After a long time, Matsunaga Hide, who had been keeping his head down, spoke: "What is the loss of the family after this battle?" He said as he looked over to Takayama.

Takayama Yuzhao is the head of the Matsunaga family, and it is his responsibility to count the battle damage, so he has already counted it just now, and after listening to the lord's question, he had to bite the bullet and say: "Return... Back to the lord, in the battle just now, Toki-sama was unfortunately killed, and the main family Ashigaru was killed in 63 people, and 79 people were injured and could no longer fight. ”

"What, there are so many casualties? How is this going on? Matsunaga Hide's heart knew in his heart that the enemy's goal was to enter Takasaki Castle, not to fight the family, and losses were inevitable, but the loss of one percent of his army at once made him really unacceptable.

Even if Matsunaga led reinforcements to come, then the strength of his own army was less than two thousand, and all the enemy troops in the city were combined, there were already a thousand people, and there was a city to defend, and the Takayama clan was in charge himself, how could he capture the city, so when Takayama finished speaking, Matsunaga Xiu did not speak, but thought about it seriously.

After a while, I only listened to him and asked again, "How is the situation of the Oda family's army now?" ”

"Back to the lord, according to the ninja who went to the front yesterday to investigate, the Oda family has captured Kannonji Castle yesterday, and Rokkaku Yoshiharu is seppuku in the castle tower, and Oda Nobunaga is leading a large army to rest in the city, and send a small number of troops to the south of the river to annihilate the Rokkaku family retainers who swore to resist to the death. Please also ask the Lord to decide. ”

After listening to the movements of the Oda family, the anger in his heart couldn't help but weaken a little, the Oda family was exhausted when they captured the castle of Kannonji Temple, and then they had to fight a decisive battle with the Miyoshi family. Therefore, I am afraid that it will take at least three or five days to rest, and wait for it to send out the army, and then fight a decisive battle with the Miyoshi family, defeat the Miyoshi family, and sweep the city to the east of the mountain city country, it should also take a few days, so that the time left for myself is at least seven days, since the family is now attacking the city. I'm afraid it's already difficult to be effective, so it's better to just besiege the city and trap the Gaoshan Clan.

If there was no enemy entering the city to support tonight, Matsunaga would not dare to use this method, but now there are more than 400 troops in the city, with the scale of the Ishiki family's territory, and there was no preparation before, so he expected that the food in the city would not last for three days, and when the food in the city was exhausted. If you are leading the army to attack, you will definitely be able to take the city in one fell swoop.

Thinking of this, I only heard him speak: "Since it is difficult to storm and capture the city now, then I have decided to besiege the city." After the enemy's food and grass in the city are exhausted, then attack Takasaki Castle......"

When he just said this, he only heard Nanmu Zhenghu reluctantly speak: "Lord, when my subordinates were cleaning the battlefield just now, they found that the enemy army had about twenty catties of food on their backs, and there were about two hundred people in the city. If that's how it goes. Then it has transported 4,000 catties of grain, which is enough for the army in the city to support for a month or two, so ......"

As soon as he said this, he saw Matsunaga stand up violently. "Is what you say true?"

I heard Nanmu Zhenghu hurriedly say: "The subordinates don't dare to deceive the lord, and ask the lord to decide." ”

After receiving a definite answer, Matsunaga sat down weakly. Who sent this army? As far as he knew, the Gao Shan family did not have such an army, and the armor of this army that he had seen just now did not have any family crest decorations. But this army is coming from Hehe, why should they hide their identity. Could it be that someone in the Miyoshi family secretly communicated with Oda, so he would hide the family crest. However, Matsunaga Xiu understands that if you want to build such an elite, not everyone can reach half of it, the armor on their bodies and the spears in their hands are worth a lot of money, even if someone secretly equips such an army, they will definitely use it carefully, but they lost thirty percent in the battle just now, and such a loss is not something that ordinary people can afford. …,

After a long time, Matsunaga Xiu really couldn't figure out where this army came from, so he simply didn't want to, now the most important thing in front of him was how to break the city and kill the Gaoshan clan, and now he can't attack or besiege the city, what should he do?

Thinking of this, Matsunaga Shu came up with a way that was not a solution, that is, to ask Miyoshi Yoshitsugu for help again, he believed that if he explained the situation, in order to ensure the stability of the rear, Miyoshi Yoshitsugu would definitely send elites to help, as long as he was willing to send a thousand elites, then Matsunaga Shu would be confident that he would break the city within three days.

I only heard Matsunaga Xiu open his mouth and ordered: "Takayama Tomotomo, you immediately go to Kojima Castle to ask for help from Miyoshi Yoshitsugu, at least a thousand elites are required, you go immediately." ”

Gao Shan Youzhao listened to the lord's orders, and after reaching a sound, he left first. And when he just left, Matsunaga led the arrival of six hundred elites, and after Matsunaga Xiu saw Matsunaga, he couldn't help but say that if the reinforcements came half an hour earlier, then they could completely annihilate the enemy who broke into the camp, and at that time, whether it was a wall siege or a siege of the enemy, this Takasaki City could be captured without any suspense, but it was only half an hour away, and all this became a bubble, is the Gaoshan clan really the darling of heaven?

And just after Matsunaga Tong led 600 troops to leave the mountain castle of Shingui and just entered the mountain city, rumors spread in the Yamato country, and it only took a few hours, and now the Matsunaga family guards against the emptiness of the matter, it has already reached the ears of Tsutsui Shunqing, and he has not taken this rumor to heart at first, he is afraid that this is Matsunaga Hide's plan, however, Tsutsui Tsutsui Shunkei sent people to secretly watch Tsusunaga's every move after Tsutsunaga Shu invaded Yamato Province.

And when he first heard such rumors, it didn't take long for him to receive a report to investigate Ashigaru, and the content of his report was exactly the same as the shaking words he heard, which made him no longer have any doubts, the reason why the Tsutsui family has been able to survive until now is because of the support of the local temple, however, Tsutsui Shunkei knows that if it continues like this, I am afraid that it will not be long before their trust in themselves will be shaken, and finally until the earth collapses.

Therefore, he was always thinking about restoring his old collar, and he didn't dare to relax for a moment, and now, with such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of him, how could he give up easily.

Thinking of this, he only listened to Tsutsui Shunqing immediately ordered the attendants beside him: "Immediately summon Shima Katsutoshi and Matsukura Shigenobu to meet him." Your support is my biggest motivation. )