Just when Yasuhiro Ogasawara and Yasukatsu Kasahara and others were married, Imagawa Clan Shin and others, who were far away in Tokaido's Toe Province, also learned of the Hojo family's fiasco in Isonuma. The Imagawa family also got a respite under Takeda Nobuyoshi's suspended attack, but Takeda Nobuyoshi was still stationed in Suwahara Castle and Oyama Castle, but it was just to lift the siege of Shinno Castle. Matsudaira Ieyasu also stationed his military forces in Noda Castle after the Takeda army stopped attacking, and Matsudaira Ieyasu also knew that even if the giant fell, it would still be very difficult for Imagawa Ieyasu to capture Enae Castle with Imagawa Ieyasu General Asahinatai and Okabe Motonobu alone, and if there was no Takeda family's offensive, then the Matsudaira army would not be able to single out the Imagawa family. What's more, the Oda family is still busy attacking Mino in the north, and it is impossible to give Matsudaira Ieyasu a single soldier!

Enoe Province, Inimajo, Honmaru, Ohiroma

At this moment, the Imagawa clan is really hugging Mrs. Hayakawa here, and he is still very scared. Although there were still branch castles such as Kakegawa Castle to the east of Inhima Castle, if the Takeda Army attacked with a large army, it would be able to attack under Innoma Castle in one day and one night. Even the general Okabe Motonobu has prepared some ships on the beach to allow Imagawa Shin and others to escape to the sea at any time, but it is not clear where to flee.

"Lord Lord, please rest assured, even if Yoshimoto is gone, the family will still be able to withstand the attacks of the Matsudaira and Takeda families with the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack castles in various parts of the Enjiang Kingdom." As a retainer of the Imagawa family, Ono Michiyoshi (son of Ono Michitaka) won the true trust of the Imagawa clan, probably because of his father's slander, many samurai of the Ii family died on the battlefield, and even Ii Naomori was killed in the Battle of Barrel Sama.

The Imagawa family used to oppose the Imagawa family, but after surrendering to the Imagawa family, he has been doing his best for the Imagawa family, even if several generations of family governors have died on the battlefield for the Imagawa family. But Ono's father and son have been slandering Imagawa Yoshimoto and Imagawa Shinjin for their own interests, but they listened to it! And the only trickle left in the Ii family is the woman who is less than twenty years old, although she is not the governor of the family, but she controls the power of the Ii family, and the three people of Ii Valley (Kondo Yasuyo, Suzuki Shigetoki, and Suganuma Tadahisa) also obey her orders, which makes her the 'female land' of Tokaido.

In the 11th year of Astronomy, his grandfather Naomune Ii was killed in battle because he participated in the siege of Tawara Castle in Mikawa Province on the order of Imagawa Yoshimoto. Her father, Naomori, had no sons, so he named her Jiro ("Jiro" and "Hoshi" are a combination of the two collar names of the Ii clan), and he expected to take Naomori's cousin Naomori as his son-in-law. However, in the 13th year of Astronomy, because of the rumors of the Imagawa clan's Yori Ono Michitaka (Masazhi), Naotomitsu's father Naomitsu and his younger brother Naoyoshi were suspected of plotting against Yoshimoto and were forced to commit suicide, and Naoto fled to Shinano. Naoko returned to the Imagawa family in the first year of Koji (1555) two years after Michitaka's death, but because during Shinano's reign, he married the daughter of the Okuyama kintomo as the main family, so the marriage contract with Naotora had to be dissolved. Ii Naomori was killed in the Battle of Barrel Sama, and Naoto inherited the throne, but was killed by the Imagawa clan at the behest of Ono Michiyoshi (son of Michitaka), and the family was affected by this, but was rescued with the support of his uncle & mother Tsubaki's older brother Shinno.

Great-grandfather Naohei Ii died on the way to attack the Amano clan's Inui Castle. According to the record of the 'Ii Naohei Gong Generation Chronicle', is it because he drank the wife of the lord of the castle of Ikima (Tsukima) Iio Renlong? Tian Hefang (Tsubaki Hime) died of poisoned tea (Enshu drama). The Ii clan followed the Imagawa clan into Inima Castle and killed Shinno and his retainer Naoyu Nakano. When his uncle, who was the abbot of Longtan Temple, learned about it, he transferred his direct son, Toramatsu (later Jingi Naomasa), to Fenglai Temple.

Because of the above reasons, Master Jiro changed his name to Naotora and became the head of the Ii clan.

However, Ono still refuses to give up, and he is ready to further persecute the Ii family - drive Ii Naotora out of the Enoe and destroy the Ii family. The current Imagawa family and the Hojo family are not much stronger than each other, but who is the one who really benefits if Ono Michi is good or like this? The Takeda family and the Matsudaira family would do well to see such an outcome. But the real mastermind behind the scenes is Matsudaira Ieyasu, and the Ono family has been in contact with the Matsudaira family as early as Imagawa Yoshimoto, and the Matsudaira retainers have sent a lot of property and horses to Ono Michitaka in order to protect Matsudaira Ieyasu. After Michitaka's death, Matsudaira Ieyasu did not forget Ono Michihao, and secretly sent someone to give Ono Michi's good property.

Even if Ono was not entrusted by Matsudaira Ieyasu, the Imagawa family would still not let go of the Ii family. First of all, the Jing family has been entrenched in the Yuanjiang country all the year round, and once owned most of the Yuanjiang. Even if they are defeated by the Imagawa family, they still have a territory of 120,000 koku. At this moment, the Imagawa family is in crisis, but the Ii family is ready to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, which makes everyone in the Imagawa family have to do it!

If it weren't for Okabe Motonobu, as an important minister of the Imagawa family, who was still in the confrontation with the Matsudaira army, I am afraid that he would have been poisoned by Ono Michiyoshi a long time ago. It can be said that the three of Iya have already disobeyed the Imagawa family, and in this invasion of the Matsudaira family, they did not contribute, but they were stationed in their own skills, if it weren't for the Ii Naotohu pressure, they would have defected to Matsudaira Ieyasu's side long ago.

At this time, Imagawa remembered that his father had also sent Taiyuan Yukisai to Okushinano to mediate the battle of Kawanakajima for the Takeda family, and he wanted to ask Uesugi Masatora, who had succeeded to the Kanto Prefecture, or Uesugi Asada, who was the representative of the Kanto Prefecture, to mediate for himself, maybe there would be a safe place to live, and he was now afraid of becoming a daimyo.

"Lord, that being said. But there was news coming······ The Takeda family has captured all of the Hojo family's Izu country! "Although Ono Michiyoshi is still patting his ass next to the Imagawa clan, but as the son of the Imagawa family's important minister Horikoshi clan's Yan, Horikoshi Rokuro Zhenji is not as optimistic as him, looking at the overall situation, as long as the Takeda army leaves 10,000 troops in Izu and the Hojo family to hold on, and then more than 24,000 troops move westward and merge with the 5,000 troops of Takeda Nobushiba's army, then the consequences are unimaginable! Perhaps, the reason why Takeda Nobuyori stopped attacking is nothing more than this.

"Lord Horikoshi Rokuro, Ling Zun is still with Lord Okabe Tanbamori, didn't he suppress the offensive of the Matsudaira family? Don't worry about it, my family can save the day. "Ono Michiko is still very relieved, the Matsudaira family will let him escape safely, and if he can't do it, he can still go to the Takeda family, he is on both sides, and he is not panicked at all.

"Lord Ono, all the five thousand elites of this family were killed in battle when the Yoshimoto Gong Shangluo was killed, otherwise how could the Takeda family easily tear up the alliance with the main family? Moreover, the Hojo family has been beaten to the ground by the Uesugi family, and after being attacked by the Takeda family, they lost the Izu country, and the family has no allies to help! "The Shaofu clan of the Seguchi Criminal Department (Imagawa Yoshimoto's brother-in-law, a public family) is still very qualified to angrily reprimand Ono as an important minister.

"My lord, my family can only ask a big name with enough strength to mediate the war. If the Takeda Army continues to invade, the family will really be completely destroyed! Asai Koshiro Masatoshi knelt down directly on his knees, crying bitterly and admonishing. Since the death of Imagawa Yoshimoto, he has been promoted from a horse to a stable, and has become the lord of the Imagawa family's castle in Toe Yokosuka Castle. Originally, when he was still supervising the construction of ships in the port of Yokosuka Castle, he heard that Imagawa Shima and others had fled to Enoe, and immediately went to meet him. As one of the few important ministers, he also did not want the Imagawa family to be destroyed. The Imagawa family is now a member of the general's family, although it is not as close as the Mikawa Kira family, but its strength was once the strongest in the Warring States.

"After the Matsudaira Army captured Noda Castle, the Suganuma family had no intention of taking the initiative to attack the Matsudaira Army, and if this continues, a gap will really be opened in the northwest." Shiryo Ohara, as part of the Imagawa family, monitored Matsudaira Ieyasu's presence in Mikawa Yoshida Castle, but fled to Enoe to take refuge in Toe when Matsudaira Ieyasu began to attack the Imagawa family.

"I know, but what other big name can I find now? Don't tell me it's the Oda family? "The Imagawa clan really can't think of a daimyo family who can still make good friends now, and now it's really even more critical than the Hojo family! The Hojo family is good or bad, and there is still a Odawara Castle that can be defended, and the Imagawa family's relatively strong Sunfu Pavilion has been abandoned, where else can he escape?

"For today's plan, I can only ask the Kanto Governor Uesugi family to mediate, so that I can get a glimmer of life for my family! And the family has no bad relations with the Uesugi family, and by the way, I can ask the Uesugi family to suspend the attack on the Hojo family! "The Sekiguchi clan seems to have forgotten the 3,000 troops that the Imagawa family sent to aid the Hojo family, and he himself was in Mikawa when Imagawa Yoshimoto was Kamiraku.

"That... You don't know that at that time, in order to help the Hojo family, Yoshimoto sent 3,000 troops including Lord Abe Motoma and Lord Shikura Akihei into Sagami Province. They are still in Sagami at the moment, and once invaded the Musashi Province of the Uesugi family. I'm afraid it's not appropriate. Ono said well, as soon as this remark came out, the Seguchi clan's face turned pale, so there was really no reason to take the initiative to ask the Uesugi family with a cheeky face. After all, Uesugi Masahu is still the sister-in-law of Uesugi Asada, so I'm afraid I can't help the Imagawa family. If it was really as rumored that he would have helped the weak, he would have ordered Murakami Yoshikiyo, Saito Asanobu and others in Okushinano to invade the territory of the Takeda family.

"What?!" Not only the Sekiguchi clan, but even Asai Masatoshi, Horikoshi Tsuki and others even thought to themselves, 'The Imagawa family is going to die!' ’

"Husband, although my father is still in difficulty, the Izu Navy is still there, as long as we go to Sagami, there will still be a glimmer of life!" Although Mrs. Hayakawa could barely maintain her composure, the Imagawa clan who was holding her was really frightened.

"How do you get there? The Suruga Navy has defected to Takeda! How do we get there? "Imagawa really can only be a 'soccer (Keju) player', if he is a big name, he is really not suitable.

"The lord can rest assured, the minister is willing to run for the Imagawa family once, as long as he takes a merchant ship to Edo Bay in Musashi." Horikoshi Zhenji took the initiative to ask for his life, after all, the life and death of the Imagawa family is now at stake, and if he goes to Kanto now, he may be able to save his life.

"The minister is also willing to go! After all, Horikoshi Rokuro-sama's qualifications are still shallow, and if the minister goes, he will not let the Uesugi family underestimate the main family. "The Sekiguchi clan is still the elder of the Imagawa family, and he still has a certain identity.

"Then please!" Imagawa Shin walked up to Sekiguchi and handed him a brocade box, "This is a treasure that my father has collected for decades, the Chidori incense burner (Qing Magnetic Thousand Birds, also known as the Anvil Blue Magnetic Incense Burner), if this thing can be accepted by the repair doctor, I should be able to forgive the family." ”

After slowly opening the brocade box, he gently touched the houndi on the lid of the pot, and only listened to the scarlet chirp softly and had to admire this thing. If it is really sent to Musashi, then Uesugi Asa will definitely accept it! Even Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen begged for this thing for a while, and it was better to give it to them than to give it to the Uesugi family.

Sekiguchi and Horikoshi immediately went to Yokosuka Castle and left Toe in the afternoon on a merchant ship bound for Hitachi Province. They were accompanied by only ten samurai guards, and Horikoshi was afraid that they would be intercepted by the Suruga navy when they sailed to Suruga, but the rest were not worried.

"Lord, if Uesugi can forgive the Uesugi family for repairing the doctor's hall, then the family may need a princess to marry into the Uesugi family in addition to this thing after handing it over to the Uesugi family! \"It was none other than Masatoshi Asai, a high-ranking minister, who made this opinion. He didn't think that a family treasure could make Uesugi Asadashi help the Imagawa family, unless it was a marriage relationship.

"What other daughter of an important minister can you find? Now I'm afraid that all the genealogical retainers, the people, the city lords from all over the country, and the people of the country will fight for it, so it is better to inform the Shaofu Hall of the Hori Punishment Department just now and let him inquire about repairing the Doctor's Palace. "Ono said that when he was not in the Sekiguchi clan, he was going to look at these people who were usually arrogant and didn't take him seriously.

"This ······" Many of the retainers in the Great Wide Room all looked at each other, and they did all have daughters, some of whom were unmarried. As long as the Imagawa clan really wants to adopt an adopted daughter, there are dozens of them for the Imagawa clan to choose from in an instant.

In fact, the Imagawa family can be forgiven as long as they do not directly engage the Uesugi army with the general forces, and Asada is a very 'generous' person. Although the current leader of the Daiya family had already captured Koganeshiro, Neki Inner Castle, Hanawa Castle, and Tega Castle one after another, Tajima Gunbu, a retainer of the Takashiro family, was assassinated by his subordinates at Minoo Castle and surrendered to Yamamoto Temple Nacho. Gaocheng Yinji, Gaocheng Yinzheng and others were directly forced to flee to the national capital Taicheng to hold on and wait for reinforcements (there were no reinforcements to rescue).

After the two of them set out from the vicinity of the Tentaki River, passed through the Enshu Sea and the Oi River, and stayed at the Fuji River for a while (bribing the Suruga Naval Army), they left Suruga Bay and entered Sagamiwa Bay quickly after entering Sagamiwan for supplies, and then entered the Uraga Waterway to reach Edo Bay after passing through Kaneda Bay.

It was June 30 after the two of them disembarked. Looking at the bamboo and bird flags fluttering at the head of the ruined Edo Castle not far away, the Sekiguchi clan could only sigh that the Uesugi Dynasty must be the head of the Uesugi family in Ogiga. If he can counterattack the east of Koto and recapture the former residence of Edo Castle in a few years, if his lord Imagawa clan can really be like Uesugi Asada, he may be able to fulfill the dream of the ancestor Imagawa Yoshimoto Kamiraku. The premise is that the Imagawa clan really has the ability to make half of the Uesugi dynasty, and there is a group of retainers who want to be united and loyal like the Uesugi family.