Chapter 368: Pacify the Two Countries
Just when Takeda Shingen sent Shinano generals such as Baba Nobubo, Hoshina Masatoshi, and Fujisawa Yorikina to lead more than 5,000 troops to Koba Castle and Iwahara Castle to prepare for crossing Mt. Tsubame and Tateyama Peak at any time to invade Dongyuechu, Koyamada Nobushige, a major retainer of the Takeda family, was already disappointed with Takeda Shingen's repeated heavy taxes and non-stop military service. Taking advantage of the convenience of his own territory bordering the Uesugi domain, Nobushige Oyamada secretly sent his family's important retainers, Kobayashi Miyasuke, and a group of Oyamada Hachizaemon (Koyamada Nobushige's brother) to Kawagoe Castle to get in touch with the Uesugi family. Since Asadashi was not in Koetsu Castle, Yamazaki Hidesen, who was in charge of the remaining service, did not dare to assert himself, so he sent the letter written by Nobushige Oyamada to Echigo Fuchu, and Kenshin then forwarded it to Asada.
In view of the fact that Katsunuma Nobugen and Imai Nobuya were discovered and removed by Takeda Shingen because of their repeated contact with him, he did not plan to have too much contact with Oyamada Nobushige, but only hooked up the line, unless he contacted him as a last resort.
At the same time, the Imperial Commander Hirosawa Tadanobu, Soga Yushige, Miyagi Masayo, Omori Fujiyori, and Omori Minori, who were in Uozu Castle in East Vietnam, reorganized the Shangshu soldiers. Due to the fact that the Shangzhou soldiers had repeatedly fought against foreign countries and had dropped from more than 8,000 to less than 6,000 at that time, the court decided to reorganize and replenish the Shangzhou soldiers during the period when there was no war at present.
After the court's criteria for selection and elimination were sent to Hirosawa Tadanobu, Soga Yushige, Miyagi Masayu, Omori Fujiyori, Omori Minori and others, everyone was dumbfounded, they did not expect that the requirements of the court would be so strict - the soldiers were all wearing carcass, holding spears, equipped with knives and ribs, carrying a square bamboo bow (a synthetic bow with a wooden core wrapped in four pieces of bamboo), 50 bows and arrows in the negative arrow bag, carrying three days' rations, and being able to walk seven miles (1 li = 3927.2 meters, about 4000 meters) in half a day to engage in battle.
Fortunately, the Uesugi territory has a large population, fertile land, abundant products, and a longitudinal and horizontal road network and convenient transportation, so that the world's products are gathered, so that commerce is prosperous and the manufacturing industry is developed. It was not difficult to meet the standards set by the court for the Shangzhou soldiers. Tadanobu Hirosawa, Yushige Soga, Masayu Miyagi, Omori Fujiyori, and Omori Minori then screened 6,000 Kamishu soldiers to 3,000 within two months, and then recruited soldiers in Ueno, Shimono, Musashi, Kamiso, Shizo, Iwashiro, Iwaki, and Rikuzen. Tadanobu Hirosawa, Yushige Soga, Masayu Miyagi, Fujiyori Omori, and Minori Omori prioritized the recruitment of local samurai, wealthy clans, lords' concubines, second sons, and other men who could not inherit the family business, and then recruited the lords.
On August 31, the former retainers of the Edo family and the Satake family, such as Egawa Tsukiyo, Edegawa Tsukin, Edagawa Hyogosuke, Crocodile Tsushi, Crogagen Tsutada, and Crocodile Tsuken, had no choice but to retreat to Iinuma Castle after successive defeats against the Uesugi army, and they insisted on not surrendering. However, Ota Shimasa thought that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to completely defeat the remnants of the Edo clan, and immediately dispatched the powerful Konosu Seven Cavalry (Kosu, Oshima, Koike, Kono, Tachikawa, Fukai, Motoki, and Yabe) to lead more than 3,000 troops into Higashi-Changlu to join up with Minohe Keimichi, Kogoro Honma, Shioda Shikatsu, Kitazawa Naobu and others, and to storm Iinuma Castle, the only remaining remnant of Higashi-Tokiriku's people.
After Egawa Tsukiyo, Edegawa Tsukin, Eregawa Hyogosuke, Crocodile Tsushi, Crocodile Tsutada, Crocodile Tone Ken and others held the cage castle in Iinuma Castle for half a month, the castle was defeated by the Uesugi army. After being killed by the Uesugi army, the chief figures such as Edagawa Tsukiyo, Eregawa Tokon, Kogagawa Hyogosuke, Crocodile Tsushi, Crocodile Dotsutada, and Crocodile Fuchi Tsuken were sent to Kawagoe Castle after being killed by the Uesugi army, and more than 1,000 of their city soldiers, party members, and family members were all killed by the Ota army, and the five-month Higashi-Higashi-Higachi Rebellion was calmed down. The Hitachi Edo clan was completely wiped out, and since then, there has never been a rebellion of the Satake clan and the Edo clan against the Uesugi clan in the land of Hitachi Province.
Since entering Uozu Castle with more than 3,000 troops, Cho Ding did not rush to hold a military service to study tactics and strategies against the Chinese in East Vietnam, but quickly sent envoys to Nanao Castle to ask the generals to come to the aid of the Noto guardian Usami Dingman.
Upon learning that the dynasty had entered Vietnam, the people of East Vietnam, such as Jimbo Chokoku, Terashima Ichijo, and Shibata Hisamitsu, immediately stopped the momentum of foreign expansion and immediately prepared for cage castles in Inamura Castle, Ichikan, Terada Castle, Nichinaka Castle, and Shinjo Castle.
However, when the people of East Vietnam such as Jimboho Nagakoku, Terashima Itoada, Shibata Hisamitsu, and Jimbo Shigemasa saw that Asada's delay in leaving Uozu Castle for a long time, they thought that he was worried about the more than 5,000 Takeda troops stationed in Koba Castle and Iwahara Castle, and then Jimboh Nagaguni ordered Jimboho Nagaguni and other relatives to quickly lead an army of more than 500 to attack Toyama Castle, the original base of the former Echichu guardian of the Jimboh family, and at the same time built new Oyu Castle and Kakeo Castle to the west and south of Toyama Castle to contain the Uesugi army on the side of Nishietsu Nakawa Noto.
After learning that Toyama Castle had been attacked by the Ichichi people of East Vietnam, such as Jimboh Nagaguni and Terashima Ichijo, he thought that he could no longer let the Ichijo people continue to act recklessly in the country of Vietze, and after converging with the generals of Noto, such as Usami Dingman, Jimbo Kakuhiro, Kojima Zhizhen, Nagukyeryen, Tang Jinhiro, and Hatakeyama Shogun, Asadachi gathered a total of more than 20,000 troops, and once again embarked on a journey to pacify Echichu, and in less than two days he broke through the two branch cities of Oyu Castle and Kakeo Castle set up by Jimbo Nagukuni to block the advance of the Uesugi army. And achieved the record of beheading more than 300 levels, and then the front of the army directly aimed at the new base of the people in East Vietnam - Toyama Castle.
When Jimbo Nagakuni learned that the two branch cities of Oyu Castle and Kakeo Castle, which he had ordered to be built, had been captured by the Uesugi army within two days, he was so frightened that he did not dare to continue to defend Toyama Castle Cage Castle because he did not have the strength to match the Uesugi army, and then hurriedly led the castle soldiers to abandon the castle and flee to Inamura Castle, where he had originally raised troops.
On September 10, after capturing the empty Toyama Castle, the court launched a non-stop assault on the castles occupied by the Ichichi people in East Vietnam, such as Shinjo Castle, Terada Castle, and Ichikan, and on the same day, he captured all five castles occupied by the Ichi people in Toetsu Chuyi, and then captured Furumi Castle, Tatenojo Castle, Shibataya Castle and other places that were rebellious by Takeda Shingen's strategy, and begged for the death of the former ministers of the Shiina family, Kohata Kusuke, Tatedanmasa, Captain Morigoro Zo, Shibata Hisamitsu and others who belonged to Jimbo Nagakoku. With the fall of Oyu Castle, Kakeo Castle, Toyama Castle, Shinjo Castle, Terada Castle, Ichikan, and Nichinaka Castle, as well as the powerful generals Kohata Kusuke, Tatedanmasa, Hida Morigoro Zokin, Shibata Hisamitsu and others among the powerful generals of the East Vietnam Chuichi Clan, and Jimboh Shigema, Jimbo Dehanama, Jimboho Nagatoshi, and Jimboh Clan Chief, and other members of the Jimbo clan's relatives, were successively taken by the Uesugi army, the hope of the Jimboh Nagakuni to unify Vietnam and revive the Jimboh family was completely shattered.
As the branch city soldiers arranged by Shenbao Changguo in Dongyue changed hands one by one under the fierce offensive of Chaoding and others, Chaoding and others were ready to attack the already isolated city of Inamura City. Jimbo Chokoku, who had earlier lost the Shojo Castle, Terada Castle, Listing Hall, and Nichu Castle of the Ping Domain, now curled up in the corner of Inamura Castle for refuge, looking very depressed. The Uesugi army was in full swing, and with the determination to completely destroy the Echichu Jinpo clan, the destruction of the Echichu Jinbao clan was only within reach.
Hearing that the court had already approached Inamura Castle, Takeda Shingen immediately ordered the Shinano generals such as Baba Nobubo, Hoshina Masatoshi, and Fujisawa Yorikina to lead more than 5,000 troops to quickly cross the Tsunatake and Tateyama Peaks to invade and attack the East Vietnamese Central Strategy, and the gods and Ho Nagaguni and other East Vietnam Central Commandery.
However, when Takeda Shingen learned that there was only one lonely city left in East Vietnam such as Jimbo Nagakoku, it was too late, and when Baba Nobubo, Hoshina Masatoshi, Fujisawa Yorijin and others arrived outside Inamura Castle with more than 5,000 troops, they found that there were bamboo finch flags set up everywhere on the castle, and they realized that they were too late, and that the people of East Vietnam had been destroyed by the Uesugi army. Subsequently, Baba Nobubo, Hoshina Masatoshi, Fujisawa Yoriko and others had no choice but to lead the army back to Kita-Shinano.
Under the leadership of Jimbo Nagakoku, the Echichu Jinbao clan still failed to come back to life, and still fell at the hands of the court. Asadaki rushed to concentrate superior forces before the Takeda army arrived at Inamura Castle and quickly captured Inamura Castle, and Jimbo Nagaguni and Jimbo Nagashige, who were the generals of the Jimbo Nagaguni and a family clan, were all killed by the Uesugi army, and the Echichu Jimboho clan also followed in the footsteps of the Satake clan, Edo clan and other daimyo were completely destroyed by the Uesugi family and disappeared in the dust of history. Since then, in the land of Viethorn China, no one from the Shiina clan and the Jimbo clan has continued to meet with the Uesugi family's sword soldiers.