Zhici County, 漥 (a) Tian Yan.

The flames of war have just baptized this small city with its unsightly appearance, and Ashigaru is actively cleaning up the battlefield. Seven or eight bare-headed monk-like men were shuttling through the battlefield searching for the wounded, and some men with bare buttocks carrying farm tools were busy burying the bodies.

There were even merchants who were not good at making war money and peddled medicines, and there were arms merchants who bought war booty from Ashigaru.

Yoshiaki Kamiyama was wearing a bright red armor and a light blue array of feathers, and he was directing his Ashigaru to clean up the battlefield. The three consecutive days of fighting in turn made the standing foot that had just been formed by the Kamiyama family tired enough.

At this time, a young samurai wearing a round hood on the head of the carcass came to Yoshiaki Ueyama's side, and the bellflower pattern on the haptoria on his body was extremely conspicuous.

"Lord Kamiyama is worthy of being called the first samurai of the Yushu Kingdom by the lord, and in just three days, he captured the seventeen castles of the Date family and pushed the battle line from Kamiyama Castle to the outside of Yonezawa Castle, which is really an eye-opener for Zaixia!"

Hearing the words of the samurai beside him, Yoshiaki Kamiyama replied respectfully, "Miki-sama laughed, but it was just a small castle with a weak defense. It's not enough to be able to do this little bit, but the name of Miki-sama can be said to be thunderous in this land of Ou, and it has been longing for a long time. It's a great honor to be able to fight alongside Miki-sama today! ”

Miki Naogo smiled and pointed to Yoshiaki Kamiyama, "Lord Kamiyama is really eloquent, and between three words, he will let him be like a spring breeze, which is amazing!" ”

"The main purpose of the next is to inquire about our army's next battle plan. It has been proved that Yonezawa Castle has four branch cities, namely Tateyama Castle, Sekine Castle, Nitta Castle and Uta Castle. ”

"Now that the Uzota has been captured by the family, how should our army be deployed next?" This time the strategy is to set up the county, and the people of Hashu led by Yoshiaki Ueyama are the main force, and Miki Naogo and Kawakami Tadashi and others are just the forces sent by Tsugawa Soji to Yoshiaki Ueyama, so even if Miki Naogo has a much more noble status, he still has to obey the orders of Yoshiaki Ueyama.

When it came to business, Yoshiaki Kamiyama's face was much heavier, and after thinking about it for a while, Yoshiaki Kamiyama said, "Tateyama Castle's Nihonmatsu Yoshikuni is earlier than the family, and if you want to attack the city, Tateyama Castle can be broken overnight." ”

"Sekine is located behind Yonezawa Castle, and if it can be captured, it will cut off the enemy's retreat, which will be a great blow to the morale of the enemy! Of course, the enemy must have thought of this, so the defense of Guan Genqi should be very strong, and I am afraid that it will not be possible to attack it in a hurry, so I think it is better to besiege the city! ”

Yonezawa Castle, as the base of the Date family's huge cost to renovate, is naturally not something that can be captured casually, not to mention that there are more than 10,000 troops in the city. In addition, the strategy of the Tsugawa family is to besiege but not attack, and then divide the enemy from the inside and disintegrate the enemy from the inside.

The strength of the Ida Ashina coalition was destined to be internally unstable, and as long as the Tsugawa family exerted external pressure on it, and then rebelled against some of them, the enemy army could be disintegrated.

Nihonmatsu Yoshikuni is only the first step of the Tsukawa family, and the next step is to oppose more people through Nihonmatsu Yoshikoku.

In fact, as early as a year ago, Nihonmatsu Yoshikuni had already begun to fall in love with the Tsugawa family. At that time, Tsugawa Soji had sent his own ninja to infiltrate Nihonmatsu Castle and sent a secret letter to Nihonmatsu Yoshikoku, the content of the secret letter was inconvenient to say more due to adhering to the basic principle of not watering the number of words, anyway, the final result was that Nihonmatsu Yoshikoku quietly left the original after half a month and came to the Tsuruoka Castle that had just been built in Dehaneda River County, and met the new successor to the Tsuruoka Prince, Ashikaga Yoshimune!

Ashikaga Yoshimune is Yoshizuru Maru, and when he was officially in the genfu, he was named Ashikaga Yoshimune with the common character of the Ashikaga family and the one-character clan of Tsugawa Soji, and officially began to become the "nominal" boss of Mutsu and Dewa.

Nihonmatsu Yoshikuni consulted with Ashikaga Yoshimune for nearly two hours, and finally received a promise of 100,000 koku from the shogunate Imperial Priest Kashinda Nigun, and then happily returned to Nihonmatsu Castle.

Since then, Nihonmatsu Yoshikuni has been secretly in contact with the Tsuruoka Gongkata and the Tsugawa family.

The purpose of Nihonmatsu Yoshikuni is actually very simple, that is, to please take advantage of the current situation of the Nihonmatsu family under the control of the Ashina family, and revitalize the prestige of the descendants of the Hatakeyama clan of the Nihonmatsu family.

Although after falling to the Tsugawa family, he is the same as being a little brother to others, but there is no future at all with the Ashina family, even if he is the younger brother for a lifetime, the Nihonmatsu family is still this Nihonmatsu family, and the Erbenmatsu Yoshikoku is still a salted fish. But if you follow the Tsugawa family and stand on the side of the shogunate's righteousness, the rise of the Nihonmatsu family is promising.

Don't look at the development of the Ashina family in the past two years, it has surpassed the big brother Date family to become a bigwig in the Mutsu Kingdom. However, such strength is based on the oppression of other countries, and it is not popular with the people.

And the Tsugawa family is doing the opposite, pulling the "poor masses" to do it together, and I have a mouthful of meat from Tsugawa Soji, and you have a mouthful of soup. The benefits are really visible, so Nihonmatsu Yoshikuni has no reason to refuse such generous conditions.

As for plotting against Ishikawa Harimitsu, it was actually a spontaneous act of Yoshikuni Nihonmatsu. Since you have decided to get on the thief ship of the Tsukawa family, you have to make some achievements to prove the value of the Nihonmatsu family.

"The plan to besiege the city is a serious word of the old man, and this statement of the lord of the mountain is very much in line with my wishes!" After listening to Yoshiaki Ueyama's decision, Naogo Miki nodded, then moved his head to Yoshiaki Ueyama's ear, and whispered, "I just received news that the Tsugawa master has omitted the Kingami Moribei of Aizu Tsugawa Castle. If nothing else, within five days, the forces of the Nagao family will be able to rush to the castle of Aizu Kurokawa Castle! ”

"This is true" This is good news, if the Nagao family responds in the Aizu area, then Yoshiaki Ueyama will be completely sure that Yonezawa Castle will be captured.

Miki Naogo nodded, "In two days, Lord Shangshan will know about this, but I think that Lord Shangshan can start planning the next thing." ”

"Thank you, Lord Miki, for reminding me, and I'm going to gather all of you here to discuss this matter!"

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Aizutsugawa Castle, located in Aizu Ogawaso, was a Hirayama castle built by Morihiro Kanejo, and has been the residence of the Kanami family ever since.

When the gates of Tsugawa Castle were opened with a creak, the important castle that guarded the main road between Echigo and Aizu was occupied by the Nagao family without blood. The lord of the city, Jin Shang Shengbei, personally led the retainers of the Jin Shang family to go out to beg for surrender, but he did not see the face of Nagao Jinghu, and only Tsugawa Shengzong received Jin Shang Shengbei and others.

The so-called soldier is fast, and Nagao Keitora wants to quickly seize the castles along the way to Kurokawa Castle before the Ashina family knows about the fall of Tsugawa Castle, and speed up the speed of reaching Kurokawa Castle as quickly as possible.

It was already three days later when the Ashina family learned of this, and the forces of the Nagao family, led by Nagao Keitora, had already crossed the torii wall one after another, captured Noda Castle, and entered the hinterland of Aizu.

This place is only forty miles away from Kurokawa Castle, which means that if Nagao Jinghu is quick to whip his horse, it will only take half an hour to kill the castle of Kurokawa Castle......