Toyotomi Hideji was pleasant.

When he succeeded in suppressing the struggle between Ishida Mitsunari and the military general's faction, the Toyotomi clique's fighting power was still considerable.

Not only did it thwart the attack of Naomasa Ii and almost annihilate the famous Ii Red Reserve, but now, on the official battlefield, the Toyotomi army has also suppressed the Tokugawa army.

In the battle for the commanding heights, the Toyotomi army was invincible, gradually suppressing the Tokugawa army, and seeing that the commanding heights were about to be captured, as long as they grasped the commanding heights, they could condescendingly fire their artillery shots, which was enough to completely defeat the Tokugawa army and control Iwami.

What's more, Toyotomi Hideji knows that both armies have concentrated their main forces here, and whoever can defeat the other side here is equivalent to defeating the opponent's main force, and can further kill the other party, and the opponent's victory rate will be greatly reduced.

For both the Toyotomi clan and the Tokugawa clan, this is a battle they cannot afford to lose.

Therefore, whether it is Toyotomi Hideji or Ishida Mitsunari or Asano Yukinaga, they all have only one goal, that is, to take the commanding heights, abolish the main force of the Tokugawa clan, sweep the territory of the Tokugawa clan in one fell swoop, unify Japan, and complete the hegemony.

More on that later.

So after the two armies held each other for a day, a brutal tug-of-war began the next day, and until today, the losses of the Toyotomi army were slightly greater, but the number of the Toyotomi army was also larger, so the Toyotomi army and the Tokugawa army were actually evenly matched.

In the most tragic battle for high and low, in the fierce battle of three hours, Toyotomi Hideji has sent several elite troops to fight with the Tokugawa elite, the battle is unprecedentedly fierce, and the heavy losses are also vivid, but Toyotomi Hideji has a feeling that as long as he persists to the end, he can get the final victory.

After that, he will be able to gain the prestige that is no less than that of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and obtain the prestige that he desperately needs, and after having this prestige, he will be able to rule the country more smoothly and achieve greater things than Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Therefore, Toyotomi Hideji even put on armor to personally supervise the battle, and he must witness the victory of the army in the high ground.

He saw it.

He saw the Tokugawa clan army retreating like a tide, and he saw his own army frantically attacking to seize the commanding heights.

The entire command post of the Toyotomi clan was boiling, everyone was celebrating the victory, and immediately arranged for the firearms troops to advance to the commanding heights, condescendingly erect artillery, and give the Tokugawa army the final blow, making them completely history!

Toyotomi Shuji's heart was about to jump out, and the feeling of excitement was really ......

It's so enjoyable!

Toyotomi Shuji wants to share this joy with everyone he meets!

So he rewarded everyone around him, and everyone was overjoyed.

As a result, when it was Ishida Mitsunari's turn, Toyotomi Hideji saw the expression on Ishida Mitsunari face a little confused.

"No, why did they retreat? Shouldn't we continue to send more people to continue to fight for the commanding heights at this time? Once this place is lost, what is the purpose of the desperate struggle for the previous three hours? ”

Ishida Mitsunari was muttering to himself, and Toyotomi Shuji heard it.

Active retreat?

"Ishida-qing, what did you just say? You say that the Tokugawa army retreated on its own initiative? ”

Toyotomi Hideji looked at Ishida Mitsunari suspiciously.

Ishida Mitsunari nodded.

"Yes, Your Highness, the Tokugawa army retreated on its own initiative, their retreat is still very orderly, not a rout, but an active retreat, there are still people behind the palace, and there are people blocking the pursuers, although we have won the commanding heights, but before the artillery erection is completed, the Tokugawa army still has the ability to continue the attack, and why should they give up the battle? It should not be the reason for the shortage of troops. ”

Ishida Mitsunari said this, and Toyotomi Hideji's joy, which had just become a little crazy, now calmed down.

It felt clearly wrong.

The Tokugawa clan retreated on their own initiative?

Why?

"They took the initiative to retreat and give up the struggle, so was the previous three hours of contention fake? No way? ”

"Absolutely not!"

Ishida Mitsunari immediately dispelled Toyotomi Hideji's doubts: "The commanding heights must be taken, that's for sure, there is no doubt about it, the Tokugawa clan has definitely not paid the manpower and material resources for this to lure us into the bait, but he is suddenly retreating now, something is obviously wrong." ”

"What's that for?"

Toyotomi Hideji became a little surprised.

Ishida Mitsunari thought about it for a long time, and he didn't know what it was for.

At this moment, the horn of the Tokugawa army's retreat sounded, and Toyotomi Hideji and Ishida Mitsunari saw that the Tokugawa army had slowly withdrawn from the battlefield in good order.

Toyotomi Hideji and Ishida Mitsunari did not order a pursuit, but watched as the Tokugawa army withdrew.

A group of generals immediately surrounded and asked Toyotomi Hideji why he didn't order the pursuit, and when they also learned that the Tokugawa clan had taken the initiative to retreat, they were also a little surprised.

Only a few people asked to lead troops into the Tokugawa clan's camp and solve the Tokugawa clan.

But Toyotomi Hideji didn't allow it, because he felt that there must be a demon when things went wrong.

Sure enough, after more than half an hour, the "demon" came.

The Tokugawa clan sent a messenger to ask for a meeting with Toyotomi Shuji, who immediately summoned him.

"What? The Qin State Sailor came to Japan? ”

Toyotomi Shuji was shocked when he read the letter that Tokugawa Ieyasu wrote to him himself.

The military generals were also shocked, unable to believe what they had heard.

Toyotomi Shuji handed Tokugawa Ieyasu's handwritten letter to Ishida Mitsunari, who hurriedly took it and read it.

At a glance, Ishida Mitsunari knew that Tokugawa Ieyasu had not given up on collecting intelligence on Qin, and sent people to Korea and the coastal areas of Qin to try to find intelligence clues, but it was not until the Qin army sailors arrived in Korea that they realized that something was wrong and hurried to report.

But in terms of time, it seems that it is already too late.

The Qin army may have already begun to act.

Was this really just a hoax, a scam under the leadership of the Qin State to cover up the real action?

The Tokugawa clan and the Toyotomi clan fought in Iwami for more than half a month, and their losses were not small, and the food and ordnance were even more depleted, and they were no longer as sharp as when they had just raised their troops.

At this moment, the Qin army attacked, which was completely unexpected by them.

"This ...... Is it true? ”

Ishida Mitsunari looked at the messenger.

"If it's fake, why should my lord take the initiative to retreat and give up fighting for the high ground?"

The messenger asked rhetorically.

This rhetorical question just hit the puzzle of everyone in the Toyotomi clan.

At this moment, even Yukinaga Asano, who hated Tokugawa Ieyasu the most, had to think carefully about Tokugawa Ieyasu's sincerity, whether it was true, or to try to confuse the vision of the Toyotomi army under the name of the Qin army, and take this opportunity to fight back.

If Toyotomi Hideji immediately agreed to Tokugawa Ieyasu's request and the two armies joined forces against the Qin army, then no one would believe it, at this time, Tokugawa Ieyasu's actions were also very suspicious, and there were many possibilities.

For example, a daimyo of the Toyotomi clan pointed out the possibility of Tokugawa Ieyasu's deception.

For example, this is Tokugawa Ieyasu betrayed Japan's interests and asked Qin for reinforcements, in fact, Tokugawa had already united with Qin, so he planned to deceive the Toyotomi army and bring the Toyotomi army into a dead end, so that the Tokugawa army and the Qin army could destroy the Toyotomi army together.

It's not out of the question.

When this statement was made, the way everyone looked at the Messenger changed.

Immediately the messenger fell to his knees.

"Your Highness, this matter is absolutely true, although my lord has a conflict with the Toyotomi clan, but at this time it is absolutely true, it is absolutely impossible for my lord to unite with the Qin State, the Qin State is powerful, if it is easy to annex Japan, my lord will definitely not do this kind of thing to lure the wolf into the house!"

"Your Highness! Don't believe him! Xiantaige died under the joint efforts of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Xiao Ruxun, and he still has the face to say that?! ”

Asano Yucho shouted angrily, which suddenly made Toyotomi Hideji's heart feel different.