June 15, outside the city of Hayue.

"My lord, the minister Honjo Fanchang (Hirosawa Faithful) is late!" As soon as Honjo Shiranaga and Hirosawa Tadanobu saw the court, they half-knelt on the ground and pleaded guilty.

"I also know that Hojo Phantom is difficult to deal with, so it would be nice if you could bring the military forces back. How about taking a look at my 'Six Scales' first? Chaoding pointed to the dusty area northeast of Heyue City. Originally, Honjo and Hirosawa Tadanobu only thought that the wind was blowing there, but when they looked at it, they found that they could still vaguely see a lot of flags of Kuyaoba and bamboo and sparrow.

"My lord, what is this?" Honjo and Hirosawa soon ran to a nearby dirt slope to see what was going on in the dusty area.

"This! unimaginable! This is the first time I've seen such a scene. He was very surprised, there had never been a person on the Kanto Plain who could put on such a huge and strange formation!

"My lord, how many troops are there?" Honjo Fanchang and Hirosawa Tadanobu came non-stop, and they didn't know how many troops were in the array.

"If you add the military strength that has been left to you, there are a total of 12,500 soldiers and horses." When Asahi said expressionlessly, Honjo Shiranaga and Hirosawa Tadanobu were already opening their mouths and their jaws were about to fall.

"Asada, that's why you're going to put Namba and the others in Namba Castle for almost a month? This is the first time I've seen this formation. At this time, Michizo Saito came over. He had never been afraid of being surrounded by Oda Nobuhide and others in Inabayama Castle in his life, but when he saw the 'Six Scales Array' arranged by the Asada, he felt that if tens of thousands of enemy troops rushed into the formation, then the entire army would definitely be destroyed.

"Yes, if Hayato Zo has a good brain, he should break through now." Asada could only shake his head to express his helplessness, Namba Tian Kenji and Namba Tian Hiroyoshi were both to defend their hometown and the people, and the casualties of the other troops were also very large, and in the end, when Kato Duanzo reported to the asahi time, he already had the idea of beating them.

"But my lord, Hayabusa's army has plummeted to more than a thousand people, and if it continues like this, sooner or later, the inner city will be destroyed and killed!" Honjo is still very worried, if it is like this, the thousands of standing troops of the Uesugi army are all killed in Namba Tian Castle, and the arrogance of the Hojo family will be even more arrogant!

"Don't worry, the Takeda family has already started the Suruga invasion. So far, all 150,000 koku in the six counties of Suruga have been captured by the Takeda family. The Imagawa family governor, Imagawa Shin and his main room, Mrs. Hayakawa, as well as the fourth son of Hojo Shiyasu, Hojo Jiki, fled barefoot with more than a dozen retinues into Enoe. Speaking of this, Chao Ding and the retainers around him all laughed. There is really no need to worry about such news, and the Hojo Army will continue to grow.

"My lord, then the Takeda Army should attack Izu Province at this moment in order to ensure the stability of the rear." Hirosawa Tadanobu would not think that Takeda Shingen would let Izu not fight and lead a large army to fight Enoe.

"Yes, Duan Zang told me yesterday that Takeda Shingen has attacked Izu with 25,000 troops. These forces included the forces of the Suruga Kuniku and the Imagawa family's rebellious retainers, and even the former Imagawa family's naval army instantly rebelled and assisted the Takeda family to attack Izu. Chao Ding could only sigh that the grass on the wall was terrible.

"The people of Suruga have been under the command of the Imagawa family for more than a hundred years, so how can you say that it is the opposite?" Honjo was speechless about what these people were doing, is this still a generation? Is this still what a retainer should do? Shouldn't the Lord stand up when the Lord is in danger?

"What's so strange about that? In order to save their skills and the lives of their families and retainers, these people can only submit to and serve the strong enemy. "Chao Ding can see it, he has seen it all these years.

Another piece of good news for the Uesugi family was that Oishi Tsunagen was about to arrive at Kawagoe Castle with 2,000 troops to join Asada, so that the total strength of Asadachi would reach 14,500 troops, and it would be completely possible to fight a decisive battle that would decide the ownership of Musashi.

Hojo Shiyasu was really not in the mood to continue to 'expand his territory', he became the general with Hojo Tsunada, and he himself returned to defend Sagami and Izu with 10,000 troops. And the rest of the armies were controlled by Hojo Tsunari.

In fact, Izu is only 79,000 koku, and most of the country is mountainous, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. If the Takeda Army had not led the way, it would have cost a lot of money to take over the entire territory. What's more, the army can't be unleashed. Even when Hojo Sakumo (Ise Choshi also known as Ise Moritoki) invaded Izu, he did not enter with a large army. Even after the 300 Imagawa troops he borrowed, his total strength was only 500 troops. However, Hojo Sakumo still defeated the Horikoshi Gongfang and dominated Izu Province, and only passed the position to the Hojo clan after taking Sagami Province. It was only at the beginning of the Hojo clan that the seedling of 'Hojo' was officially used.

On the 17th, just after the 2,000 troops of Oishi Tsunagen and the 1,400 troops of Igawa Kiyonaga arrived outside Namba Castle, Namba Tian Kenji and others led the remaining 1,100 Uesugi troops to withdraw from Namba Tian Castle. The siege began on 20 May and ended on 17 June. The 28-day battle ended with both sides taking a step back, but it was only the beginning.

Hojo Tsunari's meaning is very simple, that is, to rest and recuperate the only 10,000 troops (2,500 yellow reserve troops, 1,500 Takajo Yinyoshi troops, 2,000 original Yinei troops, 1,800 white reserve troops of Kasahara Yasukatsu, 1,000 Fukushima Katsuhiro troops to recruit ashigaru, and 1,200 peasant soldiers in the house). That's why he agreed that Namba Tada Castle would not pursue and sneak attack by himself. After all, the available troops under his command are already tired, and if they fight again with the recuperated Uesugi army, they will have to lose even more. Although he learned the news from Tanma that the Uesugi army was slowly gathering, it was also half a month ago.

After the battle of Namba Tajo, not a single retainer of the Uesugi family was lost, but the newly recruited Wushu soldiers were almost wiped out. Even the Aizu soldiers lost most of their money. Namba Hiroyoshi and Miyagi Masayi were wounded in six or seven places, and the court sent them to Ueno Stable Bridge Castle to recuperate. The remnants of the soldiers under the command of Namba Hiroyoshi and Miyagi Masayi were also commanded by Asadachi himself. In fact, after Hojo Shiyasu withdrew most of his troops, the Uesugi army already had a numerical advantage. Even if the 1,100 men and horses who had retreated from Namba Castle were not counted among the battleable troops, it would be 4,500 more than the Hojo Army. It can be said that as long as the next battle can eat the two standing five-color reserves of the Hojo Army, then Hojo Shiyasu will not have to worry about it. Even Shingen Takeda can easily clean him up. After the Musashi Setagaya Kira family, who had previously supported the Hojo family, suffered heavy losses in the siege battle and the death of the ruling lord Kira Yoriyasu, the successor Kira clan (Kira Yoriyasu's adopted son) informed his father-in-law of the remnants of his army and then retreated to Setagaya Castle.

In the afternoon of the next day, the 10,000 Hojo Army, which had finished resting, headed north. However, he did not send troops to garrison the ruined Namba Castle. In fact, Namba Castle was completely damaged except for the outer part of the castle, where the tsuchihori was filled in and Sannomaru was completely damaged, and the castle tower, arrowland, Ninomaru, and Honmaru were all intact. Hojo Tsunashi was told by Hojo Shiyasu that after defeating the Uesugi army as quickly as possible, he had to rush back to Sagami to assist him in the battle with the Takeda army. Otherwise, Hojo Tsunari would not have risked being cut off and leading the army north. Of course, Hojo Tsunari naturally sent a lot of scouts to investigate, but whether they could find out anything depended on their group of people who didn't have enough ability to go back.

At the same time that Hojo Tsusunari continued to accelerate his advance, Asadachi used the 1,110 troops that had retreated from Namba Castle to garrison Kawagoe Castle, with Ogasawara Chotoki as the senior general, and Ogasawara Sada and Anazawa Toshimitsu as the lieutenants. Their mission was to wait for Hojo Tsunari's army to arrive and hold Minomaru at Kawagoe Castle, rather than going out of the castle to fight. If he relied on 1,100 people to garrison Heyue City, Chao Ding was still very worried, if the main battlefield was not near Heyue City, he would definitely leave at least 3,000 troops in Heyue City.

As for the actual battle, the task was to be completed by the 'Six Scales Array' laid by the 14,500 led by Chaoding. Although their training lasted only half a month, they were still very confident in their combat effectiveness. After all, the opponent was the Hojo family, and their large army was made up of conscripted ashigaru and peasant soldiers.

While Hojo Tsusunari was still marching quickly through the streets of Kawagoe, at this moment, hundreds of cavalrymen in white robes suddenly appeared on the right side of the road! Rush straight into the rear of the Hojo Army! The Hojo Army was taken by surprise.

"Kill me!" It was Saito Rizo who led this white-robed cavalry, and he himself was the first to charge forward, how could the cavalry not charge hard?

It just so happened that Saito Rizo was aiming at the peasant army of the rear of Hojo Tsunari's army, and the spies of the Hojo Army had already been assassinated by the Uesugi ninjas who were deployed around, and no one could inform Hojo Tsusunari to prepare early.

"Steady! Don't back down! No matter how much Fang Cheng shouted, the peasants and soldiers under his command were terrified. No one wants to rush forward and die. I don't want to think about it, the cavalry who came up to the Heyue Knights rushed into them with their war horses covered in bamboo armor. The physical strength and endurance of the peasant soldiers were the worst, and they fell to the ground when they were rubbed to the ground, and the 450 cavalry led by Saito Toshizo simply broke into a no-man's land, harvesting their lives at will.

Seeing that the goal was almost complete, Saito Toshizo immediately beckoned the white-robed cavalry to retreat. He didn't want to be thankless like Nambada Hiroyoshi after losing 200 cavalry, and he should take it when he saw it.

It wasn't until someone reported to the Hojo Tsusunari of the front team that he immediately reacted and sent 500 horseback warriors from his headquarters to support the rear team's mansion Fangcheng, this group of white-robed cavalry had already fled in the direction of Kawagoe Castle.

Subsequently, Hojo Tsunari ordered the house to quickly count the number of casualties and found that the peasant army of the house house had killed 300 people, 200 were slightly wounded, and 100 were seriously injured and could no longer fight. Hojo Tsusunari then ordered the lightly wounded to take the seriously wounded to Namba Castle to rest, and he continued to advance with the rest of his army.

Still, that's fine. Hojo Tsunari's march could have been even faster. The marching speed, quality, and combat effectiveness of the peasant soldiers were inferior to those of the conscripted ashishi, and he didn't want to take this group with him, if it wasn't for the Hojo clan Yasu, he would have asked them to pack up their things and go back.

In the end, Hojo Tsunari arrived at the foot of Kawagoe Castle before evening. He looked at the closed and empty castle town and knew that this castle would not have the help it did back then. It would be better if the Uesugi family had been captured now, and he would have completed the task. However, Hojo Tsunari knew that it was almost night, and it was impossible for him to take this castle, which was already on high alert. Even when it was taken that year, it took thousands of casualties to take it. I have to say that the Uesugi family's combat power is simply strong. In particular, after being succeeded by the twelfth lord Uesugi Asada, the Hojo family suffered one defeat and loss after another. Although the Hojo family occupied Musashi for a time, with the intervention of Nagao Keitora in the Kanto region and the attack of the Kanto generals, the Hojo family was once again defeated back to Sagami and Izu.

Hojo Tsunari, an old enemy of the Uesugi family who was originally the Ogiya family, is finally going to fight Uesugi Asadachi head-on. It's really as the saying goes: 'It's not that enemies don't get together'. The enemies were very angry when they saw each other, but Hojo Tsunashi killed Uesugi Asakei, Uesugi Asanori and the family's important minister Nambada Kenshige, and Nagano Yoshimasa's eldest son died in battle under Hachioji Castle. This person is an important 'wanted criminal' of the Uesugi and Ogiya Uesugi families.