Only a person who is full of self-confidence can immerse himself in life with confidence everywhere and realize his will.

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

There was a double interception of the Yanhuang ninja army and the Yanhuang spy army, and among the many messengers sent by Mogami Yoshimitsu, no more than ten people were able to reach their destination;

Even Uesugi Kenshin, who felt the threat of Uesugi Jinghu to himself, had to admit that Uesugi Jinghu was indeed the commander of the Uesugi family after himself, and among the 100,000 Uesugi troops under Uesugi Jinghu, 30,000 Ashigaru were the elite trained by himself.

Such an army of 100,000 built with 30,000 elite ashigaru as the core was easily annihilated by the 200,000 army of the Yanhuang family with 50,000 Mogami troops as the auxiliary and two fortified cities as strongholds; the combat effectiveness displayed by the Yanhuang family's army made Uesugi Kenshin feel troubled and troublesome, and whether to send troops to reinforce the Mogami family has also become the focus of discussion and dispute among the retainers of the Uesugi family.

Previously, when Uesugi Keihu led his army to retreat south, Uesugi Kenshin, who learned the news, personally organized a vanguard army of 50,000 people, preparing to take the initiative to attack Oshu by encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, so as to force the Yanhuang army, which pursued Uesugi Army deep into the territory of Ueno Province, to retreat.

Because of the defeat of the combined forces of Uesugi and Date in attacking Takamizuji Castle and Bianshi Imperial Palace, Uesugi Kenshin had lost confidence in the way of fighting a frontal attack on Oshu, so he planned to use this 50,000-strong army to unite the Tozawa family and the Onodera family in Hazen, and use the power of their two families to first destroy the Daihoji family and the Ando family of Hago, and then directly attack the hinterland of Oshu from the Dewa border.

As a result, as soon as the Uesugi family's 50,000-strong army left for the border between Echigo and Hazen, the Mogami family's messenger brought bad news, and with the fall of Hasedo Castle and Yuzawa Castle, and the destruction of the 100,000-strong Uesugi army, there were only two options left before Uesugi Kenshin.

Either sit back and watch the Mogami family be wiped out by the Yanhuang army, and while the Ueno country becomes the chassis of the Yanhuang family, your own army will still attack the hinterland of Oshu according to the original plan, so that the Yanhuang family will lose a war after winning a battle, or cancel your family's attack plan and immediately send reinforcements to reinforce the Mogami family, so as to prevent the Mogami family from being wiped out by the Yanhuang army.

The risk of the first option was that if the Yanhuang family still had a living force in Oshu, or if the Daihoji family and the Ando family of Hago had blocked the attack of the coalition forces, then the Uesugi family, which had been empty of bamboo baskets, would have completely lost the Ueno country.

Giving the Ueno Province to the Mogami family in exchange for the Mogami family's allegiance to the Uesugi family was the first step of the Uesugi family's plan to encroach on the Mogami family's covert control of the Uesugi family.

The risk of the second option is that the strength of the Yanhuang family's army is obvious to all, and if the Uesugi family's reinforcements cannot save the Mogami family, then not only will the Mogami family be destroyed, but the Uesugi family will also lose an army again in this war.

Since the Battle of Ueno, the Uesugi family, which has waged wars one after another, has lost nearly 100,000 soldiers on the battlefield, plus the 100,000 troops under the command of Uesugi Jinghu, who had just been annihilated by the Yan and Huang troops not long ago, the Uesugi family has lost no less than 200,000 soldiers!

The Uesugi family, which owns the land of the Three Kingdoms, has a total population of only more than 3 million under its rule, and the loss of 200,000 is already a heavy blow to the Uesugi family; if they continue to form a new army to participate in the war, no matter what the victory or defeat, the overall strength of the Uesugi family will inevitably decline significantly.

The Uesugi family, whose family warehouses were about to be hollowed out by the death and the formation of a new army, made the retainers reluctant to send troops to reinforce the Mogami family, especially on the premise that the Uesugi Keitora department had been destroyed, and most of the retainers insisted that it was the most beneficial choice for the Uesugi family to negotiate peace with the Yanhuang family at this time and jointly divide the Ueno Province of the Mogami family.

The few retainers who thought that they should send troops were divided into two opinions: directly sending troops to reinforce the Mogami family and continuing to carry out their own family's original plan; in this regard, Uesugi Kenshin could only lament that although his family had a large number of retainers, there were still too many mediocre people who did nothing!

From the beginning to the end, Uesugi Kenshin never thought about making peace with the Yanhuang family, not because he didn't want to face his failure, but because he knew that he would never do this, because the Yanhuang family was not the Date family, nor the Mogami family, and their fangs were too sharp!

The Yanhuang family, which can form an army of two or three hundred thousand with the strength of the Ausu country, if it gets the Ueno country again, the overall strength of the Yanhuang family will be raised by a grade;

The short-lived peace was only a self-consolation for the blind, and the ambitions of the Yanhuang family could never be limited to just one Ueno country, and Uesugi Kenshin, who decided to give it a go, left all the generals of the main battle behind after the meaningless evaluation meeting.

In addition to the 50,000 troops on the border of Hazen, the total number of standing armies of the Uesugi clan in various parts of the Three Kingdoms was about 70,000, of which 20,000 were standing ashigaru near the castle of Itoshi, and Uesugi Kenshin's idea was that the 50,000 troops on the border would continue to move north, unite the Tozawa family and the Onodera family in Hazen to attack the hinterland of Oshu, and then form a large army with 20,000 standing ashigaru near the castle as the core to reinforce the Mogami family.

Considering the urgency of time, the newly formed reinforcement army had only time to recruit 40,000 peasant soldiers from northern Echigo, and if a 60,000-strong reinforcement could help the Mogami family hold Yamagata Castle and repel the attack of the Yanhuang family, Uesugi Kenshin had no choice but to resign himself to fate.

Since he was determined to prevent the Yanhuang family from gaining access to the Ueno Kingdom, Uesugi Kenshin's preparations were naturally more than that, and the other 50,000 standing troops and 150,000 peasant soldiers of the Uesugi family would all be assembled in northern Echigo in the next three months.

With an army of 50,000 attacking the hinterland of Oshu, an army of 60,000 reinforcing the Mogami family, and an army of 200,000 sitting in northern Echigo, ready to send troops to Ueno or Oshu at any time, Uesugi Kenshin prepared for the coming war with unprecedented seriousness.

To some extent, the Date family and the Yanhuang family are still at war, so Date Masamune once again formed an army of 50,000 to help the Mogami family.

As for Kai's Takeda family, Takeda Shingen's attention will not be on Ueno Province, the Tokugawa family and the Hojo family are the threat to the Takeda family; out of the strategic choice of distant friendship and close attack, Takeda Shingen also specially sent someone to send a gift to the Yanhuang family, on the one hand, to congratulate the Yanhuang family on their repeated victories, and on the other hand, to hope that the Yanhuang family can trade with the Takeda family after capturing Ueno.