Mino, Kajida Castle. （）

The news of Takeda Shingen's death and his last life were sent to Li Xiao's hands.

Although he had been prepared for a long time, when he heard the news of Xinxuan's illness and death, Li Xiao couldn't help but sigh.

In the twelfth year of the Warring States period, as a traveler, I have more or less heard and witnessed the inherent loyalty of many samurai in this era.

Rice Fu Huchang, who took responsibility for the lord and cut his stomach, and Naoe Jinggang, who was loyal to the lord and fought to the last person would rather die than surrender, such a character was deeply admired by Li Xiao even as an opponent.

Although as a modern person, Li Xiao does not have such a deep-rooted concept of loyalty, but for Li Xiao, without Xinxuan, Li Xiao would not be where he is today.

Although Li Xiao is not a righteous gentleman, he still understands the truth of Entubao.

Xin Xuan's affection for Li Xiao, the grace of knowing the encounter, this kindness, he can't ignore it.

Li Xiao said to his subordinates: "Order the whole army to mourn and stop all entertainment to pay tribute to the spirit of the Lord of the Imperial Pavilion in the sky." ”

"Oh!"

"In addition, Lord Benta, on my behalf, will go to the Kusaki Pavilion on my behalf to pay tribute to the lord."

After dealing with Xinxuan's funeral, Li Xiao pulled away Xinxuan's death and left his last life.

"What? Lord, you actually passed the Wind Forest Volcano Flag to His Highness Katsurai? ”

Li Xiao covered up the letter, it seems that Xinxuan has never done this in history, what is going on.

Immediately, Li Xiao took the intelligence information collected by Yokotani Yushige in Shinano, and finally figured out the circumstances of Shingen's announcement of his death.

When Shingen announced his will, there were more than 20 elders of the Takeda family, except for Li Xiao and Akiyama, who were leading the troops outside, almost all the important retainers were there, and the Sanada family was also present.

Therefore, it is not difficult for Li Xiao to figure out the specific situation.

The only thing that Li Xiao was surprised was that Katsuyori actually fought with Shingen when Takeda Shingen announced his will, so that Shingen had to change his last will.

History has come to a fork in the road.

Li Xiao didn't know what the consequences of Shenglai would bring to the Takeda family.

But there is no doubt that Katsuyori is more powerful than in history, and has a higher authority in the Takeda family.

Katsuyori was directly recognized by Shingen, and even Takeda Shingen couldn't help but ignore Katsuyori's opinion and change his will.

Shingen was not without the possibility of changing Katsuyori's succession in anger, but he definitely didn't dare to do so after weighing it.

If Xinxuan dared to change the heir to the throne, Li Xiao would dare to be the first not to agree, and of course add a Sanada family.

Although Shingen still has the absolute right to speak in the Takeda family, unlike in history, Katsuyori is already in his infancy.

When he was in Takato Castle, the retainers under Takeda Katsuyori are now on their own side, echoing Katsuyori on all sides, and waving their flags and shouting.

Today, Li Xiao, Sanada Yutaka, and Sanada Masayuki are all important retainers of the Takeda family.

And Masashi also inherited Masatoshi Hoshina as the head of the Hoshina family.

Masashi Hoshina's younger brother, Masatsuki Hoshina has changed his name to Masatsuki Naito, becoming the adopted son of Masatoyo Naito among the four ministers, and will inherit the family business of the Naito family in the future.

Okuma Asahide is already the lord of Suruga Koyama Castle.

Now Takeda Katsuyori's power is enough to fight with Takeda's four ministers and one Akiyama Nobuyo.

The Takeda family is no longer the Takeda of Shingen alone.

It was in recognition of this that Shingen gave up the decision to hold a three-year mourning for the sake of Takeda Katsuyori's insistence and instead supported Takeda Katsuyori and Oda to dominate the world.

To be sure, this is certainly better than the historical Takeda Katsuyori, who insisted on going his own way with the Oda family under the obstruction of four ministers.

But there are also disadvantages, without the aura of Shingen, these two to three years are definitely the weak period of the Takeda family.

Shingen died suddenly, and the internal and external enemies of the Takeda family will definitely surface one after another, so there is no time for Takeda Katsuyori to integrate internal contradictions, and then fight with Oda. …,

Thinking of this, Li Xiao immediately wrote a letter and prepared to forward the letter to Takeda Katsuyori.

In the letter, Li Xiao not only made it clear that he supported Takeda Katsuyori to inherit the position of Takeda family governor.

Li Xiao also decided to let Fujido Gaohu and Tsuchiya Masahiro lead the flag and ride into Kai, ostensibly in the name of escorting Shingen's coffin to the Hesaki Pavilion, but in fact he was seconded to Takeda Katsuyori to assist him in succeeding to the throne during this period, suppressing the internal suppression and defending against foreign enemies externally.

Li Xiao used his practical actions to show to outsiders that he strongly supported Takeda Katsuyori, which was more useful than flattering Takeda Katsuyori in a letter with a hundred good words.

After dealing with these, Li Xiao calmed down, and then a wave of joy welled up in his heart.

As soon as Shingen died, it was the return of a great enemy for Nobunaga, and for Li Xiao, there was no one within the Takeda family who could contain him.

With Li Xiao's current territory, it is one-third of the Takeda family's ability.

Li Xiao's current strength is comparable to that of Takasaka, Yamaguchi, and Naito, who are among the top three in the family's mobilization power.

When Xin Xuan was alive, Li Xiao had always been cautious, wandering on the edge, and did not dare to transgress the slightest point.

Now that Xinxuan is gone, and replaced by Takeda Katsuyori, who supports and trusts Li Xiao, Li Xiao will be able to show his strength.

The 400,000 stone territory is too small for Li Xiao, and it is not enough to keep it, let alone be aggressive.

There are still two years to go before the battle of Changshino, and this time is a longer term for Li Xiao.

Although Sado is small, it has a Sado gold mountain worth hundreds of thousands of stones, which is a place of talent and hegemony.

There are 220,000 stone in Noden in the west, and its country is chaotic, and the retainers of the long chain are tyrannical and infighting, and there is no strong force to sit in it, so it can take advantage of the chaos and forge ahead.

After taking these two places, Li Xiao can go to the middle of the country, and the land where he can be climbed, as the rear to prepare for war, and also open the sea route, with the Ming maritime merchants, the Portuguese to carry out sea trade, and then to Sado Jinshan, Shengang Yinshan goods to foreign countries to earn a lot of money.

In this way, even if Nagashino was combined, Takeda was defeated in the decisive battle.

Li Xiao can also rely on Yuezhong, where he can ascend, as a retreat, to resist Nobunaga's sweeping world for several years, it is not a problem.

But it is not easy for Li Xiao to be able to ascend, this difficulty comes from the outside, not from the inside.

After hearing the news of Shin Xuan's death, the Echigo generals Kanya Keichi, Saito Asanobu, and Honjo Shiranaga led 12,000 Echichu raiders and temporarily retreated.

Although the defense line of Matsukura Castle is of course garrisoned by Kinoshita Hidenaga and Shigeharu Takenaka, as well as nearly 5,000 troops, as well as the assistance of the castle defense artillery.

In this nearly two-month Vietnam-China raid, although Uesugi Kenshin himself did not go out in person, the Uesugi army also gave great pressure to the Tenjin Mountain Castle and the front line of Matsukura Castle.

At one point, Tenjin Mountain Castle was almost broken by the Echigo army.

In the end, as the second line, Jimbo Nagaken led 3,000 reinforcements from Toyama Castle, and after arriving at Matsukura Castle, the battle between the two armies entered a stalemate, and the troops were delayed until Echigo retreated.

Not to mention that Uesugi Kenshin is eyeing Vietnam, in Mino's Kajida Castle, Li Xiao of Hachiman Castle in the county will not give up to the Oda family.

So it was necessary to garrison the defense.

With his familiarity with historical events, Li Xiao knew that in two years, Nobunaga would not have a large-scale war against the Takeda family.

But this does not mean that Li Xiao can take this Meinong defense line lightly.

Li Xiao was ready to issue an order, and ordered Katsutoshi to be the lord of Kajita Castle, to sit in the heart of this central area, keep the passage with Higashi Mino unblocked, and as the general of Mino's Li Xiao forces, he was responsible for the garrison of this area.

In order to strengthen the strength of Shima Shengmeng, Li Xiao transferred the Shengang Preparation, the Snake Tail Preparation, and the Big Barrel Preparation to him for use.

In addition, Maba Mashobo moved to Dongdian Mountain Castle and was responsible for the garrison of the county. …,

After arranging these two people, Li Xiao was confident that as long as Nobunaga did not send the main force, Mino should be safe and sound.

As for Li Xiao himself, he will not stay in Mino, and now that the Hida Mountains have been unfrozen.

Li Xiao was ready to lead the 3,000 troops led by Maba Mashobo before in a few days, and returned to Echichu from Hida, preparing to personally preside over the war against Sado.

Since most of the troops were restrained by Uesugi and Oda, Li Xiao was now tied to a hand, fighting with others, and his strength was greatly reduced.

However, it is urgent to first Sado, and then to ascend, attack the two places, and expand the strength.

This had to be done before the Battle of Nagashino.

These two years are not a long time, but they are not short, and Nobunaga needs this time to sweep away the western forces, and finally unite the forces of the world to fight a decisive battle with Takeda, which represents the Kanto forces.

Li Xiao also wants to expand the armament war as much as possible during this period, and now he can only start a little faster than anyone.

After Li Xiao thought about all this carefully, he felt that there was no big problem, so he immediately started to write letters.

Enoe, Shinano junction of the Blue Collapse Pass.

Those who returned from the Yuanjiang front, Takeda's Shangluo army, and the three armies were all white.

On the mountain road, as an ordinary ashigaru Heikuro from Kai County, he was walking with a blank expression.

In this Shangluo, he did not fulfill his wish to see Kyoto, but he also won a first-class victory in the tripartite original battle.

The reward given to him by the lord Nobushige Oyamada did not make him much happy, especially when the lord Mikan-sama died of illness.

As a Kai person, he knew very well what Xinxuan had brought them, and he had conquered many Shigao territories, but he didn't understand, and he couldn't remember the name of this and that city.

But he knew that since Takeda Shingen became the head of the Takeda family, the Kai people could finally eat rice with a strong and fragrant taste.

The Dragon King Embankment, which benefited the people, made the Fuibuki River at the door of the house never overflow again.

This is more than how many victories the lord has fought outside, and the people will remember him more.

But such a lord died.

Suddenly, Heikuro raised his head, and the Wind Forest Volcano Flag and the Suwa Myojin Flag were agitating in the wind in front of him.

Under the flag, a person is wearing a Suwa helmet.

Looking at the familiar banner and armor, in a trance, Heikuro thought that he had seen Shin Xuan Gong again.

But when he came back to his senses, he knew in his heart that the other party was no longer Xin Xuangong.

The new Mikan-sama rode a war horse and slowly advanced surrounded by adults such as Baba, Naito, Oyamada, and Anayama.

Heikuro was worried in his heart, what will this new Lord of the Imperial Palace bring to the Takeda family?

Not only Heikuro, but also the entire Takeda family are asking the same question.

The following word counts are free.

Well, Shingen's death was a watershed moment, and the book was two-thirds of the way through.

Next is the big plot of the battle of Nagashino, which I have been laying the ground for a long time.

After the Battle of Nagashino, the book is detached from the larger framework of history.

In the end, I struggled to subscribe, recommend tickets, and help more from capable book friends.

The better the book, the more likely it is to be published.

Feng Tui, this is a great help to a niche book like the Warring States, and it is also a great encouragement to me.

So please, everyone.

I will continue to work hard.

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