The pamphlet written by Yoshitoki Kira summarizes the patterns of all basic tactics very well, explaining the tactics in a vernacular that is easy to understand and difficult to understand, and the senior samurai at the level of the general of the reserve must be familiar with it, and even if they do not understand it, they must memorize it by rote, and when they encounter problems in the war, they must recite it several times, and this local method is very effective.

"I want to sneak attack! Hum! Hojo Tsusunari raised his eyes to see the flag in the distance, and immediately realized what he had missed, and immediately sneered and sent a reserve of 1,500 people to resist, according to his estimation, as long as he resisted for an hour, he was sure that he would be able to repel the Minowa people with the power of the five-color reserve.

However, he soon realized that he had made a huge mistake by accident, this Viet et Seet reserve had extremely strong combat effectiveness, compared to the multi-faceted Saito Asanobu, and the mixed alliance of Ashigaru plus horse cavalry and archery was not at all an opponent of pure cavalry and pure spear and shield, and it did not take a quarter of an hour to crush the 1,500 Hojo Army that intercepted.

"Oops!" Seeing that the reserve was overwhelmed, Hojo Tsusunari immediately realized that something bad was going to happen, and he thought that the main force of the Nagao Army was either dragged along with Nagao Jinghu in Higashiueno, or he was a turtle in an urn in the island name castle.

Hojo Shiyasu also quickly observed this change, and sent 5,000 troops to help, only to barely resist the attack of the Honjo army, at this time the balance of the war has been pulled to a dangerous balance point, Hojo Shiyasu immediately ordered to continue to increase the army, replenish the 5,000 army again, and gradually wear out the sharpness of the Minowa people.

At this moment, the Kuyoba and the Ranlong Banner appeared on the west bank of the Tone River. It took less than a day for Nagao Jinghu to lead an army of five thousand. After trekking 30 kilometers of mountain roads, he rushed back to the battlefield at a critical moment in the war. Such a speed greatly exceeded the expectations of the Hojo family, and Hojo Shiyasu had an expression of disbelief.

"How did he do it in less than three days to sweep through Higashiueno and then turn back?" The surprise of the Hojo clan is also the surprise of the Hojo family samurai, the long journey back is a great test of the military quality of the legion, normal march, armed march and rapid march are different concepts, with the level of this era is absolutely unimaginable, for normal rush, this single trip will take a day's work.

If he knew that Long-tailed Jinghu had spent most of the day running back the whole way, he would definitely be speechless. At present, the number of troops engaged in the main battlefield has exceeded 18,000, and the besieging army led by Hojo Shiyasu is only 12,000 men, and he knows that it is useless to invest more than 5,000 men.

There are 3,500 Saito troops and defenders in the city, and if you want to nail Saito Asanobu, you must have more than 5,000 troops to defend it, so it has formed a paradox that only 7,000 people can be used, so should he use these 7,000 people to rescue, or add more weight?

If more weight is added, Saito Asanobu will lead his team to force a breakthrough of the encirclement and deliver a fatal blow to the Hojo Army from behind, which will lead to disastrous consequences. However, the number of reinforcements is too small to play a role in rescue and suppression, and it is very dangerous to be copied from the back road if the long-tailed Jinghu is not overthrown.

So Hojo fell into a hesitant situation. The tactic of adding fuel is death, and the attack of the whole army is also death, so he is in a dilemma and does not know how to choose.

His hesitation created an excellent opportunity for Nagao Keito, and without the slightest hesitation, the Nagao Army, under his leadership, rushed towards the 5,000 Hojo Army besieging the Echigo Reserve, and the Echigo horseback samurai were in a state of full excitement through the long journey, and hit the flank of the Hojo Army head-on, directly chiseling a hole.

Nagao Keitora personally led six shadow warriors wearing identical silver-white armor to rush to the front, wielding the sword in their hands to reap the samurai of the Hojo Army.

The 5,000 Long Tail Army was like a sledgehammer, smashing the turtle shell of the 5,000 Hojo Army, the two wings were defeated by the cavalry, and then the ashigaru directly turned the advantage into a victory, and the freed Viet reserves also joined the harvesting operation, Hojo Takahiro saw this and immediately shouted: "The whole army turned around and attacked the Jihuang Hachiman main camp!" ”

Hojo Shiyasu was anxious when he saw this situation, and gave up the threat of Saito Asanobu and personally led 12,000 troops to the rescue, but he still kept an eye on it, and the two thousand elite palace guards in case Saito Asanobu came a fatal blow from behind.

The 10,000 main army of the Hojo family joined, including his son-in-law Hojo Masa, a Hojo Phantom and a large number of elite samurai, who moved the direction of the battle back, and the retreating 5,000 Hojo Army was able to stand firm and resist to the death, and the Hojo clan Yasushi led a large army to help boost their morale.

Saving the 5,000 army is not over, Hojo Shiyasu ordered Hojo Phantom to lead the army to support Hojo Tsunari, and the rehmannia Hachiman also retreated backwards knowing the opportunity, and it was not easy to gain an advantage with 8,000 against 15,000, if it weren't for the previous 1,500 people in the reserve team who lost more than 300 people before they were rescued, he was very sure to win the Minowa.

Now the situation is different, the addition of a group of troops makes the occupation confusing, and the unplanned Vietnamese reserve force bursts out with a powerful attack force so that Hojo Tsusunari does not dare to be careless, and hurriedly suppresses the counter-assault of Dahu Xiugang, and decisively leads the army to retreat after opening a little distance.

Hojo Tsunashi retreated and liberated the Minowa people, Nagano Yemasa's first reaction was also to join the Nagao Army as soon as possible, and take the initiative to get closer to his main force to make the battle situation become a situation of 20,000 against 27,000, in this round of war, the Minowa people, the Nagao Army, and the Viet reserves lost more than 2,000 lives, and the Hojo family also took in more than 3,000 lives with a little back.

Saito Asanobu in the direction of Shimana Castle also took the opportunity to attack, and the three thousand troops rushed straight to the back of the Hojo family, but fortunately, Hojo Shiyasu arranged it properly to resist his attack, seeing that the super back road was not successful, Saito Asanobu took the initiative to rush as a bait to cruise in the direction of Shimana Castle, trying to attract the attack of the Hojo army, but the Hojo family was unmoved and slowly moved in the direction of Hirai Castle.

Hojo Shiyasu had already understood that the battle on this occasion was unsustainable, the enemy's main force returned to help, the people of Higashiueno Province surrendered, and all the hard work arrangements were destroyed in one day, and if the battle continued, the people of Higashiueno would join. Let the difference in strength between the two sides be reversed. His initiative to retreat is also a signal. The Nagao Army on the opposite side also tacitly gave up the pursuit, and followed the Hojo Army behind to see him leave the range of Shimana Castle.

Back at Stablebridge City, Nagao Jinghu said angrily: "If it weren't for the long journey of the family, the samurai would be physically unsustainable, and they would definitely be able to clean up the Hojo family!" ”

"The lord did almost perfect this time, if it weren't for the subordinates with hundreds of veterans to guard the stable bridge city, he would definitely follow the lord to fight the Hojo family!" The veteran Katsunaga Shibe was very dissatisfied with Saito Asanobu staying to defend the castle, and he knew that he was very old. But people are not old in heart, so how can they be taken care of by young people.

What made him even more angry was that the bastard guy in Honjo Fan triumphantly led the army out of battle, if it weren't for the face of being his own clan and having many years of affection, he would definitely repair that little bastard.

"The Hojo family is so cunning, I didn't come over for a long time with the army, it would be good if I came, and if I showed my flaws, I might be able to get a big result." Having just come down from the arrow oar next to the Otemon Gate, Saito Asanobu was very satisfied with this victory and walked over humming a little song.

More than 3,000 people begged for death, and they didn't even have time to collect the corpses. There are hundreds of sets of good things to say from the loot that have been picked up, and it is no problem to take them out and reward the samurai. The tattered weapons and armor were also purchased by the Biwa House at a suitable price, and it was good to think of it as a reward for the ashigaru.

The Nagao family comprehensively studied the Kira family from the system to the culture, and the rewards were given before the war, and the spoils were divided after the war, and some gold and silver utensils carried by the samurai and ashigaru, valuable handicrafts and some high-end goods were tacitly allowed to share by themselves, and whoever killed them was eligible to pick up good things, and if they didn't remember who killed them, they would divide them together with a reserve team, and when they encountered good things, they bid to buy them or use their share of the loot to offset them.

As for the post-war rewards, there is no shortage of food and copper money, and the land knowledge depends on the situation, and now the demand for land knowledge in the Nagao family is not too high, and the newly opened land has their profit sharing to some extent, even if the new land does not reap the benefits, it can also free up a lot of wasted land from the new village.

For example, the Katsunaga family of Sebe used to have a total of 7,700 koku, of which his own zhixing was 3,850 koku, which is only 770 steps and 385 steps, and after the preliminary plan of withdrawing and merging the new village, the area of cultivated land saved was just over 10%, which means that the total knowledge and action of the Sebe family exceeded 800 steps, and the direct leadership of the Sebe family exceeded 423 steps.

Not to mention the knowledge and deeds of his retainers, if we count only the current one-quarter of his 423 towns, which are planted with new grain, and the other three-quarters are planted with rice, the fertile land of Xiayue and the annual harvest of this year can be sour, and the rice produced this year is about 6,400 koku, and the output of new grain will exceed 8,500 koku.

As a lord, he only needs to pay 200 stone of rice and 500 stone of new grain as a tax, and this year's income can still exceed 14,000 stone, which is more than quadrupled in previous years, and the surplus is only two or three hundred stone of surplus grain accumulated every year in the past, but the grain saved this year is dozens of times more than in previous years.

There is also the construction of Niigata Town, the excavation of the river and the construction and promotion of the Kira family to provide money and grain, and the sons who stayed in their hometown are basically not idle all year round, and after they are busy in the fields, they go to Niigata Town to bear the responsibility of the general requisition organization, and the construction of the river to prevent the digging of the Nikawa and the transformation of the polders is endless, in the words of Hosokawa Fujitaka, this is called "abnormal construction", that is, special treatment in special circumstances, and with the end of this series of projects, the work of frequent employment of general invitations will gradually disappear.

"Just retreat! The old minister thought that he could make peace with the Hojo family! As long as Hojo's Concan concedes and withdraws from Ueno, the battle can be over. Nakajo Fujizi was in charge of the military rations and the small packalo, followed Nagao Jinghu in the east of the wild dashing, back to the stable bridge city and played a good soy sauce, Le's mouth was almost closed.

"It depends on the situation! Don't rush to make a statement yet! Nagao Jinghu explained a few words about paying attention to the defense and treatment of the wounded, and got up and left with a heavy heart, leaving the samurai of the Nagao family looking at each other for some reason.

The long-tailed Jinghu rode out on a horse, and the horses led by the long-tailed Jinglian could only follow closely behind him, it was too dangerous to run around shortly after the end of the war, but seeing that the lord was in a bad mood, the horse-bound warriors could only follow behind and march slowly.

The complex form of Ueno Province was far beyond his imagination, and the intrigue between the people of Nishi-Ueno and Higashi-Ueno was full of contradictions even within the people of Higashi-Ueno Province, and some of them respected the orders of the Furukawa Princess. After storming the castle, he found a private message from the Hojo family in Nakami. There are many more such families.

They are good at saying one thing and doing another. The summoning of Nagao Jinghu made Yang Fengyin disobey, and turned a deaf ear to the heavenly cup and imperial sword given by the emperor that Nagao Jinghu took out, making him deeply aware that the attributes of the samurai family could not be solved by the imperial court's side of the "Konji Hinamaru".

There are more indications and evidence that Uesugi Kenmasa was abandoned by the people of Ueno Kuni, and even the entire Uesugi retainers, and that the Nagao Kenkei of the Shirai Nagao family and the Nagao Kenkei of the Nagao family of the Aki Shrine have maintained an embarrassing silence since Nagao Keitora came to Ueno.

They were personally involved in that rebellion, and the heirs of the Nagao family were replaced by the sons of the Takatsu Nagao family, and the castle was long since taken away. The two families expressed a rare silence about the war in Ueno, neither actively approaching nor any opposition, and treated the Nagao family with an attitude of playing soy sauce and watching the play, and this strangeness and estrangement made him very disappointed.

"Decades ago, my father had two families to form an alliance with the Hojo clan, and now the family has come out of the upper field to fight against the Hojo clan, but the two families are unwilling to cooperate for me, is this fate?" The long-tailed Jinghu roared angrily, and the like-minded release moon hair also snorted.

The fields on both sides of the Tone River were filled with golden waves swaying in the wind, and the war did not affect the joy of the peasants. After several years of famine and war, Ueno Province once again ushered in a long-lost harvest. Several children help their parents pick up the lost ears of rice, and their childish faces are filled with hope and happiness.

As if attracted by this beautiful scenery, the long-tailed Jinghu gradually slowed down, stood by the river and showed a faint smile, sighed for a long time as if to untie a knot, and muttered to himself: "I thought that even if I didn't rely on righteousness, I could easily open the situation, but now it seems that I am still too naïve......"

Standing in front of the farmland for a long time before he came back to his senses, he thought of the consolation of Kira Yoshishi, as well as the changes in Echigo in the past few years, his mood suddenly felt much more comfortable, and turned around to see Nagao Jingzhi worriedly in the distance, scattered around more than two hundred horseback riders faithfully guarding him, with a few smiles on his face: "Thank you for your hard work, this family will go back...... Go back and have a celebration feast! ”

"Yes! Celebration! Wow! The warriors waved their arms excitedly, celebrating the end of the war, and the tired warriors cheered all the way back with the long-tailed Jinghu in their arms.

The young samurai were full of vigor, many of them were fighting for the first time, and Echigo was in the transition period of the old and the new, and the veterans gradually took a back seat, allowing more young samurai to take the lead, and they inherited the martial style of Echigo, the only thing lacking was the experience and means of the veterans.

However, they also have a huge advantage, young people have greater potential, more momentum and more simplicity, no veterans are old-fashioned, no accidents are slick and there is no yang and yin disobedience, this is one of the beautiful blueprints that the new Echigo samurai is also planned for him by Kira Yoshitoki.

"Who would have thought that the joke of a few years ago could come true, once upon a time the Echigo samurai were also so insensitive, lack of faith, and now Echigo is becoming more and more rich and powerful, and the samurai are becoming more and more united, this is the result of changing with our hands, Echigo can do it, and Kanto will definitely be able to do it! Revive the majesty of my samurai, I can! Long-tailed Jinghu said extremely firmly.

After the end of the war, it took several days to calm people's minds, and the diplomatic envoys of the two sides frequently traveled to exchange information, and the three envoys quickly reached a basic intention of peace without a fight, but reached a stalemate on the question of how to cease the war, and the Hojo family proposed to demarcate their respective spheres of influence based on the current line of control, and then reached a rapprochement.

This request was refuted by the Nagao and Nagano families, and the idea of the Nagao family was very simple, we were to regain the lost territory for the Kanto Governor Uesugi Kensei, and Hirai Castle couldn't take what it was called to recover, and in the end, a lot of people died in the joint battle, and it was not a loss to achieve the strategic goal.

The reason for the Nagano family's refusal is more complicated, there is the idea of not allowing others to snore under the couch, and more importantly, the peace of mind of the people of Nishiueno Province, not all people of Nishiueno Country have joined the Minowa people, such as those who defected to the Hojo family, and some soy sauce players are also inextricably linked to the relevant samurai, if the Hojo family is allowed to draw territory with the actual control line, these small wealthy families will soon be pulled away, and then the Minowa people will be in trouble.

Seeing that his minimum goal was rejected by the two families without hesitation, the attitude of the Hojo family also became very tough, since you don't want to, then let's confront each other, see who can consume whom, anyway, my Musashi country is behind it, whether it is supply or military maintenance, there is no problem, the nest of the Nagao family is in Echigo, and in another month, the weather will get cold and then it will snow, and the passage of the Mikuni Pass will be blocked, and the return road will be cut off from food and grass, and the people of Ueno will definitely have to be eaten.

The peace talks collapsed, and the envoys of the two sides broke up unhappily, and the Hojo family calmed down and wanted to confront each other for a long time, and even planned to replace the 10,000 troops before the winter came, and then use the young samurai rotated in the rear to take the opportunity to exercise.

Their good mood did not last longer, and after a few days of confrontation, the situation changed again, and a piece of news from the outside broke the original balance, and the Kira army won a complete victory in the punishment operation of Nakashinano, plundering food and population, severely damaging several main forces of the Takeda family, and taking the opportunity to publicize the legitimate dominance of the Kira family in Shinano, which greatly shook the support of the Shinano people for the Takeda family. (To be continued......)