Prime Minister Bizen

Yamanaka Castle fell, No.12 Masatoshi Suga's troops directly changed from the rear to the front, marching towards the Jundong Plain first, and surrounded Izuntou Castle by the Kakita River in the evening of the same day.

The reason why this city is called Quantou City is not only because it is located beside the Kakita River, but more importantly, the birthplace of the Kakita River is a spring, and this spring is in the city.

In other words, it is impossible to encircle and force the city to open up by cutting off the water, because there are sufficient water sources in the city.The water eye of Shitian River is still abundant even in later generations, just like Baotu Spring in Jinan.

Torii Mototada is not a person who waits for death, because it takes time for Suga Masatoshi's troops to come from Hakone, and it is already late when they arrive at the foot of Izumizu Castle, so they have to use torches to cut trees and build camps.

Torii Yuanzhong felt that this was an opportunity. Fengchun's family must be exhausted from a long distance.

But Masatoshi Suga did not do what he wished. At first, the vanguard of the No.12 formation did plan to besiege the city and build a camp, but Masato Suga saw the exhaustion of the army, so he did not choose to enter the city to build a camp, but chose to retreat 5 kilometers in front of the city. Xiang Shan even garrisoned the front.

At the same time, Hideya, who received the news that Yamanaka Castle had been destroyed, transferred the 11th squad Kagawa Keinori and others to the Gotemba area, and transferred back the former pioneer Ashikaga Yoshiji.

The Ashikaga family was the vanguard general that had been agreed upon, but when he was opening the mountain to the north, he suddenly heard that a war had broken out in Hakone.

The sudden change of strategy by Xiujia made him very uncomfortable, but Xiujia was his father after all, he didn't dare to lose his temper with Xiujia, he could only vent his anger on the Tokugawa family and Masatoshi Suga.

The Ashikaga family in the north only took half a day to gather their soldiers and then withdrew from the Ashigara area to the Hide family. Before they saw the Hide family, they asked the Hide family for the task of attacking Izumito Castle.

However, Xiujia gave him a puzzled expression and asked back, "Why do I want to pull out Quantou City?"

The Uji family, who was educated by traditional martial arts since childhood, did not understand Hideo’s thoughts. He thought it was Hideo who was testing him, and he was about to remove the necessity of Quantou Castle. , what if we don’t take this city to our army’s rear?”

However, this was not what the Xiu family wanted to hear, so he asked the family: "Our army has 10 armies, is it necessary to stop here because of a small town guarded by thousands of people? The construction is as solid as pure soup, and the removal of one city and one place, how long will it take to go to Luo?"

The Ashikaga family heard this thoughtfully, and seemed to understand what the Hide family meant, but he still asked the Hide family, "What about Quantou City?"

"Leave it to Hita Lusuke (Suga Masatoshi) and the others to pull out the castle and monitor it. Including Izu, let Nakagawa attendants and Akigami Izumo (Akigami Hisa) and the others take charge. They have 3 people in their hands, don't they? Is it impossible to win Suruga and stabilize the back road?"

When Xiujia confessed his thoughts, Satake Yoshishige and others who didn't know Xiujia's plan turned pale with shock.His old family, Togawa Tatsuan, also worriedly asked Hideka, "The fortified city in the back road has not been removed, and the main force of the enemy is still in Suruga. Is your highness just abandoning the enemy and passing by behind? This is not showing the enemy with his belly. What accident, what should our army do in the rear?"

"From the moment I went to Shangluo in Fengchun City, I never thought about going back to Kanto."

Hideka's answer was mighty and domineering, and immediately frightened the daimyos present, but Hideka didn't give them time to react, and continued to say, "Major General Tokugawa (Tokugawa Hidetada) left 2.5 troops in Suruga.

Yuanjiang and Sanhe kept 8000 and 4000 respectively.Once Suruga can't resist, he will retreat to Yuanjiang to resist one by one.I want to use this to consume our energy and delay our time.

I don’t have so much time to play house with children (they’re only 7 years old), if I want to fight, I have to do my best in one battle, annihilate the Tokugawa elite in Suruga, and make him unable to lift up in Yuanjiang and Mikawa. How many troops will come. "

All the big names knew more or less about the information about the Tokugawa family, but this was the first time they got such detailed information from the Hideo family.

Hearing Hideka describe his grand plan for the first time, intending to annihilate the Tokugawa elite in Suruga, they cheered up and wanted to hear the exact plan from Hideka.

"Chang Lu Shou" Just when everyone was concentrating on listening to the story of the Xiu family, who knew that the first person the Xiu family called was Satake Yoshishige.

Even Yoshishige Satake didn't expect that Xiu's family would call him, so he paused for a while before responding, "His Royal Highness, I'm here. Please speak up if you have something to say."

"A few days ago, Nakagawa's attendant showed me a letter, which was handed over to him by the Tokugawa Household, expressing his promise that the Nakagawa Clan's commander-in-chief would make him abandon his family. I don't know if you, Chang Lushou, have received a similar letter. letter?"

It would have been shocking enough for Xiujia to tell the secrets of himself and Nakagawa Hidemasa that day in front of everyone, let alone his questioning of Satake Yoshishige later.

Some retainers thought it was the Xiu family's suspicion of Satake Yoshishige, and they even looked at the old man differently.

"I have indeed received a letter from the inner government. The content is just a story about the time when we fought against the Hojo clan together in the past. Maybe Jiro (Yoshinobu Satake) received the exact content of the letter."

Yoshishige Satake was suddenly named by Xiu's family, and he asked such an embarrassing question that he really didn't know how to answer it.But fortunately, he quickly sorted out his thoughts and explained to the Xiu family, "Since my Satake family has decided to go to Luo with His Highness, there is naturally a way to go to the end. Please rest assured, Your Highness. If Your Highness wants to read the contents of this letter , How about I send a letter to Yojiro and ask him to forward it?"

"No need, it doesn't matter whether you read it now or not." Hideka rejected Satake Yoshishige's explanation, and put on a somewhat dissatisfied expression, directly ignoring his excuse.

The Hide family did not make a judgment on Yoshinobu Satake's private collection of letters, which naturally aroused the wariness and dissatisfaction of his retainers towards the Satake family.But Hideka directly ignored this question at the moment and said on the spot, "Tomorrow morning the army will leave Hakone and enter Suruga.

Kii Mamoru (Osafune Tsunao) You led the ninth team and did not enter Junzhou with the team, but entered Kai from Koshu Street instead, and you will attack the west of Tokugawa Koshu with Kai behind you, and then you will fight with Takeda Kai acts together as a ranger, no need to walk with the team.Until the task is completed or a new order is received. "

After the Xiu family arranged the military meeting, they announced the end of the meeting, so that their retainers could go down to prepare.Yoshishige Satake seemed to be looking for an opportunity to explain to Hideo, but was blocked by Hideo's guards.

Of course, these were all obvious actions. The attendant who blocked Satake Yoshishige had received a secret order from the Hide family long ago, quietly notifying Satake Yoshishige to come to the secret meeting later tonight.

The content of tonight's secret meeting is destined not to be recorded in history. In order to keep it a secret, Hideka didn't even keep an attendant in the formation. Satake Yoshishige was even dressed up as an attendant of the castle, dressed in gentian and five seven paulownia patterned haori .

The Xiu family's attitude of attaching so much importance naturally made Satake Yoshishige's heart suspend.When he saw that there was only one member of the Xiu family in the formation, who had already boiled tea and waited for him, he swallowed involuntarily.

"Earlier today, Hita Lushou was wronged." Hideka motioned Satake Yoshinaga to sit down, and offered him a cup of tea. "My people can know the military strategy of the Tokugawa family, and the Tokugawa family can naturally know it." Know my arrangement."

Yoshishige Satake understood what the Hide family meant, but he still asked the Hide family for confirmation, "Your Highness is saying that there are traitors from the Tokugawa family in the camp today? But apart from my retainers, only His Highness's subordinates are present at the meeting today. Nakagawa, Tagaya, Oda and other daimyos have already traveled south to Izu."

"There may not be spies from the Tokugawa family in the formation, but there must be outside the formation. What I want to show the Tokugawa family is the appearance of discord between you and me." The Xiu family took a cup of tea, took a sip and then calmed down. Slowly explained, "Only in this way, Major General Tokugawa will believe that you really want to know."

"Internet!"

When he heard these two words, Satake Yoshishige struggled as if he had been electrocuted and said, "Your Highness is joking, and I, Satake Sect, have no such intentions. If Your Highness has a misunderstanding because of the letter, I am willing to call Jiro to explain it to His Highness. "

Hideka waved his hand to show him not to care, and began to appease Satake Yoshishige, "I have already said today, it doesn't matter whether this letter comes or not, and what you wrote is not important. Why don't you take this opportunity to talk to Major General Have fun."

"Play?"

"Our army is 10, and we claim to be 20. Who in the world would dare to fight me head-on? If you want to annihilate the elite Tokugawa Yu Suruga, but don't want to be caught in a battle of pulling out the fortresses, you must find a way to get the major general coax out."

"coax?"

"En" Hideka nodded, pointed to Satake Yoshishige and said, "You are the bait."

"I want you to write a letter to the Tokugawa Uchifu. I have already thought about the content of the letter for you, and then talk to him about the story of the North and South fighting against the Hojo Clan."

"What do you mean?" Satake Yoshishige asked in bewilderment.

"It's not interesting, let's talk about our feelings." However, Xiujia's answer made him a little surprised, "Some things can be trusted by the other party if you are close at hand, and you are too anxious to attract people's vigilance."

"You continue to go to Los Angeles with me, and then at the right time, reply to Major General Tokugawa with a letter, expressing your desire to communicate. I will let you down at a critical point, and then you will also ask me to stay in the rear to attack Fortify the city."

"In this way, the number of troops encircling Suruga with me will be further reduced." Hideka said while breaking his fingers and continued, "The fifth, sixth, ninth, tenth, No. 11, No. 12, and No. 13 formations all remain In the back, only 29600 people surrounded Junfu with me.

At this time, if Chang Lushou can coincidentally express his desire to "make things right" to the major general with his familiarity with him, he should be very willing to come out and fight me. "

"Your Highness." After hearing the Xiu family's plan, Yoshishige Satake did not immediately agree to the Xiu family's request, but expressed some concern, "Is it too dangerous, Your Highness, to use your body as bait?"

In fact, Satake Yoshishige is really thinking about whether to take advantage of the trend and sell the Hide family directly, because as Hide family said, "he is too big", and actually separated most of the main force to fight against various places.What if the car overturns under Suruga Castle?
You must know that the Xiu family seems to be showing weakness to the enemy, but at this moment it is indeed his weakest time. Although the Tokugawa family's military strength is not as large as his, but with the addition of his own nearly 8000 people and the [-] people who stayed in Yuanjiang People, can still besiege him to death?

If they can rely on the merits of beheading the Hideo family, the Satake family may be able to obtain the terms of rewards from the Tokugawa family and Osaka from the two countries of Hitachi and Ibaraki. (Before Odawara), but later changed his mind and split up the disposal. He just wanted to get back what he deserved.

"No!" Yoshishige Satake found his blind spot in this idea after only walking around.Why did Xiujia tell herself such an important secret?He didn't even communicate with himself before implementing the plan, and directly expressed doubts about himself in front of everyone during the day?He is not afraid of my disagreement, so he really betrayed him?
After a moment of rapid operation of the brain's CPU, Yoshishige Satake quickly came to the conclusion, "The Hideka must have someone behind."

In fact, as he said, it was an obvious arrangement for Xiujia to let Osafune Tsuna lead the ninth formation northward to Kaifei during the day.In fact, as early as last night, the Xiu family had already talked with him and limited him to 15 days.No matter what the attack situation is, they must go south to Suruga from Fujikawa Street on time, and must come to Suruga Castle for reconciliation around August 8.

In addition to Osafune Tsunao and Takeda Hidenobu's units not to move, in order to encircle Tokugawa Hidetada, Hideo also mixed the headquarters directly under the main team with Suga Masatoshi's unit, and they will hurry up as soon as they are ordered by Hideo Head west to meet up.

And don't forget the sixth team Hidemasa Nakagawa's team arranged by Xiujia.For the thousands of people on Higashi Suruga and the Izu Peninsula, Masatoshi Suga's 17 people are more than enough. Why do we need to mobilize another 000 people to fight Izu?
Don't forget that Hideka said before that the Sagami, Edo, and Sobosui troops have been following this corps south to guard the coast. Are they really guarding the coast?Or look for an opportunity to board a ship and log in directly at Nishi Suruga?

But don't forget that the Suruga navy of the Tokugawa family has already retreated to Enjiang and Mikawa under pressure. The enemy in Suruga has no boats at all. How can three navy divisions need hundreds of boats to protect them?
Hidetada Tokugawa's big net has already been woven for Hidetada, and it's just waiting for him to set it up.And to win the trust of Tokugawa Hidetada, Satake Yoshishige's acting skills are also crucial.

It is impossible for Hideo to tell Satake Yoshishige all of his arrangements, it is enough to tell his insider's thoughts and everything. Afterwards, Hideo said, "Taking Major General Tokugawa and his main Tokugawa main force, Jing Nanzhi I won 5% of the battle, I will not forget the achievements of Hitachi, and I can give you the rewards of Hitachi and Ibaraki, there is no need for the Satake family to vote for the inner government."

The two countries of Hitachi and Ibaraki are the eternal pain of the Satake family. It is true that Satake Yoshishige has never read Tokugawa Ieyasu's letters to his son, and the letters Ieyasu wrote to him are indeed reminiscing about the past, and he did not lie to the Hide family.But the old-fashioned Satake Yoshishige could imagine the purpose of Tokugawa Ieyasu's letter to himself.

In the letter, it was mentioned many times that "Hitari Satake's family is in the north of the Hojo Clan". Does anyone really take this statement as meaningless flattery?This is just Tokugawa Ieyasu reminding Satake Yoshishige not to forget how powerful the Satake family was in the past and how it fell to the current situation.

Although he didn't express his conditions, he was just waiting for Satake Yoshishige to write back to him to open the bargaining chip.

But for Satake Yoshishige, if the Hide family can give this bargaining chip, and all this seems to be a set of traps, he will naturally not jump into it again.

If it is said that Yoshishige Satake still hesitated and hesitated before, after hearing the bargaining chip offered by Hideka, Yoshishige Satake said almost without thinking, "The Satake family has long stated that it is difficult to follow His Highness to serve the heavens. Get where I'm old, despite bidding.

It's just what His Highness said just now, there are many Tokugawa gaps in this army, how will His Highness contact me when I write a letter next time? "

"Your Highness doesn't need to worry about this matter. You go back and send this letter to the inner palace first. When I come to you next time, I will naturally play with you again. Then you will naturally know how to write it. .”