Ji Liang listened to their argument expressionlessly, and thought to himself: "To exercise endurance and qi cultivation skills, you must be unfathomable for the monarch, and you must not express your attitude at will, ask more questions and answer less, listen and talk less...... This monarch is really troublesome! ”

The Kira army did not move because he did not find a better time to move, and now it is useless to cross the river on a large scale to attack Ohorikan, and the crossing of the river by 13,000 troops will not be completed at all without an hour, and the beacon tower on Ohborikan Castle has been burning for a long time at this time.

The reinforcements of the Takeda family will come earlier than the Kira army, and the siege troops will have their backs to the river, and the siege will lose half of the siege before it is fought, so every siege will become a failure, and he has tried this many times, and there is still no better effect in changing the landing site again and again.

Don't blame the retainers for making meaningless quarrels, the retainers have feedback to understand their thoughts, there are too few other voices in the Kira retainers, and most of the samurai are silent or don't like to interject, and they do whatever the general says, which has both advantages and disadvantages, and he prefers to listen to special voices, even if they say something wrong.

"In the final analysis, it is still too much pressure to attack with inferior forces, and it is even more pitiful to the superior forces on the other side to wait for work, and the defender is still Takeda Harunobu, who is known for his good defense, only seeks a five-point victory in the war, shouting that people are the city, people are the wall, people are friends, hatred is the enemy, what he lacks most is patience and perseverance, on ruthlessness and forbearance are the first-class level of the Warring States, and the military strategy is proficient, it is too difficult!"

You can't blame the retainers for being incompetent, nor can you blame Kira Yoshitomi for doing nothing. The person who can completely suppress Takeda Harunobu has never appeared. Murakami Yoshikiyoshi defeated the Takeda Army twice in the Battle of Uedawara and in the Battle of Toishi. gave Takeda Harunobu two head-on blows to Harunobu Takeda, who was not very mature at the time, and since then Harunobu Takeda has matured rapidly, becoming more and more difficult to deal with, even more difficult than those old foxes.

It's just that he has a group of arrogant soldiers under him, no one is convinced to serve Takeda Harunobu, Takeda Shinshi is the top lieutenant general, Sanada Yutaka is the sharpest knife, and many wolf-like samurai form the indestructible foundation of the Takeda family, even Uesugi Kenshin in the heyday of history has nothing to do with him.

In the past, he didn't think that the governor of the Takeda family was so difficult to deal with, and he had the impression of the second Kawanakajima battle. The sense of this Kai Tiger is just ordinary, famous, resourceful, thoughtful, and ruthless, but when it comes to the invincible Kira Army, it is like a paper tiger that can be broken at the poke of a paper tiger.

But he never expected that this person not only has the above advantages, but also has an unknown advantage, that is, he is good at summarizing and learning lessons, every time he fights a draw war, he will change his strategic thinking, and every time he loses, it will become more difficult to deal with, and the most important thing is that his mind is difficult to figure out, and he can never guess what moves he will make to yin you, and he must always be careful to watch out for his small movements. It's hard.

This time, Harunobu Takeda learned his lesson and entered the trap when Hachimangahara set up a large array waiting for Kirayoshi. It doesn't matter if the Kira Legion doesn't fall into the trap, it's beneficial for me to drag it down, as long as the other three roads win any way, it will immediately cause a chain reaction, such as the crisis in Echigo, which makes the Kira Legion sitting in front of it waver, and if there is trouble in the rear, he, the main general, will definitely not be able to sit still and lead the army back to help, which will achieve his goal.

As long as Kira Yoshitoki leaves, he will definitely take away his direct reserves, and by then Shinano's remaining National People's Army is Takeda Harunobu's opponent, 28,000 troops will be able to swallow all the Kawanaka Island area in a few months, and then just like dominoes, they will fall into a vicious circle one by one, Shinano, Ueno, and Echichu have lost one after another, and their own backyard will fall into the chaos of the invading army of Mutsu Dewa, and it will be completely finished in less than two years, and Echigo will not be able to grab territory by virtue of his ability. With his resourcefulness Takeda Harunobu, would he still be afraid of the mob in Echichu and the bunch of rubbish in Dewa Mutsu? With just a little trickery, he can easily kick the other two out of the game.

The deeper Takeda Harunobu's intentions, the more Kira Yoshitoki didn't dare to move indiscriminately, it was meaningless to allocate three or five thousand people to support Ueno, Yuechu or Echigo at this juncture, and that little reinforcement could not play a quantitative role and could not solve any problems, Nagao Keitora and Yamamoto Tokiyuki were the kind of people who did not fight and were not sure of the joint battle, they felt that they could withstand it and would not ask for reinforcements, and if they couldn't resist it, most of the reinforcements would be enough.

If that's all the way, Kira Yoshitoki really plans to attack the city regardless of casualties, not to mention the three castles on Hachimangawa, even if it is all the way to the gate of the Takeda army camp in Chausu Mountain, it is not a problem, but he really doesn't want to do this, and deliberately let the Kira army restrain all his strength, just to wait and see if there are any new changes in the battle situation in several other directions.

In his judgment, there is probably no problem with the joint battle of Ueno Province, although the danger of the Echichu side is very great, but it is not without a chance to withstand it, the only hidden worry is that there will be new problems within Echigo, whether the invading forces of Dewa and Mutsu will forcibly take a castle before the winter, if they make up their minds to attack the consequences is not impossible, once the city is broken, the impact will be different.

It is very likely that the two invading armies will choose to hold on, relying on the support of the castle to plunder grain and grass everywhere to survive the harsh winter, and the two invading armies that do not need to farm in the spring of the second year will harass the spring sowing will cause great harm to Echigo's agriculture, and at the same time, the loss of Echigo's people's hearts and popularity will be great.

In the anxious waiting, Shinano entered the most important autumn harvest period of the year, and the Shinano people in Asahiyama Castle gritted their teeth and watched as the swaggering samurai assigned by the Takeda Army to supervise the autumn harvest work of Kita-Shinano, which was their land, was now occupied by the Takeda family, urging the annual tribute to collect taxes such as Tobetsu money, and requisitioning the indigenous farmers of Kita-Shinano to serve as the men of the Takeda Army, who were eager to skin them, draw their tendons, eat their flesh and drink their blood.

When a group of Shinano people came to Kirayoshi, they asked the Kira Navy to take the opportunity to send out and burn the grain and grass that was drying in the occupied area, and it was better to take the opportunity to burn the nearby castle to teach them a profound lesson.

Instead of agreeing to their demands, Kira said bluntly that doing so would push the innocent peasants into a hurry. Forty percent of the grain dried was their annual ration. You are so happy and comfortable that you burn it. How could those peasants survive this year without rations, forcing them to rush to join the Takeda Army, which is equivalent to just to make these people feel happy, and the entire Kira family must bear the blame for all these losses.

However, he did not do nothing, in late September, when all the annual tribute collected at the end of the autumn harvest was stored in the warehouse, the Kira Navy took advantage of the dim light in the evening to sail upstream, attacking the earthen warehouses along the way and looting the grain and grass, and the task of the Kira Navy was to snatch all the grain and grass that could be robbed. The fire that could not be snatched away was burned, anyway, it was not to burn the food of the common people, and the peasants were optimistic about the success of the Kira Navy when they saw the actions of the Kira Water Army.

For several days, he came back in the evening during the day, looting and burning all the village chiefs along the Chikuma River, and on the first night, under the guidance of the leading party, the Kira Navy made a cameo appearance as an assassin, and he entered the nearby castle and killed many castle lords appointed by the Takeda family, and then the castle near the Chikuma River strengthened their precautions against assassination and stopped.

The Kira naval army also distributed a number of leaflets, which roughly meant that in the name of Shinano's protection, they called on the wealthy landlords and peasants in the rear to unite against the brutal aggression of the Takeda family, promising not to be held accountable for their temporary submission. All the subjects in the enemy-occupied area were exempted from the annual tribute and taxes of the year, as long as all the peasants who participated in the boycott refused to be paid by the Takeda family. At the end of the war, the peasant household was exempted from all forced labor for three years.

The exemption of the tribute in the enemy-occupied area for the year is a favor that does not require money, and this year's levy has been collected by the Takeda family anyway, and it is better to waste this favor than to sell it to the peasants for nothing, anyway, it does not cost a penny, and it seems attractive to encourage the peasants to resist the Takeda family's additional military service, general service, and other conscription in exchange for the next three years.

You must know that whether it is ancient Japan or ancient China, every family has no special circumstances every year to serve the conscription, this kind of large-scale conscription began to continue from Qin Shi Huang to build the Great Wall, until more than 2,000 years later, the advent of the new era did not come to an end, excesses and miscellaneous taxes do not necessarily force people to die, conscription is not easy to say, during the conscription may be starved to death, frozen to death, overworked, killed by samurai, killed by the enemy in the war and other strange ways to die.

In Japan's Warring States Period, farmers are like plants with super strong tolerance or a small strong that can't be killed, six adults are not afraid, they have to pay a lot of money for farming, they have to pay money for housing, they have to collect money for people, they have to collect money for living in the town, they have to collect money for raising cattle, they have to collect money for sails, they have to collect money for going out, and there are many taxes such as Yamate, Kawahand, Pu Gong, Jin, and Tsu materials, and these Xiaoqiang farmers can survive and endure the blows of natural disasters and man-made disasters.

Japan has always had a small population, only six or seven million people during the Onin Rebellion, and even if there were many wars and natural disasters, they could not set off a large-scale peasant uprising.

Therefore, such a heavy tax and forced labor can still survive, because their pursuit is very low, in this difficult era to be able to eat enough is perfect, living past the age of 30 is a great goal, marrying a wife to inherit the family is a difficult mission, in this environment is still very attractive to be exempted from three years of forced labor.

There are always people who will take a risk, and when he said that Kira Yoshishi also said that he would definitely fight back, no matter how he said that the general appointed by the imperial court, and the Shinano guard appointed by the shogunate was still quite bluffing, no matter how the peasants looked at it, they felt that the Kira family was more powerful, and the Kira family had been very good to them over the years, and the general service was not very levy, and in the event of a disaster, the taxes of the year would inevitably be exempted, and the peasants' lives have been getting better and better in recent years, thanks to his policy of caring for the people.

This hand soon brought trouble to the Takeda army, and the work of requisitioning and distributing the servants was not going well, and there were more and more peasants who fought against the Takeda family, but these lords did not dare to act rashly, and several attacks by the Kira naval army cast a shadow on the guards in the Kita-Shinano area, and everyone did not dare to deal with these servants in a big way with careful action, and finally even the peasants who were requisitioned fled back to the village overnight for refuge, and the matter of the requisition and dispatch of the servants was also disturbed.

Takeda Nobu Shigeru is going very well, since the Kira army did not come to attack and harass, simply let him change from the bait of the fake siege to the real siege of the partial division, with Sanada Yutaka as the vanguard to lead the 6,000 army to easily surround the Kaizu Castle and storm it, this time his preparations are very sufficient, and he sent the Takeda family's long-cultivated gold diggers.

This elite force was originally the mountain people who were responsible for digging gold mines by the Takeda family, and Takeda Haru's credit exemption tax was used as a bait to recruit the mountain people of Kai to mine and refine gold for the Takeda family, and they did not have to pay taxes or bear the general service of digging rivers and building embankments, and they could also develop nearby farmland to farm and feed themselves, so it was a very popular business.

Because of the nature of the work they are engaged in, they are specially organized as a separate "group", and they only need to go out with the Takeda Army during the war, usually responsible for some engineering tasks of encampment or excavation and construction, and they become a very powerful engineering unit when they are used in siege.

The addition of the Golden Diggers made the situation of the city defenders very critical, and the Golden Diggers chose a good position in the corner not far from the city, and then immediately took action to prepare to use the non-stop excavation day and night to dig a tunnel leading to the city of Haijin, which put great pressure on the soldiers in the city, and at the same time the Takeda army sacrificed a special move, two hundred iron cannons suddenly emerged from under the city, causing great damage to the unsuspecting defenders of the city.

The mound of earth dug out of the castle was used by the Takeda army to pile up under the castle, as if it was intended to pile up a slope large enough to cross the city wall, this daytime there was a large-scale siege by the Takeda army, and at night there was the sound of shovels and shovels digging the ground, and the military spirit was inevitably shaken, and the people of Shinano were worried that a large pit would suddenly appear in the ground at some point, and then the samurai of the Takeda family would continue to pour out.

The city lord Murakami Yoshikiyoshi did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly asked for help from Asahiyama Castle with a flying pigeon, and on the other hand, he urgently mobilized the defenders in the city to do his best to boost morale, looking at the siege of Takeda Nobushihiro's thousands of troops, and lamented: "I think that my Shinano General is a fierce general, how could I have thought that now I will become a general who guards the city, it is really a creation and a trick!" That's all I have to defend the city, I really don't know if I can hold on until the reinforcements arrive, no matter what the thief looks like, I can only grit my teeth and stick to it, and then do my best to obey the destiny of heaven! (To be continued......)