Just when the Asada was still preparing to hold a wedding for Hada Kenji and Midori Yakawa in Kotsu Castle, Takeda Shingen received letters from all over Kai Country one after another in Haikou Castle. Not only that, but the Oyamada family, the Kato family, the Katsunuma family, the Sone family, and the Yatsukawa family, which had received large losses this time, also sent envoys to Haikou Castle to ask Takeda Shingen to make decisions for them.

The death of Kato Toraki, the former governor of the Kato family, was nothing to the Takeda family as a whole, but it was of great significance to Shingen Takeda. Because Kato Toraki once served as Takeda Shingen's bow guide, he even supported Takeda Shingen when he expelled Takeda Shintora. His death was still a big blow to Shingen Takeda.

The Oyamada family, one of the Takeda family's 'two-mountain system', was the most severely affected by the disaster. All the castles and checkpoints in its territory were destroyed and burned down, except for the castle of Yandian Mountain. Even the granaries, villages, and castle towns in the Oyamada domain were destroyed to varying degrees. Not only that, but the farmland under the territory of the Oyamada family and the Kato family was also trampled by the Uesugi army, and it can be said that the two families were unable to harvest a grain of rice even in autumn.

In fact, the Takeda family, the Kato family, the Katsunuma family, and other losses of the Takeda family have the ability to support and remedy, but the situation of the Yasukawa family is completely different, and it is completely related to Takeda Shingen's face. The young lady of the Yatagawa family was packed and taken away by the Uesugi Army in broad daylight, but she was the side room that Takeda Shingen had booked, so where did his old face go?

Just as Takeda Shingen was about to gather a large army to march out of the Tokaido, the important ministers of the family opposed it one after another. Not only the affected Nobushige Oyamada and Nobumoto Katsunuma, but also Nobuyojun Anayama, Masanao Komai (son of Masatake Komai), Shinyao Takeda (son of Nobuyu Takeda and sister-in-law of Nobushige Oyamada), and Katsushi Kibe went to Haikou Castle to oppose Takeda Shingen's plan to send troops.

The opposition of the affected people made Takeda Shingen feel excusable, but the opposition of the people who were not attacked was somewhat problematic. In fact, the people of the country whose territory has not been attacked want to suspend the war with the Uesugi family, and they do not want the Uesugi army to attack Kai Province again at the same time as sending troops. Since the defense line and fortress of the Kato family and the Oyamada family were already in vain, they could not stop the invasion of the Uesugi army at all. If the Uesugi army invades Kai again, it will not only be the Kato family, the Oyamada family, the Katsunuma family, the Sone family, and other people who will suffer, but a large number of Japanese lords in the entire Kai country.

The stability of the Takeda family still depends on the support of the countrymen, and now a large number of retainers and lords of the country are against sending troops, so Takeda Shingen has to accept this opinion. He knew very well that if he continued to use militarism, he would be exiled.

However, even if the Takeda family wants a truce, it depends on whether the Uesugi family agrees or not. First of all, the Uesugi army in Nishi-Ugano has gained absolute superiority, and secondly, the nearly 20,000 Uesugi army gathered in Kakizaki Keiya, Usami Seimitsu, Saito Asanobu and others in Iiyama Castle and Nakano Kodate Castle are still waiting for the opportunity. They weren't going to give the Okushinano Prefecture to the Takeda family. In particular, the more advanced counties of the Murakami family and the Ueko-gun. Most of the Mizunai and Takai counties were also to be recaptured, as the management and ownership of these two counties were owned by the Uesugi family (who were still the Nagao family at the time) according to the Zenkoji Armistice Agreement.

As for the small counties, then they can only be a favor and let the Takeda family occupy it. It is impossible for the Uesugi family to recapture the small prefecture in a short period of time, so instead of wasting time and troops, it is better to let the Takeda family take care of it first. After the Uesugi family pacified the southern part of Dewa and the central and southern parts of Mutsu, it was time for the Takeda family to spit out the North Shinano.

On the northern side of Echigo, with the withdrawal of the Dahoji army and the surrender of Okawa Tadahide and Okawa Nagahide, the gate to Shimoetsu has been closed. And after the surrender of Okawa Tadahide's father and son, Motoi Weizong, Sasaki Zongchang and others, who were already isolated and helpless, could only surrender in Kaejo one after another.

However, Kamietsu's Kaneko Tadashige, Umijo Yoribo, Kokuni Yorihisa, Kokuni Yoriko, Uesugi Keinobu and others still have no intention of surrendering. In other words, as long as the long-tail Jingfang is still alive, then they will not submit easily. After all, they were all big city lords, and it was no problem to mobilize hundreds of cavalry.

Just when the long-tail view room was still ready to resist stubbornly, the Ueda people surrendered. Nagao Keikoku and others were persuaded by Kanetoyo Higuchi to surrender to Shinbata Nagatsu and others, and sent the hostage Nagao Kimasa (Nagao Keikoku's son) to Kawagoe Castle.

In the blink of an eye, Longtail Jingfang lost several foreign aides and powerful cadres. Sado even withdrew to Sado one after another, which made him even weaker in Nagaoka. Nagao Jingfang realized at this moment that he was being used as a gun by Ashikaga Yoshiteru. In order to balance the situation in the eastern country and not let the Uesugi family dominate, Ashikaga Yoshiteru sent Hosokawa Fujitaka to Echigo thousands of miles to pick up the retainers and wealthy families who were dissatisfied with the Uesugi family. In this way, you can also show your influence in the eastern country.

On the three sides of Ono, the Oda and Matsudaira families fought tug-of-war with the retainers left behind by the Takeda family in Higashimino and Enoe, and each won and lost each other. In addition, Takeda Shingen was unable to open the passage into Echigo and Ueno, which gave the retainers of the Takeda family the idea of a truce. It is true that external conquests can quickly unite internally, but when external conquests are futile, the retainers who had been united with great difficulty will have their own ghosts.

As Munehide in the south had wished, the court had ordered the Uesugi army in Nishi-Ueno to stop attacking and switch to a situation of encirclement. At the same time, the Uesugi family's retainers in Okushinano Iiyama Castle and Nakano Kodate Castle also began to counterattack at the same time as the Takeda Army's main team retreated.

Kakizaki Keiie, Usami Dingmi, Saito Asanobu, Kanazu Yoshiko, and other Echigo, Echichu, and Northern believers took the opportunity to transfer a group of local samurai and began a large-scale counteroffensive after taking the opportunity to transfer a group of local samurai. In just a few days, most of Mizuuchi and Takai were recaptured by the Uesugi army. The Takeda family was left with only a renovated and fortified Kaizu Castle in the Okushinano land.

Since the restoration of the 'Kosho Alliance', the Gohojo family has been beaten by the Uesugi army under Fujiwara Asada. Later, the Hojo family successively lost the Boso Peninsula and Sagami Tsukui-gun. The Go-Hojo family, who originally owned several countries in the Kanto region, has now been reduced to the point where there is only one Odawara Castle left to defend, and a large number of territories have been destroyed, so they can only quietly serve as turtles in Odawara Castle. The Hojo clan also shouted the slogan "One year of preparation, three years of counteroffensive". But in fact, the Uesugi family did not take the initiative to attack Sagami, which had already made the Hojo clan burn high incense.

Even so, Hojo Masa was still not willing to be lonely. He sent five retainers at the rank of general to Anfangguo. Among them, Kuroda Tanba Mamoru was going to prepare to return to the Hojo family with Kasahara Seikatsu, and the other four were inciting in various parts of the Boso Peninsula.

I don't know if it's because Hojo's confidence is bursting or if he underestimates the current situation. Kuroda Tanba Mamoru also felt good about himself, so he ran to Tateyama Castle to meet Kasawara Seikatsu as soon as he got off the boat. Even Kasawara couldn't believe that he had heard it wrong, and the retainers of the Hojo family took the initiative to come to him?

"Kasawara Nobune, although you have given up the favoritism given by the clan Kanggong, my lord still thinks that it is purely helpless for you to fall into the Uesugi family." Kuroda Tanba Mamoru himself thought that Kasawara's victory was a 'curve to save the country'.

"You have a lot of guts! Saitoyama Castle Mamoru and Yamamoto Temple Iyomori waited for the Uesugi army to return to their abilities not long after, and Dr. Hojo Sakyo sent you to adjust the situation? "Kasawara saw his true purpose, and he had been dismissed by the Hojo clan before, and he also served as a gatekeeper (castle gate guard). If the Hojo family was not short of people, the Hojo clan would not have used themselves. But after time and time again, the Hojo family kept disappointing him. Not only is the territory continued to be lost, but even more, the Hojo clan is willing to hand over the banner head of the Boso Peninsula to a hairy boy who has not even been on the battlefield a few times, Hojo Yasu. This made all his years of loyalty to the Hojo family in vain.

"Not exactly. The Boso Peninsula has only been captured for the Uesugi family for a short time, and people's hearts are unstable. It's not enough for a few deputies and you to guard the town. At present, only the Izu naval forces of the Shimizu family and the Miura naval forces under the jurisdiction of His Royal Highness the clan are able to crisscross most of the Boso Peninsula. Kuroda Tanba Mamoru is still unashamed. He forgot one thing - the head of the Yamamoto Temple, Miyagi Masae, and Nambada Hiroyoshi have not been completely transferred. In just a few days, Xia Zong will be able to piece together tens of thousands of reinforcements to enter the Fangso Peninsula. At that time, the Hojo Army had no strength to resist at all.

"Then you're underestimating that town lord. The Okamoto Navy has returned to Okamoto Castle. They are very eager to fight the Izu Navy to wash away the shame of their previous defeat. "Kasawara doesn't think that the Hojo family will be able to occupy the Boso Peninsula for a long time. Judging from the current Hojo family's military strength of only about 4,000 in Sagami General Mobilization, its strength is not enough at all.

"Kasawara can ascend to the temple, but my lord is going to give you the character 'clan' of the Hojo family, and the position of the flag head of the Boso Peninsula will also be handed over to you." Kuroda Tanba Mamoru said the price of the Gohojo family at this time, but this is still not much higher than Kasahara Sadatsu's current position.

"That's what the Ise family offered me? I'm sorry, but I'm currently serving as the guardian of the Uesugi family in Anbo Province and the Kanyama Castle generation, and the main family will help with the expenses of Shirabi. It's completely different from when I was at the Ise family. Kasahara no longer had the idea of continuing to talk nonsense with Kuroda Tanba, and he motioned to his side to go out with his eyes.

"Kasahara can be kept, is it possible that you don't want to go back to the Hojo family?" Kuroda Tanba Mamoru only now feels that Kasahara is not sincere at all.

"Not bad! If the Ise family wants me to come back, then I will take back Izu and Hedong first. Kasahara had long been dissatisfied with the messenger's self-righteous appearance.

"I hope you're safe here, Richer." Kuroda Tanba Mamoru turned around first, instantly pulled a handful of ribs out of his arms and went straight to Kasahara Seikatsu.

"Whoosh~" only heard the sound of a bow and arrow leaving the string, and Kuroda Tanba Mamoru was immediately hit by an arrow in his right leg. Immediately after that, more than a dozen samurai armed with spears and swords rushed into the Ohiroma.

"Dragged down, chopped. The head was sent to Heyue City for inspection by the town government. Kasahara said this coldly and left Ohiroma.

Why did the Hojo clan think of sending someone to the Boso Peninsula to do some 'small actions'? The reason for this is that Takeda Shingen sent an envoy to implore the Hojo clan to fulfill the covenant and contain the Uesugi family in the southern Kanto.