At the head of the city.

Li Xiao looked at the military momentum of the Uesugi army a few miles outside the city from a distance with a one-eyed Qianli, and waited to see the banner of Uesugi Kenshin.

Li Xiao's pupils shrank coldly, and then there was a feeling of fear in his heart, the speed of this Uesugi Kenshin's blitzkrieg was too fast, and after a little later, he would be wrapped up outside Chengsheng City by the other party.

Regarding the horror of Uesugi Qian's soldiers, Li Xiao has another understanding.

However, seeing that the Uesugi army's army was outside the city, lingering, Li Xiao couldn't help but speculate in his heart that if Uesugi Kenshin launched a ruthless attack and mobilized the Echigo army to storm his castle, he would be bad for a while.

Just when Li Xiao was worried, Yokoya Yukiyoshi hurriedly climbed to the city tower and handed over a secret letter to Li Xiao.

When Li Xiao opened the letter, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Honjo finally rebelled.

Li Xiao looked at the Echigo army outside the city, thinking that if Honjo was prosperous, then Uesugi Kenshin would not dare to attack the city, and I am afraid that even Echichu would not be able to stay for a long time.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao couldn't help but smile slightly.

Uesugi Ken believes that I want to see what you do.

Eleven years of Yonglu.

In preparation for a decisive battle with the Imagawa family, the Takeda family began to look for a strategic alliance.

First of all, the Takeda family made a final effort to save the alliance with the Hojo family, and Shingen discussed with the head of the Hojo family, his son-in-law, the Hojo clan, and proposed to take Imagawa and divide Suruga and Enoe.

However, this suggestion was rejected by the Hojo family.

The reason given by the Hojo family is that they will never commit such a breach of alliance in bad faith.

The relationship between the two families of Hojo Imagawa is very deep, from the time Hojo Sakumo was still named Ise Shinkuro, his sister Kitagawa Den, married the Suruga guardian daimyo Imagawa Yoshitada as the main room.

At that time, Ise Shinkuro's father, Ise Morita, was already a shogunate Shin Jizhong, so his daughter married the guardian daimyo Imagawa Yoshitada, and this marriage was also a good match.

Soon after Kitagawa Hall married into the Imagawa family, he gave birth to the seventh generation of the Imagawa family, the head of the Imagawa family, who had made great achievements in history.

When Hojo Sakumo created a foundation, he took the lead in attacking Izu country, which is known in history as Izu, and Hojo Sakumo borrowed troops from his nephew Imagawa clan, and finally possessed Izu country.

As a result, the foundation of the Hojo family in the Kanto region was created for nearly a hundred years.

In the following decades, although the Hojo family and the Imagawa family once turned against each other and fought each other, on the whole, the kinship between the two families must be further than that of Takeda.

When the Triple Alliance was reached, Hojo Yasu married his daughter Hayakawa to the head of the Imagawa family, Imagawa Clan.

After the Hojo family rejected the Takeda family's proposal to divide the Imagawa family, Takeda Shingen's last effort against the Hojo family failed.

So Takeda Shingen turned to the Tokugawa family, which had completed the unification of the three rivers, and secretly discussed dividing up the Imagawa family.

Takeda Shingen sent Anayama Nobuyojun as an envoy to discuss with the head of the Tokugawa family, the elder Sakai Tadaji, and the two families finally reached an agreement.

With the Oi River in the country of Toe as the boundary, the west of the Oi River was returned to the Tokugawa family, and the east of the Oi River was returned to the Takeda family, and the two families reached an agreement to divide the Imagawa family.

In addition to actively plotting to attack the Imagawa family in the south, Takeda Shingen was also unrelenting in the north towards his sworn enemy Kenshin Uesugi.

In the eleventh year of Eiroku, in May, Honjo was successfully rebelled by Takeda Shingen, and raised the banner to rebel against Honjo Castle in Yangbei.

Honjo sent a letter to Nakajo Fujishi and Katsucho Shibabe, hoping that they would follow him and defect from the Uesugi family, but he was refused.

However, Honjo Shiganaga is already an iron heart at the moment, and decided to go all the way to the black, and Honjo Shigenaga united the lord of Dewa Kunioura Castle and Daihoji Yoshizen to become independent from the Uesugi family.

After Takeda Shingen succeeded in defeating Honjo Shigenaga, he immediately ordered Takasaka Masanobu of the Kitashinano Army to send troops from Kaizu Castle to attack Iiyama Castle, a retainer of the Uesugi family.

In 1557, Iiyama Castle was captured by the Takeda family, and in 1564, out of consideration of the threat to the army of Takakasaka Masanobu in Kawanakajima, Uesugi Kenshin ordered Takanashi Masayori to rebuild the castle.

Iiyama Castle used this as a support point for Okushinano's defense.

This offensive lasted for seven months, and although Takasaka Masanobu was unable to conquer Iiyama Castle, he also captured its branch city, Kamizo Castle.

In addition to Takasaka Masanobu's strategy, Takeda Shingen also ordered Li Xiao's Hida Echichu Army to attack Echichu with all its might, in response to Honjo's uprising in Yangbei.

Historically, this task, there is a horse farm letter room, Jiang Ma Shisheng invaded Vietaka to complete, and then the Zong and Shiina families have joined, forming a situation where the Quartet forces besieged the Jimboo family. …,

However, because of the bad relations between the Takeda family and the Hojo family, Hojo and Uesugi were also secretly talking to each other, so the Nishi-Ueno Army had to guard against the Hojo family's military situation on the Musashi side and defend Minowa Castle, so they couldn't move for a while.

Therefore, the right-wing offensive could only be carried out by Honjo Shiganaga instead.

After Honjo erected the anti-flag, he did not show mercy, taking advantage of Uesugi Kenshin's body to attack Ichijo Sect in Echichu, and led his army to attack Catigawa Castle, shaking the foundation of Uesugi Kenshin in Echigo.

However, the failure of the Nishiueno Army to participate in the war, as well as the containment of the Imagawa family in the south, somewhat made Shingen's three-way big chess move a little overshadowed.

This is also the first and only time in history that Takeda Shingen completed the grand strategy of encircling Echigo on three sides, attacking from three sides and killing the great dragon together.

After that, Shingen never had the opportunity to fight on such a large scale with the Uesugi family again in his life.

From the 22nd year of Astronomy in 1553, Shin Xuan Qian and Xin met for the first time on Kawanaka Island, and these two good opponents of equal strength have been fighting each other for 16 years.

Therefore, in history, everyone only remembers the five Kawanaka Island duels with a dragon and a tiger, and Takeda Shingen's subtle plan to win tactics with strategy was not realized and was never known.

But even so, the eleventh year of Eiroku was by no means a good year for Uesugi Kenshin.

Had it not been for the easing of relations with the Hojo family, Uesugi Kenshin would have faced a worse situation in this year than it had been in the tenth year of Eiroku.

Li Xiao knew very well about Uesugi Kenshin's current predicament, and he understood that this year was the best time for him to attack Echichung, otherwise Uesugi Kenshin would breathe a sigh of relief, put down the Echigo Honjo's long rebellion, and calmly free his hands.

At that time, not only Yuechu, but also Noh Dengguo, as in history, would be swept away by Uesugi Kenshin and taken in one fell swoop, and no one would be able to resist Uesugi Kenshin's troops at that time.

In this way, not only will Li Xiao never come out, but even in the future, he will be in Hida Echichu, and under the independent face of Uesugi Kenshin, it will also be difficult for him to protect.

Whether you can get ahead in Vietnam can only depend on this year.

Li Xiao thought so, and was thinking about how to attack Yuezhong.

At this time, outside the castle, Uesugi Kenshin had already set up camp in the same place.

Since Naoe Keixuna and other generals were still in the rear leading the main force to rush here, there were only a few cronies such as Uesugi Kenshin in the camp.

Faced with the three of Kawada Nagakin, Nagao Jingnao, and Tang Renqinhiro, Uesugi Kenshin thought about it for a while, and said decisively: "I have decided not to return to Echigo immediately to quell the rebellion. ”……，