It is different from Takeda Yoshinobu who led an army of 5,000 troops all the way to Taping Ganle County, Dohu County, and Midorino County. Takeda Katsuyori's attack on Azuma County can be described as a bloody battle.

The night attack on Iwaki Castle achieved the great achievement of Sanada Masayuki.

In essence, Sanada Masayuki also became more and more important in Takeda Katsuyori's retainers, and although he was only sixteen years old, his strategy was already on the show. In the eyes of everyone, Sanada Masayuki's resourcefulness has gradually been compared to his father Sanada Yutaka and the former military advisor of the Takeda family, Yamamoto Kansuke.

Talented people need a stage to show their strength, Maxima is important, and Bole is also very important.

In the face of the praise of others, Sanada Masayuki was very grateful to Li Xiao for summoning him to Takeda Katsuyori in the first place. If it weren't for Li Xiao's solicitation, he would only be dormant under the wings of his father and two brothers in Sanada's family, and he didn't know when he would get ahead.

And Takeda Katsuyori was also surprised that Li Xiao had the foresight to recruit Sanada Masayuki at the beginning. He thought that although Sanada Masayuki was capable, he was not so powerful, but he didn't know that Li Xiao's vision was so sharp, and he could see at a glance that Sanada Masayuki was coming.

And in this Azuma County strategy, it was Li Xiao who offered advice to Takeda Katsuyori and used the Sanada family to carry out the strategy between the wealthy families of Azuma County, which was a great success.

Recruiting the Kawara family, luring the Yuwei family, and attacking Iwaki Castle at night, in the eyes of outsiders, the strategy of Azuma County is all planned by Sanada Masayuki, but Takeda Katsuyori knows in his heart how much role Li Xiao has played in this way.

If the trend of storming one city after another continues, it is possible that Takeda Katsuyori is still running into a wall under Hawei Castle.

is the so-called good fighter is not a great merit, so in the entire Wuzu County strategy, Li Xiao seems to have come to play soy sauce all the way, but Li Xiao is also happy to do so, and now he wants to be low-key and low-key. All he had to wait for was a chance to take him to the sky again.

After Takeda Katsuyori now occupied Iwaki Castle, he did not take a new offensive at the time of occupation, while monitoring Songshan Castle Saito Kenhiro, Saito Kenmune, the two fathers and sons, and on the other hand, he was always concerned about the movement of Harumo Mountain Castle, and there were rumors from the ninjas that Uesugi Kenshin was going to fight Kanto again after less than a month.

If Uesugi Kenshin goes out to Kanto again, Takeda Katsuyori will discuss with Li Xiao and Sanada Masayuki, and also decide to adopt the original plan to directly withdraw to the small prefecture and the Sanada family to join forces, and defend it according to the defense group of the main city of Matsuo.

Although there is now a fortified castle called Iwaki Castle, it can be defended as a support point, and if the troops are withdrawn and the Iwaki Castle is abandoned, it is a pity that Hawei Castle has won the castle in such a hard battle. However, Uesugi Kenshin's prestige as a military god was great, and in the face of the tens of thousands of troops of the Echigo army, even Takeda Katsuyori's current military strength still did not have the confidence to defend Iwaki Castle and support a cage battle.

Therefore, Takeda Katsuyori left Masatoshi Hoshina and 300 soldiers to defend Iwaki Castle, and he led the rest of his men and horses to retreat to Hawei Castle, which was closer to the rear.

Hoshina Masatoshi was not idle, and transported the grain, iron cannons, etc., which Saito had originally stored in the city, to the rear, and when the city was captured, he also captured a large amount of Saito's military funds, which was not only enough to compensate Takeda Katsuyori for this battle, but also wealthy.

At this moment, the Saito family is also hoarding troops in Songshan Castle and preparing for a counterattack. During this period, Takeda Katsuyori sent an envoy to the other small wealthy clans of Azuma Prefecture, asking them to hand over their hostages, write an oath to surrender to the Takeda family, and the corresponding Takeda family would issue them a certificate of security recognizing their current territory.

Those who are familiar with the situation in this vicinity, Okuma Ashide, Sanada Masayuki, and the newly surrendered head of the Kawara family, Kawara Yukishige, are jointly responsible.

In June of Eiroku, seeing that Ueno Province was in flames, Uesugi Kenshin finally couldn't sit still. Although Ueno Country was given to him by his cheap daddy Uesugi Kenmasashi, it was his own thing in the end, and he must not let Takeda Shingen and Hojo Shiyasu, the two Jiangyang thieves, take it away like this.

Kenshin Uesugi had not been in Harumayama Castle for a full month before he once again mobilized a large army to fight in Ueno Province.

Confirming this news, Takeda Katsuyori transferred the three hundred men stationed in Iwaki Castle to Hamao Castle overnight, and the whole army packed their luggage and prepared to run away at any time.

Just when Takeda Katsuyori's entire army was worried about Uesugi Kenshin's departure to Ueno, Uesugi Kenshin's army just turned around Azuma-gun on the way, making the illusion that they were going to attack Iwaki Castle. In fact, Uesugi Kenshin himself led his elite troops south and attacked Kuragano Castle, which was besieging the Takeda family.

At that time, under Kuragano Castle, there were Iitomi Torasa, Takeda Yoshinobu, Wada Castle and Tian Yefan, as well as the newly subdued Ueno Hao clan, about 5,000 troops.

By the time Uesugi Kenshin arrived outside the castle, Kurakano Castle was now in danger under the offensive of the Takeda Army. Kurakano Outer City Maru had been broken by the Takeda Army, and most of the three hundred defenders in the city were killed in battle, and the castle lord Kuragano Naoyuki only retreated into Honmaru with the remnants of a few dozen people.

Uesugi Kenshin climbed up and looked at it, and after observing the Takeda army's formation, he sneered and said, "This is not my enemy. So without waiting for the arrival of the main army, Uesugi Kenshin only led 23 horsemen down the mountain to assault the Takeda army.

When the Takeda Army saw Uesugi Kenshin's banner, they were immediately in chaos. I saw Uesugi Kenshin wearing a white cloth and no armor, wearing a black cotton jacket, carrying a spear of ten characters, and leading 23 horsemen straight into the Takeda army.

None of the 5,000 Takeda troops dared to stop them, and they parted like waves, and watched as Uesugi Kenshin broke through into Kuragano Castle. Seeing that Uesugi Kenshin was unstoppable, the Takeda Army called him the Yaksha Rakshasa .

Seeing that Uesugi Kenshin had arrived, Iitomi and Tiger Chang, Takeda Yoshinobu did not dare to continue the siege of Kuragano Castle, and immediately led his troops to retreat.

A day later, the main army of 10,000 of the Echigo army had arrived, and Uesugi Kenshin personally led the army in pursuit. Under the battle between the two armies, the Takeda army was defeated, and although Takeda Yoshinobu himself went into battle to fight and killed several defeated Takeda soldiers in the later battle, he could not stop the defeat of the Takeda army.

Fortunately, the Takeda Army still has fierce generals like Iitomi Huchang. After Iitomi Huchang led the Red Reserve to risk the death of the temple, he desperately resisted the pursuit of Uesugi Kenshin, which avoided the end of the entire army.

However, after this battle, the three counties of Ganle County, Duohu County, and Green Field, which had just been acquired by the Takeda Army, were once again gained and lost. Iitomi Huchang, Takeda Yoshinobu cleaned up the remnants of the army, and reported to Takeda Shingen on the other hand. I hope that Takeda Shingen himself can lead the main force of the Takeda Army and personally go out to Ueno to fight Uesugi Kenshin.

Uesugi Kenshin once again went out to the Kanto region, and sat in the town of Stablebridge Castle, united with the Nagano family, and attacked the Ueno wealthy clan who had rebelled against Takeda and Hojo.

At this time, Takeda Katsuyori and Li Xiao saw that Uesugi Kenshin focused his attention on pacifying the forces of the wealthy clans in the southern part of Ueno Province, so he was relieved and bold to fight Azuma County again.

Takeda Katsuyori led an army of 1,000 to recapture Iwakushi Castle. And Saito Kenhiro in Songshan City, Saito Kenzong and the two fathers and sons were not idle during this time, borrowing troops everywhere, and finally put together two thousand troops for their father and son.

So Saito and his son went out from Songshan Castle to prepare for a decisive battle with the Takeda army under Iwaki Castle.

And at this time, the strategy of the Sanada family father and son played a role again.

Just when Saito Kenhiro and Saito Kenmune's soldiers were approaching the castle of Iwakusa, Sanada Yutaka sent his retainer Tomizawa Tajima to enter the province and bribed Ikeda Sado, a retainer of the Saito family stationed in Songshan Castle. Shigeyasu Ikeda rebelled at Songshan Castle and erected a counter-flag.

Knowing that the base was lost and the retreat route was cut off, Saito and his son were shocked and angry, and at this time, Takeda Katsuyori attacked from Iwaki Castle, and the wealthy families of Azuma County, who had paid hostages to Takeda Katsuyori, saw that the wind was turning to the side of the Takeda family, and they each brought troops to help.

Takeda Katsuyori gathered a large army and launched a fierce attack on the five anti-platforms garrisoned by Saito and his sons.