Takeda Shingen's mood is not good, and he is angry at every turn because the tea is too hot and the food is unpalatable, which is completely different from the humorous Kai Tiger in the past, Mrs. Sanjo started a cold war with Takeda Shingen because of the capture of her sister-in-law, and her daughter-in-law Ling Songin cried all day long, not to mention how troublesome she was.

Nagasaka Fishing Xianzhai said worriedly: "Lord! The people of Azumi-gun have collectively surrendered, Tabara Castle, Hikari Castle, and Kanyabara Castle have been breached, Ibuka Castle and Hiraseyama Castle are crumbling, and all the people in Chikuma County are shaken, and if it deteriorates like this, Fukashi Castle guarded by Baba Mino Shouden may face danger at any time, once Fukashi Castle is broken, Shinano will have no danger to defend, and Suwa Prefecture is directly exposed to the troops of the Kira army, it is difficult to say whether the town government will go out again, and the current situation is very unfavorable to us. ”

It doesn't matter that most of the territory in Azumi is located in the mountains, but the meaning of Chikuma is completely different, as it is one of the two best plains in Shinano, with the exception of Kawanaka Island in Kita-Shinano and the Chikuma River basin where Kowa is located, and the Tsukuma River and Suwa Gun, where Chikuma and Suwa are located, are the richest.

Tsukuma-gun was originally Shinano's territory to protect the Ogasawara clan, and Fuchuji's office was located in Tsukuma-gun's inner forest castle, which has always been the richest area in Shinano, and it was with this county that the Ogasawara clan was able to gain a foothold in Shinano after the Battle of the Great Tower, and the other side of the Battle of the Great Tower, the Murakami clan, also rose with the fertile land of the Chikuma River Valley.

The above are the members who participated in the action led by Takeda Shintora to carve up Saku-gun, and the last member is the Suwa clan of Suwa Prefecture, who was originally a priest of Suwa Shrine and gradually grew into the overlord of a county, relying on the support of developed agriculture near Lake Suwa. The reason why the Takeda family is getting stronger and stronger. It also relied on the two meters provided by Shinano Chikuma and Suwa and a steady stream of soldiers.

Once the two counties are lost, it is not as simple as threatening the Kai homeland. Losing two territories with huge strategic value and economic support, the future Takeda family will only be trapped in Kai and be a tiger in a cage, and in the long run, the cohesion of the retainers will collapse, and the glorious hegemony of the Takeda family will be empty in a blink of an eye.

The overall decline of the Takeda family is likely to regress to the crisis when Takeda Harunobu first ascended the throne, this is not only the crisis of the Takeda family but also the crisis of Takeda Shingen's life, with a big defeat to knock out all the upward momentum of the Takeda family, the family has more and more complaints about Takeda Shingen's dissatisfaction, and the ninja sends a lot of relevant information every day. These are all very dangerous signs, indicating that his position as a family governor is shaking, and the lower samurai are no longer supporting him unconditionally as before.

"My lord! We should ransom the captured samurai as soon as possible! These days, the samurai family is making a lot of trouble, and the samurai at home don't want to offend the relatives of their colleagues, so it's really hard to suppress it! Nobuaki lamented worriedly: "It's difficult for everyone, but the more difficult it is, you always have to make trouble, it's really a headache!" ”

Takeda Shingen's brows trembled unnaturally, and he said in a heavy tone: "Order Mino to defend Chikuma County for the family at all costs, and Boqi to stabilize Ina County, you can ask Kiso Hall to help the family allow him not to enter the power of taxes, and he must pacify the people in the county who are in turmoil!" There is also the dispatch of Shiro to Suwa Town. Now is the autumn of the family's crisis, and it is the time to employ people, and the samurai should be used for dedication, but there are good strategies to give. Once verified, the family will not hesitate to reward, and as for the redemption of the samurai, it will be difficult to impress Echigo without enough goods! ”

Hearing the insincerity of Takeda Shingen's words, the people of the spectrum frowned, and Kurihara Tando couldn't help but jump out and said, "Please send an envoy to Echigo to discuss the redemption of the samurai!" Many of my Kai sons are trapped in the uncertainty of Echigo's fate and death, and it is difficult for the relatives and samurai in the family to feel at ease! Your Majesty doesn't know if what you said is right, but Your Majesty feels that the safety of the Stable Hall and the Young Hall is particularly important! ”

Kurihara Tandon said what the samurai wanted, and some Shinano people glanced at Takeda Shingen suspiciously, as if they were guessing why the Kai Tiger wanted to put back the matter of redeeming the samurai, where could Takeda Shingen endure this questioning gaze, and snorted angrily: "Don't you Daoben family want to rescue your sister-in-law and younger brother?" But how could the general of the town guard be the one who would be easy to give, and what would we do if the lion opened his mouth and demanded a large amount of compensation? How many resources does Kai have after paying the ransom? How to expand without money and food? If you can't expand and stay in the mountains of Kai, are you willing? ”

A series of cross-examinations asked the Takeda retainers, and they couldn't help but feel sorry for the believers after thinking about it, Kai is a large basin flowing from the basin, and the Fuebuki River and Kamashi River have become the deadliest disasters, and almost every year the storm and rain will be attacked by floods, and today's Kai total stone is 220,000 stones, because of the frequent wars and natural and man-made disasters, the total population is only 160,000.

Generations of ancestors of the Takeda family actively forged ahead, what they did was to lead the Kai samurai out of the mountain nest in the poor countryside, outside the Kai Kai has rich land and beautiful landscapes, which has been proven countless times in the past ten years, the so-called from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, everyone enjoys the beautiful life outside the mountain, no one wants to continue to shrink in Kai to be a bitter mountain samurai, without leaving a little trump card, there is really no day to turn over.

Life is very difficult, but the more suffering the more you have to catch up, you must not lose this breath in your chest, the genealogy of the retainers of the family is still supportive of the words of the family governor, and the trace of the department of Nobuaki said: "The lord is worried every day is to lead the samurai out of the predicament, even if it is difficult to survive this hurdle, please forgive the lord's suffering!" ”

Seeing that he was about to fool this headache over, Kurihara suddenly jumped out and begged hoarsely, "But can you give up our relatives and friends in this way?" Let the relatives at home give up the hope of family reunion, I can't do it! His uncle, Kurihara Izu Mamoru died in Hachimangahara, more than a dozen people died in his family, and five people were trapped in Echigo. ”

Imafuku Sei, one of the four elders of the Takeda Spectrum family, said solemnly: "Saemon pay attention to your tone!" ”

The eldest son of the former tiger Yin, Yokota Juro Bingwei Yasukei, was a little unhappy, his father was Takeda Shingen's body in Hachimangahara, but he didn't even make any compensation afterwards. Angry retorted, "Saemon is right. We waited for the Lord's public service to make meritorious deeds, but left our relatives and friends on Kawanaka Island and fled in embarrassment. This is against the morality of the martial arts, and even more against the principle of the lord! Isn't our Takeda family always saying that human affection is a friend, hatred is an enemy, and what is wrong with us trying to defend our relatives and friends? We have died so many sons without any compensation, what is it for? ”

Yokota Yasukei's words changed the atmosphere of the scene, he is the eldest son of the original Huyin, and a few years ago, he went to the Hojo family because he questioned the injustice of the Takeda family, and he was given the Miao word Yokota and the next word of the Hojo family, which was not the lineage of the Takeda family. I'm not afraid of offending anyone by talking.,It's a big deal to pack up the shape and then go to the Hojo family.,Anyway, they went down to the Hara clan's territory just to fight down for the Hojo family.,Take refuge in the past and don't worry about being idle.。

Takeda Gendai didn't expect that the guy who was over thirty years old would be so impulsive, so he immediately took out the sword in a rage, and had the strength to cut you in half on the spot, and Shimosone Nobuthiro saw that the situation was not good and hurriedly interrupted his best friend: "Shiro Bei's words are not right, isn't our Takeda family in a big disaster right now?" The lord has been trying to find a way to solve this problem, and maybe the compensation that should be given will be paid soon, right? Hehehe......"

The Sone clan is a relative of the Takeda clan. It is a descendant of the son of Takeda Nobushige, the fifth ancestor of Takeda Shingen, and the family has a huge branch that runs through the entire Kai. Their family is rooted in the two Miao characters of Sone and Shimosone, which is not the same as the one Miao character of ordinary samurai, but in fact, it is still a family that has not changed.

Including Sone Masayo, Sone Toraki, Sone Torano, Sone Torano, Sone Toranoshi, Shimosone Masatoshi and many other relatives such as Guards and Emmon, the powerful family group formed is also one of the most powerful in the Takeda family, but this family is usually not so out-of-the-box and relatively low-key, so it is often ignored by the family retainers, but once the family speaks, they have to deal with it carefully.

Anayama Izu Morinobu has been watching the crisis of the Takeda family coldly, as if inadvertently glancing at the young Koyamada Nobushige, and then said with a smile: "Actually, Imagawa Jibu sent someone to inquire about the situation of Lingmatsuin, and when His Royal Highness Taro can redeem it, Imagawa Jibu means that if Kai is in trouble, he can help, and the sooner His Royal Highness Taro comes back, the better." ”

"Imagawa Jibe actually said that? Mamoru Izu's news is really ...... What a timely! The corners of Takeda Shingen's eyes twitched, a faint fierce light flashed in his eyes, and the next moment he turned back to a very eager and grateful expression, and said with a smile: "Then Izu Shou quickly inform Imagawa Jibu, no matter what, you must help me Shingen tide over the difficulties!" ”

The young man sitting next to Anayama Nobutomo was his son Anayama Nobukun, and now he was still a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man, and when he caught a glimpse of Takeda Shingenyan's insincere expression, he secretly mocked: "Once upon a time, you Takeda Daizen also asked for help, but I don't know if Imagawa Jibu will not buy your account?" ”

The Takeda lineage present here is all human spirits, and immediately noticed the strong smell of gunpowder in the air, Koyamada Nobushige is still leisurely sipping the tea soup, not caring at all about the strange eyes cast by other samurai, the newly rising Maori family in the western country, it is said that there is a two-river system that has made great contributions to the Maori family, and the Kai Takeda family also has a two-mountain system.

Takeda Liangshan is not a pleasant system, almost all the evils of the Maori two rivers are taken on themselves, the Anayama clan, the Koyamada clan, one guards the west gate of Kai in the southwest of Kai, and the other guards the east gate of Kai in the southeast of Kai, and the meaning of guarding the gate means that they are close to the Suruga Imagawa clan and the Sagami Hojo clan respectively, and it is a good thing to see the guards and guards stealing themselves, and these two families have been corrupted from guards to senior leading parties.

The Anayama family is still a member of the Takeda family, during the period of infighting in the Takeda family at the beginning of the Warring States period, the then head of the Anayama Shinhang took refuge in the Imagawa clan of the Suruga hero, and served as a pioneer to put the Imagawa family into Kai, and the Imagawa clan invaded Kai several times with his credit, and then this Anayama Shinhang was suddenly assassinated inexplicably, everyone said that Takeda Shinhu (then called Takeda Shinnao) did it, but there was no evidence and no way to take him.

If it is said that the Anayama family is therefore enmity with the Takeda family, it is still unreasonable, the problem is that soon in the fourth year of Xiangroku (1531), the Anayama trade wind died bizarrely and violently, aggravating the suspicion of the Anayama family, the last time it was assassinated, this time it was a violent death, and it was a night without illness or disaster, and the Anayama family did not hate the Takeda family to have ghosts.

Later, it was the younger brother of the Anayama trade wind, Nobuyomo Anayama, who served as the family governor. He was much more tactful than his tough brother. Tough as his father and brother both died mysteriously. Where did he dare to stand up to the majestic Takeda Shinhu, as soon as he became the governor of the family, he took the initiative to get close to Takeda Shinhu, and soon won the favor of the big tiger of the Takeda family, so he married the daughter of Takeda Shinhu as the wife of the main house, and took this opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the Takeda family.

Later, in the Hanakura Rebellion, the Takeda family raised a large army to threaten the Imagawa family, and then Imagawa Yoshimoto married the daughter of Takeda Nobuta as the wife of the main room, and the Takeda family and the Imagawa family became the sum of the sons-in-law. Anayama Nobuyo took this opportunity to become a close brother-in-law with Imagawa Yoshimoto, and since then he has not been secretly dealing with the Imagawa family, and he can strengthen the relationship in a righteous and bright way, and Takeda Nobuta is also happy to contact each other between his sons-in-law.

Later, he couldn't be happy, Takeda Nobuhu stayed in Suruga forever, and then the establishment of the Koshogun Alliance, as the liaison officer between the Takeda family and the Imagawa family, Anayama Nobuyo brokered the marriage between Takeda Yoshinobu and Ryomatsuin, and was also a witness to the marriage of this young couple.

Compared with. The Koyamada clan is even more excessive, and his family dares to write it in the "Odawara Public's Service Account". Clearly marked in other countries, he almost put a label on his forehead called "I am a retainer of the Hojo family", you can imagine a group of genealogy retainers sitting in a Imagawa retainer, a Hojo retainer will be how unpleasant, even disgusting, but Takeda Shingen has endured it for more than ten years.

Half a month later, the envoy Sekiguchi Shinei sent by the Sunfu came to Echigo Kasuga Mountain Castle on behalf of the Takeda family, and saw familiar old friends again after a few years, Kira Yoshishi was in a very good mood, after a simple exchange of greetings, the topic revolved to the ransom issue that both sides were most concerned about, Sekiguchi Shinnaga earnestly told Takeda Shingen to regret the capture of his parents and children, and hoped that Kira Yoshitoki could give understanding, and proposed to redeem all the prisoners.

When it comes to the problem of money, Kira Yoshitoki closed his mouth with a smile, and Sekiguchi Qinaga also knew the rules of the samurai family, so he had a war of words with Hosokawa Fujitaka, Matsui Yukan, Honda Tokimasa, Nanoka Tsukasa and other officials, and the Kira family was 10,000 taels of gold to redeem all the trapped soldiers, and an average of one or two gold per person was surplus, where is the ransom is clearly blackmail.

Sekiguchi Qinyong was really angry, so he argued with a group of enforcement officials, and then the two sides cited scriptures and argued with the reason that it was called a dark sky, the so-called two fists are difficult to defeat four hands, and the heroes can't stand the crowd, even if the executive of the Kira family does not come to besiege it, a few people take turns to play the wheel war is enough for him to bear, and the three-day kung fu Guankou Qinyong is like a defeated rooster who admits defeat with a declining face.

Thinking that he was a noble samurai like a woman who bought vegetables for the ransom for three whole days, the corners of his mouth burned a few bubbles and still did not disappear, two deep black circles showed how much torture he had been in these short three days, the most important thing is that this matter has nothing to do with their Imagawa family, he is a messenger of the Imagawa family to take the lead for the Takeda family, and a group of Lai Han of the Takeda family have never thought of sending a few messengers to fight the outpost war so that he can also know where the general bottom line is, it is simply hateful!

After three days of quarrelling, the final price was six thousand taels of gold, and the Kira family made it clear that they didn't want copper coins or rice and grain conversion, let alone the so-called land cession, and asked you to name and ask you for Jiafei's specialty chess stone gold, and if you don't give gold, don't want to return to a person, six thousand taels of gold is a huge amount, even if you are as rich as the Takeda family's inventory, there are only 15,000 taels of gold, and if you take away six thousand taels in one breath, you don't know what Takeda Shingen's face will be.

One tael of gold is worth about five kanbun when converted into today's currency, and about six to seven kanbun in Kinai, and it will be higher in areas lacking gold such as Nishikoku and Kyushu, and 6,000 taels of gold is at least 30,000 kan Yongle money, which is not too much in the opinion of the Kira family.

The Kira family has several gold and silver mountains to support, the gold, silver, and pure copper smelted in a year alone are worth four or five hundred thousand guan, and the two counties and the merchant houses in Ki are even more money-making machines, and if you want 30,000 kan, it is only worth one-twenty-fifth of your annual income, and you have worked hard to go to Shinano to fight a war with your Takeda family, and the reward price alone is 50,000 kan, not to mention that the reward for meritorious deeds is 30,000 kan, and it is not too much to ask the Takeda family to reimburse 6,000 taels of gold.

But the Takeda family is a little unbearable, their family has not much money and food, but a little gold is quite valuable, this time in order to redeem the person is really a big hemorrhage, under the intermediary of Sekiguchi Qinaga, the two sides completed the transaction in the Shinshu Pass between Saku County and Kai, and 6,000 captives were released back to Kai. And the Kira family got the six thousand taels of gold they needed. The Takeda family did not dare to make a fuss about gold.

Due to the intervention of the Imagawa family. Forcing Takeda Shingen, who was unwilling to bow his head, to be forced to ransom the defeated captives was tantamount to admitting the fact that he had completely failed, and for the famous samurai family who valued face more than anything else in the Muromachi era, this can be described as a loss and a loser, but what can he do if he doesn't admit defeat?

The Takeda family only had 6,000 troops to mobilize, of which 3,000 were guarding Kai and the other 3,000 were guarding Fukashi Castle. The idea of going further is definitely not, not to mention sending troops back to Saku County, it is a problem to assist in the defense of Fukashi Castle.

The 6,000 captives returned to Kai with three points of humiliation, two points of resentment and five points of rejoicing, and they would be greeted by Kai's tattered messes, which were like a decades behind the times, with no clean and tidy streets, no neat houses, no unheard of food, no clothes. State-of-the-art tools and endless fields.

I haven't seen the world, I don't think my hometown is bad, and when I go out and see the richness of Echigo, where can I still see the same appearance in the country. Soon, the restless samurai made such and such requests, some shouted for the construction of the beautiful Kai, some were ashamed to say that Kai could not defeat Echigo, and some even said that the construction of Kai was not effective because of the lack of construction, and some even said that they wanted to revitalize commerce and introduce Echigo's advanced technology, and so on, and so on, Takeda Harunobu realized at this moment how much pain his decision to recall the captives had caused him.

Contacting the samurai who were dissatisfied with Takeda Shingen earlier, Kai has emerged as a force to be reckoned with at the instigation of people with good intentions, who advocate self-improvement and unity internally, and actively contact allies externally to build a new Kai within five years, this force comes from the captives sent back from Echigo, and there may be another person hidden behind them.

……

In the Kasuga Imperial Palace, Kira Yoshitoki accompanied Torahime for a walk in the garden.

Tiger Ji's body shape has not changed much, but the willow waist that is unbearable is slightly plump, and she carefully helped her slowly to the pavilion, the little maid hurriedly took the cushion and covered the stone bench, Hu Ji was a little shy by the curious eyes of the little maids, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, what are you doing, Tiger Ji is only three months pregnant, and the child in her belly has not yet grown, and she is holding and mating, so that the concubine is embarrassed." ”

Kira Yoshitoki sat down next to Torahime's body, smiled and said, "Torahime is a peerless treasure that can be left, and a great hero of the Ashikaga family, the child in Torahime's womb will be a great samurai in the future, and it is appropriate to be careful." ”

"Then Your Highness, tell me, is the child in Tiger Ji's belly a boy? Or is it a girl? Is it a boy or a girl that His Highness wants? ”

"As long as it is a child born to Tiger Ji, both boys and girls Yu likes it, if it is a boy, let our father and son protect Tiger Ji, if it is a girl, let Yu protect your mother and daughter." Kira Yoshishi's gentle words really made Tiger Ji smile and settle down in his arms.

Women are always sentimental, pregnant women are more sensitive, and they will have impatience, suspicion, and anger.

The two chatted and chatted about the topic of releasing the six thousand captives of the Takeda family, and Hu Ji asked curiously, "The concubine body doesn't quite understand why His Highness wants to release them?" worked hard to win the battle but put them all back, isn't this what His Highness often said about letting the tiger go back to the mountain? ”

Kira Yoshishi gently hugged her waist and said gently: "This is different, Yu did not hesitate to personally attack in the battle of Kawanaka Island in order to kill him, but unfortunately missed a move, as long as Takeda Shingen does not die, this Takeda family will always be a big disaster in Yu's heart, Yu wants to pacify Takeda and has to lead the army to fight a tragic battle, don't look at this Takeda family only 6,000 troops, as long as Yu's army arrives at Kai, it will become 20,000 or 30,000 troops blocked in Kai's strong wall, and it will not be fought at that time, If you don't fight, it will become a stalemate. ”

Hu Ji suddenly realized: "His Royal Highness means that when His Royal Highness talked about the Three Kingdoms, Cao Gong once said that chicken ribs!" ”

"That's pretty much it, Kai Kai with Takeda Shingen is a piece of chicken ribs, it's a pity to abandon it if it's tasteless, if you let him go for a few years, you can't say that it will become Yu's henchmen again, and the people of Kai are just some dissatisfied voices at the moment, once Yu Qin leads the army to the door of Kai's house, these people will definitely unite to resist Yu, this is the stalemate mentioned earlier, and there is a deeper layer of Hojo and the Imagawa family behind it will exert influence!

To be clear, the life and death of Yu Zai Shinano and the Takeda family will not affect Suruga and Sagami, but once Yu's army defeats Kai, it will directly threaten the safety of the hinterland of the two families, and I have not signed an alliance with these two families, let alone have no obligation to guard the back for them, with the Imagawa Division, Hojo Sagami's wisdom will definitely provide large-scale support with money, food, materials, and even soldiers, they would rather see Yu Tuo beat this mountain nest in Kai, and the anger and resentment of the fight will never let Yu succeed!

Even if Yu Youxin truces at that time, he will lose room for maneuver because the Imagawa and Hojo families will tear their faces with my Ashikaga family, so although the Kai land is profitable, it is not a wise man's advantage, and the reason falls on this Jiaxiangjun Triple Alliance, and if this alliance is not broken, it will not be able to harvest Kai with peace of mind! ”

Ji Liang is not afraid of the Takeda family, he can defeat the Takeda army twice as large as his own with more than 14,000 troops, and he will not be afraid of the 20,000 or 30,000 untrained peasant soldiers in the nest of Jiafei Mountain, even if they are defending the fortified city, he is confident that he will slowly pry open the solid carapace little by little.

Moreover, Jiafei has a total population of 160,000, and if you remove women, you will lose nearly half of the population, and if you remove the old, weak, sick and children, and remove more than half, it will be 20,000 or 30,000 strong laborers. Three months or half a year? Do you want to take care of the crops in the field? Should I harvest grain during the autumn harvest? If you don't harvest grain, you have to drink the northwest wind collectively in winter.

Taking a step back, where can the spiritual blow that the remnants of the Takeda family receive if they are defeated can recover in two or three years, unless the divine luck from heaven makes the Takeda family lucky to win a few battles in a row to bring back their morale, otherwise in the short term, they are afraid that they will not be able to exert even fifty percent of their strength.

The Kira family is not afraid of the Takeda family, nor is he afraid of the two allies of the Takeda family, even if he really falls into that kind of war of attrition, he is confident that he will win the final victory, but it is too troublesome and time-consuming, and it is now the first year of Yongroku, if there is no sense of urgency, I can't say that the world will be pulled back into the rhythm of the demon king, and the Imagawa family will be dragged in the mud pit of Kai, so that the big demon king can easily capture Mino, and then it will be someone else who eats meat and drinks soup and he will make wedding clothes.

Still puzzled, Torhime asked, "But isn't Imagawa Jibu an ally of His Highness?" Sister Naotoko is the daughter adopted by Imagawa Jibu! And the Imagawa clan is still very close relatives of our Kamikoashikaga family, so Imagawa Jibu will definitely not go to war with Echigo because of Kai, right? (To be continued......)