Pillars of the Wu family

"What's going on here? Could it be that Nagao Ichiemon gave those pastries to the guards of Honmaru? Or is Kai Topo really so powerful that he also stunned the guards of Honmaru?" Nagao Xing Li hurriedly sent people to search around but still didn't see any figure, walking around anxiously.

"No! Honmaru and the police in the inner city are different from each other and no entanglements are allowed. The cakes and food sent by my family will never be delivered to the Honmaru. Kai Topo can't even get in the inner city, let alone the Honmaru." !Could it be...Could it be!" Thinking of this, Nagao Xingli only felt chills all over his body, and shivered involuntarily.

Nagao Tengjing suddenly went crazy, and suddenly broke free from the restraints of the two guards and rushed towards him with a mad smile. Nagao Xingli was in a bad mood, seeing him still daring to struggle, he couldn't help being furious, and threw the old man with messy beard and hair, cursing. : "What are you laughing at, you old lunatic! We will die if you provoke the defenders in the city! Hurry up and catch them and watch them carefully."

"I'm laughing at you people who are about to die! I'm laughing to death! Hahahaha..." Nagao Tengjing didn't care about the rude movements of the samurai, and tears flowed out of his mouth.

Nagao Jingzhi trembled in fright, and persuaded tremblingly: "Father, what are you talking about? I really don't understand what a dying person is. Don't scare the child!"

"There is no one in the city, where are they going? Haven't figured it out yet? It really is a group of dying people! Hahaha..."

"Shut up! Shut up!" Changwei was furious and furious, pointing at the panicked guard and yelling: "What are you doing, why don't you just shut his mouth up! Shut it up! Ah! Bastard, I have to do it!" Nagao Xingri tore off a piece of haori and forced it into Nagao Fujikage's mouth.I didn't stop until the old man couldn't speak a word when he was blocked.

Not long after.The samurai who searched for the castle tower returned one after another.They brought the expected unfortunate news that there was no one in the castle tower, no one in the Kasuga Imperial Palace, the whole Honmaru was empty and there was no one to be seen, Nagao Xingli's face changed suddenly, Liu Shenzhu was shocked by this news.

"There is no one, there is no one, where did everyone go? How could there be no one? This is impossible! No! This city cannot stay here. We must leave quickly, immediately!" [

Suddenly there was a sound of shouting and killing from the bottom of the mountain, and a little fire was lit up with the sound of shouting and killing. After a while, the Kasuga mountain castle became brightly lit, and the dull military taiko drum and the bronze bell in the castle town rang, and the dead night seemed like Suddenly came to life, Kasugayama Castle Town and Naoetsu Town were all lit up, and the golden light hurt the eyes.

"It's not good! The long-tailed army suddenly rushed out from the Shiki house, and the tiger's mouth was taken away by the defenders!"

"It's not good! An unknown number of troops are coming from outside the city, and they are marching towards the mountain!"

"That's bad! Nagao Carpenter's Assistant was taken by Nagao Jingxin!"

Nagao Xing's face was gray and his eyes were dull.His body staggered and fell to the ground, and the sudden blow instantly destroyed his psychological defense.In the next moment, thinking that I had fallen into a trap after all my hard work, I couldn't help crying from the bottom of my heart: "It's over! Everything is over, the old man fell into the trap of Changwei Jingxin, everything is over!"

"Uncle! What should we do, Uncle! Tell us what we should do! Let's run away now, okay? Flee to Kai and join Takeda Daizen, he will take us in, right?" Nagao Keiji thought in case There is a bit of anticipation in the panicked eyes.

The samurai guarding the top of the mountain ran away in the blink of an eye, Nagao Tengjing stumbled to his feet, removed the rags from his mouth and laughed loudly: "Stupid! You are so stupid! Hahaha... look around Going to Kasuga Mountain City, which is surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, where do you think you can escape? Nagao Fengmaeshu has already set up a net to wait for you, you rebels are hard to fly!"

"What are you talking about! What are you talking about, you old bastard!" Nagao Xing stood up with grim eyes, grabbed Nagao Tengjing madly and cursed: "You actually betrayed us! How dare you really betray us! You old lunatic, old bastard! Why do you drag us if you want to die? I am your brother-in-law and your brother-in-law, but that is your son. You old lunatic actually wants to kill us! You..."

Nagao Tengjing didn't care about his actions at all, and still laughed wildly: "I'm just going to kill you! You group of ungrateful bastards, even coveting the empty promises of the Takeda family to kill me, Shimoda Nagao family, fell into the abyss of eternal doom! Old man If you follow the rebels and go to Huangquan Biliangzaka in the future, what face do you have to meet the former lord? Rather than being ruined by your family, it is better to simply die here than to let you gangsters continue to create evil! Hahaha... ..."

"You old lunatic, old bastard! You want to kill me! Then I will let you die first! Die for me!" Nagao Xingli strangled Nagao Tengjing's neck fiercely, and tightly strangled the old man's fragile neck The strength was getting stronger and stronger, and Nagao Tengjing's face turned purple after being pinched, and he slapped Nagao Xingli's arms indiscriminately. After struggling for a long time, the two arms finally hung down. Then fell down softly.

"You...killed my father! You lunatic, lunatic! I'm going to kill you!" Nagao Keiji rushed over like crazy, grabbed Nagao Xingli and wrestled into a ball crazily, beating seven times on the ground In the end, the eight rolls were still locked by the young and strong Nagao Jingzhi and strangled him desperately.

Nagao Keiji grabbed him by the neck and shouted hysterically, "You were the one who lured me into contacting the Takeda family, you were the one who planned to overthrow Kasugayama Castle, and you were the one who lured my father step by step to be forced to join. It was you who killed my father, you evil ghost crawling out of hell, die for me!"

Nagao Xingli struggled desperately, suddenly pulled out the ribs at his waist and pierced Nagao Keiji's abdomen, the sharp blade cut through the meatball and stabbed his intestines, the instant pain made Nagao Keiji loosen his hands, and fell For a moment, Nagao Xingli violently stirred his intestines and smashed Nagao Keiji, who was pressing on him, and shouted with a distorted face: "You little bastard, how dare you kill me! You have to kill me if you want to kill me!" Die! Let me tell you, none of you want to kill me, don’t even think about it!”

"boom!"

Nagao Xingli shook his chest suddenly, and there was a large pool of blood oozing out.Turning around with difficulty, he saw hundreds of samurai gathered in front of the Honmaru gate unconsciously.Standing at the forefront is Nagao Jingxin.I saw him holding an iron cannon emitting gunpowder smoke and staring at Nagao Xingli with an expression on his face, his eyes were as cold as a piece of ice. [

"Bang bang bang!" Dozens of iron cannons focused fire on Nagao Xingli at the same time, and the huge penetrating power hit him like a funny puppet whose limbs danced non-stop until it was smashed into a piece of rotten meat. stop.

The gunpowder smoke dissipated, Nagao Jingxin walked to Nagao Jingzhi lying in a pool of blood, the warrior beside him looked at the wound and shook his head lightly: "The intestines were torn into several knots by the ribs, he is no longer able to die."

"Cough, cough..." Nagao Jingzhi sprayed blood-red foam from his mouth, and his lungs were desperately breathing like a bellows.Even so, he still held on to his belief and did not die. He looked at Nagao Jingxin with tears in his eyes and hoped. He really wanted to speak, but his poor health no longer allowed him to open his mouth. He could only breathe every mouthful of air desperately. Reluctant to fall down.

Nagao Jingxin was silent for a moment, and when the hope in Nagao Jingxin's eyes gradually dimmed, he sighed: "I understand... The family announces here that Nagao Xingli colluded with Kai Takeda to usurp Kasugayama Castle, Nagao Fujikage and Nagao Okeiji and his son were coerced by thieves. They secretly reported the news to the family, and finally died in Kasuga Mountain Castle to help the family destroy the enemy."

"Thank...thank...you!" Nagao Keiji spat out the last three words in a hoarse voice.Slowly swallowing his last breath, the expression on his face was so peaceful, this was his last belief before he died.

"Takeda Harunobu has done a lot of harm!" Nagao Jingxin sighed secretly, and immediately ordered: "Immediately send the Pegasus Express to Shinano Asahiyama Castle! The rest of the people will clean up the battlefield to get the fugitives, remember not to let them go." Any remnants!"

This is the end of a thrilling battle. In fact, Jingxin Nagao already knows that there is such a group of secret groups that are trying to overthrow Echigo. Soon, they discovered their tell's footsteps from a few inadvertent details.

As early as the beginning of June when Kira Yoshishi began to draw up the battle plan, Hattori Masaki gave him feedback on the situation of the relevant suspects. At that time, the external war was imminent and there was no time to slowly clean it up. Kira Yoshishi ordered him to closely monitor several important suspects. It would be best to lure them out to carry out a thorough cleanup.

Nagao Jingxin didn't know what was going on at the beginning, until Nagao Fujikage suddenly changed his attitude and supported Torahee, Hattori Masaki found him and revealed relevant information, hoping that the two sides would cooperate once and wipe out this silverfish hiding inside Echigo. And a clean world.

All of Nagao Kosato's subsequent actions, including the food that Nagao Ichiemon was entrusted to distribute on his behalf, have been under the strict supervision of Hattori Masaki, and it is easy to guess that no one ate the food he sent. The defenders found various reasons to leave their posts and disappear, and in the end there was not even a person guarding the gate, just to lure them in.

This plan does not lie in when they see through the trick, but that as long as they dare to break into Kasugayama Castle, they are destined to be doomed back and forth. They were notified that as long as they saw a large fire in the castle, they would ring the bell collectively and gather the townspeople to support Kasugayama Castle.

In this turmoil, the most unexpected thing is the great change of Nagao Tokage's family. The tragedy of three people died successively. As for Kai Topo and Ronin, they are the most boring. The stubborn Topo ninjas are double crushed in terms of quantity and quality The overwhelmed Kira ninja easily beheaded, and the ronin samurai surrendered without any bones. They were mercenaries in medieval Japan.

In September, the Chikuma River lost its rage in early summer, as if it had changed from a group of runaway horses back to a tame and docile appearance. The confrontation between Nakajima in the Kita Shinano River lasted for three full months. This difficult battle exhausted the last trace of the Takeda family. Qili, the torrential rain that raged throughout the summer in Kai caused the floods of the Fuefuki River and Puchuan River to be left aside, and he devoted himself to this war.

Takeda Harunobu really tried his best. Seven or eight large-scale battles broke out in the small Hachimanbara. The small-scale landing battles were staged along the Chikuma River almost every day. With the advantage of the geographical advantage, the Takeda army played a perfect coordination and succeeded. The Kira Army has the advantage of the water army to repel every attack of the Kira Army.Being able to launch a landing operation anywhere anytime is a huge advantage.But this advantage is not enough to turn into a victory.

The Takeda Army had three fortified fortresses lined up and connected to each other.The westernmost Yokota Castle and the Chausu Mountain Takeda camp echoed each other as a support, not only using the advantages of beacon fire, each landing battle would inevitably attract Takeda troops from all directions to support each other.

What's worse is that the Takeda family stole the fortification techniques of the Kira family from nowhere, and built high-walled wooden fences and civil structure arrows, making the iron artillery team that the Kira family is proud of less useful, no matter how powerful It is impossible for a smooth-bore gun to penetrate a solid wall. The defenders who have no worries dared to carry iron cannons and shoot at Kira's iron cannons. This trick of hitting flies in the air will not do anything.However, it is still very good for boosting morale.

In order to prevent the Kira family from taking out the "unidentified explosive", the samurai in the city also prepared many buckets. As long as the Kira army tried to rush to the city to release explosives, the defenders in the city would carry buckets and sprinkle water on the siege troops. The forced Kira Army did not dare to act rashly. The trick of one side being difficult to support from all sides dragged down the rhythm of the war. The main force of the Takeda Army made up its mind not to come out to a decisive battle with the Kira Army. Policy.

Kira's retainers were also frowning, and the Takeda family had nothing to do. Every time the Kira army failed to log in, they could retreat calmly under the support of the Kira family's navy.The stalemate battle just helped the reputation of the Kira Navy, and in just a few months, this regicide was very active on Hachimangahara.Every fire support of the fleet will cause a lot of damage to the Takeda Army chasing after the city. This kind of iron gun of the Kira Army has a long range and powerful power. The Takeda Army who is ready to fight in Kyoto has no temper. As long as they catch up and find the Kira Navy, they will retreat immediately.

This confrontation did not last long. In August, Harunobu Takeda received good news. Etsuchu Ikki’s victory on the western front was on the verge of victory, while neither his side nor the Hojo family on the southern front could find a better breakthrough. Although Izuha has not received any new news for the time being, this is all related to the overall situation. It is no problem to withstand Kira's military action with the current stalemate.

The optimism of the situation led the people of Shinano to let go of their courage to join the Takeda Army. Soon the total number of the Takeda Army snowballed to 8000. The people of other countries also sent their main forces one after another, hoping to take advantage of this great opportunity to form a siege network to make a contribution.

Successfully blocking the Kira Army several times gave the Takeda Army great confidence. The image of an enemy that could not fight collapsed suddenly. The warriors of the Takeda family scrambled to express their disdain for the Echigo warriors. In the eyes of most people, the Kira family’s A samurai is an Echigo samurai. It is a bit hypocritical to say that he is a Kyoto samurai after being so thoroughly in harmony with Echigo in the past few years.

The good situation also encouraged Takeda Harunobu a lot, and soon he made a bold decision, ordering Takeda Nobushige to be the general, and Sanada Yutaka as the deputy general, named as the assistant and actually the vanguard, leading an army of [-] to undertake the important task of attacking Haijin City Yukitaka Sanada is like Xiaoqiang who can't beat Xiaoqiang to death. No matter how many times he suffers setbacks, he will always fight back with perseverance. This time he is the one to lead the battle again.

In this army, there are [-] people belonging to Takeda Nobushige's direct descendant Takekawa, and the second is the Shinano National Army from Kita Shinano. Although the combat power is not as strong as Takeda Harunobu's main force, it wants to suppress the opponents on the other side. There is still no big problem with Haijin City. This ranger team landed on the south bank of the Chikuma River from Maoze, captured several small villages and built a temporary military camp, and used it as a base to launch an attack on Haijin City.

Sanada Yutaka's siege skills are good. He put together [-] troops to pull up many fortresses near Haijin City in half a month, step by step to suppress the important task of defending the space near Haijin City. After nearly a month of hard work, he finally captured Sweep away all the branch cities near Haijin City. At this moment, the strong city that has blocked the Takeda family for many years is in front of you.

Their courage is not insignificant. Behind Takeda Nobushige's army is the winding Chikuma River. If you don't pay attention, you will be taken from behind by the Kira navy army. But the more he is like this, the less daring the Kira army will be. Acting rashly is not because he is timid and scared, but because he is unwilling to fall into the trap carefully designed by Takeda Harunobu.

During the evaluation of Asahiyama City, Yoshihiro Kira listened to the old tunes of several retainers in annoyance.

For a long time, Ben sighed with a worried look: "Could it be that Takeda Harunobu became insane due to evil spirits? Absolutely not! The essence of this change is exactly where his sinister intentions lie. General, Sanada Xingtaka sacrificed all his capital and most of the essence of Kita Shinano is not comparable to ordinary farmers and soldiers. Moreover, the level of military strategy of these two people is quite excellent. If our army wants to eat this ranger team, I am afraid it will have to use The method of using a lion to fight a rabbit. Encircle and wipe them out with a large army, but such a move happened to fall into the trap of the Takeda army. As long as this ranger drags on for a while, the main force of the Takeda army will rush over from Chikuma River and attack in turn. The main force of our army is really difficult!"

Namioka Takabo shook his feather fan and retorted with a smile: "Not necessarily, Tokisaka really thinks highly of this ranger team! We need to use all our strength to deal with the [-] partial division of the Takeda Army, so how can we compete with Takeda Harunobu's main force?" What about fighting? This move is to raise the ambitions of others and destroy one's own prestige. It is very inappropriate!"

Ben Duoshi frowned and said: "It's not right for Tanfang to say that. Since it is a battle of annihilation, of course we must gather all our strength to complete the battle. If the action is a little slow and let the main force of the Takeda army come, our army will fall into a passive position, so of course we must use the most Encircle and annihilate them with the fastest and most troops..."

"That's it. Since our army can quickly gather and wipe out the Takeda Special Forces, why is it delayed? If we know that we can't gather and wipe out, why do we have to force it?"

"You can't say that. What if the Takeda Ranger has some tricks to delay us? You can't be careless in military affairs!"

"Hehe, isn't this the job I'm waiting for? The whole army can't quickly take down a small ranger. Either the generals in the front are unwilling to fight hard. Or we staff officers are not good enough. There are obvious flaws in the attack plan. Let the army waste their energy in vain to fight a joint battle that is destined to be impossible to win."

The term "staff officer" mentioned by Namioka Tanbo was also the first new term used by Kira Yoshitoshi. He used Sun Tzu's explanation of the Art of War as a plan to fight against soldiers, so establishing an institution that participates in military and political planning is equivalent to the meaning of a counselor.

"I'm waiting for a staff officer on the one hand, and on the other hand, the general leading the army is on the other hand. On the other hand, Brother Tan obviously forgot, and that is the individual factors outside the attack plan, such as the change of tactics I mentioned or being out of the game." The factors are also on the one hand.”

The Kakizaki Jing family was annoyed by the noise, so they stood up and yelled, "What's so noisy! From my Jing family's point of view, just call over. We have a navy in charge, why are we afraid of him? Takeda Harunobu had the guts to cross the river, so he crossed halfway and choked his escape route! If the Takeda family dare not come over, they will just take advantage of us."

But the two said in unison: "Absolutely not! If Takeda Harunobu is pushed into a hurry, maybe he will send troops across the river to attack Asahiyama Castle. It will still be a loss!"

The Kakizaki Jing family seems to be rude, but in fact they are very smart. They have lived in the center of Oka for many years, and their vision and talents are still good. They glanced at the young governor on the main seat, and continued to shout: "Then we will attack Hachimanhara cut off the back of Takeda's army! I don't believe that the upright and upright division of the town government is afraid of Takeda Haruu's belief! How can a good man be suffocated to death by urine?"

"Inappropriate! If we continue to attack like this, we will lose a bit. Our Kira family is not sure about the war. If we don't move, we must win with one blow. Now that the way forward is unclear, it's better to be safe!"

"It's still one word for you to talk about, procrastination! This is not like a samurai. We are worried about this and that when we fight together. When we went out with the lord, it was the lord who made the decision to fight. Our gang of Echigo The samurai rushed together with the Taidao on their shoulders, and defeated the enemy in a few strokes, how can you be so troublesome, it's really long-winded!"

Nagao Jinghu's style of fighting in the past was like this. A group of retainers didn't intervene at all, and it was all up to him to act arbitrarily. Honjo Mino and Nagao Jingxin's proposals were not adopted very much.

Echigo Dragon's combat ability depends on hard work and talent, just like those great strategists. A military book can read famous generals in the world, but ordinary scholars and small schools are still the same after 100 years of reading. It is a science that requires a lot of talent. There is no possibility that even if you are stupid, you can become a famous general at that time. Wu Xia Ameng also needs to have Lu Meng's talent to do it.

"My subordinates support Izumi Mamoru! It's better to give it a try than to wait." Naito Masamari is introverted and not very talkative. He belongs to the kind of boring person who can't give a fart. From the outside, he looks honest and simple Samurai, who would have thought that he was a generation of famous generals who were famous all over the world, and he shot and killed the fierce general killer who lived in ten rivers with his own hands.

For a long time, Ben saw the powerful representative of the family make a statement, and immediately straightened his waist and smiled and said: "Izumi Shou's words are wrong! Naito-den, please be careful and don't be impatient. Military strategy planning must not be rushed. The master of the hall and the main hall The styles are different, so it's not appropriate to use them for comparison, from my Shizheng's point of view, we need to discuss again, discuss again..."

ps: ps: Historically, the Shimoda Nagao family was exterminated in 1568. The reason was that it was involved in the Honjo Shigecho’s rebellion case, and it was destroyed by our "soft-hearted" Uesugi Kenshin, so it is still a mistake to say that Uesugi Kenshin is indecisive Biased, this gentleman was an idealist in the early stage, but also a black-bellied and ruthless Warring States boss in the later stage.