Samurai of the Takeda Family

The e-book download function is temporarily suspended! It is expected to be completed next week!

Chapter 404 is in Sanfangyuan

At this moment, the battle in Seedling City is still going on, and the offensive of the Akiyama Shinyou Army Corps is very fierce.

In the recent Uemura battle, Nobuyuki Akiyama used a horse-riding team to break the Allied Forces of the Toyama Family, defeated Nobunaga's Allied Forces of Oda Nobhiro and Kawajiri Hidetaka, and finally forced the surrender to Iwamura Castle.

Suddenly, Akiyama Nobuyuki and his Southern Shinano Corps shocked the entire Mino.

Tsuchiya Masahiro has always admired the bravery of Akiyama's faithful, and when he came to him, he respectfully saw him as a samurai.

"Get up!"

Tsuchiya Masahiro said in his heart, listening to the tone of Akiyama's faithful, he seemed to be a little indifferent, and he didn't see the closeness of his children and nephews at all.

On the side, his elder brother Qiu Shan Masamune didn't have too many expressions, as if he had seen an outsider.

In fact, this is also a common occurrence in the Warring States Period. After all, the Japanese are family names, but not blood. They have different characters, and they belong to two families.

Tsuchiya Masahiro still sent Li Xiao's autograph letter to Akiyama's believers according to what he had previously thought.

After receiving the letter, Nobuyuki Akiyama read it carefully. Tsuchiya Masahiro tried very hard to see a clue on the opponent's face, but it was completely ineffective.

After putting down the letter, Nobunaga Akiyama looked at Tsuchiya Masahiro and asked straightforwardly: "If Nobunaga attacked with 20,000 troops, do you think that with Li Xiao’s army’s less than 5,000 tired soldiers, plus my army’s strength, there can be What is the odds?"

Hearing that the faithful Akiyama seemed to be opposed, Masao Tsuchiya kept calm and said: "Return to Master Boshou, the horse farm, and the three thousand military forces of the two adults in the island. They have also reached the prefecture. They will immediately settle in Liucheng. If you get to the south again With the support of the Shinano Corps, our army will reach 13,000 troops, and it will not be enough to break the enemy. At that time, the defense was acceptable."

"Furthermore, Nobunaga's army dare not stay away from Gifu for too long, otherwise Gokan-sama's main army will be able to drive straight to Owari. So as long as it can support it for a few days, Nobunaga will definitely retreat."

Tsuchiya Masahiro's remarks were made by him before, and when he said them, he still took a lot of effort.

Faithful Akiyama walked back and forth after losing his hands, seeming to think about it. At this time, he said: "Iwamura City has just been captured and needs to be guarded to prevent the remote mountain clan from counterattacking, so I can't deploy a large army to support it. Moreover, even if our army is in full force. After the two armies are added together, even if we fight against Nobunaga’s Oda army, the odds of winning are too low. If it is defeated, not to mention Omeno, Higashi Mino will also lose."

At last Nobuyuki Akiyama paused and said, "I will not take this risk. Master Gokan only asked me to attack Higashi Mino and contain Nobunaga. He did not support Lee Taman's responsibility, so he sent troops without authorization. If I fail. The consequences were disastrous. I still persuaded Li Tamashou to relinquish Kajita Castle and retreat to Higashi Mino. Under the allied forces with him, Nobunaga would never dare to go deep here."

After hearing this, Tsuchiya Masahiro anxiously said: "Sir Hokishou..."

The faithful Akiyama stopped his hand and said coldly: "My opinion is the final decision, so I don't need to say any more."

Yuangui three years, December.

With the tactics of digging and cutting the water source, the Takeda army finally forced the castle general Masaru Nakane to retreat in order to preserve the lives of the castle soldiers, and then captured Nimatata Castle.

Nimatata Castle, which had been besieged for nearly two months, finally fell into the hands of Takeda Shingen.

This city was seized, and most of the Yuanjiang land was owned by Xinxuan. Seeing that the wind was not good, the great families of Yuanjiang went under the command of the Takeda family.

After that, Shingen left Shinano's predecessor, Yida Shinbo as the lord of Nimatata Castle, and then led an army of 27,000 to approach Hamamatsu Castle, the main castle of the Tokugawa family.

Hamamatsu Castle is a huge city measuring 420 meters from east to west and 250 meters from north to south.

And now in Hamamatsu Castle there are 8,000 people from Tokugawa Ieyasu's main team, as well as Nobunaga's reinforcements, Sakuma Nobumori, tie-in, and Mizuno Nobumoto three thousand reinforcements, a total of 11,000 troops.

In the eyes of Tokugawa Ieyasu, a Nimatata castle has given Shingen a headache for nearly two months, and his Hamamatsu castle doesn't care much.

He was waiting for Takeda Shingen to attack the city, and then delayed with Kencheng, exhausting the Takeda army veteran. Finally, he waited for Nobunaga's army to come to help, and then he could severely inflict the Takeda army under the castle.

But in the face of such a strong and heavily defended city, the Takeda army just wandered around under Hamamatsu Castle and did not rush to attack the city.

This was disappointing to Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Takeda Shingen led the way around Hamamatsu Castle and turned east. In Tokugawa Ieyasu's view, his intention was to put the Tokugawa Ieyasu army behind him, and he was ready to go straight to Owari and fight with Li Xiao and Akiyama Nobuto who were fighting in Mino. Meet the teacher.

Suddenly it was decided whether to go out of the city to pursue the Takeda army, but the opinions of the Tokugawa clan's retainers were divided.

There were different opinions among the retainers. Some said that they wanted to go out of the city to pursue the Takeda army, but most of the retainers claimed that this was Shingen's plan, and they still stood still.

In the end, Ieyasu Tokugawa made a decision, stating that as an ally of the Oda family, if he renounced the war to protect himself, he would bear the name of timidity and shamelessly, and the wealthy families of Tokaido would also abandon the Tokugawa family one after another.

Tokugawa Ieyasu led an army of 11,000 out of the city and followed the Takeda army, but did not rashly launch an offensive.

The Tenryu River starts from Lake Shinano Suwa and flows from Ina Valley to the Far River Country into the sea. There is a floodplain in the lower reaches called the Mikatahara Terrace.

The three original terraces are ten kilometers east-west and 15 kilometers north-south.

"Report to Your Highness that the rear scout found the Tokugawa family's army trailing!"

Riding a war horse, Takeda Katsuyori, who was advancing on the three plains, did not show too much surprise when he heard the report from the scout.

On the contrary, Takeda Katsuyori raised a smile on the edge of his lips, and said: "Sure enough, as my father expected, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who holds his own military fame, is not able to lead the army to pursue it."

Masada Masabe, the general of Takeda Katsuyoshi’s army, said: "Lord, Ieyasu Tokugawa should not be underestimated. This person is the Tokaido, the first bow after Yoshimoto, his will is strong, and his retainers are loyal to him. , Must not be underestimated."

Takeda Katsuyori smiled and said, "I have seen the coagulation power of Mikawa people under Nimatata Castle. At that time, Tokugawa Ieyasu, huh! What else can he do besides holding his head and patience? This time he actually dared to go out of the city for a decisive battle. , The boldness impressed me."

Masatada Atobe was worried when he heard the words, and the Takeda family went so smoothly along the way.

Although there were setbacks midway, such as Uesugi Kenshin, Hojo's Yasushi, Nagano Kosho, and other world-leading celebrities, were suppressed by Takeda Shingen with their superb strategy and art of war.

The young master also has a somewhat high self-esteem. Although he has a record of defeating Uesugi Kenshin, he led his army hastily into the battle during the sixth Sichuan Nakajima battle, but was surrounded by Uesugi army. If it were not for Li Xiao Finally, troops were sent to help, and the Takeda Army was almost defeated.

Although this matter was later suppressed by Xin Xuan with coercion, the influence on him was not small, and even the retainers had doubts about his ability. This was by no means a good sign.

At this time, the envoy who was inserted into the centipede rode his horse to the front of Takeda Katsurai, and said: "His Royal Highness, the lord has orders, so that your army will change from the back of the palace to the forward and return to attack the Tokugawa army."

From the deployment of this march, you can also see Takeda Shingen's previous intentions. He put the three teams of Baba Nobubo, Yama Prefecture Masaki, and Takeda Katsuyori with the strongest combat capabilities of the current Takeda army, and placed them as the rear army.

This is basically to stop retreat at any time.

After taking the order, Takeda Katsuya looked at the direction of Hamamatsu Castle, and said confidently: "I am ready to take the battle, I have to make a lot of merit in this battle!"

After the rear team changed to the front team, Takeda army displayed a fish-scale formation.

With Nobaba Nobubo, Masakei Yamagata, and Masaru Takeda as the forwards, followed by Masaji Tsuchiya, Nobuzuna Sanada, Masatyo Naito, Meiyuki Anyama, Nobuto Takeda, Nobata Obatake, Masabe Masabe, Masanobu Takasaka, Finally, Takeda Shingen's team and the Hojo family's help.

Seeing that the Takeda Army had changed so quickly, Ieyasu Tokugawa also understood that he had fallen into Shingen's strategy, and hurriedly set up twelve crane wing formations to meet him.

The two armies of Takeda Tokugawa immediately started a battle in Mikatahara.

Mino, Kajita Castle.

After Li Xiao got the return from Tsuchiya Masahiro, he was not too surprised.

Before Xinxuan gave the order, Akiyama's faithful had the freedom to dispatch the army independently. As far as Li Xiao's request was concerned, he had the right to do it or not, and everything was up to him.

So it's not surprising that Akiyama Nobuya refused.

At the same time, Li Xiao also knew his own rapid rise, and there was a faintly disharmonious existence in the Takeda Retainer Group.

Nobuyuki Akiyama is neither a gentleman nor a villain, but he must be jealous of his rushing up in Takeda's house. Although he will not be squeezed out and suppressed, he is in a hurry, and helping others is definitely not related to him. .

Moreover, Akiyama's attitude also represents the attitude of some Kai-born retainers headed by him.

As far as Li Xiao knows, they are not very supportive of Takeda Katsurai's attitude, especially after the sixth joint battle of Chuanzhongdao, which almost failed.

Takeda Katsuyori's previously shaky prestige has now begun to waver further.

And Li Xiao’s own background has been clearly frustrated. On the side of Takeda Katsuyoshi, the mark of the so-called ‘princeling’, so the Kai-line retainers do not have a good impression on him. That’s for sure.

Looking at the uncertain look on Li Xiao's face, Tsuchiya Masaheng asked: "Lord, the minister is incompetent, and there is no way to persuade Mr. Boqishou."

Li Xiao smiled and said with relief: "This has nothing to do with you. I also planned to use your identity before. I hope that Boshou Qiushan can support me in your face."

“It’s okay to fail at that time~www.wuxiamtl.com~ Li Xiao smiled and said with a relaxed expression, “Kaji Tiancheng is very important to me. At that time, I would not lose many years of training for a city. Out of the elite. There is not a saying that if you save land and lose people, you lose both people and land. So there is no need to carry too much ambition. "

When Masahiro Tsuchiya listened to Li Xiao's words and thought that he had decided to abandon Kajita Castle, a feeling of guilt came to his heart.

However, Li Xiao changed his words at this time and said: "Even though I was ready to lose Kajita Castle at the time, it does not mean that I did not fight for it. You can go to see Akiyama Hakushou again and tell him if he is willing to send troops to support me. Defend Kajida Castle. I will definitely repay this kindness in the future. At least the Higashi Mino Toyama Clan is not his Akiyama alone can sweep, I can help him, to know the existence of Kajida Castle, is also a barrier to Higashi Mino, whether or not For success, I gave him five big tubes as a reward. If he does not agree to this condition, I have nothing to say."

Li Xiao knew that if he wanted to defend Kajita Castle, he had to have reinforcements from Akiyama's faithful, so he would rather offer this generous offer. If Akiyama's faithful still refuses to agree, he will be short-sighted.

Before facing the strong forces of the Oda Army, Li Xiao finally had to take a step back.

#c. ..