At night at Sunpu Castle, the cherry blossoms in the castle have withered at this time, and the mountain outside the window is also full of petals. In the misty moonlight, the petals of the cherry blossoms have gradually blurred.

Sena Hime was sitting in a wooden house in the courtyard at this time, and there was no one around the wooden house, which seemed very quiet, but this made Sena Ji feel even more frightened when she learned that she, her daughter, and children had been abandoned by Matsudaira Motoyasu as hostages in Sunfu Castle.

And just when Sena Hime was sad, under the light of the oil lamp, a blank piece of paper suddenly floated in outside the window, and it fluttered like a butterfly. Sena Hime was immediately terrified.

Because she saw it was a letter. So, she jerked to her feet and looked out the window, only to see a small figure disappearing like an arrow around the corner of the courtyard garden.

At this time, the samurai family did not have strict family customs and laws, and young people interacted freely with each other. Even then, there are still very few people who are bold enough to sneak into other people's mansions and deliver letters without permission, not to mention that at this time, Sunfu Castle is in a tense atmosphere due to the defeat and killing of Imagawa Yoshimoto, so it is naturally impossible for this kind of thing to be infiltrated into the family mansion by outsiders, but such a thing is really happening in front of me now.

"Who is it?"

Sena didn't open the letter right away, but quietly hid under the window. She felt that the man had waited until she had sent her away out of fear and sorrow and had left her alone, apparently having been watching her for a long time, and that it would not have been possible to know so much about her whereabouts. At this moment of the envoy, she was really scared, but after thinking about it for a while. Sena finally carefully cut open the envelope.

But when taking out the stationery. When you see what is written in the Epistle. Sena Ji was immediately stunned, and after a long time, she hesitated and muttered to herself:

"...... in the shade of the old pine"

She muttered to herself as she looked up at the sky. The moon was not very bright, and the night was very humid. After pondering for a while, as if she had made up her mind, she immediately pulled up her sleeves and ran out of the room quickly.

After a brisk walk. The place that Senahime finally came to was the place that the letter pointed to was a corner of the garden near the south gate of Sunpu Castle. In the darkness of the night, I vaguely saw an old pine tree with lush branches, firmly covering the small pool next to the handwashing well.

After arriving at the place specified in the letter, Sena looked at the old pine tree a little nervously, but did not dare to take a step forward.

"Ma'am." At this time, a figure stood up from behind the old pine tree.

"Huh?" Sena Ji was slightly startled at first, and then said as calmly as she could, "You? ”

"In Shimomatsu Saburo, he is a retainer of Lord Motoyasu." The comer directly identified himself.

"Huh? It's you? After the other party approached, Sena Hime finally recognized that the person who came was the samurai Bantou Matsuzaburo who was usually in charge of guarding the south gate of Sunfu Castle. It's just that Sena Hime is puzzled. This Matsuzaburo is obviously a retainer of the Imagawa family, why does he claim to be a retainer of his husband?

Matsuzaburo also knew the doubts in Senahime's heart. So he simply took out a token and handed it to Senahime. After Senahime took it, she immediately recognized it as a token that her husband usually brought with her in the night, so she immediately confirmed the identity of the visitor.

"So, ...... you said," Sena asked again after confirming the identity of the other party.

"Presumably, Madame should have known the news of the lord at this time, and it is precisely because the lord has prepared in advance that he will appear today next day." Matsuzaburo said immediately.

After Sena Ji heard it, he immediately became stunned again, and the news that Matsuzaburo said naturally refers to the news that Matsudaira Ieyasu intends to stay in Mikawa Country and not return to Sunfu, so that she and Takechiyo and Aki and the children of the retainers of the Matsudaira family will become hostages, and the end may be very miserable, because of this, feeling that she and others have been abandoned by her beloved husband, Sena Ji will be depressed and hide back in her usual residence, and after driving away all her subordinates, she will be sad alone. However, it was mentioned in the previous letter that safety had been made for them, so she rushed over, and now after reconfirming, Senahime's depressed mood finally began to improve.

"It turns out that he did not abandon our ......"

"Madam, time is running out, please decide as much as possible, tonight is the best time to leave." Matsuzaburo saw that Sena Ji suddenly became sluggish again, thinking that Sena Ji was still hesitating, so he immediately reminded. In the previous letter, it was mentioned that he would help Sena Hime and others escape from Sunpu Castle tonight.

"This?" After being reminded by Matsuzaburo, Sena Hime, who came back to her senses, immediately hesitated, in her heart, she felt that such a move was too dangerous, after all, she was still loyal to the Imagawa family, and once the escape process was discovered, she really didn't know how the Imagawa clan would treat her.

"Ma'am?"

"Good!" Under Matsuzaburo's repeated urging, the longing for her husband Matsudaira Motoyasu still prevailed, so Sena Hime finally agreed to Matsuzaburo's arrangement.

So, according to Matsuzaburo's instructions, Sena Hime was terrified to gather the families and children of all the retainers in Mikawa Province, Ene Province, and Sunfu Province who were hostages to the courtyard where she lived, and then sent all her subordinates away under the pretext that there was something important to discuss. Since their movements in Sunfu Castle Honmaru were not restricted, and the retainers of the Imagawa family, who had gathered in the courtyard, really didn't want to be surrounded by those family members who were crying because they lost their husbands, it was rare that they could clean up for a while, and naturally they did not stop Senahime's movements.

"What's going on?" Senahime's sudden action made Tadaji's wife Usui and Mrs. Kira immediately feel that something was wrong.

"Okay, all quiet me down, listen carefully......" After quieting everyone down, Sena Hime told everyone about his imminent escape plan. Since all the women and children present were women, children, and children, Senahime's words really caused a little commotion, but they were quickly suppressed by Sena Ji and others. Fortunately, due to Senahime's identity, the guards outside the courtyard and the people in the courtyard next to him were alarmed. But none of them came in to check. They all thought it was Senahime who was comforting everyone.

The commotion quieted down. Although some of the members of the Matsudaira family in Mikawa Province were suspicious that the sudden appearance of Matsuzaburo was a retainer of the Matsudaira family, they finally agreed to Senahime's decision out of their desire to leave Sunpu Castle and with Senahime's assurance.

So, under the leadership of Matsuzaburo, the group went to the corner of the courtyard of the mansion where the old pine tree was located, and left the courtyard one by one through a hidden dog hole in the corner of Guò. Subsequently, under the arrangement of Matsuzaburo. After passing through the small gates of Nido Castle (Nimaru) and Mido Castle (Mimaru), they actually walked out of Sunfu Castle, and after being received by people outside the city, they quickly boarded several small boats that had been prepared in the nearby river.

Senahime, who was already sitting comfortably on the boat and holding her son and daughter tightly, was still a little nervous even now, firstly because she didn't know where their next destination would be, and secondly, she was surprised that Matsuzaburo was able to take them out of Sunpu Castle smoothly, with Sunfu Castle being so poorly guarded. If an enemy army sneaks up on it at night, then Junfu Castle is very likely to fall.

Of course. For Senahime's thoughts, Matsuzaburo, who was standing nearby, would definitely not agree with it. As a Warring States daimyo who was both civil and military, Imagawa Yoshimoto had a lot of arrangements for the rear of the Imagawa family, even if he was Kamiraku. Not only were troops deployed at the border with the Takeda family and the Hojo family for defense, but also a lot of defense troops were deployed at Sunfu Castle, which was the Imagawa home castle.

The reason why he was able to take these women and children away from Junfu City so smoothly this time was inseparable from the hidden arrangements that he and the people around him had been in Junfu City for so many years, they not only controlled an escape route, but also temporarily transferred or diverted the attention of many defenders during this period, under their mobilization and guidance.

But after all, because their numbers are too small, and they are in the center of the Imagawa family's territory, the slightest bit of a big disturbance, a large number of defenders in and outside the city will react, and there is no possibility of robbing Sunfu Castle at all.

And just when Matsuzaburo and others took Sena Ji and other hostages away from Sunfu Castle, Takeda Harunobu, the governor of the Takeda family, who was far away in Shinano Province's Takato Castle, was also contemplating at this time touching his bald head that was shining under the light of an oil lamp. Now he is also a monk.

At this time, the Warring States period was a country that believed in Buddhism, and the daimyo often became monks in order to show their piety and win the hearts of their retainers and the people, but don't think that the daimyo after becoming a monk will abide by the precepts of Buddhism, do not kill and do not move the sword or something, joking that many sects of the Warring States monks are violent groups, can you still expect the feudal military lords of the daimyo to put down their butcher knives and become Buddhas? So, formalism is just that.

The date of Takeda Harunobu's ordination, probably at the intersection of the second year of Hongji and the first year of Eiroku, was shaved for him by his childhood teacher Gihide Motobo (historically it was supposed to be in charge of Kuaikawa Shokirai, but this master has now been abducted and taken to Kyushu by Masaara), and after the incident, Takeda Harunobu was called "De Rong Xuan", the road name "Kiyama", and the law name "Shingen", and this person was later called "Takeda Daizen Doctor Tokueiken entered the Dao Kiyama Shingen".

The so-called De Rong Xuan is the name of the Buddhist hall built by Takeda Harunobu in his own building, and Harunobu worships the Buddha here, so he does not need to go to the temple to become a monk; Jishan, it is the number of the road, that is, in front of the monk's number, such as Kuaichuan Shaoxi, Kuaichuan is the road number, and Shaoxi is the law number, and Qixiu Yuanbo is the same; The last letter is the law name.

Therefore, Takeda Dashan Doctor De Rong Xuan entered the Taoist Jishan Xin Xuanjun, Takeda is the family Miao character, Dashan Dafu is his official position, and the Taoist means that he has become a monk, and the monk name Jishan Xinxuan, he has to go to De Rong Xuan to pray and chant all day long, and if so, it is referred to as Takeda Xinxuan.

Became a monk with Takeda Shingen, and there were several retainers, the Ashigaru generals Hara Huyin and Oda Toramori, whose legal names were Qingyan and Riyi; There is also Sanada Yutaka who is outstanding in the Beixin Raiders battle, and his legal name is Yidezhai; There is also a milk brother of Shingen, who is also Takeda's pedigree minister, named Nagasaka Mitsujian, and his law name is fishing and leisure.

And these candidates for ordination actually expressed Takeda Shingen's goal: "Completely pacify Shinano, and in a decisive way, drive out the-stirring stick of Nagao Teruhu (later called Nagao Kenshin) - Takeda Harunobu before the age of forty, focus on Koshin; After the age of forty, Takeda Shingen has the whole world in mind - he can't spend it in Beixin anymore! ”

Yuan Huyin and Oda Husheng are the five ministers of Jiayang. He is also Takeda Shingen's most trusted ashigaru general. The two of them have been serving as "parashine" roles in Kita-Shinano. He is the most capable cadre who assisted Sanada Yutaka and others in pacifying Shinano, and he has nothing to do with Hokushin; Sanada Yutaka, "the head of the Shinshu ancestors", is the commander of the Shinano servant army, needless to say; Nagasaka Mitsuken, together with another genealogy of the Department of Traces Nobuaki, accepted the order of Takeda Shingen and rushed to Shinano to work, and served as the "secondary" position of the great man Kasaka (Takasaka).

Take Times. In history, in order to strengthen the control of the Koshin Koku, Takeda Shingen appointed many retainers to this position, such as Shingen's younger brother Takeda Nobuyoshi was the second of Kai Takekawa, and the other younger brother Nobuyoshi was the second of the Nishikawa of Suwa County, and the close minister Iitomi Genshiro (later Yama Prefecture Shokei) also served as the second of the Saneda family, and the second was responsible for liaison and goodwill work with the people he worked with, and he was also responsible for taxation and conscription during wartime. Therefore, it can be seen from this that the purpose of Takeda Shingen and these people to become monks together is obvious: everyone is the old ginger who raided Shinano. Let's change our face together and help me Takeda Shingen get this place in one go.

Shingen Takeda thought about doing it. Last year, when his nemesis, Nagao Teruto, sent troops to Kanto, he took advantage of the opportunity to build a brand-new castle in Kaizu, which is adjacent to Kawanaka Island, Kaizu Castle. Kaizu was originally the territory of the Kiyono family of the Hokushin clan, this Kiyono is the same clan of Murakami Yoshikiyo, and was rebelled by Sanada Yutaka before the Toishi collapse, and almost blocked Murakami Yoshikiyoshi outside the door, after Yoshikiyo escaped, Takeda Shingen strengthened the purchase of the Kiyono family, and even awarded the word "letter" to the forced family governor Kiyono Zuo Jingliang, and the grateful Kiyono family was completely obedient.

Because Kaizu is located at the intersection of Kawanakajima, Zenkohei, and Hokuriku streets, it was a wise choice for the Takeda family to build a castle here if they wanted to completely complete their control of Kita-Shinano.

At the beginning of this year, after some hard work, Kaijin Castle was finally completed, and in the city, the Great Drum Gate, Flying Bridge, Maruma De, and Mikazuki Hori were all available, which could be used as a fortress base and as a garrison base, and the effect was very good. Shingen Takeda was very happy and appointed Hara Toragein and Oda Toramomori as the garrison of Kaizu.

However, this is just "opening up the situation", in order to consolidate the current good situation, Shingen understands that he must also have a trick with Nagao Teruto, who is showing off his power in Kanto, which is also his direct purpose of building Kaizu Castle, but before Nagao Teruhu can withdraw from Kanto, a news comes from Suruga: Shingen's brother-in-law, Imagawa Yoshimoto, with 25,000 men and horses, has entered the border of Owari Province, and he wants to trample Oda Nobunaga, who is known as the "Great Fool of Owari".

"Damn, this guy, the family is in full swing with the Nagao family in Kanto, Shinano and other places, but he is going west to pick peaches in order to seize the world?" Takeda Shingen was indignant in his heart.

For this reason, he used the excuse of "helping his in-laws". So he sent the sixth son, Nobutada, to lead the army to accompany Imagawa Yoshimoto to the Owari Province.

Takeda Shingen's sixth son, Nobutada, whose full name is Katsuyama Nobutada, inherited the Katsuyama family, a wealthy clan in Hedong. Shingen was mainly such a few children at this time, and his wife, Mrs. Sanjo, gave birth to three sons and two girls, of which Takeda Yoshinobu was the eldest son, who lived in the Saiqulun Pavilion in the Hesaki Pavilion and was cultivated as a future heir; The second son is called Shinkin, because of blindness in his childhood, he was sent by Shingen to the Pure Land Shinshu as a monk (Shingen's move, but also to win over the meaning of Honganji), the law name is Monk Longfang, but the Pure Land Shinzong allows believers to eat meat and marry wives, so when Monk Longfang became an adult, he married the daughter of the Shinano wealthy clan Haino family, named Kaino Shinkin-a blind son, who can also open up power for his father in the secular and religious worlds, which shows Shingen's skill; The third son, Nobuyuki, died at the age of eleven;

In addition, Mrs. Sanjo also had two daughters, Huangmeiin, as a witness to the Koshojun Alliance, married to Omasa, the son of Yasushi of the Hojo clan of Odawara, and a daughter, Misein, who married Nobuyoshi Anayama (son of Nobuyomo Anayama), one of the "Niyama systems", which strengthened Takeda's in-law ties with this Kai Dai.

After Shingen conquered Suwa that year, he took two concubines there, one named Suwa Goryoto and the other named Youzu Goryoto (there is also a view that these two daughters were actually one person), the former gave birth to four sons for Shingen, the later Suwa Katsuyori, and the latter gave birth to Shingen's seventh son, Takeda Nobukiyoshi (the only survivor of the later Shingen sons, the ancestor of Yonezawa Takeda).

Finally, Shingen also has a side room, and his status is very important, and he should be second only to Mrs. Sanjo, and higher than those two royal servants. This is the Takeda family. Mrs. Yakekawa, known as "the first beauty of Koshu". Very fortunate to Shingen, it can be known from the number and status of the children she left behind: the fifth son, Nishina Morinobu, inherited the Shinano wealthy Nishina family, and his daughter Marihime married the Kiso family, and two daughters, one was Matsuhime, and later became the "legal wife" of Oda Nobunaga's eldest son Nobutada (the two families first concluded a marriage contract, but due to later bad relations. This young couple became a tragic example of a covenant but no actual fulfillment), one was Kikuhime, and later the main room of Echigo daimyo Nagao Keikatsu - which shows the status of Mrs. Yatagawa in the Takeda family.

And Katsuyama Nobusada, also from Mrs. Yaekawa, is younger than Nishina Goro Morinobu, is the sixth son of Shingen, this is very special, was not sent to the wealthy family of Koshin, but was sent to the Katsuyama family in Suruga Province, and became the adopted son of the Katsuyama clan.

The Katsuyama family is the lord of Suruga Kato County. It has always been a fish in water between Imagawa, Gohojo, and Takeda, and is an independent force that all three families strive for. This family was from the Imagawa family for a while, in exchange for autonomy in Hedong, and for a while married Hou Hojo (Ise Sakumo's side room, which is the daughter of the Katsuyama family), and at this time welcomed the adopted son from the Takeda family, it was really a continuous investment, and it was very busy. However, Takeda Shingen is also dark enough, thinking that after the Hanakura Rebellion, the Imagawa family and Gohojo fought for the east of the river, and in the end, he let his son enter the Katsuyama family and took a big advantage.

Take advantage of it, take advantage of it, Imagawa Yoshimoto thought, anyway, Shingen is also his own brother-in-law, the Geshan family let the brother-in-law's son be in charge, and his back is also very relieved, so, Shingen asked Katsuyama Shinsada, with a group of people, to participate in Imagawa Yoshimoto's Owari Kamiraku army, even if it is a support for Imagawa, Imagawa Yoshimoto does not have any mustard, anyway, at this time his two allies, the Takeda family is in Kita-Shinano, and then the Hojo family is in Ueno, Musashi, are all stuck to the long-tailed Teruto, and at this time it is indeed the Imagawa family westward, The best time to open up the route to Kyoto, if this time Kamiraku is successful, sooner or later let the Imagawa family dominate the Gyeonggi area and become the new people of the world.

However, Imagawa Yoshimoto didn't expect that it was Katsuyama Nobusada who played a mysterious and subtle role when he perished, and Takeda Shingen was really cheating him.

Imagawa Yoshimoto, who didn't know the situation, actually placed Katsuyama Nobusada's army in the vanguard formation, and the army of the first hand formation had already killed near Kiyoshu Castle when Imagawa Yoshimoto's main formation went to Dataka Castle, and it was even more coincidental that Oda Nobunaga's army that was gradually growing from Kiyoshu Castle passed near Katsuyama Nobusada's army.

It is estimated that the biggest puzzle of Imagawa Yoshimoto, who has been killed at this time, is that Oda Nobunaga came out of Kiyoshu Castle, with only a few two hundred foot light and five or six cavalry retinues, and the direction of Kiyoshu Castle has been seen dead by the military strength of Katsuyama Nobusada. In fact, as the sixth son of Takeda Shingen, Katsuyama Nobutada, when he went out to support the Imagawa family, he was instructed by Takeda Shingen.

So, in the entire battle of Tsukasama, even if he couldn't look at Nobunaga with thousands of men and horses stationed in Hoshizaki (but it's impossible to think about it), he could still come to support Imagawa Yoshimoto's main camp in time after discovering Oda Nobunaga, but he didn't do it, and after learning that Imagawa Yoshimoto was killed in battle, he quickly led the army and began to retreat.

More importantly, he also wrote a letter about the details of the battle and sent someone to Takeda Shingen in Shinano Province. And Takeda Shingen is naturally very concerned about Imagawa Yoshimoto's Shangluo, and this evening, he also happened to receive a letter from Katsuyama Nobusada.

"Immediately send someone to pay close attention to the situation in Junfu." After learning that Imagawa Yoshimoto was defeated and killed, Takeda Shingen immediately ordered.

At the time of Takeda Shingen's order, in the Odawara Castle of the Later Hojo family, Hojo Nobuyasu, who had been in seclusion at this time, also received the news that Imagawa Yoshimoto was defeated and killed.

However, unlike Takeda Shingen, who quickly set his sights on Sunfu, Hojo Nobuyasu's eyes were still in the Kanto region at this time.

Hojo Shiyasu was also anxious at this time, and he was beaten by Nagao Terutora so much that he couldn't raise his head. Since the third year of Eiroku (1560), the evil star of Hokuriku, under the banner of conquering the Go-Hojo family, crossed the mountains from Echigo Province to the Kanto region, the territory of Musashi Province and Ueno Province, which the Go-Hojo family had painstakingly conquered since the night battle of Kawagoe, has been constantly encroached upon. The people of these places also took advantage of the glorious nature of the wall grass, and began to secretly fall to the Nagao Army, acting as the vanguard of the attack on Hojo. Thankfully, however, recently, the long-tailed Teru's offensive has slowed down.

For this reason, Hojo Shiyasu knows a little. Although due to the long-term relationship, such as Nagano Yoshimasa of Ueno Province and Musashi such as Ota Shimasa, are the sworn enemies of the Go-Hojo family, and at the same time they are also die-hard supporters of Nagao Teruto.

However, the Satake family of Hitachi Province and the wealthy families such as Utsunomiya, Koyama, and Nasu of Shimono Province invited Nagao Terutora to join the battle to jointly conquer the Hojo family, but it was not at all pleasant to drag mud and water. The reason is actually very simple, the old Nagao family in the Muromachi era of the feudal country, that is, Ueno, Izu and Echigo three, and later expanded (although it is the Shu Ogiya family) to Sagami and Musashi, these places except for Sagami and Izu were invaded and digested by the outside of Hojo, the rest of the countrymen of several countries, still have a lot of feelings for the Nagao family, so when Nagao Teruhu came, it was a fall from the wind.

However, before the rise of the Warring States daimyo of Go-Hojo, Takeda, and Echigo Nagao, the main contradiction in the eight states of Kanto was the contradiction between the anti-shogunate Kamakura Gongfang (later Furukawa Gongkata) and the pro-shogunate Kanto governor. Therefore, the lords of Hitachi, Shimono, including the area of Boso, are still mainly pro-Furukawa Gongfang.

And the problem is that after the Battle of Kawagoe Night, the Furukawa Gongfang Ashikaga Haru clan and the eldest son Fuji clan were abolished as the victor Hojo Ieyasu, and the duke was reduced to the "Imperial Gate" of the Later Hojo, similar to a noble guard dog, and the successor of the new generation of the Duke was the Hojo clan's own nephew Ashikaga Yoshiji (this baby is the happiest puppet, and even the inauguration ceremony was held in Kasai Castle, a branch of Odawara, so in the documents of the Later Hojo, it is also called Ashikaga Yoshiji "Kasaiden").

Whether it's a puppet or a watchdog, the Kanto wealthy families who love face very much have heard that the public side is the public side, and if you divide one side, you still have to carry this big banner, plus the history has always been very cold to the Kanto governors, so Satake, Koyama, Oda, and Nasu, the daimyo of the Kanto East (even including Satomi), are reluctant to send troops to the Nagao Teruto.

In the eyes of Hojo Shiyasu, Nagao Teruma must also want to charge, and directly kill Odawara City, killing Hojo Shiyasu himself and his family, which is the most painful for Nagao Teruto! But Nagao Teruto's direct subordinate troops, judging from the Hojo family's previous investigation, are at most more than 8,000 people. With such troops, it is impossible to capture Odawara.

Then, the reinforcements of the daimyo of the wealthy clans in the Kanto region will naturally play a great role in this process, and for this, both Nagao Terutora and Hojo Shiyasu can naturally see it. So the two families sent envoys one after another to the territory of these wealthy daimyos, on the one hand, they continued to strongly invite them to go out to fight against the Hojo family, and on the other hand, they naturally tried their best to prevent these forces from going into battle.

However, judging from the recent reports from various places, the progress of the Hojo family's envoys was not going well because the Kanto region still had a resistant attitude towards the Hojo family, which was an "outsider".

Originally, Hojo Shiyasu was also going to invite the Imagawa family to come out to support when it was really impossible, but now it was better, and the Imagawa family fell first when the Nagao Teruhu had not been killed. And after the allies of the Takeda family also concentrated their forces in the Shinano country area, Hojo Shiyasu really found that he had no more forces to ask for help. In this case, Hojo Shikang is naturally very entangled.

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