Chapter 355: Sending troops to the rescue

When the news of the invasion of Kita-Shinano Saku and Ko-prefecture by more than 10,000 Uesugi soldiers in two ways was reported to Kofu and Sunfu, most of the retainers of the Takeda family were in mourning, and Saku-gun in Kita-Shinano was the fundamental place of the Takeda family, and it was also the gateway to Kai Province, the capital of the Takeda family. Now, most of the castle soldiers in Saku-gun have fallen after being attacked by the Uesugi army, and many of the thousands of Suwa Serakai who went to Saku-gun to support have been wiped out by the Honjo Shigenaga Division, how can the Takeda family resist the tens of thousands of Uesugi troops in Saku-gun.

Takeda Shingen learned that Honjo Shigenaga had successively captured more than a dozen castles, including Iwao Castle, Oi Castle, Shiga Castle, Maeyama Castle, Imai Castle, Hachitanda Castle, Hinata Castle, Moriyama Castle, Otori Castle, Arayama Castle, and Nozawa Castle. Because Takeda Katsuyori, Yamamoto Kansuke and other generals needed to contain the tens of thousands of Uesugi troops led by Ota Shimasa, Yamamoto Temple Dingna, Nagano Yoshimori, and Anazawa Toshimitsu in the same country, they could not attend the military meeting.

"You must have heard the news that tens of thousands of Uesugi troops have invaded Kita-Shinano, right? Do I need to state it again? "Although Takeda Shingen is sitting on the main seat, he is already a little like sitting on pins and needles.

"Brother, at present, our family should quickly withdraw its troops from Junzhou and Xiangzhou, and rush to the aid of Jiazhou and Shinshu. Hokushin is too important to the family, and once Hokushin is captured by the Uesugi family, then there will be no peace in Koshu in the future. Takeda Shinshihiro directly presented his views to Takeda Shingen.

"Are you going to make me give up the results I have achieved in Xiangzhou so far?! It was not easy for the family to occupy a place in the Kanto region, but once our army withdrew from Xiangzhou, there was no guarantee that the Uesugi army would not take advantage of the situation to launch an invasion of Junzhou and Doushu occupied by the family. "This is where Shingen Takeda is most worried at the moment. Once he asks Takeda Katsuyori, Yamamoto Kansuke and others to withdraw to Kai and Suruga, will Ota Shimasa stop after recovering the entire territory of Xiangmao?

"But my brother, once Saku-gun falls into the hands of the Uesugi family, there will be no danger in the northern part of Koshu, and it will be easy for the Uesugi army to go south." Takeda Nobushigeru doesn't think that the current Takeda family's occupation of half of the Takeda family is more important than Kita-Shinano, after all, the Takeda family has been operating for more than ten years, and the Sagami country does not have any foundation.

"Once Aishu falls into the hands of the Uesugi family again, then Ota Saemonsa, who has tens of thousands of troops, will not stop there, and it will not be a day or two for the former Imagawa family ministers such as Okabe and Asahina under the command of the Uesugi family to seize Doushu, Junzhou, Enshu and other places." Anayama Nobuyuki didn't want his territory to become the forefront of the war between the Takeda family and the Uesugi family, and he most hoped that Takeda Shingen would not withdraw the tens of thousands of Takeda troops who had touched each other.

"What you say makes sense, but our family's troops are indeed concentrated in Junzhou, and they can only rush to help." Takeda Shingen was a little helpless at the moment. Due to the initial decision of Mikawa and Enoe, it was impossible to mobilize the local lords on a large scale to send troops, and it was necessary to guard against Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had already surrendered, from falling to the Oda family again.

"It's better to let the elder brother ask the first Mutsu Noshin Tiger Gong to come forward as a shogunate and negotiate peace with Echigo's Uesugi Dan Main Hall, so that the family will have enough time to prepare for war." Matsuo Nobu proposed a compromise plan, but the premise was that Takeda Shingen pulled down his face and begged Takeda Shintora to come forward.

"That's it, that's all there is to it. Genjuro, you will preside over this matter, and I will immediately lead the army to Saku-gun. "Takeda Shingen doesn't want Saku-gun, the gateway to Kai, to fall into the hands of the Uesugi family.

"Yes." Matsuo Nobuki instantly felt the pressure on him, as he needed to travel to Kyoto quickly, and Takeda Shintora had previously entered Kyoto before the Takeda army occupied Suruga, and served as the shogunate's bodyguard.

"However, we can't let Qianxin and Chaoding get time to recuperate, and immediately urge the Oda family to raise troops." Takeda Shingen planned to let the Oda family unite the remaining forces of the Eight Kanto Kingdoms, such as the former Edo family retainers and the Odawara Ise family, to disrupt the Eight Kanto Kingdoms, so that the backyard of the Asadachi would be on fire, so that his important ministers Ota Shimasa and other generals could not concentrate on attacking Sagami and Izu countries. It also gave the Takeda family enough time to recuperate and prepare for the war.

"With the strength of the Oda family is not enough to trust, his daughter is still the main room of Uesugi Yutaka guarding Ueno, what if the Oda family does not raise troops and falls to the Uesugi family?" Takeda Nobushihiro didn't think that Oda Clan would be able to turn the backyard of the Asadari upside down.

"The Oda family is still based on the famous samurai family of the Eight Kingdoms of the Kanto region for more than 300 years, and its territory is located in Nishichanglu, as long as it quickly sends troops to the west, then it is only a matter of time before the troops are under the river." Takeda Shingen didn't know the true strength of the Oda family at the moment. Because Takeda Shingen had already learned that the troops of Shimoso and Higashi Musashi were basically taken away by Ota Shimasa, Yamamoto Temple and others, and the garrison was empty, as long as Oda Shiji led the army to advance westward quickly, then he could quickly attack the castle of Kawagoe Castle, the original base of the dynasty.

"The Makabe family of Hitachi, as well as the Uesugi retainers such as Shioya, Kasama, Ishibashi, Takatama, Shigero, and Okuni, are still distributed around the Oda family's territory, and it is not easy for the Oda family to break through this encirclement." Takeda Nobuyoshi didn't want to go toe-to-toe with Takeda Shingen, but after all, this was about the interests of the Takeda family.

"The purpose of this family is to make Ota Saemonzo and other Uesugi retainers unable to take care of everything, and they don't really regard the Oda family as an ally of their own family, the Oda family is just a flag of the family, and they will be directly outcasts when necessary." Takeda Shingenko never had any hope for Oda Clan, he just wanted to use the Oda family to contain Ota Shishimasa, Yamamoto Temple Dingna, Anazawa Toshimitsu, Nagano Yoshimori and other Uesugi retainers at this time.

Just after the military discussion was over, Takeda Shingen quickly led an army of 10,000 from Sunfu Castle, and he did not know the news that Koyama Asakyuki had led his army into Kai.

Although the Oda family has been based in the Kanto region for more than 300 years, it is also one of the eight houses in the Kanto region. However, Oda now wants to challenge the Uesugi family's hegemony in the Kanto region. On the one hand, Oda wants to dominate Changriku, and on the other hand, he wants to wash away the shame of bowing to Asada.

However, for the sake of the survival of the family, Oda still has a heart. Previously, he had formed a relationship between his daughter and Ueno guardian Uesugi Keimitsu, and now he secretly asked his sister-in-law Oda Moriji to go to Echigo to Shikenshin. And Oda Clan himself and his eldest son Oda Yuji are preparing for war in the territory, preparing to raise troops to attack the Uesugi family.

At the same time, Uchiyama Castle was not able to successfully capture Uchiyama Castle under the strict defense of the castle generation Koyamada Toramitsu (Oyamada Masamitsu, Uehara Toramitsu, Uehara Masatsun), the castle lord Oi Sadashige (son of Oi Sadakiyo), Oi Sadakei (Oi Sadakiyo Jinan, the younger brother of Oi Sadashige), and Oyamada Masada (Oyamada Toramitsu Jinan) and others.

However, Honjo had already courted the lords of the Takeda family in Saku-gun, such as Oi Yukiyoshi (Lord of Iwa Castle), Oi Yukiyoshi (son of Oi Yukiyori), Oi Minbu (Lord of Otori Castle), Goro Kawashita, Soki Morinosuke, and Taguchi Kuzaemon (Lord of Taguchi Castle), among which the Iwao Oi clan was the guardian of the Daiya clan Oi clan, and the death of the lords of the Oi clan, such as Oi Yukiyoshi, and Oi Minbu, undoubtedly shook the rule of the Takeda family in Kitashinano Saku-gun.

At the same time that Honjo Shiranaga hit a nail in Uchiyama Castle, Hiraga did not disappoint Honjo Shiranaga. Hiraga Masayuki, Oi Masanari and others quickly led their subordinates to disguise themselves as the defeated army of the Takeda Army and infiltrate their old territories, Pingga Castle and Haikou Castle, and attacked Pinghe Castle and Haikou Castle while the defenders in the castle were defenseless. Not only that, Hiraga Masayuki, Oi Masanari and others also led the Lang Party to capture the Nagao Gold Mountain near Kobu Shin-Etsu, released all the miners in the Nagao Gold Mountain, and obtained more than 100 taels of gold.

Shinshu Kasa southern Takeda retainers Tsujin Yintoki, Tsujin Yinhisa, Koo Yumitsu and others could only watch as the Hiraga people ransacked Nagao Kanayama, and due to their lack of troops, they could only be stationed in their own territories, Kiyosato Castle and Gentai Castle. Although they sent more than a dozen groups of messengers asking for help, they all received a unified reply from Takeda Shingen - they should not act rashly and strictly prevent the Uesugi army from moving south from Saku County.

At the same time, five people dressed in crude brown linen clothes and straw sandals on their feet, carrying five-foot spears that had already lost their paint, came to Aizu Wakamatsu Castle. The purpose of the five of them is very simple - to go out of the Uesugi family.