What's more fatal is that there are potential safety hazards in the rear of the Kira army, and the frequent attacks make the grain road leading to the direction of the horse farm pass very unsafe, and it is a taboo for the soldiers to go deep into the lone army, and once the grain road is broken and the heart of the army is shaken, it is not far from destruction, because of this worry, Kira Yoshishi is also constantly shrinking the offensive, trying his best to ensure the safe supply of the rear grain road.

However, the problem of harassment could not be solved, no matter how the army marched to that castle or which mountain to camp, it would be harassed tirelessly by the people of Nakasino, and the small pack pack could not come up at all, and the Kira army did not dare to go deep into the hinterland of the Xichuan where Nakashinano was located, and the 6,000 troops of the Kira army could only rely on fighting to feed the war, and loot food to maintain combat strength after capturing the walled city of the countrymen.

The shortcomings of these countrymen are not united enough, the combat effectiveness is generally not good, a little is very familiar with the geographical environment, the Mochizuki ninja army who are new to the distance and do not know about it will not be able to catch them for a while and a half, and the red cavalry will return more and more in vain in the interference again and again, and each time they come back, they will bring a little scar, which brings a relatively large fluctuation to morale and accumulates more anger.

The Takeda army also launched an orderly counterattack at the same time, but their movements were very careful, far less fierce than the crazy Nakashinano people, and used the large army to force the Kira army to retreat one after another, and the recovery of several cities successively restored the morale of the Takeda army, and at this time, Kira Yoshitoki had already begun to consider retreating.

On August 26, more than a month after entering Shinano, the Kira Army, stationed in the castle near the Inogawa River, held an important military council, at which the focus of the debate was the recent poor fighting and the many unnecessary casualties caused.

"Although so far. There was combat attrition in the return position. However, the surge in wounded soldiers is still very serious. More than 200 soldiers were injured and disabled by the ambush, so please pay attention to the impact on morale...... In addition, there are complaints in the army, and the samurai are very dissatisfied with such a poor war! Suzuki Shigeji asked this question for the second time, and the other samurai reacted more or less with similar attitudes, which made Kira very worried.

But what is different is that Kira Yoshishi has to consider not only the morale of troops, food and other issues, but also the deeper combat effects and goals, before the goal is achieved, he can only try to appease the impatient retainers: "The basic purpose of the battle has been achieved, but it is not yet possible to retreat." For the emotional problems that arise in the army, you need to enlighten you more, we are on the active side, and we can retreat at any time. ”

"It seems that the Takeda family has made very good progress, and the specific situation is not very clear, but judging from the current situation, the Takeda Army's actions are becoming more and more active, and it should be the plan to take the initiative to seek war and drag us down, right?" Langgang was vigilant: "Will it exert more pressure from Xiaoyi County, and then use the army to drag down the family, and strive to force us to show our flaws or even simply stay here?" ”

Hondo was also awakened and said in surprise: "If that's the case, it's dangerous!" Aoyagi Castle must be strengthened immediately. Ensuring the security of the rear of our troops. ”

"I'm afraid there is too much time, and there is a serious shortage of manpower. There will definitely be problems in half a month, and the timing of our retreat is only half a month at most! Nanaoka Kazubo glanced at Honda Tokimasa, and then looked at Kira Yoshishi, who nodded and said, "Lord Pavilion, when is the time for our army to retreat?" ”

"Don't give the Takeda family a painful lesson, after the autumn harvest, they will definitely fight unrelentingly, so the frequency of the war in this family is too intensive, once the main force is dragged in the hinterland of Shinano, the main force of the elder brother is not sure whether he can return to Echigo in time, once there is a war in the rear, it will cause more trouble, or wait a little longer!"

Kira Yoshitoki's consideration is very clear, the initial goal of this punishment has been achieved, the ultimate goal has not been achieved, as soon as the autumn harvest is over, the Takeda family has the strength and reason to take revenge, and the eager Nakashino people will definitely support it, which is not in line with Kira Yoshitoki's strategy, so either he doesn't come, or if he comes, he has to fight the Fuji Takeda family, forcing him to be unable to threaten Kita Shinano in the short term.

It was two days later, just in time for the autumn harvest in Shinano in August, when Kira Yoshitoki ordered 6,000 troops to attack in all directions, and the angry Kira army rushed ahead of the people of Nakashinano to harvest a large number of rice fields in the Matsumoto Basin, and they used very ruthless methods.

They used coercion and inducement to force local farmers to pick up sickles and harvest grain on their own, and then these farmers were forced to pack up their salutes and retreat to Kita-Shinano under the escort of the Kira army in flatbed carts with livestock.

According to preliminary statistics, the peasants who were driven by the Kira army harvested more than 35,000 stone of rice in three days, causing direct population losses of more than 16,000 people, and a large number of relatives, friends, and family members of the Shinano people were taken away together.

The samurai of the Kira family smiled and were escorted by Akabei, and quickly evacuated in a flatbed carriage, this time not only the anger of the people of Nakashino leaving, but even the Takeda army was furious, and Iitomi Torama gritted his teeth and cursed Kira Yoshi, regardless of the dissuasion, the 1,000-strong Akabi samurai regiment went out to attack.

On the other hand, the people of Nakashino were also furious, and the food that had worked hard for a year was dissuaded by the angry Nakashino people who did not listen to Takeda Nobuyoshi's persuasion, and they gathered together to attack the Kira army that had withdrawn to Aoyagi Castle.

It was not because the castle had been re-fortified, but because the dozens of arrows erected in this ruined castle had become a new firepower output point, and it was much easier to build arrows than 16,000 peasants, and the rest were all escorted to Kawanakajima by the Shinano reserve that responded, and they were scattered and resettled in the Echigo-Sekigawa River valley.

With the support of dozens of arrows, the Iron Artillery Team and the Shigeto Bow Team could calmly shoot the allied forces of the Shinano people who were besieging the city, and Takeda Akabei, who tried to break into the city in the chaos, was also repulsed mercilessly.

At this time, the entire front of the Takeda Army had been pressed to the vicinity of the Rhino River by him, and Takeda Shinshihiro did not dare to let the Chibei Samurai Regiment do nonsense by himself. To give credit to him, the Lord will be trained. If he gets in, he'll be even more to blame. In order to meet the Akabi samurai regiment, the 12,000-strong army drew a large circle from several directions and surrounded Aoyagi Castle to contain the Kira army with absolute superiority.

Takeda Nobuyhiro knew that it would be too difficult for this force to consume the Kira army in Caged City, so he could only try to hold him back and prevent it from retreating easily.

On September 3, after paying the heavy price of 800 casualties. The people of the Esinono Kingdom, who were carried away by the anger, seemed to have realized that they had made a huge mistake, and besieging the 6,000-strong Kora Army with a coalition of 3,000 people against the 6,000-man Kora Fortress was no different from looking for death.

The people of Zhongxino, who calmed down, remembered that the Kira army, which was not strong in firepower during the cage city in the past few days, was probably luring them to fight a war of attrition, and then remembered the ferocity and ruthlessness of the Kira army, some timid wealthy families couldn't help but retreat back, and the tacit understanding of unity and cooperation was broken, and the unstable characteristics of the people were exposed.

The disadvantage of not heeding Takeda Nobuyoshi's dissuasion became apparent at this time, and there was a lack of unified and effective command within the people. The people in the county are generally a little dirty, and the Yamashita family said to fight again. The Komura family said that they should prepare to preserve their strength, but the Kurumoto family said that it would be too late if they did not retreat, and by the time they had to respond to the retreat, it would be too late.

The Kira army sensed that the will to fight of the people of Nakashinano was declining, and it was very likely that there would be signs of retreat, so the gate of Aoyagi Castle was resolutely opened, and a thousand Kira Akabei went out again, and a cavalry chase infantry began to harvest the naked heads.

The Nakashinano people sent only 400 horseback warriors to try to stop them, and chased them from the foot of Aoyagi Castle to the Xichuan River, and more than 1,500 Shinano people were killed, and less than 1,000 escaped alive.

The 1,000 rescued people were still oppressed by tens of thousands of troops led by Takeda Nobuyoshi and Baba Nobuharu, Kira Chibei decisively gave up his intention to continue the pursuit and ran back to Aoyagi Castle like a rabbit, and the Takeda army also decisively gave up the attempt to pursue and kill, and slowly retreated to various nearby mountain castles to block the passage of Aoyagi Castle to the south.

In the city of Nakigawa and other forces, the main force of the Takeda army was hoarded here, and many people from the Naka-Shinano country gathered here to make a lot of noise, and the Shinano samurai, who were unwilling to lose both people and money and suffered heavy losses, clamored to continue to take revenge, and the hut Youkyo Liang said emotionally: "We are familiar with the terrain, as long as we copy the Baba Pass to seal the retreat of the Kira army, they are the turtles in the urn......"

The city lord of this city, waiting for the strength to defend the Houzheng for the heavy loss, heard him say this, and retorted dissatisfiedly: "How to block? With the defeat of our remnants, will we be able to seal Kira Chibei? If the Kira army is determined to break through, how many troops will we need to block the 6,000 army, not to mention that Kawanaka Island still has the Shinano reserve of the Kira army, which is simply impossible! ”

"How do you know it's impossible without trying? I thought it would be! ”

"What do you think it's for! I think we should have driven out the Kira army sooner! Waiting, he grinned and complained, "We shouldn't be so impulsive, the cunning Kira Army is not something we can deal with!" This not only lost money, food and population, but also lost soldiers, how will we live this life in the future? ”

As the number one force in Azumi Prefecture, the powerful official of the Nishina clan still had some right to speak, but his statement quickly aroused the disgust of Hiki Tanba Mamoru, who was also hit hard: "Aren't you impulsive, do you want to watch the Kira army steal our people and food and swallow your anger?" Just watch them kill our people? ”

Hiki Tanbamori's words awakened the bitter hatred of many people, such as him, there are many Chinese samurai who were breached and killed many relatives, and they all treated the Kira family with a strong sense of revenge, they will not thank the Kira family for their preferential treatment of the old and weak women and children, and they will not think of the persuasion to surrender every time they attack the city, and the people who suffered the blows of the Kira army here are all accomplices who surrendered to the Takeda family to help drive away the old lord Ogasawara clan.

"What Tanba Mamoru said is good, but what he said after the decision is also reasonable, so let's calm down at this point! In any case, it still has to be arranged by the stable hall! Seeing that there were many people in the city, Nishina Morimasa expressed his dissatisfaction with his own officials, and hurriedly stood up and diluted the mud, and by the way, he led the topic to Takeda Nobushi.

Takeda Nobuyoshi had already caught a glimpse of his brothers slowly shaking their heads. I knew that the genealogies in the family were already dissatisfied. I had to say vaguely: "Wait! Kai should give a new order. ”

This time, the people who went out with the army were in addition to Takeda Shinshihiro himself. Matsuo Nobu, Kawaki Nobumi, and Ichichi Shinryu, the younger brothers of the concubines all went out with the army, which was the method of checks and balances of Takeda Harunobu, and sent a few of his confidants to "assist" his brother who was both civil and military, and this tacit action lasted throughout the entire fifteen years, either a door or the "assistance" of the generations in turn, and Takeda Nobuyoshi had long been accustomed to it.

The people of Zhongxinno did not get the answer they wanted, knowing that most of the people and money were lost this time, and they could only leave in disappointment, and the youngest of the brothers, a letter dragon, said indignantly: "These people are greedy and gambling. I have repeatedly sent troops without listening to moderation, and I only thought of begging me to wait when I caused trouble, what did I think of the Takeda family? It's so hateful! ”

"You should understand their feelings! After all, the loss of so much food and population will greatly weaken the strength of the Nakashinano, and it will not be a good thing for my Takeda family. "As the representative of Chikumo County, Nobuharu Baba has to speak for the disobedient countrymen under him, otherwise he will be responsible for letting these young and vigorous people stab the lord.

"The most important thing is that there are no eyes! Didn't the military department react earlier and successfully withdraw? He Yao Xinkou unscrupulously removed the scar of Fan Fu Huchang, which made the face of this veteran who had been on the battlefield for many years red, and finally snorted to express his dissatisfaction.

Whoever was hotter than him almost put a thousand Akabi samurai regiments into it, and there were nearly 100 battle attrition in just a few rounds of blows from stray bullets from iron cannons and bows. The fierce fire of the iron artillery team penetrated the carcasses of the samurai without any suspense, and one by one the brave and skilled samurai fell. It was as if a basin of cold water had woken up Fan Fuhuchang's feverish mind.

Hurriedly led the army to retreat to the Xichuan River to join the main formation before calming down, if such a disgraceful thing was reported to Jia Fei, he would definitely lose a lot of prestige, this is a shadow that cannot be erased no matter how it is explained, and Iifu Huchang can uncharacteristically keep silent because this mistake really shouldn't be.

"How does the main guild arrange it? The army will go out to besiege Aoyagi Castle, or will it attack from Xiaoyi County? It always feels like the timing is not good! Nagasaka Mitsuken thought for a moment and said, "The Kira army is only afraid that it will retreat, right?" ”

"Retreat! How can you let them leave so easily! I've never seen a famous family that robs people and food! It is extremely shameless to dare to be disrespectful to the lord! I, Huchang, will never let him go! Iitomi Huchang roared angrily, and this righteous and stern statement caused great resonance within the Takeda retainers.

"I'm afraid it's not right!" Seeing this, Nagasaka Mitsuken hurriedly objected: "The monarchs probably don't know the strength of Echigo, Shi Gao has two million stones, and there are more than 20,000 standing troops, and he can arm an army of 10,000 people at any time, in case we force him to send a large army to attack him, how can Shinano withstand a looting of soldiers, please don't do this without the order of the lord!" ”

"Chikugo is a little timid, isn't he?" Fan Fu Huchang snorted coldly: "Even the lord will understand the thoughts of my retainers!" If there is revenge, how can the samurai family still stand in the countryside, and how can the Takeda family lead the Shinano people, so that if I am weak, I will definitely be laughed at by the people! ”

"The military department is right! If the Takeda family does not take any action, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction and commotion among the people, so please pass on our opinions on our behalf. Baba Nobuharu said worriedly: "What is the situation in the county now, all the monarchs can also see clearly, if I, Xinchun, as the county representative, can't appease the people and cause a commotion, punish me Xinchun is a small matter, and the big business that affects the lord is big!" ”

"Yes! Ask the Pawn Stable to forward our opinions on your behalf! Many samurai, led by Iitomi Humasa and Baba Nobuharu, stood up and spoke one after another, making Nagasaka Mitsuken's eyebrows twist into pimples, and secretly scolded: "What a group of unconscious bastards! Is the Kira family so easy to mess with? If you can defeat the Kira family, you will use such a troublesome plan! ”

Takeda Nobuyoshi listened carefully to the opinions of each samurai, and then said slowly: "Please rest assured, I will definitely report to my brother truthfully." ”

The information sent to Kai has not yet been accurately reported, and as soon as the sky is bright on September 8, the Takeda Penetrating Ninja found that there was no flag at the head of Aoyagi Castle where the flag was flying, and the entire mountain castle became extremely silent.

When Takeda Nobuyoshi stepped into Aoyagi Castle, he found that this silent mountain castle had been simply repaired, the broken Otemen and the earthen mounds had been repaired, the secluded well water was still clear and sweet, and the well was not sealed by boulders or abandoned dead cattle and sheep to destroy the well with the plague, and a few curved wheels were cleaned cleanly, and you could see the traces of countless footprints on the ground.

Takeda Nobuyoshi, who hurriedly checked and found no flaws, was also relieved to be worried about what to do, and at the same time secretly said in his heart: "It's a famous nobleman who abides by the rules!" Didn't use local means to deal with my Takeda family...... Maybe it's disdainful! ”

After a big circle and finally came to the castle tower, Takeda Nobuyhiro ignored the warning of the ninja, and opened the closed paper door to see a unique Chinese painting, from the content of the Chinese painting, it can be seen that it is the story of Minamoto Yori's bent bow to shoot the story of Weisheng, and there is the figure of his Takeda ancestor Takeda Nobuyoshi under the white flag of Genji.

This battle is called the Battle of Fuji River, it is the first major battle after the Minamoto Yoritomo raised troops, the enemy on the opposite side is the Heike general Taira Weisheng, the Minamoto Yoritomo attacked the Heike camp by surprise, the startled water birds scared the Heike general Taira Weisheng, and left 70,000 troops behind, with 2,000 Heike samurai fled in panic, this battle played the prestige of the Minamoto Yoritomo, and laid the groundwork for the opening of the summit in the future.

There are also two lines of words on the Chinese painting, which reads Cao Zijian's "Seven Steps Poem": "This is born from the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other!" ”

"The meaning of this painting is really profound!" Takeda Nobuhiro was silent for a long time, and ordered someone to carefully put away this painting before framing it, the meaning of Kira Yoshitoki is very clear, but what choice does he have for the Takeda family, this is the Warring States Troubled Era and not the Genhei Era, and they are not the ancestors of Megatron in the past.

The brilliant morning light dyed this dilapidated mountain city a golden yellow, and Takeda Nobuyoshi stood on the terrace looking at the green mountains in the distance, and sighed softly: "It's just that my Takeda family is a flat boat that drifts with the tide, and I can't change this chaotic world of strife!" ”

The Kira army evacuated Nakashinano without any attachment, did not make a big fanfare and did not burn the mountain castle, let alone poison the well water and stuff the sick cattle and horses to release the plague, so they returned to Kita-Shinano safely, and the Takeda army was both disappointed and relieved, they did not have the ability or the courage to leave the Kira army, and could only watch him leave.

The Naka-Shinano people who suffered heavy losses fell sharply from the main position of the Shinano ancestors to the same position as the people of Ina County, who repeatedly disobeyed the control, and the angry Naka-Shinano people repaid their hatred for the Kira family, and at the same time irrepressibly resented the Takeda family, and Baba Nobuharu had to run to Kofu to seek assistance for Nakashinano in order to appease the countrymen who had suffered heavy losses.

It's just that the tragic loss and blood lesson have arrived, and the worse is yet to come, and the Kira family, with the help of powerful public opinion and Shinano's natural ruling power, has spread propaganda throughout the land of Shinano and even the neighboring states, exposing the ugly and evil deeds of the Takeda family at the Kasuga Yamashiro wedding banquet, as well as colluding with the followers of the clan to incite a riot and kill innocent people.

The good reputation that the Takeda family has worked hard to build in the Kanto region and even Tokaido for more than ten years has been lost, and the resourceful Takeda Harunobu has suddenly turned into a despicable and shameless evil meal, which is unacceptable to the Takeda family.

The Kanto countries were in the mood to watch the theater, and the people of Ueno Kuniku also took the opportunity to expose the tragedy of the Oda Iwara Battle ten years ago, and the 3,000 heads were piled up to make a Kyoto view, and at that time in the middle of summer, flies and maggots breed and stink to the sky, and the slaughter of Shiga Castle and the demotion of the captives to slavery were also revealed, and the reputation in some parts of Shinano, Echigo, and even Ueno Province was simply stinky. (To be continued......)