In Takayama Castle, when the clan sect made arrangements, I only heard him speak: "Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of this battle is not to hold the territory, but to completely drive the Takeda family out of Hida and complete the great cause of unifying Hida, so I decided that this is no longer a cage castle defense, but a head-on duel with the enemy......"

As soon as the clan clan said this, he saw a flag warrior running out of the door and said loudly: "Report to the lord, the envoy of the Takeda family has arrived outside the city, and ask the lord to decide." ”

After hearing this, the clan couldn't help frowning, what did it mean that Yama County Changjing sent an envoy to come at this time, although the Oda family and the Takeda family have not been dissolved until now, but this battle is absolutely unavoidable, but no matter what he wants to do, since the person has come, if he doesn't see the last one, it will weaken the momentum of the family, and he came at the right time, he is planning to send someone to the war letter, and now it is just right for him to bring it back.

Thinking of this, I only heard the clan sect speak: "Bring him closer." ”

The castle tower stood on top of a hill, and if you came from outside the castle, it would not be close, but now that time is of the essence, and the task has been allocated, there is no need to keep the retainers waiting here.

Shan County Changjing must have sent an envoy this time for the next battle, so the clan did not lead the samurai to leave, so as not to change anything and delay time.

Since the clan had been talking to the leading retainers of the clan about the next battle before waiting for the arrival of the envoy of the Takeda family, time passed quickly. After about half an hour, I only heard the flag warrior outside the door speak: "Report to the lord." The envoy of the Takeda family has arrived outside the door, and he still asks the lord to decide. ”

Hearing such news, the retainers immediately shut down, so as not to leak their own arrangements.

"Let him in." Clan Zong immediately restrained the smile on his face and said seriously.

After a short time, I saw a junior samurai wearing red armor and a Takeda Rhombic helmet on his helmet striding in from outside the assessment room. I only heard him say confidently: "I am the ...... of Takeda"

"Presumptuous, dare to call myself in front of my lord, is it impossible to bully no one in the Gaoshan family." Although Keiji Maeda has always gone his own way on weekdays. Even sometimes he was not very respectful in front of the clan, but he did not allow anyone to be disrespectful to the lord, so when the low-ranking samurai spoke. He slammed to his feet and yelled.

This samurai had long known that he was going to fight with the Takayama family, and at first he wanted to show a little toughness, but when he saw the tall body of Keiji Maeda, and thought of the purpose of his coming here this time, he couldn't help but tremble in his heart, it seems that he should not go too far, otherwise he may not be able to go back.

I saw him reluctantly salute and said: "In the envoy of the Takeda family, the lord of Tefengshan County sent a war letter to the Gaoshan family. As he spoke, he took out a letter from his bosom.

"Bring it in." The clan's voice fell, and I saw Hikoemon walking over quickly. The letter was presented. Clan Zong tore open the envelope, took out the letter and took a cursory look, seeing the content on it, Clan Zong couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, this county Changjing really doesn't know whether to live or die. He actually had to fight a decisive battle with himself in front of Miyagawa Bank, and as for the time, it was noon on June 1.

Seeing this, I only heard him speak: "Go back and tell Shan County Changjing that I, the Gaoshan Clan, accepted his challenge and told him to pack up his things." Get ready to get out of Hida. ”

"You... You—" The messenger's face turned red with anger, and you didn't say anything for a long time.

"Don't get out yet!" Seeing that the messenger was struggling, he still had to speak, but he only heard Maeda Keiji yell.

The junior samurai immediately closed his mouth and retreated.

On the morning of June 1, 1568, more than 3,000 troops under the command of the Takayama clan were in a formation on the west bank of the Miyagawa River, because there was a Miyagawa separation from the enemy, so a few days ago, the clan had ordered people to set up three pontoon bridges at the narrowest point on the Miyagawa, so that once the two armies started a war, the Takayama army could attack the west bank as quickly as possible, and the Miyagawa was deep, if the enemy wanted to come to the palace, he must also pass through the pontoon bridge, so the focus of this battle was the three pontoon bridges, once they were controlled in their hands, Then it can be a situation in which you can attack and retreat. …,

However, the clan did not plan to attack from the three roads, but adopted the tactics of attacking one and defending two, the northernmost west bank of the pontoon bridge, Maeda Toshiie, Watanabe Moritsuna nearly a thousand elites gathered here, once the war started, they would rush across the pontoon bridge, directly attack the east bank where the enemy is, with this elite of nearly 1,000 people, the clan believed that it would be difficult for the Takeda army to block their attack, once the enemy army on the west bank of the pontoon bridge was defeated, then the family was equivalent to controlling a road to the east bank.

At this time, send the ninja army to press, to the east can threaten the enemy's own position, so that the enemy can be attracted over, and the enemy will fight for victory, so on the west bank of the northernmost pontoon bridge, in addition to the clan arrangement of nearly a thousand elites, behind it, there are a thousand ninja troops led by Wasuka Masakatsu, as long as Maeda Toshiya and Watanabe Moritsuna lead the army to attack the pontoon bridge, then the thousand ninja army will immediately follow.

If the enemy wants to stop this army of 2,000 men, then at least 2,500 men must be withdrawn, so that the enemy's main army and the Takeda army on the east bank of the other two pontoon bridges will only have a few hundred men left, and they will have to be scattered in two places.

If the army's strength is turned from defense to attack, then the other two roads can be easily attacked, and Takeda has basically been mobilized to the north, so they can directly take the enemy's main position, so on the west bank of the other two pontoon bridges, and the west bank in the middle, the clan has arranged 300 heavy wisteria and 200 ninja troops led by Omiya Jingren here, and the south one is guarded by 500 iron cannon ashigaru and 250 ninjas.

The clan clan is arrayed thousands of kilometers west of Miyagawa, in order to allow more troops to attack, so there are only one hundred flag warriors in its main formation, as for the remaining fifty ninjas, their task is to continuously report the battle situation to the clan clan in the first time, and are responsible for passing orders, in order to be able to separate from the ninja region, so they all carry the red regimental mountain pattern back flag with a gold background, which is exactly the opposite of the color of the mountain back flag of the Takayama army.

Twenty-five of them remained in the clan clan's main formation, waiting for the lord's orders to be sent to the various armies at any time, while the other twenty-five followed the various armies.

Since the clan has not received any news of reinforcements sent by the Takeda clan in the past few days, even the ninjas who collected information have been withdrawn, and the clan believes that only by arranging them on the battlefield will they play their greatest role now. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )