Chapter 565 27. Intent on Shedding All Takeda's Blood
The news was confirmed, and the whole camp was happy!
We will kill you while you are sick!
Go to Kai and capture Minamoto Harunobu alive!
Takeda Shingen was seriously injured, and there were no antibiotics these days, and he could not undergo thoracotomy. It looked like Takeda Shingen definitely had a broken rib in his chest, and there might be internal bleeding. Now he is just hanging on to his life, and he could die at any time.
The two sons were ready to fight, one was militarizing in Suwa, and it was said that he had forcibly raised a team of more than 5,000 people. The one in Suruga was also crazy, asking for help from his brother-in-law Hojo Ujinao while recruiting strong men.
Anyone could see that there would be a big chaos in Kai, and there were only two reasons why the chaos had not yet started. One was that Takeda Shingen had not died yet, and he might suddenly get better. With his accumulated prestige, no one could compete for the throne, and they had to be his obedient younger brother.
Another thing is that the 40,000-strong coalition army of the Yamanouchi and Takanari families is watching from the sidelines at the Umi-no-Kuchi Castle. With the enemy at hand, everyone is in danger and will not lose their minds and fight internally at this time.
It is already the end of autumn. To be honest, it is not a good season to mobilize troops. The heavy snow of winter is coming soon.
Kobayata's previous prediction was completely correct, and the generals of Yamanouchi were convinced. Naturally, everyone sat down to listen to Kobayata's analysis. The story of Wei Wu's seizure of Hebei was in front of them and very convincing.
Today's Kai is exactly like this. Yuan Shao failed in the decisive battle of Guandu, and Takeda Shingen was defeated under Toishi Castle. Whether the two sons were motivated by their own will or pushed by their subordinates, they inevitably went to opposition.
The throne of the Lord of Kai is so fragrant, who doesn't want it?
Those who don't want it are fools!
Rather than being humble and being cannon fodder for others all their lives, one day they will fill the trenches and become the scapegoat of the army. (I have always suspected that Takeda Nobuharu was deliberately killed in history!) It is better to take advantage of the current strong soldiers and horses, and fight a big battle to the death.
So the Yamanouchi family just needs to add fuel to the fire!
How to push?
I will return it!
Under the leadership of Kobayata, the Yamanouchi family extended an olive branch to the Takeda family. The conditions are also very simple. The Takeda family will pay money, 10 taels of gold for a public servant, 30 taels of gold for a samurai, and 1 tael of gold for a miscellaneous soldier. 7,000 prisoners, the total price is 20,000 taels of gold.
However, excluding the soldiers from Shinano, they are already considered soldiers of the Yamanouchi family. The total number of soldiers from Kai, Suwa and Suruga is less than 3,000, and the total price is 10,000 taels of gold.
If you can't pay, throw them all to the Shinshino Gold Mine in Yamanouchi to do hard labor. The day you pay, you will be released.
The Yamanouchi family will not spit out the Shinano territory that has been occupied. It doesn't matter whether the Takeda family recognizes it or not. This is just a bargaining chip.
Now, not only will I want you to be covered in wounds on the outside, I will also hollow out your insides.
Will you redeem the person? If you do, I will directly drain the financial resources of Kai. I guarantee that you will be hated by both the gods and the gods.
Don't redeem! Of course! Then the people will be scattered, and you will never be able to lead the team again. Even if Takeda Shingen is alive and kicking, it will be useless. Nearly 3,000 Kai people are still alive, but you don't redeem them. In the future, the whole country of Kai will no longer love your Takeda family. What's the point of having a lord who is unwilling to "love the people like his own children"?
Although releasing the person will strengthen Kai's strength, there are already quite a few samurai who have been killed in battle, and the Takeda family has long been covered in wounds. Releasing the person at this time is likely to make his internal strife more intense and more massive.
Why not?
Takeda Nobutoyo and Yamagata Masakage, who are in charge of government affairs at Tsutsujizaki-kan, looked at such a negotiation condition and they didn't dare to agree to it at all. Although this is not a loss of sovereignty and humiliation of the country, it is definitely better in the inside.
Takeda Shingen emptied his family's coffers to get 10,000 taels of gold. But after the emptied, the Takeda family will have to leave and wait for hunger.
But it is really difficult for the Takeda family to withstand the attack of the 40,000-man Yamauchi and Takanashi coalition forces now. People have to bow their heads under the eaves.
And they are also waiting for the reinforcements of Hojo Ujinao. Negotiations are nothing more than bargaining. Whoever has more bargaining chips can speak more toughly.
Unfortunately, the main force of the Hojo family was taken away by Oishi Ujiteru to beat up the resigned national people. The remaining crooked melons and cracked dates were collected. Fujita Ujikuni and Imagawa Ujiki came all the way, but only gathered 12,000 people.
Yamagata Masakage and Takeda Nobutoyo fought half their lives in Kai, but only pulled out more than 4,000. It is true that too many people died under Toishi Castle, and even more were captured. Kai's blood was half shed under Toishi Castle, and it will continue to flow.
Takeda Yoshinobu led 5,000 Suruga people to watch at the southern foot of Mount Fuji, and contacted the two major Kai people, the Anayama clan and the Koyamada clan. No one could see what his plan was.
In the end, it was Takeda Shingen's beloved son-in-law Hojo Ujinao who came forward as an intermediary and agreed to the Takeda family's request for 10,000 taels of gold. However, since the Takeda family really couldn't take it out for a while, Takeda Yoshinobu actually used Suruga Kokuanhara County as a temporary mortgage, and the Hojo family lent the Takeda family the insufficient part, and then Takeda Yoshinobu came forward to redeem about 3,000 captives from Yamanouchi.
When the gold and Yongle money pulled by several ox carts entered the camp of the Yamanouchi army, Kobayata lamented that Hojo Ujinao's butt was crooked.
He seemed to be a good man for the Takeda family, but it would be better to say that he was a good man for Takeda Yoshinobu. Takeda Yoshinobu mortgaged his own territory and exhausted his family's wealth to rescue people. What did the captives think?
Seeing Takeda Yoshinobu bring the money and save them from the dire situation, it was a huge favor.
And the money was paid by the Takeda family, and the money borrowed by the Hojo family had to be repaid by the Takeda family. Takeda Yoshinobu was equivalent to using his father's money to do good and get reinforcements for himself.
After all, Suwa Katsuyori no longer had Yamamoto Kansuke by his side, and Takeda Yoshinobu seemed to have someone around him who was able to give him advice.
The two brothers were originally almost evenly matched, and the balance seemed to be tipping over!
We can't let them have an imbalance of power so easily, even if we have to be evil, we have to be thorough.
On the pretext that the remaining captives were still in Katsurao Castle and could not be handed over immediately, Takeda Yoshinobu was sent away. Kobayata turned around and released a thousand people to Suwa Katsuyori. Anyway, the money had been collected, and I had released the people, and there was no breach of contract.
At most, Takeda Yoshinobu hated him, but he couldn't bite off a piece of Kobayata's meat, so he was afraid of you.
If you don't let you bleed to the last drop of blood in the struggle, how can the Yamanouchi family pick up the ready-made things?
Without Takeda Shingen's signature, Takeda's retainers, led by Hojo Ujinao, negotiated with the Yamanouchi family. The Yamanouchi family returned the heads of all the dead and promised to build a shrine at the foot of Toishi Castle to commemorate the dead in this battle.
"I'll be back next year!"
Kobayata said to Yamanouchi Taro.