The two sides fought another joint battle outside of Kinaki Castle, and this time it was the Kuroda family who emerged victorious. Tokugawa Ieyasu's Tadahiro Torii, Kiyohide Takagi, Tadashige Mizuno, Katsuyoshi Atsumi, Naoji Ando and others were killed in battle, losing more than 4,000 soldiers. In addition, the famous samurai of the Kuroda family were killed and wounded four people, all of whom were wealthy clans and national samurai who had previously surrendered to the Kuroda family, and the Kuroda family's own soldiers suffered more than 2,000 casualties. The Kuroda family still suffered a relatively big blow in the Mikawa country this time, and just after the Kuroda family entered the Mikawa country, they had already lost more than 5,000 men and horses.

At this time, Tokugawa Ieyasu suddenly sent his own envoy to the Kuroda family to ask for his own surrender, and he agreed to submit to the Kuroda family, but asked the Kuroda family to keep the land of Mikawa Province and one country for him.

When Ite Tomoji looked at the envoy sent by Tokugawa Ieyasu, he felt like he was looking at a fool, so he just kept watching and didn't say anything else.

You must know that the Kuroda family has now won a decisive victory in the territory of the Tokugawa family, and what Tokugawa Ieyasu still has at this time is only 2,000 defeated troops gathered, and the Kuroda family's army still has more than 15,000 people.

In any case, Tokugawa Ieyasu's defeat was already decided, and the Kuroda family could completely obtain the land of the Three Kingdoms that the Tokugawa family now controlled by themselves, and there was no need for any other conditions.

And now Tokugawa Ieyasu even has the face to send an envoy to make such a request for submission, hoping to get Mikawa Province and one country, which is unacceptable to the Imate Tomoshi no matter what. If he didn't ask for it, Iate Tomoji would have forgotten it, and he might be able to reluctantly accept Tokugawa Ieyasu, after all, the combat effectiveness under his command is obvious to all. But if it were the conditions now, it would never be possible.

So the condition that the Imate Tomoshi gave Tokugawa Ieyasu was that he had to transfer the land to another country, only keep the land of 30,000 koku, and turn him into a small daimyo at the county level, and at the same time offer the third son Hidetada as a hostage, and also offer a demotion table, which was already very harsh.

At this time, Honda Masanobu, who was located in Kuroda Castle in Harima Province, learned about the situation of the Tokugawa family, so he immediately decided to go to Minoku Province to meet Kuroda Vocational High School. It's just that another thing happened at this time, which made Kuroda Vocational High School return to Harima Province.

One of the bigwigs of the Kuroda family, the former head of the Musato family, Musato's Kobei died at Kuroda Castle at the age of fifty-seven. After learning the news, the entire Kuroda family was shaken, and you must know that it is different from the older generation of the Kuroda family who died before. Musato Kobei is the real boss of the Kuroda family! He was also one of the first retainers of the Kuroda family to receive the treatment of the national lord, and he was also the father of Takatomo Musato who was now on the Hokuriku expedition.

After thinking about it for a long time, Kuroda finally decided that the general strategic direction might change, because so many manpower and material resources had been used before, and it was impossible to stop abruptly at this time.

So Kuroda Vocational High handed over the command of this army to his younger brother Kuroda Toshitaka, and at the same time was assisted by the military advisor Sanada Masayuki, and continued to start the strategy of the Takeda family. And Kuroda Vocational High School himself took Kuroda Nagamasa and hundreds of guards and began to turn around Harima Country.

Musato Kobei was actually seriously ill a year ago, but he has been recuperating in Kuroda Castle, and with the entire Enryakuji Temple taking care of him, his condition is quite stable. But in the middle of the year, because of the hot weather, his condition deteriorated, and he died directly in Kuroda Castle

Either way, he had to be sent back to his home to be buried at the Bodhi Temple in Tajima, so a few days ago, he had been sent back to the Bodhi Temple in Izushi Castle to be buried. At that time, there were also Kuroda and Kuroda Yoshitaka.

After that, a small funeral was held for the mother of Kobei, and this time the three generations of the core of the Kuroda family, Kuroda Zhitaka, Kuroda Vocational High School, and Kuroda Yoshitaka all participated in the worship.

At the funeral, Kuroda Vocational Duty personally presided over it, starting from how his mother Kobei entered Kuroda's house, how to make meritorious contributions to become a retainer, how to assist himself, how to teach Kuroda Vocational High School martial arts, how to guard Koguchi Castle, how to develop Tajima Province, and work hard all his life.

said that at the end, Kuroda couldn't cry, because Musato Kobei is indeed his best brother, he has always been the most trusted retainer, and he is also the last person who can be trusted except for one family, and now he is dead, and his performance also made Mrs. Musato cry on the spot.

At the wedding, Yoshitaka Kuroda saw the leaf again, but at this time the leaf was no longer the quirky girl, but a girl who was extremely sad about the death of her grandfather. Kuroda Yoshitaka just nodded at her, and this action was seen by Kuroda Nagamasa.

At night, Kuroda Nagamasa found Kuroda Vocational High School in the city.

"Father." Kuroda Nagamasa bowed to his father.

"Changzheng!" Kuroda just nodded.

Kuroda Nagamasa squinted his eyes and was a little angry with Kuroda's attitude, not remembering that he was his father at all, and then he recovered and said: "Father, the child has something to ask for, please agree to the father." ”

"Oh! Something, yes? Let's talk about things first! ”

"Father, can't you just say yes first?"

"There's no way I'm going to do something like this that is not good for the Kuroda family."

"Really?" Kuroda clenched his fists.

"Say it!" Kuroda's tone was not very good.

"I want to marry Yezi, the princess of the mother's family."

"Ye Zi, don't you know that she has already promised to your brother? And the two of them have met and have already agreed to the marriage. ”

"I hope to get the leaves, and then I won't compete with my brother for the position of family governor."

"Is this a deal?"

"Hey! If my father thinks so, then forget it! ”

"Changzheng ......"

"Hey!"

"Ye Zi is Yilong's wife, and the same is true for the position of family governor, you think too highly of yourself."

"Why, why is everything my brother, why do I have to give up everything because I am the second son, and I can't get the help of the people around me when I see my brother taking the throne. I don't accept it, and I Kuroda Nagamasa don't accept it. Kuroda Nagamasa stood up directly.

"As long as I'm still here, the Kuroda family is Kuroda Yoshitaka's, this can't be changed, you have had the ambition to seize the Kuroda family since you were a child, and it's because of this that I can't give you the Kuroda family, what the Kuroda family needs after is a benevolent monarch, not an ambitious person."