After quickly recalling the various exploits of Nakagawa Kiyohide after returning to his family, the clan had to stop his sadness, because he knew that the defeat was like a mountain, and Uesugi Kenshin would definitely not miss such an opportunity, so now was not the time to be sad.

So I only heard the clan say: "I know, you can step down." ”

"Yes, my lord, my subordinates are retiring." The ninja couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and hurriedly retreated.

"Someone!" The subordinates are here, please ask the lord to command. Sanada Nobuyuki stepped in first, and after a bow, he spoke.

"You quickly go and recruit the two military advisors in the family, as well as the commanders of each army, to assess the room."

"Yes, my subordinates will do it."

When Sanada Nobuyuki withdrew, he heard the clan say again: "Someone! ”

"The subordinates are here, please give instructions to the lord." The pickaxe regiment Uemon walked in quickly.

"You should have heard what happened just now, Nakagawa Kiyohide was killed, although he died well as a samurai, but in the end he played the prestige of my Takayama family, plus the previous merits, I specially gave the Nakagawa family Shinanomaru Castle 10,000 stone Zhixing, you immediately notify Murai Sadakatsu to draw up a letter of appointment."

"Yes, my subordinates will do it."

"Wait, I heard that Nakagawa Kiyohide has two sons, I don't know how old you are now?"

"Back to the lord, the eldest son of Nakagawa Kiyohide, Hidemasa, is 10 years old this year, and the youngest son Hidesei is only six years old now."

After hearing this, the clan nodded and spoke; "I have decided to summon him as a close room, and you will summon him quickly. Okay, stand down. "The reason why the clan directly gave the Nakagawa family 10,000 stone Zhixing is that on the one hand, it really wants to commend its merits and mourn it. On the other hand, I also want to use this to tell the retainers of the Takayama family. As long as you are willing to die for your family. Then I will definitely not let them down.

Among the ministers of the Gaoshan family, except for the four heavenly kings. There is one more retainer who has obtained Zhixing, and what is unexpected is that the samurai who obtained Zhixing is not the three military divisions of the family, but after Nakagawa Kiyohide, who has been killed in battle, they can't help but feel warm in their hearts, everyone knows that with the credit of Nakagawa Kiyohide, even if they get Zhixing. Five thousand stones have come to an end, after all, even the four heavenly kings in the family are only tens of thousands of stones, and the least Yamauchi Ichitoyo is only ten thousand stones, and the difference between the merits obtained and the actual reward is too great, but everyone is not dissatisfied with this,

Because this fully proves that even if you die in battle, then there will be no such thing as people going to the tea, not only will it not be so, but the lord will reward him more. This is enough to move many retainers.

And when they knew, the lord was even more after the letter of appointment was issued. Recruiting his eldest son, Hidemasa, as a close attendant is somewhat intriguing. Clear-eyed people can see that the lord is doing this to consolidate Hidemasa's position in the Nakagawa family, after all, he is only a ten-year-old child now, if the lord ignores it after the reward, then it will definitely be difficult for Hidemasa to inherit the family business, after all, Nakagawa Kiyohide still has many brothers, these people were only his retainers before, and now Nakagawa Kiyohide is dead, and the heir is young, this is a golden opportunity for them, and if you don't keep it, there will be people who are tempted by power, But all this was solved because the lord recruited Nakagawa Hidemasa as a close attendant, interfering in the internal affairs of other people's families This is definitely one of the taboos between the samurai, even if he is the lord, he can't do this, of course, Oda Nobunaga is not among them, the reason why the Maeda Toshiya family was able to inherit the Zhixing of Owari Arako Castle in history, due to Oda Nobunaga's strong intervention, led to the dissatisfaction of the Maeda family's retainers, and a large number of runs, although the goal of Nobunaga was finally achieved, but the Maeda Toshiya as the head of the Maeda family began to have a good time.

The clan knows this very well, so there is no direct interference, for the Nakagawa family, only need to show their own attitude, you can let those people have some restraint, the clan does this, but also won the support of the retainers, who has no brothers and sisters, if they die, the family business is taken away by the brothers, it is too worthless, now with the example of Nakagawa Qingxiu, they can also be completely assured.

Don't talk about how to arrange the affairs of the Nakagawa family, just say that after Sanada Nobuyuki left, he hurriedly informed the two military divisions at home, as well as the commanders of the various armies, because Wasuka and other adults were not in Kai, and this time the matter was very urgent, and he couldn't wait for them to come, so he didn't get notice.

In the afternoon of the same day, in the assessment room of Kofu Castle, all the retainers who were notified appeared here at this moment, and I saw that both the clan and the retainers were now full of sorrow, and after learning about the situation in Echigo, everyone present for a while did not know what to say.

The Takayama family has not suffered such a big defeat since it was born, and this defeat not only lost a large number of troops, but also killed an important minister in the family, and even the general of the family's army, Sanada Masayuki, is also unknown whether he is alive or dead, which makes the retainers who have been winning the battle suddenly have a feeling of powerlessness.

Prior to this, they all thought that looking at the whole world, their own army was absolutely invincible, not to mention that under the same military situation, even if their own army was less than the other party, they could still achieve victory, but with the end of this joint battle, the myth of the invincibility of the Alpine Army was finally broken, it can be said, and it can be said that this time it is absolutely a complete defeat.

"Everyone, you already know the current situation, I think, Uesugi's character, such a great opportunity will never give up, at present, for the Uesugi army, whether it is Echichu or Noto, it is completely undefended, and part of the Uesugi family's army has crossed the Himekawa River and become the vanguard of the attack on Yuezhong, so its attack on Yuezhong, Noto is inevitable, although this place is not the land of my Takayama family, but my father-in-law, the kindness of the clan is as heavy as a mountain, and it needs to be relied on in the future, so I can't help it." Speaking of this, the clan clan glanced at the retainers who were sitting at the bottom of the house, and continued: "So, I don't want to hear any advice about giving up the aid, what I want to know now is how to help my father-in-law keep the family business in the current situation. This matter is imperative, and I cannot allow my Gaoshan family to shirk it. "The clan is now trying to keep the Shibata family's family business no matter what, it is the land of hundreds of thousands of stones in the two countries, if these two places are occupied by the Uesugi family, then the situation of the Takayama family will be too unfavorable, the Takayama family directly confronted from the east and west, and became surrounded by Uesugi and Hojo, especially when the two families were dealing with Takeda, the relationship is ambiguous to this day, so once this situation is formed, it can be said that the Takayama family wants to enter the Kanto region again, it is almost just a luxury, and it is not fun to be sandwiched by two daimyo with more than one million stones.

So the clan has to show a resolute attitude in front of the retainers, just now when the retainers learned about this, although they have made suggestions, but the vast majority of people have said that for the time being, the family should take a defensive position, the clan also knows that they are right, although the news has been received, Hojo has begun to attack the Utsunomiya family, but it still has the strength to go west, once the family at this time to fight with Uesugi, then who can be sure that the Hojo family will not take advantage of the situation, not only the Shibata family business can not be kept, Even the Takayama family is in danger.

As retainers of the Takayama family, their first consideration is, of course, the safety of the Takayama family, as for Shibata, although he is in the same breath as the main family, he can only be considered later, but this is opposed by the lord.

The authority of the clan in the family is unquestionable, so when he put on a resolute attitude, although the retainers did not have any good suggestions for the time being, they did not propose defense, but only thought in their hearts about how to implement the lord's strategy.

After about a stick of incense, Maeda Keiji took the lead in raising his head and said: "My lord, my subordinates think that this matter is very simple, and if you want the Uesugi family to give up attacking Echichu and Noto, you only need the Ninja Army of the family to launch an assault on Kasuga Mountain Castle, once it knows that the city has been breached, how can Uesugi Kenshin not return to help, in this way, not only the goal has been achieved, but also there is no need to send too many troops." ”

Before the clan clan could speak, he heard Honda Masatin shake his head and say: "The lord can't be like this, Uesugi Kenshin is a military law master, how can he leave such an obvious flaw, his subordinates think that even if he goes out to Vietnam, he will arrange the defense of his family properly, and it is impossible to care about the head and tail, especially at present, the strength of Yuezhong and Noto is empty, Uesugi does not need to send all the troops at all, if he rashly sends the ninja army to raid the Kasuga Mountain Castle, not only will he not be able to make meritorious contributions at that time, but there may be a danger of the entire army being wiped out, after this defeat, The strength of the army is still insufficient, and it is absolutely impossible to let the army lose a lot of strength. ”

"Lord, my subordinates think that what the two adults said is reasonable, but they are also flawed, and it is indeed unrealistic to want to raid Kasuga Mountain Castle, but if you give up Kasuga Mountain Castle and attack other cities of the Uesugi family, then the chances of success will be much greater, and there is no need for all the ninja army to be dispatched, only need to send out the middle ninja in the ninja army and the lower ninja with superb ninjutsu, every two or three people are in charge of a city, they don't need to capture the city, they only need to cause large-scale chaos in the Echigo area, His subordinates didn't believe that Uesugi Kenshin dared not return to the army to rescue, even if he didn't want to, what about those retainers under his command, if he didn't return, the territory of these retainers would be in ruins, even in order to unite the retainers, Uesugi Kenshin couldn't help but choose to retreat, I don't know what the lord thinks. Sugitani said.

Of course, this strategy was not something he came up with by himself, but the family had a precedent for dealing with the Takeda family back then, and the family did it once, but the object of that time was not the city, but the mine, but although the object was different, I am afraid that the effect should be about the same, so he made this suggestion.

After listening to this, after thinking about it carefully, everyone felt that there was no flaw in acting like this, and even Honda Masanobu and Hosokawa Fujitaka felt that if they did this, the chance of success was still very great, and even if they failed, because the ninja army was reduced to zero, the loss would not be too great. (To be continued.) )