Due to the position of the samurai in the front, this shocking scene was not noticed by the more than 20 ashigaru behind him, and even the two ashigaru who moved the fence not far away were aware of the abnormality, but after checking the carriage, the two ashigaru who were walking back witnessed all this, but before they could call, they were pressed to the wood and slashed by several "farmers" who rushed up behind them.

Perhaps noticing an anomaly outside the fence, a ashigaru next to the fence scolded, "What's going on with Shijiro?!" ”

After a while, no one answered, so Ashigaru felt bad and walked out of the fence to check, when the peasants at the back of the line smashed the bottom of the wood, pulled out the weapons they had hidden in advance, and secretly handed them to the peasants in front.

"What are you two doing lying on your stomach?" Ashigaru shouted as he approached the convoy, but seeing that the two of them were still unresponsive, and that the peasants around him were gradually converging towards him, he immediately raised his vigilance and tried to turn around and retreat to the checkpoint. However, it was too late, and the peasant rushed behind him with an arrow, covering his mouth with one hand, and stabbing the blade into his chest with the other, and his expression was twisted in pain, and he writhed in an attempt to break free, but as blood spurted out of his chest, he quickly lost his strength and collapsed on the peasant's body in despair.

"Someone sneaked up!" Another ashigaru, who had witnessed all this, hurriedly turned around and shouted at Ashigaru behind him, and the merchant saw this and immediately rushed up and cut his throat with a knife.

"Action!" The merchant pushed away the samurai's corpse and roared.

"Drink!" At the order, the peasants immediately took off their hats, exposed their samurai's buns, glared angrily, raised their knives and slammed them at the checkpoint.

In the face of the sudden attack, those half-asleep Ashigaru were all panicked, not to mention resisting, and fled in panic without even holding their weapons.

"Kill, don't leave a single one!" The merchant drew his sword from his back. Lead the way into the scattered deserters. Due to many investigations, the Uesugi family knew all the nine checkpoints on the Korean and Japanese military roads, and they knew exactly where there were roads and where they could hide, and besides, this time it was 240 elite samurai who went out, and it was impossible to let go of any of them.

Led by a samurai dressed as a merchant, more than 200 people swarmed in, searching and hunting for the escaped Mogami Ashgaru according to the familiar path in advance, and in less than two quarters of an hour, all the more than 20 people in the outpost were killed. According to the merchant's orders, all the corpses were hidden in the woods by the roadside, and more than 20 people were left to guard the outpost.

At the same time, the same slaughter was also carried out on the other side of the Asaki military route, and the retainers of the Uesugi family, who were stationed at Shonai Ooura Castle, led 300 men to raid five checkpoints, including Mt. Shoshi, Mt. Triangle, Mt. Itogaku, Mikatsu Kyokai, and Kaneyama, while Nakajo Mimori, the lord of Shell Castle who pretended to be a merchant, also took advantage of the victory and pursued four checkpoints in succession, including Mt. Chohara, Mt. O-Asahidake, Mt. Nishi-Asahidake, and Mt. Ryumon. On the afternoon of the next day, that is, on the second day of the second month of the fifth year of Keichō, the two sergeants met at the northern foot of Longmen Mountain. At this point, the Korean and Japanese military routes were completely occupied by the Uesugi army, and the two places of Shonai and Aizu were completely connected.

In the evening of the same day, news of the fall of the entire Korean military route reached Yamagata Castle. Mogami Yoshimitsu was shocked, he didn't expect the Uesugi family to dare to do such an evil act of ignoring the law at this moment, and in addition to being angry, he sent troops to the border cities. While sending an envoy to question the Uesugi family, the third son, Shimizu Yoshikiyo, was also sent to Osaka again to ask for help from Hideho.

However, the speed with which things developed was beyond Yoshimitsu Mogami's imagination. As soon as he reached Eagle Mountain, he fled back to Yamagata Castle. It turned out that in the early morning of the second day after the seizure of the Korean military route, the 25,000 Uesugi troops with Naoe Kanesugu as the general broke through to the Mogamiya Murayama area from Kogoe Street, Kotaki Pass, Ose Pass, Tochikubo Pass, and Nakayama Pass, and quickly occupied the forward positions of Takayama and Tanuki on the border between the two countries. Haruhiata Tadashi, the lord of Takahata Castle, led 600 men to attack Toriya Mori Castle northwest of Hatakeya Castle, Yoshiyi Youjin led 400 men to attack Yanuma Castle on the periphery, and Mitsunaga Shibe, the lord of Kanayama Castle, led 500 men to garrison Tanukimori.

In the face of the lightning attack of the Uesugi family, the Mogami army was unable to parry, and in just five days, Yanuma Castle, Toriya Mori Castle, and Sasawa Castle fell one after another, and in order to cope with Naoe's continued attack, Shigama Yoshihide, who was stationed at Shonai Tsuruoka Castle, led 3,000 men to enter Satsukai County along the Hashuhama Street on the eighth day of the second month, trying to capture Sakata Minato to completely control the Shonai area. Fortunately, the Mogami family stationed 2,000 troops in the local area, coupled with the advantage of defending the city, did not let the Uesugi army take the sweetness, after three days of fruitless attack, they turned the spearhead to the east, and three days later through the sixty miles of Yue invaded the Mogami Tsugami territory west of the Mogami River, and crossed the Mogami River without resistance into the Murayama area, two days later, that is, on February 13, Shiga Yoshihide captured the Hanhejiang Castle, and two more days, the army captured the two castles of Shiraiwa and the valley, directly inserted into the back of the Yamagata Castle.

At this time, the southern front was also extremely unoptimistic, as early as the beginning of February, when the eighth Shigami Yoshihide invaded Satsumi Prefecture, the strongholds on three sides of Hatakeya Castle had been cleared, and the lord of the castle, Eguchi Mitsukiyoshi, decided to defend the castle, and even Mogami Yoshimitsu ordered him to retreat to preserve his strength, and Mogami Yoshimitsu had no choice but to send Iida Harima and Yagi Sagami to lead troops to support Habataya Castle, but on February 10, Iida and Yakiri's reinforcements were broken by Naoe Kanesui at Sugawa, Iida Harima was taken, and Yagiri Sagami was defeated and retreated back to Yamagata Castle.

Seeing this situation, Naoe Kanesuke immediately sent an envoy into the city to persuade Eguchi Mitsukiyo, who knew that Eguchi Mitsukiyo did not appreciate it, and refused the persuasion of the Uesugi army on the grounds of "worshiping the lord's partiality, and being loyal to the best family", in this case, Naoe Kanesuke had to order a general attack, Mizuhara Kanken, Haruyen Tadashi, Mizoguchi Sakasuke launched a strong attack on Hatataya Castle from three sides, of which the iron artillery team led by Mizuhara Kanken launched an attack on Oteguchi, after a round of shooting, the Uesugi army took advantage of the situation to break through Oteguchi and rushed into the city, and the two sides launched a bloody battle. Brutal hand-to-hand combat.

The castle lord Mitsukiyoshi Eguchi and his second son, Koyoshi Tokinao, who were on the earthen ramparts west of Oteguchi, had already retreated to Honmaru, and the Uesugi army, which was gradually pouring into the castle, broke through the fence west of Honmaru.

At the end of the two-hour siege and defense of Hatagaya Castle, the Uesugi family won an overwhelming victory, killing all the 500 Mogami troops defending the castle and paying the price of nearly 1,000 men.

In less than half a month, half of the country was captured, Mogami Yoshimitsu knew that Hideho Yuan could not quench his thirst, and on the day of the fall of Hatagaya Castle, he sent people to Date, Hori, Akita, Yuri Twelve, and even Satake's house for help, unexpectedly, the first to lend a hand was none other than his nephew Date Masamune. (To be continued.)

ps:Recently, I have to consult a lot of relevant information.,It may be interrupted from time to time.,I hope you understand.。。