Nizi Yukimori looked at Takeda Shingen for a long time, and finally nodded.
"I promise you."
"Thank you very much for your understanding."
Takeda Shingen is very satisfied with this result. Being able to convince Nizi Yukimori, who has always been known for his stubbornness, with only financial assistance is the best outcome she can think of.
After all, Nizi Yukimori is so stubborn that even a saint would have a headache. In comparison, the Takeda family could make her change her mind by paying some money and food. This result is already very good.
As soon as Takeda Shingen left, Tachihara Hisatsuna came out from behind the curtain. She looked at the box full of gold medals and knelt down in front of Nizi Yukimori.
Nizi Xingsheng laughed.
"You heard it all.
The wolf is rejected at the front door, but the tiger is admitted at the back door. The two Maeda family are aggressive outside, and the seemingly friendly Takeda family is also giving advice to my Nizi family.
The Nizi family is now weak and lacks everything, so they can only be used by others.
Ryomaeda looks down on us, and Takeda Shingen actually looks down on us. We have nothing but the courage to fight to the death.
Sir, all we have left now is our worthless dignity.
Face is given by others, but face is lost by oneself. I will leave the task of guarding Yuxiang Palace to you.
The Nizi family can die but cannot be embarrassed. For the glory of the Nizi family, please fight with everyone until the last moment.
As for me, I will continue to survive, and for Nizi Shengjiu's dream, for my daughter's future, and for the continued continuity of Nizi's family, I will fight these wolves, tigers and leopards to the end."
Tachihara Hisatsuna fell to the ground and kowtowed, bowing deeply.
Nizi Yukimori is indeed stubborn, impulsive, and sometimes seems unreasonable, but this war is the best opportunity for Nizi's family to return to the Western Kingdom and rebuild its glory. She must be calm and rational.
Nizi Yukimori saw Ryo Maeda's suppression, Takeda's use, and even Akechi Hosokawa Yuigahama's little actions, and he knew it very well.
She is just impulsive, not really stupid.
Nizi Yukimori knew that she could not die. She and her daughter were the future of Nizi's family.
As long as the Goddess mother and daughter are fine, it doesn't matter even if the Niziji Warriors are wiped out, Jane can rebuild everything on her own in the Sacred Heart.
Ryo Maeda underestimated her, and Takeda Shingen also underestimated her.
Nizi Yukimori is already in her thirties. From Kinki to Kanto and back to Kinki, she has experienced so many ups and downs. How could she still be the ignorant girl she was at the beginning?
Stubborn impulsiveness is already her personality, her talisman. If she is despised, it can help Nizi's family develop better. Nizi Yukimori can temporarily endure being despised.
But the Nizi family cannot be looked down upon. To revive Nizi requires sacrifice, and the Niziji warrior group must prove itself with iron and blood, even if the entire army is annihilated.
This is what Nizi Yukimori wants to tell Tachihara Hisatsuna.
———
Not long after the Nizi Army entered Yuxiang Palace, the weather in late autumn started to get warmer after two days of coolness. The solar terms seemed to have been held back until the end, refusing to cool down.
However, the river flow in late autumn has no time to wait for the coolness and has already entered the dry season.
The Maori army led by Kobayakawa Takakage set out from Senryomatsu and arrived at the side of Mukojima, intending to cross the Uji River by force and attack Mika Palace.
While the Mori family tried their best to attract the Shiba family's attention from the flanks, the main force of a legion crossed the Kamogawa River, starting from Upper Toba on the west bank of Oeda Bridge, and went south to attack Lower Toba on the east bank.
Ichijo Hideyoshi came in person and, accompanied by Ichijo Hideyoshi, entered the Toba Imperial Palace. The distance between him and Shiba Yoshigan of Fushimi Castle was only six kilometers, and the two sides seemed to be fighting against each other.
The elites of Shiba Ichijo and his family continued to enter Toba-Fushimi, and then went down to Toba and arrived at Fushimi Castle, a small plain. Thousands of people had already been stationed there, and the number was still rising.
This is the darkness before dawn, the silence before the war, so calm that it is suffocating. Only the increasing smoke from the cooking stoves makes people feel that the number of troops is still increasing and the pressure is greater.
The temporary silence on the frontal battlefield attracted all eyes to Yuxiang Palace in the south.
The weakest point in the triangle defense between Inari Taisha Shrine, Fushimi Castle and Mikagu Shrine is at Mikagu Shrine.
Once the Mika Palace is captured by the Maori family, the Maori army on the southern front will directly respond to the main force of a legion and squeeze the defense space of Fushimi Castle.
Everyone's eyes were on Yuxiang Palace, and many people didn't understand why the saint would leave such an important stronghold to the weak Nizi family for defense.
Isn't it true that in the heart of a saint, the success or failure of Yuxiang Palace is not important?
———
In front of the main hall of Mikanomiya Shrine, under the torii gate.
Tachihara Hisatsuna was fully clothed, sitting on a horse, pointing at the warrior Hime who was kneeling in front of him and said.
"Don't tell me how many people died, I'm not interested in knowing."
The Ji warrior in front of him jumped up and cursed.
"In just half a day, I lost eighty sisters! They are all old sisters who are highly skilled in martial arts and have been with me for more than three years!
Although Yuxiang Palace occupies the commanding heights, the streets on the left are too close and not high enough to suppress the enemy's charge!
Hiroyoshi Yoshikawa of the Mori family is simply crazy. She doesn't care about the number of casualties and keeps forcing the reserve team to rush upward!
The Maori family has lost their minds and fought for the Ichijo family, but my mind is not broken. If we continue to fight, my sisters will have to answer here!"
Tachihara Hisatsuna looked at the furious mercenary leader and said coldly.
"You promised me that you would keep watch for three days."
"Things are different now!"
"Make a price."
"I told you it's not about money!"
"It's all about money!"
Tachihara Kuzuna suddenly stood up, pointed at the mercenary leader's nose and cursed.
"After you receive the money from Nizi's family, you have to abide by the agreement and keep it for me for three days. If you think this deal is not worthwhile, you can set the price as you please, and I will not bargain!"
The mercenary leader's face turned green with anger and he asked sullenly.
"Then what if I refuse?"
Tachihara Hisatsuna sneered.
"Twenty years after Nizi's revival, Nizi's retainers have never given up their dream of returning to the Western Kingdom. Now our dream is about to come true, and we are willing to sacrifice everything to realize it.
If you help the Nizi family, you will be their friend, and the Nizi family will remember this friendship.
If you break the contract now, you will be the enemy who destroys Nizi's revival. I guarantee you that Nizi's family will definitely take revenge.
Whether you want to be a guest of Nizi's family or become a blood feud of Nizi's family, it's your choice."
Tachihara Hisatsuna stood there with gray hair and was not angry. She had spent her whole life working for the revival of Nizi. The threat at this moment seemed particularly convincing.
The inextricable hatred between Nizi and Maori has long spread throughout the world, and everyone knows that the Nizi family's unswerving pursuit of the idea of rejuvenation has attracted the attention of the world.
The mercenary leader was also speechless. If the Nizi family were not of the Shiba Goddess, she would probably sneer and walk away.
Katsuhara Hisatsuna's toughness made her, who was so angry that she lost her mind, suddenly calm down. The battlefield she was on now was no ordinary battlefield, but part of a decisive battle between Shiba Ichijo's two families.
The Nizi family hired him, and the Takeda family acted as a guarantor. This was because he was emboldened by the general trend of the world.
It is inevitable for mercenaries to break their contracts, but the targets of such breaches are those who can afford to offend them. But can the Spokane Group be offended?
The mercenary leader gritted his teeth and said.
"If I say I'll keep it for three days, I'll keep it for three days. I'm a man of my word.
But my sisters are all good sisters who have known each other for many years, and I can’t bear to push them to a battlefield where they must die.”
Tachihara Hisatsuna narrowed his eyes.
"Then what do you want?"
The mercenary leader's eyes flashed fiercely, and he squeezed out a sentence through his teeth.
"You have to pay more, I want three times the commission."