemon over with one kick.

"Your Highness, it's not that your subordinates are afraid of death, but that the House of Kofu has thought about me waiting? When our department was besieged before, the house was in the mouth of the sea castle, and he didn't send a large army to support us. Even the Sanada Bullet, which was once under your command, is nowhere to be seen. How do you continue to fight with the Uesugi army? Tomono Juro Saemon knelt directly in front of Naito Masatoyo with a pop.

Masatoyo Naito was speechless, and the idea in his heart that he originally wanted to fight for the Takeda family to the last soldier began to waver.

"Repair Liang, 'There will be five virtues, if you can fight, you will fight, if you can't fight, you will defend, if you can't go, if you can't go, you will fall, and if you can't fall, you will die!' These words are for you, I believe you are also an understanding person, if the town government wants you, the head of the West Ueno banner, can you still meet me at this moment? Nanfang Dingxiu sighed.

“······” Naito Masatoyo was silent, he had hoped to be loyal to Takeda Shingen, even if he died in battle with all the city soldiers. But with the successive advances of his retainer Tomono Juro Saemon and his former friend Nanbu Dingxiu, he shook his numb and indifferent soul. Although he is not afraid of death, what is death for?

Once a person is disgusted with death, he does not extinguish all sympathy and conscience. Naito began to succumb to the desire to live.

Although Nanbu Dingxiu did not fully convince Naito Masatoyo to surrender in Kaejo, he did see that Naito Masatoyo had been shaken. Knowing that continuing to lobby would have an impact on the results of the current situation, he retired.

On September 6, Naito Masatoyo sent several small works returned to the Tashiro Museum with great difficulty. The news they brought did not boost the morale of the defenders: after the raid on Kai Province by the Uesugi army at the end of July, the people in the prefecture suffered heavy economic losses and were unable to mobilize their troops and harvest grain and grass; However, Kansuke Yamamoto's plan to send troops to Okushinano to Takeda Shingen was unanimously opposed by Takeda Shingen and other retainers······

There are signs that the selfish retainers within the Takeda family have abandoned Naito Masatoyo, who was holding out in Nishiueno. The arrival of these news completely made Naito Masatoyo feel like a thunderbolt from the sky, which made him scorched on the outside and tender on the inside. But he was still unwilling to give up his identity as the head of the Nishiueno banner at this moment. If Kaesong surrenders like this, then his brother will definitely be liquidated. He's still hesitating.

However, Koyama Asakyuki doesn't care about any brotherhood. As the third son of Sanada Yutaka, the time he spent in Kofu and Heshigasakikan was completely tormenting. He was well aware of the intrigues within the Takeda family. The three types of hostages, including the family, the relatives, and the genealogy, are treated differently, but he is just a hostage of a countryman lord, and he is being looked down upon and harassed every moment. This time, he finally found a chance to take revenge on the Takeda family.

In the early morning of the 7th, Udagawa and Izumi Mamoru of the Gohojo clan (formerly a retainer of the Uesugi family in Ogiya, now Uesugi Clan) killed three sneaky pedestrians on the spot while patrolling outside Ashigara Castle, and "searched" a letter from them, which also had the words "Fujiwara Town Government Public Collection" and "Kudo Nagato Mamoru Mamoru " written on it. The letter was then sent directly to the Hojo clan in Odawara Castle. As soon as the Hojo clan saw the contents of the letter, he was so shocked that he slipped the letter out of his hand.

The Hojo clan could have been able to use Odawara Castle as a corner of safety, but the letter said that "in the near future, he led his troops to attack the Hojo Domain, and after merging with the Uesugi army, he attacked Odawara Castle from east to west", and "when the Uesugi army entered Izu, his subordinates were willing to lead the way", and so on, these words are simply shocking. The retainers of the Takeda family in Izu are the most aware of the situation of the Hojo family at the moment. If the banner leader of the Izu side defects to the Uesugi family, then the Go-Hojo family will perish in the fourth generation of his Hojo clan. This is also what Hojo Masa does not want to see.

The next day, the letter "written" by Masasuke Kudo was sent to Kai and handed over to Takeda Shingen.

Although Takeda Shingen's reaction was not as big as that of the Hojo clan, it was still very surprising. Whether it is a drawing or a font, it has been confirmed that it is written by Kudo Shosuke after being compared by the pens. Afterwards, Takeda Shingen immediately summoned Takeda Nobushi, Takeda Nobuyoru, Anayama Nobujun, Oyamada Nobushige, Katsunuma Nobumoto, Takasaka Masanobu and other confidants.

"What do you think of this letter?" Takeda Shingen handed the letter to Takeda Shinhiro first, and asked him to read it one by one after reading it.

"How could the Goya Pavilion and the Kudo Hall suddenly be rebelled by the Uesugi family? In the early years, Kudo Hall and Naito Shuliang wandered in various countries for several years without a famous name, and this letter is a bit strange. Takeda was skeptical of the letter's authenticity.

"The two elder brothers, the younger brother, also have different opinions on this letter." Takeda Nobuyoru took it and simply browsed it and handed it to Anayama Nobuyan in the back. He then said, "At present, the Uesugi army has begun to repair Naito's siege without fighting, so will it have something to do with this letter?" ”

"Reasonable!"

"That's true!"

Immediately, many Takeda retainers from one family and one generation agreed with Takeda Nobuyoru's view.

"Imperial Palace, Your Highnesses. It is very likely that this letter was forged by the Uesugi family. At this time, Kansuke Yamamoto made a different voice.

"Kansuke, look at the drawing and handwriting on the letter. When they looked through every letter from Mamoru Kudo Nagato, they thought that this letter was written by Mamoru Kudo! Shingen Takeda also believes that it was written by Masasuke Kudo.

"Don't you think this letter is perfect? There are no loopholes in the drawing and handwriting, and there is also a whispered wording to the Uesugi family. Kansuke Yamamoto saw that there was something wrong with this letter.

"Kansuke-sama, look at the situation in Sagami Country. More than 10,000 Uesugi troops such as Namba Kenji and Okabe Motoshin captured Tamasho Castle and marched to Miura or Ashigara Lower Gun. If Kudoden's defection is added, it will only be a matter of time before the Uesugi army captures Izu. Nobushige Oyamada was dismissive of Yamamoto's new discovery.

"Yagoro is right. The Uesugi army under Fujiwara Asadachi has indeed gained momentum recently. Ueno gathered more than 20,000 troops, and Sagami increased to nearly 20,000 troops. If this continues, when he pacifies the two countries of Dewa and Mutsu in the northeast, his family will be attacked by more Uesugi troops. "Takeda Shingen originally wanted to increase his direct collar and help the people in the county, but now Kudo Shosuke has become his target.

"Brother, Zuobei Captain Palace, if Kudo Hall really collaborates with the enemy, then you can only kill your relatives in righteousness······" Nobutomo Takeda, who had been sitting on the side and not speaking, also turned to support Nobushige Oyamada, but he was the younger sister of his step-room, Nobushige Oyamada's retainer Yuzumi Tomotsuna.

"Ueno Suketen ······" Kansuke Yamamoto is very speechless, obviously a fake letter can be forcibly broken by these people.

"Then don't leak this meeting in Kofu." Takeda Shingen then turned to a fierce retainer and said, "Sanhachiro, you immediately go to Izu and invite Kudo Hall to come to Kofu." ”