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Chapter 814 East-West War (25) Honda is pure, wise and courageous, a playful showman under Hamamatsu Castle

Following the statements of the two ex-Takeda ministers, the Zouwa priest daimyo Zouwa Lai-shui was the third one to express his position without any psychological pressure.

It's just that his statement was a little ambiguous. He accepted Hideo's suggestion of obedience, but he didn't express his position on whether to continue to be the minister of the Takeda clan.

The Zoufang family had no special relationship with the Takeda family. Compared with the Hoshike family who were also from Shinano, the Zoufang family had always been dissatisfied with the rule of the Takeda clan in Koshu.

It's true that he wanted to surrender, but he didn't want to be included under Takeda Hidenobu's command. If he had to find a big brother, he would choose to surrender directly to the Xiu family.

The Xiu family is also quite jealous of the Zoubo family. In any case, it is the daimyo of the Zouwa Shrine, who has no less than 2 stones in Zhixing, whether in Takeda or the Tokugawa family.

The most important thing is that the location of Zouwang is very critical. It controls the location of the north-south Shinano transportation hub. The key point is that Kai is the core location of the entire Koshin. Hideka is not at ease if such a location is handed over to any big name. .

Before seeing Zoufang Laisui, Hideka hadn't figured out what to do with him, but after seeing him in person, Hideka decided to follow Takeda Shingen's example and adopt a son to inherit the status of Zoufang Daizhu after the peace after the war .

Of course, this son must be the concubine of the Xiu family, and because of the important geographical location, the number of his knowledge and practice will not be many, and if there are too many knowledge and practice, he will become a big existence.

With three people taking the lead, and Tokugawa Hidetada being controlled by the Xiu family, the other samurai daimyos basically expressed their intention to surrender.

However, because Tokugawa Hidetada is still there, and the final decisive battle has not yet been decided, they seem to have concerns about whether they will completely fall to the Hideka.

Xiujia expressed understanding for their ambiguous attitude, and just asked them to cooperate with him to restrain the soldiers who had surrendered, and let them leave after all the dust settled.

In fact, these big names are not the most important. What the Xiu family is worried about is the more than 2 Tokugawa soldiers who have surrendered. These people are the most important armed forces in the Tokugawa family. Under the gathering of Xiu's family, Lu Junyuan and San made troubles.

But it is impossible for so many people to be detained here in Tianzhong City. If a riot broke out, it would be equivalent to an army of 2 people making trouble in the back of the Xiu family.

Fortunately, Xiu's family has the wisdom of later generations. After much deliberation, he still needs to find a place to detain this group of people, and Kai, surrounded by mountains, is just a good place that can be used as a temporary concentration camp.

So Xiujia decided to divide the 2 Tokugawa soldiers into two. 1 people were escorted to Kai Katsunuma Castle, and Kagawa Jingze led 5000 people to guard them.The second route needs to be escorted to Sagami Fujisawa Castle and handed over to Osafune Sadachi and others who are in charge of the rear defense.

Dividing people into two groups is also to share the pressure of the guards. After all, too many people get together and cause trouble.

After the affairs of Tanaka Castle were over, Yuxi Duo Zongsheng led people back to Junfu first, firstly to publicize the great victory of Xiujia to the other formations staying in Jundong, and secondly to escort the first batch to Sagami The captives were sent back in advance.

Hideka, who had won a big victory in Asahinagawa, needed to go back to persuade Sunpu Castle to open the city, and at the same time let the army go back to rest for a while, but the vanguard continued to advance westward.

The performance of the Ashikaga family and the Toyotomi Shige family in this battle was quite satisfactory, of course, this may be because of the scheduling of Kuwa Taka.

So the Hide family directly let Nawa Hisagi go westward with the two of them, with the goal of taking the two cities of Kakegawa and Hamamatsu for the family. Of course, Tokugawa Hidetada's letter persuading them to surrender will be sent there with them.

Perhaps the Xiu family overestimated the influence of Tokugawa Hidetada, or perhaps underestimated the willpower of the generals of the Tokugawa family to continue to stick to it.

In addition to Junfu Castle, which can no longer resist because of emptying out its family, and Kakegawa, which voluntarily abandoned because of shrinking the defenders, Hamamatsu, Izumizu and other cities received news of the defeat of Tokugawa Hidetada and Sakakibara Yasumasa Asahinagawa, and Tokugawa Hidetada's personal letters all rejected Hideka's surrender.

The Hide family who heard the news couldn't help complaining about Tokugawa Hidetada, "Is the major general really the young master of the Tokugawa clan? It seems that your retainers don't care about your orders."

Here in Junfu City, Hideka met generals such as Toyotomi Teruie and Todo Takatora who had been away for 2 months, and finally synchronized the general occupation of the north from their mouths.

In response to Hideo's attack, Nobuyuki Sanada moved the base from Minowa Castle to Shirai Castle at the confluence of Agatsuma River and Tone River on the north side.

Although the city is a flat city, it is surrounded by water on three sides, and only the north side faces land. Moreover, the Tone River is always turbulent, and the water of the Agatsuma River in summer is not enough to cross the river on foot. It is a good place to stick to.

In response to the Toyoharu family's offensive, they deliberately demolished all the wooden bridges in the upper reaches of Liangchuan, and defended Shirai Castle and Numata Castle in the upper reaches.

Faced with such a tortoise shell, even Fujido Takatora had no good solution. Before they left, it was said that Shi Quandeng was preparing to dig a trench to attack Baijing City.Now the water attack operation has been going on for more than a month, and there is no latest information from there. If Baijing City opens, the Xiu family will know the first time.

The inside of Shinano has been disrupted at this moment, and Teru Ikeda is leading the army of Nanbu Yinshin, Soma Yoshinon and other daimyos to the north to support the North Army Corps and encircle the Uesugi family.

According to the information before they left, since Uesugi Kagekatsu was leading people to besiege Asano Nagamasa in Etchuk, before they turned around, the North Army Corps had swept the entire area under the lead of Mogami Yoshimitsu and Date Masamune. North Vietnam area.

Uesugi Jingsheng got the information and withdrew from Yuezhong. Asano Nagamasa led his troops to chase and accidentally fell into an ambush. It was said that he was lost and had to return to Toyama Castle to recuperate.The originally agreed strategy of encircling Vietnam and China on three sides is missing an arm.

Even so, when the Uesugi army brought back to Kasugayama Castle, there were only 1 people left, but they had to face the siege of more than 6 troops, including reinforcements from Teruma Ikeda.

Uesugi Kekatsu and the world's number one vassal, Naoe Kanesuke, still have no good way to face the second siege of Kasugayama. They can only wait for the situation in the world to be clear, and Osaka will send reinforcements as they did with Uesugi Ketora's siege.

Of course, it is not that the Uesugi family has not thought about making peace. Naoe Kanatsugu privately expressed to Xiuzhen that they would surrender as long as the territories of Echigo and Shonai were guaranteed, and they were willing to give up the territories of Shinano and Etsuchu.

He even said that if necessary, he would trade his own death for the forgiveness of Uesugi.

In the Hideka crusade, the death of Toyotomi Hideji was attributed to the conspiracy and persecution of the treacherous officials within the Toyotomi Group. The culprit here was Toyotomi Hidekatsu who killed his brothers and nephews, and he wrote the essay to stimulate Toyotomi Hideji to bring troops over Kanetsugu Naoe.

So Naoe Kanetsugu is very clear that it is very difficult for him to be forgiven by the Hide family. If he forgives himself, what is the point of the Hide family's crusade?
But now the situation is stronger than others. Since Hideji's crusade against Uesugi, the Uesugi family has been fighting for more than 2 years, and the economy in the territory has long been smashed.

Especially after the city was besieged in spring, no spring plowing was planted, and the entire Uesugi family would be hungry in the coming year.This is why after Toyotomi Hideji's defeat, the Uesugi family did not develop wretchedly in the territory, but took the initiative to attack Etsuchu.

They were not going to work for the Toyotomi family, they simply wanted to grab some grain from the Asano family so that they could wait until next year's summer harvest.

As long as there is a chance for Uesugi to breathe, he Naoe Kanesuke will not take the initiative to negotiate with Xiuzhen.

Regarding Naoe Kanetsugu's conditions, Toyotomi Hidetada did not dare to be self-reliant. It happened that Toyotomi Teruma's trip to the south also brought Toyotomi Hidetada's inquiry, so he asked him to ask the Hide family how to deal with the Uesugi family.

The Xiu family can wait for the territory of the Uesugi family to reward the meritorious officials. The Xiu family is talking about you Naoe Kanesuke in name in the letter, but in fact the sword is aimed at Uesugi Jingsheng. Naturally, the Xiu family does not agree to punish the Uesugi family. forgive.

Xiujia personally wrote a reply letter and handed it to the envoy to take it to Echigo and hand it to Uesugi Jingsheng. The letter said: "After Uesugi is a famous family, the Xiu family also intends to keep the famous family. I will definitely forgive you.

Hideka said that he has been a colleague of Uesugi Jingsheng for many years, and he knows that Zhong Na Yan's nature has always been loyal, and this time he must have been deceived by a villain to make this big mistake.I still have a relationship with him, and I will definitely mediate for him, and the status of a national daimyo will still be reserved for the Uesugi family.

As for whether the Uesugi Clan can keep Echigo after the war, the Hide family did not give a guarantee, but only said that they would give the Uesugi Clan a matching security. "

In addition, Hideka also sent a letter to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, saying in the letter, "I have seen the performance of Koriyama Councilor and the generals. Now that I have defeated the main force of Tokugawa in the south, I very much hope that Koriyama Councilor can Defeat Uesugi as soon as possible and lead people to join forces with Sakuma, Asano and other Zhongliang, and finally both sides go to Luo together."

Hideka also said, "If Kasuga Castle is difficult to attack, and Uesugi relies on the fortified city to resist the disobedience, there is no need to linger here for a long time, leaving Date and the Mogami two to monitor Kasuga Castle, and he himself will continue to go to Luo with other daimyos. Just meet up with the Asano Council."

At the end of the letter, Hideya also said that he asked Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Toyotomi Zhengjia to visit the Beizhengsuo who stayed in Takaoka for him, and expressed his intention to help Toyotomi's family to the Beizhengsuo, and asked him to give him a name. point.

The last letter was sent to Teruma Ikeda, asking him to lead more than [-] people from the headquarters back to Shinano. After a short rest, he raised the banner of the Central Route Army and made an action to attack Mino from Kiso Valley.

He didn't expect Teruma Ikeda to really go west to Mino. As long as Tokugawa Ieyasu could be frightened and he was forced to give up the thick-tailed defense and retreat back to defend Omi, it would be a strategic success for Hideo.

Because they met again after many days, and they met with some of the army forces in the middle route, Xiujia intends to reorganize the army forces.

Of course, before that, in order to frighten Junyuan San's Xiaoxiao, and to boost the morale of the whole army, Hideka brought his retainers, soldiers, and other daimyos to watch the seppuku ceremony of Sakakibara Yasumasa and others at the foot of Junfu Castle.

To be honest, such a scene was quite shocking, even Satake Yoshishige and other daimyos who were the victor felt a bit of fear.

Since the easternmost part of the Suruga River, Izumito Castle led by Torii Mototada still has not fallen, the Hide family had no choice but to order 6000 people from the headquarters led by Doi Kiyoshi to continue to besiege the city. The Wanzhong Road Corps continued to go to Luo.

Junfu, Xingguo Temple, Tianzhong and other important cities along the way, Xiangxi Zichun, Changchuan Dingxing and others will stay there. Including the reduction in the previous battle, the total number of Xiujia's Shangluo army is about 12. .

On October 10, Hideka's soldiers arrived at Hamamatsu.

This is the ruling center of the Tokugawa family today, and most of the family members of the Tokugawa family's retainers are here. Of course, after receiving the news that Hideo Bingfeng arrived here, Honda Masazumi ordered his family to be sent to Okazaki to settle .

After re-searching a circle of soldiers from Higashi Mikawa and Yuanjiang, more than 2 troops were stationed in Hamamatsu Castle.This is Honda's pure confidence. He is confident that he will rely on Kenjo Hamamatsu to drag Hideo to the help of the lord Tokugawa Ieyasu.

But things changed after the Xiu family's turn. After hearing that the Xiu family had arrived, he took the initiative to send someone over to ask for peace. Said that as long as Honda is pure and pure, he is willing to accept him as a retainer of the Toyotomi family.

After Masamune Honda heard it, he wrote a letter directly to Xiujia, expressing his gratitude to Xiujia. The beauty of Wenzao definitely surpassed the standard of samurai. Don't praise Xiujia too much Comfortable.

After reading the letter, the Xiu family directly promised that if he was willing to follow the Junshan Palace after the war, he could stay in Junyuan San, and he would guarantee that he would have no less than 3 shi in Andu.But if he is willing to be the retainer of the Xiu family directly, the Xiu family will choose another place to give him a reward of 5 shi.

Honda was overjoyed when he heard about it, and immediately wrote back again to bargain with Xiujia about where to go. After a while, he said he was going to Kanto, and Xiujia agreed.Later, he expressed that he wanted to go to Kinki, and Xiujia said that he could.

After all this back and forth, where exactly should I go to reward Ben Duo Zhengchun actually discussed with the Xiu family for 2 days, and the Xiu family finally simply said that you can go wherever you want, and you can let him choose the leading country and city first, and give it to him. He has a place by his side in the future.

Masakazu Honda replied again, but he also said that he had sent his family members to Okazaki before, and now he had to surrender himself, and he also had concerns.

He said that he could write a letter to Okubo Tadashi over there, and he could persuade Okubo Tadashi to surrender, so that it would be convenient for the Xiu family to make money in Luohang.Furthermore, most of the family members of the Tokugawa family are now in Okazaki, and controlling Okazaki will also help the Hide family to control the retainers of the Tokugawa family.

Hideka agreed with Honda's pure suggestion, but he already noticed something unusual.

Since he arrived in Okazaki, Honda Masazumi has chatted with him for 5-6 days, but he is still not sure whether he will open the city.

Hideka, who is familiar with the history of the later generations, already vaguely felt that Honda Masamune was deliberately delaying time, and according to the news from the ninja from inside Hamamatsu Castle, Honda Masakami who was about to open the city and surrender was still patrolling the city defense every day. Looking for loopholes in the city defense and making supplements, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like you are going to surrender the city.

Hideie, who realized that something was wrong, sent Sanada Nobushige 60 steps closer to the city the next day after Honda Masakazu's reply to inform Honda Masakazu that he needed to open the city today, and said that Kaesong and persuading Okubo Tadao to surrender were not the same. conflict.

But Honda Masazumi's answer was still ambiguous, and when facing an important official of the Toyoharu family like Nobushige Sanada approaching the castle, the appearance of the Tokugawa army on the castle tower did not look like they were really about to surrender.

Hideka, who had already figured it out, found out that he had been hanged for 7 days by Honda Masahiro for no reason. It was really special and funny.

However, thinking of his evaluation as a wise and brave general in history, and his identity as the son of Honda Shoshin, even Hideka had to sigh, "It is indeed the pillar of the Tokugawa family, the wise general of the Tokai Do."

At this moment, only a few people from the Hide family and Takawa Hisutora realized that something was wrong most of them, Satake Yoshishige, Todo Takatora, and many Toyoharu family retainers and other daimyo who were immersed in Hamamatsu Castle and Okazaki Castle In an invincible dream.

So I was a little perplexed by Hideka's sudden praise of Honda Masanzu. After all, it was yesterday that he said that he wanted to persuade Okazaki to surrender. Did His Highness You Fu's reflex arc grow a bit longer?
Even before they could react, Xiujia's expression changed from emotion to sternness, and he said leisurely, "After playing tricks for so long, I was blinded by others. Jun Yuansan does not allow such a fool exist."

After saying that, Hideka stood up immediately, and the reaction was so great that he even took Mazha down, only to hear the military equipment in Hideka's hand pointing to Hamamatsu Castle and saying to Fujido Takatora, "Sado, you will be in charge of attacking the city, and the firearms are large and small. All the artillery support will be given to you, and the entire army will be deployed by you, I only have one request, take Hamamatsu within 3 days!"

(End of this chapter)