Chapter 614 20. Although Takeda Is Dead, Loyal Ministers Remain

Ueno's situation quickly spread to the Kofu formation. After reading the news, Koheita asked someone to forward it to the rear army of Suwa Uehara, Yamauchi Taro's main team, and discussed it with Konishihara Zaemon.

"The troops in the Mangqiao Formation will not be able to sustain their supplies and cannot hold on for a long time."

"Is it possible that such a large state in Shangzhou doesn't even have military rations and rice for January and February?" Konishiharazaemon said that even in a place like Kofu, which is full of forest, there is no shortage of food. How come there was no disaster or military attack last year? Ueno became like this.

"I guess there really isn't one in the Minirun Hall, so why are those two Higashino Ueno like this..."

The Nagano family is only the largest group in the Nishi Ueno National People's Congress. The rest of the generals are all son-in-law Kaomi, half retainers at most, and they are all kept together by the death of Nagano Yamamasa who can give birth to a daughter.

According to the practice of the Warring States Period, as an ally, I send troops to rescue you. I am only responsible for the food on my way there. When I arrive in your formation, I should eat your food.

Nagano Yamori himself was not a rich lord. This time he summoned an army and wanted to provide for his ten brothers-in-law. It's not necessarily a case of being stretched too thin, but it's definitely true that there's a lot of money to be had.

Even if he has a little bit of Xiao Jiujiu in his heart, he can't hide too much. After all, everyone can understand the simplest truth. If Ueno is here, the family business will be there, and next year's rice will be just as delicious. If Ueno is lost, the family fortune will be ruined. Next year, everyone will either be Hojo's dog or eat cold meals donated by Uesugi Kenshin.

How to choose, Nagano Yamori and his family boss Uizumi Hidetsuna must know clearly.

Hojo Takahiro was stationed at Amabashi as the reserve team for Uesugi Kenshin to take the lead every time he went out to Kantō. He did not actually handle the civil affairs of Higashi-Ueno. To put it bluntly, he was the death squad that opened the way for Uesugi Kenshin every time. It was impossible for Uesugi Kenshin to do so. Give him too much power. No matter how arrogant Uesugi Kenshin is for a person who once raised an army to launch a rebellion, it is impossible for him to not be wary at all.

As for Amanza Keagemochi, who is the acting official who handles Uesugi Kensei's Higashi-Ueno fifty-mankan nursing home, you say he has no food in his hands?

After Uesugi Kenshin abdicated in Kamakura, he only received money and rice worth 20,000 guan from Uesugi Kenshin as a pension every year. In addition to supporting the forty or fifty retainers he brought to Echigo, Uesugi Kensei had no military obligations, nor did it need to build a city for general solicitation. It just had to eat and drink happily every day.

Just like in history, he had children with the maids in the side chamber one after another. After Echichi, Shiro Hikaru had three sons and two daughters. The eldest daughter Kenshin Uesugi once said that she would be betrothed to Taro Yamauchi. Anyway, she is over forty, and she will have five babies in ten years. This speed is definitely not bad.

He had never taken care of the annual tribute collection in Higashi-Ueno, and Uesugi Kenshin would not let him take care of it. He deliberately eliminated the traces of Uesugi Kenshin in Ueno. After all, the current leader of Kanto is Uesugi Kenshin, which is completely understandable.

Amanza Kagemochi was actually the supreme ruler of Higashi-Ueno and the representative of Uesugi Kenshin. Apart from preparing the first installment of food for Uesugi Kenshin to go to Kanto every year, he did not have much expenses at all.

The battle was fought by Uesugi Kenshin with his Kanto brothers. Uesugi Kenshin went to Hojo's house to steal the food. Building a city cost money, but it was only a few dollars that Uesugi Kenshin brought back every time he grabbed a handful. .

Last year, although there was another big battle in Kanto around Kita Musashi and Shimono, Ueno did not fall into the flames of war. As for sending troops, during the Warring States Period in Japan, in which year did Japan not send troops?

Is the Scrooge personality really contagious?

"Zaemon, if this is not the case, you and I will jointly sign a letter to Amabashi, stating that we borrowed it from Yamauchi. We will wait until His Highness, the commander of the war in Vietnam and China, comes back to make a decision."

"Okay, I write and you write?" Konishiharazaemon agreed.

"I'll write it, and you'll sign it."

As he was writing, Qi Gui walked to the door and said he had something to report.

"We have an idea, let's get it right!"

"Why do you have any clues?"

"The son of Itagaki Suruga Mamoru, the Takeda clan's general, Itagaki Nobunori, was recognized in Ogihara Township, Yamanashi County!"

"This person? This person was not killed in Suwa Uehara?" Kodaira didn't react for a moment.

Speaking of which, Itagaki Nobunori, the aide-de-camp, was closely related to Koheita. When Uedahara joined forces, Koheita wanted to kill Itagaki Nobukata. Even though Itagaki Nobukata was over sixty at the time, Itagaki Nobunori was only twelve years old at the time (historical fact).

Even if Takeda Shingen wants to immediately appoint his teacher's children, it is simply impossible. A twelve-year-old child, according to the status of the Itagaki family, needs a county magistrate to start his family. If you ask him to manage a state and county with tens of thousands of people, isn't it a joke?

This matter was suppressed at the time, and the next year, Kai's veterans raised the matter with Takeda Shingen. Itagaki Nobukata cares deeply about you, but you can't ignore his children.

As a result, the youngest generals in the Takeda Shingen era were born, and there were two of them. The other one was Gan Li Changzhong. Their fathers died in battle on the same day, and they both succeeded him at the age of thirteen on the same day.

The identity of the general was confirmed, and the territorial retainers and troops left by his fathers were also inherited.

But there is no real job!

It’s not that I don’t want to give it, it’s that I’m afraid I won’t do it well if I give it!

So the matter was delayed until a large number of newcomers gradually emerged, and bright generals appeared one after another. These two children were even forgotten on the island of Java, and no one even mentioned them.

But after all, here is the identity of the general, and here is the rank of the elders of the Takeda family. The two of them were appointed one after another, but Amari Masatada was killed in battle at Tonegawa in his early years.

And Itagaki Nobukari first served Takeda Shingen as the front of the corridor, which was basically a gatekeeper. After two years, he served as the Gokumae-ju under the command of the Kanjo Bugyo, responsible for selling the messy annual tributes collected from all over the country and exchanging them for Yongle money.

After accumulating experience, he was finally appointed as the governor of Saku County and stationed in Komoro Castle as a front-line general attacking Ueno.

According to this trajectory, he might have entered the core of the Takeda clan step by step. But unfortunately, Takeda Shingen was seriously injured and died suddenly. Takeda Yoshinobu succeeded to the throne, and the Takeda clan's power in Shinano declined on a large scale. Komoro Castle could not be defended, so Itagaki Nobukari had to flee back to Kai.

Turning around, Yamanouchi Takeda fought a great battle at Suwa Uehara Castle. Itagaki Nobukata, who had no official position, did not go to the front line to participate in the battle, but stayed in Kai to handle logistics. When he was transporting military rations to Uehara, the news that the Takeda army was defeated and Takeda Yoshinobu fled came along the streets.

He wanted to quickly join Takeda Yoshinobu, after all, he had a sum of money, food and weapons. These things could help Takeda Yoshinobu reorganize his troops and continue to resist.

But before he joined Takeda Yoshinobu, Tsutsujizaki-kan was set on fire and Takeda Yoshinobu disappeared.

He didn't have the chance to continue to be loyal to him!

In confusion, he could only gather his men, retreat to Itagakiyama, and return to his own territory to wait and see. Then Kobayata's Takeda arrest order spread throughout Kai, and he couldn't stay in the territory. He had to retreat into the mountains with a dozen men to make final plans.

Everyone knows what happened next, and the Takeda clan was completely destroyed. The Imonshu were basically killed, and the retainers and samurai suffered heavy losses, with seven or eight out of ten killed.

The Yamanouchi family used extremely bloody means to temporarily suppress the Kai country. In addition, Anayama Baiyuki came forward and asked the local lords of Kai to exercise restraint under the call of Takeda Katsunobu. It seemed that the Takeda clan was really doomed.

Itagaki Nobuken probably took the money and lived in hiding, finding a place where no one knew him and spent the rest of his life.

Until an uninvited guest came and told him that Takeda Yoshinobu's eldest son Imagawa Hikogoro was not only alive, but also alive and well, and Kai's loyal retainers were not all dead!