Chapter 370: The Bloody Battle of Kawanakajima

The Echigo Uesugi family is divided into three clans: the Yamamoto temple clan, the Yamaura clan, and the Kamijo clan.

When Uesugi Kenshin's father, Nagao, was in the scene, the Echigo Uesugi family, with its family head guarding the Nagao family, fought to the death for the power of Echigo's rule.

Later, Uesugi Kenshin unified Echigo and inherited the name of the Uesugi family, and the Yamamoto Temple, Yamaura and Kamijo clans all became members of the Uesugi family.

The fates of these three families are also different.

The Yamaura clan was inherited by the son of Murakami Yoshikiyo, Murakami Kunikiyo, who was the adopted son of Kenshin Uesugi and renamed Yamaura Keikoku, and his status ranked second among the members of the Uesugi family.

After the Uesugi family captured Nanao Castle, in order to consolidate their rule in Noto, Uesugi Kenshin also ordered Uesugi Masashigeru to accept Hatakeyama Yoshiharu, the son of Hatakeyama Yoshisu, who was the guardian of Noto, as an adopted son and inherited the Umijo family.

The governor of the Yamamoto Temple family has always been the head of Yamamoto Temple, and his status remains unchanged, ranking sixth among the sects.

After Li Xiao's army crossed the pro-ignorance of the son and did not know the natural danger, he drove all the way into Echigo, at this time the Echigo border of the victory mountain castle has not yet been built, this city is the history of the shirt Jingsheng, built before the fall of Uozu Castle, the role is to fight against the Oda family north army regiment, prepare to resist the enemy and the border.

And at the moment, the Uesugi family never thought that Li Xiao's Hida Echichu Army would one day attack Echigo.

Therefore, to the west of Kasuga Mountain Castle, there are only Fudo Mountain Castle and the two castles of Genzhi Castle, which can be used as garrisons.

From the topography point of view, Fudoyama Castle and Nechi Castle respectively defended Kasuga Yamajo Castle against enemy forces coming from Hokuriku Province and Senkoku Street.

Nechi Castle was the place where Murakami Yoshikiyoshi fled to Echigo Kenshin Uesugi after losing his Shinano territory.

After the death of Murakami Yoshikiyo in battle, this castle became the residence of his son Urakami Keikoku.

Nechijo plays an important role, and in addition to its proximity to Hokuriku Province, it also guards Senkoku Street, another important street that communicates between Echigo and Shinano.

Echigo travels south from Senkoku Street all the way to the first line of Makinoshima Castle in Shinano Azumi-gun, where Li Xiao served as the city representative of Koiwa Prison Castle, which is also on Senkoku Street.

When Uesugi Kenshin went out to Shinano, he only took the line of Kawanakajima and never made a detour to march from here.

However, at the moment, Urakami Keikoku and his samurai retainers are fighting on Kawanakajima with Uesugi Kenshin, and there are still samurai left in Nechi Castle, and it would be good to be able to complete their own garrison, and they are not able to support Fudo Mountain Castle at all.

Therefore, the burden of guarding the Echigo is on the body of the head of Yamamoto Temple, in case the mountain castle is lost, there is no danger to the west of the spring mountain castle, and Li Xiao's army can go to the spring mountain castle in one day.

Once the news of the attack on this city comes, it will shake the hearts of the army of the front line.

The head of Yamamoto Temple can be said to be ordered to gather troops to cage the city.

And Li Xiao's forward army has also attacked the city of Fudo Mountain City, and before the big barrel is ready, the forward army tried to attack the city, but it was repelled by the Yamamoto Temple army.

Kawanakajima, Tsuma-Daughter Mountain.

The remnant sun is like blood.

The sixth battle of Kawanakajima, the largest duel between the two families of Takeda and Uesugi, has lasted for nearly a day.

On the battlefield, broken guns and halberds were everywhere, and the corpses of the soldiers of the two armies were piled up, and their tragedy was not inferior to the bloody battle nine years ago.

At the beginning of the war, Uesugi Kenshin immediately set up a hanging formation, and in the eyes of the generals of the Takeda Army, he had only heard of it, and had never actually seen it.

The rook suspension formation under Uesugi Kennobu was first led by the Gan Ryokai team, the Honjo Buncho team, and the Saito Asanobu team, which were three, as the wheel forward, crushing the current Takeda army.

After the attack of these three reserves, the original right flank, the fourth formation of Urakami Keikoku, the fifth formation of Chisaka Keikin, and the sixth formation of the upper Jo Masashi replaced as the second wave of strikes.

Then it is the one who lives in the back, the seventh formation of Sanjo Castle Lord Yamayoshi Toyomori, the eighth array of Yasuda Castle Lord Yasuda Keiyuan, the son of the ninth formation of the color department Katsuna, the lord of Hirabayashi City, the color department is long.

And the lord of Shinbata Castle, Shinbata Nagatsu, the son of Kakizaki Keijia, the lord of Kakizaki Castle, the Kakizaki Haruya, the son of Nakajo Fujishi, and the lord of Nakajo Castle, Nakajo Keishi, as a guerrilla army.

In the end, Uesugi Kenshin led the Suyoshi people (Uesugi Shinkage) and Ueda people (Uesugi Keikatsu) as the army of the main formation, sitting on the axis of the car suspension array, and settled in the axle position, and his son Uesugi Keikatsu was the generation of the main formation.

Under the command of Kennobu Uesugi, the chariot was suspended in formation, slowly moving clockwise, and the first encounter was the Shinano Army of the Takeda Army's Central Horse Farm Nobubo. …,

As soon as the two armies made a slight contact, they first exchanged arrows with iron cannons and bows and arrows, and then retreated, never falling in love with battle.

After that, the Honjo long team, the Saito Asanobu team, attacked in echelon form, and stormed the Shinano army of the Baba Nobubo.

For a while, the pressure on the Shinano army of the Baba Nobubo increased greatly, and although it was in a favorable position of defensive warfare, and had dug anti-horse fences, trenches, and camps in advance, the Uesugi army's car suspension formation was very powerful.

The enemy had just been repulsed, but then another had taken over to keep up with the attack, and a steady stream of new forces had been appearing.

The Shinano Army, when the Saito Asanobu team of the third formation was repulsed, the front of the position had been breached, and Uesugi Kenshin did not let the Saito Asanobu team continue to attack, but immediately dispatched, and ordered the Saito Asanobu team to withdraw from the battlefield, with the first and second formations of Kanyakei holding the team, Honjo Shirochang, and turned to attack the left flank of the Takeda army, the Suruga group led by Okuma Asahide.

At this time, the fourth Urakami Jingguo team attacked the camp of the North Shinano Army.

In this situation, it is equivalent to a Shinano army of Baba Nobubo, which is able to withstand the entire Uesugi family's army.

At this time, on the battlefield, anyone could already see that the legion of the Racecourse Nobubo was in a very unfavorable situation.

Even though Baba Nobubo is one of the few brave generals of the Takeda Army, the name of Oni Mino is powerful in the Kanto Echigo, and the samurai under his command are all elites, but they can't resist the endless wheel battles of the Uesugi Army.

When the Baba Nobubo Legion easily repelled the fourth formation of the Uesugi army, the fifth formation, Chisaka Keikin, led the army to kill again.

The Chisaka family was one of the four elders of the Uesugi family, and was originally a retainer of the Echigo Uesugi family with the Nagao family.

As a result, the Chisaka family has been rooted in Echigo for a long time, and its mobilization power is ranked first among the retainers of the Uesugi family tree.

Therefore, when the Chisaka Kei-pro army, which was outnumbered, entered the camp of the Baba Nobubo Army, the Shinano army was very embarrassed by the opponent for a while.

The whole Takeda army understood that the Baba Nobubo army could not be allowed to fight like this again, otherwise the Baba army had only one way to collapse the whole army.

Masanobu Takasaka, who was located on the right flank of the Baba Legion, immediately sent the fierce general Masamori Kohata to lead the army to attack on the side, and the Uesugi army was in order to snipe the trend of the opponent's attack.

Seeing this, Kenshin Uesugi of the Uesugi Army's main camp immediately issued an order and ordered the Shinbata Chotsu team and the Kakizaki Haruya team, which were the guerrilla forces, to come forward to block Takasaka Masanobu's support forces.

On the other side, the Suruga people of the Great Bear Ashide, the strength itself was inferior to that of Takasaka and the two major armies of the Baba Army, and under the attack of the Kansaki team and the Honjo Shicho team, they were suppressed to death, not to mention the support of the Baba Army.

At this time, after a bloody battle, the fifth formation of the Chisaka Keijin team was almost repelled by the Baba Nobubo with desperate strength, and at this time, the sixth formation, the Uesugi family's Kamijo Masashi team, once again attacked the position of the Baba Legion that had been exhausted.

All of a sudden, the Central Racecourse Shinbo Legion was in a predicament......