Whoever can put life and death aside will become a new man. Whoever can overcome pain and fear will become God himself.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky (a preeminent representative of Russian literature, one of the most complex and contradictory writers in the history of Russian literature)

After the Seventh Army and the Tenglong Legion, the main forces of the landing army, entered the Shimono Country from the territory of Changlu Country, the war between the Yanhuang family and the Date family officially began;

At the same time, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who received a letter from Oda Nobunaga himself, also gathered all the elite of the Tokugawa family in the border area between the Tokugawa family and the Takeda family;

The overall strength of the Takeda family may not be stronger than that of the Tokugawa family, but the Takeda family, which is famous for its elite cavalry, and the warlike governor like Takeda Shingen, can be said to be the strongest in the north of the empire, and it is only stronger than the Uesugi family.

Unwilling to become a spectator of the Great War, Takeda Shingen, after his family's Kai and Izu borders deployed a large army to confront the Tokugawa family's army, another elite standing cavalry unit was mobilized and deployed at the junction of Kai, Shinano, and Ueno.

Takeda Shingen didn't want to miss this battle, it didn't mean that he would recklessly let his family participate in the war, and until he figured out the relationship between friends and foes of the various forces, the elite cavalry units of the Takeda family could not become reinforcements for the Mogami family at all.

The Mogami family, which had been glorious for a period of time in the history of the empire, is now at best a local overlord family, and the request for help from a family of this strength is not qualified to allow the Takeda family to intervene in the war, and Takeda Shingen is not a selfless good man and woman.

The border confrontation between the Tokugawa and Takeda clans, as well as the Takeda clan's imminent movement at the border of the three countries, did not have any effect on Sanada Masayuki, who led the army into Shinano Province, because Sanada Masayuki had already calculated that Takeda Shingen's Takeda family would definitely not send troops to Ueno!

As one of the few commanders of the Yanhuang family, Sanada Masayuki's second identity is the retainer of the Yanhuang family, and his first identity is the governor of the Sanada family; from the perspective of the family governor, Sanada Masayuki believes that it is impossible for Takeda Shingen to help the Mogami family provoke the Yanhuang family.

Expanding the territory of the northern part of the empire, Higashiyamado is in the center, Hokuriku is on the left, and Tokaido is on the right, and the powerful families covered by the three provinces are the Oda family, the Tokugawa family, the Takeda family, the Uesugi family, the Hojo family, the Date family, and the Yanhuang family, a total of seven overlord families.

The situation in front of everyone is that the Uesugi family, the Date family, and the Mogami family have formed a rather loose alliance, and the alliance is being fought against by the Oda family, the Yanhuang family, and the Tokugawa family, which are more tacitly coordinated.

The Mogami family, which is not among the top families, and the Date family, which has fallen into the top ranks, whether these two families are considered overlord families or not, it is a matter of opinion; if the monopoly of a country is taken as the standard, the Mogami family and the Date family can barely be regarded as the overlord family.

The crux of the matter is that which imperial family, which can now be called the overlord family, has only one territory? Even the Hojo family, which was severely damaged by the Uesugi family, has the territory of the three kingdoms of Shitso, Kamiso, and Anbo after a period of recuperation.

From this point of view, the alliance formed by the Uesugi family, the Mogami family, and the Date family is almost a situation in which a top family leads two quasi-first-class families, while the alliance of the Oda family, the Tokugawa family, and the Yanhuang family is a real super alliance.

Whether the Oda family or the Maori family is stronger, the strongest family in the true sense of the empire, depends on what the criteria of the judge are; although the Tokugawa family is a vassal of the Oda family, Oda Nobunaga's trust in Tokugawa Ieyasu is not as simple as a vassal?

Tokugawa Ieyasu was deeply trusted by Oda Nobunaga, which meant that the development of the Tokugawa family was fully supported by the Oda family, and there was no doubt about how strong the Tokugawa family was as a whole with the support of such a behemoth as the Oda family.

The newly rising Yanhuang clan divided its troops into four ways as soon as the war began: all the way to attack Changlu from the sea, first to destroy the Hitachi families, and then to fight the Date family in Shimono, all the way south to annihilate the Uesugi and Mogami coalition forces, and then to connect the two major cities of Ueno, and fight the Mogami family to ask for help everywhere, all the way to stay in Iwashiro and confront the Uesugi family's army, and all the way to garrison Mutsu to deter the Izuha family.

Judging from the strength displayed so far, the overall strength of the Yanhuang family has surpassed that of the ordinary overlord family, becoming the third family in the empire after the Oda family and the Maori family; the difference between the strength of the Oda family and the Maori family is disputed, but the third in the empire of the Yanhuang family is indisputable, because the Yanhuang family deserves it regardless of territorial area, economic strength, or military strength!

Oshu is nominally a country, but who doesn't know that Oshu is composed of five countries: Mutsu, Rikunaka, Rikuzen, Iwashiro, and Iwaki, plus Hitachi Province, which has just been occupied by the Yanhuang family, and Ueno Province, which is about to be occupied by the Yanhuang family, the Yanhuang family has seven kingdoms!

So far, the only super family in the empire that can own the land of the Seven Kingdoms is the Yanhuang family, except for the Oda family and the Maori family, which shows that this melee caused by the chaos in the north has had a profound impact on the original pattern of the empire.

The Mogami family, which is trying to rise again, and the Date family, which is declining day by day, have become stepping stones for the rise of the Yanhuang family; whether the Uesugi family can resist the joint attack of the Oda family and the Yanhuang family and survive this melee depends on Uesugi Kenshin's ability.

Whether the former can continue to grow stronger, and whether the latter can achieve family revival, depends on the choice of Takeda Shingen and Hojo Shiyasu, who have more options, and whether the latter can achieve family revival.

Sometimes, the lack of more choices is an advantage in itself, and the Tokugawa family, which depends on the Oda family for its survival, will not decline as long as the Oda family stands, at least during the lifetime of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

The seemingly intricate situation of the empire, if you can really look at it at a deeper level through the surface, it is actually very simple, it is nothing more than the Yanhuang family, the Oda family, and the Maori family provoked a big war for their own interests, and the other families joined in with their own different intentions.

In addition, the Ryuzoji family joined the Oda family because of Oda Nobunaga's promise, the Shimazu family and the Otomo family joined the Mori family because of the Ryuzoji family, the Uesugi family organized an alliance to strangle the Yanhuang family, and the Takeda family and the Hojo family remained neutral for the time being.

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