Samurai of the Takeda Family

Yingdong City.

The army of the Takeda family and the sister-koji, and the Uchishima family's coalition forces have been facing the city for several days.

Layers of anti-horse fences were erected on the outer periphery of the Takeda Army's main formation, which was heavily guarded.

Before evening, Li Xiao, who had arrived from Shengang City, and Jiangma Fraser’s five hundred reinforcements, had already arrived.

In terms of military strength, the Takeda family has an army of 4,000, and the sister-koji and Uchishima family have an army of 2,500. They have an advantage.

As soon as Li Xiao and Jiangma Fraser arrived, Shanxian Changjing held a military meeting in the military tent to discuss a decisive battle with the sister road army tomorrow.

In front of a long wooden table, as the general general, Shanxian Changjing was dressed in armor, holding the military uniform in his right hand, and his expression was dignified.

Takeda Shingen has always had the habit of letting the chief minister, who he pulled up with one hand, become the general.

For example, the four ministers of Takeda were all pulled out by Takeda Shingen from his side, and then entrusted with important tasks. Of course, the generals and military strategies of these people are quite outstanding.

However, Yamaxian Masaki, who was the general general for the first time, was quite restrained in the command of the Hida expedition.

The reason is not because of the embarrassment of the supervising army Masayo Sone. Both Masayo Sone and Masaike Yamaxian were pulled up from the left and right hands of Takeda Shingen. Masayo Yamashina used to be Takeda Shingen’s surname, and Masayo Sone was from a close family. Like Tsuchiya Masaji, Sane Moruyou is also among the six Leo Jinxi.

So the two are very close to each other.

However, the real trouble for Yamaxian Changjing was the two reserve generals Yoshihisa Kiso and a Xinlong from the army.

Nobuyuki is the younger brother of Shingen Takeda. He usually does things in his own way, so he doesn't buy the account of Changjing in Shan County. Kiso Yoshihide is the son-in-law of Shingen Takeda, after his own fame. So the attitude is even more arrogant.

After Li Xiao entered the military tent, he immediately felt the discordant atmosphere in it. The last time he held a military meeting in Shengang City, he felt that there seemed to be an unstable atmosphere inside the Hida Expeditionary Army.

The current Iifugen Goro is not the future Yamaxian Changjing. His qualifications, military exploits, and family are not enough to hold down these two people.

In the army, there are many contradictions between the general and his subordinates, and they cannot make the upper and lower sides aligned, which is likely to cause confusion in the military. In this way, before the decisive battle, the momentum of one's own side has been weakened by three points.

Li Xiao, after Jiangma Fraser entered the military account.

Shanxian Changjing expressed his gratitude to Li Xiao and Jiangma Fraser for their assistance. Because before Takeda Shingen was to let Li Xiao, Jiangma Fraser was used as an independent military force, and except for Li Xiao's role in the military rations, his military force could not be transferred by Shanxian Changjing.

Therefore, Li Xiao had the right to refuse the fate of Changjing in Shan County, instead of coming to participate in the decisive battle under Yingdong City.

However, outside of Changjing in Shan County, the others in the military tent expressed their unenthusiastic attitude towards Li Xiao and Jiangma Fraser.

Li Xiao knew this well, it was because he was on the side of Takeda Katsuyori.

The dragon of faith in the military account is a group of people. They are not very concerned about the dispute between Takeda Yoshinobu and Takeda Katsurai. And Aoyagi Kiyomi is just the uncle of the former head of the Nishina family. This time I will take the charge of Nishina. Family military power is purely a soy saucer in terms of his identity.

On the other hand, both Sone Masayo and Kiso Yoshisho can be labeled "Princelings" on their faces.

The son of Sone Nai Takushi Masayo Sone, and Nagasaka Masakuni, both served as a close servant of Takeda Yoshinobu, and Kiso Yoshinobu was also recruited by Takeda Yoshinobu.

And when he talked about the Kiso family, Li Xiao was angry. Last time he went to Kiso Fukushima Castle to find a soldier from the Kiso family. However, the castle town ate all night and stayed behind. The same encounter was with Jiangma Fraser next to him.

Right now, Li Xiao almost made such a good situation in Hida country with his own efforts, but Yoshihisa Kiso was swaggering into the Hida country with the army of the Takeda family at this time.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao looked at Yoshichang Kiso, and as the two looked at each other, Li Xiao also felt that the other's eyes contained badness.

The military meeting begins.

As the supervising army, Masayo Sone first said: "Today, Sister Koji Ryorai has sent people to ask for peace with us, saying that he can subdue my Takeda family, and agree to write an affidavit, ceding three territories, and handing over the hostages. Do you think such conditions can be agreed?"

As soon as Sone Masayo said this, the crowd was in an uproar. I didn't expect that the sister Koro family, the most famous Hida country, would surrender my Takeda family before the final battle.

However, this decision was not unexpected. Takeda's troops were strong and strong, and they had an advantage in strength. At this time, it was a wise move for the Sister Xiaolu family to seek peace.

If there is a decisive battle, both sides will definitely be injured. Even though everyone here is a battle-tested military commander, they are not willing to let themselves go down and die in vain.

So it would be best to be able to subdue the sister Xiaolu's family without a single soldier.

"It's definitely not OK"

Sone had just finished speaking, and there was one person who objected on the spot, but everyone saw it was Kiso Yoshisho from the Kiso family.

At this moment, Shanxian Changjing, as the general general, frowned. Before everyone in the military council made a clear statement, the other party hurriedly stood up and expressed his attitude, obviously to replace the judgment of others with his own decision.

Yamaxian Changjing asked, "His Royal Highness Kiso, why do you oppose it?"

Kiso Yoshihatsu is twenty-five years old this year. Although he is young, he has shown extraordinary talents. He is not an ordinary incompetent person. Qian Mu Zengzhong gave him one person to lead the expedition.

During the last military meeting, Kiso Yoshihashi often spoke with me in his tone, supplemented by exaggerated gestures, which left a deep impression on Li Xiao. According to modern psychology, such people are generally extremely extreme. Self-confident, but self-righteous character.

Yoshimasa Kiso fixed his gaze at Yamaxian Changjing, and then said in an unquestionable tone: "Sir Yamaxian, don't you really see it? This is the strategy that Yoshikoji Ryorai used to shake our military's mind before the war."

Yamaxian Masakage showed a slight sorrow after hearing this. Kiso Yoshishang's statement meant that although he was a general, he did not have the ability to judge alone.

After questioning Changjing in Shan County, Kiso Yoshihide immediately looked at the crowd and waved his hand horizontally, saying: "No one knows the personality of Sister Koji Ryorai better than me. He is an ambitious hero. Will be willing to subdue to anyone."

"So his surrender is a conspiracy. If I'm not mistaken, he will not surrender early or late, but he will present this news on the eve of the decisive battle, just to shake the spirit of our army in the decisive battle."

"But His Majesty Kiso," Sone Masoshi said, "We are acceptable to the other party's conditions. The previous master's decision made us the Hida country conquest army. We only need to reach the sister Koru family and the Uchishima family to surrender. It is enough to cede territories and hand over the conditions of hostages. It is not that our army completely equalizes these two families. We must know that our army's rations are not enough. If we want to truly capture these two territories, our army will not have enough time."

"And if our military's methods are too hard, if it arouses dissatisfaction among the people of the Hida country and riots, our military may well outweigh the gains."

Yoshimasa Kiso shook his head and said unceremoniously: "Sone-sama is wrong. Sister Koji Yoshiro is a repetitive hero. Even if he temporarily surrenders under this condition, he will surely rebel when the situation changes in the future. My Takeda family will spend more power to quell the rebellion.

"This is how I Kiso Yoshimo dare to use my life to guarantee this, based on my Kiso family's knowledge of sister Xiaolu's family for nearly a hundred years. So eradicating sister Xiaolu's family in one fell swoop is the best decision."

Listening to Yoshihisa Kiso’s words, on the surface, righteousness is awe-inspiring, but everyone here knows it in private.

Why is Yoshimo Kiso so anxious to get rid of the sister Xiaolu's family?

One reason is that in the first year of Yongzheng, the sixteenth generation of the Kiso family was headed by Kiso Yoshimoto, who died in battle with Miki Shigeyori (father of Yoshikoji Ryorai).

But this is one of them, and the real reason is that Shingen Takeda, in order to dispatch the Kiso family to fight Hida with all his strength, promised to the Kiso family that if he captures the territory of Hida, half of it will belong to the Kiso family.

If the Sister Xiaolu family surrendered in this way, then the little land it ceded would not satisfy the appetite of Kiso Yoshihashi, so his purpose was to wipe out the Sister Xiaolu family in one fell swoop, gain more territory, and convince the Kiso family’s influence. Concentrated infiltrated Hida country.

This is Kiso Yoshihide's real wishful thinking.

Many of you here know this little thing about Yoshichang Kiso, and Li Xiao also understands it.

However, in Li Xiao’s view, Kiso Yoshitaka’s decision is probably also in the calculations of Yoshikoji Yoshirao, because once this condition is rejected by the Takeda family, with this attitude of no change, the Sixiaolu family will go up and down. Knowing that I was rejected, I had to do my best to fight the Takeda family to the death for my own survival.

The fighting will of the soldiers of the two sides is completely different between the strategy battle and the fight to survive.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Sima Yi scolded Gongsun Yuan’s classic saying: There will be five virtues, if you can fight, you will fight, you can’t keep it, you can’t rule, you can’t walk, you fall, you can’t fall, you die.

Just as if you can’t surrender, you will die. Kiso Yoshihisa decided to surrender, and forced the sister-Koji family to go up and down. In order to survive, he had to do his best to survive. On the other hand, on the Takeda family’s side, Kiso Yoshihashi was still jumping up for his own little profit. Jumping down, in vain let the other generals feel heartbroken.

And Li Xiao knew that Takeda Shingen's original intention was not to decide Hida in the first battle.

Neither the sisters, the Jiangma family, or the Uchijima family are the most important positions in the overall strategic goals of the Takeda family.

The purpose of this Hida Raiders is to open the way to advance to Echigo, and finally threaten Echihou's flank. Therefore, for this goal, as long as the Hida forces can subdue the Takeda family without sending troops to harass them, the Takeda Army can march into the rear of Yuezhong.

In the eyes of Takeda Shingen, as long as Takeda Hiroshima's banner appears on the Etchu Plain, there is no need to siege the city. The symbolic meaning is far greater than the actual meaning.

Because this means that the Takeda family has achieved the strategic goal of sending troops to the middle and detouring to the rear, so Uesugi Kenshin had to shift the goal to the middle, disperse his energy, and strengthen the defense on this side with more troops.

This not only greatly benefits the Takeda family's Ueno strategy, and achieves an advantage over Echigo in the overall situation, but also a strategic blow to Uesugi Kenshin's psychology.

As for the territorialization of the Hida country, it will definitely be implemented, but it will not happen overnight. A war can be set, and the Takeda family can slowly encroach on the territory of the Hida country in the next few years.

Defeat and occupation are completely two definitions, just like the situation where the US military can quickly defeat Saddam's regime and occupy the entire territory of Iraq, but it has been unable to stabilize the local situation, and even the army has been stuck in mud in the past few years.

If the occupation policy is implemented now, this action is undoubtedly too fast, but it will be counterproductive and will arouse the resistance and hostility of the local wealthy. opportunity.

Therefore, Changjing in Shanxian County used a large army to coerce, coerce, and mobilize Li Xiao's reinforcements to participate in the war. It was a tactic of force and harmony, and a tactical decisive battle was only the last choice.

On the same small road, the Neijima family put together troops and put on a decisive posture, while the other side sent people to ask for peace. It was not just a scam. They also used this method to increase their bargaining chips at the negotiating table. That's it.

But above the military discussion, Kiso Yoshihisa's opinion of a decisive battle was echoed by a general such as Shinryu.

A Shinryu is not without understanding Takeda Shingen's meaning, but from his conceited point of view, he feels that with the good soldiers of the Takeda family, he can casually fight against the natives like Hida, and play in strategy and tactics. The significance is totally unnecessary.

In accordance with Takeda’s usual process of military discussions, the generals generally do not participate in military discussions. After the generals of each reserve team report the results of the discussions, the final decision is taken.

In this regard, even when Takeda Shingen himself served as the general, he would generally not interfere with the results of the collegiate discussions among his vassals, and his duty is only to make decisions and judgments on the results of the military discussions.

At Kiso Yoshihashi’s insistence, and a letter dragon echoed, but Li Xiao, Jiangma Fraser, Aoyagi Kiyinaga did not express their views, which is tantamount to abstaining from voting, and the only objectionable Sone was unable to stop him. Disturb this decision.

Therefore, Changjing in Shanxian County finally decided to fight the allied forces with the Allied Forces of Sister Xiaolu and the Uchishima family tomorrow.

At dawn the next day, under the sound of taiko drums, the four thousand troops of the Takeda Army marched out.

On the other hand, the two thousand five hundred troops of the Uchishima family's coalition forces in Sister Kolu lined up against the mountain, opened their positions, and faced the Takeda family's army.

On that day, Hida’s Kiso Yoshihashi, who was determined to fight for the First World War, led the army of 1,000 Kiso as the front army assault knives. Array.

Since Kiso Yoshihide was shouting at the military meeting yesterday, Yamaxian Changjing would not be polite, and handed him the most arduous task of attacking the enemy's army.

In addition to Yoshimo Kiso, the 800 troops of the Wuchuan congregation led by a Xinlong will attack as the left wing, and his front will be the military position of the powerful family of the sister Xiaolu.

This powerful clan attached to the sister Xiaolu family, and the main general is Xiaodao Shiguang, the lord of the small island city. This powerful clan is quite weak. Obviously, the proposition of Shanxian Changjing is prepared to use the opponent's left wing as a breakthrough.

Aoyagi Kiyosho led the 700 people of the People's Corps to face the inner islands, and the inner islands, which is one of the coalition forces, had 800 troops.

In Shanxian County Changjing, Sone Masashi was in the back of the main line, and Li Xiao, Jiangma Fraser’s 500 army, only used as a back-examination, swept the line.

In the morning, under the sound of the trembling Taiko drums, Yoshimatsu Kiso, who was the former general, first gave the command to the main formation of the opposite sister Xiaolu army. . ..

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