On June 1 of the second year of Hongji, Tao Zhuo Needleken (Tao Qingxian's legal name after becoming a monk) was appointed as the Ashigaru Shogun of the Uesugi family, and his son Tao Nagabo was also appointed as the Ashigaru Shogun. And on this day, Tao Zhuo Needle Xuan was the general, Tao Nagafang, Usami Dingkatsu, and Hojo Takamasa were the deputy generals, leading the army of 1,100 out into the field. Their purpose was only to temporarily assist the Satake family and others, and they did not need to take the city.

This time, there were 300 heavy infantry, 200 archers, 200 iron cannons, 300 spears, and 100 samurai. In these armies, Usami had three hundred guns; The Hojo Takamasa Department has two hundred iron cannons; The rest of the army is newly organized, although the training has been trained, but after all, it is only a short training month and a half, and the actual combat effectiveness is still unknown.

After the last Aizu Rebellion, Xiaofeng and Shirakawa suffered heavy losses and did not dare to go against the Uesugi family at will, and they did not dare to speak up after seeing the thousands of Uesugi troops led by Tao Qingxian. And there was no need for them to go to the Nasu family to report the news, after all, many daimyo of Shimono and Hitachi were already at war with the Nasu family. As for the reason, of course, the Nasu family and the Hojo family were too close, and the Kanto generals had to join forces to enter Nasu in order to prevent their backyard from catching fire. And Satake Yoshiaki is also convinced that the Uesugi family is asking for reinforcements, and the court will naturally want to help. Rather than sending troops to aid the Satake family, Asadachi was more than willing to mine the silver mountain near Komayosejo Castle, which had just been discovered. Sending troops is secondary, development is primary.

Tao Zhuo Zhenxuan's march was not slow, and after a day and a night, he arrived at the city of Black Feather, an important town in Shimono Country. And the defender of the castle was Fukuhara Shitakaka, the second son of Otawara Shikiyo. If you want to say that this Daewara has no other skills, he is ruthless in his own people! In order to obtain greater rights in the Nasu family, he did not hesitate to use his son to inherit the Fukuhara family and the Daseki family in the Nasu Seven Horses, and then married his daughter to Nasu Masato. This time, he turned the Nasu family into a miasma, and he himself would eventually reap the consequences - the surrounding daimyo attacked the Nasu family.

Most of the troops in Black Feather Castle are fighting with the Satake family on the front line, and there are only a dozen ashigaru garrisons in Black Feather Castle in the rear. And Tao Zhuo Zhenxuan directly gathered the military forces and killed them into the city, and within half a moment, Fukuhara Zitaka was captured. Tao Changfang led a hundred saber warriors (20 of whom were Tao family samurai) to quickly attack the nearby Sakuyama Castle, and beheaded the castle lord Sakuyama Yoshitaka (Otawara Shikiyo's son-in-law) and burned the castle to fire. After Zhuo Zhenxuan ordered Fukuhara Zitaka to cut the abdomen, he led the army to take the castle again, and after taking the castle of Kannomori, he detoured into Hitachi Province and fought with the 5,000 Satake army of Yoshiaki Satake. Since Kannomori Castle borders Uesugi Collar, Zhuo Zhenxuan did not order the fire to burn the castle.

When the news of the death of his son-in-law and second son reached Otawara Castle, Otawara Ziqing's face was not to mention how ugly it was. Isn't it just a relationship with the Hojo family? The Uesugi family invaded Shimono and killed one of his sons and sons-in-law! Otawara Ziqing can be said to be very embarrassed, on the one hand, his lord asked him to find a way to solve the crisis, on the other hand, the Uesugi family attacked the backyard of the Nasu family, causing the Nasu family to lose three cities, not to mention, all three cities were burned down by Honmaru! At present, the Nasu family has been beaten to the point that there are only a few fortified castles such as Otawara Castle and Toriyama Castle, and many branch castles have been burned down. Moreover, his eldest son is still fighting against the 3,000 troops of Utsunomiya, and he does not have any advantage at all.

However, Komine Yoshikiyo was persuaded by the Nasu family to take the initiative to send troops to cut off Zhuo Zhenxuan's back road, and also sent people to deliver military rations to Otawara Castle. However, Komine Yoshikiyo's move was reported to Wakamatsu Castle on the same day. The court directly sent Hojo Takahiro with 500 spears and 100 saber ashigaru, as well as Miyagi Masae's 100 spears and 200 bows and ashigaru, a total of 900 troops, to encircle Shirasaka Castle in an instant.

Two days later, Shirasaka Castle was captured, and Yoshikiyo Komine committed suicide. This incident implicated the Shirakawa family, so the Shirakawa family's territory was completely confiscated. The Harukawa Haruzuna clan was exiled to Sado. Hojo Takahiro and Miyagi Masayi were responsible for guarding the two castles of Shirasaka Castle and Shirakawa Castle, and Kannomori Castle was also garrisoned by Hojo Takahirobu's 500 guns. In fact, Xiaofeng Yoshikiyo's collusion with the Nasu family is also what Chaoding wants to see, and if he doesn't move, there is really no reason to move him. In this way, Komine Yoshikiyo directly sent tens of thousands of Zhixing land to the Uesugi family. The two castles of Shirakawa and Shirasaka together have a total of 38,000 koku, and they are also important places in the northern part of Shimono Province. Even if Xiaofeng Yoshikiyoshi doesn't help the Nasu family, Chaoding will find a way to solve the Baihe family. What's more, this time there is a reason again!

In the 18th year of Astronomical (1549), the Ashikaga Haru clan of the Furukawa Gong issued a crusade order to the Nasu family - the Nasu and Satake families had been defeated at the hands of the Utsunomiya clan, and the vitality of the Nasu Seven Clans had not yet recovered. So they actively responded to the call of the public side and sent troops to surround the forward position of Nasu, Xirenchuan Castle, and the Nasu clan sent troops to rescue. The head of the Utsunomiya clan, Shotsuna, led 2,500 horsemen in the hope of a field battle with Nasu's reinforcements at the Kirengawa River in order to consume the main force of the Nasu army, but Nasu skillfully avoided the field battle with the enemy, and only set up a small ambush on the Higashiyama Road between the Nishibashi clan and the Kirengawa River, and the Utsunomiya army drove mightily towards Saotomezaka (also known as Mayumesaka) - this battle was quite unfavorable to the Nasu clan, who had few troops - but the Nasu army ambushed on both sides raided the main camp of Shotsuna, Minoru Ayuse, a major retainer of the Iohno clan, even released an arrow and shot Utsunomiya Naotsuna beautifully, thus turning the tide of the battle and causing the entire enemy army to collapse.

Around the twentieth year of Astronomy, the dominance of the Nasu family fell into the hands of Senmoto Shijun, Otawara Shiharu and others, who conspired with Takashi's half-brother Shiyin, Utsunomiya Naotsuna's son Hirotsuna, and Hirotsuna's retainer Yoshiga Takata, luring Takashi out of Senbon Castle and killing him.

This time, the Utsunomiya army was still repulsed, and only Yuki and Satake were left, and only the Satake family fought alone. Even if Satake Yoshiaki had the support of Zhuo Zhenxuan's 1,100 troops, he still couldn't change the result of the deteriorating war situation. However, Yoshiaki Satake was still grateful to the Uesugi family for sending troops to help, at least in terms of obtaining results, the Uesugi family killed Yoshitaka Sakuyama and Shitaka Reifukuhara Seppuku, which was a result that the coalition forces had never had.

Due to the deterioration of the war, Zhuo Zhenxuan had no choice but to leave from Changlu Province with his troops and return to the Uesugi Domain. And Satake Yoshiaki was forced to send people to make peace with the Nasu family as well. Although there are only more than 80,000 Nasu family stone high, there is no advantage in beating the two daimyos of the Satake family and the Utsunomiya family of more than 200,000! This has to be said to be inseparable from the combat power of the seven horsemen. However, after the intervention of the Uesugi family, Fukuhara Shitaka was killed in Nasuki's Seven Horsemen, and the Fukuhara family was cut off from then on.

Compared with the turmoil in Shimono, Asadachi is more concerned about Tokaido. Just a few days ago, Asadachi received a report from Deura Shouqing that his father-in-law, Saito Michizo, retired and handed over Inabayama Castle to Saito Yoshiryu. Although this event happened late, it still happened. In order to prevent some of the Saito family's retainers from defecting to other daimyo after Michizo's death, the court sent Deura Morikiyo to lead 50 shinobi and 10 middle ninja to Higashimino to lurk, and if there was an accident, he would escort the Akechi family and others out of Mino. If they could, it would be okay to bring Saito Michizo with them.

As for the route they left, Asadashi knew that it was impossible to pass through Minami Shinano, so he could only send Kato Duanzo to inform the Kakizaki Keigie that he would lead his headquarters to destroy the Eima family, who had intended to raise a sword against the Nagao family in the missile country. It would be great if someone submitted, and those who did not surrender would have to be wiped out. If Kakizaki Keijia can take the first county of Hida, then it will be able to ensure the retreat of Deura Shoukiyo. Even if Saito Yoshiryu wanted to chase him, it was impossible for him to fight with the Nagao family, who was in full swing, and he had to weigh his own strength.

In fact, the reason why Saito Yoshiryu wants to rebel is that Saito Michizo has been touching his bottom line. When Saito Michizo felt that it was impossible to repair relations with him again, he did things that angered him even more. For example, the son-in-law (Saito Yoshiryu is a concubine) inherited the name of the Isshiki family, etc.

Saito Yoshiryu, the son of Mino Michizo, a pit viper, was born in Mino Province on July 8, 1527 (June 10, Daei 7). Mother is once a concubine of Toki Laiyi, who was known as the giant of Mino, (compared to the average height of Japan at that time, it can be regarded as a "giant", some people calculated according to the Japanese measurement at that time that 6 feet 5 inches is equivalent to today's 197cm, but later the Japanese academic community denied this, thinking that the real height of Yilong may be about 175). Yoshiryu was born when Michizo successfully exiled Mino to protect Toki Yoriyi, so the rumors that Yoshiryu was the widow of Toki Yorii were heard from time to time, and the factor that quickly intensified this rumor into a serious contradiction between father and son was a sentence that Michizo and his son-in-law Oda Nobunaga said after meeting at Shotokuji Temple: \"It seems that my descendants can only lead horses and slaves for the president\" (this is an anecdote, whether Michizo really said this sentence is impossible to verify), this sentence caused Yoshiryu's strong dissatisfaction, although Nobunaga is his brother-in-law, But Yilong, who has not been recognized by his father since he was a child, will not admit that this young man from another family is a more capable figure than himself.

Yoshiryu's dissatisfaction makes Dozo, who was already doubting whether he is his own son, even more disgusted. At that time, Michizo's evaluation of Yoshiryu was "incompetent" and "not enough to serve as a Sengoku daimyo", so Michizo secretly decided to pass on the family business to Yoshiryu's younger brother, but this matter was discovered by Yoshiryu's ninja, knowing that Dosan would not let him inherit the position of family governor, Yoshiryu was more sure that he believed that he was the son of Fukayoshino and Toki Yorigi (or it may be an excuse for coup purposes), so he decided to strike first. Michizo, who was controversial in domestic governance, came up with a strategy to live in seclusion and take refuge, temporarily entrusting the official positions of Inabayama Castle and Mino Guardian and the governor of the Saito family to Yoshiryu, but after that, Michizo's dislike of Yoshilong became more and more obvious, and his younger brothers Sun Shiro and Kiheiji were favored by Michizo, and Sun Shiro (Yoshilong was born to Fukayoshino in the side room and was the eldest son of the concubine) was likely to be the ultimate heir, plus another younger brother, Kiheiji, received the surname of the famous Shogunate Ishiki clan and changed his name to "Isshiki Right Guard Daisuke". Dozo's attempt to lay the foundation for his two younger brothers while completely ignoring Yoshiryu's existence makes Yoshiryu feel that his future is bleak. It was only at this time that the contradiction between Daosan and Yilong finally reached the point of no return.