In the castle tower of Koiwatake Castle.

Li Xiao and Jiangma Huisheng looked at each other.

In fact, Li Xiao and Jiangma Frasers are not new acquaintances, as early as two months ago, the two have been in contact with each other.

This must be started all over again.

Since Takeda Shingen determined Hida at Iwaki Castle, Ueno attacked the grand strategy of Echigo together. In the following six months, the implementation was a serious strategy of emphasizing the east over the west.

On the side of Ueno Province, Takeda Katsuyori, Takeda Katsuyori was paired with Sanada Yukitaka, Kohata Kenshige, Takeda Nobutoyo and the combination of Naito Masatyo, a powerful minister of the spectrum, and his army under his command exceeded 5,000 troops.

And this time out of Musashi Matsuyama Castle, Takeda Shingen personally led the army from the Hesakikan to support.

For the Takeda family, Nishiueno must be taken, and Takeda Shingen has been out of Minowa Castle six times before, which shows his determination.

It is impossible for the Takeda family to clench two fists and hit people at the same time, and they are strategically inclined to the necessity.

So on the other hand, Hida has a cup on the side, and for more than half a year, Li Xiao has not even seen the ghost shadow of the general of the legion, the Baba Xinfang.

In fact, Baba Nobubo has been serving Takeda Shingen at the Tsugasaki Pavilion, and even this time he went out to Matsuyama Castle, and Takeda Shingen took this important minister with him again.

It is no wonder that in history, Takasaka Masanobu felt 'jealous' for the intimate relationship between Takeda Shingen and Baba Shinbo.

The general Baba Xinfang is not there, and the offensive of Hida Country cannot be launched, as far as Li Xiao's men and horses are concerned, plus the Baba Changfang, who is also stationed in Hida, the two people have less than three hundred troops to die.

Raiding the Hida country, it's a joke, it's good to be able to complete the territorial garrison.

The location of Azumi-gun is also not safe, and although it is supported by Takasaka Masanobu of Kaizu Castle, there is also a Senkoku street that directly connects to Echigo.

Fortunately, in history, Uesugi Kenshin sent troops to Shinano and never took this route.

And at this time, Li Xiao heard the news from the ninja who was planted in Hida Country by Yokotani Yukishige that the situation in Hida Country was already unstable.

Hida Hiroshi Koji Yoshiyori is close to completing the goal of unifying Hida, since last year he was officially recognized by the Hida National Division from the Imperial Court, and inherited the name of the sister Koji family.

Except for the Jiangma Shisheng of the North Hida, the wealthy families of the Hida country all expressed their submission.

If he lets his sister Koji be good and then captures the Ema family, then he will complete the great cause of unifying the Hida country.

At that time, the entire Hida country will be like a rock, and if the Takeda family wants to attack it again, it will be ten times more difficult than before.

So Li Xiao hurriedly wrote a letter to Takeda Shingen to inform him of this situation, and at that time, Takeda Shingen had promised Hojo to go out to Musashi Matsuyama Castle, and he could not send troops to support Li Xiao.

So Takeda Shingen rewrote the letter and appointed Li Xiao to temporarily act as the Baba Shinbo, temporarily taking full charge of the strategy affairs of the Hida Country.

Li Xiao just smiled bitterly when he got the letter, he was in charge of the strategy of the Hida country, what kind of joke was he making with the three hundred people of the racecourse Changfang, who was the raider.

So Li Xiao thought about it, and the only way was to ask the Kiso family, the largest wealthy family in South Shinano, for help.

The current head of the Kiso family, Kiso Yoshiyasu, controls the area around the Kiso Valley in Chikuma County. The Kiso family is prominent, and its ancestor is Gen Yoshinaka, who defeated the Taira clan in the Battle of Genpei and almost reigned in the world.

When Minamoto Yoshinaka was young, in order to avoid trouble, he was adopted by the Shinano Kiso Valley wealthy clan Nakahara Kanenato, so later generations called him Kiso Yoshinaka.

The Kiso clan of the current Shinano Kiso Valley is generally said to be a lineage of Kiso Kisu's fourth son, Kiso Kisu, and his mother is said to be the unequaled Himesamurai Bazen at that time.

And the lineage of the Kiso clan has grown stronger in the place where Kiso Yoshinaka avoided trouble.

In the first year of Eisho, Kiso Yoshimoto, the sixteenth head of the Kiso family, was killed in battle with Miki Shigerori (his sister Koji Ryoyori's father) in the Hida Kingdom.

After the death of Kiso Yoshimoto, although the Kiso family was in decline for a time, it was revived again in the hands of Kiso Yoshimoto's son, Kiso Yoshimoto.

Kiso Yoshishi rebuilt Kiso-Fukushima Castle as a residence and took control of the Nakasendo trade route, setting up a lodge between Tsumago and Shinsenba, and commercializing Kiso's timber. In his hands, the Kiso family business reached its peak.

At that time, the Kiso family of Chikuma County, the Murakami family of Kanshina County, the Ogasawara family of Azumi-gun, and the Suwa family of Suwa County were called the four major generals of Shinano.

Later, Takeda Shingen attacked Shinano, and even Kiso, the lord of Zhongxing, was defeated. The Kiso family surrendered in 1555, the first year of Koji, and Kisoyoshi died of illness three years later.

The family business of the Kiso family was inherited by Yoshiyasu, the son of Yoshizai and the current head of Kiso Yoshiyasu.

At that time, Takeda Shingen regarded the Kiso family and the Takeda family as the same Genji, so after the war, he did not punish him, confiscate the territory, etc., but married his third daughter, Marikohime, to Kiso Yoshimasa, the son of Kiso Yoshimasa.

Therefore, the Kiso family is regarded as half of the Takeda family.

In the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima, there was a rumor that the Takeda family's surprise attack on Mt. Tsusa and the final attack on Mt. Tsuma were due to the fact that someone in the Shinano ancestors of the Mt. Tsuma Rangers deliberately leaked the news to Kenshin Uesugi in order to avoid his own losses when attacking Mt. Tsuma-himo, and at the same time to put Takeda Shingen's main camp in a desperate situation.

At that time, among the Wife and Nu Mountain Rangers, the only generals who were not from the Kai family were Kiso Yoshiyasu, Sanada Yutakaka, and Kohata Kenshige.

Anyway, if Li Xiao wants to send troops to Hida Country, the best way is to let Kiso Yoshiyasu send troops.

When Takeda Shingen formed the Hida Front, he placed Kiso Yoshiyasu under the command of Baba Nobubo, so he also had the responsibility of sending troops to Hida.

At that time, the Kiso family was the first wealthy family in Minami Shinano, and with the strength of the small wealthy clan under him, the number of troops that could be mobilized could exceed 2,000, plus Kiso Yoshiyasu's grandfather, Kiso Yoshimoto, died at the hands of his sister Koji Yoshiyori's father Miki Shigeyori.

The Kiso family and his sister Xiaolu's family can be said to have a national hatred and family hatred, Li Xiao thought to himself that even if the Kiso family did not directly send troops, it should not be a problem to borrow a few hundred people.

So two months ago, Li Xiao braved the heavy snow to visit Kiso Yoshiyasu in person at Fukushima Castle.

But it turned out to be a closed door, and the reason of the Kiso family was that Lord Kiso Yoshiyasu was sick and could not see guests.

However, when Li Xiao stayed in the castle town of Kiso-Fukushima Castle that night, he clearly heard Noh music and the sound of taiko drums in the castle tower.

Li Xiao was so angry that he scolded, your uncle, you are sick, you can still watch Noh dramas, you Kiso Yoshiyasu is crying and mourning.

Perhaps this Kiso Yoshiyasu thought that he was a descendant of Minamoto Yoshinaka and was qualified to pose in front of anyone, and he valued his family, and at one time he didn't even take the Takeda family seriously.

Now surrendering to the Takeda family, not to mention, Takeda Shingen also classified him under the command of Baba Shinbo, although Baba Shinbo is a heavy general, but at best he is not a minister of Takeda Shingen's family.

Now that the Kiso family is a retainer of the Takeda family, this is how Kiso Yoshiyasu swallowed this breath, but there is still a possibility, Li Xiao knows that Kiso Yoshiyasu also uses this way to show that he does not plan to send troops to Hida Country at all.

The Kiso family in the Kiso Valley has always been very strong in reading, and can even be called the daimyo of the Takeda family, if he does not send troops, unless Li Xiao can move Takeda Shingen to come forward in person, he has no way at all.

Although he was closed, for Li Xiao, it was not for nothing.

That night, when Li Xiaocheng was wandering around the town, he happened to meet the envoy of the Eduma family, who also came to the Kiso family, Edama Huisheng.

So the two of them connected in this way.

Although Hida Country is surrounded by mountains, the news is not closed, and Edama Fraser was taken aback when he heard about Li Xiao's name, knowing that this was the fierce general of the Takeda family who had twice confronted Uesugi Kenshin.

And Li Xiao was also very surprised when he saw Jiangma Huisheng, what did the purpose of this Jiangma Fraser come to Kisang's house? It is absolutely impossible to make a friendly state visit, and there must be some mystery in it.

Li Xiao knew the situation of Hida Country very well from the side of the ninjas, and he thought that the next step of the Sister Xiaolu family was to unify the entire territory of Hida, which meant that he was about to launch an offensive against the Jiangma family.

With the current strength of the Jiangma family, it is not the opponent of the sister Xiaolu family at all.

Therefore, if the Jiangma family wants to survive, they must find a big force to attach to resist the sister Xiaolu family.

The first choice of the Jiangma family must be the Takeda family, but Li Xiao has never heard of the news that the Jiangma family has contacted the main family, and instead of Kiso Fukushima Castle, Li Xiao met the envoy of the Jiangma family to the Kiso family.

Thinking about it, the biggest possibility is that the Jiangma family is worried that after finding the Takeda family, they will be driven into the tiger.

The Eima family was worried that the power of the North Hida would be encroached upon by the Takeda family, so they didn't dare to take the initiative to find Takeda Shingen, on the other hand, although the Kiso family was a retainer of the Takeda family, but because of its high reading power, it could also be regarded as a small daimyo in the region.

Moreover, the power of the Kiso family is just right for the Eima family, the gap between the two families is not big, and they can not only help, but also don't worry about who embezzles whom, just to meet the conditions of the equal alliance.

Moreover, the Eima family obviously also considered that the Kiso family had a feud with his sister Xiaolu, and sent troops in this name to persuade them that they might have a larger surname.

In alliance with the Kiso family, the Eima family only needs to make a little sacrifice of interests. In contrast, if the Eima family were to find Takeda Shingen, it was estimated that it would be difficult to escape the fate of surrendering to their vassals and handing over hostages.

After guessing this, Li Xiao looked at Jiangma Huisheng's eyes, and suddenly felt a little bright, as if he had dug a big gold mine.

Obviously, Jiangma Huisheng also had the heart to contact Li Xiao, so the two had their own thoughts and got together to talk in detail all night.

Under Li Xiao's temptation, it was determined that the Jiangma family really had the intention of wooing the Kiso family.

Immediately, Li Xiao broke the intentions of the Jiang Ma family in a straightforward way.

At that time, Jiangma Huisheng was very shocked, and obviously realized that the fierce general of the Takeda family in front of him was not only strong in martial arts.

So Edama Fraser truthfully stated the purpose of this trip, and the Eima family really sought the Kiso family to fight together against the sister Xiaoji family who was getting bigger and bigger in Hida Country.

Li Xiao smiled slightly when he heard this, and the subsequent result was easy to guess, if it was successful, Li Xiao and Jiangma Huisheng would not have to squat under Kiso Fukushima Castle together and eat this fragrant closed-door soup.

But for Li Xiao, the Kiso family's rejection of the Jiangma family gave Li Xiao the opportunity to make a contribution.

(To be continued)