At the end of September of the first year of Eiroku, just as Takashi Mori was running around the Enoe countryside to prepare for the Battle of Tsubakusama, the flames of war ignited by the Third Battle of Kawanakajima and had rapidly spread to Uenohara outside Zenko-ji Temple.

The two sides of Ko-Vietnam each led nearly 10,000 troops, and around the Nagano Wakagui Basin, they once again launched a protracted battle for dozens of castles in the four northern counties of Shinano.

The Takeda family brazenly tore up the peace treaty, and originally wanted to take advantage of the civil strife of the Nagao clan to send troops to conquer Hokushin again, but with the return of Echigo daimyo Nagao Keitora, the intervention of reinforcements led by himself eventually evolved into a long-term stalemate confrontation.

The two sides scattered their reserves and constantly attacked each other's fortified castles, especially the Uenohara area led by Zenko-ji Temple, which was the focus of contention.

Katsuyama Castle is the hidden place of Zenko-ji Temple, the key mountain castle on the Echigo passage, Takeda Shingen and the abbot of Shizushoji Temple, Bodhi Temple of Katsuyama Zhong, for many years, under the mediation of Takeda Shingen, the abbot of Shizushoji Temple instigated the Takeda clan to defect to the Takeda family.

In February of the third year of Hongji, Shingen took advantage of the heavy snow in Echigo, took advantage of the difficulty of Nagao Keitora to send troops, and at a lightning speed, sent troops from Kita-Shinano, and with the assistance of Neiying, captured Katsuyama Castle, and the enemy troops below the castle lord were killed by the Takeda army.

After the attack on Katsuyama Castle, after Takeda Shingen took control of the Zenkoji area, the Takeda army then pulled out his division and stormed, and the Naganuma Castle and Okura Castle guarded by the Okura Shimazu clan of the Nagao clan.

Speaking of this, I have to mention that the Shinano Okura Shimazu clan, the Shimazu clan came from the Qin courtier Weizong clan, a samurai family that began to develop in the Kamakura period, and served as the Shimazuso Zhuang official of the Fujiwara Seki family's pen head Konoe family, officially changed the surname from the Weizong clan to Shimazu, and it is rumored that the Tango Bureau that gave birth to Shimazu for a long time is the side room of Minamoto Yorito, and Tadahisa is the illegitimate son of Minamoto Yorito, and the Shimazu family neither admits nor denies this rumor, and always maintains a silent attitude.

However, the first governor of Shimazu was a long time ago, and he was indeed deeply trusted by Minamoto Yoritomo, the general of the Kamakura shogunate, and successively served as the guardian of the three kingdoms of Satsuma Province, Osumi Province and Hyuga Province in southern Kyushu, and the guardian of Echizen Province in Hara, and there are many families that have been handed down.

The Kamikawa clan of Hirayama Township in Enoe Province is also a branch of the Shimazu family, but it is a tributary of Suruga Shimazu.

The Okura Shimazu clan was first vassal of Yoshikiyo Murakami, who guarded Ogasawara for a long time, and then subordinated to Yoshikiyo Murakami, the head of the four great generals of Shinano, and has always been firmly opposed to Takeda Shingen's Shinano expedition, and in the 22nd year of Astronomy, he followed the lord Murakami Yoshikiyoshi into exile and went to Nagao Keitora together.

In the first two battles of Kawanakajima, Shimazu Kihisa and Shihisa father and son were both 'returning lords' and led the tour as guest generals.

After the Battle of Inokawa, under the mediation of Imagawa Yoshimoto, the Ko-Vietnam side took Kawanaka Island as the boundary, and the Takeda family returned part of the Hokushin territory. Beixin Zhuhao was able to return to his old territory one after another, but he didn't expect that in just two years, he saw the Takeda army under the banner of Takeda Si Ling and Sun Zi Siru again.

The person in charge of the siege of Ya Barrel Castle was none other than Koyamada Echizen Nobu Shigeru, one of the twenty-four generals of Takeda in the future, and he attacked Ya Barrel Castle. For several days in a row, he led the samurai out of the camp to climb the heights, watching the defense inside the city and the movement of the camp outside the city, seeking a way to break the city.

Three days later, Sanada Danmasa, Yutaka led his troops to help, and Yamamoto Michisai Haruyuki also came with the army.

Yamamoto Haruyuki is nearly sixty years old, this time he was infected with a cold, Ben in the lower hot spring of Kai Jumo County to recuperate, just improved, he was hurriedly summoned by Takeda Shingen from Kai Shinano, and then as a mu fu Fang non-stop rush to the small Yamada army, the complexion is very bad, so that everyone present noticed that this one-eyed lame Taoist ghost Zhai, the black face that has not changed for ten thousand years is a little white.

Everyone saluted each other, and because Yamamoto Haruyuki came to supervise the army as a mefukata, Oyamada Nobushige was very respectful, invited him to sit as a nephew, and asked him about the plan to break the city.

Hearing Koyamada Nobushige's inquiry, Yamamoto Haruki sat on the couch with his legs bent, looked sideways at the young governor of the Koyamada family, who had just succeeded him, and said with a smile: "Echizen Shou has a good chest, why bother to ask me again A blind and lame old man, the Takeda family will prosper in the future, after all, it still depends on a young man like you, this time I only brought this one eye and two ears, if you want to break the enemy, just let it go." ”

Yamamoto Haruyuki is a native of the West Mikawa country, with a strong accent and a somewhat obscure speech, but the generals here do not discriminate against him because of the background of the wealthy families of the two countries, but are extremely respectful, all because they are impressed by the talent of this Taoist ghost military division.

When he was young, Yamamoto Haruyuki traveled around the world, practicing the art of fortification, formation, and war, covering the Chugoku region, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Kanto, and then learned the "Shindangliu" sword technique in Kashima, but due to his blindness in one eye and his poor ability to walk, his path to eunuch was always bent.

In the fifth year of astronomy, the thirty-seven-year-old Yamamoto Kansuke wanted to go out of Imagawa Yoshimoto, and went to Suruga and took refuge with the ronin to pursue Anhara Tadashi, and expressed his official wishes to the Sunfu through the heavy minister Asahina Motocho, but Imagawa Yoshimoto thought that he was dark and ugly, one-eyed and lame, and abandoned it. In the twelfth year of astronomy, the crippled ronin who had not been in place for many years, using his own junior brother Aoki Daizen, the obsession of avenging the old friend Subo family, instigated the other party to attack the Takeda family's important minister Itagaki Nobukata, and he led people to rescue him halfway, and was recommended by Itagaki Nobukata afterwards, so that he was able to go out of the Takeda family, and pointed out the form of the world for Takeda Shingen, and the strategy Shinano was critical to the rise and fall of the Takeda family, and was cited by Takeda Shingen as a confidant, worshiped as a military advisor, and was given the name Haruki.

During the conquest of Shinano, Takeda Shingen often asked about military and political strategies, and Yamamoto Haruki answered fluently and repeatedly offered advice. In the 16th year of Astronomy, when Uedahara was defeated, many generals such as Itagaki Nobukata and Ganli Hutai were killed in battle, and Oyamada Nobuya was seriously injured, it was also Yamamoto Haruyuki who offered advice, and personally led the 50 cavalry to make a detour to assault the main formation of the Murakami army, disrupting the command of Murakami Yoshikiyo, Takeda Shingen cooperated with the counterattack in a timely manner, so he was able to recover the decline.

Xin Xuan called him back this time, just because he wanted to rely on the wisdom of this Dao Ghost Military Division, to see if there was any way to force the Long Tail Army to retreat, so that he could retreat safely and return to Jia Fei.

The time of the battle on Kawanaka Island far exceeded the expectations of the people of both sides of the Kawanka Island, and in two years, two successive large-scale battles were made, so that in order to avoid mutiny during the confrontation, the two daimyo had to take turns to return to their hometowns to work as farmers.

Yamamoto Haruki has no strategy for this, and the joint battle has been fought to this extent, which is already purely a competition for financial, material, and human resources.

In terms of financial strength, both Takeda and Nagao control a number of gold mountains, material reserves and population, Kai and Echigo, are on par with each other, both are vast and sparsely populated.

However, Echigo has a port to operate foreign trade, which can earn a lot of military funds and support Nagao Jinghu to go into battle, on the other hand, Kai's domestic floods have been in trouble for many years, and even the most important salt needs to be purchased from the Imagawa family.

So far, I can only ask for help from the other two members of the 'A Xiangjun Alliance'.

Takeda Shingen also knew that this was true, and he was reluctant to ask for help before, but he was afraid that the two allies would refuse, especially Imagawa Yoshimoto, who had just mediated a dispute between Hokushin for himself, and as soon as he turned around, he broke the peace treaty again, and it was difficult to say whether the elegant and handsome righteous brother was willing to help.

Now, on the one hand, he can only ask the Hojo family to go out to Kanto to see if he can transfer Nagao Jinghu to rescue him, and on the other hand, he asks for material assistance from the Imagawa family, and once again asks Imagawa Yoshimoto to mediate the dispute.

Haruki Yamamoto was sent to Yatong Castle to supervise the army, also because he had rescued the governor of the Koyamada family in the Battle of Uedahara, and wanted to use this kindness to calm the morale of the people led by the Koyamada family and urge them to fight hard.

Conquer the Beixin coalition army as soon as possible to relieve the pressure on Kawanaka Island for yourself.

Sanada Yutaka also encouraged: "How can this group of lost dogs of Kita-Shinano resist the brave warriors of my Kai, and the two of us have all obeyed the military order from Echizen!" ”

Nobushige Koyamada is now only a young man in his early twenties, and he has been praised by the two important ministers in his family, and his heart is full of ambition, and he still said humbly on his face: "The Shimazu clan is insignificant, only the soldiers of the Nagao family are brave and brave, and it is difficult to break through. ”

The Dao Ghost Military Division and the 'Attack Bomb Positive', the two battle-hardened generals looked at each other and smiled, and they were all allowed.

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Sanada Yukitaka arrived, the two armies combined, and Oyamada Nobushige was more confident in defeating the enemy.

Through the consumption of the long-term cage battle, he has already found that the city is short of grain and grass, the Shimazu army in the city and the Changwei army outside the city due to the distribution of grain and grass, many contradictions, these two days to see the defense inside and outside the city, reinforcements have arrived, can start the siege.

The Sanada army, which had come from afar, was given a day's rest, and in the early morning of the next day, with the headquarters as the main reserve, the Shinano pioneers as the first servants, and the Sanada army as the flank, dispatched 2,000 soldiers and horses to attack.

If you want to break the city, you must first pull out the long-tail soldiers outside the city, otherwise you will be attacked by the enemy. The main commander of the Nagao Army's outside the castle is Honda Youjin Yun, and the threat will be Shimazaki Hachiro Keishun, and in the face of the attack of the Takeda Army, the two led their troops out of the camp and fought on their backs.

Shimazu was on the head of the Ya Barrel Castle for a long time, and the generals of Oda Kirisaburo arrived to watch the battle. In order to prevent the defenders in the castle from echoing, the former Murakami clan retainer who threw himself into the Takeda family, Shinano Kunito Yadai Masakuni led 300 men to guard the castle and waited for it.

The Longtail Army knew that they had few soldiers, and they set up earthen fortifications around the camp. The roads are heavily fenced, and the roads are surrounded by hastily harvested rice paddies or empty wasteland, which farmers use for grazing.

The few low-lying areas suitable for the deployment of large armies were also soaked with stagnant water and muddy because of the heavy rains in September.

After receiving the order to prepare for war, the long tail army Ashigaru, under the leadership of their respective group leaders, took out the dry rice balls in the waist ration bag, received warm salt water in advance, hurriedly ate it, and then entered the pre-set defense base in an orderly manner to stand by, which is the fastest way to eat in wartime, convenient and simple, and can ensure that Ashigaru can be put into sudden combat at any time.

In the face of this kind of fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, there is no way to take a trick, and Nobushige Koyamada personally led his team to launch a back attack.

As Koyamada Nobushige said, Honda Right Jinyun and Shimazaki Hachiro were really brave and good at fighting, and in the face of the attack of 2,000 troops, the two of them were not afraid at all. Shimazaki Hachiro led the elite cavalry fifty outside to respond, thinking that it was a strange soldier, whenever the Takeda army was unprepared, he would take the lead in the conflict, and the rear cavalry followed, quickly rushed to kill, and did not fight with the enemy, and retreated with one blow.

From the morning battle to dusk, the Takeda army did not take any advantage, and the long-tail army did not dare to pursue because of its outnumbered soldiers, so they collected their troops and returned to their camps. The next day, the battle was still inseparable, and the Takeda Army not only failed to break the camp, but was broken twice by Shimazaki Keishinobu and won several Ashigaru generals.

On this day, the war was called up, and the generals gathered in the big tent to discuss the war.

Yadai Masakuni frowned and said: "The thieves are full of spirit, Honda and Shimazaki are both brave generals, our army is in a hurry and difficult to break, it is better to slowly draw it." ”

After days of fighting, Shinano Shinkata was always driven to be the vanguard, and suffered a lot of losses, and the second day was broken by Shimazaki Keishin, which was the reserve led by him, at this time, he couldn't help but speak, and proposed to continue to besiege the city, and when the enemy's food and grass were exhausted, he would naturally be able to pocket the castle without blood.

This demoralizing proposal immediately annoyed one of the people in the account, who raised his eyebrows and shouted: "The soldiers are fast, why do you come from Xu Tu's words?" The three cities of Yake, Okura, and Naganuma are all important places, and the gateway to Zenko-ji Temple is also! The family from the sharp pawn thousands, two hundred, the frustration of the soldiers has been laughed at by the Koshin Hao, the lord and the long tail Echigo guard confronted the island of Kawanakajima, divided the troops and ordered us to wait for the formation, the conquest is not satisfied, what kind of credit is this, since ancient times, I only heard of martyrdom for the Lord and forgot to die, especially disgusted with the samurai who are difficult to repay the grace of the king, I have never heard of a courtier who sits on the wall and seeks his own life! ”

Everyone looks at it, it is the Fujitang Tiger High. Fujido Toraka and Yamamoto Haruki are both foreign samurai who have been given the name of Takeda Shingen, but he has only been in the Takeda family for a few years, although he has been in battle many times, but he has not made any convincing contributions, and has been ostracized by his colleagues.

This time, he was also sent away at will, and followed Sanada Yutaka to support the Koyamada army, and he was already indignant in his heart, and when he heard Yashiro Masakoku's words of retreat, he was immediately furious.

It's just that instead of being recognized by the generals in the tent, his words were scoffed at, thinking that this Omi wanted to use the blood of the children of Koshin to fulfill his reputation for loyalty and bravery, and for a while there were loud boos in the tent.

There was a malicious deliberate ridicule: "If the main family is like Fujido-sama, the samurai of 'loyal ministers do not care about the two masters', probably even Echigo's Kasuga Mountain Castle has already been defeated!" ”

After saying this, there was a burst of laughter in the tent, who didn't know that he was a Fujido Tiger Gao, and he was exiled from the main family in Omi, and he ended up in Kai, this kind of person is also worthy of making a lot of nonsense here, talking about loyalty and righteousness, which is really ridiculous.

Note: At the beginning of the first year of the third Kawanakajima Eiroku, it should have ended, and the plot needs to be moved back a year.

The scope and duration of the third confrontation should be the longest, with Zenko-ji Temple and Kawanakajima as the center, and two battles in Uenohara, the first time is unknown, and the second confrontation is more than 200 days in one go.