Although the Takeda Army was small in number, they had already occupied the terrain in advance and launched a surprise attack from a commanding height, instantly throwing the hurriedly formed Hojo Army into chaos. The Hojo Army's equipment was scattered along the long mountain road, and it was impossible to gather troops for a while.
, all fronts were dispersed.
"I really ate shit..." Hojo Ujiyasu, who was in a bitter fight, couldn't help but cursed, "Kafi and other hillbillies in the mountains are really annoying."
Fortunately, the Goshikibei led by Hojo Maimasa and others had immediately returned from the road and rushed to the mountain road to support them. After the return of the main force, the Hojo family immediately boosted their morale and began to launch a counterattack. What puzzled Hojo Ujiyasu was that the Takeda family was
There is no intention of retreating.
"Still not leaving? Waiting to stay and eat the shit I gave you?" Hojo Ujiyasu looked at Takeda Harunobu who was motionless under the horse seal in confusion, "Can you defeat my main force with just a few people? Or... Takeda
Will there be reinforcements coming to my family? No..."
Hojo Ushiyasu uneasily covered the sun with his hands and looked towards the mountainous area to the north, but saw nothing. When he turned back and looked towards the west, he found that the fire in the west of Fujigawa had been extinguished at some point, and the thick smoke had also changed.
It was sparse. He looked up slightly and noticed that the sky to the west of the Fuji River was full of dark clouds, and it was probably raining heavily.
"When did it start raining?" Hojo Ujiyasu suddenly became nervous, grabbed the guards on the left and right, and asked. However, the entire Hojo family was preoccupied with dealing with the Takeda family's ambush. Who has the time to pay attention to the twenty miles to the west?
The weather outside?
"Oops... if the fire is extinguished by rain before it burns, then the official channels will be unobstructed." Hojo Ujiyasu has realized the danger of the matter and understood the reason why the Takeda family refused to retreat. As expected, there was no
After a while, I saw the Imagawa army marching out from behind the foot of the mountain beside the Fuji River, carrying the two banners.
At this time, Imagawa Yoshimoto was galloping on his horse on the official road from Fuji River to Yoshiwara. He could faintly see the battlefield where the Hojo Army and the Takeda Army were fighting. On the top of a high mountain in the north, the horse seal of the Takeda Army was flying high.
Takeda Harunobu, who was under the horse seal, also noticed the red bird horse seal of the Imagawa family, and turned to look at Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was under the horse seal.
For a moment, both of them seemed to recall the scene when they fought side by side a year ago——
"Two versus one doesn't seem to work." At this time, Nakasugi Tora Chiyo, who heard the sound of fighting in the house, also followed the sound, drew a knife in his hand, and stood behind Dahu Xiuzuna, "Goro, don't panic, I'll do it
help you."
"Lord Hu, don't you mind if we bully the minority?" Imagawa Shigen smiled bitterly and patted the dirt on his body.
"Whatever." Da Hu Xiugang still looked contemptuous, not taking the three of them seriously at all.
"Okay, Kuaishou." Chiyo Nakasugi laughed heroically a few times, then stepped forward and stabbed Dahu Xiuzuna in the back, "Then I won't be polite!"
Imagawa Yoshimoto snapped his fingers towards where Takeda Harunobu was, and led his army directly behind the Hojo Army, "Tora Chiyo, don't panic, I'm here to help you."
As if Takeda Harunobu could guess what Imagawa Yoshimoto was talking about even from a distance, he hit his chest hard with his hand and laughed, "Lion, you don't mind if we bully the few with more, do you?"
Hojo Ujiyasu on the mountain road looked at the Imagawa-Takeda coalition forces that were attacking from both sides. His expression was as ugly as possible. Naturally, he couldn't say such forceful words as "casual" like the sword master Dahu Hidetsuna did. Instead, he laughed and cursed.
One sentence: "Unlucky, I'm full just from eating shit today."
Just when Hojo Ujiyasu thought something was wrong and was about to deploy his troops to retreat separately, another army came from the southeast of Yoshihara, carrying the flag of Hojo's scale pattern. Hojo Ujiyasu recognized it, it was the head of the Odawara Castle.
Banner garrison.
Seeing the reinforcements of the Hojo Army arriving, the Takeda Army and Imagawa Army did not dare to attack. Instead, they immediately occupied a strategic position and blocked the retreat route of the main force of the Hojo family. Hojo Ujiyasu found Hojo Ujiyao who had led the army to support him.
, grabbed his collar and asked:
"Is Dad crazy? Didn't he already know that Takeda Nobutora and his people went to Odawara? Why did he send 2,000 people to support him?"
"If you don't support me, brother, aren't you dead now?" Hojo Ujiyao pointed to the Takeda Army and Imagawa Army on both sides, "I have already planned an empty city strategy in Odawara Castle, but I was worried that you would be ambushed when you retreat, so I sent
We'll come and take you back."
"How to get back here?" Hojo Ujiyasu looked at the Takeda Army and Imagawa Army who were defending in the northeast and southwest. "The retreat is all blocked. Are you going to pass under their noses with such arrogance?"
"Then go and sue for peace. You have to go back no matter what, otherwise what will happen to Odawara Castle?" Hojo Ujiyao said to Hojo Ujiyasu without any explanation, "This is my father's death order!"
At this time, Imagawa Yoshimoto was riding his horse on the way to see Takeda Harunobu. Along the way, Yutaka Furuno and Hayasaka Nao kept trying to persuade him, thinking that Imagawa Yoshimoto should not go to the Takeda family’s military camp alone. It was too much.
It was dangerous, but Imagawa Yoshimoto was not worried. Just when they reached the foot of the mountain at the Takeda family camp, they happened to meet Takeda Harunobu and his party who were hurriedly going down the mountain. Coincidentally, Itagaki Nobukata and Amari were beside Takeda Harunobu.
Koyasu and others are also trying to persuade Takeda Harunobu not to go to the Imagawa family's military camp alone, as it is too dangerous.
"Haha." Imagawa Yoshimoto and Takeda Harunobu burst out laughing after seeing each other, and then they hugged each other fiercely. They each smiled and said to their subordinates behind them, "I told you, don't worry."
"Goro." Takeda Harunobu stepped back half a step, hammered Imagawa Yoshimoto on the chest, and laughed boldly, "Or should I really call you brother-in-law?"
"Torachiyo said before that he would poison his brother-in-law. What, is he still poisoning?" Imagawa Yoshimoto also smiled and mentioned the joke at that time.
"If you are so weak, Goro, I will poison you immediately and then annex the Imagawa family." Takeda Harunobu showed no mercy at all, and said directly while laughing, "Don't laugh either, I can really do it.
This kind of thing happened."
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"How could I care about these things?"
Imagawa Yoshimoto and Takeda Harunobu laughed again. Takeda Harunobu extended his hand very generously and said, "This kind of argument has happened so many times before, there is no need to talk about it again."
"Yes, I can't convince you, and you can't convince me." Imagawa Yoshimoto also stretched out his hand and shook Takeda Harunobu's hand firmly, "But this does not prevent us from becoming allies and each getting what we need."
"I hope you, Goro, will work harder and not be so weak that I will one day make up my mind to swallow up the Imagawa family." Takeda Haruno patted Imagawa Yoshimoto's shoulder with his other hand, and Imagawa Yoshimoto pointed coolly with his other hand.
He pointed at the army behind him.
"I don't care, but then you have to ask the Imagawa family if they agree."
When Imagawa Yoshimoto returned to the camp, Taiyuan Xuezhai was already waiting for him in Dazhai.
"The Hojo family sent an envoy to ask for peace, and they want to negotiate with us and the Takeda family." Taiyuan Xuezai took out the letter just left by the Hojo family envoy, and slowly fanned himself like a fan.
"Negotiate now?" Imagawa Yoshimoto heard this and laughed, "What qualifications does the Hojo family have to negotiate? Isn't it now at the mercy of others? As long as we don't negotiate with them, their troops will not be able to go back, and Odawara will be an empty city.
Even if my father-in-law (Takeda Nobutora) can't defeat him, he can still plunder the castle town, and the Hojo family's decades of efforts will be in vain. So the Hojo family has no qualifications to negotiate at all. They must agree to any conditions we offer.
What."
"Oh? Is that what you think?" Taiyuan Xuezai laughed, then stood up, rolled the secret letter into a roll of paper, and hit Imagawa Yoshimoto hard on the head, "You bastard
, so tender!”
"Ah?" Imagawa Yoshimoto was a little confused by Taiyuan Xuezhai's knock.
"Let me ask you, suppose we don't negotiate with the Hojo family and just drag their main force here, what good will it do to our Imagawa family? It was the Takeda family's troops who went to Odawara Castle to grab a lot of money!
At that time, the main force of the Hojo family was in a hurry to go back for rescue, and they would definitely fight us in a bloody battle. The Takeda family brought a total of 2,000 people, and the ones in front would be 5,000 of us. The dead will be ours, and all the loot will be ours.
Takeda family, are you going to do such a stupid thing?"
Imagawa Yoshimoto nodded thoughtfully, while Taiyuan Xuezai laughed and scolded: "I think you are really stunned by the Takeda Princess. Do you really regard the Takeda family as your own? We were just before this
We have been enemies for decades! As long as there is a profit, the Takeda family can betray us in a minute, why are you considering their interests?"
"Would it be much simpler if the negotiators were just us and the Hojo family?" Imagawa Yoshimoto realized the reason, "But with the addition of the Takeda family as a third party, the situation becomes complicated due to the entangled interests of the three parties.
."
"What you are imagining is: If there are only two families left in the world, then there is no need or possibility of negotiation. Both sides want to kill each other, so why is there any need to negotiate? That's what it means, right?
?" After Taiyuan Xuezhai said this, he changed the topic, shook his finger and said, "But such a situation is simply impossible, because it is impossible to have a family with completely unified internal opinions and only one voice."
"A territorial exchange agreement that attracts daimyo may make the retainers in the disputed territories hateful; an agreement on tariff reduction and exemption between neighboring countries may make businessmen make a lot of money, but it may make the farmers and farmers of the weak side hate each other.
The handicraftsmen's families were ruined. There were conflicts between daimyo and their retainers, conflicts between the clan and foreign clans, conflicts between genealogy and foreign clans, conflicts between wealthy families in different regions; not to mention the countless conflicts between farmers and merchants, samurai and civilians.
It’s a contradiction.”
"There are countless interest groups within a family, and there are countless voices that influence the daimyo as a negotiator. How can the daimyo reach an agreement based solely on his own wishes? Can he cope with the surging opposition at home? In fact,
The result of every diplomatic negotiation is the result of the consensus reached by countless interest groups in each family and countless interest groups in another family. Even if there are only two families negotiating, there may be dozens of players involved.
How could such a simple situation arise as you say? What’s more, we are currently negotiating with Hojo, Takeda, and Imagawa."
"I didn't expect that there is so much knowledge in diplomacy." After listening to Taiyuan Xue Zhai's words, Imagawa Yoshimoto muttered to himself with emotion.
"Haha, welcome to the realm of thinking about family politics (international politics (not))." Taiyuan Xuezhai snapped his fingers and made a "please" gesture, "This is just an introduction. There are many ways inside.