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As long as these two castles are firmly in the hands of the Yanhuang family, it will be difficult for the Uesugi family's army to threaten the core hinterland of the Mutsu family.

Kenshin Uesugi, whose army had been reduced to 60,000, did not give up his attack on Takasui Temple Castle, and not only that, but he also deliberately transferred 12,000 soldiers from the partial army, which had not suffered much loss in troops, to encircle Takasui Temple Castle.

After several previous encounters, Uesugi Kenshin already had a fairly full understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Yanhuang family's army, and coupled with the general who led the army to garrison Takasui Temple Castle, and the famous Sanada Masayuki, Uesugi Kenshin decisively gave up his original intention of a quick victory.

With 30,000 partial troops to besiege the 17,000 Yanhuang family defenders of the Bian Shi Imperial Palace, and with more than 70,000 main forces to surround the 18,000 Yanhuang family defenders of Gaoshui Temple Castle.

The Uesugi family, which owns several countries and has more than a dozen countries, and the Yanhuang family, who only owns one country of Mutsu, are fighting for attrition, and this is undoubtedly the best way for Uesugi Kenshin to defeat the Yanhuang family and annex the Mutsu country at the lowest cost.

Uesugi Kenshin, known as the 'God of the Northern Army', was caught off guard by Sanada Masayuki and his sons, who were in harmony with the inside and outside, because of his carelessness, but this does not mean that Sanada Masayuki and his son have the strength to defeat Uesugi Kenshin.

After regrouping, Uesugi Kenshin swept away his original carelessness and raised the Yanhuang family's army stationed at Takamizu Temple Castle and Bianshi Imperial Palace to the same height as the Takeda family's army;

The Uesugi family had just dealt a heavy blow to the Hojo family's grand momentum, and Uesugi Kenshin's request for help from the Date family was not so much an equal negotiation between the two families as a threat and persecution of the strong against the weak.

However, Date Masamune, the head of the Date family, did not reject or resent the friendship with the Uesugi family through this incident, and the Yamato samurai, who believed in the respect of the strong, took it for granted that they would follow the stronger one.

In order to please the increasingly powerful Uesugi family, Date Masamune decisively decided to send 50,000 troops to assist the Uesugi family in attacking the Yanhuang family in Mutsu Province, you know, these 50,000 troops are already one-third of the maximum force that the Date family can mobilize!

Kenshin Uesugi was well aware of the sincerity shown by the Date family in sending troops, so before the 50,000-strong army of the Date family arrived in the southern part of Mutsu Province, a covenant written by Kenshin Uesugi himself was sent to Date Masamune.

In this covenant, Uesugi Kenshin first recognized the Date family's right to rule over the three kingdoms of Ueno, Shimono, and Shinano, and then promised to divide the southern part of Mutsu Province into the Date family after conquering the Yanhuang family.

The Date family and the Oda family, both of which are the overlord families of Higashiyamado, have always had many territorial disputes in the Shinano Province area, but because the Oda family is too strong, the Date family, who are afraid of the Oda family's prestige, has never dared to confront the Oda family head-on.

Now that the Uesugi family, which is only stronger than the Oda family, is supporting his family, Date Masamune suddenly felt that his 50,000-strong army was extremely wise! What made Date Masamune even more excited was that Uesugi Kenshin was willing to give the southern part of Mutsu Province to his family!

Date Masamune, who felt that he had taken advantage of himself, signed his name on the covenant sent by Uesugi Kenshin, and immediately transferred 50,000 koku of grain from his family's warehouse and donated it to the Uesugi family army on the front line for free to show his family's gratitude.

In this way, a battle in which the Uesugi family singled out the three major families of Hojo, Takeda, and Tokugawa slowly evolved into the Uesugi family and the Date family besieging the Yanhuang family of Mutsu Province together.

The 100,000-strong army of the Uesugi family and the 50,000-strong army of the Date family surrounded the Yanhuang family's Takasuisera Castle and the Bian Seok Imperial Palace, and Uesugi Kenshin, who was unwilling to sacrifice too much of his own family's army, was ready to use this method to force down more than 36,000 defenders in the two cities.

The combined forces of the Uesugi and Date families besieging the city clearly wanted to win without a fight, and the army of the Yanhuang family, which was defending the city, had sufficient food as reserves. As a result, a war that should have been fierce and abnormal was carried out peacefully.

After the war between the Yanhuang family and the Uesugi family and the Date family reached a stalemate, Nanbu Nobunao, who had no reinforcements to send, had to send someone to the port to deliver a message to Sanada Nobushihiro, so that Sanada Nobuyori could ask for help from the family governor who was far away.

When Bai Feng received Sanada Nobushige's urgent military information, it had already been three months since the outbreak of the war, and the grain reserves of Gaoshui Temple Castle and Bian Shi Imperial Palace could last about four months, and if it was any longer, the defenders of the two cities would have to run out of food and surrender.

After carefully reading the urgent information sent back by Sanada Masayuki, Bai Feng frowned slightly and asked Vipsani, "Vipsani, if you send four legions and the main fleet to go overseas now, can you ensure the stability of the newly occupied area?"

"Governor, in military matters, you should ask General Luquis, who is the one who can give you a definite answer. "But I can guarantee that as long as there is enough food, the people in the newly occupied areas will not be able to make any trouble." ”

"That's good!" Bai Feng nodded first, and then made arrangements: "Before the expedition overseas, I will fill all the granaries of the city of Rome, and when I govern the towns on the north bank of the Cangluo River, the grain in the granaries of the city of Rome will be available to you." ”

"With the capacity of our granary in Rome, the grain piled up in the granary is enough to ensure that the newly occupied area on the north bank of the Cangluo River will not run out of food within half a year. Vipsani, who had received food support, immediately promised: "Please rest assured that I will guard the rear for the governor!"

"Well, I'll leave the responsibility of stabilizing the situation in the rear to you!" Bai Feng instructed Vipsani: "In addition, from tomorrow, you will start to transfer grain to the port, and for this expedition, I need to use transport ships to carry at least enough military rations for a year for 100,000 troops. ”

"No!" Vipsani, who knew that Bai Feng had allocated this batch of grain for another important purpose, did not ask Bai Feng why he used a transport ship to transport grain.

After Bai Feng gave priority to the most urgent matters, Vipsani, who knew that Bai Feng still had a lot of military affairs to do, wisely chose to retire first;