When Oko Castle was isolated by the Uesugi army and without any support, the lord of the castle, Yarokuro Oji, and the former retainers of the Kuragano family, Kanai Kogenta, Fukuda Kaga Mamoru, Tomita Isemori and others only held on for two days, and then surrendered to the Uesugi army in exchange for the survival of the castle soldiers and civilians.

Today, there are only a few castles left in the area around Higashi-Ueno and east of the Tonegawa River: Shibukawa Castle, Momoi Castle, Yamakoda Castle, and Arima Castle.

The court did not intend to give Honjo Shiranaga, Nagai Masashiki, Soga Yushige, Omori Minori and others a break. He immediately ordered Honjo Shigenaga, Nagai Masashiki, Soga Yushige, Omori Minori and others to join Nagao Keitaka to besiege the remnants of the Wada clan who were entrenched in Wada Castle and Yatsu Castle. At this time, the generals of Higashi Ueno had already collected their troops and returned to their own territories, and Ota Shimasa was arranged by the court to support Namba Kenji and others, who were attacking Honjo Castle and Fiftyko Castle.

At this moment, there was a sudden initiative in Wada Castle to become the inner response of Uesugi Fang.

And this retainer of the Wada family, who intends to become the inner response of Uesugi, is a little different, he is a member of the Wada family-Wada Yoshitsune.

Although the remnants of the Wada clan currently occupy the two places of Wada Castle and Yatsu Castle, the old territory of the Wada family, the distribution of troops is not so even. Guarding Wada Castle were the commander-in-chief and governor of the Wada clan, and the family governor Hetian Chaolian and Wada Yoshitsune, and other retainers. Yatsu Castle was defended by Wada Nobukatsu, the later of Wada Chaoren.

Although Wada Nobukatsu is in Yatsu Castle, there are many of his retainers and cronies in Wada Castle. Wada Chaolian was only a nominal governor and a commander-in-chief, and had no real power.

Wada Yoshitsune originally wanted to take advantage of the fact that Wada Nobukatsu was not in Wada Castle, which was a good opportunity to gain the trust and reuse of the new family governor. However, the heavens did not grant people's wishes. Wada Yoshitsune did not calculate that most of the city defense of Wada City was responsible for the supporters of Wada Nobukatsu, his retainers, and cronies, and he couldn't interfere at all. Although Wada Yoshitsune became the most trusted retainer of Wada Chaolian, he had no real power.

Hetian Yichang often thought that instead of sitting in fear on the wrecked ship of the Hetian family, which was about to capsize, it was better to take the initiative to change the lord. As the saying goes: 'A good bird chooses a tree to perch on, and a good minister chooses the master to do things', and Wada Yoshitsune had already made up his mind to defect to the Uesugi family at this time.

In this way, Wada Yoshitsune took the initiative to send people to contact Asada, Honjo Shiranaga and others, and he also said that he could open the big gate of Wada Castle to welcome the Uesugi army to enter.

And the court did not refuse Wada Yoshitsune. Since he has already planned to take the initiative to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, it is also a good thing for himself. Once he is a 'good head', then in the future to attack the rest of the countrymen lords who have fallen to Takeda Shingen and Nagano Yesei, their retainers will also rush to learn from Wada Yoshitsune, and take the initiative to turn their backs on their main family and join the Uesugi family.

Due to the presence of his own internal responders in Wada Castle, Asadachi ordered Nagao Keitaka to be responsible for containing Wada Nobukatsu of Yatsu Castle, while Honjo Shigenaga, Nagai Masashiki, Soga Yushige, Omori Minori, Akiyama Takitsuna, Asahina Shinji, Takai Ukin and others led more than 11,000 troops to surround Wada Castle.

After learning that Wada Castle was surrounded by more than 11,000 troops, Wada Nobukatsu began to be unable to sit still. After all, he is only an after-see of Hetian Chaolian, not a real family governor, although his bloodline is closer to trickle, but Hetian Chaolian is a member of the Hetian clan and a genealogy selected together. Once the puppet governor of Wada Chaoren is killed, then the morale of Yatsu Castle will soon be completely lost. If you don't get it right, there will be a lot of Uesugi family insiders in the city.

In order to be able to relieve the siege of Wada Castle as soon as possible, Wada Nobukatsu immediately thought of Nagano Yetsuri in Minowa Castle. At present, he is the only one who has the most strength and ability to rescue Wada City.

However, this request of Wada Nobukatsu was ruthlessly rejected by Nagano Yetsu. Nagano's reason is also very simple and clear - the Echigo army has already arrived in the area of Mt. Haruna and Shibukawa, and our side cannot spare extra troops to support Wada Castle, and I hope that the Wada family will solve it by themselves.

After Nobukatsu Wada's request to send troops was rejected by Nagano Yetsu, he had no choice but to lead his army out of the city. However, outside the castle, it was attacked by a large number of ronins and wild samurai of Nagao Keitakabu, and even the villages and castle towns near Yatsu Castle were attacked by ronins and wild samurai and ignited a fire. It made Wada Nobusheng unable to advance or retreat, and it was very embarrassing.

On August 7, Wada Yoshitsune led more than 50 people from his headquarters to raid the Oteemon Gate of Wada Castle Ninomaru, beheaded the two guards of the anti-machi, Mino Mamoru and anti-machi Ozen Ryo father and son, and opened the Otemen Gate to welcome the Uesugi army to enter.

Honjo Shiranaga, Nagai Masashimi, Soga Yushige, Omori Minori, Akiyama Tarita, and others, who had been waiting outside the castle for a long time, immediately led their troops to rush into Wada Castle as soon as they saw the Otemen Gate of Wada Castle open. The Wada army in the castle had no choice but to retreat to Honmaru after seeing the large influx of Uesugi troops into the castle.

And Wada Yoshitsune had already calculated this, and he had previously sent his retainers Manshita Kuemon and Takai Saemon and more than 50 Ashigaru to lurk in Honmaru, preparing to join forces with the Uesugi army and defeat Honmaru in one fell swoop.

However, Yoshitsune Wada's wishful thinking was wrong. Wada Asaren was not the kind of 'diehard' he imagined, and when he saw that the situation was not right, he immediately gave up resistance with his retainers and the castle soldiers, and opened the door of Honmaru and surrendered to the Uesugi army.

However, Honjo Shiganaga, Soga Yushige, Omori Minori, Nagai Masashiki, Akiyama Soutuna and others are happy to see such results. This saved them a lot of time and reduced the casualties of the Uesugi army.

After that, Wada Chaoren was escorted to Hirai Castle together with Ichichi, Yotaro Wada, Shitoro Wada and others. And the three people who were captured by Akiyama Tasoutuna, Asahina Shinji, Takai Ujin and others were Kuwaki Hachiro, Fukaya Left Guard, and Nakamura Ise Mamoru were beheaded on the spot by order of Asada. Although these three people were Uesugi Kenmasa's retainers and Ma Dian people, their contact with Takeda Shingen and Nagano Yetsu was constant, and if they were not eliminated, it was inevitable that they would not raise troops again in the future to respond to Takeda Shingen's troops.

At the same time, inside the Honmaru courtyard of Hirai Castle.

"My lord, now that the Go-Hiroshi, Takata, and Anaka families in Nishi-Ueno have been suppressed by Kohata Shosuke, Oishi Harima Mamoru and Ayukawa Shinano Mamoru and others, it is only a matter of time before they are pacified. It's just that more than 5,000 Takeda troops are still in Nishi-Azuma-gun, and they are mining Ben Baiyin Mountain on a large scale. "Yamazaki Hidesen is now worried that Takeda Shingen will send troops to hold back Asada, preventing him from freeing his hands to recover Nishi-Azuma County.

"In two months, if the water level of the Tone River and the Shibu River does not skyrocket, then the family will be able to recruit at least 30,000 troops into Nishi-Ueno. On the other hand, Dr. Takeda Daizen did not have so many troops to invest in Nishiueno. I have arranged for Kasahara Notomori, Kano Shinsuke, Ichikawa Gentosai and other generals to lead 10,000 troops into Sagami, and the Boso Navy has also begun to attack Suruga Bay and other important routes of the Takeda family. Right now, the Takeda family doesn't have that much energy to take care of Nishi-Ueno. "Asadachi is not worried that Takeda Shingen will continue to send troops into Nishi-Ueno to assist the countrymen lords of Ueno. If Takeda Shingen really had this in mind, then Takeda Nobuyomo, Anayama Nobuyuki and other generals would not retreat to Nishi-Azuma Prefecture in one fell swoop and ignore the lives and deaths of the lords who had fallen to the Takeda Fangkuni.

"The Lord is wise. For now, it is better to open a passage to Omoriji Temple as soon as possible. If the 'center blossoms' are attacked by generals such as Nagano Iyomori and Urano Nakano, it will not last long. "Hidesen Yamazaki is still very worried about the safety of Ōmoriji Temple.

"You don't have to worry about this Liuzhai. The Rock Cabinet City still maintains the channel for transporting materials to Omori Temple. We don't have to worry about the safety of Omoriji Temple in the short term. At present, we should take advantage of the fact that Hotan Castle was captured by our army, and we should make persistent efforts to destroy the Hotan army stationed in Yatsu Castle. After all, the Wada family is one of the powerful people on the outskirts of Gongwei Minowa Castle. If the Wada family were to be destroyed by the main family, then Mamoru Nagano Iyomori's attention would only be focused on the branch network south of Minowa Castle. Chaoding is not worried about the safety of Jieshan Yunsheng. After all, now that Higashi-Azuma County has been quickly pacified by Kenshin, the siege of Iwaku Castle has been lifted, and the Urano family in Oto Castle is also unable to protect itself, so they will not do their best to assist Nagano Yetsu to attack Omoriji Temple.

"My lord, are you going to make good use of Wada Ishimimoru?" Yamazaki said with a smile.

"Not bad. This person is not only a sharp sword stabbing at the heart of the Wada family, but also a sharp sword stabbing at the Takaru Nagano family. The Wada Shinemon who was nominally the head of the Wada clan and the governor of the family did not have any use value for the family, and there was no point in keeping him. Hetian Ishimimori is a rare person in the Hotan family who knows the times, and he himself is a member of the Hotan family, and he is very suitable to serve as the head of the Hota clan and the governor of the family. Chao Ding said after smiling.