Facing Takeda Shinxuan's solicitation, Li Xiao concealed the joy in his heart, but after hesitating for a while, he still said: "Thank you for your kindness, although I have no relatives in Daming, I am a military general of the imperial court, how can I go to another country?" ”

Li Xiao's resignation was quite unexpected by Takeda Shingen.

But Takeda Shinxuan had already decided in his heart that Li Xiao was a fierce general who could match the three armies, how could he let him go easily, so he opened his mouth to persuade: "Jia Fei is thousands of miles away from the Ming country, and there is an ocean barrier. Although you cherish your homeland, I am afraid that the road will be difficult and dangerous. ”

The Racecourse Xinfang also said: "Yes, I heard from the merchants who came to Yue that the Ming Sea is strictly forbidden, and if you rush to return to China by ferry, I am afraid that you will get into trouble." ”

Li Xiao heard what Machang Xinfang said, and thought to himself, of course, the Ming Dynasty banned the sea due to sea disasters, and if he returned to China rashly, he would be accused of fornication.

Seeing that Li Xiao seemed to be hesitating, Takeda Shinxuan felt that there was a play, and replied: "Li Jun, I know that you are worried that it will be difficult to adapt to the environment, it is better to be so, all the etiquette during your appearance in my Takeda family imitates the national etiquette system, you don't have to follow the rules here, even if you see me, you don't have to pay homage." ”

Just what I wanted, Li Xiao looked overjoyed, stepped forward and hugged his fists and said: "The lord is so generous to Li, Li will swear to die to serve." ”

Takeda Shingen laughed after hearing this, stepped forward with both hands and held Li Xiao's arms, and the two staged a touching scene of the monarch and the minister knowing each other.

After that, Takeda Shingen not only rewarded Li Xiao with a hundred yuan worth of gold dust, and gave him a pair of high-quality armor, but also specially selected a 'tall horse' for Li Xiao, this ratio is relative to the short horse.

Li Xiao knew that these objects were all given by Takeda Shingen in order to envelop him.

Just like when I used to play Nobunaga's ambition, the ronin with low loyalty to the newly recruited, casually rewarded a weapon or armor, and the loyalty of his subordinates immediately jumped from 70 to 100, such as Date Masamune, Honda Tadakatsu and other fierce generals are all effective.

Although playing Nobunaga's game, Li Xiao did a period of military general collection madmania, buying and gathering famous generals of the Warring States under his command, and all of them have a loyalty of 100, it is difficult to get rid of it, and it is easy to get bored after playing such a game for a long time.

In reality, people's surnames are too complicated, everyone's 'loyalty' is invisible, and the generals' understanding of the word 'loyalty' is also different.

As for how loyal Li Xiao is to the Takeda family in his heart, only God knows.

Just as Li Xiao was constantly thinking about his prospects in the Takeda family, at this time, a group of twelve or thirteen Takeda family cavalry arrived at the main formation. According to Li Xiao's knowledge, among the samurai, there are high, medium and low ranks, and the samurai who can ride horses are generally in the category of high-level samurai.

So Li Xiao carefully stared at the cavalry of more than a dozen people to see if he could see one or two famous generals of the Takeda family again.

"Shinshi, you're finally here," Takeda Shingen strode over and came to the horse general. The horseman immediately jumped off his horse, took off the armor on his head, and knelt down on his knees and said, "Meet the lord." ”

Li Xiao looked carefully, this military general was wearing the red armor unique to the Takeda family, except that he was younger than Xinxuan, the appearance of the two was extremely similar, and even the beard and hairstyle were exactly the same.

According to less detailed sources, Takeda Shingen had two younger brothers who looked very similar to him, and when he was not in front of the battle, one of them often served as the 'Shadow Warrior', assuming Shingen's identity and commanding the entire army as the commander-in-chief.

This is also a virtual and real strategy in the art of war, such as using the 'Shadow Warrior' as a stand-in, deliberately making the enemy country detailed, mistakenly thinking that Takeda Shingen himself is still sitting in Kai Country, and has no intention of invading, but in fact, Shingen himself has personally commanded the army to come to the opponent's castle.

This person is naturally his second brother, Takeda Nobuyoshi.

"My lord, Haijin Castle has come to report that the Echigo army has set up a base on Mt. Tsunabu on the bank of the Chikuma River."

Takeda Shingen thought for a while, and said in a deep voice, "What is Masanobu doing? ”

Seeing that he was outnumbered, Masanobu had set fire to the castle town and retreated to the castle, and the Echigo army seemed to have plans to attack the castle. Should we accelerate our march? ”

Takeda Shingen thought for a while and said, "No, our army is advancing rapidly and is falling into the big net laid by the Echigo army. The Uesugi family has always sought a decisive battle with our army, and if our army advances quickly, the other side will wait for work, and then fall into the trap of the opponent. ”

After a pause, Takeda Shinxuan obviously didn't want to say more, glanced at Li Xiao beside him, and said, "Xinfan, I will introduce you to a military general from the Ming Kingdom, he is now a warrior of my Takeda family." ”

Li Xiao is already covered in his whole body at this moment, quite a bit of the temperament of a fierce general of the Warring States period, Takeda Shinfan saw it, and couldn't help but exclaim: "What a majestic general, are the people of the Ming Kingdom so majestic?" ”

Takeda Shingen said proudly: "I believe that this person is enough to defeat the three armies. ”

Takeda Xinxuan immediately called Li Xiao to come to the front and said: "Li Xiao, this is my younger brother Xinfan, he is proficient in the culture of your Ming Kingdom, and has a deep study of the Four Books and Five Classics, and the calligraphy of Chinese characters. ”

Li Xiao looked at it and kept smiling at Takeda Shinfan, and said in his heart that this person was a China expert, and he must not show any horses in front of him.

Of course, Li Xiao stepped forward to see it, and Takeda Shinfan also looked very, very happy.

In most of the Sengoku games, Takeda Nobuyoshi is a character who appears for a short time, but for the Takeda family at the moment, he is the second person, both civil and military, second only to his brother.

In the early years, the head of the Takeda family, Takeda Nobuta, originally planned to abolish his sister-in-law Shingen, and let his second son, Shinshi, who was more popular with him, inherit the Takeda family business. But later, with the support of his retainers, Takeda Shingen exiled his father Shintora and became the head of the family.

In the dilemma between his father and his brother, Shin Fan chose his brother. It was precisely because of his support that after Shintora's departure, the Takeda family's retainers were unprecedentedly united under Shingen's command from beginning to end.

Since then, Shin Fan has always supported his brother and participated in every war of the Takeda family, following Shingen like a shadow, and his strategic and tactical ability is not inferior to his brother, ranking second in the Takeda family.

According to Xinxuan's orders, Li Xiao was sent to Xinfan's command as a mailing horseman, but Li Xiao did not expect that his subordinate defeated Takeda Katsuyori was sent to Xinfan's uncle together with Li Xiao.

Takeda Shinxuan actually had the intention of letting Li Xiao teach Shenglai martial arts.

Sitting on the maroon horse, Li Xiao was extremely worried in his heart, and it was no problem for him to drive a motorcycle, a motorcycle, or even a BMW, Mercedes-Benz and other means of transportation.

But if he wants to ride a horse, Li Xiao's riding skills can't be talked about at all, let alone galloping on a horse, even the simplest way forward is not safe.

Walking on the bumpy mountain paths of Shinano, coupled with a suit of armor with limited mobility, especially the two exaggerated sleeves (i.e., armor to protect his shoulders) on his shoulders, made it impossible for him to control his balance with his hands. And the two waist knives on the waist, one long and one short, according to his own words, the short one is called the rib difference, and the long one is called the Tai knife, these two knives are so that he can hardly twist his waist, which makes him extremely uncomfortable.

Fortunately, Li Xiao didn't wear a throat chakra that covered his chin, cheeks and neck, otherwise he would have suffocated to death.

But now the situation is not too good, thanks to Li Xiao's crotch, the Oriental horse is quite docile, if Li Xiaodian really wants to dismount, it will be a shame.

"Li Xiao, I'm afraid it's the first time to ride a horse, right?"

Li Xiao turned his head and saw Takeda Shinfan's expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and he was riding steadily on the horse and talking to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao couldn't help but adjust his sitting posture on the saddle, fidgeting as if he was constipated, and he knew that he was undoubtedly embarrassed now. The most important thing is that he declared to the public that he was a military general of the Ming Dynasty, but he obviously did not know how to ride, which was obviously inconsistent with the identity of the general.

Li Xiao used an embarrassed expression to hide the panic in his heart, and said: "I really don't know how to ride horses in Xia, Fujian, where Li is guarded, is mostly hilly and watery, so although there is no shortage of horses, it is difficult to gallop, even as a general, I mostly walk." ”

Takeda Shinshihiro showed a clear expression at this time, and laughed: "I see." At this time, Takeda Katsuyori, who was still a little unconvinced after losing to Li Xiao before, interjected: "The military general can't ride a horse, it's a shame." ”

After speaking, Takeda Katsuyori whipped his horsewhip heavily, galloped in front of Li Xiao, and left him far behind.

Li Xiao couldn't help but smile when he saw Takeda Katsuyori being such a child, and at the same time felt that Takeda Shinfan beside him was still looking at him. Li Xiao was secretly wary, whether it was Xin Xuan or Xin Fan, the two brothers were careful people, and it was difficult to prevent the other party from seeing a clue in the details.

At present, there is only one step at a time, Li Xiao can only adapt to the identity of the Warring States military general as soon as possible and integrate into the atmosphere of the Takeda family, which is the most important thing at present. So Li Xiao immediately humbly asked Takeda Shinfan to teach equestrianism.

Takeda Nobuyoshi did not hide his selfishness, and said some of his usual experiences and opinions on equestrianism, and after Li Xiao learned, he immediately excelled in equestrianism, which made Takeda Nobuyoshi also have a great sense of achievement. One taught and the other was happy, and soon the 'friendship' between the two rose rapidly.

After Li Xiao adapted to the bumps of the war horse under his crotch, the two began to talk, and Takeda Shinfan introduced the origin of the Takeda family to him.

Starting from the ancestor of Silla Saburo Yoshimitsu, the son of Yoshimitsu changed his surname to Takeda and became the first generation of the Takeda family, and then the Takeda family experienced civil strife, and the twenty-four family heads Takeda Shinhu rose again and unified the Kai country, and the territory is now in the current head of the family, Takeda Shingenjo has reached glory and basically annexed the Shinano country.

And Li Xiao, who is a fan of all this, has long been proficient in his chest, but he now cares more about what era he is in in the Warring States Period, and the current era name is definitely not the Astronomical Year, nor the later Tianzheng Year, the most likely should be the Yonglu Year.

For Li Xiao, who has cleared Nobunaga Nobo and Taiko Ambition countless times, it is a very basic common sense to be familiar with the starting age of each script. Just like the hardcore players who are used to playing the Three Kingdoms series, they can tell with their eyes closed that the script of the Yellow Turban Rebellion started in 184 AD.

At this time, Shingen had already occupied the entire territory of Shinano Province. Then it will inevitably clash with Uesugi Kenshin, who is known as the "Dragon of Echigo" in the northern Echigo country. Historically, Uesugi Kenshin led his troops to fight against Takeda Shingen in the Kawanakashima area five times after receiving the strong support of Shinano, who was expelled from the Takeda family.

This period of history has been described in detail in the movie "Heaven and Earth" that I have seen before.

Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin are both known as the heroes of the world, and their military strategies and military strength are on par. It was these two men who fought in Shinano for more than ten years, consumed too much time, and did not make any progress, so that they both missed the best opportunity to unify each other's texts, which made countless later readers of history feel a pity.

With Takeda Nobushi's narration, the truth is as Li Xiao expected, the Takeda family not only started a war with the Uesugi family earlier, but also confronted Uesugi Kenshin's army on Kawanaka Island three times before.

And now in 1561, in the fourth year of Eiroku, Takeda Shingen led his army for the fourth time, and went north from Kai to Uesugi Kenshin to fight near Kawanakajima, which is known as the fourth Kawanakajima battle.