Chapter 320: The End of Umano
Just after the Rinano family's important town of Gonda Castle was captured by the Uesugi army, the southern convenience gate of the Urano domain was wide open.
However, at this time, Urano Shigenari did not have time to grieve the death of his younger brother Urano Shigekatsu and his retainer Gonda Awaji Mamoru in battle. Because at this moment, Urano Shigenari had no time to deal with the three-sided attack from the Uesugi army, and the current Urano family's forces were stretched and unable to resist the Uesugi army from three directions at the same time.
Although Urano Shigenari once sent his retainers to meet with Namba Kenji to ask for surrender, Namba Tian Kenji received an order to destroy the Urano family, so he refused Urano Shigenari without thinking about it. However, what generals such as Kenji Namba, Yushige Sogaga, and Ogasawara Nagasawara did not expect was that it was precisely because they rejected the surrender of the Urano family that the people of the Urano family were very determined to hold on.
In the second year of Eiroku, October 17, Sanokura Castle Honmaru Ohiro room.
"Nambada's attendant hall, the Urano family is entrenched in Nagano Castle, Kokura Castle, Yanagisawa Castle, Maruiwa Castle and other places, and we can't take these castles in a short time. Please wait some more time for me!" "Ogasawara Nagatoki, Shigetasa Shigetasada, Yoshitaka Momoi, Gozaemon Shirakura, Keitasa Kohata and others pleaded in unison.
"Nambada Attendant Hall, the Urano family has sent at least more than 2,000 troops in the direction of Tekomaru Castle, and the enemy army is fighting to the death and will not retreat, and our army cannot get close to Tekomaru Castle!" Not only were the Western Route Army such as Ogasawara Nagatoki, Shigetada Shigetasada, Yoshitaka Momoi, Gozaemon Shirakura, and Kohata Keitasa frustrated, but even the Eastern Route Army, which only needed to cross Mt. Haruna and capture a branch city, also hit the nail. Although generals such as Toshima Tairai, Shibata Kiyomasa, Nagai Masatsu, Meio Masakatsu, Tobira Tomota, Wada Yoshitsune, and Shibata Yukinari had more than 6,000 troops, they were unable to successfully defeat the Urano army, but were repelled by it.
"Nambada Squire Hall, the Urano family has at least three thousand defenders in Hagi Castle, plus Hagi Castle is easy to defend and difficult to attack, our army can't take it down in a short time!" Generals such as Minori Omori, Yushige Soga, Nishiridada, Shinomichi Hosoya, and Mitsushige Takayama were able to quickly take down Gonda Castle, but they were blocked by Hagi Castle, a branch city south of Oto Castle. Coupled with the rapid march and the strong attack on Gonda Castle for several days, the Southern Route Army could only sigh at Hagi Castle Wangcheng.
"You begged me to give me more time, but the town government only gave me two months! If you don't destroy the Urano family within two months, then you will all have to commit suicide! Your family and retainers will be exiled to the land of Sado and Ou! Namba Tian Kenji was speechless at everyone's request, and he didn't dare to ask Asadachi to give him more time.
"Nambada Squire Hall, since the Urano family intends to surrender to the main family, why don't you take this opportunity to agree? What an opportunity! It's a godsend! At this time, Yumitsu Numata stepped forward.
"Numata Uenosuke, the Lord's order is to destroy the Urano family, not to accept the surrender of the Urano family!" After listening to Numata Yumitsu's words, Namba Kenji shook his head helplessly.
"Attendant Hall, we don't have the right to accept the surrender of the Urano family. It's just that he agreed to the surrender of the Umanoya. Numata began to laugh wickedly.
"Uenosuke, what do you mean? Isn't it ······?" Namba Tian Kenji immediately thought of something, and his face changed in an instant.
"Send an envoy to the various castles in the Urano Domain, and tell the defenders that the Lord has accepted the surrender of the Urano family, and ask them to temporarily surrender the castle and leave the castle immediately, and hand over the defense of the castle to our army." Numata Yumitsu said after slowly walking in front of Kenji Nambata.
"Uenosuke, do you want our army to capture a large number of territories of the Urano family with as few casualties as possible?" Kenji Namba guessed some of Numata's strategies.
"Not only that, but after the Urano army left the city, our army immediately launched an attack on the Urano army, and asked the Azuma people to kill the Urano family's monomi and Hosaku as much as possible, so that Urano Nakawu Shaosuke became a blind and deaf man!" Numata Yumitsu then told him a poisonous plan that he had been preparing for a long time.
"What?! In that case, wouldn't the Lord be untrustworthy to the world?! Even if we rely on this strategy to destroy the Urano family, then once it spreads, the Lord will definitely lose his trust in the world! Never! Namba Kenji shook his head, he didn't think that Numata Yumitsu's poisonous plan was very good, but he thought that it would make Asadachi notorious.
"This plan is feasible, but one person must bear the charge of surrendering and killing without permission, otherwise the reputation of the Lord will become very ······ in the world." Numata Yumitsu stopped talking halfway through his words, because he knew that almost no one in this large wide room dared to take the initiative to stand up and take responsibility.
"Then it's up to me to take on the responsibility! All the generals must act according to Numata Uenosuke's strategy, and there must be no mistakes! Seeing that everyone was silent, Namba Kenji took the initiative to stand up and say. Because he knew very well that as the commander-in-chief, he had to fulfill the orders given by the court, and if he failed to destroy the Urano family within two months, then his end would not be much different from that of Ota Shimasa. As long as you can quickly destroy the Urano family, even if your reputation is stinky, it doesn't matter.
Therefore, Namba Kenji, Soga Yushige, Ogasawara Nagasawara and other generals still accepted Numata Yumitsu's advice in desperation, and took advantage of Urano Shigenari's intention to surrender to the Urasugi family to persuade the Urano family soldiers in various places to surrender, and successfully lured out the Urano family's relatives such as Oto Tajima Mamoru, Oto Minbu, and Oto Naomitsu and killed them brutally outside the castle. Nagano Castle, Ogura Castle, Yanagisawa Castle, Maruiwa Castle and other places were attacked by the Uesugi army, and the leaderless defenders abandoned the castle one after another.
Namba Tian Kenji then set up a formation in Gondawara in order to attack Oto Castle, and asked generals such as Soga Yushige, Omori Minori, Nishitota, Hosoya Shimichi, and Takayama Mitsushige to lead an army to attack Hagi Castle, an important branch city south of Oto Castle. The lord of Hagibu Castle, Urano Shigehide, led five or six hundred city soldiers to merge with the neighboring ronin, and then took the initiative to go out of the city to meet the battle, but the result was that he was quickly defeated by Soga Yushige, Omori Minori, Nishirita, Hosoya Shimichi, Takayama Mitsushige and other generals, and more than 300 people were killed in the Urano army, and even Urano Shigehide himself was killed in the chaos. Hagiyu Castle was soon taken advantage of by the Uesugi army to take advantage of the victory. After Hagibu Castle was taken by the Uesugi army, Hosoya Shimichi led a thousand troops to defend it.
After Kenji Namba took Hagi Castle, Nagano Hara Castle, Yanagisawa Castle, Maruiwa Castle, and Kokura Castle, the Uesugi army began to disperse and attack Haneda Castle, Geunozawa Castle, Teko Maru Castle, and other places. Koshige Yokotani and others, who were ordered by Kenji Habata to attack Oto Castle in the hinterland of the Urano family, also sent troops to respond in Nishi-Ugaino, and at the same time immediately directed their troops at Iwashimane Hut Castle, begging the castle lord Shinhachiro Urano to die, and quickly occupying Iwashimane Hut Castle.
As Urano was quickly devoured by the Uesugi Army, Urano Shigenari began to sit on pins and needles. He couldn't think of any other way to salvage such a defeat. Under the pressure of the retainers, Takeda Shingen no longer sent troops to Nishi-Ueno to compete with the Uesugi family, but personally led his army to attack the Tokugawa family in Mikawa.
In just ten days, there was only one big castle left of the Urano family's power in Nishiueno, and one of the Urano family's relatives and genealogical ministers were also killed and wounded.
"Report to the lord, play Zhengzhong Hall and die in battle!"
"Report to the lord, Sanhe guards the palace and dies in battle!"
"Report to the lord, Narita Nagato Mamoru died in battle!"
"Report to the lord, Lord Haneda Hikotaro died in battle!"
As one envoy after another went back and forth to the Honmaru Daihiroma in Oto Castle, Urano Shigenari's face became more and more ugly. Because the last thing he wanted to hear was the news that his younger brother and important ministers had been killed in battle.
"Father, Uncle Mikawa Mamoru and Uncle Dan Masatuda and some important ministers of the family all died in the battle of Asama Hidden Mountain, and the family no longer has the strength to continue fighting with the Uesugi army, so it's better to surrender as soon as possible!" Yukiki Urano pleaded.
"Left Konbei, do you think the Fujiwara Town Government will accept this family? If the Fujiwara town government really intends to accept the family, why would it refuse the surrender of the family again and again?! Now he is still using the acceptance of the surrender of the family to deceive the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Danma Mamori and other generals, and as a result, all the castles and soldiers of the family in Nishi-Azuma County were lost in five days! Urano Shigenari said with a sigh.