Chapter 356: The Great War Resumes
In the thirteenth year of Yonglu, on the twenty-third day of the fourth month.
Due to the continuous disasters of war, Emperor Shokincho ordered the change of Yuan to Motokame.
It is the first year of the Motokame.
However, the emperor's good intentions for peace were not accepted by Oda Nobunaga, and on April 20, three days before the reform, Oda Nobunaga joined the reinforcements of the Tokugawa family and marched out of Kyoto with an army of 30,000 to attack the Echizen Asakura family.
In this day when the shoguns were all weak, the face of the emperor was even more unworthy.
Earlier in the Oda family, on April 5, the Hojo family also gathered a large army and started a war.
The head of the Hojo family, the Hojo clan, with the general Matsuda Kenhide as the vanguard, led more than 40,000 troops, went out from Sagami, attacked Suruga, and broke several castles of the Takeda family.
Under Li Xiao's suggestion, the Takeda family had already mobilized everything and was ready for a decisive battle with the Hojo family.
Therefore, after the army of the Hojo clan went deep into Suruga, Takeda Shingen poured out the army of the three kingdoms of Koshinjo, and went out from the Mt. Fuji mountain road to Suruga.
At the same time, the Suruga Army of Shokei, Yama Prefecture, received the news of Takeda Shingen's troops, and also went out from Gangni Castle, and after the two armies converged, the Takeda Army had more than 30,000 troops, so they met the Hojo clan in one go.
The Hojo clan did not arrive privately, and the determination of the Takeda army in this decisive battle was quite unexpected for the other party to be able to assemble troops at such a fast speed.
Although the Hojo Army had an advantage over the Takeda Army in terms of military strength, Takeda Shingen was one of the best generals in the world, and there were brave and warlike generals such as Yama Prefecture Masakei, Baba Nobubo, and Takeda Katsuyori.
What's more, the Hojo Army suffered the defeat of the three scales, and in the face of the Takeda family, it was already slightly at a psychological disadvantage, and now in the face of the unprecedented assembly of the Takeda Army, the Hojo clan felt even more bottomless in his heart.
Before the two sides could fight a decisive battle, the general of the Takeda family, Yamaprefecture Masakei, gave the Hojo army a blow in the head.
The Suruga Army of Yama Prefecture, on the border of Izu Suruga, won more with less, and defeated the Hojo Army with 10,000 horses.
In this battle, the Takeda army won more than 500 ranks, and the Hojo army was defeated.
After the Hojo Army was defeated, the Hojo family saw the terrifying combat power of the Takeda Army, and they were shocked for a while.
In April, the two major battlefields of Kanto and Echizen, Oda, Takeda, Hojo, and Asakura, concentrated their forces to prepare for battle.
At this time, Echigo's Uesugi Kenshin received a letter from the Hojo clan.
The Hojo clan hoped that Uesugi Kenshin would send troops from Echigo to attack the Takeda family according to the agreement between the two alliances.
When Uesugi Kenshin saw that the Takeda army was concentrating on the southern front, he felt that this was also a good time to seize Yuechu.
So Uesugi Kenshin agreed to the request of the Hojo clan, and on the one hand, he ordered Hojo Takahiro, the lord of Metsubashi Castle, and Honjo Hidetsuna, the lord of Numata Castle, to dispatch troops from Higashi-Ueno to attack the Nishi-Umino of the Takeda family, while on the other hand, Uesugi Kenshin personally led the main force of 18,000 troops to go out to Echichu again and make a comeback.
This time, Uesugi Kenshin had already asked the Emperor Masakin-cho to have an order to crusade against the non-ministers, so he had the right to send troops.
Seeing that Uesugi Kenshin's army arrived, Yasuina Shiina, who was originally at both ends of the snake and rat, immediately balanced towards the Uesugi family.
Uesugi Kenshin accepted Yasumina Shiina's subjugation, but forced Yasuyin Shiina to promise to recognize the Uesugi family's general, Nagao Keinao, as his adopted son and inherit the Shiina family's reputation in the future.
Shiina Yasuyin had no choice but to agree to this condition, and Nagao Jingzhi changed his name to Shiina Jingzhi to inherit Shiina's family.
And Yasuke Shiina's sister-in-law, Yasuke Shiina, was not willing to do this, and led some loyal retainers and samurai to escape from the Shiina family and went to Toyama Castle to flee to the Takeda family.
After gaining the allegiance of the Shiina family, the Uesugi family quickly annexed the new "gun" where the Shiina family had been entrenched.
Then the Uesugi army continued to attack westward, and Uesugi Kenshin led an army of 10,000 and surrounded Toyama Castle.
The head of the Jimbo family, Shinpo Nagaken, was shocked when he heard it, and mobilized the army to defend the city at the moment, but there were Li Xiaoqi Benbei, Kamioka Bei, and Otsubei stationed in Toyama City, and there were also Honda Masanobu, Fujido Takatora, and Kano Hideji where such generals were.
Therefore, despite the large number of Uesugi soldiers, the Takeda army was able to support each other for a while, not only defending Toyama Castle, but also guarding each branch castle by dividing its troops to support each other.
However, Toyama Castle was not Uesugi Kenshin's main target.
Uesugi Kenshin's real purpose was to divide another army, and ordered Naoe Keixuna to be the general, leading 8,000 Uesugi troops, and forming a coalition with the 3,000 troops of the Shiina family.
Chengsheng City is the key place where Li Xiao passed through Yuezhong from Feihui.
If Chengsheng Chengyi is lost, Li Xiaoyuezhong will be cut off from the main channel of Feiyi, and the contact with his own family will be cut off.
In this way, the whole of Vietnam-China is a dead chess game.
So the Uesugi family's move is very ruthless.
Naoe Jinggang knew that the main force of Li Xiaoyue's Feihui Army was trapped in Toyama Castle by Uesugi Kenshin's army, so under the strength of his own tens of thousands of troops, Chengsheng Castle was not vulnerable at all.
However, Naoe Jinggang did not expect that when Li Xiao went to Kai, he had already taken precautions against the Uesugi family's means.
He ordered Kinoshita Koichiro and Baba Masabo to lead the snake tail to garrison the castle.
Although the defenders of Chengsheng Castle were only 1,500 people, there were many iron cannons, and Chengsheng Castle itself was a fortified city.
In the past, the Saito family relied on this castle to protect themselves and resist the siege of the city by the army of the god for more than a year.
Therefore, the tens of thousands of troops of Naoe Jinggang attacked for three days, except for leaving more than 300 corpses under the city, there was no progress.
Just when Naoe Jinggang was furious and prepared to storm the city at any cost.
At this time, reinforcements from the Takeda Army had arrived.
The general of the Takeda Army's reinforcements was none other than Li Xiao's arrangement to garrison the island of Mino.
When he heard the news that the Uesugi army was out of battle, Li Xiao wrote to Shima Shengmeng, ordering him to immediately mobilize troops from the prefecture and prepare to go out to Yuechu.
At this time, the Oda Tokugawa coalition and the Asakura Asai coalition were engaged in a major battle in Echizen, and no one had time to estimate the situation in the prefecture.
At this time, no one would be so stupid that the Takeda family was evil, so Shima Katsu poured Mino fiercely, Feihui's soldiers, plus Li Xiao's direct horse riding equipment, and the 1,000 reinforcements sent to Li Xiao by Gao Shan Changxin, formed a 4,000 army to reinforce Chengsheng City overnight.
Seeing that the reinforcements of the Takeda Army arrived, Naoe Jingzuna did not dare to let go of the attack on Chengsheng Castle at this time, leaving part of the army to surround the outside of Chengsheng Castle, and led a large army to confront the reinforcements of Shima Katsumo.
At this time, Li Xiao had already asked Takeda Shingen to resign, and after saying goodbye to the Kohata sisters and the three children, he was close to Shioka Kazuha and others, preparing to go to the newly appointed Takenaka Shigeharu and Yamamoto Kanzo in Echichu, as well as the newly included future naval generals Mukai Masansuna, Chiga Sun Bingwei, and more than 100 Suruga sailors, hurried back to Feihui.
Chiga Sunbei is a figure with Kohama Keiryu, Mukai Masatsuna, and Mamiya Takanori, and is known as the four major generals of the Tokugawa family, and they are all historical figures who won a place from the Takeda family to the Tokugawa family after the demise of the Takeda family.
Li Xiao led this group of people, traveled lightly, and rushed to Chengsheng City......
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