"Have you decided to give up attacking Koriyama Castle?" Anguosi Huiqiong asked in surprise.

"This is also a helpless move, and you can only blame you for not seizing the opportunity and wasting the trust of the lord."

"Brother, don't you have to defend the front line of the county? If the army all attacks Yudong Mountain, I'm afraid it will be attacked from the front and back, right? Mori Motoyasu worried.

"Forgive him," Motomasa Amano replied firmly, "There are still 10,000 people in Osaka, and besides, the Uki family has already compromised with the main family, so with the little army of Koriyama, it is okay to hold on, and it is impossible to launch a counterattack." ”

"In that case, then we have to gamble." Anguo Temple Huiqiong muttered worriedly.

"It's not a gamble," Motomasa Amano corrected, "yes, it's going to be fine!" ”

At noon, Ninomiya Yuchen led the army back to Fushimi Matsunomaru, at this time the Maori family's one-character three-star has been fluttering in the wind over Fushimi, in order to prove that he is on the order of Hideyori to raise troops, Amano Motomasa specially kept a few sides of the Toyotomi clan's five seven tongs, and did not tear them all off, but these flags no longer represent the Yamato Toyotomi clan at this moment, but the Toyotomi clan in Osaka Castle.

"Brother." As soon as Ninomiya entered the palace, he knelt down in front of Amano Motomasa.

Seeing this, everyone was unclear, so Maori Motoyasu stepped forward to help, but he was unexpectedly drunk back by Amano Motomasa: "Let him say that if he hadn't done something wrong, he wouldn't have been so humble." ”

"Brother," Ninomiya Jichen squirmed for a long time, and finally spoke: "Just now I led the army to arrive at the foot of Duowenshan Castle, and I was unwilling to let Aoki Lao'er go, so I launched an attack without permission......"

"The result?" Motomasa Amano asked fiercely.

"Before I could rush to Otekou, I was blocked by the rebels' iron artillery array......"

"How many people died?"

"I just lost more than a hundred people, so I organized another attack, this time losing more than two hundred......"

"Then did you finally rush to the mouth of the big hand?" Amano's eyes widened with anger, his muscles flared up, and he gritted his teeth and asked.

Ninomiya shook his head vigorously and sighed: "No, the firepower of this Duowen Lut is too fierce, and the defense is strong. They can't get close at all, and their three-stage attacks are perfectly used and the firing frequency is super fast, so our army's iron artillery team is not an opponent at all......"

"Shut up!" Motomasa Amano finally couldn't help it, stood up and walked in front of Ninomiya Jichen, and went up and kicked him to the sky, "How did I tell you, let you withdraw your troops, instead of listening, you took the initiative to attack, if you don't think that you are my brother." I would have slashed you to death with a single sword! From now on, your military power is in the hands of Motoyasu. You get back to Osaka. There's no room for you here! ”

"Brother!" Although Ninomiya begged for Tatsu, Motomasa Amano had made up his mind, and immediately ordered him to be pulled out of the palace and sent back to Osaka.

"As long as I, Motomasa Amano, am here, I will never allow anything to violate military orders. I hope to give it to you to remember! As soon as Amano Motomasa finished speaking, the generals present bowed their heads and agreed, and Mori Motoyasu, who was also the son of Motosho, was like a frightened bird at the moment, and he was scared for a while.

On the 8th day of the 4th month, after only one day's rest in Fushimi, the Mori army marched along the Nakasendo Road to Minami-Omi, where Gotoyama Castle is located, and arrived at Otsu Castle on the 10th day of the 4th month. After that, the Maori army stopped again, and not far away, Nagayoshi Pass, which was garrisoned by Ogasawara Takakiyo, and the moat that led to the water of Lake Biwa became the first hurdle for Amano.

Just as Motomasa Amano thought. At this time, the crusading army led by Hideho was sweeping away the last obstacle before entering Aizu with a devastating momentum - the Karasawa Mountain Castle of the Sano clan and the Kuroba Castle of the Oseki clan were conquered almost on the same day, and the Narita clan of Fukuhara Castle originally planned to open the castle and surrender, but the Uesugi army, who did not expect to come to support, actually executed all the Narita clans and simply took over Fukuhara Castle directly.

Fukuhara Castle was originally the residence of the Nasu clan, and after the Nasu clan was reduced due to the late arrival of the Odawara expedition, it became the residence of the Musashi Narita clan, and when the lord Narita Nagatada was killed, Narita Shigenaga, who was only eight years old, became the new lord, Naoe Kanesui seized on this, laid a mountain road connecting Aizu and Shimono, and used the hatred of the three families for Hideho to pull it under his command, and continuously sent military power to the three cities. However, due to the unsmooth attack on Mogami before, he had to withdraw troops from Shimono to reinforce Wakamatsu Castle, so that only 8,000 troops remained in Shimono.

Hideho first attacked Karasawa Mountain Castle, which had the least troops, and Kuroba Castle, which was controlled by the Oseki clan, which was close to the Uesugi family, and under the strong pressure of 150,000 troops, Karasawa Mountain Castle was reduced to ashes, and the name of the Sano clan was cut off; On the night of the fall of Karasawan Mountain, the retainers of the Oseki clan surrendered in Kaejo, and 2,000 Uesugi troops were slaughtered, but the Oseki clan was allowed by Hideho to retain his family name and become a retainer of the Nasu clan.

It was precisely because of the tragic lesson of Kuroba Castle that the Uesugi retainer Ichikawa Saemon who guarded Fukuhara Castle drove more than 300 people from the Narita family to Nishinomaru Waiqulun overnight to slaughter, except for the young lord Narita Shigenaga who survived as a puppet, and the people who were related to the Narita clan were not spared, and since then, Fukuhara Castle has completely fallen into the hands of the Uesugi army.

On the eighth day of the fourth month, the day after the fall of Fushimi Castle, Hideho came to the front line of Fukuhara Castle from Toriyama Castle, the home of the Nasu clan, and commanded an army of 40,000 to attack the last stronghold of the Uesugi clan outside the main camp.

Fukuhara Castle is 500 meters long from east to west, 350 meters long from north to south, and is bordered by the Sugawa River in the north, surrounded by earthen ramparts and water hori on three sides.

"Your Highness, our army bombarded Fukuhara for a whole morning in the key mountain castle, and the buildings in the castle were destroyed, but the moat Mizubori was too wide to be filled for a while, and the Uesugi army in the castle had no intention of surrendering at all......" Fukushima Masanori came to Hideho's main camp out of breath and said helplessly.

The key mountain castle in his mouth was a small hill not far southeast of Fukuhara, on which there was a castle built by the Narita clan, and after the northern line was tightened, the Uesugi garrison in the castle was transferred back to Wakamatsu, and the cottage was burned down. After Hideho arrived, he saw that Fukuhara Castle was difficult to attack for a while, so he ordered Fukushima Masanori to erect several large tubes at the original site of the mountain castle and bombard Fukuhara Castle in the basin without interruption, intending to force the Uesugi family in the castle to surrender. However, as Fukushima Masanori said, despite the destruction of the castle's buildings, the Uesugi army still relied on the wide Mizubori and the Sukawa River to defend it, trying to fight to the death and delay Hideho's northward journey.

"The Uesugi army in the city is full of dead soldiers, and it is almost impossible for them to surrender." Hideho patted Masanori Fukushima on the shoulder and comforted, "But when I observed the flow of the river today, I saw something interesting. ”