Nanoka Goshin didn't pay attention to Asahi Takayoshi, but glanced at the samurai in front of him who he was not familiar with, and then said, "How many days will it take to build a ship?" ”

"If you give 20 craftsmen to you, you can build 20 rafts in one day!" The samurai hurriedly replied.

Nanoka Guxin nodded, "There was a special forging and iron-smelting workshop in Kawahara Castle before, and there are naturally enough craftsmen, so I will leave this matter to you to deal with." There was not much food left in the city, and now they had to rely on rafts to bring in food from outside the city. ”

"This matter is related to the lives of thousands of people in the city and the military luck of all the kings, everything is please!" After saying that, Nanoka Gushin actually saluted the samurai in front of him!

"Hah!" Seeing that Langoka Guxin was so solemn, the samurai also hurriedly returned a salute, and then turned around to leave.

"Slow!" Just as the samurai was about to leave, Nanoka Gushin called out to the samurai, "I haven't asked your Excellency for a name yet!" ”

"The name is like a floating cloud with me, adults can call me Ogasawara Saburo!" After saying that, Ogasawara Saburo left the castle tower without looking back.

..........

Outside Kawahara Castle, inside the Tsugawa family's main camp.

has besieged Kawahara Castle for more than ten days, and the Yoshikawa Hiroke family is really a little impatient, but the general general of this army is Togo Yoshisuke, and Yoshikawa Hiroke and others were sent to Mutsu as reinforcements as Yoritsu, so the dominant power is Togo Yoshiyu, and even if the Yoshikawa Hiroke family is not under Togo Yoshisuke in the family, they dare not send troops without authorization.

Moreover, as one of the first retainers to join the Tsugawa family, Togo Yoshisuke and Yoshikawa Hiroshi had a very good personal relationship, so Yoshikawa Hiroshi found Togo Yoshiyu.

"Lord Dongxiang, this has besieged Kawahara City for more than ten days, and when will it besiege it!" As soon as the Yoshikawa Hiroya opened his mouth, there was a thunderous voice, "This looks like the day before the family sends troops to the feathers, and I still think that I can follow the lord to the Hazen area to fight the Mogami family!" How can these mobs use the elite Huang Bei of their own family! ”

"Yoshikawa-sama, what's wrong?" Togo Yoshiyu looked at Yoshikawa Hiroya with a puzzled face, and didn't understand why Yoshikawa Hiroka, who was fine two days ago, was suddenly so impatient!

Yoshikawa Hiroya sighed suddenly, then sat down on the side, and said with a pause, "Lord Togo, yesterday Mizutani-sama sent a letter to me, saying that the family is about to send troops to Yuqian, it is said that Mizutani Hisaharu is in the front, and there is a lot of show-off in his words!" When I think of calming down in this Tsugaru County, how can I sit still! ”

The Yoshikawa Hiroshi family is now the highest retainer in the Tsugawa family's knowledge and action, and the samurai in the family also faintly have a posture headed by the Yoshikawa Hiroshi family, and as the first general in the family, he can't participate in such a "big war" as sending troops to Yuma, but is still stare at a group of mobs in Tsugaru County, a place where birds don't, which is simply a big joke in the world! At least that's what Yoshikawa Hiroke thinks in his heart.

After hearing Yoshikawa Hiroka's words, Togo Yoshiyu said with a smile, "Yoshikawa-sama, don't be impatient!" The food in Kawahara Castle is only a few hundred stones, which is not enough for the enemy's more than 1,000 troops, and it is believed that it will not be long before the enemy's food will be exhausted. At that time, the family may not need to spend a single soldier to easily capture Kawahara Castle. ”

"The art of war is cloudy, go to the army to fight! Attacking the city is the bottom, attacking the heart is the top, and it is not easy for the family's ashigaru to train, so why should it be damaged in such a place? Togo Yoshisuke continued.

"Having said that, I'm always anxious in my heart!" Yoshikawa Hiroya said with a bitter face, "If that guy is here, I'm afraid he will have already killed the castle tower of Kawahara Castle!" As he spoke, Yoshikawa Hiroke lowered his head in frustration.

Togo Yoshisuke touched a handful of beard on his chin, and was about to say something when Jiro Iwaki suddenly walked in from outside the tent.

"Lord Togo, there is a new situation in Kawahara Castle." Jiro Iwaki bowed to Togo Yoshisuke, and then said slowly.

"Oh? What are the movements of the enemy forces? Togo Yoshiyu hurriedly asked.

Jiro Iwaki paused, then replied, "The ninjas of the main family have discovered that the enemy army is running out of food in the castle, and the enemy army is currently preparing a raft to transport grain from the Koganegawa River in the castle of Kawahara Castle to the castle!" ”

"Is that so?" Togo Yoshiyu couldn't help but let out an exclamation, just now he was still saying that the food in the city was probably not enough, if the enemy army transported grain into the city from outside the city, wouldn't so many days of siege be in vain?

"Do you know where the enemy's food comes from?" Togo Yoshiyu then asked.

Iwaki Jiro thought for a moment, then replied, "I don't know yet, but I can roughly calculate that the enemy's food should be not far from the castle, so I only need to send more ashigaru to search around outside the castle, and there will definitely be news!" ”

"That's good! Without further ado, Lord Yoshikawa, you quickly arrange for a patrol to be deployed outside Kawahara Castle, and you must not let the enemy transport food into the city! Togo Yoshiyu said loudly.

"Hah!" Yoshikawa Hiroya hurriedly took the order.

.........

On June 1, the 15th year of astronomy, on the bank of the Kokanegawa River in the north of Kawahara Castle, a patrol team of ten people from the Tsugawa family was slowly searching for something along the bank of the Kokanegawa River. At the same time, a team of more than 50 people was slowly approaching the bank of the Xiaojinchuan River. This team is composed of people, mixed with a group of ronin-looking men, and more than 20 carts in the team are unusually conspicuous.

"Inuhachiro, we have to speed up, otherwise if we miss the appointed time, we will all be unlucky!" Looking at the slow-moving procession, a man in the crowd armed with a sword said to a man named Inuhachiro beside him with an anxious expression.

"Whoa!" Inuhachiro stepped into a puddle of water, and then said with a disgusted face, "It's been raining for several days in a row, how can such a muddy road go fast!" It's just dawn now, and it should be too late! ”

"Not good!" As soon as Inuhachiro's words fell, a man next to him pointed ahead and said loudly, "It's the patrol of the Tsugawa family!" This sucks! ”

Hearing the shout, Inuhachiro was also stunned, and then quickly raised his head, and sure enough, he saw a patrol of the Tsugawa family in front of him walking towards his side.

At the same time, the patrol of the Tsugawa family on the other side also discovered the figure of Inuhachiro and others, and one of the leading samurai of the Tsugawa family immediately pulled out the sword on his waist and shouted, "Found the enemy!" Kojiro, you immediately go back and inform Yoshikawa-sama, the others are in a spear formation, defense! ”

"Hah!"

Looking at the Tsugawa family ashigaru that suddenly appeared in front of him, Inuhachiro also secretly swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and the man next to him said with an anxious face, "What about Inuhachiro?" Why don't we run away? ”

"How to escape? Pushing so many things, can you still outrun the Ashigaru of the Tsugawa family? Inuhachiro said loudly.

"What do you care about now, it's important to save your life!" The man gritted his teeth and said indignantly.

After hearing the man's words, Inuhachiro glanced back at a group of frightened and trembling folk men and the other two accompanying ronin, and then sighed unwillingly and said loudly, "Withdraw!" ”