Chapter 1: Uesugi Asada
Astronomical 6th year (1537), April. Ogiya Uesugi Repair Doctor Asahei, who had been at war with the Go-Hojo clan 14 times, died at Koeshi Castle, and Uesugi Asadaki succeeded him as the governor of the Ogiya Uesugi family.
"Congratulations to the young master for obtaining the official position of repair doctor and the governor of the Uesugi family in Ogiga." Throughout the assessment room, the retainers, young and old, bowed to a boy who was only twelve years old.
"Then there is a lot of work, please continue to be faithful." Uesugi Asadashi can only continue to perform the play, although he is not the real Uesugi Asada, but he doesn't know how to return to his own era and can only rely on his own knowledge to survive.
"Young master... It's the lord-sama.,This is the saber sent by the Kanto lord of Hirai Castle-the boy Kirian Gang.。 An old retainer handed a saber wrapped in white cloth to the young man sitting on the throne.
"It's a good knife, but it's not a time to be thankful." Asada put the saber by his side, "The Hojo family is still a wolf with ambitions, their appetite is not small, if it is not for the entire Kanto Plain, they will not stop." ”
"The entire Eight Kingdoms of Kanto!" There are already a lot of retainers and wealthy families below who have begun to whisper. Some of them are ready to share a boat with the Hojo family.
A few days ago, Ota Shitaka and Ueda Chaonao, who had long surrendered to the Uesugi family of the Ogiya family, received orders from the Hojo clan and began to transfer the retainers of the Ogiya Uesugi family and the people of the wealthy family.
"Don't worry! There is me, the Nambada clan and the Ogiya Uesugi family live and die together! Namba Kenshige, who is known as the current number one leader of the Ogiya Uesugi family, stood up and expressed his determination to live and die with the Ogiya Uesugi family in his loud voice.
"Isn't it true that I wait for the Uesugi family to live and die together?" Uesugi Asagi, who was sitting on the left side, directly reprimanded Namba Tian Kenshige.
"Report! The 5,000 troops of the Hojo family are advancing towards Kawagoe Castle! The main will be the Hojo clan! An envoy hurriedly ran into the assessment room of Kawagoe Castle Honmaru, and hurried down after reporting.
"Five thousand!" Chaoding himself was a little flustered, isn't it next month in history? What a speed!
"The army that the main family can gather is less than three thousand, and it is impossible to fight the Hojo family in the field." Although Ota is now sitting at the bottom of the seat, no one refutes his words.
"There is no need to defend the city, it will take some time for them to reach Heyue City, my uncle will come to defend the city, and we will divide the army." Chaoding thought of a bold approach.
"What do you mean?" Uesugi Chaocheng couldn't figure out for a while, why didn't he defend the city well and divide his troops?
"Namba Kenshige, the 100 samurai of your cavalry team and the 200 guns of Ota Shimasa are under my command, and the rest are under the command of my uncle." After Chao Ding put the boy on his body, he walked to the door of the assessment room.
"Don't worry, the lord will definitely take his retainers to defend Heyue City!" Uesugi Asasari was clear about his tasks and missions, and he was ready to clean up those wealthy clans and people who had changed before defending the city.
"You and I go and get ready." In this way, Asada left the assessment room with Namba Kenshige's father and son, and Ota Shimasa, three retainers.
"Is the lord young and vigorous?" A retainer looked at Chaoding's young back and sighed.
"Young? I just learned that the Hojo family's 5,000 troops were so calm when they attacked, so don't think too much about it. "Uesugi Chaocheng is full of confidence in the court, isn't it that there are three hundred people missing, if there is no detailed work, it can be completely defended.
Half an hour later, at the east gate of Kawase Castle, Uesugi Asada, the elite troops of the Uesugi family gathered what could be regarded as Ogiya.
"Listen, we're now replacing the flag finger object with the Hojo family's Sankailing!" Chao Ding just finished speaking, and everyone was stunned.
"My lord, you are ······" Namba Tian Kenshige also didn't understand why Asadada was able to collect three hundred Hojo family's third-order Rhomboshi fingers in a short period of time.
"These are from those who are preparing to surrender to the Hojo family, you just need to know that this mission is a sneak attack." At this moment, Chaoding has also changed into a slightly larger black lacquer carcass and put on a pure white array of feathers.
"You're going to attack Edo Castle!" Isn't it true that this direction is going south of Edo Castle?!
"You guessed it, the whole army quickly changed its flags and headed for Edo Castle! Don't talk to each other on the way! Wrap the white cloth around the right arm of all of you! "Chaoding wanted to imitate the appearance of Cao Mengde's attack on the black nest and go to attack Edo Castle.
"Yes!" These are the military strength of elite troops, and they usually take advantage of the Ogiya Uesugi family, and they also know that the current situation is extremely urgent.
At the same time that the Hojo clan was marching into Kawagoe Castle, Uesugi Asadashi was also marching towards Edo Castle. The routes of the two armies were completely different. The route of the Hojo Army's march was from Odawara Castle through Tamasho Castle and Koki Castle to the north through Mt. Kakugata and Ishokamii and then north to Kawagoe Castle; The route of Uesugi Asada's march was from Kawagoe Castle, passing through Kosu, and then south to Iwatsuke Castle, and finally heading south.
Compared with the Hojo clan, Uesugi Asada's march was much more tragic, and he couldn't walk on the main road, and the province was discovered by his own people and attacked, so he finally arrived at the castle town of Edo Castle two days later.
"Namba Tian Kenshige, you father and son each took fifty samurai on horseback to seize the city gate, Ota Shimasa and you and I will attack from the front, remember that you can't attack without my orders." With 300 troops, Asadaki slowly approached the gate of Edo Castle, the former home of the Uesugi family in Ogiya.
"It's the Hojo family's military situation, aren't we too nervous?" An ashigaru leaning against the city gate lazily saw the disguised Uesugi army not paying attention at all.
"Then I'll go and inform the city lord." The other Ashigaru handed the spear to Ashigaru, who was leaning against the city gate, and ran towards Honmaru.
"Edo Castle shouldn't have much in wartime, and if you guess right, there won't be more than thirty standing ashigaru." Ota Shimasa rode a horse behind Asada, and gave Asada's reassurance.
"Then you have to hurry." Chaoding felt that if he wanted to survive in this early Warring States period, there were two ways to go. 1. Surrender the Hojo family and get the security of several small cities; 2. Go to the Nagao family in Echigo Province to ask for help.
Obviously, Asadachi thought that the path of the Nagao family was very reliable, and it was better to go to Echigo Province to form a 'homecoming group' than to stay in Kanto and be dominated by the Hojo family.
"The Hojo family's military strength is coming from the north?!" Ueda Naodai had just drunk a taste of soup early in the morning, and all of it squirted out.
"Yes, it's at the door now." The ashigaru added.
"What about Ota Shitaka-sama?" Ueda straightened his clothes.
"I've already gone to the gate to meet the Hojo Army." After Ashigaru finished speaking, he stepped back first.
At the same time, the entrance of Ninomaru in Edo Castle.
"Welcome to Hojo Army's ······" When Ota was just about to grovel to welcome the 'Hojo Army', he saw the 'old face' of Namba Kenshige.
"Well, there is Lao Taitian's senior adult!" After Namba Kenshige finished speaking, he raised one of his naginatas and swung it at the neck of the pale-faced Ota Shitaka.
"It's the Uesugi family's military strength! Yes!!!!! As soon as Ota Shitaka finished shouting, his head was cut off, and Namba Tian Kenshige and his son Namba Hayabusa rushed into the castle with a cavalry team, and these overwhelmed ashigaru people at the city gate were killed by a dozen people and took full control of the city gate.
"Follow me!" Namba Tian Kenshige immediately rushed to the main gate of Honmaru with fifty samurai on horseback, and found that there was no Ashigaru garrison at all. In the back, Namba Hayato easily went to occupy the arsenal and stables first.
"The young master spares his life!" Ueda Asanoo was pressed out of Honmaru's palace by two samurai and knelt in front of Asada.
"Now you want to beg for mercy? What did you do earlier? Chopped. "Chao Ding doesn't want to leave any trouble, and it is also a wise choice to dispose of this old wall grass now.
"Ueda-sama, you're to blame, I'm sorry!" Namba Ken once again acted as the 'executioner' and directly cut off the head of Ueda Ayanao with his own saber.
"Next, let's abandon this castle and go to the next small machine castle, and take out all the horses in the stable, so that we can't leave them to the Hojo family. Ota Shimasa, you go and take Ashigaru to smear blood on your face, and then go to deceive and occupy the gate of Xiaoji City, the Hojo clan should be pouring out of the nest this time, and even if there are people stationed in Xiaoji City, there will not be more than fifty people. "Asadashi wanted to use the 'sabotage' tactic in one go, so that the Hojo clan returned to Sagami Province without a fight.
"Yes, the minister will go immediately." Ota Shimasa immediately took his ashigaru to 'work'.