In the first month of the fifth year of Eiroku, the Takeda family's main castle was in the Akikan and carried out a mobilization of troops, which was much smaller than the mobilization on Kawanakajima in August last year.

On the twentieth day of the first month, the army of the Takeda family came out of the Tsushigasaki Pavilion, and when the 'Banner of the Truth of the Grandson Siru' and the 'Suwa Daimei Banner' appeared in the array of the marching Takeda Army, the people of Kai couldn't help but sigh and say, "The Lord of the Pavilion has sent troops." ”

Last year's battle of Kawanakajima and the Takeda family suffered heavy losses, so the people of Kai were very relieved and excited when they saw the army in order. It can be seen that the fighting spirit of the Takeda Army is still there!

In fact, the Takeda family did not mobilize many troops this time, plus the troops of the city lords in various places, a total of 3,000 people, and the leader was not Takeda Shingen himself, but Takeda Shinryu, who served as the shadow warrior.

At this moment, Shingen Takeda himself is recuperating at Shima Hot Springs, not far from the Ashigasaki Museum. Takeda Shingen's health has always been poor, and he has been suffering from tuberculosis for a long time, which is also tuberculosis. This disease cannot be broken at the root, and it is easy to recur due to excessive exhaustion and even excessive desire.

Takeda Shingen has both, so every year he has to take some time out to soak in the hot springs and recuperate.

So this time, the Takeda family was invited by the Hojo family to carry out the West Ueno Raid, and Takeda Shingen asked his younger brother Takeda Shinren to be his shadow warrior, and marched into the West Ueno under the banner of his Takeda Shingen. Of course, the Takeda family chose to send troops during this time period, and it was precisely because of the Echigo Uesugi family, because of the heavy snow blocking the mountains at the moment, according to the convention, Uesugi Kenshin would not send troops in this winter season.

Without the deterrence of the god of war, the soldiers of the Takeda family and the Hojo family can march into Ueno with confidence for the time being.

Before entering Nishi-Ueno, the Takeda 3,000-strong army was reconciled, of which the 1,000 troops that set out from the Hishigasakikan were the direct troops of the main camp, with Taro Takeda Yoshinobu as the formation, and the rest of the reserves were composed of the men and horses of the lords of Shinano Castle, including 700 people from Suwa Katsuyori, the lord of Takato Castle, 700 people from the former Nishi-Ueno Castle, Kohata Kenshige, the lord of Tosawa Castle, 700 people from Nobutasa Kohata and his son, 300 people from Kiso Yoshimasa, the son of Yoshiyasu Kiso, the lord of Fukushima Castle, and 300 people from Sanada Nobutsuna, the son of Sanada Yutakata, the lord of Ozamatsu Castle.

The Takeda family's 3,000 troops advanced along the rugged Nakasendo Road, and the Shinano and Nishi-Ueno borders the Shirane Mountains and Myogi Mountains, and after entering the Usui Pass, the entrance to the side of Nishi-Ugamino Myogi, the Takeda Army accelerated its march.

The 3,000 men of the Takeda Army were led by the 700 troops of Kohata Kenshige, a native native of the former Ueno Province, and Nobusada Kohata's father and son, and came to the west of Ueno in front of Minowa Castle, a fortified castle garrisoned by the Nagano family.

Nagano's Minowa Castle, located on the plateau of Mt. Haruna, bordering the Hazuna Shirakawa River, is a world-famous fortress. On the cliff next to the Usui Glacier to the east of Minowa, there is a sub-castle, Takaru Castle, which shares an outer area with Minowa Castle.

After many years of operation, Nagano Yemasa not only arranged the Minowa-Takaru as the main castle, but also had many branch castles nearby as support. These sub-cities were garrisoned by local nobles known as the 'Nagano Nineteen Guns'.

It has to be said here that Nagano Yemasa was fierce in his life, and actually gave birth to twelve daughters, who were married to the Ueno country or the Kanto wealthy clans, and agreed to be an alliance to support each other through political marriage.

If Minowa Castle were attacked at all, the magnates would swarm and pounce on the attackers like a net. At the height of the Takeda Army, Takeda Shingen personally led more than 10,000 troops to besiege Minowa Castle several times, and the four ministers of Takeda took turns to fight, plus the fierce generals such as Rice Fu Huchang and Zhujiao Huding, it can be said that they even used their strength to eat milk, but they still returned with a feather.

But fortunately, Nagano is no longer there.

Before the 'Banner of the Truth of the Grandson' and the 'Suwa Daimei' appeared under Minowa Castle, the Nagano family had already desperately stockpiled grain and grass, mobilized the forces of the territory, and prepared to defend Minowa Castle.

And when the army of the 3,000 Takeda family arrived at the foot of Minowa Castle and set up a formation, because of the prestige of Takeda Shingen, although there were thousands of elite soldiers in Minowa Castle, they did not dare to act rashly. In the face of the Takeda family's several invitations to fight, the Nagano family still did not come out, and it seems that they had long planned to prepare for the cage battle.

At that time, in the Takeda Katsuyori Formation, looking at the Minowa Castle (Tikaku-style Hirayama Castle) that was surrounded by clouds and mist, attached to Mt. Haruna, Li Xiao heard with his own ears that Kansuke Yamamoto, who had participated in the Nishiueno strategy with Takeda Shingen several times, sighed and said: "As soon as the karma is dead, there is no one in the Nagano family." ”

Kansuke Yamamoto's words showed a lot of regret, and I don't know if he was remembering this deceased rival.

Seeing that the Nagano army was cowering in Minowa Castle, the Takeda army swaggered around Minowa Castle and directly entered Ganraku-gun in Nishi-Ueno, surrounding Kunimine Castle.

Kohata Keijun, the lord of Kunifeng Castle in Ganle County, whose official name is Shusuke, belongs to the same clan as Kohata Kenshige, the leader of the Takeda Army, and belongs to the same clan, and their sons are also the second of the twelve sons-in-law of Nagano Yoshimasa.

But it turns out that the treatment between people is different, even if they have the same surname and are also sons-in-law, as a father-in-law, they will still turn their faces ruthlessly.

In May of the third year of Eiroku, the national peak castle at that time still belonged to the residence of Kohata Kenshige, and at that time, Kohata Kenshige Kohata was the second largest force in the Nishi-Ueno country in the Nagano family, although it was attached to the Nagano family, but it had already made Nagano Yemasa quite scrupulous, and the rumor that Kohata Kenshige was connected to the Takeda family had spread throughout the Nishi-Kamino road (in fact, it was a rumor spread by Takeda Shingen secretly sending ninjas).

As Nobusada Kohata's father-in-law, Lord Nagano Yoshimasa, made a righteous decision to destroy his relatives, and led a large army to attack Kohata Kenshige's residence Kunimine Castle together with Kohata Keijun's people who had been peeking at Kohata Kenshige's territory for a long time. Subsequently, the national peak castle was transferred to Kohata Keisun as a residence city.

After Kohata Kenshige and his father and son escaped from Nishiueno, they unsurprisingly defected to Takeda Shingen, and together with their father and son, there were 500 cavalry of Ueno, this cavalry corps was also equipped with all-red armor, so it was called 'Kohata Akabi', and the Kai Kai under the command of Iitomi Humasa 'Akabi', and called the two major cavalry regiments of the Takeda family.

Takeda Shingen used a counter-strategy to easily get such a powerful red reserve cavalry, and at the same time, he was not stingy with Kohata Kendai and their father and son, and gave them the land that Shinano said was 5,000 kyoki as the land of knowledge.

He also had the Kohata Kenshige clan use Tosawa Castle as a base to manage the ranch land in southern Shinano to support the cavalry.

At present, the 3,000 army of the Takeda family is besieging Guofeng City, facing the hatred of seizing the city and the shame of the lost dog, if this revenge is not avenged, Kohata Kenshige is not even as good as Hu Hansan.

After the siege, the second said Kohata Kenshige took the initiative to ask Ying to take on the task of besieging the Tiger Mouth Otemen of Guofeng Castle. The two Kohata clans belong to the same clan, but they kill each other again.

After attacking for half a day in the morning, although Kohata Keimazumi, as the defender, was very difficult, the Otemen Gate of Guofeng City was still not lost. However, just when the defenders paid attention to the Otemon Gate, the Scratch Gate, which was the back gate of Kunimine Castle, was killed by the guards who had already been planted in the castle by Kohata Kenshige, and the gate was wide open.

At this time, the Takeda Katsuyori team, which had been waiting for a long time, burst into the Te Gate in one breath and killed Honmaru who was heading for Kunimine Castle from here.