Chapter 306: The Fall of the Stone Scroll City

In the second year of Yonglu, October 9th. At the same time as the large-scale outbreak of the two countries in Vietnam and Noto, the former ministers of the Date family were not idle. Led by the former Date family, Nagashige Nakame, Omachi Motoyori and others, secretly colluded with the Osaki family and the Kasai family, intending to restore the Date family's family name and territory in Chuto.

And the Osaki family is on the verge of destruction at the moment, and has to unite with the old retainers of the Date family, such as Nakame Nagashige and Omachi Motoyori. The reason why the Kasai family agreed to unite with the Osaki family and the former retainers of the Date family was that after the transfer of Uesugi retainers such as Mori Keihiro, Kankawae Mitsutoshi, Kankawae Hirotoshi, and Saito Toshiji to Chutoku, the Kasai family's influence in Chukatsu and Hokuritsu decreased sharply. However, Kasai Harunobu did not expect that his every move was all reported to Maori Jinghiro by Kasai Yin.

After Mori Keihiro learned that the former Date family's Nakame Nagashige, Omachi Motoyori and others had colluded with Osaki Yoshinao and Kasai Harunobu, he immediately united with the Uesugi retainers of the Nakatsu Olympus, such as Saito Toshi, Kankawae Mitsutoshi, Kankawae Hirotoshi, and Oshiki Beizen, and quickly recruited 6,000 troops and quickly dispatched troops to Ishinomaki Castle, the home base of the Kasai family.

Kasai Harunobu was so frightened when he heard that the Uesugi army was approaching the castle, he didn't expect the Uesugi army to be so fast. Kasai Harunobu knew that it would not be possible to defend Ishinomaki Castle with more than a hundred soldiers alone. Subsequently, Kasai Harunobu had no choice but to immediately flee to the Kasai family's original headquarters of the Kasai family, with his two sons, Kasai Kiyotaka and Kasai Nobuhide, as well as some of his retainers and several close emperors. However, just as Kasai Harunobu and his party were about to arrive at Kamitoriyama Castle, a large number of white and black flags and flags were erected around Kamitori Mountain.

Soon after Mori Keihiro, Saito Shunji, Kankawae Mitsutoshi, Kankawae Hirotoshi, and Oshiki Bizen Mamoru led their troops into Ishinomaki Castle, the Kasai family's retainer Fukuchi Nobutoshi, the lord of Fishing Tail Castle, and his brother Fukuchi Nobuyoshi, his son Fukuchi Dingtoshi, and several retainers came to the outside of Ishinomaki Castle.

"My lord, there are a few samurai outside the city who want to go out of the Uesugi family waiting at Otemon, do you want to see them?" Mori Gaoding walked quickly into the large room of Ishinomaki Castle and reported to Mori Jingguang.

"Oh? Intend to go out of the Uesugi family? Did they name themselves? "Mori Jingguang didn't want to casually agree to the Uesugi family with a samurai from an unknown source, not to mention that he hadn't gotten the consent of the court to send troops to Ishinomaki Castle.

"One of them claims to be the lord of Fishing Tail Castle, and he is the head of the blessed land, Nobutoshi." Maori Gaoding replied after thinking for a moment.

"What do you say?! I heard you right! Nobutoshi, the head of Fukuchi, was the one in charge of the Kasai Naval Army, and he was also an important minister in the Kasai family, so how could he just bring a few samurai to Ishinomaki Castle? Although he didn't know much about the situation in the Central Continent, he still knew a little about the important ministers of the Kasai family.

"It's really the blessed land of Sosuke Shinjun, and he didn't come to Ishinomaki Castle empty-handed. This is the head of Kasai Sakyo Doctor Harunobu, Kasai Iwami Mamoru Kiyotaka, Kasai Iki Morinobu Hide, and others. After Maori Gaoding finished speaking, he motioned to several samurai behind him to place the ten head-level barrels in front of Maori Jingguang.

"Let them enter the city, I would like to see what these lord-killers look like." After Maori Keihiro finished speaking, he arranged for fifty samurai to lie in ambush on both sides of Ohiroma, he didn't know what Kasai Harunaga was like, so he had to be on guard.

After a while, the three of them, Nobuyoshi Fukuchi, Jotoshi Fukuchi, and Nobuyoshi Fukuchi, entered the Ohiroma of Ishinomaki Castle under the guidance of Mori Takacho.

"See the Mauritan Queen's Temple." Fukuchi Nobuyoshi, Fukuchi Dingjun and Fukuchi Nobuyori said respectfully as soon as they entered the big room.

"Our army came to Ishinomaki Castle in one day, and Dr. Kasai Sakyo Harumobu fled out of the city in a hurry and disappeared, how did you know the escape route of Dr. Kasai Sakyo?" Maori Jingguang asked puzzled.

"It's news from the Daisuke Yinjuden of the Kasai Shikibu Department, so we immediately led our army to set up an ambush around Kamitoriyama Castle and waited for the arrival of Dr. Kasai Sakyo." Nobuyoshi Fukuchi then told the truth.

"As an important minister of the Kasai family, you are still in charge of the Kasai family's naval army, do you kill your own lord without changing your face?" As soon as Mori Keihiro heard that Nobutoshi Fukuchi and the others had received the news from Kasai Yinshige before they went to ambush Kasai Harunobu and the others, then he was able to confirm that the head bucket contained the heads of Kasai Harunobu and the others. Although Kasai Yinshige is the inner secretary of the Uesugi family and few people know about it, Mori Keihiro still can't trust Fukuchi Nobuyoshi and others like this.

"Ministers? In charge of the trolls? The Maori Dam Queen, I heard you right, right? Fukuchi Nobuyoshi couldn't help but laugh for a while after listening to Mori Jinghiro's words.

"Why are you laughing? Are you not the most important members of the Kasai family? Mori didn't understand why Nobuyoshi Fukuchi was laughing.

"My Yamauchi Shouto clan was defeated by Kasai Musashi Shou Munekiyo during the Eisho period, and a large number of clansmen were killed, in order to be able to preserve the bloodline of the Yamauchi Shouto clan, the Yamauchi Shouto clan also ceded the territory of Togo-gun of the Kasai family. The Fukuchi clan, as a branch of the Yamauchi Shouto clan, was forced to build the Fukuchikan and the Fishing Tail Castle in the lower reaches of the Shoba River. The rest of the families are either out of the Soma family or out of the Shi Date family. "Nobuyoshi Fukuchi has always remembered the shame of the defeat of the lord's family.

"I will immediately send someone to Heyue City to report this matter to the Lord, and the blessed land will always advise you to return to your ability to stand by first, and wait for the Lord's decision." After listening to the history of the Yamauchi Shouto clan told by Nobutoshi Fukuchi, Mori Keihiro couldn't help but feel sympathy for their plight.

"Then please ask the queen of Maori Dan to guard the palace with a lot of kind words, and I will leave first." After Fukuchi Nobuyoshi finished speaking, he left Ohiroma with Fukuchi Dingjun and Fukuchi Nobuyoshi.

"Lord, you're not going to get rid of them?" After Maori Gaoding saw Fukuchi Nobutoshi and the others leave Ohiroma, he walked out from behind the screen behind Maori Jingguang.

"Report the matter to the Lord first, and then I will wait for His decision." Mori Keihiro can't be the lord of this, after all, the Kasai family controls the territory of nearly 300,000 koku in the seven prefectures of Mutsu (Gilzawa-gun, Ethorn-gun, Iwai-gun, Kazusen-gun, Motoyoshi-gun, Dengme gun, and Momobu county), and he doesn't dare to hide such a big thing as the killing of Kasai Harunobu, the current head of the Kasai family.

"Yes, the minister immediately sent people to Heyue City in the starry night." Mori Gaoding immediately prepared to send Feijiao to Kawashi Castle to report to Chaoding about the recent events in the Chinese Metropolitan Olympics.

At the same time, Kasai Yinshige of Sawayama Castle learned that Kasai Harunobu, Kasai Kiyotaka, and Kasai Nobuhide had been killed by Fukuchi Nobutoshi's army, and immediately announced to the public that he had fallen to the Uesugi family, and claimed to be the head of the Kasai family and the head of the family.

The retainers of the Kasai family, who remained at the former Kasai family's main base Terike Castle, were all terrified when they learned that the lord and the young lord had been killed and that Ishinomaki Castle had been captured, and only a few retainers proposed to send troops to attack Kasai Yinshige and recover Ishinomaki Castle in Sawayama Castle.

At this moment, Kasai Yoshishige, the cousin of Kasai Harunobu, stood up and said to everyone: "Ladies and gentlemen, if you continue to quarrel like this, the Kasai family will be destroyed by the Uesugi army!" My Kasai clan still occupies the famous samurai family of the seven prefectures of Mutsu! You must not bow to the Uesugi family, who was born as a minister! ”

"The Daisuke Hall of the Governance Department is right! I'm willing to obey the orders of Daisuke of the Ministry of Governance! As soon as Kasai Yoshishige's words fell, the head of Higashiyama Nagabe Castle, the head of the Kasai family's relatives, immediately stood up to express his support for Kasai Yoshishige.

"Since even the elders of the relatives support the Great Auxiliary Hall of the Ministry of Governance, then I, Qing Shui Xuanfan, have no reason to oppose it." Subsequently, Shimizu Nobumitsu, the lord of Nizakura Castle, also followed Nagabe Yinzi and stood up to support Kasai Yoshishige.

"I agree!" The lord of Suiyue Castle, Akai Bichu, Mamoru Mamoru of the family, and Shimizu Nobumitsu, the elder minister of the family, both expressed their support for Kasai Yoshishige, and he had no reason to oppose it, so he also stood up to support Kasai Yoshishige.

In this way, with the support of some of the Kasai family's relatives and important officials, Kasai Yoshishige succeeded to the Kasai family's governorship smoothly, and used diplomatic means to temporarily quell the rebellion of the people in the Kasai family's domain. Kasai Yoshishige planned to seize the opportunity of the Uesugi family's temporary lack of additional troops against the Chumura side to prepare to recapture Ishinomaki Castle and expel the Uesugi family's forces from the Chumura.