In the days following the Battle of Taiheiji, the Takeda Army was extremely busy.

Expand Kaijin Castle and continue to build outer pills for defense outside the city, Akazawa, Kurita and other castles, grain and grass storage is different, some more, some less, it is necessary to arrange manpower to deploy uniformly, each city stores at most one month's grain, and if there is more, all of them will be transported back to the treasury built in Haijin Castle, and the baggage will be stored.

At the same time, the transportation of ordnance, armor, war horses, soldiers, in addition to the initial replenishment of the defects of the various departments headed by Oyamada Nobushige, also all concentrated in Haijin Castle, each department of meritorious soldiers, divided by the unified army will be reorganized military service book, reported to Takeda Shingen, on meritorious deeds, compensate for the wounded, in order to immunize the epidemic, specially invited the Taoist monks to Taihei Temple, for the enemy and us to hold a land and water dojo, over the Buddha.

In view of the excessive casualties caused by the joint battle, which may dampen morale, Takeda Shingen once again passed down the military order. It's not complicated, seven or eight, and the focus is on two places. The first is to obey military discipline, and the second is to prohibit plundering the people in the division of troops. He ordered the fast horses to be delivered to the various departments stationed along the Chikuma River, and strictly ordered the generals to govern the army according to the law and not to be tolerated.

This move has made the scattered and low morale a scold. At the same time, in order to suppress the complaints of the soldiers, they began to improve the food in the army, increased the amount of daily rations, strictly forbade the generals to withhold the soldiers and support the rice, and severely punished those who violated the order.

The Takeda Army looked at the money, food, and goods worth thousands of yuan every day, and was continuously sent to Kurita Castle, up to the first reserve general, down to the miscellaneous soldiers, all of whom were gearing up, and became a little eager to try, wanting to make meritorious contributions in the next counteroffensive.

When all the generals thought that they were going to go out and fight a decisive battle with the Long Tail Army, Takeda Shingen, as a general, thought that he was preparing to withdraw his troops soon.

When he saw the military report from Kurita Castle, this Kai Tiger was inevitably dizzy.

After the battle of Taiheiji Temple, it was indeed difficult for the Takeda army to continue to insist on the joint battle, and the 200 red guards were all shattered, and the 400 ashigaru defenders were almost left. The same was true of the Ii people sent by the Imagawa army to assist in the defense, and the casualties of Asahina's troops to rescue them, as well as the Shinano ancestors who had been killed before, the number of casualties in Kurita Castle alone had exceeded 2,000.

Such tragic casualties seriously dampened the morale of the army, and most importantly, it also brought a huge amount of military expenses.

Not counting the reward that should be given for killing the enemy, the compensation alone is an astronomical amount. The soldiers who died directly in battle were better, nothing more than seven or eight yuan at most, and the embarrassment was that after being seriously injured, the lucky survivors were ashigaru, and many of these people had broken hands and feet, and were crippled for life, whether it was out of Buddhist compassion, or to maintain the trust of the soldiers in the Takeda family, they could not be abandoned.

A sentence should not be abandoned, to put it simply, it must be put out with genuine money and food to support.

Moreover, the Imagawa army is out as a borrowed soldier, and the pension that needs to be paid is higher, and Takeda Shingen, unlike Nagao Jinghu, has long passed the age of hearing about the war. For him, the gains and losses of money, food, soldiers and horses are the only criterion for measuring the victory or defeat of the alliance, and when he sees the tragic casualties, the first thing that comes to mind is the massive amount of money and grain that is about to be spent from the treasury like flowing water.

Moreover, in the past year, the land captured by the Takeda Army so far is very high, and it can almost be said that it is very small compared to the expenditure of money and food.

The only good news is probably that many Shinano wealthy families have cut off their family names because of the battle of Taiheiji Temple, and it is logical to arrange Kai samurai to succeed him, and his love will Kasuga Tora Tsunade is in these few days, and the family name of the Shinano Takasaka clan has just passed the heir, Miaozi, and changed its name to Takasaka Masanobu.

But retreating in such a hurry, it was difficult to guarantee that the Nagao army would not chase and kill, so he listened to the advice of Yamamoto Haruki and Sanada Yukitaka, and deployed additional troops to the two cities of Kaizu and Kurita, which could not only stabilize the back road of the withdrawal of the army, but also serve as a soldier to attack Hokushin when he went out to Kawanakajima next time.

After writing the 'Bloodstained Feelings' and stamping the Zhu judgment seal, Takeda Shingen ordered someone to send it to Kurita Castle when it was time to transfer it. There was no time to rest, and in order to ensure the safe withdrawal of the troops, the daily schedule was very tight, and then I had to go outside the city to inspect the progress of the construction.

Just out of the city gate, just outside the city to deliver the military order envoy Fan rode back on horseback, panicked jumped off the horse. It's not one person, there's another one by your side.

Takeda Shingen recognized that it was Ma Di of the Takasaka Masanobu who was going to convey the feelings, and his heart jumped, but Hirose had an emergency military situation, but he was not in a hurry to ask.

Listening to the two samurai gasping for breath, they announced, "The Echigo army has sent a force of men and horses to escort the shogunate envoys, and it is only twenty miles away from Kaitsu. ”

Takeda Shingen nodded slightly, and when he repelled the Nagao army before, he sent a diplomatic monk to Zenkoji Temple to report to the shogunate envoy, showing off his martial arts, and striving to obtain favorable conditions in the inspection of the department, but he did not reply for a long time.

Now that someone came, Takeda Shingen immediately ordered the left and right to invite Yamamoto Haruki, and informed the generals of the horse farm Shinfang that they were neatly draped and waited at the city gate.

He asked, "Who is the messenger?" How many centaurs came? ”

The horse under Takasaka Masanobu replied instead, "The two envoys of Kyogoku Takayoshi and Hosokawa Fujitaka are traveling together, and the retinue sent by the Nagao Army has a total of more than 200 soldiers, and many of them are on horseback. It was said that they had come to mediate the battle of Kawanakajima, and Takasaka-sama asked them to temporarily rest in the camp near the ferry, but the envoy refused, and after learning that the lord had moved to Kaizu Castle, he did not stop. Lord Takasaka had to send the villain to set off in advance and take a shortcut to report. "The total distance is less than thirty miles, and even if the envoy goes first on horseback, the shogunate envoy is almost halfway by this time.

Takeda Shingen nodded approvingly and told the two of them to go down and rest. The news was delivered in a timely manner, giving him time to react and not be unprepared.

There were long-tail soldiers in the shogunate mission, and their attitude was obviously biased towards Echigo, which was nothing more than an urgent need for Nagao Jinghu to launch a military response to Shangluo, and to see the envoy, he had to change his clothes, turn around and return to the city, and then ordered "select a thousand people from the mighty banner and go out of the city to line up to greet them." ”

"Commanded to be carried out, to rest and build the city, to arrange a banquet, to prepare more gifts, and the reception hall in the city was immediately cleaned. Ordered the baggage battalion to prepare food and horse food for 200 people in advance. ”

While he was talking, Haru Yamamoto came. The Imagawa army did not cooperate in the defense of Kurita Castle for a long time, and returned to the main camp to recuperate after his condition deteriorated, so he did not meet with his fellow disciple Aoki Daizen, and many possible disputes were avoided.

The place where he lived was next to the Takeda Shingenju Pavilion, not far away, only a hundred and ten steps away. In a few words, Takeda Shingen simply informed the shogunate envoy of the coming.

Yamamoto Haruyuki didn't think about it, and bluntly concluded that "the Long Tail Army must be the same as our side, and the military spirit is fluctuating, and it is difficult to persist in the confrontation." He deliberately instigated the Imagawa army to settle in Taihei Temple, and ordered to sneak into the secret details of the Murakami army, and instigated Murakami to launch a bull battle, originally wanting the Imagawa army to drag the Nagao political scene in front, but he did not expect a chaotic battle, which caused heavy casualties on both sides.

However, most of the Takeda army's defeats and deaths were Shinano people, as well as the loss of money and food. Being able to take advantage of this opportunity to get out of Kawanaka Island is also a blessing and a curse.

Takeda Shinxuan was silent, waiting to change into a hunting coat and black hat, wearing a silver medal and seal, and said, "The military advisor will go out with me to greet him, just to see the majesty of the angel of the court, how about you and I go out to welcome ten miles?" ”

Yamamoto Haruyuki shook his head slightly, "The two angels are not Fujiwara Princess, in my opinion, it is enough for the Lord to go out to welcome him for four or five miles." ”

The distance to welcome the envoys is also very exquisite. If you go too far to welcome, you will appear flattering and be easily despised; After all, on the bright side, the Takeda family has Imagawa and Hojo as allies, and the forces have overwhelmed Nagao Jinghu a lot from the bright side, and they just won a big victory some time ago.

If he is too close, he looks arrogant, despising the prestige of the court, and is easy to get the bad opinion of the daimyo in the court and the opposition, even though the shogunate is now in extreme decline, but the Ashikaga shogun is still the elder of the Genji, the pillar of the samurai, and the nominal co-lord of the world's daimyos.

Most of the generals are martial artists, and they don't know how to change their tactics, and they all act in accordance with military orders, and when they go out of the city again, they wait for a long time, and they take a lot of time to select a thousand soldiers. Takeda Nobuxu couldn't wait, and ordered Takeda Nobuhari to stay, wait for the soldiers to be assembled, and organize and arrange outside the city. On both sides of the road in the city, the military appearance is majestic.

led two or three hundred Jiafu flags, led the two immortal ghosts of Machang Xinfang and Yuan Huyin, and rode out of the city.

Hearing the arrival of the shogunate envoy, the generals' expressions were different. The racecourse letter room looked calm, as if nothing happened. Iitomi Toramasa and Anayama Nobuyoshi kept speculating in their hearts about the attitude of the generals of the public to the battle between Takeda and Nagao for Kawanakajima. Akiyama Nobuyo followed behind the generals with a smile, and the original tiger was not very different from usual, perhaps in the eyes of the samurai of Bandong Yashu, there had never been a shogunate or an imperial court.

Walking out of the north of the city, the envoys and ninjas who return along the way are constant. Stopped on the high cliff five miles away, the horses watched, and saw a team of military horses, waving flags, rolling dust and soil. There are two flags, one high and the other low. The high side is painted with the 57 paulownia pattern representing the imperial court officials, and the slightly lower side is the Ashikaga 2 lead pattern of the shogun.

The high flag represents the righteousness of the imperial court, and the low flag represents the pillars of the martial arts.

Takeda Shingen and the others turned over and dismounted, and the hundreds of Kofu flags behind them lined up and greeted them with flags. The Baba Nobubo ordered to come forward and report: "Kai and Shinano guardian daimyo Takeda Daizen have come out of the city to meet the shogunate envoys. ”

The opposite team approached, and the forward soldier Cao gave an order and stopped to stop. The columns turned away, the flags were fluttering, and the samurai of the Nagao Army slowly drove their horses out from the two shogunate envoys, one in front of the other.

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At the same time that the two envoys of the shogunate were visiting Takeda Shingen at Kaizu Castle.

Shinano and Asahiyama Castle are even more lonely in the cold wind and frost, and unlike in the past, the interior is as warm as spring, but the atmosphere is particularly solemn and gloomy.

Nagao Masaki, Murakami Yoshikiyo, and Shoda Torokusuke sat in silence in the castle tower, feeling uneasy, and the documents for the crime were sent to Inoue Castle for many days, but they didn't see the receipt, even if they saw the reprimands, it was much better than waiting at a loss like this.

It wasn't until Shimazu Tadanao hurriedly broke into the castle tower that his face was panicked, and he said, "In the military camp outside Asahiyama Castle, someone incited the soldiers to make a noise, claiming that they wanted to ask Murakami Yubayashi for the reward promised in the Taiheiji Temple camp, as if they wanted to camp and roar. ”

What! Hearing the news of the noisy soldiers, the three of them dared to be lazy, and they didn't care about guessing the thoughts of the long-tailed Jinghu, so they immediately gathered their horses and came to the military camp outside the city at a gallop.

Obviously, during this time, more and more Ashigaru participated in the uproar, and even Nagao Masaki and Shoda Tsunekisuke's subordinates also joined in.

The ashigaru, who were so excited that they thought they had been deceived, lifted the scroll of military exploits high with their spears, and carried their seriously wounded and crippled companions, and stood near the camp tent and the school yard, shouting, "I'm waiting to see General Habayashi!" ”

"Don't you even dare to come to see us in front of you!"

Subsequently, several Ashigaru troops from Echigo also came out with flags and pretended to be noisy, trying to fish in troubled waters.

The military law of the Nagao family was strict, and they did not dare to follow and make trouble, but when they saw that the Shinano miscellaneous soldiers were the first to attack, they were so frightened that the usually fierce and vicious Mufu team retreated to the gate of the Yuan, and they did not dare to step forward and forcibly disperse and suppress them by force.

They also had the courage to join the ranks of asking for rewards, and even Shimazaki Keishinobu also held a banner and led a group of ronins to mix in the crowd of people asking for rewards, closing their eyes and shouting.

Shaotian Shigegao rode on his horse, and his face was full of anxiety and was persuading him with kind words, "Even if they were in the most difficult time before, Murakami Habayashi and Nagao Echizen did not have any shortage of rewards and grain in the army, even after the battle of Taiheiji Temple, the two adults divided all the silver money in the city as a reward!" What else do you have to complain about? ”

"Buying rewards is buying rewards, and now we still need to Wanxing Tianproperty, General Yulin promised before, 'Where there are dead or wounded, you and other parents and wives will support themselves', now is the time to send a Wanxing form, let me wait for my parents, wife and children!"

The ashigaru people thought that their request was justified, and they did not listen to the other party's admonition at all, and shouted with swords, guns, and flags, "It is said that peace with the Takeda family is about to be negotiated, and if we don't give it to us now, when will we wait!" ”

Shimazaki Keishin, instigated by his henchmen, stepped into a chariot and waved at the ashigaru and shouted, "The Echigo Fuchu Nagao clan, the Hokuriku Daimyo who leads the country with 600,000 koku is in Shinano Kawanakajima, and the confrontation has been going on for a year, and the treasury has long been empty!" In the past, the first of the four great generals of Shinano, the Habayashi fierce bull, now the Echigo general Murakami Yoshikiyo, lies and lies, owes me and other money and grain fields to produce tens of thousands of yuan, and is about to flee back to Kasuga Mountain Castle with Nagao Echizen Mamoru and Shoda Tsunekisuke, what can we do if we are working desperately on the battlefield and exchanging our lives for money? What can be done?

"If we can't get the money for selling our lives, we can only sell the iron cannons, knives, spears, guzu, cattle and horses that were originally worth more than a dozen Yongle dollars to the wealthy merchants who accompanied the army, exchange them for Sichuan capital, and after packing up the soldiers' rations, they will go home directly, otherwise in a few days, I am afraid that there will be no grain left!"

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