As a result of the surprise of Hojo Mirage, a large number of the people of Kasai Castle migrated to the castle town of Kawagoe Castle, where they lived in a new place, and Kawagoe Castle was fully developed. This brought the total population of Heyue City to 40,000! In particular, after the increase in labor, Chaoding began to personally go into battle and began to preside over the reconstruction of Hayue Castle.

A large number of local people were levied from the court, and the periphery of the city began to expand. After replacing the original board screen with an earthen screen, the defense power has been greatly increased. Asadachi also continued to build Ninomaru and built an empty horse farm and five stables to house the horses.

Of course, the lord of his own family has personally commanded the expansion of the city, how can his retainers not come?

Uesugi Asanori, Ota Shiken, Namba Kenshige, Fujita Yasubang, Miyagi Masayi and others rushed to help, and they also came to help with a thousand ashigaru.

It was February 1539, the eighth year of astronomy. Chaoding finally completed the initial reconstruction of Hayue Castle. Although Kawagoe Castle could not be transformed from a flat castle to a mountain castle even if it was renovated, the court dug two deep trenches around the castle of Kawagoe Castle, and also expanded the small building of Honmaru into an imperial hall.

In this way, after the Asadachi renovated and enlarged the original Kawagoe Castle on the Ota Road, he thought that even if the Hojo family's army attacked, he would be able to hold it for three or four months.

Just a few days after the completion of the construction of the court, Uesugi Kenmasa went out of battle, and also pulled 70,000 troops from the Furukawa Princess, such as the Ashikaga Haru clan, Numata Kenyasu, and Sano Hideyoshi, as well as the wealthy families of the country, to march towards Hachioji Castle!

Chao Ding was helpless after getting the news, he had to follow if he wanted to fight, but he had to save his strength. But fortunately, Uesugi Kenmasa knew that the current strength of the Ogiya Uesugi family was insufficient, so he didn't ask the Ogiya Uesugi family to send troops, as long as he personally led the troops to the round. Then, Asadachi handed over the task of defending the castle to Uesugi Asanori and Namba Tian Kenshige, and he himself went with the 400 cavalry of the Kawagoe Knights, the strongest fighting force of the Uesugi family in Ogiga.

Astronomical 8th year, early March. Uesugi Kenmasa set up his camp in Takiyama Castle, not far north of Hachioji Castle; The Ashikaga Haruki clan set up a main camp at Tsukui Castle; Hideyoshi Sano's main camp is in Ozawa Castle; The main camp of Uesugi Asadashi and Numata Kenyasu followed Uesugi Kenmasa in Takiyama Castle.

The military commander who defended the castle in Hachioji Castle was Hojo Tsunari, the general of the Hojo family, and even the army in the castle still had 2,000. As soon as Uesugi Kenmasa came, he only surrounded the city, and did not attack the city.

At this moment, Takiyama Castle Honmaru assessment room.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Odawara's defeat is already in sight, I don't have to be in a hurry, just go down like this and wait for the military rations in the city to run out, so that Hachioji Castle can also fall into the city." Uesugi Kenmasa gathered his retainers in the assessment room and started the assessment meeting.

"Yes, the minister thought that the city soldiers in the Eight Princes City had begun to starve." Wife Shikada Shinsuke sees the opportunity to cater to Uesugi Kenmasa's idea.

"However, if the main family were to attack the castle at this time, there would be no way for the Hojo family's reinforcements. Maybe they will surrender to their own family. Nagano Ye was sitting in the position of the chief on the left side of Uesugi Kenmasa and finally said his thoughts, "Now the family still doesn't know what method the Hojo family has to deal with, so they can only defeat them early, and there will be more accidents later." ”

"Nagano, why are you so afraid?" Uesugi Kenmasa heard Nagano Yoshimasa's proposal of 'quick victory' in the case of absolute superiority, and immediately felt a little unhappy, "The enemy army has 8,000 reinforcements, and there are still 2,000 in the city, and we have an army of nearly 80,000!" Eighty thousand! ”

"My lord! The Imagawa family has already made peace with the Hojo family. Now the only enemy of the Hojo family is the Uesugi family! "Nagano Yemasa couldn't help but wonder why the lord who didn't listen to the 'advice' himself would be loyal to him for so long.

"It's Ise! It's not Hojo! "Uesugi Kenmasa drilled as soon as he saw the tip of the horns, and at this time he had to argue with Nagano Yemasa whether it was 'Ise' or Hojo.

"Lord, isn't it too much to manage the hall, it's not too late to worry about this after the battle." Ota Shimasa, who came with Asada, couldn't help but complain, is this Uesugi Kenmasa a bad brain?

"Let him go, we'll just watch it for now." Chao Ding didn't want to get into trouble now, so it was better to watch them fight quietly.

In order to help their allies, the Hojo family, the Takeda family also sent troops at this time to conquer Haikou Castle, Komoro Castle, and Shiga Castle, which were subjugated to the Uesugi family in Yamanuchi. The lord of Shiga Castle, Kasawara Kiyoshige, is seppuku in Honmaru. The Oi family was directly subordinated to the Takeda family, and the Yamauchi Uesugi family's power in Kita-Shinano was completely wiped out.

Hojo Shiyasu with 8,000 reinforcements on Mt. Tanzawa in the south of Tsukui Castle really didn't dare to act rashly after looking at the large number of Kwantung United Army. He had no choice but to use Kansuke Yamamoto, who was sent by the Takeda family, to infiltrate the Uesugi family's main camp to contact the Hojo family's Hojo family's Hosaku, Honma Eshu.

"Retribution! Five days ago, the Takeda family seized Haikou Castle, Shiga Castle, Komoro Castle, and Mitsugaku Castle in Kita-Shinano! Shiga Castle Lord Kasawara Kiyoshiga-sama in Honmaru seppuku! Just when Uesugi Kenmasa was talking about the history of the Hojo family, the news brought by the envoy undoubtedly gave Uesugi Kenmasa a resounding slap in the face and woke him up.

"The hateful Takeda family!" The veins on Uesugi Kenmasa's face rose.

"Lord, Takeda Qingxin is besieging Wei to save Zhao, it's time for the family to attack the city!" Nagano Ye is a person who understands, and he knows that Takeda Harunobu will not dare to cross the North Shinano to fight Ueno.

"My lord, the Takeda family has not yet unified Shinano, and the Murakami family is here, so the family can still continue to besiege the city." Kuragano Naoyuki touched his beard and thought about it, doesn't Kitashinano still have a guardian generation Yoshikiyo Murakami? He will definitely not surrender to the Takeda family easily.

"Enough! When Hachioji Castle falls, I'm going to destroy Ise in Odawara Castle in one fell swoop, and then it's the Takeda family! Uesugi slammed his fist on the tatami mat.

Soon, the military discussion between the assessment rooms ended, and the various daimyos, wealthy clans, and people returned to their own camps.

Uesugi Kenmasa got bored after besieging Hachioji Castle a month later, and let Kabuki appear in Takiyama Castle, even in Tsukui Castle. Kansuke Yamamoto also entered Takiyama Castle as a ronin at this time, and connected with Honma Eshu.

"Hojo Yasu-sama, let me pass on a message to you......" Kansuke Yamamoto specially found a tent close to the woods and met with Honma Eshu.

"What's the matter?" Honma Eshu was still very frightened, and first entered the tent after there was often no one nearby. All this was still seen by Namba Hayato Sa, who was patrolling around, and he immediately went back to report to the court.

"Very good, let them go. The main family could not let the Kabuki enter like the other clans, and the samurai of the Knights had to concentrate on patrolling and guarding the main camp of our army. "Chaoding wants to use this opportunity to get the Nagao family to intervene in the Kanto region, and then wait for the Nagao family to leave and expand his power with confidence.

Among these kabukis, there was still a female ninja of the Wind Demon Ninja sent by Hojo Shiyasu, who reported to Hojo Shiyasu after completing the reconnaissance, so that Hojo Shiyasu could attack the combined army in two ways.

Since most of the Coalition Army was a rabble, and the barracks were full of vendors, kabuki, and other unrelated people, the barracks did not look like barracks, and even the most basic combat effectiveness had disappeared. When Sano Hidegang saw this scene and learned that the Hojo family was preparing for a night attack, he evacuated directly and quietly.