Even after Oda struggled all night, he agreed to marry his daughter to Uesugi Keimitsu. Because, he has already learned the news that the Satake family is about to be precarious. Therefore, Oda's family made up his mind that for the survival of the Oda family, he had no choice but to marry his daughter.

Even after Oda Clanji gritted his teeth and agreed to this marriage, Chaoding still did not let go of the Oda family. Because, to the east of the Oda family, there is also a small daimyo who remains neutral - the Dapeng family. The court wanted Oda to show his loyalty and destroy the Daisho family, who occupied the Hitachi Imperial Palace. Chaoding is not to let the Oda family fight in vain without any benefit, the Oda family can get the Ogawa Castle southeast of Fuchu Castle, at least 10,000 stones.

As soon as Oda returned to Oda Castle, he immediately summoned the military advisor Tenba Gentetsu and the Four Heavenly Kings of Oda, the Six Horsemen of Oda, the Seven Horsemen of Ebijima, and the Four Heavenly Kings of Oshima. And most of the retainers felt that this was a good opportunity to expand their territory, although the reward was only 10,000 stone for the territory, but it was better than nothing. The few remaining retainers considered it unjust to go to war with a kingdom that was at peace with each other.

Oda apparently chose the former. Because he thinks that his reputation and whatnoture are no longer important, and his identity is not important. The most important thing for the Oda family is territory. The Oda family has been ordered by the court to reduce their territory by 25,000 koku, and as long as they can slowly use the war to expand their existing territory, it is not unavoidable.

Soon, Oda was in action.

On July 10, Oda Clan mobilized a large number of men in the territory to form the Ō clan expeditionary army, and marched towards the Ō clan.

Originally, the friendship between the Ō family and the Oda family was not shallow, and the two of them once fought together against the westward advance of the Edo family. However, after that, the two families turned against each other due to territorial disputes and other issues, but it did not reach the point of facing each other.

The Edo family originally wanted to take advantage of the Uesugi army's large-scale attack on Hitachi, launch a westward advance again, and be able to pinch the soft persimmon of the Ohi family well. It's just that due to the long-term suppression and invocation of the Satake family, the Edo family has long been unbearable. No, taking advantage of the fact that Tao Qingxian, Naito Masatyo, Soma Yoshiyin, Tamura Takaaki and others led their troops south, they planned to attack the hinterland of the Satake family in one fell swoop and take Ota Castle, their original base.

However, Edo Tadashi had a good idea, but in fact he did not make the Edo family wish. Their offensive was blocked in the branch city defenses to the south of Satake's house.

Although the Edo family did not have the idea of fighting the Otsumi family at this time, this does not mean that the Okai family can escape the catastrophe because of this.

Since Oda Clanji returned to his native Oda Castle, he has summoned a gate, a pedigree, and some of his cronies to the castle lord. Most of the retainers knew that this time the court asked the Oda family to attack the Oda family, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Oda family. Once the Oda family sent troops to attack the Ōkai family, then the Oda family would be able to obtain the 10,000 koku territory around Ogawa Castle promised by the court in advance. If the Oda family misses this opportunity, then it is very likely that they will be reduced. If the court is in a bad mood one day, then the Oda family is likely to face change, and Oda himself may be exiled to a remote area. These are all things that the Oda family does not want to see.

And this Da Yan family is not a local chicken and grass dog, and the family is not low. They come from the dripping stream of the incense flow of the Hengwu Ping clan, and once served as the great secretary of the Hitachi country for generations, so they are also their own Miao characters. Most of the large and small Chinese lords in Hitachi can be related to the Ōkai family, such as the Makabe family, the Kashima family, the Yukakata family, and the Aso family, which are all branches of the Ōkai family.

Although there are many branches of the Otsumi family, they are almost all over Hitachi Province. However, at this time, none of them were able to take the initiative to support the Ō family. Except for the Magaki family, who had long been diverted by Koyama Asakyu and fell to the side of Asada, the remaining lords of the country, large and small, in Kashima County and Yukata County have been defeated by the three generals of Nambada Hiroyoshi, Miyagi Masayo, and Miyagi Yuye.

Just as the Oda army was about to enter Fuchu Castle, Ohkai Sadakuni, who had no longer care about political affairs, also heard the news that the Oda army was about to come to Fuchu Castle under the leadership of Tadobe Masahide.

Ō Sadakuni immediately found Ō Kiyokan and others. At this time, although Okai Kiyokan was ostensibly the governor of the Okai family, he was only five years old, and most of the affairs were handled by Yoshikuni Takehara (the younger brother of Okai Sadakuni).

At this time, the important ministers of the Ota family were discussing how to repel the Oda army and defend the country.

Takehara Yoshikuni advocated uniting with the Makabe family on the west side of Mount Tsukuba to repel Oda's army. He didn't know at the moment that the Makabe family had been determined to follow the affairs of the dynasty under the leadership of Magashi Jiugan. Mabe Hisaka is now busy conquering the Kasama family's territory, where is the time to rescue the Okai family?

Besides, even if the Makabe family had the time and ability, they would not risk the result of opposing the Asadaki to rescue the Da Yu family. After all, in the eyes of the real wall family, the court is fragrant, and the Da Yan family is just a puddle of mud.

At the same time that Tadobe Masahide led 3,000 Oda troops to gradually approach Fuchu Castle, Sugatani Katsusada was ordered by Oda to lead a partial division and attack Ogawa Castle, an important town in the eastern part of the Ōkai Command, with a force of 1,000 troops.

In fact, the Oda family planned to send troops to make a show from the beginning, and they didn't want to go all out to make wedding dresses for others. For them, the most important thing is to get the court first and promise the Oda family to freely cut the territory of Ogawa Castle.

Before Tadobe Masahide led his army to Fuchu Castle, he specially selected some castle soldiers who were empty in garrison and there were not many defenders to fight, and he successively captured Kasamatsu Castle, Shizuki Castle, Gonkenyama Castle, and Kamitachi Castle along the way. When Tadobe Masahide arrived at Fuchu Castle and learned that there were more than 3,000 defenders in the castle, he immediately stopped his offensive and set up his own camp outside the castle.

However, Fuchu Castle was not a castle that could be easily captured by the Oda army. Previously, after the Okai family was driven out of Mito Castle by the Edo family, they moved into Fuchu Castle, and at that time they renovated and expanded Fuchu Castle.

The next day, Oda's clan joined forces with Tadobe Masahide and besieged Fuchu Castle with 6,000 troops. Although the Oda army numbered 6,000 men, it was composed mainly of peasant soldiers and conscripted ashigaru, and there were a large number of miscellaneous soldiers in it. Oda had previously recruited men between fourteen and sixty in the territory, and he didn't care about quality at all, he only wanted quantity. In this way, it can also let Chaoding see how hard he works.

It was lucky that the Oda army was able to capture Atagoyama Castle and Ogawa Castle in the eastern part of the Ohkai Domain. Takehara Yoshikuni, the de facto master of the Ōkai family, had transferred most of the eastern forces to garrison Fuchu Castle before the Oda army was about to attack Fuchu Castle, and he had no idea that the Oda clan would prioritize sending troops to attack Atayama Castle and Ogawa Castle in the east. And the people up and down the Da Yan family didn't want the shameful scene of being kicked out of the original base again, and they didn't care too much about the loss of the eastern town.

At the same time that Oda Clan was swaggering and leading his army to attack the Ōkai family, Saito Michizo was not idle. He knew very well that Oda Clan had no ability to capture Fuzhong Castle at all, let alone the main force of the Owa family. Therefore, Saito Michizo asked Nambada Hiroyoshi and Miyagi Masayi to change their original plan and lead the army to join the Oda army under Fuchu Castle, and he himself led 7,000 troops north to prepare to attack the Satake family with the Edo family.

In order to allow Oda to do his best to attack the Ogami family, Saito Michizo also left behind 2,000 troops under the Yamamoto Temple Dingcho Office, and ordered him to enter Edo Gi Castle, the headquarters of the Edo Gi Toki family. In this way, Oda Shiji did not dare to slack off.

When the important ministers of the Oda family and the Oda clan learned about it, this Saito Michizo left Minami-Tokichi and did not forget to leave an army to monitor the eastern part of the Oda family's territory.

After Oda found that the 2,000 troops of the Yamamoto Temple Dingchosho had no intention of withdrawing, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and order Ichichi, Gendai, and his cronies to attack Fuchu Castle with all their might.