Chapter 330: Legendary Reinforcements

The relatives at the junction of Vietnam, China and Vietnam do not know the son.

Under the fluttering banner of the dragon, Uesugi Kenshin wrapped his head in a bowl, draped in monk's robes, with a solemn face, riding on a war horse, his eyes staring ahead.

Uesugi Kenshin looked at Toyama Bay on his side, where the sunset was sinking into the ocean, and the waves after the high tide were sweeping everything and crashing against the reef.

The sound of the tide rising was earth-shattering

Beside Uesugi Kenshin, who was silently moving forward was the Echigo army with no end in sight.

On 20 May, Uesugi Kenshin led the main force of the Echigo Army over the perilous sky.

Under the slanting light of the setting sun.

The jet-black Echigo army was spread all over the field, and each ashigaru's face was glowing with the glow of the setting sun.

At this moment, iron cannons, spears, and naginatas were all kinds of weapons towering like a forest, and the dust raised by the team covered the sky.

The "Bi" character flag refers to the object, connected to a piece, as if it is crowded, and the Echigo army from the valley, the river, and the avenue all over the place, converged into a black iron stream, and marched in unison.

Uesugi Kenshin's army officially entered Vietnam.

After the Echigo army reached 20,000 people

This is the largest mobilization of the Uesugi family since Kawanakajima.

This was also the battle of the Uesugi family, which showed that Uesugi Kenshin was determined to unify Vietaka.

After rushing to Echichu, the Echigo army immediately divided the troops, and the Uesugi family generals Chisaka Keikin, Kamishi Keikatsu, Kawada Nagakin, and Naoe Keixuna attacked from all sides, and surrounded Matsukura Castle of the Shiina family.

The news of Echigo's departure was noticed very early by Shiina Yasuyin, who had been keeping an eye on Echigo's movements, and in the face of the Uesugi family's army, which was enough to sweep the entire Echichu, the Shiina family was almost shocked overnight.

Shiina Yasuin knew that the Uesugi family's 20,000 army would inevitably bear the brunt of Matsukura Castle.

As for the prestige of Uesugi Kenshin and the ability of the Echigo army, even if he mobilized 20,000 troops to defend the city, he was not sure that he would be able to hold Matsukura Castle.

If given the opportunity to choose, he would certainly not hesitate to surrender to the Uesugi family.

But he had already betrayed the Uesugi family, and it was impossible to turn back, so now he had to fight hard.

Yasuyin Shiina first made the largest mobilization in the territory, and it was easy to cobble together 4,500 troops.

After that, Shiina Yasuin contracted his forces to defend Matsukura Castle and its branch network, while the rest of the castle was discarded.

Shiina Yasuin knew that in front of the Uesugi family's absolute superiority in forces, if he just stuck to the cage castle, there would be only a dead end, so he began to write letters to Honganji, the long continuation of Notokoku, and Li Xiao of the Takeda family, promising a lot of conditions for help.

Yasuyin Shiina didn't know how much his faith could help, but at this moment, he could only use a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

Toyama Castle.

When Li Xiao received a letter asking for help from Yasuyin Shiina, he couldn't help but feel funny.

The attitude in the letter of Yasuina Shiina is quite respectful. The letter also made an analysis of the two families' cold lips and teeth, and claimed that if the Shiina family finished playing, it would definitely be your turn Li Xiao next.

Helping me is also helping Li Xiao yourself, saving me is saving yourself, you can do it.

In fact, there is no need for Shiina Yasuyin to repeatedly emphasize that Li Xiao also knows the current crisis, so he immediately replied to the Shiina family envoy with great certainty, saying that he would personally lead 15,000 reinforcements from Toyama Castle to rescue Matsukura Castle, or ask Shiina Yasuyin to put one hundred and twenty hearts.

received Li Xiao's affirmative reply.

And the envoy of Shiina Yasuyin also heard that Li Xiao was able to dispatch 15,000 troops to support, and his confidence was greatly boosted for a while, and he was grateful in front of Li Xiao, and thanked him for a thousand thanks, and then rushed back to Matsukura Castle to report the powerful news to Shiina Yasuyin.

After sending off the envoy of the Shiina family, Li Xiao also felt that Fang Cai's words were exaggerated, with the mobilization power of Li Xiao's current territory, he could indeed mobilize more than 10,000 troops.

But if you deduct the military strength of the garrison in Mino, as well as the important cities on the border, Li Xiaoneng can mobilize 8,000 troops to support the Shiina family, which is already a great face for Shiina Yasuyin.

What's more, Li Xiao's current three major reserve teams have suffered a lot of losses in the middle of the strategy of Yuezhong for most of the year, and they are resting, so there is no way to go into battle for a while.

As for fifteen thousand clouds, it is purely a word to give the other party confidence.

Just as Li Xiao was about to discuss with the generals and discuss the plan to advance.

Yokotani Yukiyoshi had already brought the news of the war ahead, and it turned out that as soon as he entered Echichu, the Uesugi family launched an attack on the Shiina family with an offensive like aggression. ,

The two generals of the Uesugi family, Chisaka Keijin and Kawada Nagakin, led 6,000 troops and first surrounded Uozu Castle, a branch of Matsukura Castle.

Uozu Castle is a famous castle in Echichu, and during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the head of the Shiina family, Shiina Sun Hachi, entered the road, and was built when it was officially built in Echichu.

In the original history, this castle was more famous, and after the death of Uesugi Kenshin, the Northern Army Regiment of the Shibata Katsu family attacked the Uesugi family and attacked all the way to the castle.

In the end, Uozu Castle fell, and the thirteen people led by Nakajo Keitai, Takemata Keitsuna, and Yamamoto Temple Keicho died by stabbing themselves.

The day of the capture of this castle was the day after the change of Honnoji.

When Shibata Katsuya heard about Nobunaga's death, he led his army to retreat from Hokuriku in a hurry.

Otherwise, after the loss of Uozu Castle, Shibata Katsuie could prepare to attack Echigo from both sides with the Kwantung Army of Takigawa Ichiyoshi, who had just conquered Takeda in the south.

But now, the city is in danger under the attack of the Uesugi army.

The Uesugi army only attacked the city for three days, and the defenders were already overwhelmed.

In the end, the city soldiers rebelled and killed the main general, and surrendered to the Uesugi army.

As soon as Uozu Castle was lost, the gate of Matsukura Castle was opened, and even the Tenjin Mountain Castle on the east side became precarious for a while.

After Li Xiao heard about this, he couldn't help but marvel at the rapid offensive of the Uesugi army, he thought that the branch network of the Shiina family could support it for a while longer, but he didn't expect it to be broken so quickly.

Li Xiao was even more worried that Yasuyin Shiina would not be able to support it, but in case he abandoned the defense line of Matsukura Castle as he did in history, and took his whole family to go into exile.

In the end, it was bitter, but Li Xiao.

Therefore, Yasuyin Shiina must support it, even if it is only for a few months, at least until Li Xiao's plan can be realized.

After Li Xiao discussed with the generals, he immediately decided to send troops to support Matsucang City first.

So this matter fell on the person who had just succeeded the head of the Jimbo family, Jimbo Nagaken.

May 25.

Then Li Xiao sent out the military order of Matsukura Castle, and Shenbao Nagaken mobilized the troops under his command, and immediately sent troops from Toyama Castle.

The generals of the Jimbo family, such as Jimbo Nagasumi, Terashima Togajo, and Mizugoshi Morishige, marched out from Toyama Castle with 2,500 troops, and took the lead in crossing the Jintsu River to support Matsukura Castle.

Li Xiao was worried that he would not be able to deal with the Echigo army because he was inexperienced, so he also sent Honda Masanbu to accompany the army and serve as the military commissioner.

And Li Xiao continued to stay in Toyama Castle, and after the training of the three major reserve teams was completed, he went to Matsucang Castle.

At this time, the main army of Uesugi Kenshin had already rushed to the bottom of Matsukura Castle from the direction of the breached Uozu Castle.

The rest of the Matsukura Castle branch cities, such as Tenjin Mountain Castle, Mizuo Castle, and Kitayama Castle, were all under attack from all sides by the Uesugi family's army.

When Yasuyin Shiina heard the news of the fall of Uozu Castle on the third day, he was very desperate, and he had already faintly moved his plan to abandon the city and flee to the hinterland of Yuezhong.

At this time, the envoy who returned from the Takeda family reported to Shiina Yasuyin that Li Xiao would send an army of 15,000 from Toyama Castle to support Matsukura Castle.

Hearing the news, Yasuyin Shiina grasped the last straw like a dying man, and a trace of fanatical expectation ignited on his face.

The fifteen-thousand-strong army, led by Li Xiao, a famous general who can fight with Uesugi Kenshin, may be able to support this time.

Yasuyin Shiina thought so.

Faced with the pressure of the Echigo army, Shiina Yasuyin couldn't let go of the hereditary Shiina family business and the name of the guardian of Vietnam.

Yasuyin Shiina made up his mind to defend Matsukura Castle to the death.

Yasuyin also knew that the Shiina family would survive in this battle, so he gathered 3,000 troops to cage the city and planned to defend it to the death.

In order to remove the enemy's siege from the city, Shiina Yasuin also set fire to the castle town to show the castle soldiers his determination to defend to the death.

However, in secret, Yasuyin Shiina still secretly moved the family thief out of the city.

Facing the besieging army of Uesugi Kenshin, Shiina Yasuin began to look west every day, expecting Li Xiao's so-called 15,000 reinforcements to come.

May 28.

Jimbo Nagaken led his army to a place less than twenty miles west of Matsukura Castle.

However, Jimbo Nagaken had to stop because he encountered the volleying Uesugi army here.

And guarding the opposite side was the 2,000 troops of the famous Echigo general Naoe Keixuna, and this army firmly controlled the way of the Takeda army, preventing the Jimbo army from crossing here and reinforcing Matsukura Castle.

When Jimbo Nagaken heard that the other party was the famous Echigo general Naoe Keizuna, he did not dare to slack off, so he did not make a rash attack, and instead ordered the Jimbo army to set up camp on the hillside.

Immediately, Jimbo Nagaken, Honda Masanobu, Terashima Ichijo and other generals went up the mountain to watch the battle.

"I heard that Usami-sama said, Naoe Yamato is among the generals of Echigo, known for his prudence and seriousness, although he is not good at fighting the great attack, but such a person is the most terrifying, and he himself is the first trusted general of Uesugi Teruto, and the lord also has a high opinion of this person, and has repeatedly told us before, if we meet this person, we should not be underestimated."

Jimbo Nagaken said to Terashima and others.

In fact, there is no need to say much about the Jimpo Nagaken, the rest of the Jimbo family generals are also well aware of the intelligence of the Echigo Army, so they also know very well about the ability of Naoe Jinggang.

At this time, the god ho cho said: "But our mission is to support Matsukura Castle, and we must not retreat because the other party is a famous general, so the lord will inevitably blame us, not to mention that our army is superior to Echigo in terms of strength, if we don't attack, it will make the Echigo army think that our god is cowardly." ”

At this time, Honda Masanobu also spoke: "I agree with the opinion of Lord Echichu Mamoru that the Uesugi Teruto's army is currently surrounding Matsukura Castle, and if our army does not attack the current enemy situation and contain the Uesugi army, the significance of our army's rescue will not be there, so I advocate attacking the Echigo army."

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