Chapter 288: Edo's Dissatisfaction

Taking advantage of the fact that Omoriji Temple (shrine) was not Nagano Yoshikuni led an army to garrison Shibukawa Castle and Nagano Yoshitoku was in Minowa Castle, Asadachi arranged for Katsuyama Yunkatsu to bring a large amount of money to buy off the monks of Omoriji Temple, and persuaded them to fall to the Uesugi family.

As soon as Jieshan Yunsheng arrived at the Omori Temple, he donated five hundred taels of gold and three thousand Yongle money to the Omori Temple. The monks of Omoriji Temple had never seen such a generous person, and suddenly they donated so much money in one go. As a result, when the monks asked, they learned that the monk Jieshan Yunkatsu was a diplomatic monk of the Uesugi family.

However, the monks of Omoriji Temple did not resist. Because the Eagle Retention Nagano family only knew how to desperately squeeze Omoriji Temple during these years, and used all the income in the temple to expand armaments, recruit ronin, and buy off the Minowa Nagano family's members and retainers. The Takaru Nagano family didn't care about the monks of Omoriji Temple at all, and even the daily maintenance of the temple was paid for by some monks themselves.

Soon, Jieshan Yunsheng hit it off with the monks of Omori Temple. On the same day, Omoriji Temple gathered the surrounding people, Yamanbushi, ronin and monks of the temple to organize more than 500 people to enter the temple and defend it. And the lord of Rock Cabinet City, Duobi Luo Youding, was constantly sending food, bows, projectiles and other materials into the Omori Temple. And Jieshan Yunsheng immediately replaced Nagano Yekuni and became the new director of Omoriji Temple.

And Nagano Yoshige (Nagano Yetsu's second son), who served as the remaining guard of Eagle Castle, was still aware of such a big movement in Omori Temple. On the one hand, Yoshige Nagano immediately began to prepare for the Eagle to stay in the castle. On the other hand, Nagano Yoshige immediately sent someone to inform Nagano Yetsuri, who was in Minowa Castle.

Nagano Yetsu did not have any extra troops on hand at this time to support his own base, Eagle Castle. Because he needed a large number of troops at this time to find ways to prevent Qianxin from leading his army south. If Shibukawa Castle is lost, then both Minowa Castle and Tagaryu Castle will be captured by the Uesugi army in a short time.

Therefore, Nagano Yetong could only pull down his face and invite three or four invitations to let Urano Shigenari, the lord of Odo Castle, help. However, Urano Shigenari's situation at this time was not much different from that of Nagano Yetsu. With the Shiri Taka, Azuma Saito, Nakayama and other Azuma clan lords being defeated by Kenshin's army, the Urano family has lost the eastern barrier. The city lord of Rock Cabinet City, Duobi Luo Youding, led the army to attack Gumaru City and Oto City in three days!

However, Urano Shigenari was still hindered by his relationship with Nagano Yetsu, and still sent his younger brother Urano Shigemu, Shigemitsu Oto, and Oto Minbu and others with 500 troops to support Takaru Castle under the condition of tight hands.

However, Urano Shigenari and Nagano Yetsu underestimated the current combat power of Omoriji. When Jieshan Yunsheng entered the Omori Temple, he carried a hundred iron cannons with him. Uesugi Keimitsu, Numata Yumitsu, Tobira Yuta, and others also continued to send a large amount of gunpowder, projectiles and other materials into Omori Temple. It can be said that the current combat power of Omoriji Temple is completely higher than that of the Takaru Nagano family and the Urano family. And the Eagle Stay Nagano family was able to come up with a hundred iron cannons after they went up and down, not to mention that these iron cannons were still scattered in the branch cities of various places.

In the second year of Yonglu, August 5th. The court sent some of the horses and banners from Musashi to the Totachi Province and asked them to serve as the lords of some important towns. In this way, it also served to monitor the two daimyos of Oda and Edo at all times.

However, this group of retainers were mainly lords of the old lords of the southern Hitachi people, such as the Edo Gitoki family and the Odami family: Kiuchi Yinshin served as the lord of Edo Gijo Castle and received 12,000 stone Chiyukiji; Matsudo Yinlai served as the lord of Kuno Castle and received eight thousand stone zhixingdi; Dan Gang served as the lord of Niu Jiu City and led 10,000 stones to know the land. The former Sano clan retainers Shigeru Hisashige and Okuki Takeshige served as the lords of Matsuoka Castle (5,000 koku) and Chejo (5,000 koku) respectively in Taga Prefecture in the northern part of Hitachi Province. The Gojokan (10,000 koku koku) and Kanesayama Castle (5,000 koku) in Kuji Prefecture were headed by the Tomita clan from Aizu and Yoshisada Oguni (小省Yoshiko, renamed Yoshicho due to the partiality of the Emperor Shojo).

In order to stabilize the Makabe family, the court decided to reward the Haguro Mountain Castle (table height of 3,000 stones) to Magabe Jiugan to receive it, and accept its Makabi clan stem as a side. After that, Asadachi asked Shioya Akisada, who was born in the Missa Country, to possess the 12,000-stone Zhiyuku, which was once the base of the Kasama family, and to the east of the Kasama clan was the Edo family.

At this time, the Edo family showed dissatisfaction with the post-war reward. Edo Tadamichi thought that the Edo family had done so much, but not as much as the Oda family's reward, and he was extremely dissatisfied with this. Subsequently, Edo Tadadi began to secretly recruit a large number of former retainers of the Satake family, and also secretly embezzled many villages that did not belong to the Edo family and the old leaders of the Satake family. In order to be prepared to oppose the Uesugi clan at any time, Edo Tadamichi sent his retainers to Kai in the hope of forming an offensive and defensive alliance with the Takeda family, and on the other hand, he began construction of Matsukawa Castle, a branch castle southeast of Mito Castle, his home base. At the same time, Edo Tadadōtsu also manufactured and purchased ordnance, grain and grass and other materials on a large scale in the territory.

At the same time that Takeda Shingen sent people to Kyoto and asked the shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, to reappoint Uesugi Kenmasa as the governor of the Kanto region, the court also ordered the daimyo of the Eastern Province (the Soma family, the Tamura family, the Onodera family, the Tendo family, the Enzawa family, the Sazawa family, the Mogami family, the Iwaki family, the Oda family, and the Ueno guardian Uesugi Keimitsu) to the shogunate, hoping that Ashikaga Yoshiteru would recognize the Imagawa clan as the Kamakura Principality (Kanto Prince, Kanto Shogun). The content they wrote to Ashikaga Yoshiteru was roughly the same: Imagawa Osabe Daisuke Shin, who had both ability and political integrity, was famous far and wide, and as a relative of the shogun's family, he was the best candidate for the Kamakura Gongfang.

Now Ashikaga Yoshiki is in a dilemma. On the one hand, he didn't want to make enemies with the Takeda family, and on the other hand, the Uesugi family was not easy to mess with, especially Fujiwara Asada, who dared to directly send troops to attack and kill the Ashikaga Yoshiji, the Kamakura prince he had appointed! Although Ashikaga Yoshiteru was very strong in the past and was called a 'strong man', he couldn't make up his mind on this matter.

At this time, Akechi Mitsuhide came up with an idea for Ashikaga Yoshiteru: to appoint Uesugi Kenmasa as the deacon or head of the Kamakura Princess, and to serve as the rear secretary of the Imagawa clan. At present, the Imagawa clan can only be appointed as the new Kamakura prince according to the wishes of the daimyo of the eastern country, replacing the previous Ashikaga Fuji clan. In this way, Uesugi Kenshin still held the position of governor of the Kanto region, and had the right to govern the eight countries of the Kanto region, as well as the four provinces of Ou and Koshin.

Ashikaga Yoshiteru was very happy when he heard this suggestion from Akechi Mitsuhide, because this was the only plan at the moment where neither party could be offended. In addition, the money donated by Takeda Shingen to the shogunate over the years has become less and less, and Ashikaga Yoshiteru does not want to do things exactly according to his Takeda Shingen's wishes. On the other hand, Kenshin donated at least 500 eiraku money to the shogunate every month for daily expenses. In this regard, Ashikaga Yoshiteru must give priority to Kenshin, the Kanto governor, whose position in the eastern country will not be shaken.

On August 6, Shimana Castle and Iwabi Castle were successively captured by the armies of Akiyama Tarita, Asahina Shinji, and Takai Youkina. Since the three guards of Shimana Castle and Iwanbi Castle, Fukaya Sahei, Nakamura Isemori, and Kuwaki Hachiro, were from the Madashi clan of Uesugi Kenmasa, Akiyama and others immediately sent people to Hirai Castle to ask the court what to do with them.

At the same time, Yarokuro Oji, who was entrenched in Ojiro Castle, and former retainers of the Kuragano clan, such as Kogenta Kanai, Mamoru Fukuda, and Mamoru Tomita, were attacked by more than 6,200 Uesugi troops from the four divisions of Shigenaga Honjo, Masami Nagai, Yushige Soga, and Minori Omori. In order to withstand the attack of the Uesugi army and get the praise of Takeda Shingen and Nagano Yetsu, the lord of Oji Castle, Yarokuro Oji, sent several retainers and messengers to Wada Castle, Yatsu Castle and other places, hoping that Wada Asallen, Wada Nobukatsu and others could send reinforcements to rescue Okai Castle.

However, at this time, Wada Asiryo and Wada Nobukatsu and others were unable to meet the request of Yarokuro Oko to send troops. Because they led their army out of the city shortly after, they were ambushed and harassed by Nagao Keitaka, resulting in the Hotan army being unable to leave Hotan Castle and Yatsu Castle. If he forcibly led the army to break through Nagao Keitaka's blockade, then it is very likely that the Wada army saved the Great Class Castle and his own base Wada Castle and Yatsu Castle were captured by Nagao Keitaka.