An autumn rain and a cold rain, the last light rain in September were drizzled for two days and then dispersed in a hurry, compared to the heavy rain of July and August, which often lasted for twenty or thirty days, this degree can only be regarded as drizzle.

Shinano Province Asahiyama Castle, Takeda Nobuyoru sat in the wide Ohiro room with his back straight, hundreds of samurai sat side by side on either side of him, and in the middle of the Ohiroma was the most important part of his public relations, Yoshitoki Yoshito, the governor of the Ashikaga family.

Suzuki Shigeji deliberately shook his head and said disdainfully: "You mean, this is a truce with the two sides and an exchange of oaths in this Shinano country?" Is this a request from the Takeda family? Am I not dazzled? Or did Takeda Daizen not wake up when he made a decision, and used his indiscriminate instructions to fool us and others? ”

Kato Kyōaki quipped, "Wouldn't it be worse if you didn't wake up!" The dignified Kai guardian didn't wake up and filled out a post at random and handed it to my Kira family, this is a big joke! You say, don't you? ”

"Hahaha......" A group of samurai laughed, making Takeda Shin shiver with anger but not daring to be angry, as a diplomat, he must be prepared to be insulted by cold violence in the territory of the enemy.

Takeda Nobuyoru lacked experience, but fortunately, his mind was still clear, and he endured it for a while to suppress the fire in his heart, and then took a deep breath and said, "Please respect yourself Kira samurai!" My lord has been guarding Kai for more than 400 years, and for whatever reason, I should not speak disrespectfully to my lord, and on behalf of the Takeda family, I would like to express my strong dissatisfaction and anger at the frivolity in your words! ”

This time, the Kira retainers did not laugh, but changed to another way to deal with him, and Takigawa Shiyi slammed the case. Angrily mocked: "Your Takeda family is really good. The last Battle of Hachimangahara didn't teach you enough lessons! It was you who invaded Shinano. It is also you who were beaten and had no power to fight back and were forced to ask the Imagawa family to sue for peace, and it was you who turned around and assassinated my lord, and it was you who were attacked by my lord and had no power to fight back, and this year it was you who made the anti-Vietnamese-hou alliance, and now you are sitting in Asahiyama Castle to negotiate peace, tell me, where is your face? Why should we save face for your Takeda family? ”

"You ...... You guys are simply abominable! Nobuyo Takeda swished to his feet.

Helplessly, the knife on his waist was taken away early, and he could only stare at Takigawa Shiyi angrily with those slender eyes. At this time, he realized that the height gap between the two was a bit big, and Takeda Nobuyo's height was only about one meter five and a half, which was more than a head shorter than Takigawa Shiyi, who was tall and tall, especially his iconic moon head was completely different from the hundreds of people in the hall.

The Kira family forbade the shaving of the strange hair of the moon head, and if the samurai disliked the fact that the hair was too long and affected the wearing of the hood, they simply shaved all the hair, and the shape of the moon head similar to a pig's tail was really unpleasant to him, and the samurai of the eastern country did not like the moon head hairstyle that was circulated in the western country, and still insisted on combing the traditional hairstyle of one hair strand.

"Is this the legendary warrior Keijiro Takikawa? Sure enough, it's a ghost-like character! Takeda Nobuyoru was frightened by this behemoth, and his momentum was suddenly suppressed by Takigawa Shiyi. One of his arms is thicker than his thigh, and his small body is simply looking for death to resist this monster-level existence.

"Takeda Daizen two months ago. The fact that the prayer was offered at the Hachimangu Palace in the higher prefecture and the Punishment Department Hall was also involved in it, must be fresh in my memory, right? Ben was staring at him with a gloomy look, his eyes flashing with a cold light like a knife.

As soon as he entered the summer Takeda house, he led the army into Kita-Shinano, and after the ten-month confrontation, he ran to the more subordinate county of the Shoko Hachimangu to offer a prayer to pray for the war to disappear, in the text it was written that the Shinano people attacked each other, making the country uneasy and leading the people to suffer, Takeda Harunobu could not bear the grief of the people, so he angrily raised troops and determined to unify Shinano to solve the crisis, and now the lord of the Hokuriku country invaded Shinano with selfish desires, destroying the countryside and destroying the people and disrupting our prefectures, so he prayed to the Great Bodhisattva of Hachiman, defeated the invading enemy and returned Shinano Kiyohei Paradise, If you can fulfill your vow, you will offer God to receive a number of clouds.

When Takeda Harunobu angered Kira Yoshishi with this behavior, he also annoyed tens of thousands of soldiers of Echigo, in the eyes of Kira Yoshitoki, Takeda Harunobu is a brazen villain, and his words and deeds reveal despicable behavior, this world is the world of the Ashikaga family, not the private territory of any country, the Ashikaga family is the royal family of the Ashikaga family, even if he does not have Shinano Guardian to occupy Shinano Country, the shogunate will not have many opinions, not to mention that de jure Shinano Guardian has control over Shinano Country.

"Criminal Department, resume to tell Takeda Daizen that the family has no intention of making peace with him in any form, and it is unforgivable to repeatedly violate Shinano, and he dares to assassinate the family with the audacity, and this year in order to deal with the family, he also concocted such an anti-Vietnamese alliance, and this behavior makes the family extremely disgusted with the capriciousness of Takeda Daizen, and we are ashamed to talk to you and other untrustworthy and unrighteous people! Bang out! Kira Yoshitoki was obviously disgusted by the despicable behavior of the Takeda family, so he didn't give him a chance to speak, and as soon as the words fell, two samurai carried Takeda Nobuyo out of Asahiyama Castle.

As the envoy of the Takeda family, Takeda Nobuyoru was humiliated like never before, this slap on Takeda's face was peeled off again, and the blood made the Takeda family samurai both hate and fear, when did the Takeda family be rejected so simply, and they didn't even have a chance to reason, so they were pushed back to Chajiu Mountain in a gray way.

Hearing the humiliation of his younger brother, even the unusually forbearant Takeda Harunobu couldn't help but change his color: "The Kira family is so ruthless! When Kira Yoshitoki, this didn't leave me a way to live for the Takeda family at all, this is what he told us with his actions that he had already made up his mind about my Takeda family? ”

He expected it to be true, and then the Kira family issued a general order, to the effect that he wanted to solve the untrustworthy and unrighteous Takeda family in one go, as long as there is a Takeda family's power in Shinano, the war will continue regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and this information falls into the hands of the Takeda family retainers, and the expression is really wonderful.

In the name of standing garrison, the Kira Army implemented an out-and-out policy of separating soldiers and peasants, and it was a trivial matter for a strong economic base to support thousands of standing garrisons, and the military strength of the Takeda family was composed of countrymen and peasants who were responsible for military service, and the organization was not as dense as Nagao Keitor's latest military service system. This extremely close standing detachment has a very high morale. As long as the weather permits, you can go out at any time of the year.

Shinano's autumn harvest is coming to an end. At the last moment, the Takeda army still could not end the war, according to the usual practice, the two sides should find a decent step to go home for the New Year, and wait for the next spring or warmer summer to go out to fight the victory, this is the unspoken rule of war in the Warring States Period, everyone does it according to this rule.

This time, Kira Yoshitoki made it clear that he would reject this unspoken rule, shouting that Takeda would not fall and the war would continue, and elevate the Takeda family to the level of a mortal enemy, showing the strong emotional color of this town guard general. The character of clear likes and dislikes and revenge, as well as the extreme demand for the virtues of the martial arts, give a great psychological burden to many undisciplined Chinese people.

Since the birth of the samurai civilization, the emphasis is not on loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, faith, etiquette, wisdom and bravery, it can be seen from the word one, Kawachi Genji Yanliu to "righteousness" as the general character, Kai Genji to "faith" as the general character, in addition to "loyalty", it can be seen that the samurai society to loyalty, righteousness, faith and courage these four words are particularly important.

But the actual situation is exactly the opposite of what was expected, and since the era of Genpei, the most likely to emerge in the samurai group are disloyal, unfilial, unkind, and unrighteous people. The descendants of the Kawachi Genji clan were exterminated by the Imperial Family, and the Kamakura Shogunate was destroyed in the internal struggle between the Imperial Family and the Hojo Tokumune family. Now the Muromachi shogunate has been stirred up by a trouble, and it is not far from the end.

Takeda Harunobu started by overthrowing his father's daimyo who came to power, congenitally contemptuous of the so-called loyalty, faithfulness and bravery, and it is common sense to stick a knife in the back of his ally for treachery, whether he believes it or not, he still has to talk about the routine of "human affection is a friend, hatred is an enemy", but this time he was peeled off the skin by Kira Yoshitoki's words to reveal bloody flesh and bones.

The friendship between the monarch and the minister is deeper, and the brothers of the Takeda family are not necessarily comparable to the Yoshitomi Kamiyoshi and Nagao Jinghu, who are not brothers but brothers-in-law and brother-in-law.

The Kira retainers are notoriously stable, and the "stuffy" nature of the Mikawa samurai has also spread all over the world, since the Kira family rose up eight years ago to go to Luo, I have not heard of which retainer Kira Yoshitoshi killed, and he came to Echigo for more than four years to directly participate in the quelling of the rebellion, and to deal with rebels such as Honjo Honjo Prosperous, Hojo Takahiro, and Kurokawa Kiyomi, they only made the punishment of confiscating the territory, and turned their faces and accepted them as direct retainers, saying that it is a punishment rather than a pardon.

The only other country that has been out of the Shinano family so far is the Shinano country, and the official hat of the Shinano guardian from the shogunate further strengthened the legitimacy of his expedition to Shinano, don't say that the Shinano country is the shogunate, and the sixty-six countries in the world are all Ashikaga families, and the shogunate's change of guardianship is not a new thing, and the Shinano guardian is not controlled by the Ogasawara family, and it is not a big deal to change the guard.

Shinano's current guardian Kira Yoshi, the previous guardian Ogasawara was on the Echigo side for a long time, and the Takeda family had no reason to fight Shinano either legally or morally, and the score could not compare to the Uesuki Ashikaga family, and it was reasonable to say that it was not a genuine brand Shinano guardian, and compared to the Kai clan in the nest of the imperial court shogunate in Kyoto, he only had a few allies in the countryside.

"Don't be afraid of them! The Kira family has no allies, and there are enemies all around, which is our advantage, and it is not false to go to the army to fight, and secondly, it is not good to fight him. Takeda Harunobu could only try his best to find a reason to convince himself not to panic, he himself knew why the Kira family didn't want allies, what allies did he need? Did the Ashikaga shogun's family have allies? No! The pillars of Genji don't need allies, because all the samurai in the world are his vassals.

Does the Furukawa Gongkata (Furukawa Ashikaga family) have allies? There are two Uesugi families who are considered allies, and one of them is almost wiped out in the night battle of the river with the Furukawa Principality, and the Hirashima Principality (Awa Ashikaga family) is a canary and doesn't mention it, and the Satani Principality was greatly denounced by the Ashikaga Shogun's family and never mentioned it and automatically ignored.

The Ashikaga family is not as good as the Ashikaga shogun's family, but it is better than the canary Awa Ashikaga family, and the waste wood Furukawa Ashikaga family I don't know how much, how many people does he need to be allies with? To be an ally is to pull the other party to a higher level than oneself, and the dignity of the Ashikaga family does not allow them to grovel and negotiate an alliance with the small daimyo of the eastern country.

Therefore, the Kira family has always been uninterested in the so-called alliance, and there are some similar things in terms of the information held by the Takeda family, for example, the small daimyo of Aizu Ashina and others have sent envoys several times to hint that the alliance can be ridiculed coldly, and the Ashina Mori clan, who is humiliated, will fall so directly to the anti-Echigo alliance.

Takeda Nobuyoshi was very annoyed by being humiliated, but he still had something to say: "Brother, I didn't expect the Kira family to refuse so simply, are we really going to be dragged here and can't leave?" Sooner or later, this news will be known by Erlang, and then the military heart will not be stable, please make a decision quickly! ”

Seeing that the people wanted to speak, Fan Fu Huchang immediately preemptively said: "No matter what, the army's heart can't be messed up!" We want to strike the army with dignity and return to Kai, this is the bottom line that must not be given up, let the Kira family unilaterally start a war, let's return to Kai with the front foot, and the Kira family can follow the back foot, for today's plan is only to fight to the death to be afraid of the Kira army, let them take the initiative to negotiate peace, I don't know what Gao Baizhai thinks? ”

"Afraid of the Kira Army? The military department is not joking with us! If we could win the Kira army, we would have fought a long time ago, so why drag half-dead on Kawanaka Island and wait for the opportunity......" Nagasaka Mitsuken suddenly found that he couldn't go on.

What should be said below is that the Takeda family advocated the anti-Echigo alliance, and finally hit Kawanakashima and found that it still couldn't be beaten, holding 20,000 troops to set up a dragon gate formation to defend, and the Kira army on the opposite side pieced together 17,800 people under the numerical disadvantage or attacked hard for two or three months, and the Takeda family with superior strength became the defender, which was a joke, and there was no face to laugh at the Hojo family who couldn't raise their heads when they were beaten.

The Takeda family's countermeasures passed at a very fast speed, and the attack on Kaizu Castle should be strengthened, Takeda Harunobu ordered to allocate 3,000 Shinano National People's Army to Kaizu Castle to help in the battle, they expected to give the Kira Army a major blow by capturing Kaizu Castle, forcing them to abandon their attempts at unlimited war, the Takeda family's idea is very clear, when the heavy snow covers the mountains in winter, will you Echigo countrymen still go home? As soon as Haijin City lost a piece of land south of the Xichuan River, will you still fight?

At the end of September, the weather was getting colder, and the samurai took off their thin autumn clothes, and Yoshitoki Kira in the Asahiyama Castle Castle Tower listened to the latest information and sneered, "Isn't this a move to promote peace?" I didn't expect that the methods used by my family back then were trusted by Takeda Haru on my Kira family, but do you think this is really useful? Do you really think that this family cares about a Haijin City? Joke! ”

Takeda Nobuyoshi received 3,000 troops to support the partial division to more than 8,000 people, compared with the less than 3,000 defenders in Kaijin Castle, the field under Haijin Castle washed by the torrential rain was like a mudflat, and thousands of mountain people were forced to conscript into the army to build improvised siege equipment, and they were driven by the Takeda army as the people of the engineering army to bear the most dangerous work.

Thousands of people pushed a flatbed truck full of dirt and stones, rushed to the city under the cover of the Takeda army to unload the dirt on the car, and then pulled the flatbed truck and fled backwards without life, but the people were so conspicuous in the Takeda army with no armor and no armor, and the defenders in the city would not show mercy because they were people, as long as they encountered the people who pushed the cart to the city, it was a rain of arrows to greet them, and they only had time to scream and die when they encountered the headless and faceless rain of arrows.

The Takeda army did not dare to expose itself to the rain of arrows, and hurriedly ordered the people who were hiding behind the battle to make up for it and continue to push the cart, and the people who came up to push the cart again and again were shot to death again and again, and sometimes mixed with the screams of the unlucky Takeda army being shot to death by stray arrows through the gap. (To be continued......)

PS: PS: It's true that Harunobu Takeda sent a prayer at the Hachimangu Palace, and the general content of the prayer is like this, and of course there is a prayer by Nagao Keitora who scolds Harunobu Takeda as a minister. In many literary works, the two generals are described as heroes and cherish heroes, and the pattern of mutual appreciation is wrong, and the two are enemies who want you to die, including Uesugi Kenshin's later failure to ban the transportation of Kai's sea salt is not a matter of affection, but a deeper reason.