"Your Excellency!" Kamata Toshimasa hurriedly opened the door and ran in, his face sallow as if it were a ripe orange. "More than a hundred people fled last night!" To his surprise, no one in the room showed any undue excitement.

"How many soldiers are there in the city now?" Shikai asked, looking up at him.

"Less than ...... Less than 3000! Kamata Toshimasa's lips trembled.

"That's not bad!" Shikai Jiaoye looked away and said quietly: "I'm afraid that no one will leave in the future......

"This ......" Kamata Toshimasa didn't understand why this famous general, known as the "green ghost", had such firm confidence.

"Don't you understand?" Shikai asked with a wry smile. This number speaks for itself...... We're the only ones left! ”

"Your Excellency...... So what do we do? "Kamata Toshimasa is not a person who likes to think about esoteric issues, and he is most concerned about the problems at hand at the moment.

"It's nothing......" Shikai shook his head and said, "This question is no longer important!" I'll tell you something new: Miyazu Castle has been lost, and Lord Jingkatsu Castlei was killed when the castle was broken! ”

"What!" Kamata Toshimasa sat on the ground with his buttocks, and it took a long time for a sentence to pop out of his mouth: "What...... How so? ”

It seemed that he was in no mood to answer a question, and a general came to him and whispered what had happened.

In fact, he can't say clearly, so it's up to me to explain this link: Niwa Nagahide's vanguard arrived in Wakasa before I started my army, otherwise I wouldn't dare to come out with confidence! Just when Kusunoki Mitsunari led the ninja army to make a big mess, I waited for 3,000 reinforcements led by Ikeda Tsuneko, Hori Hidemasa, and Nakamura Kazushi on the periphery of Mineyama Castle, and I wanted to take Mineyama Castle in one fell swoop with a strong army, but suddenly received a report from Shizumi Yuhu: Takaya Yoshiei and Inatomi Naohide promised to take it as an internal response, but asked us to make some more "big moves" within Tango! Therefore, according to the strategy of the Takenaka Hanbei, I bought off seven small pirates along the coast of San'in and asked them to send Ikeda Hengxing and their 3,000 men to Miyazu Town. How much does it cost...... It's a small meaning, but it's only 12,000 yuan! Takaya and Inatomi infiltrated Miyazu Castle under the pretext of assisting in the defense of the castle, and suddenly defected and killed Jingkatsu Shiroi, so Ikeda Tsuneko entered Miyazu Castle unscathed, and immediately took control of the coastal area of Tango.

“…… I really don't know what those spies in Wakasa are eating, but I don't know that the Oda Army has added so many reinforcements! The general said indignantly at the end.

"So what do we do now?" Kamata Toshimasa only felt a wave of dizziness in his head.

"What else can I do......" Shikai Jiaoye looked at it in the room, and the people here at this time were all core generals above the rank of general. It's time for us to go home, maybe we shouldn't have come in the first place! For Hatanoya's ability and luck, Tanba is big enough......"

"The lord hasn't come to order yet, do we ...... it ourselves?" asked Takatsu Nagashi, confused.

"Does it matter if there is an order or not?" Shikai smiled wryly and turned his gaze out the window. “…… If the lord still sends reinforcements to us at this time, then he may really go crazy! Tango is no longer able to do anything, and now what the family has to do is to shrink their strength and stick to Tanba. If I were Yoshisuke Akamatsu, it would be time to start contacting the Oda family to divide the possibility of Tanba equally! What we should do now is to withdraw to Tamba and seek the possibility of peace with the Oda family. After all, there is no too direct conflict of interest between our two families now, and all conflicts are only because of the Asakura family! ”

"Will the Oda family agree?" Kamata Toshimasa asked worriedly.

"I don't know!" Shiwai shook his head very dryly. “…… Although we and Oda Nobunaga have not yet reached the point of life and death, after all, there are still the personal interests of the important minister of the Zhuxing Qing clan! I don't know what will happen in the end, but that's not what we should be focusing on right now, so let's wait until we get back to Tamba safely! ”

"But now that we are under the watchful eye of the enemy, there are ninjas from the Oda family everywhere outside the castle......" Kamata Toshimasa is still terrified when he thinks of the horror of Oda ninjas.

"I know this!" Shikai Kyoye looked at everyone with a serious expression. "I know it's really difficult, so I've prepared a double 'Golden Cicada Shelling' plan!"

Several people gathered around, and none of them took the initiative to ask, because the Shikai sect would naturally explain.

"Here's what I think...... "The Shikai Sect swept away the decline and returned to its former self-confident, calm, and decisive demeanor." Our army is actually less than 3,000 people now, but there are still many people in the city! Coupled with the people on the west side of the city, it should not be a problem to gather 10,000 people. We gathered everyone together and let all the young and strong people wear the uniforms of our army. They told them that our army was going to abandon Mineyama Castle, and everyone was going to retreat to the central part of Tango to defend it, and they wanted to recapture Kenbu Yama Castle! Of course, there will be spies of the Oda Army among these people, and our movements will soon be known to the Xingqing clan. But soon after we withdrew, we would divide our troops, and the real main force would go to Yoshiwara Mountain Castle in disguise as a reinforcement, and most of the rest would continue in the direction of Kenbe Mountain Castle, but here we were only a small group of troops, most of them civilians. After the Zhuxing Qing clan easily captured Fengshan City, they must want to attack back and forth with those troops who captured Jianbu Mountain City, and annihilate the main force of our army in one fell swoop! In order not to disturb the 'main force', he will not dare to divide his troops to pursue the reinforcements of Yoshiwara Mountain Castle, and at the same time, in order to achieve the greatest possible effect, he will definitely follow our suspicious army to find the best fighter! In this way, after he found out that he had been deceived, our army would have already passed the mountain castle of Yoshihara and was about to arrive at Tanba! ”

"Your Excellency!" Everyone was convinced by the ingenuity of the Shikai Sect.

"Hurry up and prepare!" The Onii Sect resolutely ordered: "Tomorrow night, the flag will be planted at the head of the city, and the whole army will come out from the west gate!" ”

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The sun slowly sets behind the mountains to the west, and as the night falls, the mountain breeze brings the cold again. Shinoi Kyoye wore the armor of an ordinary ashigaru general and rode on a horse, but his heart was warm with excitement. Although he himself said it confidently, he was actually not very sure, and he didn't expect things to go so smoothly.

Withdrew from Fengshan City at two o'clock last night, and divided the troops with the "main force" in the early hours of this morning, and the huge force of 7,000 people continued to march towards the mountain city of Jianbu, and he took the less than 3,000 Tanba disciples to turn around and rush to Jiyuan Mountain City!

The cunning of the Zhuxing Qing clan in the use of soldiers is well-known, as can be seen from the fact that famous generals such as You Zuo Xinjiao and even the Sanhao Sanzhong have repeatedly suffered losses in his hands! This plan of his own could not hide his grasp before, but the development of things could not help him wait any longer! I didn't wait for Tanbo's order to give up Dan without permission, and it was definitely a big crime to seriously investigate it. But for the sake of the survival and continuation of the Hatano family, he made up his mind to "bear" this crime! Regardless of whether the lord will be guilty or not, he must admonish to make peace with the Oda family, even if he is a vassal, otherwise the result of the Hatano family in a few years can only be destruction!

Shikai Jiaoye looked around, although he had been here before, he couldn't recognize it. "What is this place?" He asked the attendant who was with him, who had walked the road many times because of the delivery of letters.

"Returning to the lordship......" the attendant glanced ahead. It's called 'Taryozaka', and it's still 30 miles away from Yoshihara Mountain Castle! According to the estimates of his subordinates, it can be reached at midnight. ”

"Well, that's good...... "Shinoi Kyoye nodded and lowered his voice and asked, "Has the receiving force from Yoshihara Mountain Castle come out?" ”

"It should be almost!" The attendant also replied quietly: "Confirm it again and again in advance, and they will come out when we are almost there!" The last messenger had already sent the message at the time of the division of the troops, and they should be able to calculate our itinerary. ”

"That's good......" Shikai exhaled softly. If he doesn't enter Yoshiwara Mountain Castle, he won't be relieved if he doesn't enter the territory of Tanba, and no one can tell when the Oda army will suddenly appear. This Zhuxing Qing clan has already given him several "surprises" in a row! "Send an order to Takatsu Feldspar and tell the front army to speed up!" He sent out another reminder for the first time today.

"Yes!" A herald urged his horse to run ahead.

Thinking about it, Shinoi Jiaoye was still not very relieved, and after asking someone to send a message to Kamata Toshimasa in the rear team, he himself took a team of flags and personal soldiers forward.

The sky was getting darker, and there were more and more stars in the sky. The 3,000 fleeing Hataye troops gradually left the plains and entered the mountains adjacent to the border between the two countries. Everyone had already guessed the true purpose of their operation, so no one complained about the continuous exhausting march.

"Is there anything unnatural?" Shikai came to the front and asked Takatsu Changshi.

"Everything works!" Although there was really nothing, Takatsu Feldspar's answer seemed very nervous.

"It's good if you don't have it......" As soon as he said this, he bypassed an army from behind the hill in front of him, and the number of people was not very large, and he did not fire a few torches.

"Who's up ahead!" Without waiting for the commander-in-chief to order, a general of Ashigaru shouted to the front, and everyone else stopped and was on guard. At such an extraordinary moment, even the receiving troops of Yoshiwara Mountain Castle had to be carefully questioned.

"We are the troops of His Royal Highness the Oda Army's Star Army, dare to ask if it is Lord Shioni in front?" I didn't expect the person on the other side to be really frank, and this time it made a mess here. "His Royal Highness of the Stars Soldiers is here at the moment, can you please ask Lord Shiai to move around?" The other side made even more "excessive" demands.

"Your Excellency!" Takatsu Changshi leaned over and said in a low voice: "There are not many of them, let's rush over!" ”

"Bang, bang, bang......" seemed to know what was going on here, and the dense sound of iron cannons sounded in the mountains and forests on both sides. However, it didn't hurt anyone, and the flags in the queue were discounted a lot.

"The back is blocked!" There was an exclamation, and there was confusion at the back of the queue.

"Please don't make any unnecessary attempts! We have no ill intentions......" The person on the other side continued to persuade politely, but the semantics were full of arrogance.