In a blink of an eye, time passed the end of the year and quietly sailed into the first year of astronomy (that is, 1532).

The ruthless monarch and the iron-blooded samurai also briefly became ordinary people of flesh and blood in the days of the New Year, and enjoyed the joy with the subordinates of the lords. In addition to being at the end of the table to participate in the year-end evaluation and several banquets, Jingzhen mixed up and down with the family to be familiar, but also took time to spend the first Spring Festival with his companions, in addition to competing with Xinzheng, learning words with the vine members, and Youchang poems, and throwing dog food with the crane, Jingzhen even moved out in advance of mahjong, the quintessence of mahjong, so that several people played screaming and indulging.

However, the joy and peace of this era are always overly extravagant and fleeting.

At noon on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, a series of iron hooves broke through the quiet years in the city. A red dragon composed of flags, iron cloaks, and a forest of guns, glowing with sparkling armor, suddenly leaned out of the Tsugasaki Pavilion and meandered northwest along the barren snowfield; Countless messengers of the horses were scattered or merged into the procession, like schools of fish accompanying the dragon. When I got closer, Jingzhen, who was still yawning, was also fully armed, riding a jujube horse, and led a small team of ashigaru mixed in under the support of Nagasaka Nobumasa and Nagasaka Twelve Guns.

In the early morning of this day, Takeda Nobuta suddenly summoned his retainers and directly subordinate troops in the castle and urgently issued an order to conquer the recalcitrant enemy Imai clan. Jing Zhenben, who had just finished teaching the Ash Blowing Method to the Nuggets, was not among the expeditions, but because he took the initiative to be honest and eliminated the false identity of Ashikaga Yoshiharu Messenger when he met with Takeda Shintora, he was sent to serve in the expeditionary army by the latter on the grounds that "there is merit in dedication, there is deception, and the merits and demerits cannot be offset". He was required to temporarily receive fifty full light as a general of the ashigaru, and after he had been exempted from deception with sufficient military merits, he would be rewarded for his mining skills.

Under the personal leadership of Takeda Shintora, the army will meet with the various wealthy clans all the way, and when they arrive at the middle tail of the Imai clan's residence in the castle the next day, it has become a mighty and mighty momentum, and it is estimated that there are 5,000 people.

On the other side, the lord of Nakao Castle and the head of the Imai clan, Nobumoto Imai, with a complex look of fear, envy, and hatred, stood on the castle tower and looked at the Takeda clan's army like a dragon.

Imai Nobumoto is around forty years old, more like a merchant than a samurai, but his rich face, slitted eyes, and almost the largest poop belly that can be broken are ambitions that cannot be hidden. For many years, he had no loyalty to the Takeda clan, and had been jumping back and forth between submission and rebellion. However, the same party as Nobuyo Oi, Iitomi Torama, Anayama Trade Wind, and Kasawara Nobushige died or surrendered, and the city was heavily overwhelmed, and this only remaining rebel backbone in the "Great Rebellion in the Kingdom of Xiangroku" probably realized that his glorious revolutionary history was almost over.

However, there is hope! As soon as he heard that Takeda Nobuta had sent troops to conquer his side, he brutally looted all the food and soldiers in the territory with a force of scraping the ground, and scraped together a thousand troops under Nakao Castle, and asked for 2,000 reinforcements from the old enemy of the Takeda clan, the Shinano Suwa clan, who had been beaten many times with him. I still have the strength to fight!

Of course, Imai Nobumoto knows that the guardian lord who colluded with foreign forces to oppose Genhong Miaomasa is already unjustifiable, and the three thousand crooked melons and cracked dates that he and the Suwa clan have randomly put together are far inferior to Takeda Shintora's army in terms of quantity and quality.

Fortunately, although Nakao City is not very famous, it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the land is dangerous, and it has been operated by its own family for several generations. In addition, although the scale of the city is not large, there are all kinds of stone walls, city walls, curved wheels, out of the city, and pill guards, and it is the sparrow that is small and has all five organs.

Therefore, Imai Nobumoto gave up the field battle very humiliatingly, and held on to the idea of holding the cage castle early, and transferred the whole army into the city, trying to use the advantage of the defenders to consume Takeda Shintora's troops and supplies, and wait for an opportunity to counterattack after his soldiers were exhausted and short of food. In this way, it may be possible to turn defeat into victory, reinvigorate those people with lofty ideals who have been defeated again and again, and once again set off the fire of overthrowing the tyranny of Takeda and building a beautiful Kai together. With the reputation of the first volunteer soldier, maybe he can also fight for the sixth generation of Yu Lie, and watch the inheritance of Kai Fei in his lifetime!

Not to mention that Imai Nobumoto has been so proud of himself in the city. On the other side, Takeda Shintora also made trouble against Nakao Castle. He just has a bad temper, not a lack of brains, and no matter how much he takes his precious family wealth to touch the city wall or fill the fire pit. Therefore, as soon as the whole army arrived, Takeda Shintora divided his forces to guard the traffic arteries, seize the key terrain, and ordered the troops to set up camp and bury pots to make food, and then led his generals to climb the heights and survey. Among them, Jingzhen, who is a general of Ashigaru, was also specially ordered to accompany him.

The north wind was cold, and the group silently climbed the peak on the east side of Zhongwei City, condescendingly took a clear look at the city, and then squeezed their eyebrows and eyes silently, Jingzhen took the time to squeeze forward to take a look, and couldn't help but take a breath.

Except for the fact that the water is dry in winter and most of the rivers guarding the city have been depleted, the rest are considered disadvantages. The ground is frozen and hard and difficult to chisel, and it is difficult to carry the soil into a ladder or the earth dragon to attack; The falling snow and ice paved the city wall with a flame retardant layer, and cut off the possibility of fire attack; The sub-zero low temperature also means that ordinary soldiers need more food to maintain their body temperature, which greatly increases the burden of logistics supplies.

Takeda Shintora naturally understands the difficulty, but he forcibly uses troops in the face of everyone's doubts, and naturally he also has unknown suffering. The year before, under his fierce pursuit, the "Great Chaos in the Kingdom of Xiangroku" has basically subsided, and the remaining Imai clan has also eaten several defeats, leaving only two or three large and small cats, even if he ties up his subordinates, the defeated Suwa clan is just a pair of rookies, and there is nothing to be afraid of. Originally, he only needed to press forward step by step, and win one or two more battles to collapse it, but the situation in the south no longer allowed him to slow down.

A few days ago, the inside line of the Imagawa family's ambush handed out reliable news that the head of the Imagawa clan, Imagawa Clan, has officially become pro-government. In order to boast of the Governor's prowess, Suruga has begun to make great preparations to join forces with its allies, the Hojo clan, to carry out large-scale military exercises in the Kai region, and by the way, visit the Watagasakikan.

If you go outside, you must first settle inside. In the face of the Imagawa and Hojo clan's "nuclear goodness" attitude, Takeda Shintora could only seize the time window and send troops to extinguish the remnants of the Imai clan first, so as not to catch the chariot of the Imagawa and Hojo clans at that time and develop from scabies to a serious problem for his henchmen.

But how could he think that it was unfavorable to be a teacher, seeing the turtle shell of the Imai clan, he couldn't help but have a toothache, and he was even more angry when he looked at the generals, and said angrily:

"Why are you stunned, tell me how to break the enemy one by one! You come first! Then he pointed to a person in the front row.

"The last general thinks that there are few flaws in this city, and it is difficult to use troops in winter, so it is better to retreat first, and then crusade after the spring warms and thaws?"

"Hmph, eggless one! For you! ”

"The last general thinks that he can forcibly attach ants, and with the elite of our army, he will definitely be able to take this city with casualties!"

"Hmph, the cub sells Ye Tian's heart is not painful, is it okay to let your subordinates take the lead? You, for you! ”

"The last general thinks that the situation is in me, as long as I am slowly trapped and killed, the enemy will naturally kill himself after a long time!"

"Hmph, old and old, do you still need you to teach me? Roll on! By the way, boy, didn't you take a city in Mino, let's talk about it! ”

Takeda Shintora asked for a long time, but did not get a satisfactory answer, and was about to draw the next unlucky egg to answer the question, but happened to catch a glimpse of Jingzhen on the edge of the crowd, who was as quiet as a quail, and his eyes lit up, and he opened his throat and asked him.

During the year-end assessment and court meeting, all the generals in the family have learned that an Izumo boy has entered the eyes of the hall master by offering a mining secret technique, and has been recruited as a retainer and may be given a territory, but most of them are meeting him for the first time. The curious, the disdainful, the friendly, the disgusted, one after another different eyes quietly swept around Jing Zhen. Jingzhen was not in a hurry, and made a four-way salute to Takeda Shinhu and the people around him, and then began:

"My Excellency, I think that what you are saying is a serious move", and without waiting for Takeda Shintora to be angry at this empty sentence, Jingzhen continued:

"But I see that the hall owner seems to be dissatisfied, but this battle needs to work time and stop loss?"

Takeda Shinhu was noncommittal, everyone seemed to understand, and whispered, and Jingzhen continued:

"If that's the case, can we follow the example of Wei Wei and save Zhao today?"

"Go on!"

"Yes! Years ago, the Imai clan had been defeated several times at the hands of the owner of the museum, and his morale and fighting spirit were close to freezing, and now the trapped beasts are still fighting, which is not only sad for Kurihara, Oi and other traitors, but also has the last trace of illusion about the Suwa clan's reinforcements. And the Suwa clan supported the Imai clan three times and twice, just to take advantage of his hands to take advantage of the fire, waiting for the opportunity to seek personal gain, the alliance between the two is just like a couple in the same bed and different dreams, once the catastrophe comes, they will definitely spare their feathers and part ways! ”

"Therefore, I also ask the lord of the pavilion to send a general to lead the elite to attack the territory of the Minami Shinano Suwa clan, and at the same time relieve the siege north of Nakao Castle and make way for the main road. Seeing that there are no reinforcements outside and no will to fight inside, the owner of the pavilion will send another person who can speak and promise the lives of the entire Imai clan, then Nakao Castle can be killed. ”

"Hahahaha, good! Good! Good! Tiger Yin listens to orders! ”

"The last general!"

"With you leading a thousand cavalry, bringing three days' rations, and invading the South Shinano Suwa clan with great fanfare, you are only allowed to burn and not attack, and set off immediately!"

"Yes!"

"Where is Huchang?"

"The last general is here, what does the hall master command?"

"You quickly organize the army in the north of Zhongwei City to move five miles to both sides, and at the same time give way to the north to return to the north, pay attention to beware of a surprise attack in the city!"

"Do as the Lord commands!"

"Jing Zhen!"

"Obeying orders!"

"If you can break the city this time, you should make a contribution! In addition, would you like to be an envoy of the family to say that you will descend to the Imai clan? If you don't want to, I won't force it, and according to your merits today, you can write off the previous deception. If I can say that the Imai clan has surrendered, I will reward him again. How are you staying? ”

"I'm willing to go down, but I still need to borrow someone from the hall owner!"