Seeing Naomi Matsudaira crying and telling him how despicable the Uesugi family was, Masayuki Hoshina had the urge to order him to commit seppuku.
The poor man Uesugi is certainly despicable, but Matsudaira Naomi's feudal army collapsed at the first touch and did not even have time to enter the Murakami Castle, so he really deserves to die.
The fall of the Murakami Domain made the shogunate army completely passive in terms of Echigo Sado!
Because the Murakami Domain was a coastal domain with a port, after Uesugi Tsunakatsu captured the Murakami Domain, Emperor Kobuin's army could land on Echigo's land. According to the information obtained by Masayuki Hoshina, Emperor Kobuin has a large number of troops, and the number must exceed 30,000! If they all land at Murakami Domain, then the entire Echigo may be captured by Emperor Kobuin.
If Echigo is lost, Sado Island will certainly not be able to survive alone. Today, the two countries of Echigo and Sado are qualified to become the foundation of the struggle for Japan's world. Because the actual stone height of Echigo country is about 900,000 stone! Although the stone height on Sado Island is only 40,000 stones, Sado Island is a treasure island, rich in gold and silver. Aikawa Kanzan on the island can hand over more than 14,000 taels of gold to the Tokugawa Shogunate every year, while Tsuruko Ginzan on the island can make even more astonishing profits, turning over more than 1.5 million taels of silver to the Tokugawa Shogunate every year. Silver plus gold is equivalent to a stone height of 1.6 million stones!
Echigo's 900,000 koku plus Sado Island's 1.6 million koku, that's 2.5 million koku. If you include the Uesugi family's 300,000 koku in Yonezawa, 2.8 million koku is enough!
I think back then, the total territory owned by Lord Ieyasu in Guanbazhou was only this small amount...
Thinking of this, Masayuki Hoshina snorted coldly, and interrupted Naomi Matsudaira, who was still accusing the Uesugi family of their evil deeds, "No need to say anything...go collect the rest quickly, and let's fight back to the Murakami Domain together!"
"Kill...go back?" Matsudaira Naoki was stunned, "Aren't you going to wait for reinforcements from the shogunate to arrive?"
Fool! Hoshina Masayuki cursed in his heart - before reinforcements from the shogunate arrived, Kobuin's 30,000 troops should land at Murakami Domain. The Yonezawa clan has 6,000 samurai. If they mobilize with all their strength, they can pull out at least 15,000 troops. By that time, there will be 45,000 Kobuin troops on the Echigo battlefield, and there will probably be the feudal army of King Ning of Daimei, relying on the 10,000 shogunate feudal armies and the Echigo feudal clans such as Takada clan, Nagaoka clan, and Shinbada clan. With so many troops, it is impossible to defend Echigo...
"Matsudaira Himeji Mamoru," Masayuki Hoshina said to Matsudaira Naomi in an eerie tone, "if we wait for the shogunate's army to arrive, we will be held responsible for the loss of the Murakami Domain... As the leader of the Murakami Domain, Nu has to shoulder the responsibility Take all responsibility!"
"All responsibilities..." Matsudaira Naomi showed a horrified expression, and then cast a look for help to his cousin, Matsudaira Mitsunaga, the head of the Echizen Matsudaira family and the lord of the Echigo Takata clan.
Matsudaira Mitsunaga nodded and said: "I may commit seppuku... I heard it will be very painful! Himeji Mamoru, think about it again."
"Seppuku..." Naomi Matsudaira touched his belly, "Well, then I'd better listen to Aizu Daigan!"
"That's right!" Masayuki Hoshina nodded and said to Matsudaira Mitsunaga, "Lieutenant General Echigo (Chief Mitsuru pays homage to Lieutenant General Ukonoe Gon), the Takada clan is the leader of the Echigo clans, so please send out the army! "
Takada Domain has an apparent height of 260,000 koku, but the actual stone height is almost 400,000 koku (Takada Domain has the benefits of salt and foreign trade, and the land is fertile), which is enough to support thousands of feudal armies.
"Hai! I will immediately dispatch 5,000 feudal troops to the Arakawa River together with Aizu Danagon!"
The Arakawa River is located in the northeast of Echigo Province, between the Murakami Domain and the Shinbada Domain. The Uesugi family, which captured the Murakami Domain, would definitely defend the Arakawa River first to prevent the shogunate army from launching a counterattack, and at the same time buy time for Emperor Kobuin's troops to arrive.
"5,000 is too much," Masayuki Hoshina thought for a moment, "Give me 3,000 men... Lieutenant General Echigo, I will leave another 2,000 troops to guard Naoetsu Port with your 3,000 men. Bar."
Matsudaira Mitsunaga asked: "Aizu Dainagon, do you mean to ask me to lead 5,000 people to guard Naoe Port?"
"Yes!" Masayuki Hoshina nodded emphatically, "Naoetsu Port, Kashiwazaki Port, and Niigata Port must be heavily defended... The defense of Sado Island cannot be relaxed. Otherwise, Emperor Kobuin's army may be in those areas. Local landing is so passive!”
Matsudaira Mitsunaga also saw Masayuki Hoshina's brows tightening, and knew that the situation was not good... Echigo's situation was indeed too passive. Echigo's coastline is long, and there are many ports, beaches, and fishing villages where you can land. For Emperor Kobuin, who had the support of the Ming Dynasty's navy, there was no place he couldn't go in the entire Echigo, no, probably the entire Hokuriku.
The Fanfang army that Hoshina Masayuki has on hand only has more than 10,000 people, and they cannot be used intensively. Otherwise, places without the support of the Banfang Army may be raided by Emperor Kobuin's army!
"Aizu Dainagon," Matsudaira Mitsunaga also knew, "the troops are too scattered... Your Banfang army has a total of just over 10,000, 2,000 are on Sado Island, and 2,000 are placed at Naoetsu Port, leaving only I sent 6,000 men to attack the Murakami Domain."
"Where are the 6,000?" Masayuki Hoshina pressed his forehead, "Kashiwazaki Port and Niigata Port each have 1,000 left, so only 4,000 are available. But there are still 3,000 of yours, 3,000 of the Nagaoka Domain, and 1,000 of the remnants of the Murakami Domain... ....11,000 people in total!"
"Is it enough?" Matsudaira asked.
"I don't know..." Masayuki Hoshina said, "But I know that soldiers are very fast. We must launch an attack before the Kobuin army lands on the Murakami Domain and recapture the Murakami Domain. Otherwise, we can only capture the city." Defend to the death!”
He looked at Mitsunaga Matsudaira and said, "Lieutenant General Echigo, if I am unfortunately defeated, you must defend Takada Castle!"
"Hai!" Matsudaira Mitsunaga nodded heavily, "I will live and die with Takada Castle!"
...
"Look...that's the Emperor of Xingwuyuan!"
"Where? Where?"
"The one wearing red armor with a sixteen-petal chrysanthemum flag on his back is the Emperor of Kobuin!"
"Really, really? Is the Emperor planning to go into battle?"
"The Emperor Bu Wu Korea has already been on the battlefield many times!"
"The Emperor is on board! The Emperor is on board..."
On the port pier of the Murakami Domain, Uesugi Tsunakatsu, Takeda Shinji, Kusunoki Masaki, and a group of Yonezawa Domain sergeants who were waiting for Emperor Kobuin, as well as a group of Yonezawa Domain sergeants, were all excited and shouted loudly, "Long live the mountain call."
Because the Emperor of Xingwuyuan arrived faster than they thought!
The day after the Yonezawa Domain's troops occupied the Murakami Domain, the landing fleet led by the Emperor docked - in fact, the Emperor had already brought dozens of bird boats to wander around the waters off the Murakami Domain, waiting for the Murakami Domain If the smoke signal is burned high in the port, the fleet will be led to land.
Following him were 4,000 northern warriors and 800 Ningfan cavalry, as well as 2 artillery companies and 12 6-pound field guns.
There are indeed not many troops, but they are "Marines" who are accustomed to the wind and waves of the sea. They can complete the landing in a very short time and can also enter the battle immediately.
This time Prince Zhusan had already calculated that Masayuki Hoshina would counterattack quickly, so he asked his wife to lead 4,800 elite troops to land on the Murakami Domain as quickly as possible, and then personally command the Emperor-Uesugi coalition forces to defeat Masayuki Hoshina. And he himself led 10,000 people to land at Uozu Port in Etchu... In this way, once the Emperor-Uesugi coalition wins, Echigo and Etchu will be in the hands of Zhu Cijiong and Kobuin!
