"What on earth is going on? Did Nagao Ichiemon give those pastries to Honmaru's guards? Or is Kai Tohpo really so powerful that he also knocked out Honmaru's guards?" Nagao Xing
He hurriedly sent people to look around but still didn't see anyone, and he walked around anxiously.
"That's not right! The Honmaru and the policemen in the inner city are not allowed to have entanglements because they belong to different families. The cakes and food sent by me will never be sent to the Honmaru. Kaifu can't even sneak into the inner city, let alone the Honmaru.
!Could it be that...could it be said that!" Thinking of this, Nagao Xingli felt cold all over and shivered involuntarily.
Nagao Fujikage suddenly went crazy and broke free from the grip of the two guarding warriors. He rushed towards him with a crazy smile. Nagao Kosato was in a bad mood and saw that he still dared to struggle. He couldn't help but became furious. He pushed the old man with messy beard and hair away and cursed.
Said: "What are you laughing at, you old madman! If you offend the defenders in the city, we will all die! Hurry up and capture him and watch him carefully."
"I'm laughing at you dying people! I'm really laughing to death! Hahahaha..." Nagao Fujikage didn't care about the rude actions of several samurai, and he laughed so much that tears and saliva flowed out.
Nagao Keiji trembled with fright and warned tremblingly: "Father, what are you talking about? I really don't understand what a dying person is, so don't scare me!"
"There is no one in the city. Where have all the people gone? Haven't figured it out yet? They are indeed a group of dying people! Hahaha..."
"Shut up! Shut up!" Nagao was furious, pointing at the panicked guard and yelling: "What are you doing for food? You might as well block his mouth for me! Block it for me quickly!"
Ah! You bastard, I have to do it!" Nagao Kouri tore off a piece of Jinhaori and forced it into Nagao Fujikage's mouth. He didn't stop until the old man was choked and couldn't say a word.
Not long after, the samurai who searched the castle tower returned one after another. They brought the unexpected and unfortunate news. There was no one in the castle tower, the Kasuga Imperial Palace was empty, and the entire honmaru was empty without a single person. Nagao Kari's expression
Suddenly, I was shocked by the news.
"There is no one, no one at all. Where have all the people gone? How come there is no one? This is impossible! No! We cannot stay in this city. We have to leave quickly, leave immediately!"
Suddenly there was a cry of killing from the bottom of the mountain, and a little fire light was lit up with the cry of killing. In a short time, the Kasugayama Castle became brightly lit, and the dull military drums and the bronze bells in the castle town rang. The night seemed to be dead.
Suddenly they came alive. Kasugayama Castle Town and Naoetsu Town were all lit up with lights. The golden light stung the eyes.
"It's not good! The long-tailed army suddenly burst out of the house, and the tiger's mouth was taken away by the defenders!"
"It's not good! An unknown number of troops are coming outside the city and are heading towards the mountain!"
"It's not good! Nagao's carpenter's assistant was begged by Nagao Kagenobu!"
Nagao Kouchi's face was gray and his eyes were dull. His body staggered and fell to the ground. The sudden blow instantly destroyed his psychological defense. The next moment he thought that his hard work had fallen into a trap, and he couldn't help crying with sadness:
"It's over! Everything is over. I fell into the trap of Nagao Kagenobu. It's all over!"
"Uncle! What should we do, uncle! Please tell us what we should do! Can we escape now? Escape to Kai and join Takeda Daisen. He will definitely take us in, right?" Nagao Keiji was thinking about what might happen.
fantasy, with a bit of expectation in his panicked eyes.
The samurai guarding the top of the mountain ran away in the blink of an eye. Nagao Fujikage stumbled to his feet, removed the rag from his mouth and laughed: "Idiot! Treason! You are so stupid! Hahaha... look around.
Kasugayama Castle is surrounded by three layers inside and three outside. Where do you think you can escape? Nagao Yumae Mamoru has already set up a dragnet waiting for you, and you rebels will have trouble flying!"
"What did you say! What did you say, you old man!" Nagao Kouri stood up with a ferocious look, grabbed Nagao Fujikage like crazy and cursed: "You actually betrayed us! You actually dared to betray us!
You old madman, old bastard! Why did you drag us with you if you wanted to die? I am your brother-in-law and that is your son. You old madman actually wants to kill us! You..."
Nagao Fujikage didn't care about his actions at all, and still laughed crazily: "I just want to kill you! You ungrateful bastards, you are coveting the empty promises of the Takeda family, and you are going to kill my Shimoda Nagao family into an abyss of eternal destruction! I
If I follow you and go to Hiraozaka in the underworld, how can I have the dignity to meet my late lord? Rather than being ruined by your reputation and ruining my family, it would be better to simply die here than to let you thieves continue to cause evil! Hahaha...
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"You old lunatic, old bastard! You want to kill me! Then I'll let you die first! Just die!" Nagao Xingri strangled Nagao Fujikage's neck, tightly squeezing the old man's fragile neck.
The strength grew stronger and stronger. Nagao Tokage's face turned purple after being pinched, and he slapped Nagao Xingri's arms randomly. After struggling for a long time, his two arms finally hung down weakly. As Nagao Xingri released his hands, the old body
Then he fell softly.
"You...killed my father! You lunatic, lunatic! I'm going to kill you!" Nagao Keiji rushed over like crazy, grabbed Nagao Xingri and struggled crazily into a ball, beating him on the ground seven times.
In the end, the young and strong Nagao Keiji locked his throat and strangled him tightly.
Nagao Keiji pinched his neck fiercely and shouted hysterically: "It was you who lured me into contact with the Takeda family, it was you who planned to overthrow Kasugayama Castle, it was you who lured my father step by step and forced me to join.
It was you who killed my father, you evil ghost crawling out of hell, die!"
Nagao Kosato struggled desperately, suddenly pulled out the ribs from his waist and stabbed Nagao Keiji's abdomen. The sharp blade cut open the body and stabbed his intestines. The instant pain caused Nagao Keiji to loosen his hands and lower his body.
At a moment, Nagao Xingri violently stirred up his intestines and crushed him. He pushed away Nagao Keiji who was pressing him, and shouted with a twisted face: "You little bastard, how dare you kill me! You want to kill me too."
You have to die! I tell you, no one of you can even think of killing me, no one can even think of it!"
"Bang!"
Nagao Kageri suddenly shook and touched his chest, and a large pool of blood oozed out. He turned around with difficulty and saw hundreds of samurai gathered in front of Honmaru's door. Standing at the front was Nagao Kagenobu. Only he could be seen.
Holding an iron cannon that emitted smoke, he stared at Nagao Kosato expressionlessly, his eyes as cold as a piece of ice.
"Bang, bang, bang!" Dozens of iron cannons focused their fire on Nagao Xingri at the same time. The huge penetrating force hit his body like a funny puppet with its limbs constantly dancing until it was beaten into a piece of rotten flesh.
Stop.
After the smoke cleared, Nagao Kagenobu walked to Nagao Kageji, who was lying in a pool of blood. The samurai beside him looked at the wound and shook his head gently: "The intestines were broken into several sections by the ribs, and he is no longer alive."
"Cough cough cough..." Nagao Keiji spurted blood-red foam from his mouth, and his lungs were working hard to breathe like bellows. Even so, he still held on to a belief and did not die, with tears in his eyes and hope.
Looking at Nagao Kagenobu, he wanted to speak, but his poor health no longer allowed him to open his mouth. He could only breathe every breath of air desperately, holding on and not wanting to fall down.
Nagao Kagenobu was silent for a moment. When the hope in Nagao Kagenobu's eyes gradually dimmed, he sighed: "I understand... I am here to announce that Nagao Koiri colluded with the Kai Takeda clan to usurp Kasugayama Castle, Nagao Fujikage and Nagao
Okeiji and his son were forced by thieves. They secretly reported the news to the family, and finally died in Kasugayama Castle to assist the family in destroying the enemy."
"Thank... thank... you!" Nagao Keiji said the last three words in a hoarse voice. He slowly swallowed his last breath, and the look on his face was so peaceful. This was when he was dying.
The last belief before.
"Takeda Harunobu has done a lot of harm to people!" Nagao Kagenobu sighed secretly, and immediately ordered: "Get the Pegasus Express immediately and send it to Shinano Asahiyama Castle! The rest of the people will clean up the battlefield and seize the fugitives. Remember not to let them go.
Any remnant!"
A thrilling battle ended here. In fact, Nagao Kagenobu already knew that there was such a secret group trying to subvert Echigo. Since Hattori Masakiyoshi took over Echigo's intelligence system, he has reorganized all the intelligence inside and outside Echigo.
Soon, their flaws were discovered from a few inadvertent details.
As early as early June when Kira Yoshiji began to formulate the deployment plan, Hattori Masakiyoshi had reported to him the situation of the relevant suspects. At that time, there was an imminent external war and there was no time to clean up slowly. Kira Yoshiji ordered him to closely monitor several important suspects.
It would be best to lure them into action for a complete cleanup.
Nagao Kagenobu didn't know what was going on at first, until Nagao Fujikage suddenly changed his attitude and supported Torahime's appearance, Hattori Masakichi approached him to reveal the relevant information, hoping that both parties would cooperate once and catch all the silverfish hiding in Echigo.
And a clean world after all.
All of Nagao Kouri's subsequent actions, including the food distributed by Nagao Cityemon entrusted to him, have been under the close supervision of Hattori Masakiyoshi. It doesn't take much to guess that no one ate the food he sent, and the whole city was completely dark.
The defenders found various reasons to leave their posts and disappeared. In the end, there was no one guarding the gate, just to lure them in.
This plan is not about when they will see through the plot, but that as long as they dare to break into Kasugayama Castle, they are destined to be doomed. There are defenders ambushing outside the city, and there are defenders ambushing inside the houses inside the castle.
They had also been notified in advance, and whenever they saw large fires in the castle, they would collectively ring the bells and gather the townspeople to support Kasugayama Castle.
In this turmoil, the most unexpected thing was the great change in Nagao Fujikage's family, the tragic death of three people one after another. As for Kai Tohaku and Ronin, it was the least interesting. The die-hard Tohaku ninjas were crushed both in quantity and quality.
The overpowered Kira ninjas were killed easily, and the Ronin samurai surrendered without any spine. They were the mercenaries of medieval Japan. The instinct to fight and receive rewards was engraved in their bones. They didn't feel ashamed to surrender if they couldn't win.
The Chikuma River in September lost the fury of early summer, as if it had changed from a group of wild horses to a tame and docile appearance. The confrontation on Nakajima in the Northern Shinano River lasted for three full months. This difficult war exhausted the last trace of the Takeda family.
With his strength, he ignored the heavy rains that raged throughout the summer in Kai and caused floods in the Fuefuki River and Kamamashi River, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to this war.
Takeda Harunobu really tried his best. Seven or eight large-scale battles broke out one after another in the small Yawatahara alone. Small-scale landing battles were staged almost every day along the Chikuma River. With the advantage of the geographical location, the Takeda army made perfect cooperation and succeeded.
To repel every attack of the Kira Army, the Kira Army has the advantage of the navy. Being able to launch landing operations at any time and anywhere is a huge advantage. But this advantage is not enough to turn into a victory.
The Takeda Army has three strong branch cities lined up and connected to each other. The westernmost Yokota Castle echoes the Takeda Camp at Mount Chausu as a support. Not only does it take advantage of the beacon communication, each landing battle will inevitably attract mutual support from the Takeda Army from all directions.
What's worse is that the Takeda family secretly learned the Kira family's fortification skills from somewhere, and built high walls, wooden fences, and civil structures with arrows and oars, which made the Kira family's proud iron artillery team less useful, no matter how powerful it was.
It is impossible for the muskets to penetrate the solid wall. The defenders, who had no worries, dared to carry the iron cannon and fire at the Kira family's iron cannon Ashigaru. This trick of swatting flies in the air has no effect. But for
There are still great benefits to boosting morale.
In order to prevent the Kira family from bringing out the "unidentified explosive" again, the samurai in the city also prepared many buckets. Whenever the Kira army tried to rush to the bottom of the city to release explosives, the defenders in the city would carry the buckets and sprinkle water on the siege troops. This move would kill the enemy.
The Kira Army was forced to do so and did not dare to act rashly. The trick of one side being in trouble with support from all sides dragged the pace of the war indefinitely. The main force of the Takeda Army made up its mind and refused to come out for a decisive battle with the Kira Army. Even Kira Yoshitoki, who was extremely capable, was helpless for a while.
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The Kira retainers were also worried, and the Takeda family was helpless. Every time the Kira army failed to log in, they could retreat calmly under the support of the Kira family navy. The stalemate war just made the Kira navy famous, and in just a few days
In the past month, this regicide has been very active on the Yawata Plain. Every fire support from the fleet will cause a lot of losses to the Takeda Army pursuing out of the city. This Kira Army's iron cannon has a long range and is powerful enough to hit Kyoto.
The Takeda Army had no temper, and over time the Takeda Army developed a habit of retreating immediately as soon as they caught up with the Kira Navy.
This confrontation did not last long. In August, Takeda Harunobu received good news that the Echichu Ichikui on the western front had a great victory. However, neither our own side nor the Hojo family on the southern front found a better breakthrough. Mutsu and the northern front
Although Deyu has not received any new information yet, it has nothing to do with the overall situation. It is no problem to use the current stalemate to prevent Kira's army from moving.
The optimistic situation encouraged the Shinano people to boldly join the Takeda Army. Soon the total number of Takeda Army troops quickly increased to 28,000 like a snowball, including Minami Shinano Yoshiyasu Kiso and Hida's Ema Tokimori.
The people of other countries also sent out their main forces, hoping to take advantage of the great opportunity formed by the encirclement network to gain some merit.
Successfully blocking the Kira Army several times gave the Takeda Army great confidence. The image of the originally invincible enemy suddenly collapsed. The Takeda family samurai rushed to express their disdain for the Echigo samurai. In the eyes of most people, the Kira family's A samurai is an Echigo samurai. In the past few years, I have become so thoroughly integrated with Echigo that it would be a bit hypocritical to say that I am a Kyoto samurai.
The good situation also greatly encouraged Takeda Harunobu. Soon he made a bold decision and ordered Takeda Nobushige to be the general. Sanada Yukitaka was the deputy general named assistant and was actually the vanguard. He led an army of 6,000 to take on the important task of attacking Kaizu Castle. , Yukitaka Sanada is like a weakling who can't be beaten to death. No matter how many setbacks he suffers, he will always fight back without giving up. This time, he takes the lead again.
In this army, there are two thousand Takeda Nobushige's direct lineage Takegawa people, followed by the Shinano National People's Army from Northern Shinano. Although their combat power is not as good as Takeda Harunobu's main force, they want to suppress the forces on the other side. There was still no big problem with Kaijin Castle. This special force landed on the south bank of the Chikuma River from Nemose, captured several small villages, built temporary military camps, and used them as a base to launch an attack on Kaijin Castle.
Sanada Yukitaka's siege skills are good. He pieced together a 4,000-strong army and attacked many fortresses near Kaijin Castle in half a month. He was tasked with suppressing the defensive space near Kaijin Castle step by step. After nearly a month of hard work, he finally succeeded. After clearing out all the branch cities near Kaijin Castle, the fortified city that had blocked the Takeda family for many years was right in front of them.
Their courage is not bad. Behind Takeda Nobunagashi's army is the winding Chikuma River. If he is not careful, the Kira navy will take the retreat from behind. But the more he behaves like this, the less dare the Kira army will The reason for acting rashly is not because I am timid and scared, but because I am unwilling to get into the trap carefully designed by Takeda Harunobu.
In the assessment room of Asahiyama Castle, Kira Yoshitsune listened to the old tunes repeated by several retainers in annoyance.
Honda sighed with a worried look on his face: "Could it be that Takeda Harunobu was possessed by the evil spirit and lost his mind and went crazy? Absolutely not! The essence of this change of move is exactly where his sinister intentions lie. Takeda Nobushige's troops are all as strong as ten elite soldiers. General Yukitaka Sanada spent all his money and most of the best parts of Northern Shinano are beyond the reach of ordinary peasant soldiers. Moreover, the military strategy of these two people is quite outstanding. If our army wants to capture this Rangers, we will probably have to use Use the method of a lion fighting a rabbit. Use all the troops to surround and annihilate it, but just like this, you will fall into the trap of the Takeda Army. As long as this special force is delayed for a moment and a half, the main force of the Takeda Army will rush over from the Chikuma River and attack in a pincer attack. The main force of our army is really difficult to deal with!"
Namioka Tōfō shook his feather fan and retorted with a smile: "I don't know, Tokimasa really thinks too highly of this Rangers! It takes a full blow to deal with the 6,000 partial divisions of Takeda Army, so how can we fight against Takeda Harunobu's main force? What about fighting? This move is to inflate other people’s ambitions and destroy one’s own prestige. It’s deeply inappropriate!”
Honda frowned and said: "It's wrong for Soufang to say that. Since it is a battle of annihilation, of course we must gather all our strength to complete the battle. If our actions are slightly delayed and let the main force of the Takeda Army arrive, our army will be passive, so of course we must use our utmost strength." Use the fastest speed and the largest number of troops to surround and annihilate them..."
"That's it. Since our army can quickly annihilate the Takeda Rangers, why is there any delay? If we know that we can't annihilate them but have to forcefully do it, why bother?"
"You can't say that. What if the Takeda Rangers have some back-up tactics to delay us? We must not be careless in military affairs!"
"Haha, isn't this what I'm waiting for? The whole army can't quickly defeat a small Rangers. Either the generals at the front are incompetent and the soldiers are unwilling to fight hard. Or we staff officers are not doing a good enough job and have formulated the plan.
There are obvious flaws in the offensive plan. The army is wasting its energy in a battle that is destined to be impossible to win."
The term "staff officer" mentioned by Namioka Sobo was also a new word first introduced by Kira Yoshiki. He used Sun Tzu's Art of War to explain it as "advancing troops to attack and plan", so using this term to establish an organization involved in military and political planning is equivalent to the meaning of counselor.
"We are waiting for the staff on the one hand, and the generals leading the troops at the front are on the other hand. There is also another aspect that Brother Zhongfang has obviously forgotten, and that is the individual factors outside the attack plan, such as the change of tactics I mentioned or the outsiders.
The factors are also on the one hand.”
The Kakizaki Kage family was annoyed by the quarrel. They stood up and yelled: "What's the point of noisy! From the Jing family's point of view, just hit them. We have navy troops on guard, why are we afraid of him? Takeda
If Harunobu had the guts to cross the river, he would attack him halfway across the river and cut off his retreat! If the Takeda family didn't dare to come over, it would be an advantage for us."
But the two of them said in unison: "Absolutely not! If Takeda Harunobu is pushed into a hurry, he might send troops across the river to attack Asahiyama Castle. This will still be a loss!"
The Kakizaki Kei family seemed rude but was actually very smart. He had been serving as the leader of the Central Committee for many years, and his vision and talents were quite good. He glanced at the young governor on the chair seemingly unintentionally, and continued to shout: "Then we will attack
Hachimanhara cuts off Takeda’s army’s retreat! I don’t believe that the upright master of the town hall is afraid of Takeda Harunobu! How can a good man be choked to death by urinating?”
"Inappropriate! If we continue to fight like this, we will still suffer some losses. Our Kira family does not fight uncertain wars. If we don't move, we must win with one strike. Now that the future is unclear, it is better to play it safe!"
"Everything you say is the same word, procrastination! This is really not samurai style. We are worried about this and that when fighting together. When we followed the lord into battle, it was the lord who said we can fight. Echigo like us
The samurai just carried the sword and charged together, and defeated the enemy in a few strokes. How can you be so troublesome? It's so long-winded!"
Nagao Kagetora's style of fighting in the past was like this. A group of retainers didn't interfere at all, and he relied on him to make decisions alone. In government affairs, he would choose to listen to the important opinions of his retainers, but in military matters, he always made his own decisions, even though
It was Honjo Minoru, and Nagao Kagenobu’s suggestion was not adopted very much.
The fighting ability of the Dragon of Echigo is 30% due to diligence and 70% to talent. Just like those great strategists, a military book can reveal the world's famous generals, but ordinary scholars and elementary school students will still be the same after a hundred years of reading.
Learning is a subject that requires a lot of talent. There is no possibility that no matter how stupid you are, you can become a famous general by studying hard and practicing hard. Wu Xia Amen also needs Lu Meng's talent to do it.
"I support Izumi Mamoru! It's better to give it a try than to wait." Naito Masashige is introverted and doesn't like to talk much. He is the kind of boring person who can't beat a fart with three sticks. From the outside, he looks like a loyal and simple person.
Samurai, who would have thought that he would be a world-famous general, the fierce general killer who personally shot Shihe Yicun.
When Honda saw the powerful representative of the family making a statement, he immediately straightened his back and said with a smile: "Izumi Mamoru, what you said is wrong! Please be patient, Naito-don, and don't be too hasty in military strategy planning. The master of the hall and Danzhengden The styles are different, so it is not appropriate to compare them. In my opinion, we need to discuss it again, and discuss it again..." (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
ps: ps: Historically, the Shimoda Nagao family was exterminated in 1568. The reason was that it was involved in the rebellion of Shigenaga Honjo and was destroyed by our "soft-hearted" Uesugi Kenshin. Therefore, it is wrong to say that Uesugi Kenshin was indecisive. Biased, this man was an idealist in the early stage, but in the later stage he was also a sinister and ruthless Warring States boss.