When the Hojo coalition army gathered near Namba Ta Castle reached more than 33,000 people, Asadachi naturally did not sit idle. He now knew very well that if he did not gather his limited forces, he would leave Kanto again with his retainers. Since Asadaki had told his retainers that he would not leave the Kanto region again, he naturally set an example, so he immediately sent Sanada Masayuki to Saishijo to transfer 500 Shangshu soldiers of Hosoya Shimichi to Kawagoe Castle. The remaining Hosotani army of more than 1,500 people is enough to deter the Narita family who was beaten to the ground, and Asada's lack of time to pay attention to them, and there are already people within the Narita family who want to surrender to the Uesugi family, so it can be said that Asada's own hands don't have to do it themselves.

At this moment, the 450 cavalry of the Kawagoe Knights led by Saito Toshizo arrived at the northern part of Inamura Castle after a day's rapid march. Since Yasuaki Akatsuka was transferred to Namba Castle by Hojo Shiyasu half a day ago to assist in the siege, there were only 1,000 peasant soldiers stationed in the castle. The defender Itabashi was even more plundered, making the people who did not have much surplus food even more starving.

However, when Saito Rizo arrived, he did not rush into a surprise attack, but entered a nearby village with two cavalrymen himself. Coincidentally, Naoda Yamada, a former retainer of the Ueda family who was once reluctant to go out of Hojo, happened to be elected as the head of the land by the local people. The lords here had long been unable to stand the actions of the Hojo coalition army, and Yamada Naokatari gathered the remaining 80 young men in the village and prepared to take Inamura Castle together with Saito Toshizo.

Saito Toshizo immediately asked all the cavalry to hide in the village until night, and the Itabashi army, who was still eating and drinking in the village, had no idea that the cavalry of the Uesugi army had marched to their noses. Of course, the ninjas in the Wind Demon were sniped by the ninjas of the Uesugi family as soon as they entered Musashi, and the only ones who really followed the Hojo clan Yasu were the 200 cavalrymen in the Wind Demon.

All the remaining rations of the cavalry of General Saito were given to the eighty young men, and they only needed to defeat this army in the night battle, and the river would rise at night. Once the defeated army is forced to cross the Akama River, then the number of people drowned will definitely not be less than one-fifth.

Just two hours later, night fell. Saito Rizo then led the Kawagoe Knights to raid from the front, while Yamada's Naotada team was placed at the south gate. Of course, Yamada Naosadi had already invited the heads of the other two villages, and led 120 reinforcements. In this way, Saito Rizo ordered the cavalry to rush directly and quickly towards Otemon without torches!

At this time, there were only two peasant soldiers guarding the gate, and both of them were already drowsy. The two men opened their eyes as the sound of the approaching horses' hooves sounded, but then they were greeted by death. Saito Rizomari slashed and killed the two peasant soldiers and immediately entered the castle, while Yamada Naotari to the south also led his troops into the castle. This made Itabashi fattened and had no idea how many soldiers and horses had entered the city.

"My lord! Oh no, the Uesugi Army has come in! "When a samurai staggered into the Kohiroma where Higo Itabashi was, he saw Higo Itabashi still playing with the woman he had just snatched from the castle town.

"What? Uesugi Army? No kidding! The more than 3,000 members of the Uesugi army have been surrounded by Hojo-sama in Namba Castle, and they can't get out at all. After saying that, Itabashi continued to kiss the average-looking woman.

"Follow me!" The samurai reluctantly mobilized the peasants and samurai who could still be mobilized nearby, and he wanted to buy time for the master's escape, of course, this was if Itabashi Higo was willing to cooperate.

As the shouts of killing got closer and closer, Itabashi Higo finally pushed away the woman in his arms, and he immediately picked up the saber on the side. However, there were no more guards he could call in at this time. Just when the samurai went out with 5 samurai and 10 peasant soldiers, he was attacked by the cavalry led by Saito Toshizo, and all 15 people were killed in an instant.

"Itabashi Fat, lay down your weapons. Your peasants will either die or surrender, and no one will serve you anymore! At this time, Saito Rizo slowly walked into Honmaru with 20 white-robed samurai, and when he saw Itabashi Hi with a dead face, he stood under the porch with his sword in his hand.

"My lord, the city is completely under our control." Yamada Naosada ran in with two ashigaru at this time to report, and when he saw Itabashi Higo, a lonely man, he couldn't help but want to kill him.

"Lord Yamada, I'll leave this person to you to dispose of, and the others will come with me!" What Saito Rizo needed was dry food, and the surplus food would naturally have to be returned to the people.

"After Itabashi is fat, you also have today? Everyone is from Musashi, and you still set up for looting? It seems that the Hojo party is really only going to do all kinds of evil! Naotari Yamada said as he gripped his saber and slowly approached Higo Itabashi, who was spread out on the ground, while Ashigaru behind him followed closely, and their task was to cut off Higo's head in Itabashi.

"If you have something to say, you have something to say..." Just when Itabashi Higo wanted to defend himself, Yamada Naotari directly stabbed him in the chest, and Ashigaru next to Yamada Naotari also immediately pulled out a knife and cut off Itabashi's head.

However, Saito Toshizo was not ready to stay here, and after coordinating with Yamada Naota, he released all 800 prisoners of the Itabashi Higo Army. However, the young and strong soldiers who assisted him in this battle were incorporated into the detachment and returned to Heyue City.

It's not that Saito Toshizo wants to go back in a hurry, but that Asadaku sent Kato Duanzo to order him to go back. After all, the Heyue Knights are the descendants of the dynasty, and the number of them is increasing. Although the foundation has also changed from the whole Musashi soldiers to the half-Aizu soldiers and half Musashi soldiers, the objects of their allegiance are still the Uesugi family and the Uesugi dynasty.

Saito Rizo brought back two hundred more troops, and the court was still very satisfied. After all, there is one more at the moment, and the same is true of Namba Ta Castle.

Early in the morning of June 1, Namba Ta Castle.

Hojo Shiyasu found that he still couldn't capture Namba Castle in a short time with more than 33,000 people, and then put Huang Bei and Bai Bei into the siege at the same time, and also put a few (two) miniature punch trucks into the siege battle. And the only 200 iron guns in the Hojo army were also put into battle, but the marksmanship and quality of the Hojo army's iron guns were obviously inferior, and they did not hit a single Uesugi army or samurai for half a day, but were taught to be a man by a hundred iron guns in the city - just after an order from Namba Tian Kenji, a hundred iron guns and arrows concentrated fire to attack the Hojo Army iron artillery ashgaru, and in an instant, dozens of Hojo Army iron guns and ashigaru fell to the ground and died. Namba Tian Kenji also learned that the Hojo Army dispatched the iron cannon Ashigaru so that he had no choice but to use the 100 iron cannon Ashigaru left to him by the Asada, and they fought a lot of joint battles, plus the hit rate was very high after training in peacetime (he could definitely hit someone within forty steps).

"Iron Cannon Foot Light Team retreat!" Ise Shusuke saw the death of the iron cannon Ashigaru under his command after seeing a large number of deaths, and it was simply a death to rely on these Ashigaru who had not fought a few joint battles, but this order was still given by Hojo Shiyasu. One sentence is good: the king let the minister die, and the minister has to die.

A large number of the Hojo Army's iron cannons were old iron cannons that had been eliminated from the Imagawa family, and their power, distance, and lethality were very limited. If they can hit someone within twenty paces, they will burn high incense. As Ise Shuhosuke led his troops back, the Uesugi army was unable to play its role with the superior forces of the Hojo Army. Hojo Shiyasu has invested more than 10,000 people to attack the city, but he still hasn't broken through the Otemon Gate! Even if the Hojo Army attacked the city day and night, Namba Tian Kenji still saw the move. As long as there was enough food, arrows, buckshot, etc., he could continue to defend the castle, and Namba Kenji also saw the weakness of the Hojo army, which was not good at attacking the castle.

And Namba Tian Hiroyoshi had previously asked the lords in the city to make 300 sets of white robes, and then he distributed these white robes to the troops under his command to wear. He will never forget the pleasure of wearing the white robe and leading the white robe army to kill the enemy, for him the white robe has become a part of him, although the Jinhaoori that the court gave him is still not used in his residence, but the meaning of the white robe is greater than that of the Jinhaoori.

Hojo Shiyasu also learned from the retainers in front of him that the Asadachi had placed the 'luxurious' family retainers and important retainers in this Namba Castle, and he was still worried about the attack of the Honjo long army at the moment.

"Report! Inamura Castle was captured by the Uesugi army! Lord Itabashi Higo was killed, and all of Itabashi's army was routed, and 200 people were killed. "Just as Hojo was still thinking about how to bypass Namba Castle and attack elsewhere, bad news came from an envoy.

"What? No way! How could the Uesugi army capture Inamura Castle, which was garrisoned by a thousand troops, in an instant? Unless there are more than 2,000 troops! "Tame Motoko (son of Tame Mototada), who was on the side of the Hojo clan, was the first to say that it was impossible, wasn't the Uesugi army all in Namba Tajo Castle? Where did the military power come from?

"Yes, back to Tame-sama, the Uesugi army did indeed capture Inamura Castle and the Higo-sama of the dead Itabashi. But the Uesugi army took the castle with only 650 men! Among them, the 450 cavalry of the Kawagoe Knights, an important combat force of the Uesugi Army, are also included! "That's right, but he also returned to Hojo Shiyasu's main camp unharmed when the Uesugi ninja didn't want to kill him.

"Then my lord, in the next words, both wings of our army may be attacked by the Uesugi army! Unless we take Namba Castle within half a month, our army will suffer heavy losses after being attacked! "Tamu Motoxing knows very well that although the Hojo Army is powerful now, can it really withstand the two-sided attack of the Uesugi Army? The answer is of course not! Most of the coalition forces this time were mainly peasant soldiers and conscripted ashigaru, and Hojo Yasuke could not get a large standing army. Just to maintain the yellow, green, and white preparations in the only remaining five-color preparations, he has to spend a lot of effort and financial resources. Unlike the Uesugi family, the Hojo family did not have several gold and silver mountains and a lot of lumber factories in Aizu, but Aizu had many mountains and forests, and wood could be traded. Therefore, it is not wrong for the court to choose Aizu as his springboard at the beginning, and it can be used as a sharp knife to hang over the heads of the generals of the Northeast in the future!

"Command! The generals must take down Namba Tajo Sannomaru within ten days! "Hojo Shiyasu is also speechless, Namba Tajo Castle is not as big as Odawara Castle, but it is really difficult to defend it. The Hojo army was also damaged more and more during the siege, and even if they drove the people to fill the earthen hori, it was useless, and the Uesugi army's arrows did not recognize people.