Chapter 18 precocious genius
"Speak up! Keep your head down and don't speak, how can you look like a man?!" Songjiang urged him.
"Below...this...below..."
Yataro didn't know what to answer.He didn't hate Songjiang, and he was very happy that Songjiang showed his kindness to him, which made him feel very comfortable.This was the first time he felt this way towards a woman, but he didn't know whether it was love or not.Even if it was, when he thought that Songjiang was the concubine of Duke Jing, his heart sank.
"You're worthless, are you still a man?"
Matsue couldn't hold back, walked around in front of Yataro, stretched out his hand and slapped him again.
"Ouch! Why did you hit me again?" Yataro stood up, and the two faced each other.
"That's my temper."
"It hurts!"
"My hands hurt too. You shave your beard! It looks like a man with a beard, but it's dirty!"
Yataro stroked the slapped cheek, and Matsue rubbed his palms. The two looked at each other and laughed unconsciously.
"Where did we talk just now?... By the way, I should marry you..." Songjiang said again, suddenly covered his face with his hands in embarrassment, "It's shameful, let a woman say such things... "
Love hit Yataro's chest like a tide, and he put his hand on Matsue's shoulder.He was just hanging on, still trembling slightly, but Matsue couldn't wait to lean forward on his strong chest, Yataro had no choice but to hold her with one hand.
"Ah! It's so warm!"
For the first time, Yataro felt how warm and soft a woman's body is, with an indescribably pleasant elasticity, not to mention, there is a pleasant fragrance in this body.
Songjiang hugged him and shouted happily: "I'm so happy, this shows that you are not dissatisfied with our marriage!"
Yataro hurriedly wanted to push her away, but Matsue's strength was extraordinary, and it was really not easy to break away from her.
He struggled and said: "You are the one favored by Duke Jing's family, I don't hate you, but...you let me go, it's not good for people to see."
Songjiang hugged him even tighter.
"I won't let go. Now is the critical moment. How can I let go? What do I have to do to my old master? I have served him with all my heart before he was alive. It doesn't mean that I will forget him from now on. I want to Together with you to help Young Master Hu revive the family tradition, if I do this, what reason should I care about? If it is not enough for me to do this, and if I am not allowed to find another man, it is too much. I am still young , I finally found someone I like, but I have to let it go? No, if the lord is still alive, he will also say: 'I am old, I can't love you well, let others love you!' The lord is a Good man, he must have said so, because I thought so too."
Her face was getting closer, and the hot air from her mouth hit Yataro's face.Yataro was upset and distraught.He conspired in every possible way, but he had nothing to say, and thought to let nature take its course!He wanted to hug Songjiang's neck, but Songjiang's head was stuck into his arm. He thought that if he let go at this time, it would be like disrespecting others, so he hugged Songjiang's head with both hands, and pulled hard on himself.What a wonderful feeling!In this feeling, Songjiang's lips were already on his lips, but the inside of those wet and cold lips was hot like fire.
The two sucked each other's lips for a long time like children greedy for fruit.The fog was getting thicker and thicker, and the figures of the two men dissolved into the thick milk-colored gas in a daze.The night owl croaked, and the wind blew through the tall treetops.
A few minutes later, Matsue suddenly pushed Yataro away, and jumped aside himself.Yataro felt dizzy and staggered to hold on to the trunk of the pine tree beside him, panting for breath.
Song Jiang whispered in his ear: "Enough, I'm very happy, we just agreed to get married, you have to get Master Hu's permission as soon as possible, I will wait, you know?"
"Hmm!" Yataro nodded firmly and forcefully.
Although there is no moon, a pearly mist hangs over the bright forest.
In the early morning of the next day, before the thick fog cleared, the group left Zhongshan and traced Miyagawa to Xijiang.Zhongshan is ten miles away from Xijiang, and the journey is difficult and difficult, and we arrived very late in the sky. Hosoe is the territory of Hida country's sister Koji's family.The Anekoji family came here from Kyoto two hundred years ago during the Kenbu period. At that time, Emperor Go-Daigo appointed the Minister of Kyoto to serve as the local state secretary in order to restore the government of ministers.Eighty years later, the Kyogoku clan of the Ashikaga faction came to attack and destroyed the Nekoji family, but the people of the country refused to accept it, and another member of the Nekoji clan inherited the name of the country, but the real power was still in the hands of the Kyogoku clan.Later, the Kyogoku clan's vassal Miki seized power, and Hida was in Miki's hands.Although the sister Xiaolu's family has no real power and is only a false name as the Secretary of the State, she is still respected by the people of the country, and Xijiang outside her city is also quite prosperous. "It's the same everywhere! Miserable! Why must the old be destroyed? Even though the old is replaced with the new, the new is not necessarily good!" Seeing the alternation of old and new forces everywhere, Echigo will not be spared, but when he saw Xijiang City, which looks magnificent on the outside, but can hardly hide its deserted look, Jing Hu was deeply moved. It was night, and they spent the night in the prayer hall of the monastery on the outskirts of the city.The next morning, when he was about to leave for the mountain, Yataro knelt in front of Jinghu with a mysterious expression: "I have something to ask." His face was flushed and he looked rather strange. "any request?" What Jing Hu thought was supposed to come finally came.When he left Zhongshan yesterday, he found that something was wrong with Yataro. He was usually happy, talking and laughing loudly, but yesterday he was quite silent, revealing a look of deep thought from time to time.At that time, Jing Hu thought: "What's wrong with him? Is he dissatisfied with me? Or is he angry with his peers?" Jing Hu's clear eyes stared at Yataro a little timidly, "Uh... I really dare to ask..." He shrank again, with beads of sweat floating on his forehead and running down his beard.He had a complicated expression, desperately wiped his sweat with his sleeves, and suddenly turned to the others, "You all come here, I have something to say." Everyone gathered together curiously.Yataro blushed, straightened his shoulders, looked around the crowd and said, "What I'm going to say later may surprise you, but if you laugh at me, I will get angry. As long as you don't laugh, you can criticize whatever you want, I don't care." I will be angry, and I will not hate you. Get it! Never laugh!" He turned his eyes back to Jing Hu, met Jing Hu's eyes, and said with a straight chest and a sullen face: "I'm in love, oh, no, it's not enough to say that love is not enough. I've made a private appointment for life, and my partner is Mrs. Songjiang." .” He spoke clearly, looked at Jing Hu with wide eyes, and looked around at his peers, as if he wanted to listen to their opinions. In an instant, Jing Hu was furious. It was a complex psychological impulse. It was the child's anger when he saw his mother's infidelity. He was about to yell, but Shinbingwei immediately stopped him with his eyes, and said to Yataro calmly, "Speak clearly!" "Okay!" Yataro chattered about what happened that night: "I didn't dare to have this kind of selfishness, but she said that we should repay the favor to the Nagao family together, and I think it makes sense, so I agreed to marry her. Of course, this You have to agree with Master Hu, and we have sworn to the gods of heaven and earth, if Master Hu disagrees, and if you don’t agree, then we will give up on it.” Is it really so easy to see?Quite suspicious.However, this is a kind of momentum. If you don't say it like this, it would be too unlike Yataro Oni Kojima. Seeing his straightforward and resolute attitude, Jing Hu's heart softened, and the tight corners of his mouth relaxed slightly. Seeing this, Xinbingwei immediately said: "This is really a blessing from heaven. In ancient times, famous generals gave concubines to their ministers to encourage their loyalty. There are countless examples. The young master should be happy to agree and bless them." Although Jing Hu was soft-hearted, he still didn't fully agree.He looked around at everyone, and everyone nodded in agreement.He thought, I have to agree, this is an agreement in the adult world! "Since everyone has no objection, I promise you, I hope you two will always be loyal to my family." "Yes!" Yataro, who had been putting on airs before, changed his attitude, put his hands on the ground, and dared not raise his head for a long time. Xinbingwei said to Jinghu: "Say some words of congratulations!" "What can I say?" "Just say congratulations." "Really? Yataro, congratulations." After Jinghu finished speaking, he seemed to feel that it was not enough, and added: "I am very happy. When I was young, Songjiang treated me like my own child. After you are married, you must take care of her forever. , although she looks like a man, she is really gentle and will definitely be a good wife." As he spoke, tears welled up unknowingly.At this moment, he was unrestrained and felt comfortable from the bottom of his heart. Yataro was still lying on the ground silently, as if he was also crying. Xinbingwei said heartily: "Congratulations, congratulations, let's applaud and celebrate!" Everyone stretched out their hands to pat each other, shaking the silent mountain hall, and the monks came to check curiously. At that time, the group had already got up and walked out of the prayer hall.
They left Hosoe and headed for Takayama, where Yataro parted ways with everyone temporarily.Everyone thought that he should inform Songjiang as soon as possible to reassure her, so they turned back to Zhongshan.Originally, Yataro was unwilling, but everyone forced him to leave, so he had no choice but to be respectful rather than obedient. Xijiang is five miles away from the high mountain, and there is a plain area in between, with extensive fields, flat roads, and lively villages.Takayama used to be the government office of Hida, but now it is only the economic center, and the political center is Matsukura Mountain, one mile to the south.The Miki family is located in Matsukura Mountain and governs the three counties of Hida. The day after they arrived in Gaoshan, they also came to observe outside Songcang City.The city gate was solid, but there was a mocking smile in Jing Hu's eyes.Xinbingwei was puzzled and asked, "How?" Jing Hu only said "huh" and didn't say anything else, but on the way back to Gaoshan and heading towards Xinzhou, he only said when he saw that there was no one in front and behind: "Hida is a natural key point, and the whole country can be said to be a solid fortress. Therefore, as long as there are no enemies in the country, it doesn't matter how you build the city. You just need to dig a city wall on the flat ground. And he, living in a cage in the cold In the mountains of people, the domestic political situation must be unstable! In this way, no matter how strong the castle is, it will be useless. When there are enemies in the country or foreign countries attack, these rare dangers of mountains and rivers are not dangers. I don’t think there are many famous generals in the world!” Xinbingwei and other attendants were convinced, and sighed that Jing Hu was really a precocious genius. In order to enter Shinshu from Hida, they took the Kobaga River, a tributary of the Miyagawa River, and crossed the Hirayu Ridge and Anfang Ridge, passed through Nakayu, and walked out of Matsumotodaira on the Yemai Street.This road is also extremely difficult and dangerous, about twenty miles, and it is not until the evening of the third day that we reach Matsumotoping.
Shinano (Nagano Prefecture) is a mountainous country, surrounded by mountains, and there are Chikumagawa, Saichuan, Kisogawa, Tenryugawa and other rivers between the mountains. Only the area along the river and around Suwa Lake is flat land, so the The people in Nong cultivate the terraced fields that are cultivated by the mountains. Because this kind of terrain is easy to be separated, the people's hearts are also in a state of being separated, and the powerful clans are facing each other according to the mountains, which is almost the historical feature of this place.However, after the Warring States Period, all the heroes rose together, and the weak and the strong preyed on the strong. Other parts of Japan have broken the separatist regime and presented an opportunity for unification. Only Shinshu still refused this opportunity, and the small wealthy family was still divided. The strategy of Shinshin Prefecture (Nagano Prefecture, located next to Yamanashi Prefecture) has brought about changes in the situation here. In the past, Koshu was also ruled by the small wealthy clan.Koshu was originally the territory of the descendants of Silla Saburo Yoshimitsu, the younger brother of Hachimantaro's righteous family.The descendants born during Yoshimitsu's tenure as Kaishou include Takeda, Ijo, Amari, Itagaki, Iwasaki, Ogasawara, Nanbu, Oi, Akiyama, Yasuda, and Hiraga clans, scattered in Kai and Shinano, each forming a local wealthy family. These powerful families were originally small and sparsely populated. The reason why the Takeda clan suddenly gained power was because a hero named Nobutora came out of his family.It was rumored that Xinhu had a vicious temperament. In order to check how the human fetus was developing, he even ordered the belly of ten pregnant women who were pregnant for one to ten months to be dissected.If people annoy him, even important ministers will be punished with death.However, he was extremely brave on the battlefield. After inheriting the family governor at the age of fourteen, he conquered all the wealthy families in the country for more than 30 years, moved his residence to Yashizaki in Kofu, and commanded the whole area of Kai. The hole full of water has to find other ways to vent, not to mention that Kai is a poor country with a poor climate. Only by invading other countries can a country's economy be maintained.However, Suruga in the south was ruled by the Imagawa Clan, and Musashi and Sagami in the east were the territories of the Odawara Hojo Clan, both of which were powerful countries.In comparison, only Shinano, which was ruled by the small wealthy clan, was the most suitable for the strategy, so the Takeda family decided to expand their power westward. From Kai to Shinano, there are two roads, Sakukou and Suwakou.The former advances north along the Qianqu River from the eastern foot of Yatsuyue, while the latter advances from the western foot of Yatsuyue. Sakukou is a dangerous mountain road, and Suwakou is a flat road along Miyagawa and Kamikawa. Therefore, Nobutora originally planned to enter the army from Suwaguchi, but Suwa is the territory of Suwa, the priest of Suwa Shrine for generations, and the defense is strong. , not easy to break into. Nobutora had no choice but to conspire with Suwa, and turned to Sakuguchi.But this road is not only dangerous and difficult to walk, but there is a hero Hiraga Genshin guarding the place where he is about to rush to the Uminoguchi.According to the "Koyo Military Supervisor", Hiraga Genshin "strengthened against ten men, and often held a four-foot-three-inch broadsword", and because if the Umino mouth was broken, the whole of Shinshu would be in crisis, so Murakami, Takanashi, Ogasawara and other places Heroes also come to help with defense.The vanguard of the Takeda family not only suffered repeated setbacks here, but was even invaded by Genshin in Kofu.
In the winter of the sixth year of Tianwen, Xinhu sent troops to Sakukou again.He judged that the cold country was not used to using troops in winter, and the rich families in Xinzhou would not send troops to help, so he specially chose to march in winter. Hiraga Genshin is a good fighter after all, he knows the current affairs well, he didn't fight bravely, he just sticks to Uminoguchi Castle and puts all his heart on defense.Takeda's army was blocked outside the city for more than a month, with no results, but the cold was getting worse, and the wind and snow began to wreak havoc.Shintora had no choice but to withdraw to Kofu temporarily. At this time, the eldest son Harunobu (later Shingen) automatically asked the rear of the palace to be separated from the main formation by three or four miles to completely prevent the enemy from pursuing. Harunobu was seventeen years old at the time, young and smart, and often made surprising moves since he was a child, but Xinhu didn't like him, but preferred his younger brother Nobushige.However, even though Nobutora hated Harunobu and often scolded him, he couldn't help persuading him at this time: "How can the enemy pursue it in such a heavy snowstorm? When the empress has achieved the reputation of a general, it is when the enemy is in danger of pursuing him. Don't be stupid." If you were Xin Fan, you wouldn't say such nonsense." But Harunobu was still stubborn, and Nobutora finally agreed to his request. Takeda's army began to retreat. Harunobu led 300 elite soldiers. After the main team marched for about three miles, they slowly retreated, but on the way, they camped again. It is really not easy to retreat. No matter how brave a soldier is, once he retreats, he will inevitably feel timid and afraid of the enemy's pursuit. Although he is calm on the surface, he wishes to leave as soon as possible.The same goes for Harunobu's soldiers, when Harunobu ordered them to set up camp halfway, some were displeased, some were disturbed, and tried to persuade them, but Harunobu stubbornly refused to listen.So everyone felt sad and sighed: "What do people say when their fate is at the end of their lives? We know that if we are chased by the enemy, we will die by the side of the road in this helpless snow, but we refuse to listen to advice. There is no other way than awakening and dying." But in the middle of the night, Harunobu suddenly got up, summoned his personal guards, and ordered: "We will now turn around and attack Uminoguchi Castle. We have retreated to the present, but there is not a single pursuer. Obviously they are too relieved, thinking that the crisis is over, and we take this opportunity to be unprepared As for the attack, even if our troops are very small, if we attack the city in an instant, we will definitely be able to take the head of Genshin Hiraga, everyone muster up your courage!" Everyone was shocked and moved so that they regrouped and turned around on the snowy road, all the way to the main gate, and the other way was to quietly climb up the city wall from the back door and set fire to it. Harunobu's calculations were indeed correct. Uminoguchi Castle was besieged for a month, and the continuous life of guarding the castle in fear day and night made the soldiers feel very nervous. Sleep peacefully.In his sleep, he was suddenly attacked by the Wutian army, and he was in a panic. "Despicable Takeda Army!" Furious, Genshin Hiraga was wearing black leather woven armor, tied a headband, was wearing a four-foot-three-inch broadsword, and wielding an octagonal stick more than ten feet in length. Killed by Jingzheng (later Baba Mino Shoshin Katsu), Uminoguchi Castle fell, and the Takeda clan opened up the road to Shinshu. According to reports, Xinhu was not happy when he received this report, and only said: "It's just luck!" He was even more unhappy about Qingxin abandoning the city and returning to Kofu, and compared the two sons: "I dare not even stay in the city for a day, I am extremely cowardly, if Xinfan, I would not have made such a mistake!"
Xinhu's feelings for Harunobu became weaker and weaker. After ten years of Tianwen, he finally made up his mind to exile Harunobu.He sent his important minister Itagaki Nobugata to tell Harunobu: "Although you are not stupid, but because you grew up in the country, your words and deeds are rude and rude. When you have the opportunity to go to Beijing to meet the general in the future, you may be ridiculed as a countryman. Fortunately, your sister If you marry into the Imagawa family, you will go to Suruga temporarily to learn about rituals and rituals." The clever Harunobu of course knew his father's true intentions, and he replied superficially, "Listen to the teachings!" But secretly, he summoned Itagaki Nobugata, Iidou Bingbu and others to secretly negotiate. "What should I do? If I follow my father's instructions, I'm afraid I'll never come back to this country..." Everyone in the family knew that Harunobu was wise, and the prosperity of the Takeda family depended on his future. Moreover, Nobutora was extremely cruel, and the hegemony was likely to be ruined by him. After discussing the results, they decided to abandon Shintora based on the logic of "unfilial piety is great filial piety". , Yong Qingxin.They took advantage of Xinhu's strategy and planned to exile Xinhu. Harunobu first sent a secret envoy to negotiate with the Imagawa family, asking for the assistance of the Imagawa family to put Nobutora under house arrest in order to save the Takeda family from the crisis. From the standpoint of the Imagawa family, they believed that the young Harunobu would replace the fierce general Nobutora to govern Koshu, and that Imagawa would be able to control it better. Furthermore, with Nobutora as a hostage, Koshu would naturally become a vassal state of Suruga, so they happily agreed. After obtaining the consent of the Imagawa family, the old minister came forward to persuade Nobutora: "He is deeply disturbed to ask Master Harunobu to go to Suruga like this, and he refuses to do it for a long time. Why don't you go to Suruga first, and express that they want Master Harunobu?" , and then ordered from there that the Imagawa family has agreed to leave immediately, so that no matter how confident Qingxin is, she has no choice but to go." "That's right, let's do it!" Nobutora doubted him, and happily went to Suruga, but was immediately placed under house arrest by the Imagawa family, unable to move. As a result, Harunobu became the governor of the Takeda family at the age of twenty-one. But Nobutora never neglected Shinshu management until he was exiled to Suruga.In the early winter of the previous year, in order to strengthen his relationship with the Suwa clan, he married the six daughters, Minene, to Suwa Yoshige, and gave him Nagakubo Castle in Xiaoxian County.Judging from the location of this castle, it is equivalent to appointing Suwa as the commander of the Takeda family in Sakuguchi. However, after Harunobu succeeded to the family governor, he thought it would be disadvantageous to invade Shinshu from Sakuguchi. "Just because the Suwa clan is strong, we have to give up this smooth path? No, we have to take Suwaguchi no matter what." He was eyeing the changes in the Suwa clan. It just so happened that Suwa Yoshitsugu, a distant relative of the Suwa clan, was guarding Takato Castle. , The relevant people in the lower society quietly communicated with each other. In June of the following year, Harunobu led an army of 20,000 to attack Suwa County with raging waves. At the same time, Lai Ji also crossed the Joto Ridge and invaded. Under the attack, Lai Zhong surrendered. However, because Lai Zhong hated Lai Ji, who was betrayed by his fellow clan, he made a condition before surrendering: "I will kill Lai Ji by the hands of Takeda." Since the surrender was under such conditions, Yoshige must be spared, and Harunobu also agreed. However, after Haruno arrested Yoshige, he sent him back to Kofu, confined him in a room, and forced him to commit suicide. When Lai Chong surrendered, all his clan was arrested and sent to Jiafu, but Lai Chong had a daughter born of a concubine, who was only fourteen years old, but she was slim and beautiful like a flower.Because of her family's ruin and death, her eyes were full of tears, and she mourned endlessly. In Harunobu's eyes, I felt sorry for her, so she was taken as a concubine and brought back to Kofu. Everyone called her Mrs. Suwa.
In the early morning of the next day, before the thick fog cleared, the group left Zhongshan and traced Miyagawa to Xijiang.Zhongshan is ten miles away from Xijiang, and the journey is difficult and difficult, and we arrived very late in the sky. Hosoe is the territory of Hida country's sister Koji's family.The Anekoji family came here from Kyoto two hundred years ago during the Kenbu period. At that time, Emperor Go-Daigo appointed the Minister of Kyoto to serve as the local state secretary in order to restore the government of ministers.Eighty years later, the Kyogoku clan of the Ashikaga faction came to attack and destroyed the Nekoji family, but the people of the country refused to accept it, and another member of the Nekoji clan inherited the name of the country, but the real power was still in the hands of the Kyogoku clan.Later, the Kyogoku clan's vassal Miki seized power, and Hida was in Miki's hands.Although the sister Xiaolu's family has no real power and is only a false name as the Secretary of the State, she is still respected by the people of the country, and Xijiang outside her city is also quite prosperous. "It's the same everywhere! Miserable! Why must the old be destroyed? Even though the old is replaced with the new, the new is not necessarily good!" Seeing the alternation of old and new forces everywhere, Echigo will not be spared, but when he saw Xijiang City, which looks magnificent on the outside, but can hardly hide its deserted look, Jing Hu was deeply moved. It was night, and they spent the night in the prayer hall of the monastery on the outskirts of the city.The next morning, when he was about to leave for the mountain, Yataro knelt in front of Jinghu with a mysterious expression: "I have something to ask." His face was flushed and he looked rather strange. "any request?" What Jing Hu thought was supposed to come finally came.When he left Zhongshan yesterday, he found that something was wrong with Yataro. He was usually happy, talking and laughing loudly, but yesterday he was quite silent, revealing a look of deep thought from time to time.At that time, Jing Hu thought: "What's wrong with him? Is he dissatisfied with me? Or is he angry with his peers?" Jing Hu's clear eyes stared at Yataro a little timidly, "Uh... I really dare to ask..." He shrank again, with beads of sweat floating on his forehead and running down his beard.He had a complicated expression, desperately wiped his sweat with his sleeves, and suddenly turned to the others, "You all come here, I have something to say." Everyone gathered together curiously.Yataro blushed, straightened his shoulders, looked around the crowd and said, "What I'm going to say later may surprise you, but if you laugh at me, I will get angry. As long as you don't laugh, you can criticize whatever you want, I don't care." I will be angry, and I will not hate you. Get it! Never laugh!" He turned his eyes back to Jing Hu, met Jing Hu's eyes, and said with a straight chest and a sullen face: "I'm in love, oh, no, it's not enough to say that love is not enough. I've made a private appointment for life, and my partner is Mrs. Songjiang." .” He spoke clearly, looked at Jing Hu with wide eyes, and looked around at his peers, as if he wanted to listen to their opinions. In an instant, Jing Hu was furious. It was a complex psychological impulse. It was the child's anger when he saw his mother's infidelity. He was about to yell, but Shinbingwei immediately stopped him with his eyes, and said to Yataro calmly, "Speak clearly!" "Okay!" Yataro chattered about what happened that night: "I didn't dare to have this kind of selfishness, but she said that we should repay the favor to the Nagao family together, and I think it makes sense, so I agreed to marry her. Of course, this You have to agree with Master Hu, and we have sworn to the gods of heaven and earth, if Master Hu disagrees, and if you don’t agree, then we will give up on it.” Is it really so easy to see?Quite suspicious.However, this is a kind of momentum. If you don't say it like this, it would be too unlike Yataro Oni Kojima. Seeing his straightforward and resolute attitude, Jing Hu's heart softened, and the tight corners of his mouth relaxed slightly. Seeing this, Xinbingwei immediately said: "This is really a blessing from heaven. In ancient times, famous generals gave concubines to their ministers to encourage their loyalty. There are countless examples. The young master should be happy to agree and bless them." Although Jing Hu was soft-hearted, he still didn't fully agree.He looked around at everyone, and everyone nodded in agreement.He thought, I have to agree, this is an agreement in the adult world! "Since everyone has no objection, I promise you, I hope you two will always be loyal to my family." "Yes!" Yataro, who had been putting on airs before, changed his attitude, put his hands on the ground, and dared not raise his head for a long time. Xinbingwei said to Jinghu: "Say some words of congratulations!" "What can I say?" "Just say congratulations." "Really? Yataro, congratulations." After Jinghu finished speaking, he seemed to feel that it was not enough, and added: "I am very happy. When I was young, Songjiang treated me like my own child. After you are married, you must take care of her forever. , although she looks like a man, she is really gentle and will definitely be a good wife." As he spoke, tears welled up unknowingly.At this moment, he was unrestrained and felt comfortable from the bottom of his heart. Yataro was still lying on the ground silently, as if he was also crying. Xinbingwei said heartily: "Congratulations, congratulations, let's applaud and celebrate!" Everyone stretched out their hands to pat each other, shaking the silent mountain hall, and the monks came to check curiously. At that time, the group had already got up and walked out of the prayer hall.
They left Hosoe and headed for Takayama, where Yataro parted ways with everyone temporarily.Everyone thought that he should inform Songjiang as soon as possible to reassure her, so they turned back to Zhongshan.Originally, Yataro was unwilling, but everyone forced him to leave, so he had no choice but to be respectful rather than obedient. Xijiang is five miles away from the high mountain, and there is a plain area in between, with extensive fields, flat roads, and lively villages.Takayama used to be the government office of Hida, but now it is only the economic center, and the political center is Matsukura Mountain, one mile to the south.The Miki family is located in Matsukura Mountain and governs the three counties of Hida. The day after they arrived in Gaoshan, they also came to observe outside Songcang City.The city gate was solid, but there was a mocking smile in Jing Hu's eyes.Xinbingwei was puzzled and asked, "How?" Jing Hu only said "huh" and didn't say anything else, but on the way back to Gaoshan and heading towards Xinzhou, he only said when he saw that there was no one in front and behind: "Hida is a natural key point, and the whole country can be said to be a solid fortress. Therefore, as long as there are no enemies in the country, it doesn't matter how you build the city. You just need to dig a city wall on the flat ground. And he, living in a cage in the cold In the mountains of people, the domestic political situation must be unstable! In this way, no matter how strong the castle is, it will be useless. When there are enemies in the country or foreign countries attack, these rare dangers of mountains and rivers are not dangers. I don’t think there are many famous generals in the world!” Xinbingwei and other attendants were convinced, and sighed that Jing Hu was really a precocious genius. In order to enter Shinshu from Hida, they took the Kobaga River, a tributary of the Miyagawa River, and crossed the Hirayu Ridge and Anfang Ridge, passed through Nakayu, and walked out of Matsumotodaira on the Yemai Street.This road is also extremely difficult and dangerous, about twenty miles, and it is not until the evening of the third day that we reach Matsumotoping.
Shinano (Nagano Prefecture) is a mountainous country, surrounded by mountains, and there are Chikumagawa, Saichuan, Kisogawa, Tenryugawa and other rivers between the mountains. Only the area along the river and around Suwa Lake is flat land, so the The people in Nong cultivate the terraced fields that are cultivated by the mountains. Because this kind of terrain is easy to be separated, the people's hearts are also in a state of being separated, and the powerful clans are facing each other according to the mountains, which is almost the historical feature of this place.However, after the Warring States Period, all the heroes rose together, and the weak and the strong preyed on the strong. Other parts of Japan have broken the separatist regime and presented an opportunity for unification. Only Shinshu still refused this opportunity, and the small wealthy family was still divided. The strategy of Shinshin Prefecture (Nagano Prefecture, located next to Yamanashi Prefecture) has brought about changes in the situation here. In the past, Koshu was also ruled by the small wealthy clan.Koshu was originally the territory of the descendants of Silla Saburo Yoshimitsu, the younger brother of Hachimantaro's righteous family.The descendants born during Yoshimitsu's tenure as Kaishou include Takeda, Ijo, Amari, Itagaki, Iwasaki, Ogasawara, Nanbu, Oi, Akiyama, Yasuda, and Hiraga clans, scattered in Kai and Shinano, each forming a local wealthy family. These powerful families were originally small and sparsely populated. The reason why the Takeda clan suddenly gained power was because a hero named Nobutora came out of his family.It was rumored that Xinhu had a vicious temperament. In order to check how the human fetus was developing, he even ordered the belly of ten pregnant women who were pregnant for one to ten months to be dissected.If people annoy him, even important ministers will be punished with death.However, he was extremely brave on the battlefield. After inheriting the family governor at the age of fourteen, he conquered all the wealthy families in the country for more than 30 years, moved his residence to Yashizaki in Kofu, and commanded the whole area of Kai. The hole full of water has to find other ways to vent, not to mention that Kai is a poor country with a poor climate. Only by invading other countries can a country's economy be maintained.However, Suruga in the south was ruled by the Imagawa Clan, and Musashi and Sagami in the east were the territories of the Odawara Hojo Clan, both of which were powerful countries.In comparison, only Shinano, which was ruled by the small wealthy clan, was the most suitable for the strategy, so the Takeda family decided to expand their power westward. From Kai to Shinano, there are two roads, Sakukou and Suwakou.The former advances north along the Qianqu River from the eastern foot of Yatsuyue, while the latter advances from the western foot of Yatsuyue. Sakukou is a dangerous mountain road, and Suwakou is a flat road along Miyagawa and Kamikawa. Therefore, Nobutora originally planned to enter the army from Suwaguchi, but Suwa is the territory of Suwa, the priest of Suwa Shrine for generations, and the defense is strong. , not easy to break into. Nobutora had no choice but to conspire with Suwa, and turned to Sakuguchi.But this road is not only dangerous and difficult to walk, but there is a hero Hiraga Genshin guarding the place where he is about to rush to the Uminoguchi.According to the "Koyo Military Supervisor", Hiraga Genshin "strengthened against ten men, and often held a four-foot-three-inch broadsword", and because if the Umino mouth was broken, the whole of Shinshu would be in crisis, so Murakami, Takanashi, Ogasawara and other places Heroes also come to help with defense.The vanguard of the Takeda family not only suffered repeated setbacks here, but was even invaded by Genshin in Kofu.
In the winter of the sixth year of Tianwen, Xinhu sent troops to Sakukou again.He judged that the cold country was not used to using troops in winter, and the rich families in Xinzhou would not send troops to help, so he specially chose to march in winter. Hiraga Genshin is a good fighter after all, he knows the current affairs well, he didn't fight bravely, he just sticks to Uminoguchi Castle and puts all his heart on defense.Takeda's army was blocked outside the city for more than a month, with no results, but the cold was getting worse, and the wind and snow began to wreak havoc.Shintora had no choice but to withdraw to Kofu temporarily. At this time, the eldest son Harunobu (later Shingen) automatically asked the rear of the palace to be separated from the main formation by three or four miles to completely prevent the enemy from pursuing. Harunobu was seventeen years old at the time, young and smart, and often made surprising moves since he was a child, but Xinhu didn't like him, but preferred his younger brother Nobushige.However, even though Nobutora hated Harunobu and often scolded him, he couldn't help persuading him at this time: "How can the enemy pursue it in such a heavy snowstorm? When the empress has achieved the reputation of a general, it is when the enemy is in danger of pursuing him. Don't be stupid." If you were Xin Fan, you wouldn't say such nonsense." But Harunobu was still stubborn, and Nobutora finally agreed to his request. Takeda's army began to retreat. Harunobu led 300 elite soldiers. After the main team marched for about three miles, they slowly retreated, but on the way, they camped again. It is really not easy to retreat. No matter how brave a soldier is, once he retreats, he will inevitably feel timid and afraid of the enemy's pursuit. Although he is calm on the surface, he wishes to leave as soon as possible.The same goes for Harunobu's soldiers, when Harunobu ordered them to set up camp halfway, some were displeased, some were disturbed, and tried to persuade them, but Harunobu stubbornly refused to listen.So everyone felt sad and sighed: "What do people say when their fate is at the end of their lives? We know that if we are chased by the enemy, we will die by the side of the road in this helpless snow, but we refuse to listen to advice. There is no other way than awakening and dying." But in the middle of the night, Harunobu suddenly got up, summoned his personal guards, and ordered: "We will now turn around and attack Uminoguchi Castle. We have retreated to the present, but there is not a single pursuer. Obviously they are too relieved, thinking that the crisis is over, and we take this opportunity to be unprepared As for the attack, even if our troops are very small, if we attack the city in an instant, we will definitely be able to take the head of Genshin Hiraga, everyone muster up your courage!" Everyone was shocked and moved so that they regrouped and turned around on the snowy road, all the way to the main gate, and the other way was to quietly climb up the city wall from the back door and set fire to it. Harunobu's calculations were indeed correct. Uminoguchi Castle was besieged for a month, and the continuous life of guarding the castle in fear day and night made the soldiers feel very nervous. Sleep peacefully.In his sleep, he was suddenly attacked by the Wutian army, and he was in a panic. "Despicable Takeda Army!" Furious, Genshin Hiraga was wearing black leather woven armor, tied a headband, was wearing a four-foot-three-inch broadsword, and wielding an octagonal stick more than ten feet in length. Killed by Jingzheng (later Baba Mino Shoshin Katsu), Uminoguchi Castle fell, and the Takeda clan opened up the road to Shinshu. According to reports, Xinhu was not happy when he received this report, and only said: "It's just luck!" He was even more unhappy about Qingxin abandoning the city and returning to Kofu, and compared the two sons: "I dare not even stay in the city for a day, I am extremely cowardly, if Xinfan, I would not have made such a mistake!"
Xinhu's feelings for Harunobu became weaker and weaker. After ten years of Tianwen, he finally made up his mind to exile Harunobu.He sent his important minister Itagaki Nobugata to tell Harunobu: "Although you are not stupid, but because you grew up in the country, your words and deeds are rude and rude. When you have the opportunity to go to Beijing to meet the general in the future, you may be ridiculed as a countryman. Fortunately, your sister If you marry into the Imagawa family, you will go to Suruga temporarily to learn about rituals and rituals." The clever Harunobu of course knew his father's true intentions, and he replied superficially, "Listen to the teachings!" But secretly, he summoned Itagaki Nobugata, Iidou Bingbu and others to secretly negotiate. "What should I do? If I follow my father's instructions, I'm afraid I'll never come back to this country..." Everyone in the family knew that Harunobu was wise, and the prosperity of the Takeda family depended on his future. Moreover, Nobutora was extremely cruel, and the hegemony was likely to be ruined by him. After discussing the results, they decided to abandon Shintora based on the logic of "unfilial piety is great filial piety". , Yong Qingxin.They took advantage of Xinhu's strategy and planned to exile Xinhu. Harunobu first sent a secret envoy to negotiate with the Imagawa family, asking for the assistance of the Imagawa family to put Nobutora under house arrest in order to save the Takeda family from the crisis. From the standpoint of the Imagawa family, they believed that the young Harunobu would replace the fierce general Nobutora to govern Koshu, and that Imagawa would be able to control it better. Furthermore, with Nobutora as a hostage, Koshu would naturally become a vassal state of Suruga, so they happily agreed. After obtaining the consent of the Imagawa family, the old minister came forward to persuade Nobutora: "He is deeply disturbed to ask Master Harunobu to go to Suruga like this, and he refuses to do it for a long time. Why don't you go to Suruga first, and express that they want Master Harunobu?" , and then ordered from there that the Imagawa family has agreed to leave immediately, so that no matter how confident Qingxin is, she has no choice but to go." "That's right, let's do it!" Nobutora doubted him, and happily went to Suruga, but was immediately placed under house arrest by the Imagawa family, unable to move. As a result, Harunobu became the governor of the Takeda family at the age of twenty-one. But Nobutora never neglected Shinshu management until he was exiled to Suruga.In the early winter of the previous year, in order to strengthen his relationship with the Suwa clan, he married the six daughters, Minene, to Suwa Yoshige, and gave him Nagakubo Castle in Xiaoxian County.Judging from the location of this castle, it is equivalent to appointing Suwa as the commander of the Takeda family in Sakuguchi. However, after Harunobu succeeded to the family governor, he thought it would be disadvantageous to invade Shinshu from Sakuguchi. "Just because the Suwa clan is strong, we have to give up this smooth path? No, we have to take Suwaguchi no matter what." He was eyeing the changes in the Suwa clan. It just so happened that Suwa Yoshitsugu, a distant relative of the Suwa clan, was guarding Takato Castle. , The relevant people in the lower society quietly communicated with each other. In June of the following year, Harunobu led an army of 20,000 to attack Suwa County with raging waves. At the same time, Lai Ji also crossed the Joto Ridge and invaded. Under the attack, Lai Zhong surrendered. However, because Lai Zhong hated Lai Ji, who was betrayed by his fellow clan, he made a condition before surrendering: "I will kill Lai Ji by the hands of Takeda." Since the surrender was under such conditions, Yoshige must be spared, and Harunobu also agreed. However, after Haruno arrested Yoshige, he sent him back to Kofu, confined him in a room, and forced him to commit suicide. When Lai Chong surrendered, all his clan was arrested and sent to Jiafu, but Lai Chong had a daughter born of a concubine, who was only fourteen years old, but she was slim and beautiful like a flower.Because of her family's ruin and death, her eyes were full of tears, and she mourned endlessly. In Harunobu's eyes, I felt sorry for her, so she was taken as a concubine and brought back to Kofu. Everyone called her Mrs. Suwa.