A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

The Hojo clan directly served as the general, Oishi clan Teru served as the military commander, Daidoji Masashige served as the military director, and Matsuda Kenhide served as the military commander. Thirty-four thousand people, the most elite army of the Hojo clan, gathered in Habitat Castle.

After converging the army at Matsuyama Castle, Hojo Uji Nao only sent a detachment of 2,000 men to threaten Ninja Castle. Narita Nagatada, the lord of Ninja Castle, was raised up by Uesugi Kenshin. He will definitely resist the Hojo clan to the death to keep his ten thousand gu territory.

After all, if the Hojo clan wins, then his eldest brother, the Narita clan leader, will come back with a returning group to counterattack. Who is willing to let go of the territory and power that has been obtained?

Oishi Teru is a wise general, he will not do thankless things. After a little weighing, I was ready to let Ninja Castle go and go to Nokura Gano instead. As long as Nagano Yamori can be defeated, he can enter Echigo, echoing Shimotsu's Honjo Nogenaga and Chugotsu's Odagiri Sonshichiro. With the combined efforts of the three parties, Kasugayama is in sight!

What Ninja City will be then? Those are all minor issues, there is no need to mention them!

The only target is Nagano Yamori, who has 15,000 troops and cavalry!

Going north from Hatagata Castle, you are facing the Kuragano area of ​​Ueno country. Where is the center of Kuragano area? Of course it’s in Hirai Castle!

The original Kanto governor, Kensei Uesugi, resided in the city, but now Uesugi's general Kanazaki Keimichi serves as the city's deputy, and the nominal lord of the city is still Kensei Uesugi. Moreover, behind Hirai Castle are the Kuragano Kanai clan and the Kunamine Kohata clan (Nagano Yamasa supported another Kohata from the common family). These two powerful nationals can support Hirai at any time.

In the past, when Matsuyama Castle was still the territory of the Uesugi clan, Hirai belonged to the rear, but now Musashi only has Ninja Castle on the Uesugi side, so Hirai has become the front line.

As the Uesugi clan's first caretaker for the elderly in Ueno, Amanza Kagemochi cannot be involved in danger. At this moment, he has evacuated to Amabashi Castle and joined Hojo Takahiro. Together we will defend the Higashi-Ueno area and resist the Hojo clan.

Ueno Uesugi led 10,000 cavalry, of which 2,000 were stationed at Hirai, guarded by Fukasawa Toshige. There is only one request: to wait for help until the army gathers to rescue him.

Under this situation, Nagano Yamori had 15,000 cavalry, Hojo Takahiro and Amanza Kagemochi had 8,000 cavalry, and Hosokawa Minae had 10,000 cavalry. A total of 33,000 cavalry arrived at Amabashi Castle.

The general is naturally Uesugi Kenshin's son-in-law, and Nagano Yamori, who has the largest military force.

But it is a pity that the three lieutenants are all senior than him. Not only are they senior, but their military strength is not bad either. Especially Hojo Takahiro, who was the "veteran" who competed with Uesugi Kenshin for Echigo's dominance. If it weren't for Nagano Yamori's distinguished status, the three of them would never be willing to be his second-in-command.

But Nagano Yashimai has also grown up, because his ten brothers-in-law (Obata Nobuzada ran away, Narita Nagatada is in Ninja Castle) have been listening to him recently. Everyone knows that Uesugi Kenshin has no son, and Nagano Yamori is a serious son-in-law. If one day he becomes a son-in-law and an adopted son, then everyone will suddenly become the brother-in-law of the Kanto leader.

Do you think they will take good care of their brother-in-law Nagano Yamori?

So now the shogunate's tent is naturally divided into three factions. Nagano Yamori sat on the main seat, and his old master Uizumi Hidetsuna stood aside. Hosokawa Saime and the Yamauchi generals were sitting on the left, while Amanza Keagemochi and Hojo Takahiro were sitting on the right. Sitting down on the pony and not on the long table were Ueno's sons-in-law and the middle-level samurai from the three armies.

"Hojo Sagami is in a hurry to defend and defeat Hirai, what can you teach me?" Nagano Yamori worked hard to imitate his two fathers.

"From a rational point of view, all you need to do is hold on. The Hojo clan's invasion of the country will not last long. It's just..." Amanza Kagemochi has always been prudent and prudent, otherwise he would not have been entrusted with the important task of guarding Ueno.

"Is it just that the military rations are unsustainable?" Hosokawa Minami only talks about fighting, she is proficient in everything, and she understands everything without revealing anything.

"Ten thousand troops can last for a month!"

"January?" Hojo Takahiro was too lazy to speak at first, but when he heard that there was only one month of food, he had to speak.

"How much military rations does Your Highness Minawa have?" Hosokawa Minami saw that the Uesugi family had no hope and turned to look at Nagano Yamori.

"Fifty thousand people can support us for a month." The sword master next to him answered on his behalf.

"This... our army only brought 20 days' worth of rations here, and if we had to march on the road, it would only take more than 10 days." Hosokawa Minae had a big headache.

Okay! The three groups are all poor and have no food left. Either they are planning to eat friendly troops, or they are hiding them and refusing to take them out.

"Then what are we talking about? Go straight to Hirai, defeat Hojo Sagami, and eat his food!"

Hojo Takahiro was too lazy to think of a solution, and did not want to argue with the generals in the camp. He directly suggested that since the two sides were equally matched, it would be better to fight head-on. As long as they won, everything would be easy.

"The morale of the people in Hojo is high, and the army is coming in full force. The outcome is unpredictable!" Ganzao Kagemochi had some doubts.

"I don't dare to enter, but I can't defend! What does Omi Shou mean?"

As soon as these words came out, Hosokawa Zaimei knew that Kaname was a coward. Hojo Takahiro said this, which was tantamount to calling Kanaka Keagemochi a coward. And he scolded her in person! No matter how senior Hojo Takahiro is, he can't criticize others in person like this.

"Who doesn't know that Hojo Sagami Mamoru across the street is your adopted son..." No matter how nice Aman Kagemochi is to talk, he can't let others get in his face!

What this said was that when Uesugi Kenshin conquered Odawara Castle, in order to cut off the Hojo clan, he ordered Hojo Takahiro to adopt Nao, the Hojo clan. As a result, the origin of the Hojo clan changed from the Hojo clan under the power of the Kamakura shogunate to the Mouri clan after Oe Hiromoto, losing the legal basis for the Kanto region.

To put it bluntly, in the daimyo registration of the Muromachi Shogunate, Hojo Uji Nao is really the son of Hojo Takahiro!

This is one of the reasons why Uesugi Kenshin placed Hojo Takahiro in Musashi to monitor the Hojo clan. The father watches his son to facilitate negotiations.

And now the deeper meaning of Kanza Keagemochi's words is the story of Hojo Takahiro who had committed himself to the Hojo clan and surrendered during the Hojo rebellion.

The masters don't use curse words when they curse people. One calls them cowards, and the other calls them idiots!

"Two, two!" Kamiizumi Hidetsuna quickly stepped forward to break up the fight.

Hosokawa Saime also stood up and came to stand in front of Nagano Yamori to prevent it from affecting the generals of the three armies.

"Everything should be decided by His Majesty Minawa!" Seeing that the two people were comforted, Hosokawa Saime hinted at Ueizumi Hidetsuna and asked him to tell him the thoughts of the Nagano family, the landowner of Ueno.

The Nagano family, which originally wanted to defend and wait for an attack and did not want to fight head-on, was now in trouble.

The two generals of the Uesugi family can't coordinate, and now that the military supplies are no longer available, they can't really go out to the city for a decisive battle!