Chapter 117: Soldiers Don't Get Tired of Deceit

As Nagao Keiji followed his father's footsteps, Satomi Katsuhiro and Saito Norumi were still in a hurry to prepare all the heads of the head office Nagao clan and send them to Nagano Yoshimasa. Nagano Yemasa hates betrayers the most, and Kohata Kenshige father and son were driven out of Ueno by the Takeda family in the inner pass, although the details are unknown, it may also be a ploy of the Takeda family.

In the early morning of the 22nd, Nagano Yoshimasa ordered the heads of the victims to be buried, and then led an army of 3,000 to surround Sosha Castle.

Probably dissatisfied with the seizure of the castle and the killing of the head office of the head office, some of the ashigaru and the people of the castle took the initiative to attack the defenders of Otemon and opened the castle gate wide.

The Nagano army then attacked the castle of Sosha, and wiped out the forces of Norumi Saito and Katsuhiro Satomi in an instant. Satomi Katsuhiro was courted by the Nagano family's retainer Shingo Soji (one of the disciples of Daihu Hidetsuna), while Saito was assassinated with a spear by the Nagano army Ashigaru in the midst of the rebellion.

In just one hour, all the 500 Azuma Saito family troops were reimbursed in the castle of the head office. Satomi Katsuhiro's vain attempt to exchange the heads of the head office of the Ao clan in exchange for his return to his old domain was also shattered by his own death.

At this moment, Saito Michizo led a 15,000-strong crusading army to take advantage of the territory of the Kohata family, and successively captured Dansheng Castle, Tennoyama Castle, Goxian Castle, and Usui Ice Castle of the Anchu family in one day. The retainers of the Anchu family, Gokan Tadanobu, Gokan Keijun, and Kobayashi Kentoki defended the city one after another, and Anaka Iefan (the second son of Anzhong Tadamasa) and Anaka Hisashi (a clan) fled after defending Anzhong Castle for three days, and was ambushed and killed by the local mountain on the way to Matsui Tiancheng. With the momentary unfavorable situation of the war, Anchu Tadamasa could only lament why he was on the wrong side for the sake of autonomy.

It was also after Saito Michizo besieged Matsui Tianjo Castle with 10,000 troops, and the second group of reinforcements sent by Murakami Yoshikiyo of Okushinano also arrived in Ueno to join the crusading army. The leading general is Murakami Kunikiyo, the second son of Murakami Yoshikiyo, and this time the Murakami family sent 2,000 troops, which is a little more than last time.

After Anaka Tadamasa saw the arrival of the 2,000 Murakami army, he found that he was sandwiched by the Nagano family in the east and north, and the Kohata family in the south.

Although Matsuida Castle was easy to defend and difficult to attack, the remaining 500 defenders in the castle were demoralized, and from time to time there were ashigaru deserters who fled. Anzhong Tadamasa knew that he couldn't hold the city, and it was better to surrender earlier and still have his life.

Anzhong Tadamasa and Anaka Tadashi, father and son, went to the Uesugi army headquarters to ask for guilt with the idea that they would survive by surrendering voluntarily.

Saito Michizo knew very well that if they let their father and son live, it would definitely not be good for the Uesugi family, and that the fortified city of Matsui Tianjo and some of the castles of the Anaka family must be in the hands of the Uesugi family, and once Anzhong Ling controls it, then he can control a passage to Shinano. As for some of the rest of the sheep intestines, it doesn't matter if they are controlled or not.

Subsequently, Saito Michizo ordered Nishirita and Hosoya Shimichi to lead their headquarters to occupy all the main roads and arrows of Matsui Tiancheng, and also drove all the men, women, and children of the Anchu clan out of Matsui Tiancheng.

After the two of them took full control of Matsui Tianjo, Saito Michizo revealed his true colors. The fathers and sons and clansmen of Anzhong Tadamasa who surrendered were immediately beheaded outside the city in the name of traitors, leaving not a single one.

This series of actions by Michizo Saito has been passed on one by one. Almost all the people of Kita-Ueno knew the horror of the pit viper, and the first county of Usui (氷) was pacified, and the next area of the pit viper's march was Azuma-gun north of Usui County, and the remnants of the Furukawa shogunate followers of Seta-gun were cleared by Nagano Yemasa.

At present, the only remaining resistance forces in Ueno Ichikoku are the Hawei family and the Saito family in Azuma-gun, and the Numata family and the Shirai Nagao family in Tone-gun.

When the head of the Ashikaga Nagao family, Nagao Kencho, heard that the Ueno Kuniren had been destroyed one after another, and immediately led his army to break away from the army of the Furukawa Shogunate and go to his own fortress to garrison. As soon as the head of Nagao Kencho opened, then the Sano family, the Koyama family, and others left in succession. At this moment, the Furukawa Shogunate Army, which had already numbered nearly 20,000, dispersed in an instant. The Nasu and Motegi families did not have a large number of reinforcements to support, which was what Akechi Mitsutada and others wanted to see the most, and their garrison pressure was greatly reduced.

After the hasty uprising of the Ashikaga Fuji clan and others, the geographical location of Musashi Province, which was occupied by the Uesugi family, was not discovered at all. The Uesugi dynasty decided to use Musashi to separate the connection between the Furukawa Ashikaga family and the Hojo family and the Ueno people, and in addition to the fact that the Uesugi family had part of the territory in Ueno, they also cut off the connection between Shimono and Ueno, so that the followers of the Furukawa shogunate in various places had to fight on their own.

The court set up a main camp in Sekijuku Castle, and asked Shinbata Nagatsu to lead 2,000 reinforcements and Yamamoto Temple and Miyagi to garrison Koganesi and other Uesugi castles after confluence.

Early in the morning of the 23rd, Harusuke Ryoda led 3,000 troops from his headquarters, together with a total of 8,000 troops from Tagaya Ieshige, Mizutani Jiji, Yamakawa Shishige, and Noda Narumasa, to Kurihashi Castle, which was not far west of Sekijuku Castle.

"My lord, the puppet shogunate leader Ryoda Harsuke led an army of about 8,000 people into Kuribashi Castle, and this is what it looks like to fight a decisive battle with our army." Ota saw Ryota's purpose, and it was unclear when the decisive battle would begin.

"As long as the main force of the Eight Thousand Furukawa Shogunate Army is annihilated and the Furukawa Imperial Palace is captured all the way, then the remaining rabble of the Furukawa Shogunate will not be arrogant for long." Ota Zimasa's retainer Sheren Shigechang was very confident, and he fought all the way with Ota Zimasa and did not encounter a strong enemy at all. He is the second son of Sheren Chongzhen, and after Sheren Chongzhen and Sheren Chongjing were transferred to the court, he stayed by Ota Zimasa's side and worked for Ota Zizheng, but he was also a courtier of the court.

"The decisive battle that will determine the future situation in the Kanto region must be started by the Uesugi family, and it must not be passively conceded to others!" The Asadatsu was well aware that this battle would turn the tide of the entire Kanto region.

"Yes!" Immediately, Ota Shimasa and the others left Sekijuku Castle Honmaru Ohiroma, and they began to make preparations for the battle.

There are no high mountains in the northern part of Shimosokoku, and almost all of them are plains. There are still some rivers near the Furukawa Imperial Palace, and these are natural moats. The area of the decisive battle was fought on the plain between Sekijuku Castle and Kurithashi Castle.

I have to say that the two-dignified genes of the Kanto public parties in the past generations have always existed, and what kind of public party there is, what kind of subordinates there are. Although Ryoda Harusuke's IQ is slightly higher than that of Ashikaga Fuji, he can't increase the IQ of his colleagues (the public).

The Furukawa shogunate army of 8,000 versus the Uesugi army of 8,200, since the forces of both sides participating in the battle are the same, Liang Tian Harsuke is also a lot more relieved. Just when Haruke Ryoda and others were careless to the public, Kanto Danzo and a few shinobi burned the grain and grass in Kurihashi Castle in the middle of the night.

At this time, the grain and grass of the Furukawa shogunate army are gone, and they can't be consumed with the Uesugi army at all, and even if they withdraw their troops, they will be chased and beaten by the Uesugi army. Harusuke Ryoda made a move that surprised the public by sending an envoy to Sekijuku Castle to negotiate an armistice.

In the early morning of the 24th, when the military meeting was still being held, the envoy of Ryoda Harsuke, Yamakawa Shishige, came to the city.

"What happened to the envoy of the puppet shogunate?" Shigenshicho stood at the door of Ohiroma, blocking the way of the Yamakawa clan.

"I'm here to discuss something important with the general of the Uesugi Army!" Yamakawa feels good about himself and doesn't bow his head.

"Let him in." After Ota Zimasa got the head of the morning point, he let the people get out of the way.

"The envoy of the puppet shogunate to the public and the puppet ruler is interesting." The court didn't understand, since the slogan of your army was to annihilate the Uesugi family, why did you send an envoy now?

"At this time, the shogunate lost power, and the popular Governor of the Left Guard should succeed him as shogun, and the Uesugi family surrendered now to keep the Musashi country. If you work for the Furukawa Shogunate and serve as a pioneer and destroy the Takeda family, you can also get Kai and Shinano. The Yamakawa clan wrote empty checks without blushing and without a heartbeat, and did not say the main purpose.

"What?!" Kibe Fan Hu, Sheren Shigenaga and the others who were sitting on the side jumped up from the mazar in an instant, and they were already clutching the saber at their waists, just waiting for the order of Chaoding to kill him here.

"Saitoyama Castle Mamoru has destroyed the Yokose Yura family, whose strength is no less than that of Nagano Shinanomori, and the main forces of Wada, Kurakano, and the head office Nagao have all surrendered to Kuragano Castle. As long as Ueno is pacified, tens of thousands of troops can quickly move south or east, how long can your Furukawa shogunate last? "Ota doesn't want to kill the messenger in front of him who can only speak out.

"The drunkard doesn't mean to drink, I'm afraid the purpose of your trip is not to persuade me." Chao Ding said with a smile.

"Yes, our army's grain and grass were burned by thieves, and I want to fight with the Uesugi army one day." Yamakawa Shige's face turned blue at the moment, because he understood the truth of what Ota Shimasa said. Once all of Ueno's supporters were defeated and perished, the combined forces of Echigo, Okushinano, and Ueno would probably be no less than 40,000.

"Yes! I promise you! Chaoding agreed in an instant, making Ota Zimasa and the others completely blind. Isn't this a return to the mountains?

"The Uesugi family has always kept its promises, and I will say goodbye!" Yamakawa Shige left Ohiroma after receiving a verbal assurance. Although he is older than Chaoding, he is still too naïve.

After the Yamakawa clan returned to the city, Ota Shimasa felt that the decision made by the Asada was completely wrong.

"Lord, this is to let the tiger return to the mountain! If the rebels stick to the Furukawa Imperial Palace, then our army will have to pay a very big price! Ota looked dissatisfied.

"I promised, but you didn't. You take your headquarters to pursue them, and the food and grass are gone, see what combat strength they have! "Chao Ding has already calculated it, and it is true that Ota Zimasa did not say that he agreed.

"I see! Yes, sir! "Ota Shimasa immediately left Ohiroma with Shigenaga.

Chaoding wanted to use this method to defeat the enemy army, otherwise there would be no advantage at all in fighting with a one-to-one force. Even if the Uesugi family has more troops, they are distributed in various places to fight, and they are not integrated.

As soon as the Yamakawa clan arrived in Kuribashi Castle, he reported the news to Harsuke Ryoda. Ryoda Harsuke and the others had long been ready to withdraw their troops, so as soon as the Yamakawa clan arrived, the Furukawa shogunate army of eight thousand slowly left Kurihashi Castle. However, due to the lack of food and grass, the morale of their troops and horses was still very low, and deserters appeared from time to time.

Ota Shimasa used all the 3,000 troops in his headquarters with the five-pointed leaf banner and immediately went out of the city to pursue the Furukawa shogunate army. And Chaoding asked Kibe Fan Hu to lead two hundred ashigaru to take the empty Liqiao Castle, and he led 5,000 troops to slowly march towards Liqiao Castle.

Just when Liang Tian Qingsuke and others led the army to hurry up, Ota Zizheng had already led his troops to stick up. This made Liang Tian Harsuke feel as if he had been tricked, although what he saw was not the flag finger of bamboo and the finch, but this pentagonal leaf flag finger was clearly the family crest of the Ota family! Liang Tian Qingsuke had no choice but to flee to the Furukawa Imperial Palace with his sister-in-law Liang Tian Zhisuke and his fifty people from the banner.

Yamakawa Shige and others took a look, what are the generals fighting when they all run away? They also prepared to leave the place with their samurai on horseback. But Liang Tian Qingsuke and others are because they ran early, and Ota Zimasa is a descendant of Ota Michikan, and he is proficient in ashigaru warfare.

Ota Shimasa commanded the troops under his command regardless of the position, and directly attacked one team after another, and the Furukawa shogunate army was completely dispersed in an instant. Liang Tian Suke (Liang Tian Qingsuke's half-brother), who was still in command of the Liang Tian family's army, was retained by the sheren, and then the Liang Tian family's army completely lost its command. Immediately after the retreat of the Yamakawa clan was blocked by his own ashigaru, he drew his knife and slashed at them, and then was attacked by the surrounding ashigaru, and was finally killed; After Mizutani Jiji and Tagaya saw that the general trend had gone, they found a vacant place nearby to cut their stomachs; Tamaoka Masahiro, Yamakawa Masasa, and a large number of Ashigaru of the Furukawa Shogunate surrendered together, after which they were beheaded outside Kurihashi Castle.

Noda Narumasa and Tagaya for Hiroshi escaped death and fled to the Furukawa Imperial Palace behind Ryoda Harusuke's father and son. The 8,000 troops formed by the former Furukawa Gongfang were all annihilated, and less than 1,000 returned to the Furukawa Imperial Palace, of which more than 500 were killed in battle, and more than 5,000 surrendered directly. On the other hand, the Ota army had less than 100 casualties, and with 1,000 troops, it escorted more than 5,000 captives into Liqiao Castle.

When Asadachi learned of Ota's victory, he ordered him to lead the rest of his men and horses to attack the Furukawa Imperial Palace. For the captives of the Furukawa Shogunate Army, the court let them choose for themselves, and those who wanted to serve the Uesugi family stayed, and those who didn't want to leave. As a result, more than 3,000 of the captives were willing to stay, but the court did not intend to accept all of them, but only selected and streamlined a batch. After all, who doesn't want to stay if they have something to eat? Two hours later, the 1,000 new troops that had been screened out were incorporated into the Shangzhou Army, and they were scattered and incorporated.

It was also when the court was selecting a pawn, Ota Zimasa took down the Furukawa Imperial Palace, which had long been empty.

Ryoda Harsuke and the others fled back to the Furukawa Imperial Palace because they abandoned their military strength, but there were only more than 100 defenders in the city, and there were no extra defenders. After piecing together a hundred of the demoralized headquarters and the defenders, they fled the Furukawa Imperial Palace with the Ashikaga Fuji clan and headed for Yuki Castle. This Yuki Castle is a sacred place for the public to rebel against the Kanto Metropolitan Government.

In that year, in the first month of the twelfth year of Eternal Enjoyment, the lord of Yuki Castle in the southern Kanto region, because he was dissatisfied with the shogunate, called the four old Mizutani Ise punctual clans, Shikita Shuryo, Shikuda Shogun and Kuroda Minbu Cheng, and the two sons of the Toshichi clan, Chunomaru and Anwangmaru, raised their arms and raised the banner of reviving Kamakura and bringing down the shogunate. Even the samurai from as far away as Oshu responded to the righteous action of Yuuki and his son, and they surrounded the castle of Ashikaga Mitsunao, the Sasakawa Imperial Palace, who had defected to the shogunate in the "Eternal Rebellion", and Mitsunao had no choice but to commit suicide - another one of the Mochi's family died. Determined to hold on to Yuki Castle and fight a protracted war with the shogunate, as long as they could hold on, they would win the hearts and minds of the people of the Kanto region, and it was not a fantasy to revive the Kamakura Princes' family.

Ashikaga Yoshikyo ordered Uesugi Kenshi, who lived in seclusion in Izu, to go out of the mountain, and ordered the current Kanto governor Uesugi Kiyokata, Ogiya Uesugi Mochito, Inusugi Mochibo (the son of Zenhide, who was allowed to revive the Inukaku family because of his exploits in the Eternal Rebellion), Suruga to protect Imagawa Notadada, Shinano to protect Ogasawara Masaysu, Kai to protect Takeda Nobushige, and Echigo to protect the real scene of Daiyo Nagao, a total of 100,000 troops, to kill Yuki Castle. Uesugi Kiyokata, the general of the expeditionary army, ran to Yuki Castle and saw that there were two major hori surrounding the castle, and they were connected to the river in all directions, and all the rivers were planted with dense stumps by the rebels, and the ships carrying grain were moving freely on the Ohori to supply the rebels. Uesugi Kiyokata was determined not to attack, first cut off the main roads around Yuki Castle, and then built a well tower several zhang high, besieging Yuki Castle for a long time, waiting for the defenders to run out of food.

The siege lasted until April 15 of the following year (the thirteenth year of Yongxiang, the first year of Cargill), when the food in Yuki Castle was almost exhausted, and the soldiers began to waver. Uesugi Kiyoshi convened the generals and began the pre-war mobilization: "In the past, the Japanese siege lasted for two or three years, but it was often a battle scale of 511 people, and now half of Japan's troops are with us, and we have been attacking a city for almost a year, and if we continue in this way, we will only live up to the expectations of the 'Kyoto Gongkata' (as opposed to the Kamakura Gongkata, referring to the generals in Kyoto), and the country will also be overwhelmed." Tomorrow is an auspicious day, and our army will attack Yuki Castle and take it in one fell swoop! ”

In the early morning of the 16th, the banner shogunate army stormed Yuki Castle from all directions, and although the rebels resisted bravely, they were hungry and eventually lost their strength, and the advantage was gradually grasped by Uesugi Kiyokata. In the afternoon, the shogunate army set fire to the wooden turrets (arrow towers) of Yuki Castle, and the fire and smoke blew into the castle, and the rebels could not stand it anymore and began to flee in the direction of the east of the castle, and many people panicked and fell into the large ori they had dug and drowned alive. The rebel general, Yuki Clan, rushed left and right on his horse, preparing to kill Uesugi Kiyokata, but was wounded in many places, and after exhausting his strength, he dismounted and committed suicide. The son of the clan dynasty, Mototo, also fought without surrendering, and was killed by Kai guardian Takeda Nobushige. The two children, Haruomaru and Anwangmaru, disguised themselves as women and prepared to escape, but they were recognized by the real scene of the Echigo guardian generation Nagao, and the brothers were all tied up.

The day after the fall of Yuki Castle, Uesugi Kiyokata lined up the heads of the rebels under the castle and held a ceremony called "Shou Shikan" (the victors of ancient Japanese wars would line up the heads of the enemy for the general to test). As a result, many people in the shogunate's conquest army saw that many of the leaders of the rebel army were either their friends or their own relatives, and they actually cried and shook the sky, covering the audience with a layer of sadness. As for Harunomaru and Anomaru, together with the heads of Yuuki father and son, they were escorted by Nagao Reality to Kyoto to be punished by Ashikaga Yoshikyo. However, Yoshikyo had no patience to meet the two brothers in Kyoto, and at the Golden Lotus Temple in Mino Kuni, which was on the way to Kyoto, Nagao, who was secretly ordered by Yoshikyo, drew a knife and killed the thirteen-year-old Harunomaru and the twelve-year-old Anwangmaru.

Ashikaga Yoshikyo was very satisfied with the result of the "Battle of Yuuki" - this time the Ashikaga family was cut off, which means that all the trickles of the Kamakura Gongfang died. But Ashikaga Yoshikyo didn't know at the time that there was still one hidden in the public of the Kanto region.

The eldest son of the Mochishi clan, Ashikaga Yoshihisa, committed suicide, and the other two sons, Chunomaru and Anwangmaru, were also killed after the battle of Yuuki, where did this Eiju Wangmaru, which has the same young name as the Ashikaga Mochi, come from? It turned out that Eiju Wangmaru was the fifth son of the Ashikaga clan (there were eleven sons in the Ashikaga clan), born in the tenth year of Eiko (1438), and was only four years old at the time of the Yuki War. After learning that Eiju Wangmaru was still alive, the shogunate leader Tayama Motokuni also supported the return of Eijuomaru to Kamakura in order to appease the hearts of the people in Kanto, and revived the Gongfang lineage. In this way, in the first year of Hotoku (1449), at the same time that Ashikaga Yoshimasa Motofu was inaugurated as a shogun, Eiju Wangmaru also rode a sedan chair and squeaked out of the Shinano mountains that had been hiding for eight years, and entered the Kamakura Imperial Palace, and later received the word "Cheng" from Ashikaga Yoshimasa (Ashikaga Yoshimasa was called Yoshinari when he was in the genfu), which was the fifth Kamakura Gongfang Ashikaga Nari Clan, and the first generation of Furukawa Gongkata.