There is an autumn rain and a cold one. The last light rain in September fell for two days and then disappeared in a hurry. Compared with the heavy rain that often lasts for 20 to 30 days in July and August, this level can only be regarded as drizzle.
In Asahiyama Castle in Shinano Province, Takeda Noburen sat straight back in the wide Ohiro room, with hundreds of samurai sitting side by side on both sides of him. Sitting in the middle of the Ohiro room was the most important person he wanted to publicize.
In the first ring, the family governor of the Ashikaga family, Kira Yoshitoki.
Suzuki deliberately shook his head again and said disdainfully: "What you mean is that the two sides will call a truce and exchange oaths to never go to war in Shinano country? Is this a request made by the Takeda family? I'm not dazzled.
Right? Or was it that Takeda Ozen didn't wake up when he was making the decision, and he just used his random instructions to fool us?"
Kato Kyouaki then joked: "Wouldn't it be worse if I didn't wake up! The dignified Guardian Kai didn't wake up and just filled out a random post and handed it to me at the Kira family. This is a big joke! Don't you think so?"
"Hahaha..." A group of samurai laughed loudly, making Takeda Nobuyan tremble with anger but he did not dare to get angry. As a diplomat, he must be prepared to be coldly violent and humiliated in the enemy's territory.
Takeda Nobuyan lacked experience, but fortunately he was still clear-headed. He suppressed the fire in his heart for a while, and then took a deep breath and said: "Please respect yourself, Kira warriors! My lord is the direct descendant of Kai Genji and has been guarding Kai for more than 400 years.
Year, no matter what the reason is, you should not speak harshly to our Lord. Regarding the frivolity in your words, on behalf of the Takeda family, I would like to express my strong dissatisfaction and anger!"
This time the Kira retainers did not laugh, but used another method to deal with him. Takigawa Tokimasu suddenly slapped the case and taunted angrily: "You Takeda family are really good at it. The last battle of Hachimanhara hasn't happened yet.
Give you enough lessons! It was you who invaded Shinano. You were beaten and had no power to fight back. You were forced to ask the Imagawa family to sue for peace. It was you who turned around and assassinated my lord. You were attacked by my lord and had no power to fight back.
It’s you, too. It’s you who formed the anti-Echigo alliance again this year, and now you’re sitting in Asahiyama Castle to negotiate peace openly. Tell me, where is your face? Why should I save face for you, the Takeda family?”
"You... you are simply disgusting!" Takeda Shinken stood up with a whoosh.
Helplessly, the tachi in his waist was taken away early, and he could only glare at Takigawa Tokiyoshi with his slender eyes. Only then did he realize that the height difference between the two was a bit big. Takeda Noburen was only one meter tall.
He is around 55 years old, and is more than a head shorter than the taller and taller Takigawa Shiyi, especially his iconic moon-shaped head is completely different from the hundreds of people in the hall.
The Kira family forbids shaving weird hair like Tsuki's hair. If the samurai didn't like their hair being too long and affecting Kabuto's clothing, they would simply shave off all their hair. Tsuki's pig-tail-like shape really made him feel unhappy, and Dongguo
The Wu family originally didn't like the moon-banded hair style popular in the West, so they still insisted on the traditional hairstyle of combing their hair into a bun.
"Is this the legendary unparalleled general Takigawa Keijiro? He is indeed a ghost-like figure!" Takeda Noburen was frightened by this giant, and his momentum was immediately suppressed by Takigawa Tokiichi. He is even bigger than one arm.
His thighs are thick, and his small body is simply looking for death to resist such a monster-level existence.
"Takeda Daisen offered prayers at Sarashina Hachimangu Shrine in Sarada County two months ago, and the Kobuden Temple was also involved. He must still be fresh in his memory, right?" Honda was staring at him with a sinister look in his eyes. There was a cold light shining inside like a knife.
As soon as he entered the Natsu Takeda family, he led his army into Northern Shinano. Ten months later, the confrontation became serious. He ran to Sarashina Hachimangu Shrine in Sarada County to offer prayers and pray for the war to disappear. In the article, he wrote that the Shinano people were attacking each other. The invasion caused uneasiness in the country and the suffering of the people. Takeda Harunobu could not bear the suffering of the people, so he raised an army in anger and determined to unify Shinano to resolve the crisis. Now, a leader of Hokuriku invaded Shinano with his selfish desires, destroyed the countryside and harmed the people, and disrupted our prefecture and county. Therefore, I pray to the Great Bodhisattva Hachiman to defeat the invading enemies and restore my faith to the pure and peaceful paradise. If my wish comes true, I will offer some divine leadership.
When Takeda Harunobu angered Kiragi with such behavior, he also angered tens of thousands of Echigo soldiers. In Kiragi's eyes, Takeda Harunobu was a shameless villain, and his every word and deed revealed his despicable behavior. This world is the Ashikaga family The world is not the private territory of any family or country. The Ashikaga clan is the royal family of the Ashikaga clan. Even if he does not have Shinano to protect and occupy Shinano country, the shogunate will not have much opinion, not to mention the legal aspect of Shinano. Protect the legitimate control of Shinano Kingdom.
"Xingbu, resume and tell Takeda Ozen that we have no intention of negotiating with him in any form. The repeated violations of Shinano are unforgivable. You dare to assassinate me so boldly. This year, in order to deal with me, you concocted such an anti-Echigo alliance. Such behavior This family is extremely disgusted with the capriciousness of the Takeda family. We are ashamed to talk to you and other dishonest people! Get out!" Kira Yoshitoki was obviously disgusted with the despicable behavior of the Takeda family, so he did not He was given a chance to speak, and as soon as he finished speaking, two samurai took Takeda Noburen and drove him out of Asahiyama Castle.
As the envoy of the Takeda family, Takeda Nobulen suffered unprecedented humiliation. This slap hit Takeda on the face and another layer of skin was peeled off. The blood was so bloody that the Takeda family warriors both hated and feared them. When did the Takeda family be treated like this? He simply refused and was driven back to Chajiu Mountain in despair without even a chance to show off and reason.
Hearing the humiliation of his younger brother, even Takeda Harunobu, who was unusually tolerant, could not help but change his expression: "The Kira family is so cruel! The Takeda family did not leave a way for me to survive during the Kira Yoshi period. This is what he is doing Tell us, has he made up his mind about the Takeda family?"
As he expected, the Kira family then issued a general order, to the effect that they wanted to deal with the dishonest Takeda family in one go. As long as the Takeda family's power exists in Shinano, this war will continue regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The expression on the guardian's face when the information fell into the hands of the Takeda Katsudai retainers was truly wonderful.
The Kira Legion is named after standing troops, but it implements an out-and-out policy of separation of soldiers and peasants. With a strong economic foundation, it is a piece of cake to support thousands of standing troops. The Takeda family's military is composed of Japanese land servants and farmers who bear military service. , the organization is not as strict as Nagao Kagetora's latest military service system. This kind of off-the-job army that is very close to standing has extremely high morale. As long as the climate permits, it can be deployed at any time throughout the year.
The autumn harvest in Shinano is coming to an end. At the last moment, Takeda's military strength still cannot end the war. According to the usual practice, both sides should find a decent place to stop their troops and go home to celebrate the New Year, waiting for the spring to bloom or the warmer summer to fight again. Victory or defeat, these are the unspoken rules of war in the Warring States Period, and everyone follows these rules.
This time Kira Yoshi clearly stated that he would reject this unspoken rule, shouting that the war will continue until Takeda is defeated, and elevating the Takeda family to the level of life and death enemies, showing the strong emotion of the garrison general.
The character with clear likes and dislikes and the need to retaliate, as well as the extremely strict demands on the virtues of the Wu family, put a great psychological burden on many unscrupulous Chinese people.
Since the birth of the Wu family civilization, the emphasis has been on loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, trustworthiness, propriety, wisdom and courage. This can be seen from the general character. The direct descendant of the Kawachi Genji family uses "righteousness" as the common character, and the Kaibi Genji family uses "xin" as the common character. In addition, there are also
The word "loyalty" is also used, which shows that the samurai society attaches great importance to the four words of loyalty, righteousness, trustworthiness and bravery.
But the actual situation is exactly the opposite of what is expected. Since the Genpei era, the most likely thing to emerge in the samurai group is those who are unfaithful, unfilial, benevolent and unjust. The direct descendants of the Genji family in Kawachi were killed by the imperial family together, and the Kamakura shogunate was destroyed by the imperial family and Hojo.
The Demune clan is in the midst of internal strife. Now the Muromachi shogunate has been thrown into disarray by a sect, and it is not far from being over.
A daimyo like Takeda Harunobu, who started his career by overthrowing his father and came to power, inherently despises the so-called loyalty, trustworthiness and bravery. It is common sense to betray one's trust and stab an ally in the back. Regardless of whether he believes in this "dregs" or not, he still has to talk about it.
The routine of "favors are friends, hatred is enemies" was peeled off by Yoshiki Kira's words this time, revealing the bloody flesh and blood.
The relationship between ruler and subject is deeper than that of the Takeda brothers. They are not even close to Kira Yoshitoki and Nagao Kagetora. Their relationship is not that of blood brothers but of brother-in-law and brother-in-law. The abnormal system of Echigo's duopoly was unknown to Takeda.
We have laughed at each other many times, but we have never caused any bloodshed, let alone drawn swords against each other.
The Kira retainers were famous for their stability, and the Mikawa samurai's "stuffy" temperament became famous throughout the world. Since the Kira family set off to attack Luoyang eight years ago, I have not heard of any retainers killed by Kira during the Yoshi period.
For many years, he directly participated in quelling the rebellion. When dealing with rebels such as Honjo Nobunaga, Hojo Takahiro, and Kurokawa Kiyomizu, they only punished them by confiscation of their territory, and then turned around and made them direct retainers. It is better to say that it is a punishment than a pardon.
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The only other country that the Kira family has sent to Echigo to control the war so far is the Shinano Kingdom. Obtaining the official title of Shinano's guardian from the shogunate further strengthened his legitimacy in going to Shinano. Not to mention that the Shinano Kingdom belongs to the shogunate.
The sixty-six kingdoms in the world all belong to the Ashikaga family, so it is not a new thing for the shogunate to change its guardians. The Ogasawara family has not always controlled the Shinano guardianship, so changing the guardians is not a big deal.
When the current guardian of Shinano is Kiragi, the former guardian Ogasawara has been on the Echigo side for a long time. There is no legal or moral reason for the Takeda family to attack Shinano. The show is not as good as the Ashikaga family, and the reason is that it is not the genuine Shinano.
As a guardian, he had no connection with the imperial shogunate in Kyoto and the famous Kai clan in Shanwowo. His only advantage was a few allies in the countryside.
"Don't be afraid of them! The Kira family has no allies and is surrounded by enemies. This is our advantage. We can attack him with force first, but we can't do well by attacking him secondly." Takeda Harunobu could only try his best to find reasons to convince himself not to panic.
He himself knew why the Kira family did not want allies, and what allies did he need? Did the Ashikaga Shogun family have allies? No! The dignified pillar of the Genji family did not need allies, because all the samurai in the world were his retainers.
Does the good-for-nothing Koga Furukawa (Furukawa Ashikaga family) have allies? There are two Uesugi families who are considered allies. Together with Koga Furukawa, one of them was wiped out and the other was almost wiped out in the night battle in Kagotsu. Hirashima Kōka (Awa Ashikaga family)
) is just a canary, so let’s not mention it. Mr. Kuratani was heavily criticized by the Ashikaga Shoguns and was never mentioned and automatically ignored.
The Ashikaga Clan of the Kamisuke family is not as good as the Ashikaga Shogun family, but it is still better than the canary Awa Ashikaga family and the loser Furukawa Ashikaga family. How many people does he need to be allies? To be an ally is to make the other party a peace.
The dignity of the Ashikaga clan did not allow them to grovel and negotiate an alliance with the minor daimyo of the Eastern Kingdom.
Therefore, the Kira family has shown little interest in the so-called alliance from the beginning to the end. According to the information possessed by the Takeda family, there are some similar things. For example, the minor daimyo of Aizu Ashina and others have sent envoys several times to hint that an alliance can be formed, but they were coldly ridiculed.
Only the Ashina Mori who felt humiliated could so directly turn to the Anti-Echigo Alliance.
Takeda Nobuyan was very angry at being humiliated, but he still had something to say: "Brother, I didn't expect the Kira family to refuse so simply. Are we really going to be dragged here and unable to leave? Sooner or later, Erlang will know this news.
, then the morale of the army will not be stable, please make a decision quickly, brother!"
Itomi Toramasa glanced at the crowd and wanted to speak, and immediately said first: "No matter what, the morale of the army must not be disturbed! We must honorably stop the troops and return to Kai. This is the bottom line that must not be given up. Let the Kira family go to war unilaterally.
When we return to Kai, the Kira family can follow suit. The only solution for now is to fight to the death to scare Kira's army and let them take the initiative to negotiate peace. I wonder what Gao Baizhai thinks?"
"Afraid of fighting the Kira Army? The Ministry of War is telling us a joke, right? If we could defeat the Kira Army, we would have fought long ago. Why wait half-dead on Kawanaka Island for an opportunity..." Mitsukoshi Nagasaka suddenly found that he could not continue.
What should be said next is that the Takeda family advocated the anti-Echigo alliance. In the end, they found that they could not defeat Kawanakajima, so they set up a dragon gate formation with an army of 20,000 to defend, while the Kira army on the opposite side scraped together 17,800 people.
Even though they were at a numerical disadvantage, they still attacked forcefully for two or three months. The Takeda family, which had superior strength, became the defender. This was a joke, and it was even more shameless to laugh at the Hojo family who was beaten until they could not hold their heads up.
The Takeda family's countermeasures were passed at an extremely fast speed, and the attack on Kaijin Castle was to be strengthened. Takeda Harunobu ordered three thousand Shinano soldiers to go to Kaijin Castle to assist in the battle. They hoped that by capturing Kaijin Castle, they would deal a major blow to the Kira Army and force them to give up.
The Takeda family's intention to pursue an unrestricted war is very clear. When winter comes and the mountains are closed by heavy snow, will you Echigo people go home? Once Kaizu Castle is lost, there is a piece of land south of the Saikawa River. Do you still want to fight?
The weather was getting colder at the end of September, and the samurai were taking off their thin autumn clothes. In the Asahiyama Castle Castle, Kiragishi listened to the latest information and sneered: "Isn't this a trick to make peace with a dozen? I didn't expect that my family used it back then.
The previous method was used by Takeda Haru on my Kira family, but do you think it is really useful? Do you really think that I care about Haijin Castle? It’s a joke!”
Takeda Nobushige received the support of 3,000 troops, which expanded the partial division to more than 8,000. Compared with the less than 3,000 defenders in Kaijin Castle, he once again achieved an absolute gap. The wilderness washed by heavy rains under Kaijin Castle was like a mudflat, and thousands of mountain residents were killed.
Forcibly recruited into the army to build simple siege equipment, they were driven by the Takeda Army to shoulder the most dangerous tasks as civilians in the engineering corps.
Thousands of civilians pushed flatbed trucks piled with soil and stones. Under the cover of the Takeda Army, they rushed to the city to unload the dirt from the trucks, and then pulled the flatbed trucks and fled backwards desperately. However, the civilian husbands had no clothes or armor and no cover. The Takeda troops in armor are so conspicuous, and the defenders on the city will not show mercy just because they are civilians. Whenever they encounter civilians pushing carts to the city, they will greet them with a hail of arrows. If they encounter arrows that have no head or face, they will be thrown down. Yu only had time to scream before falling dead.
The Takeda Army did not dare to be exposed to the rain of arrows while carrying their rifles. They hurriedly ordered the trembling civilians hiding behind the formation to come up and continue pushing the cart. The civilian laborers who came to push the cart on their behalf were shot to death over and over again, sometimes mixed with The screams of the unlucky Takeda Army being shot to death by a flowing arrow through the gap. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
ps: ps: It is true that Takeda Harunobu sent a prayer to Sarashina Hachimangu Shrine. The general content of the prayer is this. Of course, there is also a prayer by Nagao Kagetora, calling Takeda Harunobu a sycophant. In many literary works, The description of the two generals as heroes cherishing heroes, and the model of mutual appreciation is wrong. The relationship between the two is that they want you to die. Even Uesugi Kenshin later did not ban Kai's sea salt transportation. This is not a matter of love and righteousness, but a deeper relationship. reasons for the hierarchy.