Although the Takeda family's penetrating ninja tried their best to clarify that this was a false accusation, and counter-accused the Kira family of concocting this assassination operation in order to frame the Takeda family, their argument was pale in the face of the overwhelming evidence, and Kira Yoshitoki deliberately held a public trial specially prepared for them.

Through the word of mouth of the merchants who traveled Gyeonggi, Hokuriku, and Yuo, the whole Kanto and even the whole world knew the news of Echigo's execution, and more than 100,000 people witnessed the terrible burning at the stake, and hundreds of people were hanged on the spot.

There will be no fake for Echigo to ban Ichisuji for 35 years, and there will be no fake for thousands of people to burn and loot, and the assassination of the Kai Piercing Ninja is also supported by what Uesugi Kenmasa and Ogasawara Nagashi saw with their own eyes, including the allusion that Honjo Shigenaga sacrificed himself to the Savior and received the treasure sword, and it is absolutely unreasonable to say that the Takeda family did not collude in it.

Takeda Harunobu, who was far away in Kai, kept a rare silence about all this, penetrating the propaganda of the ninjas, fighting but Kira ninjas, assassinating such a big move could not be concealed from the samurai of various countries, the dead Echigo samurai and civilians were real, and the Takeda family did a bad job in this operation.

After this battle, the Takeda retainers have clearly realized how big the threat of the Kira family is, not in the siege of many large armies, not in the use of stratagem and strategy, but in the naked force to suppress the Takeda army, the Akabi samurai, who were pinned on by Takeda Harunobu, lost more than 100 and more than 200 wounded.

What is even more worrying is the blow to morale, especially the confidence of the wealthy people of Beixin and Zhongxin has been shaken, and many people have begun to resent the evil and incompetence of the Takeda family. I have never seen the Takeda family so restrained under the superior forces. They feel like they are paying for "punishment for meanness".

The Takeda family did evil in the Shinano people top the cylinder. When the people of Nakashineno found that they couldn't fight the Kira family, it was not surprising that they turned around and resented the Takeda family, and Takeda Harunobu worked hard for more than ten years to create an invincible image in Shinano, which collapsed overnight, and the loss of invisible prestige was even far greater than the loss of money, food, population, and war death.

"But I'm not ready yet!" In front of nearly a hundred retainers, Takeda Harunobu's gaze gradually became cold: "Give me another year for the Takeda family, and after a year, all this will be returned!" Just a year! ”

With the safe retreat of the Kira army. As the clouds of war over Shinano dissipated, the Shinano people were busy licking their wounds, and the festive harvest season became boring.

A few days after the retreat of the Kira army, Iitomi Masakai led 3,000 troops to return triumphantly, and this time the strategy against Hida was particularly successful, and Iitomi Masakatsu, together with the head of the Minami Shinano land, Kiso Yoshiyasu, easily attacked the Hida Mountains and caught the Hida people off guard, such as Miki Yoshiyori and Eima Tokimori.

For nearly 200 years, Hida has lived behind closed doors with her family. Whether it is the Koji family of the Southern Dynasty, or the guardian of the Northern Dynasty, the Jingji Gao clan, who entered the Taoist reputation. And his guardian of the Daitaga clan will inevitably be assimilated by Hida's local tyrants, and this time the Takeda family will break the door of Hida's closed country for hundreds of years.

The people of Hida put aside their differences tacitly, and hurriedly organized two thousand troops to unite to try to fight against the invaders, but this rabble was defeated by Iitomi Changjing one by one, and they had no choice but to flee to the city and cage the city.

The Takeda Army, which won the first battle, did not relax the pace of attack, and in the next month and a half, it pressed step by step, and successively forced Hirose Munejo and Shioya Akisada to surrender with strong force, and the balance of war gradually deflected with the fierce attack of Iitomi Masakai, and after the surrender of Uchijima Shiri, who was known as the first general of Hida, Miki Yoshiyori and Eima Tokimori, who had exhausted their aid, had to bow their heads and admit defeat.

Achieving the great glory of the suppression of Hida one country injected a shot of strength into the sluggish Takeda family, the excited Takeda Harunobu decided to reward this cronie general, and at the simple evaluation meeting held in Yuya Onsen, Takeda Harunobu announced that Iitomi Masashi was promoted to the general of the servant, and the territory of the 300 cavalry commanded was in the Nakasino Chikuma County, so Iitomi Masashi became a hot celebrity of the Takeda family.

The defeat of Hida was a good thing to boost the decline of the family, but it was not enough to solve the problem of the deepening crisis of Nakashinano, and Takeda Harunobu had been working hard to prepare what he called a "follow-up move", and the Kira army, who knew nothing about everything, only stayed in Kita-Shinano for a short time, and returned to Echigo on September 10.

As a partial division of this military operation, the Shinano reserve in charge of supporting the military and the samurai such as Murakami and Kakizaki were rewarded with a total of 10,000 koku of grain, and all members of the Kira Legion shared the reward of another 25,000 koku, and the disabled were to receive a one-time financial pension ranging from 20 to 100 kan bun Yongle money, depending on the level of disability, and the standard for the war dead was 200 kan.

The conditions given by Kira Yoshitoshi were very good, as long as they were the main force of the Kira Army, whether they were killed in battle or disabled, they would be subsidized, and according to the degree of disability, they could also be arranged to retire on the spot and go to the main farm and ranch of the Kira family to serve as a commissioner, or arrange to serve as a concentric dormitory elder in the town or village on the spot.

This subsidy standard is not completely measured by money, and the samurai don't need so much money, and it is generally implemented according to the standard given by Yulu, which is about six cents of grain and four cents, unless the samurai or widow receiving the subsidy has special requirements and will make adjustments, and if Yongle money is given completely, the Kira family will not be able to bear it no matter how rich they are.

When he returned to Kasugayama Castle, the battle in Ueno was also coming to an end, and the Nagao Army led by Nagao Keitora rushed to the Ueno front line in early July, and the large army was stationed in Nagano Kentada's Stable Bridge Castle and used it as a point of attack to launch a comprehensive military suppression of the Hojo family.

Unlike the Shinano invasion, in which the Kira family always had the initiative in the war and oppressed the Takeda army at will, the situation in Ueno was much worse than that of Shinano, and the 20,000 troops led by Hojo Shiyasu were immediately resolutely resisted by Nagano Yoshimasa's 15,000 troops after entering Hirai Castle.

At the heart of Hino's single-mindedness is the sons-in-law of the Nagano family, who have more than a dozen sons-in-law and several generations of relatives who have maintained a relationship with each other. Nagano can be compared to the one size smaller Date Minoru Mune. They all use their daughters to maintain a huge network of relationships and establish dominance.

Therefore, Nagano Ye can be under the premise that Uesugi Kensei is not sitting at the border. It was not easy to pull 15,000 people out of battle in one go, and almost all the major national forces that Ueno Kuni could use were brought in, and it was not easy to have a strong organization and efficient command.

Hojo Shiyasu, who was sitting in Hirai Castle, did not panic at all, and quickly pacified the Ueno countrymen who took refuge in the Hojo side with his excellent skills, such as Nabo, Akai, Tomioka and other people who were the first to throw themselves into their arms, and there was no way back, and how many options did they have if their sons were handed over to the Hojo family?

Once he is disobedient, Hojo Shiyasu can buy his own genealogy and retainers to collude to force this family governor into seclusion. supported his son as the governor, and when the time came, the drama would still be sung, and he wouldn't even be able to get a supporting role.

With the support of Ueno Kuni's leading party, Nagano Yoshimasa's Minowa people immediately retracted as soon as they slammed down, and Nagao Keitori of the United Stable Bridge Castle made it clear that the chariots and horses were going to fight fiercely with the invader Hojo family, and on the other side, Hojo Shiyasu also realized that his 20,000 was a little inappropriate to deal with the 25,000 combined forces of Nagano and Nagao, and hurriedly ordered more troops to the rear.

Many of the countrymen, including the newly surrendered Shimochi Chiba clan, joined the battle, and in half a month's effort, they raised 15,000 troops again, and the Hojo family fought against 25,000 with 35,000, turning from a disadvantage to an advantage in strength. The Hojo family is much more down-to-earth.

In order to add more chips to the Hojo family, Hojo Shiyasu also pulled his son-in-law Ashikaga Tomasa over as a hole card. The Ashikaga two flags were raised in the Hojo Army's formation, which happened to correspond to the Uesugi Sasa of Stable Bridge Castle, as if to say that you are about the eastern management of the territory, and I am about the eastern prince, who is afraid of whom.

The two sides each stood on their heels and launched various military trials, military conflicts of thousands of people from time to time, today the Nagao Army captured a castle subordinate to the Hojo family, and tomorrow the Hojo family will also capture a castle of the Ueno people with color, and the two sides ran a marathon confrontation that pitted the people of Ueno Province.

Kuragano Bizen Shohihiro, who was closest to Hirai Castle and the greatest pressure, couldn't hold his ground, and after stubbornly resisting for more than ten days, he finally surrendered to the Hojo clan at the end of July.

If the Hojo family was adjusted a little bit, this war really couldn't be fought anymore, so when the main force of the Hojo family attacked the island city, Nagao Jinghu personally led 10,000 troops to the island city.

Hojo Shiyasu's Wind Demon Ninja has been engrossed in monitoring the Nagao family's every move, and at the same time as there was a change in Stable Bridge Castle, Hojo Shiyasu received the news as soon as possible, and decisively gave up the attack on Shimana Castle and turned to the direction of Stable Bridge Castle, and the two sides met on the west bank of the Tone River, and at this time the Hojo Army achieved an absolute advantage in strength with 30,000 to 10,000.

Nagao Keitora stood under the curtain and looked out at the three-scale banner in the distance, the east side of the Nagao Army's main formation is the turbulent Tone River, not far to the west is the Tone River Branch, the Tone River River Branch, the island name castle is located in the middle of the delta before the confluence of the Bird River and the Tone River, the distance between the two rivers is only half a mile, the land here is rich in fertility, and it is the richest area in Ueno Province.

Nagano Yoshimasa also led a large army to rush over at this time, and when he saw the Nagao Army setting up a formation on the bank of the Tone River, he wanted to take the initiative to lean over, which was a very natural action, and the main forces of the two sides met to fight against the Hojo Army, and the Hojo clan Yasu did not want to see this situation, so the Hojo Army immediately launched an attack on the Nagano Army, trying to use the advantage of strength to push the Nagano Army back in one go, and then turn back to attack the strategic purpose of the Nagao Army.

"Divide and surround each to break through! He must have been waiting for this moment for a long time! The long-tailed Jinghu swept over the generals like a fierce tiger, and ordered: "Listen to the order!" Follow the family to defeat the Hojo Army and recapture Hirai Castle for the Leader Palace! ”

"Yes!"

The Nagao Army did not hesitate to attack, with the Yohoku Nagahide and Ayukawa Kiyocho as the vanguard and rushed straight to the flank of the Hojo Army, and the Edo people who were responsible for guarding the right flank of the Hojo Army did not dare to be careless, and hurriedly ordered the people of the country to set up a position to resist the impact of the Nagao Army.

Under the Hojo family's system of sending relatives and sending children, the Hojo family was divided into several major groups of people in each country, and their names were named after "many", for example, the Edo group in the southern Kanto region was the most powerful group of people, and the Hojo family's genealogy retainers served as military leaders, and this leader was also called "first-hand service".

With the lord of the country as the lord of the city, in wartime to obey the chief's orders to recruit soldiers with the army, in the country lord with the retainers as a host is a powerful local nobleman, the servant, and then down is the bottom of the specific to the horse samurai, ashigaru, bow ashigaru, iron cannon ashigaru and other types of troops is the send.

This set of sending relatives and sending children system, the Chinese group is subdivided into every link, peacetime farming and wartime, need to bear a certain amount of military service training every year, in the case of busy farming or military service in the current year, the lord must give the relatives and send children a certain tax exemption in exchange for them to follow the battle.

This strict system was not unique to the Hojo family, and Kinai Miyoshi and Kai Takeda also implemented a similar system in Shinano, and Imagawa Yoshimoto seems to be interested in experimenting with this system in Enoe, but it is doubtful that he will be able to implement this system in its entirety without Taiyuan Yukisai.

As the most fertile land in the southern Kanto region and the highest Zhixing, the Edo people bear the military service of more than 5,000 people, and they are also the largest group of people in the Hojo family, compared to only 1,200 people in Matsuyama and only 1,100 people in Miura.

The vanguard of the Nagao Army came from the Yokuku, Yasuda Nagahide and Ayukawa Kiyocho were both capable of fighting well, and found that the Hojo Army on the opposite side was an armed force with the banner of the people, and suddenly there was a feeling of annoyance that they were being despised by others, and the two found that the formation of the Edo people moving slowly was slightly flawed, so they tacitly commanded a thousand troops to accelerate and rush.

The first wave of impact came from the Ashigaru team with three guns, although I couldn't learn the luxurious weapons and equipment of the Kira family and a variety of special tactics with new weapons, but there was no problem in learning the gun, the major main legions in the Nagao Army have been able to master the use of guns, and when they were about to take over, the Ashigaru team suddenly scattered and scattered in a scattered formation and crashed into the gun formation of the Hojo Army, which immediately caused a huge repercussion. (To be continued......)