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Volume One: The Newborn Eagle Chapter 1149: Life or Death

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    Takeda Shingen thought he might not be able to hear the sound of the flute tonight, but he didn't expect it to come from the same place at the same time.  ¡ù% So, under Takeda Shingen¡¯s instructions, the personal guard moved the bed to the familiar place where Takeda Shingen used to go every day.  Takeda Shingen sat down in the shade of Shiiki where he could hear the sound of the flute most clearly, but quickly stood up again.  "Move the bed a little further to the left." "Huh?" "People around you may know that we listen to the flute here every night, so move the bed a little further." "Yes." The personal guard responded, while obediently moving the bed.  The bed was moved to a young fir tree.  "The most taboo thing in war is to be careless. If someone knows where I listen to the flute, they may attack me with iron cannons during the day, and I may lose my life. There is only one night left, so you must be careful." There is only one servant.  Waiting on the side, in order not to disturb Takeda Shingen's elegance, the others hid in the left, right and back positions.  Takeda Shingen gently shook his military fan and closed his eyes slightly.  The moonlight became colder and colder, and the valley, trees, and city all seemed to be immersed in the wonderful flute sound of this last night.  Perhaps Yoshiyu himself was weeping while playing the touching flute sound.  The moon hid behind the clouds.  In his more than fifty years of life, Takeda Shingen is vividly remembered.  When I was sixteen years old, I went to war for the first time. More than thirty spring and autumn years passed before I knew it, and the years were like a song.  Suddenly, there was a loud bang, which seemed to shake the valley, the earth, and the river.  Takeda Shingen jumped up suddenly when he heard several sounds coming from the place where the bed table had been placed.  That moment.  Takeda Shingen suddenly felt extremely angry.  Mount Tai collapses in front of him, but his appearance is not depressed.  The Yellow River turns to one side without being surprised.  In order to practice this kind of mentality.  Takeda Shingen worked hard, and he believed that he had indeed reached this level.  Even when Uesugi Kenshin entered the main formation at Kawanakajima, he did not jump up from the bed.  But tonight, even though he had expected and prepared for someone to shoot him, he still couldn't help but panic.  You still haven¡¯t practiced enough!  After blaming himself, Takeda Shingen was about to sit back on the bed when his huge body started to stagger.  A strong numbness spread from the right waist to the feet.  His knees buckled and he fell to the ground.  Takeda Shingen suddenly felt embarrassed.  When he was about to use his right hand to support his body, he was suddenly shocked - his right hand had lost all feeling.  He felt a strange pain in the back of his head, and the right side of his face fell straight to the ground.  The servant drew his sword and ran towards Takeda Shingen, shouting loudly.  "My lord was hit by an iron cannon." "You bastard, what are you yelling at? It wasn't me who was hit by the iron cannon. It was the guard. Go quickly" Takeda Shingen scolded, but his teeth clenched loudly, and his voice finally became lower and lower.  His lips twitched, and he felt drool dripping from his lips.  He tried to push himself up with his left hand.  But the right half of his body seemed to be rooted in the ground, very heavy.  I felt anxious.  He suddenly felt something was blocked in his chest and wanted to spit it out.  "Wow!" Takeda Shingen finally spat it out.  The thing seemed to be food, and it also seemed to be a black blood clot. There was a sticky feeling on the left side of the face.  Takeda Shingen had to admit that his old illness had relapsed.  This trip to Shangluo can be described as thoughtful.  Taking a lesson from Imagawa Yoshimoto, he was calm, cautious, and had a great victory in the first battle. However, seeing that his ambition was about to be realized, everything came to nothing in an instant.  Could it be that the stars that were robbed of their light by the moonlight were not Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga, but themselves?  Must live!  How could he die?  ¡°Don¡¯t scream¡ª¡ª¡± Takeda Shingen wanted to shout angrily, but still couldn¡¯t.  "Don't scream, don't let the enemy notice. Don't say anything." The weak voice made the personal guards who ran over even more frightened and embarrassed.  "The lord has been hit! Report to the young master quickly." "Call the doctor! Hurry." "Move the lord to the military tent quickly." Under the moonlight, black shadows came and went in chaos.  The sound of the flute still floats in the night sky, as if it is melting into the night air, but no one here listens to it anymore.  "The lord has been hit." "The sound of the flute is the enemy's conspiracy." In the chaos, the messenger ran like crazy between the military tents of Shiro Takeda Katsuyori and other important ministers But before that, Takeda Shingen listened to the flute.  At the same time as the sound was heard, Tokugawa Ieyasu in Nagasawa Mountain Castle had already clasped his hands for a long time.  Behind the bed, Torii Motoada and Kanwara Yasumasa asked questions from time to time, but Tokugawa Ieyasu just responded with "Oh, um" and did not answer.  The two of them closed their mouths unconsciously and remained silent under the moonlight.  Viewed from here, Takeda¡¯s camp surrounded Mount Nagasawa.?, hazy in the pale moonlight.  The enemy under the moonlight forced Tokugawa Ieyasu to make a decision.  Facing Takeda Shingen¡¯s army, Tokugawa Ieyasu himself was powerless.  There are various signs that the Oda reinforcements that made Tokugawa Ieyasu see through the autumn water are unlikely to arrive; even the reinforcements from Uesugi Kenshin, the last hope, have yet to be seen. As for the Imagawa family, there is no response.  But Tokugawa Ieyasu was neither shaken nor panicked. He had gradually matured.  According to his judgment, the one who will stay in the eastern part of Mikawa Kingdom and the border area of ??Enji Kingdom should be Yamagata Saburobei Masakei.  This guy will keep an eye on the Imagawa family's actions there.  Moreover, once he saw signs that the Imagawa family was pursuing Takeda Shingen, he would undoubtedly stop them in order to contain the Imagawa family's army.  As for the Tokugawa family themselves, how could the weak Tokugawa army resist the Takeda family's attack?  Should we build a pure world on earth, or choose the way of death as a samurai?  All Tokugawa Ieyasu was thinking about.  In fact, Tokugawa Ieyasu no longer has any confusion about life and death. The only thing he needs to consider now is how to die to realize his ambition.  Under the silent moonlight, the ghosts of those dead retainers surrounded him, forcing him to reconsider.  Natsume Masakichi who died on his behalf, Torii Tadahiro who died heroically to show that he was not a coward, Honda Tadama who was killed in the snow in order to break the war after the defeat, and the young Matsudaira Yasunjun and Mi  Sawa Masanobu, Naruse Masayoshi appeared in front of Tokugawa Ieyasu one by one, as if they were confiding something, and then left quietly.  Tokugawa Ieyasu understood what they wanted to say.  "My lord, don't think too much." Being able to face Takeda Shingen, who is known as the best general in the world, alone.  Not an unfortunate event.  "Please understand. Takeda Shingen is the touchstone used by God to temper the lord." At this moment, there was a sudden sound of a cannon, which almost shattered the night sky.  Before Tokugawa Ieyasu could ask questions, Kambara Yasumasa stood up first.  "Is it the enemy or one of our own?" Torii Motochu stood in the moonlight, looking up into the distance.  "It's strange, it's still quiet outside." Kang Zheng said.  Okubo Tadayo 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, but said softly: "Don't talk." "Only one shot, no more.  "It's probably nothing." "Maybe it's a signal to launch a night attack" Kang Zheng hurriedly walked outside.  I want to inquire about it.  I don¡¯t know what Kang Zheng said. In the end, I only heard him telling his servants to "go and have a look."  Someone responded and hurried away.  Nothing happened all night.  Early the next morning, Torii Motochu came to report that Takeda Shingen had sent an envoy.  "Messenger?" Tokugawa Ieyasu thought for a long time before asking Motada, "Who is it?" "A retainer of the Izu family, Nagashino Suganuma, repels him?" Motada said this, obviously thinking that Takeda Shingen was in a bad situation for bullying the Texas Army.  , sent envoys to persuade them to surrender.  Tokugawa Ieyasu did not answer immediately.  Instead, he stared at the sky for a long time.  Now that the matter has come to this, what is the purpose of sending an envoy?  "It's okay to meet him. Let him in." "Please don't be angry, sir." "We can kill him at any time. Let him in." After a while.  The messenger came in with an unexpectedly respectful expression.  It was Mana Nobu, a veteran of the Suganuma Izu family, who was already in his sixties.  "I am the envoy who was recommended to Lord Shingen by the three parties of the Yama family and was sent here." Tokugawa Ieyasu deliberately changed the topic and said casually: "I heard that Lord Shingen is ill." The other party's face changed slightly after hearing this.  .  "I heard that he has chest tightness and often vomits blood. Has he become so weak because of the long-term battle?" "I'm not with him, so I don't know the details. But I saw him before coming here, and he looked good." "Why are you here this time?  "You have no contact with the Okuhira family, so I probably don't know the details. Please let me elaborate." "You want to say that Okuhira Sadakatsu has surrendered?" "That's right."  All the wells in the city were unable to produce water, so he had no choice but to surrender. ""Is it possible to prevent the wells from producing water?" Tokugawa Ieyasu couldn't help but look at the messenger again.  When attacking Futama Castle, the Takeda Army once sent rafts under the Tenryu River dam to cut off the water source. This time they sent people to dig underground to cut off the water veins Thinking of the endless strange tactics that Takeda Shingen Prefecture had, Tokugawa Ieyasu felt his hair grow.  He turned upside down, and finally couldn't help but sigh: "Kong Shingen's fighting methods are really ever-changing." "Yes. Therefore, the soldiers guarding the city sent orders to Shingen through the monks who could fill the temple.I begged for mercy, hoping to save the lives of Okuhira Sadakatsu and Matsudaira Yoichiro.  "In order to achieve his goal, the envoy deliberately changed some facts. "When did it happen?  " "Yesterday.  "    "how is the progress?  " " Lord Shingen agreed to their request, forced the two into Nid¨­ Castle, and repeatedly persuaded them to follow Kofu.  " "So they defected to Takeda?  "The messenger raised his half-white eyebrows and smiled slightly: "No.  They would rather die than surrender.  My master, Izu Suganuma, the supervisor, Okuhira Mono, and Tamine, the supervisor of the Suganuma Punishment Department, interceded on their behalf.  "    "oh.  " "But they refused to give in despite all their efforts.  Therefore, the three parties of the Yama family decided to exchange them for the Takeda family hostages held by you.  " Tokugawa Ieyasu couldn't help laughing after hearing this. He had already determined that the hostages of the Takeda family captured by the Tokugawa family during the battle between the two families would be useful in this battle, so he secretly sent them back to Okazaki  City. "Did Duke Xinxuan agree to the suggestions of the three parties of the Yama family and send you to discuss the hostage exchange?  " "Exactly.  " "What if I don't agree?  " The other party's color changed immediately after hearing this. Seeing this situation, Tokugawa Ieyasu immediately thought: "Something must have happened!  " "If that's the case, I can only laugh at it and commit seppuku.  " "Suicide does not fulfill your mission.  Who are you apologizing to?  " "I was deeply moved by the two imprisoned generals.  " "Have you seen those two people?  "    "yes.  Both of them were deeply moved by Lord Shingen's broad mind.  Are you going to abandon those two generals who even moved Lord Shingen?  " "I didn't say I wanted to abandon them.  " "I also want to ask your lord for them.  Please understand the righteousness of this.  Especially Matsudaira and Ichiro.  Ever since I came to Atsuta as a hostage when I was six years old.  Just stay with you.  "When Tokugawa Ieyasu heard this, he deliberately frowned: "What I said was wrong.  If Lord Shingen really keeps his promise, I will lead everyone to escort the hostages to Hirose River.  As long as Mr. Shingen can do it, I will be fine.  " The messenger lowered his head feebly: "I will convey your wishes to Duke Xinxuan.  " "Okay, let's prepare separately.  Yuan Zhong, see the guests off for me.  " After the two left, Tokugawa Ieyasu lowered his head and walked slowly around the bed. This matter was really strange The hostage exchange began soon. The hostages on both sides were escorted by more than 2,000 people. They came to the bank of the Hirose River.  . Yamagata Masaki has entered the Odaira family. If Takeda Shingen is plotting, Takeda's main force will immediately come to attack. To be safe, Tokugawa Ieyasu secretly arranges for some people in the territory to prevent the enemy from raiding. But soon after the hostage exchange.  , Tokugawa Ieyasu received a spy report that a sedan departed from Takeda Shingen's main formation and headed towards Nagashino Castle. Soon, a more accurate spy report came: there were three sedans, but they did not enter Nagasaki.  Shinojo, but headed towards Horai Temple in the north If Takeda Shingen is sitting in the sedan, isn't it an obvious retreat? "Why should he retreat?"  "Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered everyone under his banner. The Takeda army may have pretended to retreat and deceived Tokugawa Ieyasu into returning to Okazaki Castle. They then turned their spearhead and attacked. As Tokugawa Ieyasu expected, the Yamagata Masaki of the Okudaira family was left behind.  It seems that he is busy preparing for the attack. The second day after the hostage exchange, "I have a secret to report to you.  "Trapped in the Okuhira family, Matsudaira and Ichiro Tadamasa's subordinate Torii Sanzaemon came to visit fellow Torii Motoadada. "Sanzao, do you want to talk to the lord about defending the city?  " "You can't tell anyone except adults.  " "Can't you tell me too?  "    "yes.  Please go ahead and inform your lord secretly.  " "It's just a mystery.  Well, I'll report it to you.  " Tokugawa Ieyasu also wore a battle uniform to sleep in the army, so he often felt itchy all over his body. He was soaking in hot water at the moment, wiping his back while asking his servants to look for lice in his clothes. "Report.  The third member of the Okudaira family wants to meet the lord alone.  " Motochu looked over the servant's shoulder and saw Tokugawa Ieyasu's dirty underwear, and said loudly. " Let him wait.  Tokugawa Ieyasu's voice came from behind the door panel, "I'm rubbing my back."  " "San Zuo won't even tell me, he must see you.  " "Can't you even tell me?  Tokugawa Ieyasu said in surprise, "San Zuo comes in."  " Sanzaemon carefully came to the door. "What on earth do you want?  ¡±  "This" Sanzaemon looked away from Tokugawa Ieyasu and said, "There are rumors that Takeda Shingen, the general of the Takeda family, was killed in the battle." "What?" Tokugawa Ieyasu  cried out loudly.  Takeda Shingen almost plunged Tokugawa Ieyasu's life into darkness. Tokugawa Ieyasu had tasted all the ups and downs for so many years. When he was finally about to usher in the light, he encountered the biggest obstacle - this huge stumbling block.  I'm so lucky, this rumor is so eye-popping!  "Sanzuo!" Tokugawa Ieyasu was naked, opened his eyes angrily, and raised his voice, "Where did you hear this rumor? Tell me!" "Yes. Because the matter is so important, the little man decided to tell only one person to the adults."  "Takeda Shingen, who is good at conspiracy, probably wants to use this to seduce our military morale, or to lure Oda into taking the bait. In short, he has ulterior motives. But since you came here to tell me this news, there must be a reason. Please tell me where the rumor came from.  " "Yes" Sanzaemon looked away from Tokugawa Ieyasu's body again, "While the villain was trapped in the Odaira family, he was thinking hard about whether there was a way to hit Takeda Shingen. " "Oh.  "Although the Kai army is strong, it is only because of Takeda Shingen. If you kill him, it will be equivalent to breaking the pillar of Kai" "It's so long-winded! I don't need to talk about the source of these rumors!"  "Oh, forgive me. That's exactly what Sanzuo was talking about. When I was trapped in the Oppei family, I learned that there was a master of flute playing in the Ise Yamada family." "That one.  Master of flute playing, please let go!" "Please listen patiently to the villain. The master of fluting plays the flute every night, so both sides can be immersed in the sound of the flute.  This point. The villain heard that Lord Shingen liked to play the flute, so he lured Yoshikyu to a position where Takeda Honjin could hear the sound of the flute, and asked him to play the flute there every night." "Interesting, interesting." "So-called people.  If it's good, the Shingen guild must be fascinated by where he will listen to the flute That is the question that the villain is concerned about. The day before Takeda Shingen's sedan chair went to Horaiji Temple, it was planted on the mound behind Takeda's main formation.  Holding a bamboo pole with pieces of paper tied to it¡ª¡ª" Tokugawa Ieyasu forgot to put on his clothes and stared at Sanzuo closely.  "The bamboo pole immediately attracted the villain's attention. I believed that it was where Takeda Shingen was listening to the flute. So I took advantage of the cover of the pine branches and aimed the iron cannon at that place." "" "The same goes for Yoshitsune.  Witness of this matter. That night, the villain asked him to play the flute as usual. Just when his flute sound was perfect, I fired. " "" "Next, I found chaos in the Takeda formation.  , there were shouts and shouts from time to time. The next day, Takeda Shingen's sedan headed towards Horaiji Temple. "Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had been listening to all this silently, suddenly shouted: "You bastard, shut up!" Torii San.  Zaemon was immediately horrified and fell silent.  "So, that's not a rumor at all. It's your proud work?" Tokugawa Ieyasu shouted angrily, "Bring me your clothes quickly. I almost caught a cold because of this boring topic. Sanzuo, you always like others.  Of course, don't you realize that the bamboo pole is just a trick of the enemy?" Sanzaemon looked confused.  He watched Tokugawa Ieyasu put on the clothes sent by his servants, silently.  "You are such an idiot, Sanzuo. You managed to set up a trap, but the other party took advantage of it Well, I, Tokugawa Ieyasu, will tell you. You all stand down." After putting on the battle uniform, Tokugawa Ieyasu was rude.  He scolded the servants, "Come here, Sanzao. There are no outsiders here. Did the sedan go in the direction of Fenglai Temple? You should know what they are doing, please tell me in detail." Sanzaemon heard this  After saying this, he was suddenly startled, and he quickly understood Tokugawa Ieyasu's intentions.  "Yes, yes. The villain has been paying attention to them." He leaned over, "After I fired, the other party immediately fell into noise and chaos. Next, I heard warriors on horseback running wildly in the formation, and more and more people came  "Oh. After daybreak, they came to exchange hostages" "No, after daybreak, Yamaguchi Saburobei stormed into the city in anger." "I understand what you saw.  "The villain didn't think that shot would kill Takeda Shingen, but he was definitely injured." "Don't jump to conclusions."  "Where did you get it?" "When the troops from Shan County entered the city, they transported grain and grass."?What the people said.  " "Tell me the original words of the people.  " "Yes the man was carrying chicken rice specially for Takeda Shingen to the formation. Suddenly he heard a loud noise, and he was suddenly frightened" "Wait, Sanzuo!"  I heard that Takeda Shingen has been a vegetarian for more than ten years since he started practicing Zen.  Why does he want to eat chicken?  Have you asked this?  "    "asked.  Takeda Shingen had a chest disease, which was why he summoned doctors to be by his side when he went on an expedition.  The doctor advised Takeda Shingen not to eat vegetarian food during his military service, but to use fish as bait.  "    "oh.  Tokugawa Ieyasu crossed his shoulders, "What's next?"  " "He said that in the chaos, he did hear someone shouting that the lord was hit hit by an iron cannon Two guards lifted the motionless Takeda Shingen, and then two doctors were hurriedly lifted.  Passed into the military tent.  It seems that Takeda Shingen is indeed dead.  " Sanzaemon finished speaking in one breath. Tokugawa Ieyasu's eyes shone and he fell into deep thought. What Sanzaemon said was not impossible, but how could he dare to believe it. Just as there is victory or defeat in war, people have life and death.  When Tokugawa Ieyasu was despairing of his fate, his opponent Takeda Shingen suddenly fell Is this really a coincidence? "Sanzuo.  "Tokugawa Ieyasu shouted, and fell into silence again. An irresistible excitement stimulated his limbs, and his voice was out of shape. If this is true, based on etiquette, he should bow his head in condolences The haze gradually dissipated.  Go, you can see the blue sky. If you don't take it lightly, it may turn into heavy rain in a blink of an eye. "Don't be impatient!"  "Seeing Tokugawa Ieyasu's silence, Sanzaemon said cautiously, "Even if Lord Shingen is really dead, I think Takeda will seal the news" "That makes sense.  " "If that is the case, what news will Takeda spread among the people?  " "They will definitely say that they want to rest in Fenglai Temple for a while.  " "Then, let me go to Fenglai Temple to find out what's going on.  " Tokugawa Ieyasu shook his head. He was not against it, he just felt that even if he went to Fuglai Temple, he would not be able to find out the truth of the matter. Takeda Shingen, who always had a shadow warrior by his side, would definitely let him die even if he died.  A substitute was lying on the hospital bed and asked Yubi to imitate his handwriting. Thinking of this, Tokugawa Ieyasu stood up, "Listen, don't mention this to anyone.  "    "clear.  " "You go back immediately. For the sake of caution, pay attention to find out what news Takeda will spread.  "    "yes.  " After Sanzaemon went out, Tokugawa Ieyasu stared at the void and couldn't help laughing (The new book "The Giant Tree Lord", ISBN 3452023, has been released, mainly involving farming flow, system flow, practice upgrade adventure, and starting from scratch  Starting, power struggle and other elements, I don¡¯t ask for anything else, just a collection and a recommendation vote. Thank you very much) (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and faster!
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