He wanted to wait a little longer and find a suitable opportunity.

Time passed slowly, and soon, July of the twelfth year of Tensho came.

Akechi Kogoro received a letter from Shibata Katsuie of Ueno, and after receiving this letter, Mr. Akechi finally smiled, Shibata Katsuya had received an order from Oda Nobunaga to send troops to aid Echigo!

The letter said that in six or seven days at most, the Shibata army would march to Echigo to participate in the battle, and before that, let Akechi Kogoro fight Date Masamune first.

When he saw this, Wise Kogoro smiled bitterly and shook his head -- this is probably Oda Nobunaga's idea again, let the Uesugi Army stand on top first, wait until both sides are almost consumed, and then Shibata Katsuya will come forward to clean up the mess, to be honest, within the Oda Army, it is the Shibata Army that can fight the most, and after absorbing a large number of Koshin remnants and Ueno, the combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, Wise Kogoro has talked to Oda Nobutada about this issue, and they all think that I am afraid that even if it is the personal soldiers commanded by Oda Nobunaga, It may not be better than the Shibata Army.

Also, Oda Nobunaga was disappointed and angry about the death of Mori Naga and the defeat of Tsukawa. Shibata Katsuie mentioned this in his letter, and implied that Oda Nobunaga would not easily forgive him if he did not start a battle with the enemy as soon as possible and defeat him.

For this, Wise Kogoro didn't pay much attention to it, he just thought that this was a warning from Oda Nobunaga and Shibata Katsuie urging him to fight quickly, and it wasn't a big deal, just prepare for the battle seriously.

But in fact, the content of this letter is not so simple. Wise Kogoro never dreamed that it would be a catastrophe. It was slowly coming to his head, and the letter. That's where it all began!

Not only is Wise Kogoro a little troubled now, but at the same time, Wu Hai is also sharpening his sword.

Something big happened -- although Date and his son tried their best to hide it, the fact that Mrs. Higashi (Mogami Yoshihime) and mother and son colluded with the Oda shogunate to try to subvert the Date family was exposed.

Now the old ministers of the Date family are gone, not only them, but even those young and vigorous young generals are also gone. They were born and died on the front line, and there are people in the rear digging their corners, which is unforgivable!

The old people are okay to say, they have long known that Mrs. Higashi's mother and son are a [time bomb] hidden in the Date family, although they are both in danger of [exploding], but over the years, as a [bomber], Mogami Yoshimitsu has never [detonated], in order not to offend the Mogami family, they didn't say anything, and now this kind of thing has happened. Their mood suddenly became not so good-looking.

The old people are still restraining themselves, and those [young and young Zhuang factions] don't have such a good attitude, and they advocate that this matter be resolved immediately, otherwise the morale of the army will be unstable. More radical people proposed to kill the mother and son of the East Lady now, and give Mogami Yoshimitsu and Oda Nobunaga a look.

Seeing that things are getting bigger and bigger. Date and his son couldn't sit still, in fact, what Mrs. Dong had done over the years. How could they not know? It's just that it is estimated that Yoshimitsu Mogami's face did not attack, but I am afraid that it is good to control things. And if you kill the East Lady now. I'm afraid that the Mogami army, which had been assembled on the border of Oshu for a long time, would change its previous wait-and-see attitude and immediately attack Date Territory, which would really be a catastrophe for the Date family at that time.

However, the situation was obviously serious now, and Date Masamune immediately ordered the remaining guard Kenmune, who remained in Yonezawa Castle, to lead troops to put Mrs. Higashi's mother and son under house arrest, and asked Kuniti Morishige to take these letters to Yamagata Castle to question Mogami Yoshimitsu.

Of course, Mogami Yoshimitsu refused to admit that this matter had anything to do with him, and insisted that the letter was forged, and his sister and nephew were absolutely innocent.

Kunipit Mamori understood Mogami Yoshimitsu meaning, and he didn't want to tear his face with the other party, so after receiving the other party's conclusive affidavit, he left Yamagata Castle.

Although the matter on this side can be understood, the situation on the front line has become more and more serious, and from July 5, the activities of the Uesugi army have become more frequent, and it seems that a battle is coming!

In fact, this is exactly what Date and his son are looking forward to -- they are desperate to find something to divert the attention of the soldiers, and Mogami Yoshimitsu can't be offended for the time being, so for now, they can only take Uesugi Keitora and Akechi Kogoro first.

However, it was obviously a bit late to assemble the army at this time, and the Uesugi army had started its activities two or three days earlier than them.

On July 10, the Uesugi army's Shida Yoshihide and Nakajo Keiyasu were the first to attack Takekai, and two generals on the Date side, Harada Daizo and Tachibana Gaiki, were ordered to resist.

On the 12th of July, the Date Army, who remained behind Masakai and Harada Munetoki, and Shiraishi Munemi, attacked the Numbar, and after not achieving much success, they also withdrew from the Numbara camp.

On July 16, the storm was finally coming.

Akechi Kogoro and Uesugi Keitora decided to launch a general attack on Date Masamune, although the former still believed that this was not the best opportunity to start a war immediately, but they could not resist the urging of Oda Nobunaga and Shibata Katsuie, so they had to do it early.

At dawn on this day, the soldiers were all full of food and spirits, Uesugi Jinghu was dressed in military uniform, his face was solemn, and he slowly rode his horse to look at the army with high morale in front of him, everyone was suffocated these days, and he couldn't wait to find a few enemies to kill [satisfy his hunger], so he raised his horsewhip with great satisfaction and said loudly,

[I heard that Naida Masamune's little boy had tens of thousands of soldiers, I heard that they captured many of our Echigo cities, and I heard that they killed a lot of our Tongliao! Then let me ask you, you are Echigo samurai, a soldier of a hundred battles, and the strongest soldier in the world! Are you afraid?!!! ”

[Don't be afraid! 】

[Who is afraid that who was born by my sister-in-law! ] (This is definitely not Japanese!) ）

【General! Please let us fight! 】

[I'm going to play with Date Masamune's grandson!] Don't stop me! 】……

Uesugi Jinghu frowned when he heard this, although everyone's morale was high and he felt very happy, but these old people who hadn't read much of the book were still like that at first, but the more vulgar they became, and they directly began to greet Date Masamune's female relatives.

So he raised his hand and motioned for everyone to be quiet.

[Even if their number is several times or even dozens of times that of us, even if they are cruel and brutal, and completely inhumane, but behind us are the great rivers and mountains of Echigo, the villagers who have expectations for us, and our homeland, our families are also behind us, everyone! Can we back down? 】

Uesugi Jinghu's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness, and he asked loudly.

【Can't!】 】

[Whoever retreats is born by his sister-in-law! ] (Needless to say, it's definitely the same person just now!) ）……

【Good!】 There is a group of tens of thousands of juniors in front of me, and in my eyes they are just a group of clowns who don't know whether to live or die, and they will soon die here! I'm sure you can do it! Because you are Echigo samurai, the strongest soldier in the world! ”

Suddenly, Uesugi Jinghu reined in the reins of the horse, stopped the pace of the mount, pulled out the sword on his waist and pointed to the sky, at this time the sun rose in the east, and the light began to spread to the earth.

Uesugi Keihu used all his strength and yelled at the soldiers in front of him,

[So good! Those who sacrifice their lives live, and those who fear death die! It's a man! Just go out with me, defeat the enemy army, and let Date Masamune see the divine might of my strongest soldier in the world! …… Long live the King of Bishamen! 】

[Long live the King of Bishamen!] 】

All the soldiers pointed their swords or spears at the sky together, roaring loudly, their eyes were full of fanaticism and murderous aura, and the drummers of Yuanmen beat the war drums more cooperatively, shouting a strange roar in the Echigo dialect, and the continuous sound was endless, like thunder, breaking through the nine heavens. Even the wise Kogoro, who rode a horse and served by Uesugi Keitor's side and did not believe in Buddhism, couldn't help but clench the [One Word] in his hand with his calm personality, and roared loudly with the other soldiers.

Sure enough, if a man goes crazy, he can do anything.

With such a powerful army, no matter what the enemy, it can be easily destroyed!

Uesugi Jinghu felt a sense of pride in his heart, and suddenly pointed at the direction of Wuhai and ordered loudly.

[Troops!] 】

Naoe, who was in charge of staying behind in the swamp, saw this scene, and his heart was also full of pride.

In this battle, Uesugi Jinghu insisted on fighting in person, which made the soldiers a little embarrassed, they hoped that the generals could sit in the rear well, and the things on the front line would be left to them to plan, and the generals did not need to run out in person, but in the end, including the wise Kogoro, they did not succeed in persuading Uesugi Jinghu, it seems that the latter has been suppressed for a long time and urgently needs to break out.

So the task of staying behind was handed over to Naoe Kashiga, Uesugi Jinghu personally led the troops to the battle, and as a wise Kogoro, who was a military advisor, asked to be the vanguard in this battle, but it was not approved, and it seems that Uesugi Jinghu relied on him quite deeply.

For the rest of the day, he was asked to stay by Uesugi Keitora's side, mainly to improvise and do some work to provide planning. (To be continued......)