Just after Yusa Soeni led his army back to his place of Kinmaru and Fukusui, Hatakeyama Yoshien, the governor of the Matsuba Hatakeyama family, a branch of the Hatakeyama family, was promoted to the general by the generals of Okunoto, and led a total of 4,000 troops, including the lord of Okunoto, Saki Soharu and Okumura Somichi, towards Furai Castle. Hatakeyama Yoshito is the son of Hatakeyama Yoshinari, the third generation of the Matsuba Hatakeyama clan, with a beautiful appearance, reading, outstanding artistic ability, and is good at using the naginata, and is good at judging all the ways.

At this time, Usami Dingmitsu had already captured Tokuda Castle southeast of Nanao Castle and killed 1,500 people, including the lord of the castle, Tokuda Hideaki. After Usami settled in Tokuda Castle, he began to reconcile Noto Island (a small island in the eastern part of the Noto Peninsula) with the two guards of Kamiji Cave Castle and Noto Island Pavilion, Noto Mamoru and Izumo Mamoru Nomo.

Mamoru Hatakeyama Suruga and others in Nanao Castle saw that the main force of the Uesugi Army had dispersed, and Usami Dingmi, who served as the general of the Eastern Route Army, also had only more than 4,000 troops left after capturing Tokuda Castle, which made Hatakeyama Suruga Mamoru feel that the time had come to cut off a large arm of the Asada.

Immediately, Hatakeyama Suruga Mamoru and the craftsmen of the Hatakeyama family, Kono Susuhide, Sawasaki Tsunamori, Yamada Sakuro Konsuke and Kasamatsu Tajima Mamoru gathered 5,000 troops to prepare for a battle with Usami Dingman. And Nagasuri, who learned of this, strongly opposed Hatakeyama Suruga's plan to go out of the castle and fight. And Hatakeyama Suruga Mamoru pointed to Nagashiren's nose and said that he was greedy for life and afraid of death, and then he went out of the city directly with 5,000 troops, and set up a position in Hatoba in clear south, preparing to engage the Uesugi army here.

"Hey! Even if there are less than a thousand people left around that Usami, he can still defeat Hatakeyama Suruga! "The matter has come to this, and when he saw that he couldn't persuade him to return to Hatakeyama Suruga, he was so angry that he stomped his feet.

Usami Dingmi, who was still not hot in Tokuda Castle, couldn't help but laugh when he heard the news that the Takusaku Hatakeyama army had left the city and set up a position in Hatoba: "Originally, I planned to provoke them under the castle to make them out of the city, but now I have even avoided the provocation!" ”

"Suruga guards the temple, the enemy army is large, not to mention that our army has captured Tokuda Castle and lost nearly 1,000 troops. Just resisting the southward movement of the First Army in Austria and Vietnam, he did not get much time to rest and recuperate. The current craftsman Hatakeyama Army is like waiting for work! "Masashiro Dohi didn't think it was a good thing for the Hatakeyama army to come out of Nanao Castle.

"The morale of our army has not weakened, as long as our army has time to rest after defeating the Hatakeyama army in Hatoba." Usami immediately put away his smile and began to get serious.

"Why?" The Tang people on the side were a little puzzled.

"Once our army defeats this craftsman Hatakeyama army at Hatoba, then the morale of the enemy troops in the city will definitely be much lower, and no one in the city will be willing to go out of the city to fight our army." Usami said helplessly. He was appointed by the court to attack the eastern route, with the purpose of containing the enemy forces in the Seven Tails Castle and diverting as many Noto people as possible to lords.

“······” After hearing this, Tu Fei Zhengfan and the others were silent.

At noon on October 5, Kono Suhide, the lord of Horimatsu Castle, the precursor of the Battle of Hatoba, took the lead in firing iron cannons at the Uesugi army, and Usami Jomitsu, who was facing him, also immediately responded to the battle.

At the beginning of the battle, due to the disadvantage of the Usami Sagiman's army on the iron cannons, and the iron artillery was seriously insufficient (he was transferred to the Asada to attack the castle of Nishinoto), Usami Shimitsu did not return fire according to the custom, but retreated the right wing of the Tohi Masanobu that had been sniped head-on, and concentrated the only 100 iron artillery ashigaru on the left flank and advanced in a roundabout way, and the whole army formed a glaive formation.

When the left flank of the Dohi Masashibu approached less than 100 paces of Kono's Suhidebu, Usami Joshimitsu immediately ordered a salvo. Killed more than 80 people in Kono's Suhide Department on the spot, and Kono Suhide immediately retreated after seeing that the battle situation was gradually unfavorable to him.

Immediately afterwards, Usami Dingmitsu gave an order, and the Uesugi army changed the formation from the glaive formation to the crane wing formation, and the two of them, Tsuchihi Masashiro and Masanobu Dohi, attacked Kono Suhide and Kono Tosamori (Kono Sushihide's son) from the left flank; From the right flank, the Tang people attacked Tsunamori Sawasaki and Mamoru Kono Hizen (son of Kono Hihide). And Usami Dingman asked his son Usami Katsuyuki to replace him and lead the team to break into the main camp of Hatakeyama Suruga Mamoru.

For a time, the Uesugi army was like a wind cutting grass, and the Hatakeyama army rushed into pieces. Tsunamori Sawaki, Mamoru Kono Tosamo, Mamoru Kono Hizen and others were killed in battle, and the Hatakeyama army retreated again and again, and even the formation of Hatakeyama Suruga Mamoru was scattered by the defeated army. As the commander-in-chief, Mamoru Hatakeyama Suruga had to personally mount his horse and shout with a sword in his hand, trying to command the Takusaku Hatakeyama army to retreat.

At this time, the ashigaru and samurai around Hatakeyama Suruga Mamoru were defeated and retreated. Seeing that the defeat was decided, Hatakeyama Suruga Mamoru was about to flee from Hatoba alone, but he was attacked and dismounted in the chaos, and was then taken by Ashigaru commanded by Usami Katsuyuki.

With the collapse of Hatakeyama Suruga's main team, the left flank was completely opened by the Uesugi army. And the right-wing Kono continued to resist stubbornly, trying to salvage the defeat. The two ministries of soil and fertilizer politics and letters have fallen into a bitter battle. Seeing this scene, Usami Dingman immediately ordered Tang Ren Qinhiro and Usami Katsuyuki to attack from the flank of Kono Suhidebu, and the situation on the battlefield was reversed in an instant.

Even if Kono continued to fight, he still couldn't prevent the defeat even if he personally picked up his gun and fought hard. He himself suffered several arrow wounds and gunshot wounds, so he had to withdraw from the battlefield and fled back to Nanao Castle with several samurai, where he died that night. Yamada Sakinsuke and Kasamatsu Tajima Mamoru were also killed by the Uesugi army when they were also in the palace, and in addition to Kono Suhide, Hatakeyama Haratoshi (Hatakeyama Suruga Mamoru son) also fled back to Nanao Castle.

In the Battle of Hatoba, more than 2,000 members of the Hatakeyama army were killed by the Uesugi army, while the Uesugi army suffered nearly 1,000 casualties.

Just after the Eastern Route Army, led by Usami Dingman, broke the 5,000 troops of the Hatakeyama Army and killed more than 2,000 people, including Hatakeyama Surugamori, the main force of the Uesugi Army also began to attack Sueyoshi Castle and Furai Castle.

At this time, the people in the Seven Tails Castle were in panic all day. Hatakeyama Suruga Mamoru and several important ministers were killed in the battle of Hatoba, and after more than 2,000 soldiers were killed, many people in the castle were no longer willing to go out of the castle to fight the Uesugi army.

"Nagatsushima guards the temple, and today's Uesugi army has successively captured Tokuda Castle, Shiokan, Ida Castle and other places, and the important ministers in the family also have their fathers, Tokuda Palace, Kuri Den Palace, Makino Palace, etc. Now the plan is to negotiate a truce with the Uesugi family! "Hatakeyama Harutoshi only realized after the battle of Hatoba that it was impossible for the Hatakeyama family to defeat the Uesugi family.

"The outcome is not yet decided. Shoba Hall is converging with the generals of Okunoto. Once they go south and echo with the Pure Land Shin Sect disciples in Noto, then our advantage will come. "Naga-suren's expectations for the Matsuba Hatakeyama family are still very high.

"However, more than 3,000 Uesugi troops are still stationed in Tokuda Castle, which is still a big trouble for the family······" At this time, the eight generations of the Hatakeyama family, the craftsman, reminded him of the long continuation.

"An Yimori is right, but with only more than 3,000 Uesugi troops, they can't even attack the Demaru and Sannomaru of Nanao Castle. For the time being, they won't be moving much. "Nagajiren is not worried that Usami Seemitsu will use more than 3,000 troops to storm Nanao Castle.

"The Seven Tails City is impregnable, but the lower Jucheng and Bingqi are not impregnable! If we don't withdraw the defenders into the Seven Tails Castle, I'm afraid they will be wiped out! "Wenjing Jinglong is now starting to worry about his little family background.

"Can't be withdrawn! Once they evacuate, what will happen to the Taira clan in Sueyoshi Castle?! At present, the Uesugi army does not dare to attack the city with all its strength precisely because it has concerns about several branch castles and soldiers such as Onjingkan, and if the troops are withdrawn, Sueyoshi Castle and Furai Castle will be captured by the superior forces of the Uesugi army! Although Nagasuren is right, he just wants his brother and father in Sueji Castle to survive. Chang Xulian was originally the son of Ping Xinguang (the second son of Changjiao Lian), and his original name was Ping Shengguang. Later, he became the son-in-law of his uncle Nagaeiren to inherit the Noto Naga clan.