Chapter 225: The Northern Expedition is complete
In the early morning of October 30 in the first year of Yongroku, the Seven Tails Castle of Noto was full of bamboo finch flags. The craftsman Hatakeyama family has occupied Noto for more than 100 years since Hatakeyama Mankei. Now, the owner of this Nanao Castle has been replaced by the Uesugi family's important minister, Usami is full.
"I'll wait to see the Guardian Palace!" The retainers of the Hatakeyama family, the former craftsman, bowed to Usami Dingman, who was sitting on the main seat, in the Ohiro room.
"Excuse me, everybody." Usami looked at the Noto generals who fell into the Uesugi family with a smile.
"Dingmangong, looking at the entire Noto country, there are only a few castles left in Okunoto, such as Matsuba Castle and Wajima Pavilion, which are still resisting. The thieves of the Sect are gathering in California, and these pseudo-guardian retainers must be eradicated as soon as possible. Heiyaozhi immediately stood up and suggested to Usami Dingman.
"Yes. Today, Miyake Kozaburo-sama's Sakiyama Castle is located to the west of Matsuba Castle, and Kawajiri Castle, the main courtyard of an adult, is northwest of Matsuba Castle. Hatakeyama Yoshito can't run unless he can fly out of Noto. Usami Katsuyuki said with a smile.
"But Changlianlong fled into Chang Lianlian's old Lingxue Water City, and now more than 300 former ministers of the Chang clan and ronins have gathered, and the surrounding Zhongju Pavilion and Nakajima Pavilion have also been taken away by it." Ji Jian Xingan was a little worried.
"Yes, and Wenjing Jinglong's sect, Wenjing Mountain City Shouxu Ji, is also recruiting ronins and Wenjing family's old department in Heaven City, the old leader of the Wenjing family, and there are currently five hundred people." Mitayake Muntaka also began to worry about himself.
"Isn't Taowei Zhang Shoudian still in the area of Fulai City and Fupu City? First, we will send people to send grain and grass, and when the reinforcements sent by the Goya Palace arrive at Nanao Castle, it will be time for us to attack Okunoto. "Usami Dingman is a little speechless for these countrymen lords. The former ministers of the Hatakeyama family gathered more than 800 people and began to panic, counting the total enemy troops on Hatakeyama Yoshito's side was less than 2,000.
"Report to the Guardian Temple! The Ganli Omi Shoudian from Yuezhong has already led 2,000 troops into Shidong Mountain! At this moment, a samurai dressed in black lacquer maru hurriedly ran into the Ohiroma and reported to Usami Dingman.
"Excellent! The man who was waiting for the old man is finally here! "Usami Dingman thought that it would take a few more days for Kanya Keimitsu to come because of the heavy losses of the headquarters, but he didn't expect to enter Noto so quickly.
"Everyone, get ready, and within next month, we will get rid of all the remnants of the Hatakeyama family!" Usami Dingman squeezed the rosary in his hand and said.
"Yes!" Everyone replied in unison.
After the Noto people left Nanao Castle one after another, in the afternoon, Kanya Keichi came to the building of Nanao Castle Usami Dingman.
"Gan Jie Omi Shouden, I really didn't expect the Imperial Palace to send you. The old man thought it was Misasuke Honjo! Usami Jomitsu laughed when he saw Kanya Keji.
"The Suruga Moriden is now a veritable Noto Guardian. Goya Xingden asked me to tell Suruga Moriden that after Noto was pacified, a large number of retainers would not be transferred to Noto to enter Noto. Your nearly 40,000 stone territory in Dongyue is about to be reclaimed by the Imperial Palace. "Gan Yu Keizami first mixed it with the cold, and then told Usami Dingman the meaning of the humble letter.
"It seems that the Imperial House Pavilion wants to give the old man the jurisdiction of a country. Jing Gongfang's chess game is good. Neither let the Uesugi family suffer, but also prevent the Uesugi family from being more united. It is not known whether this is the meaning of the Miyoshi family or the meaning of the Jing Gongfang himself. Usami sighed after speaking.
"Let's not talk about this for a while, the town hall will not be able to come to the palace for two months, and the military power will be handed over to Taowei Zhang Shou. You have to be prepared for this. Gan Liangjing said helplessly.
"What's wrong with the town hall, why do you ······ Toyama Castle as soon as you go to Echichu?" Usami Dingman looked at the appearance of Kan Yu Jingji, and felt that something was not quite right.
According to Misasuke, the town hall is currently recuperating from his injuries in Toyama Castle. Although there is a saying that 'it takes a hundred days to break your muscles and bones', it is estimated that the injuries of the town hall will not be able to leave Toyama Castle for several months. Gan Liangjing said helplessly. Originally, he still wanted to pull the Chaoding piece to Noto, so maybe he wouldn't be sent to the front line. I didn't think about it, something happened to the court.
"Well, the world is impermanent. It seems that we can only wait for the people to be able to ascend to the public, and Omi Shou, you will join Taowei Zhang Shou on the Northern Expedition. Usami shook his head and said.
Originally, the tens of thousands of Uesugi troops under the command of Tao Qingxian were worried about food and grass. However, when Usami Seshimitsu succeeded in adjusting the Noto, he captured Nanao Castle and the Uesugi army, and obtained a large amount of grain and grass.
As a city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, there are many granaries built in the city. Moreover, once the craftsman Hatakeyama family reached a critical moment, they would use a large number of troops to garrison Nanao Castle. However, now they are all cheaper than the Uesugi Army.
However, there is only one Noto in the public that is special. That is to serve as the intermediary and pilot of the Uesugi family's mediation - Yusa Xumitsu, Yusa Shengguang father and son.
Although they did their best for the Uesugi family's invasion of Noto, they were not recruited by Usami as retainers or guest generals. The meaning of the court is to let Yu Zuo Xuguang temporarily take possession of the old collars of Kanamaru Castle and Fukusuikan. Once he was able to settle down, he would go to Kanto with the court. And the new territory of Yusa and his sons will also be somewhere in Kanto.
On November 5 of the first year of Eiroku, Nakajima Toji, who was guarding Wajima Minato and Wajimakan, knew that he could not resist the invasion of more than 20,000 Uesugi troops, so he defected to the Uesugi family through the lord of Sakiyama Castle, Miyake Munetaka. The governor of the Naga clan and the lord of Nanshimi Castle, Nanshimi Koren, also expressed his desire to surrender to the Uesugi family. Therefore, after discussing with Usami Dingman and Tao Qingxian, they decided to immediately send troops to attack Okunoto's Paradise Castle, Kotomokan, Shaki Castle and other territories of the remnants of the Hatakeyama family. The Uesugi army had a total of 21,000 troops in the northern expedition, and then the Uesugi army surrounded the cave water castle that Changlianlong was defending on November 10.
In order to resist the invasion of the Uesugi family, Hatakeyama Yoshito of Matsuba Castle immediately announced that he would succeed the Takumi as the governor of the Hatakeyama family, and claimed to be the guardian of Noto, and also sent envoys to Oyama Gobo in Kaga and Ichijo Valley Castle in Echizen, begging Kaga Ichiko and the Asakura family to lend a helping hand to the Kasaku Hatakeyama family.
The long dragon of Cave Water City did not sit still, he tried his best to hold on to Cave Water City. It's just that he didn't know that Nakajima Toji, who provided military funds for their craftsmanship of the remnants of the Hatakeyama family, had defected, and even the Nanshimi family, a branch of the Naga clan, had fallen to the Uesugi family. Nearly half of Okunoto's territory already belongs to the Uesugi family.
Hatakeyama Yoshito is not idle at this moment. On the one hand, he sent some gold, calligraphy and paintings to the temple, which he had always had a good relationship with, and on the other hand, he asked the monks who had always been in the temple to try to launch a plan to stop the attack of the Uesugi army in Okunoto.
However, Hatakeyama Yoshito seems to have forgotten a little. The monks of the temple have never been the retainers of the Hatakeyama family, although they used to be birds of the same forest, but now that the disaster is coming, the temple has decided to fly separately, and they do not want the temple to become the second stone mountain. Soon, when Wajima, Minami Shimi and other places changed the Uesugi family's bamboo finch flag, the Sojiji Temple also defected from the craftsman Hatakeyama family, and they switched to the new Noto guardian Usami Dingman. In order to save his own troops and not suffer too much loss, Usami Dingman asked the chief priest to come forward and ask the believers to leave the craftsman Hatakeyama army immediately.
Because a large number of Okuto's disciples received the order of the Sojiji Temple, they took the lead in begging for the death of the lord of the castle, Shaki Soharu, who was preparing to burn the jade in the castle, and presented the castle to the Uesugi army. Soon, Saharu became the first domino to fall among the lords of Okunon. The general of Otata Castle, the general of Amano, the general of Iida, and the commander Iida and Sanzaemon were assassinated by their own subordinates. The backbone of the remnants of the Hatakeyama family lost their lives one after another.
Tao Qingxian took advantage of this opportunity to act in two ways with Usami Dingman. He led an army of 10,000 to quickly seize Kozan, Zaki, Yamada, Iida and other places, merged with Miyake Muntaka of Sakiyama Castle, and surrounded the last stronghold of the Hatakeyama family, Matsuba Castle.
November 15th. The defender of Paradise City, Oni Xuji, led his headquarters of 300 troops to raid the inner castle of Nishigu, but was repulsed by the counterattack of the defender Yamayoshi Toyomori, and Onjing Xuji himself was also killed, and most of the 300 troops in his headquarters were killed and wounded.
Noto Ichigoku is about to be pacified by the Uesugi army, and the hub of Hokuriku Province will be firmly in the hands of the Uesugi family.