After using a clever trick to scare the Takeda family army away, everyone in Okazaki Castle quickly settled down. ← All the Tokugawa family members returned to the city one after another. Finally, when Tadaeyo Okubo, who had a clever trick, also returned, the food was finally distributed, and each of them had a bowl of hot wine.

After picking up the wine, all the retainers drank silently, and couldn't help but shed tears. In their eyes, who were traveling between life and death, only Tokugawa Ieyasu was still so tall, like a huge peak. Don't he know how to fear?

Torii Mototaki raised his glass without realizing it: "Think about it carefully, we have won this battle. We should congratulate you." His voice was like a barking dog.

"How could we lose? Didn't we repel the tens of thousands of troops of Takeda's family with thousands of troops?" Tadae Tokubo responded.

Tokugawa Ieyasu spoke: "Don't deceive yourself. We did lose. Although we defeated, we did not lose our integrity."

"Yes. Although I lost, I did not lose my integrity... Yes! We failed! Congratulations to you, sir." A retainer said immediately. Then, these retainers staggered and stood up one after another, and they actually danced.

In this way, the bonfire burned until dawn, and the soldiers gradually fell asleep around the fire.

After dawn, the snow stopped and turned into light rain. At this time, both sides of the war relaxed their nervous nerves.

The Takeda family set up Leyuan in Dongsan River to discuss military affairs. Takeda Katsurai, Yama Prefecture, and Oyamada all advocated capturing the Tokugawa family's residence Okazaki Castle, but Takeda Shingen disagreed. Considering that they might encounter reinforcements from Oda on the way to Beijing, they could not waste food and grass in Okazaki Castle. The huge army is most taboo to act slowly. In addition, the Imakawa family, which had not been moved before, also made Takeda Shingen feel uneasy. So Takeda Shingen decided to stop the attack.

Soon, Tokugawa Ieyasu also learned that the Takeda army had decided to cease the war.

After Okazaki Castle got the exact movements of Takeda Army, he began to clean up his own bodies. A large number of tombs were added inside and outside Okazaki Castle, and frost pillars were covered with them.

This time the conflict between the two families caused the Takeda army to lose about 400 people, while Tokugawa and the loss of Oda reinforcements suffered 1,180 casualties.

In this way, between confrontation, the five years of Echonro, which were filled with sorrow, finally passed. The first month of Echonro (1563) was soon ushered in. Takeda Shingen also arrived at the Iiya area of ​​Tohoe Kingdom at the beginning of the year. Although he wanted to take the opportunity to completely defeat the Tokugawa family, the Imagawa family, which was in the flank position, performed too strangely before that. Takeda Shingen decided to march into Tohoe Kingdom, to ensure the safety of the flanks first and then continue to go to Luo Road.

The location of the Torii Kingdom where the Takeda family attacked was the Ii Valley, which entered the gateway of the Torii Kingdom. This location was the territory of the Ii family. With the attack of the Takeda family's army, the Ii family quickly abandoned the Taze Castle in the front and instead concentrated all their troops and resources to the Ii family's Jushima Ii Valley Castle.

Under such circumstances, the Takeda family thought that these local tyrants in Toro River would gradually retreat as the Takeda family invaded the Imakawa family in the Higashisan River area before.

However, when they arrived at the Castle of Iiya and were repelled several attacks, they realized that they were wrong. The Iniya family seemed to be planning to completely block the Takeda family's army's infiltration into the Tonjiang Country area with this fort.

In this way, both sides unknowingly, the spring color became stronger and stronger in their offense and defense. The white plums dotted on both sides of the river have sprouted yellow buds and are about to be covered by cherry blossoms.

As the general of the Ii family, Takeda Katsurai did not expect that this expedition would have fallen into a stalemate. He did not expect that this small city would take so long. He looked up from the tent at Iiiya Castle. The Iiya Castle was backed by Benguan Mountain, and the city was covered with dense bamboo forests, which could be called a jungle city.

You know, before that, even his father Takeda Shingen, who had always been cautious, said: "It turns out that this is Iiya Castle. If we had known it was so small, we could have destroyed it on the way to march."

Compared with the sturdy and tallness of Nagashino Castle, which was previously successfully occupied by the Takeda family, it is a fortress, and it is actually a fortress. The Noda town in front of me gives people a small impression, and it feels like it can be captured in one day.

What made Takeda Katsura even more ashamed was that the lord of the city in front of him was actually just a woman who was only over ten years old (it was I Naoto, the new Toikari family in the Ii family). And his fourth son of Takeda Suwa Shiro Katsura was actually blocked by such a woman, which made him sigh:

"It's almost forty days, they really have some tricks."

Seeing that it was impossible to capture it in one fell swoop, the Takeda family began to make long-term plans. Takeda Katsurai began to turn his target to the Tokugawa family Okazaki Castle in Mikawa, and began to explore how to disrupt the next attack target Okazaki Castle, hoping to enter Okazaki without bloodshed, while Takeda Shingen was considering more profound strategies.

In fact, on the second day of the Serahara victory, Takeda Shingen specially sent the head of the Oda family's old minister, the chief minister of the Oda family, to Oda Nobunaga. This move was actually a threat to the Oda family. The implication was: I have defeated the ungrateful Tokugawa Ieyasu, what are the benefits of the Tokugawa Ieyasu alliance?

Of course, in addition to intimidating the Oda family, Takeda Shingen also sent an envoy to propose an alliance with the Oda family.

Oda Nobunaga was busy continuing to attack the Ise area at this time. I don’t know if he understood Takeda Shingen’s intention or implicit other conspiracies. But soon after, Oda Nobunaga also sent someone to repeatedly declare to the Takeda family that he would not send reinforcements to support Tokugawa Ieyasu.

At this time, Takeda Katsuraki's strategy in Okazaki Castle seemed to have worked, and good news came from time to time. Takeda Shingen sent the last envoy to the Tokugawa family to persuade him to surrender.

"This is not a waste of effort, Saburo Bingwei." Takeda Katsurai said with a smile. Yama Prefecture Masake laughed behind him.

"Tokugawa Ieyasu will feel a pain in our strength this time." Takeda Katsurai smiled and returned to the side of the bed to sit down, and Yama Prefecture Masake smiled again.

"Sanlang Bingwei, why are you laughing?"

"Nothing, what people think is so similar, how can we not make people laugh?"

"similar?"

"While trying to avoid the decisive battle, Tokugawa Ieyasu anxiously waited for the arrival of Oda Nobunaga's reinforcements, and the lord was also waiting for Oda Nobunaga to give up the reinforcements of Tokugawa Ieyasu because of fear... They were all considering reinforcements."

"Haha... So that's it." Takeda Katsurai nodded heavily and took out a thin scent of fragrant wood from his waist pocket. "Sanlang Bingwei, light this. We smell the incense while waiting for the arrival of the messenger. I want to see if the messenger sent by my father can persuade the Tokugawa family to surrender."

"Yes." Yama Prefecture Masake put the scented wood on the fire that was about to be extinguished. "What choice would Oda Nobunaga make? How did the young master predict it?"
Chapter completed!