Chapter 279: 279
Zhou Baotong was standing at the gate of Yuecheng at this time, seeing that the city gate had not yet opened, and when he was about to attack the city, the gate of Yuecheng suddenly opened.
After agreeing to surrender, the Uesugi family has been deliberating about who will be the new patriarch, and of course no one wants to fight for this patriarch.
After all, this is going out to surrender, this is to disgrace the face of the Uesugi family and destroy the honor of the family.
Whoever becomes the patriarch of this Uesugi family will become the sinner of the Uesugi family, so no one wants to be the patriarch.
But the patriarch must be elected, and if he can't be chosen, who will lead the Uesugi family to surrender?
Uesugi Shin is dead, and the most powerful people in the Uesugi family should be Uesugi Kiyoshi and Uesugi Gui.
When Uesugi Shin was alive, the two of them were Uesugi Shin's right-hand men, and Uesugi Shin died, and these two people also became the pillars of the Uesugi family.
Originally, the Uesugi family recommended these two people to be the patriarch of the Uesugi family, but they both knew what the consequences of becoming the head of the Uesugi family were, and they would become sinners of the Uesugi family.
Naturally, they didn't want to do it, and shirked each other, saying that each other was the one who could lead the Uesugi family to the top.
But neither of them was willing, and finally chose a boy who was ten years younger to be the patriarch of the Uesugi family.
This boy is the son of Uesugi Shin, and in terms of succession, he should be able to succeed to the position of patriarch.
But because Uesugi is too young, and his mother is not willing to put her son in this limelight.
But after the death of Uesugi Nobu, Uesugi and Uesugi Kiyoshi are in power in the family, and he Uesugi Tenten and his mother are not willing to be useful?
After all, half of the Uesugi family listened to Uesugi Kiyoshi and Uesugi Gui, and of course, it was for this reason that they could only bully and bully this orphan and widow.
The gate of the Uesugi family opened, and the leader was a young man in a white kimono, he was only ten years old, holding the Uesugi family sigil, kneeling on the ground, his body trembling.
"Uesugi Ten, take the family members to surrender to your army!" Uesugi said loudly to Zhou Baotong.
Zhou Baotong looked at Uesugi Ten, and then looked at a woman in a black kimono next to Uesugi Ten, the woman's posture was very good, this woman was Uesugi Ten's mother.
Zhou Baotong glanced at the woman more, and then walked into the Yuecheng of the Uesugi family.
After entering Yuecheng, this announced the complete destruction of the Uesugi family, and he became a vassal of the Qi State and a pawn of Zhou Baotong's army.
Zhou Baotong asked the Uesugi family for the distribution map of the Daimyo forces of the Dongyi Island Country, and after he took a look, there were three other forces in the north of the Uesugi family, namely Anton, Ida, and Spo.
Zhou Baotong prepared to send an army to attack these three daimyos, and when he defeated these three daimyos, stabilized the north, and attacked in the south.
Zhou Baotong looked at the people of the Uesugi family and asked for information about the three families.
Zhou Baotong glanced at it, these three families are relatively weak forces in Dongyi Island, and these three forces have to unite in order to fight with the Uesugi family.
Of course, in order to prepare for the Uesugi family's northern expedition, they have also been in the joint stage.
The Uesugi family also wanted to go on a northern expedition to defeat the forces of these three families, arrange their own back, attack in the south, compete with the Ashikaga family for the first general, and become the representative force of the northern forces.
But those three forces belong to an iron piece, and he attacks little by little, and he does not gain any benefits at all, so he is in a stalemate with these three forces.
In order to ensure that no one stabbed them in the back when fighting with these three forces, they declared themselves to the Ashikaga family.
Uesugi Gui proposed to Zhou Baotong to attack the combined forces of the three families, but Zhou Baotong looked at the map and said, "Why should we attack from the front? ”
Uesugi Gui and Uesugi Qing looked at Zhou Baotong suspiciously, not understanding what Zhou Baotong meant.
They looked at the map and felt that attacking these three forces could only be done by advancing all the way from south to north.
"We can attack from land and water, let's attack this northernmost Andong first, and then go south, and eliminate Spo and Ida!" Zhou Baotong said to the two.
Bordering the Uesugi family is the Date family, while to the north of Date is the Spo family, and to the north of the Spo family is the Ando family.
According to the usual strategic method, it is to attack Date on the border with the Uesugi clan first, then attack Spo, and finally attack the Anton family.
But Zhou Baotong did not intend to attack with the usual strategy, the Date family bordered the Uesugi family, and it was also the primary line of defense for the three major families to defend the Uesugi family, and this fortification was definitely the best and the strongest.
The same is also the most difficult to fight, and Anton is the farthest away from the Uesugi family, and their defense line is also the weakest, after all, the threat to them from the Uesugi family is the weakest.
So Zhou Baotong wanted to attack the weakest Anton first......
And Uesugi Kiyoshi and Uesugi are confused, this Uesugi family does not border with Anton, they don't understand how Baotong attacked this week......
He even showed a puzzled expression, Zhou Baotong shook his head, looked at the rape on the side, and Tian Dongyi said: "You tell them, how many fleets we have ......?"
The fleet is the way that Zhou Baotong can attack Anton, the Uesugi family does not have a fleet, of course, it is not that there is no fleet, but there are too few, so it is impossible to attack Anton, but Zhou Baotong is different, Zhou Baotong is the commander-in-chief of the Qi Navy, although after dividing his troops with Wang Yi, he gave Wang Yi some warships.
But Zhou Baotong's warships still account for the majority......
"Tomorrow you attack the Date family!" Zhou Baotong said to Uesugi Gui and Uesugi Kiyoshi.
He did attack Anton, but he needed the Uesugi family to attract some firepower to him.
After hearing Zhou Baotong's order, the two of them nodded one after another, and they must complete the task.
Zhou Baotong asked the two of them to leave to prepare for tomorrow's war......
They are incapable of dealing with the Qi army, but they can still deal with the three coalition forces.
Uesugi Kiyoshi and Uesugi nodded, and then the two left......
Zhou Baotong asked his subordinates to prepare warships to attack Andong in the north tomorrow......
The Uesugi family's affairs did not reach the three families united, because it had only been a day, and they did not believe that the Uesugi family, who had been fighting with them for many years, would easily fall.
Of course, they also heard some rumors that the Uesugi family had encountered foreign invasion, and they discussed whether to join forces to fight the autumn wind and weaken the Uesugi family.
The Uesugi family is not weak, and the three of them will never be able to enter the hinterland of Dongyi Island.
Early the next morning.
Uesugi and Uesugi Kiyoshi led 3,000 Uesugi family soldiers to attack the Date family's defenses.
Seeing the Uesugi clan attacking, they hurriedly met the enemy, and the Date clan hurriedly sent messengers to the Anton family and the Spo family to ask for help. Imperial power struggle