The Sengoku Uesugi clan, from the Fujiwara clan, was originally a famous clan living in the Echigo region. In the chaotic world of the Warring States, the Uesugi family was naturally inevitably involved in the war in the Kanto region, immersed in the vortex of power, successively fought against opponents in all directions, and has always retained the family door until the end of the Warring States period, in various big river dramas we can see the representative of the Uesugi family, with the "god of war" known as the humble shin gong and the image of its descendants, the Uesugi family's struggle for hegemony, from here began.
Nagao, the son of Nagao Nokkei, was the son of Echigo Guardian Dai Nagao Nokkei, who succeeded him as governor of the family when he went on a campaign against Etsuchu in 1506 during his expedition to Echizen in 1506. Later, Uesugi House was opposed to the guardian Uesugi House, and in August of Eigen 4, he had the house to adopt his son Uesugi Dingshi attacked the guardian hall in the house, resulting in Uesugi House being able to cut himself. This is a typical event of the guardianship of the guardian generation, which is the so-called "lower keshang". Nagao became the daimyō of the Warring States, and then his son Harukei, Kiyoshi's brother Jinghu (Kenshin), and Kenshin's adopted son Gyeongsho for a total of 4 generations, making Nagao Uesugi one of the protagonists of Sengoku history.
Although Wei Jing had real power over Echigo, this did not mean that he could unify Echigo Ichigo, because Uesugi Dingshi, who had the status of guardian, still had his own forces, as well as the opposition of the lords of the inner kingdom such as Kasuga Tadashi, Usami Fang Tadashi, and even the vicious incident that was once seized by hostile domestic political forces as the castle of Kasugayama Castle.
In August of the 5th year of Tenshō (1536), he gave way to the eldest son, Nagao Haruka, but because Haruka was frail and sickly, some courtiers pinned their hopes on the words of the second male Nagao Keiko, who was the Uesugi Kenshin who would later resound throughout Japanese history. Later, Harukei, unable to defeat the opinions of his courtiers, ceded the governor to his younger brother in December of the 17th year of astronomy (1548).
Three years later, with the mysterious death of Nagao Masaaki, lord of Sakato Castle, Jinghu completed the unification of Shangyue and Zhongyue. Then he successfully suppressed the powerful people north of the Agano River, that is, in the Shimoetsu region, and successfully completed the great cause of "Echigo unification" that his father and brother Harukei failed to complete.
But shortly after the unification of Echigo, Jinghu appeared in front of him a man who was on a par with him—Takeda Shingen from Koshu, another man who stood tall in Japan during the Sengoku period. Takeda Shingen expelled the Shinano clan of Ogasawara Nagashi, Murakami Yoshiki, and other daimyo of Shinano' neighboring neighbors, which were also connected to Echigo and Kai, and the Shinano Clan into takeda's hands. Ogasawara, Murakami and others fled into Echigo and asked the Uesugi family for help. In view of this, Jinghu decided to go south to use troops, and the most eye-catching duel of the Warring States period was about to be staged in the deep mountains and wild forests of Kita Shinano. For Jinghu, in addition to Kawanaka Island in Kita-Shinano, the Kanto region is also the focus of the competition. In addition to the fact that the land will be covered with heavy snow in winter, which is not conducive to military operations, there is another reason: in order to assist the main family's Kanto governor to lead the Uesugi Constitutional Government, the Uesugi family has almost every year since the 21st year of the Astronomical 21, which is also the biggest feature of the Uesugi family's strategy.
In the 4th year of Yonglu (1561), when the anti-Hojo forces in the Kwantung led by the Uesugi clan rose up in the "Kanto Expedition", Jinghu was in front of Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine in Kamakura, and at the same time received the position of "Kanto Governor" of the Uesugi Constitution and the "name" of the Uesugi family, as well as the "political" character of the constitution, so he changed his name to "Uesugi Masaho", and later received the "Hui" character of the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki and renamed it "Uesugi Huihu", and then received the name of "Humble Letter" because of his ordination.
However, in fact, the position of kanto governor can be said to be in name only, but Kenshin was very serious about performing the post given up by the Uesugi Constitution, so before the 12th year of Eiroku, Kenshin would set foot in the Kanto Plain every year.
Uesugi Kenshin
In the same year, Kenshin led 100,000 Kwantung Coalition troops to besiege Odawara Castle, and Kenshin also demonstrated his unique "rapid attack tactics", that is, the first people to launch a position from all directions to attack the city to find a breakthrough, at that time, Kenshin did not even wear a helmet and went straight into the battlefield, standing in front of the two armies to command the siege.
In 1577, after Tenshō attacked Nanao Castle, he immediately broke the Oda army led by Shibata Katsuya and Hashiba Hideyoshi at Tatetagawa, and the "invasion of the northern part of Kaga Domain" involving many Oda clan generals Mitsuhide, Takikawa Kazumasa, Niwa Nagahide, and Maeda Toshiya, was declared bankrupt, which greatly shocked Nobunaga, who was trying to break through the Uesugi family's "Vietnamese Defense Line" in one fell swoop. After the end of this battle, Kenshin saw that the Oda army retreated and immediately commanded the Uesugi army to pursue, and appeared behind the Oda army at a very fast speed to launch a rapid attack and successfully killed more than 1,000 people behind the Oda army, the rest of the Oda army generals were terrified, and the Uesugi army in the Battle of Tatetagawa was completely victorious over Oda Nobunaga, it is said that after this war, Oda Nobunaga was incredible about the excellent insight and strategy of this "Echigo military god", and tried to personally go to Vietnam to fight with it in the next year, but unfortunately, history finally failed to wait for the final decisive battle between the two great figures In 1578, Uesugi Kenshin died of illness in Kasugayama Castle.
Kenshin's goal was not to care about the gains and losses of one country and one city, and his ultimate ideal was to revive the declining Muromachi shogunate, end the chaos of the Warring States, and return the world to the ashikaga family. Judging from the two "Shangluo" in the 22nd year of astronomy and the 2nd year of Yonglu, it is the best proof. Kenshin's strategy was to regroup and regroup against the forces that were enemies of the Ashikaga shogunate after his own strength had increased to a certain extent, and to serve as an external force to assist the shogunate. Assuming that Qianxin was able to successfully ascend to Luo and support the Great General, he would be able to obtain the position of commander or deputy general, which represented a symbol of the supreme glory of the warrior family.
However, Before his dream could be realized, he died suddenly on March 13, 1578, 1578, due to cerebral hemorrhage. Since Kenshin never married, the Uesugi family governor left him with two adopted sons: Uesugi Keisho, the son of Nagao Masayoshi, and Uesugi Keikatsu, son of Nagao Masayoshi. In the end, in the "Imperial Pavilion Rebellion", under the plot of Naoe Kensei and other core courtiers, Uesugi Keisatsu defeated Uesugi Keisaku to seize the position of governor. Keikatsu, aided by Naoe Kensei, one of the "two great vassals of the world" (the other being Katakura Koshirō of the Date family, who helped Date Masamune dominate toroku) and the reputation of "Echigo's rule", fought fiercely against Oda Nobunaga's army, but fortunately in the 10th year of Tenshō, he was killed by a coup d'état at Honnō-ji Temple in Kyoto with Mitsuhide in Kyoto. Later, he suppressed hostile forces in the four northern Shinano prefectures and actively expanded his influence in the Shinano region. In 14 years, Tenshō submitted to the Toyotomi Hideyoshi regime and did not conduct any military action.
Uesugi Keisatsu
After Hideyoshi's death, when everyone was afraid of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Keisei was not afraid of Ieyasu's power, and even triggered the fuse of the Battle of Sekigahara, the "Naoe-like", although this was one of the well-known strategies of the Uesugi family, luring Ieyasu to gather the main forces of the Kwantung army to attack the Aizu Kingdom of Uesugi-na, and then ishida Mitsunari in Osaka to unite with the Daimyo of Nishi-nishi, led by Māori, to launch a major attack on the Ieyasu forces from west to east, but in the end it failed to confiscate Keikatsu's Aizu 1.2 million stone domain. The territory of Yonezawa was drastically reduced to 300,000 stones. The warring states leader Uesugi family declined from then on, and it was not until the "Fallen Curtain War" a hundred years later that it was revealed.
Looking at the rise and fall of the Uesugi family in the Warring States, the descendants who believed in the "Bishamon Heaven" were very good at field warfare. The Uesugi Army, led and built by Uesugi Kenshin, was able to prepare to detect fighters on the battlefield and seek every possible lightning offensive, although we have to admit that in the era when large siege machinery and siege theory and tactics were not widespread, the Uesugi Army was indeed not good at siege and siege operations, but the tenacity and bravery of the Uesugi Army had been accompanied by the wisdom and strategy of the "god of war" Uesugi Kenshin, and won the glory of the Uesugi family in the history of the Warring States. The Echigo Dragon soared over the Hokuriku and resounded throughout every place where Kenshin and his descendants fought: KawanakaJima, Mt. Karazawa, Odawara, and Tatetagawa.
Foreign History | | Minami Shobo
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