As soon as he returned to Honmaru, he met Kansuke Yamamoto, who seemed to be worried and came over to him, and said to him: "News from Suruga Province, a few days ago, the Imagawa family issued a mobilization order to Suruga and Enoe, and the Imagawa family will soon go out to Mikawa Province again, and this will be the second time that Mikawa has been in battle since the early spring of this year. ”

"Imagawa Osabe is so eager! He wants to calm the civil strife in the Matsudaira family! Kira Manmatsumu sighed, of course he knew this kind of common sense, as a member of the people of Mikawa Province on the pro-Imagawa side, the role of the Matsudaira family is self-evident, whether it is the Battle of Kodozaka or several Anxiang Castle Battles, the Matsudaira family has served as the vanguard of the Imagawa army, charging for the Imagawa family, of course, it can also be understood as a high-level cannon fodder force, at least before the Imagawa family completely pacifies Mikawa, the status of the Matsudaira family can be guaranteed, and the civil strife of the Matsudaira family must also be eliminated.

"Yes! The chaos of the Matsudaira family did not help the rule of the Imagawa family, and His Royal Highness Imagawa Jibe should have intended to force the Oda family to hand over Matsudaira Takechiyo. Yamamoto Kansuke took a mouthful, only to remind him of the Matsudaira family and the Takechiyo known as the tanuki, this kid is more than a year younger than him but has good luck, his grandfather's foundation that has worked hard for generations, the support of a group of people of the same clan, and a few loyal and powerful retainers of the generation.

"The current Matsudaira family doesn't seem to be very good, the people of Sanhe haven't taken his family too seriously, Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, the reckless man who can only fight, even offended his own clan, not to mention that the countrymen don't like him, sure enough, as soon as Matsudaira Kiyoyasu died, the entire Matsudaira family declined."

Kira Manmatsumaru was still in the mood to complain about the situation of the Matsudaira family, but unfortunately his good mood was maintained for a while, Yamamoto Kansuke squinted slightly and said: "This time, Taiyuan Xuesai will serve as the military representative, leading the Imagawa family's army to enter Okazaki Castle, and the people who have been selected will be asahina Yasuno as the deputy general, and Okabe Motonobu will be the leader of the Suruga Honjin, and he will command the Matsudaira army, which lacks a family governor, to participate in the war." ”

"In other words, the Imagawa family has already made a big calculation, right? No matter how the family responds, the result has already been determined, and it depends on whether the family eats a toast or a penalty drink. Kira Manmatsumu sighed again, he noticed that he had sighed a little more often in recent times, could this be a sign of premature aging.

"Please make a decision as soon as possible, Lord Pavilion!"

"What decision? Submission or struggle, is there a third way to go? Kira Manmatsumu smiled bitterly, he was really unlucky as a lord, he had not walked out of Xisanhe since he was a child, he never caused trouble, and every festival he had to go to his own Bodhi Temple to pray for incense and blessings, pray for the happiness and tranquility of the parents of the kingdom of heaven, pray for the prosperity of the people of the country, and the smooth family business and the concentricity of the ministers, etc., he did not do any less of what these family governors should do, but he still let him encounter a military disaster.

"Master craftsman, if all the military forces of this family are under your command, how sure are you that you will defeat Taiyuan Xuezhai?" Kira Manmatsumaru looked at him hopefully.

It's a pity that the latter doesn't seem to have much confidence, smacked his lips and shook his head and said: "Purely from the perspective of joint battle, my Kira family can not afford to fight except for the eight hundred ashigaru trained by his subordinates and the two hundred horses of the pavilion master, the military strength of the retainers cannot cause trouble to the Imagawa family at all, three thousand five against twenty thousand, and the subordinates are also lacking in skills!" ”

"There is also a strategy, Suruga has always been rich, the financial resources of the Imagawa family are far better than the family, and the Ming country proverb says: There must be a brave man under the heavy reward! The Imagawa family lures them to take advantage and threatens them, what does the family do to stop it? "It's not just Kira Manmatsumaru who is thinking about it, as his assistant and close general, Kansuke Yamamoto is also thinking hard.

"His Royal Highness Imagawa Jibe has reached a rapprochement with His Royal Highness Hojo Sagamimoru Mamoru and reached a preliminary agreement of harmony in the Zentoku Temple where Taiyuan Yukisai is the abbot last year, Kai and Sagami no longer have to worry about the two directions, Minami Shinano bordering the Enoe River is in the hands of His Royal Highness Takeda Daizen, and my Kira family can only rely on the strength of the Oda family to fight against the Imagawa family, but does Oda Nobuhide have the ability and courage?"

"That Owari rich man since last year's Odozaka battle was defeated for a while, and now he has become a toothless tiger, that battle is said to have killed more than half of the people, Owari Shimo-gun but every household has a mourning, at the beginning of the year of the Ansho Castle battle, the Oda family only sent 2,000 reinforcements, compared with last year's majestic Okazaki Castle, it is really a phoenix that has lost its hair is not as good as a chicken."

Kira Manmatsumu is very disdainful of Owari's military strength, and the soldiers in Owari Province in Tokaido have the name of weak soldiers and are not belittled in empty words, this is all stained with the light of Owari to protect the Spo family, for the benefit of Toe Guo, the Spo family and the Mikawa Kira family fought several battles against the Imagawa clan.

Every time the Owari Spo family was beaten to the dust, even the Mikawa army that affected the Kira family also suffered defeat, Owari Province is the civil war insider, the representative of the foreign war layman, in the past two years, the Owari land rich man has been planted in Imagawa, Saito's hands, not only the arrogant momentum is gone, even the status is not as stable as before, almost just a phoenix that has lost its hair.

"It's really good to be bullied, and it seems that there is no future for honestly managing the territory, but my Kira family doesn't have much military strength, if you don't have a compassionate conscription and military service, not only can you not win the Imagawa family, but you will also lose the feelings accumulated by ruling Nishimikawa for generations, you can't fight and fight, and you are unwilling to surrender, what should you do?" Kira Manmatsumaru said goodbye to Kansuke Yamamoto in great distress, and when he returned to the castle tower, it was already getting dark, and he sat alone on the terrace looking at the moon in a daze.

"If you look closely, it seems to have a big aperture! It seems that the moon halo is a bad omen in the legend, and I don't know where something bad happens. Kira Manmatsu Maru lay on the terrace and looked at the round moon and fell asleep unconsciously, and I don't know how long it took to be pushed awake again, and Aju's gentle voice came from his ears: "Your Highness, don't sleep here, it's easy to catch a cold, Your Highness should pay more attention to taking care of your body, for the sake of the Kira family, but also for Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

"Well, I remembered! Anyway, am I asleep? I was looking at the moon just now! Kira Manmatsu Maru rubbed his head, and staggered under the support of Ju Ji to stand up and walk into the Tong room, it turned out that Ah Ju had folded the bedding for him, and he also put a glass of water on the corner of the tatami mat very intimately, because Kira Manmatsu Maru Yang Qi is very strong, and he is easy to be thirsty at night, so every night Ah Ju will prepare such a cup of cold boiling water.

Kikuhime took off his shirt for him, covered him with a quilt and walked out of the room with broken steps, and when she knelt outside the door and was about to close the paper door, Kira Manmatsumaru whispered, "Thank you, Aju! ”

"This is what Aju should do!" Aju's soft and subtle smile evoked his memories, and his mother was also such a beautiful smile in his memory, it seemed that the women in Kyoto were made of water, and his mother was such a gentle and melancholy woman, and Aju was the same, in addition to taking care of him all day long, she was quietly looking at the flowers and plants in the small garden in a daze, which was the flower seedlings planted by her mother in Himemaru when she was alive, but unfortunately she died before the day of appreciation.

The paper door was finally closed, and after the sound of Aju's light footsteps gradually disappeared, Kira Manmatsumu suddenly felt very uncomfortable in his heart, as if he had some words that were not spit out and unhappy, and muttered to the moon: "Aju, I will definitely go to Kyoto!" Definitely! ”