Samurai of the Takeda Family

In the castle tower, the tea stove was beeping water.

But at this moment, neither of them is in the mood to drink tea.

Honda Zhengxin narrowed his eyes and raised the folding fan, trying to figure out the meaning of Huiqiong's words in Anguo Temple.

The opponent is worthy of a character like Oda Nobunaga, a person who has already fought, so you don't have to grasp his content between words, but just guess the motive behind the opponent's words.

Anguo Temple Huiqiong just spoke and mentioned three meanings. First, the Maori navy is very powerful and can suppress the Takeda family on the sea.

Second, the Maori family had a keen interest in Wakasa, and they were very indignant at the intervention of the Li family.

Third, despite this, the Maori family feel that the Li family can communicate and negotiate and obtain a way to negotiate.

In this situation, the strong attitude adopted by Huiqiong of Anguo Temple at the beginning was naturally not that this person was stupid. In order to demonstrate the domineering power of the two hegemons of Shanyin, Shanyin and Yang, as well as the strength of the Maori navy, it was so condescending. Look down on the arrogance of the Takeda family.

The other party is not so stupid. A pragmatic person will never have this vanity. The other party's real purpose is to see Bendo's faith in his reaction, and to test whether the Li family has any ambitions to gain a foothold in Wakasa. This is the key.

Then relying on the attitude of trying to be honest and faithful, I can see that if the Li family has the power to open up the Wakasa front, then from the content of Anguo Temple Huiqiong’s words, it can be seen that the Maori family must have the next step to obtain the Li family in certain directions. Leverage.

The capture of a Tase mountain castle in the area actually caused the active subordination of the Tanba Naito family and the active contact of the Mori family. It seems that in Wakasa's station, the banner of the prestige of the family was erected in Kinki, and then the entire force of the whole situation was linked together.

As the saying goes. Those who do not seek the overall situation cannot seek a city. Reminiscent of the current strategy of the Maori family, Bendo Zhengxin showed a little smile on his face.

After thinking about all this, Honda Masanobu slightly shook the folding fan and said in a deep voice: "Master Hui Qiong, this time you are here as an envoy, it is the decision of the Maori clan leader An Yunyou Matou. It is also the young assistant of Jibu Yoshikawa. opinion?"

Anguo Temple Huiqiong was originally tidying up clothes, but after hearing the words of Bendo Zhengxin, the two people were so stalemate.

At this time, there was a puff of boiling sound from the tea stove, and Masasaki Honda calmly removed the tea stove from the wind stove.

Anguo Temple Huiqiong laughed suddenly. Pointing at Bendo Masayo, with an expression that everyone understands, he said: "In fact, An Yun Youmatou and Jibu Shaosuke Yoshikawa made a joint decision, so to speak. Does Lord Bendo understand?"

Yoshikawa Jibu Shaofu, that is, Yoshikawa Motoharu, one of the two Maori Rivers, the Maori family has been since Maori Yuan. The strongest general, fought dozens of battles together. Undefeated so far, he is famous in the West.

Kai. Tzuzuzaki Hall.

At the time of the talks between Masanobu Honda and Huiqiong of Anguo Temple.

A military meeting about the life-and-death transition of the Takeda family is ongoing in the museum.

Facing the Takeda siege organized by the three families of Oda, Tokugawa, and Uesugi, all the retainers looked dignified. This military discussion will determine the direction of the family’s response.

In this critical battle, if you deal with it carelessly, it will be the end of the Takeda family.

Nobuhiro Takeda, Nobuya Takeda, and Li Xiao looked at each other face to face. Although they were unhappy with each other before, after such a tossing, everyone has let go of their knots.

The three people let go of all these unpleasant things, and Takeda Shinren immediately invited Li Xiao to take his seat.

Li Xiao is now the guardian of Noto, and was awarded the top five guards by the court. He has the house name.

Therefore, even if he is not a penman, no one is above him in the Takeda family except Nobuyoshi Takeda. It is just a group of people who believe in integrity and honesty, but it is impossible.

After seeing Takeda Shinkatsu, Li Xiao sat in the second seat.

Rube Shengzi and others were not upset when they saw this, but they did not go to Hewa Reliance on Li Xiao's mansion before, and Koyamada Nobuhiro and others were also silent when they saw this.

Above the main hall of Tsuzakikan.

The military discussion continues.

When everyone left just now, they did not hear the deployment of troops from the Oda family on Zhongshan Road and Tokaido.

When Takeda Shinren repeated it again, and when all the retainers learned that there were more than 110,000 troops advancing from the three roads, when they attacked Takeda's house, everyone was eclipsed.

However, after the success of the Oda family's Shangluo, Nobunaga was in full swing, and today it is the Takeda family's turn to receive the treatment that was only available.

After Nobuhiro Takeda said all the situation, he looked at Li Xiao who was sitting under Nobuyoshi Takeda.

In fact, all the retainers on the scene looked at Li Xiao and wanted to hear the opinions of this acclaimed, confident and mysterious, after victory over Lai, Takeda's strongest military expert.

At this time, Takeda Nobuhira also said, "Yakagata, how do you think our family should deal with the encirclement of Uesugi, Tokugawa, and Oda under this situation?"

Nobuhiro Takeda was indifferent, but he was already asking for advice.

Li Xiao looked at everyone's gazes, and asked if he had such expectations.

Li Xiao immediately responded to Takeda Nobuhira, saying: "Suzuki, I can’t talk about how to deal with it. I just tell the truth. Please pardon me. With the current power of my family, we must deal with the offensives of Uesugi, Tokugawa, and Oda at the same time. There is no chance of winning."

As soon as Li Xiao finished speaking, the off-stage Shibu Shengzi sneered and said: "If it's a house-shaped man, there are only these opinions, so you don't need to say it."

Li Xiao looked at Jibe Shengzi, secretly sneered, but the expression on his face remained unchanged, and gently said: "Master Jibe, if you have any advice, you might as well say it straight, I'll listen carefully."

Under Takeda Nobuhiro's unpleasant gaze, Akatsuki Akobe looked cold, and immediately bowed his head angrily.

Li Xiao ignored the Attorney's Attendance and looked at all his retainers, saying: "Yes, at the same time responding to Uesugi, Tokugawa, and Oda. There is no such power in any major in the world, even if it is Gen Yoshitsune and Kiso Yizhong can't get back to life either."

"So the strategy my family has to deal with is to defeat each one!"

Hearing Li Xiaozhi's words, all the servants nodded silently. Although it is not a shocking and unexpected insight, it can be considered as the following direction, and a clue has been drawn.

At this time, a letter dragon opened his mouth and said: "The house is in the shape of a man. It is the way of using soldiers to break each one, but it is a matter of priority. Of these three, which one should we deal with better?"

Li Xiao looked at a letter dragon, and said: "Master Uemon, what you said is right, things are prioritized."

"This time the three attacked in four directions. On Hokuriku Road, the Shibata Corps fought for our Hida Vietnamese Army Corps, and the two sides were evenly matched. On Zhongshan Road, Oda Shinchu's 20,000 troops attacked Iwamura City. At present, Iwamura City is guarded by Master Akiyama. The terrain of Dongmeinong is tortuous, and its military strength is not easy to expand. Yancun City is also a strong city, and it should be able to hold on for several months. These two roads can be regarded as delays for the time being."

"The Tokaido, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Takigawa Kazuyoshi 20,000 troops came, and Lord Baba’s Suruga Legion was slightly weaker. However, the Suruga Legion was hit hard during the Battle of Naga Shino, and it is really difficult to resist this road. . It can be considered urgent."

"In the north face, the Sugi family dispatched 40,000 troops, the strength of which is the best in all directions. It went deep into the hinterland of Shinano, and captured Azumino, cutting off the connection between the family and Hida, so the situation is the most critical and the most urgent."

After Li Xiao finished speaking, Takeda Shinren tentatively said: "Then the opinion of Uesugi, among the four ways, the Uesugi family has the greatest strength and the most endangering Shinano's roots, right?"

Li Xiao nodded and said, "You can say so."

"It seems that there is only one battle." Takeda Nobunaga sighed.

Takeda Nobuyasu's words made all the retainers silent for a while. They all understood the situation that Li Xiao said before. In the previous military meeting, everyone also discussed that Uesugi Kenshin is the strongest of the four ways. If he can defeat the Uesugi family, make him Retreat, then the remaining three groups will retreat without fighting.

But against Uesugi Kenshin, even though he had this chance of winning on the scene, even when Shingen and Shenglai were there, he would suffer all the time.

Now in the decisive battle with the Uesugi family, does the Takeda family have this chance of winning?

At this time, Nobuhiro Takeda stood up from behind Nobukasu Takeda, and said loudly, "If the Uesugi Army is 40,000, if my family mobilizes them, plus the Kita Shinano and Nishi Ueno Army Corps, they can make a military force of about 30,000, which is almost enough. It is the basis for a showdown with Kenshin Uesugi. The only one lacking right now is a great general."

Speaking of this, Takeda Nobuhiro sighed and looked at Li Xiaoyan and said: "Yakata, I'm old, and I no longer have the courage to fight Uesugi when I was in Chuanzhongjima. Now looking at my family, I can compete with Uesugi Kennobu. In war, you are the only general who can rival him."

"So I beg your Excellency for the decisive battle with the Uesugi family."

Hearing Takeda Nobuhira said this, all the retainers knew that they would actually fight Uesugi Kenshin, and the army commanded by the Takeda family was handed over to him.

Generally, in such strategic decisive battles, the family governor is the general.

But Nobuhiro Takeda is still young, and he certainly doesn't have the qualifications, so Li Xiao is the only one who can take the role.

Either Takeda Nobuhiro will serve as the general general, Li Xiao will pursue it in the army, or the deputy will be under his command.

This is unprecedented power, this time it fell on Li Xiao.

Suddenly looked at Li Xiao with envy and hatred.

Regarding Takeda Nobuhira's decision, some of the retainers moved their lips slightly, seeming to oppose it, but in the end no one stood up.

Li Xiao looked at Takeda Nobuhiro's expression, but did not agree and accept the power.

Instead, he turned his head and looked at the banners of Fenglin Mountain and Suwa Daimyoji. He immediately said, "Everyone, I don't mean to fight Uesugi Kenshin."

When Li Xiao said this, everyone was in an uproar.

Now even Takeda Nobuhira thinks that if Li Xiao puts forward this opinion, then he is going to be the general.

After that, he made a formal comeback for Li Xiao to pave the way.

Li Xiao admitted that he also had this ambition to meddle in and raise his prestige in the Takeda family, but in fact he was not allowed to do so.

However, even if Li Xiao is now in the head and feels that he can beat Uesugi Kenshin in military strategy, can his prestige in the Takeda army be compared with the two museum owners, Shingen and Shenglai? If he dispatches, will the vassals of the Takeda family listen to him?

In this decisive battle with Uesugi Kenshin, there are several chances of winning. If it is a big defeat, the Wuxun that he has worked hard for more than ten years will only pave the way for Uesugi Kenshin, and the Takeda’s retainers will also blame Li Xiao for the cause. Never turned over again.

Takeda Xin said, "Why do you say that?"

Li Xiao replied: "This time Uesugi and Oda. The three Tokugawa families attacked and shot at the same time. There must have been a tacit understanding between them, and there must be a layout first. Otherwise, Satake and other forces will not be dispatched to drag Hojo, our ally. The means of home come first."

Um.

All the retainers nodded.

"So since the enemy's plan is well-planned, all our reactions and responses are also in the opponent's routine. These four ways to fight, Uesugi Kenshin all the way out, all the way to fight, the intention is already very obvious, just one pair An attempt to engage in a strategic decisive battle with our army. If our family is as expected by the enemy, it will also send a main force to fight Uesugi, so that it will meet the expectations of the enemy."

"And in the art of war, everything the enemy expects. It is exactly what we want to do the opposite!"

What Li Xiao said, to use an analogy, is exactly the following chess, the opponent takes the first move and lays out on the chessboard. If the opponent attacks wherever you are, then you will fall into the enemy's routine and follow suit. And this time. You must interfere with the opponent's chess path, attacking moves in places that the enemy is not familiar with. This can make it impossible for the enemy to prepare for the backhand.

Just as Shingen defeated the Hojo clan in the first three times, every attack line exceeded the Hojo clan's prior judgment and expectations. Therefore, he won a big victory, and he has no temper at all.

"How to do the opposite? Isn't there a better way to deal with the Uesugi family?" Takeda Shinren asked immediately.

"Do you ask His Royal Highness Gongfang to come forward to negotiate for the family and persuade the Uesugi family to retreat." Hewa's faithfulness.

Takeda Nobuhiro slowly shook his head and said: "This is impossible. Although Kenshin Uesugi always obeys the righteousness of his name, this time he has been planning for a long time and will not easily agree. Forty thousand troops retired, even if Uesugi Kenshin agrees, he will not agree with the rich and powerful people under his command. Let's listen to the opinions of Major General Guards."

Li Xiao nodded, and said: "His Royal Highness Hewa just now, what he said is not unreasonable. It is better to have this kind of righteous suppression than no one, but if we hold our expectations here, it would be a big mistake. wrong."

"Strength is the way to force the Uesugi family to retreat. Although Uesugi Kenshin's field battle is unparalleled in the world, the siege is a bit inferior. Our top priority is to stick to the heart of Shinano and prevent it from having a chance to break through. Forty thousand troops are exhausted."

"Under this situation, I predict that Kenshin Uesugi will not give up this opportunity to attack his home. He will definitely support it in Shinano. After Shinano loses ground, I am now ready to make sacrifices, and even deploy elite soldiers. , Attacking Hida, cutting off the Hida Viet-Central Legion, and the connection between Mino and Viet-Chong, this must all be taken into consideration."

When the Takeda family members heard Li Xiao say this, they obviously planned the worst for Uesugi Kenshin's attack on Shinano. Not only was Shinano lost ground, he even did not protect the Li family’s foundation, Hida country. get ready.

Li Xiao said so, so the vassals of the Takeda clan had no objection. At the moment, a letter dragon said murderously: "Since Uesugi’s offensive is ignored, what should we do?"

Li Xiao nodded when he heard, waved his hand, and categorically said: "What we have to do is to focus on the Tokaido first, the Tokugawa family all the way!"

Li Xiao then explained why the intention to attack the Tokugawa family was very simple.

The Tokugawa family was narrowly located between the two major forces of Takeda and Oda, and had no territorial contact with other forces. To survive and make progress, the only way to destroy the Takeda family was to destroy the Takeda family.

Therefore, in the eyes of Tokugawa Ieyasu, there was already a plan to have Takeda, not Tokugawa, Tokugawa, not Takeda, and only one of the two tops was planned.

Among Tokugawa and Oda, the Oda family can expand their territories in the direction of Kinki, Nankai, and Western countries, without having to fight with Takeda, but Tokugawa is very different.

The Tokugawa family is the most resolute in destroying Takeda, and there is no buffer of the second way.

Therefore, the retainers of the Takeda family might imagine that Ashikaga Yoshiaki came forward to let the Uesugi family retreat, but for the Tokugawa family, there was no expectation at all, and they would fight to the end.

To the Tokugawa family, the generals of the Takeda family have always had a psychological advantage, although the Sanhe soldiers have always fought in Nai, and in the previous battles, they have been like a hard walnut, and the Takeda army has been smashed with blood.

But whether it was Nagasasa or Mikatahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu had to face the fate of Takeda Hiroshima's banner and finally retreated and fled.

Moreover, among the three in this Raiders, the Tokugawa family is the weakest.

First of all, in the strategic situation, after the loss of Nagashino and Noda Castle, Yoshida Castle, the key to the East Mikawa River, has opened up. If the Tokugawa family’s territory is compared to a giant snake, Yoshida Castle is the seven inches of the snake. The fate of Sanhe and Yuanjiang were cut off from end to end.

Secondly, in terms of power, the Tokugawa family only has 500,000 shi, and the mobilization of troops is only more than 10,000. In terms of strength, the main force of the Takeda family can be used to attack by the Suruga Legion. , Completely different than Uesugi Kenshin.

And Li Xiao’s strategy was to beat the Tokugawa clan. Here, despite Uesugi Kenshin’s onslaught of Kita Shinano and Oda Shinta’s attack on Iwamura Castle, the Tokugawa clan should be beaten to me first.

For example, it's like a person, he is blocked by a group of punks in a corner, when he is about to be beaten up.

At this time, he is Bruce Lee who can’t pick them all by himself, so if you don’t want to kneel down and beg for mercy, or hold your head and be beaten, the only way is to aim at the weakest and most arrogant person of the opponent and catch the opponent. Beat hard.

No matter how someone else beats you, they just stare at a target and don't let go. As a result, when you are admitted to the hospital, the other person will also follow you to the hospital.

This statement may be a bit rogue, but Li Xiao’s strategy, in other words, even if North Shinano is lost, even the entire Shinano is lost, but if it can capture Mikawa and kill the Tokugawa family, then this battle, The Takeda family is not a disadvantage either.

ps: Five thousand words big update, the code makes me sore back, trying to get a monthly pass, a ticket, a recommendation, a variety of requests. (To be continued)