It didn't take long to see that as soon as the envoy sent by Naito Ru'an entered, he heard Matsunaga Xiu ask: "Naito Ru'an sent you here to report something, tell me quickly-"

I only heard the messenger say anxiously: "Back to the lord, two days ago, the Tsutsui family gathered more than 1,000 troops to launch an attack on the family, and has now broken through the ten cities, Longwang Mountain City, Ze City, Autumn Mountain City and other cities with more than 40,000 stones.

And Lord Naito has the heavy responsibility of defending the city, so he should not go out lightly, so he sent him to come down and ask the lord to send reinforcements quickly, and also ask the lord to decide. ”

After listening to Matsunaga Xiu, he couldn't help frowning, what he said was not bad with what he thought, and it was indeed the Tsutsui family who was making trouble behind his back. Matsunaga Hidechi said, although the Tsutsui family has been beaten by himself at present, and if it weren't for the support of the temple, it would have been destroyed by himself, but even so, he must not be underestimated.

The prestige of the Tsutsui family in the Yamato country far exceeds his own, and if he doesn't quickly regain the lost territory, even if he doesn't attack the main family again, I'm afraid it won't be long before many wealthy families who have already returned to their own family will re-side with the Tsutsui family, and at that time, it will be a little difficult to deal with the Tsutsui family.

And this time the action of the Tsutsui family is different from the past, before all its troops, they were all directly taken from the main city of the family, Xingui Mountain City, and this is the first attack on Zecheng and other three cities, these three cities are not only remote, not close to Xingui Mountain City, but not far from Tsutsui City, and they are all built in a dangerous terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is enough to show that Tsutsui Shunqing has changed his strategy, not as eager for quick success as before, but began to fight steadily, first consolidate the periphery, and then fight with the family after having enough strength.

Matsunaga didn't take him seriously before, but now, he has to face up to the defeat of this subordinate.

But now the army of the Miyoshi family has not yet arrived, if he retreats like this, then it will be equivalent to letting the tiger return to the mountain, if he does not kill the Gaoshan clan this time, then I am afraid that there will be no chance in the future.

And just when Matsunaga Xiu hesitated, he saw another junior samurai walking in quickly, and said anxiously: "Report to the lord, the Yue Zhi family has returned to the Tsutsui family yesterday, and the family army swept the surrounding cities, Kaibuki Mountain Castle, both have been lost, and now Yoshino County and Utuo County are occupied by the Tsutsui family, and the land they have obtained has exceeded 80,000 stones, and please ask the lord to decide." ”

"What, you're saying that the Yue Zhi family has also returned to the Tsutsui family?" I heard Matsunaga Xiu hurriedly ask.

The Yue Zhi family can be said to be the largest powerful clan in the south of Yamato, and there are 30,000 stone land under his rule, and his defection will inevitably make more wealthy families betray, compared with the safety of the territory, the Takayama clan is nothing at all, even if he is there in the future, he can't get the trust and reuse of Oda Nobunaga, then with more than 300,000 stone land under his rule, it can also be regarded as the biggest power of the Oda family.

But if the territory is gone, then even if he gains the trust of Oda Nobunaga, what can he do, I don't know how long it will take to get the current territory, when he thought of this, he no longer hesitated, and hurriedly said: "Order, all the forces of the family immediately return to Yamato to annihilate Tsutsui." ”

Because Matsunaga was afraid that the Takayama clan in the castle would find out that his family was withdrawing and would pursue him in the rear, he did not take anything from the camp except for the withdrawal of the army, not even the burning torches were extinguished.

And when the Takayama clan found out that the enemy outside the city had withdrawn, it was already the morning of the next day.

And although it has only been more than three days since the Tsutsui family left the army, due to the continuous spread of rumors by ninjas, it has also made Shimakatsu Takeshi's reputation great, at least in the region, and his deeds of winning three cities and one stone in a row overnight have spread among several countries. …,

He was originally obscure like most samurai in the world, but overnight, he became famous, and some people have even compared him to the Owari no Kuma clan who connected the three cities and eight mountains back then.

And his deeds soon reached the ears of the clan, when he heard such rumors, he couldn't help but regret it very much, now the clan only wants to say one thing, that is, there was once a top talent to recruit, but he was completely left behind, if the heavens are giving him a chance, then he will definitely invite him to his command.

However, although the clan felt a little melancholy, now he also knew that now was not the time to think too much, since the Matsunaga family had retreated, then his crisis was completely resolved.

When the clan just thought of this, he saw a ninja under his command walking quickly to the city, and seeing that it was a ninja of his own family, the defenders of the city quickly opened the city gate and let him in.

"Report to the lord, the main hall has set off from the Guanyin Temple City, the Miyoshi family has been set up in the west of the Nagara River, because Miyoshi Yoshitsugu does not know that the Matsunaga army outside the city has retreated, so it is still sent a thousand troops to help, at this moment has set off from its array, and please decide the lord."

"I know the way, continue to observe the movements of the Miyoshi Army, and report the situation immediately."

After the ninja left, he only heard Sanada Masayuki speak: "Lord, now the army of this family can enter and leave the city at will, and the reinforcements of the Miyoshi family don't seem to know the situation here, so it is better to ......"

When he said this, seeing that the lord smiled slightly, he already knew that the lord of the Dao should think the same as himself, so he didn't continue to speak.

In the assessment room of Takasaki Castle, Isshiki Fuji Nagami clan suddenly visited, so he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly recruited his retainers to the assessment room.

When everyone sat down, they only heard the clan speak: "Lord Isshiki, according to the report from the ninjas who went out to investigate, the Matsunaga army has left Takasaki Castle with all its forces last night and returned to Yamato. ”

Although Isshiki Fujicho is not very shrewd, but he is not stupid, since the attack launched by the Matsunaga army three days ago was repulsed, he has not moved, he knows that the reason why Matsunaga Xiu will do this, one is to wait for the city to launch an attack, and the other is to wait for reinforcements, although the food problem is solved, however, if the army of the Miyoshi family comes to help, then there is still a danger of breaking the city, so these days he is not only not happy, but more nervous.

However, just now Takayama-sama said that he had withdrawn from the army, which is really confusing, for the Matsunaga family, the situation is now very good, why did they retreat for no reason?

Due to the blockade of Takasaki Castle and the fact that Ishiki Fujicho did not send his subordinates out to investigate, he was completely ignorant of the Yamato civil strife now, and now he was only waiting for the clan to tell the reason.