While the Kasawara family's banner (丸に三つ cypress) was still flying in Kururi Castle, Takeda Shingen had already swept through the Okushinano region with a volcanic offensive in the wind forest.

Murakami Yoshikiyo had no choice but to withdraw from Shiotan Castle, and after burning down Shiota Castle, he retreated to the area of Katsubi Castle and Arato Castle in Ueke County. The main forces of the Murakami family are all arranged in Ueka-gun, while Takai-gun and Mizuuchi-gun are in the hands of Saito, Suda, Kanazu and others.

As early as May 3, Okushino's Uesugi army defeated Takanashi Yoriharu's army in a matter of days. Saito Asanobu, together with Suda Mitsukin, Kanazu Yoshiko, and Takanashi Hidemasa, gathered 4,500 troops to conquer Kuroiwa Castle, Oki Castle, Nakajo Castle, and Nojiri Castle one after another, and sought over Yamada Kunimasa, the lord of Nojiri Castle of Takanashi Yorijika.

By May 5, 4,000 Uesugi troops had surrounded Iiyama Castle. The most unexpected thing is that the lord of the castle, Takanashi Yoriji, opened the castle at the cost of committing suicide by cutting his stomach, in order to protect the lives of the defenders and civilians in the castle.

At first, Takanashi Yoriji received assurances from Nagao Keibo that reinforcements would arrive from the Ueda direction before he could raise troops to respond to Nagao Keibo. However, from the beginning of Takanashi Yoriji's army to the end of the loss of troops, he did not even see a single reinforcement from the Ueda people.

Saito Asanobu and the others immediately agreed, because they had no time to waste under Iiyama Castle. Takeda Shingen's army had already invaded the Murakami Domain, and a large number of people from the Okushinano Kingdom had been evacuated, and at present, Kita-Shinano was still under the control of the Uesugi Clan, and the only four counties were Mizuchi-gun, Takai-gun, Ueko-gun, and higher-level gun.

Just when Takanashi Yoiji went out of the city dressed in white and cut himself by the Chikuma River, the martial arts of the Murakami family also came to an end. After Takanashi Yoriji committed suicide, Hidemasa Takanashi appointed his brother Takanashi Yorijin as the lord of Iiyama Castle.

The Nishina family of Azumi Prefecture was transferred by the Takeda family and became a member of the Takeda family's Shinano ancestors. In addition, after many lands and wealthy clans in Xiaoxian County and Saku County were transferred by Sanada Yukitaka, the Takeda Army was stationed in Komori Castle and other branch cities more smoothly. Moreover, Takeda Shingen set up his own camp in Komori Castle.

At the same time, Murakami Yoshikiyo wanted to defeat the Takeda Army in the field again, so he led the main force of 3,000 troops to deploy at Sakakihara. On the other hand, the vanguard of the Takeda Army, Takeda Katsuyori, Sanada Yutaka, Imai Nobuo, Imai Toranofu, and others had 5,000 troops. In the rear of Takeda Katsuyori and others, the reserve was the servant army of the Shinano pioneers such as Nobumori Ashida, with 2,000.

As the heir to Takeda Shingen, Takeda Katsuyori's lineup is not bad at all. The Daibo lords Imai Nobuo and Imai Torao were directly assigned to him, and even the Daiboku lords such as Sanada Yutaka (200 riders) and Ashida Nobuyori (150 riders) of the Shinano ancestors were also under his command.

However, Murakami Yoshikiyo is a little lacking here. A large number of people belonging to him have left, not to mention, even the Yadai Masakuni and others of the family have been connected to the Takeda family.

In the early morning of 6 May, Murakami Yoshikiyo and his sons Murakami Yoshiteru, Murakami Yoshikuni, Murakami Kunikiyo, and his sons-in-law Murakami Yoshibo and Murakami Yoshimitsu were the main members, supplemented by the important ministers Kojima Goro Saemon, Kojima Gonbei, Suda Shinzaemon, and Yui Sobei, and 3,000 Murakami troops lined up in Sakakihara North.

Takeda Katsuyori is not in his first position at this moment, so he naturally will not be afraid of Murakami Yoshikiyo', a 'lonely man'. He made his subordinates Akiyama Mitsutsugi, Abe Katsuho, Ohara Hirokatsu (Suwa Shokatsu), Ohara Shita Mamoru (Ohara Hirokatsu's brother), Takeuchi and Gozaemon, Mukaiyama Izumo Mamoru and Oda Kirison Uemon Captain and others as the vanguard; Tomao Imai and Yukitaka Sanada as left-wingers; Nobuo Imai and Nobuyo Ashida were right-wingers; Takeda Katsuyori, Masataka Kebe, and Genzu Motonao and others set up their own camp in Sakakihara Minami. In this way, the 6,000 Takeda Army advanced in a sharp arrow.

Just when the Murakami Army and the Takeda Army were about to fight, Aoyagi Kiyonaga, the lord of Aoyagi Castle, Nobuyoshi Muroga, the lord of Muroga Castle, Yashiro Masaki, the lord of Yashiro Castle, and the lord of Kariyahara Castle, Akasawa Nobuyasu, and others fell to the Takeda family. In an instant, Murakami Yoshikiyo really became a loner, and Katsura Castle was surrounded by enemies on three sides except for the four mountains in the east. Even if Saito Asanobu and others wanted to go and ask for help, they were more than willing to do it.

Not long after the battle between the Murakami military and the Takeda army, Aoyagi Kiyocho, Muroga Nobutoshi, Yashiro Masakuni, Akasawa Nobuyasu and others who were rebelled their respective Lang parties to participate in the battle. Murakami Yoshikiyo instantly fell into the dilemma of being surrounded on all sides.

After two hours of death, the 3,000 Murakami army successfully broke through to Katsuo Castle after paying the deaths of the important ministers Goro Kojima, Kojima Gonbei, and Yui Sobei, and after Murakami Yoshiteru, Murakami Yoshikuni, and Murakami Yoshibo were captured.

However, when Murakami Yoshikiyo entered the city with the remnants to count the number of people, he found that the original 3,000 troops were now less than 1,000 people left. What Murakami Yoshikiyo is worth showing off is that he will take the traitors Kiyocho Aoyagi and Nobuyasu Akasawa.

However, the last barrier of Katsuo Castle, Toishi Castle (Toshishi), was also captured by the Takeda Army under the mediation of Sanada Yutaka, and the old Rakuwaji Mitsu clan of the Murakami family's pen head family was taken by the Mitsushi clan.

"Gengo, the future of the Murakami family is in your hands. You, as my last son, will send someone over Mt. Sia in the evening to send you to Saito Shimonomori. Murakami Yoshikiyo said earnestly to Murakami Guoqing.

"Father, my lord······" Murakami Kunikiyo also learned that the Takeda family had invaded on the Ueno side, and the road to Ueno had been blocked. Now the only way back is to go to the Echigo side. And this is the only way out, but Murakami Yoshikiyo himself doesn't want to use it.

"My father no longer wants to leave this city that has been passed down from generation to generation, even if he dies, he will die in this city." Murakami Yoshikiyo patted Murakami Kunikiyo on the shoulder and staggered to Ohiroma.

Murakami Yoshikiyoshi no longer has the strength and ability to thwart Takeda Shingen's invasion as before, and it is impossible for him to create the record of Ueda Avatar and Toshi Avalanche again.

Soon, as night fell, Murakami Kunikiyo left Katsumi Castle under the escort of Kiyohide Kiyono and a dozen other retainers, and quickly headed towards Iiyama Castle.

Just as Murakami Kuniqing left Katsuo Castle on the front foot, Takeda Katsuyori on the back foot surrounded Katsuo Castle with a total of 8,000 troops with the Takeda Army and the servant army of the Shinano ancestors. And Takeda Shingen also immediately moved his main camp to Koizumi Castle to the west of Toishi Castle and southeast of Katsuro Castle.

On May 7, Saito Asanobu, Kanazu Yoshiko, Suda Mitsukin, and others were unable to rescue Murakami Yoshikiyo, so they could only abandon all Okushinano's territories and lead their samurai and standing guards to garrison Iiyama Castle, Nojiri Castle, and Nakano Kodate Castle. Shimazu Tadanaoya, the lord of Naganuma Castle, left his position after receiving Murakami Kunikiyo and his party, and fled to Nojiri Castle with his samurai and standing ashigaru.

In this way, all the Uesugi troops in the area near Kawanaka Island were evacuated, and they were left to guard the gates of Echigo (Iiyama Castle, Nojiri Castle, and Nakano Kodate Castle).

Then turn your attention to Echigo Province. Guided by the 500 troops of the headquarters, Okawa Tadahide led the 3,000 troops of the Dahoji family to support Nagao Keibo and quickly passed through the territory of the Okawa family. Originally, under the banner of "rescuing the people of Echigo who were in dire straits, and defeating the unkind and unjust Uesugi Kenshin and Fujiwara Asada", the Daihoji Yoshishi passed through the territory of Okawa Tadahide all the way to Aki without committing any crimes.

However, when the Dabaosi Army and the Dachuan Army entered the territory of the original Tsukawa family, it was different, and it instantly changed into the habits of bandits. One way, after looting the Kankawakan, Kuwagawakan, Oyezawa Castle and other places, the troops were divided into two routes, one with 1,500 troops led by Yoshikatsu Abe and Mamoru Onohataru to besiege Murakami Castle, and the other way was led by Okawa Tadahide, and the 2,000 troops led by Yoshiji Daihoji, Masakatsu Takasaka, and Yoshimasa Stayome were ready to wait for an opportunity to enter Kambara-gun and join Nagao Keibo.

Since the defender of Murakami Castle, Honjo Moricho, only had 600 troops, and he still had to defend Honjo Castle and Murakami Castle, there was no way to stop the behavior of the Dahoji army, so he could only let them wander and burn and loot at will.

Daihoji Yoshimasu did not intend to let only 3,000 troops under his command enter Echigo, he had already selected the second batch of commanders to enter Echigo - Tosa Lin Zendong (a major minister of the Dahoji family, the head of the Dahoji family). Daihoji Yoshimassu wanted him to lead more than 1,000 troops of the Zolin family into Echigo, and it was best to occupy some castles, such as Ohazawa Castle, Kankawakan, Kuwagawakan, and other places close to Shonai.

As for why the Dahoji family didn't come out, the reason was the distrust of the Mogami family and the Date family. The relationship between the Daihoji family and the Echigo Nagao family was still much stronger than that of the Mogami family and the Date family, and if it weren't for the Fuchu Nagao family's vigorous development of Naoetsu, Funai Port, Kashiwazaki Port, and Niigata Port, Sakataminato's profits would not have been as much as before. At the end of the day, it's a matter of money.

However, the Dahoji Army does not mean that they can enter Kambara County if they can enter. First of all, they need to capture a series of castles such as Honjo Castle, Hirabayashi Castle, Joseki Castle, Kurokawa Castle, Tsukijikan, and Kaji Castle. Not only that, but they also needed to guard against the attacks of the Yangbei people, after all, the Dahoji army did not fight in their back garden, but ran to the neighboring country of Echigo.