Su Le became nervous at this time, "Xinkang, he's dead?" Tell me more about what's going on. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"The matter is urgent, and I don't know the details at present, I only know that Hirata Nobuyasu led a few people to the front line to inspect, and it was fine, but then he was suddenly surrounded by his brother-in-law Asakura Naimasa's army, and finally died in battle."

"How did you get this information?" Su Le asked.

"Most of it is the first-hand news from our news network in Koga, because Hirata Nobuyasu's entourage is not exhaustive, so it should spread soon." Athena replied.

"So Asakura Narumasa betrayed Nobuyasu Hirata? But as far as I know, Asakura Narumasa is not that kind of person. ”

"Anyway, it's happened, husband, you have to plan ahead."

Su Le also understood the seriousness of the situation, his territory was closest to the battle line of the Western Kingdom, and it was also close to Orihime, the main city of the Asakura family, if he didn't unite with the other party, he would definitely be the first to be besieged.

"I don't want the Hirata family to fall like this, first, the women are all members of the Hirata family, and I want to control the power of the Hirata family, if it just perishes, it doesn't make sense to even weaken."

"So what are we going to do?" Athena asked.

"The two of us will go and pick up Orihime first, she is Hirata Nobuyasu's sister, if Asakura Narumasa stabilizes her, he can lie that Hirata Nobuyasu died violently and handed over the Hirata family to himself."

Without further ado, Su Le and Athena immediately infiltrated Orihime's place and told her about Hirata's death, and Orihime immediately panicked.

"Brother, he's dead? What can I do? He's the pillar of our Hirata family, and Kaedehimaru hasn't grown up yet......"

"And as for me, I will do everything I can to make Kaedehimaru the governor of the Hirata family, and then help him stabilize the situation so that the Hirata family can continue." Su Le comforted Orihime and said.

"Then what are you doing here with me? I can't help much, so hurry up and gather your forces and go back to Tokaido, where our Hirata family is rooted. You don't have to worry about my business, Asakura Narumasa won't do anything to me. ”

"You must leave Asakura Naimasa, otherwise he will take advantage of his relationship with you to claim that he has the legal inheritance of the Hirata family, which is the same as when Hirata Nobuyasu claimed his rights to the Sato family through Mrs. Kaede." Su Le explained.

"But...... What about the child? Orihime couldn't rest assured.

"Take the kids with you, too!" Su Le decided for Orihime.

After pondering for a while, Orihime finally made up her mind to take the child with Su Le. On the one hand, it was because Asakura Narumasa betrayed his family, and on the other hand, Orihime was now physically and mentally conquered by Su Le.

In this way, Su Le escaped from the city with Orihime's daughter, Athena with Orihime, three adults and a baby.

After arriving at a safe place, Su Le let out a sigh of relief, "This kid is quite well-behaved, and he didn't cry all the way." ”

Orihime barely squeezed out a smile, "I usually love to cry very much, but I don't know what happened today, I slept so soundly in your arms." ”

"I'm going back to my territory to prepare for war, Orihime, you can take the child and follow Athena back to Tokaido first, so that I can do things boldly and without any worries."

"Your territory is too close to the front line, too dangerous, I can't rest assured." Orihime said worriedly.

"However, if I give up the castle in, the strength of the Hirata family will be greatly weakened, and the territory of Tokaido will also face greater risks."

"It's better to cut the land and make peace." Orihime suggested.

"Don't worry! I'm not going to die, and Athena will come to my aid soon, so it's definitely more than enough to save my life. ”

"Then I will stay with you, let Athena go back with the child first, and leave it to the mother to take care of." Orihime said.

"No! You must also go back and win the support of the Hirata family for me, and at the same time actively mobilize the power of the alliance daimyo, otherwise there is no point in me holding on to Kinai. ”

Su Le finally persuaded Orihime, and then immediately returned to Jucheng to prepare for the upcoming hard battle, first gathering his cronies and explaining the current situation.

"The Marquis of Hirata has been killed by Asakura Narumasa, and I estimate that Asakura Narumasa and Okochi Munehisa have colluded together, and I must bear the brunt of the attack by those two guys here, and once it is lost, the Hirata family will almost certainly perish. Everyone has been following me for a long time, I decided to stick to this place, waiting for rescue, if someone wants to leave, I won't stop it, just go now if you want to go, don't drop the chain for me at the critical moment! ”

People gather wealth and scatter, wealth gathers and people scatter, Su Le has the advantage that there is no need to save money. Although Hirata Nobuyasu is more picky, and has been using possible rewards in the future to quench the thirst of his subordinates, the people who follow Su Le are still stronger than others, and everyone under him has expressed their willingness to follow Su Le to fight to the end.

After stabilizing the senior generals, Su Le was much more relieved, and he continued: "Now that the Marquis of Hirata is dead, I am good at making claims, and all the property in the generals has been distributed to everyone, everyone must help me get through this difficulty, so that there will definitely be more rewards in the future!" ”

Su Le immediately entered a state of war, except for the high-ranking officers, there were rewards from the bottom to the ashigaru, but the people below only knew that there was going to be a war, and reinforcements would come "soon".

As for when the reinforcements will arrive, Su Le himself doesn't know, he has already asked Athena and Orihime to contact the lords and castle lords of Tokaido and Hokuriku as quickly as possible, and he also wrote a distress letter and sent it out quickly.

……

Sure enough, as Su Le expected, Asakura Narumasa and Okochi Munehisa had formed an alliance to try to support the King of the East China Sea and the Shogunate of Minamoto, and Su Le was the obstacle in front of them, and the army gradually gathered towards Su Le's residence.

Su Le was not completely passive at the beginning, he led his elite cavalry to attack everywhere, disrupting the enemy's army and supplies, in order to delay the opponent's general attack, and at the same time contain a large number of the scattered army of the Hirata family.

Originally, when Asakura Narumasa commanded his own army to besiege Hirata Nobuyasu, there were still many troops of the Hirata family under the command of Asakura Narumasa, but they didn't know the situation at that time. After the death of Hirata Nobuyasu in battle, they either surrendered or fled in all directions, and most of the outstanding siege passed through Sule's territory.

However, no matter how much Su Le maneuvers, he will eventually retreat into the city to defend, due to the disadvantage of numbers, the situation is not very optimistic, according to the information brought by Athena, the elders of the Hirata family are still arguing.

In the face of the fierce attack of the two powerful daimyo's more than 100,000 troops, the defenders on Su Le's side were less than 30,000, and if they continued like this, they would inevitably fail. In addition to continuing to motivate the morale of the soldiers defending the city, Su Le also had to find a way to save himself, and just before he thought of a way, someone gave him a hint.

Here's the thing, the Hirata army defending the city suddenly discovered a very strange phenomenon, that is, the pressure of the siege suddenly decreased somewhat......

Su Le immediately asked Athena to investigate the matter, and soon found out the reason. In this case, there is usually a fire in the backyard, and the problem is the territory of the Asakura family.