At the end of the tea party, everyone finished the refreshments, and each other was very interested.

Baoke's Baoke stood upright, held a fan, and danced a Noh dance in front of everyone. After everyone laughed for a while, several people placed arrow targets in the courtyard and took turns to shoot arrows.

For the samurai, archery was both a pleasure and a practice to hone their archery skills. As far as the bow at that time is concerned, it can be called one of the longest and largest bows in the world, with an ordinary length of more than two meters, and the most significant feature of the bow and arrow is that it is "short at the bottom and long at the top", and the holding part is generally two-thirds of the way down the upper end, forming the characteristics of weak upper and stronger lower. Such a design is said to be for the convenience of mounted shooting.

However, the range of such a large bow is very unsatisfactory, because the bow is mostly a direct shot, unlike most archers of this era, such as the English longbowmen, who take a projectile and shoot a parabolic trajectory. As a result, iron cannons, which had a longer range and greater penetrating power, became popular among the samurai, and the status of bows and arrows declined considerably.

But as the children of the samurai family, whether it is Takeda Katsuyori or Sanada Masayuki, they have practiced good archery skills since childhood. In this regard, Li Xiao had to have a learning attitude, purely as a hobby, anyway, his reputation as a spear master has already shocked the Takeda family, and he doesn't think about the skills of bows and arrows.

After archery, Takeda Nobutoyo, Mochizuki Nobunaga, and Sanada Masayuki felt that they had had enough fun and all offered to leave.

Li Xiao had a plan in his heart, so he opened his mouth to save it at the moment, and proposed that everyone simply come and play a game. This game is from Li Xiao's Ming Kingdom, and it is very popular, and the name is 'Please Close Your Eyes When It's Dark'. As soon as Takeda Nobutoshi and the others heard that the game was from the Ming Kingdom, they were immediately interested, so they decided to stay in Takato City for the night that day.

In order to make up the number of people, Li Xiao took great pains to bring in Kansuke Yamamoto in the castle tower, and invited several other young samurai.

Then Li Xiao took a bunch of notes, in which he wrote two kinds of loyal ministers and annihilated ministers, and asked Takeda to rely on them to draw them. Li Xiao himself was the one who was the referee, and four ministers were elected, and the remaining eight were loyal ministers. After that, Li Xiao explained the rules of the game to them in detail.

The mission of the Destroyer is to kill all the loyal ministers, and every time a loyal minister is killed, everyone discusses it together, and finally chooses a 'suspect' to execute, and then the game continues. Until all the loyal ministers are killed, or all the annihilators are executed by the loyal parties, the winners and losers will be decided.

In fact, this killing game, Li Xiao used to go to bars with his classmates to play with people, which can very much exercise a person's observation ability, logical ability, language expression ability, psychological quality and performance ability.

Then Li Xiao shouted that it was dark, please close your eyes, everyone closed their eyes, and then asked the four people who drew the note to make eye contact, and decided to kill a loyal minister first. After playing for a few rounds and familiarizing themselves with the rules of the game for a while, everyone immediately got started, and they were all addicted to fun.

At the end of each round, the notes of loyal ministers and annihilators are re-extracted, and in the killing game, it is easier to recognize the scheming and shallow city government when the annihilators are more likely to be recognized, and those with poor judgment and observation skills are easy to kill the 'good guys' by mistake.

Like Mochizuki Shinnaga and honest people like Hoko Masatsuki, they often make wrong judgments or are recognized.

Of course, Li Xiao is looking forward to the duel between Kansuke Yamamoto and Masayuki Sanada, the two who can be called the strongest figures in the Takeda family.

Whenever Kansuke Yamamoto judged who was the Annihilator, his unparalleled insight and logical analysis ability always made the character of the Annihilator frightened, and Li Xiao was even more in awe of his ability.

In fact, when it comes to the appearance and the inside, Sanada Masayuki has excellent acting skills when he plays a minister or a loyal minister, coupled with the maturity and stability beyond his age, as well as his calm psychological quality, Li Xiao appreciates it more and more.

In the game, there was no shortage of very exciting collisions between Kansuke Yamamoto and Masayuki Sanada, Li Xiao could see that even Kansuke Yamamoto had begun to appreciate Masayuki Sanada, and Li Xiao was secretly happy to see this. At the end of the game, Li Xiao was also replaced, and Li Xiao, with many years of experience in playing killing games, muddied the situation, and his performance was not inferior to Yamamoto Kansuke, Sanada Masamu was fortunate to them.

It seems that the entertainment life during the Warring States period was really boring, and these Warring States people had never played such an interesting game, and they were all addicted to it all at once. Playing until night, everyone was still fighting at night, and finally Li Xiao saw that everyone was familiar with it, and continued to complicate the game, introducing the concept of guards.

The guards can open their eyes and decide to kill a figure suspected of being a vassal. This makes the game more complex and fun, and even Kansuke Yamamoto, who has always been flat-faced, is also very involved in it.

That night, when everyone was exhausted and went back to the house to sleep, Li Xiao came to the bedroom of the city lord Takeda Katsuyori alone.

At present, Takeda Katsuyori has not married a wife, and he is not good at the love of men, so he does not have a small surname to warm the bed. He was the only one sleeping in the large room of the castle tower, and there were several people outside the house who were responsible for his safety.

"Lord of the city, I have something to discuss with you." Li Xiao sat down cross-legged and spoke.

Takeda Katsuyori heard Li Xiao's voice, and said weakly: "Let's talk about it tomorrow, I'm so happy to play today, I'm tired." ”

"It's a very important thing."

Hearing Li Xiao say this, Takeda Katsuyori got up from the bed, put on his clothes and said, "Sir, what is the matter?" In private, both of them called Li Xiao Mr. Takeda Katsuyori.

"What do you think of Sanada Masayuki?" Li Xiao said straight to the point.

Takeda Katsuyori thought for a while, and said in a humming voice: "It's a talent, sir, do you plan to recruit him as my retainer." ”

"That's right, I don't think Sanada Masayuki's strategy in the future will be inferior to his father's, otherwise why would I try my best to keep Shinfeng today, and Masayuki and the three of them stay." Li Xiao said so, and the fact is also true, in college, the main purpose of his killing game is to make the girls, and now playing with a group of samurai, there is really no way to do it.

"But I don't know what Sanada Masayuki wants? Moreover, his father had to be consulted. Takeda Katsuyori hesitated and said. Sanada Masayuki's father is Sanada Yukitaka, the head of the Sanada family.

Li Xiao had already considered this, and said: "Sanada-sama is easy to handle there, he and Yamamoto Kansuke are old friends, if Yamamoto-sama is allowed to come forward, he will most likely agree." Li Xiao suddenly felt that Kansuke Yamamoto's assistance to Takeda Katsuyori was really a great help, this person had served as Takeda Shingen's military advisor for many years, and he had a wide range of contacts at hand. At the beginning, Sanada Yutaka was beaten by the Shinano wealthy clan Murakami Yoshikiyoshi and lost all his territory, and had to temporarily take refuge in Nagano Yoshimasa of Ueno Kuni's Minowa Castle.

Later, it was Kansuke Yamamoto who recommended Sanada Yutaka to Takeda Shingen. Sanada Yutaka only came out of the Takeda family, and later he used his wits to obtain Toishi Castle, and since then the Sanada clan has been reused by Takeda Shingen.

Li Xiao continued: "Sanada-sama has Yamamoto-sama to solve it, but what I'm worried about is that Sanada Masayuki himself is unwilling, I think he is young, but he is a person with majestic ambitions and long-term vision. With our current conditions, it is not easy to solicit. ”

Takeda Katsuyori thought for a while, and said with a smile: "This is easy, promote him to be a general." ”

"It's not enough."

"Can you also give generous money?"

"Not enough."

"How about giving me a few more famous swords?"

"Not enough."

Li Xiao shook his head, it seems that Takeda Katsuyori still doesn't understand Sanada Masayuki's ability.

Li Xiao is doing his best at the moment, isn't it for Takeda Katsuyori to form his future retainers. Takeda Katsuyori must have brought Sanada Masayuki under his command as early as possible, and with his support, not only did one side win over Shinano's Sanada family, but also had a strong boost.

Sanada Masayuki is one of the best figures in the Takeda family in the future, both in terms of military strategy and resourcefulness. With his joining, as well as Li Xiao, if Kansuke Yamamoto is also willing to stand on the side of Katsuri, this lineup is comparable to the four ministers of Takeda who support Takeda Yoshinobu.

Only in this way will Takeda Katsuyori take charge of the Takeda family in the future, there will be no danger of being overshadowed by the four ministers.