Michizo Saito succeeded in bypassing the Furukawa shogunate forces such as Kuragano Hidekei and defeated Yokose Yuraie. He did not disgrace the name of the 'pit viper', and Yura Narishi took the main room Akai Teruko and his sister-in-law Yura Kunishigeru and others to surrender the crusading army in Kaesong.

However, Saito Michizo did not rush to meet them, but asked Kiyocho Igawa and others to send someone to escort them to Naba Castle, where he was. As for the location of the third general Saito Michizo, it is also believed that Naba Castle is close to Kurakano Castle, where the main force of the rebels is located. Not only that, but 5,000 soldiers of the crusading army of the three tempers of Saito Road are already resting and waiting here.

Of course, Saito Michizo, who has the title of 'pit viper', will definitely not let go of the Yokose Yura clan so simply.

Saito Michizo stood on the Ninomaru arrow turret in Naba Castle and looked at Kuragano Castle in the distance, turned around and asked the ninja who was temporarily at his disposal, "How sure are you?" ”

"Return-sama, Yokotani Sakin-sama and other Azuma ninjas, hundreds of ninjas are willing to work for the Uesugi family. And I will send Shohachiro (Yokoya Shigeji) here in these days to show my sincerity. ”

"In that case, let's go and tell the town government that the Azuma ninjas are about to become our army's allies." After Saito Michizo finished speaking, he left the arrow, and the half-kneeling behind Saito Michizo was Deura Morikiyo (also known as Deura Shosang).

"Yes." Deura Morikiyo was sent to Kato Duanzo by his brother. Due to the lack of middle ninja and upper ninja on the Kanto side after the Uesugi family returned to Kanto, Deura Morikiyo could only send Ideura Morikiyo, who was a middle ninja, to Kanto to assist Kato Danzo.

The reason why Saito Michizo didn't make a move to the north is that he knows that the Azuma ninjas in Azuma County, and the Azuma Hao clan are all soft-footed shrimps, but their ninjas are different, and their strength is not inferior to the former Togakushi. Because of this, Saito Michizo let Uramori Kiyoshi carry 200 taels of gold in exchange for the potency of the Azuma ninjas.

On the night of December 19, Okabe Motonobu, Asahina Taichao, and Asahina Shinji left their respective cities with a total of 5,500 troops and went to Hojo Shiyasu. Of course, the breakthrough of the three of them was made way by Kenji Namba and Shiranaga Honjo, and it was all in the plan of the court.

At this time, Hojo Shiyasu also led 9,000 troops to meet with Hojo Nagatora's 4,000 troops, and reached 13,000. In addition, the Hojo Army set up a main camp in Ono Road Castle.

The 2,400 troops of the Asadachi Headquarters, the 1,000 troops of the Ogasawara Sadatane Division, the 1,500 troops of the Hosoya Shimichi Division, the 2,000 troops of the Hirosawa Tadanobu Division, the 3,500 troops of Honjo Shigan, and the 4,000 troops of Namba Tian Kenji totaled 14,400. The Uesugi army entered Shinfukuji Temple in the southern part of Kashiwahara Castle in the early morning of the 20th, and because they learned that the Hojo Army was not moving, the Uesugi army could only rest and train at Kashiwahara Castle and Shinfukuji Temple. It can be said that the longer the current Uesugi family and the Hojo family fight, the stronger the Hojo family will be. In the past, the appeal of the Uesugi family was not as strong as that of the Hojo family, but at the moment, the Hojo family is fighting less and less. Whether it was a military force or a retainer, the Hojo family suffered considerable losses in every battle with the Uesugi family.

The more troops Hojo Shiyasu mobilized each time, the happier Asadaku became. Moreover, Asadachi was waiting for the Hojo family to mobilize troops from the general to Musashi.

In ancient times, when soldiers were used, those with more soldiers were often defeated. If there are too many soldiers, the orders are not even, the momentum is not coherent, and there must be no arms and fingers to use them. And because the generals have the will of the people, they plan a lot, and the soldiers also have the heart of the people and fight ineffectively. Since the three generations, those who can win with more are [Wang Jian destroyed Chu with 600,000 people], [Han Xin broke Zhao with 200,000 people], Han soldiers [600,000] in the battle of Qixia, [Pei Xingjian broke the Turks and captured Ashina with 300,000 horsemen, Guo Ziyi recovered Xijing with 300,000 people, Ming Taizu collected 200,000 people from the Central Plains, and conquered Yunnan with 200,000 people]. Others, such as Maodun with 400,000 cavalry to besiege Han Gaopingcheng, Turkic Shibi Khan with hundreds of thousands of cavalry to besiege Sui Yang in Yanmen, Khitan with 300,000 cavalry to defeat Zhou Deweigan Xincheng, Mongolia Kuoduan with 500,000 people to break Cao Youwen in the Da'an army, this is another matter. Gaibei custom orders are simple and one-minded, so they can win with more, and Middle-earth is beyond reach. As for the Ming Taizu breaking Chen Youliang, there are also 200,000 people, but the friendship is 600,000, it cannot be said that there are many Ming soldiers. It was defeated by many people, and in the Battle of Changping, Zhao Kuo had 400,000 soldiers, which was pitted by Qin. Zhang Han attacked Zhao, Xiang Yu broke it, and there were 200,000 people who were pitted, and many of them can be known. Han Gao invaded Chu with 560,000 soldiers of the five princes and entered Pengcheng, which was broken by 30,000 people of Xiang Yu, and more than 200,000 people drowned. Long He saved Qi with 200,000, and Han Xin killed him. Wu Wangbi had more than 200,000 soldiers, and Zhou Yafu shot them away. In the new mang, Wang Xun and Wang Yi surrounded Kunyang with 420,000 soldiers, which was broken by Guangwu. The bronze horse thieves numbered millions, and they were also broken by Guangwu.

On December 20, news of the fall of the castle finally reached all parts of Musashi. In the early morning of December 18, Tominaga Naokikatsu took the lead of the Qingbei samurai and stormed Sakan Castle. Sakan Castle, which had been held for half a month, was finally breached by the Hojo Army. Satomi Yoshihiro knew that the martial arts of the Satomi family had ended here, and he did not despair. Even if Satomi Yoshihiro dies and Toyohime is in Musashi, as long as she gives birth to a boy, she will inherit the family name of the Satomi family. Even if the Uesugi family is defeated and Satomi Yoshiyori is still alive, he can let the Satomi family's family name continue to exist.

As soon as he thought of this, Satomi Yoshihiro had no doubts. He asked the remaining retainers to lead the samurai and Ashigaru out of the castle to surrender, while he prepared for seppuku in the Honmaru Residence. However, there were still more than a dozen samurai who were willing to stay in Honmaru and die for Satomi Yoshihiro.

"Gentosai, you already went to Uesugi Ling, why did you come back?" Satomi Yoshihiro took off the only remaining white clothes on his body and slowly picked up the ribs in front of him.

"My lord, as a samurai, you can't abandon your lord at will. When the old lord went west, the minister was already not loyal, so this time he had to be loyal to the Satomi family. "Ichikawa Gentosai was willing to be martyred for the Satomi family and was unwilling to surrender. Of course, he forgot that there was another way to wait for Toyohime's child to be born to assist him.

"Gentosai, go to the Uesugi family. At the very least, the Kanto Governor will be in charge of his family. Satomi Yoshihiro smiled bitterly and pulled out the ribs, and wiped them.

"My lord, since the Uesugi family will be the master of the family, then the minister will go with you and the old lord." Although Ichikawa Gentosai was a monk, he still believed in the creed of the samurai.

"Don't you understand? I need you to live to see the moment when the Hojo family perishes! The Asadako and the Hojo family had a deep blood feud, and together with the old Ota Zimasa and the old family of the family, Namba Tian Kenji, Namba Tian Hiroyoshi and others, the whole family was killed by the Hojo Army. As long as the Uesugi family continues to fight against the Hojo family in the Kanto region, then one day the entire Hojo clan will be killed by them! I need you to be a witness to my family! "The reason why Yoshihiro Satomi didn't want Ichikawa Gentosai to die was because of this.

"Yes! Obey! As long as the minister is still alive, he will definitely fight the Hojo family to the end! Ichikawa Gentosai said with tears in his eyes. Although he wants to be loyal, he must live after having Satomi Yoshihiro's orders. He wants to live to see the moment when the Hojo family perishes!

"Well, then please make a mistake for me!" After Satomi Yoshihiro finished speaking, he stabbed the rib into his abdomen, and after quickly cutting the blade in his abdomen, the sword in Ichikawa Gentosai's hand slashed at Satomi Yoshihiro's neck.

In an instant, although Satomi Yoshihiro barely made a calm appearance, Ichikawa Gentosai also waved the knife down at this moment. After Satomi Yoshihiro's head was separated, Ichikawa Gentosai wrapped Satomi's head in a white cloth that had been prepared long ago and placed it on his cushion. And the samurai outside the gate also committed suicide by cutting their stomachs with their own ribs, but they did not have the treatment of Satomi Yoshihiro, they only died in pain. Ichikawa Gentosai can only hope that it is the old retainer of the Satomi family who broke into Honmaru, and only in this way can he get out.

It was probably the manifestation of Satomi Yoshihiro's spirit in the sky, and the main forces of the Hojo Army, such as Hojo Naotari and Tominaga Naokaka, needed to take good care of the more than 1,000 Rinomi troops who had surrendered out of the city, so they gave the task of breaking into Ninomaru and Honmaru to Kurokawa Hiroshige and Sashi Kunishin.

"Hurry up and clean up this place!"

"Let's move all the bodies of these samurai out of the city and bury them."

Not long after Ichikawa Gentosai sat down in the corridor, a group of ashigaru and samurai with the Mimori Ryoji finger fixed on their backs entered Honmaru. And the leader Kurokawa Hiroshige and Sashi Kunishin also recognized Ichikawa Gentosai.

"Kurokawa-sama and Sa are adults, I haven't seen you for a long time." Although Ichikawa Gentosai felt disgusted by their betrayal, he could only get close to them in order to escape from here.

"Lord Ichikawa, could it be that Yoshihiro has committed suicide?" Kurokawa Hiroshige was naturally reluctant to make a move against Satomi Yoshihiro, and he surrendered Hojo because he needed to save his family.

"Well, I'm the one who is in charge, and the head is already there. I hope you will be buried alive and well. Ichikawa Gentosai could only put forward such conditions, he knew that it was impossible for the Hojo family to build a temple for Satomi Yoshihiro.

"Then I'll leave the rest to us, and I hope you can join me and the others, as long as we return to our skills, you can go to Dongjin City." Kurokawa Hiroshige walked up to Ichikawa Gentosai and whispered.

"Then please leave it to Kurokawa-sama." Ichikawa Gentosai then led them into Satomi Yoshihiro's residence and took out Satomi Yoshihiro's head and body.

Naodari Hojo and Naokatsu Tominaga and others need to examine the head and check the head of Satomi Yoshihiro, and they don't care about the existence of Ichikawa Gentosai. Moreover, the messenger of Hojo Shiyasu also arrived here at this moment.

Hojo Shiyasu hoped to send 80% of the army to Musashi to assist him in his strategy after gathering the best forces of the two countries, and Hojo Naosada sat in Kururi Castle and served as the guardian of the president. Hojo Shiyasu's decision helped Ichikawa Gentosai. Ichikawa Gentosai left the march halfway to Jujo with Kurokawa Hiroshige and rode to Higashigashi Castle.

After discussing with Tominaga Naokatsu and others, Naokatsu Tominaga took Naokatsu as the general of the house, and led Aobei, Kurobi, the wealthy clans of the Kamiso and the Satomi family to Musashi Hachioji Castle to assist the Musashi clan Yasu's Musashi raiders.

Following Ichikawa Gentosai's notification, Hideharu Kano immediately sent a samurai on horseback to inform Nambada Hiroyoshi and Miyagi's political office, and hoped that they would quickly pass the news to Musashi. Since most of the Uesugi family's Uesugi Gun, Chiba County, Katori County, Inhata County, Hanyu County, Zatsune County, and Katsushika County are all in the hands of the Uesugi family, there is no problem in transmitting information. And the messenger can enter Musashi directly from Katsushika-gun.

With the defeat of Satomi Yoshihiro, the Shimono Utsunomiya family is also precarious. Utsunomiya Hirotsuna had already learned that the Satake family's reinforcements had entered Shimono, but he didn't expect them to be blocked by the Motegi family. After defeating Nasu's offensive, the Uesugi army of the Nasu family was unable to go to the rescue of the Utsunomiya family due to their lack of strength and troops. Therefore, the Iwaki family is about to join the Furukawa shogunate. Although Iwaki Shigetaka's adopted son is the eldest son of Date Harumune (Iwaki Kintaka), the situation on the side of Hitachi does not allow him to hesitate. Satake Yoshiaki himself is a little too busy, and there are wealthy clans, thieves, and local samurai who attack Satake's collar everywhere.

If the Iwaki family joined the Furukawa Shogunate Army, then the Satake family's war in Hitachi would be even more unstable. Originally, the Satake family only occupied less than 100,000 koku in Hitachi Province, but it was very difficult for the Satake family to face the siege of a large number of wealthy clans at the same time. What's more, as long as the Iwaki family, which had been unknown in the northern part of Hitachi, sent troops to attack Hitachi, then the Satake family would really be completely surrounded.

For the predicament of the Satake family, the Uesugi family is even more powerless. Even the Satomi family and Utsunomiya family, who were close to the Uesugi Domain, could not be saved, let alone the Satake family, which did not have a border (you can enter Hitachi by walking the mountain road, but it is easy to be ambushed).