As soon as the Takeda army outside the city operated, the waves set off quickly disturbed the peace in the city.

At midnight on the second day, the commander of the Suwa clan's reinforcements received an urgent report from his family that thousands of Takeda elite cavalry had suddenly appeared and rampaged through the territory, burning down many villages and towns outside the castle in just one day, and dispersing several caravans that could bring him a lot of taxes. Although the Takeda clan had already regarded the Suwa clan as their own and had not committed any murder under the advice of the Takeda clan before his departure, the panic and chaos caused had seriously shaken the foundation of the Suwa clan's already precarious rule. Minami Shinano Suwa clan leader, Suwa Yoriman Pegasus passed the letter, and urgently ordered the Suwa clan reinforcements in Nakao Castle to immediately terminate this operation and return to defense at full speed, and immediately set out to encircle the hateful Takeda division.

When the commander of the reinforcements pinched Suwa Yori's handwritten letter to apologize to Imai Nobumoto and leave, the fat man, who always had a kind smile, suddenly changed his face, and a mouthful of blood almost spurted out. Secretly swallowing the fishy sweetness of his throat, Imai Nobuyuan squeezed out an expression that was more ugly than crying, and repeatedly stated the stakes between the two families, as well as the ambush that might be attacked separately when leaving the city at this time, and even put forward the condition of "measuring the resources of the family and making friends happy", and begged the reinforcements to slow down their return and support them for another ten days and a half months.

The poor commander of the Suwa side was sweating profusely by Suwa Yorimitsu's order, and he was worried that his fiefdom would be patronized by the Takeda army. While setting off in a panic, he was eager to put on his wings and fly back to Minami Shinano, and quickly drive away those hateful Takeda cavalry; On the one hand, I was angry in my heart: If you Takeda clan want us to remain neutral, you will directly threaten it, why do you come up and engage in such a thing that destroys the traditional friendship between the two countries, can't we Suwa clan know which side of our territory or plastic allies is important, of course we will understand the overall situation and understand the general situation.

Therefore, the commander was still willing to make a superficial statement at first, accompanied Imai Nobumoto to review the traditional friendship between the two families, angrily denounced the atrocities of the Takeda clan, and by the way, discussed the travel expenses for a few days in Nakao. But as Imai Nobumoto sobbed and clung to his thighs, he never let him go. He also gradually developed a temper, and finally simply got impatient to play on the spot, kicked away Imai Nobumoto, and returned to the army with his accompanying deputy general to straighten up his belongings, pack the grain and grass and property that he "picked up" from Nakao Castle, and forced the defenders in the city to open the north gate and return with the whole army.

Outside the castle, the Takeda clan was also quite martial, and did not take the opportunity to sneak attack these Yabei returning soldiers, so as not to provoke resistance and cause additional battle damage, so they only maintained the gap in the north and watched them disappear into the northern mountain range. provoked the commander of the Suwa side couldn't help but look back and sigh, the Takeda clan is really a gentleman's teacher, only engaging in dignified and upright burning, and resolutely not playing the tail to chase and kill this kind of bullying action, can be dealt with! I never thought that Takeda Shintora was unwilling to lose his vitality in advance just because he would open the film with Imagawa, and as a result, he was actually issued a good person card by the Suwa Army.

Back in the castle, when the commander of the Suwa side kicked down Imai Nobumoto, Imai Nobumoto stood up as soon as possible, drank his men's attempts to besiege the Suwa commander and ask for an explanation for himself, and watched him walk down the castle tower safely and return to the army, and then called the north gate and left the castle. Just kidding, what to do if you don't admit to being soft, but on the other side, there are two thousand military horses with all the mustaches and tails, on the other hand, there are less than a thousand people on their own side, and it is self-evident who will surround whom and who will eat whom. If letting the other party leave is slowly waiting for death, then forcing the other party to stay is immediately seeking death.

Imai Nobumoto fought hard and inspected all parts of the city with his personal guards, temporarily pressing down the dissatisfaction of the ministers and the riots in the city, but after this catastrophe, the spirit suddenly withered a lot, as if he was a serious illness and was more than ten years old.

On the second day, the besieging forces suddenly shot into the castle a large number of affidavits in which Nobuta Shintora personally drew and kept the names of those who surrendered. At night, the continuous military camps outside the city sang in unison the traditional folk songs that every Jiafei Mountain resident was familiar with, and in harmony with this, there were also irrepressible whispers and low sobs among the defenders of the city. When Imai Nobumoto woke up the next day, he found that the defenders of the city were less than 200 people, and according to the general's report, on this day and night, the sergeants were either in groups of three or five, or in groups, and even the entire clan of people fled out of the city, and there was no way to stop them.

Imai Nobumoto let out a long sigh, waved his hand to send the defenders back, and staggered back to the castle tower. Just as he was pouring himself a drink and borrowing wine to drown his sorrows, the guard general entered again to tell him that two people outside the city wearing cloaks claiming to be old people were visiting, and they did not know whether to shoot away with arrows or let them in. Imai Nobumoto was frustrated and wanted to wave his hand to refuse, but thinking about the increasingly bleak situation in the city and the increasingly delicate expressions of the rest of the people, he couldn't help but change his mind in his heart, and ordered the guards to put down the hanging basket and bring the two to him.

After a while, two people, one tall and one short, shrouded in black cloaks, walked into the hall side by side, and at the signal of Imai Nobumoto, the guards carefully searched for their weapons, and then closed the door and retreated. At this time, the two no longer concealed and took off their hoods together, and Imai Nobumoto looked at it, but it was an old acquaintance and a teenager who had never met.

"Hey, His Highness Xinyuan, it's been a long time! After a few years, I don't know how you are doing? ”

"yes, long time no see! On that day, we waited for the blood for the alliance, the scene of the great righteousness is still vivid, who knows that only a year has been like a lifetime, His Royal Highness Dajing, His Royal Highness Cave Mountain and others have been righteous one after another, I am also trapped in the lonely city gritted my teeth and held on, only you are rich and Huchang easily descended to the tyrant, I don't know what face you see me today! ”

"Alas, what was not admonished in the past can be pursued today. His Royal Highness Huchang once went astray and did ridiculous things with His Highness Shinmoto, His Highness Oi, and His Highness Caveyama, but now he has completely woken up. As a samurai, the first priority is to be loyal to the Lord. Dr. Sakyo is the orthodox guardian of the shogunate and the lord of our mandate of heaven, and although there is something wrong with it, as a subordinate, he should do his best to admonish him, instead of impulsively raising troops and promoting the way of disobedience. ”

"Fortunately, Dr. Zuo Jing was magnanimous and re-accepted His Royal Highness Huchang for meritorious service. This time, Dr. Sakyo designed to leave the enemy in Suwa and break the fighting spirit of the defenders, so he wanted to attack Nakao Castle directly. Or His Royal Highness Huchang remembered the comradeship, risked being convicted again to exonerate His Royal Highness Xinyuan, and went into the city with his subordinates to persuade you to return to your lost path, just to save your life and the lives of the whole city. Not only do you not appreciate it, but you also speak and humiliate at will, it seems that His Royal Highness Huchang is the wrong person! ”

"Boy, who are you, how can you open your mouth here!"

"Hehe, in the lower Nizi Jingzhen, temporarily as the general of the Takeda clan, appointed by Dr. Zuojing as the main envoy of this trip, I don't know what His Royal Highness Nobumoto has to say?"