"What! Torii Pass is lost! "Takeda Nobutoyo led 5,000 pioneers and finally arrived at Shinano, but received the news that Torii Pass had been lost. This made him dare not advance easily, so he had to garrison Suwa Uehara Castle, waiting for Takeda Katsuyori's army and subsequent orders.

Early the next morning, Takeda Katsuyori's 15,000-strong army also arrived, bringing the total strength of Takeda's army to 20,000.

At this time, the news of Ogasawara Shinryo had just rebelled, and Takeda Katsuyori angrily ordered the execution of Shinryo's mother, but he began to worry in his heart, knowing that the main wife of Shinryo was the daughter of Takeda Shinryo, and Shinryo was still holding on to Oshima Castle.

"My lord! Go to Shiojiri Pass immediately! Keep the enemy's Western Route Army out! It can also be used as a horn with Fukashi City! Tsuchiya Masatsune immediately suggested that Shiojiri Pass was an important checkpoint separating the Sukomi Basin from the Matsumoto Basin, and that it was the last barrier to the hinterland of Shinano and even to Kai Province.

Fukashi Castle is an important stronghold of the Takeda family in the hinterland of Shinano and the Matsumoto Basin, and this castle is also called Matsumoto Castle.

The garrison commander of Fukashi Castle is Masabo Baba, who is the son of Nobubo Baba, one of Takeda's four ministers. After Shinharu was killed in the Battle of Fukashi, Masabo succeeded him as the governor of the family and served as the jo of Shinano Fukashi Castle.

If the torii pass is regarded as the entrance gate to the hinterland of Shinano, and the Matsumoto Basin can be ravaged by entering, then Shiojiri Pass is the exit gate, and from here it will be a vast Kankoto basin in the east, and it will step onto the spacious central street connecting Shinano and Kai, and directly threaten the old Kai.

"Damn! Fast! Speed up! Go to Shiojiri Pass! The enemy must be sealed in the Matsumoto Basin! "Takeda Katsuyori has understood the seriousness of the matter, and he does not dare to delay for a moment.

"Quick! Speed up! Speed up! At the urging of the samurai, Takeda Ashigaru quickly ran towards Shiojiri Pass.

Stompe... Stompe! The Takeda Army set out from Uehara Castle, and an hour and a half later, they arrived at Lake Suwa.

Lake Suwa is located almost in the middle of the Suwa Basin, with an elevation of 759 meters above sea level and a circumference of 16.2 kilometers. In the winter when the lake is frozen and the minimum temperature is below -10 degrees Celsius for more than 10 consecutive days, the ice cracks and rises upwards by more than 1 meter due to the contraction and expansion of the ice, and the ice rises upwards by more than 1 meter.

The north and south shores of Lake Suwa can be bypassed, but Takeda Katsuyori chose to bypass the north shore because he was going to Suwa Taisha Shrine there to pray for blessings.

Suwa Taisha Shrine is an ancient shrine with the upper shrine of Upper Suwa and the lower shrine of lower Suwa, which are worshipped by believers who worship the god of martial arts, the god of farming, the god of hunting, and the god of wind, respectively. Held once every six years in the spring, the Imperial Pillar Festival is a thrilling festival in which large timber is cut down from the mountain to build the four corners of the shrine and slid down a 30-degree slope to carry many people called "clans" on top of the large wood.

At this time, Takeda Katsuyori was praying sincerely to the martial god, hoping to bless him with the victory of the Takeda family and return triumphantly.

The Takeda army rested outside, taking out their own rations and eating their lunches, and whispering to each other about the fierce invasion of the Hosokawa family.

"Newspaper... Report... Report! "Just as the troops were resting, a fast horse suddenly came running from a distance, the samurai on it looked panicked, the white flag behind him grinned in the wind, embroidered with a hundred-legged centipede, he was one of the Takeda family's hundred-legged envoys of the Twelve Komiyayama Tomoharu.

Komiyayama Tomoharu quickly crossed the crowd, and the surrounding ashigaru stood up and looked sideways, guessing what was going on. I saw him rush straight to the door of the Suwa Taisha Shrine, then turned over and dismounted and ran in.

"My lord! Lord! Oh no! Komiyayama Tomoharu hurriedly entered the inner sanctum of the Taisha Shrine, while Takeda Katsuyori was still praying.

"Bastard! Don't you know I'm praying! You bastard! Beware of disturbing the Valkyrie! Get the hell out of here! Takeda Katsuyori roared angrily, not giving him a good face.

"But the lord..."Komiyayama Yuharu wanted to say something more.

"Get out!" Takeda Katsuyori roared, and the traces on both sides, Katsushi and Nagasaki Nagasaki, stepped forward and prepared to set up Komiyayama Tomoharu to go out.

Since the Battle of the Hung Dynasty, Komiyayama Tomoharu has been in opposition to Takeda Katsuyori's flanks such as Katsushi Takebe and Nagasaki Nagasaka, and the relationship with Takeda Nobuyoru and other royal relatives who have escaped from the battle has also been very tense. And because of Nagasaki's slanderous rumors, he was also alienated by the sovereign Takeda Katsuyori and ordered him to think about it behind closed doors. If it weren't for this expedition and fighting, he, an intelligence officer on the battlefield, would still be thinking about it behind closed doors at home.

But Komiyayama Tomoharu was still focused on the main thing, forcibly broke free, ran to Takeda Katsuyori and knelt on one knee in front of Katsuyori, and reported loudly: "Lord! Shiojiri Pass has been taken by the Hosokawa Army! ”

"What! That's impossible! That's impossible! When Takeda Katsuyori heard this, he angrily grabbed Komiyayama Tomoharu's collar, and there were a hundred expressions of disbelief.

"It's true! It's true, my lord! This is the intelligence that his subordinates personally investigated! Just now! Shiojiri Pass was taken by the Hosokawa Army! Komiyayama Tomoharu once again uttered words that Katsuyori Takeda couldn't believe.

"No, no, no! That's impossible! That's impossible! Intelligence this morning showed that the Hosokawa West Route Army had just walked out of the valley and arrived in the Matsumoto Basin! It's only been half a day's work, not to mention the attack on Shiojiri Pass, I'm afraid it's not here yet! Even if it was there, the half-day march could take Shiojiri Pass so quickly? You're really a Takeda warrior is papier-mâché! There is also Fukashi Castle on the side! Can Changfang watch Shiojiri Pass without saving it? I don't believe it! I don't believe it! Herald! Hurry up and march to Shiojiri Pass! I'm going to verify it with my own eyes! Deep down, Takeda Katsuyori couldn't accept this reality, and he was prejudiced against Komiyayama Tomoharu, so he simply went over and saw for himself.

"My lord! Lord! Don't go! Don't go! Let's go back and hold on to Uehara Castle! Komiyayama Tomoharu wanted to catch up with Takeda Katsuyori again, but was stopped by Katsushi Kibe and Nagasaki Nagasaki.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! Shiojiri Pass has been lost, and our army is completely exposed to this Suwa Basin! If you go now, you will meet the Hosokawa army who is waiting for work! Get out of the way! Komiyayama Yuharu was anxious and wanted to forcibly break free again, but this time he couldn't succeed.

"Okay, Komiyayama-sama! Stop the joke! The lord did not disturb the morale of the army to condemn you, he is already very merciful! You stop talking nonsense! Otherwise... Don't blame me for being rude! But they didn't believe it, this information was too distorted, after all, the distance on the road was fixed. Even if the Hosokawa army flew to Shiojiri Pass, it would not be possible to take it instantly, and there was no rout to report until now.

"Nope! No! It's true! It's true! Komiyayama Tomoharu looked at the back of Takeda Katsuyori who was gradually drifting away, and sorrow came from his heart, and two lines of tears came out of his eyes.