The horse team that Satomi wanted was still on the way back, and as for Ueda Castle, Iwasita Ryu led the troops to kill for a while, so that the thieves who had always been in a row stopped for a while.

On the north shore, as the defeated thieves returned, many people saw that the situation was not very good and prepared to slip away.

Seeing this situation, Nanjo Right Masuke said very anxiously to the other hosts: "Guys, we have to show some real skills, if we can't take Ueda Castle and help Takeda Tono defeat Ogasawara Yoshicho, we will be retaliated by the Ogasawara family." ”

Kurita Kanyasu said: "Everyone who is doing here knows this truth, but, Nanjo presided, you are the one who takes the lead in this matter, and you should set an example." ”

Nanjo Right Masuke looked at Kurita Kanyasuke, froze for a moment, and then like a rebuttal, he opened his mouth, and the words of the rebuttal were choked, and he saw several hosts around him looking at him like that.

He understood that if he didn't make a statement first, the rest of the people wouldn't either.

He had no choice but to say: "What Kurita presided over is very reasonable, so how about a poor monk sending out a hundred monks?" ”

Kurita Kanyasu saw that Nanjo Right Masuke expressed his sincerity, so he said, "That poor monk also sent a hundred monks. ”

At this time, several other hosts said that they also sent a hundred monks.

Nanjo Yumasuke said with a smile: "In this case, then without further ado, gather the team immediately, and then give those believing men and women some confidence!" ”

Kurita Kuanan waved his hand and said: "Nanjo presided, don't be in a hurry for the time being, who is in charge of this monk team?" This time, it must be the monks who will take the lead.

As you can see, although there are many believers, the Ogasawara army is very elite, and it is useless to have a large number of people, and they were driven down as soon as they came ashore. ”

Nanjo Right Masuke looked at Kurita Kanyasuke, he originally thought that it was the monk army that went up to urge the believers, but he didn't expect his own subordinates to take the lead.

He wanted to refuse, but it was too late, he wanted to grab the position of the general general, but thinking of the fierceness of the Ogasawara army, he said: "The poor monk didn't think about this matter carefully, the poor monk is not competent, Kurita preside, what do you think?" ”

Kurita Kanan was a little surprised when he heard this, so he said: "Naturally, the capable live there, and the poor monk doesn't know much about military affairs." ”

Both of them wanted to throw the hot potato of the general general, and the rest of the hosts began to brag.

And the presiding officer of Shanli Temple said: "All the presiding monks are high-ranking monks, how can they participate in the killing, and there is a general under the command of the poor monk who can be the general general." ”

Seeing this, the rest of the hosts all boasted about their monks.

In the end, it was Kurita Kanyasu and Nanjo Umasuke who named out the presiding officer of Zenritsuji Temple, and the monks under him became the general general.

The monk was originally a ronin, because of his fierce face and tall man, he was taken under the command of the host of Shanli Temple.

Now he is dressed as a monk, with a monk's robe on top of a pair of big armor, and the weapon in his hand is also a large naginata commonly used by monks.

This man's name was Hideya Ishibayashi, and he was overjoyed to learn that he was going to command hundreds of people, and he patted his chest and promised that he would be able to cross the Chikuma River with his team.

Soon, he gathered his troops and horses, a total of six hundred men, and he divided them into three parts, and began to cross the river in a triangular formation.

This time, Satomi asked Iwashita Ryu to lead the troops out of the battle, and Iwasita Ryu asked, "Your Highness Satomi, are you still repelling them this time?" ”

Satomi watched Iwashita Dragon fight, and her heart was already itching, and she immediately said: "Of course not, this time the enemy army dispatched elite monk soldiers, and our army should not be hard to touch."

In this way, Yilong Sama only needs to lead his troops up to shoot a few rounds of arrows, and then pretend to be defeated and flee back, leading the enemy to attack the city. ”

The dragon under the rock did not doubt him, and immediately led the troops away.

Satomi was suddenly overjoyed and muttered: "Haha~ The female general who turned the tide is about to appear." ”

She said to Qiu Yue excitedly: "Sister, get ready, a big battle is coming!" ”

She pulled Akizuki to inspect the equipment, then urged her maids to prepare, and they all went to the walls of Sannomaru.

Iwasita Ryu led less than 300 Ashigaru out, and shot arrows at the monk troops crossing the river on the bank, and the monk troops were also colored.

After a few rounds of firing between the two sides, the Ogasawara army suffered casualties, and when the enemy had crossed the river for the most part, the Ogasawara army began to break up, and then Iwasa Ryu dropped the golden fan and ran back.

When Hideya Ishibayashi saw the Ogasawara army fleeing in a hurry, he was overjoyed and said, "The enemy army has been routed, kill it!" ”

He yelled and urged the monk army to cross the river, and the believers behind the monk army also excitedly shouted "Nam no Amitabha".

Because Ishibayashi Hideya repelled the Ogasawara army, he got a little carried away for a while, and without waiting for the army of believers behind, he rushed directly towards Ueda Castle, but he stopped a hundred steps away from the defense line outside the castle.

He had already seen clearly at this time that Ueda City was not something that he could capture with a few hundred people, and he had to have cannon fodder.

However, he couldn't give the order to retreat, otherwise others would think he was afraid, so he said: "Rest here for a while, everyone regain their strength, and wait for the group of believers behind by the way."

Ah, what a rabble, it's so slow. He complained, and the monk and warrior next to him laughed.

After a while, the vanguard of the army of believers came, and when they came, they were also a little tired.

Shi Lin Xiujia saw that the state of this group of people could not fight, so they could only continue to rest.

Later, people came over one after another to assemble, and after an hour, more than 20,000 believers came.

Hideya Ishibayashi shouted: "There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south, the Ogasawara family does not respect the Buddha, and we and other believers in the Buddha must punish the Ogasawara family, otherwise we will not be able to go to the Western Elysium!" ”

This believer does not know a single word, and has a deep belief in the Western Elysium, which is a belief that they can live in troubled times.

So for the presiding officer of the temple, to disqualify you from going to the Western Elysium, that is a terrible thing than death.

Under the flickering of the Ishibayashi Xiujia and the monks, the believers were in high spirits, and rushed to Uetian Castle one after another, leaving behind for the void and being caught by the monks, in that case, they would lose the qualification to go to the Western Elysium.

The believers passed through the antler labyrinth, crowded in a pile, and walked forward, and the monks behind wanted to remove the antlers, when the overwhelming arrows came, and there were a large number of casualties among both the believers and the monks.

Shi Lin Xiujia hurriedly shouted: "Rush over, don't worry about the antlers!" ”

The monks in front immediately urged the believers to attack inside.

But before they had gone a little distance, some people were killed by arrows, and those who fell were trampled to death by their own people, and some old people squeezed and squeezed their breath and did not come up, and died on the spot.

But the believers could not retreat, and the people in the back were crowding the people in front to go forward.

In this way, the defenders of the city fired several rounds of arrows, and the labyrinth of antlers was full of corpses, and the wailing was continuous, but it was quickly muffled by the sound of "Nan no Amitabha".

Finally, someone passed through the antler maze and killed Oda Castle.

Before he could get close, he was shot by Satomi with an arrow, and then Satomi put down his bow and arrow, took out the military equipment around his waist, and waved: "Attack!" ”

At the exit of the horse, the dragon heard the sound of war drums above and immediately led hundreds of people to rush out, towards the believers who came out of the antler defense.

It was just a one-sided slaughter, and Iwashita Ryu directly asked the team to block the exit and kill one by one.

But after a while, an envoy ran over and said, "Iwashita Sama, His Royal Highness Satomi has an order, if you can catch it alive, you can catch it alive, and even if you can't do labor, you can sell it as a slave." ”

Iwashita Ryu nodded, and then gave orders to his subordinates to capture the captives.

So they stepped back, let some people in, and then shouted and forced them to surrender.

As for the siege of the city, the north bank of the city has crossed the Chikuma River, and Nanjo Youmasuke and others have also come over.

However, on a mountain not far from Ueda Castle, a fast horse galloped quickly, and with the fast horse running, in a few moments, he reached his destination, where there were more than 300 cavalry.

The cavalry envoy shouted: "Report! Ichijo has all crossed the Chikuma River and is attacking Ueda Castle! ”

Sanada Nobutsuna suddenly stood up and shouted to the left and right: "Everyone, the opportunity for meritorious service has come, we must go straight to the rear of the enemy army and disturb the enemy army, it is best to find the location of the enemy's middle army and ask for the enemy's general general!" ”

"Oh!"

"Get on the horse!"

Just when Ichijo attacked Ueda Castle again and again, Sanada Nobugang led more than 300 cavalry down the mountain like a fierce tiger and plunged straight into the rear.

The movements of the cavalry were soon known to Nanjo and others, and Nanjo's right horse suke panicked: "Could it be that Ogasawara Yoshinaga's army has returned?" ”

Kurita Kanyasu was also so frightened that his face turned pale, he shook his head and said, "It must be fake, Takeda Tono must have defeated Yoshinaga!"

We must hold on, don't be intimidated by these 300 cavalry, all the monks and soldiers in the hands of the accounting world, resist this wave of horses! ”

The rest of the presiding officers immediately ordered their monk troops to assemble and hand them over to Kurita Kanyasu for command.

Although they gathered far more than twice as many guards as the cavalry, they were pulled by Sanada Nobutsuna and fired several rounds of arrows in front of Yoshinaga's carefully built horse team, and then they were directly routed with a single charge.

Nanjo Kurita and the others immediately let the north bank of the Chikuma River run away, but before they could run far, they were caught up by Sanada Nobutsuna and all of them were arrested.

Shi Lin Xiujia, who was supervising the battle, learned that there was a change in the future, so he immediately took off his monk's robe and ran away directly.

The monks and soldiers, who had lost their leaders and the generals who had lost their leaders again, immediately panicked, they didn't know what to do, and they didn't care about command, so they fled the battlefield one after another.

At this time, the believers who were still crowding and attacking the antlers also fled one after another.

Sanada Nobutsuna happened to lead the horse team back, he immediately led the horse team to pursue the fleeing believers, shouting for them to kneel and surrender, some people did not believe and wanted to run, but were killed by Sanada Nobutsuna with an arrow, and those believers immediately obediently dropped their weapons and surrendered.

As for Ueda Castle, Satomi saw the scene of her own horse team galloping outside the city, and she knew that this battle was about to end, so she immediately led most of the ashigaru in the castle to rush out with the dragon under the converging rock, and captured the believers of the Ichikozong everywhere.

At sunset, a large number of Ichijo sect believers were kept under the custody of the castle, and as for Nanjo Kurita and others, they could not be dealt with until Yoshicho returned.

Seeing Sanada Nobutsuna's return, Satomi asked, "How is it on Your Highness's side?" ”

Sanada Nobutsuna paused: "Originally, everyone wanted Tono to come back to support, but Tono thought that Your Highness could hold Ueda Castle, so I only let His Majesty lead the horse team back to help." ”

Satomi cocked her chin and said, "It's still time for your horse team to come back, and if it's a little later, I'll defeat them." ”

Sanada Nobutsuna admired it very much: "Ha, Tono is right, Your Highness can really defeat these rabble." Tono is really clever. ”

Satomi thought that Sanada Shintsuna praised herself, but she didn't expect to say that Yoshicho would certainly not complain about Yoshicho in front of his courtiers, otherwise he would be scolded.

The matter of Ueda Castle has been resolved, and Sanada Nobutsuna immediately sends a messenger back to report the news.

At the same time, there was also Kansuke Yamamoto, he didn't expect that he had miscalculated, and he had to report to Takeda Harunobu immediately.

However, he still had a trick, he glanced at Ueda Castle, and then turned to leave.

It's a pity that Kansuke Yamamoto didn't expect that his messenger would be a little late after all.

Two days earlier, Yoshinaga had sent Sanada Nobutsuna back to Ueda Castle, and then arranged for the army to pretend to retreat.

In order to ensure that his fake retreat would not turn into a real rout, he had to adjust the arrangement of the team, and as for Echigo's army, there were already Usami Dingman and Naoe Keixuna arranging it.

In the end, the Sanada people led by Sanada Yutaka and his banner troops, including the ashigaru team of his retainers, totaled 2,000 people.

At the same time, Jinghu promised to support 1,000 Echigo Ashigaru to cooperate with the palace army.

This temple army will definitely be chased and besieged by the Takeda coalition forces, so it must not be defeated in a short period of time.

After Yichang arranged the palace army, he spread the banner in the main formation, and at night, more than 2,000 standing ashigaru under his hand left the main formation, and at the same time, Jinghu also gathered thousands of ashigaru who could see at night and followed away.

On the second day, Yichangcai and Jinghu led the army to retreat, leaving behind a palace army of 3,000 men.

Takeda Harunobu saw Ogasawara and Uesugi on this side, and he saw that the other party's flags suddenly increased, and wanted to send Hosaku to investigate, but the ninjas of Ogasawara and Uesugi were heavily defended, and the Takeda ninjas failed to infiltrate.

But Takeda Harunobu, who got the news, said with a smile: "Widely spread the flag, but prevented me from investigating the news, it can be seen that the other party is weak-hearted, so the enemy army does not have many troops in this formation!" ”

After listening to Harunobu's analysis, Saito Michizo nodded and said, "This is reasonable, then our army can start pursuing!" ”

Taiyuan Yukisai said: "It seems that the situation in Ueda Castle is very dangerous, and Yoshicho has to return to help even if he is in danger, but Ogasawara Yoshinaga also knows our thoughts, so we should be careful when pursuing." ”