At this moment, the battle in Seedling City is still going on, and the offensive of the Akiyama Nobuyo Army is very fierce.

In the recent Battle of Uemura, Nobutomo Akiyama first broke through the coalition forces of the Toyama family with a cavalry team, and then defeated the combined forces of Oda Nobuhiro and Hidetaka Kawajiri sent by Nobunaga, and finally forced the surrender of Iwamura Castle.

All of a sudden, Nobuyo Akiyama and his Minami Shinano army shook the entire Mino.

Tsuchiya Masahiro has always admired the bravery of Akiyama Nobuyo, and now when he comes to him, he respectfully greets him as a samurai.

"Get up!"

Tsuchiya Masatsune mentioned it in his heart, and when he heard Akiyama Nobuyo's tone, he seemed to be a little indifferent, and he didn't see the closeness of his children and nephews at all.

And his brother Akiyama Masashi on the side didn't have much expression, as if he had seen an outsider.

In fact, this is also a common thing in the Warring States period, after all, the Japanese are heavy family names, and light blood ties, and they are not the same as each other, they are two families.

Tsuchiya Masahiro still thought about it before, and sent Li Xiao's handwritten letter to Akiyama Nobuyo.

After Akiyama Nobuyo received the letter, he recognized Zhende and read it, and Tsuchiya Masatsune tried very hard to see a hint on the other party's face, but it was completely ineffective.

After Akiyama Nobuyo put down the letter, he looked at Tsuchiya Masatsune, and asked straight to the point: "If Nobunaga attacks with an army of 20,000, what do you think is the chance of victory with the less than 5,000 tired troops of Li Xiao's army and the strength of my army?" ”

Hearing that Akiyama Nobuyo seemed to be opposed, Tsuchiya Masashi fixed his mind and said: "The 3,000 troops of the two adults of Honari Mamoru, Baba, and Uchijima will also arrive in the county and immediately enter Ichiyanagi Castle, if we get the support of the Minami Shinano Army, our army will reach 13,000 people, and the enemy is not enough, and the Danshi garrison is acceptable." ”

"Besides, Nobunaga's army didn't dare to stay away from Gifu for too long, otherwise the main army of Lord Gokan would be able to drive straight into Owari immediately. Therefore, as long as he could support it for a few days, Nobunaga would definitely withdraw his troops. ”

Tsuchiya Masahiro's words were drafted by him before, and when Danshi said it, it still took a lot of effort.

Akiyama Nobuyo paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, as if he was thinking, and then he said: "Iwamura Castle has just been captured, and it needs to be garrisoned to prevent the Yuanshan clan from counterattacking, so I can't mobilize a large army to support at all." Moreover, even if our army is pouring out, our two armies together, even if we fight a decisive battle with Nobunaga's Oda army, the odds of victory are too low. If it is a defeat, it is not said that O'Minon, but also the East Minon. ”

In the end, Akiyama Nobuyo paused, and said: "I will not take this risk, the Lord of the Imperial Palace only asked me to attack Higashimino and contain Nobunaga, and there is no responsibility to support Li Danma Mamori, and he sent troops without authorization, if the consequences of failure are unimaginable, I still persuade Li Danma Mamori to give up Kajida Castle and retreat to Higashimino, I am under the alliance with him, Nobunaga will never dare to go deep into this place." ”

Hearing this, Tsuchiya Masahiro was anxious and said, "Lord Boqi Shou ......"

Akiyama Nobuyo stopped his hand and said indifferently: "My opinion is the final decision, and there is no need to say it again. ”

The third year of the Yuan turtle, December.

The Takeda army finally forced the castle commander Nakane Masaturu to retreat on the condition of preserving the lives of the castle soldiers, and captured Futamata Castle.

Futamata Castle, which had been besieged for nearly two months, finally fell into the hands of Takeda Shingen.

As soon as this city was captured, most of the land of Yuanjiang was owned by Xinxuan, and the wealthy families of Yuanjiang saw that the wind was not good, and they all threw themselves into the command of the Takeda family.

After that, Shingen left Shinano's ancestors Ida Shinbo as the lord of Futamata, and then led an army of 27,000 to the south to approach Hamamatsu Castle, the main castle of the Tokugawa family.

Hamamatsu Castle is a giant city that is 420 meters from east to west and 250 meters from north to south.

And now Hamamatsu Castle has 8,000 people from Tokugawa Ieyasu's main team, as well as Nobunaga's reinforcements Sakuma Nobumori, Hirate Hadohide, and Mizuno Nobumoto 3,000 reinforcements, a total of 11,000 troops.

In Tokugawa Ieyasu's eyes, a Futamatata Castle has been a headache for Shingen for nearly two months, and his own Hamamatsu Castle doesn't care.

He was waiting for Takeda Shingen to attack the city, and then delayed the fortified castle, which made the Takeda army old and tired, and finally waited for the reinforcements of the Shincho army, and then he could inflict heavy damage on the Takeda army under the castle.

However, in the face of such a fortified and heavily defended city, the Takeda army only walked around under Hamamatsu Castle and did not rashly attack the city.

This was a great disappointment for Tokugawa Ieyasu.

In Tokugawa Ieyasu's view, Tokugawa Ieyasu's intention was to ignore Tokugawa Ieyasu's army behind him, and prepare to go straight to Owari to join Li Xiao and Akiyama Nobuyo, who were fighting in Mino. …,

Immediately, whether or not to go out of the castle to pursue the Takeda army, the opinions of the Tokugawa family retainers were divided.

There were different opinions among the retainers, some said that they would go out of the city to pursue the Takeda army, but most of the retainers claimed that this was Shingen's ploy, and they still sat idly by.

In the end, Tokugawa Ieyasu made a decision, stating that as an ally of the Oda family, if he abandoned the war to protect himself, he would be burdened with the name of cowardice and lose face, and the wealthy families of Tokaido would spurn the Tokugawa family one after another.

Tokugawa Ieyasu led 11,000 troops out of the city to follow the Takeda army, and did not rashly launch an attack.

The Tenryu River starts from Lake Suwa in Shinano and flows from the Ina Valley to the Enoe Province into the sea, and there is an impact plain called Mikatahara Terrace downstream.

The original platform of the three parties is 10 kilometers from east to west and 15 kilometers from north to south.

"Tell Your Highness, the rear scouts have found the Tokugawa army trailing!"

Takeda Katsuyori, who was riding a war horse and advancing on the flat ground of the three directions, did not show too much surprise when he heard the report of the scout.

Instead, a smile appeared on his lips, and he said, "Sure enough, as my father expected, Tokugawa Ieyasu held his own martial name, and he didn't even take it upon himself to lead the army to pursue. ”

Takeda Katsuyori's army's Ashigaru general Masabe Masatakasu said: "My lord, Tokugawa Ieyasu should not be underestimated, this person is Tokaido, the first bow after Yoshimoto, his will is strong, and the retainers are loyal to him, so they must not be underestimated." ”

Takeda Katsuyori smiled: "The cohesion of the Mikawa people, I have seen it under the castle of Futamata, Danshi Tokugawa Ieyasu, hum!" What else would he do but hold his head and endure? This time, I dared to go out of the city for a decisive battle, and my courage impressed me. ”

Hearing this, Masataka was worried, and the Takeda family had been too smooth all the way.

Although there were setbacks along the way, such as Uesugi Kenshin, Hojo Shiyasu, Nagano Yemasa and other world-leading generals, were suppressed by Takeda Shingen with his superb strategy and art of war.

And the young master also has a little self-esteem, although he has a record of defeating Uesugi Kenshin, Danshi in the sixth battle of Kawanakajima, he rashly led the army to battle, but was surrounded by the Uesugi army, if it was not for Li Xiao to send troops to help, the Takeda army was almost defeated.

Although this matter was later suppressed by Xin Xuan with his prestige, it also had a great impact on him, and even the retainers had doubts about his ability, which was by no means a good sign.

At this time, the envoy who was inserted into a hundred-legged centipede came to Takeda Katsuyori and said: "Your Highness, the lord has an order to change the strength of your army from the rear of the palace to the forward, and turn back to attack the Tokugawa army. ”

From the deployment of this march, we can also see Takeda Shingen's previous intentions, and he put the three strongest combat forces of the current Takeda Army, such as Baba Shinbo, Yama Shokei, and Takeda Katsuyori, as the rear of the palace.

This is basically to stop retreating at any time to attack.

After receiving the order, Takeda Katsuyori looked in the direction of Hamamatsu Castle and said confidently: "Prepare to take over, I want to do something in this battle!" ”

After the back team became the front team, the Takeda Army put on a fish scale formation.

With Baba Nobubo, Yama Yama Masakai, and Takeda Katsuyori as the forwards, followed by Tsuchiya Masaji, Sanada Nobutsuna, Naito Masatyo, Anayama Umeiyuki, Takeda Nobutoyo, Kohata Nobuta, Katsushi Kibe, Takasaka Masanobu, and finally Takeda Shingen's team, as well as the support of the Hojo family.

And Tokugawa Ieyasu saw that the Takeda army changed its formation so quickly, and he also understood that he had fallen for Shingen's plan, and hastily set up a twelve-stage crane wing formation to meet it.

The two armies of Takeda Tokugawa then fought at Mikatahara.

Mino, Kajida Castle.

After Li Xiao received Tsuchiya Changheng's return, he was not too surprised.

Before Shingen gave the order, Akiyama Nobuyo had the freedom to independently dispatch the legions, and he had the power to decide whether or not to Li Xiao's request, everything was in his thoughts.

So it's not surprising that Nobuyo Akiyama refused.

At the same time, Li Xiao also knew that his own rapid rise was also faintly discordant in the Takeda retainers.

Akiyama Nobuyo is not a gentleman, nor is he a villain, but he must be jealous of his rapid rise in the Takeda family, although he will not be excluded and suppressed, but it is difficult to rush people, and it must have nothing to do with him.

And Akiyama's attitude also represents the attitude of some of the Kai-born retainers led by him.

As far as Li Xiao knows, their attitude towards Takeda Katsuyori is not very supportive now, especially after the sixth battle of Kawanakajima was almost defeated. …,

Takeda's prestige, which had been shaky, has now begun to shake further.

And Li Xiao's own background has been clearly frustrated, on the side of Takeda Katsuyori, the mark of the so-called 'princeling', so the Kai family retainers do not have a good impression of him, that is a sure thing.

Tsuchiya Changheng looked at the uncertain look on Li Xiao's face and asked, "My lord, my subordinates are incompetent, and I have not been able to persuade Lord Bo Qishou. ”

Li Xiao smiled and said comfortingly: "This is none of your business, I also planned to use your identity before, Xiwang Akiyama Boqishou, I can support me in your face." ”

"It's okay if Danshi fails," Li Xiao smiled and said with a relaxed expression, "Kajida Castle is very important to me, Danshi, I won't lose the elite I have trained for years for the sake of a city." There is not a saying that if the land is lost, the person and the land will be lost. So you don't have to be too ambitious. ”

When Tsuchiya Masahiro heard Li Xiao's words and thought that he had decided to abandon Kajida Castle, a feeling of guilt suddenly came to his heart.

However, Li Xiao changed his words at this time and said: "Even though Danshi is ready to lose Kaji Tian City, it doesn't mean that he won't fight for it. You go to Akiyama again and tell him that if he is willing to send troops to support me in defending Kajida Castle. I will definitely repay this kindness in the future, at least the Higashimino Toyama clan is not something that he can sweep away in Akiyama alone, I can help him, you must know that the existence of Kajida Castle is also a barrier to Higashimino, and whether it is successful or not, I will give him five large cylinders as a reward, if he does not agree to this condition, I have nothing to say. ”

Li Xiao knew that if he wanted to hold Kajida Castle, he must have reinforcements from Akiyama Nobuyo, so he would rather offer this generous condition, if Akiyama Nobuyo still didn't agree, he would also be short-sighted.

In the face of the strong forces of the Oda army, Li Xiao could only choose to take a step back in the end.

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