At first glance, this news seemed to be nothing of a big deal, but the next change was very different, and the Kira Army that returned to Echigo reorganized its army a little and let out a mouthful of words, saying that it was about to go out to Ueno Parliament to join the Nagao Army, and the goal was directly aimed at the Hojo Army that invaded Ueno.

This not only made the Hojo clan Kang sleep, but also made the Hojo family retainers very annoyed, now the Hojo family has little choice, and they can't retreat if they want to advance, remembering that a few days ago, the greedy samurai joined forces to put pressure on the Hojo clan, and finally destroyed the foundation of the peace talks with their own hands, these samurai were angry and hateful and couldn't help but scold and vent their anger.

"Why is it undefeated early and undefeated late, and it happens to be defeated at this stall? The news came sooner that I would have signed a peace agreement and returned to Odawara Castle, but if it was later, the Nagano family might not be able to hold on...... There's no problem with that, right? Yamakaku's question caused some of the samurai to ponder.

"Is it collusion? Not quite like that! It's hard to fake such a big movement in Ashinong, and there shouldn't be anything wrong with those losses being counted by the Wind Demon Ninja, and it wouldn't be wrong if the Takeda family was angry about this fiasco. "Tamu Zhou Defense Yuanxing is one of the six families of the Imperial Household set in the Hojo Sakumo era, and his father Tamu Mototada and the Hojo clan are also teachers and friends, and he himself has become the general of the five-color Biri Kurobei, and belongs to the Qinggui samurai family in the Hojo family.

"It's bad news anyway." Kasahara Misaku Shoutsunobu said with a sad face: "If the Kira family really goes south to Ueno, I'm afraid it will be really difficult to achieve harmony!" ”

The Hojo clan, who is in his early twenties, inherited the talent of his father, Jihuang Hachiman, and was born with divine power to champion the three armies, and because of his background, he hated the Takeda family very much. So he saw the stitches and said, "Maybe it's the Kira family's bluff." What is there to be afraid of! The Takeda family is a group of cowards. My Hojo samurai are not like them! ”

"Zenkuro, sit down for me! What kind of system is shouted at the evaluation meeting! Hojo Tsunari glared angrily at his son, and in front of his father, Hojo immediately withered.

"Yes!"

Hojo clan Yasu is not annoyed, but he can't blame the fault of the Takeda family, as one of the conspirators, the Hojo family also dropped the chain at a key link, the highest goal of this battle is to eat the entire territory of Ueno, and the second level is to annex half of the country. At worst, they have to defeat the Minowa led by the Nagano family, but now they have not achieved anything, and they will face the embarrassing situation of not being able to advance or retreat, which can really be described as a failure in failure.

"I shouldn't have believed the Takeda family earlier, Takeda Harunobu said too much, he would definitely be able to defeat the Kira family, he would definitely be able to disrupt Echigo, and he would definitely go out to fight in Kitashinano this autumn, but he didn't do any of it! It's bad enough! "I can't vent the anger I suppressed in my heart, and I can't tell the retainers that I can't make a plan with the Takeda family. Instead, pit yourself into it! So he could only scold Takeda Harunobu in his heart.

Since last year, Takeda Harunobu sent an envoy to discuss the plan to join forces to annex Echigo, and this plan has been quietly brewing for a long time. The plan is very huge, and it is divided into one, two, or three steps, and if the assassination fails, there is still a pinch, and if it fails, there is also the certainty of disrupting Echigo, and if the chaos is not successful, there is also the dispatch of troops to North Shinano, listening to the explanation of the envoy of the Takeda family, this is called a serial plan, and from the results, this serial plan is a failure from beginning to end.

One of the three major military divisions of the Hojo family, the young commander of the Yamato military department who is over forty years old, glanced at the Hojo clan and said: "The Takeda family still has a harvest, Hida was taken down by them, and they got a piece of land for nothing, and they can also establish contact with Mino and Echichu, but I am afraid that the Takeda family has already made this plan." ”

This Yamato Haruno, is the shogunate to the public, the word "Haru" is the next word of the previous Imperial Ashikaga Yoshiharu, in the chaos of the outbreak of the relics temple in Kinai ten years ago, fled to Sagami to become a major minister of the Hojo family, Hojo clan Yasu also respected him.

"The Takeda family has made a good move, and Hida's layout is particularly exquisite, which can be used as the first move to contain Echigo, and can also be used as a rear hand to stabilize the camp and strive for greater development space." He was also one of the three major military divisions, and he was in his early thirties and had a good demeanor.

It can be seen from his Miao character that his background is a member of the Hojo family, and he serves as the head of the imperial family in the Hojo family, and his status in the Hojo family is similar to that of the Hojo Phantom Temple.

Seeing that the two older military advisors had spoken, the youngest of the three major military divisions, Yasuhiro Ogasawara, who was only twenty-six years old, also said without showing weakness: "Isn't this the Shangluo breakthrough that Takeda Daizen is striving for?" Hida is a chicken rib in the eyes of others, and it is a treasure in the eyes of the Takeda family. ”

Qingbei flag head Tominaga Naoki was born with a loud voice, and when he heard this posture, he was not satisfied, and shouted loudly: "In this way, I will wait for a hard fight, or will I be tricked by the Takeda family?" ”

The Hojo retainers fell into deep thought, they were deeply aware that if the current fragile balance was broken, the local advantage of the Hojo family in Ueno Province would be completely lost, and with the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Kira Legion and even more terrifying legends, how much impact would it have on the Hojo family to lead the army into Ueno.

The Takeda family's defeat after defeat has already shown the terrible point of the Kira army with facts, once the reinforcements arrive, it will give the Nagao and Nagano coalition forces a shot in the arm, maybe they will connect the Ueno people to cut off the countrymen who have defected to the Hojo side one by one, and even take advantage of the winter to kill along the Tone River to the hinterland of the Kanto region, and then use the method of fighting to nourish the Nakashinano in the crusade, the Hojo family really can't withstand this kind of blow.

"In any case, let's solve the problem at hand first!" Matsuda Morihide stopped the topic, and then bowed respectfully to Hojo Shiyasu, and said: "Now that the future is unclear and there is a fear of change for a long time, whether it is war or peace, please make a decision quickly!" ”

"Please make a decision quickly!" The Hojo retainers all bowed down as soon as they cheered.

Hojo's Yasutie paced back and forth with a blue face, and hesitated for a long time before making up his mind: "Peace talks, back down, my Hojo family is leaving Ueno Country!" At least for the time being! But the family will be back! ”

"Yes!" Many of the samurai of the Hojo family showed relieved expressions, which made Hojo Shiyasu feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Kotaro, remember to keep in touch with the surrendered countrymen. Promise them. The money and goods promised by my Hojo family will be sent over in a lot of money. Even if you fail, you can't treat these samurai who are loyal to my Hojo family, this family is not Takeda Harunobu, my Hojo family has always had a tradition of treating the samurai family well, so that they can serve the Nagao family and the Nagano family with peace of mind, and wait for the family to recuperate for a year, and then order the soldiers and horses to kill again! ”

Hojo Shiyasu slowly explained with a gloomy face, and several Yubi immediately copied the dictation of the lord of the country, and finally used the word "tiger" in Hojo Shiyasu. It will be distributed all over the Hojo people in Ueno.

Determine the basis of the peace talks, the following should be established The results of the peace talks are a little, the Hojo family still strongly stated that they want to protect their own interests, at least the Hirai Castle line can not be put back, but in the face of the Kira family's increasingly ferocious signal, with the support of the powerful Kira Navy, more than 1,000 horsemen Kira Akabei crossed Sakado Castle to the vicinity of the Yuzawa Imperial Palace to standby.

This is the southern gate of Echigo in and out of Echigo, just one step away from the Mikuni Pass, and you can drive straight into Numata Castle after crossing the mountain pass, and the Numata people led by Numata Hoyasu have already turned into hardcore long-tail factions. With their pick-up and continuing south, it is the first-line position of Stablebridge City, and if the whole march is smooth, it will only take one day to arrive.

In the face of a growing military threat. The confidence of the Hojo family is getting weaker and weaker, and what is worse is that the envoy of the Nagao family becomes the deputy, and the envoy from the Kira family, Nanoka Eibo, has full authority to negotiate with foreign affairs, this smart and resolute young minister with extremely high political wisdom soon discovered the weakness of the Hojo family, and used it to develop a set of negotiation strategies, which broke the confidence of the Hojo family a little, and soon the envoy gave up the useless struggle and accepted the harsh demands put forward by the Kira family one by one.

Five days later, diplomatic envoys from both sides gathered in the castle and signed a no-war pact in a warm atmosphere, which aimed to end the fierce conflict and return the Yamauchi and all occupied territories in Ueno to the Yamauchi and Ueno families.

Ten days later, Nagao Nakacho, the envoy of Uesugi Kenmasa, was stationed in Hirai Castle to do the nominal acceptance work, and all the Ueno people who had served the Hojo side were attached, and the Hakura Michisa, who was captured alive, and Kurakano was pardoned, but the death penalty could be spared from the living crime, and in order to prevent anyone from taking risks and committing the same rebellious act, Nagao Keitora made a certain punishment to the two in the name of Uesugi Kenmasa.

The punishment was not severe, but the Hakura Castle and Kurakano Castle were handed over to one of their clans and all the territories of the retainers, and then the two families were transferred to a large territory near Miyoshi Castle to guard the southern gate of Ueno Province.

The Shirakura family's new territory is a fertile land southwest of the Kamirugawa River, and the Kurakano family's new territory is on farmland near Lake Mase, and they are embarrassed that their own direct collar has been taken away by the Nagao family.

What's even more uncomfortable is that the lord of the castle is served by Nagano Kentada, and his skills in the castle are about 270 steps, and this time he transferred to the castle to the castle, and he simply gave him a fraction of about 170 steps near the outside of the city, becoming a medium-sized wealthy family with 450 steps.

But even so, Nagano Kentada is still a step behind the two families in terms of land knowledge, and his background is only one of the Nagano family, which is far worse than the two governors of the eight families in Shangzhou, so that such a middle-level samurai will be the lord of the city on their heads, and they will have to obey the orders of the city lord to bear the military service in the future, and thinking about it makes them feel that they have lost the motivation to live.

Of course, if you don't look at it that way, from another point of view, this transfer did not cause the loss of the territorial stone height to the two families, and it seems to be more profitable to improve the land stone height slightly, but this time it was excluded from the Ueno country near the Imperial Castle, and even worse is that there is no castle nearby except for the Imperial Castle, so they have to spend time and energy to build a Hirayama Castle.

The two families apparently did not have this idea, and soon faced the reality after the failure of the senseless resistance, and the two secretly cursed the viciousness of Nagao Keihu in their hearts, and decided to build a house in the center of the village to bring it down, and the Hojo family army would be the first to rebel when it was overwhelmed.

The Nagano family and the people of Ueno Country have no objection to this, Nagano Ye is gritting his teeth with hatred for these two guys, the Minowa people have been fighting bloodily for so long, it is very disappointing not to participate in the collaboration, and then dragging their feet to make a rebellion will definitely lose the face of the eight families in Shangzhou, and being sent to Miyoshi Castle to see the gate is already considered to be the magnanimity of Nagao Jinghu.

The timing of the peace was very coincidental, and it happened that at the end of the autumn harvest, the Hojo family had no choice but to return the grain harvested in the occupied area to the local lord. Before the start of the war, they began to arrange the harvest, but in the end, it saved a lot of labor for the people of Ueno. The bitterness and anger in my heart can be imagined.

The war was not without gains for the Longtail Legion. The castles of Stablebridge Castle and the castles of Shirakura and Kurakano fell into the hands of about 18,000 koku, and the former Kashiwazaki Port Governor Yamayoshi Masahisa came to serve as the castle representative of Stablebridge Castle, the former lord of Keikan Castle, Nagao Kanshiro Keikin, to serve as the lord of Shirakura Castle, and the former lord of Sanjo Castle, Nagao Kashiro Keiaki, to serve as the lord of Kuragano Castle.

It can be seen from the functions that this arrangement is one city for two city lords. Yamayoshi Masahisa took care of the land for the Nagao family as the deputy administrator of the castle, and at the same time increased the Yamayoshi family's land in Urahara County by 50 steps as a reward.

And the two long-tail families are transferred to the past, and the nature of serving as the new city lord is different, they lead their own sects and retainers to guard this place, and the two of them are transferred to Ueno to have the appropriate knowledge and deeds to increase the seal, and the territory they occupy barely reaches half, and the other half is to farm for the long-tail Jinghu.

"The town hall is really worthy of being a famous general in the world who is wise and brave, as long as he releases a rumor, the Hojo family will be scared and retreat, and the means of dividing the seal are even more unheard of! I'm afraid that Hojo Shiyasu will also hate itchy! Hahaha...... "Saito Asanobu is in a very good mood, and he spares no effort to advocate for Kira Yoshitoki.

"The town hall is very powerful. However, the joint battle was fought by ourselves, and Mamoru Shimono must not be presumptuous. Nakajo Fujishi said dissatisfied. Although he has been playing soy sauce when he is old, as an old man of the spectrum family, he should still say that he should be, who asked this time to let Honjo Minoru, Nagao Keishin and other genealogy elders serve as the guard, and he, a veteran, can only reluctantly stand up to assist the governor.

"Uh-huh!" Saito Asanobu didn't blink his eyelids, and continued to hum and chirp: "It's still the town hall ...... powerful."

"The family benefited a lot from Yoshitoki's strategy, so they decided to give all the direct collars that Ueno had obtained to Yoshitoki."

"Nani? Why should it be handed over to the town hall? This is what the lord and I and my sons have put together! Sebe Katsucho shouted eagerly: "Don't say stupid things, the lord still has people in the territory!" ”

The long-tailed retainers also coaxed: "That's it, the lord can't be like this!" You are the lord of our Echigo, and we are the only one who is looking forward! ”

Saito Asanobu snorted and didn't know what he was talking about, and turned his face away from them, as for Honjo Shiranaga, Kurokawa Kiyomi, and Hojo Takahiro, the three were the happiest, and there was no pressure at all to watch the excitement, and the influence of the Kira family didn't need them to worry about at all, just pose and watch the play.

"Don't be impatient, and listen to your family!" Nagao Jinghu said in a calm tone: "The family originally didn't want to take a penny of land from Ueno Province, but Yoshitoki's letter inspired the family, if Okushino hadn't had the support of the territory and the retainers stationed in the army to maintain it, it would have fallen into the pocket of the Takeda family a long time ago, but it would be unrighteous for the samurai to take other people's land for no reason!"

Therefore, punishing the two chief evils, exempting the remaining party from the past and appeasing the people of the country to guard the upper field, this is the best of both worlds! If there is no righteous reminder, the family will not think of this layer anyway, this is the credit of the righteous time, the family has already made the two from the land as the city lord, the territory of the crown city and the three cities is the harvest of the family, do you think that these two cities are not enough? ”

The Nagao retainers were silent, thinking about how much light they had received from the Kira family over the years, and how much benefit they had gained from it, and some people said that Nitta had lost money, and the Kira family was calculating their Echigo countrymen, but they didn't want to think about how much it cost to open Nitta and how much it cost to help them grow new grain.

How much money was invested in the construction of Niigata Town, how much money was invested in repairing polders and digging rivers, and so far the Kira family has invested no income from a single child, and I don't know when and what month it can be done, can this be called calculating the people of Echigo? In other words, do the people of Echigo have the ability to build such a large project? Maybe it won't be possible in two or three hundred years.

And now what the Kira family is doing, they, the Echigo, up to the countrymen and lords, down to the farmers, and the townspeople are all benefiting, and a large number of labor shortages make the useless ordinary old farmers do not have to worry about not being able to eat, as long as they are willing to work, they will never starve to death, and now Echigo can not see a beggar, and the beggars who are too lazy to work are either educated and reformed, or expelled from Echigo.

The lords of the country gave up the disputes of the past and obeyed the re-planning of the followers, and discussed the control of water sources, the drawing of water, and the construction of canals, and drew up detailed rules for the gradual implementation of the rules, and the people of the land who were unscrupulous and unscrupulous were despised by all the people, which greatly reduced the probability of disputes and armed fights, and from the fields to the prosperous town of Naoetsu, the social atmosphere changed, the level of law and order was greatly improved, and the life was stable and the land was rich, and no one can say how much of these tangible and intangible benefits there were.

"So please understand the wishes of your family, and you don't need to persuade again!" After a slight pause, Long-tailed Jinghu said: "The war is over, let's leave home!" ”

The timing of the departure of the Nagao family was very ingenious, or the timing of the end of this war was very ingenious, from the time of the peace to the completion of all the transfer of the seal to the end of September, the Long Tail Army, which had left earlier, was not disturbed by the wind and snow and returned to Echigo smoothly, and at the end of September, the first heavy snow fell into Uonuma County.

Over the next few days, the road was gradually blocked by heavy snowfall, and in the next few months heavy snowfall would sweep through the many mountains of the road, reaching more than a meter at its deepest, a situation that would not change until the following spring, when no one could cross the moat. (To be continued......)