Takeda Nobuyoshi looked up at the red Takeda Si Che Ling banner, with the strong wind blowing down the mountain of his wife and daughter to stir the sound of hunting, like a red burning cloud floating in the sky, another attack of the Takeda army was repulsed, as the sound of the roar of the iron cannon gradually disappeared, the onslaught was still nothing, Takeda Nobuyoshi decisively ordered to restrain the team, and slowly retreated.

The sky is gradually darkening, there are still a few flames under the city tenaciously burning, there is a burnt battering ram parked in front of the big hand gate, dozens of charred remnants are scattered around, the pungent smell emitted when the tung oil burns has not dissipated, and the billowing smoke floats from a pit in the city.

No one thought that the Jin Hori people would accidentally miss, just dig a secret passage was blocked by the defenders of the city with tung oil poisonous smoke, seventy or eighty gold diggers of life are confessed in the tunnel, the people in the city hurriedly demolished the house and let the people in the city use stones to re-block the tunnel leading to the city, seeing that the tunnel that took more than half a month of hard work to dig out was so abandoned.

Murakami Yoshikiyoshi is always on the front line at the head of the city, he must make a positive attitude, not only to show the defenders in the city but also to cheer himself up, Kira Yoshishi gave him the task is to defend this city, this city is the last chance given to him by the Kira family, and the Kaizu City Broken Murakami family will also be finished.

Murakami Yoshikiyo knows that he did not take the initiative to serve the Kira family, and it is difficult to get the special care of Shinano's guard, since then guarding Kaizu Castle is a difficult messenger, guarding this small city, then the old leader of the Murakami family Katsuo Castle is just around the corner, and if he can't keep Haizu Castle, he will not be punished, but the old leader of Katsuo Castle will not want to take it back. The Kira family does not raise idlers.

Outside Haijin Castle. Takeda Nobuyoshi looked deeply at the Marugami flag fluttering on the head of the city, and retreated with a glance. The last rays of afterglow on the horizon also dissipated, Murakami Yoshikiyo took a deep breath, cheered up and shouted: "Quickly send the wounded soldiers to be treated, the people go out of the city to clean the battlefield and repair the Datemen, and the most important point, bury the pot to make a meal so that the soldiers can eat a full meal, and their stomachs are almost hungry!" ”

The exhausted samurai were amused by the commander's witty tone, and in a matter of moments, the oppressive and dreary atmosphere was swept away. The people of Shinano relaxed and whispered gossip, and after a while, they were squeezed into a group of muttering and muttering, and sometimes erupted into strange laughter.

Back in the castle tower, a few young people hurriedly removed the heavy armor for him, Murakami Yoshikiyo picked up a bowl of warm tea and poured it into his stomach in one go, and a few Yubi walked in to listen to the instructions.

"The Takeda army is attacking more and more fiercely, and in the past few days, it will not retreat until dark, and the city defense still needs to be repaired as soon as possible, so everyone must keep their eyes open. Our deeds depend on whether we can hold this city...... In addition, he ordered to go down, and said that I, Yiqing, had made up my mind that the city was in the city, and the people were dying in the city. Who dares not to do his best can be blamed for the ruthlessness of the old man's military law! ”

You pen whispered and quickly wrote it down, but after a while, he listened to him arrange seven or eight things marked "urgent", from city defense and military affairs to people's hearts and civil affairs, and even small things such as water sources, food, and medical care must be ordered clearly, and no matter how small things are handled carefully and properly at this moment.

After talking for a while, the cow drank a cup of tea and soup, and heard the footsteps outside the house "oh oooo" getting closer and closer, and in the blink of an eye, a samurai with a raw face broke in, this person named Murakami Higo Mamoru is the concubine of the Murakami family, as Murakami Yoshikiyo's confidant samurai in charge of intelligence, he rarely shows up, I saw that he raised his eyes and saw that there were still a few small surnames in the house and hurriedly leaned down to bow down, Murakami Yoshikiyo waved his hand to send all the people away, and then asked: "Why is there something so panicked." ”

"Lord, the news from Asahiyama Castle that the long-tailed bullet is winning a big victory in Ueno Country, and it has broken the main force of the Hojo Army in a fierce fight, and has taken more than 8,000 lives of the Hojo Army, we have won!"

"What! What did you say! Murakami Yoshikiyoshi stood up suddenly, and pulled his arm up excitedly, "Tell me carefully what the hell is going on?" How to win slowly for the old man. ”

Murakami Higo Mamoru was not panicked, and patiently told the news of how the Long Tail Army broke through the main force of the Hojo Army in one fell swoop in the Takayama Battle, and Murakami Yoshikiyo sighed after hearing it: "Attacking with attack and attacking with strength, this is a model of my generation of samurai!" The long-tail bullet is still so powerful...... Wait a minute! You said the news came from Asahiyama Castle? The town hall already knows? Huh! The old man is really talking nonsense, the town hall must know and know, the impact of the defeat of the Hojo army is not trivial, it seems that the town hall is going to take action! I just don't know how the town hall will act? ”

Murakami Yoshikiyoshi expected well, after receiving the information of Ueno's defeat of Hojo Shiyasu, he immediately set about concocting this information into a lethal weapon, relying on the excellent ability of Kira Ninja to quickly spread this information to every village in Shinano, Chausu Mountain, Hachimangahara and even Fukashi Castle in the rear There are rumors of the defeat of the Hojo Army, Ashikaga Fujimasa and Hojo Shigeru were captured, and the Hojo family was forced to abandon the entire territory of Ueno in exchange for the redemption of the captives.

The Takeda army on Chausu Mountain couldn't laugh for a while, Takeda Harunobu's face was like a frosted eggplant listless, and the Shinano who might have had a problem in the end was not blown up by the Kira army again, but Ueno, who was the most unlikely to have a problem, lost all the way, and Hojo Shiyasu was beaten and had no power to fight back, do you dare to believe it? If someone had told Harunobu Takeda that yesterday, he would have laughed and looked at this person as a madman.

The news that the Hojo army was defeated and almost lost the pants went into the camp of Chausu Mountain, and the Takeda retainers hurriedly jumped out to refute the rumors and stated that there was no such thing, and the samurai were skeptical of the rumors of the elders, and everyone was not stupid As long as you have the heart to inquire about such a big news, you will know the truth sooner or later, and the truth of what the elders said will soon come to a conclusion.

After a great victory in Ueno Province, the Nagao Army's armament target turned to Saku County in Shinano Province, and Nagao Keitora will personally lead an army of 15,000 troops into Shinano Saku-gun through Ueno Azuma County in half a month.

The people of Saku County panicked first, and the distance between Nishi-Ueno and Saku-gun was a mountain beam, and it was not much more difficult than Kita-Shinano to cross the mountain to Naka-Shinano, and there were many in-laws between the people of the two places. Therefore, Saku-gun, as the bridgehead of the Takeda Army's attack on Ueno, directly participated in all the operations of the attack on Nishi-Ueno. Therefore, Nishi-Ueno's every move will have a profound impact on the people of Saku-gun.

The people of Saku-gun don't know if the rumors are true or not. I hurriedly sent someone to Ueno to inquire about the news, but when I inquired, I found that it was really not a rumor, and the 10,000-strong army of Nagao Jinghu guarded Hirai Castle for half a month, and Hirai Castle just held a big tea party to celebrate Echigo's victory over the Echigo Alliance.

The information was fed back to Shinano and quickly transmitted back to the main battlefield on Kawanaka Island, this time not only the Shinano people could not calm down, but the samurai of the Takeda family could not sit still, and collectively found Takeda Harunobu and hoped that the governor would give an explanation. In the end, the Hojo family was defeated or not, why did the elders of the spectrum family say that this was a rumor, Takeda Harunobu was speechless when asked, and for a while, the voices of scolding and deception came and went.

Seeing that the situation was not right, the retainers of the spectrum quickly stood up collectively to apologize, and only barely stabilized the out-of-control situation again, but the discouragement of the army was unavoidable, and the trace of the ministry Xinqiu complained with a sad face: "At the beginning, I said that it was not good to do this, and I couldn't cover it for a while, and sooner or later I would have to vent the bottom." ”

Fan Fu Huchang was angry, he was the one who put forward this opinion. swept his face in front of all the ministers, how could he take his younger brother to mix in Takeda's house in the future. Iitomi Huchang, who couldn't bear it, rebuked loudly: "Iga Shoumo wants to say that useless words, if we don't cover it, we will still lose, tell the samurai that our ally Hojo Army has been defeated, and there is a strong army behind us that defeats the Hojo Army sharpening its sword and staring at us, what will happen to us?" As long as it follows this statement, it will not take three days for the people of Shinano Province to run away, how can we fight the joint battle, and how can we hold on to the land that has been recaptured! Therefore, the old man insisted on bluffing them first, as long as he heard about the temporary crisis, and then talked about the future. ”

Seeing that his allies were being attacked by name, Mitsuken Nagasaka retorted unhappily: "It's still very inappropriate to do this!" The lord treats people with sincerity and says that people are cities, people are walls, people are walls, people are friends, hatred is enemies, we are doing this but we are in chaos! What will you do to win the trust of others in the future? ”

"Humph! Pedantic! ”

"You are reckless!"

It was a good thing that the retainers would never be able to maintain a unified voice, but it was too bad to make the samurai on both sides have a heart for the sake of the public, and the stumbling blocks alone could make the Takeda family never quiet.

In his youth, Harumobu Takeda was assisted by four people, Hagiwara Masakatsu, Masatake Komai, Itagaki Nobukata, and Ganli Torasu, and witnessed how Takeda Nobutoka forced the retainers into a bad situation against the family governor little by little, and his four teachers often refuted his father's reckless decisions, thus shaping his rebellious nature, and even did not hesitate to unite with the genealogy to exile his uncompromising father.

After becoming the family governor, Takeda Harunobu's personality has changed a lot, and the embarrassing situation of being a difficult family governor in the past has returned to himself, the four teachers Ogiwara Masakatsu died early, Komai Masatake is good at strategy and scheming, Itagaki Nobukata and Ganli Hutai are one domineering, the other is reckless, often meddles in government affairs and decisions in the name of the division commander, and even disrespects the order many times and suffers several failures that should not occur, until he fell to Tawara.

The death of several teachers of old age made room for Takeda Harunobu to clean up the remnants of their family, such as the equally arrogant and domineering Itagaki Nobuken was executed by him by finding a mistake, and the means became more and more powerful as he got older, and the retainers who were originally in a group were dismantled by him and were hostile to each other.

It's just that this happy thing has now become an unpleasant bad thing, and this group of retainers usually quarrels even if they don't stop, but now the situation is so bad that they can't help but scold: "Shut it all up for me!" Look at what you look like, the retainers of the spectrum are the faces of my Takeda family, and they are like shrews who are scolding in the town! ”

The retainers were frightened and didn't dare to quarrel anymore, Takeda Harunobu spread the anger in his heart, and then said slowly and leisurely: "In today's form, all the monarchs also understand that the Long Tail Army lurking in Nishiueno can give us a fatal blow at any time, if our army is entangled by the Kira Army on the frontal battlefield, the Long Tail Army will definitely go out of Saku County, and sweep all the way to the north Kawanaka Island to attack our army from the front and back, you should know what the consequences are, this war is unbeatable." ”

"What the lord said is very true, it seems that I can't wait any longer! Then let's make peace! "Takeda Noburu is his younger brother and is not as jealous as Takeda Nobushi, when Takeda Harunobu exiled Takeda Shintora he was still a child. Since he was a child, he has been particularly trusted by Takeda Harunobu, and he speaks more casually.

Others dare not say that he dares to say. I'm not afraid that Takeda Harunobu will blow his beard and stare at him. In his opinion, there is no point in this war, and before the end of the month, Nagao Keitora fought on the border of Ueno, and defeated the Sagami Lion who shook the Kanto region.

"This joint battle can't be fought, Echigo has the ability to go through the sky to turn back the dead situation we worked so hard to design, if such a cloud-turning means are dealt with us, who of the gentlemen in today's tent can be spared alone? All we want is for the expansion of the territory and the revival of the family business. If you can't ask for it, it's better to stop, the left and right are just the four counties on the island of Kawanaka, what can they do? Anyway, my Takeda family hasn't gotten it yet. As soon as Takeda Nobuyoru spoke, many generations in the tent closed their mouths.

In the final analysis, it still falls on the word land, Japan has a small land and limited resources, not to mention that it is a well-known land in the world, even in the mountains and mountains in the poor countryside, there are samurai who draw their swords for a little bit of land.

Since you can't fight, why bother to resist, it is not easy for two generations of the Takeda family to accumulate this bit of family foundation. Rather than smash the monster in Echigo, it is better to manage the new territory of Hida, after all, Hida still has a northward lead to Echichu. The opportunity to go south to Mino, he thought so reasonably.

It's not that the Takeda retainers don't know this truth, the problem is that who dares to say this except Takeda Nobu, the twenty-year-old Takeda Yoshinobu is still a child in front of these uncles and teachers, and Takeda Nobu is far away from Haijin City, and several of Takeda Harunobu's younger brothers can't even interject in the words, and a few old bones in the public can't do anything except discuss seniority, and the genealogy generation as a foreign minister doesn't dare to talk much, and he can say it when he counts.

"And the Yuezhong has always been a pinch, maybe it will bring miracles." Komai Masatake said something that even he didn't believe, how many heroes and heroes have been blocked by a natural danger that he doesn't know, and Vietaka has always been able to swallow a country in Vietaka with a slap of the sky, which basically has nothing to do with the overall situation, and the role of Echichu and Yuao in the anti-Echigo-Echigo alliance is only to disperse and delay the troops, and the main forces are Shinano's Takeda and Ueno's Hojo.

Hojo was broken all the way and was so completely broken, there was no chance to turn over in the short term, the collapse of the Hojo family led to the collapse of the entire Ueno, and even the eastern part of Shinano was very unsafe, all the main forces of the Takeda family were betting on Kawanaka Island, once the rear changed what they went to rescue, the Kira Navy burned a few castles and stirred up the rear unrest, what would happen if it was replaced by Nagao Jinghu who led an army of 15,000 or even 20,000 to kill Shinano?

"We can't expect Nagao to make a mistake at a critical moment, and with his military strategy, it is impossible to make a fatal mistake at this time, once the Long Tail Army sends troops to attack Saku-gun, it will be bad, Nagao Keitora is still a better choice to lead the army to attack Kawanakajima, the other option is to lead the army from Saku-gun over Shinshu Pass, all the way to Kaifu Naka-to-Tsugasakikan, take the foundation of my Takeda family in one fell swoop, and then detain our family fathers, how should we deal with it? What do we do in response? ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the leaders of other countries such as Kiso Yoshiyasu and Jiangma Shisheng who were sitting in the corner changed, that is, the genealogy of the Takeda family was a little unable to sit still, and the hundred and ten people in the tent looked at Takeda Harunobu with brushes, and the face of the tiger of Kai kept changing, and after a long time, he sighed: "For the sake of today...... Only peace is negotiated! Sun Liu, you come to serve as an envoy, and the family allows you the right to act cheaply, so go to Axushan City to discuss various matters of peace! ”

Takeda Shinryu replied: "Yes! I believe that I will not hesitate to go to the soup for the Lord, and I will live up to the trust of the Lord this time! ”

In Ueno Country Hirai Castle, Nagao Keitora got the latest information about Shinano, and was thinking about sending troops to Saku-gun to support the Kira Army.

One of the two biggest troubles in Ueno Province, the Minowa people of Nishi-Ueno fell apart in a round of infighting, whether it was Kamishu yellow-spotted Nagano Yoshimasa, or their own home city of Kamizumi Castle, changed their name to Umiizumi Hidetsuna, and the other six brothers in their Ueno Seven Guns, they all expressed their willingness to serve the Kira family. The head of his family couldn't pull out his feet in the quagmire of Kawanakajima in Shinano. It would be a failure for these new retainers not to quickly stand up and speak positively.

Nagao Jinghu deliberately forced the samurai to make the choice of joining Kirayoshi, and it was also a helpless decision. Today's Echigo family has a big business and is getting bigger and stronger, and the disadvantages of the two-headed politics that were not obvious in the early days are gradually exposed, and the two supreme leaders are always congenitally deformed freaks, and the Echigo political system cannot always be a freak.

Echigo is the Echigo of the Nagao family, and soon it will become the Echigo of the Kira family, even if the Echigo people are unwilling, they can't refuse this change, Nagao Keitora is a fanatical Buddhist, a former severe alcoholic. A strict ascetic and made a solemn vow not to marry a woman or give birth to an heir in this life, and to dedicate his body and mind to his family business and gods and Buddhas.

If there is no Kira Yoshitoshi, but a samurai from Echigo will marry Nagao Toranohime, and Nagao Keitora will adopt his sister's son as an adopted son at most, or adopt a few more adopted sons as in history, take over the sons of his sister's family, and then adopt a few adopted sons from powerful daimyo in other realms to consolidate his political territory.

But the Kira family is different, the Ashikaga family is the shogunate's imperial family, his prestige and influence are obvious to all and cannot be ignored, if according to the name of the Ming Empire, the Ashikaga shogun's family holding the golden seal of the Japanese king is an authentic royal family. The Kamiashikaga family is at least a prince's family, and even the former Kira family has to be a grand duke.

There are too many broken nobles, and this is not very valuable. For example, in history, monkeys and tortoises were very fond of raising some canaries of aristocratic families to boast of their strength, and used facts to tell others that aristocratic families are nothing, as long as the old order of the fist is smashed with one punch, but they are still very envious and worship these despised and dilapidated nobles in their bones.

Those people in the world are still like this, and Nagao Jinghu, who greatly admires the authoritarian name of the shogunate, is even more so, and there is a brother-in-law of a famous family who is also tantamount to elevating his family character and reputation, just take the hat that Uesugi Kensei Baba ran to Echigo to give to the Kanto governor, and change it to other samurai daimyo even if he doesn't dare to accept it.

When Kira Yoshishi, it was not necessary, Uesugi Kenmasa saw him and wanted to salute and call himself a minister, because the Kamiyamaga family exercised part of the shogun's power on behalf of the shogunate, and the book issued by him was equivalent to the shogun's own handwritten imperial book, even if the dragon of Echigo in another time and space also had this power, but the effect would be very different depending on the person who used it.

Echigo Province is also located in the territory of the Eastern Kingdom, relatively speaking, it is more conservative than the samurai ideology of Kinai, and Nagao Keitor's ambition is only limited to becoming a new generation of samurai masters, and it is basically impossible to say what he can do, there is only one big demon king in this world, and only he does not want to be the leader of the "world" but to destroy all the old order.

Nagao Keitora is more aware of Kira Yoshitoki's ambitions, maybe the Kamiki Ashikaga family can go higher, maybe the entire Kanto region is regained control in the hands of the shogunate, maybe there are more or more that may wait for Kira Yoshishi to create, in short, Nagao Keihu has a lot of things that he can't do, Kira Yoshitoki can do it generously, he can't suppress the arrogant and domineering people of Echigo, Kira Yoshitomo can, he can't command the Ueno countrymen, but Kira Yoshitoki can.

Seeing that he had been staring at the white clouds in the sky, Saito Asanobu, who had been sitting in a daze for a while, came back to his senses and reminded with a cough: "Lord, when will I have to rest before I can go out?" Speaking of which, I can't hold back my letter anymore! ”

Nagao Jinghu frowned and said: "I may not be able to go, the sons and daughters have just fought with the Hojo army, and we must always have a good life and recuperate, and we may not be able to go to Shinano, the war horses have been fighting all day, where is it possible to make up for the lost fat in ten days, not to mention that as soon as the autumn harvest is over, it will not be long before the Mikuni Pass will be covered with heavy snow, and we are still waiting to go home for the New Year, and we can't celebrate the first day in the Shinano mountains." ”

"Then just nest in Pingjing City and watch the town hall motionless?" Saito Asanobu rolled his eyes and smiled: "Otherwise, let me take three thousand elites to Saku-gun!" (To be continued......)

PS: PS: The rhythm of ancient wars is very slow, such as Huo Quai's military wizards who crisscross the desert for thousands of miles, it is difficult to produce one in a thousand years, there are many things to consider in war, just a season of high horse fat in autumn, it is a troublesome thing for war horses to fight desperately and not get fat, and it is impossible for thousands of horsemen to eat millet and soybean cakes for every horse, and it is always necessary to focus on pasture.