When Tao Qingxian captured Catfish City, the defender of the deserted city, Hanhejiang Waiji, knew that he was isolated and helpless, so he could only immediately abandon the city and flee to Hanhejiang City. And the Mochizuki Hayato who was guarding Toriya Mori Castle planned to unite with Nekiyomitsu of Nishikawa Castle to defend against the invasion of Uesugi.

After Tao Changfang defeated the forces of the Hanhejiang, Gudi, and Baiyan clans at the foot of the mountain east of Yeshan, Asahi Castle quickly fell under the advance of the Uesugi army.

Soon, Taya Castle, Yanonuma Castle, Toriya Mori Castle, Sazawa Castle, Shiraiwa Castle and other places became a crescent-shaped defense line of the Hanhejiang family's original Hanhejiang Castle.

Shiratori has long been aware of the truth that his lips are dead and his teeth are cold. If the Hanhejiang family is destroyed by the Uesugi family, even if he surrenders to the Uesugi family's military gate for a while, he will be liquidated one day. Instead of living a life of living under the fence and watching other people's faces, it is better to rise up and resist, and maybe there will be a glimmer of life.

Shiratori has long held this idea and sent Araki Hayabusuke and Iwanami Hirazo from the "Shiratori Four Heavenly Kings" in his family, and ordered the two of them to lead 500 troops to enter Toriya Mori Castle with a false claim of 1,000, and prepare to maneuver against Yachinonuma Castle and Tatani Castle and other places. And Nekiyomitsu of Nishikawa Castle also led his troops into Mt. Asahi, intending to wait for an opportunity to cut off the supply lines of the Uesugi army.

Tao Qingxian immediately thought of a coping strategy after receiving the long-term mobilization of the two armies by White Bird, and he didn't want to suffer another loss in the Battle of Itsukushima.

Tao Qingxian immediately ordered Okawa and Watanabe to lead 500 troops to seize Tanuki and start building the city. As long as the safety of Kamiyama and Hasedo was secured, the Mogami army in Nakayama and Tenshuyama was surrounded and isolated by the Uesugi army, and a second supply line was established.

At the same time, generals such as Sebe, Shinbata, and Inoue Shogun (Salmon Retainer) of Mogami Prefecture also began to fight back.

After the Shinbata Shigeie and the Inoue Shogun joined forces, they defeated Takahashi Ishimimori, the former head of the Enozawa family's important minister, Kamiyanagi Wadokan, around the swamp pavilion with a force of 1,500 troops, and all 200 people below Takahashi Ishimi were annihilated. Miyazaki Ryuji, a retainer of the Osaki family who came to the aid of Takahashi Iwami Guard, saw that Takahashi Iwami Mori was annihilated by the Uesugi army, and immediately fled back to Mutsu with his headquarters.

After that, Shibata Shigeya marched north non-stop and repelled the small Kokuni Hosokawa army besieging Numata Castle. The two brothers Naomoto and Naoshige Hosokawa led the defeated army and retreated to Semika. When Okawa Tadahide heard of Hosokawa's defeat at Akakura Castle, he immediately ordered his son Okawa Nagahide to lead an army of 200 to attack the empty castle.

As Hosokawa Naomoto gathered most of the forces in his domain and went to the western part of Mogami County, the original headquarters of the Hosokawa family of the small country for generations (Hosokawa Naomoto replaced the main base with Iwabe Pavilion after succeeding to the throne) was easily captured by Okawa Nagahide with 200 troops. At the same time, Okawa Tadahide also sent someone to cross the Kamuro Mountain to Shimizu Castle to inform Katsunaga of Sebe that the Hosokawa family, a small country, was no longer a concern, and could be completely suppressed with his own strength.

Mogami Yoshimitsu was speechless when he heard the news that Tao Qingxian had led tens of thousands of troops into Murayama County, and it took a long time to discuss countermeasures with the clan Shoudong. Although the Hanhee family reached an armistice agreement with the Mogami family, they were not allies of the Mogami family. If he took the initiative to assist the Hanhejiang family, then the Hanhejiang family and the surrounding wealthy families such as Zuo Ze and Baiyan would definitely be grateful to Dade. Once the Hanhejiang family is not saved, then the Mogami family will soon follow in the footsteps of the Hanhejiang family. Thinking that Mogami's family was likely to be buried in his own hands, Mogami Yoshimitsu couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Mogami Yoshimitsu immediately ordered Nakayama Asamasa, Nakayama Asamasa, Shibuya Kaira, and others from Nagasaki Castle to be ready to go into battle at any time, and at the same time prepare to cross the Mogami River to build the castle.

In order to better deal with the generals of Nishimurayama County, such as Hanhejiang, Baiyan, and Zuoze, Mogami Yoshimitsu deployed four people and 500 defenders in Tanuki Castle with Shiraiwa Hirokyo, Satomi Yoshijin (a major minister of the Kamiyama family), Satomi Uchizosuke, and Satomi Motokatsu (Satomi Uchizosuke's son). Tanuki Castle is located in the southwest of Hasedo Castle and northeast of Kamiyama Castle. This move made Chisaka Keiqin, Tsukiji Shitoyo and others, who were originally happy to hear that Tao Qingxian had sent troops to Murayama County, began to frown again.

On March 6, Mogami's army had captured Nagatoro Castle, Eagle's Nest Castle, Tateshiji Castle, and Iida Castle in just a few days. Iida Goro Saburo and Jiro Higashine joined forces with Satomi Genemon (Satomi Satsuma), a retainer of the Togen family, to expel Higashine Yorikei, the son of Tendo Yorisadada, from Higashine Castle and announced their defection to the Mogami family. And the lord of Rokuta Castle and the former retainer of the Tendo family, Satomi Kuro Bei, also immediately joined the sequence of Iida Goro Saburo and Higashi Jiro Saburo, and also announced their defection.

With the retainers of the Tiantong family cutting one after another, Tiantong Lai Zhen could only watch as the network of branches centered on Tiantong City was gradually shattered. But fortunately, the court sent Kato Duanzo to Tiantong City to meet Tiantong Yorizhen, so that he didn't have to care about the gains and losses of one city and one pond at present, and the key was how to eliminate the living force of the most supreme family. Chao Ding likes Lao Mao's sentence very much: "If people lose land, people and land will survive; If the land is lost, the people and the land are lost. ”

Tiantong Lai Zhen saw that his circle of survival was getting smaller and smaller, and he understood the meaning of Chaoding. He immediately gathered all the generals of Tiantong who did not want to be subordinate to the supreme family to Tiantong City, preparing to hold on to their headquarters and wait for Tao Qingxian's reinforcements. As long as Tendo Castle is defended, the lost territory will be recaptured with the assistance of the Uesugi army, and those who betray the Tendo family will also be punished.

In just two days, Tendo Yorisada abandoned all the castle fortresses except Tendo Castle and gathered the lords of Yamori Awa, Kusakari Shogun, Kusakari Sun Kuro, Naio Katsubei, Kusakari Hyogo, Nasu Fujiuchi, Asaoka Daikaisuke, Yumura and Izumi Mamoru to Tendo Castle. These lords not only brought troops here, but also sent a large amount of grain and grass and people in the territory, and a total of 3,000 people entered Tiantong City to assist in the defense.

Just when Mogami Yoshimitsu was rapidly attacking Murayama and Mogami Gun, after the three Shonai Counties were pacified, Fujita Dingyoshi, Kohata Keizune, Suda Mitsukin, Kaji Hikojiro, Yamagishi Mitsusuke, Ueno Iesei, Fukuoji Takashige, Matsumoto Keishiro and others stationed in Shonai would lead an army of 6,000 troops into Mogami Prefecture after Shigeta Shigeie.

After Sebe Katsucho stabilized the situation of Shimizu Ling, he immediately merged with the Shinbata Shigejia Department and went south, and this time the color Katsucho of the color department went south. Not only did he go into battle in person, but five people, including Numata Castle Lord Seki (the younger brother of Katsunaga Sebe), Saemon Naito, the owner of the Nushakikan, Captain Saemon Tarumi Saemon, the head of Shinjo Castle (the second son of Katsunaga Sebe), and the Nagasawa Pavilion Owner Mitsugyo Nagamasa. The 4,000 Sebe Army and the 1,000 Shinbata Army quickly merged and moved south, quickly destroying the former Shimizu family retainer Kadokawakan protagonist Kawa Kojiro and Fuguchi Pavilion owner Akiho Hinata Mamoru 2 people.

A few days after the capture of Obana Castle, a retainer of the Osaki family, Ota Muneshige, he saw 5,000 Uesugi soldiers approaching the castle, and knowing that he was invincible, he abandoned the castle in a hurry and fled, surrendering Ohanazawa Castle to the Uesugi army. It just so happened that Ohanazawa Castle was located northeast of Shiratori's family, and with the arrival of 5,000 Uesugi troops, Shiratori's long-term pressure increased greatly.

Previously, Shiratori sent most of his troops to assist Hanhejiang, Zuo Ze, Bai Yan and other wealthy clans of Xicunshan County to resist Tao Qingxian's tens of thousands of troops, and he didn't expect that the 'chess pieces' laid by Mogami Yoshimitsu would be so vulnerable. didn't hold back the most powerful Sebe Katsucho in Mogami and Murayama counties at all, not to mention the rebellion of the Satsue family failed to drag down the generals of Shonai and some of the Echigo generals. Shiratori could only hurry up and let his two uncles, Shiratori Nagakuni and Shiratori Yoshihiro, as well as his retainers Nakajo Nagamasa, Nagazenji Right Horse Head and others enter Shiratori Castle for defense.

On March 7, after learning the news of the Uesugi army's southward movement, the morale of Yanze Castle was greatly boosted, and Yanze Manyan immediately led an army of 700 to defeat the Osaki family's important minister Miyazaki Takaji in Tamano and take more than 100 people, and the siege of Yanze Castle was immediately lifted.

On the other hand, Shonai's Oshikiri Bimasamaru and Saito Toshi's two men led a special team of 500 men over Tsukiyama and entered Murayama-gun at this time, taking advantage of the darkness of night to raid Hakuiwa Castle. Bai Yan Guanglong, the city lord of Baiyan City, was caught off guard, he thought that tens of thousands of soldiers led by Tao Qingxian were approaching the city, and he hurriedly committed suicide in his living room. And Bai Yan Guanglong's two uncles, Bai Yan Guang, said that Bai Yan Taiyuan was taken in his own residence, and the Bai Yan family was wiped out overnight. The defense line built by the generals of Hanhejiang, Shiratori, Zuo Ze and other generals of Xicunshan County had already begun to collapse before Tao Qingxian arrived with his army.