Spring, summer, autumn and winter, the leaves are green. Before you know it, Lowe has spent a whole four seasons in this world. Now that it's summer again, he knows that a head-on confrontation with Tokugawa Ieyasu is approaching!

During this year, Luo Wei brought his name of "the world's four-faced Buddha" and patronized almost every corner of the country. However, because of the news from the Seven Shadow Martial Arts, the tasks he had arranged before were also being carried out in an orderly manner.

Among them, the first to reply to Luo Wei, unexpectedly, was the righteous son of Li Dan, the famous Zheng Zhilong, the famous of the Ming Dynasty.

Zheng Zhilong said in the letter that he wanted to find the Sanada family as a spokesman in Japan, and he could not only contribute people and money, but also agree to Luo Wei's request for a naval blockade of the Tokugawa family's merchant ships.

Just after Luo Wei received Zheng Zhilong's private message, the Portuguese Du Xi also used extremely high efficiency to produce a batch of 500 of the latest iron cannons! And these guns are infinitely close to the later Sui Hair guns, and the overall power has increased by more than one or two grades!?

Luo Wei had the money and people provided by Zheng Zhilong, and got the first batch of new muskets, so he naturally armed their Sanada family's descendant "Red Reserve Army" to the teeth as soon as possible!

The ronins and bandits summoned by the Miyoshi brothers have also achieved initial results after more than half a year of training. Luo Wei first mixed the five hundred of them into a mixed reserve of iron cannons, bows and arrows, spears, and swords.

However, if you want to say the happiest, Date Masamune definitely has to be counted as one!

After getting a hundred new muskets from Lowe, the cyclops was too shocked to do anything! After his iron artillery cavalry team was equipped with these muskets, its combat effectiveness made a qualitative leap!

And Luo Wei also mentioned in his letter that the biggest weakness of the Iron Cannon Cavalry is melee combat! Luo Wei suggested that some cavalrymen with spears should be placed among these people at the right time, and all the iron cavalry should also be equipped with an additional sword.

Date Masamune used this new tactic to put his skills to the test, and with little effort, he was able to lay down a thief's lair not far from his own Oshu. In that battle, he took down the enemy with almost zero damage! And the only unlucky soldier died because the barrel of the gun exploded.

"Hahahaha! That's a good thing! How did that kid come up with such a good musket, Yukimura? It's good that I agreed to make an alliance with him! ”

Date Masamune said.

In addition, Luo Wei also established good communication and friendship with Naoe of the Uesugi family. He plans to take advantage of the Uesugi family's unique geographical location to surprise Tokugawa Ieyasu!

On the 3rd day of the third month of the fourth year of Keichō, shortly after the death of Maeda Toshiie, the representative of the martial arts faction, Fukushima Masanori, led Kato Kiyomasa, Kuroda Nagamasa, Fujido Takatora, Kato Yoshiaki, Asano Yukinaga, and Hosokawa Tadashi to prepare to assassinate Ishida Mitsunari at the Maeda Mansion in Fushimi Castle! In the end, Ishida Mitsunari safely evacuated Fushimi Castle with the help of his master, Momochi Santai, who was hidden by the dog Kiri, and was forced to retreat to Sawa Mountain Castle.

On November 19th, on the third day when Luo Wei and others entered Sawa Mountain City, the world-famous "Naoe" also arrived as scheduled! Tokugawa Ieyasu was scolded by Naoe Kane's state to the point that he was incomplete.

Enraged, Tokugawa Ieyasu asked the daimyo of all parties to go to Aizu in the name of the chief elder to fight against the rebellious Uesugi family, thus officially opening the prelude to the war.

"My lord! Tokugawa Ieyasu has already ordered troops! The estimated strength is around 60,000! I'm afraid I'm out of Fushimi Castle at this time! In addition to this, he also ordered Oku, Yu, Echi, and the daimyo of Northern Kanto to send troops to encircle and suppress the Uesugi family! The secret letter from the head of the Date family has also been delivered! They had already led their troops to respond to the Tokugawa family's order, and they had ostensibly agreed. ”

In front of Luo Wei, Anayama Kosuke's face was solemn, although he had long known that there would be such a day, but after knowing that the enemy had indeed sent troops, he still had some worries in his heart.

Luo Wei was holding a teacup and drinking with a dog, while the little girl in the red riding hood was sleeping on his lap.

"Oh? Did the old turtle finally move? You don't have to be in such a hurry, the old turtle didn't really want to send troops to the Uesugi family, he just used this as an excuse to start a war. ”

Luo Wei took another sip before putting down the teacup: "Well... The taste of this tea is still a little worse, and next time we will pick it earlier to taste the most delicious. ”

After evaluating the tea, Luo Wei looked at Xueshan Xiaosuke and said: "Pass the order, all members of the Red Reserve Army will be ready for combat at the first level." Kindness... In addition, let the Miyoshi brothers transfer people to the mountains around Mino to lie dormant and wait for follow-up orders. ”

"Yes! Lord! ”

Seeing that Luo Wei was calm, he also took a reassuring pill in his heart at the moment, so he ran down to make arrangements.

As soon as he walked on his front foot, Luo Wei couldn't control the expression on his face excitedly, and laughed: "Ahahahaha! The old turtle has finally moved! Our mission is finally accomplished! We're going to be liberated! To be honest Russell, I have a bit of a deterioration in the food here.... I seem to have forgotten what soy sauce and MSG taste.... I really want to have a bowl of instant noodles~~~"

Russell smiled and took a sip of tea: "Russell thinks this kind of light diet is more healthy. But master, will the battle really go as we wish? I'm afraid epic missions aren't that simple? ”

Luo Wei put away his excited expression, in fact, he has been thinking about this question, if the epic task can be easily completed with his historical knowledge, then what is the epic mission? It's an ordinary task at most!

"I don't want to do so much, we have already done what should be done, and now we can only see the tricks, hoping that the old turtle of Tokugawa will not pay attention to us."

Lowe shrugged his shoulders with a look that I couldn't help it.

In fact, Lowe and Russell's worries were right, and with their incursions, history was indeed affected a little bit.

In the formation of the main general of the Tokugawa army, Tokugawa Ieyasu sat on the sedan chair and looked at the sky with a gloomy expression.

"Someone!"

"My lord, please command!" A ninja appeared out of thin air in front of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

"Take this letter of mine and hand it over to Zhao San, a Daming pirate on the southern coast, it's time for him to fulfill his promise!"

"Yes!"

It turned out that in addition to Zheng Zhilong, Li Dan's subordinates also had a son named Zhao San, and he and Zheng Zhilong had been fighting openly and secretly for many years in order to inherit his father-in-law's fleet. This time, the news of Zheng Zhilong's support for Luo Wei was already known to him, so he immediately chose Tokugawa Ieyasu as his partner, to put it bluntly, he wanted to fight Zheng Zhilong to see who supported the forces to win this battle!

Of course, if the people they support win the war, they will also get a lot of benefits and benefits under these people! It can be regarded as completely infiltrating his own strength into the core layer of the Japanese state.

As for Li Dan, he naturally knew the small actions of the righteous sons in his heart. But he also knows that there will be progress only when there is competition, as long as the fight between the two is not too excessive, he is also happy to watch the excitement, and he will not come forward to stop it at all.

But Luo Wei didn't know about these things at all! And Tokugawa Ieyasu also knew some of the Sanada family's actions from Zhao San, and he had already been careful in his heart! This incident also became a fuse that put Luo Wei in danger!

"Herald Honda Tadashikatsu! Let him take his own people and station near the Nineteen Women's Pond and prepare to snipe the Sanada army! ”

"Yes! Lord! ”

"In addition, I ordered Kobayakawa Hideaki to slow down the timing of their defection, and everything depends on the flag of our army that day!"

"Yes!"

"This Sanada family... It's really hard to care about..."

Tokugawa Ieyasu held a folding fan in his hand, looked at Sakai Tadaji beside him, and slowly spoke: "This time, I must first draw out the back hand of the Sanada family before I can rest assured!" Let the troops move more slowly. ”

Sakai Tadaji, as a military advisor to the Tokugawa army, actually admired his own lord very much. And he also felt that he was not as good as Tokugawa Ieyasu at all, and his own lord was superior to him in terms of strategy and scheming, which also made him a little embarrassed as a nominal military advisor.

"My lord, the order has been issued, let's let the other daimyo in the east and north attack the Uesugi family first, and our army can benefit from the fishermen."

Tokugawa Ieyasu laughed when he heard the words of his subordinates: "Hahaha~ These daimyo are not reliable at all!" Originally, the one-eyed dragon in Oshu made me look forward to it for a while, but now it seems.... The other side has an ambiguous attitude towards this war, presumably because it wants to see the development of the situation first, and then decide which side to take refuge into? ”。

Tokugawa Ieyasu snorted coldly and continued, "They have a good idea! But... Fortunately, we also hid our backhand, even if these big names don't go all out, we're just feints! ”

It turned out that Tokugawa Ieyasu's attack on the Uesugi family was fake, and it was the original intention to lure out the big fish of Ishida Mitsunari.