Imagawa Yoshimoto, who had a nondescript breakfast at noon, would not have imagined that every day he would sleep with Ginkgo, a lazy cat, he would never have breakfast on time again.
Someone knocked on the door outside the bedroom, and the unfamiliar female voice of Imagawa Yoshimoto came.
"Madam, I would like to report to His Highness, is everything going well here?"
"Well, you can send a message to my father." Ginkgo gave instructions to the door, and then said to Imagawa Yoshimoto, "The maid I brought here, Takaki, is the female ninja of the Mochizuki family."
"Is this the 'mountain man' you call him?" Imagawa Yoshimoto laughed, "Isn't the princess's maid a ninja instead of Xiaojiabiyu?"
"Hmm, it's naturally different from you Suruga female warriors. It's said that all of your little ones are so weak that they can't even lift chopsticks and are only used by the family governor." Ginkgo rolled her eyes at Imagawa Yoshimoto and said, "I still remember Shangluo.
You Ninjas from the Imagawa family have never been able to arrive on time."
"Tsuchihara is actually a very reliable person. That time he acted like that because I told them not to follow too close." Imagawa Yoshimoto excused his subordinates, and then suddenly remembered something.
One thing, "By the way... Ginkgo, if you are the princess of the Takeda family, then your brother Nakasugi Tora Chiyo..."
"Nakasugi Torachiyo is a pseudonym, the same as your Shinagawa Goro." Ginkgo smiled and reported her younger brother's name:
"The real name is Takeda Katsu Chiyo Harunobu."
At this time, outside the castle tower, Mochizuki Takaki, the maid brought by Ginkgo, was flying a falcon to send a message back to Kai.
"Master, everything goes well and no one is suspicious." Mochizuki Guishu looked a little gloomy and whispered to himself, "Waiting for your next instructions."
"Going out? Going to fight?" After seeing Imagawa Yoshimoto starting to dress, Ginkgo couldn't help complaining sadly like a drama queen, "On the first day of marriage, do you have to leave your wife alone in the empty room? Mr. is so cruel.
Heart!"
"Haha, don't you know that? In the eyes of those adults, the Kashun alliance between Imagawa and Takeda was not formed just to fulfill our love." Imagawa Yoshimoto put a folding fan on his waist and said,
Hao Ryuumaru said with a smile, "It's to deal with the Hojo family."
"Sir, you won't become like those samurai in the future. You will spend your whole day fighting and killing for family interests." Ginkgo put her hands on her hips and pouted, pretending to be serious, "You can't do that."
"Don't worry, I'm the number one fisherman. I won't deal with government and military affairs if I can't." Imagawa Yoshimoto raised his hand to assure him, and smiled at the same time, "But this time, seeing as how Jiaci and the old man said it to me, I couldn't handle it.
In order to get a good marriage, I will do it myself to help them."
"Besides, I also want to meet that Torachiyo guy..." Imagawa Yoshimoto's eyes gradually became excited, "I didn't expect that he is actually the young master of the Takeda family."
When Imagawa Yoshimoto walked downstairs, all the guards and horsemen cast envious looks at him - at this time, he did not know that listening to the wall was an ancestral art of the Imagawa family. Imagawa Yoshimoto was unknown.
So, I walked over with a question mark on my face, and happened to meet Shou Guini who was slowly going upstairs.
"The Kojun Alliance has been formed. The Takeda family has sent troops to Kadong to attack the Hojo army with the Imagawa family. You should also prepare for the expedition and don't waste time." After seeing Imagawa Yoshimoto, Shouguini thought that he must be because of this. She was very angry because of the political marriage, so she scolded her coldly, "Stop acting like a child."
"No, mother, I have to thank you this time!" However, Imagawa Yoshimoto laughed happily, which really stunned Shouguini, "In the more than ten years since I was born, have you done something that a mother should do?" Things to do!"
"What, it's your sweetheart?" Taiyuan Xuezhai, who also walked up the stairs, had already guessed the whole story from his reaction in the early morning.
"Old man, I'm in a good mood today, so I'm going to fight in person." Imagawa Yoshimoto smiled and snapped his fingers at Taiyuan Xuezhai, "Let's go! Go to the Fuji River and make a dumpling for the Hojo Army!"
On the evening of October 13th, the sixth year of Tianwen (1537), Imagawa Yoshimoto led the horsemen to the front line of Hengshan Castle. The moment the red bird horse seal fluttered, the morale of the 5,000-strong Imagawa army was greatly boosted. However, the Hojo army had no intention of retreating. That's it, 7,000 people are on standby, waiting for all the backup troops to arrive before launching the attack.
At night, in the Hojo family's camp.
"The ninjas in Fuuma reported that Takeda's Toubari ninjas walked along the mountain path and sent an important person to Suruga. The identity is unknown." Hojo Genan, who is in charge of Fuuma, reported at the evaluation meeting, "Everything is as His Highness said before. material."
"Uncle Gen'an, you are really good at reading people." Hojo Ujiyasu put down his bowl of rice and shook the secret letter sent back by the Fuma Ri ninja in his hand, "I saw through the secret tricks of the Takeda family and the Imagawa family early on, and ambushed people in them. We are waiting on the only road for communication between the two families to catch the current situation. As soon as these two families saw that we, Hojo, could no longer contain us, they secretly prepared to join forces and wanted to have a feast together."
"According to my uncle's original plan, we set up suspicious troops outside Hengshan Castle." Hojo Ujiyasu made the deployment with a sneer. "The rest of the people, every time the fleet goes forward to transport food, they quietly board the ship and rush back to the area around Kabara Castle to set up a trap." We are preparing to ambush the Takeda Army. Seeing our army march deep into Suruga, they must be eager to cut off our retreat and food routes and trap us around the Yubi Plain."
"It's just young master, so much food has been sent to Hengshan Castle. When our suspected soldiers are discovered by Imagawa Yoshimoto and Imagawa Yoshimoto marches, won't all these supplies be cheap for the Imagawa family?" Tominaga Naokatsu was a little reluctant to part with it. He admonished with a wry smile.
"I can't bear to give up my child, but I can't trap the wolf. What's so delicious about a little coarse grain? Besides, I've also prepared a big gift for Imagawa Yoshimoto! If he wants to eat this coarse grain, he has to shed the skin first! And we, we have to Go back to Kabara Castle to eat meat. Isn’t the freshly delivered prey from Mount Kai better than millet porridge?” Hojo Ujiyasu laughed, wiped his mouth with the secret message in his hand, and said in a deep voice, “Generals, let’s hunt. went!"
In the early morning of October 15th, the sixth year of Tianwen (1537), at the top of the Hengshan Castle. Imagawa Yoshimoto and Taiyuan Xuezai finished their breakfast and were strolling at the top of the city, looking at the endless company camp of the Hojo family that was filled with official roads.
"It should be a false suspicion."
Taiyuan Xuezhai suddenly said something.
"Suspicious soldier?" Imagawa Yoshimoto did not follow Taiyuan Xuezhai's train of thought, "What is the teacher talking about?"
Taiyuan Xue Zhai raised his hand, supported the battlements and pointed to the Hojo family camp in the distance, "There may not be many people there."
"Why do you say that?" Imagawa Yoshimoto was a little surprised and looked intently at the temporary port built next to the Hojo family camp. "Old man, are you unable to see clearly? Every day, the food shipped from Izu Sagami behind is
There are countless of them, piled up like a mountain by the port, how could they be suspected soldiers?"
"Master, my eyesight is much better than Sena Mutsu. It's not your turn to dislike Master's presbyopia." Taiyuan Xuezai laughed twice and pointed to his eyes, "Look at those ships, go back
When we arrived, the water was no shallower than when we arrived, and we rowed even slower, looking like a light boat."
"What the teacher means is..." Imagawa Yoshimoto finally understood what Taiyuan Xuezhai was talking about.
"The soldiers of the Hojo family returned on the empty ship after transporting food, and they were preparing to ambush the Takeda army." Taiyuan Xuesai sneered twice, while fiddling with the rosary, he admired, "That Sakyo (Hojo Utsuna)
Lion son, your level is not bad...or is this Huan'an's idea?"
"Then why don't we hurry up and notify the Takeda family?" Imagawa Yoshimoto said anxiously when he saw this, turned around and wanted to leave, "I'll arrange the messenger!"
"Hey, don't worry." Taiyuan Xuezhai grabbed Imagawa Yoshimoto's sleeve, "Why are you going to notify them now?"
"Isn't the Takeda family an ally? Didn't the teacher criticize the Hojo family before for concealing information and selling out their teammates?" Imagawa Yoshimoto recalled the previous incident where the Hojo family sold out Imagawa Yoshima.
"I'm asking you to wait, but I'm not asking you not to notify me." Taiyuan Xuezhai raised his head and glanced at the sky, "Tomorrow night, or the day after tomorrow, you can send someone to notify you."
"Why wait?" Imagawa Yoshimoto didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Taiyuan Xuezhai Gourd.
"Are you stupid? As soon as we go to notify the Takeda family, if the Takeda family's deployment changes, the Hojo family will find that the conspiracy has been discovered, and the baggage left here as a cover-up will definitely be transported back." Taiyuan Xuezhai.
With a big wave of his hand, he pointed at the mountains of grain and grass piled up at the port, "With that much grain, it's a lot of money to snatch it back. It's hard to say that it can even make up for less than half of the loss of territory lost in the past year."
"Then why don't we go grab the baggage now?" Imagawa Yoshimoto wondered if Taiyuan Xuezai was confused, "Wouldn't it be better if we march now and notify the Takeda family?"
"How can a general not know astronomy?" Taiyuan Xuezhai raised his hand and pointed to the sky, "Look at the sky for me. There will be heavy rain tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. We will take advantage of the rain to attack. When it starts to rain, you will
You can send someone to notify the Takeda family."
"Waiting for rain?" Imagawa Yoshimoto frowned and stared at the Hojo Army's company camp, and then he suddenly realized, "Teacher is worried that the Hojo family will mix flammable substances in the food and set fire to it when we go deep into the company camp to plunder the supplies?"
"With such a long company camp, if you go deep into it and start a fire, you will have mountains on the left and the sea on the right, and you won't have to run anywhere. In addition, the east wind is blowing now, and the fire will burn faster, and people will be crowded on the official road and they won't be able to escape.
At least one or two thousand will be gone." Taiyuan Xuezhai crossed his arms and raised his feet to stand on the wall, "But it's completely different when it rains. As long as it's not a forest fire, it won't burn."
"Then what if the Takeda Army ambushes during their advance in the two days before the rain?" Imagawa Yoshimoto is still a little worried, "They made an appointment with us before, doesn't it mean that they will march to Kabara Castle before the 18th?
, are you attacking us from both sides?"
"I think you, a stinky boy, just got carried away by the beauty trap. You turned your elbows outward and did everything for your father-in-law. But it's no wonder, that girl is so beautiful and so 'good at fighting' that she is a
All men must be fascinated." Taiyuan Xuezhai looked at his apprentice with a evil smile, slapped him hard on the butt, and then laughed loudly:
"Do you think Takeda Sakyou (Takeda Nobutora) is as innocent as you? He has a lot of thoughts, maybe even worse than me as a teacher. Do you expect him to send troops according to the agreed time? How is it possible? He wants us
Let’s fight to the death with the Hojo family first! Don’t worry, that tiger is very smart, how can he be so obedient?”