When they came to Minowa Castle, the sun had already set in the west, but it had not set, so Sasa Narimasa and Umiizumi Hidetsuna hurried into the Minnowakan castle tower, and as soon as they entered the hall, they saw that there were already many people seated, thinking that they were waiting for the slowest of them.

Nagano Ye, the lord of Minowa Castle and the head of the Ueno clan, stood up to greet him, and he walked to the door of the conference hall and pulled Sasa Narumasa to take him to the throne.

Sazuo Chengzheng hurriedly shook his head and refused, although he did want to sit in that position, but now is not the time.

Seeing this, Nagano Yemasa was no longer verbose, and as soon as Chengmasa and Hidetsuna and others sat down, they got straight to the point and brought up the most important thing at the moment.

"The Takeda clan has invaded Ueno, and although we have formed a coalition and vowed to drive it out of the Ueno territory, there is still no certainty on how to resist and how to fight.

Although Nagano Yemasa has already asserted it, he is only the head of the Nishiueno wealthy clan, not their lord. If he were the sovereign, then everything would be much easier.

After the chatterbox was opened, the wealthy people began to discuss one after another, and if they had a slight proposition, they expounded loudly in the hall, and it didn't take long for them to quarrel.

Narumasa and Saito Asanobu and Kanya Keizori came to help as a guest army, and they had few troops, so they didn't want to quarrel with the Ueno Hao clan at this moment, so they all sat in place without saying a word. From time to time, Seimasa looked at Nagano Yoshimasa and Hidetsuna Kamiizumi, and found that the two of them were also silent.

According to Ishikawa Goemon's information, Umiizumi Hidetsuna's family, the Dahu family, seems to have received help from Nagano Yoshimasa when he was in trouble, and it was Hidetsuna who obeyed Yemasa's words.

After a long time, there were still constant quarrels in the hall, but to sum up, it was nothing more than two general directions, the dominant one was out of the city field battle, twelve of the sixteen wealthy families in the west of the field thought so, and two were more cautious and cautious, advocating a strong wall and a clear field, and fighting in a cage city.

Although most people advocate field warfare, there are different opinions and disputes over how to fight.

Kohata, who has the strongest cavalry team in Ueno, thinks that the Ueno coalition has the advantage of troops, and as long as they fight in battle, they can win this battle in a dignified manner, so that the world can see the bravery of Ueno samurai.

This arrogant attitude made Saito Asanobu and Kanya Kei laugh, but many of the Ueno wealthy families who had never fought with the Takeda family held the same view.

In the end, Nagano Yoshimasa synthesized the opinions of the wealthy families and adopted a field response.

However, out of prudence, Ye Zheng said that they would only bring about three days' rations, and if they could defeat the Takeda army, they would retreat to their respective cities and hold out if the war did not go well.

After the military meeting, the Hao clan, whose base was west of Minowa Castle, rushed back to their own castle overnight, and the remaining people, including Echigo reinforcements and Kamiizumi Hidetsuna, were stationed directly at Minowa Castle with their troops.

That night, Toyogoro Hikita and Goemon Ishikawa led people to search overnight, but they still didn't find any trace of Ah Kuni.

At dawn on April 9, led by Nagano Yoshimasa, the Ueno Wealthy Coalition and the Echigo Army set out from Minowa Castle and headed for Bottleshiri.

Unable to find Ah Guo, Sasa Naruma and Umiizumi Hidetsuna were very anxious, but at this time, the big war was imminent, and they could only force themselves to calm down.

Because of the gut battle the night before yesterday, Jing Yi Naohu is still unable to resist the horse, so Cheng Zheng directly took her in his arms, and the two sat on the back of the released moon hair together, grinding their ears and temples along the way, so comfortable.

- Naohu Jing finally agreed to Chengzheng's marriage proposal, and the two opened their hearts to each other, and they had just made love, and they were at their happiest time.

After the departure from Minowa Castle, several more wealthy armies joined along the way, and by the time they arrived at Matsui Tian Castle, there were already 20,000 people, and if you count the 2,000 reinforcements of Echigo, it was almost twice the number of Takeda's army.

But Nagano didn't think that today's battle would be as simple as the wealthy imagined.

The reason why Bottlejiri has such a strange name as "Bottleshiri" is that the terrain here is divided by hills, which is large in front and small in the back, just like the mouth of a bottle.

The opening on the side facing Shinano is large and wide, while the side facing Ueno is very narrow. The hills on either side come to an abrupt end at this narrow exit, and once you cross it, you find the fertile plains of Nishi-Ueno.

Under the arrangement of Nagano Yoshimasa, the army of the Hao clan grinded for a long time before ambushing in the mountains and forests, and just as they were ready, the Takeda army came over there.

Yoshinobu Takeda rode a chestnut horse draped in red tassels and came to the front of the army, surrounded by important ministers.

Iitomi Huchang didn't wear armor, but just put on his cage hand and followed behind Yoshinobu, looking at the rolling hills and narrow passages in front of him and frowning and thinking.

Before he went into battle, he had studied the terrain of Nishi-Ueno through the map drawn by the ninjas, and knew that this place was the first barrier to enter Nishi-Umino.

Halfway through today's march, Yoshinobu suddenly ordered to stop, although this move was out of caution, in the eyes of Iifu Huchang, it was a little too cautious.

After summoning the important generals, Yoshinobu led them to the front of the army to observe the terrain.

"The ninjas sent have not yet returned, the terrain here is very dangerous, whether to enter or not, I don't know what you think?"

Among the generals, Masatsu Naito and Nobuharu Baba are both wise and brave, and they are not reckless, and they can't help but hesitate when they carefully observe the terrain at this moment.

The veteran Zhujiao Huding didn't think so, he took the initiative to ask Ying, and wanted to take the team to explore the way. In his words, even if the Ueno had an ambush, it would only take his team of men to defeat them.

The generals laughed at him, but sending a team of people to test the plan was confirmed.

They were about to suggest that the general Yoshinobu send a reserve team to go first, but Yoshinobu, who had been staring ahead, frowned.

"Look, everybody."

He raised his hand and pointed to the left front, and a flock of birds flew out of the mountain forest, looking very frightened.

"There's no need to send out bait temptations, there are ambushes on both sides!"

He gave orders almost assertably, in contrast to his father, Harunobu Takeda's habit of giving preference to the collegiate ministers.

"Fish Scale Array! The spear at the front is served by Lord Baba! ”

Although the important ministers still had doubts in their hearts, they still obeyed the orders in unison and immediately began to prepare.

After a short time, the Takeda army formed an attacking fish-scale formation and slowly advanced forward.

The vanguard was the "immortal Oni Mino" Nobuharu Baba, and the troops behind the palace were commanded by the steady Naito Masatoyo.

The reserve on the left flank was led by the fierce general Zhujiao Huding, and the commander of the right flank was the younger brother of Iitomi Humasa, Genshiro Masakei.

After the Battle of Kasugayama last year, Iitomi Tiger was seriously injured and could no longer fight on the battlefield as a fierce general, so he recalled Masaki from Kofu, and the position of the governor of the Iitomi family was also passed to him.

Speaking of which, although this was not Changjing's first battle, it was the first time that he commanded a troop of more than 1,000 people as a general. For this reason, Itomi Changjing patrolled back and forth in the formation, like a big bow full of bowstrings and ready to go.