On May 6, the twelfth year of Tianwen (1543), at the third quarter of You hour, south of Changxiao City.
The troops of the Okuhira family were still under the command of the family elders, searching for the whereabouts of Imagawa Yoshimoto all over the mountains and fields, and advancing all the way south. However, the two brothers Okuhira Sadakatsu and Okuhira Yoshimasa on the edge of Nagashino Castle were ashen-faced.
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"We have found out clearly that it is not the Imagawa family who came to attack us. Although we don't know the specific identity and instructor, it is definitely not the Imagawa family. The family governor's hall has no intention of seizing Nagashino Castle and changing our Okuhira family."
After listening to the report of the investigating ninjas, Okuhira Yoshimasa's expression turned extremely ugly. "It was a misunderstanding. We fell into the trap. Now it's our Okuhira family who took the initiative to rebel and attacked His Highness the Governor of the Household who is staying in our city. What should we do? Hurry up."
Send an envoy to apologize, fortunately nothing happened to the family governor's hall."
"But the second brother has been killed, and his head is hanging on the gate of Yoshida Castle." Okuhira Sadakatsu clenched his fists tightly, and his nails were embedded in the flesh and blood flowed. "Do we still have to swallow our anger and apologize? The second brother's life
Woolen cloth?"
"After all, brother, it wasn't your impulsiveness that led to this result?" Yoshimasa Okudaira saw that Sadakatsu Okudaira was getting more and more excited. He walked up to him in a panic and kept shaking his shoulders: "
It’s not too late to rein in the situation and make amends! Hurry up and ask for surrender, my foolish brother is willing to be a hostage! If this continues, once the Imagawa family’s army arrives, the Okudaira family will be destroyed!”
"Shut up! You coward who is afraid of death!" Okudaira Sadakatsu finally got angry and slapped Okudaira Yoshimasa hard. "What's more to say now that things have come to this? There is only one way to go."
! Our envoys have already gone to the whole Yuanjiang River, connecting the three rivers. It won’t be long before people who are dissatisfied with Imagawa Yoshimoto and his men will respond in large numbers and surround and kill Imagawa Yoshimoto. The Imagawa family will fall apart. What kind of army will there be? And
What’s there to be afraid of!”
After nightfall on May 6, the twelfth year of Tianwen (1543), in the mountains northwest of Iigani Castle.
Imagawa Yoshimoto arranged for everyone to take turns to keep vigil, to be wary of anyone approaching, while others rested on the spot - after running around all day and night, they really needed to regain their strength.
It had just rained around Iigani Castle, and the mountainous terrain was naturally very muddy. It was with great difficulty that we found a slightly cleaner bluestone—barely meeting the minimum sleeping conditions for the mysophobic Yoshimoto Imagawa. The group of people ran in a hurry, and they didn’t
He didn't have anything to wear, but Kinoshita Tokichiro actually carried a blanket with him. Yoshimoto Imakawa took it to cover the wounded Takeda Harunobu. Yoshimoto Imagawa himself was lying on the bluestone, with his hands behind his head as a pillow. He just closed his eyes.
eyes, sleepiness came over me violently.
In the daze, Imagawa Yoshimoto didn't know if he was dreaming - the scenes from childhood to adulthood were shown like a revolving lantern - which shocked Imagawa Yoshimoto. It's not that only dead people can see revolving lanterns.
After suddenly becoming energetic, Imagawa Yoshimoto discovered that this dream seemed a bit strange. There seemed to be a stone wall in front of him, and the light hit the stone wall from behind, and a shadow play was reflected on the stone wall. There were two silhouettes in it.
They are depicting Imagawa Yoshimoto and Taiyuan Xuezhai when they were young. Could it be that the revolving lantern that I just saw was the content of a shadow puppet show?
Imagawa Yoshimoto was even more confused - could this be a dream within a dream? He tried to move his body, but found that his body was too stiff to move. It took a lot of effort to move his neck so that he could lower his head. Imagawa Yoshimoto Yuan Cai found that he was tied to a stone pillar by loops of rope.
What is this? Is it a ghost?
At this moment, the picture in front of him began to shake and blur greatly. Imagawa Yoshimoto soon woke up - it was indeed a dream. He is still sleeping peacefully on the stone, and Ginkgo also curled up at some point. He came over and fell asleep with his pillow on Imagawa Yoshimoto's chest - no wonder it felt like a ghost was pressing on the bed.
"What a strange dream...being tied up tightly." Imagawa Yoshimoto muttered to himself.
"Huh? What dream?" Takeda Harunobu on the side seemed to be interested and suddenly responded.
"Why aren't you sleeping?" Imagawa Yoshimoto turned around and looked at Takeda Harunobu, who was sleeping on the ground in the dim moonlight, "The wounded should have a good rest."
"Not as pretentious as you." Takeda Harunobu said sarcastically.
At this moment, Tian Shen Kentaro hurried back:
"Your Highness, there are torches approaching. They are lined up along the official road from east to west. The flag is Hikone Orange. They are the troops of the Ii family. They seem to be searching the mountain."
"Quickly move to the mountainous area to the west." Imagawa Yoshimoto made a prompt decision and ordered everyone to move closer to the direction away from Ii Valley Castle. At the same time, he walked up to Takeda Harunobu and took the latter's hand to help him stand up. "How about it, Tora Chiyo? Do you want me to help you?"
"I'm not as pretentious as you Suruga female warriors. A tiger won't cry for father and mother just because of a minor injury." Takeda Harunobu smiled and shook off Imagawa Yoshimoto's hand, then patted his butt and said, "Let's go, I don’t want to fall into the hands of your Imagawa family’s civil strife inexplicably.”
"The current head of the Ii family is Ii Shinano (Ii Naomori), who is only 17 years old. His father Ii Miyauchi (Ii Naomune) died in the war and he succeeded him, but the real power lies with his grandfather Ii Hōbu (Ii Naohei) And in the hands of two uncles (Ii Naomichi, Ii Naoyoshi)." Imagawa Yoshimoto looked back on what little he knew about the Ii family, and couldn't help but regret that he didn't read more files and learn more from Taiyuan Xuezhai. ——When the book is used, I will regret it less:
"But I don't know what the positions of the four of them are. However, the Ii family has been hostile to the Imagawa clan for generations, and not long ago my third brother was at war with us... Ono Izumi is the insider of the Ii family. Since he It is estimated that there is a high probability that the Jingyi family has the intention to rebel."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "So we have to avoid them?" Kentaro Tian Shen asked from the side.
"Yes." Imagawa Yoshimoto nodded.
"Then the question is where to go now?" Kira Usei complained behind him, "We don't have horses, so we can't walk fast on this night road. Isn't it possible to go all the way west to Yoshida Castle? It's already been done before that. It must have been searched by people from the Okudaira and Ii families."
"It doesn't have to be that far. Less than fifteen miles ahead is the Sankaichi Castle of the Uden family." Imagawa Yoshimoto could only rely on his past impressions to roughly estimate the direction in the dark night, "Uden Nagato (Uden Nagato) The head of the palace, Chi, is my sister-in-law. He has served my brother as a disciple for many years. He is someone we can rely on and trust. It will be good if we go to him."
The group of people traveled all night, and finally at three o'clock on May 7th, the twelfth year of Astronomy (1543), they faintly saw the location of Mikaichi Castle. A few miles away on their left hand side was the beautiful and clear Lake Hamana - but Imagawa Yoshimoto has no time to appreciate it now. Because at the southern end of Mikaka Castle, another army has detoured and is rushing towards Imagawa Yoshimoto's location. Apparently, traces of Imagawa Yoshimoto and his party have also been discovered.
"The wrong eagle feather is the flag of the Mikawa Saigo family!" Kentaro Tian Shen recognized the army of hundreds of people.
"The Saigo family... the governor is Saigo Tansheng ( Saigo Masakatsu )." Imagawa Yoshimoto quickly mobilized the information related to the Saigo family that he had seen before in his mind, "It seems to be related to the governor of Higashi Mikawa The Numa family is related by marriage, and the Kanuma family and the Okuhira family are also very close... So, it is very likely that the Saigo family is siding with the Okuhira family, under the pretext of countering the rebellion, but in fact they are here to attack us!"
The Uden family in Mikaka Castle noticed that Saigo Bei was facing a powerful enemy after marching in the south of Mikaka Castle. It seemed that he had the same suspicion as Imagawa Yoshimoto. Gobi's way eastward led him to where Imagawa Yoshimoto was. But similarly, Saigobe appeared behind Udenbei, blocking Udenbei's way back to his home city of Mikaichi Castle.
"Your Highness!" Uden Nagamochi welcomed the somewhat downhearted Imagawa Yoshimoto and his party into the army, and instructed Hatamoto to immediately give the horses to Imagawa Yoshimoto, "Ohara Hizen Mamoru has figured out the whole story and is doing its best to search for you. I didn’t expect you to be here! But An Yuanbei from Nishizaki Castle has been sent to Kakegawa Castle, and Jinxibei from Yoshida Castle has been sent to Nagashino Castle. He won’t be able to come back for a while! We can only I will lead the troops to protect you first! There may be rebels everywhere in the far river, so please be careful!"
"Thank you Nagato for guarding." Imagawa Yoshimoto finally has a loyal army around him, and he can breathe a little, "Where are Saigo Bei's movements?"
"Hizen Mamoru has already given instructions! Master Yuksai also had spies on the Saigo family before. They said that the Saigo family had an ulterior motive for this action. It was probably to respond to the rebellion of the Okuhira family and the Kanuma family. , come to attack His Highness who is alone!" Uden Nagamochi glanced at Imagawa Yoshimoto with some fear, and then looked back at Saigo Bei's military strength, "Fortunately, I left the city right away, otherwise, if His Highness had fallen into Saigo If it's in your hands, that's the end of it."
"The Kanuma family?" Imagawa Yoshimoto heard the news that he didn't know before from Uden Nagamochi's words, "Did the Kanuma family rebel too? When I passed by Noda Castle a few days ago, the Kanuma family was fine. ah."
"The Kannuma family and the Okuhira family have been close allies in Higashi Mikawa for generations, but they were forced to submit to the Matsudaira family and the Imagawa family. Master Yukisai's insider said that the connection between the two families may be much more than we imagined. Okuchi After the Taira family rebelled, they immediately notified the Kannuma family. The Kannuma family followed the rebellion and sent troops to intercept our Hatamoto Town Nishibe's attack on Nagashino Castle. Captain Yamada Eemon is currently leading the Nishibei Town at the foot of Noda Castle. A fierce battle with the Kannuma family!" Uden Nagamochi reported the information sent back by Yoshida Castle Ohara Jinmi to Imagawa Yoshimoto one by one, and then shook his head helplessly and said:
"So this time it's really strange. The Oppei family suddenly rebelled. Master Yukisai's spies and informants who had previously ambushed the Oppira and Kanuma families didn't find any clues about the preparations. Could it be a spur-of-the-moment rebellion?"
"It was probably a misunderstanding. Someone attacked Nagashino Castle at night. In addition, the Oppei family and I had some unpleasant quarrels at the dinner. The Oppei family mistakenly thought that I wanted to seize the city, so they became angry and decided to attack first.
To be strong." Based on the information provided by Ono Masanao yesterday, Imagawa Yoshimoto has roughly clarified the logic, "There is nothing we can do about the past, so what should we do now? What suggestions does Uden Nagato have?"
