The banner of the Nagano Army was scattered across the Usui Pass. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Attacking an unknown country, even with the unparalleled long-tailed Jinghu as the backing, you must be extra cautious, but fortunately, the Takeda army has not yet changed its mentality, and there is no enemy garrison in Usui Ice Pass.

Usui Pass is the name of a place at the junction of Ueno Province and Shinano Province, the central watershed of the Shinano River and the Tone River system, and is also the crossing of the two mountain ranges. The original meaning of the pass is the top of the mountain. Whether it is from Shinano or Ueno Province, the most convenient way to attack the other side is through the Usui Pass. At that time, Uesugi Kenmasa, the governor of the Kanto region, rescued Kasawara Kiyoshige, the lord of Shinano Kunishi Shiga Castle, who was walking, but was finally defeated by the Takeda army at Oda Ihara, and Shiga Castle, which had lost its rescue, was captured, and the Takeda family took full control of Saku-gun. Later, in the third year of Hongji, Takeda Harunobu gathered more than 13,000 troops and began the Takeda family's strategy of attacking the western Shangshu, which was also the Usui Ice Pass, and the first battle target was the Kamishu to rush Minowa Castle, which Nagano was defending.

Usui Pass has become a place name that countless places that describe the love and hatred between the two tigers of Kai and Ueno, often Kai attacks, Shangshu suffers, for the tigers of Shangzhou, every time they hear that Usui Pass erects the flag of the Takeda family, it is the beginning of a nightmare.

In April of the third year of Koji (1557), Takeda Harunobu crossed the Usui Pass to begin his Battle of Nishi-Kamishu, and the two sides fought a fierce field battle at Matsuida. At that time, Nagano Yemasa led the Minowa people to act as the first town, and his unexpected and clever command caused Takeda's vanguard to fall into confusion, and then saw the opportunity to shout, "Our army will win!" Charge the whole army! "He took the lead in leading the coalition forces to launch a general offensive, but unfortunately due to the discord among the generals of Nishijoshu, the Takeda army was given the opportunity to counteract, which eventually led to the collapse of the entire coalition army. In the end, under the resistance of Nagano Yoshimasa, he was stubbornly resisted under Minowa Castle, and this battle made this white-haired veteran break out of the cocoon and become famous all over the world.

In the following year (1558), unwilling to be defeated, Takeda Harunobu made a comeback and personally led a large army into Kamishu.

In the following year (1559), the Takeda army attacked again, and Nagano Yoshimasa planned to fight a fierce battle against the Kai Tiger in Takaru Castle, and it is said that the Kai Tiger's army suffered heavy losses and heavy casualties, with more than 500 casualties.

The following year, in the first month of this year, Harunobu Takeda besieged Minowa Castle for the fourth time. This time, however, he learned the lessons of his last defeat and instead of going head-to-head with Minowa Castle, he surrounded it like an iron bucket. After half a month, the food in the city gradually ran out. Coupled with the wind and snow blocking the road, Echigo's Nagao Keitora reinforcements did not arrive, causing Minowa Castle to fall into a desperate situation of hunger and cold. Nagano Yoshimasa struck a decisive blow and launched a frantic attack on the Takeda army. The Takeda army was defeated again.

Although he defeated the Takeda army four times, Nagano Yemasa was also a lost soldier, and he knew that if he didn't fight back, he would be unable to stand it one day, not to mention that he was already seventy years old, and he didn't know when he would never see the sun the next day.

This was also Nagano Yemasa's risky act of agreeing to Nagao Keitora, and he knew that this might be his last chance to gallop on the battlefield, and it was better to defeat the Takeda family in the final battle, so that he could lay down a period of time for his young heir to grow up safely.

Today, the yellow-spotted Nagano industry in Shangshu finally counterattacked, striding across the Usui Pass and entering the unknown Shinano country.

Originally, there was a small castle on the Usui Pass, which had always been garrisoned by the Takeda family, but in fact it was only a sentry post, and it was only built after the breakthrough of the Uesugi Kensei more than ten years ago, but with the strength of the Takeda family, the defenders in the castle were greatly relaxed.

However, after Nagao Jinghu's counterattack plan was implemented, Nagano Yemasa also took advantage of the situation to attack and kill Usui Bing Pass, killing more than 50 soldiers stationed in Usui Ice Pass, controlling this checkpoint, and actually choking the traffic choke point between the two countries.

At this time, Usui Ice Pass was already heavily guarded, and Nagano Yemasa, who had always attached importance to retreat, entrusted the back road to the sixth son-in-law, the lord of Wada Castle, and Tian Yefan, whose mother was the younger sister of Nagano Yemasa, and the main room was the daughter of Nagano Yemasa, which shows the close relationship between the two sides. As long as you have Umiice Pass in hand, you can advance, attack, retreat, and defend, and be in an invincible position.

On August 3, the 70-year-old "Yellow Spot of Shangshu" Nagano Yemasa had to drag his old body and carry the 8,000 Shangshu army with the "juniper fan and one heart" as the core to cross the Usui Ice Pass and come to a strange country and a familiar enemy to fight again.

The core of Hinofan's heart is the son-in-law of the Nagano family who is all over the country, and Nagano Yoshimasa has a total of twelve daughters, except for the eldest son-in-law Nobusada Kohata and the second son-in-law Kohata Keitari who defected to Takeda Harunobu, almost all the other sons-in-law are out of battle.

Later, the surprise attack team led by Hidetsuna, who was known as the "No. 1 Sword Saint in the World", knocked on the Usui Ice Pass, and then killed the Zhujiao Tiger Ding in a battle, disrupting the Takeda clan's position, so that Nagano Yemasa saw the hope of victory, and he changed his cautious attitude and led 8,000 Shangshu people to cross the Usui Ice Pass to the unknown country.

After the convergence of Nagano Yoshimasa and Umizumi Hidetsuna, the number was as high as 10,000, and the core of the Minowa people was the Ueno Sixteen Guns, and the pen in the Ueno Sixteen Guns was the Umiizumi Hidetsuna, who was later called the world's first sword saint, bringing about a new trend in Takeda Harunobu.

Takeda Harunobu quickly led 3,000 Koshu troops to Uehara Castle to sit down, and then Koshu and Shinshu went to Uehara Castle one after another to gather, the total number has been as high as 15,000, perhaps only five or six thousand soldiers can fight, but the number is still very bluffing.

At least the people of Shangzhou, who were led by Nagano Yemasa, were moved, and Nagano Yezheng had a headache. Although he had the promise of support from the long-tailed Jinghu, and the national forces in Shangzhou felt the assembly place on time, it took time to integrate the army, and it took even more time to twist dozens of forces into a rope.

Nagano knew that if a swarm of bees rushed upward, it was likely to be defeated in front of the Takeda army, just like the Battle of Matsuida in the past, and you must know that the opponent was Takeda Harunobu, the tiger of Kai who crossed the eastern country, and one mistake could lead to the collapse of the entire army.

Takeda Harunobu obviously didn't want to give him time, and wanted to take advantage of his unstable footing to catch him off guard, cut off one of Nagao Jinghu's arms, and let Nagao Jinghu retreat. If he beats Takeda Harunobu as soon as he comes out of the mountain, the reputation he has accumulated for a lifetime will also turn into a cloud of smoke and become the biggest joke in Shangzhou. (To be continued.) )