Takeda Shingen swept the rebels in Ina County all the way, and this so-called rebellion was completely extinguished before and after not holding out for a few months, and Fujisawa Yorikin, who was the initiator, and Takato Yoritsugu were inevitably punished, Fujisawa Yoriko was punished lightly because of his remorseful performance, and he himself was exiled from Shinano and could not return without a match, and the position of family governor was inherited by his adopted son Fujisawa Shigetoki, and Takato Yoritsugu was divided into house arrest for his poor performance of lack of IQ.

With the outbreak of the first Battle of Kawanakajima, the powerful Takeda army actually encountered the more powerful Nagao army, and the two sides had their own armies fighting for several months and could not tell the winner, and in the twenty-first year of the Astronomical Universe (1552) during the outbreak of Kawanakajima, the people of Minami Shinano took the opportunity to set off a new wave of rebellion.

And this rebellion happens to have a lot of relatives involved in it, Takeda Shingen in the subsequent crusade rebellion to destroy the stubborn Takato clan, and the loss of use value of Takato Yoriji naturally will not have a good result, when Takeda Shingen returned victorious, he was forced to commit suicide to end his short life.

It just so happened that Fujisawa Yoriko wandered to Settsu to serve as a small leader of the ronin under the account of the Miyoshi family, and when he learned the news soon after, he also had mixed feelings, both hatred for Takeda Shingen and fear of the Takeda family's strength, and the powerful lord Miyoshi Nagakei who he took refuge in was quickly defeated in the battle of Katsurakawa, and lost to the hands of the twelve-year-old boy Governor Yoshishi Yoshishi, so he hibernate for five years without any major action.

The life without the military exploits and the reward Fujisawa Yorikin, the little ronin head, is also very difficult, and the price of goods in Kinai is not at all what he, a faraway ronin, can afford, and his flowery wife is still in Fuyo Castle and waiting for his return. In the end, Fujisawa Yoriko gritted his teeth and returned to Shinano in the first year of Eiroku.

He lived in the name of the hermit governor of Fuhe City. Fortunately, his adopted son, Fujisawa Shigetoki, is an obedient nephew. Took the initiative to let Fukuyojo out and run to Minowa Castle to live, so as to avoid the embarrassing situation that he didn't even have a nest, and his old friend Akiyama Nobuyo also understood his embarrassing predicament very well, and told him not to go out to cover up his whereabouts of returning.

Now that the Kira army has entered Igun, breaking the peaceful and peaceful life here, and seeing the Kira army that had defeated Miyoshi Chokei again in his hometown after a few years, Fujisawa Yoriko decided to take refuge in the Kira family without much thought, not because of the general trend or because of the wall grass attribute of the countrymen. It's more about fighting for his ten-year ronin career, and the painful memories left by Takeda Shingen need to be washed away with a happy betrayal.

As for Ogasawara's long-term handwritten letters, it is also very important, with the personal intermediary of his eldest brother, he can stand out from the surrendered ordinary people and become an important supporter of the Kira family at the Minami Shinano front, although his strength is not enough to measure the attitude of the Kira family, but this is enough for the Fujisawa family to successfully transform.

Sweeping half of Ina County was not enough, Murakami Yoshikiyo chose to call for more support from Sanada Yutaka, and at the same time, in order to ensure that the back road was not cut off by the Takeda army's sneak attack, he ordered Suda Mitsujin to lead a thousand troops to defend Aragami Mountain Castle. He gathered the strength of the native people in Ina County, regrouped into 5,000 troops, and continued to attack southward.

I have to say that Takeda Shingen's appeasement in Minami Shinano is really not good. As soon as Murakami Yoshikiyo's army reached the outside of Kasuga Castle, he found that the lord of Kasuga Castle, Kasuga Kawachi Mamoru Mamotoki, who had heard the news, had surrendered to Kasuga, and then the city of Tyoshima Castle under the jurisdiction of Ina Masayoshi surrendered with Kasuga, the reason is that Takeda Shingen appointed Iitomi Masakai to carry out a purge of the anti-Takeda people in Igun a few years ago, and Kasuga Mayoshi's father and uncle were unfortunately among them.

In June of the second year of Koji (1556), Iitomi Masakai was ordered to send troops to I-gun, and the Kurokawachi Hayato Masanobu, Mizoguchi Minbu Shosuke Masakatsu, Matsushima Toyozen Nobuhisa, Inabe Saemon Captain Shigekin, Yoshima Yamato Mori Shigekuni, Miyata Sakon Kinbo, Oda Kirita Yamato Masanori, and Kamiho Izu Mashige were called the Ina Eight people, and they were the main forces in the county that resolutely resisted the Takeda army.

And they were brutally killed by Iitomi Changjing, and the head of the public was hung on the execution ground to set an example, and then the leaders of the eight people spontaneously organized, taking advantage of the night to secretly take back the heads of the eight people, and then buried in Heihanoi Township to set up an eight-person mound to commemorate the strong belief of the eight warriors who are not afraid of power to defend the land and protect the family, every spring and autumn, a large number of people and local leaders will come to the eight people mound to pay tribute to them, and gradually become an important local custom.

Kasuga Kawachi Mamoru Mamoru is the son-in-law of Inabe Saemon Captain Shigekin, and his uncle is Yokishima Yamato Shou Shigekuni, a family of two pillars died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Takeda army, and the young Kasuga Masayoshi was also forced to change the Miao character, and received the word "Chang" from Takeda Shingen to show his trust and reuse, but how could he turn a blind eye to the family feud in front of him, and he resolutely chose the latter between loyalty and filial piety.

By this time, the entire Ina County had already heard the news of the invasion of the Kira army, and there were those who were happy and excited, and there were those who were worried and nervous, and there were those who were angry and led the army to resist, and most of the cold-eyed bystanders, Ogasawara Nobutashi of Shimoina Suzuoka Castle did not hesitate to stand up and shout for the Kira army, this gentleman was Ogasawara's long-term brother-in-law.

As early as more than 20 years ago, as the Ogasawara clan in the prefecture and the Matsuo Ogasawara clan in Shimoina, so when Ogasawara was not long in office, he appointed his younger brother Ogasawara Nobutasa to Shimoina County as the lord of Suzuoka Castle, and revived the Suzuoka Ogasawara family that had become extinct.

Life was embarrassed, he once took refuge in the Miyoshi family to eat, but with the re-emergence of Ogasawara for a long time, it was not the same, Ogasawara Nobutai immediately decided to give up the preferential treatment given by the same clan Miyoshi Changkei, and returned to his hometown Suzuoka Castle to continue to do active resistance, this time he also knew some of the strategic directions of the Kira family in advance, and it was reasonable for the first to jump out of the corresponding Kira family.

If there is a response, there will be fierce resistance. Funayama Castle's Katakiri Hayato is Masasasa. Okusa Castle's Okusa Kasaka Saemon Yumune took the castle to resist the invasion of the Kira army. Subsequently, the Takato city of Akiyama Nobutomo reacted quickly, gathering the people of Ina County to gather 4,000 troops to launch an attack on Murakami Yoshikiyo. 、

In terms of strength and the elite of the army, there is no advantage, only some equipment advantages are only more cavalry and 300 old-style arquebuses, the two sides in Oda Kiri Castle, Diandao Castle launched several fierce battles, Cage Castle Murakami Yoshikiyo repelled Akiyama Nobuyomo's attacks again and again, but he was too deep into Ina County, so that his army was easily cut in half in the narrow canyon, and Murakami Yoshikiyo always had to face the danger of being cut off at any time.

Stalemate for half a month. Ogasawara rushed to Fukuyo Castle with 2,000 reinforcements for a long time, and exerted tremendous pressure on Akiyama Nobuyo in Takato Castle from the north and south, and they tried to force Akiyama Nobuyo back to Takato Castle in this way, but they did not expect that Nobuharu Baba rushed to Takato Castle with 3,000 reinforcements to help in the battle, and the military advantage of the two sides was once again reduced.

The military situation on both sides is still difficult to distinguish between more than ten battles in the valley between the Tenryu River and the Sanfeng River in Kamiina, and the level of generals on both sides belongs to the first-class general class, even if there is a slight difference, it is not enough to change the stalemate situation, and the general generals on both sides have no intention of continuing to increase their troops, and the situation of this confrontation has never been resolved.

Takeda Nobuyhiro did not dare to continue sending reinforcements because he needed more troops to guard the northern gate of Suwa Prefecture. Sanada Yutaka didn't think about sending more troops, because he was quietly leading 10,000 troops to Katsustring Pass. He launched another night attack on Okaya's northern castle, which was his fifteenth attack and three attempted night attacks.

This night attack was not successful, and the army was discovered in advance by the vigilant secret sentinel before it touched the edge of the city, and in desperation, Sanada Yutaka could only change the raid strategy, instigating the renegade samurai in Okaya North Castle to cause a riot, and Kira ninja took the opportunity to attack the guards of Otemon, trying to seize Okaya North Castle by attacking and seizing the gate.

It's just that the plan is only half carried out, and the guards of the Otemen Gate will inevitably die, but they were rushed by the vigilant Takeda Shinshihiro and almost failed to open the city gate, and more than a dozen Kira ninjas desperately opened the city gate to welcome the entry of the Kira army, but they were blocked by the elite led by Takeda Shinshihiro who felt it later.

The two sides fought fiercely in front of the Oteemon Gate in Okaya North Castle, and the small gate became the main contradiction between the two armies, and the samurai on both sides launched a fierce charge against the enemy, and the iron artillery teams and bow and arrow pairs on both sides were trying to fight for the commanding heights in order to shoot at each other, and a small Oteemon Gate became a Shura field that devoured countless lives, and many young samurai rushed into it and never returned.

The defenders in the city relied on the advantage of geographical advantages to make the Kira army suffer a lot, but then they were taken care of by the iron artillery team of the Kira army, and even people could not stand up to a few arrows, and the Takeda army lost the advantage of geographical advantage but also successfully limited the most powerful Kira iron artillery team, as long as their firepower left the arrowland, there would be samurai who were not afraid of death to climb the arrow and continue to shoot at the Kira army outside the city, forcing the iron artillery team to devote seven or eight points of energy to staring at the archery team in the city.

The fierce battle lasted from the second watch to the fifth watch, with more than 2,000 dead and wounded on both sides, and the piles of corpses spread from outside the Otemen to the inside of the gate, and the blood flowed into a winding dark red stream, and when the first rays of light shone on the northern castle of Okaya, the generals of both sides unanimously ordered the battle to stop, and all this came to an abrupt end at that moment.

The tired samurai could only leave this sad place in a hurry with a body of pain, the samurai on both sides silently cleaned up the wreckage of their comrades, no one had the intention of taking the initiative to attack again, the battle had lost the meaning of continuing, and the physical strength and energy of the samurai to the ashigaru were seriously overdrawn after a night of hard fighting, and the long-term siege and fierce battle could not turn the attack into victory, which made the samurai both tired and anxious.

The uneasy mood is quietly flowing, like a terrible infectious disease that has infected countless people in a short period of time, the momentum of the offensive is getting weaker and weaker, and the burden in his heart is becoming more and more magnified, Sanada Yutaka knows that it can no longer continue, and at the same time, the more painful Takeda army has some intention of not being able to hold on, and Takeda Nobuyoshi also immediately stopped the battle.

The Kira army stopped because they were physically exhausted, and the excessive casualties could never be converted into victory, and the Takeda family stopped because the samurai and ashigaru had long since lost their physical strength, and they were completely supported by a strong belief that they would not fall, and they might be able to hold out for another half an hour. It may also fall suddenly in the next moment. As long as one person can't hold it up, it will all fall like dominoes. Nobuyoshi Takeda didn't dare to bet on how long this time would last.

Sanada Yutaka still failed to take the Otemon in the end, his defeat was not because the samurai Ashigaru was not heroic, nor was it because the iron cannon ammunition was exhausted, but because of the slope in front of the Otemon Gate was only 30 degrees, and he was defeated in the small link of the back attack, in fact, it cannot be said that he failed, unless the meaning of the victory was positioned to capture Okaya Kita Castle.

In fact, Sanada Yutaka can still choose to hold on a little longer, and if he holds on for another morning, the Takeda army will definitely collapse completely. The victory will belong to the Kira army, which is also in collapse, but it is suicide to continue to insist on taking the castle to this point, Suwa Shiro Katsuyori led the Suwa people who poured in from all directions to attack Okaya Kita Castle, and at that time what did Sanada Yutaka take to resist?

The only answer is that only human lives can be filled, and the military momentum that has completely collapsed in energy and physical strength is like a paper tiger, even the worst believers can defeat them, so that these people can defend the city naturally how many people die, and it is a victory to survive until Miyabe Jijun or Ogasawara rush back for a long time, and there is no suspense if the whole army is wiped out if it can't be returned.

So he wisely chose to retreat, in order to kill a Takeda Nobushige or to slaughter all the forces of Okaya Kitajo. put all the 10,000 troops of the Shinano Army and his own net worth and life into it, and may even destroy the foundation that Kira Yoshishi worked so hard to build. It's not the work of a wise man, nor is it the style of Yutaka Sanada.

Compared with the figure of Sanada Yutaka who left with endless regret and resentment, Takeda Nobuyoshi felt more fortunate and encouraged, and finally blocked Sanada Yukitaka's most fierce offensive after a year of hard fighting, he knew very well that this did not mean that Sanada Yukitaka was not as powerful as him, but because he occupied a huge advantage in terms of geography and people, and as the defender of the city and had an elite army that was not inferior to the attacker, this war was already very difficult to fight.

Even if Takeda Shingen personally came to attack Okaya North Castle, if there was no strong army of more than 30,000, it would be absolutely impossible to break through the fortified castle guarded by 10,000 troops led by Takeda Shinshihiro, and it was a very incredible act to attack the fortified castle guarded by 10,000 people with 10,000 people.

The battle was eventually named the Battle of Okayazaka, and both sides hurriedly stopped the truce at the cost of more than 2,000 lives each, and the losses of the Kira army were more than 2,200 people, compared to the losses of the Takeda family of more than 2,600 people.

After the end of the joint battle, a new round of confrontation began, of course, the situation in Ina County remained unchanged, Murakami Yoshikiyo and Ogasawara Nagashi led by the pro-Kira Ina people, bumped into the pro-Takeda Ina people led by Baba Nobuharu and Akiyama Nobutomo, the two sides fought for three months and fought more than a dozen small battles every day and still did not distinguish between winners and losers, and finally more than 2,000 people on both sides were killed and wounded and returned to the same running line, until the end of the autumn harvest The first snow fell before hastily cleaning up the army and settling the New Year.

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Kira Yoshishi only learned of this undefeated result and could only smile helplessly, the meat that was easy to eat was swallowed by the Kira family, and all that was left was a hard bone to gnaw, and the current Takeda family was a hard bone that could not be chewed and chewed, and the closer the army got to Kai, the more difficult it was to attack.

In fact, he didn't think that Sanada Yutaka really entered Suwa County, it would be a big trouble to be really punched in, the Takeda family would definitely send a steady stream of troops to Suwa County, and the Takeda family would do whatever it took to defend the last north gate, unless Kira Yoshitoki led the army to Suwa to fight a general battle, otherwise the crisis faced by Sanada Yutaka would not be solved, but would Takeda Shingen still fight a big battle with him? No, it won't!

In some places, the cost of expansion was too high enough for the daimyo to go bankrupt, and in some places the cost was zero, and the army only needed to surrender as soon as the army arrived, and the Yongroku period was an era of very high expansion costs, and the earlier the era, the greater the resistance to expansion.

For example, the expansion of Hojo Sakumo and Hojo clan is like this, without the support of Hosokawa Masamoto and Hosokawa Takakoku, Hojo's expansion was immediately beaten back by the coalition of the Kwantung people, if it wasn't for the timely arrival of the Kawagoe Night War, I am afraid that there would be no Odawara Hojo family in the world.

Kira Yoshishi didn't think about eating a big fat man in one bite, don't look at the Kira family's territory of nearly five territories, in fact, his core territory is still the basic plate of Echigo. At most, counting the resealing in recent years, it has played a role. Completed the direct collarization of Shinano Province, Ueno Province, and Etsu Chugoku, as well as parts of Dewa Province and Kaga Province. But his fundamental interests are tied to Echigo and cannot be changed.

This is also the reason why he did not choose to blindly set up a new castle outside, he is more concerned about the management of Echigo's territory than anyone else, Kira Yoshitoki's plan is to gradually transfer the Echigo retainers group out, complete the complete direct leadership of Echigo, and at the same time can make the basic plate of the Kira family bigger and bigger through the transfer of the genealogy of the retainers, from one and a half countries to five realms, and at that moment he is the real big name.

Just like the Ouchi family had seven guardian positions in its heyday, but in fact, the core foundation of the Ouchi family is still the two countries of Zhou Defense and Nagato. The situation of the Niko family's "Yin and Yang One Taishou" is similar.,Claiming to control half of the Western Country, in fact, the core area of his family is still the land of Izumo and Iwami.,The rest are just servant armies.,The core area of the Hojo family's current territory is still Izu、Sagami.。

And the core foundation of the Takeda family is Kai and Suwa, Saku two counties, these two counties are like two wings to protect Kai's two wings, and like two huge fists can stretch out to hit Ueno, left hook punch to hit Hida, now lose the right wing and fist, the Takeda family has been reduced to half a cripple, and if you lose another wing and fist, you really have no power to fight back.

The best of the Triple Alliance is actually the Imagawa family. Imagawa Yoshimoto's patience and methods are unusually strong, and he can swallow Mikawa Province step by step according to his temperament. It took ten years to change the minds of the new generation of samurai and establish their prestige with strict samurai laws and clear rewards and punishments.

He also used the means of affection to induce him to become confidants, and gradually saw that part of the country of Mikawa was transformed into his own basic plate, and at the same time took this opportunity to gradually eliminate the thorns in the people of Yuanjiang and strangled the last danger in infancy, but it is a pity that all these skills are destroyed in the narrow room of the barrel, no matter how strong they are.

Kira Yoshishi missed the appointment again.,Just returned to Echigo and faced a backlog of government affairs for half a year.,Busy all day long, I can't wait to make a dozen doppelgangers to help deal with government affairs.,From dawn to the dark, there are officials who come to him to discuss government affairs.,Every day, meetings are held non-stop.,Endless information, endless documents, endless flowers, and the whole person will collapse.。

In the end, when he was in a hurry, he pretended to be ill, and pushed all unimportant government affairs to the executive officer, and decided that he would not have to show him the documents with a single sum of less than 2,000 yuan, and that he would only approve documents of more than 2,000 yuan in the future, and stipulated that all future government affairs should first make a preliminary decision at the internal meeting of the executive council and then bring them to him for approval.

But there are some things that can't be avoided, Hosokawa Fujitaka took a stack of autumn harvest documents to show him, and explained while letting him read it: "This year's year is very bad, first after a drought that lasted for several months, which brought great disadvantages to the growth of rice, and then in the summer it was a continuous torrential rain, until it improved before the autumn, and the annual Echigo's stone high income was reduced by 600,000 stone because of this catastrophe, and the actual stone high income was only 2.23 million stone. ”

Ji Liang Yoshishi reluctantly took the paperwork and said distressedly: "The disaster is so serious! However, it seems that Dewa Province has also suffered a lot of disasters, and the grain production in the territory has been reduced by about 20%, and the surplus has also been granted to allocate 50,000 koku of grain as a grain reserve for the top family, in order to cope with the difficult period of the next spring. ”

"The problem of Echigo is not big, and with the active cooperation of our adherents, the people of each county, and the villagers of the old people, we actively draw water to irrigate the fields, so the loss is only about 20%." Hosokawa Fujitaka shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Although I really want to praise myself a few more words, this year's autumn harvest situation is indeed very unfavorable for us.

The damage to Ueno and Shinano was very severe, and the overall losses in the two countries ranged from 3/2 to 40 percent, with the southern part of Ueno and the central part of Shinano being greatly affected by the floods, and the grain harvest this autumn was reduced by about 4 and a half percent, and the total income of Ueno Province was 350,000 koku and Shinano Kuni was 270,000 koku. ”

"Great murder, famine!" Kira Yoshishi instantly blurted out two words, these two words are the meaning of the catastrophe and famine, in fact, this kind of thing is very common like the annual earthquake and storm, almost every ten years or eight years there will be a famine, Kira Yoshishi is now Echigo in the past few years, there are two catastrophes, one is a storm and one is a drought, and this is the third time.

"Yes! This was a huge famine that affected the eastern country, and the grain damage in Viet China was relatively light, and the loss was only 10% less than the data of previous years, but because the development of Shinta in Shincheon County in Vietaka was relatively smooth, the stone high in Echichu exceeded 400,000 koku this autumn, and the Kaga country was almost not damaged, and the autumn harvest statistics of the two and a half counties were about 200,000 koku, and the Izuwa Province lacked information on the prefecture of Zhishi, and the stone height under the jurisdiction of Satsukai-gun, Tagawa-gun, Murayama-gun, and Mogami county was 320,000 koku. ”

"The problem in Vietaka is not big, and after the onset of winter, the peasants will be quickly dispatched to Kaga, and the population of Kaga is only 80,000 plus 10,000 troops, which is really not conducive to defending the territory, and the remaining 70,000 people will be implemented in Kaga as soon as possible." Kira Yoshishi thought for a while, and then quipped: "According to the previous way of eating, the 200,000 stone grain over there is enough for these 160,000 people to lie in Kaga and eat for more than half a year. ”

Hosokawa Fujitaka smiled when he heard this, and in retrospect, the changes in Echigo were indeed amazing, in the past, two meals a day, a meal of white rice, pickled radish, miso soup, the life was monotonous and boring, but now chicken, fish, meat, eggs, vegetables and fruits are constantly in stock, and the annual seasonal vegetables are amazing, and the huge impact of the increase in dishes is that the food is eaten less and less.

According to the previous algorithm, one person supports the annual consumption of rice one stone, seven buckets and five liters, which is converted to eat seven taels of rice and some pickled radish and miso soup every day, and the monotonous eating habits are very lacking in nutrition, and the most important thing is that you can't eat enough at all, and under the destruction of the sick vegetarian concept, it is not surprising that you can't eat enough and are thin and short, and this dietary concept will also produce the invisible "beriberi".

Now there are meat, vegetables, soybean oil and animal fat, two meals a day have been changed to three meals a day, a commoner eats seven taels of rice a day according to his fullness, some spare money goes out to eat egg noodles is more convenient, even rice is not eaten, fishermen on the seaside must not eat fish in three meals a day, and eat less rice.

Kira Yoshishi thought for a long time and felt that this was a good opportunity to improve the grain planting habits of Hokuriku countries, so he said slowly: "The popularity rate of wheat in Vietnam, China and Kaga should be improved, and some plains and mountainous areas that are not suitable for planting rice should not blindly pursue rice planting, you can try a variety of wheat to have good results, and the introduction of millet from the Ming Kingdom can be promoted to the mountainous areas as a crop rotation configuration, and the second cropping of millet and wheat is also very good. Combined with the cultivation of several types of vegetables, even without the support of meat, poultry and eggs, Hokkuriku can solve the food problem in Hokkiuriku. ”

"Your Majesty understands!" Hosokawa Fujitaka bowed and stepped back. (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for the book friend Diao'er and the reward for Qiu Mian, and at the same time congratulate Qiu Mian for becoming the fifth helmsman of this book, and Wu Mei would like to express her sincere gratitude to the two for their support!