In the early morning of October 18th, the sixth year of Tenmon (1537), Zentokuji Temple in Fuji County, Suruga Province.
Imagawa Yoshimoto and Taiyuan Xuezai were filled with emotions when they revisited their hometown. They originally thought that after the fall of Hedong, they would have no chance to come back for a long time. However, the Hojo family didn't care about Zentoku Temple and did not send any troops.
After the occupation, the monks in the temple still lived a peaceful life, and the original living rooms of Imagawa Yoshimoto and Taiyuan Xuezhai were also kept tidy.
After a short wait, Takeda Harunobu arrived with Takeda Hironobu. According to the agreement, only two of the three families of Koso Shun went up the mountain without weapons, and the samurai waited at the foot of the mountain. Imagawa Yoshimoto also came to the temple gate in person to greet him, and Takeda
Harunobu bumped his fists.
"Torachiyo, I won't be merciful later." Imagawa Yoshimoto reminded him with a smile.
"Exciting! Goro, I've been waiting for your words." Takeda Harunobu also smiled boldly, patted his chest and said, "I've wanted to compete with you for a long time. Don't lose your pants later!"
"Master Hongxin." "Master Xuezhai."
The two diplomats were old acquaintances, and they performed Buddhist salutes to each other, and everything was settled in the pleasantries.
However, the four of them waited in the reception room for a long time, but Hojo Ujiyasu didn't see anyone coming over. Logically speaking, the Hojo family was the one who was most anxious to negotiate peace. After all, he wanted to retreat back to save Odawara Castle, so why wasn't he the first to come?
Yeah, still going to be late?
Is there any plot in it?
I waited and waited, but Hojo Ujiyasu still didn't come. Imagawa Yoshimoto was going through the prepared speech over and over in his mind, but when he never got a chance to speak, he became slightly impatient, and his nervousness made it difficult to calm down.
"Don't be impatient." Taiyuan Xuezhai noticed something strange about Imagawa Yoshimoto and whispered softly behind him, "Being late for the meeting is a great tool to kill the other party's energy and mentality. You have to calm down."
"Yes." Imagawa Yoshimoto took a deep breath and tried to adjust his breathing.
At this moment, a cursing voice came from the door of the temple.
"Uncle, there is nothing to talk about! Just talk and beat them and that's it! We have 9,000 people and beat 7,000 of them. What's there to be afraid of? Why did you have to drag me here?"
Even far away, you could hear Hojo Ujiyasu's loud complaints and Hojo Genan's comforting voice.
Did he not want to talk at all? No wonder he was late.
Imagawa Yoshimoto's heart began to beat.
With a "pop" sound, the paper door was opened. Hojo Ujiyasu strode towards his seat with a murderous look on his face. After sitting down, he didn't salute, put one foot on the table, and went to mind his own business.
He drank a cup of tea. Hojo Genan stumbled up behind him, saluting constantly and apologizing to the people on both sides.
"Just do it, who can't do it?" Takeda Harunobu was very dissatisfied with Hojo Ujiyasu's attitude. He directly put both feet on the table and leaned back as if on a recliner. At the same time, he said to Imagawa Yoshimoto
He pursed his lips and said, "Wu Lang, let's go together?"
"I'm not very good at this..." Imagawa Yoshimoto explained with a grimace. Having been educated and educated since he was a child, he was indeed more elegant and couldn't do this. But what made him even more unhappy was that the soles of Hojo Ujiyasu and Takeda Harunobu's shoes were obvious.
It was very dirty. It was placed on a clean table like this, and the dust and dirt fell off half of the table - which made Imagawa Yoshimoto's mysophobia relapse in an instant.
"Then let's talk, hurry up!" Hojo Ujiyasu shouted, pointed at the ceiling and said in a deep voice, "You two, just go home and have dinner, don't stop me, or you won't be blamed.
The Hojo family is ruthless!”
"Is this the condition of the Hojo family?" Takeda Harunobu raised his eyebrows and looked at Hojo Ujiyasu with a sneer.
"I'll beat you if you don't accept it. We have more people than you and we are afraid of you. Are you too brave?" Hojo Ujiyasu slammed the table, turned around and pointed at Imagawa Yoshimoto's nose and cursed, "
Didn’t you appreciate my power enough last time? Do you want to do it again? Kill thousands more people to show you? I’ll give you Suruga thousands more orphans and widows?”
"Your Highness Hojo, since you are here to negotiate, you should be polite at least. We are not forcing you to come..." Imagawa Yoshimoto tried hard to maintain a calm tone and wanted to explain, but was interrupted by Hojo Ujiyasu with a wave of his hand:
"I don't want to come at all! All I want to do is fight my way back! What's there to talk about? It's the old man and the other old guys at home -" Hojo Ujiyasu turned around and glared at Hojo Genan, "
You insist on dragging me here to negotiate! What a nonsense! What I want now is to break up the negotiation quickly and go back to fight, do you understand?"
Imagawa Yoshimoto took a breath and was speechless for a moment.
Don’t the Hojo family want to talk at all? Did Hojo Uyasu just come here to show off in order to deal with the instructions of Hojo Uzuna and Hojo Genan?
Just when he wanted to turn back to Taiyuan Xuezhai for confirmation, he felt Taiyuan Xuezhai's eyes staring at his neck, feeling faintly hot.
Imagawa Yoshimoto recalled the knowledge that Taiyuan Xuezhai had taught him before, and after thinking about it for a while, he suddenly understood it.
You can't be chaotic at this time, and you can't show panic or bewilderment. Hojo Ujiyasu is definitely playing a double act with Hojo Genan. How could he not want to negotiate? If there is a bloody battle here, the Kashun coalition may not win.
, but it can at least delay the Hojo family for a few days and make the Hojo family suffer. When such a tired army rushes back to Odawara Castle, the entire Odawara Castle Castle Town must have been robbed, right? Even if they rush back, they will fight.
Can you defeat the powerful Takeda Army?
Therefore, both emotionally and logically, the Hojo family is the one who least wants to fight and wants to negotiate peace the most. But in diplomatic negotiations, whichever party is more eager to reach a peace agreement will be passive at the negotiation table.
, had to make many concessions. In order to avoid being caught in this weakness, the Hojo family pretended that they did not want to negotiate peace at all, to conceal their urgency to reach a peace agreement.
The Hojo family threatened to resort to force, hoping to force the Imagawa family and the Takeda family, who were at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, to proactively seek peace, so that they could in turn take the initiative in negotiations back to themselves. Since the Takeda family had few troops, they naturally resorted to resorting to force.
In terms of force, they are not as confident as the Hojo family. Even if the Kawawa family held back the Hojo army in a bloody battle with the Hojo family here, they would not get anything. They would just gain an advantage over Takeda Nobutora, who led the troops to Odawara Castle - so
The Imagawa family did not dare to resort to force.
Now we need to call off the bluff of the Hojo family and make them have to admit that they are the side that is eager to negotiate peace. The method is to show their determination and show that the Imagawa family is here to fight with the Hojo family.
They are determined to fight to the death and are not afraid of your threats at all. As long as the Imagawa family is not afraid of war, the Hojo family's threats will not be effective. At that time, the Hojo family will still have to obediently sue for peace and give up the initiative.
Imagawa Yoshimoto didn't say anything, just got up and walked out the door.
Taiyuan Xuezhai saw at a glance what his apprentice was thinking, and sang the double act in coordination: "Hey, Chengfang, where are you going?"
"Go prepare for war." Imagawa Yoshimoto turned around and responded, and at the same time greeted Takeda Harunobu, "Let's go, Tora Chiyo, since His Highness Hojo doesn't want to talk to us, there is nothing we can do. We will fight him here.
Let's go, we are not all dead, and they can't even think about going there. It's an advantage for your father. He can make a fortune in Odawara Castle Town. But this is my betrothal gift to the Takeda family, and I can't let my father spend such a good fortune in vain.
My daughter will marry me."
"Haha, it's refreshing, I couldn't ask for it!" Takeda Harunobu also laughed and stood up, while raising his eyebrows at Hojo Ujiyasu and said, "I never dared to think about it before, but it can actually turn out to be the best result for the Takeda family.
Is there such a good thing in the world?"
Hojo Ujiyasu's expression remained unchanged. He seemed to feel that it was too cowardly to ask him to stay, so he said harshly, "Then let's fight. I'll cut off your heads and make tea for you!"
"Let's go." Imagawa Yoshimoto walked out of the door carefree, and Takeda Harunobu followed without hesitation. Seeing this, Taiyuan Yuksai and Takeda Hironobu also stood up and prepared to go out, saying goodbye to Hojo Genan.
"Wait a minute, you two!" Seeing that the negotiation was really about to collapse, Hojo Genan finally lost his temper - this was the worst outcome that the Hojo family could never accept. He glared at his nephew, seemingly complaining.
He sang too much in the oboe, and at the same time he said to Taiyuan Xuesai and Takeda Hironobu, "It was our young master who made a mistake earlier! I will apologize to you two! The Hojo family came here, naturally they want to turn the war into friendship, why bother to increase casualties?"
Please ask the two masters to invite your young master back!"
"Since it is entrusted by Master Huan'an, the poor monk will naturally obey?" Taiyuan Xuezai and Takeda Hironobu walked out of the door with a smile, preparing to call Imagawa Yoshimoto and Takeda Harunobu back. Takeda Harunobu was indeed waiting in the corridor,
It seemed that the Hojo family had already expected that they would try to persuade him to stay, but Imagawa Yoshimoto had disappeared.
"That brat? You can't take it seriously, can you?" Taiyuan Xuezhai suddenly had black lines on his face. He was just about to praise Imagawa Yoshimoto for his good acting. He hurriedly chased him out. When he got to the door, he saw that there was no one on the way down the mountain.
people.
"That's weird, where is that brat?"
Taiyuan Xuezhai looked around and saw Imagawa Yoshimoto in the courtyard of the temple. The latter was playing Cuju leisurely, showing off his superb footwork - he had just decided to go back to the room to get the Cuju.
"You brat! Come back!" A very angry Taiyuan Xuezai ran to Imagawa Yoshimoto and pulled him back by his ears. "How can you actually seize the opportunity to be lazy at this moment? Why?
Master is really impressed by you..."
"Then I can't really leave! I have to find something to kill the time. Who knew the Hojo family would give in so quickly." Imagawa Yoshimoto complained, and was honestly pulled back to the reception room by Taiyuan Xuezhai to negotiate.