It takes only half a day to get from Gujo Hachiman Castle to Sakurato Castle, the border town of Mino and Hida, while it takes a day to get from Sakurato Castle to Matsukura Castle, and two days to make a round trip.

Although the city lord Miki Kunitsuna has not yet arrived outside the city, he has sent his subordinates to the main city of Ji Xiaolu's house to rescue, but I am afraid that when the city is broken, the reinforcements will not be able to arrive, and now Miki Kunisuna only has three ways to go, one is to fight to the death to die for Sakurato Castle, the other is to open the city and return to Shun, and the remaining way is to take advantage of the Takayama army to lead the army to escape from the city.

After thinking about it for a long time, Kunitsuna Miki finally chose the third path. He wasn't afraid of death, but he didn't want to die meaninglessly like this, and it was even more impossible to return to Shun, and he thought that as long as there was the support of the Uesugi family, then the final victory would definitely not belong to the Takayama family.

Although the Takayama family is stronger than the main family, it is nothing in front of the Uesugi family, and the main family now has the support of the Uesugi family, even if this Sakurato Castle is temporarily lost, he believes that it will not be long before it will be recaptured.

However, he forgot that it was true that the Uesugi family came to help, but Uesugi Kenshin would never be completely trapped in order to help Ji Xiaolu's family, and this he had reached the highest level of 4,000 troops.

Uesugi Kenshin knew that once this number was exceeded, then Oda Nobunaga would never stand idly by, and the Oda family was the enemy, and it was for Hida, for the sake of the Himekoji family, he would never do this, and the Uesugi family was not ready for a big war at present.

After all, Kawanakajima fought several times, although Uesugi samurai. In particular, the number of casualties of the important ministers is far lower than that of the Takeda family, but the number of people killed in Ashigaru greatly exceeds that of the other party, so the current Uesugi family is in an embarrassing situation of having generals and no soldiers, and once the 4,000 troops left behind in Hida are in danger, then Uesugi Kenshin will definitely not hesitate to withdraw it, and it is benevolent and righteous to help Ji Xiaolu's family, and it is reasonable not to help. Even if he withdraws his troops, it will never have any impact on his reputation.

But how can these be something that Miki Kunitsuna and his ilk can figure out?

Half a day later, the clan led an army of 2,500 to the end of the road, and three miles ahead was Sakura Cave Castle. Since the army under his command has been on the road since the morning, they are still hungry. Therefore, the clan decided to eat first, and after eating enough, he would take the city in one fell swoop.

"Report to the lord, his subordinates have found out that the gate of Sakura Cave City is wide open, the city is empty, and the guards and their troops should have abandoned the city and fled, and please ask the lord to decide." The ninja who had been sent to investigate outside the city rushed to the clan and said excitedly.

He spoke loudly. This made the retainers present hear it sincerely, before they went out into the army, they had already thought that the first battle of this Hida strategy should be very easy, but this was too easy, and they didn't even see the city. I won, it's hard to believe.

Ji Xiaolu's family is also a famous family, and the samurai under his command are so cowardly, it seems that this Hida strategy is much easier than imagined.

Seeing that the smile had already appeared on the faces of the retainers, the clan did not dare to be careless, although the Ji Xiaolu family was nothing. But what about Uesugi and Takeda, don't look at the fact that Oda and Takeda have formed an alliance now, but as long as the interests of the Takeda family are harmed, or if there are signs of this, then the Takeda family will definitely not swallow their anger, so since the moment the clan sent out the army to Hida, it was destined to be an enemy of the Takeda family.

In line with the idea of making a 10,000-year-old ship carefully, the clan did not lead the army directly to the city, and sent ninjas to the periphery of the city to check if there were any ambushes, and when he got a positive answer, he led the army into the city.

Because Hida has an inexhaustible supply of wood, the scale of Sakurato Castle is very large, but it is precisely because of the abundant wood resources of Hida that such a large-scale castle is basically made of wood, and if you want to rely on this castle to block the attack of the Uesugi or Takeda families, there is no possibility at all, but no matter what, this is also the first step for yourself to become the owner of Hida, which is a good start. …,

And just when the clan led his troops into the city, Miki Kunitsuna also led three hundred troops to Matsukura Castle, the main city of Ji Xiaolu's family.

As soon as Miki Kunitsuna entered the city, he didn't care about the arrangement of the troops under his command, and rushed directly towards the castle tower.

He had already sent Ashigaru to ask for help before escaping from the city, so he thought that the lord should have known about it, but when he saw Ji Xiaolu Lai Gang, he found that the other party was concentrating on flower arrangement.

"Guogang, why are you here?" After pruning another flower, he only heard Ji Xiaolu Lai Gang ask, and his tone was calm.

"The lord still doesn't know the way?" Miki Kunitsuna asked tentatively.

I saw Ji Xiaolu Lai Gang frowning, and said unhappily: "What do I know?" ”

Miki Kunitsuna then understood, it must be because he arrived first, the lord has not received the news yet, thinking of this, I saw him quickly knelt down and said: "The lord is not good, the Gaoshan clan led thousands of troops to attack, and it was really difficult to resist with only three hundred troops under his command, so he had no choice but to give up the city and vote for the lord to strengthen the defense of Matsukura City." Please prepare early. ”

"What, the Alpine Army is really here? And with thousands of people? After saying that, the flower branch in his hand also fell.

Although Ji Xiaolu knew that the Takayama clan was appointed by Oda Nobunaga as the lord of Hida country, if he had been placed before, he would definitely have trouble sleeping, but since the Uesugi family army helped him defend the land, he was not worried, as long as the Uesugi family was sitting here, then the Takayama clan would inevitably throw a rat trap, but he didn't expect that the Takayama army still came.

He didn't have the heart to hold Miki Kunitsuna accountable for abandoning the city, but hurriedly said: "Come on, quickly summon all the retainers of the family to come to the assessment room to discuss." After speaking, I heard him add again and again: "If I go to inform Lord Murakami to come, I will say that the Takayama army is coming." ”

At dawn the next day, all the retainers of the Ji Xiaolu family who could come in time all appeared in the assessment room at this moment, and the one sitting in the first place was not the retainer of the Ji Xiaolu family, but the Uesugi family's Murakami Yoshikiyo.

When Uesugi Kenshin asked him to lead the army to Hida, he was still very reluctant, after all, in Hida just to help Ji Xiaolu's family guard the territory, what merit can be obtained, who has love to do things without merit.

And not long after his arrival, the Takeda Army also came, which made him excited for a long time, but before he could take action, Uesugi Kenshin sent someone to bring an order, that is, the Takeda family did not move, and he couldn't move, which annoyed him, seeing that the old enemy of the past was not far away all day, but not being able to attack this was a kind of torment for him.

So in the past two years, he can only get angry with the bandits, but even if he has killed the bandits in the territory of Ji Xiaolu's family, he still doesn't feel that it is enjoyable, and now he heard that the Gaoshan clan sect led thousands of troops to attack, which can make him very excited, since he received the news yesterday, he rushed over as quickly as possible, and now his face is still full of smiles.

He can laugh out because there is a battle to fight, and if he wins, his credit will be added to it, and if he can defeat the Takayama clan, his reputation will also be greatly improved, and it doesn't matter if he loses, anyway, it's not the land of the Uesugi family, so it's really nothing to worry about.

Among the people present, there was one person laughing besides him, but he was carrying everyone behind his back.

Because later generations did not have much record of the inconspicuous little wealthy family of the Takayama family, the Takayama clan only knew that the Takayama family was destroyed, but he did not know that the Takayama family was not wiped out, and not only he did not know the Dao, because it was inconvenient for Hida to pass the news, so even many of the retainers of the Ji Xiaolu family, except for the samurai who attacked the Takayama family back then, no one knew about the Dao, although the Takayama family of the Takayama clan was destroyed, but it was not exterminated, except for the impostor of the Takayama clan, there was one person who survived. …,

This person is not only a member of the Gaoshan family, but also the fourth son of the true Gaoshan Waiji, because when the Gaoshan family was destroyed, he was only eight years old, and there was no Yuan Suit, Ji Xiaolu Lai Gang after killing the people of the Gaoshan family, he couldn't help but regret a little, he and Gaoshan Waiji was just a territorial dispute, and there was no deep hatred before, so after seeing the child who crawled out of the kitchen cabinet, he moved his heart of compassion, not only did not kill, but also recruited as a close attendant.

And this kid is smart and clever, it can be said that he has won the favor of Ji Xiaolu Lai Gang, and at first he didn't think that the other party wanted revenge, but from his calm eyes, he couldn't see his heart that wanted revenge at all, so over time, Ji Xiaolu Lai Gang also completely put his mind at ease, even if the Gaoshan Clan Sect was born, he never doubted his loyalty to himself.

It's eight years in a flash, this child has also grown from a child to a teenager, because Ji Xiaolu's family has no talent at all, and this child has outstanding ability, so when he was in Yuan last year, Ji Xiaolu Lai Gang not only married his daughter to him, gave him the name of Miki Clan, but also handed over the gold diggers to him to lead, it can be said that although the identity of Miki Clan is not high at present, but he holds the economic lifeline of Ji Xiaolu's family.

The head of the Miki clan once suspected, he doubted the identity of the clan, so he also risked being found and deliberately looked through the genealogy of the Takayama family, his father had four sons, the eldest son was written on the genealogy a long time ago, and the second brother and the third brother had died in battle when Takayama Castle was breached.

He couldn't help but think, isn't his brother dead? But the genealogy clearly says dead, what's going on? He really wanted to find someone from the Gao Shan family to ask now, but the Gao Shan family had already passed away except for himself and the person who was suspected of being his brother, so who could he go to ask. (Your support on this site is my biggest motivation.) )