Takeda Shingen thought he might not be able to hear the flute tonight, but he didn't expect it to be transmitted from the same place at the same time. ※%

So, at the command of Takeda Shingen, the personal guard moved the bed to the familiar place that Takeda Shingen must visit every day.

Takeda Shingen sat down at the shade of Shizuki's back where he could hear the flute sounds most clearly, but soon stood up again.

"Move the bed to the left."

"ah?"

"People around us may know that we listen to the flute here every night and move the bed a few times."

"Yes." The personal guard responded, obediently moving the bed to a young cedar.

"The most taboo in war is to care. If someone knows where I listen to the sound of the flute, I may attack with an iron cannon during the day, and I may lose my life because of it. There is only one night left, so you must be careful."

There was only one servant who was waiting. In order not to disturb Takeda Shingen's elegance, the rest hid in the left, right, and the last three directions. Takeda Shingen gently shook the military fan and closed his eyes slightly. The moonlight became colder and colder, and the valleys, trees, and cities seemed to be immersed in the wonderful flute sound of the last night. Perhaps Fangxiu himself was also crying while playing a touching flute sound.

The moon hid behind the clouds. After more than fifty years of life, Takeda Shingen is vividly remembered. When he was sixteen, he first went to fight, and more than thirty springs and autumns passed without realizing it, and the years were like songs.

Suddenly, a loud bang came, as if it was about to shake the valley, the earth, and the river. Takeda Shingen heard a few sounds from the place where the bed was just now, and then he jumped up suddenly.

At that moment, Takeda Shingen suddenly felt extremely angry. Mount Tai collapsed in front of him and was not frustrated. The Yellow River was determined by the side but was not surprised. In order to practice this mentality, Takeda Shingen had worked hard and thought that he had indeed reached this level.

Even when Kenshino Uesugi entered the formation while on Kawaakashima, he did not jump out of the bed. But tonight, although he had expected someone to shoot him and prepared for it, he still couldn't help panic.

Still not practicing enough! After blaming himself, Takeda Shingen was about to sit back on the bed, but his huge body shaking. A strong sense of numbness ran straight from his right waist to his feet. His knees softened and he fell to the ground.

Takeda Shingen suddenly felt embarrassed. When he was about to support his body with his right hand, he was suddenly shocked - his right hand had lost consciousness. He felt a strange feeling of pain in the back of his head, and his right face rushed straight to the ground.

The servant pulled out his knife and shouted loudly to come to Takeda Shingen.

"The lord was hit by iron cannon."

"Bastard, why are you shouting? It's not me who was hit by the iron cannon. It's the guard, go..." Takeda Shingen scolded, but his teeth clattered, and his voice finally got lower and lower. His lips spasmed, and he felt saliva flowing out.

He tried to raise his body with his left hand, but his right half seemed to have taken root on the ground, very heavy. He felt anxious. He suddenly felt something blocked in his chest and was about to vomit.

"Wow!" Takeda Shingen finally vomited out. The thing seemed to be food, and it seemed to be black blood clots, and there was a sticky feeling on his left face. Takeda Shingen had to admit that his old illness had relapsed.

This time, Luo was thoughtful. With the lessons of Imakawa Yoshimoto, he was calm and cautious. Moreover, he had a great victory in the first battle. Seeing that his ambition was about to be realized, everything turned into a bubble in an instant. Could it be that the stars whose light was taken away by the moonlight were not Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga, but himself? He had to survive! How could he die?

"Don't call—" Takeda Shingen wanted to shout angrily, but he still couldn't say it.

"Don't shout, don't let the enemy notice it. Don't talk." The faint voice made the personal guards running over even more frightened and embarrassed.

"The lord was hit! Report to the young master quickly."

"Call the doctor! Hurry."

"Come on to move the lord into the military tent."

Under the moonlight, the shadows come and go, making a mess.

The sound of the flute is still floating in the night sky, as if it is about to melt in the night air, but no one here can hear it anymore.

"The lord was hit."

"The sound of the flute is the enemy's conspiracy."

Amid the chaos, the envoy ran wildly between Shiro Takeda Katsurai and the military tents of all the important officials...

At the same time when Takeda Shingen listened to the sound of the flute, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was in Nagasawa Mountain Castle, had already clasped his fists for a long time. Torii Mototaki and Kamihara Yasumasa, who were behind the bed, asked questions from time to time, but Tokugawa Ieyasu just responded "Oh, um" and did not answer.

The two of them closed their mouths unconsciously and remained silent under the moonlight. From here, Takeda's camp surrounded Nagasawa Mountain Castle, and was hazy in the faint moonlight. The enemies under the moonlight forced Tokugawa Ieyasu to make a decision.

Facing Takeda Shingen's army, Tokugawa Ieyasu himself was powerless. All signs indicate that the Oda reinforcements that made Tokugawa Ieyasu look forward to Akihiro's hopelessness could no longer arrive; even the reinforcements of Uesugi Kenshin were not seen for the last glimmer of hope, and as for the Imagawa Ieyasu, there was no response. But Tokugawa Ieyasu was neither shaken nor panic, and he had gradually matured.

According to his judgment, the one who stayed in the eastern part of the Sankawa Kingdom and the border area of ​​the Tomeng Kingdom from now on should be Yama Prefecture Saburobuki Eimaki. This guy will be there to keep a close eye on the actions of the Imakawa family. Moreover, once the Imakawa family is seeing signs of pursuing Takeda Shingen, he will undoubtedly block it to restrain the Imakawa family's army.

As for the Tokugawa family itself, how can the weak Tokugawa army resist in the face of the Takeda family's attack? Should we build a pure land world on earth or choose the way of samurai's death? Tokugawa Ieyasu's mind was thinking about this.

In fact, Tokugawa Ieyasu has long lost his confusion about life and death. The only thing he needs to consider now is how to die to realize his ambition. Under the quiet moonlight, the ghosts of the dead retainers surrounded him, forcing him to think again.

Natsume Masayoshi, who died for him, died bravely in order to show that he was not a coward, Torii Tadashi, who was killed in the snow after his defeat, and the young Matsuhira Yasumi, Masato Yonezawa, Masayoshi Narase... all appeared before Tokugawa Ieyasu, as if he was talking about something, and then quietly left. Tokugawa Ieyasu understood what they wanted to tell.

"Lord, don't think too much." It is definitely not an unfortunate thing to be able to face Takeda Shingen, who is known as the world's number one military general alone.

"Please understand. Takeda Shingen is the touchstone used by God to temper his lord."

At this moment, a sudden sound of cannon came, almost shaking the night sky. Before Tokugawa Ieyasu could ask questions, Kamihara Yasumasa stood up first.

"Is it the enemy or your own?" Torii Mototaki stood in the moonlight and looked up at the distance.

"Strangely, it's still quiet outside." Kang Zheng said.

Tadae Okubo tilted his head and walked into the tent in confusion: "The sound just now sounded like an iron cannon."

Tokugawa Ieyasu did not answer him, and just said softly: "Don't talk."

"Only one shot, there was no sound again. Maybe nothing happened."

"Maybe it's some kind of secret code. It's going to launch a night attack..."

Kang Zheng hurried outside and wanted to inquire. He didn't know what Kang Zheng said, but in the end he only heard him instruct his servants to "...Go and take a look". Someone responded and hurried away.

Nothing happened overnight.

The next morning, Torii Mototaki came to report that Takeda Shingen sent an envoy.

"Entertainment?" Tokugawa Ieyasu thought for a while before asking Mototaki, "Who is it?"

"Does the retainer of Nagashinosunuuma Izu family repel him?"

When Tomotochi said this, he obviously believed that Takeda Shingen bullying the Texas Army was in a bad situation, so he sent an envoy to persuade him to surrender. Tokugawa Ieyasu did not answer immediately. Instead, he stared at the sky for a long time. Now that things have come, what are you sending an envoy to do?

"It's okay to meet. Let him in."

"I hope you don't get angry."

"We can kill him anytime. Let him come in."

After a while, the messenger walked in with an unexpectedly respectful look. It was the old minister of the Suganuma Izu family and Miao Manxin, who was over 60 years old. "I am the Yama family recommended it to Shingeng Gong, and then the messenger sent here."

Tokugawa Ieyasu deliberately changed the topic and said casually: "I heard that Shingen Gong is sick." The other party's expression changed slightly after hearing this.

"I heard that he felt stuffy in his chest and vomited blood frequently. Has he become so weak due to long-term battles?"

"I am not by his side, so I don't know the details. But when I saw him before coming here, I looked very good."

"What's going to do this time?"

"Sir, I have no contact with the Aoping family, probably don't know the details. Please let me tell you in detail."

"Do you want to say that Aoping Zhensheng has surrendered?"

"Yes. Mr. Shin-hyun transferred a skilled craftsman from the Jiafu, so that all the wells in the city could not be discharged. He had to surrender."

"Let the well not get out of water?" Tokugawa Ieyasu couldn't help but look at the messenger again. When attacking Nimata Castle, Takeda's army once placed a raft under the Tenryu River Dam and cut off the water source. This time, he sent someone to dig underground to cut off the water veins... Thinking of the endless unique tactics of Takeda Shingen Prefecture, Tokugawa Ieyasu's hair was standing upside down, and finally he couldn't help but sigh:

"Shin Xuan Gong's tactics are really endless."

"Yes. Therefore, the soldiers guarding the city pleaded with Shingengong through the monks of Noman Temple, hoping to save the lives of Okai Satsukatsu, Matsuhei and Ichiro." In order to achieve their goal, the envoy deliberately changed some facts.

"When did it happen?"

"Yesterday."

“How is it going?”

"Mr. Shin-hyun agreed to their request and forced the two into Erdao City, repeatedly persuading them to follow the Kafu."

"So they defected to Takeda?"

The messenger raised his half-white eyebrows and smiled and said, "No. They would rather die than surrender. My master, Suganu Izu, the master of the worker, and the three Suganuo Predator of Tatsume, so they pleaded for them."

"oh."

"But after all the talk, they refused to surrender. Therefore, the three parties of the Yama family decided to exchange them for the hostages of Takeda family held in You."

After hearing this, Tokugawa Ieyasu couldn't help laughing. He had already determined that the hostages of the Takeda family who were captured by the Tokugawa family in the battle between the two families would be useful in this battle, so he secretly sent them back to Okazaki Castle.

"Mr. Shingen agreed to the suggestion of the three parties in the Yama family. Will you send you to discuss the hostage exchange?"

“That’s right.”

"If I don't agree, what if I stay?"

The other party changed his color after hearing this. Seeing this, Tokugawa Ieyasu immediately thought: "What must have happened!"

"If that's true, I can only laugh at me and commit suicide by septum."

"Suicide will not fulfill your mission. Who are you apologizing to?"

"I was deeply moved by the two prisoners."

"Have you seen those two?"

"Yes. Both of them were deeply moved by Shin-Chun Gong's broad mind. Do you want to abandon those two generals who even moved Shin-Chun Gong's military officers?"

"I didn't say I wanted to abandon them."

"I also want to ask for help on their behalf. Please understand the righteousness. Especially Matsuhei and Ichiro. Since they came to Hirota as a quasi-good person, they have been by your side since they were six years old." Tokugawa Ieyasu deliberately raised his face: "What you said is bad. If Shingen Gong really keeps his promise, I will lead everyone to escort the hostages to Hirosekawa. As long as Shingen Gong can do it, I will naturally have no problem."

The messenger lowered his head weakly: "I directed Xin Xuan Gong to convey the meaning of Lord."
To be continued...