Chapter 158 47. Withdraw Troops, Stop Fighting, Sign a Contract

Life has dealt a heavy blow to Kobayata, and everyone is embarrassed. The Yamauchi army is reluctant to attack the city, but reluctant to retreat. They are caught in a dilemma and cannot make a decision.

The Yamauchi warriors who originally expected to capture Nirasaki and then rush into Kai to save the people from water, robbery, and fire are full of regret and frustration. As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, which is probably the current situation.

This is just like a teacher who is eating hot pot with his wife and happily going to take office, but encounters a horse bandit halfway. With a pong sound, both the person and the car are blown up, and a bullet is shot in the head.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu certainly knows that Kobayata is not at fault, but he is still angry. Originally, everyone thought well that they could attack Tsutsujizaki and capture Minamoto Harunobu alive. Unfortunately, life is like this, and it will never follow the protagonist's routine like in novels. Very desperate!

And life will never give up easily after giving you a punch, it will definitely give you another huge club. While the Yamanouchi generals failed in their attempt to persuade Nirasaki Castle to surrender, the envoys brought another predictable news.

Takeda Harunobu was such a person that he would never admit and accept failure. As long as he was not beaten to death on the spot, he would certainly try his best to come back and get his revenge.

So Takeda Harunobu issued a general military service order, requiring all adult men between the ages of sixteen and sixty. As long as they were listed in the military service account, they must report to Tsutsujigasaki Castle immediately, regardless of whether the head of the family had died in Uedahara. Those who were really unable to send troops had to provide mules or money to ensure that Takeda Harunobu could quickly raise an army.

In this way, in the search and expansion of the territory that was almost extinct, Takeda Harunobu finally temporarily pulled out an army of 3,500 people. At the same time, his good son-in-law Hojo Ujinao hurriedly asked his uncle Oishi Ujiteru to bring more than a thousand people to rescue his father-in-law.

This is not over yet. If only Takeda Harunobu brought these old, weak, sick and disabled people to fight against the Hojo soldiers, the Yamauchi army might still think of a way to fight him. But Imagawa Yoshimoto of Suruga actually brought 2,000 people to "mediate the fight". The troops had just set out from Sengen Taisha, and now they had passed Mount Fuji and would soon reach Nirasaki.

Imagawa Yoshimoto also sent a letter to Yamauchi Yoshiharu, in which he said righteously that he could not bear the internal strife of the famous Genji family, and did not want to see the people being hurt by the war during the spring plowing. Now he came to persuade the two families based on the principles of fairness and justice. It was all just a bunch of formal words, which made people sick.

Thousands of troops from the three countries of Kashun Xiang were coming in the next two days, and Nirasaki would definitely not be able to take down the city quickly, so this battle was a failure.

What is going on?

Can't we just have a smooth ride!

There was no other way, Yamauchi Yoshiharu could only withdraw his troops into the camp. Imagawa Yoshimoto's envoys arrived one after another, delivering the news of Imagawa Yoshimoto. In short, all of them were excuses to stabilize Yamanouchi Yoshiharu, fearing that Yamanouchi Yoshiharu would really attack the city and plunder half of Kai.

Moreover, one of the two warring parties was his brother-in-law, and the other was his son-in-law. Imagawa Yoshimoto was somewhat sincere (although this sincerity was probably rare) and hoped that the two families would stop fighting and stop for the time being. He did not mention Takeda Harunobu, the first to start the war, at all, and only talked about "friendship".

As for the deeper meaning, of course, Imagawa Yoshimoto did not want a huge force that ruled the two countries to appear in his north, which would threaten him from above and from below. (This person is also ambitious, is it something he dare not do?)

In short, eighteen letters were sent in one day, which were both emotional and reasonable, repeatedly stating that the war had reached this point, and Imagawa Yoshimoto's direct brother-in-law Takeda Harunobu was seriously injured and needed to lick his wounds. The relative-in-law, Yamanouchi Yoshiharu, also failed to capture Kai. Even if he could get some territory, he had to recover from the loss of 500 dead and 1,200 wounded.

After waiting for another two days, the Takeda army and the Imagawa army arrived at the foot of Nirasaki Castle one after another. The Takeda army retreated from the city with more than 5,000 reinforcements, and Nirasaki has been impregnable since then.

Imagawa Yoshimoto's 2,000 people directly stated that they would not help either side, and chose another relatively undulating hilltop to set up camp, and then the three groups of people began to contact and test under the mediation of Imagawa Yoshimoto.

Because Imagawa Yoshimoto was a heavyweight intermediary, his strength represented his credibility. In the end, the Yamanouchi and Takeda clans accepted his mediation and reached a two-year ceasefire and non-aggression agreement.

First, the Takeda clan allowed the Yamanouchi clan to send troops and food through Kai to support Hosokawa Harumiya of Hachioji in these two years; secondly, the Takeda clan ceded the territories of Kami-ina and Shimo-suwa, with the Miyagawa River as the boundary, a total of 18,000 kan of territory; thirdly, the Yamanouchi clan returned all the heads of the Takeda clan samurai they had obtained, and held a ritual for the soldiers who died in Uedahara to bury these poor people properly; and finally, the Yamanouchi clan and the Takeda clan could not exchange swords for the next two years.

Imagawa Yoshimoto also signed and sealed the agreement with his seal. He used his status as a daimyo with 200,000 kan to guarantee that both parties to the contract would abide by the agreement. If anyone violated the agreement of the truce, he would use force to ensure the implementation of this agreement and make it effective.

The Yamanouchi clan withdrew their troops in hatred, and the Takeda clan's territory was preserved. Hosokawa Saijo brought a thousand people to send supplies, food, and reinforcements to his father, and he was happy to achieve his wish.

As for Yoshiharu Yamanouchi's annoyance, it was shown that he had not spoken a word for two days. He just followed the army to take over the new territories of Suwa and Ina along the way.

Kobayata was also very depressed. He felt that this era was targeting him everywhere. Why could others do whatever they wanted, but he was so miserable. How could there be so much wine in the city when the water veins were cut off so cleverly?

This time, the Yamauchi army did not have to go around Xiaoxian and Saku Street to return to Yamauchi. The whole army returned from Suwa Street in a swagger, and a fast horse chased up and gave Kobayata a letter signed by Yamamoto Kansuke.

It said that there was indeed wine in the city, but there were only thirty barrels, and the rest were just some empty wooden barrels and vegetable jars. After seeing that the water veins were cut off, Yamamoto Kansuke guessed that the Yamauchi family would definitely send someone to persuade them to surrender after three days of water shortage, so on the morning of the third day, when the soldiers were eating, each of them was given a large glass of wine. The drinking water in the city was indeed almost exhausted, and he also deceived the soldiers that there were hundreds of jars of wine in the city, which strengthened the soldiers' confidence in holding on.

If Kitabatake had knocked on a few more barrels, he would have found that they were all empty. He was just betting on his luck, and it turned out that he was right.

After reading the letter, Xiao Pingtai said, "You really can't underestimate the heroes of the world!"