The content of the urgent report roughly said that since Takeda Shingen returned to Kafai Kingdom by the Imakawa family, he quickly rushed to Shinono's Takato Castle. After a little rest, the Kafai Tiger suddenly became active again. Judging from the analysis of the Intelligence Pavilion, this time, Takeda Shingen's target is probably the Mikawa Kingdom or even the Tomeng Kingdom region.

"Damn the Tiger of Armor!"

After learning about this information, Masara couldn't help but curse angrily. You should know that Masarara's current plan is mainly to completely consolidate the control of the Luo family over the Imakawa family, and on the other hand, to take advantage of the Hojo family's indifference to seize the Izu country area. As a result, the dead tiger from the Takeda family always comes to cause trouble for him, so it would be strange if he is not angry.

"However, if Takeda Shingen really comes, then you have to prepare early. Especially at this time, the wealthy families bordering the Shinno area have always been against the Imakawa family. According to previous reports from their second son Nobura and Imakawa family, these families have secretly defected to the Takeda family. If these wealthy families are as strikers, the attack on the Mikawa and Tomje areas will be much easier. After all, these families are very familiar with the terrain of the Mikawa and Tomje areas and other situations."

After thinking about this, Masara immediately summoned the Luo family and the Imakawa family to discuss the way to deal with the situation in case the Takeda family really invaded the Tonjiang and Sanhe areas.

The fact is just as expected by the Luo Family Intelligence Pavilion. In October of the fifth year of Echinho, when the autumn harvest just ended, the Uesugi family in Echinho was entangled by the riot launched by Xiangsong, and the Imakawa family was entangled with the Hojo family in the Izu Kingdom region. When the Kanto family was also fighting with the Hojo family endlessly. Takeda Shingen suddenly took the banner of Ueluo and led tens of thousands of Takeda family troops to leave Takato Castle and officially entered the Mikawa and Tomeng Kingdom regions of Tokaido.

After leaving Ina Shinshu, Takeda Shingen ordered Yama Prefecture Saburo-Eematsu-Kei to leave the Tok River from the Higashi River to join the main force and enter the Tok River on the tenth day of October. Takeda Shingen advances steadily and with the help of the Guansu family and Amano family in the mountainous area, he quickly and smoothly conquered Dodara, Iida and other places, and approaches Kuno Castle.

During this period, the Imakawa family members who had already prepared for a long time did not fight against the Takeda family. Instead, they gradually retreated to the deeper internal territory of the Imakawa family according to the orders previously granted by the Imakawa family. Unlike the Imakawa family, Tokugawa Imakawa directly led his troops to the vicinity of the Takeda family army and directly prepared to fight against the Takeda family army. Although some retainers still opposed the war, they were flatly rejected by him.

On October 13, Takeda Shingen received information from Tonori spies and decisively approached Etai Island and began to attack Nakano Masato of Nimata Castle. On the other hand, Yama Prefecture Saburo Besiege attacked Yoshida Castle from the direction of Dongsan River and quickly occupied Yiping. He cut off the passage of reinforcements that the Oda family might have sent, and even more alerted the attack of the Imakawa family, who had been acting strangely before.

Of course, Tokugawa Ieyasu sent an envoy to the Oda family Kiyosu Castle. However, the Oda family was busy continuing to conquer the Ise country area at this time, so Oda Nobunaga's reinforcements had not arrived for a long time.

The footsteps of winter are getting closer and closer, and the dark clouds of war gradually enveloped Okazaki Castle. Takeda Shingen did not expect that the Imakawa family would retreat voluntarily. Instead, Tokugawa Ieyasu would ignore his family and life and take the initiative to fight Takeda's army.

Immediately, Takeda Nobunaga ordered Akiyama Haruno and Amano Keikun to take action in the northern part of Sanhe on October 27. By feinting attack on Tamatsu and acting in the area, he tried to make Tokugawa Ieyasu of Okazaki Castle surrender. His meticulous use of the troops was really amazing. If the above-mentioned areas fell, Tokugawa retainers would inevitably be shaken, so they were overwhelmed.

"Let's see. Tokugawa Ieyasu Tatsuya avoided the war because of fear, and even took the initiative to surrender."

People seemed to see Takeda Shingen's arrogant look in the team. Indeed, the age difference between the ages of more than fifties and more than thirty years old began to be clearly expressed in the arrangement of the formation.

"You can't be anxious, you must wait for reinforcements from Oda." Tokugawa Ieyasu constantly blamed himself for his anxiety, but said to his retainers: "What are you whispering? Since I have arrived here, will I still retreat? If you must avoid the war, I will become a monk immediately. Do you want me to become a monk? Let me abandon the world and ignore it?" In fact, the reason why the Imakawa family retreated was because the Imakawa family still had a place to survive, but the Tokugawa family happened to be located in the Takeda family's must-pass way, so it was impossible to take a evasion strategy.

At the critical moment, news finally came that Oda Nobunaga reinforcements were about to arrive. Sakuma Moemasa, draws Fan Hide, and Takigawa Ichie three generals are about to lead 3,000 soldiers. Tokugawa Ieyasu is determined to fight the decisive battle on the day the reinforcements arrive, so he sent spies to Toru River and the Sanhe area to spread rumors: "Oda has 12,000 reinforcements, and they have come toward the Toru River." In early December, the three thousand reinforcements finally arrived, and the decisive battle that determines Tokugawa Ieyasu's fate is approaching.

But at this moment, Nimata Castle, the front of Okazaki Castle, fell on December 19th. The defender was no Nakanoto Masato, Aoki Yoshisuke, and Yasuan Matsuhei, but the attack of Takeda's army was very tenacious and wonderful, and Nimata Castle was ultimately unsafe.

The Takeda family was responsible for attacking Nimata Castle by Takeda Katsurai, Takeda Nobuto, and Meixue Koyama. Takeda Nobunaga came from time to time to order the attack, but finally failed. Finally, the suggestion of Yama Prefecture and the Horse Farm was adopted, and the method of cutting off the water source was used instead.

Nimata Castle built a tall reservoir on the river flowing through the west of the city, and used rigs to fetch water from it, just like taking water from a well. Takeda put many rafts upstream, covering the water surface, making it impossible for the water rigs to fetch water smoothly. Once the water source was cut off, even the brave soldiers could not continue to fight.

In order not to let the city fall, Tokugawa Ieyasu personally led 2,500 troops to reinforce and marched to the village of Kamizu. However, when he learned that the city had fallen, he immediately withdrew to Okazaki Castle.

Okazaki Castle has been completely exposed to the enemy.

The next day, in the big tent of Tokugawa Ieyasu in Okazaki Castle, the generals gathered to discuss military information. This time, in addition to Tadaji Sakai, Nagasawara, Nagasawara, Tada Matsuhei, and Kusumashima, three generals from Oda also attended the meeting. Frankly speaking, the Tokugawa family members were very low-key.

According to the information obtained that morning, Takeda Shingen still did not seem to have the intention to start a war with Tokugawa Ieyasu. Perhaps it was because of the rumors that Oda Nobunaga reinforcements continued to arrive and the Imakawa family's strange retreat in succession, which played a role to some extent. It is said that Takeda Shingen had crossed the Ministry of Justice and came to the East Mill River.
Chapter completed!