With the rapid retreat of the Takeda Army without a single greeting, Fujioka Castle, Takayama Castle, Tamamura Castle, Iwabi Castle and other places were once again isolated. These Cage City Lords didn't expect the Takeda Army to evacuate so quickly. Takayama Castle was cut off from food and water for a day or two by the three divisions of Honjo Fancho, Omori Minori, and Soga Yushige, and was attacked by the Uesugi army. Soon, Takayama Xingzhong, the lord of Takayama City, couldn't support it and took the lead in asking for surrender to Chaoding.

And Chaoding was not happy at this time. Why didn't Nagano expect that there would be an ending when he was talking about it? The court did not refuse Takayama Yukishige's surrender, but only added an additional condition - the Takayama clan committed suicide in exchange for the safety of the city soldiers and people, otherwise there could be no guarantee that the Uesugi army would not slaughter the city after the city was broken.

The meaning of Chaoding is very simple: now think of surrendering? What did you do earlier!

After receiving the reply from the court, Takayama Yukishige, the lord of Takayama Castle, immediately summoned his younger brothers Takayama Dingshige, Takayama Shigejun, and his sons Takayama Shigeru, Takayama Taishige and other relatives, a total of more than 20 people, all of whom committed suicide by seppuku in the Great Wide Room. And their families are harming themselves in their own rooms. Subsequently, Takayama Castle surrendered to Kaejo of the Uesugi army.

On June 28, Takayama Castle began to raise its troops to cage the city, and it has only been 34 days since then. After the Uesugi army besieged the city for a long time, they only held out for more than a month without food and water, and then they could no longer hold on. And the Takayama family of Ueno's sixteen guns also broke off their family name.

Next, the Uesugi army turned its forces to Fujioka Castle, northeast of Hirai Castle. Fujioka Castle is currently garrisoned by more than 100 people, including the retainer of the Takeda family, Yukimori Ashida, and the ronin Shinroku Nagao and Shinsuke Nagao, as well as some of the former Fujioka Castle soldiers, and most of the former lord Shibata Yukinari (Nagano Yemasa's retainers) and most of his family members were expelled from the country.

In order to reduce losses and capture Fujioka Castle more smoothly, Asada immediately found Shibata Yukinari in a remote mountain village, and promised to help him recapture Fujioka Castle.

Shibata Yukiichi heard that this condition was very tempting, and he couldn't refuse. Subsequently, Shibata Yukinari asked his son Shibata Yukimori to infiltrate Fujioka Castle, and asked him to unite the Shibata family retainers and castle soldiers in Fujioka Castle to open the city gate and let the Uesugi army enter the castle when the Uesugi army was approaching the castle.

Subsequently, the three divisions of Honjo Shiganaga, Soga Yushige, and Omori Minori were arranged by the Asadaka to attack Fujioka Castle. And Chaoding himself led 3,000 troops from the Jingfa Temple and arranged the formation in Pingjing Castle again.

After Nagano Yetsu, who was staying in the castle, saw that Takayama Castle and Kiryu Castle were captured by the Uesugi army, and that the Akai Seven Cavalry, the former ministers of the Akai clan, were also annihilated by the Uesugi army, he thought that his plan to raise troops could not be delayed any longer, and he was afraid that it would change over time! In addition, the news that Uesugi Kenmasa and his entourage had gone south to Kanto also spread to Takaru Castle, and Nagano Yetsu was also ready to place Uesugi Kenmasa in Takaru Castle or Satomi Castle and other Takaru Nagano Castle castles.

On August 2, Nagano Yoshitsu used Ueda Seakiyo, Nagano Keiye, and the Minowa Nagano family, Nagano Saemon, Nagano Main Restaurant, Nagano Seitada, and others to force Nagano Yebo to transfer a large number of defenders from Minowa Castle. Their reasons are also very good - the Takeda army is attacking and better suppressing or resisting the invasion of the Wada clan and the Ita clan. In this way, Nagano Yebo had no choice but to transfer most of the 2,000 defenders in the castle and distribute them to the various castle armies around Minowa Castle for garrison. Even the old Fujii Tomotada, the head of the Minowa Nagano family, was forcibly arranged by a group of people to enter the outermost part of Minowa Castle to guard the Akama Castle. On the one hand, Nagano Yebo agreed to assign him to the front line against the Wada clan, the Ita clan and other rebels, also considering that Fujii Tomodada's own ability is strong, and he can resist the invasion of the Wada clan, the Ita clan and other countryman lords, and can also play a role in monitoring the lords and generations of the outer branches.

After everything was ready, Nagano Yetsu sent his younger brother Omoriji Bebe as Nagano Yeguo to lead an army of 500 to Shibukawa Castle. As long as Shibukawa Castle is controlled, then the Shibukawa River, which is currently in the water level soaring and cannot be crossed, will be able to stop the Uesugi army in Higashi-Ueno, and will be able to communicate with the countrymen and lords of Azuma Prefecture and support each other.

At this time, Nagano Castle Lord Nagano made up his mind to secretly allocate the two hundred defenders in the city to Nagano Yetsu. However, Nagano declined politely, because Nagano did not want to be too conspicuous. The castle is also a renovated fortified castle, and if there are suddenly 200 defenders missing, it will cause the Minowa Castle to notice and cause unnecessary trouble. However, Nagano did not let Nagano sit idle. Subsequently, Nagano Yetsu gave Nagano a task - to attack Wakatawara Castle, and after the deed was completed, Wakatahara was owned by Nagano alone.

Since Wakatawara Castle was built in a hurry, the scale is not very large, and it only has a double curved wheel and part of the Ishigaki castle wall. Just as the construction of the castle was nearing completion, Toshima Takura learned that Wada Castle had sent troops to attack Sosha Castle. Immediately afterwards, Toshima Taiyori withdrew some of the defenders and laborers transferred from Sosha Castle. As a result, Wakatawara Castle became an empty castle almost instantly, and the defenders in the castle were only a dozen or so ashigaru, so they were not vulnerable at all.

On the other hand, Nagano Yetsumi asked Nagano Lord, the lord of Matsusawa Castle, to lead an army of 300 to serve as the vanguard of the Takaru Nagano Army. And Nagano Yetsu himself, Nagano Katsuye, Nagano Yeren and other eagles stayed in Nagano's family, and led an army of 1,500 to march after Nagano's main meal.

However, Nagano Yebo still kept an eye on it, and arranged a group of eyes and ears in the mountains and hills around Minowa Castle such as Mt. Haruna and Mt. Komiya to monitor a military commander such as Nagano Yetsu. And the actions of Nagano Yetsu and others were discovered by the eyes and ears of the dark whistle arranged by Nagano Yakubo in the Hajuna Mountains. Soon, Nagano Yebo in Minowa Castle learned about this. Nagano Yesabo immediately ordered Nagano Yoshimasa's adopted son, Nagano Yoshimasa, to quickly escort Nagano Yoshimasa's two sons, Nagano Masanori and Nagano Yoshitosa, from the east gate of Minowa Castle through Tomeiya to take refuge in the head office of Toshima Takurai, a retainer under the command of Asada.

After seeing Nagano Yejin and the others leave Minowa Castle, it became clear that it was difficult for him to mobilize powerful generals from the surrounding cities to enter the castle in a hurry. Therefore, Nagano Yebo entrenched more than 200 defenders in Ninomaru, Honmaru, and Gozen Kowawa (north of Honmaru) in Minowa Castle, and Kukumaide in the south of Ninomaru.

However, Nagano Yetsu used Naomitsu Kaniya, a retainer lurking in Minowa Castle, to lower the Maruma De Suspension Bridge north of Minowa Castle, so that the Hawku Nagano Army easily entered the Tsuchu Kowawa in the north of Minowa Castle, and Nagano Yetsu set up a headquarters here. A large number of the Tagarome Nagano army arrived at Sannomaru after passing through the Tsunaka warbe and Kurayashiki, and then began to attack Ninomaru.

There is only one small path for Sannomaru to enter Ninomaru, and its width can only reach the extent that two people can travel side by side. The terrain of Ninomaru is just a little higher than that of Sannomaru, and the defenders can condescendingly use iron cannons, bows and arrows to kill and injure a large number of enemy troops. Moreover, the Guo Ma Exit to the south of Ninomaru is not connected to Sannomaru, and its field of vision just covers the entire Sannomaru. It can be said that as long as the number of defenders in the city is sufficient, and the food and supplies are complete, it can hold out for at least a year.

However, after all, the Eagle Retention Nagano Army was outnumbered, and it was also equipped with more than 100 iron cannons. However, there were only more than 20 defenders in the city, and from the beginning, the defenders of the city were suppressed by the firepower of the Hawku Nagano army, and they had no power to fight back at all. After only a fierce battle for more than half an hour, the guards stationed in Ninomaru such as Kibe Shinichi (Kibe Fan Tiger Shuzi), Kibe Matoshi, and Kibe Suruga Mamoru began to gradually lose their support. Soon, the gate of Ninomaru was breached, and a large number of Takaru Nagano troops poured into Ninomaru and engaged the defenders in a hand-to-hand battle.

"Dahu Palace, the enemy army is strong, you better evacuate from Dongming House quickly! If you make any mistakes, neither your father nor the town government will spare you! This is Shinichi Kibe, at this time, he hurriedly fought his way out of a bloody way to the side of Dahu Xiugang and said.

"But the Guardian Daiye Hall is still in Honmaru, if he doesn't evacuate Minowa Castle, what kind of shame do we have to evacuate without permission?!" After Dahu Xiugang finished speaking, he took Keikan Kaida and Soji Shinhou and rushed to the Eagle Retention Nagano Army with knives.

"Suruga, you hurry up to Honmaru and ask the business to evacuate Minowa Castle as soon as possible. Tell him that he will stay in the green mountains and not worry about running out of firewood! "Shinichi Kibe immediately ordered Mamoru Kibe Suruga of one to go to Honmaru.

"Yes!" Mamoru Kibe Suruga then took the order and left.