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With the approach of reinforcements from Murakami and Yamamoto Temple, Li Xiao knew that he had to make up his mind.

Shioka Kazuha whispered beside Li Xiao: "My lord, the new Yin Stream of Kamizumi Isemomoru has thousands of disciples of its school, among which Yanagi Zongyan, Kisada Keikane, Maruki Nagae, and Treasure Academy Yinei are all top masters, if you kill Kamizumi, they will definitely not let you go, and at the same time, they will offend many swordsmen in Kanto, and even cause a lot of unnecessary trouble, and Ashikaga Shogun will also be angry." Therefore, I think it is better to worship Shangquan as a teacher, learn to 'turn', and become a disciple of Shangquan, and the future is limitless. ”

Shioka Kazuha was born as a swordsman, so he naturally knew how famous Hidetsuna Kamiizumi was in Kanto.

At this time, Sanada Masayuki rode his horse from a distance and said, "Lord Li Xiao, enemy reinforcements will arrive soon, please leave quickly." ”

Li Xiao nodded, glanced at Shangquan Xiugang, and said, "Okay, Lord Shangizumi, you can go." ”

Kamiizumi Hidetsuna laughed and said, "Very good." Thank you very much. ”

At this time, Li Xiao suddenly said: "However, I still stick to my original plan and will not become Your Excellency's disciple." ”

"Oh? Why? Shangquan Xiugang asked in surprise, he knew that Li Xiao and they swarmed up, and they definitely had the strength to kill him, and the reason why Li Xiaoken let him go now was because he wanted to learn 'turn', but he didn't expect Li Xiao to say that he didn't want to be his disciple.

Li Xiaoyan said: "When I was in the Ming Kingdom, there was already a master in the spear art institute, and now although his old man has passed away, he is not ready to worship others as teachers. And maybe 'turning' is indeed a strong swordsmanship, but for me, it is not necessary to learn. ”

Speaking of this, Li Xiao pointed the tip of the gun in his hand at Shangquan Xiugang, and said in a deep voice: "Today, I let Your Excellency go, just to admire Your Excellency as the number one swordsman in the world, so I don't want to bully the widow with the public, and I will win by more, now I am here to challenge Your Excellency, three years later, I will personally go to Minowa Castle to fight with Your Excellency, and fight it out!" ”

Li Xiao's words surprised everyone, and Shigang Yiyu was even more stunned.

Kamiizumi Hidetsuna was also stunned, put his hands behind his back, raised his head and smiled, conceited and said proudly: "I advise you to change your mind, if you are alone, you can't win me." ”

"You are wrong," Li Xiao interrupted Shangquan Xiugang's words, and said confidently, "Your swordsmanship has reached its peak, it is difficult to make any more progress, not to mention that Your Excellency is already old, in the past three years, it is said that your qi and blood, and physical functions are declining, and one is not as good as the other." And I'm still young, and my marksmanship is improving every day. Today, you can't win me, and three years later, you won't be able to win me! ”

After listening to Li Xiao's words, Shangquan Xiugang said solemnly: "I didn't expect that there is such a strange man as Your Excellency among the people of the Ming Kingdom, and after three years, it is my honor to be able to compete with Your Excellency, and I will take on Your Excellency's challenge." ”

Li Xiao, Shigang and everyone rode on horseback, just about to raise the whip.

Kamiizumi Hidetsuna said from afar: "Li Xiao, although you and I can't become masters and apprentices, and we belong to enemy countries, but when I see you today, I hope to make a friend like yours, and I welcome your Excellency to come to Minowa Castle at any time and talk about kendo with me." And in the duel three years later, I don't want to be judged by life and death, can I just use a bamboo knife? ”

Li Xiao laughed when he heard Shangquan Xiugang say this, he could say this, obviously he regarded himself as an equal opponent. It seems that it may be right not to kill Shangquan today, if Shangquan Xiugang uses his own strength to fight his way out of the encirclement, it is Li Xiao and they are incompetent. And when he was able to kill Hidetsuna Izumi, he let him go, this is a human favor.

Historically, Hidetsuna Kamiizumi was a person who lived in a temple and had a heart in the way of the sword, and after the fall of Minowa Castle, he also went to the enemy country Takeda family, so Li Xiao was not worried about the story of the farmer at all, and the situation of raising tigers appeared in him.

On the contrary, winning the friendship of such a world-class sword saint may be of great help to Li Xiao in the future. Now he has won the title of the world's No. 1 Sword Saint, Hidetsuna Kamizumi, who traveled to Tsukahara Buchuan with hundreds of disciples in the past, and is a figure that every daimyo is regarded as a guest and admired by countless people.

Li Xiao glanced back at Shangquan Xiugang, nodded and said, "Let's talk about it in three years!" ”

"Drive!"

After speaking, Li Xiao raised his horsewhip and left this paddy field battlefield with everyone.

Kamiizumi Xiuzuna let out a long sigh as he saw Li Xiao and the others leave, and at this time, he had an internal injury in his chest, and his mouth was filled with the smell of blood. Shangquan Xiugang couldn't help but smile bitterly, he was just holding on, if Li Xiao and the others really hugged each other, he really had no way at all.

However, a moment later, when the Murakami cavalry, a group of twenty or thirty horsemen with the flag on the horse, arrived at the paddy field battlefield, except for the corpses of the Nagano army all over the ground, the Takeda army did not even have a ghost shadow.

Murakami Yoshikiyo rode a war horse and looked at the corpses all over the ground, and suddenly became angry.

In the darkness of the night, he vaguely saw a white-haired old man standing in the middle of a paddy field, riding his horse over.

Driving the horse to the other party, Murakami Yoshikiyo said in a rough voice: "Hey! Old man, what are you like, oh, it turned out to be Ise Mamoru Kamiizumi. ”

Murakami Yoshikiyo jumped off his horse and asked, "Isn't Kamiizumi Isemoru in Kyoto?" Why here? ”

Hidetsuna Kamiizumi glanced at Murakami Yoshikiyo, shook his head and said, "The Takeda Army has attacked Ueno several times, how can I continue to stay in Kyoto, but I have something important to do here." ”

"What about Nagano-sama?"

Hidetsuna Kamiizumi said, "I was injured. ”

Hum!

Murakami Yoshikiyoshi snorted angrily at the tip of his nose and said: "The Takeda army is only a few hundred troops, and Nagano Yegu was defeated like this, it is too incompetent." Watch me lead my army in pursuit of the Takeda army and behead them. ”

"Lord Murakami, please be cautious, the Takeda Army has several brave generals, and you should not underestimate the enemy. Especially the general Li Xiao from the Ming Kingdom, who bravely crowned the three armies, must be doubly careful. ”

"Got it," Murakami Yoshikiyoshi didn't seem to care, and said to the envoy, "Go back and inform Lord Takemata Kiyozuna, and let him take his headquarters to defend Hamao Castle, and the rest of the men and horses will follow me to pursue the Takeda army." ”

Oh!

The Murakami cavalry behind him replied with a bang.

At the same time, in the night, torches were erected high on Iwaki Castle, illuminating the four fields, and Takeda Katsuyori and Okuma Ashidehide were standing on Ninomaru's arrow turret at the moment looking down at the castle.

I only heard the sound of horses' hooves under the castle, and a group of ashigaru teams that appeared from the mountains one after another, and they were constantly driving towards the castle.

"Lord, if you look at the flag, it should be the Echigo general Honjo Fanchang!" Okuma Asahide pointed to Katsuyori Takeda.

Under the cover of night, Honjo led an army of 1,000 from Songshan Castle to the foot of Iwaki Castle. In Echigo, the lord of Honjo Castle, Honjo Echizen, was prosperous, and his reputation in Echigo was not under the Kakizaki Keijia who was killed by Li Xiao.

"Honjo is long?" Katsuyori Takeda had apparently heard of his reputation as well, and then held the katana at his waist and was thinking.

Daxiong Chaoxiu said: "At present, there are only 600 troops in the city, if you go out of the city and have no chance of winning the field battle with the Honjo army, you can only count on Lord Li Xiao and Lord Sanada to come back and relieve the siege." ”

Takeda Katsuyori nodded, he was no longer the reckless teenager he used to be, and he naturally knew when he would have a better chance of winning.

"But Uesugi Terutora sent nearly three thousand troops to take Feather Tail Castle, I'm afraid that with Li Xiao, Sanada, and the six hundred troops of Hoshina Masatoshi, they are also in a bitter battle now." Katsuyori Takeda said in an analysis.

"Your Highness Katsuyori, please be patient, go to Lord Sanada Ichitokusai in Opre-gun, say to Kohata Kendai of Ko-gun, and Lord Takeda Nobutoyo of Kojo Castle, the messenger who asked for help there is already on his way. In two days, reinforcements from the three adults will be able to arrive in Azuma-gun. ”

Takeda Katsuyori nodded and said, "In this way, that's the only way." ”

Just when Takeda Katsuyori and Okuma Ashide's siege were besieged at Iwaki Castle, the six messengers they sent to Sanada Yukitaka, Kohata Kenshige, and Takeda Nobutoyo for help were stopped and killed by the Zen Sarue ninjas sent by Uesugi Kenshin who belonged to the Uesugi family, and none of them escaped.

PS: Finally, there is a little information about Nobutsuna Kamiizumi.

Friends who play Taiko know that Kamiizumi Nobutsuna only began to practice around after Minowa Castle fell into the city, and accepted Yanagi and other disciples.

In fact, the time when the castle fell in Minowa Castle was in the 9th year of Eiroku (1566), and the time when the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru was killed was in the 8th year of Eiroku (1565), and the title of the world's first sword saint was given to Ueizumi Nobutsuna by Ashikaga Kazuki.

In fact, before the fall of Minowa Castle and before the 8th year of Eiroku (1565), Kamiizumi Nobutsuna himself was already famous all over the world.

According to the information, Kamiizumi Nobutsuna had already gone to Raku in the 6th year of Eiroku (1563) and met Yagyu Sogan, and the seal letter (extant) given by Kamiizumi Nobutsuna to Yagyu Sogen was April of the 8th year of Eiroku (1565).

Finally, in this book, for the needs of the plot, Kamiizumi Nobutsuna's Shangluo timetable has also been advanced.