Chapter 374: The Great War Resumes

In the third year of Yonglu, on the thirtieth day of the twelfth month. When Takeda Nobuyoge was repeatedly repelled and defeated by Sagami generals such as Okabe Motonobu, Nagano Yesei, and Ikeda Morishu in the invasion of Sagami Province, he could not bargain in Sagami at all, and then he could only lead his army back in vain. It seems that the Takeda family is not as powerful as the legend says, and Asada, Okabe Motonobu and others have come to the same conclusion.

In the fourth year of Yonglu, on the fifth day of the first month. Just after the New Year with his family at the time of the Taihei period of the Asada, the generals of Sagami, such as Okabe Motonobu, Asahina Taichao, Asahina Shinji, Nagano Yesei, and Ikeda Morishu, wrote letters to the Asagami family, requesting that they take the initiative to attack the Takeda family and the Odawara Ise family, and recover Izu, which was occupied by the Takeda family, and the Sagami Province of Toaya-gun and Ashigara-jo-gun, which were occupied by the Odawara Ise family. At the same time, it was requested that the court should be able to send a partial division to attack Kai or Kita Shinano to contain Takeda Shingen's own army.

After reading the letters of Sagami generals such as Okabe Motonobu, Asahina Taichao, Asahina Shinji, Nagano Yesei, and Ikeda Morishu, he immediately agreed to order Uesugi Keemitsu to take charge of Ueno generals such as Honjo Shigenaga and Numata Yumitsu to send troops to Kitashinano Saku-gun, and Okabe Motonobu to govern Asahina-tai Dynasty, Asahina Shinji, Nagano Yesei, Ikeda Morishu and other Sagami generals to send troops to Ashiga-jo-gun and Toya-gun. Generals such as Koyama Asayaki and Saito Toshizo led the left and right armed guards (renamed after the reorganization and expansion of the Shangshu army, one military number and two troops, imitating the left and right armed guards in the sixteen guards of the Tang Dynasty, maintaining one-third of the standing force in service at any time, and their duties were not only to protect the security of the Uesugi family and Musashi country, but also to take on a large number of combat missions, and it was a descendant force directly under the jurisdiction of the Uesugi family governor, the most reliable and the most well-armed) more than 8,000 troops attacked Kai.

When Takeda Shingen learned that the Uesugi army was preparing to attack him in many ways, he felt like he was on pins and needles. At the turn of winter and spring of that year, a large-scale natural disaster broke out in Kai, 'many cattle and horses died, and grain transportation was not good', and Takeda Shingen had no choice but to ask his father, Takeda Shintora, who was a shogunate, to sue for peace. Takeda Shingen also claimed that he would return the invaded places such as Kita-Shinano and Izu, but hoped to gain some time for the retainers and acting officials to withdraw.

Since the purpose of sending troops is to recapture the occupied territory, and now Takeda Shingen is willing to take the initiative to return it, so why bother with swords and soldiers, and waste money and labor?

Subsequently, Kenshin was persuaded by Takeda Shintora to suspend the invasion of Ashigarami-gun, Taoaya-gun, Izu, Kai, Kita-Shinano and other places, and give the Takeda family some time to withdraw their retainers and troops.

Chaoding did not deliberately want to contradict Qianxin, he believed: Takeda Shingen has always been untrustworthy, 'if you are weak, you will seek an alliance, and if you are strong, you will enter the court', and if you seek peace at this time, there must be fraud!

However, in order to save face for Kenshin, the court suspended the offensive against Ashigarami-gun, Taoaya-gun, Izu, Kita-Shinano, Kai and other places, and withdrew the army to the territory, but did not disband the general, but instead recruited troops on a large scale in the territory to prepare for war. Even Ota Shimasa, who was sitting in Hitachi, was ordered by the court to recruit more than 10,000 troops to be stationed in Kamakura.

On the 10th day of the first lunar month, after seeing that the Takeda army had withdrawn to Suruga, Izu and other countries, Oda stopped attacking and harassing all parts of Hitachi, and immediately petitioned the court to surrender. The court agreed to the fact that a major battle with the Takeda family was about to start at the moment, but he still made Shioya Akisada, Yusa Xumitsu, Nishino Sokei and other Hitachi generals always ready to fight the Oda family.

At the same time, Asadachi also learned that Oda Nobunaga supported Yoshiaki to go to Luo, and Ashikaga Yoshiaki quickly obtained the news of the shogun's announcement. He was very dissatisfied with the fact that he was very dissatisfied with the fact that he had sent his retainer Hirosawa Tadanobu Kamiraku to ask why Oda Nobunaga had expelled only Konoe Maehisa from Kyoto and whether the Oda family intended to make enemies with the Uesugi family.

Oda Nobunaga knew that the current Oda family did not have the ability and strength to be enemies of the Uesugi family who dominated the eastern country, and he knew very well that once the Oda family really had a bad relationship with the Uesugi family, then the ruling Uesugi family would inevitably make the Kakizaki Keijia, who occupied most of the Kaga country, send troops to Kamiraku, and then the Echizen Asakura family and the Wakasa Takeda family would definitely not be enemies of the Uesugi family, but would help them, and the final outcome was likely to lead to all the achievements of the Oda family Kamiraku coming to naught, Ashikaga Yoshiaki will inevitably be ousted from the position of shogun. Oda Nobunaga respectfully explained that Konoe Maehisa had given the green light to Ashikaga Yoshiei's shogun, and claimed that Konoe Maehisa had nothing to do with his expulsion from Kyoto, and that it was entirely Ashikaga Yoshiaki's doing.

Asadaki knew that Konoe's expulsion from Kyoto was inseparable from his own affairs, and he couldn't ignore him at the moment. Asadachi then sent his retainers to Ishiyama to ask the Konoe Maekuju clan to move to Kanto, telling him that the expansion of Edo Castle was about to be completed and that the Konoe family's mansion had been built.

After Konoe Maehisa saw that he could not return to Kyoto in a short time, he had no choice but to agree to the invitation of the court, and took his father Konoe Ueya and more than 100 people to Kaga Province by land via Sakamoto and Echizen Province, and then arrived at the Echigo Fuchu Imperial Hall under the escort of Kaga's guardian Kakizaki Keijia. The Konoe clan rested for three days at the Fuchu Imperial Pavilion and then entered Musashi via Ueno Province.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki was very angry when he saw that Konoe had been protected by the Uesugi family for a long time, and despite the persuasion of Oda Nobunaga, Asai Nagamasa and other daimyos, he immediately named Oda Clan as Hitachi Guardian and Shimono Guardian; Feng Nanqing is the guardian of the Mutsu, the guardian of the land, and the guardian of the land; Takeda Shingen is the guardian of Suruga, Enoe, Mikawa, Missile, Ueno, Izu, Musashi, Kai and Shinano; Feng Ise Clan Takashi is the guardian of Sagami, the guardian of the president, and the guardian of Anfang. At the same time, he was deprived of the guard positions of Musashi Guardian, Sagami Guardian, Shimono Guardian, and Kamizu Guardian that he had held before the Shocho; depriving Uesugi Keimitsu of his previous position as guardian of Ueno; depriving Kakizaki Kei of the Kaga guardian he had previously served; depriving Usami of the Noto guardian he had served before he was determined; deprived Uesugi Kenshin of his previous positions of Hokuriku Detective, Echigo Guardian, Echichu Guardian, and Chamberlain, and only retained the position of Kanto Governor; Deprived the Imagawa clan of the Kanto Princess, Suruga Guardian.

When Asadachi learned that he and Kakizaki Keiie, Usami Seimitsu, Uesugi Keimitsu and others had all been stripped of their positions, he was very dissatisfied with Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and even Kenshin, who was loyal to the shogunate, was stripped of most of his duties, and only the position of Kanto governor was retained. The Uesugi family wrote letters one after another, requesting that troops be sent to Kamiraku immediately, abolishing Ashikaga Yoshiaki's post of general of the expedition, and supporting the Imagawa clan as a candidate for general.

In the face of the anger of the people up and down the family, Chao Ding and Qianxin both remained calm. According to a detailed report, Takeda Shingen was recruiting troops in Mikawa, Hida, Shinano, Kai, Enoe, Suruga, Izu, Higashimino and other countries with the intention of seizing the entire territory of Okushinano, and then taking advantage of the situation to invade Echigo, Echichu, Ueno, Sagami, and other places.

In order to prevent Takeda Shingen from gaining a preemptive advantage, Kenshin and Asadachi immediately recruited troops in Echigo, Echichu, Noto, Kitakaga, Minamiidewa, Ueno, Musashi, Shimoso and other countries, preparing to attack Kita-Shinano before Takeda Shingen sent troops, and start a decisive battle with the Takeda army in the area of Kawanaka Island, intending to decide the victory in a battle, and defeat the Takeda family to the ground, and never had the ability to invade other countries again.

And Takeda Shingen's intention was to seize the entire territory of Shinano in World War I and be a veritable Shinano guardian. By destroying the Uesugi family's living forces as much as possible, we were able to reduce a lot of resistance in the subsequent battles such as the Echigo Invasion, the Echichu Invasion, the Ueno Invasion, the Sagami Invasion, and the Musashi Invasion. In the end, he followed the example of the 'Rising Sun General' Kiso Yoshinaka and sent troops to invade Kyoto after seizing the Hokuriku provinces, thus becoming a member of the world.

On 15 February, after a month-long campaign to recruit ronins and wild samurai, Takeda Shingen led an army of more than 65,000 to march towards Okushino Iiyama Castle. As a subordinate daimyo of the Takeda family, Takashi Ise, with the attitude of one glory and one loss, recruited more than 1,000 troops in Ashigarami Prefecture and sent them to support the Takeda family, and Takeda Shingen also laughed at this support army based on the principle of more and the better. Oda Nobunaga secretly sent a large amount of grain and grass to the Takeda family, hoping that Takeda Shingen could weaken the Uesugi family as much as possible, so that he could attack Wakasa Province, Echizen Province and other places in Hokuriku Province without scruples.

At the same time, the court led 8,000 troops from the left and right Wuwei troops and 30,000 troops recruited by various leading countries into Echigo Fuchu to stand by. And Saito Michizo, Yamazaki Hidesen, Jieshan Yunkatsu, Akiyama Dingzuna and others served as the remaining guards, leading more than 10,000 troops to defend Musashi. Sagami's generals, including Okabe Motonobu, Asahina Taichao, and Asahina Shinji, garrisoned the counties of Sagami Province to guard against the invasion of the Odawara Ise and Takeda families; Kasahara Dingkatsu, Okamoto Yasuyasu and other generals of Anfang led more than 5,000 troops into Sagami Province and stationed in the Sagami River area to standby; Namba Tian Kenji, Kanhee Mitsutoshi, Kanhee Mitsutoshi, Saito Toshiji and other land generals led more than 10,000 troops north to station in Tsui County to assist Asari Noriyu and strictly prevent the invasion of the southern family; Soma Yoshiyin and Tamura Takaaki led more than 7,000 troops into Lu China to assist Uesugi Nagajin (Kawada Nagakin), Taira Shigeta, Kiuchi Yinshi, Matsudo Yinyori and other generals to strictly guard against the invasion of the southern family; Shioya Akisada, Yusa Xumitsu, Nishino Sokei and other Hitachi generals each led their troops to stand by in the territory, ready to fight the Oda family; Miyagi Masaye led more than 5,000 troops to Kashima County in Hitachi Province, temporarily commanding the generals of Hitachi Province and supporting the counties of Hitachi Province at any time.

On the other hand, Kenshin mainly recruited Echigo, Echichu, Noto, Kita-Kaga, Minamiidewa and other places, and then led an army of more than 40,000 troops into Okushinano first, and arranged the main camp in Iiyama Castle.