Chapter Twenty-Three: Three Cities in a Row

The Ueda Nagao Army, which suffered heavy losses, took Tsugawa Castle with the assistance of the Uesugi Army, and made Kanuemori prepare for seppuku. Ota Shishimasa captured the 'gatekeeper' after the Ashina family, Toshimitsu Anazawa.

"Doctor Repair, Your Excellency's face is really not small, even the lord personally came to Kakizaki City to find me." Kakizaki Keike sat on the side as soon as he entered the Honmaru and seemed to have some dissatisfaction.

"Hequan Shou, repairing the doctor's hall is also a helpless move, who knows that the people in the north did not send a single soldier!" Yasuda Nagahide shook his head, he recognized Yang Beizhong, these people are completely a cancer of Echigo!

"Next is Okukawa City, listening to Xuanyuan, a large number of troops in the city have already been out of battle with the Ashina Sheng clan for three springs, which is a good opportunity for us and others." Saito Asanbu, who had just come in, couldn't wait to fight.

"Mamoru Shimono's information is true?" Usami Dingkatsu was a little unconvinced, there were 2,000 troops stationed in Tsugawa Castle alone! Will there be not many troops in the follow-up city?

"Okukawa City is not an important town, but a branch city with little practical use." After looking at the map retrieved from Honmaru, Shimasa Ota decided that the second line of defense of the Ashina family should be Shin-Miyagi, not Okukawa Castle.

"This city has also been laid, and the next thing is Okukawa Castle." Asada stood up, "The armies of the two adults, Izumi Mamoru and Mamoru Shimono, will rest here after a long journey, and Lord Yasuda Nagahide will go to attack Okukawa Castle." ”

"I'm going down here." Hearing that there were not many people defending Okukawa Castle, Yasuda Nagahide didn't want the credit to be robbed by others, so he quickly got up and left, and quickly took his own army to Okukawa Castle, which was only defended by twenty ashigaru.

The lord of Okukawa Castle was Uesugi Chobei. He has the same identity as Uesugi Kenkatsu, and he is also the son of the Uesugi family. In the end, he was exiled to Aizu and was taken in by the Ashina family.

"Report to your lord! There is an army of the Nagao family under the castle! A ashigaru ran to Honmaru in a panic.

"Impossible?!" Uesugi Nagabei didn't believe what Ashigaru said, so he went to the city wall to take a look and saw the family crest of the Nagao family, Kuyoba.

"Siege!" Yasuda Nagahide looked at the city, there were not even a few people in the city, and decisively gave the order to attack the city.

"Oh!!" The Nagao Army then led the spear ashigaru as the front team, followed by the samurai and saber ashigaru. However, before the Ashigaru of the Nagao family ran to the castle, Uesugi Nagabei was already frightened.

"Quick, let's surrender!" Uesugi Chobei hurriedly took two samurai to Otemon and surrendered.

Yasuda Nagahide quickly accepted Uesugi Nagabei's surrender, stationed his troops in the castle, and sent twenty ashigaru to Uesugi Nagabei to Tsugawa Castle.

Tsugawa Castle, Honmaru.

"Lord, it's only been less than a day that Lord Yasuda took Okukawa Castle, and it seems that it is not a rumor that the Ashina Mori clan brought the 6,000 troops of the Ashina family to Sanchun." Gui Die said after handing a cup of tea to Chao Ding.

"My lord, the troops of the Ashina army have been assembled, a total of 1,600 people." Hiroyoshi Nambada walked in.

"Well, you and Guangyi will go together to train this team of soldiers, so that they can be used by their own family. It doesn't hurt to cut some. Chao Ding said after taking a sip of tea. He feels that Guidie's tea ceremony is not low, and Saito Michizo's daughter is indeed not bad.

"Yes." Usami and Namba Hiroyoshi immediately left Honmaru to arrange training and surrender. Since the court has said that if some can be eliminated, it is ready to dismiss all the peasants and soldiers.

"Doctor Repair, the lord of the lower division has died in battle, and there is no point in me waiting for the Ueda people to stay here." Kanetoyo Higuchi said with some loss.

"Lord Sanemon is wrong with this, the task given by the main hall of Nagaodan's Ueda Nagao family is to assist in taking the land of Aizu in Shimo, and now it is only two castles." Asada saw the idea that Kanetoyo Higuchi wanted to retire and leave.

"This ......" Kanethiro Higuchi is really unclear about the details, but he still knows the weight of the Kakizaki Jing family, and the 'capable people' of the seven counties of Echigo are here, which shows that the Nagao family is not talking about it when they want to defeat Aizu!

"Higuchi-sama doesn't have to blame himself, the family of Lord Nagao Masakai who died in battle has a certain responsibility, but the Yangbei people don't even send soldiers, and the military situation we are waiting for can be said to be stretched, if Izumi Mamoru and Shimono Mamoru don't come again, there may be no one to help us collect the corpses." Ota Shimasa can also be regarded as persuading Higuchi to be abundant.

"My lord, the lord of the Ashina family captured by Lord Yasuda in Okukawa Castle has been brought in." After Kenji Namba beckoned, the two ashigaru who were bamboo and finch dragged Uesugi Nagabei in.

"You are the lord of Okukawa Castle?" Asada looked at the depressed Uesugi Nagabei in the big wide room and asked.

"Yes...... Below is the Ashina family, the lord of Okugawa Castle, Uesugi Nagabei. Uesugi Nagabei finished in a trembling voice.

"Uesugi?!" Kakizaki Keijia was a little puzzled, how could there be people from the Uesugi family in a place like Aizu?

"It is estimated that it was a fake surname, and the Hojo family was originally the Ise clan." Saito Asanobu doesn't believe that Uesugi Nagabei is the real Uesugi family.

"The guilty minister is indeed the Uesugi family, he is from the Uesugi family of Toma, and he wandered to Aizu to be taken in by the Ashina family." After Uesugi Nagabei said that he was the Uesugi family of Toma, the Kakizaki Kei family was somewhat convinced, and if he dared to call himself the Ogiya Uesugi family or the Yamauchi Uesugi family, then he would be ready to go to Hirazaka.

"How many troops of the Ashina Mori clan are currently left nearby?" Ota Shimasa was not going to say any nonsense, and asked directly for useful information, if he didn't say it, he would ......

"Yes, Uenojiri is currently unmanned; Sakashita Castle had a hundred troops, most of the peasant soldiers; There were a hundred troops in Shin-Miyagi, half of whom were peasants; There are six hundred ashigaru in Hot Salt City; There were 100 peasant soldiers in Shiogawa Castle. The sinners know so much, and please spare your lives! Uesugi Nagabei begged for mercy without the slightest dignity.

"I'm still a little compassionate, if you become my retainer now, you can be safe." After saying this, Uesugi Nagabei kept nodding, "However, you have to be the guide of your family." ”

When Asada finished the last sentence, Uesugi Nagabei still nodded, thinking that as long as he could be able to block or save his life, it would already be the greatest favor. He also knows what the Ashina family has done in the past few years, and it is understandable that he has been counterattacked by the Nagao family.

Soon, Asadaki asked Kakizaki Keike and Saito Asanobu to attack Shin-Miyagi Castle with Uesugi Nagabei, with Kakizaki Keijia as the main general.

Uesugi Nagabei quickly used his 'actor' level abilities in this battle. He ran to Shinmiya Castle with twenty samurai from Kakizaki Kei's department, falsely claiming that his castle had been captured by tens of thousands of troops from the Nagao family.

This time, the lord of Shinmiyagi, Meguro Iemon, became the general of Ashigaru and soon encountered this kind of thing, and he couldn't help it, who called the Ashina Mori clan fought fiercely in the Wadamura family, and a large number of troops in the territory were outside.

"Then come on in." Meguro Iemon wants Uesugi Nagabei to defend the castle together. Unexpectedly, just when Ashigaru under his command opened the castle gate, the samurai of Kakizaki Kei's department drew his saber and slashed at Ashigaru of Otemon.

Kakizaki Keike immediately arrived with 500 samurai on horseback, and the rest of the army was handed over to Saito Asanobu for command. Kakizaki Keijia would not let go of such a good opportunity, and rushed in directly.

Soon, under the arrival of Saito Asanobu, Ninomaru was lost in an instant, and the peasants and soldiers were all killed in Ninomaru, and even many Ashigaru were killed in battle.

Meguro Iemon didn't expect that he had finally climbed the mountain and was about to end his life! He was unwilling to cut his stomach in the big wide room.

This was followed by Sakashita Castle, which was also captured by Saito Asanobu under the 'performance' of Uesugi Nagabei, and the castle lord Ashigaru General Sado Fumino was killed in the battle.

In this way, all of Kawanuma County and one-third of Yema County were taken by the court, and the total stone height was no less than 20,000 stones.

Under the city of Sanchun, the Ashina family is in the main array.

"Lord, report urgently!" Ashina Mori's Hatamoto Samurai Island Kagegenzo took a letter of help from Shiokawa Castle and handed it to the Ashina Mori clan.

"What?! Jin Shang Yuanjiang Shousheng is urgently belly! Uesugi Nagabei surrenders! Sado Fumi died in civil war! Meguro Iemon seppuku! The green tendons on Ashina Sheng's face slowly burst out.

"It's over, the only ones who can do this are the Nagao family, who have been invaded by the main family before!" The lord of Inawashiro Castle, Taifu Miura, was a little worried about his territory. He already had the idea of joining the Nagao family now.

"Yuanjiang Shoudu has seppuku, and it seems that the army mobilized by the Nagao family will not be less than five thousand!" Guan Chai Bei Zhongshou said worriedly, he is the most optimistic about Jin Shangshengbei, this young man.

"Don't talk about it, our family withdraws its troops!" The Ashina Mori clan made a decision that even the retainers of the Ashina family could not understand. Obviously, Sanchun City is about to be defeated, why do you want to withdraw your troops? Can you withdraw after beating Sanchun City?

"Father! Why don't you lay down the three springs and then withdraw?! "The first person to question is the eldest son of the Ashina Mori clan.

"If you don't go to Kurokawa Castle again, it's all the Nagao family!" Ashina Mori didn't care about Ashina's face, and kicked his Maza over, causing Ashina Clan to fall to the ground.

"Lord......" Yoshimi Tomita felt that the Ashina Mori clan should not do this, what was it to spill anger on his own children?