Samurai of the Takeda Family

Chapter 431: Under the Dangerous City

The Takeda Army and Uesugi Army fought fiercely all night.

As it approached early morning, the Takeda Army retreated into the city because of fear of being counterattacked by the Uesugi Army in the daytime.

Kinoshita Xiu-long, Takenaka re-administers Yu Wanglu watch the formation, check the results of the night attack on Uesugi army last night.

The fighting seemed fierce last night, and each other attacked with more bluffs. In addition, after the Takeda army set fire to several tents of the Echihou Army, they were unable to cross the defense line of the Echihou Army, so each other's casualties were only about a hundred people.

Looking at the scull, Hidenaga Kinoshita looked at the Uesugi army's complete battalion and awe-inspiring defense, and said to Shigeharu Takenaka: "Master Takenaka, I didn't expect your long-planned ambush plan for the night attack. You still have no choice but to Uesugi army."

Takenaka Shigeharu smiled indifferently, and said: "Kinoshita-sama, on the contrary, I don't have as much expectations as you. And I think it is enough to defeat Uesugi in the night battle. The other party is Kenshin!"

Hideaki Kinoshita nodded and said: "The battle last night was enough to deplete Uesugi's spirit. Today they are definitely unable to attack the city. Long-term consumption is absolutely beneficial to us. This will be the case in the future. Uesugi's day attack We will attack the city at night, and within a few days it will be enough to exhaust the Uesugi army."

Shigeharu Takenaka smiled, and said: "To Kenshin-gong, if he attacks again at night, he will be too despised tonight. He must be prepared tonight. The battle last night has made Uesugi army afraid to underestimate the toughness of our army. There is merit but no demerits. This is the consciousness that the defenders should have."

"Uesugi has retired!"

While chatting with Kinoshita in Takenaka, suddenly Wu Jian Banto reported this sudden news to them.

Hidenaga Kinoshita looked at the Uesugi army under the castle in a posture of retreating. He couldn't help but suspiciously asked Takenaka Shigeharu, "Master Takenaka, is it possible that the Uesugi army is deceiving."

Shigeharu Takenaka thought for a while, shook the folding fan slightly, and said, "Not so. Uesugi may really retreat."

Not long after, the Uesugi army retreated and the siege of Songcang City was dissolved.

The defenders in the city didn't understand what had happened, why the Uesugi army, who attacked the city aggressively yesterday, retreated today, and the battle last night was not the result of the morale of the Uesugi army.

Looking at the scull, Shigeharu Takenaka immediately said: "Immediately send people to Tenjin Mountain Castle, Uozu Castle to investigate whether it is lost, and the Uesugi army retired, and immediately report to Li Tajima Shou."

The first year of Tianzheng, September.

The sky is densely covered with lead clouds, and the sea waves in the Qiwei Bay line the shore.

Nototo Nanao Castle.

It was the rumble of guns!

Li Xiao held the military mate and sat in the formation.

On both the left and right sides are the local noble family patriarchs, and now they are sitting under Li Xiao in a pair of helmets and armor.

These Notoho tribes were silent, holding their breath.

"Injustice! Injustice!"

A series of long screams came from outside the curtain.

Before the words fell, a samurai with loose hair was escorted into the battle curtain, his body was wearing red with feet, and it was still stained with blood.

This samurai was present by the Noto heroes who knew each other, and the opponent was Kurotaki castle lord Sanbaoji Hisaya.

At the moment Samboji Hisaya was dissatisfied, and he was pressed down by two tall and strong Takeda samurai, causing him to kneel in front of Li Xiao.

Sambo Temple Kumi, who was on his knees, rolled his eyes to Li Xiao, his eyes were full of anger, and he said loudly, "Sir Ma Shou, why am I guilty?"

Samboji Hisaya immediately looked at the people of Noto country present and said: "My Patriarch, in order to capture Nanao Castle, my Sanbaoji family rushed from Zhuzhou County. In this recent siege of the city, my family has sacrificed their lives for the Takeda family. In the war, only the samurai killed six people, more than 20 people, and the younger brother was also lost in the battle."

"And Master Tajima is arrested so far. Why? Is it because there are not enough people from the Sanbaoji family who died for the Takeda family? Isn't it enough to attack Nanao Castle?"

Hisa Sanbao Temple has been screaming in his face, and immediately received the sympathy of most of Noto's people present.

"Tajima Shou-sama, can you deal with it leniently."

"Sanbao Temple Echizen, but you can be a general who is accustomed to war."

Li Xiao narrowed his eyes and glared at Sambo Temple Hisaya, and the other side stared back at Li Xiao unceremoniously.

Li Xiao intends to eradicate the heart of Sanbao Temple for a long time, and the other party knows it well.

The Sanbao Temple family was originally the first minister under Yuzuo’s family, but it was quite independent. Now taking advantage of the Noto turmoil, he dispatched troops to rob a lot of sites, including several mineral deposits, and then took the initiative to ask Li Xiao Ask for security.

For Li Xiao, the existence of the Sanbao Temple family diminished his control in Noto. He would not tolerate such a family's existence under his own eyes.

Before that, Li Xiao had the idea of ​​borrowing a sword to kill people. In the Nanao City strategy, the Sanbao Temple family was in front of him. While consuming his power, he was prepared to find an unfavorable battle and cut him in front of the battle, so that he could accept the Sanbao Temple family. .

However, Sanbao Temple Jiuya is also a human spirit. He saw Li Xiao's idea of ​​killing people with a knife. Therefore, he worked hard every time he fought, and even let his own brother die in front of the battle to stop Li Xiao from attacking him.

Therefore, at the moment Sanbao Temple Jiuya was sent to the main formation by Li Xiao, he was not afraid of accidents, and deliberately caused the matter to become a big issue, and secretly sent people to inform the people of Noto country to let them come to the main formation together. Li Xiao exerted interference pressure.

Now that Jiuya sees so many people at Sanbao Temple supporting him, he does not believe that Li Xiao dared to kill him here on the charge of neglecting military orders in front of so many people.

Such being able to reach the people of the country would also be disappointed by such a retrograde act against Li Xiao.

When Sanbao Temple thought of this, Jiuya secretly sneered, and looked at Li Xiao, with an expression full of you and me.

Li Xiaowei smiled and said: "Sanbao Temple Echizen, I didn't expect that you violated the military law, but you still don't know the crime."

Sanbao Temple Jiuya stared at Li Xiao with crimson eyes, and said: "Tajima Shou-sama, if you are too brave to kill the enemy, it is also a crime to die in battle, so the minister has nothing to say."

Li Xiao stood up and said: "I wanted to keep your Sanbao Temple family name and your reputation for bravery, so I couldn't bear to say it, but at this point, huh, your Excellency is still asking knowingly, so I told the truth. , Have you been secretly supplying military rations to the long-term company of Nanao City since the siege of the city for several months?"

At this moment, Sanbao Temple was long, and the whole body was shocked.

And the people in Notokuni who were there also looked at Sanbaoji Hisaya inconceivably, and didn't believe that he would actually do such things.

"Sanbao Temple Echizen, you have nothing to say."

There was a somewhat mocking smile on Li Xiao's face. After saying that, he ordered him to take out a letter from Sanbao Temple Hisaya and Changxu Lian.

According to the letter, Changxu Lian was besieged by Noto for many months and had insufficient rations. Therefore, Jiuya secretly purchased rations from Sanbao Temple ten times higher than the market price to relieve the shortage in the city.

However, Sanbao Temple Jiuya was greedy for its profit, and he had a secret relationship with it. There was also a seal of two people on the letter, which was obviously solid evidence.

All the people present at Notokuni confirmed that the Samboji Temple Kuniuchi continued his continuous move.

Sanbao Temple Jiuya looked at Li Xiao, his face suddenly showed resentment, and stared at Li Xiao firmly.

In fact, the Sanbao Temple family's internal connection to Qiwei City was nothing but a fiction, and he had never even sold military rations. It was completely fabricated by Li Xiao.

He had expected it all, but did not expect that Li Xiao would actually use such a vicious ploy. Killing with a knife is just a cover, but it is really a way of planting and arguing.

And that letter was forged, and Sanbao Temple Hisaya's own seal condemned that he had many correspondences with Li Xiao, and it was not impossible to be forged by the other party.

Thinking of this, Sambo Temple Kumi sneered again and again, saying: "Master Tajima Shou, in order to embezzle my Sambo Temple family, I actually used this as a means, I..."

Seeing that the other party was in a state of madness, Li Xiao immediately ordered his men to block the opponent's mouth and nose with mud, and then ordered them to press it down.

Li Xiao temporarily detained the other party, and sent someone to Heitiao City to confiscate Sanbao Temple's house.

After a few days, he killed Sanbao Temple Hisaya.

As for the profit sharing, Li Xiao took Sanbao Temple's Jiuya this time to embezzle the sites of several tycoons and returned all of them to them. As for the big head, he naturally accepted it by himself.

With rewards and punishments, Li Xiao disposes of Sanbao Temple for a long time, and all the people in the country are convinced of self-righteousness, and there is no objection at the moment.

At the moment when Li Xiao was re-assigned to attack Nanao City, all the noble clans were in charge. With the lessons learned from Sanbao Temple Jiuya, all Noto noble clans dare not neglect.

At this time, the news of the retreat of the two armies of Oda and Uesugi also spread to the ears of the people of Noto. Li Xiao's stability in the foundation of Yuezhong greatly increased the confidence of these tycoons in the Takeda family for a while.

After months of exhaustion from the siege of the city, the heads of each family took out their own assets and attacked Nanao City desperately. Even if there was a loss, they could earn more for their family in Li Xiao's move to redistribute Noto’s interests. Benefit.

Although it is one of the five largest mountain cities in Japan, Nanao Castle is well-defended, and there are more than six thousand Hattayama troops guarded in the city.

The confrontation for several months has consumed most of the Hatoyama Army's rations. The city is now clearly lacking in army rations, and even Hatoyama Yoshiki, the head of the Hatoyama family, does not have enough food every day.

In addition, news of the retiring of the Oda Uesugi army has also quietly spread in Nanao Castle. Although Changxu Lian has killed more than a dozen people in a row on the charge of walking rumors, but such an attempt to cover it is to make Nanao Castle. Morale is extremely low.

Now, under the violent offensive of the Noto, and the cover of the Takeda army's bombardment, Nanao Castle's defenses are beginning to collapse.

On September 28, after a day of fierce fighting, Sotomaru finally fell.

Several generals of the Hatyama Army were killed in battle, and the company commander Xulian himself was hit by an iron cannon in his right arm while he was supervising the battle, and his wounds were infected.

Now that the Hatakeyama Army retreated to Sanmaru, numerous wounded soldiers, many people became sick, and the epidemic spread throughout the city. In despair, several Hatakeyama’s retainers risked being killed and once again asked Changxuelian to ask Takeda. The army surrendered to save a way out.

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