A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Chapter 158 47. Call back the troops and make a contract

Life gave Xiao Pingtai a heavy blow, and everyone was embarrassed. The Yamauchi army was reluctant to attack the city at this moment and unwilling to retreat. Dilemma, unable to make a decision.

The regret and frustration of the Yamauchi samurai who originally expected to rush into Kaibi after seizing Nirasaki and save the (four) people (from water (robbery)) from fire (plunder) were beyond words. As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, which is probably what it is like now.

This is just like eating hot pot with his wife in his arms, and happily meeting a bandit on the way to take office. With a pong sound, even people and cars will be blown up for you, and he will shoot you in the head.

Of course Yamauchi Yoshiharu knew that Koheita was not at fault, but he was still angry. Originally, everyone had a good idea, they could attack Uzaki and capture Minamoto Harunobu alive. Unfortunately, life is like this, and everything will never follow the pretense of the protagonist like in a novel. Very desperate!

And after life gives you a fist, you will never give up easily. He will definitely give you a huge mallet again. While the Yamauchi generals' attempt to persuade Nirasaki Castle to surrender failed, another predictable news came from Shiban.

What kind of person is Takeda Harunobu, he will never admit or accept failure. As long as he is not beaten to death on the spot, of course he will try his best to come back and regain his place.

So Takeda Harunobu issued a general military service order for all adult men between the ages of sixteen and sixty. As long as he is listed on the military service account, he must report to Tsugasaki Castle immediately, regardless of whether the head of the family has died in the war. The military service members who were really unable to send troops had to provide mules, horses or money to ensure that Takeda Harunobu could quickly raise an army.

In this way, with almost no descendants to search and expand the territory, Takeda Harunobu finally temporarily pulled out an army of 3,500 people. At the same time, his good son-in-law Hojo Uji Nao hurriedly asked his uncle Oishi Shiteru to lead more than a thousand people. He came to save his father-in-law.

This is not over yet. If only Takeda Harunobu brings these old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers to fight with the Hojo soldiers, the Yamauchi army may still find a way to fight him. However, Yoshimoto Imagawa from Suruga actually came to "break up the fight" with 2,000 people. The troops had just set off from Sengen Taisha Shrine, and now they have passed Mount Fuji and will soon reach Nirasaki.

Imagawa Yoshimoto also sent a letter to Yamauchi Yoshiharu. The righteous words in the letter said: Why can't we bear the internal strife in the Minamoto family? We don't want to see the people being harmed by the war during the spring plowing. Now we come to persuade them based on the principle of fairness and justice. Two families. It's all stage talk, it's disgusting.

Thousands of troops from the Three Kingdoms, including Jia Junxiang, have been arriving in the past two days, and it is absolutely impossible for Nirasaki to get down to the city quickly. This joint battle has failed.

What is all this about?

Can’t we just go along for the ride?

There was no other way, so Yamauchi Yoshiharu could only withdraw his troops into the camp. Envoys from Yoshimoto Imagawa arrived in an endless stream, delivering news about Yoshimoto Imagawa. In short, it was all an excuse to stabilize Yamauchi Yoshiharu, because he was afraid that Yamauchi Yoshiharu would really attack the city with human flesh and plunder half of Kaibi.

Moreover, one of the two warring parties is his brother-in-law, and the other is his children and in-laws. Imagawa Yoshimoto is somewhat sincere (although this sincerity is estimated to be very rare) and hopes that the two families will call it quits and stop fighting for the time being. There was no mention at all of Takeda Harunobu, who started the war, and they just talked about "friendship".

As for the deeper meaning, of course, Imagawa Yoshimoto does not want a huge force to dominate the two countries to appear in his north, which will pose a threat to him from high to low. (This is also an ambitious person, is there something he wouldn’t dare to do?)

All in all, eighteen letters were sent in one day. They were both emotional and reasonable. They repeatedly stated that the war had been fought to this level. Takeda Harunobu, Imagawa Yoshimoto's direct brother-in-law, was seriously injured and needed to lick his wounds. In-law Yamauchi Yoshiharu also failed to capture Kai. Even if he could gain the territory of three melons and two dates, he still had to recover from his injuries, which resulted in five hundred casualties and one thousand twelve casualties.

After waiting for another two days, Takeda Army and Imagawa Army rushed to Nirasaki Castle. Takeda's army backed the city and took up the battle, bringing more than 5,000 reinforcements with them. Nirasaki was impregnable from then on.

Imagawa Yoshimoto's two thousand people made it clear that they would not help each other, and chose a relatively undulating hilltop to set up camp. Then, through the intermediary of Imagawa Yoshimoto, the three groups began to contact and test.

Because Imagawa Yoshimoto is an important intermediary, his strength represents his credibility. In the end, the Yamauchi clan and the Takeda clan accepted his mediation and reached a two-year armistice and non-aggression agreement.

First, the Takeda clan allowed the Yamauchi clan to send troops and supplies through Kai to support the Hosokawa Spring Palace of the Eighth Prince in the past two years; secondly, the Takeda clan ceded the territories of Kamina and Shimo-Suwa, with Miyagawa as the boundary, totaling 18,000 kanbun; Once again, the Yamauchi clan returned all the heads of the Takeda clan warriors they obtained, and held a ceremony for the soldiers who died in Uedahara to bury these poor people; and in the last two years, the Yamauchi clan and the Takeda clan could not interact with each other with weapons.

Imagawa Yoshimoto also signed and sealed the agreement. He used his identity as a junior 200,000-guan daimyo to ensure that both parties abide by the agreement. If anyone breaks the armistice agreement, then he will use force to ensure the implementation of the agreement. , let him take effect.

The Yamauchi clan retreated with hatred, and the Takeda clan led the country to preserve the country. Hosokawa Tarime brought thousands of people to send supplies, food, grass and reinforcements to his father. He was filled with joy and achieved his wish.

As for Yamauchi Yoshiharu's annoyance, he didn't say a word for two days. He just followed the army along the way to receive the new territories of Suwa and Ina.

Xiao Pingtai was also very sad. He felt that this era was targeting him everywhere. Why should others do whatever they want, but he was so miserable? How could there be so much wine in the city if he had cut off the water veins so cleverly?

The Yamauchi Army team no longer needs to go around Xiaoxian and Saku Street to return to Yamauchi this time. The entire army returned home from the streets of Suwa in a swaggering manner. They caught up with him on a fast horse and gave Koheita a letter signed by Kansuke Yamamoto.

It says that there is indeed wine in the city, but there are only thirty barrels, and the rest are just empty wooden barrels and vegetable jars. After Kansuke Yamamoto saw that the water veins had been cut off, he guessed that the Yamauchi family would definitely send someone to persuade them to surrender three days after the water was cut off, so on the morning of the third day when the soldiers were having dinner, each of them was given a large glass of wine. The drinking water in the city was indeed almost exhausted. He also deceived the soldiers and said that there were hundreds of jars of wine in the city, which strengthened the soldiers' confidence in holding on.

If Kitahata University had knocked on a few more buckets at that time, he would have found that they were actually empty buckets. He was just betting on luck, and it turned out that he was right.

Xiaopingtai read the letter and said, "You really can't underestimate the heroes of the world!"

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