Seeing the military appearance of the Takeda Army.

Uesugi Kenshin turned around and said to the envoy: "Order the two teams of Naoe and Wada, not to fall in love with the battle, and to withdraw immediately."

"The Lord"

Uesugi Nobuyuki hurriedly spoke, "Won't you fight a decisive battle with the Takeda Army?" ”。

"A decisive battle? Are you conceited that you are sure to defeat Li Xiao and his army? ”。 Uesugi Kenshin pointed his horsewhip at the Takeda Army under the mountain, and asked Uesugi Shinjing rhetorically.

When he saw the three standing formations of the Takeda Army, the lineup of mountains and forests, Uesugi Nobuyi was also speechless for a while.

Uesugi Shinkage hesitated for a moment, and said: "After the independent duke inherited the governor of the Uesugi family, since the war, in the field battle, invincible and invincible, if he avoids the battle in front of the Takeda army today, I am afraid that it will be discussed and affect the reputation of the lord." ”

When Uesugi Kenshin heard this, he laughed and said, "I have never taken what outsiders say, but I have never taken it to heart. However, in battle, we must judge the hour and size up the situation, and today, our army rashly fought a decisive battle with Li Xiao, and in my opinion, the chance of victory will never exceed half. ”

"Less than half"

After listening to Kenshin Uesugi's words, everyone was incredible.

With the strength of the two armies equal, Uesugi Kenshin actually said that the chance of victory was not more than half.

When did the Takeda Army become so strong?

"Yes, it's less than half, no exaggeration." Uesugi Kenshin looked at Li Xiao's two-pattern flag and said in a deep voice.

In the Takeda Army's main camp.

The subordinates wanted to fight, but Li Xiao hesitated in his heart.

But after thinking about it again, Li Xiao still said: "Order the cavalry team, and the snake tail will advance alternately to cover, and respond to the retreat of the Shenbao army." ”

"My lord, don't you pursue the Uesugi army and fight a decisive battle with it?" Fujido Gaohu asked hurriedly.

Li Xiao shook his head and said: "There is no point, the forces of the two sides are equal, I am not sure of winning Uesugi Huihu, on the contrary, Uesugi Huihu does not dare to help me, if it is a decisive battle, it is likely to fall into a chaotic battle, and the final result is mostly a defeat for both sides." ”

Li Xiao closed his eyes, his consideration was also to preserve his power.

In fact, after receiving the news of Uesugi Kenshin's sudden departure, Li Xiao immediately canceled his standing rest.

Li Xiao immediately led the three major reserves of Shengang, Shewei, and Qiben, as well as the army of Hida and Sheshui County, a total of 5,000 troops, and hurried to the battlefield.

Li Xiao's standing preparations have not yet been completed, and at the same time, the combat power of the Hida Hao clan in Yuezhong is uneven, and it is not on the same level as the power of the Uesugi army, so it is too hasty to fight now.

Moreover, now the wealthy families in Vietnam have not really returned to Li Xiao, if Li Xiaoyi is the fundamental standing once it is damaged, it is likely that it will not be able to suppress it, and some of the following ill-intentioned wealthy families in Vietnam.

But being able to defeat Uesugi Kenshin in the field battle is also a very tempting thing for Li Xiao.

But in addition to the benefits of fame, victory can not shake the foundation of the Uesugi army, at the moment the Uesugi army is only a part of the 20,000 army of the Uesugi family, and the Takeda army is the main force of Li Xiao, in case Li Xiao is defeated, then needless to say the situation in Vietnam, there is no hope at all.

The Shiina family will definitely surrender, and Li Xiaoyue's land can only be discarded, and even Hida may not be protected.

For Li Xiao, the cost of losing this gamble is unimaginable, and he is absolutely unaffordable, Li Xiao can't gamble all the results of his eight years of fighting in Hida Echi.

So after weighing the pros and cons, Li Xiao still didn't make this risky decision, and instead ordered the Shenbao Army to withdraw from the battlefield.

Almost at the same time, the Uesugi army and the Takeda army sounded the horn of the retreat of the troops in a tacit understanding.

The two sides stopped fighting, and this result relieved the officers and men of the two armies who thought that there would be a bloody battle.

Not everyone is willing to sacrifice their lives and death, and being able to avoid fighting with strong enemies and save their lives is definitely the first choice. And Li Xiao, Uesugi Kenshin, and the two really broke out a fierce battle here, which must be a bloody battle that is not inferior to Kawanakajima.

Even if the winning side is present, how many will survive.

Without the certainty of victory, to avoid a decisive battle with the other side, the commanders of the two armies made this choice in unison.

After the horn sounded, the two armies of Uesugi Takeda did not fight again, and each returned to its own camp.

Immediately, at a distance of less than a day and a half, the two sides built their own positions, tents, horse fences, and trenches, and put on the posture of stationing here. …,

For a while, the two armies had neither the certainty of defeating the other nor the idea of retreating, so they put on a posture and confronted each other.

No one knows how long the confrontation will take, but the two armies are deadlocked.

Just when Li Xiao and Uesugi Kenshin each led an army to confront Yuezhong.

However, there was great turmoil in the world and in the Kanto region.

In the twelfth year of Eiroku, the Oda family usurped even greater power in the middle of this year, following the success of Kamiraku last year.

First of all, at the beginning of the year, Nobunaga defeated the Miyoshi San, preventing his intended restoration in Kyoto.

After that, Sakaimachi, the world's largest commercial city, gave up its autonomy.

The rendezvous, who had been controlling Sakai Town, were oppressed by Nobunaga and officially surrendered to the Oda family.

Nobunaga then ordered Yuki Matsui to be appointed as the head of Sakai Town.

Sakai Town, the world's largest iron cannon production area and economic center, was in the hands of Oda Nobunaga.

After mastering Sakai Town, Nobunaga reached into Kyoto again.

After the Miyoshi trio retreated, Nobunaga took over the military and political power of Kyoto from Ashikaga Yoshiaki in the name of strengthening the defense of Kyoto.

Nobunaga's move was tantamount to taking the Japanese emperor, the capital of the shogun, into his own hands.

And Oda Nobunaga also issued a restriction order to Ashikaga Yoshiaki with the "Imperial Palace".

There are nine articles in the Imperial Palace, and seven more are added two days later, all of which restrict the authority of Ashikaga Yoshiaki's shogun, which is formally equivalent to depriving him of all the powers of the shogun.

And Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who had no military power in his hands, had to accept Nobunaga's orders to him in humiliation.

Only three months after Nobunaga's success, Yoshiaki officially changed from the status of a shogun to a symbol, and the actual role was a rubber stamp in Oda Nobunaga's hand.

After bringing under his control, Nobunaga set his sights on Ise again.

In February of the twelfth year of Eiroku, the 48 wealthy clans of Northern Ise surrendered, and Nobunaga gathered an army of 40,000 to send troops to Takaoka Castle.

The Kobe family was subdued, and Nobunaga's third son, Sanchimaru, inherited the name of the Kobe family.

And just when Li Xiao and Uesugi Kenshin confronted each other in Vietnam.

Nobunaga gathered an army of 80,000 and began to storm the Kitada family in Minami Ise, and began to carry out his great cause of unifying Ise.

And in the Kanto region.

Takeda Shingen went out of Suruga for the second time and directly attacked Izu Province, the territory of the Hojo family, and loomed into Odawara Castle.

Hojo Shiyasu could not tolerate it, and the Takeda army attacked aggressively in the territory, and led the army out of Odawara to meet Takeda Shingen.

Takeda Shingen's Hojo clan Yasu personally led the army, and also set up a posture and made a decisive battle with the Hojo family.

However, the much-anticipated duel between the Sagami Lion and the Kai Tiger did not take place in the end.

June.

The Takeda Army, which was located in Izu's main camp, was suddenly hit by a typhoon.

The Takeda Army's lodging ground became Zeguo overnight, and most of its baggage, horses, and weapons were swept away by the flood.

After receiving the news, Hojo Shiyasu was in high spirits and immediately led his army to attack the Takeda Army, which was routed by the typhoon.

In response to this natural disaster, Takeda Shingen could only sigh at his own bad luck and ordered the troops to retreat from Izu Province and return to Kai.

August of the twelfth year of Yonglu.

In the second month of Li Xiao's confrontation with Uesugi Kenshin in Yuechu, Takeda Shingen made his third trip from Kai.

This time, Takeda Shingen did not take the route of the previous two appearances to Suruga.

The first time Shingen went back and forth by Jiajun, and directly attacked Suruga Province.

The second time Shingen took the Mt. Fuji mountain road, along the border of Suruga, bypassed the defense of Suruga by the Hojo Army, and attacked the capital of Izu Province.

And the third time Shingen led an army of 20,000 Koshin and invaded Musashi Province in the east from Kai.

As Takeda Shingen said, the five kingdoms controlled by the Kai attack, Musashi, Sagami, Izu, Suruga, and the Toe Hojo family were all within Shingen's attack range.

If Shingen takes a defensive position, it will be easy to form a situation in which the five countries encircle the Takeda family.

On the contrary, if it is an attack, the defense of the five countries of the Hojo family will not be able to focus on it, and it will be easier for Shingen to break through.

And Takeda Shingen fought more than 80 battles in his life, except for three battles that were forced to defend, he was the one who attacked others.

After Takeda Shingen's 20,000-strong army entered Musashi, he avoided the fortified castle and plundered along the way, and volunteered to help the people in the Hojo family's territory to carry out free demolition. …,

The wealthy clans of the Hojo family were afraid of Shingen's soldiers, and none of them dared to go out of the city to fight in Shingen's field.

The Takeda family easily swept through Musashi Province and swept by.

In September of the twelfth year of Eiroku, the 20,000-strong army of the Takeda family attacked Sagami directly from Musashi and approached the Hojo family's Odawara Castle.

Hearing the news that Takeda Shingen was out of the Kanto region, the Kanto daimyo family and the Satake family, who were allied with the Takeda family, sent troops to attack the Hojo family, echoing the momentum of Takeda Shingen's battle.

This scene reproduces the atmosphere when Uesugi Kenshin led 100,000 Kwantung Coalition troops to Odawara.

And in the face of Takeda Shingen's attack on Sagami, this time Hojo Shiyasu felt helpless.

Despite the preparations in advance, the rapid offensive of the Takeda army still caught Hojo Yasu by surprise.

The last time the Takeda family swept through Izu Province, the Hojo family had to garrison troops from Odawara to Izu Province to strengthen the local defenses, which made Odawara Castle even more empty.

And this time, Takeda Shingen did not go to Izu Province, but attacked Sagami from Musashi, which suddenly made Hojo Yasushi lose sight of the other.

In the face of the Takeda family's army under the city, the Hojo clan Yasuku had tens of thousands of troops outside, but it was still easily attacked by Takeda Shingen.

Hojo Shiyasu can only sigh that the strategic use of Shingen is indeed unmatched in the world.

The only thing Hojo Shiyasu could do at the moment was to hold on to the fortified castle of Odawara, hoping to repel the Takeda army with the castle defense, and wait until Suruga's army of Toe Musashi returned to Sagami.

Twelfth year of Yonglu, September.

The confrontation between Li Xiao and Uesugi Kenshin in Vietnam entered its third month.

In the past three months, in addition to the ninjas of the two families, the Xuanyuan people of Kato Duanzo and the Azuma people of Yokotani Yushige have been fighting non-stop.

The two armies were generally at peace with each other, and there were no major battles except for skirmishes.

Time is just like this, in the midst of the confrontation between the two armies, day by day.

But this is exactly the result of Uesugi Kenshin's want, Uesugi Kenshin himself is here to deal with Li Xiao's army, but he handed over the task of attacking the Shiina family to Yamaura Kunikiyoshi (the son of Murakami Yoshikiyo, the adopted son of Uesugi Kenshin), and the two of them are in charge.

With the strength of 13,000 troops of the Echigo Army, these two men continued to storm Shiina and attacked the Matsukura Castle branch cities one by one.

In September, Mizuo Castle, the last branch of the Shiina family, was captured by the Uesugi army, and the Matsukura Castle branch network of the Shiina family was completely destroyed.

The Shiina family is left with only Matsukura Castle, a lonely city.

Under this, the Uesugi army divided its forces, and Yamaura Kunikiyo continued to lead 7,000 troops to besiege Matsukura Castle, while Katsuji Keitori, one of the four kings of Uesugi, led the remaining 6,000 troops and rushed to the front to join Uesugi Kenshin.

After Uesugi Kenshin joined the army of Gansu Jingzhi, the strength of the army reached 13,000 men, overwhelming Li Xiao's Takeda army in numbers.

After receiving reinforcements, Uesugi Kenshin immediately abandoned the waiting defense and began to attack Li Xiao's Takeda Army position.......