At 8 o'clock on the morning of July 12, when the battle clouds were gathering on Shinano Kawanaka Island, Kira's army launched a landing battle against the approach of Ohorikan on Hachimangahara.

There are no less than a dozen arrowheads densely packed in the city wall on the side of the Oborikan, each of which has a height of nearly five arrows with a mixed structure of civil engineering and stone, which is much stronger than the previous pure wooden arrowheads, and the iron cannons on the arrows burst out with scattered gunshots, and soon they were fired back by dozens of times the iron cannons, but unfortunately most of these bullets hit the thick stones and broke out many stone chips.

Thousands of ashigaru held the rattan card and tried to charge forward, just rushed to the castle and encountered the attack of the stone throwing and arrow rain in the castle, in the fierce battle, the warriors of the Kira family found that these three temporarily fortified castles were not easy to deal with, especially the three castles were connected to each other, and they could send most of the reinforcements into the city to participate in the defense before the invasion of the army of the Kira family, each time it was the rhythm of seven thousand defenders against thirteen thousand, which was very troublesome.

This battle lasted until the evening and did not divide any victory, Kira Yoshitoki had to order the troops to retreat, and the defenders of the Takeda family in the city did not come out to pursue, standing on the arrow oars and watching the calm withdrawal of the Kira army, until Kira Yoshitoki stood on the side of the ship, he spat hatefully: "This is the Kai Tiger?" It's clearly a cunning old fox! If you want to lure my Kira family to the bait, I'm not as good as you like! The so-called long-term defense will be lost, I don't believe that you can keep it like this forever! ”

Kira Yoshitoki stepped on the boat that had been waiting for the navy for a long time and slowly retreated, and the boat on the Rhinokawa River went back and forth between the two banks, and the Ashigaru team left first. The Red Reserve Cavalry, Iron Artillery Corps, and Shigeto Bow Corps were always dragged to the rear to keep on guard. Until the last cavalry boarded the boat. The Takeda defenders in the castle did not make any moves, and today's siege battle was doomed to failure.

He knew that his disadvantage lay in the absolute gap in equipment, and the gap between the soldiers' military quality and tacit understanding was not particularly obvious, and it was also very correct to resolutely avoid a decisive battle with the Kira army in the case of his own strength advantage and strength disadvantage.

If it is just like this, it will only give full play to the basic characteristics of "avoiding shortcomings" and "avoiding reality". It was also necessary to give full play to the characteristics of "promoting strengths" and "being virtual", so Takeda Harunobu painstakingly designed a set of formations and built fortresses on a large scale in Hachimangahara, Hirokan, and Yokota Castle.

And in the three branch cities deployed 8,000 people of the guard troops, the 12,000 troops of the main force are still stationed on the Chajiu Mountain, the Takeda family's defensive measures are very meticulous in place, the deployment of the three cities is 3,000, 3,000, 2,000 troops, of which the 2,000 defenders of Yokota Castle are the closest to the Chajiu Mountain, the farthest and safest from the Xichuan River.

It is equivalent to saying that even if Ohborikan is surrounded by a surprise attack by the Kira army without defense, it will be difficult to eat the fortified castle of the 3,000 defenders in a short period of time in the face of the strong attack of the Kira family's iron artillery team and the baking team. What's more, the movement of the Kira Army's landing is very large and slow, and the Ohorikan located next to the confluence of the main streams of the Rhinogawa and Chikuma rivers can easily spot them. and issue a warning before the Kira Legion launches a major attack, calling for friendly reinforcements.

This alone can't pit the Kira family, the most powerful thing is that these three cities connected to each other are not afraid of the so-called attack behind the rear, no matter how you go around, you can't ignore the defenders in the city, for example, take the 7,000 defenders of the Takeda side in today's cage battle as an example.

Attacking around the rear or dividing troops to seize the land, it is necessary to bypass the fortified city to attack the rear, and send part of the main force to nail the Takeda family defenders in the city, but how many of the 7,000 defenders in the city are left is a problem, and the remaining troops are too small to withstand the 7,000 defenders to go out of the city to counterattack, in case they are eaten and then copy the back road of the Kira army from behind.

It was also a problem that there were too many troops left, and the main force that the Kira army could use was only 13,000 men, leaving only 6,000 of the 7,000 men to attack the other two cities, but what if they had a steady stream of troops behind them? An army of 12,000 is not a pleasant thing for 6,000.

The eight thousand defenders of the three castles on Hachimangahara are not afraid, or they are deliberately gathering all the main forces in one city to attract the Kira family to surround it, Chausu Mountain is on the west side of Hachimangahara, every time the Orikan is reinforced, the Takeda army camp of Chausu Mountain will definitely send a part of the reinforcements to support the defense of the two cities, these two castles only need to support half an hour, and most of the main forces on Chausu Mountain will gather under the city to fight a beautiful counter-encirclement battle.

Therefore, these three castles are like three poisonous baits with both color and fragrance, and the tempting bait exudes a deadly temptation, if Kira Yoshishi can't help but give in at this moment, then it will inevitably drag into the offensive rhythm of the Takeda family, and it is a very dangerous thing to fight along with Takeda Harunobu's train of thought.

The first Kawanakajima battle, that is, Nagao Jinghu repeatedly took the Takeda family by surprise to force the Takeda family to come forward to negotiate peace to end the war, the second Kawanakajima battle, Kira Yoshitoki also used the surprise attack to the frontal gang, forcing Takeda Harunobu to give up the best offensive rhythm, dragged into the familiar rhythm of the Kira family will be defeated, this is the third time, Takeda Harunobu decided to fight according to the ideas he designed, Kira Yoshitoki of course not as he wished.

Back in Asahiyama Castle, the Kira family retainers were busy holding a military meeting to discuss the gains and losses of this battle, and several Yubi were busy making various records without touching the ground, and Kira Yoshishi said in his heart: "The Takeda family will definitely not be able to fight head-on, and if you can't fight, you can only hold on, but can you afford to drag it out?" I don't know the situation with my brother yet, and I don't know the situation in Viet Nak, so I have to take the lead in supporting them with practical actions! ”

The failure of the last few landing battles has given the Kira retainers a high level of understanding of the Takeda Army, and each time it is mainly a tentative attack, although it has not achieved many results, but there are not many losses, except for more than 100 wounded unlucky people who have been treated by doctors, there are no other losses, and the military meeting was dissolved not long after, and there is not much to say about the situation of the enemy.

Hattori Masaaki walked out of the shadow of the tent, leaned over and whispered: "The situation of the anti-Vietnam alliance is basically proven. Back at the beginning of last year. Harunobu Takeda is planning this alliance. It's just that it didn't take shape because of Hojo Shiyasu's perfunctory, and Takeda Harunobu had already decided that even if Hojo Shiyasu refused to join, he would launch a siege network this year, but Hojo Shiyasu suddenly announced that he would join the alliance at the beginning of this year, and agreed to send a large army to unite allies to fight together. ”

"Hojo Shiyasu suddenly announced that he was joining? What does that mean? Kira Yoshitoki's heart suddenly moved: "Could it be that my brother joined the alliance because my brother defeated the Hojo family in the Tone River last year, which made him resentful?" It doesn't seem right! If that's the case, Hojo Shiyasu should have joined last fall, so why did he delay joining until the beginning of this year? There must be some unknown reason for this, right? ”

Hattori Masaaki nodded and said, "The hall owner is exactly what he expected!" There is indeed an internal cause. In the next also luckily to hear some information, last year after the defeat and retreat of the Hojo family, Hojo clan Yasu returned to Odawara Castle on a serious illness, it is said that after the illness suddenly changed attitude and decided to contact the envoy of the Takeda family, from the end of last autumn to the beginning of this year in a few months, the envoys between Takeda and Hojo came and went frequently, until the beginning of this year Takeda Nobulian visited Odawara to finalize the alliance plan. ”

"Then why are you only telling me now?"

"Please atone for your sins, Lord Pavilion! Kai and Sagami both have strong ninja armies, especially in the vicinity of the two houses, the counterintelligence work is very good, because there were some problems with the previous intelligence setup, and the subordinates took a lot of effort to adjust before the initial results. The intelligence collection of the two countries has not yet been fully launched, and it is impossible to obtain first-hand intelligence information from these two countries for a while. Hattori bowed his head and begged for forgiveness.

Kira Yoshitoki smiled bitterly: "Forget it! My family knows it's not your fault. Those two old foxes have a calculus or no intention to give you a chance to spy on first-hand information, the two are allies, and frequent exchanges of envoys are commonplace, unless you can predict the prophet, otherwise this alliance will definitely not know, if even the target of the alliance's countermeasures can spy on the core secret, then this alliance really has no meaning and value of existence. ”

"Thank you, Master, for your kindness! Make every effort to make sure you don't make the same mistakes. Hattori Masaaki bowed in thanks, paused and said, "According to the information fed back from the movements of the Wind Demon Clan, they seem to be looking around for any traces, and there are signs of haunting Kasuga Mountain Castle and Omi Sakamoto successively. ”

"What does it mean to be active in Kasuga Yamashiro and go to the Sakamoto neighborhood to hang out? What else do they have to try? That's not right! The family doesn't seem to have anything to do with the Hojo family.,Even the series of wars in Ueno were handed over to the elder brother to do it for him.,What's the problem? Kira Yoshitoki paced back and forth with his arms in his hands.

As the personal experience of that incident and the supreme commander of the mission, Hattori Masaaki didn't realize the impact of that incident when he noticed Kira Yoshi, so he cautiously reminded: "Your Majesty doesn't know what the reason is, but Your Majesty thinks that maybe it has something to do with Murayu's exposure!" ”

"That's right! And the village rain knife! How did I forget it! Kira Yoshitoki patted his head and said in annoyance: "How did I forget this stubble, wasn't that knife given to Honjo by the family?" How did they find out...... Phew! What am I talking about! The Hojo family will definitely find out that such a big thing as the assassination has been rumored by the family, and if he doesn't know about it, there will be a problem! I'm still too careless! ”

He didn't regret giving the knife to Honjo Fanchang, nor did he regret shaking out the assassination incident and hyping it up, if there was no one between the two, there would be no problem, but the assassination happened before giving the village rain in the back, and afterwards he made a big deal about changing the ape music is simply looking for guilt, in a sentence he often likes to say, "it's incorrigibly stupid".

Kira Yoshitoki held his head and said incoherently: "Mistake! What a mistake! Why did I forget all about the village rain! After Uesugi Kenmasa's corroboration, the Hojo family must have known! When Ashikaga Haruhi died mysteriously that night, there was one less village rain knife in the entire city, and he knew that he should have burned down the Furukawa Imperial Palace, which was a big mistake! ”

Hattori Masakiyo hung his head in embarrassment, he couldn't really burn the Furukawa Imperial Palace because of the lord's angry words, the order he received back then was to steal the knife instead of killing people and killing people, but the lord was annoyed that he also had a little responsibility, and said head-on: "The information about the activities of the Wind Demon in Sakamoto happened at the turn of the summer and autumn last year, and the subordinates also passed on this information, when the main hall of Nagaodan, the main hall was fighting with Hojo Sagami Mamoru Ueno, and the owner of the pavilion was fighting the Takeda family in Shinano, and the minister did not know whether the owner of the pavilion had noticed this information. ”

"I didn't notice it, but I have the impression of it." Kira Yoshishi hung his head and said, "Most of the time I was too busy to forget." ”

"That Hojo Sagami Mamoru won't believe the reason given by the hall master, otherwise the Wind Demon Ninja wouldn't have gone to Omi to inquire about the news!"

Of course he doesn't believe it, no one else will believe it, and the family has made a wrong move! This is really a wrong step, a wrong step, and the reason for prevarication is full of flaws, how could someone as smart as Hojo Shiyasu believe this kind of reason! No wonder Hojo Shiyasu suddenly changed his attitude, no wonder he wants to take out his family foundation this year, this is all a mistake of his family! Kira Yoshitoki sighed and said, "The matter has come to this point, let's find a way to make amends!" (To be continued......)

PS: Tomorrow is New Year's Day, I wish you all a happy New Year's Day in advance! Happy family!