"My brother is right, the Honma Takanshin of the Hamo Honma clan is a loyal minister, but it is an indisputable fact that the Honma clan is involved in pirates, as long as the Honma Takashin and the Honma clan remain neutral, the family does not intend to embarrass them, but the Kawarada Honma clan, who is in charge of the Sado Navy, must not let go, and pirates will never be allowed in the waters near Hokuriku."

Kira Yoshitoki has already made up his mind to deal with the Honma family's naval army, and even devised a strategy to imitate Nagao Jinghu to obstruct it, repeatedly promising that he will never touch the Honma clan of the clan of the clan, and the Hamo Honma clan who is pro-Nagao.

The Kawarada Honma clan relied on the advantage of the naval army, and has always been not very deferential to the clan of the clan Zota Honma, and with the decline of the Honma clan of the Hayata, most of the territory was abandoned, making the situation of confrontation between the north and the south of the two branches of Kawarada and Hashige on Sado Island.

Honma Mitsunobu, the lord of Kawaharada Castle, has been with Honma Takashin many times, and before that, Honma Mitsunobu relied on the goodwill relationship between the northern people and the plundering of the navy to steadily suppress Honma Takashin, but Honma Takan had the support of Nagao Jinghu, so that Honma Minobu did not dare to act rashly.

On May 15, the Kira navy came out of the nest and lay in ambush in the reeds near the mouth of the Shinano River in the evening, and at midnight the moon was bright, and the nine demons infiltrated the port of Sado in the dark, and the Sado navy, who was resting in the port, was unaware that a disaster was about to befall.

As part of the cooperation of the corresponding Kira family, the Sado people of Sado Kuni, including the lord of Honma Yamashiro Mori Taida, the lord of Ota Castle, Hideji Honma, the lord of Kuchi Castle, Yoshiro Honma, the lord of Yoshida Castle, Mikawa Yuo, the lord of Ssawane Castle, Takahide Ssawane, and Hidemitsu Takami of Lagoon Castle, gathered a thousand troops and launched a surprise attack on Kawabara Castle of Honma Minobu that night.

This time, most of the people on Sado Island united to attack, attracting most of the troops in the northern part of Sado Island. Honma Minobu, who was sleeping soundly in Sado Port, still had no idea. At this time, Honma Takanbu had already led 300 troops to the outside of the port. I saw that the dim harbor suddenly lit up with beams of firelight, and the dark and turbid sea water illuminated a fiery red and strange reflection under the moonlight, like clusters of evil spirit flames floating in hell.

"Ahh A dozing sentry was choked by a sword, sounding the horn of the night raid, and the sleeping Honma army was awakened by a jumble of shouts, and the crimson flames engulfed many of the houses in the harbor where the goods looted in recent months were stored.

"It's a rocket! Enemy attack! ”

Honma hurriedly put on his clothes. I didn't care about the naked women in the room screaming loudly, and eagerly summoned the flag samurai and asked urgently, "What's the matter?" Who's going to hit us? ”

"My lord! We don't know! But there are so many ships! They have rockets and iron artillery and are storming our ports! ”

Honma Mitsunobu gritted his teeth and scolded: "Bastard! It has to be them! Only they have iron cannons! ”

At this time, a tall and strong warrior hurriedly ran over and said, "Brother! What are we going to do? ”

"Mikane! It's good that you're coming! The family wants to fight back against them! Gotta beat them back! Even if you transfer troops from Kawara Castle, you have to beat them back! ”

"Yes! I'm going to transfer troops! Honma Mikan turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by Honma Mikuto, and said with a smile: "Hasn't Mikan always wanted to be a general?" This time, the family ordered you to be the general to resist this invading army, and the family can go to Kawarada Castle to transfer troops. ”

"This bastard wants me to die!" Honma Mikan scolded secretly, but he still had to pretend to be grateful and thank: "Brother, please rest assured, I'll never let them break through Sado Port." Please send reinforcements, brother! ”

"Well, thank you!" Honma turned around and glanced at Kimoto behind him. The latter sneaked back to the room and brought the woman back on horseback, this woman was a noble woman who had been looted from a passenger ship bound for Dewa a few days ago, and it was very rare for Honma to get carried away and take hostages in disregard of the rules.

Honma Mitsunobu never expected that the firepower of the Kira naval army would be so fierce, and it would break through Sado Port in two quarters of an hour, and Honma Mikan was shot to death by a burst of fire before he could surrender, and Honma Minobu who escaped and didn't want to take the woman with him also fell into Honma Takanobu's ambush circle and was killed by an arrow, and he didn't realize that he would die on the path outside the port from beginning to end.

Early the next morning, the Kira Navy and Honma Takanobu combined to form an army of 1,800 and launched an attack on Kawabara Castle.

The Honma family was annexed by several families, and Honma Takanobu won half of the territory by virtue of his outstanding performance, and the other half was shared by the other families who participated in the war, and the Kira family acquired the ownership of Sado Port and the nearby land of 1,500 machibu, and at the same time, as the lord of the country, he also naturally acquired the ownership and mining rights of all the mines in Sado.

There is no opinion on the judgment of the Kira family, the Honma clan has no opinion, Sado Island has long been rumored to have gold on the mountain, but Kunai mining and smelting technology will not be able to mine and smelt, a few years ago Honma Minobu heard about this rumor and occupied the Tsuruko Gold Mountain, and used the people captured by the sea as slaves to dig indiscriminately, and finally dug up something very similar to silver ore and could not smelt, so he could only throw it back to block the news.

As a result, the Kira family was helpless, but it was not too much of a loss for them to get the comfort of the increase in territory, and Kira Yoshitoki promised them that they would be treated better as soon as possible, and Sado Island could also grow new grain under the guidance of the Kira family.

Over sixty years old, Su I Taibei went out of the mountain again, with a few newly harvested apprentices were ordered to Sado Gold Mountain to do prospecting work, in recent years, Su I Taibei has not been much idle, the copper house and the blacksmith house do not need him to worry, just take a few apprentices to climb all the mountains of Echigo, roughly find out where there are ore veins.

In his words, Echigo is a treasure of feng shui, and he didn't dare to say anything about the treasure, but he just said that there would be results in a few years.

From early spring to midsummer, the entire Echigo was busy improving the land, and a small water battle on Sado Island did not change people's attention, and soon Li Ding's new plan was freshly released. Two tributaries were excavated at the Shinano River. A tributary of the Agano River was excavated with the intention of dividing the water for irrigation. At the same time, a canal was dug between the two rivers to connect them and take on the important task of water transportation.

The project is huge, including the construction of canals, the excavation of tributaries, the construction of polders, the clearing of dry waters, and the improvement of soil desertification, and other composite works will be carried out at the same time, and it is expected that more than 50,000 people will be employed.

The construction period was divided into three phases, the first phase was to excavate the canal called "Shinhori River" and build a polder, the second phase was to excavate the tributary flood water to continue the construction of the polder, and the third phase was to clear the dry water and improve the land. The first and second phases will be completed in five years, and the third phase is expected to take 10 to 20 years.

The scale of this project is far beyond the imagination of Kira Yoshitoki, not counting the labor costs and other expenses, the initial investment is as high as 100,000 yuan of Yongle money, and the total investment is expected to exceed 500,000 yuan of Yongle money, and the possibility of increasing the budget is not ruled out.

The number of people mobilized for this project was only huge, far exceeding all the projects of the Warring States period, and only the construction of Kyoto in the Heian period could exceed this scale, and once completed. The entire Niigata area will form a vast network of more than 200,000 towns of farmland, and the land is rich in fertile resources. Rice, wheat, soybeans and a variety of new food crops can be grown.

Once this project is completed, nearly 70% of Echigo's land improvement will be completed, and the stone height of Echigo will be more than 2 million koku, leaving more land to grow cash crops and realizing the envisioned route of agricultural diversification.

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Sitting on the main seat is an old man with a white beard, this person is the famous Kanto Nagano Nagano Yesasao, and now this old man is sixty-five years old, but he is still fierce.

Every day, the river fish and birds become his plate and never stop, known as not eating meat for a day, and occasionally show the spirit of meat fighting wine and arrogance, although the strength of a body is greatly exhausted than when he was young, but he is still able to defeat three strong men, and he can see some ancient and incorruptible spirit from the magnanimity alone.

There are two letters in front of Nagano Yezheng, the style of the two letters is different but the content is similar, and the hundreds of words sprinkled on it are nothing more than Ueno's tired surrender to our army, the two letters are stamped with different flowers, one is stamped with the Zhu Dragon seal, and the other is stamped with the tiger seal, from the monogram, it can be seen from the monograph, this is from Takeda Harunobu, Hojo Shiyasu handwritten letters.

Nagano Yezheng's half-squinted eyes sparkled, and he glanced at the people in the hall and suddenly said, "What do you think of the letter of persuasion from the Hojo and Takeda generations?" ”

"Is it powerless to deceive me from the Ueno country?" The first shot in Shangzhou, the future great sword saint Kamiizumi Shinzuna, now a strong man named Dahu Xiuzuna, said indignantly: "With my Xiugang in one day, I will never let Takeda and Hojo set foot half a step!" ”

"I think ......" Kohata Ken muttered for a long time and wanted to say something, and suddenly looked back at his son Kohata Nobutada and closed his mouth again, his son and Nagano Yoshimasa's concubine had just married at the beginning of the year, and now he is also Nagano Yoshimasa's in-laws, this little couple is like glue, which makes Kohata Kenshige very embarrassed.

"Takeda Harunobu was defeated by the Kira family last year, and now he personally led 8,000 troops to storm Ueno, what is his intention?" Wada is also the son-in-law of Nagano Yoshimasa, he is much older than the sixteen-year-old Kohata Nobutada, and at the age of twenty-five this year, he is already the lord of a castle, with fifty horseback warriors and three hundred and fifty ashigaru troops, which is quite good.

The Nagano family is full of people, and the lord of Stablebridge Castle, Nagano Kentada, sneered: "The intention is nothing more than to see the Hojo clan invade Ueno and easily subdue the Nabo clan, so I naively think that my people from Nishiueno are also muddy, how can they know that we hate Uesugi Kenmasa and are incompetent......"

"Shut up! Is the fault of the lord something that our ministers can discuss? Nagano Yemasa was stunned by his brother's rudeness, and Kamishu Yellow Spot did not forget to glare at the samurai present.

Last year, Hirai Castle fell to death and did not save it, which has made Nagano Yemasa feel not very satisfied, no matter how bad Uesugi Xianzheng is, he is also the sovereign, and the sovereign is difficult to see death and not save him, and what is the difference between the genealogy of the Takeda family and the exile of Takeda Shintora?

The more he thought about it, the more angry Nagano Yemasa became, and couldn't help but scold: "It's all you people who are eager for quick success and quick profit, indulging the Hojo Army's wanton attack, and now how much good does it do us to squeeze out the lord?" We, the people of Ueno Province, want the right of self-government, not exile the lord and then submit to Hojo and Takeda, so what good is it for us to get rid of the lord? You say! Why don't you say it? ”

The faces of the people of Nishiueno who said this were hot, another son-in-law. The city lord of the national peak, Kohata Jingding, had to defend everyone's behavior: "But we have been fighting for the palace for many years. Not only did they not receive a reward, but they also brought huge losses to us in the Battle of Koetsu and the Battle of Oda Ihara one after another. Such a lord is really incompetent and useless! ”

Nagano Ye was furious, and the case he shot was "banging", and his eyes widened angrily: "No matter how incompetent you are, you are also the sovereign, what can I unite without the protection of the sovereign?" ”

Nobusada Kohata had a flash of inspiration and blurted out: "Hinoki fan with one heart!" Minowa! ”

"Hinoki fan one-hearted?" The people of Ueno were shocked, and said secretly: "Isn't this equivalent to recognizing the position of the leader of the Nagano family in Nishi-Ueno?" ”

The lord of Yamana Castle, Kibe Dingchao, was the first to react and said loudly: "Okay! I support! ”

"Hinoki fan with one heart! Minowa! That's it! Let's fight with Takeda and Hojo! Kurakano Castle Lord Kanai Hidekei glanced at everyone's expressions and tone became more determined, almost all of the powerful lords of Nishiueno were Nagano Yemasa's sons-in-law. Kibe Dingchao and him are the same, and he doesn't believe that there are still people who oppose it.

Seeing this, Nagano Kentada was overjoyed, got up and persuaded him: "Brother! Make up your mind! We've got your back! ”

"Good!" Nagano Yemasa, who was half-squinting, suddenly opened his eyes, slapped his feet and shouted: "Then start the juniper fan!" We swear to the gods and Buddhas to defend the dignity of our Minowa people from being violated, not to surrender or betray, and to work together to defeat the invading forces of Hojo and Takeda! ”

"Yes! We are all dispatched from Shinano Shouden! The people of Ueno agreed.

Nagano Yemasa laughed and said, "From today onwards, the castles will be built into horns connected with each other, and Nishiueno will be a nightmare for the enemy!" I don't believe that Hojo and Takeda can still have three heads and six arms! Enter my West Ueno, even if he is a god and a Buddha, he will be in a dilemma of life and death! ”

Since the beginning of April, more than 13,000 Hojo troops under the leadership of Hojo Shiyasu have marched north, connecting the three counties of Kanaba, Sao, and Midorino. Since the rebellion of many Japanese people, the entire Ueno has been in great turmoil. In late June, Harumobu Takeda led 8,000 troops out of Saku, passing through the Usui Mountains and entering Usui County.

The self-confident Takeda army did not expect to encounter such great difficulties, and the united Minowa people gathered an army of 15,000 under the leadership of Nagano Yoshimasa, and the two sides fought fiercely in Matsui Tawara in early July.

The follow-up Shangzhou sixteen guns under the leadership of Dahu Xiugang attacked at the same time in four ways, and this unexpected attack routine hit the Takeda army in four chaos, and Nagano Ye was shouting: "Assault!" Wooing over the enemy general Takeda Harunobu, the juniper fan is determined to win! ”

The Takeda Army's main formation saw a veteran with a beard rushing over in the lead, and the Murosumi Huden, who was guarding the main formation, was furious when he saw this, and rode his horse to meet the veteran, and at the same time, several cracks appeared in the coalition army with a single heart of cypress, and the distance between them made the formation impossible to maintain.

Takeda Harunobu, who is proficient in military strategy, decisively made adjustments: "Order Baba Nobuharu, Naito Masato's team, Hara Huyin, and Oda Toramori to go out of the battle and cut into the gap between the two wings of the Nagano army to isolate their military momentum!" ”

In the face of the Takeda Army's pig advance, the samurai of the Minowa group chose to continue to charge, some chose to hold on to each other, and some decided to retreat for the time being.

Seeing that the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable, the Nagano Army, which is alone and deep, is also facing the danger of being surrounded, Nagano Yemasa's department stopped three hundred meters away from the Takeda Army's main formation, and he didn't care about the missed fighter, and killed the Takeda samurai who rushed up with a shot, pulled out his horse and turned around and shouted three times: "This army is in chaos, nothing can be done, retreat quickly!" ”

The blood-stained Dahu Xiugang hurriedly shouted: "Let me wait to break off the coalition army!" ”

"Good! You led sixteen shots after the break! Be sure to stop the pursuit of the Takeda Army! Take care of your personal safety! Nagano Yemasa didn't care to explain a few more words, handed over a "careful" look, and took the team back with his head, and several Minowa people who were entangled in death asked him to rescue, and he could not hesitate in the slightest on the battlefield of life and death.

Watching the brave and fierce veteran gradually move away, Masatake Komai sighed: "It's still a little bit worse!" It's almost time to keep Nagano Yoshimasa! If you deploy a counterattack a little later, you must be more sure! ”

"It's too dangerous. The family would rather give up the chance to keep him. My Takeda family can't afford to lose anymore. Harunobu Takeda shook his head. He also hesitated briefly when giving orders, but he knew that the Takeda Army could not withstand defeat and high losses now, so he could only hastily arrange a counterattack strategy to strive for more heavy losses on the Ueno coalition army.

Nagano's sixteen guns are all first-class generals in Ueno, and Dahu Xiugang is not only superb in swordsmanship, but also famous for his pistol skills in Kanto. Known as the first shot in Shangzhou, it shows how strong his martial arts skills are, belonging to the kind of samurai who has both talent and perseverance, and he and other members of the Sixteen Guns each led the Lang Party to form a military force of more than 3,000 after the break, and they simply stopped the main force of the Takeda Army and could not advance an inch.

After Nagano was escorting the last friendly army to retreat, he personally led his team back to meet the broken rear army, and a counter-assault disrupted the position of the Takeda army, and suddenly retreated while the Takeda army had not yet organized an offensive, and the Takeda army, which was tired from the long battle, could only watch the Nagano army retreat calmly.

Seeing the fat in his mouth flying away, the samurai of the Takeda family scolded angrily: "Bastard! Why can you still let go of the Broken Rear Army! What the hell is wrong with us? This kind of broken army must have been able to eat it before! ”

Complaints about the retainers. Takeda Harunobu could only be silent, the battle between Kawanakajima and Kawanakama was too hurtful. The main forces of the Takeda Army have suffered heavy losses to varying degrees, and the newly replenished samurai Ashigaru will be difficult to form elite combat power for a while and a half, and the vitality will not be able to recover from a major injury in one or two years.

Now that the Nagano army is so hard, I have to say that the decline in combat power is too great, and when the army was in full swing last year, the cavalry hedging could also suppress the offensive rhythm of the Nagano army.

"Maybe it's a wrong decision to fight Kita Shinano......" At this moment, Takeda Harunobu regretted his reckless decision, if he had attacked Nishikamino a year earlier, he might have been able to get a chance to increase his strength, but unfortunately there is no ifs in this world, and it is impossible for him not to fight Kita Shinano.

On this occasion, the battle was fought quickly, and the death of a few hundred people on both sides could only be regarded as a light loss, and the Nagano army retreated to their respective mountain castles to hold on, relying on the defense of Eagle Castle and Minowa Castle with each other's horns and resisted to the death, and was entangled from midsummer to the end of autumn.

The Takeda army hunted like locusts, not only to grab money, food, food, and drink, but also to grab pots and pans, clothes, and clothes, nothing more than to provoke the Nagano army to go out of the city to fight, but no matter how the battle was called, it would be deterred in front of the cliffs of the Eagle Castle, and the price of the attack was heavy, and the casualties were heavy under the slow shooting of the bows and arrows on the city.

Nagano Yemasa resisted the attack of the Takeda army with less than 4,000 troops in only two castles, and the Takeda army wasted a summer in Nishi-Ueno without finding anything, and finally had to retreat.

On the other side, the attack of the Hojo army was gradually lost in the dense castles of Nishi-Ueno, as if the endless castle fortresses were located on every hill in Nishi-Ueno, some of the hills were similar to Minowa Castle, and there was a fortress at each end of the mountain to become a snake's head and snake tail echoing on both sides, the Takeda army suffered a big loss under this dock fort tactic, and the Hojo army was not much better than its allies, so they could only hastily harvest their grain and retreat in late autumn.

"We won! Win! The people of Ueno, who had driven away the invading army, cheered at the hard-won victory, but soon they couldn't laugh again, after last year's famine, the population of Ueno was seriously lost, and the seeds saved from between their teeth were scattered into the land for a busy year, hoping for a harvest in the autumn.

In the end, the farmland that had been working hard for a whole year turned out to be invaders, and was burned and looted by Takeda and Hojo, so how did they survive this cold winter? Thinking of this, the people of Nishi-Ueno couldn't help but itch with hatred: "Takeda and Hojo bullied me and other Ueno people, it's really damned!" ”

"Bear with me, wait until next year......"

The lord of Eagle Castle, Nagano Yegu, became the lord of a castle at a young age, and has always been known for his cleverness and decisiveness in the Nagano family, he seems to be very disdainful of the old-school conservative samurai, and sneered and said, "Hmph! Won't they come next year? Two families to one is enough for us, don't forget that the two of them are allies, if we discuss each coming for a year, how should we bear it? Over time, people's hearts will disperse sooner or later! ”

As the cousin of Nagano Yezheng, and married another daughter of Nagano Yezheng, Nagano Yegu, who is only eighteen years old this year, can be said to be proud, he was the second son of the Eagle Nagano clan, and his brother Nagano Yetsu was not in good health and lived in seclusion in the city all year round without going out, so the young Nagano Yegu inherited his father Nagano Yegu's family business and became the governor of the Eagle Nagano clan.

The young and vigorous spoke mercilessly, and the faces of the Minowa people who said something changed after some words, and Nagano Kentada hurriedly scolded: "Moritaro, what are you talking nonsense!" Saying unlucky things at the celebration banquet......"

Nagano argued, "Did I say something wrong? That Takeda, Hojo Tiger Wolf generation also! How long can I wait for the people of Ueno to lose the protection of the monarch? You are all my elders, can't you see what happened to the people of Shinano? The heroes of Murakami Yoshikiyoshi were also defeated by the iron hooves of the Takeda Army......"

"Shut up!" Nagano Yemasa interrupted his feature film with an angry shout: "I know that it's all your elders who are still presumptuous here!" ”

Another son-in-law of Nagano Yoshimasa, the lord of the castle of Itabi, said with a smile: "Although Iyo Shouden is a little impulsive, there is nothing wrong with this!" The Takeda Army is really difficult to deal with, especially that Sanada Yutaka is even more difficult to deal with, everyone should have heard this rumor, right? The collapse of the Northern Shinano Hao Alliance came from this person's handiwork, and he did everything he could to win over and destroy the National People's Alliance, and there was always a hidden danger in my Nishi-Ueno! (To be continued......)

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