Nagano Yoshimasa's anger and determination are not surprising. The Western Ueno Loose Autonomous Alliance is the dream of every country lord. Just like the crooked people in Kaga Country, are all the countrymen who believe in the Ichikai Sect fools? Obviously not, but
They would do anything to live a life of monkey kings without being controlled.
Compared with the lawless situation of the people of Kaga, the people of Nishi Ueno are relatively loose. As soon as their lord Kensei Uesugi was kidnapped by the people, he was immediately attacked by Miseko, Hojo, and Takeda.
I was swollen, and now I couldn't help but remember that I still had a lord with a weak sense of existence, and hurriedly asked for help from Echigo.
This also shows that the coordination within the people of Ueno country is still relatively poor. Nagano Yasumasa can also be regarded as a weakened and incomplete version of Nagao Shikage. It seems that being the leader of the alliance is quite prosperous. Once someone is old-hearted and tries to start the Warring States Period
If someone becomes a daimyo, he will immediately encounter disaster, and he can see this himself.
While declaring his determination and will, he actively carried out self-rescue operations, persuaded and persuaded the Japanese lords in various places in Ueno, and tried his best to unite his own forces to resist the invasion of the Hojo family. The situation this time was better than the last time he expelled Kensei Uesugi.
, the number of Chinese people who insist on being Ueno's leading party has been greatly reduced. Except for some old Uesugi officials who have long fallen into the arms of the Hojo family, both Higashi Ueno and Nishi Ueno have a clear attitude towards resisting the invasion of the Hojo army.
On July 6, Nagao Kagetora received a letter asking for help from Ueno and immediately convened a military meeting. Kira Yoshiki did not speak at the meeting. None of the samurai present were rookies. The veterans who had been on the battlefield did not need to explain much.
He knows what he should do, and Nagao Kagetora's military strategy is flawless. In terms of command level in battles, especially field battles, there is no one in the entire Kanto and even the world who can stabilize him, and the level of Kira Yoshitomo is still far away.
Far from catching up.
"Yoshitoki, come and take a look at my newly written military flag!" Nagao Kagetora unfolded a piece of white silk with a strange-looking "dragon" character written on it, which looked very much like the character "Ran".
"Is this a dragon character? The strokes of the pen and the dragon and the snake highlight the extraordinary momentum..." At first glance, it looked familiar. After a closer look, I realized the origin of this military flag. I couldn't help but exclaimed: "This
Isn’t it because of Chaos Longqi?”
The Ranryu flag is Nagao Kagetora's most proud military flag, second only to the "bi" flag used later. Its influence even surpasses the family crest flag, and it has become the spiritual symbol of the Nagao family. The name is so famous that he is very fond of it.
It’s hard not to remember.
"Ranryuqi?" Nagao Kagetora looked very happy and laughed loudly: "What a good name! I like this name, so let's call him Ranryuqi!"
"Ahem! I seem to have done something again..." Seeing Nagao Kagetora rarely be so happy, Kira Yoshiki could only shrug and mutter helplessly: "Forget it, let him be."
A flag embodies the personal will of the general and the collective will of a legion. The Ranryu flag, like the Kira family's "Ashikaga Kamisuzisaburo Yoshitoki" flag and the Takeda family's Fuulin Volcano flag, represents a legion's flag.
Glory and power, the appearance of this military flag also heralds the beginning of the Dragon of Echigo's flight to the nine heavens. What will it bring to Kira Yoshitoki? He himself can't tell clearly.
The work that needed to be done was already ready. On a sunny morning two days later, the Nagao Legion held a marching ceremony. As the general, Nagao Kagetora could only use water instead of sake to complete the three offerings ceremony, and then swore to break camp and send tens of thousands of troops. The army slowly boarded the return ship in Naojiangjin Port.
This time the troops were sent to the field not by land but by water. The advantage of the navy was greatly demonstrated at this moment. The Kira Navy dispatched a large number of return ships to transport the Longtail Corps from Naoetsu and Kashiwazaki Port to the newly built Niigata. Port, then proceed southward along the Shinano River, pass the Uonogawa River, land outside Yuzawa Town, and cross the Mikuni Pass into Ueno Country.
Half a month after Nagao Kagetora's high-profile appearance, Kira Yoshitoki also began to assemble his troops according to his own plan and launched a raid and revenge operation against Shinano Kingdom. The purpose this time was to destroy Shinano's effective forces and give Nobuchika Takeda The Fang Nong people can deal heavy blows and adopt special combat methods when appropriate.
He then delineated the scope of this battle. All the six thousand troops were provided by the Kira Army. There was no need for the Echigo people, wealthy families, and towns and villages to bear additional military service. This battle did not include the Shinano Reserve Corps. The main force, combined with Shinano's 2,000 troops, reached 8,000, which was enough for a war not aimed at seizing territory.
In order to increase the suddenness of this retaliatory raid, Kira Yoshitoki did not choose to hold a military meeting, but instead verbally conveyed orders at daily meetings. At the same time, on the grounds of normal defense deployment, he deployed 3,000 troops to guard the front near Minokwan Castle, and Akabei. It's simpler, just go out and wander around and no one knows where they go. In this way, only two thousand troops will actually follow Kiragi.
Hattori Masakiyoshi did not participate in this combat operation, but was responsible for cleaning up the ninja sentries deployed by various samurai families in the Echigo area. The order given by Kira Yoshitoki was to ensure the "cleanliness" of Naoetsu and Kasugayama. The tasks he was responsible for It was very heavy, so in order to ensure the success rate, all Iga ninjas were left in Kasugayama Castle to wait.
In the castle tower of Kasugayama Castle, Torahime was carefully dressing Kira Yoshie in a more gorgeous black lacquered two-piece southern barbarian suit. Now he is no longer the little boy he used to be. At the age of sixteen, he is already a tall and burly man with a loud voice. It doesn't sound as thick as it used to, but it's stronger and more powerful than it was a few years ago.
"I heard that the thin gold armor has been repaired well, but it's a pity that I can't put it on at my height! This Nanman carcass is quite heavy!" He stretched his arms and tried it, and it felt okay. This Nanman carcass was shipped from Sakai Town at the beginning of the year. While waiting for the goods, he only wore them a few times to try out the feeling, and he had not experienced a single baptism of war.
The plate armor production techniques passed down from Spanish merchants greatly inspired the armor craftsmen, and all kinds of strange and weird armors came into being in their hands. After several years of trial production, they gradually developed from the initial simple imitations to the local ones. The style is outstanding for the time, and a full set weighs almost twenty kilograms. It is difficult for ordinary people to put it on, not to mention how difficult it is to carry out military operations. You can imagine how uncomfortable it is to fight wearing this kind of thing.
"Your Highness, please don't move, the armor won't fit!" Hu Ji is also very tall, taller than his brother and sister. Thanks to her excellent martial arts background, she has been tied up in marriage in recent years. , less training in archery and horse archery, and more practice in spearmanship and swordsmanship. Recently, due to etiquette training, I simply shortened the training time. It is not too difficult to wear this set of armor for him.
Even so, putting on the complex armor layer by layer is not something that can be done in a short time. Kira Yoshi's not honest movements also caused her a lot of trouble. When the last piece of Jinhaori was draped on his body
At this time, Hu Ji was also exhausted, dripping with sweat and moaning.
"Thank you for your hard work!" The thick armor that held Hu Ji's little hand blocked the transmission of body temperature, but it could not block the transmission of love between the two. Kira Yoshishi took advantage of the situation and hugged her waist, and said softly: "You are the one in the house.
Come and take care of it. If you don’t decide on external matters, ask the master. If you don’t decide on internal matters, make your own decisions. Protect yourself and our home.”
"Yeah!" The girl snuggled into his arms and remained silent for a long time.
"Master! It's time to send out troops!" Tokiyuki Yamamoto stood downstairs and urged loudly. Hearing this, the two of them could only sigh and slowly separate.
"Be careful!"
"Yeah! I'll come back as soon as possible!"
A few days later, in the Kai Fuchu Uzaki Hall, Takeda Harunobu listened to the urgent report from the ninjas with a gloomy face. Iito Toramasa said: "When the Kira army invaded Shinano, the number of troops was unknown when the general, Kira Yoshi,
, the direction of the attack is unknown, the reason for sending troops is unknown, it is an undeclared surprise attack, please make a quick decision, my lord!"
Since the death of Deura Issou in the fall, the impact on the Tohoku Ninja Army has been very great. Twenty elite ninjas died meaninglessly in Kasugayama Castle and nothing was gained. Currently, the Tohoku Ninja Army will face the problem of reorganization.
, the originally appointed leader of Tohoku, Deura Kozaburo, still accepts the dispatch of the family governor.
But judging from the current situation, Iitomi Toromasa is managing the Tohoku Ninja Army on his behalf, which means that the Takeda clan has another small victory. By virtue of his status as Taro Yoshinobu's teacher, Iitomi Toromasa has become the Akabi of the Takeda clan.
The samurai, the leader of the two major military organizations of the Penetrating Ninja Army, held military power in his hands that was close to that of Takeda Nobushige, leaving those ancestral and ashigaru generals far behind.
Takeda Harunobu didn't have time to think about this troublesome matter for the time being. Three days ago, the Kira army crossed the Chikuma River by boat overnight and invaded Kozumi County in the early morning of July 19. The Kira family's ninjas did a good job of blocking the information.
Cooperating with Xuanyuan Ninja's ambush, it took an extra day for the information to be transmitted to Jia Fei.
"Why did Shinano come out? Isn't Ueno's situation already very tricky?" Atobe Nobuaki looked at his colleagues around him in confusion, and found that they were also confused. Kira's army suddenly came out to Shinano. This was something they did not expect.
Yes, according to their plan they should deal with the more threatening Hojo family.
In early April this year, at the request of their new ally Oda Ujiharu, the Hojo family went out to attack Yuuki Masakatsu together. As a member of the same clan and the current governor of the Yuuki family, Koyama Takatomo immediately led his troops to help. Satake, another ally of the Yuuki family,
Yoshiaki also came to the rescue urgently, and the two sides fought a battle in Yuki. In the end, Hojo Ujiyasu, who was invaded by the guest army, suppressed the enemy with a slight advantage and won, ensuring the influence of the Oda clan in Shimosu and Hitachi.
Oda Ujiharu allied with the Hojo family regardless of opposition, which Hojo Ujiyasu was happy to see. As expected, the fierce conflicts among the Kanto people were exposed with the great war. After winning a landmark victory in Shimosu, the Chiba family was displeased when they saw the situation.
Mya hurriedly joined the Hojo family, and with the addition of Ashikaga Fujimasa, Lord Furukawa, who had already become his son-in-law, the country was basically controlled by the Hojo family.
In July of this year, Hojo Ujiyasu led an army of 20,000 to Ueno. Compared with the difficult situation a few years ago, the Hojo family has regained its vitality and is stronger than the severely damaged Takeda family. Many Ueno people, including the Obata party, are
He once accepted the advice of the Hojo family and made "significant contributions" in the process of expelling Kensei Uesugi. In terms of the degree of threat to the Ueno country, the Hojo family is far above the Takeda family.
The strategic layout of the Hojo family is very similar to that of the Takeda family. First, they will fight a combined battle in the southern Kanto, then fight a combined battle in the northern Kanto, seize some territory in the south to annex and digest, and then go to the north to seize some territory to annex and digest. In this way, both
This will create time for the retainers to win over the local people and expand Hojo's influence little by little. (To be continued.)
