The first year of Yonglu, June 11.

After nightfall, Date Harumune and others in Nakamura Castle learned of the defeat of Reizan. When the retainers of the Date family learned the news of the annihilation of a thousand troops, they were all alarmed. It was the only military force of the Date family that won the battle with the Uesugi family, and it was eaten by the Uesugi army in one day at Lingshan.

"My lord, the forces of the Kurokawa family and the Kokubu clan have all been wiped out, and the Kurokawa family and the Kokubu clan have died in battle, so I'm afraid that if you continue to fight in Soma, you will likely be attacked from both sides by the Uesugi army and the Soma army." Outside the Date family, Yume Shigehisa, a retainer, has already seen that the current situation is very unoptimistic for the Date family. Not to mention the comparison of the strength of the two sides, the morale of the Date army is much worse than that of the Uesugi army.

"Could it be that Mogami is cut at home? If nothing goes wrong, the main team of the Mogami army should be besieging Yonezawa Castle. Date Harumune also felt that the Uesugi army would be able to send a large number of reinforcements to Somaryo.

"Doctor Sakyo, Mogami Deyu Mamoru has been transferred back to Mogami by his father Mogami Youkyo, although the Mogami army and the samurai of the Date family captured Yonezawa Castle's gateway island castle, but they still failed to reach Yonezawa Castle and withdrew." Osaki Yoshinao originally admired his son-in-law Mogami Yoshimitsu, but he never thought that Mogami Yoshimori would do something bad.

"What?!" Many samurai from the Date family, the Osaki family, and the Kasai family felt unprecedented pressure.

"If this is the case, our army will be surrounded by the Soma army and the Uesugi army, and we will not have the right time, place, people, and ······ here." As a close descendant of Date Harumune, Nitta Keixuna also found that Nakamura Castle, where the coalition forces were located, was no longer a safe place.

"Yuanjiang Shou, what should I do now?" Date Harumune himself ran out of ideas. At the beginning, in order to restore the old territory of the Date family and annex the Soma family again, he once naively thought that it would be easy. However, now he has found that he does not have the strength and appetite to swallow the Soma family with the support of the Uesugi family, let alone recover the old collar in the hands of the Uesugi family. Even Mogami Yoshimitsu, who once captured Sushima Castle, did not lead his army to attack Yonezawa Castle, and the strategic deployment formulated by Date Harune had been completely disrupted.

"The only way to do this is to lead the army to immediately withdraw to the north of the Abukuma River and hold on to the castles of Kitome Castle, Shibata Castle, Masuda Castle, and Imaizumi Castle. Otherwise, depending on the marching speed of the Uesugi army, once the pace of our army's withdrawal is slow, then it is very likely that what awaits our army is death. Although Nitta Jinggang expressed his suggestion, he was still inevitably hostile to some militants.

"How can we say that we will lose the city that we have worked so hard to fight? The old collar of the Watari family has just been restored, and there are still the old collars of the Zhikura family and the Nikaido family waiting for our army to recover! Sakurada Keijin was not happy, once he evacuated to the north of the Abukuma River, then most of the old lords of the Watari family would have to be abandoned. In this case, what is the point of sending troops?

"Not to mention anything else, although the Onodera family is our ally, they have recently encroached on the territories and villages of the Daihoji family and the Mogami family. If this continues, sooner or later Onodera Keixuna will fall to the Uesugi family! Shibuya Dingnao, the retainer behind Osaki Yoshinao, interjected directly.

"Rather than the allied forces being wiped out here, then it is better to withdraw all of them to the north of the Abukuma River, only then can we have enough troops to deal with the Richie of the Onodera family." Date Harumune finally made up his mind to retreat.

"Yes."

In this way, the coalition forces began to withdraw quickly. However, even if the Soma family learned that the Date army was going to evacuate, they would not have the strength to pursue it. After Anazawa Shintoku led his army to recover Nakamura Castle, which had become an empty city, the Soma family did not send a single soldier to pursue the Date coalition army.

When Tao Qingxian learned about it, he gave up assisting the Soma family to recover Shibata Castle, Kitome Castle and other castles that were originally assigned to them. The tens of thousands of Uesugi troops who entered the Soma domain simply recovered the castles south of the Abu Kuma River, such as Marumori Castle, Atayama Castle, Kakuda Castle, and Kotsumi Castle, which had become empty castles, and handed them over to the Soma family. Tao Qingxian and Jieshan Yunsheng discussed and decided that the current Uesugi army of Aizu and Okuwa could not stretch the battle line too long, otherwise the tragedy of Sushima Castle would be repeated again.

On June 13, Kawada led his army to recapture Shiraishi Castle, which was located southeast of Zao Mountain, and won over the defender Miyauchi Munetada. In this way, the Uesugi army will be able to contain and monitor the Date army in Shibata Castle, and it will also allow Date Harumune to think carefully before moving troops.

In order not to wipe out the main force of the coalition army, Date Harumune withdrew the large army to the north of the Abukuma River. However, he didn't get anything out of his busy work. Instead, he lost the Harumi Kurokawa clan, who was a powerful nation. However, the successor to the Kurokawa family governor was Yoshiyasu Osaki's second son, Yoshiyasu Osaki.

Because, Kurokawa Haru's main room is the younger sister of Osaki Yoshinao, and Kurokawa Haru had no children before he died in battle. Therefore, in order to have a closer relationship with the Osaki family, Date Harune made an intermediary and asked Osaki Yoshiyasu to change his name to Kurokawa Yoshiyasu and become the governor of the Kurokawa family. It's not that the Kurokawa family doesn't have a suitable heir, but Date Harune is preparing to 'cut the domain'.

Several cousins of the Kurokawa Harushi clan are still there, especially Hosokawa Shigetari (the owner of the Nakakan Pavilion) and the Daheng clan Yin (the lord of the Daheng Castle) who have the right to speak in the Kurokawa family. Even the castle where the Kurokawa family's retainer Fukuda Hiroshige (the owner of the Great Melon Pavilion) was located was blocking the road to Sengokukan, Ono Castle, and Iwakiri Castle in the Date family's territory. In particular, the Date family is in an 'eventful autumn', and the important ministers of the family have died a lot in battle, but the Kurokawa family cannot continue to be able to stop it.

It is also good for the Date family to let Kurokawa Yoshiyasu take over the Kurokawa family. The original Kurokawa family owned the castle of Okashi, the Crane Pavilion, and other castles, so one Tsurukan was reserved for Kurokawa Yoshiyasu, and the rest of the castles were all assigned to the Date family. Even the retainers of the Kurokawa family instantly became the direct ministers of the Date family. From this moment on, the Kurokawa Spo family existed in name only.

However, even if the Date family swallows the territory of the Kurokawa family at present, it will not help. In addition to increasing most of Kurokawa-gun's territory, the four counties of Shibata-gun, Natori-gun, Miyagi-gun, and Shida-gun have always been under the rule of the Date family. The remaining prefectures in the Rikuzen region were the domains of the Kasai and Osaki families. Either way, they were more than twice as large as the current territory of the Date family.

If it weren't for the fact that the Date family and the major names of Ou were all related, I am afraid that they would have been besieged by the surrounding forces by this moment. How many of them want to take the initiative to provoke the Uesugi family now? In addition to the forces of Takeda, Hojo, Date, and Jodo Shinshu, even some small daimyo and people who joined the Uesugi family's encirclement network, such as the Onodera, Tozawa, and Kasawara families (Oshu Miyazaki Kasawara family), lost their initial enthusiasm and motivation. The Onodera family even began to encroach on the lands and villages of the wealthy clans to which the 'allies' Daihoji family and the Mogami family belonged.

Whether it is the Sagoe family and the Lai Ji family under the Dahoji family, or the Mogami Shimizu family and the Tendo family under the Mogami family, they have all been more or less encroached upon by the Onodera family.

Onodera Terumi apparently forgot that it was with the help of the Daihoji family that he was able to reclaim the position of governor of the Onodera family and avenge his father.

After his father, Onodera Uemichi, the lord of Yokote Castle and the governor of the Onodera family, once fled from Yokote Castle all the way to the Daihoji family to seek the support of the Daihoji family and successfully took revenge.

The Onodera family had always been a supporter of the Ashikaga shogun's family (a powerful nationist), and Terumit's father, Hamichi, had been by the Ashikaga shogun's side for a long time, so he lacked control over the retainers in the country, which led to the usurpation of the throne by the retainer Mitsumori.

After the death of Hanamichi, his son Teido took refuge in another daimyo Daihoji family in the Dewa area, and in the Daihoji family, Teido was bent on avenging his father, and in order to seek the help of the Daihoji family, Temichi married the daughter of Daihoji Yoshizen, and with the help of the Daihoji family, he contacted his father's old ministry in the country, and the inside and outside of the alliance eliminated the usurper Yokosho Mitsumori. It stands to reason that the Dabaoji family helped you so much, and married your daughter to you, a three-no-one person who had no house, no car and no savings at the time, you Onodera Terudo should be grateful, but I didn't expect Onodera Teruchi This guy to start turning his face and not recognizing people.

Of course, if Onodera Terumchi wants to make a big fight, it's not now. No matter how stupid he is, it is impossible for him to face the four families of the Daihoji family, the Mogami family, the Date family, and the Osaki family with the strength of the Onodera family, and the Onodera family lacks a strong backstage. And this backstage candidate, Onodera Terumichi, at the suggestion of his military advisor Hachibai Michiwei, chose the former rival daimyo - the Uesugi family.