Just after Takeda Nobuyoshi's reluctance to withdraw his troops, Takeda Shingen also understood why the Takeda army was defeated. On the one hand, he spent a lot of money on the Ninja of Transbo, allowing them to strengthen their construction and establish intelligence networks in various places. On the other hand, Takeda Shingen sent his retainer Naito Masatyo to Kawagoe Castle, and he wanted to tell Asadachi that he was also loyal to the shogunate, but he was blocked by the Wind Demon clan and was completely unable to cross Izu to defeat the rebels.

Due to the unauthorized request of Akechi Mitsuhide to promote the former heir of Sekihaku Konoe to the official rank of the Asada, Ashikaga Yoshiteru began to be a little wary of the Asada. Akechi Dingming also entered Musashi on December 15, and he brought the original promotion of Asadashi from the fifth rank of the shogun to the fourth rank. In addition, the imperial court also gave the court the right to establish a town guard in the Kanto region. In other words, the shogun of the town guard, who was originally in charge of the military and daimyo of Okuba, was also able to govern the eight countries of Kanto.

The fourth rank is the treatment of the royal highness, once the minister reaches the fourth position, he can have the right to see the emperor, and he can also talk to him about political affairs and so on.

Chao Ding's original position as a repair doctor was only from the fourth position, and this time it was three ranks higher in an instant. He also has the right to crusade against the unsubordinate, the name of righteousness, and so on.

Although the arrival of Akechi was also a rare piece of good news for the Uesugi family, it was followed by a letter from Hideji Kano who sent a fast horse to deliver a letter from Yoshiyao Satomi. After receiving the letter, Asada did not open it, and he personally handed it to Toyohime.

Toyohime opened it and cried when she looked at it. One paragraph of the letter reads: It is not easy for the house to serve the shogunate, and as the guardian of the house granted by the shogunate, he should fight the rebels to the end. Although the results were not satisfactory, marrying you to the Uesugi family was one of the few things that the Satomi family has done right over the years. The Uesugi family was attacked by rebels from all over the country and had no spare strength to help the family, so his father did not send a messenger to ask for reinforcements. If you die on the battlefield for your father this time, I hope you can live well in the Uesugi family, and if you have a boy in the future, please ask the prince to let him inherit the house of the general sato.

At the end of the letter is Satomi Yoshiyao's drawing, and Asadaki can guess what the letter says when he looks at Toyohime. Although some castles were besieged in various parts of Ueno, they were strengthened and hoarded with a large amount of grain and grass earlier, and they were able to hold on for several months.

And Chaoding can only recall one lyric at this moment, and this lyric can describe the appearance of Satomi's home: 'The halberd sinks into the sand and the autumn water, and the flowers fall and the king resigns.'" ’

"Please send troops to rescue Satomi's family!" Toyohime didn't know that Satomi Yoshiyao had died in battle at the moment, so she still felt that there was still hope.

"The young assistant of the criminal department wants to sacrifice his life for righteousness, if he asks for reinforcements, the three thousand troops of Higashijinjo Kano Hideji can go south to rescue at any time, but he didn't ask for it." Chao Ding could only say this, he didn't want to say directly in front of Feng Ji that he didn't want to help.

When Hojo Yasuichi learned that the lobbying of Imagawa Shin, Asai Masatoshi and others was 'successful', he immediately gathered his military forces. After meeting with the Jade Rope people of the Hojo clan and a part of the Odawara clan, the Hojo army reached 15,000. There are still 4,000 troops at Hojo Nagatora, and if Hojo Clan Yasu joins them, there will be nearly 20,000 troops. Their goal was to unite with the 'besieged' Imagawa clan and defeat the Uesugi clan. He thought that Asadashi was surrounding Okabe Motonobu and others and had no time to take care of himself, and that the goal of the Hojo Army was to regain the 'homeland' in Musashi and rebuild the Edo, Koki, and Kawagoe people.

What Hojo didn't know was that Okabe Motonobu and the others had no intention of following the Hojo family in the first place. They knew very well what would happen if they followed the puppet shogunate, and the Imagawa family was originally a relative of the shogun's family, and they also had self-esteem.

The Uesugi family had already assembled 12,000 troops in Musashi, not including Motonobu Okabe, who was being besieged. If you count them, add six thousand. The strategic value of Musashi is relatively high, and it extends in all directions. Since returning to Musashi, Asadachi has been recruiting displaced people and refugees, and the population in the Uesugi domain has increased rapidly. However, before the decisive battle with the Hojo Army, the Asahi needed to get rid of a problem in his heart - the Fukaya Uesugi family.

Uesugi Kenmori of the Uesugi family of Fukaya led his retainers Kiyohide Okayani and Keitao Akimoto to attack Naba Castle of the Uesugi family with 1,500 troops. The defense in the territory is not complete, as long as the Uesugi army is close to the castle, Uesugi Kenmori will definitely lead the army back to defense, and finally encircle the point and send reinforcements to take Fukaya Castle.

Momoi Yoshitaka used to be a member of the Nagao family, and he can be regarded as having seen the world. The 1,500 troops of the Uesugi army in the deep valley are not too much, plus he has built Naba Castle before, adding arrow turrets and pavilion towers. The defenses of the city can be said to be relatively strong. Moreover, the hoarded grain and grass is enough for seven hundred troops to eat for five months, so it can be said that as long as the grain and grass are enough, Momoi Yoshitaka can hold the city without reinforcements.

While the Hojo Army was still marching towards Hachioji Castle, Asadachi also gathered his own troops. The Kawagoe Knights' Cavalry (500), Heavy Infantry (600), Iron Cannon Ashigaru (500), Spear Samurai (300), Nagi Warrior (300), and Banner Ashigaru (200) will join Asada. Among the Uesugi troops besieging the three cities of Beppu, Ghana, and Ishinodo, Ogasawara Sadasane's 1,000 troops, Hosoya Shimichi's 1,500 troops, and Hirosawa Tadanobu's 2,000 troops left there and went to Fukaya Castle as a vanguard to surround them. The 3,500 troops of Honjo and the 4,000 troops of Kenji Namba had to pretend to surround the three castles.

After Uesugi Kenken lived in seclusion, he never gave birth to peace. He knew that as a fellow clan, the Ogiya Uesugi family would not let the Fukaya Uesugi family continue to stay in Musashi peacefully. As soon as he learned that the Fukaya Uesugi family was going to divide the royal family's imperial land, he asked Uesugi Kenmori to contact the Furukawa Princess. Even the Ashikaga Fuji clan was proclaimed shogun, and the Fukaya Uesugi family also contributed some strength.

The Fukaya Uesugi family did more than just the above, after the Uesugi Army and the Nagao Army entered the Kanto region, Uesugi Kenken also took in the pro-Hojo wealthy Beppu Nagakiyoshi and some Fujita family samurai. It can be seen from this that Uesugi Kenxian's father and son have long been ready to tear their faces with Uesugi Asada, although their strength is not satisfactory, at least they can still fight with the Uesugi family. Whether or not we can win is another matter.

On the 18th, Hirosawa Tadanobu teamed up with Hosoya Shimichi and Ogasawara Sadato to surround Fukaya Castle with 4,500 troops. Uesugi Kenken still sent his henchmen to Naba Castle on the eve of the siege to report Uesugi Kenmori. However, Uesugi did not have the means and abilities of his father. At the time of the withdrawal of the siege, he was attacked by 400 soldiers led by Momoi Yoshitaka and fled in embarrassment, and after retreating into Musashi and counting the number of people, the original 1,500 troops left Fukaya Castle, and only 900 troops were left at this moment.

When the 2,400 troops of the Asada's main army arrived at the outskirts of Fukaya Castle, he also expected that Uesugi Kenmori's army would return to defend Fukaya, so he asked Saito Toshizo to lead 500 cavalry of the Kawagoe Knights to escort Ogasawara Akimura and Mukaiyama Hanji's 500 iron cannon ashigaru to set up an ambush outside Honjo Castle. When the 900 defeated army led by Uesugi Kenmori slowly marched to Honjo, he did not send spies to investigate, completely unaware of the impending danger.

Seeing that the morale of the Fukaya Uesugi army was so low, Saito Rizo and the others became even more confident, and Ogasawara Akimura and Mukaiyama Hanji immediately ordered the iron artillery Ashigaru to split into two teams and attack the Fukaya Uesugi army in two sections.

With the sound of gunshots, the ashigaru and samurai of the Uesugi family in Fukaya rushed one after another, and the samurai on horseback were also knocked off their horses. These people have no consciousness of lying down at all. In winter, if you are not bandaged in time after being injured, it is equivalent to waiting for death. And the samurai and ashigaru of the Uesugi army in Fukaya are completely living targets on the plains. After the two rounds of iron cannons were fired together, the Fukaya Uesugi Army, which had already lost half of its troops, had no strength left to deal with the onslaught of the cavalry of the Kawagoe Knights led by Saito Toshizo.

The cavalry under the leadership of Saito Rizo harvested the lives of the Uesugi Army personnel in the deep valley completely without pressure, and Uesugi Kenmori was caught up and captured by Saito Toshizo when he fled on horseback. And the two of the important ministers of the Fukaya Uesugi family, Okaya Kiyohide and Akimoto Keichao, were killed by the iron cannon Ashigaru at the beginning. In just half an hour, the 900 troops of the Uesugi army in the deep valley were wiped out. The Uesugi army killed 550 men and captured 200 prisoners. There were also 150 people who were frostbitten after being wounded by iron cannons and could not march with the Uesugi army, so Saito Toshizo had to let the captured 200 Uesugi troops support and carry them.

Uesugi Kenken was still holding on inside the city, waiting for Uesugi Kenmori's army to return to defense, but on the afternoon of the 18th, Uesugi troops were outside the city with the heads of Uesugi Kenmori, Okaya Kiyohide, Akimoto Keitao and other samurai, as well as 350 captured people outside the city to shout. This shocked Uesugi Kenken, Uesugi Clan Mori (Uesugi Kenken's second son), Beppu Nagakiyoshi and others, who did not know that Uesugi Kenmori had already been defeated once under Naba Castle, and thought that the number and strength of the Uesugi army were no longer comparable to those of the Uesugi family in Fukaya. Although Uesugi Kenken and others still wanted to continue to fight against the Uesugi army, the defenders in the castle had lost the will to resist. Although there were still 1,000 defenders in the city, there were very few left who were willing to continue the battle.

Chao Ding knew that the strategy of attacking the heart had already had some effect, but he didn't want to waste time. On the night of the 18th, Kato Danzo led twenty ninjas to infiltrate Minaminomaru, and after killing more than a dozen ashigaru guarding the gate, he opened the gate, and let Saito Rizo and the cavalry of the Kawagoe Knights rush into the city. The second team, 1,500 troops of Hosoya Shimichi, entered the castle.

Shouts of killing rang out everywhere in the city, and the defenders of the Uesugi family in Fukaya, who were still asleep, were basically taken prisoner, while the samurai who resisted were killed one by one. After Fukaya Castle Minami no Maru, Higashi no Maru, and Sannomaru were quickly captured, Ninomaru was also in the melee.

Uesugi Kenken and others, who learned that Minaminomaru, Higashinomaru, and Sannomaru had lost contact, had already expected that the Fukaya Uesugi family would not be able to wait for the Furukawa Shogunate Army. Beppu Nagakiyo led his own seven samurai and the Uesugi army to fight to the death, while Uesugi Kenken and Uesugi Morimori Honmaru seppuku. After Uesugi Kenken's family was subsequently killed by his retainers, the Uesugi clan in Fukaya severed their family name.

With the suppression of Ninomaru, Beppu Nagakiyoshi was also killed in the rebellion. Fukaya Castle was immediately lost, and the Fukaya Uesugi family, a pseudo-Musashi guardian appointed by the Furukawa Shogunate, was also annihilated by the crusading army. The northern part of Musashi was completely pacified, and it was completely bordered by Naba Castle, Koizumi Castle, Tatebayashi Castle, and Hirai Castle under the leadership of Ueno Uesugi.

After the news of the defeat of the Uesugi family in Fukaya reached Kuragano Castle, Kuragano Hidekyo and others, who were about to attack Hirai Castle again, could only stand by in the castle, and if they came out of battle, they would definitely be attacked by Momoi Yoshitaka who had already freed up his hands.

At this time, even reinforcements from the Murakami family entered Ueno. Kiyono Kiyohide quickly led a thousand Murakami troops to the outside of Kunimine Castle, waiting for the order from the Asada.

Asada was also not prepared to let Uesugi's retainers in Ueno do passive defense, so he handed over Izumi Mamoru Kanedori to Saito Michizo and asked him to go to Ueno to lead the Uesugi army, Murakami army, and Nagano army on his behalf. Saito Michizo was originally only a staff officer for the Asada, but the task given to him to lead the troops this time is very rare. Before he left, Asadaki told him that he would not allocate a single soldier to him in these months, and it would depend on his means and strength to pacify Ueno Ichikoku.

The only troops still on standby in southern Ueno were 7,000 troops from Hirai Castle (Kiyono Kiyohidebu, Kiyokawa Kiyochobu, Oishi Tsunagen Division, and Kohata Keisukibu) and 500 Naba Castle.

Although the Asadaki had a lot of troops under the command of Saito Michizo, most of Ueno was under the influence of the Furukawa Shogunate, and he wanted to fight one castle after another.

Even if there are many supporters of the Furukawa shogunate, there are those who are dissatisfied with it. In the Ueno Numata family, there is hope to become the inner responder of the Uesugi family - Numata Yumitsu.