A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

After more than a month of heavy snow, the Nanxin Plains are gradually glowing with vitality. The ice and snow have melted, and the green spots in the mountains and forests have converged into a pleasant feeling of spring.

Fortunately, last year's heavy snowfall meant that there would be a good harvest in the summer, and the people in the area were also active from their winter hibernation. Ditches and canals are dug, soil is raised and ridges are raised.

Xiaopingtai was finally busy for a while. Fighting was a common necessity in life, but farming was a necessity. Tongxin and Li, who had been given a two-month winter vacation by him, were all on standby around the clock to arrange spring plowing for the people in every township in the county as soon as possible.

Tongxin and Li also know that this matter cannot be delayed at all. If you are just lazy today, you may be hungry in the future. You can't deceive people with food. No one can survive if the farming season is missed and the harvest fails.

After arranging spring plowing, the warrior followed the instructions of Hosokawa Spring Palace and mobilized nearly 5,000 troops in the territory. In mid-March, Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, surrounded by troops, rushed to the field with the army.

His uncle, Yoshitsune, the chief planner of a clan in the Bitoushan Mountains, served as his military commander to advise him. Koheita was responsible for the logistics of the army as Uchida Gundai. There are also supplies from the tycoons from Shinano and Ueno who are responsible for dispatching the following, to ensure that the transportation is not in short supply.

Yamauchi Yoshiharu was also afraid that something might happen to his son, so he sent nine of the eleven banner generals over, and he also brought baskets of horses to Yamauchi Yoshiharu. Poor parents in the world, after all, the biological child is expected to take over.

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu didn't come for nothing. After so many years of training in the martial arts family, he was flawless in his dealings with others, and he fooled those little local tycoons into a daze. He willingly took most of his family to fight the bad war, and so smoothly gathered the people from Beixin to support the governor's family along the way, and entered Nishi Ueno.

Sure enough, the Minawa Nagano clan stood still and stood firm in the city. He even secretly gave some grain and grass to the Yamauchi army. According to the Nagano family, it was to protect the country and the people, and temporarily bowed to Hojo. If the leader could lead the Echigo troops to attack Kantō, he would definitely stop immediately.

After receiving the report from the emissary, the generals in the mountain were relieved. Sure enough, the initial analysis was correct. Although Nagano Yasumasa is currently holding the banner of the Hojo clan, he is still thinking about the leader who tricked his three sons to death.

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu could understand their difficulties to some extent, so he did not force it, quickly passed through the Nagano territory, turned north, and responded to the two Nagao clans of the main society and Shirai to attack Numata Castle.

When they arrived in Numata, they settled down an army of 7,000 men, and gathered together the remaining 700 or 800 soldiers of the two Nagasails to appease the two Nagasei old men who were about to collapse. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu issued a royal letter from his command, calling on all the noble families in the surrounding areas to attack Hojo Yasumoto. At the same time, he ordered Koheita to arrange for people to requisition or openly rob the food of the local forces that followed Hojo.

Koheita himself has completely lost sight of the distribution of power in Ueno. When he came last year, except for a few young men, the rest were still gathered under the banner of Kento Uesugi. Now that Kentou Uesugi has run away, these people are changing the King's flag on the city wall. Who knows whose family this person belongs to.

It would be a bit difficult to harm Xiaodaita, if he accidentally robbed someone from Nagano Yamasa's subordinates, or someone who was loyal to the leader of the family. Wouldn't that hurt the loyalty of those who are loyal and loyal? Such a reputation is also not good.

As a result, the two long-tailed defeated soldiers who entered the camp caught the attention of Xiao Pingtai. They had been guerrillas in this area for more than half a year. It must be clear to the people nearby, to repay injustice and revenge.

After being pinned to the ground and rubbed by Hojo for almost a year, the two Nagatail remnants were proud of their defeat. They happily led the Yamauchi army from house to house, pointing at someone and saying that this person had been stabbed with a gun three months ago. Me, this guy punched me five months ago or something.

There was no sign of the misery and pain that they felt when they first entered the camp. They were all very energetic, and there was even two long-tailed soldiers who were blind in one eye. They ran for several miles with more than a dozen fierce samurai ashigaru from the Yamauchi Army. He pointed at a spot and cursed, "I've been waiting for today for a long time. You beat me very well before." The soldiers of the Yamauchi Army immediately helped this man go up and punch him randomly. But he let out a bad breath.

The entire Numata Basin was a scene of intense house raids. As long as someone identified them, they could not help but pull the grain first, and then beat them up. Those who were willing to join the raids would be tied up with their lives, and those who didn't would just have their houses demolished and their wives divided. Children, servants and property.

Sure enough, all the soldiers were incredibly active when doing this kind of work. In just two days, this group of people swept through the entire Numata. The speed of the disaster will make everyone admire it. Xiaopingtai stood by and watched anyway. As long as the food was in place, he didn't care about other property. If you don't give these big-headed soldiers any help, who will come out to fight with you in the future?

At the same time, Yamauchi Yoshikatsu also waited for reinforcements from the Echigo Nagao clan (mainly Tochio/Fuchu Nagao, Nagao Kagetora; Furushi Nagao, Nagao Kagenobu; Ueda Nagao, Nagao Masakei). The number of soldiers was a bit disappointing, with a three-star Mouri horse mark. There were only more than a thousand people, commanded by Takahiro Hojo Hojo. It was the legendary Yangbei Zhong who majored in civil strife and minored in rebellion.

Except for Nakajo Fuji who was relatively reliable and loyal, the others, including the Honjo clan and the Shinbada clan, all had time-tested traditions of rebellion. It's pitiful to think about it, because three generations of Jing Qing and Jing Hu's ancestors (brothers by blood, but Jing Hu is Qing Jing's son) have not completely turned these people into retainers.

Kodaira was too lazy to care about Echigo's bad affairs anyway. He only cared about whether Hojo Takahiro (the good Mori had no surname) brought a certain amount of food. Now he had to take care of seven or eight thousand mouths, which made him worried to death.

Hojo Takahiro arranged the troops, brought his entourage, and Ashikaga Nagao, an acquaintance of Koheita, came to pay homage to Yamauchi Yoshikatsu. The two parties exchanged business blows for a while in a cordial and friendly atmosphere.

No one bothered to dig into the old accounts of the Nagawei clan attacking and killing the guards and forcing the leader to die. Anyway, they just had fun talking about it for a while. Hojo Takahiro saw that it was almost done, so he laid out the thirty Kishu iron cannons, ten horses, and one thousand taels of gold presented by Nagao Kagetora.

When Yamauchi Yoshikatsu heard the price, he was already satisfied. He asked about food and grass, and Hojo Takahiro also gave a number. Xiao Pingtai frowned, ten days were not enough.

Seeing Koheta frowning and thinking hard, Hojo Takahiro laughed proudly: "Although we don't have food, Numata City has abundant food reserves. I will capture them for His Highness Yamauchi Saumasuke."

Xiao Pingtai suddenly thought of something: "Brother, you are still so cool!"