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This feast under the castle of Kasuga Mountain City did not attract the long-tailed Jinghu.

This overall situation under Takeda Harunobu did not attract the dragon of Echigo that he expected.

The next day, he received news that Nagao Keiho had surrendered to Honjo Shiranaga after North Vietnam and defeated the Ashina Mori clan.

"Cimata!"

Harunobu slapped his thigh anxiously, and immediately figured out Echigo's overall plan.

The dragon has three heads.

Of course, Takeda Harunobu didn't know that dragons had three heads, but what he did know was that no matter how many shadow warriors there were, there would always be only one deity.

No matter how many long-tailed Keiho appeared on the battlefield of Echigo Shinano, there was only one deity.

Is it the one next to Fudo Mountain Castle?

Of course not.

Because the real Long-Tail Jinghu may sit back and watch the death of Nagao Masaki, but he will not sit back and watch the Takeda family's man-made plague plan.

The person who was able to calmly retreat ten miles and order to dig a trench to divert water was by no means a long-tailed Jinghu.

This long-tailed Jinghu may just be used to boost the morale of the defenders of Kasuga Mountain Castle and contain his actions.

However...... His retaliatory actions and the death battle of Long-tailed Zhengjing out of the city made the role of this long-tailed Jinghu infinitely close to zero.

At least along the way, Echigo miscalculated.

Is it the one who attacked Fukashi Castle?

Of course not.

Because there is Sasa Seimasa there, and Sasa Naruma had already played the trick of the Shadow Warrior once last winter.

Last time, Sasa Narimasa forced the famous Echigo general Hojo Takahiro to death, and this time...... Sasa Nari masato his beloved woman, Midori Yasukawa.

This road is a surprise soldier, a partial division, and a surprise victory, in order to stir up a big movement in the hinterland of Shinano, so that the hearts of the Takeda soldiers who came out of the battle will float.

Harunobu Takeda had to admit that Sasa Narumasa had succeeded again.

As for the long-tailed Jinghu deity, of course, it is the one that appeared after North Vietnam.

Only Nagao Keitora himself was able to subdue Honjo Shiranaga and defeat the Ashina Mori clan in one day.

Harunobu had no doubt that Nagao Keiho had such an ability.

Facing the information sent by the fast horse, thinking about the countless corpses piled up under the castle of Kasugayama Castle, Takeda Harunobu sat on the mountain for a long time.

"Retire and go back to Shinano."

He gave the order to retreat.

This move was difficult for the ministers to understand...... Why the sudden withdrawal?

Even after receiving the news of the fall of Fukashi City and the fact that Mrs. Yasukawa was killed by a woman, he did not withdraw from the army, so why did he withdraw at this time?

Why did he suddenly order the retreat of his troops when he was about to capture Kasuga Mountain Castle at a heavy price?

Although I am puzzled, the tough attitude of Harunobu Takeda in the past two days has been understood by the ministers.

No one objected, and they immediately set out and prepared to return to Shinano and Kai.

What they didn't know was that before leaving, Harunobu specially instructed the ninja to "slightly" dispose of the corpse under Kasuga Mountain Castle.

Yesterday's fierce battle made Harunobu give up the last step of arranging the plague, and they naively thought that Harunobu had given up on the plague plan.

Young, so young.

As soon as we set off on our journey, it started to rain.

Spring rain knows the season, when spring happens.

Spring is coming, spring rain is falling, spring ploughing ...... It's about to start.

Unbeknownst to Takeda Harunobu, the secret order he gave to the ninja was unconsciously discovered by two people, and now, the two men were riding on their horses with blue faces, without the slightest joy of winning the battle and returning home.

Takeda Nobushigeru and Baba Nobuharu looked at each other, and when they looked at the figure of their lord, Takeda Harunobu, the confusion in their eyes became more and more intense.

The more they marched towards Shinano, the more bad news the Takeda Army received.

"Uehara Castle was slaughtered! No one is spared! ”

"Suwa Taisha Shrine was burned! No one is spared! ”

"Umi-no-Kou Castle has been breached! All the men were slaughtered! ”

"A Shinryu-sama died in battle!"

"The small cities were burned!"

"The Koju Gold Mine has been destroyed!"

These are the most important messages received along the way to Takeda Harunobu when he came to Toshi Castle.

Soon, the attention of the generals of the Takeda family shifted to Sasa Narumasa.

They already hate Chengzheng, and they hate it to the core!

After receiving the destruction of the Komoro Gold Mine, Harunobu immediately sent a cavalry team to pursue him, but the pursuers pursued them all the way to the Ueno border, and did not catch the shadow of the Nagao Army.

As they returned, Sasa Narumasa was leading a group past the castle of Ueno Minowa Castle.

"This Nagano industry is too boring, and he won't even let us go into the city to rest...... Excessively! It's too much! ”

Saito Asanobu grinned dissatisfied.

"Less...... The sins we have done in Shinano will move the whole Kanto region! ”

Sasa Narumasa said angrily, of course he knew why the lord of Minowa Castle, Nagano Yemasa, didn't let them enter the city...... Because of their riding team, it's really terrible.

If a pack of wolves walks past your door, can you believe that the wolves promise not to harm anyone?

This is what the Ueno wealthy clan thinks, even if there are messengers from the Nagao family and the lord Uesugi Kenmasa who have come to greet them, they still don't dare to be careless when they really face Sasa Narumasa and the others.

Since the First Battle of Fukashi Castle, Saito Asanobu has had a growing voice in this cavalry team, and after killing many soldiers in battle, Saito Asanobu was even promoted to captain of the Fifty Cavalry by Narumasa.

The same person who was promoted by Saito Asanobu was a farmer...... It is strange that this peasant still has a surname, and according to Gan Li Keichi, his ancestors were the low-ranking samurai of Fudo Mountain Castle, and although he was later demoted, the glory of the former samurai has been passed down from generation to generation.

Like Saito Asanobu, Kanya Keichi was also the leader of the Fifty-Man Cavalry.

In addition to the two of them, Sasa Narumasa and "Nagawei Jinghu" each commanded a cavalry team of 100 people.

100+100+50+50=300

Anyone who has ever been in elementary school can figure it out.

That's the number of people in this riding team.

A total of 800 of them marched south from Nezhi Castle, and after no less than 20 battles, many of which were bitter battles to the death.

So they went from 800 men when they set out, to only 300 remaining, and all of them were wounded.

In addition to the knights who had been cut out, they had about six hundred horses, which was basically maintained at the level of one man and two horses. Successive battles and many massacres of cities have made them reequipped with the best weapons, but they have not had time to wear the strongest armor.

…… There is also gold, the yellow and shining gold, the pile of gold stolen from the small gold mines, which will become the start-up capital for Chengzheng to form a small elite standing reserve.

…… These are all exchanged for the lives of the warriors of Echigo.

Of course, Cheng Zheng still remembers one of the most tragic battles of this great attack.

That happened outside the mouth of the sea.

Because every time a castle is captured, a grand slaughter carnival is held, but not every castle can be captured, and when encountering a castle that is already alert, Seisemasa directly burns the castle town and then marches to the next village without stopping.

Because of this relationship, they were very fast, so fast that in many cases it was only after they had slaughtered and then left, that messengers from the previous city arrived.

But outside the castle of Umi no Kou Castle, they encountered the ambush of the Takeda family for the first time.

For the speed of his march, Sasa Narumasa did not have time to wait for the scout's report, and directly led his army into a valley southwest of Umi no Kou Castle.

After they had fully entered the valley, the sound of conch sounded behind the ridge.

A young military general dressed in gorgeous armor led more than 2,000 peasants to appear on the mountains on both sides, while the front and back valley entrances of the valley were blocked by a total of more than 1,000 ashigaru.