Uesugi Kenshin's brilliant military achievements almost need not be repeated, the Kanto-Tokujo clan who fought lost their armor and did not dare to fight, and under the harsh situation of the unfamiliar place of the Dewa country and the lack of logistical intelligence support, he could still sweep the entire Izuwa people in the country alone, and the Vietnamese-Chinese counterattack wiped out all the main forces of the Ezekawa in one fell swoop.

Accurately judging the short-term dilemma of the emptiness within Kaga Province, he immediately made a bold plan to invade Kaga Province, swept away the Kaga Ichijo army on the southern bank of the Tetori River, and achieved the strategic goal of completely crushing the Kaga Ichijo Ichinai, and created a good environment for Ashikaga Yoshitoki to carry out his operations.

Then invaded Musashi Province and captured it easily, and captured the Hojo Tsusunari and the Hojo clan that changed the direction of the war, and then successfully captured the Sagami country, and designed a set of siege plans with ingenuity, and forced tens of thousands of defenders in Odawara City into a dead corner and couldn't move, and very cruelly deprived the Hojo family of the right to fight the trapped beasts, and only to be a lamb to the slaughter and not be able to fight back.

The samurai discussed the gains and losses of the battle in recent years in a low voice, and they didn't notice a sound of gentle footsteps coming from the corridor, only to hear a voice suddenly outside the door: "There is no doubt about the strength of the Uesugi Dan Main Hall, and that war is really thanks to His Highness Yudanmasa sitting in Utsunomiya Castle to attack in time, otherwise it will be difficult for my Kanto Ashikaga family to keep the honor of the undefeated golden body." ”

Sanada Yoshiyuki said, "Huh? Isn't this the Nagano Toe Shouden? I should have appeased the people in Anfang Country recently! How can you have time to come? ”

"The second duty of Anfang Country was transferred to Mitsui Takaandian to be responsible, and he was ordered to come to the front line of the town guard mansion to allocate grain and grass for the new season." Nagano is already in his thirties, since he made a splash a few years ago. Marrying a wife, having children, being promoted and making a fortune were all encountered by him. It can really be described as a spring breeze and horseshoe disease.

Nobusada Kohata walked over and patted her shoulder. said: "I thought you would come over in a few days, why did you come over so soon and didn't say anything in advance?" ”

"The original plan has changed and I left a few days early, and I just heard that you were having a tea party after handing over the mission, so I came to take a look, and I happened to hear them talk about the part of the battle in Ozhou." Nagano Yegu turned around and greeted many colleagues warmly, and every samurai in the hall seemed to be very familiar with him, even the three brothers of the Hojo clan, the Hojo clan, and the Hojo clan, who participated for the first time, also expressed a familiar and enthusiastic attitude.

The identity of the people of Ueno Province represented by Nagano Yegu in the system is very strange, their origins are from the people of Ueno Province and they are also orthodox Kwantung samurai, but they moved closer to Echigo very early and played a vital role in the successive wars of Ueno Province. Therefore, they were included in the system of the Echigo Army very early, which allowed them to have a dual identity and could swim between the two systems like a fish in water.

Nagano Yegu smiled bitterly: "I fought for four years before and after the Oshu War, and it was really a headache to repeatedly tug at the war, and I happened to be one of the commissioners who were in charge of managing the storage and distribution of military rations on the front line at that time, and I learned many details of that battle from the rear, and it was the change caused by the sudden comeback of Date Jingzhaoden, and even Iwaki Shigetaka, Soma Moriyin, and Yuki Haruzuna, who had already cut into our camp, were also shaken, and the Tamura clan and the Nikaido clan were immediately transferred to the Date family's camp, which was really a headache!" ”

Sanada Yoshiyuki nodded and said, "I really didn't expect Date Kyozhaoden to suddenly make a comeback, and he could use his personal prestige to reunite the already collapsed people of the Mutsu Kingdom. Shigetaka Iwaki and Harutsuna Yuuki suddenly cut off from the front and almost put Satake Tonekisuke in a desperate situation. The Satake army did not penetrate deep into the territory of the enemy army, and managed to escape with the best efforts of the Nasu army and the Utsunomiya army. ”

"The most powerful thing about Date Kyozhaoden is that he adjusted his strategy, and immediately stationed troops for a truce to write letters to contact the shaken daimyo samurai in various places, and personally took on the second battle to invite Soma Moriyin, Yuki Harutsuna, and Iwaki Shigetaka to talk, and within a few days, the Michinoku country was re-pinched into a monolith, and I heard that Master Asayama Hisakari couldn't even eat during that time, but it was reduced a lot!"

Nobuzhen Kohata patted his head and laughed, "I remembered!" I still vaguely remember that interesting story, after the incident, once I met the master of Asayama Hisaka eating and drinking and asked the master what was going on, the master told me that he was going to eat back the hungry body, and said that the rich monk was more pleasing, and I couldn't help laughing out loud when I heard this. ”

"Master Asayama Hisaka is a very easy-going person, at least much stronger than the great monk Sugiura Genren, Sugiura Genren, that reckless man sang his poems in the courtyard with a broken voice, and said that he was a new generation of waka, and he would get a collection of wakas to publish in the world in the future, which was just infuriating." The head of the Hojo clan jumped with green tendons, and he expressed great dissatisfaction with Sugiura Genren, who converted to the Miaoshinji sect of the Rinzai sect, and many samurai also showed expressions of concern.

In the past, Kaga has always been a great general, Sugiura Genren, who has been captured for many years, has been imprisoned in Echigo Myokakuji Temple and used meditation to restrain this irascible Zongfang official, but he did not expect to be converted to Rinzai by Zen Master Tokuya Zongyi, and voluntarily returned to the Kanto Ashikaga family to start from an ashigaru group leader.

This guy can't do anything else, his head is simple and rough, there is no technical content and a lot of weaknesses, but there is a benefit, simple and no complicated tricks, and the battle formation has been crawling for more than ten years, and there is indeed a unique body, and a body of martial arts, after the daily rough work in the Miaojue Temple, it is more and more brave and sophisticated, with this ability, it only took three years to jump to the reserve general, it is indeed not simple.

After all, he is an uneducated reckless man, and it is more difficult to change his rude temperament than to change the country, and he was touted by the Shenbao clan Zhang against his heart in the mountain castle in Yuezhong, and then he didn't know how to develop the habit of creating his own waka, which is similar to the level of the song and the limerick poem of a bandit warlord.

"Forget it, let's not mention that rude bastard." The Hojo clan found that everyone was a little speechless when they were led by him, and said apologetically: "Date Kyojoden's strategy is very powerful, which has caused the hard work of Master Asayama Hisaka to go to waste, but after all, Kyozhaoden is too old and weak to take into account the changes in the battle situation, and he only uses his personal prestige to coordinate the respective duties of the people of Mutsu Province." It is impossible to stand in front of the formation and direct the direction of the battle. ”

Sanada Yoshiyuki clenched his fists excitedly: "So the first time the Mutsu Coalition counterattacked Shimonokuni, it suffered a big defeat." He was caught off guard by the surprise attack on the main hall of Uesugi Bullet. The first assault of the Shirasaka joint battle was to take the head of Yuki Haruna, which caused the morale of the Shirakawa Yuki clan and the Komine clan to collapse, and the flank Ashina Mori clan lost protection and was almost captured alive by Saito Shimono Moriden.

On the other wing, Kakizaki and Izumi Shouden begged for the unsuspecting Uenosuke who remained behind, and Hojo Kamisuke raided the retreating Iwaki army to capture Iwaki Kintaka in one fell swoop and forced the Iwaki army to surrender on the spot, and the rest such as Tamura, Nikaido, Kokubun, and Watari all lost their armor and fled! The Battle of Shirasaka brought out the majesty of our Kanto Ashikaga family, and also knocked out the evil breath that the samurai held in their hearts, so that the people of Mutsu were terrified and unable to sleep at night when they heard the name of us. ”

The instinct of animals is to worship the strong, and human beings are the spirits of all things, and naturally they also have a little animal instinct. The stronger Kenshin Uesugi became, the more excited the people of the Kwantung Kingdom became, on the contrary, the people of Mutsu were frightened and did not dare to plunder its edge for a while, and this one-sided raid war only broke up the confidence and unity that the people of Mutsu had accumulated so hard, and it was really a group of samurai who were busy doing useless work.

"Upon learning of a fiasco ahead, Date Kyotyoden was knocked unconscious on the spot, and then died in a coma in the city for more than three months, and all the efforts of the Date family were in vain." Nagano Yosegu used a bland tone to make a simple description, and in an understatement, he put an end to a major change that stirred up countless bloody storms in Michino.

The winner is always more qualified to judge the loser in a tone of voice, and Hojo said with a smile: "Actually, Date Kyozhaoden's body has long collapsed, and the so-called comeback is only left in the Maruyama Castle drama. It was a three-day journey from the main battlefield of the Battle of Shirasaka near the border of Michinoku to Maruyama Castle, and he lived in seclusion for more than ten years, not asking about the world, and could not understand the strength and weakness of the Kanto Ashikaga family. I'm afraid that an old man who doesn't know the level of the lord of the Mutsu people can't do anything! ”

"That's right, we should sympathize with his plight, and the youkai can only blame the Date family for being too ......"

"Ahem! Don't go on. Nagano Yoshigu promptly stopped Nobusada Kohata's big mouth, and the Kanto Shogun's Office forbade such talk, because two years ago, when Ashikaga Yoshitoki personally led a large army to besiege Yonezawa Castle, Date Terumune took the initiative to open the castle and surrender.

Sanada Yoshiyuki suddenly remembered that Date Terumune also had a good relationship with him, and immediately changed his words: "The Date family's submission is also a last resort!" The people of the southern land Okukuo were almost killed in a big defeat, Date Minoru was angry to death, the remaining political scenery was captured, Iwashiro Kintaka was captured alive, the Ashina Mori clan was almost captured, and Yuki Harutsuna was captured.

The elite of the people of the Southern Michichi Kingdom was suddenly reduced by as much as 30% in this battle, and half of the remaining 70% of the people were always neutral small people, and the remaining half of them were probably not even able to exert their basic strength, how much confidence was lost and how much they were ready to surrender was still unknown, and it was not easy for the Date family to support it until the eighth year of Yongroku before opening the city and surrendering. ”

"yes, yes......"

Kohata Nobutada said disapprerovingly: "What's not easy about this, after our army fought the Battle of Shirasaka, we entered Shirakawa Castle to take stock of the proceeds to appease the local people, and it was not until the spring of the seventh year of Yongroku that a new round of invasion began, most of the family business of the Date family was in Yonezawa Castle in Dewa Country, and Izuwa Yonezawa was ranked last in the priority of our army's crusade against Yuo, so let him hold on for one more year, not that Yonezawa Castle was as strong as Odawara Castle......"

"Ahem...... Well, let's not talk about Yonezawa Castle! The three brothers of the Hojo clan, the Hojo clan, and the Hojo clan are all black, and the control of the Shuliu is relatively loose and has not changed the Miao character, and the next generation will gradually change the Miao character to the familiar "time".

Kohata Nobutada's words caused many samurai in the hall to look sideways, and Nagano Yegu remembered that he didn't pay attention to the seat position just now, and took a closer look at the seat of the left and right sides of each camp, usually this practice is one of the ways to distinguish the camp between the two factions, such as the popular Wenji faction and the martial arts faction, but today their seats are not divided according to the Bunji martial arts, but according to the division of the north and south of the region.

The so-called division between the north and the south is actually divided into the seven northern provinces and the eight southern provinces in the Kanto shogunate system, and this division method is based on the Kanto invasion and attack in the fourth year of Eiroku (1561) as the dividing line, and the Echigo Province, Shinano Province, Ueno Province, Echigoku Province, Kaga Province, Hida Province, and Dewa Province held by the Kanto Ashikaga family are called the Northern Seven Kingdoms. The Musashi, Sagami, Izu, Shimo, Kami, Anbo, Shimono, and Hitachi provinces that were captured after the Kanto invasion are called the Southern Eight Kingdoms.

These 15 countries account for more than one-fifth of the 66 countries in the world. Someone once joked that this was the "one-fifth hall" of the Kanto region. However, the Kanto Shogunate seems to be very rejecting this kind of statement, and strictly forbade the people to mention similar statements in any form, on the grounds that the loyalty of the Kanto Shogunate should not be compared with the unruly and disdainful Yakuen (Ashikaga Yoshimitsu) Yamashina Tokiyoshi.

There are some waters in the northern seven countries that have not been squeezed out, such as Shinano Province still has Suwa-gun in the hands of the Kai Takeda clan, Dewa Province and the Hago half of the country are in the hands of several countries, and Kaga Province only has the territory of the eastern half of the country, and the Shinano Province of these three countries is relatively intact and can be barely called dominating a country. Dewa and Kaga provinces have only half of the control and should not be incorporated into the Northern Seven Kingdoms.

Nagano said indifferently: "Date Jingzhaodian finally surrendered because the territory of the Mutsu Kingdom was completely swept away, the Nikaido clan, the Nihonmatsu clan, the Tamura clan, the Kokubun clan, the Watari clan, and the Kurokawa clan surrendered one after another in a year's time, and the unconvinced Akiho clan, Kuroki clan, and the left-behind clan were exterminated, and the Ashina repair hall hid in Aizu and did not dare to come out, and it was calculated that most of the wings of the Date family were cut off, and it was a matter of time before they surrendered. ”

Today, the two good brothers are eager to take care of each other, and tomorrow maybe the two families are willing to be honest with each other and the other two families are like brothers, and the relationship between the two families may be completely reversed because of the previous too frankness, and this kind of vulgar joke will be staged almost every few years.

Everyone says that Kita-Ise is a small war-gokugoku. In fact, that messy bunch of Chinese people fighting each other for such a little thing is not a small warring state. On the contrary, it is a bunch of chaotic relatives in Nanmutsu who beat each other's heads and blood, and even the farce of the astronomical rebellion is more like a small wargoku, of course, Shimono can also try to compete for the place of this small wargoku.

Then the samurai began to brag nonsense, some talked about the sweep of the pro-Date Terumun two years ago, and resolutely resisted Osaki Yoshinao, Kasai Harunobu, in the face of the attack of 30,000 troops, still thinking of relying on the hundreds of years of Mutsu people's way of doing things, put on the posture of cage castle to call for the rescue army to resist to the end, just by the only 500-ton Galen galleon carrying a half-snake cannon, along the coastline to the mouth of the Kitakami River to bombard Ishinomaki Castle, that afternoon Kasai Harunobu, who was once very tough, was frightened to surrender to Kaejo.

"In fact, I think that in the joint battle of Oshu, the role of the main hall of Uesugi bullet is greater, at least in the past few years, as the general who stayed in Oshu, the main hall of Uesugi bullet has done an impeccable job!" As a staunch fan, Sanada Yoshiyuki never forgot to praise Kenshin Uesugi for being an admirer of the Echigo Dragon.

It is said that Sanada Yoshiyuki has always felt that he and Uesugi Kenshin have many similarities, because they both have a great father, and both fathers have suffered painful defeats, and most importantly, both are very intelligent and capable, and can become great samurai now and in the future, although this is not universally recognized by their peers.

Uesugi Kenshin was a monk in Echigo Linsenji Temple in the fourth year of Eiroku, and the seventh abbot of Linsen Temple, Yoshion Soken, personally shaved his hair, and gave him a humble character in the Dharma name, so that his full name was Fushian Shinko Kenshin, and he finally chose to spend the rest of his life without getting married and put all his body and mind into the cause of serving the gods and Buddhas, not only because Uesugi Kenshin was a devout Buddhist, but also to support his little nephew Ashikaga Jinomaru.

Sanada Yoshiyuki didn't know the inside story, and thought that Uesugi Kenshin was a Buddhist with a noble character and no power at all, and it was really hard to think of a second reason for the willingness to give up the pursuit of power for the sake of faith, and at first glance it seems that it is not strange that a monk with a pure faith is not a monk, but how can a samurai who guards the daimyo class be a pure believer, there must be a deep-seated reason.

The clever Uesugi Kenshin made a concession to avoid the Echigo chaos, but taking a step back does not mean that everything is fine, he knows very well that there are many shortcomings in the Kanto shogunate system, and the fierce contradictions between many retainers from different backgrounds and wide range of sources are on the one hand, and the three factions of Kyoto, Echigo, and Kanto are holding each other together and fighting each other is very serious, and the power struggle between the ministers and the generals is also looming, and what worries Uesugi Kenshin is that the Nagao family is too powerful.

The descendants of the Nagao family, Shirai and Sosha, and the Yamauchi Uesugi family, Ashikaga Nagao, put aside for the time being, the Echigo Nagao clan shaving the line of Nagao Uesugi Kenshin in the Fuchu who had no heirs, Nagao Echizen Mamoru Masaka, Nagao Toyozen Shoukeishin, Nagao Kohei Jikeiren, Nagao Kashiro Keiaki, Nagao Kanshiro Keikin, Nagao Koshiro Keinao, Nagao Kankuro Dingharu, Nagao Yashichiro Keitsu, and Nagao Masakai's son-in-law Nagao Yoshikei and a large number of people.

It's just that there are many relatives who are not capable, and the terrible thing is that these relatives are all extraordinary, either they are quite accomplished in internal affairs or they are reserve generals who sit on one side, and they hold important positions in the Kwantung General's Mansion system, and they are all adult men, and they have successively married and had children in the system, and gradually weaved a formidable network of relationships.

There is no waste wood and all of them marry wives and have children, let them develop freely and will form a new samurai group in two generations, maybe the future will be a feared Kamakura Hojo clan, when Ashikaga Yoshitoki made a new word for the Sagami Hojo clan also implied the meaning of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, there is always a Hojo current politics in front of him is not a taste, and the Nagao family with certain ideas will also be uneasy. (To be continued......)