Miyoshi Yoshiji saw that the retainers were indignant and couldn't help but be overjoyed. **In his opinion, the Takayama clan must die, in addition to his resentment towards him, more importantly, only when he dies, the morale of the family can be restored, and it can also be used to hit the morale of the Oda army, he is to use the death of the Takayama clan to tell the Oda family military situation, and the confrontment of the Miyoshi family is only a dead end, even the most elite Takayama army of the Oda family is no exception.

Thinking of this, I only heard Miyoshi Yoshitsugu speak: "The matter of killing the Takayama clan cannot be delayed, so I decided to have Iwanari Tomotsu lead two thousand elites, and ordered the surrounding city lords to send troops to surrender the Takayama army. ”

However, when Iwanari Yutong was about to receive his order, he saw that Araki Murashige, who had not spoken, hurriedly stepped forward and said, "My lord, my subordinates think it is impossible to ······."

As soon as he said this, he saw Miyoshi Yiji frowning, and asked unhappily: "The Gaoshan Clan's crime is extremely evil, and not killing it is not enough to calm the anger in my heart, do you still want him to speak?" ”

Seeing the severity of the lord's words, Araki Murashige hurriedly said: "Please calm your anger, my subordinates didn't mean this, but thought that now that the Takayama Army has been discovered, it is impossible to cause harm to the family again, and according to the information sent from the front, Kannonji Castle is afraid that it will be captured by the Oda family army in less than three days, and most of the elite of the family will leave, and it is impossible to resist the attack of the main Oda army by relying on the peasant soldiers alone, at that time, although the Takayama clan will not be able to escape the fate of death, But the family will also perish because they can't resist the attack of the Oda army.

Therefore, his subordinates believed that in the current situation, not only could the lord no longer send troops to surrender the Takayama clan, but also should recruit all the elites originally sent back and prepare for a decisive battle with the Oda army

As for the Takayama clan, the lord can be handed over to Matsunaga Shu to be fully responsible, and the remaining samurai in the country of Mingshan Castle will lead the army to encircle and suppress. The advantage of this is that first, when the army and the Oda army are in a decisive battle, the certainty of victory will be greater, and the second is that the lord can let Matsunaga Shu and the Takayama clan fight for two defeats and be injured, and at that time, the Takayama clan will be killed and the Takayama army will be annihilated, I am afraid that the army under the command of Matsunaga Shu will also suffer heavy losses, and after the decisive battle between the lord and the Oda army is victorious, it will be much easier to turn over and clean up Matsunaga Hide.

Let him go to fight against the mountain army, it can be more advantageous than recruiting it to help in the war, this is the foolish opinion of his subordinates, and please ask the lord to decide. ”

Miyoshi Yoshitsugu was just a hot head just now, so he ordered Iwasari Tomotsu to lead the army to support, but when Araki Murashige analyzed this, he also calmed down, he had to admit that his proposal was the most reasonable, his biggest enemy was not the Takayama clan but the Oda army, and the Takayama clan was tossing in the rear, which would only make the Miyoshi family sick, but if the decisive battle with the Oda army failed, it would kill the family, and the order must not be reversed, otherwise the family would be finished.

Thinking of this, I saw that Miyoshi Yoshitsugu finally made up his mind and said: "Arakimura Shige's words are reasonable, I decided to implement this strategy, immediately ordered the elite of my family to come to converge, and ordered the defenders of all the cities in the mountain castle to immediately lead the army to encircle and suppress the Takayama clan. ”

A day has passed, and the Matsunaga army did not attack Takasaki Castle again during this day, but was waiting for Miyoshi Yoshitsugu to send reinforcements to support, Miyoshi Yoshitsugu wanted to consume Matsunaga Hide's strength through this battle, and Matsunaga Hide's head didn't want the Miyoshi family to suffer heavy losses, anyway, he had already decided to return to the Oda family, the weaker the Miyoshi family, the greater the benefit to himself, anyway, the Takayama army has already planted its wings, what is the difference between attacking one day earlier and one day later.

However, a day passed, and what Matsunaga Shu was waiting for was not the elite army sent by Miyoshi Yoshitsugu, but the military strength of the surrounding wealthy clans, although the army led by the heroes reached 2,500 people, but after looking at those who were unclothed and armoured, armed with bamboo guns, and even most of the ashigaru did not even have the most basic arrays, Matsunaga Hide felt very disappointed. …,

What's the use of such an army, in front of the elite mountain army, I'm afraid it only takes a rain of arrows, or a salvo of iron cannons to make them collapse.

Their only role may only be to consume the arrows and projectiles of the mountain army, and the rest is useless.

And these wealthy families are not without flags, there are more, but there are still dozens or hundreds of flags, but the reason why they don't bring their own flags and only lead the peasant soldiers to come is not to preserve their strength, and, before coming, they all thought that Matsunaga Xiu embezzled a lot of money from the Miyoshi family to create the elite, of course, it is not for seeing, this has his elite, and it is natural that the army under his command should be the main attack.

I didn't plan to fight for the credit of the Takayama clan, even if I wanted to grab it, how could I rob the Matsunaga Show, rather than this, it was better to preserve the strength, even if I used the family flag book for the decisive battle between the lord and the Oda army, it would never be cheap Matsunaga Hide.

Besides, they still know how much ability they have under their banner, even if Matsunaga Xiu has such an elite and has an absolute advantage in numbers, they can't defeat the Takayama Army, I'm afraid that even if he leads his banner to come, it will not be much stronger than now.

Therefore, although Matsunaga Xiu put on a stinky face after seeing everyone leading the army coming, they didn't take it too seriously, as if this matter had nothing to do with them at all.

Seeing this, Matsunaga Hideki did not order the siege of the castle, he wanted to wait a little longer, wait until Miyoshi Yoshitsugu's reinforcements arrived, and then launch an attack on Takasaki Castle.

However, even Matsunaga Hide, who had no last resort, miscalculated, and Miyoshi Yoshitsugu did not send a large army for a long time, but only a low-ranking samurai.

Outside Takasaki Castle, the samurai who led the army to help and the retainers under the command of Matsunaga Shu were all gathered in a large tent, and Matsunaga Shu was the first among the Chinese people, both in terms of identity and territory, so he sat on the throne of the lord and only listened to him ask the envoy sent by Miyoshi Yoshitsugu: "Where has the army sent by the lord been now?" ”

After hearing this, the junior warrior was very puzzled, when did the lord say that he would send his elite here? Could it be that before he came, the lord sent someone to inform him? In that case, then why let yourself run for nothing? Forget yourself, don't think about it, I'm just a low-level samurai, how can I know about the big things in the family, I just need to do my duty.

Thinking of this, I only heard him speak: "Back to Lord Matsunaga, the lord ordered the lord to take full responsibility for the annihilation of the Takayama army and the killing of the Takayama clan, and ordered all the lords to temporarily obey the orders of Lord Matsunaga, but he did not mention the matter of sending the elite of the family, and asked the lord to decide." ”