Knowing oneself and knowing that one is invincible in a hundred battles is the true essence of Sun Tzu's Art of War, and in order to recruit Sanada Masayuki, Li Xiao still did some research on him.

After the destruction of the Takeda family, it lost the protection of the main family, and in order to protect the Sanada family, Sanada Masayuki successively surrendered Hojo, Tokugawa, Uesugi, and Toyotomi within half a year. Stand between the heroes, the left and right, and take advantage of the benefits. This can only be done with the ability to assess the situation and to have excellent diplomatic skills. This is also why Taige calls him Bixing.

It can be seen that Sanada Masayuki has a very accurate political vision and can predict the development and direction of the situation, so that he can survive in such a difficult situation.

And Sanada Masayuki is not blindly showing weakness, when Tokugawa Ieyasu unreasonably asked the Sanada family to give up Numata Castle in Uesu (Ueno Country) to the Hojo family, Sanada Masayuki categorically refused.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was furious and sent his generals Okubo Tadayo, Torii Mototada, and Hiraiwa Koyoshi to attack Ueda Castle with 8,000 men. And the Sanada family had less than 2,000 troops.

However, these less than 2,000 people, under the command of Sanada Masayuki, used strategies such as showing weakness to the enemy, ambushing troops, fire attack, flooding, and flanking attack to defeat the Tokugawa army. The process is very similar, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms written by Lao Luo, Zhuge Liang burned Xinye.

However, Sanada Masayuki didn't just write a novel, he did it, and in the face of four times his own troops, he won a complete victory. In this battle, the Tokugawa army lost 1,300 men, while the Sanada army lost only 40 men. Since then, Tokugawa Ieyasu has finally treated the Sanada family as a local tycoon, but with the great names who can compete with them.

Sanada Masayuki and the Sanada family's six-even Qian family crest, so they are famous all over the world, and everyone knows about it.

Sanada Masayuki's above performance can be called a hero, Li Xiao does not deny that the other party is an ambitious figure, and his life is dedicated to the development and growth of his family. Judging from the fact that Sanada Masayuki has served the five lords, he has no immorality towards the first and last lords, the Takeda family and the Toyotomi family, and has done his duty as a retainer very well.

His loyalty to the Takeda family was well understood, and at the moment before the Takeda family building was about to fall, he wrote to Takeda Katsuyori, willing to take his seventy surname as a hostage as a guarantee that Takeda Katsuyori and Takeda Nobukatsu would take refuge in his Ueda Castle.

At the same time, the Sanada family faced the Tokugawa and Hojo Daimyos, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi accepted the Sanada family. Although this can be used as a means for Toyotomi Hideyoshi to always win over people, he values the Sanada clan's good fighting, and uses them to keep Tokugawa Ieyasu, who is disgusting and disgusting.

However, later Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the Nakuwala Castle incident (some conspiracy theorists say that Nakuruma Castle was completely Sanada Masayuki's own immortal jump, with the purpose of pitting the Hojo family), strongly supported the Sanada family, issued a general mobilization order to the local daimyos, and gathered a total of 220,000 troops to surround Odawara Castle, and finally destroyed the Hojo family.

Although the Nakuroba Castle incident was just an excuse, Taiko himself had been unhappy with the Hojo family for a long time, but so far Sanada Masayuki has always been loyal to the Toyotomi family, and in the second Uedawara Battle, he dragged the Tokugawa family's 38,000 troops and prevented them from catching up with the Sekigahara Battle. After the defeat of the Sekigahara War, Sanada Masayuki was exiled to Koyasan, and it is said that Sanada Masayuki said that he would never be able to repay the great kindness of Taiko-sama again.

has ambition, skill (appearance and internal comparison), courage (dare to turn against Tokugawa Ieyasu), vision, and has his own moral code and standards, not the kind of white-eyed wolf who bites the owner casually, this is Li Xiao's personal opinion of Sanada Masayuki.

In addition, Li Xiao also knew that Sanada Masayuki only admired two people very much in his life, one was Takeda Shingen, and the other was Takeda Shinshi. The admiration for Takeda Nobuyoge can be seen from the fact that Sanada Masayuki named his second son Nobuyoshi (that is, Sanada Yukimura later), and the purpose was to hope that the second son would grow into a figure like Takeda Nobuyoshi in the future.

Li Xiao felt that he could use this line of Takeda Nobufan to bring Sanada Masayuki over.

In that case, Lord Takeda Katsuyori, let me do my best to lure Sanada Masayuki and this little Shota over. Li Xiao thought so.

After the next three days, tea parties, killing games, hunting, archery and other activities were held in Takato Castle, Takeda Nobuyoyo, Mochizuki Shinnaga, Sanada Masayuki and the three of them as guests, and Li Xiao, Takeda Katsuyori, and the Hoshina brothers they all had a great time.

Sanada Masayuki also broke his reserve, not like before, he was not as good as his personality, he looked like a young man, he became familiar with everyone, and gradually talked and laughed.

On the fourth day, when it was finally time to say goodbye, Li Xiao suddenly proposed to visit Takeda Nobutoyo's father, Takeda Nobushi. Takeda Nobutoshi listened to the agreement, and there was no reason to refuse, after all, Li Xiao had a good relationship with their father and son before, and Mochizuki Nobunaga naturally had to go with him.

Then Li Xiao observed that Sanada Masayuki really looked eager to go with him, and he thought that the historical data was right, he had admired Takeda Shinshiro for a long time. So Li Xiao proposed to invite Sanada Masayuki, and Sanada Masayuki readily agreed, since Li Xiao spoke, Takeda Shinfeng did not refuse.

As for the Baoke brothers, who have been out to play for a long time, they are going to the territory of the Baoke family, and Takeda Katsuyori, as the lord of the city, can't go out of Takato City at will, and he can't go with him, so on the day of the trip, he sent everyone all the way outside Takato Town, which can be regarded as fulfilling the friendship of the landlord.

After the Battle of Kawanakajima, Takeda Nobuyoshi became a monk at the Kerinji Temple in Koshu and officially lived in seclusion.

Speaking of Huilin Temple, we have to mention the temple's presiding officer, Sakukawa Shaoxi. This person used to be the abbot of Mino's Sofukuji Temple, but he abandoned his position as abbot and traveled around, and later became acquainted with Takeda Shingen. The two had a good relationship, and Shoki Kuaikawa was immediately hired by Takeda Shingen as the abbot of Huirinji Temple.

Because he stayed in Mino for many years, he served as a diplomatic monk between the Takeda family and the Saito family, and they were in contact. Later, Takeda Shingen decided to become a monk, and it was Shoki Kuaikawa who gave Takeda Shingen the name of 'Fa surname Yuan Kiyama Shingen', and it is said that he was also one of the designers of Takeda Shingen's banner seal 'Sun Tzu Siru Shinyan Banner 'Banner of Grandson Siru Mantra'.

It can be seen that the relationship between Kuaikawa Shaoxi and the Takeda family is extraordinary, and he also has considerable influence on Takeda Shingen.

In the year of the demise of the Takeda family, Oda Nobunaga ordered Takigawa Kazuki to summon Kuaikawa Shoki to Azuchi Castle [***], but Shoki Kuagawa refused to go because Nobunaga "burned Mt. Hiei, killed thousands of old and young and weak, and did not go with the Buddha", and closed the door of Huilin Temple. Nobunaga was furious, and Oda Nobutada led more than 1,000 people to surround the temple and pile up salaries, wanting to burn the fire to force the monks out of the temple.

And Kuaichuan Shao Xining died unyieldingly, leaving the famous sentence "Anzen does not have to be a landscape, extinguish the fire in the heart and cool itself", and finally burned with Huilin Temple.