Hearing this, the Takeda Army has been dispatched to flank the rear of the Uesugi Jinbo coalition army.

Therefore, everyone present will be surprised.

The son-in-law of the chief of the jinbo, the chief of the jinbo, said loudly: "Takeda's army is more than 4,000 troops, which can be described as a mobilization of all efforts, if the other party is allowed to copy the rear road of our army and cut off the grain route, then our army will be in a dangerous situation." ”

The words of the god to live for a long time made the generals who had fought with Li Xiao feel the same way.

Jimbo Nagaju turned to Kenshin Uesugi and said, "Please Yagata-sama, let your subordinates lead an army to block the attack of the Takeda family, and your subordinates will swear to the death to prevent the Takeda army from threatening Toyama Castle." ”

Uesugi Kenshin heard what Jimbo Nagaju said, smiled faintly, and said, "Echichu Mamoru is my right-hand man, how can I leave without permission." ”

When he heard Uesugi Kenshin's refusal, he knew that he was still suspicious of him, and immediately showed a stupid look on his face.

At this time, the chief of the sacred protection, who had already semi-retired, said: "For a long time, you will stay here and send the general who will block the Takeda army, and Lord Yagata has already decided." ”

After the father and son of the Shenbao chief finished expressing their opinions, Naoe Jinggang said: "Li Xiao marched along both sides of the Shentong River, and it was impossible to distinguish it for a while, and that road was its main army. Therefore, there is only a division of troops to block. As for the east bank of the Kamitsugawa River, you can ask the Shiina army to come out and block the Takeda army on the east bank. ”

Uesugi Kenshin nodded and said, "That's exactly how it should be." However, I guess that Li Xiao's main force is mostly on the west bank, marching along the Hida Street. Therefore, the defense of Nagasawa East Castle, Nagasawa West Castle, and Tomisaki Castle is very important. ”

Jimpo Nagashi said: "Nagasawa East and West Castle is garrisoned by the general of the main family, Terashima Job, and the water stationed in Tomisaki Castle is more and more heavy, and it is also a battle-hardened general. Li Xiao was not so easy to get hold of for a while. ”

Uesugi Kenshin waved his hand and said, "It's useless, Li Xiao has siege weapons in his hands, stone and fire arrows, and ordinary wooden cities, which can't be stopped at all." Therefore, if you want to stop Li Xiao, you must fight with him in the field, and you can't defend the city. ”

Speaking of this, Uesugi Kenshin turned his head and said in a deep voice: "Kawada Nagakin, Nagao Jingzhi and the two of them obey the order, you lead three thousand troops and go to Nagasawa City to set up a formation, you don't have to fight with Li Xiao, just put on a posture of attacking the flank of the Takeda army and contain the other party." ”

After a pause, Uesugi Kenshin looked at a retainer of the Jimbo family and said, "Shikibe Daisuke, the Takeda army is equipped with a large number of iron cannons and stone fire arrows, so I specially ordered you to lead this team to meet the attack, and you must suppress the iron cannons of the Takeda army." ”

"Oh." The retainer of the Jimbo family, who was kneeling on the ground, spoke loudly.

This person's name is Tang Qinguang, and it can be seen from the Miao character that he is also a crosser, and his ancestors are from China or North Korea.

Tang people are the lord of Echichi-Nakamide Castle, and he is himself a famous Kishiwada-ryu artillery master, the leading gunners of Echichu, and in history, after the Jimboo family was annexed by Echigo, this person was a retainer of the Uesugi family, and was the artillery guide of the Uesugi family.

At present, Uesugi Kenshin was worried that Kawada Naga and Nagao Jingzhi would not be able to resist Li Xiao's firearms, so he sent Tang people to support the Uesugi army and suppress Li Xiao with the iron artillery team under his command.

Uesugi's prediction, coupled with Nagasawa Castle, an army like Tomizaki Castle should be enough to resist Li Xiao's offensive.

Immediately, the military strength of Kawada Nagakin, Nagao Jingnao, and Tang Ren's prohiro immediately set out from Fangsheng Tsu Castle, left the Uesugi army's main formation, and rolled south.

At the top of the castle, Uesugi Kenshin waved his bamboo cane forward, pointed to the current Honganji army, and said, "Three days to launch a fierce attack on the current enemy army and defeat the Honganji army in one fell swoop." ”

"Oh"

The generals agreed.

The next day, under Nagasawa Higashi Castle.

Li Xiao's banner book and the two reserves of the snake tail have been assembled under the city.

Begin an assault on Nagasawa East Castle.

Although before the attack, the defender Terashima Jobing had secretly sent people to Li Xiao to ask him to suspend the offensive and wait for the situation in the war between Vietnam and China to change.

Li Xiao knew that the temple island was still a snake and rat at the moment, swaying between Takeda and Uesugi.

However, the more this is the case, the more Li Xiao knows that he can't give this person a good face, and he must show a strong force to force the other party to completely surrender and join the Takeda Army.

So Li Xiao didn't stay behind, and directly ordered Rui Costa to move the big tube to the Impermanence Mountain in Nagasawa East City.

Under the bombardment of Li Xiao's two six-pounder direct-fire guns and seven mortar guns, a big hole was blown open on the side of the city. …,

Immediately, Li Xiao ordered the Takeda army to attack the city.

During this period, Mizugoshi, the lord of Tomasaki Castle, and Terashima Joba of Nagasawa Nishi Castle, all led troops to the rescue.

But they were all repelled by the army arranged by Li Xiao on the way.

Although the defenders of Nagasawa East Castle tried their best to resist, it was only half a day before the Takeda army attacked Honmaru.

The castle keeper will seppuku in the Honmaru, while the remaining few defenders will flee from the castle to Nagasawa Nishi Castle.

Nagasawa East Castle was captured.

Terashima was determined, and Mizugoshi Sheng saw that the Takeda army was so powerful, and they were all frightened for a while, and they immediately moved their hearts to surrender.

But just then, reinforcements from the north arrived.

Kawada Changqin, Nagao Jingzhi, and the 3,500 troops of the Tang people rushed to arrive, making Terashima fixed, and the water was more and more serious, and he did not dare to act rashly for the time being.

And Li Xiao also saw the reinforcements of Echigo with a telescope at the head of the newly captured Nagasawa East Castle.

As soon as the opponent's reinforcements arrived, they did not immediately engage the Takeda army, but turned to the defense on the spot, and arranged the horse fence on the spot.

Li Xiao estimated the comparison of the forces of the two sides, and the number of troops of each other was about the same.

However, Li Xiao's main force is always available, and he must be superior to the other party by more than one or two in terms of combat power.

However, if Li Xiao led the army and forcibly attacked the front of the enemy army, there would definitely be losses.

For Li Xiao, it is not necessary to help the people of Honganji Temple to such a large extent.

If it goes too deep, even if the current enemy situation is broken, if it attracts the main force of Uesugi Kenshin, it will be very bad for Li Xiao.

Anyway, his own military strength has arrived, and restraining some of Uesugi Jinbo's military strength is morally speaking, and it can be regarded as fulfilling his responsibility to Honganji.

It was enough to do this step, and Li Xiao only needed to sit and watch the decisive battle between Uesugi and Honganji Temple next.

Therefore, after Li Xiao immediately occupied the eastern castle of Nagasawa, he also turned to the defense on the spot, while sending ninjas to investigate in detail the results of the victory and defeat of the Uesugi army and Ichijo Mune, while waiting for the news of the defeat of Honganji Temple, he immediately retreated.

More than ten days later, the results of the battle of the Uesugi army's Honganji Temple have come out.

As in history, Honganji failed to block the Echigo Jimbo coalition forces, and the two sides fought fiercely for several days, and the Honganji battle line collapsed, and the army was defeated.

Although later, Honganji Genzong and Renqin organized several counterattacks, but they were all crushed by Uesugi Kenshin.

The Honganji army was defeated again and again, retreated if defeated, and was defeated again and again, and the Uesugi army was crushed in the rear, and along the way was rushed by the other side from the bottom of the castle of Shisheng Tsujo to the vicinity of Mt. Shidong on the border of Noko, and the Honganji army stopped the rout.

This battle made it easy to recover part of the vitality of the Echichu Ichijo sect from the previous battle of Zengshan Castle, and it was once again severely damaged.

After hearing about the frontal defeat of the Honganji army, Li Xiao immediately sighed, and sure enough, he fought against Uesugi Kenshin, and the Honganji gang would not even show up for a little surprise to themselves, except for a big defeat, it was a big defeat, and they didn't even have the ability to cause the slightest trouble to the Echigo army.

But for Li Xiao at the moment, it has become a pointless move for Honganji Temple to continue to contain the enemy forces here in Nagasawa East Castle after the fiasco of Liberation Tsu.

Therefore, Li Xiao did not hesitate for a moment, and immediately led the army to withdraw from Nagasawa East City and retreat south.

At this time, after Uesugi Kenshin ended the pursuit of the current defeated army of Honganji, he personally led the main force to turn south and pursue in the direction of the retreat of the Takeda army.

As soon as Li Xiao retreated, Kawada Changqin, Nagao Jingzhi, and Tang Renqin Guang led the team to run over immediately, and did everything in their power to organize Li Xiao's army to retreat.

Under Li Xiao's arrangement, Shengang Bei and the snake tail were prepared to retreat after crossing the hall.

Immediately, the pursuers encountered the army behind Li Xiaodian.

The scene of the pursuit battle of the Uesugi army was somewhat unexpected by Li Xiao, the Uesugi army was actually equipped with a large number of iron cannons, which Li Xiao did not expect.

Under the fierce battle between the two sides, the iron artillery team of the Takeda Army was actually suppressed under the volley of the opponent's dense iron artillery.

At that moment, Li Xiao had already heard that the forward of Uesugi Kenshin's main force was already approaching his own army.

Although Li Xiao had expected this, under the command of Uesugi Kenshin, the speed of the Echigo army's blitzkrieg was amazingly fast, and they rushed to the Takeda army day and night.

Under such circumstances, if you continue to be delayed by the enemy and arrive by the main force of Uesugi Kenshin, the consequences will be unimaginable.

So Li Xiao immediately had to do the act of a strong man breaking his wrist, enduring to cut his flesh, and blowing up all seven mortars that delayed the speed of the army's march on the spot. …,

And if it weren't for Rui Costa's pleading, Li Xiao would have blown up the last two six-pounder guns on the way, even so, on the way to retreat, the Takeda soldiers discarded all unnecessary dry food and baggage, and Li Xiao ordered the troops under his command to speed up the retreat.

Therefore, the scene of the Takeda Army's hasty retreat along the way looked quite embarrassing.

Kawada Changqin, Nagao Jingzhi, and Tang Renqin Guang led the army to chase after them wildly, all the way behind the butt of the Takeda army, and Li Xiao ordered the various armies to take turns to block them, so they barely forced the other party back.

But fortunately, there was no danger in the process of retreating, and there was no loss in the army's strength, and Li Xiao's army finally returned to Chengshengcheng smoothly.

And not long after Li Xiao withdrew into Chengsheng City, Uesugi Kenshin's Bizi Banner appeared not far from the city.

Uesugi Kenshin sat on his horse and looked at the silhouette of the castle in the distance.

And Kawada Changqin, Nagao Jingzhi, and Tang Renqin Guang all knelt in front of the Qianxin horse.

Kawada Naga personally reported: "The Takeda army is very powerful, and although we have tried our best, we have not kept the other side. Please also ask the Lord to punish the sin. ”

Uesugi Kenshin frowned slightly when he heard this, and said: "It's not your responsibility, I know how powerful Li Xiao's army is, although we all tried our best, but in the end it fell short. ”

Nagaojing said bluntly: "Lord, right now Li Xiaozheng is trapped in the city, and we can wait for the main force to arrive and capture this city, so that Li Xiaosheng can also be captured in front of the lord." ”

Uesugi Kenshin's expression moved slightly when he heard this, and at this moment, an Echigo envoy hurriedly rode his horse to Uesugi Kenshin and said loudly: "My lord, Honjo is growing upside down", ......,