At this time, it was already the second watch, the samurai who didn't like to drink and entertain went to bed early, and the assassination just now woke people up, and the long-tailed Jinghu hurried over with his clothes on, and when he saw Kira Yoshi, he was covered in blood, and he was in a mess in the big room, frowning and saying: "What's going on?" What the hell is going on? ”

"The penetrating assassins of the Takeda family have killed a lot of people just now, and there is always news that has always been a swarm......" explained the ins and outs in three or two sentences.

Nagao Keitora asked the samurai, "How is the situation of the Tongxin people?" Did the Ichi-san army attack Shinmachi? What is the situation in the village? How many casualties are there? ”

"Entrust the lord and the blessing of the Wuwei Palace! My new town in Echigo has wooden fences, earthen mounds, and watchtowers, and there is no problem in blocking the town gate to resist the army! The nearby villages have just completed the annexation, and each village has a town facility, and there is no shortage of rice and drinking water in each village, so it should be no problem to resist! ”

"Is there any news that the village has been occupied?"

"No news for the time being! From the news of abnormal movements in some places in the evening, the villages guarded the entrance of the village to guard against the attack of a swarm army, the specific situation is not yet known! ”

Hosokawa Fujitaka stood up at this time and explained: "Lord Pavilion, play the main hall, please be calm!" In fact, since last year, we have organized several similar drills, the inside of the village is swarmed, the enemy invades and storms the village, and so on The drills have been simulated, there are twenty or thirty kinds of related plans, and there are already similar events in the vicinity of Guanchuan on the basis of corresponding preparations, there may be individual villages that encounter great difficulties, but it will not be so easy to take these villages! ”

"I see, just go out and break them one by one?" Nagawei Jinghu glared at the retainers: "So what are you waiting to do?" Let's get ready to go out now! ”

Kira Yoshitoki suddenly said, "Brother! Now the situation is unclear, and it is not known to what extent the Takeda family colluded with the Vietnamese and Chinese army. How many of them have a military force. And what have they done? So please make a comeback! Echigo's stability is inseparable from the strong support of his brother! ”

"Please come back to the world!" The Echigo samurai always referred to Nagao Keitora as their lord, and they never called Kira Yoshitoki "hall master" or "lord", which Kira Yoshitoki knew very well and never thought of forcing them to do, and there were three main reasons for this embarrassing situation.

The first point is that most Echigo samurai still recognize Nagao Keitora as the lord of Echigo's eight classics, Echigo does not need a mascot-like female daimyo, and Echigo's samurai blood flows with the factor of violence and military supremacy, and Nagao Keihu has been fighting in the south and north for more than ten years. Continuing his father's unfinished business, this courage won the favor of most of the samurai families in Shangyue and Chuyue.

The second point is that many samurai can't wipe their face and turn to the Kira family, an outsider, even if he is a famous nobleman, even if he has many magical methods to win people's hearts, it still can't work, and many stubborn Echigo samurai are thinking about the good of the Kira family, while stubbornly insisting on the idea that only the Echigo samurai can rule Echigo.

The third and most important point is that Kira Yoshitoki is not very willing to accept the Echigo samurai for a number of reasons, the most important of which is that he is unwilling to leave a truth. Said that if you don't occupy the magpie's nest, you can no longer collect the retainers of the Nagao family behind your back.,Honjo is prosperous.、Kurokawa Kiyomi.。 It is understandable that Hojo Takahiro belonged to the defeated surrenderers, and if the greedy and insufficiently charged more samurai of the Echigo Uesugi faction, the Northern Champions, and the Ueda Sect, it would really become the behavior of the dove occupying the magpie's nest.

Nagao Jinghu immediately realized his thoughts, and retorted without hesitation: "Tiger Ji is already the lord of the country and she is doing very well, Echigo is getting better and better in her hands, compared to her actions, my brother who can only fight together is an unqualified lord of the country......"

"Brother! Who says you're only going to fight together? Echigo from a chaotic face more than ten years ago to the return of Shangluo to live and work in peace and contentment, this is all the credit of your hard work! Without the guidance of his brother, how could Echigo develop so smoothly? Without my brother's support, how would Tiger Ji and I have come to this point? Echigo's past was completely the foundation of his brother's hard work, and Echigo's today also has half of his brother's achievements!

Brother He has ever seen the lord of the country for two years, and he has always been the lord of the country without saying a word at the appraisal meeting? Tiger Ji, she doesn't want to be this female daimyo at all! She thinks that only her brother can take on the position of the lord of the country! Tiger Ji and I are just temporary, and now that my brother is healed, please come back again! ”

"It's not a question of whether she wants to be the lord of the country or not, but a question of what she has to do when she sits in that position! The retirement of this family is a deliberate decision, and there will be no comeback no matter what! Long-tailed Jinghu shook his head firmly.

Kira Yoshitoki also shook his head: "But have you forgotten?" Although the lord of the country is the inheritance of the Nagao family, it is more necessary for the people of Echigo to unanimously agree, and now everyone's opinion is still looking forward to your comeback, brother, why is the brother still unwilling to comply with everyone's request? ”

Kira Yoshitoki's earnest words impressed the Nagao retainers, and many neutrals, including Uesugi Kenmasa and Ogasawara Nagasawara Nagasaki, showed very surprised expressions, and they had never heard of anything to make the lord of the country, and smart people quickly thought of putting on a show, but it didn't look like a show, especially when they found that Nagao Keitora and Kira Yoshitoki's expressions were serious.

Long-tailed Jinghu insisted: "I have been a monk and lived in seclusion for three years! ”

Kira Yoshitoki immediately returned the color: "Tiger Ji is already married and will be my wife!" ”

"She's still young! There is a lot of time to do the duties of the main room! ”

"But she always has to do her duty as a housekeeper, doesn't she? What should Echigo do then? Is my brother going to leave it alone? What if a situation like this happens again today? What if something happens to me?

"Hugh is going to talk nonsense!" The long-tailed Jinghu's brow was twisted into a pimple.

"So let's not talk about that, let's talk about youth! Brother is even younger! My brother is only twenty-seven years old, so how can he retire so early that Hojo Shiyasu, Takeda Harunobu, and Imagawa Yoshimoto are embarrassed? How can I be embarrassed by the samurai love that I have been holding on to for so many years and in my sixties! ”

Kira Yoshitoki turned around and pointed to the gray-haired Nakajo Fujishi, "You fancy Nakajo Echizen Shouden, who is nearly sixty years old and has more than half of his hair gray. Look at the color department repair hall is already sixty-four years old! He was in the prime of life, as strong as Honjo, and Misaku was forty-six years old. Kakizaki Izumi Moriden is forty-four years old! My Echigo warriors are getting old! The new generation has not yet grown up. The elder brother is the governor of the Nagao family, how can the lord of Echigo live in seclusion because of a little knot? ”

"Do you want to persuade me to come back? No matter how many times you try, I won't agree! Nagao Jinghu's will was resolute, and he stared at Kira Yoshishi with his eyes wide open for a long time before he said word by word: "I'll talk about this matter later......"

"After again and again, endlessly, how long will my brother retreat? Can't wait! Kira Yoshishi glared at him with determination, and at this time he was already close to a big man of more than one meter and seventy, a lot taller than the short and stout long-tailed Jinghu. The two looked at each other from a distance of two meters for a long time, and they did not have the slightest intention of backing down.

"If you retreat again and again, you will only disappoint the samurai, and in our impression, the dragon of Echigo always says that he is a good man!"

"I don't need you to comment on whether I'm a good boy or not!"

"My brother is bent on abandoning Echigo, is it equal to ignoring it!"

"With you and Tiger Ji here, it will be better to go to Echigo!" Nagao Jing said slyly: "I just need to hide behind the scenes and support silently as you said!" ”

"And what about them? The Kanto Command Hall, and the Ogasawara Shinano Shoden are there! Kira Yoshitoki gritted his teeth and decided to use a killer move, pointing at the stunned two people staring at him and saying, "If my brother is unwilling to come back!" These two will never help each other when they have a great enemy! I do what I say! ”

"You dare!" The long-tailed Jinghu was furious, and a pair of tiger eyes erupted with a strong evil aura. The not majestic body seems to contain a powerful force, so that Kira Yoshitoki almost can't suppress the scene.

"Why don't you dare! It was the elder brother who promised to save them. I never promised anything when I was righteous! If your brother wants to be a warrior who rebels, then you can live in seclusion! Kira Yoshitoki gritted his teeth and roared.

Nagao Jinghu was silent, which made the Nagao retainers very anxious, what was the matter with silence, Nagao Jingxin was sweating anxiously, and on the other side, Uesugi Kenmasa and Ogasawara who were shot for no reason, could only beg Nagao Jinghu with a painful face, "Please play the highness and make a comeback!" We can't do without the full support of the main hall! ”

As a down-and-out family that has been in the mainstream of the fallen country for a long time, the two of them dare not resent the domineering ruthlessness of Kira Yoshishi, the Kira family has indeed never promised to assist them, and the only tentative offer is the request of the long-tailed tiger to be the Kanto governor, such an outrageous asking price was immediately rejected by Uesugi Kenmasa.

Now Kira Yoshitoki made it clear that he would not help them, and he would earn it with his own hands if he wanted to get something, and the two who were familiar with the style of the Kira family immediately realized that this was a hint that they would stand up and beg the long-tailed Jinghu to come out of the mountain, from others taking the initiative to obey themselves, to taking the initiative to obey others, what a painful realization this is! The two could only silently shed tears for themselves in their hearts.

"I know that my brother is heartbroken by the shameful betrayal of some Echigo people! But people change, you didn't see today's assassination, without Honjo's desperate rescue, I would have died under Takeda's chaotic knife when I was righteous! Today is his big day! Isn't it loyal enough for a bridegroom to protect me? ”

"That's how it could be!" The long-tailed Jinghu began to waver, and the knot in his heart for many years gradually showed signs of loosening.

"Don't you understand? Retainer loyalty is built up little by little! Two years ago, I failed to persuade my brother to make a comeback, and my brother said that his body has not yet recovered, which we can all understand! A year ago, I failed to persuade my brother to make a comeback, and my brother said that he had gone into seclusion and did not care about the world, which we could not understand my brother's intentions!

Half a year ago, I persuaded my brother to make a comeback and failed, and my brother said that I would talk about it later, and we all couldn't understand it! Is my brother going to hold on today? How long are you going to hold out? Please take a look at the white-haired long-tailed retainers! They are looking forward to the return of their brother day after day, please don't let them down, don't let the Guan Ling Hall and Shinano Shouden disappoint, and don't let me and Toro Ji continue to be disappointed, okay?

Everyone is looking forward to the moment when the dragon of Echigo, the god of the Northern Army, leads us to take off! Can my brother bear to let Tiger Ji show her face and worry about it? Can you bear to let her charge at the forefront as a general? The comeback of my brother can be freed from Tiger Ji! When I am righteous, I will ask my brother to return to the world! ”

"I'll wait and ask the lord to return to the mountain!" The Echigo samurai bowed down to the ground with a brush.

Nagao Keihu glanced at the countrymen of Echigo expressionlessly, and they looked at him expectantly one by one, including Uesugi Kenmasa and Ogasawara Nagashi's expressions. Finally, he let out a long sigh and whispered, "Okay! I, Jinghu, will make a comeback from today! ”

"Oh!" The Echigo samurai cheered in unison. Laughing, making noise, and bursting out the emotions that have been suppressed for several years. The chief genealogist of the long-tail family, the old Ben Zhuang Mino, cried with joy, and kept chanting: "The lord is finally back!" The dragon of Echigo is finally back! I'm really going to be strong! ”

"Misaku Mamoru is wrong!" Yamamoto Tokiyuki said eloquently: "I have always been very strong, and there has never been a shortage of strong and brave samurai!" The arrival of our lord has made Echigo from unilateral military excellence to a situation where the military and government are on par or even the political strategy is better, and now the comeback of the main hall will make Echigo's military strategy more excellent, and Echigo will also be stronger! ”

"The master said it well! My brother and I can ensure that Echigo's foundation is stable! Today, Shinano's Takeda, Echichu's Ichiku, and Ueno's Hojo are all my Echigo's henchmen, and there are even more potential enemies of Dewa and Mutsu in the distance. They could all be the culprits who stole and destroyed Echigo! I want to develop better in the future, and the two families of Kira and Nagao are stronger, and they can't do without the support of my brother! The timely comeback of the elder brother can effectively deter the little ones, and it can also calm the nervous Chinese lords! ”

"Alright, alright! Don't pour ecstasy soup into your family! Without further ado, let's get ready to go out immediately! As soon as he decided to make a comeback, Nagao Keito's style became vigorous and resolute, and he immediately ordered: "Order Saito Shimono Mamoru, Nakajo Echizen Mamoru, and Sebe repair the temple...... Lead the army of the Kasuga Mountain Castle Headquarters to quell the chaos with the family, righteous time! Send your troops to support you too! ”

"No problem!" Seeing that Nagawei Jinghu promised to make a comeback, Kira Yoshishi also readily agreed.

"But you can't go! What a stare! You have more important things to do! Nagao Jinghu patted him on the shoulder and whispered, "Stay in Kasuga Mountain Castle and watch." The family in the city is very important, and there are sisters and tiger queens. My little nephew has just been born, and you're going to have to show me! ”

"Got it! Then ask the master craftsman to be responsible for cooperating with the brother's support work! ”

Yamamoto Tokiyuki said loudly: "The old minister understands! ”

……

The scene that took place on the evening of March 12 caused a violent reaction, and the complete reserve military service system in the city, the town and village concentric public system were quickly mobilized, and the Yiyi army never imagined that the indifferent violence could not be slammed into the iron plate, and originally only wanted to seize the village as a stronghold, and then "absorb" the local residents to join the Yiyi army, and then it could snowball bigger and bigger, until the next wave of reinforcements arrived in the Echichu army, and the two families of Nagao and Kira were destroyed in one fell swoop.

I didn't think that I would encounter a difficult bone at the beginning of the bee rise, Echigo's strong organizational strength and complete defense facilities, and the tenacious defense thwarted their offensive attempts again and again, and the disadvantage of the army's disorganization was soon exposed, and in the dark night, the army's sense of direction was extremely poor, and the onslaught on the village for a long time made the vigorous morale decline steadily.

The disadvantage of being good at fighting against the wind and not being good at fighting against the wind is highlighted, and the nature of the peasant soldiers is impossible to continue to maintain a tenacious fighting spirit in the dark night even if there is a bonus of religious fanaticism.

What's worse is that the army, which claims to be 20,000 but actually has only more than 7,000 people, launched an attack on dozens of villages near Guanchuan at the same time, and the consequence of the dispersion of forces is that none of them can be defeated, but because of the reckless attack, hundreds of lives are lost in vain.

These reckless and stupid soldiers will never be able to understand Echigo's policy, they did not come to Echigo to learn the advanced ideas of Echigo, but to occupy the fertile land of Echigo, so they do not know that the core meaning of the withdrawal and annexation of the new village is to dilute the strategy of some of the new villagers to achieve the goal of complete assimilation.

Although in recent years, there have been more projects in Echigo, and the number of training has been reduced to only one month, and even then it is not comparable to those who carry hoes and bamboo guns and swarm mobs.

That night, the army of the spring mountain city was dispatched, and the army captured more than 3,000 people, and the rest of the army saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly resisted, but it was too late, and the long-tailed Jinghu with the banner of Jiu Yaoba took the lead. Wielding the small bean in his hand, Changguang rushed into the main formation of the Ichichi Army, and killed Ishida Yasuru, the general of the Ichikazu Army. Those who have not yet exerted their strength have always been easily defeated.

With the total general will be killed. The morale of the followers of the sect collapsed, and the scattered and fleeing army was ruthlessly swept away by the Echigo cavalry, and Nagao Keitori immediately ordered the villages and towns of Echigo to guard the gates, and at the same time, the Kira naval army was dispatched to blockade the Sekigawa River, and the main roads of Central Vietnam and Joetsu were also blocked.

In the next few days, the followers of the sect who fled and fell alone were captured one by one, and after hiding in the mountains and forests for a few days, they were either hungry and couldn't stand it, and they ran out to steal food, and they were caught, or they fled to the streets and were captured. A massive rebellion was wiped out.

In the subsequent interrogation, the leader of the bandits was Ishida Yasurumome, an official from the Echichu Ichijo Ichisho Zong Shengxing Temple, who was ordered to come to Echigo to organize Ichijo Ichijo, and even calmly retreated in the encirclement and suppression of the Echichu Ichijong Ichizong some time ago, and he was unaware of it for three months in Echigo, and the people who cooperated with him were the leaders of the Penetra, Izuura Semori, who participated in the assassination.

As the interrogation progressed, Hattori's face became more and more ugly, and the Iga ninja could imagine how much punishment he would endure after experiencing this big leak, and Kato Duanzo, the leader of the Xuan Ape Ninja who cooperated with the interrogation, always smiled and did not speak, and their Xuan Ape Ninja was originally a ninja army directly under Nagao Jinghu. It mainly focuses on intelligence spying and infiltration in the Echigo and Central regions, and there is a powerful execution group. The execution of the ninja army, which is mainly aimed at enemy infiltration, even surpasses the Iga and Koga ninjas in individual combat effectiveness.

Although the lord of the Xuan Ape Ninja, Nagao Keiho, has a close relationship with Kira Yoshitoki, but as a match, the Xuan Ape Ninja has no cooperative relationship with the Iga Ninja, and even has a lot of disagreements because of the cross-cutting of mutual information.

But all this is not over.,Caught among the bandits of the Ichizong found a news about Usami Dingman.,As a result, the next day came the news that Biwa Island raised the anti-flag.,After receiving the news, Nagao Jinghu's face was ugly.,It's not once or twice that Usami Dingman resisted him.,This time he colluded with the bandits of the Zong sect to anger him again.。

"Usami Dingman has always been disobedient to the family, and now he is rebelling again, righteous time! Tell me why the samurai always betray! "The long-tailed Jinghu is pale, his temper is a little self-conscious, a few years ago, he lived in seclusion and nourished his qi and finally washed away the anger on his body, and it was only a few days of hard work, and a battle that was not a big scene was found again.

Kira Yoshishi was not angry at all, he knew more or less what this old man had done, and casually picked up a piece of information and handed it to Nagao Jinghu: "Brother don't be angry, I also know a little bit about Usami Suruga Mamoru's temperament, according to the information at hand, he is a personal old-hearted samurai, and he has not pretended to be shocking once or twice in the past few years, and the last evaluation meeting dispute was abandoned by his allies, which is why he chose to collude with Takeda and Echichu to rebel, right?" ”

The long-tailed Jinghu took the information and said suspiciously: "You mean that he was abandoned, so he rebelled?" What is the rationale for this? Hey? Is there still an evaluation for this? Matsunaga Hide-style character? Who is this man? ”

"The genealogy of the Miyoshi family is an important minister, a power-hungry and scheming hero."

"Isn't that a character of Kizawa Nagamasa, Niko Sussa, and Saito Michi?"

“…… It's still a little different! Kira Yoshishi smiled silently wryly.

He was supposed to say that Matsunaga Show's performance was all kinds of teasing.,Don't rebel when you should rebel.,Jump out when you shouldn't.,In the end, he hung up willingly.,It's much like Usami Dingmi's performance.,Nojiri Lake put Nagao Masakaki into the pit.,In the end, in exchange for the result of a whole family exile.,The result was misinterpreted by Nagao Keihu.。

Nagao Jinghu's face sank: "Then this Usami Dingman must not stay!" ”

Kira Yoshitoki comforted: "Actually, it's not that serious, Echigo lacks this kind of heroic samurai, and Usami Surugamori's hard injury is that he is the same age as Xianyue Weijinggong, what else can he do when he is only seventy?" Besides, does the elder brother really believe that this old man has the ambition and skill of Niko and Saito Michizo? ”

"It's unlikely...... So why write this kind of evaluation? ”

"Because Matsunaga Shu is not as good as Niko and Saito Michizo!" Kira Yoshitoki added in his heart: "It's funnier than anyone, you can probably surpass it!" ”

Nagao Keitora also had no intention of entangling human nature with him, so he bypassed the topic and decided: "No matter what, let's put down Usami Dingman's rebellion first!" ”

Kira Yoshitoki had another plan: "Actually, you don't have to go out to fight, just let me go on a trip!" ”

"You're going?" Longtail Jinghu glanced at him suspiciously: "Do you have any new ideas?" ”

"Almost!" Kira Yoshitoki opened the bat fan and said with a smile: "Usami Surugamoru's situation is a bit special, I'll test his attitude, if it's really just to rebel, it's okay to calm down." (To be continued......)