The sky was overcast, and the sky in the middle of February in the twenty-third year of astronomy was glowing with a heavy light gray, and the gray sky and white earth were blurred at the junction of heaven and earth. The wind was also up, not too cold, but cold enough that it looked like it was going to snow.

At nightfall, a light snow fell from the sky, and the walls of Yoshida-gun's mountain castle were gray and wet, and the flags on the castle were already drenched and pasted together, echoing the silence of the castle.

In the castle tower, it is said that he is in seclusion, and the Mori Yuan, who has been secretly at the helm of the direction of the Mori family, has once again appeared in front of people, but the current Mori family is far less strong than the people they were years ago, and it can be said that it is extremely desolate. With the successive fall of Mori Takamoto and Yoshikawa Motoharu, the Date family attacked strongly, and the wealthy families of Bigo Province, which were originally subordinate to the Mori family, turned their backs on it. An Yi is also angry in China, and Hui Qiong of Ankokuji, the orphan of the Takeda clan, who had long since been wiped out, secretly contacted the disgruntled people of Mori Motosho, dreaming of raising troops again.

Since returning to the mountain castle of Yoshida-gun, for a long time, almost no one dared to take the initiative to talk to Mori Moto. Everyone knew that Maori Moto's love affair was extremely bad, and everyone was very cautious and careful to avoid angering him as much as possible. At this time, if any clumsy maid or servant boy made trouble, he would definitely be punished most severely, and even Nami, who had always been favored, was severely reprimanded, so that the city was in a tense atmosphere, and no one wanted to make trouble for himself.

Mori Moto didn't care about things for a long time, and Takakei Kobayakawa, the only grown-up, finally had the opportunity to re-ascend to the mountain castle of Yoshida-gun, and Takakei Kobayakawa lived in Mimaru. Handle all kinds of things in an orderly manner. Barely keep the Maori family from falling into a more difficult desperate situation.

Originally, Takashi Kobayakawa was thinking of straightening out the situation by himself. Soon he was a little powerless, although he was known as a little Maori Yuan, both civil and military, after all, he was too young to make a decision to decide the fate of the Maori family.

When Takakei Kobayakawa, Takaya Toto, Mototake Kuniji, and Takanao Kumagai entered the castle tower, Naomi generously huddled up with her young son in her arms, her eyes were still red, and she had obviously just cried. In front of the four of them, Mao Liyuan blew away Nami Dafang directly.

Mori Moto looked at the four of them with a gloomy face, Kobayakawa Takakei was the only one of the three sons he had high hopes for, the Butto Takashi family was the son-in-law he tried his best to woo, Kuniji Motomu was the son-in-law of Kuniji Motoko, and Kumagai Takanao was the son-in-law of Kumagai Nobunao, these people can be said to be the mainstay of the Mori family now, and said in a deep voice: "What's the matter? ”

The three of them couldn't help frowning, and the three of them couldn't help frowning, and Mori Moto's face was very bad, obviously indulging in alcohol recently. It's about to hollow out his body and bones, and Maori Yuan's father and brother died within a few years of immersion in wine. They all looked at Kobayakawa Takakei, their faces full of dissatisfaction.

Maori Yuan is depressed and addicted to alcohol, which is not a good thing for the Maori family in distress, it seems that after a while, it is good to ask Kobayakawa Takakei and ask him to remind his father to stay away from alcohol and regain his strength, otherwise, the future and fate of the Maori family will be worrying, and they will have a relationship with the Maori family.

Kobayakawa Takakei's face showed helplessness, and he sorted out his thoughts before he replied: "Father, the Date thief defeated Niko Harumu, and he has frequent contact with Ouchi Yoshinaga, and Ouchi Yoshicho has announced more than once that he will invite Date Thief to fight in Yoshida-gun Mountain Castle after the autumn harvest, and ask my father to decide?" ”

Mao Liyuan turned his head and yelled at Kobayakawa Takakei: "San Lang, no matter what method you use, immediately raise 30,000 stone of military rations for me, I will personally raise 30,000 troops to conquer the Date thief again, as long as he defeats him first, then Ouchi Yoshichangan dares to attack?" ”

Kobayakawa Takashi smiled bitterly, not to mention the 30,000 stone military rations, he can't even take out a thousand stones now, every stone and every bucket is stretched, and he has to think about how to survive this famine year, there is a huge gap in the seeds of spring ploughing next year, where is there still room for the expedition.

The Routo Takaya sighed and persuaded in a quiet voice: "Uncle Yue, are you sure that you can quickly defeat the Date thief, and then turn back to deal with Ouchi Yoshicho?" ”

Maori Yuan's face was even worse, and he pointed at the Routo Takashi family viciously, and the Routo Takashi family also looked back at Maori Motoshi without yielding, and continued: "Date thief, sitting on Kibi Shikoku, with 20,000 or 30,000 standing soldiers and horses under his command, although it is also short of food and grass, but if you build a city to defend the palace, I am afraid that it will be difficult to conquer in a short time, and once you confront it for a long time, Yoshida County Yamashiro will have to be cheaper Ouchi Yoshinaga." ”

Mao Li Yuan didn't know such a simple and easy-to-understand truth, and he also understood that it was difficult to protect himself now, but he was not happy in his heart, and he was worthy of being called a celebrity with titles such as "Seeking General", "Seeking God", "Knowing General", "The First Commander in the West" and so on, the anger in his chest gradually subsided, and he said in a muffled voice at the moment: "Hmph, it's cheaper Date thief, everyone, tell me how the Maori family should survive the crisis?" ”

Kobayakawa Takakei, Butto Takake, Kuniji Mototake, and Kumagai Takanao looked at each other, not knowing where to start.

Mori Moto seemed to be really stimulated, or he already knew that if he indulged in alcohol like this again, not only would he probably follow in the footsteps of his father and brother, but he was afraid that even important ministers such as Takashi Toto, Kuniji Mototake, and Kumagai Takanao would also deviate from morality, glanced around, and said: "I won't say anything about the current situation, and you all know that since this is the case, then there is only one way to get through the crisis - to surrender to Ouchi Yoshinaga." "For the family that survives in the cracks, it is a matter of course to subdue the strong, but it is really commendable to be so righteous with Maori Yuan.

Kobayakawa Takakei thought about it for a while, and arched his hand and said, "Father is wise! The Routo Takashi also made up for his own brain, and nodded slightly in agreement. However, Kuniji Mototake and Kumagai Takanao were still in the dark, unable to understand the meaning of Mori Motosashi in a short time, and their puzzled expressions were overflowing.

Seeing his father's lack of interest, Kobayakawa Takakei explained to the two: "Now Yoshida-gun's mountain castle is in danger of being a dangerous egg, Aki's domestic public sentiment is angry, Izumo is in turmoil, Kibi Shikoku is tending to be unified, and Ouchi Yoshinaga of Nagato Shubei is steady. The Date thief will inevitably expand his territory after recuperating for a period of time, and the direction of his expansion is nothing more than the eastern expedition to Harima, the western expansion of Yasui, and the northern expedition to Izumo. The northern expedition to Izumo, although it is said that the rebellion of the Izumo Province is not effective, but once the foreign enemy invades, it will unite and fight, and it is obviously difficult to achieve results; Only An Yiguo, the crowd is angry, and it burns at one point. ”

After a pause, Kobayakawa Takashi glanced at Mori Moto, and saw that Mori Mototo did not have any dissatisfaction, and his heart suddenly came up, and he continued: "Although Ouchi Yoshicho is extremely arrogant, he is not a fool, of course he understands this truth, once the Date army expands westward, Aki Country will be difficult to resist for long, so he invited Date to divide Aki Country equally, but even if Aki Country is divided equally, the road of Ida's thief's westward expansion will not stop, so there are repeated announcements. Originally, I didn't know why Yoshicho Ouchi had announced more than once that he would invite the Date thieves to fight in the mountain castle of Yoshida-gun after the autumn harvest, but now my father is at a loss, and he is telling us again, otherwise where would the secret word reach our ears? ”

Kuniji Mototake and Kumagai Takashi hurriedly bowed and said, "Your Highness is wise! ”

In the back room of the shrine near Kagayama Castle, which is only more than 20 miles away from Yoshida-gun Mountain Castle, Ankokuji Megumi Qiong was wearing a particular monk's robe and burning incense in front of his knees.

Shinagawa Sakyo Ryo was the leader of the Shinagawa Party of Takeda's retainers, and the Shinagawa Party was brutally attacked by Mori Motosho after the fall of Takeda, and was able to survive in the mountains and wilderness.

Although Anguoji Huiqiong is young, he learned a skill from Zhu Yun Huixin, and has always been ambitious, he originally wanted to rely on the relationship between the teacher to show his skills, where did he think that Maori Yuan experienced a fiasco and suddenly collapsed, and he looked down on Maori Yuan, so he moved the idea of raising troops to rejuvenate under the words of Shinagawa Zuo Jingliang and Takeda Sokei.

But once he acted, Ankokuji Huiqiong was undecided again, although An Yiguo was angry, but there were few people who really wanted to raise troops to rebel, and even the original retainers of the Takeda family also rejected them, not to mention others, Maori Yuan has accumulated prestige for a long time, and it has already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, where will anyone be willing to follow a young man who has just been in Yuanfu to do the business of killing, and it is not a playhouse.

Now the three of them are all difficult to ride tigers, Shinagawa Zuo Jingliang said as soon as he stepped into the room: "Young master, the situation is not very good, the Kagawa scenery in Yagi City has gone dark one by one, if it weren't for the sharp eyes of the criminal department, seeing his wolf ambitions, I'm afraid he won't be able to come back." ”

Ankokuji Huiqiong knew that things were difficult to do, but she didn't expect that Kagawa, who had always regarded himself as a loyal minister of the Takeda family, was difficult to move, and suddenly felt a little disheartened, and after thinking about it, she understood that if she retreated, she was afraid that she would never come out, so she thought about it deeply, and said after a while: "Today's An Yiguo is like water that has not yet reached the boiling point, it looks like it is steaming white, but it is not completely boiling, and only by adding a handful of firewood can it be able to get out of the fire." ”

Shinagawa Zuo Jingliang and Takeda Zongqing looked at Ankokuji Huiqiong and said, "What do you mean?" ”

Ankokuji Huiqiong said: "It is rumored that after this year's autumn harvest, Ouchi Yoshicho and Date Masaki will fight in Yoshida-gun's mountain castle, obviously this is the news that Ouchi Yoshicho deliberately spread, and if Mori Moto is smart, he will inevitably surrender to Ouchi Yoshicho, and we will surrender to Date Masaki." (To be continued......)

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