Just after the news of Hojo Takahiro's submission to the Uesugi family reached Shiota Castle, it was already five days later. Kansuke Yamamoto, who is next to Harunobu Takeda, can be said to be very popular. The iron cannon he had worked so hard to transport from Kaimachi was given to Hojo Takahiro, and it didn't take long for him to surrender!

"Kansuke, that's enough." Harunobu Takeda stopped Kansuke Yamamoto, who was still stomping his feet in anger in Ohiroma.

"Father, could it be that the Uesugi family is only twenty years old and defeated the Ashina Mori clan in Aizu?" Yoshinobu Takeda asked, sitting on the right hand side of Harunobu Takeda.

"Yes, even several important ministers of the Hojo family died at the hands of his retainers. If he had stayed in Musashi at the time, Uesugi Kenkatsu would have been able to capture him and give him to the Hojo family. Nobuyhiro Takeda introduced him.

"My lord, the 13,000 troops of the Nagao family and the 1,500 Uesugi army have marched to the outside of Iiyama Castle!" A hundred-legged man ran in and went out.

"It's a fast speed, so the number of troops is almost the same, and there will be a fierce battle." Zhujiao Tiger must also be an old bone, and he will suffer here.

"Let's go and prepare, and move this formation to Xiaozhu City tomorrow." Takeda Harunobu wanted to defeat the Nagao Army in one fell swoop and take the land of Echigo Prefecture and then go back, but even if he was defeated, he could only find the Imagawa family to mediate the war.

"Yes." As many of his retainers left, Kansuke Yamamoto and Nobuyori Takeda stayed where they were.

"Brother, are you going to help Kurita Kanazube?" Takeda Nobuhiro felt that if he didn't support, the Kurida army would be completely wiped out by the Nagao family.

"No, they can hold out for a while. In this way, it can also consume the strength of the Long Tail family, and it was originally expected that Hojo Takahiro would consume some of the Long Tail family's troops, but now it seems that it is also a mistake. Harunobu Takeda thought about it very much, and when he thought of the words of the Ogiya Uesugi family, he remembered his first main room. This marriage was also taken by Takeda Nobuhu to reconcile with the Uesugi family in order to break the state of being enemies on all sides, and Takeda Harunobu became attached to the princess of the Uesugi family in Ogiya. The main room of Takeda Harunobu is the daughter of Uesugi Asakō and the sister of Uesugi Asadatsu - Uesugi Yume.

"Lord, if you have a bad relationship with the Uesugi family, there is another person in the family who is related to the Uesugi family." Kansuke Yamamoto thought of Yume Uesugi, who died after giving birth to a princess during a difficult birth.

"Yes, I know. Don't worry about this for now, let's see how capable he is Uesugi Asada. Harunobu Takeda was full of confidence. However, what he didn't know was that at the suggestion of the Asada, the Dragon Maiden sent the 2,000 troops of the Kakizaki Keijia Division, plus the white-robed knights of the 400 Kawakoe Knights led by Nambada Hiroyoshi sent by the Asada, and the 3,000 troops assembled by Kurita Kanyasu were quickly defeated in Toyono within two days, and even Kurita Kanyasu himself was captured by the Kakizaki Keikei, and his fellow party Nishina Chiri was caught up in Kaizu and killed by the Nagao army.

This news was also learned after Takeda Harunobu arrived in Komoro Castle.

"What's going on?! Why was it two days late to tell me that Kurita was defeated! "Harunobu Takeda is disappointed in the ninja he raised.

"My lord, the Regulus ninja of the Nagao family and the Togakure ninja of the Uesugi family have completely blocked the area around Zenkoji Temple, and there are even ninjas from the two families in Shuiuchi County and Takai County!" The Tobo-ninja who was kneeling on the ground was also helpless, and he also escaped death and arrived in Kojuku, and his colleagues were probably more than twenty dead.

"You go down first." Takeda Shinho let the ninja go down first, "Brother, the situation of the two sides of the family no longer exists. Next, we can only meet it head-on in Hachimanwara. ”

"Well, that's all." Takeda Harunobu was also speechless, and if he continued like this, he would not have the advantage of intelligence warfare at all.

"Lord of the Pavilion, Uesugi Asadatsu has already concentrated 1,500 troops on Mt. Tsuma-Nu, accompanied by 2,000 troops from Kakizaki Kei's family and 1,000 troops from Usami Dingman." Kansuke Yamamoto limped in.

"Most of the Echigo troops are unscrupulous, and the Kakizaki Keijia was also defeated by the family last time, and this time it is the same." Takeda Nobushihiro doesn't think that Kakizaki Keijia's 'IQ' has gone up, but he ignores one person - Usami Dingmi.

"Let Iitomi Torama, Akiyama Nobutomo, two thousand two hundred and fifty people, and Taro's one thousand troops, and then let the five hundred troops of the Zhujiao Tiger Dingbu go together. Let Taro's first scene be a little bigger. "Takeda Harunobu is also a big deal, handing over the two elders of the family and the general to Takeda Yoshinobu to command.

"Yes, then I'll go and support my nephew too." Takeda Nobuyoshi is also ready to join with his own 1,000 troops.

"Well, teach Taro more on the battlefield so that he can adapt quickly." Takeda Harunobu wanted Takeda Yoshinobu to suppress the old retainers, so that when he was away in the future, like when he was young, he was coerced by Itatsune Nobukata and others to exile his father.

"Yes." Takeda Nobuhiro immediately retired, and Takeda Harunobu thought a lot after watching Takeda Nobushihiro leave. If it weren't for his brother, who could talk to him, he really wouldn't know who he could trust.

Move your gaze to Mt. Tsumito.

"Why do you dig so many Hori to repair the doctor's hall? And put some ninja weapons in some big pits? Kakizaki Keika looked at the thousands of people in front of him who were busy working, and even the samurai couldn't rest, so they had to work with Ashigaru.

"No, no, our purpose is to strike a head-on blow to the Takeda Army, and we don't know the number and details of the Takeda Army. This was also done in order to reduce the morale of the enemy army, and a special engineering unit should be prepared in the future. Asada shrugged his shoulders, some small shovels were also purchased from nearby villages, and some were collected from the surrounding wealthy clans such as Zenko-ji Temple after they were wiped out.

"The repair doctor means that after letting these Hori contain the enemy army first, our army will just surprise and repel the Takeda army." Usami Dingman can see a little, his art of war does not have these, and he can be regarded as a long insight.

"Well, everyone, hurry up." After Asadaki walked to the edge of a dug hori, he took Nanba Tian's spear and stretched it out and probed, "It's not enough, dig a little more." ”

"Yes." Horiuchi Ashigaru had to continue digging, originally they thought they would be able to rest, but they didn't expect it to be up to standard. This is a plan set by Chao Ding and the Dragon Maiden, and he comes to lure the enemy Dragon Maiden to take charge of support. The army mobilized by the Nagao family this time is mainly based on the Koshi Nagao family (Nagao Keishin) and the Yamamoto Temple family (Yamamoto Temple Dingchang), and their relationship with the Nagao family is one of the heads of the many pens, and the other is the uncle of the dragon girl.

In this second battle of Kawanakajima, a small number of wealthy families in Shinano chose to wait and see. In addition to the Murakami family and other wealthy families who were seized by the Takeda family to throw themselves into the arms of the Nagao family, many wealthy families were still coerced by the Takeda family to join the Takeda army.

At the same time, Aizu Wakamatsu Castle -

"Second Order, Ling Zun has been making a lot of 'small moves' recently!" Ota Shimasa looked at the two of them who were caught, Nikaido Moriyoshi and Suda Morihide, in Sannomaru.

"This has nothing to do with villains! It was the remnants of the Ashina family who wanted to defect to their father, and his father was kind and took them in. There were a lot of blood stains on the carcass of Nikaido Shengyi, and he knelt tremblingly. He finally knew how powerful the Uesugi family was, and he was no match for them at all.

"My lord, the army composed of the Nikaido Army and the Wild Samurai is really incompetent." Honjo Fanchang also had a look of disdain, and after the confluence of the army of the Bunao Daishiro Mori Kingdom outside the Eight Ditch Castle, the five hundred troops defeated the Nikaido Shengyi! In an instant, the remnants of the Ashina family collapsed first, and then it was like a massacre! Honjo Honcho and Inawashiro Morikuni led their troops to cut down 400 people, while Nikaido Moriyoshi and Suda Morihide were also caught by farmers in the forest and sent to Hachigou Castle.

"Fanchang, you fought well in this battle, and the lord will reward and promote you when he comes back." Ota Shimasa thinks that although Honjo is young, he is quite experienced when fighting! It's really terrifying.

"Thank you, sir!" Honjo's face was happy.

"Lord Inawashiro, the land of Hachigou Castle is under the temporary management of Lord Ogasawara for a long time, but Jinshan belongs to the Uesugi family." Ota Shimasa can be the master of this, and if the gold mountain is to be mined, it must be mined by the Uesugi family, and the castle is nothing. Bagou City is only 500 stones, and if you count the gold mountain, it will be 1,500 stones.

"Yes." Although Shengguo was a little disappointed, he knew that Chaoding was not a stingy person.

Ota then revised a letter and asked Suda Morihide to go back. As for the content of this letter, the Nikaido family is to cut off all the former Ashina family retainers who defected to the past, send their heads to Wakamatsu Castle, and cede 1,000 koku of Katahira Castle to the Uesugi family.

Originally, Nikaido Teruyuki refused, but when he thought that his sister-in-law was still in the hands of the Uesugi family, there was no way. On the night of the second day, Nikaido Teruyuki held a banquet and invited all the retainers of the Ashina family who had defected, even those who had fled back after the defeat in the battle.

Nikaido Teruyuki's acting skills are good, first saying that this is the last banquet, and then he will fight hard with the Uesugi family. However, after three rounds of drinking, Suda Morihide entered Honmaru with 400 samurai ashigaru men and began to massacre the people of Ohiroma. Naturally, the second order hall Huixing left early, and watched these people being killed without the power of the chicken. Five hours later, 200 heads were placed in wooden boxes and sent to Wakamatsu Castle, and Suda Morihide went to Wakamatsu Castle once again to prepare to welcome back Nikaido Moriyoshi.

"Lord Ota, my lord has killed all the ronins who are loyal to the Ashina Mori clan, you see......" Suda Morihide ordered people to open the wooden boxes one by one and let Ota Shimasa inspect them.

"Lord Nikaido is naturally trustworthy in doing things, but Katahei Castle is on the border with the old Ashina family, and my Uesugi family is also thinking about the survival of the Nikaido family." Ota Shimasa has not forgotten the land of Katahei Castle, which is at the throat, and can be used as a bridgehead to attack the Shirakawa Yuuki family and others.

"This ...... Can you discuss it? "Suda Morihide was instructed not to lose his territory as much as possible.

"Could it be that the lord of Katahei Castle is ready to resist stubbornly? It doesn't matter if the Nikaido-sama hesitates, the family's 700 troops in Hachigou Castle have already been prepared, and there is no guarantee that the territory of Sukagawa Castle will belong to the Nikaido family at that time! "Ota Zimasa directly coerced Suda Morihide, and the Uesugi family can't beat the Nikaido family, so just give them face.

"Don't, the Nikaido family is willing to ......" Suda Morihide knew that the Nikaido family had suffered heavy losses in strength after the First Battle of Hachigou, and after killing most of the Ashina family ronins who defected, it could be said that they no longer had the strength to fight with the Uesugi family.

"Then the Uesugi family will send a military force to take over now, if the Nikaido family still doesn't cooperate, then don't blame the army that I'm waiting for marched to Sukagawa Castle." Ota didn't want to waste any more time with him, and he had to wait until Katahei Castle was in his hands before releasing Nikaido Shengyi. Of course, Nikaido Teru would have done this if he had continued his family's name, and the Date family had not yet been reunited despite the temporary truce. The current situation in the southern Michinoku is still favorable to the Uesugi family.

In this way, Nikaido Teruyuki had no choice but to agree to the request to cut the land. He ordered Katahira Shigetoki and the others to leave Katahei Castle, but Katahira Shigetoki couldn't accept this order at all. He directly caged the city and guarded it. He is not a genealogy retainer of the Nikaido family, but he just threw himself into the Nikaido family after the fall of the Ashina clan.

At this time, Nikaido Terigyuki saw that his precious son was still in Wakamatsu Castle, so he had to gather 300 troops and Inawashiro Moriguo, Honjo Funaga and Ogasawara for a long time to surround Katahei Castle, which only had 200 troops.

When this piece of peace, I also forgot that I was isolated, and when I saw that I was surrounded, I realized that I really had no way out. He first held the castle for two days, and then Kenji Namba joined the encirclement with 500 troops, and cut off the water source in the castle. Katahei Castle was announced, and the Uesugi bamboo and bird flags were erected at the head of the castle. Nikaido Teruyuki received his precious son back to Suga River Castle as promised. After returning to the city, they declared themselves subordinate to the Uesugi family and became the nickname of the Uesugi family, with the ability to be 5,000 koku of Sukagawa Castle.

Originally, he was going to let the ronin of the Ashina family tentatively attack the Uesugi family, but as a result, Nikaido also lost the city and lost his ground, and was forced to kill the ronin who defected, and became a vassal of the Uesugi family. However, because of this, Date Harumune secretly contacted several daimyo and wealthy clans around the Uesugi family, as well as some castle lords of the Ashina family, and was going to implement the 'Uesugi family siege network'.