At the beginning, Yoshioka Constitution also wanted to deceive himself with a light enemy, and at the beginning, he did underestimate the other party, but he knew that even if he went all out, he would still lose, and this time the competition was saved, but there was no face, and it made him more aware that his swordsmanship had not reached the end, and he was just unwilling to study it before, but now he has completely changed this mind, since he has chosen this path, then he will come to an end, even if he dies on the road, It's much better than giving up halfway.

Therefore, since just now, he has already made up his mind that after his injury is healed, he will find a place to cultivate seriously, and after he has completed his training, he will be ashamed of today's humiliation, but in this way, he will not be able to promise Lord Takayama.

Thinking of this, I only heard him speak: "Lord Takayama, after the injury is healed, I plan to leave this place and start practicing for a few years to continue to study kendo, as for the life-saving grace of the adults, ......"

The clan sect was just polite to him just now, who would have thought that he would take it seriously, and now he saw that he was bowing his head and thinking, only to hear the clan sect hurriedly interrupted: "You don't have to be polite to teach, you will always come to Japan, and the clan sect has resigned." ”

A month has passed, and in this month, the Takayama clan still lives in the sparrow house, and Rakunaka Castle has not been back once, and the envoy of the Ashikaga family finally found the sparrow house half a month ago, hoping that the clan can send troops to help, but he refused.

Since the emissary left, Ashikaga Yoshiaki has not sent anyone, and it seems that he has completely given up on the help of the Oda family.

However, although Ashikaga Yoshiaki was angry, he was no longer as panicked as before, and since Hosokawa Fujitaka concentrated the Ashikaga family's forces in Katsuryuji Castle, it was difficult for the Miyoshi army to be as strong as before, and the battle between the two families also entered a stalemate.

Although the 4,000 troops of the Miyoshi family were all banners, they were now physically and mentally exhausted and demoralized not long after the battle with the Oda family.

Although the ashikaga family's ashigaru were basically peasant soldiers, they had already been trained in the war. And it has taken advantage of the location, so as long as there are no accidents, it is not a problem to defend the city, facing this difficult bone. The head of the Miyoshi family, Miyoshi Nagayi, did not have a good way, and he knew in his heart that the last time he fought with the Oda family, the consumption of the family was too great, especially the Takayama clan's continuous sneak attacks in the hinterland of the family, and the previous Matsunaga Shu embezzled a lot of money, which made the family even worse.

Now it's just a city of more than 10,000 stones. If it continues to be consumed like this, then I don't know how much it will consume, so a few days ago, the Miyoshi Changyi faction saw the lord and explained that it was powerful, and after listening to it, Miyoshi Yiji listened, although he didn't want to give up, but it was really in front of him. could only reluctantly give the order to return to the army.

When the Miyoshi family and the Ashikaga family were fighting, Matsunaga Shu was not idle.

Since the Tsutsui family took advantage of the emptiness of the house and led the army to attack. He kept this revenge in his heart deeply, not because he didn't want to report it, but because in the previous battle with the Takayama Army, the loss was too serious, and the banner itself was tired and didn't want to fight, so he had to suppress the anger in his heart, and after the state of the army under his command recovered, he wiped out the Tsutsui family in one fell swoop. For the sake of this goal, he even postponed his return to the Oda family.

And since the battle between the Miyoshi family and the Oda family, this opportunity has finally come, and when the Miyoshi army went out to recover the old land, the Matsunaga army also began to move, don't look at the Tsutsui family has recently acquired a lot of new land. Under his hard work, he also raised 3,000 troops.

However, even if there is Katsutoshi Shima in charge of training, after all, the time is too long, and the armor is not neat, so in this way, it is not the opponent of the Matsunaga army, so it only takes ten days to work, and under the onslaught of the Matsunaga army, the new land of the Tsutsui family will be lost in pieces. …,

As soon as ten days passed, only Tsutsui Castle, Ze Castle, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Longwang Mountain Castle in the rear. And at this time, after the Matsunaga army captured the Ten Cities, it had already begun to march towards Tsutsui Castle.

Everyone in Tsutsui Castle,The mood of joy that was originally due to the capture of a large territory,With the imminent arrival of the Matsunaga army, it was swept away,Although Tsutsui Shunkei accepted the suggestion of Shima Katsu Takeshi,The family can use Ashigaru to transfer all of them into Tsutsui Castle and Sawa Castle,But the ashigaru who have fought with the Matsunaga family still have no bottom in their hearts,The combat power of the Matsunaga army is too strong,Although this time it is only two thousand people,But in terms of the degree of elite,It's much stronger than yourself.,Even if there are one thousand or two Ashigaru in Tsutsui City.,And Shima Katsutoshi is in charge, And there are walls to follow, but just like that, it may not be able to stop the Matsunaga army.

Like the oppressive atmosphere in the city, the atmosphere in the castle tower is just as oppressive and overwhelming.

There are four people sitting in the assessment room, except for Tsutsui Shunkei, who is sitting on the main seat, and the next hand is sitting Shima Katsutsu Takeshi, Matsukura Shigenobu and Akiyama Naokoku, although the four of them have different appearances, but the expressions on their faces are the same, and they are all frowning.

Tsutsui Shunkei immediately summoned the three of them after receiving that Matsunaga Jun was coming straight to his residence, but they had been sitting here for nearly a pillar of incense, but none of them spoke.

And just when everyone was silent, suddenly a flag Ben ashi ran in lightly, saluted and reported: "Report to the lord, Matsunaga Hideqin has led two thousand troops to two miles outside the city, and is currently camping, please prepare as soon as possible." ”

For the arrival of Matsunaga Army, Tsutsui Shunqing had already thought of it, but when he heard the exact news, he couldn't help but feel a tightness in his heart, Matsunaga Army is here, but he hasn't thought of a countermeasure, how should this be?

Although Tsutsui Shunqing was flustered in his heart, he didn't want to show such emotions, so as not to disturb the morale of the army, so he forced himself to calm down and said: "Zhilu Dao, you can retreat." ”

As soon as the ashigaru left, Tsutsui Shunqing knew that he couldn't drag it out any longer, so he hurriedly said, "Everyone, now that the enemy is present, do you have a strategy to retreat from the enemy?" After speaking, I saw that Tsutsui Shunkei's eyes also fell on Shima Katsu Meng.

Since the last big victory in the first battle, Shima Katsutoshi has been quite valued by Tsutsui Shunkei, and he has become the first minister of the Tsutsui family in one fell swoop by virtue of his military exploits, and he should be the first to speak at a moment of crisis like this.

After thinking for a while, Shima Katsu said: "My lord, my subordinates think that now we should attack while the enemy is encamped and has not yet gained a firm foothold, otherwise, once the enemy's large camp is formed, it will be too difficult to defeat him." ”

After listening to this, Tsutsui Shunqing hurriedly asked, "How sure are you?" ”

"This ......" Shima Katsutoshi didn't know what to say, although in his opinion, now is the best time to send out the army, even if it can't repel the enemy, then it can also make the enemy's morale drop greatly, in this way, it is very beneficial to the ridge city, if it can be done, then with the food stored in Tsutsui City, even if it is consumed, the enemy can be consumed.

But the problem is that the enemy's army is too elite, and although he has not fought against this elite, rumors of its battle with the Takayama army have already reached his ears.

The elite of the Takayama Army is known to everyone in the world, but the Matsunaga Army can fight on a par with it, and in the face of such a military situation, he is not even sure.

Seeing that Shima Katsu was silent, Tsutsui Shunqing knew that he must not fight hard with Matsunaga Army, so he didn't continue to ask.

"Lord, my subordinates think that it is possible to wait for the night to come before going out to steal the camp, the Song army is exhausted from afar, if you steal the camp at this time, then there should be a few percent certainty." Naokuni Akiyama was inspired by Shima Katsutake's words and couldn't help but speak. …,

Before Tsutsui Shunqing could speak, he heard Matsukura Shigenobu hurriedly say: "The lord can't, by all means, Matsunaga Xiu is unparalleled in his wit, how can he be defenseless if he dares to camp under the nose of his own family, if his family goes out to the army, he will definitely go and never return, so he must not take risks." ”

After Matsukura Shigenobu finished speaking, the assessment room was quiet again, in the face of an enemy who was much stronger than himself, any strategy was useless, so even if they came up with a new way, but they were soon denied by themselves, if the Tsutsui family has a big business, then it's okay to say, if you lose some, you will lose some, but now Tsutsui is not a poor and white, but it is not strong, if the strategy fails, then the only thing waiting for the Tsutsui family is destruction, when I think of this, The retainers present did not dare to speak casually.

After a while, seeing that no one had spoken, I only heard Tsutsui Shunqing say unhappily: "Could it be that I and you are just sitting here and waiting to be killed?" ”

"Lord, there is a way for my subordinates to keep their family safe......"

Matsukura Shigenobu was just halfway through his words, and he heard Tsutsui Shunqing hurriedly ask, "Tell me quickly, what's the way?" ”

"My lord, as far as my subordinates know, now the Oda family Takayama clan is sitting in the mountain city country, and there are more than 1,000 elite ashigaru of the Oda family under his command, if you can ask Takayama to send an army to help, then the Matsunaga army will not be its opponent, this is the foolish opinion of the subordinates, and please ask the lord to decide."

Please lead the army of the Takayama clan to help? It can be said that this idea is too bold, not to mention that he has never been in contact with the Oda family, and he has nothing to do with the Takayama clan.

And even if the Takayama clan really led the army to help, then if it moved to seize the family's foundation, then there was the Matsunaga army outside, and the Oda army of the Takayama clan inside, and the family had no possibility of survival at all, which was related to the survival of the family, so even Tsutsui Shunqing didn't make up his mind for a while.

And Matsukura Shigenobu did not continue to persuade after making this suggestion, he knew that this matter was related to the survival of his family, and he only needed to make a suggestion, as for whether the lord adopted it, it would depend on the lord, after all, he was just a subordinate, and everything was better for the lord to decide. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )