Pillars of the Wu family

Takeda Shingen rampantly swept the rebels in Ina County all the way. The so-called rebellion was completely wiped out within a few months before and after. However, he was given a lighter punishment. He himself was exiled from Shinano and could not return without being recruited. The position of family governor was inherited by his adopted son Fujisawa Shigetoki. punishment.

Takato Yoshitsugu is an unlucky ghost with great ambition and lack of talent. Naturally, his fate is not as good as that of Fujisawa Yorimi, who was exiled from Shinano. Fortunately, with the outbreak of the first Kawanakajima battle, the tyrannical Takeda army unexpectedly encountered a stronger Nagao army. After several months of fighting with large armies, it was impossible to tell the winner. In the 21st year of Tianwen (1552) during the outbreak of Kawanakajima, the people of Minami Shinano took the opportunity to set off a new wave of rebellion.

And this rebellion happened to have many relatives of Takato Yoshitsugu involved in it. Takeda Shingen wiped out the stubborn Takato clan in the subsequent crusade against the rebellion, and Takato Yotsutsu who lost his use value would naturally not be good. As a result, not long after Takeda Shingen returned from victory, he was forced to commit suicide to end his short life.

It just so happened that Yori Fujisawa went to Settsu to serve as the little leader of the ronin under the account of the Miyoshi family. He had mixed feelings when he learned the news not long after. There was hatred for Takeda Shingen and fear of the power of the Takeda family. The powerful protagonist Miyoshi Changqing was quickly defeated in the battle of Katsura, and lost to the hands of the 12-year-old house governor Ji Liangyishi. Since then, he has been dormant for five years without any major moves.

Life without military exploits and rewarding the head of this little rogue, Fujisawa Yori, is also very difficult. The prices in Kinai are simply not what he, a rogue from a distant country, can afford. His beautiful wife is still in Fuku and Castle Guard Waiting for his return in the empty boudoir.In the end, Yoriko Fujisawa gritted his teeth and returned to Shinano in the first year of Yongroku.

Living in Fuyu City in the name of a hermit family governor.Fortunately, his adopted son Fujisawa Shigetoki is an obedient nephew.He took the initiative to let Fu Yucheng out and lived in Minlun City by himself, so as to avoid the embarrassing situation where he didn't even have a nest. His old friend Akiyama Shinto also understood his embarrassment very well, and asked him not to go out for activities and quietly bring him back. His whereabouts are covered.

Now that the Kira army has entered Yi County, breaking the peaceful and peaceful life here, and seeing the Kira army that defeated Miyoshi Changqing again in his hometown after a few years, Fujisawa Yori decided to join the Kira family without much thought, not because The general trend is not because of the superficial attributes of the Chinese people.It is more to fight for his useless ten-year ronin career. The painful memories left to him by Takeda Shingen need to be washed away with a happy betrayal.

As for Ogasawara Changji's personal letter, it is also very important. With the personal intermediary of his uncle, I can stand out from the crowd of ordinary people who have surrendered and become an important supporter of the Kira family in the frontier of Minami Shinano. His strength is not enough to measure the attitude of the Kira family, but it is enough for the successful transformation of the Fujisawa family.

Sweeping half of Ina County was not finished, Murakami Yoshiki chose to call Sanada Kotaka for more support, and at the same time, in order to ensure that the back road would not be cut off by the Takeda army's sneak attack, he ordered Suda Mitsuki to lead a thousand troops to guard the wild god mountain castle.On the other hand, he gathered the strength of the indigenous people in Ina County, regrouped into an army of [-] and continued to attack south. [

I have to say that Takeda Shingen did not do well in appeasing Minami Shinano.As soon as Murakami Yoshiki's army reached the outside of Kasuga Castle, it was discovered that Kasuga Castle Shoji, the lord of Kasuga Castle who had heard the news, had already surrendered, and then Tonojima Castle under the jurisdiction of Inabu Masaki followed suit. The reason is that A few years ago, Takeda Shingen appointed Iifu Changkei to carry out a large-scale cleansing of the Chinese who opposed Takeda in Igun. Unfortunately, Kasuga Masaki's father and uncle were among them.

In June of the second year of Hongzhi (1556), Masakae Iitomi was ordered to send troops to Yi County. Against the relatively strong resistance forces in the county, Hayato Masanobu Heikawachi, Masaki Mizoguchi Minbu Shosuke, Nobuhisa Matsushima Toyozen, and Zuo Inabe Emmon Wei Shigeuki, Tonojima Yamato Mori Shigekuni, Miyata Sakon Masahiro, Odagiri Yamato Mori Mamoru, and Kamiho Izu Mori Shigeki are called the Ina eight people, and they are the main forces in the county that resolutely resisted the Takeda Army.

And they were brutally murdered by Fan Fuchangjing, and their heads were hung on the execution ground as an example to others. Then the leaders of the eight Chinese people spontaneously organized and took advantage of the night to secretly retrieve the heads of the eight people, and then Buried in Heihe Nei Township, an eight-person grave was set up to commemorate the strong belief of the eight warriors defying the power to protect the land protection family. Every spring and autumn, a large number of Chinese and local leaders came to pay homage to them in front of the eight-person grave. An important local custom.

Masaki Kasuga Kasuga is the direct son of Inabuzaemon Wei Shige, and his uncle is Tonojima Yamato Moriya. The two pillars of the family died tragically under the butcher knife of the Takeda army, and the young Kasuga Masaki was also forced to change. Miao character, he worshiped the word "Chang" from Takeda Shingen to express his trust and reuse, but how could he turn a blind eye to the family feud, he resolutely chose the latter between loyalty and filial piety.

By this time, the entire Ina County had heard the news of Kira's army's invasion. There were those who rejoiced and those who were worried and nervous, as well as those who led the army to rebel in anger, and most of them were cold-eyed bystanders. He hesitated to stand up and wave the flag for Kira's army. This gentleman is Ogasawara's direct younger brother.

As early as more than 20 years ago, the Ogasawara clan of Fuchu was fighting against the Matsuo Ogasawara clan of Shimoina, so Ogasawara Nagatoto, who had just become the governor of the family, appointed his younger brother Shinsada Ogasawara to go to Shimoina County to serve as the Suzuoka city lord. Ogasawara's family revived again. After Ogasawara was defeated for a long time, his living environment became very bad. He once escaped from Shinano when the Takeda clan invaded Ina in the second year of Koji.

Living in a difficult life, he once took refuge under Miyoshi's family to earn a living, but as Ogasawara re-emerged for a long time, things changed differently. Ogasawara Xin decided to give up the generous treatment given by Miyoshi Changqing from his family, and returned to his hometown Suzuoka Castle Continue to actively resist, this time he can be regarded as knowing some strategic directions of the Kira family in advance, and it is reasonable to be the first to jump out to respond to the Kira family.

Those who respond will naturally have fierce resistance.Katakiri Hayato Masatada of Funayama Castle.Okakusaka Sakazaemon Yumune of the Great Grass Castle resisted the invasion of the Kira Army by caged the castle.Afterwards, the Gaoyuan City Akiyama Shintou responded quickly, gathering the locals in Ina County to gather [-] troops to attack Murakami Yoshiki. ,

There is no advantage in terms of military strength or elite military power. The only advantage in some equipment is more cavalry and [-] old-style arquebus iron cannons. Murakami Yoshiki, who was firmly defending the cage city, repelled the attacks of Akiyama Shintomo time and time again, but he was too deep into Ina County, making his own army easily cut in half in the narrow canyon, and Murakami Yoshiki always had to face The danger of being cut off at any time.

Stalemate for half a month.Ogasawara rushed to Fukuyo Castle with [-] reinforcements for a long time, and exerted tremendous pressure on Akiyama Shintomo of Takato Castle from the north and south. They tried to force Akiyama Shintomo back to Takato Castle in this way, but they did not expect that Xinchun rushed to Gaoyuan City with [-] reinforcements to help in the battle, and the strength advantage of both sides was once again narrowed.

The armies of both sides fought more than ten battles in the valley between Tenryu River and Sanfeng River in Kamiina, and it was still difficult to distinguish the outcome. The generals of both sides belonged to the class of first-class generals. None of the generals in the army has plans to continue to increase troops, and the situation of this confrontation has never been resolved.

Nobushige Takeda did not dare to continue sending reinforcements, because he needed more troops to guard the north gate of Suwa County.Sanada Yutaka didn't think about sending more troops, because he was quietly leading 15 troops to Katsuzuru Pass.Launched the night attack on Okaya North City again. This was the No.[-] attack he launched, and it was also the third night attack attempt.

This night raid was not successful, and the army was discovered by the vigilant secret sentry before it reached the edge of the city. In desperation, Sanada Yutaka could only change the strategy of the raid and instigated the rebellious warriors in Okaya Kita Castle to cause riots. The Kira ninja took the opportunity to attack the guard of the Otemon Gate, attempting to enter Okaya North Castle by attacking the gate.

It's just that the plan is only halfway through, and the guard of the Otemon gate is doomed to die. However, the vigilant Nobushige Takeda almost failed to open the gate. More than a dozen Kira ninjas desperately opened the gate to welcome the Kira army. Entered, but was blocked by the elite led by Nobushige Takeda who felt later.

The two sides fought fiercely in front of the Otemon Gate of Okaya Kita Castle. The small gate became the main point of conflict between the two armies. The samurai Ashari from both sides launched a fearless charge against the enemy. They were all trying to gain a commanding height so that they could shoot at each other. A small Otemon gate became a Shura field that swallowed countless lives. Many young warriors rushed in and never came back. [

The defenders in the city took advantage of the geographical advantages to make the Kira Army suffer a lot, but then they were taken care of by the Iron Artillery Team of the Kira Army. The geographical advantage has also successfully restrained the most powerful Kira Iron Artillery Team. As soon as their firepower leaves the arrow oar, there will be a samurai who is not afraid of death climbing on the arrow oar and continuing to shoot at the Kira Army outside the city, forcing the Iron Cannon The artillery team must devote seven or eight points of energy to staring at the archery team in the city.

This fierce battle lasted from 2000nd watch to [-]th watch, with more than [-] casualties on both sides. A mountain of corpses spread from the outside of the Otome Gate to the inside of the gate. Blood flowed into a meandering dark red stream. When the first ray of light shone on the northern city of Gangu, the generals of both sides ordered to stop the fighting, and all this came to an abrupt end at that moment.

The tired warriors could only leave this sad place in a hurry with their wounds all over them. The warriors on both sides silently cleaned up the wreckage of their comrades-in-arms. No one wanted to take the initiative to attack again. The battle had lost the meaning of continuing. In the fierce battle, the physical strength and energy from the samurai to the ashigaru were severely overdrawn, and the long-term siege battle could not turn the attack into victory, making the samurai tired and anxious.

Uneasy emotions are quietly flowing, like a terrible infectious disease that infects several people in a short period of time. The momentum of the attack is getting weaker and the burden in his heart is getting bigger and bigger. Sanada Yutaka knows that it can no longer continue, and At the same time, the more painful Takeda army had some meaning that it could not hold on, and Takeda Nobushige also immediately stopped the battle.

The Kira army stopped because of exhaustion of physical strength, and excessive casualties could never be transformed into victory. The Takeda family stopped because the samurai and ashigaru had no physical support, and they relied entirely on a strong belief to support themselves Under the circumstances, they may be able to hold on for another half an hour.It may also fall suddenly in the next moment.As long as one person can't support it and falls down, it will all fall down like dominoes.Nobushige Takeda dare not bet on how long this time is.

Yukitaka Sanada still failed to win the Otemon in the end. His failure was not because the samurai were light and heroic, nor because the iron cannon powder was shot down, but because the slope in front of Otemon was only [-] degrees. On the small link of attacking, it can't be said that he failed, unless the meaning of victory is positioned to capture Okaya North City.

In fact, Kotaka Sanada can choose to persist a little longer, and if he persists for another morning, the Takeda Army will definitely collapse completely.Victory will belong to the Kira Army who is also in collapse, but it is suicide to continue to insist on seizing the city at this point. Suwa Shiro Katsuyori led the Suwa people from all directions to attack Okaya Kita Castle. By then Sanada Yukitaka With what to resist?

The only answer is that the only answer is to use human lives to fill the army. A completely collapsed army is like a paper tiger. Even the worst believers can defeat them. Let these people defend the city. Naturally, how many people will die? If you survive until Jun Miyabe or Ogasawara Nagato come back, you are victorious, and if you don't come back, there is no suspense for the whole army to be wiped out.

So he wisely chose to retreat, in order to kill a Takeda Nobushige or slaughter all the troops in Okaya North Castle.Putting all the [-] troops of the Shinano Army and his own wealth and life into it, it may even destroy the foundation that Kira Yoshika worked so hard to build.This is not the work of a wise man or the style of Yukitaka Sanada.

Compared with the figure of Sanada Yutaka leaving with full of regret and resentment, Takeda Nobushige felt more grateful and encouraged. After a year of hard work and a night of stalemate, he finally blocked Sanada Yutaka's most violent offensive. He knew very well that this did not mean that Sanada Yutaka Not as powerful as him, but because he has a huge advantage in the location and people, and as the defender of the city, he has an elite army that is not inferior to the attacker. This war is very difficult to fight.

Even if Takeda Shingen personally came to attack Okaya North Castle, without a strong army of more than 1, it would be absolutely impossible to break through the strong castle guarded by 1 troops led by Takeda Shinshige, and use [-] people to attack the [-]-guarded Fortifying the city is a very unbelievable act. Probably only Sanada Xingtaka dared to fight like this. Even a first-class top general would not dare to imagine such an aggressive tactical play.

This battle was finally named as the Battle of Okayani-saka. The two sides hurriedly ceased fighting after paying more than 2000 lives each. The loss of the Kira Army was more than 2000, compared with the loss of the Takeda family. There are more than 600 people. If the price is not too high and they persist for half an hour, the loss ratio will be further magnified, but there is no result if it is so exhausted.

After the war ended, a new round of confrontation began. Of course, the situation in Ina County remained unchanged. The pro-Kira Ina group led by Murakami Yoshiki and Ogasawara Nagato ran into the pro-Takeda Ina group led by Baba Nobuharu and Akiyama Nobuyuki. The two sides fought fiercely for three months and fought more than a dozen small battles every day, and they were still tied. In the end, more than 2000 people were killed and injured on both sides, and they returned to the same starting line. It was not until the end of the autumn harvest that the first snow fell and the army was tidied up. new year.

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When Kira Yoshishi learned of this invincible result, he could only smile helplessly. The Kira family swallowed all the meat that was easy to eat, and the rest was only a hard bone, and now the Takeda family is a piece of meat. If you can't chew hard bones, the closer the army is to Kai, the more difficult it will be to attack.

In fact, he never thought that Yukitaka Sanada would really break into Suwa County. If he was really beaten into Suwa County, it would be a big trouble. The Takeda family will definitely send a steady stream of troops to Suwa County, in order to defend the last northern gate of the Takeda family. At all costs, unless Yoshitoki Yoshitoki leads his army to Suwa to fight a big battle, the crisis facing Kotaka Sanada will be resolved, but will Shingen Takeda fight a decisive battle with him?Will not!

In the chaotic times of the Warring States Period, every step of expansion was accompanied by great difficulties and obstacles. In some places, the cost of expansion was too high to make the daimyo go bankrupt, while in some places, the cost was zero and they only needed to surrender as soon as the army arrived. In the Yonglu period, the cost of expansion was very high. High times, the earlier the times the greater the resistance to expansion.

For example, the expansion of Hojo Soun and Hojo Ujizuna is like this. Without the support of Hosokawa Masato and Hosokawa Takakuni, the expansion of Hojo was immediately fought back by the Kanto people's coalition forces. There is no such big name as the Odawara Hojo family in the world anymore.

At that time, Kira Yoshimi never thought of eating a big fat man with one bite. Although the Kira family held nearly five territories, in fact his core territory was still the basic territory of Echigo.At most, the transfer of seals in recent years has played a role.Part of the territory of Shinano, Ueno, Etsuchu, Dewa, and Kaga countries has been directly controlled.But his fundamental interests are tied to Echigo and cannot be changed.

This is why he did not choose to blindly set up a new residence outside. He is more concerned about the management of Echigo's territory than anyone else. Yoshitoki Kira's plan is to gradually transfer out the Echigo retainers to complete Echigo's complete He became a direct leader, and at the same time, he was able to expand the basic base of the Kira family through the transfer of family members from generation to generation, from one and a half countries to five kingdoms. At that moment, he was the real daimyo.

Just like there were seven guardian positions in the heyday of the Ouchi family, but in fact the core base of the Ouchi family is still the Shuo and Nagato two countries.The situation of the "Yin Yang One Prefect" of Nizi's family is similar. He claims to control half of the Western Kingdom. In fact, his family's core area is still the land of Izumo and Ishimi. The rest are just servants. The Hojo family is now such a large territory. The core areas are Izu and Sagami.

The core base of the Takeda family is Kai, Suwa, and Saku. These two counties are like two wings protecting Kai's wings, and like two huge fists that can be stretched out to hit Ueno with a right hook and a left hook. Punching Hida, and now losing the right wing and fist, the Takeda family has been reduced to half disabled, and if they lose another wing and fist, they will really have no power to fight back.

The best and the best in the Three Kingdoms Alliance is actually the Imagawa family.Yoshimoto Imagawa's patience and means are unusually strong, and he can restrain his temper and annex Mikawa Kingdom step by step.It took ten years to change the thinking of the new generation of samurai, and established prestige with strict samurai laws and clear rewards and punishments.

He also wooed the people of Sanhe Country to become confidantes by means of motivating them, seducing them with affection, and gradually turning the part of Sanhe Country into his own basic board. Killed in infancy, it's a pity that all these abilities, no matter how strong, are destroyed in the narrow space of the barrel.

Kira Yoshishi missed an appointment again, and when he returned to Echigo, he was faced with a backlog of government affairs that had lasted for half a year. He was so busy all day long that he could create more than a dozen clones to help with government affairs, from dawn to dusk. Some executive officials came to him to discuss government affairs, and meetings were held non-stop every day, and the documents that could not be read and signed, and the monograms that could not be signed, the whole person would collapse.

In the end, when he was in a hurry, he pretended to be sick, handed over all unimportant government affairs to the executive officer, and ordered that documents with a single payment of less than [-] guan should not be shown to him. In the future, he would only approve documents of more than [-] guan , and stipulated that all future government affairs should first be made a preliminary decision at the internal meeting of the executive public and then handed over to him for approval.

But there are some things that cannot be avoided. Hosokawa Fujitaka showed him a stack of autumn harvest documents, and explained to him while showing him: "This year's situation is very bad. Drought has brought great disadvantages to the growth of rice, followed by continuous rainstorms in the summer, and it did not improve until autumn. The annual income of Echigo Shigao was reduced by 60 shi due to this catastrophe. , the actual stone high income is only 220 million [-] stone."

Yoshina Kira took the document, and said distressedly: "The disaster is so serious! However, the Dewa country seems to have suffered a lot of disasters. The grain production in the territory has been reduced by about [-]%, and I even authorized the allocation of [-] shi of grain as the grain reserve of the top family. In order to cope with the difficult period of lean and yellow crops in the coming spring."

"Echigo's problem is not that big. With the active cooperation of our followers, the people of all counties, and the old villagers, we are actively pumping water to irrigate the fields, so the loss is only about [-]%." Hosokawa Fujitaka shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Although I really want to praise myself a few more words, but this year's autumn harvest situation is indeed very unfavorable to us.

The disasters in Ueno and Shinano are very serious. The overall loss of the two countries is between 35% and 27%. Among them, the southern part of Ueno and the central part of Shinano have been greatly affected by the flood. This year's autumn harvest has decreased by about [-]%. The total income of Ueno country was [-] koku, and that of Shinano country was [-] koku. "

"Great crime, famine!" Ji Liangyi blurted out two words in an instant. These two words mean catastrophe and famine. In fact, this kind of thing is as common as earthquakes and storms every year, almost every ten or eight years. A famine is about to happen. In the past few years, Kirayoshi has encountered two major famines, one is a storm and the other is a drought, and this is the third time.

"Yes! This is a huge famine that has spread to the Eastern Kingdom. The food damage in Etsu China is relatively light, and the loss is only 40% less than the previous year's data. However, because the development of Xintian in Etsu Chuan County is relatively smooth. However, the stone height of Etsuchu broke through 20 shi this autumn, and the Kaga country was almost undamaged. The autumn harvest statistics of the two counties and a half were about 32 shi. Dewa country lacks information on Okisou County. , Tagawa County, Murayama County, and Mogami County have a stone height of [-] stone."

"Vietnam's problem is not big. After the winter, farmers were quickly dispatched to Kaga. Kaga's half-country territory has only 8 people plus 7 troops. It is not conducive to defending the territory. The remaining 20 people should be implemented as soon as possible. Go to Kaga." Yoshiki Kira thought for a while, and then joked: "The 16 stones of grain over there are enough for [-] people to eat in Kaga for half a year according to the way we used to eat. According to our Echigo The diet is combined with potatoes, corn, seafood, and vegetables, and these grains are more than enough for a year and a half."

Takashi Hosokawa smiled when he heard about it. Looking back carefully, the changes in Echigo are really amazing. In the past, the life of two meals a day, white rice, pickled radish and miso soup, was monotonous and boring. Now chicken, fish, eggs, vegetables and fruits are never in stock. There are surprisingly many seasonal vegetables every year, and the huge impact of the increase in dishes is that we eat less and less food.

According to the previous calculation, one serving of rice per person consumes one stone, seven buckets and five liters of rice in one year. In conversion, you have to eat seven or two rices, some pickled radishes and miso soup every day. The monotonous eating habits are very lacking in nutrition, and the most important point of eating If you don’t have enough to eat, and under the ravages of the sick vegetarian concept, it’s not surprising that you don’t have enough to eat, you don’t eat well, you are thin and short, and this kind of dietary concept will also cause "beriberi", which can kill people.

Now there are meat, vegetables, and pressed soybean oil and animal fat. Two meals a day will be replaced by three meals a day. A commoner will only eat seven taels of rice a day if he is full. If you have some spare money, it will be easier to eat egg noodles outside. Some do not even eat rice. The fishermen on the seaside eat fish in their three meals a day, and eat even less rice.

Yoshishi Kira thought for a long time, and felt that this was a good opportunity to improve the food planting habits of Hokuriku countries, so he said slowly: "The popularity rate of wheat in Vietnam, China and Kaga needs to be increased, and some are not suitable for growing rice. Don’t blindly pursue rice planting in the plains and mountainous areas. You can try a variety of wheat and it will have good results. In addition, I also imported millet from the Ming Dynasty, which can be widely used in mountainous areas as a crop rotation configuration. The second phase of millet and wheat crops is also very good. , supplemented by several kinds of vegetables, even without the support of meat, poultry and eggs, the food problem in Hokuriku can be solved.”

"I understand!" Hosokawa Fujitaka bowed and stepped back. (to be continued...)

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