In heaven, there is neither winter nor autumn, and in order to make the messengers of God happy, flowers are not thanked all year round.

- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)

The 1st Banner Army, the 2nd Banner Army, the 2nd Essini Army, the 3rd Lucy Army, the Kunohe Standing Army, the Yanhuang Standing Army, and the Sanada Standing Army waved their banners in the wind, and countless soldiers clutched their weapons and embarked on the journey south.

Uesugi Jinghu, who led the army to stay on the border between Oshu and Ueno, although he expected the upcoming counteroffensive of the Yanhuang family, he did not expect that the counterattack of the Yanhuang family would be so fierce that he could not even give birth to a trace of courage to resist.

Uesugi Keitor, who had an army of 100,000 but had no intention of fighting, learned from the scout that the size of the Yanhuang family's army was no less than 200,000, and immediately commanded his army to withdraw from the territory of Ueno Province.

Mogami Yoshimitsu, the governor of the Mogami family, and Kenshin Uesugi, the governor of the Uesugi family, are not only the target of Uesugi Jinghu's request for help, but also the confidence of Uesugi Jinghu; after all, the Mogami family's secret defection to the Uesugi family is not a secret in the eyes of Uesugi Jinghu.

Before Mogami Yoshimitsu and Uesugi Kenshin replied, Uesugi Keitor, who knew that the crisis had come, did not care about his identity and requisitioned the 50,000 troops of the Mogami family stationed near the border.

Mogami Yoshimitsu was far away in Yamagata Castle, but he didn't know that his family's 50,000-strong army had been forcibly requisitioned by Uesugi Keitora, and Uesugi Kenshin, who was in Echigo Province, didn't know how critical his family's 100,000-strong army was.

Because there was no order from Mogami Yoshimitsu, the governor of the Mogami family, the army of the Mogami family directly rejected Uesugi Keitora's request to requisition them; logically speaking, the rejected Uesugi Keiga was not qualified to take any measures, but Uesugi Keitora was not a person who followed the rules after all, and as a tyrannical element with ambitions, his usual way of doing things was simple and rude.

Uesugi Keitor, who led hundreds of guards into the camp of the Mogami family army as an ally, directly ordered the guards around him to control all the generals of the Mogami army after being rejected by the general of the Mogami army, and then installed the generals under his command to command the Mogami army.

This approach made the retainers of the Mogami family who learned of this extremely angry, and under the operation of the angry Mogami retainers, the letter of help from Uesugi Keitora had not yet arrived at Yamagata Castle, and the information about the changes in the front line was sent to Mogami Yoshimitsu.

When Mogami Yoshimitsu learned of this, he immediately convened a meeting of the Mogami family's evaluation, and all the important ministers of the Mogami family were summoned to discuss the response to the matter.

The strong rise of the Mogami family did rely on the help of the Uesugi family, but the help of the Uesugi family was not provided selflessly, and Mogami Yoshimitsu, who had always been haunted by it, immediately felt that this was the best opportunity for the Mogami family to take the opportunity to force the Uesugi family to make concessions in some aspects.

As a matter of fact, the eminent officials of the Mogami family, who were agitated, did not say a word about demanding concessions from the Uesugi family, but only blindly emphasized how to severely punish the Uesugi family's Uesugi Keitor.

How could Yoshimitsu Mogami, who was known as the 'most outstanding governor of the Mogami family in hundreds of years', fail to see the careful thinking of his family's retainers, but in the face of the powerful Uesugi family, could the newly rising Mogami family really compromise blindly to maintain their family status?

Mogami Yoshimitsu, who was angry at the stupidity of his family's retainers, used his status as the governor to force the retainers to jointly draft a protest letter with righteous words, and sent someone to Echigo as soon as possible, and handed it over to Uesugi Kenshin, the governor of the Uesugi family, to deal with the matter.

With Hattori Hanzo's Yanhuang Ninja Army and Yoshikawa Naoki's Yanhuang Spy Army operating in Ueno Province, the two letters of help sent by Uesugi Keihu will naturally never reach their destination; you must know that taking advantage of the chaos to provoke the conflict between the Mogami family and the Uesugi family is also one of the main tasks of the Yanhuang Ninja Army and the Yanhuang Spy Army.

Mogami Yoshimitsu and Uesugi Kenshin, who knew nothing about the situation at the front, soon got into a war of words over Uesugi Keitor's forced requisition of the Mogami family's 50,000 troops;

Watching Uesugi Jinghu being attacked and then taking advantage of the situation to suppress it himself is definitely something that Uesugi Kenshin is willing to do, but if this matter involves the fundamental interests of the Uesugi family, then Uesugi Kenshin will not do anything that harms the interests of the family no matter what.

The irreconcilable conflict of interest between Kenshin Uesugi, who tried his best to protect Uesugi Keiga for the sake of his family's interests, and Yoshimitsu Mogami, who demanded severe punishment for Uesugi Keigoro for the sake of his family's interests, determined that their dialogue could not have any substantive effect.

To some extent, it doesn't have any substantive effect, and it is a victory for the Uesugi family in itself, which may be the natural advantage of the strong, and the Mogami family, which is in a weak position, can do anything but shout empty slogans?

After the two letters for help sent by himself were lost, Uesugi Keitora, who finally realized that something was wrong, led his 150,000 troops to continue to retreat, and at the same time sent multiple messengers again to send a plea for help to Yamagata Castle and Echigo.

The retreat for six consecutive days not only shortened the distance between the Yan and Huang armies and the Uesugi and Mogami coalition forces to within 30 li, but also allowed the Yan and Huang armies to occupy two of the 14 prefectures of Ueno Province smoothly.

The reason why Uesugi Jinghu did not hesitate to give up the territory of these two counties in Ueno Province was because the territory of Ueno Province was not of the Uesugi family, and on the other hand, because there were no fortified fortresses to defend in these two counties, it was better to give up directly.

While directly abandoning the territory of the two counties, Uesugi Jinghu did not leave the supplies of the two counties to the Yan and Huang Army; Uesugi Jinghu, who was waving the banner of Jianbi Qingye, led the army to retreat all the way, and plundered the soldiers under his command to burn and plunder unscrupulously.

Since ancient times, the tyrannical Uesugi Keitora has been a pioneer in a sense as an allied force that has burned and plundered people in the territory of its allies, but the Yanhuang army, which followed closely behind, had to use its own military rations to relieve the refugees who had lost everything.

After coming and going, the southward army of the Yanhuang family lost tens of thousands of stone of grain, and harvested the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people in the two counties of Ueno;