Outside Ibaraki Castle, inside the Miyoshi family's main camp, Miyoshi Changqing always felt a little panicked in his heart.

Since Tokawa Ichicun and Matsunaga Xiu led the troops out of the battle, Miyoshi Changqing always felt that something bad would happen. Sitting alone in the main camp, there was a pot of sake on the table in front of him, but Miyoshi Changqing obviously didn't have the leisure to pour himself a drink.

"My lord, the Ten Rivers Sanqi Guarding Hall has been like a bamboo all the way since it came out of the formation, and it has repelled three enemy formations in a row in just half an hour! Now the morale of the family is high, and they are marching in the direction of the Tsugawa family's main camp! ”

"Report! Araki Settsu Shouden defeated the enemy army Kunohe Shin Nakase! ”

"Report! The Awaji people have begun to counterattack, and the enemy's left flank offensive has begun to curtail! ”

Hearing the bursts of good news in his ears, Miyoshi Changqing couldn't laugh at all, because he felt a little unusual.

It went so well.

Today's attack was too smooth along the way, and the Tsugawa family did not carry out any decent attacks and counterattacks at all, and the Miyoshi family took the initiative along the way, which is a little unreasonable.

Judging from the number of troops, the Tsugawa family undoubtedly has the upper hand. Even if Miyoshi Nagakei thinks that his ashigaru is not inferior to the Tsugawa family in terms of combat effectiveness, there shouldn't be such a one-sided situation.

"There must be a conspiracy in the Tsugawa family!"

Miyoshi Nagakei suddenly stood up from the ground, and then said loudly to the first samurai in front of him, "Immediately give the order, the whole army will stop the pursuit, stabilize the battle line, and no one shall act without permission!" ”

As soon as the words fell, before the samurai could respond, the curtain of the formation was interrupted by an envoy who rushed in in a hurry.

"Lord, it's not good, there are a large number of enemy troops in the rear of my family!"

"This is impossible, why did the enemy army appear behind my family! What about the Hosokawa clan of Takatsuki Castle, why don't you report it! "Miyoshi Changqing couldn't accept it for a while, and he also deployed troops in the rear, how could he be quietly beaten behind by the Tsugawa family?

"Takatsuki Castle is said to have surrendered in Kaejo, and Hosokawa Ukyo Daifuden (Hosokawa clan) has joined the Tsugawa family!" The words of the envoy are undoubtedly like dropping an atomic bomb on the head of Miyoshi Changqing, and directly bombing Miyoshi Changqing.

"Hosokawa clan.... Actually surrendered! ”

Why did Miyoshi Chokei not believe that the Hosokawa clan would surrender so much?

The Hosokawa clan is the "current" head of the Hosokawa Kyotsu family, even if Hosokawa Harumoto is not dead at this time, but the Miyoshi family said this to the outside world. Hosokawa Tsuna's biological father is Hosokawa Yoon-hyun, and his adoptive father is Hosokawa Takakuni.

In order to compete for the position of the governor of the Hosokawa family, Hosokawa Takakuni and Hosokawa Harumoto fought fiercely, and in the end, Hosokawa Takakuni was defeated, and Hosokawa Harumoto won and took charge of the Hosokawa Kyozhao family to dominate Kinai (for this history, you can read Kira's new book "The Ambition of the Kyogoku Family", which has a detailed explanation).

Since then, the Hosokawa clan has been fighting against Hosokawa Harumoto, trying to regain "the power that belongs to him".

It wasn't until the rise of Miyoshi Changqing that the Hosokawa clan took the initiative to take refuge in Miyoshi Changqing, and as a puppet supported by Miyoshi Changqing, he successfully became the head of the Hosokawa Jingzhao family.

In Miyoshi Nagakei's view, Hosokawa Clan and Hosokawa Harumoto are mortal enemies, and the two have been fighting for more than 20 years, and it is impossible to reconcile. So Miyoshi Chokei didn't think that the Hosokawa clan would surrender to the Tsukawa family (both the Tsukawa family and Hosokawa Harumoto were members of the Combined Army).

"Lord, thousands of enemy troops suddenly appeared in the northeast of this formation, and they are attacking towards this formation, please make a decision as soon as possible!" A samurai from the Miyoshi family also ran in from outside, kneeling on the ground and said with a panicked expression.

Miyoshi Changqing suddenly understood everything at once.

The Tsugawa family's series of actions today are all aimed at paralyzing themselves and creating the illusion that they can defeat the Tsugawa family, so as to attract all their attention to the battlefield of Ibaraki Castle, so as to ignore the Tsugawa family's surprise attack special team.

Secondly, the battlefield deliberately released water to lure itself into putting its own formation and subsequent troops into the battlefield to further expand the results of the battle. In this way, as soon as the surprise attack team arrives, their own home formation is empty, and they are unable to resist it at all, so that no matter how defeated the frontline battlefield is, as long as they capture their own home formation, then everything will be reversed.

It is undeniable that Miyoshi Changqing finally realized that he had been fooled. But the awakening is not thorough enough, because until now, he still thinks that the front-line battlefield is dominated by the Miyoshi family.

"How many capable soldiers are there in this formation, is there a possibility of blocking the enemy army?" Miyoshi Nagakei was unwilling to give up the "advantage" that he had obtained with great difficulty, and if it was possible, he would rather fight hard in this battle, and drag it to the front to defeat Tsugawa Soji and others.

As if seeing what Miyoshi Changqing was thinking, the samurai continued with a heavy face, "It's useless, the lord has just returned from the second formation. A quarter of an hour ago there was a constant stream of gunfire on the battlefield, followed by thunder. Immediately afterwards, hundreds of the rout of the family returned defeated, and it was learned from the rout that the Sanki Moriden and Danmasadaden were surrounded while pursuing the enemy, and then they were attacked by the Tsugawa family with an unknown weapon, and the entire army belonging to the Sanki Moriden and Danmasadaden was destroyed, and the lives and deaths of the Sanki Moriden and Danmasadaden were also unknown......"

"Plop!"

Miyoshi Changqing sat down directly on the ground.

"You..... What did you just say? ”

"Lord, you heard it right, we lost this battle! Everything is a ploy of the Tsugawa family, the enemy is luring us into pursuit, and they have already arranged an ambush in the rear! ”

"Although I don't know what that unknown weapon is, it is very powerful, and every time it sounds, there will be more than a dozen casualties in our family!"

"The mountain valley five miles south of this place has now become a sea of corpses and blood, and there are corpses everywhere! The Suzuki family and the Nerai people have collapsed without a fight, and now only a few people such as Miyoshi Uemon Daisuke Hall are still fighting alone on the battlefield! ”

"Lord, this is the last time I will call you Lord! After this battle, he has decided to defect to the Tsugawa family, and his father died at the hands of Miyoshi Yoshiken, and the Awa Hosokawa family must be revitalized by Xia! ”

"Today, I have come to tell you about the battlefield, and I am worthy of the Sanhao Palace, and I will retire first, and the Sanhao Hall will do it for itself!"

For the first time, Shinyuki Hosokawa feels like a man!

As the head of the Awa Hosokawa family, Awa guards. Ever since Hosokawa Shinyuki's father, Hosokawa Mochitaka, was killed by Yoshiken Miyoshi, Hosokawa has been a puppet. This time he participated in the battle as an Awa people, and Shinyuki Hosokawa was originally going to fight soy sauce once.

But with the change of the situation on the battlefield, Hosokawa Shinyuki keenly felt that the Miyoshi family was afraid of pills. Back then, his father Hosokawa Chitaka was also a good friend who had done things with Hosokawa Harumoto, and this time he must seize the opportunity to return to the arms of the organization!

Hosokawa Shinyuki left without looking back.

In the main camp of the Miyoshi family, Miyoshi Changqing knelt on the ground alone in a daze.

At this moment, Miyoshi Changqing is already thinking about his life......