Hearing the envoy's report, Li Xiao nodded.

Takeda Shin Fan really took advantage of the completion of the autumn harvest and entered the army in the overall situation.

Compared with the Hida Echichu Army, the Takeda family's economy was more dependent on agriculture, so after the autumn harvest and before the spring ploughing, it was a time to use soldiers.

This time, Takeda Nobuhiro mobilized for a long time, and this time before Li Xiaofei's Echichu Army entered Echizen, part of it was the outpost battle of Li Xiao's capture of the Campaign, and the other part was also Takeda Nobuyoshi's mobilization of Li Xiao's army to Echizen in the name of the family governor Houmi, the purpose of which was the smoke released by the family's attack on the Hojo family.

Takeda Nobuyoshige's purpose was obvious, that is, to attack with an offensive instead of defensive posture, so as to attract the attention of the Oda family.

In order not to be there, when the Takeda family was preparing for the battle with Hojo this time, they attacked from the Nakasendo Road and stabbed themselves in the back.

Therefore, as soon as Takeda Nobufan's order arrived, Li Xiao's previous plan was suppressed.

At the time of the dispute between Huzai Zongyi and Honda Masanobu, Li Xiao originally wanted to divide the 50,000 troops gathered under the Beizhizhuang City into two waves, half besieging the city under the city, and half returning to his home.

And in the second year, when the spring flowers bloomed, two waves of soldiers were replaced.

Then use the tactics of long-term siege to capture the castle of Kitanozhuang.

After all, Li Xiao's mobilization of the whole country this time, with his current national economy, is also a great burden, and the daily military rations of 50,000 troops under the city of Beizhizhuang can be piled up into a mountain.

Fortunately, after Li Xiaoshui's army captured the Three Kingdoms. The water passage was opened.

Li Xiao can transport grain from the sea to the three countries of Echizen Province through Kaga Benyoshiminato, and the Mikuni Minato can also travel upstream along the mouth of the Jiulongtou River.

Honyoshiminato, Mikuni Minato are all one of the seven towns of Sanminato, and they are all large ports.

With the support of Li Xiao's Northern Army and Naval Army, this section of the grain route can be guaranteed to be safe and correct, and it is also time-saving and labor-saving to transport grain from the waterway.

However, the military rations of the 50,000 army are for Li Xiao. In fact, it is still a not light burden, even if Li Xiao has Sado Jinshan now, and he has received a bumper harvest of grain and grass in the collar for several years, he can't withstand such a big consumption.

This is a loss-making battle, and it is Li Xiao's family foundation that has been easily accumulated in the past few years.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Li Xiao still gave up his plan to order half of the army and return to his country. Instead, he continued to surround the castle of Kitanosho with an army of 50,000.

After Li Xiao told the family ministers about his decision, everyone was very incomprehensible.

In the eyes of the generals who took the initiative to invite the generals, they didn't understand why Li Xiao cared about the military strength and didn't fight a tough battle.

Honda Zhengxin also wondered why Li Xiao didn't take the opportunity to divide the troops. Raiders Echizen, the land of Omi.

As a military ration, Shioya Qiuzhen secretly calculated the grain and grass cost of the siege, and showed a painful look on his face.

Li Xiao's general general's expression. Looking at the eyes, he knows very well what everyone thinks.

However, as the general of the legion, he must have different thoughts, and Li Xiao's current position must be the overall situation of the entire strategic direction, rather than the gains and losses of his own legion.

Because this battle is at stake. Whether the Takeda family can take over the world.

As long as Li Xiao maintains the pressure of the 50,000-strong army, on the day of Echizen, then it will be like a sharp sword hanging above the head of the Oda family, so that Oda Nobutada has to be in Azuchi Castle, Gifu Castle, and can move lightly.

If Oda Nobutada dares to march to the Nakasendo Road and attack the hinterland of the Takeda family.

Then it doesn't take a few days, the Hida Echichu Army and the Tokugawa family. Troops will be dispatched from Kita-Omi and Owari respectively, like a vice, to sweep away the Oda family's land.

As for what everyone will consider, it is not undesirable to attack the North Village City at any cost.

Li Xiao also understands that when it is decided, it is the truth that it should be decided, and it is not possible to lose the big because of the small. …,

However, if Li Xiao stormed the city of Beizhizhuang and did not break the city at a huge price, Oda Nobutada saw that Li Xiao was exhausted, and the whole army came to aid Beilu.

In this way, Li Xiaonei had to face the counterattack of Kitanozhuang and Shibata Katsuya, and to block the reinforcements of Oda Nobutada, it was easy to advance and retreat.

This would lead to the fate of the German army, as in the Battle of Stalingrad.

As for Honda Masanobu's proposed division of troops, as well as Li Xiao's previous plan, it is also not feasible to remove half of the general's strength.

If Li Xiao disperses his forces, the pressure on the Oda family will not be enough to maintain it.

Oda Nobutada's completion allowed the Hideyoshi Legion of Hashiba, or the Ichiyasu Army of Takigawa, to block any way in the Hokuriku, and he himself led the main force of the Oda Army into the Nakasendo Road.

Under the premise of Li Xiao's division of troops, and the city of Beizhizhuang has not been captured, it is impossible to break the Shibata Army at the same time, as well as the alliance of any army between Yuchai and Takigawa.

Therefore, even if Li Xiao is desperate to consume grain and grass and the national strength is empty, he will deploy 50,000 troops here to contain Oda Nobutada, just to ensure that Takeda Nobuyori can attack the Hojo family with the troops of the country, and avoid the situation of being attacked by the enemy on the two fronts of Oda and Hojo, and avoid worries.

At the same time, this is also a death order given by Takeda Nobuhiro to Li Xiao.

Of course, with Li Xiao's current status, he can completely not buy Takeda Shinfan's account, not to mention that he had a personal grudge with Takeda Shinfan before.

However, Li Xiao understands that under the overall situation, he should not think so much about the idea of his own consideration, and for the time being, help his family succeed in Shangluo, fulfill the lifelong wish of Takeda Shingen and Takeda Katsuyori, and then reopen in Kyoto based on Yoshiaki.

Under this overall situation, it is the most conducive to the future development of the Li family.

This is Li Xiao's plan for many years since the Battle of Changxiao, and all his sacrifices are worth it.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao repeatedly looked at the North Village, the layers of city walls, if the North Village could fight down at present, then all the current troubles would not exist.

But where everything goes as desired.

After staring at the walls of Beizhizhuang City for a long time, Li Xiao turned back to Rui Costa and asked, "If you are not in a hurry to attack the city, what can you do?" ”

Rui Costa thought for a moment and said, "My lord, you can build earth mountains on all sides of the city, build turrets, and bombard the city from a high position, so it can work." ”

"What else?"

Rui Costa added: "I have seen that there is little rain at the moment, and the flow of the river is gradually decreasing, and we can also try to divert the two rivers outside the city by excavation, so as to reduce the resistance to the siege." ”

Yu Chai Xiu said in a long voice: "Lord, we can also use the battle method of earth dragon attack to dig a secret passage under the city to the city from a place where there is no river and vertical river. ”

Rui Costa nodded at the words of Yushiba Hidenaga and said, "Exactly, you can also use the underground passage to bury the explosives under the city wall and blast it." ”

"Piling up dirt mountains, rivers being diverted, and earth dragon attacks are all time-consuming, manpower, but time, manpower, it will not be a problem for me now."

Li Xiao nodded and said: "In this case, this matter will be handed over to you, and when the city is besieged, the major generals can face the harassment of troops, not in breaking the city, but in exhausting the defenders." ”

After hearing Li Xiao say this, all the generals agreed.

After the generals left, Li Xiao suddenly said, "Lord Maeda, stay for the time being." ”

Among the military tents, only Maeda Toshiya and Li Xiao remained.

Li Xiao looked at the newly subdued general of the Oda family and said, "Lord Maeda, what I mean by leaving you, you should know very well, you have been in the Hokuriku Army for a long time, can you sleep in the city against the general who is familiar with the Shibata Army and serve me." ”

"Of course, if you still have old feelings for the Lord's family, you can refuse me, and I will not force it." …,

Maeda Toshiya listened to Li Xiao's words and was slightly stunned, but lowered his head, still struggling in his heart.

Li Xiao smiled slightly when he saw this, and said: "It seems that Your Excellency has decided, I have understood, it's okay, I will not be reluctant." ”

In fact, Li Xiao understood that the appearance of the current Tian Li family's flag seal in the camp of this legion was the best blow to the morale of the Shibata legion.

For such an upright warrior, Li Xiao can't use force, but must be gentle and wide.

But at this time, Maeda Toshiya raised his head and said: "My lord, my subordinates have all subdued Takeda, and I will never think about the old lord again, and today's things are all my own choice." Although your subordinates don't know whether it's right or wrong, as a samurai, you should know that no matter what, it's your own choice. ”

Li Xiao nodded and said, "Lord Maeda, it's great to be like this, you are not Guan Yunchang, and I will definitely not learn from Cao Mengde." ”

Hearing what Li Xiao meant, Maeda Toshi's body was shocked, and he vaguely remembered the allusion of Guan Yun walking alone for thousands of miles in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Hearing this, Maeda Toshiya saluted Li Xiao again and retreated.

In the sixth year of Tianzheng, in October, Li Xiao surrounded the North Zhuang City with the main force of more than 50,000 troops of the Hida Echichu Army.

The Tokugawa of Mikawa also dispatched 10,000 troops to set up a formation on the border with Mikawa-Owari.

Hearing this, in Azuchi Castle, Oda Nobutada summoned the generals of the various legions to discuss the battle situation.

Seeing that Li Xiao's army is strong, and Li Xiao himself is the strongest general of the Takeda family, all the generals of the army are opposed, and at this moment, when the morale of Li Xiao's army is high, reinforcements Shibata Katsuya.

And when the Oda Army was discussing whether to go out of Hokuriku, Takeda Nobuyoshi showed no mercy and launched a full-scale attack on the Hojo family.

Takeda Shinho sacrificed Takeda Shingen, the killer weapon of the three-way attack, and attacked Hojo in a big way.

The Middle Route Army was the main force of Takeda Nobuyoshi's personal mobilization of Kita-Shinano, Echigo, Shinano, and Kai armies, and gathered 35,000 troops from the Ashigasakikan.

Racecourse Nobubo led 10,000 troops from Junfu Castle.

Sanada Masayuki led 10,000 troops from Minowa Castle.

The whole army of the Takeda family was dispatched, gathering more than 100,000 troops, and the east and west roads went out at the same time.

Satake, Utsunomiya, and Yuki in the Kanto region, raised their flags at the same time, dispatched 30,000 allied troops, and brazenly declared war on the Hojo family, preparing to subdue the lost territory.

In the same month, at the request of Takeda Nobuyoshige, the Date family also sent the general Date Minoto, Oniwa Satsuki, to lead 12,000 troops to participate in the war as an ally. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )