Chapter 192: It is expected that the enemy will come first

Shinono, Kawaakashima.

In July, Takeda Shingen personally led a large army from the Yama Prefecture Kazuki Kan to join forces with the Hida Struggle Army in Masaki, Takeda Katsurai, and Naito Masatoto Ueno Army. They met at Shinosaki Castle south of Kawaakashima, and confronted the Echigo Army in Kenshin Uesugi.

Since the confrontation between the two armies, although there has been no major war, there have been conflicts in secret and there are many small-scale battles, and both sides have their own victories and losses.

In August, Kenno Uesugi ordered the Takeda family to send troops to Kanto to restrain the Takeda family's ally, Hojo family.

The Satake family's governor, Yoshiaki Yoshiaki, was known as Chang Lu's hero. It was a powerful famous name in Kanto during the Warring States Period. The Satake family rose up in one fell swoop because of his hard work.

In the fourth year of Echinro, Uesugi Kenshin led 100,000 Kanto Allied Forces to besiege Odawara, and the Satake family made a lot of efforts.

Satake Yoshiaki has always adhered to the diplomatic policy of personally attaching the Uesugi family and joining the Utsunomiya family to fight against the Hojo family.

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In contrast, another hero in Kanto, the Satake family, Uesugi and Utsusugi, the Utsumiya family, defeated the Oda family, the largest opponent in Changlu, laying the foundation for the unification of Changlu Kingdom in the future.

Although he was the leader of the Kanto, Kenshin Uesugi was far away from Echigo and often felt beyond the reach of the Hojo family's offensive in Kanto. The Rimiya family has suffered a severe blow under the attack of the Hojo family this time, so the Satake family has become the biggest help for the Uesugi family to restrain the Hojo family in Kanto.

Now that Satake Yoshiaki has retired, the position of family governor has just ascended the throne by Satake Yoshieki, who was only seventeen years old. This young family governor will be called "Ghost Yoshieki". At the beginning of his ascension, he showed his momentum of the future overlord.

In his first formation, he fought against Suma Shengyin at Wengzhiyuan. Yi Chong won a great victory in this battle and won the heads of seven enemy generals in a row.

Now the alliance between the Satake family and the Uesugi family has taken effect, which has restricted the Hojo family from advancing towards Kanto.

While the Uesugi family and the Takeda family confronted each other on the fifth Kawaakashima, the Satake family and the Hojo family also competed in Kanto.

In Hida Country, the game between the Uesugi family and the Takeda family is continuing.

At the instructor of Kenshin Uesugi, Saito Niki, the lord of the Castle of Tsubaki, launched an attack on the Takeda family's only stronghold in Hida, Kamioka Castle, with the intention of completely driving the Takeda family's forces out of Hida.

In addition to his five hundred points, Saito Niki also had the five hundred troops supported by the Chief of the Miracle, and the total force was 1,000 troops.

The intelligence network that Li Xiao set up in Yuezhong is under construction, and Saito Niki's troops are being sent very quickly.

So when Li Xiao heard the news of Saito Liki's troops from Yokotani Yuki Na, the other party had already summoned the internal army and was expected to send troops to Kamioka Castle the next afternoon.

So Li Xiao summoned all the parties overnight to discuss how to deal with the attack of the Saito family.

As a result of the military discussion, Li Xiao's retainers divided two factions, one was to suggest defending the city and the other was to suggest field battles.

It is undoubtedly a serious plan to defend the city. With the defense of the Kamioka Castle built by Li Xiaoxin, the five hundred regulars, and the power of the sharp iron cannons in the city, it is no problem to resist the attack of the Saito family.

However, there is also a problem with defending the city, which is military rations. This year, the Shengang territory has not yet harvested in autumn, and the military rations in the city are obviously insufficient. If you want to stick to it, the food and grass in the city can only last for up to ten days.

In addition, there is another disadvantage in defending the city, which is the construction and production within the territory. Now the construction of Kamiokanocho has been basically completed, and the autumn harvest within the territory is about to be carried out.

If Li Xiao chooses to defend the city, if the Saito family is to force Li Xiao to fight, they will set fire to the city town to burn, or send people to help Li Xiao with free voluntary support for farmers, and harvest all the farmland under Li Xiao's leadership.

At that time, if Li Xiao didn't leave the city and fought with the Saito family, Li Xiao's efforts in Kamioka Nobunaga over the past six months have been wasted, and all the income in the harvest this year has been wasted.

However, compared to defending the city, the retainers oppose the field battle in the field.

The reasons why the retainers firmly opposed it was that the troops were very different. Li Xiao had only five hundred standing positions, but the opponent had 1,000 troops, and the troops were one to two.

Second, Li Xiao’s so-called quick version of the Western Frontier has not been trained yet and is not enough to form combat power to fight.

Third, out of expectations for the reinforcements of the Jiangma family, Li Xiao is still in accordance with his previous promise to hand over half of the Jiangma family's previous income in Yinshan, Shengang to Jiangma Huisheng.

Of course, Li Xiao’s income from Shengang Yinshan has been several times higher than the income from Jiangma’s family on Shengang Yinshan before.

But no matter how much Li Xiao kept his promise, so now the Li Xiao family and the Jiangma family have common ownership of Kanoka Ginyama. Now that the Saito family is coming, the Jiangma family is also necessary to send troops to assist in the war for the purpose of protecting Kanoka Ginyama.

What's more, Huisheng, Jiangma, is still a minister of Takeda's family and has the responsibility to support Li Xiao. His younger brother, Nobuyoshi, is trying to regain the position of governor of Jiangma's family with the support of a group of old ministers and Honanji.

If Li Xiao falls, who will help him secure the position of governor of the Jiangma family in the future?

Therefore, because of the combination of interests of the Jiangma family and the Li Xiao family, they are still very "iron" alliances. If Li Xiao is attacked by the Saito family, Jiangma Huisheng will undoubtedly send troops to reinforce.

However, the Saito family's military power will arrive tomorrow. If a joint battle is held, the two times of mobilization and dispatch of peasants in the Ema Huisheng leads the mobilization of peasants and the distance to send troops are considered together, so it will definitely not be as good as the joint battle.

If you defend the city, you can expect to get reinforcements from the Jiangma family at least two days later.

By then, Li Xiao can choose to leave the city and fight the Saito family in the inside and outside. This method is undoubtedly a choice that both retainers in the defending city and leaving the city are quite recognized.

Now most of the retainers have changed their positions and tended to wait for the decision of the two families to fight after the arrival of the reinforcements of Jiangma and Huisheng.

Just as everyone was discussing, the newly-entered retainer, Masato Honda, who had been silent, spoke up.

His opinion was that there was no need to wait for the reinforcements of the Jiangma family, and he would send troops to fight to the decisive battle tomorrow.

Honda Masato's words were amazing, and Li Xiao's retainers were all impressed by the Mikawa samurai who had just arrived for a month.

Honda Masato was recently appointed by Li Xiao as a sheriff in Kamiokanocho, responsible for maintaining the daily order of Castle Town and some civil disputes.

The reason why it is profound is that Honta Masato showed excellent handling skills in the governance of Castle Town.

In the past six months, Kamiokanocho has developed very quickly, so all forces have entered, and the situation has become a bit mixed.

For example, Hida carpenters, salt house merchants, Hida locals, wild samurai, craftsmen, craftsmen, foreign merchants, various forces intertwined and conflicted with each other's interests, so disputes often occur.

In May and June, there were more than three fights in Kamiokanocho in more than 20 people.

Previously, Dazang Chang'an was in the Kanoka Ginshan, and the Kanoka Nobu Town was busy, so the security of the city was not well-behaved.

So Li Xiao sent Honta Masato as the sheriff of Kamiokanocho to assist Ozang Chang'an in governing Kamiokanocho.

As soon as Honda Masato took office, various forces in Kamiokano Town were under his control, and the public security in Kamiokano Town was very good for only one month.

So the samurai from Kamioka Castle left a deep impression on the samurai who came from Mikawa to Hida and became a member of the Takeda family.

Of course, in Li Xiao's eyes, sending Honda Shin-sin to work as the local police station director is quite useful.

But this is Li Xiao's way of employing people. He cannot promote too quickly, otherwise it will be too easy to get, which will make Honda Zhengxin lose his aggressive spirit and leave it behind for other retainers. The lord uses people like a pile of wages and the latecomers are the adverse effects of taking advantage of them.

No one refuted the resignation of Honda Masato's words for a while, and wanted to listen quietly to how he said it.

Seeing that Li Xiao and all the retainers were focused on listening to his opinions, Honda Zhengxin said in a deep voice: "I wonder if you have noticed it. I have just observed it and asked more than half of the retainers who asked the Jiangma family for help. I think that any strategy that more than 50% of the military discussions can only be thrown away, because your enemy must have thought of it too!"

As soon as Honda Masato said this, Li Xiao nodded, and Shimasato pondered for a while, and said, "My Lord Honda's words are reasonable."

At this time, Dazang Chang'an asked, "May I ask, the strategy you said that everyone thought of is definitely not acceptable, but how can the Saito family stop the Ema family from reinforcement to my Kamioka Castle? If you make a wrong judgment because you take into account the enemy's next move, wouldn't it be even more wrong to do this? Perhaps the Saito family wouldn't see this at all."

Li Xiao looked at the Chang'an of Dazang, and then at the Masato Honda. He had heard that the two had conflicts in their views on the way of handling public security in the city town, so they had a dispute, so they had a very disagreement.

Li Xiao couldn't help but feel a little ridiculous. In history, Honda Zhengxin and Dazang Chang'an have always been inconsistent.

During the Edo period, Honda Masato and Okubo Chuan'an factions were always fighting openly and secretly in the shogunate, which was quite a bit of a party-to-party dispute in the court.

The famous Okubo Chang'an incident during the Edo period, Okubo Chang'an was ruined after his death due to the corruption incident. It is said that Honda Masato was defeated.

In this time and space, Dazang Chang'an and Honta Masatoshi transferred from Tokugawa's family to Li Xiao's family. Do you also have to fight each other to death?

Honda Masato smiled sarcastically at the question of Granda Zang Chang'an, revealing the unique noble attitude of the wise man, saying: "Master Dazang, do you think the Saito family will take such an inaction attitude? You are wrong. Put your hope for victory on the enemy's mistakes, and such a battle will undoubtedly be defeated."

Dazang Chang'an was blocked by Honda Masato's words and was immediately choked with anger.

Honta Masato looked around and said, "If I were Saito Niki, I would have used the alliance between the Saito family and the Sister Koji family to make the Sister Koji family pretend to send troops, and the military force is on the border of the Ema family, and to act as if I wanted to attack the Ema family's main castle Suwa Castle. At that time, Ema Fumi will definitely not send troops because he is considering the army of the Sister Koji family."

Koba Akiho echoed, "Yes, as long as the sister Xiaolu family did not send troops to attack the Jiangma family, they would not violate the previous agreement of the armistice with my Takeda family. If the Jiangma Huisheng sent troops, the sister Xiaolu family took the opportunity to seize the Suwa Castle in the Kakagi and unify Hida in one fell swoop. At that time, they would have the confidence to compete with my Takeda family."

"That's right," said Honda Masato. "In my estimate, Jiangma Huisheng will definitely not be in danger of losing his city, and send troops to rescue his family, so he will definitely not send troops. At that time, our army will wait for reinforcements and lose its previous determination to go out of the city to fight to the decisive battle. The morale will definitely plummet. If we fight again, we will have no chance of winning."

Just as Honda Masashi's speech was over, the retainers set off a new round of competition. Some supporters of Honda Masashi's opinions and opponents also existed, and the two sides were in stalemate.

At this time, the secret report sent by Li Xiao's ninjas said that the sister Xiaolu family made a small mobilization in the jurisdiction today, and now they have dispatched an unknown number of military forces to operate on the border of Jiangma's family.

In addition, the Uchijima family also issued a mobilization order within the jurisdiction.
Chapter completed!