Even with such a showing of great heroism, Kazumasa was tasked with an overwhelming obligation by the year of 1573: Oda Nobunaga had already torn apart the Asakura and was charging upon the Sawayamasa castle with over 35,000 soldiers to back his aspirations. And as Nagamasa was too afraid of the humiliation that he would suffer from if he were to surrender to Nobunaga a second time, he took a hold of Kazumasa's aged mother, swearing that she will be crucified if Kazumasa fails in the ultimate attempt of forcing off the Oda besiegers from Sawayama. As Kazumasa was thus determined to fight on to his very last breath less his mother were to suffer such an excruciating death, he managed to hold out for over 8 months before initially possessing no remaining provisions at which his army would be
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