The retainers of the Uesugi family collectively lobbied for Kenshin Uesugi.

The Uesugi family has fought in the north and south over the years, and has never suffered such a big loss since Kawanakajima.

Most of the retainers of the Uesugi family were wealthy families of Echigo, and although they were all loyal to Uesugi, these wealthy families were very independent before.

After Uesugi Kenshin inherited the Echigo guard, these wealthy people rebelled against Uesugi Kenshin every now and then, with Okuma Asami in the front, Usami in the middle, and Honjo in the back.

The reason why these people obey the Uesugi family now is because they are suppressed by the invincible prestige of Uesugi Kenshin, and the wealthy families can also profit a lot from the war, so this is for the Uesugi family to drive.

And the Takeda army faced this time is really a difficult bone to gnaw, the fierceness of the battle seen by the wealthy clans in a few days is not inferior to Kawanakajima, which greatly exceeds their expectations, and Li Xiao is also a famous general of the Takeda family, and he did not have much confidence to defeat it before.

Now, under the heavy casualties of his subordinates, the head of the Hao family also admonished Amisugi Kenshin at the same time, and began to propose to withdraw from the army.

The wealthy clans, who were the first to advocate the withdrawal of the army, euphemistically proposed that under the heavy rain in the past few days, the Uesugi army was stationed at a low level and suffered from flooding.

Under the rain, there were many casualties among the wounded soldiers, but the Takeda Army was stationed on higher ground, but there was no need to worry about flooding.

Therefore, they first suggested euphemistically whether they could transfer their positions and retreat to the nearby high ground, and then attack when the weather was fine.

Uesugi Kenshin remained silent in the face of the retainers' proposal to withdraw from the army, and at this time some people suggested that the military rations were already insufficient, and that the Echigo army had been fighting for a long time in the past few months, and that the town of Naoetsu had been attacked by Sado water thieves not long ago.

And at such a great price, a decisive battle with the Takeda Army is more than worth the loss.

All of these suggestions were to persuade Uesugi Kenshin to withdraw from the army, and some even showed a threatening tone.

At this time, Uesugi Kenshin was finally furious.

"The victory or defeat of the two armies is who can support to the end, who is the winner, yes, our army has suffered heavy casualties, but I can see that the Takeda army is also struggling. Li Xiao's current situation is definitely ten times more difficult than ours. ”

Uesugi Kenshin, who rarely gets angry in front of everyone, is so angry.

All the retainers were silent because of his prestige.

Everyone looked forward to it, but at this time, someone whispered: "But His Royal Highness Jingsheng is still being detained by the Takeda Army, if he continues to attack, I am worried about ......"

Hearing this, Uesugi Kenshin frowned, obviously a little hesitant.

He still loves Jingsheng very much, and since he was captured by the Takeda Army, he is indeed a little worried.

But all this could not affect Uesugi Kenshin's determination to fight to the death with Li Xiaodu, he was convinced that the Takeda army had reached the point of running out of oil and lamps, and he only needed to add more force.

"In any case, the heavy rain will stop, and the attack on the Takeda army will continue, and if anyone violates the order and does not fight, and those who are passive and sluggish, they will be deprived of their knowledge and exiled to Sado."

Seeing that Uesugi Kenshin had said this, the retainers could only agree to it.

As Uesugi Kenshin's guess, Li Xiao is indeed holding on to death at the moment.

The 9,000 army suffered nearly 2,000 casualties, which was an extremely high battle loss ratio according to the cold weapon era.

It is actually a miracle that Li Xiaocan maintain the army's strength and not collapse so far.

Not only was the military turmoil of the wealthy clans in Vietnam, but also the earliest Hida wealthy clans who belonged to Li Xiao, such as the Uchijima clan, Nabeyama Yoshiyuki and others were also shaken.

Even the generals in the three major reserves also suggested to Li Xiao to temporarily withdraw from the army, and there was no need to fight for the Shiina family.

Li Xiao is also under great pressure to hold on, and his only hope at the moment is that his plan can be realized, forcing Uesugi Kenshin to withdraw from the army.

It stands to reason that the deadline agreed between Takeda Shingen and himself has long passed, could it be that something happened halfway.

When the heavy rain stopped, the Uesugi army once again stormed the castle of the Takeda army.

At the beginning of the battle, when I heard the sound of the drums of the marching troops.

Whether it was the Uesugi Army, the Takeda Army, and the officers and men of the two armies, they all went into battle with reluctance and even despair.

This joint battle has only been going on for half a day, and the Uesugi army, which has always been the attacking side, is still inevitably in a situation of passive slack.

And the Takeda army is even worse here, a Yuezhong wealthy clan under the command of Ashigaru, and even prepared to mutiny, fortunately, Li Xiao heard the news, personally led more than a dozen people to approach, and entered the army to suppress it, which stabilized, otherwise the situation would expand, causing turmoil in the army's mind, and the consequences would be unimaginable. …,

The two sides fought until the second day.

Although his retainers persuaded him wave after wave, they were all reprimanded by Uesugi Kenshin.

Uesugi Kenshin had already made up his mind to reinforce some of the troops from Matsukura Castle, which was under siege, and Yamaura Kunikiyo.

Although the troops were disciplined from the siege army, it was quite a taboo in the art of war.

But in the eyes of Uesugi Kenshin, he would rather not take Matsukura Castle than defeat Li Xiao's Takeda army in the front.

Just waiting for reinforcements from Matsukura Castle to rush to the road.

At this time, news suddenly came from the military camp that the envoy of the shogunate Ashikaga Yoshiaki personally rushed to the front line of Echichu from Kasuga Yamajo Castle to announce Ashikaga Yoshiaki's imperial letter to Uesugi Kenshin.

Uesugi Kenshin was surprised to hear that Ashikaga Yoshiaki's envoy had arrived.

Uesugi Kenshin had a very good relationship with the former shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and in the past, when he went to Luoluo, he also went in and out of the shogun's palace many times, which was like his own small courtyard.

Uesugi Kenshin's own name, Uesugi Teruto, is the word for self-sufficiency Yoshiki.

But Uesugi Kenshin had no dealings with the new general, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who had been in office for less than a year.

However, Uesugi Kenshin still showed respect for the general's envoy and received him with high samurai etiquette.

Uesugi Kenshin and his retainers dressed in the most formal hunting clothes and greeted the general's envoy in front of the camp gate.

The envoy of the general's family was born in Kyoto, but he did not dare to raise the shelf for the Kanto governor Uesugi Kenshin, and after humbling it, he read Ashikaga Yoshiaki's imperial book to the retainers of Kenshin Echigo.

Uesugi Kenshin and the Uesugi retainers were shocked when they heard the contents of Ashikaga Yoshiaki's imperial letter.

However, Uesugi Kenshin's reaction was to freeze on the spot, and his retainers were secretly relieved.

After sending off the general's envoy, Uesugi Kenshin turned around and looked at the retainers, holding in his hand a pledge with Ashikaga Yoshiaki himself, signing the judgment document, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh: "It seems that the martial luck lies in Li Xiao." ”

Twelfth year of Yonglu, October.

Uesugi Kenshin and Li Xiao fought in Vietnam.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who was far away in Kyoto, personally issued a letter to the Imperial Interior, hoping that the two Takeda Uesugi families would strike and make peace.

Uesugi Kenshin received the imperial letter, and there was nothing to say at the moment, as the governor of the Kanto region, and he had the most important name and righteousness, he had to obey the orders of the samurai family, the Ashikaga shogun.

Therefore, Ashikaga Yoshiaki himself came forward as an intermediary to make peace for the Takeda Uesugi family, and Uesugi Kenshin could only sell the face of the general and ordered a truce with the current Takeda army Li Xiaoyu.

Upon hearing this, Kenshin Uesugi agreed to the terms of the peace negotiation.

Both Uesugi and Takeda soldiers felt a sense of desperation and cheered in unison.

When Uesugi Kenshin heard the cheers in the barracks, he could only shake his head, feeling a sense of regret, for him, he could almost defeat Li Xiao.

Li Xiao, who is also the general of the Takeda Army, secretly called for luck, but complained about why Xinxuan's movements were so slow.

This is the plan he had written to Shingen before.

Everyone knows that since Nobunaga gave Ashikaga Yoshiaki the "Imperial Palace" at the beginning of the year, Ashikaga Yoshiaki has actually lost all the power of the shogun, which is like the role of a rubber stamp in Nobunaga's hand.

The dignified shogun even had to call Nobunaga himself in his letters, the imperial father Oda Danmasadaden.

Therefore, Oda Nobunaga's identity of Ashikaga Yoshiaki, which is easy to use, can be used in his name to give orders to the daimyo of the world, which is equivalent to the order of the false emperor in the past to order the princes.

Nobunaga's status is equal to that of Cao Cao, a powerful minister.

Takeda and Oda are now also allies, and Oda Takeda is taking what he needs and has no conflict of interest, so the relationship between the two families is in the honeymoon period.

In this name, Shingen asked Nobunaga to move out the great god Ashikaga Yoshiaki for him, and came forward to intermediate, so that the Uesugi Takeda family could negotiate peace and strike the army.

For Nobunaga, this easy thing to do was to pick up Ashikaga Yoshiaki's stamp and stamp a few seals.

So Nobunaga easily sold Takeda Shingen's face.

And this incident also appeared in the original history, when Takeda Shingen sent troops to Odawara, in order to avoid fighting with Hojo Uesugi on two fronts, it was to let Nobunaga come forward through Ashikaga Yoshiaki to make peace for the Takeda Uesugi family.

This historical event is known as Ko-Yue and Yo.

However, at present, it is being used by Li Xiao in advance, as a shield to avoid the decisive battle between himself and Uesugi Kenshin in Vietnam.

The messenger of the Ashikaga general's family still walked a little slower on the road, and he was so tired that Li Xiao and Uesugi Kenshin had to fight hard, and the two families were now both defeated and suffered heavy losses.

However, it was still a fluke, and the short-term alliance agreement between Li Xiao and Uesugi Kenshin was reached.

Uesugi Kenshin returned to Echigo, and Li Xiao returned to Toyama Castle, while the Shiina family retained most of their territory, but they had to submit their vassals to both Takeda and Uesugi and offer hostages to each of the two families.

Li Xiao returned to Shangshan Jingsheng, and the two families each took prisoners, cut off their heads, and returned them.

Immediately, Uesugi Kenshin led his army back to Echigo, leaving only Kawada Naga himself as the city representative and stationed at Uozu Castle on the front line of Vietnam.

Uesugi Kenshin's move is obviously also a foreshadowing for a comeback in Vietnam.

At this point, the Vietnamese-Chinese war came to an end.

For Li Xiao, although he paid a lot of money, he successfully held Vietnam and gained a firm foothold here.

Just when the war between Vietnam and China was dying.

Twelfth year of Yonglu, October.

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