On the morning of April 27 in the first year of Eiroku, Gan Ya Kei led his troops to defeat the Shimojo Minoru clan and took them.

As the lord of the big castle in the camp of the Nagao Jingfang, as soon as Minoru Shimojo died, the city where he lived was taken over by Yoshie Keizi (the son of Yoshie Soshin, and the word "Jing" of the Nagao family in the worship house). As the 'city generation', the first thing Yoshie Keishi did when he entered the city was to give all the gifts of his relatives out of the city, and he did not embarrass them. The local lords also felt that Yoshie Keishi's approach was right, and no one objected to him entering Shimojo Castle as a castle representative.

There were not many defenders in Shimojo Castle, and with the fifty ashigaru in the original castle, Yoshie Keiko only had four hundred and fifty men on hand. And he also had to guard against the thousands of Sado people in the area of Mt. Kanoda in the west.

The reason why the Sado people were reluctant to go south and merge with Nagao Keibo was nothing more than that they took a fancy to a large area of uncultivated land in the north of the Shinano River and the south of the Agano River. However, most of this area is swampland. After consulting with Honma Sada, Honma Takanobu, Honma Yuyasu, and Honma Masatasu, they sent an envoy to Tochio Castle, hoping that Nagao Keibo would transfer a large area of marshland and wasteland east of Kurotaki Castle to the Honma family. Although Honma Yutai is the commander-in-chief, he also has to look at the faces of the three families of Jiuzhi, Kawarada, and Hamao. If Nagao Jingfang ceded this large piece of land, then there would definitely be a lot of areas divided by these three people, and in the end, it would be good for Honma to have Tai Neng's palm-sized place.

Changwei Jingfang is the third son of Changwei Weijing, he has been a monk before he is a layman, and he has no experience in leading troops to fight. And he only started his first battle as the general of the 'Long Tail Army'. However, his initial battle this time was not perfect and smooth, and Honjo's father and son's cage castle was not out and the fortifications were so well guarded that he could not easily capture Tochio Castle. Coupled with the death of Minoru Shimojo and the change of hands of Shimojo Castle, Nagao Fujikei can not worry about attacks from the north and rogue attacks (the remnants of the Yamauchi have retreated to the Ueda domain).

To the surprise of Nagao Jingfang, Nagao Fujijing invited the flag of the Banner to the fierce general Nagao Shingo for the show (from the Nagao family, a branch of the Nagao family in the Fuchu). Nagao Fujikei asked him to lead 400 reinforcements (the defenders of Takajo) and 500 headquarters to Tochio Castle to relieve the siege.

There were more than 4,000 troops in the Changwei Jingfang army under the castle, while there were only more than 1,300 defenders in the city. The support army that Nagao Fujikei moved in is not enough in terms of quantity and quality. Ueda's Kunita Hikogoro, Iida Shikibe Shaosuke, Oseki cronies, Oseki Moriken, Kaneko Shotsuna, Aohito Hayato, Shimizu Fujizaemon, etc., are not idle people, although Nagao is good at fighting, but he does not necessarily have the same mind as a strategist.

The Ueda people are different from the ordinary Echigo people, they dare to fight.

Generally speaking, Echigo's people tend to hate the limelight, not to show off themselves, and to value coordination with others more than to carry out their own ideas.

As the first target of Nagao Jingfang, his strategic intention is to first take Tochio Castle to ensure the safety of Qi Jizhong's backyard, and secondly, he will work with Ueda to pull out the 'nails' in Ueda's collar one by one. In the end, he joined forces with the main mountain of the mountain in the house, Mizumasa and others to attack the Kasuga mountain castle.

Due to the effectiveness of Sang Takuzhong, the long-tail view house does not have to worry about the spring mountain castle. The base of Kusatori is at the rear of Kasuga Mountain Castle, and Kuwatori is the granary of Kasuga Mountain Castle. As long as Kasugayama Castle is besieged, Nagao Jingfang can completely fight a war of attrition, and after consuming that there is not a single grain of grain in Kasugayama Castle, you can capture Kasugayama Castle and order Echigo.

The Art of War: "Five are to surround it, and ten are to attack it." Nagao Jingfang had also heard of this, so he called a halt to the siege. 1. The strategy with Bancheng has just failed, and this news has already affected morale; 2. Shimojo Castle had been captured by Yoshie Keishi, and the Uesugi army could come to support from the north and northeast of Tochio Castle at any time.

Just when Echigo was still in a difficult battle, the Hojo clan was determined to destroy the Kururi family in order to expand the power of the Hojo family and feed the war with war. The main team of the Hojo Army, led by Daido Temple Masashige, went out from Odawara Castle, and the strength reached one-third of the current Hojo family's mobilized forces in Sagami Province - 3,700. Daido Temple Masashi is the name of the Hojo clan Masa, and the deputy generals Kasahara Yasukatsu and Yamamura Yasuke. The main force of this team was composed of Sekibebu Cheng, Saito Matajiro, Oi Fujizaemon, Kikuchi-go Saemon, Okazaki Shuryo and other Imperial Horse Warriors, and the rest were Hakubei Sho of Kasahara Yasukatsu and Yamamura Yasuke of the Imperial Family.

In addition, Yasuei Shimizu, who was entrenched in the Izu Islands, also received an order that the Hojo clan needed him to send a naval escort and transport troops and supplies.

Thanks to the reconciling and marriage of the Hojo and Takeda families, Yasuei Shimizu did not have to worry about attacks from the Izu Peninsula.

The Izu Navy consumed a lot of money and materials in the years of warfare, and the Hojo family had not been recuperating for a long time, so it took a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to repair the Kamakura Tsuruoka Hachiman Shrine alone. Since the Hojo clan succeeded to the throne, there was no surplus funds to distribute to the Izu naval army. Yasuei Shimizu had to take his subordinates to do their old job, pirates.

Of course, the Izu Navy will still be optimistic about robbing, and they will not grab it indiscriminately. Except for the ships of the Takeda family and the Hojo family, most of the ships of the Hitachi country powers, such as the Satake family, which could become allies with the Hojo family, were not robbed. On the contrary, the ship that led the Uesugi family and the Fujiwara family of the town guard house has been hijacked.

It is because of such reasons and the inability to let the Hojo family become bigger, that the court will not turn a blind eye to the situation of the general manager. Otherwise, he would not have sent Saito Michizo to the lower president to lead Kano Hideji and other retainers to prepare for entering the president.

On April 29, more than 3,700 members of the Hojo Army's main team, escorted by the Izu Naval Army, arrived safely and smoothly at Okamoto Castle in Anbo Province.

Hojo Naota, the head of the Anfang national flag, had long been ready to enter the Upper Chamber, and 3,200 Hojo troops were mobilized in Anfang, and with the 3,700 troops of the landed team, the total strength reached 6,900. This was only the number of the Hojo Army, and it did not include the forces of the lords who were still in the rebellion of the Upper Commander.

While the Hojo family was moving, Ota Shimasa was not idle. On the orders of the court, he actively contacted the retainers of the Uesugi family in the former Ogiya and the retainers of the Ota family in Iwatsuke (Iwaki). Within a short period of time, Udagawa and Izumimori, former retainers of the Uesugi family in Ogiga, and retainers of the Iwatsuki Ota family, Kasuga Ieyoshi, Miyaki Shiro Guard, and others agreed to serve as Uchio and guide when the army attacked.

When Michisai Michini learned of the landing of the Hojo Army, he immediately summoned the forces from all over the southern part of the Shimoso to gather at Kamisao Higashikinjo. As the vanguard, Hideji Kano led 3,200 troops from his headquarters to Tsurumaki Castle in Hara County, where Ichikawa Gentosai lived, to assist in the defense. The four people who came later, such as Hiroshi Hada, Miyagi Masaye, Miyagi Weiye, and Yamamoto Temple Dingchang, also led their troops to participate in the battle.

The order given by the old and spicy Saito Michizo to Hideji Kano was to assist in the defense of Ichikawa Gentosai's residence, and he was not asked to support the other Satomi generals. The candidates for the second battle were the father and son of Yamamoto Temple Dingchang and Yamamoto Temple Katsucho, who led 2,500 troops. Their mission was to deploy along the border between Yamabe-gun and Nagami-gun, and they were not allowed to cross the border and enter the Sato-ryo territory without an order from Saito Michizo. The three subordinates of Miyagi Masaye, Miyagi Weiye and Nambada Hiroyoshi followed Saito Michizo's team into Tsuchiki Castle of Hideharu Kano.

When the remaining Fujiwara army entered Toki Castle southwest of Higashijin Castle that day, the total strength of the castle was 5,600 men. Among them, the combined strength of Miyagi Masaye and Miyagi Weiye's father and son is 2,400 people, Nambada Hiroyoshi's department is 2,200 people, and Saito Michizo's main team is 1,000 people-

Anbo Kunikan Yamajo Honmaru Ohiroma.

"Anfang guards the palace, the lord is under the order of the military supervisor, and you are the general general. I'm going to leave it to you on the general strategy. Daido Temple Masahiro said to Hojo Naota, who was only eighteen years old sitting on the main seat.

"Dadaoji Suruga is polite, I was appointed by the lord at a young age to be the head of the family, and I have long been the banner leader of the house and the general manager. Now I'm being given the position of general again······" It's not that Hojo doesn't want to be, but he is already very tired and can't move.

Now anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Hojo family's dispatch of troops this time is completely a return to the past. The land peninsula of Izu Province, which had been run for several generations, was ceded to the Takeda family, and all the prefectures in Sagami, except for Odawara Castle and its castle towns, were intact, and the rest of the prefectures were destroyed by the war. In addition, all the branch castles of Tsukui County were demolished, and a large number of local lords were moved into Musashi Province. The financial income of the Hojo family is no longer as good as it was back then, and it is not easy to barely recruit more than 3,000 main forces.

"Anfang Shoudian is still young, the royal family of the family, the genealogy of the generation, the ashigaru generals, etc., a large number of old ministers died in battle, I really don't know when it will stop." Yasukatsu Kasahara sat on the side and said as he drank his stuffy wine.

"Then we have to wait for the Nagao family (most of the Hojo family are reluctant to call Uesugi Kenshin the head of the Uesugi family) and the Uesugi family to perish." Dadao Temple Zhengfan sighed. For the Uesugi family, which has always been difficult, the Hojo family really can't get cheap at all. Not to mention the loyalty of the retainers, even the forces sent by Uesugi Kenshin to the court were willing to sacrifice their lives to serve them.

"Wait for the two of them to perish? I don't think it's possible! The wealthy clans and retainers within the family are more or less connected with them, even if the Takeda family goes north to attack Okushinano and the surrounding forces besiege the Uesugi family, this is only a momentary speed. Once they fight back and come down to the city, it won't be easy to talk about. "Kasahara Yasukatsu doesn't think that just a few ordinary daimyo and some ronins and bandits can bring down the Uesugi family and the Fujiwara family.

"Enough, don't talk nonsense. Tomorrow morning, the army will go into battle! Satomi's old troops at the head of the left horse will support our army in various places in the Uesugi, and it will not be so easy for the Uesugi family to intervene at that time. After Hojo Naosada finished speaking, he left Ohiroma.

"If the Uesugi army was so easy to fight, Tsunashi Gong, Clan Fandian, etc. would not have died in battle and their heads would not have been piled up into Jingguan." Thinking about it, Yasukatsu Kasahara felt that he had known that this was the case, so he died in Musashi with Hojo Tsunari.