"What the hell is going on? Could it be that Nagao City Uemon gave those pastries to Honmaru's guards? Or is it true that Kai Tou is so powerful that he has stunned the guards of Honmaru? Nagao Kori hurriedly sent people to look around, but he still didn't see any figure, and walked around anxiously.

"That's not right! Honmaru and the inner city of the police are not allowed to have entanglements, the pastries and food sent by the family will never be sent to the pill, and the Kai through the hole can't even get into the inner city, let alone the pill! Could it be ...... Isn't that right? Thinking of this, Nagao Kori only felt chills all over his body, and he couldn't help but shiver.

Nagao Fujijing suddenly went crazy, and suddenly broke free from the clamps of the two guard samurai, and rushed over with a smile, Nagao Xingli was in a very bad mood and couldn't help but be furious when he saw that he still dared to struggle, and pushed away the old man with messy hair, and scolded: "What are you old madman laughing at!" If we provoke the defenders in the city, we will all die! Hurry up and grab it and take a good look at it. ”

"I'm laughing at you dying people! It's really a laughing old man! Hahahaha...... "Nagao Fuji Kei didn't care about the rude movements of a few samurai, and tears of laughter and saliva flowed out.

Nagao Keiji was frightened, and persuaded tremblingly: "Father, what are you talking about?" What kind of dying person, the child really can't understand, don't scare the child! ”

"The city is empty, where have all the people gone? Still haven't figured it out yet? Sure enough, it's a group of dying people! Hahaha......"

"Shut up! Shut up! Nagao jumped like thunder, pointed at the panicked guard and scolded: "What are you doing to eat, you might as well plug his mouth for me!" Hurry up and plug it for me! Bastard, I've got to do it! Nagao Kori tore off a piece of Ichiori and forcibly stuffed it into Nagao Fujikei's mouth. I didn't stop until the old man was blocked and couldn't say a word.

It didn't take long. The samurai who searched the castle tower returned one after another. They brought the expected unfortunate news, the castle tower was empty, the Kasuga Imperial Palace was empty, the entire Honmaru was empty and there was no figure in sight, Nagao Kori's face changed sharply, and the six gods were shocked by the news.

"No one, no one, where have all the people gone? How could there be no one? That's impossible! No way! The city cannot stay. We've got to go, we're going to go! ”

Suddenly, there was a shout of killing at the foot of the mountain, and the light of the fire was lit up with the shouting of killing, but after a while, the Kasuga Yamajo Castle became brightly lit, and the dull military taiko drum and the bronze bell in the castle town rang with it, and the dead night seemed to suddenly come alive, and the Kasugayama Castle Town and Naoetsu Town all lit up the lamps, and a golden light pierced the eyes.

"Oh no! The long-tailed army suddenly came out of the house, and the tiger's mouth was taken away by the defenders! ”

"Oh no! An unknown number of troops are pouring out of the city, heading for the mountain! ”

"Oh no! Nagao Carpenter's Aid was courted by Nagao Keishin! ”

Nagao Xing's face is gray and his eyes are glazed. His body staggered and fell to the ground, and the sudden blow instantly destroyed his psychological defense. The next moment, thinking that his hard work had fallen into a trap, he couldn't help but cry from the bottom of his heart: "It's over! It's all over, the old man fell for the evil of Nagao Jingxin, it's all over! ”

"Uncle! What are we going to do, uncle! Tell me what we should do! Shall we run away now? Flee to Kai to join Takeda Daizen, he will definitely take us in, right? Nagao Keiji had an illusion in his heart, and there was a bit of anticipation in his panicked eyes.

The samurai guarding the top of the mountain ran away in the blink of an eye, and Nagao Fujikei stumbled to his feet, removed the rags from his mouth and laughed, "Stupid! Unfilial son! You're stupid! Hahaha...... Looking at this Kasuga mountain castle, surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, where do you think you can escape? Nagao Bunzen Mamoru has long laid a net waiting for you, and it is difficult for you rebels to fly! ”

"What do you say! What are you talking about old thing! Nagao Xingnai stood up with a hideous look, grabbed Nagao Fujijing in a frenzy and cursed, "You actually betrayed us!" How dare you betray us! You old madman, old bastard! Why do you want to kill us, I'm your brother-in-law, that's your son, you old madman wants to kill us! You ......"

Nagao Fujikei didn't care about his movements at all, and still laughed maniacally: "I'm just going to kill you!" You ungrateful bastards, you coveted the empty promise of the Takeda family, and my Shimoda Nagao family fell into the abyss of no return! If the old man goes with you and goes to Huangquan Biliangzaka in the future, what face will he have to see the first lord? Rather than be ruined by your reputation, it is better to simply die here than to let you thieves continue to cause murder! Hahaha......"

"You old madman, old bastard! You want to kill me! Then I'll let you die first! Give me death! Nagao Xingli strangled Nagao Fujijing's neck fiercely, and the strength of the old man's fragile neck became stronger and greater, Nagao Fujikei's face turned purple and slapped Nagao Xingli's arms indiscriminately, and after struggling for a long time, the two arms hung down weakly, and as Nagao Xingli let go of his hands, the old body fell softly.

"You...... Kill my father! You madman, lunatic! I'll kill you! Nagao Keiji rushed over like crazy, grabbed Nagao Kori and scuffled wildly, and rolled on the ground seven or eight times, and finally was locked by the young and strong Nagao Keiji and choked his throat desperately.

Nagao Keiji pinched his neck fiercely, and shouted hysterically: "It's all you who lured me into contact with the Takeda family, it's all you who plotted to subvert Kasuga Mountain City, it's all you who lured my father step by step and was forced to join, it's you who killed my father, you evil ghost who crawled out of hell, give me death!" ”

Nagao Xingli struggled desperately, and suddenly pulled out the ribs around his waist and stabbed Nagao Keiji's abdomen, the sharp blade cut the carcass pill and stabbed his intestines, the instant sharp pain made Nagao Keiji let go of his hands, and the next moment Nagao Xingli violently stirred his intestines and crushed his intestines, pushed away Nagao Keiji, who was pressed on his body, and roared with a distorted face: "You little bastard dare to kill me!" If you want to kill me, you have to die! I tell you, none of you will try to kill me, none of you will think about it! ”

"Bang!"

Nagao Kori shook his chest violently, and a large pool of blood oozed from his chest. Turning around with difficulty, he saw hundreds of samurai gathered in front of the Honmaru Gate. Standing at the forefront is Nagao Keishin. I saw him holding an iron cannon that emitted gunpowder smoke and staring at Nagao Kori expressionlessly, his eyes were as cold as a piece of ice.

"Bang bang bang!" Dozens of iron cannons set fire to Nagao Kori at the same time, and the huge penetrating force hit his body like a funny puppet, and his limbs kept dancing, and he stopped when he hit a piece of rotten flesh in a straight way.

When the smoke cleared, Nagao Keishin walked to Nagao Keiji, who was lying in a pool of blood, and the samurai beside him looked at the wound and shook his head gently: "The intestines are stirred into a few knots by the ribs, and he can't do it anymore." ”

"Ahem, cough, ahem......" Nagao Keiji spewed blood-red foam from his mouth, and his two lungs were desperately breathing as if they were pulling bellows. Even so, he still held on to a belief and didn't breathe, looking at Nagao Keishin with tears in his eyes, he wanted to speak, but his poor body no longer allowed him to open his mouth, only desperately breathing every breath of air, holding on and unwilling to fall.

Nagao Keishin was silent for a moment, and when the hope in Nagao Keishin's eyes gradually dimmed, he sighed, "I understand...... The family announced here that Nagao Kori colluded with the Kai Takeda clan to usurp Kasuga Yamajo, and Nagao Fujikei and Nagao Keiji father and son were forced by thieves. Secretly reported the news to the family.,Finally, in order to help the family destroy the enemy, he died in the spring mountain castle.。 ”

"Thank you...... Thank...... You! Nagao Keiji's hoarse voice spat out the last three words. Swallowing his last breath slowly, the expression on his face was so peaceful, this was his last belief before he died.

"Takeda Harunobu is not shallow to harm people!" Nagao Keishin sighed secretly, and immediately ordered: "Immediately send the Pegasus Express to Shinano Asahiyama Castle!" The rest of the people are waiting to clean up the battlefield and the fugitives of Sona, remember not to let go of any remnant! ”

This is the end of a thrilling battle, in fact, Nagao Keishinobu already knows that there is such a group of secret groups that are trying to subvert Echigo, since Hattori Masakiyo took over Echigo's intelligence system, he has reorganized the various information inside and outside Echigo, and soon found their horses and feet from a few inadvertent details.

As early as the beginning of June, when Kira Yoshitoki began to make a plan to go out, Hattori Masaaki gave him feedback on the situation of the relevant suspects, and at that time, the external war was imminent and there was no time to clean up slowly, so Kira Yoshitoki ordered him to closely monitor several important suspects, and it was best to lead them to carry out a complete clearance.

Nagao Keishinobu didn't know what was going on at first, until Nagao Fujikei suddenly changed his attitude to support Tiger Hime's battle, Hattori Masaaki found him and revealed relevant information, hoping that the two sides would cooperate once to wipe out the silverfish hidden inside Echigo, and return Echigo a clean world.

Subsequently, all the actions of Nagao Kori, including the food entrusted to Nagao City Uemon to distribute on his behalf, have been under the close supervision of Hattori Masakiyo, and you don't have to think about it to guess that no one ate the food he sent, and the defenders in the castle looked for various reasons to leave their posts and disappear, and in the end, there was not even a person guarding the gate, just to lure them in.

This plan is not when they see through the plan, but as long as they dare to break into Kasugayama Castle, they are destined to have no return, there are defenders ambushing outside the castle, there are defenders ambushing inside the castle, and the elders of the castle town and Naoetsuko town have already been notified, as long as they see a large fire in the castle, they will collectively ring the bell to gather the townspeople to support Kasugayama Castle.

In this turmoil, the most unexpected thing is the great change in the family of Nagao Fujikei, the tragedy of three people dying one after another, as for Kai Toba and Ronin are the most boring, the die-hard Toba ninja was easily killed by the Kira ninja who was crushed in both quantity and quality, and the ronin samurai surrendered spinelessly, they are the mercenaries of medieval Japan, and the instinct to fight and receive rewards is engraved in the bones, and it is not shameful to surrender if you can't win.

The Chikuma River in September lost its early summer fury and seemed to change from a herd of loose horses to a tame and docile appearance, and the confrontation on the Nakajima of the Kitashinano River lasted for three full months, and this difficult war exhausted the last of the Takeda family's strength, and the floods of the Fufufuki River and the Kamanashi River caused by the torrential rain that raged throughout the summer in Kai were left aside, and they threw themselves into this war wholeheartedly.

Takeda Harunobu did his best, only in the small Hachimangahara broke out seven or eight large-scale battles one after another, small-scale landing battles were staged almost every day along the Chikuma River, with the advantage of the geographical advantage Takeda Army played a perfect match, successfully repelled every attack of the Kira Army, the Kira Army had the advantage of a naval army. The ability to carry out landing operations at any time and in any place is a huge advantage. But that advantage wasn't enough to turn it into a win.

The Takeda Army had three fortified branch cities, lined up and connected to each other. Yokota Castle in the far west echoed the Takeda Camp in Chausu Mountain and relied on it not only to use the advantage of beacon fire transmission, but also to attract Takeda troops from all directions to support each other in each landing battle.

What's worse is that the Takeda family stole the castle building skills of the Kira family out of nowhere, and built a high-walled wooden fence and civil engineering structure of the arrow turret, which made the iron cannon team that the Kira family was proud of not so easy to use, no matter how powerful the smoothbore gun was, it was impossible to penetrate the solid wall, and the defenders who had no worries dared to carry the iron cannon and shoot at the Kira family's iron cannon on a foot light, this trick of hitting flies in the air did not play any role. However, it is still very good for boosting morale.

In order to prevent the Kira family from taking out the "unknown explosives" again, the samurai in the city also prepared many buckets, as long as the Kira army tried to rush to the city to put explosives, the defenders in the city carried buckets to sprinkle water on the siege troops, this move forced the Kira army did not dare to act rashly, one side had difficulties in the trick of supporting from all sides, and the main force of the Takeda army made up its mind not to come out to fight a decisive battle with the Kira army, even if Kira Yoshitoshi was able to pass the sky for a while, he was helpless.

The Kira family retainers are also worried, and the Takeda family is also helpless, and every time the Kira army fails to log in, it can calmly retreat under the response of the Kira family's naval army. The stalemate of the war was precisely the name of the Kira Naval Army, and in just a few months, this army of killers was very active in Hachimangahara. Every fire support of the fleet will cause a lot of losses to the Takeda army pursuing in the city, this kind of Kira army's iron cannon has a long range and is powerful, and the Takeda army in Kyoto has no temper, and over time the Takeda army has developed a habit of retreating immediately as long as it is chased and found.

This confrontation situation did not last long, in August Takeda Harunobu received good news, the western front of the Echichu one big victory, and the southern front of their own side and the Hojo family did not find a better breakthrough, the northern line of Mutsu and Dewa although for the time being has not received new news, but this has nothing to do with the overall situation, with the current stalemate situation to withstand the Kira army can not move.

The optimism of the situation emboldened the Shinano people to join the Takeda Army, and soon the total number of troops in the Takeda Army snowballed to 28,000 men, among which Minami Shinano Kiso Yoshiyasu and Hida Eima Tokimori and other people also sent their main forces in the hope of taking advantage of the great opportunity to form an encirclement network to make a meritorious achievement.

Several successful attempts to block the Kira Army gave the Takeda Army great confidence, the image of the enemy who was originally not warlike collapsed, and the samurai of the Takeda family rushed to express their disdain for the Echigo samurai, in the eyes of most people, the samurai of the Kira family is the Echigo samurai, and it is a bit hypocritical to say that he is a Kyoto samurai who has been so thoroughly blended with Echigo in recent years.

The good situation also gave Takeda Harunobu a lot of encouragement, and soon he made a bold decision, ordering Takeda Shinshihiro to serve as a general, Sanada Yukitaka as a deputy general named Fuzo Minoru as the vanguard, leading the 6,000 army to take on the heavy task of attacking Kaizu Castle, Sanada Yukitaka is like only a small strong, no matter how many setbacks he will always kill back, this time he is the leader.

There are 2,000 descendants of Takeda Nobushige in this army, followed by the Shinano National Army from Kita-Shinano, although the combat power is not as strong as Takeda Harunobu's main force of the main army, but there is no big problem in suppressing Kaizu Castle on the other side, this special force landed on the south bank of the Chikuma River from Maose, captured a few small barns and built a temporary military camp to launch an attack on Kaizu Castle.

Sanada Yutaka's siege skills are good, and the four thousand army of four thousand troops have pulled out many cities near Haijin City in half a month, and the heavy task of suppressing the defensive space near Haijin City step by step, after nearly a month of hard work, he finally swept away all the branch cities near Haijin City, and at this moment, this strong city that has blocked the Takeda family for many years is in front of him.

Their courage is not insignificant, behind the Takeda Nobu army is the winding Chikuma River, a careless will be copied from behind by the Kira water army, but the more he is like this, the more the Kira army dare not act rashly, not because he is frightened by his timidity, but because he is unwilling to fall into the trap carefully designed by Takeda Harunobu.

During the evaluation of Asahiyama Castle, Kira Yoshishi listened to the old tunes of several retainers with annoyance.

Hondo sighed with a sad face: "Could it be that Takeda Harunobu has fallen into the evil spirit and lost his mind? Definitely not! The essence of this change of move is precisely where his sinister intentions lie, Takeda Nobushi's department is a ten-strong soldier, Sanada Yukitaka gave up all the capital plus most of the essence of Kita-Shinano is not comparable to ordinary peasant soldiers. And the military strategy of these two people is quite good. If our army wants to eat this special force, we are afraid that we will use the means of the lion to fight the rabbit. As long as this special force drags on for a while and a half, the main force of the Takeda army will rush over from the Chikuma River and in turn to flank the main force of our army, which is really difficult to do! ”

Langgang shook his feather fan and retorted with a smile: "Not necessarily, Shi Zheng really looks down on this special team!" It takes all the strength to deal with the 6,000 partial divisions of the Takeda Army, so how can we fight against the main force of Takeda Harunobu? This move is to increase the morale of others and destroy their own prestige. Big wrong! ”

Ben Duoshi frowned and said: "It's not right to say that, since it is a war of annihilation, of course, we must gather all our strength to complete the battle, and if the action is a little sluggish, let the main force of the Takeda Army come, our army will fall into passivity, so of course we must use the fastest speed and the most troops to encircle and annihilate the ......."

"That's it, since our army can quickly gather and annihilate the Takeda Rangers, why is it delayed, if you know that you can't gather and annihilate it, why do you want to force it?"

"You can't say that, what if the Takeda Rangers have some back-up tricks to delay us? You can't be careless in military affairs! ”

"Hehe, isn't this exactly what I'm waiting for? The whole army is not able to quickly eat a small Einsatzgruppen, or the incompetent generals at the front are unwilling to fight with their hearts. Either that or that our staff officers did not do a good enough job, and there were obvious flaws in the offensive plan we formulated. Let the army waste its strength in vain to fight a joint battle that is destined to be impossible to win. ”

The term "staff officer" mentioned by Langoka is also the first new word used by Kira Yoshishi, and he uses Sun Tzu's Art of War to explain that he is a soldier and a strategist, so he uses this to establish an organization to participate in military and political planning, which is equivalent to the meaning of a strategist.

"The staff officers we are waiting for are on the one hand, the generals at the front are leading the troops on the other hand, and there is also the other side that Brother Fang has obviously forgotten, that is, individual factors outside the offensive plan, such as the change of tactics I mentioned or the factors outside the situation are also one thing."

Kakizaki Jingjia was annoyed by the noise, and stood up a few times and shouted: "What's so noisy about this!" If you want to look at my Jing family, just hit it directly, we have a navy in charge and are you afraid of him as a bird? Takeda Harunobu had a kind of crossing the river and halfway across the river and pinched his retreat! If the Takeda family didn't dare to come, it would be cheap for us. ”

But the two said in unison: "Never! If he pushes Takeda Harunobu into a hurry, maybe he will send an army across the river to attack Asahiyama Castle, and he will still lose money! ”

Kakizaki Keijia seems to be rude but is actually very smart, living in the head of the Oi family for many years, and his vision and talent are still good, seemingly unintentionally glanced at the young family governor on the main seat, and continued to shout: "Then we will attack Hachimangahara and cut off the back road of the Takeda army!" I don't believe in the upright teachers of the town government, and I'm afraid that Takeda Qing can't believe it! Can a good man be suffocated to death by urine? ”

"No! In this way, we will lose some of the attack, our Kira family will not fight an uncertain war, and if it does not move, it must be won with one blow, and it is better to be safe now that the future is unknown! ”

"It's still one word, drag! This is also no samurai demeanor, fight a joint battle worry about this worry about that, when we followed the lord out of the battle, it was the lord who clapped the board and said that it could be fought, our group of Echigo samurai rushed together with a sword, and defeated the enemy in a few strokes, how can you be so troublesome, it's really verbose! ”

Nagao Jinghu's style of fighting in the past was like this, a group of retainers didn't intervene at all, and it was all up to him to make decisions alone, and in government affairs, he would choose to listen to the important opinions of the retainers of the spectrum, but militarily he had always made his own decisions, even if it was Honjo Minoru and Nagao Keishin's proposals, he didn't take them very seriously.

Echigo Dragon's ability to fight depends on diligence for three points, and seven points for talent, just like those great military artists, a military book can read the world's famous generals, and ordinary scholars and small schools are still like that for a hundred years, war science is a very talented science, there is no possibility of diligent study and hard work even if you are stupid to become a famous general at that time, Wuxia Amon also needs to have Lu Meng's talent to do it.

"Your Majesty's support for Izumi Mamoru! It's better to try it out than to wait. "Naito Masanari is introverted and doesn't like to talk much.,Belongs to the kind of stuffy person who can't beat a fart with three bars.,From the outside, he looks like a loyal and simple samurai.,Who would have thought that he was a generation of famous generals who shocked the world.,Shoot the fierce general killer of Ten Rivers with his own hands.。

Ben Duo saw the powerful generation in the family make a statement, and immediately straightened his waist and said with a smile: "Izumi Shou's words are wrong!" Naito Hall please be a little impatient, military strategy must not be rushed, the style of the hall owner and the main hall is different, it is not appropriate to compare it, in my opinion, I have to discuss again, and then discuss ......" (to be continued......)

PS: PS: Historically, the Shimoda Nagao family was exterminated in 1568, and the reason was that it was involved in the Honjo Fanchang rebellion case, which was destroyed by our "soft-hearted" Uesugi Kenshin, so it is still biased to say that Uesugi Kenshin is indecisive, and this gentleman is an idealist in the early stage, and he is also a ruthless Warring States boss in the later period.