If you look at those who are looking for fun, you will see that their life intensity is only slightly higher than that of a person who only focuses on food and sleep.

- Sadhguru (Enlightened Being, Enlightened Yogi, Mystic, Visionary Humanitarian, Outstanding Spiritual Teacher)

The Uesugi family, which had successfully occupied three-tenths of the Hojo family's territory, was undoubtedly the biggest beneficiary of the war, and the Takeda family and the Tokugawa family, which had suffered few military losses, were also replenished with territory, and it can be said that the gains far outweighed the gains.

Only the Hojo family, which had lost most of its territory, suddenly fell from the middle of the top ten families of the Yamato Empire to the point where it was inferior to the Date family;

While the Uesugi family, the Takeda family, and the Tokugawa family were busy governing their new territories, and the Date family was busy rearmament and working hard, the Hojo family turned hatred into motivation and began a new round of change within their own family.

According to common sense, the war that broke out in the northern part of the Yamato Empire, from its beginning to the end, had little to do with the Yanhuang family, which ruled the Mutsu Kingdom, and the reception of refugees from Ueno Province had nothing to do with the four warring families.

Because Ueno Province is neither the sphere of influence of the Uesugi family nor the Hojo family, nor the sphere of influence of the Takeda family and the Tokugawa family;

But the reality is that he always likes to joke with people, and Kenshin Uesugi, who had led the army back to Hokuriku Province, remembered the refugee problem of Ueno Province for some reason when the army was about to leave Ueno Province, and investigated the situation of Mutsu Province, which received refugees from Ueno Province.

It's good that this is not investigated, and once you investigate Uesugi Kenshin, you will naturally know about the existence of the Yanhuang family; the local family that completely rules a country cannot be a nameless family, but the name of the Yanhuang family, Uesugi Kenshin has never heard of it.

More and more information about the Yanhuang family was sent to Uesugi Kenshin by the ninjas of the Uesugi family, and the most shocking thing for Uesugi Kenshin was the Sanada family's surrender to the Yanhuang family.

The Sanada family is so famous that it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a powerful Yamato empire, otherwise, why would the southern family fight hard to destroy the Sanada family with the heavy casualties of their own family's army?

The Iwashimizu family in the southern part of the country, the southern family in the central hinterland of the country, and the Sanada family who fled to the country of Mutsu, when all these families converged under the banner of the Yanhuang family, the mysterious appearance of the Yanhuang family was enough to alert Uesugi Kenshin.

Although Mutsu Province is a subject country of Higashiyama Province, it is also one of the two major backyards of Hokuriku Province, and in order to ensure that the rear of the Uesugi family is safe, Uesugi Kenshin will never allow any powerful forces to appear in Dewa Province and Mutsu Province!

There is no doubt that the strength of the Yanhuang family is beyond the scope of what Uesugi Kenshin can accept, so after learning about the situation of the Yanhuang family in detail, Uesugi Kenshin did not hesitate at all, directly changed the direction of the army, and began to march towards the Yanhuang family's Mutsu Kingdom!

The 150,000-strong Uesugi family army led by Kenshin Uesugi brazenly invaded the Yanhuang family, which had a standing strength of only 80,000.

Fortunately, Takasuji Castle, which was garrisoned by the Sanada Standing Army, and Bianshi Imperial Palace, where the Iwashimi Standing Army was stationed, were both strong and important fortresses, and Sanada Masayuki, who commanded the two armies in a unified manner, was a resourceful general, so it was not easy for the Uesugi family's army to capture these two cities.

The Sanada Standing Army, which was defending Takasuidaji Castle, had 15,000 well-equipped soldiers, and these soldiers who still carried the Ashigaru banner were no less than the ordinary samurai of other families in terms of weapons and equipment, and they were an extremely elite force.

Even though the elite of these 10,000 soldiers was far inferior to the Sanada Standing Army, it was more than a step stronger than the so-called elite army of the Uesugi family, which was mixed with a large number of peasant soldiers.

Because Gaoshuiji Castle and Bian Seishi Imperial Palace were two important fortresses that were horns of each other, Uesugi Kenshin, who was proficient in the art of war, had to divide his army in two, and he handed over his 50,000 troops to his retainers, and supplemented by the siege to contain the defenders of Bian Seok Imperial Palace.

He himself personally led an army of 100,000 to besiege the Takasuisera Castle defended by Sanada Masayuki, but even so, the two armies of the Yanhuang family, each fighting separately, relied on the castle they were stationed to defend and blocked the Uesugi family's army south of the hinterland of Mutsu Province.

Nanbu Shinnao, who was sitting in the hinterland of Mutsu Province, received information that the Uesugi family's 150,000 troops were coming, and quickly dispatched the Kudo Yasuma Kunohe Standing Army and 10,000 soldiers of the Yanhuang Standing Army Sanada Nobuyuki to reinforce Sanada Masayuki and Iwashimizu Yoshikyo to the south.

Kunohe Yasuma and Sanada Nobuyuki, who led the army to the battlefield in time, did catch Uesugi Kenshin by surprise, and the Uesugi family's army, which was caught off guard, was defeated by the Yanhuang family's reinforcements who suddenly killed when attacking the city.

Sanada Masayuki, who took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, not only led his army out of the city to repel the Uesugi army that had been besieging the city for many days in one fell swoop, but also successfully put the soldiers of Sanada Nobuyuki's subordinates who rushed to reinforce into the city;

This is the disadvantage of the large-scale use of peasant soldiers, as soon as the situation is unfavorable in battle, or if one's own army is defeated by the enemy, the peasants who are in great confusion will scatter and flee in terror, and there are even many fleeing peasant soldiers who will return to their hometowns in droves!

The Uesugi army, which had less than 5,000 killed and less than 8,000 wounded, lost 30,000 soldiers in such an inexplicable way; if it weren't for the cavalry units of Uesugi Kenshin's side who recovered a large number of fleeing peasants in time, I am afraid that the attrition of the Uesugi army would have been even more serious.

After the end of this battle, Sanada and his son, who were guarding Takasuidaji Castle, still had more than 18,000 defenders under their command, and the grain and grass in the castle were enough for them to defend the castle for half a year, while the Uesugi family army outside the castle was only about 60,000.

Compared with the ease of Sanada's father and son, Iwashimizu Yoshikyo and Kunohe Yasuma did not perform so well, and Kudo Yasuma, who led the army to reinforce the Bian Shi Imperial Palace, also launched an attack on the Uesugi family's partial army, but unfortunately Iwashimizu Yoshikyo did not seize this opportunity.

Lacking initiative and attack, the Iwashimizu Yoshikyo only sent soldiers in order to clear a passage into the city for the Kuho Yasuma Department who came to reinforce them; even the defenders in the city did not cooperate with the counterattack, and the lonely Kunohe Yasuma did not take advantage of the situation to expand the results of the battle.

In this way, Iwashimizu Yoshikyo and Kunohe Yasuma, who repelled the Uesugi family's attack, only succeeded in meeting in the Bian Shi Imperial Palace, and did not inflict any substantial heavy damage on the Uesugi family's partial army outside the city, wasting a great opportunity in vain.

However, after the army of the Kunohe Yasumaso entered the Bian Shi Imperial Palace, the number of defenders in the Bian Shi Imperial Palace reached 17,000, and the Uesugi family's partial army that surrounded the Bian Stone Imperial Palace was only 42,000 soldiers, and it could no longer pose a mortal threat to the Bian Shi Imperial Palace.