Hojo Shiyasu's sneak attack on Nekoya to open the Uesugi domain completely failed, and by the way, he also tricked his uncle Hojo Nagasuna (Hojo Phantom An), causing Hojo Nagatora's two sons to die in battle under Nekoya Castle. The original 2,100 Hojo Army passed, and less than 1,000 people returned, which made Hojo Shiyasu have to face up to the retainers of the Uesugi family.

Even if Namba Tian Kenji is not as strong as Ota's capital, he is also the son of Namba Tian Kenshige. Before his rebirth, Namba Tianken was still the elder of the Ogiya Uesugi family, and he was also the first fierce general of the Ogiya Uesugi family.

Hojo Shiyasu probably forgot that the previous defender of Namba Castle was Namba Tian Kenji, a general who made it impossible for him to conquer Namba Castle with tens of thousands of troops.

Although the battle situation on the side of Musashi Province is not very favorable to the Uesugi family, the battle situation in Ueno Province can be said to be about to tip the balance of victory against the Uesugi family.

On January 9, Michizo Saito defeated Kiryu Suke Tsunade with a force of 7,000 troops and a force of 4,100 troops of Yushige Sogaga, Minori Omori, and Shirakawa Mitsukatsu (one of the sixteen guns of Nagano), and conquered Takatsudo Castle, Kiryu Castle, Goranda Castle, and Shenmei Castle. Kiryu suke tsunade committed suicide by seppuku on Mt. Koshin, north of Goranda Castle.

With the Uesugi army annihilating the Yokose Yura family and the Kiryu family, which had been entrenched in the southeast of Ueno Province for hundreds of years, the next target was the Sanchigugawa Shogunate Army, which was still in Kuragano Castle with low morale.

Kuragano Hidekei, Nagao Keihide, Nagao Keiji, Nagao Keimune, Nagao Keimatsu, Wada Yeshiro, and others were very disturbed when they learned of Kiryu's defeat one after another. Originally, the more than 4,000 troops of the three families of the head office, the O, Kuragano, and Wada families, were bound to gain an advantage if they could quickly capture Hirai Castle. However, with the hard work of Kiyocho Igawa, Oishi Tsunamoto and others, the coalition army lost thousands of people and then retreated to Kuragano Castle to rest.

They did not dare to go out of the city to fight the Uesugi army during their recuperation, and even Yura did not lend a helping hand when he was in the most critical situation, which led to the defeat of the Yokose Yura family.

As the saying goes, 'lips are dead and teeth are cold'. After the defeat of the Yokose Yura family and the Kiryu family, the next thing is the turn of the Kuragano family and others.

A crowd of 15,000 people, including Soga Yushige, Omori Minori, Shirakawa Mitsukatsu, Ogasawara Nagasa, Nishirita, Hosoya Shimichi, Shigetasa Shito, Momoi Yoshitakaka, Kiyoshi Kagawa, Oishi Tsunamoto, and Kiyono Kiyohide, marched towards Kuragano Castle.

Yokotani Yukishige and hundreds of other Azuma ninjas raided Manzaka in Mt. Shirane, killing all 50 ashigaru members of the Hakuo family stationed there, and destroying obstacles, so that the follow-up reinforcements of the Murakami family could quickly enter Ueno.

As Michizo Saito led an army of 15,000 to the vicinity of Kuragano Castle, Kuragano Hidekyo and others in the city could no longer sit still.

Nagano Yemasa couldn't wait in Minowa Castle either, and he knew that if he connived at his rebellious son-in-law, Shigeru Wada and Hideki Kurakano, then he would be no different from those thieves. Nagano then led 3,000 troops out of Minowa Castle and instantly captured Wada Castle, which had only 100 defenders. Nagano Yoshimasa led his army to Momoi Castle after capturing Wada Castle and letting his retainer Murakami Gonemon stay behind, he did not plan to make peace with Saito Michizo's army, he wanted to attack the territory of the head president's family first, so that Nagao Keihide and others stationed in Kuragano Castle would lose their will to fight.

As the news of the fall of Wada Castle by the Nagano Army reached Kuragano Castle, Wada Yeshiro and others already felt that it was impossible to defeat the Uesugi Army. Wada Yeshiro and Kuragano Hidekei were planning to surrender, while Nagao Keihide and other head office Nagao clans wanted to break through to the head office castle cage castle and unite with the Numata people, Azuma people and other wealthy families.

Nagao Keihide, Nagao Keiji, Nagao Keimune, and Nagao Keimatsu plan to break through the siege with the remaining 1,000 total president's army after a night's rest. However, Wada Yeshiro and Kuragano Hidejing felt that instead of waiting for them to surrender after breaking through the siege, it was better to take the initiative to kill them and take their heads to make meritorious contributions. Moreover, Wada Yeshiro and Kuragano Hidejing are both Nagano Yemasa's sons-in-law, and they think that as long as they ask Nagano Yesamasa to say good things and reduce the territory at most, they can still save the lives of their whole families.

That night, Wada Yeshiro and Kuragano Hidekei gathered the samurai of the headquarters and the reliable Ashigaru, and prepared to surround the Honmaru head office Nagao family Yashiki. The remaining Wada family forces and Kuraka Noke forces suppressed all the gates and arrows in various parts of Honmaru and Ninomaru, in case the head of the head office O Army prevented the assassination of Wada Yeshiro and Kurakano Hidekei.

The 15,000 army led by Saito Michizo did not completely encircle the castle, but only surrounded the east, south, and west sides of Kuragano Castle, leaving one north unsurrounded. Because of this, Nagao Keixiu and others will germinate the idea of breaking through to the skill.

When Nagao Keihide and the others were still discussing how to quickly bypass the Nagano army and return to their skills in the morning, they heard a commotion nearby.

"What's going on?" Nagao Keihide had a sense of foreboding.

"Report! The Wada Army and the Kuragano Army surrounded us! "A head office president, an Oya samurai, entered the house to report.

"Damn! Wada industry, Kuragano hidejing! Nagao Keiji picked up the sword beside him and walked to the door, and saw a large number of bowshigaru outside the door aiming at this houseshiki.

"At this point, there are only a dozen of us and at least hundreds of people on the other side." Nagao Keihide is ready for seppuku.

"You go with me, give His Highness enough time to seppuku!" Nagao Keizune took the spear handed to him by the samurai beside him, he was not ready to fight in armor.

"Yes!" After Nagao Keizune finished saying this, the ten head office Nagao family samurai in the house, along with Nagao Keiji and Nagao Keimatsu, rushed out of the house along with Nagao Keizune.

When Wada saw the people of the head office's O's family rushing out of the house, he immediately ordered: "Shoot the arrows!" ”

The samurai of the Nagao family, the head of the guards in Yashiki, were all wearing carcass, and they rushed to the front, followed by Nagao Keiji and others. However, after nearly 100 arrows were fired, ten samurai were the first to die. However, their death in battle gave Nagao Keiji and others the opportunity to rush into the Wada army and Kurakano army.

Nagao Keiji and the others rushed into the enemy and began close combat. After they cut down a dozen bowshigaru, it was the samurai of the two families who fought with them.

After all, Nagao Keiji, Nagao Keizong, and Nagao Keimatsu were few and didn't have time to put on armor, and it didn't take long for their bodies to be scarred. The samurai who fought them didn't give them a chance, knowing full well that if they were killed, the lord would be able to avoid cutting off the family's name.

Soon, two Wada samurai were the first to stab Nagao Keiji to death with spears. Seeing this, the two of them, Nagao Jingzong and Nagao Jingsong, stabbed each other in the abdomen with the knives in their hands and died.

When Wada Yeshiro and Kuragano Hideki saw that all three of them were dead, they led people into the house and saw only the body of Nagao Keihide. Subsequently, Wada Yeshiro and Kuragano Hidejing ordered people to cut off all the heads of Nagao Keihide and others, and announced to the head of Ninomaru's president, the Ao family, that Nagao Keihide and others had been killed, and those who were willing to surrender to the Uesugi army would be spared death, and those who were unwilling would be killed on the spot.

When Wada announced it, some samurai loyal to the head of the company, the O, family, went directly to Ninomaru to cut their stomachs, and the rest of Ashigaru were willing to surrender.

After waiting until there were no opponents, early the next morning Kuragano Hidekei acted as an envoy, and he went to Saito Michizo's main camp with the heads of all the samurai of the head office of the Oke family. As soon as Kuragano Hidekyo entered the main camp of the Uesugi Army, he felt unprecedented pressure, especially Saito Michizo, who was sitting under the seal of the two-headed wave flag, staring at him with sharp eyes.

"Yamashiro guards the hall, the sinner Kuragano Castle Lord Kuragano Hidekage, these are the heads of the samurai of the head of the head office under the command of the puppet shogunate army, and the thief general Nagao Keihide has been killed by us." Kuragano Hidejing didn't blush at all when he said nonsense, obviously Nagao Jingxiu committed suicide by seppuku, but he took the credit to himself.

"Well, it's Nagawei Jingxiu!" Kohata Keijun was the first to recognize Nagao Keihide's face.

"It seems that you and Hetian Yefan are very sincere!" Saito nodded pretending to be satisfied.

"That's natural, the Uesugi army is crusading against the puppet shogunate for the imperial court, the shogunate and the general righteousness, and we and other countrymen have to support it! If it hadn't been for Nagao Keixiu and others who coerced us, otherwise we would never have joined the thieves! Kuragano Hidekyo showed a pitiful look at this time, but Oishi Tsunamoto, Kohata Keijun and the others present were not deceived at all.

"I see, but the number of places that can be forgiven by the town government is limited, so let's see if you can give that Wada-sama ······" Saito Michizo stopped talking when he got to his lips.

"Understood! The sinner immediately went back and killed the thief Hetian Yefan and surrendered in Kaesong! As soon as Kuragano Hidekyo heard Saito Michizo's words, it became clear that Saito Michizo's meaning was very simple, leaving two and one. Kuragano Hidejing can only sacrifice his brother-in-law and Tian Yefan for himself.

Wada was waiting very anxiously in the castle, and Kuragano Hidekei returned to the castle from the Uesugi army's main camp and first gathered twenty of his henchmen and samurai and asked them to ambush them next door to the Great Hiroma. Wada received an invitation from Kuragano Hidekei to hold a banquet in the Ohiro room.

Kuragano Hidejing knew that he couldn't let him see that he was tired, so he took the initiative to go to the Honmaru and Tian family house to ask Wada Yeshiro, and along the way told him how Saito Michizo was satisfied, and said that he would be able to block and other words that reassured Wada Yeshiro. After the capital and Tian Ye Fan entered the Great Hiroma, Kuragano Hidejing immediately drew his knife and cut down the two Wada family retainers behind him, and then the Kuragano family warriors who had been ambushed for a long time immediately killed and hacked Wada Ye Fan to death. Kuragano Hidekei, who had already taken over the military situation of the head of the head office, asked them to go out of the city and surrender first, and he suppressed the military strength of the Wada family with 1,000 troops under his command, and used the head of Wada Yefan to show the public, so that the Wada army gave up resistance. After the castle was settled, Kuragano Hidekei led all the troops in the castle with a total of 1,800 men out of the castle and surrendered to the Uesugi army, plus the previous 900 men for a total of 2,700 men.

Of course, Saito Michizo did not get an order from Asadaki to forgive a rebellious wealthy clan, and when Kuragano Hidekei returned, he asked Omori Minori, Soga Yushige, and Ogasawara Nagasawara to immediately seize the castle gate, arrow turret, pavilion tower and other important facilities when Kuragano Hidekei led his army to surrender.

Kuragano Hidejing naturally didn't know Saito Michizo's plan, but he took all the city soldiers out of the city and surrendered according to the original plan. It wasn't until Minori Omori, Yushige Sogaga, and Ogasawara Nagasawara led more than 5,000 Uesugi troops to seize various city gates, arrow turrets and other facilities that Kuragano Hideki suddenly realized, but it was already too late.

Saito Michizo immediately announced that he would only pursue the culprit, and immediately arrested Kuragano Hidekyo and other Kuragano and Wada family retainers and beheaded them outside the castle. The remaining Ashigaru was all pardoned and released. However, Nagano Yoshimasa's daughter was returned by Saito Michizo arranged for Nagano retainer Shirakawa Mitsukatsu.

Michizo Saito's strategy was now seen by the Uesugi family and the people of the Uesugi family in Ueno, and the world once again saw the resurrection of the 'Mino Viper'.

With the pacification of the southern part of Ueno, the eight counties of Ganraku-gun, Midorino-gun, Tahu county, Kataoka-gun, Saza-gun, Naba-gun, Nitta-gun, and Yamada gun were all suppressed by the Uesugi army. Nagano Yoshimasa of Gunma Prefecture will be able to intimidate the followers of the Furukawa Shogunate in Seta and Tone by capturing the head president who has lost his monarch.