Asahina Shinji carefully read the military newspaper.

But it turned out to be Nagao Masakei with troops, between fiction and reality, sent Murakami Yoshikiyo to lead troops to besiege Taihei Temple, and he used rangers and ninjas to isolate the communication between Kurita Castle and the rest of the battalions, and the battalion defenders who had not been ordered by the general for a long time inevitably had people who could not hold their breath and wanted to raise troops to rescue friendly troops.

After all, Taiping Temple is in a critical position in the center of the entire defense line, Taiping Temple, in addition to the gray plain can still be held, the remaining five camps will be in a dilemma when they arrive, but what they didn't expect is that Nagao Zhengjing did not have the intention of storming a certain city at all, but the troops were divided into two ways, ambushing the road with superior forces, and specifically intercepting and killing reinforcements.

The reinforcements led by the three battalions of Guangping, Shangyue, and Hanglun were in the trap, and the Takeda army was already short of troops, and the defense was still difficult, not to mention the rash attack in the absence of unified scheduling, and the three teams of reinforcements were caught off guard, and they were defeated in an ambush successively, and were killed by the ambush on the spot.

The Nagao Army either pursued the victory or feigned the defeat of Takeda, and took down the three empty camps in one fell swoop, and overlooked from a high place, Oyamada Nobushige abandoned the other branches of the county, and the Xichuan defense line, which had been painstakingly constructed, was torn open from the middle of a large road in the middle of the day.

According to the normal offensive and defensive progress, even if Murakami Yoshikiyo had an absolute superiority in troops, it would take at least three or four days to break through Taihei Temple without internal response, but the defenders of the three battalions of the Takeda Army sent troops privately without getting the military order of the general general, and not only were they defeated and killed, but also lost the battalion that was more important than their lives, and the actions of the three guards could not be described as stupid.

From Nagao Masakai's troops besieging Taiheiji Temple to Renke Sanqi, only two days have passed, strictly speaking, because this military report was written yesterday, so that Fanxian sent it to Takeda Shingen's main camp on the west bank of Kawanaka Island, and only after receiving permission was it forwarded to the Imagawa army.

It was supposed to be delivered yesterday, but after the defeat of Kurita Castle, there was a dispute in the main camp of the Takeda army, so the transmission of military information was delayed, and it was not until the next day that this military report was delivered to Asahina Shinji.

The dispute that occurred in the Takeda Army's main camp last night was not because of anything else, but because it was to discuss how to fight the next joint battle after the Kurita collapse, or whether to ask Asahina Shinji to represent the Imagawa family and make a request for peace with Nagao Keitora.

Although Takeda Shingen's subordinates are all elite soldiers, they have already experienced the strength of Wu Yue under the command of Nagao Jinghu in the two battles, and they have the courage to not lose to their own side.

Some people think that it is too dangerous to wait for the Imagawa army to cross the river and gallop to Kurita Castle to help Oyamada Nobushige stabilize the front, rather than merging into the Kawanakajima counteroffensive Nagao Army.

However, more generals believe that the defeat of Kurita is due to the three battalions of defenders sending troops privately, although the loss of three battalions, but Kurita Castle after replenishing the water thieves, there are still 2,000 foot horses, and there is no problem in defending the castle, but it is the place of Kaizu on the east bank of the Chikuma River, the last time it was attacked by the Long Tail Army, there were too many soldiers and horses, and it was in urgent need of replenishment, as for the lack of defenders of Kurita Castle, after the Imagawa army entered Kaijin, the formation was naturally able to calmly deploy troops to support, but it was a trick to drive the tiger and devour the wolf and consume the friendly army.

There are also a small number of people who think that the whole army, especially the bottom of the ashigaru, are war-weary, the most important thing at present is not how to distinguish the victory and defeat, but the peace and dismissal of the army, this attitude is mostly Shinano Shinkakata people, in this confrontation on Kawanakajima, most of the food and grass consumption is provided by them, and the nosamurai led by a hand, the pressure on them is too great.

If it is said that the wealthy families like the Rhinokawa people who still have land properties will be forced by the strength of the two armies and rely on a certain side according to the war situation, then Takeda Shingen destroyed a large number of Shinano wealthy family names in ten years, and made a large number of wealthy family retainers become wild samurai, and now that the Takeda army has fallen into decline, the wild samurai unanimously believe that the opportunity to counterattack the Takeda family has finally arrived.

These fierce and brave, but nothingless waves, did not have the same submissiveness as the people of the country, and people constantly stood up and gathered those who had been plundered by the Takeda and Nagao armies, and the people who had been ruined and killed organized into a wild group, launched an attack on the two isolated cities and lone soldiers, and ambushed the roads everywhere, trying to cut off the grain routes and rob the grain of the small lotus caravers.

However, as soon as this kind of remark came out, it immediately attracted a loud rebuke from the other two main battle factions, saying that they had ill intentions, and the Shinano people were not to be outdone, and immediately retorted, saying that their faction was all out of public intentions and loyalty to the Takeda family, which could be seen by the sun and the moon.

The three parties insisted on their own words, and the disputes between people with different opinions were very intense. The dispute continued until the second half of the night and there was no conclusion, and the three parties simply blamed each other, shook out all kinds of violations of military orders and laws, and asked Takeda Shingen to punish the other party, hoping to hit each other from the side.

In the end, it was Takeda Shingen who made a decision, and since the Imagawa army was now on the south bank of the Rhinokawa River, since Asahina Shinji was unwilling to come to Kawanakajima, he asked him to lead his troops to cross the river quickly, support Kurita Castle, and help Koyamada Nobushige stabilize the defensive line. With these 3,000 people supplemented, even if they can't take back the camp, they can rebuild the defense line to hold the confrontation, and at the same time, in order to win back a city, they ordered Maba Nobubo to be the general and increase the troops to Haijin.

Officially began to build a large-scale defensive fortress in Kaizu, an important place that could control the island of Kawanaka and overlook Uenohara, to completely suppress the offensive of the Nagao Army, and at the same time serve as a bridgehead for counterattacking Hokushin in the future.

Takeda Shingen's decision was also sent to Asahina Shinji along with two military reports.

This military report, after being read by Asahina Shina, turned several times in a row, and finally reached Gao Shisheng for reading.

Gao Shisheng frowned, he vaguely remembered that Haijin Castle was built after the battle of Barrel and Narrow, but the purpose of building the city to resist and contain the Echigo army had not changed. Its function was to block the attack of the Echigo army in the area of Kawanaka Island, but at this moment, because of the stalemate, Takeda Shingen actually planned to build Kaijin Castle in advance, and this change made Gao Shisheng feel unexpected.

But at the same time, if Takeda and Nagao will have different situations due to the change of situation, will Imagawa Yoshimoto also escape in the barrel narrows? What he was doing with all his heart and what he was doing seemed to have a glimpse of what he really thought in his heart, which made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Gao Bing Cao, but do you think there's anything wrong?" Asahina Shin was stunned when he saw Gao Shisheng holding the army in his hand, so he asked out loud.

Gao Shisheng woke up like a dream, and replied, "Back to Tanbo Shou, the last general just thought, if Takeda Dashan builds a city in Haijin, I'm afraid Jinghu Gong will never sit idly by, I can't say that it will be the decisive moment of the two families at that time, with the last general's foolish opinion, Takeda Dashan told this information, when he is urging our army to cross the river to rescue Kurita Castle, whether it is true or not, we should quickly cross the river and get out of the matter, otherwise it will really start a war, and it will not be so simple to stay out of the matter!" ”

After Gao Shisheng finished speaking, he handed the general report to Jing Yi's direct relatives beside him, these words are not untargeted, after all, the only thing that can be taken by the more than 3,500 Yuanjiang military service people is 500 banner soldiers, and the remaining 3,000 people are not exaggerated to say that they are miscellaneous soldiers.

Most of the generals agreed with what Gao Shisheng said, strategically speaking, the construction of Kaijin Castle was imminent, and for Nagao Jinghu, this was tantamount to a sharp knife against his own neck, and after sensing the desire to build Haijin Castle, the Echigo army was very likely to directly launch a full-scale general attack to organize the Takeda Army.

It is impossible for Takeda Shingen not to know the consequences of this, but whether it is a lie or a real thing, now that he has received a handwritten letter from Takeda Shingen, Asahina Shinji can no longer shirk it, otherwise it will only damage the prestige of the Imagawa family.

However, there is also a great deal of disagreement within the Imagawa army on whether to go to war head-on with Nagao Masakai, after all, the Imagawa family and the Nagao family have no other grudges, and they can't fight to the death for the Takeda army.

Date Sotsuna said objectively, "The long-tail army has won consecutive battles, our army has a large number of soldiers, and suddenly encounters a strong enemy, even if there is a city to rely on, I am afraid it will be difficult to be an opponent!" ”

Gao Shisheng was also worried, after all, the miscellaneous soldiers of Pingshan Township under his command were the most vulnerable, and he echoed and added, "Zhengjing broke the three battalions first, seized a large amount of grain and grass, and our army of 3,000 people crossed the river, and the grain and straw of Kurita City may not be able to support it." "In order to be able to hold on to the camps, he had a long-term confrontation with Nagao Zhengjing, and stored a lot of grain and armor in the seven camps.

Asahina Shin knew that what the two of them said was right, but as the main general, first of all, he must be invisible, and he must not be afraid of the enemy like a tiger. If the main generals have no confidence, how can the soldiers under his command have the morale to fight the enemy.

Therefore, Asahina Shinji only smiled slightly, with a look of Zhizhu in his hand, and wrote a handwritten letter, asking people to hand it over to Ii Naoqin, and then said, "Higo Shouke can raise the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, quickly cross the river, and rush to Kurita Castle." If Lord Koyamada intends to go out to recapture the camp, Higo Mamoru can help me first, and the soldiers and horses of the headquarters will be put in order, and they will arrive tomorrow at the latest. ”

Jing Yi directly went out of the account at the order, ordered the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, gave up the baggage, and went to find the pontoon bridge that the thieves had built long ago to cross the river, and drove Kurita Castle in a hurry.

Kurita Castle, in the afternoon, the Ii army entered the city, and when Ii Naokina came, Oyamada Nobushige was convening the generals to discuss whether it was necessary to rescue Taiheiji Temple. Knowing that the friendly army was coming, he temporarily interrupted the military discussion and went out to greet him in person, and when Ii fled to Shinano, the two sides had a friendship.

Oyamada Nobushige first read Asahina Shinji's letter, and after reading it, he handed it to the two military advisors, until the generals passed it on.

First, there was Sanada Yutaka, who opened his mouth and admonished, "In the previous battle of Chuanzhong Island, you all know that the elite of the Vietnamese soldiers, this defeat, it is time to collect troops to defend the city, Guangping Sanqi is lost, but it is a small setback, it has nothing to do with the overall situation, and it is the most important thing to defend the flank for the lord, how can you easily divide the troops and fight in waves." ”

Nobushige Oyamada thought so, and was very distrustful of the strength of the Imagawa army.

What the letter said was that Asahina Shinji learned from Takeda Shingen's old skills and invited Oyamada Nobushige to join forces to fight a decisive battle with the Echigo army, so as to intimidate the friendly army, so as not to urge the other party to urge his own independent battle, as long as Oyamada Nobushige refused this time, the Imagawa army would have a reasonable reason to resign from sending troops in the future.

It's not that he doesn't want to send troops to help, but Takeda refuses.

Some people have an opposing attitude: "What Tanba said in his letter is very reasonable, our army's grain and straw are seriously lost, and the people of Xichuan are scattered, and it is difficult to supply grain and grass to Kurita Castle every day, and the number of people has increased by 3,000 suddenly, and the logistical pressure has increased greatly, if we do not take advantage of the abundance of grain and grass to rush to repel the enemy army first, and when the grain and grass are exhausted, even if there are more soldiers and horses, and no matter how strong the city is, it will not be able to stand it." ”

Oyamada Nobushige refused to listen, and said to the generals, "As Danzheng said, the previous defeat was only a small setback, victory and defeat are commonplace, our army still has the Xichuan River in hand, and the lord can always have supplies delivered to the city every few days." If there is a shortage of food and grass, it is also because the Nagao Masaki on the opposite side cannot support it, and our army sticks to the fortress and does not need to worry about an attack led by the wild samurai, while the Echigo army is not, not only to engage with our troops, but also to be on guard against the swarming crowd at all times. ”

In the final analysis, Oyamada Nobushige still distrusts the combat power of his subordinates, after all, the soldiers come from different backgrounds, there are his Koyamada family's own Lang Party, and there are also 200 Takeda Akabei assigned to him for temporary command, and the most remaining are Shinano Pioneers, it is difficult to achieve unity and coordination, and when the Imagawa army crosses the river to join the defense, it will only be more constrained, in all fairness, what he needs most now is not the replenishment of soldiers, but the food, grass and armor, especially the arrows that consume a lot to defend the city.

As long as the seven outer camps were originally thrown out to attract the enemy's attack, as long as they could delay the enemy and buy enough time for Kurita Castle and Kawanakajima Honjin, even if they were all lost and the defenders were all killed, Koyamada Nobushige's eyes would not blink.

But who would have thought that the guards of the third battalion of Guangping were stupid and outrageous, and when he repeatedly ordered and stated that he was not allowed to transfer troops without military orders, he still sent troops privately, and every time he thought of this section, he wanted people to let him escape back and all the defeated troops were pushed out and cut down, but in order not to affect morale, he had to praise them for ignoring military discipline, and reward them with money to appease.

Nagao Masakai captured the castle and did not send troops to garrison it, but transported the baggage back to the Echigo army camp, and then set fire to it, further shaking the military spirit of the Takeda army, billowing black smoke rose into the sky, and even the defenders on both sides of Kawanaka Island, who were far away from the battlefield, could see it, and the Takeda army was a little flustered, but was immediately suppressed by the Mufu official and the people.

Takeda Shingen did not send anyone to spread the rumor that if our army won a great victory, this was a rumor that the enemy's military camp was burned.

The soldier is treacherous, that is used against the enemy, it is precisely because he is proficient in power change, so Takeda Shingen's army is strict with the law, and it is strictly forbidden to prostitute the army, and he himself knows the harm of rumors, so he will never govern the army with treachery.

On the contrary, the long-tail army, which clearly learned the good news of the victory, maintained great restraint. They did not send troops to probe or make any provocative moves, but sent out to patrol the riverbank, and after encountering the Takeda soldiers, who were also investigating the movements of the enemy, they slowly retreated as usual.

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