Pillars of the Wu family

Because the incident in Kinki delayed the attack plan of the Kira family, and coincided with the Owari Oda clan's request for a covenant marriage, Yoshishi Kira simply slowed down his preparations and waited patiently for Oda Nobunaga Hui Yin, take this opportunity to establish the family's government affairs management. Compared with a few years ago, there was only Echigo one country, and now the Kira family, which owns five countries, has to deal with government affairs. It is unimaginably complicated.

The problems that Kiragi faced were very difficult. First of all, the flood and snow disasters caused by excessive rain and snow for three consecutive years, and the droughts that appeared from time to time brought various negative factors to agriculture. One bad news after another kept coming. The introduction of Echigo, the direct and indirect losses caused by the snowstorm were as high as [-] kanwen.

The lords from all over the country sent piles of requests for disaster relief. Requests for money, food, and exemption from some tax benefits were sent like a snowflake. Tax-free preferential treatment can be given, and none of the lords who wanted to steal and play tricks to take advantage of Kira's family escaped.

Even if the strict determination still does not prevent the loss caused by the catastrophe, when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming in the spring of the year, the people affected by the disaster spread the only grain stored in the land, hoping for a good harvest this year, which is inevitable. In the lean season, more and more hungry people everywhere will die on a large scale if there is no relief.

Land and population are the two most important indicators of a lord. No matter how much land is opened up, there are not enough people to cultivate it. The embarrassing situation of population decline under the influence of war, chaos and famine is to preserve the vitality of the other four countries.Kira Yoshitoshi decided to implement a large-scale aid plan.

Expected to start in early March.Send million shi of grain to other countries in five batches.Using a large amount of reserves to attract non-Kira farmers from nearby countries to move to live in several countries, and to enlist general labor on the spot to solve the survival plight of the lean season. The million shi grains only account for the existing grain reserves of Echigo One-third of that is not enough to cause the food crisis in Echigo.

If it weren't for Echigo's strong foundation, there is really no way to deal with this three consecutive years of disasters. In contrast, some Chinese lords in Kanto, Hokuriku and even Tokaido are particularly difficult. Last year's catastrophe made their territories The food income was halved, and even if the lord was exempted from taxation, it would not be able to change the plight of food shortage after the catastrophe.

Besides, the lords are unwilling to give up the pitifully small annual tribute after halving. If they are poor farmers, they will have to starve themselves to death.Farmers have no food to eat and can escape to seek the protection of wealthy lords. Warriors have no food to eat and are unwilling to give up their land, so they can only choose the road of trouble. Let's talk about the classes when they are full.

The natural disasters that have been sweeping through the Kanto for the past ten years have made them feel the hardships of life. The natural disasters and the continuous war forced the peasants to pack up their bags and go away. Refugees poured into Kira Territory from different directions, which brought enormous pressure to the lords everywhere, further forcing them to seek help from Kasugayama Castle. [

And precisely because of the dilemma of this solution.The lords are more eager to expand. If there is not enough land and food to eat, they can only choose to grab other people's territories and eat other people's food.While the Kira family was busy dealing with requests for disaster assistance from various places, another wave of war broke out in Kanto.

The Hojo Clan led an army of [-] troops to go out again, this time with Hojo Shigeru as the vanguard general, cutting all the way to the Shangso Kingdom, and the people of the country who had just been successfully instigated by Satomi Yoshihiro along the way fell into the arms of the Hojo Clan again. Masaki Tokitada and Toki Weiyai ​​fled to Xiasuo for temporary refuge in the last defeat. This time they returned to the Fangsou Peninsula with the Hojo Army, and immediately acted as loyal leading parties and gave great support along the way.

Satomi Yoshihiro gritted his teeth with hatred for these two dog legs, but he could not move lightly in Sanuki Castle where he was, because he knew that the Sagami Navy was like a pack of wild wolves on the prairie, cruising around the Fangsuo Peninsula waiting for an opportunity to attack Sanuki Castle Raid, as long as he dares to leave Sanuki Castle with a large army, he will welcome the Hojo Army led by the Sagami Navy to land from Isogenzaki at any time, and raid Sanuki Castle through the familiar Mifune Mountain.

Even though he won a war, he still dared not act rashly. This unspeakable aggrieved mood made Satomi Yoshihiro very uncomfortable. Annoyed, he decided to teach the Hojo family another lesson, but he found out that the unlucky Hojo clan had suddenly changed his mind. Very clever, he did not choose to besiege Sakanu Castle, which suffered a big loss last time, but chose to surround Kururi Castle, where Satomi Yoshiyao lived in seclusion.

Kururi Castle is the traditional residence of the Satomi Clan, but after Satomi Yoshiyao handed over the family governor to his son-in-law Yoshihiro Satomi and lived in seclusion again, Satomi Yoshihiro decided his new residence to be Sagaki Castle near Edo Bay. The soldiers and horses in Guancheng are strong and the morale is high, and Yoshihiro Satomi has proved through his own strength that his new governor is by no means a vain person, forcing the Hojo family to be cautious about the attack of the Satomi family.

The Hojo Clan chose Kururi Castle, which was relatively weak in the defense network built by the Satomi family, as a breakthrough point, and the cunning Hojo Clan led an army of [-] troops to sit in the town of Masato Valley, and handed over [-] troops to Hojo Genan as a breakthrough. Commanded by the army generation, and set up the main formation on Atago Mountain not far northwest of Kururi City, Kururi City with only [-] defenders could not stop the attack of [-] troops.

Coinciding with the impact of this three-year severe natural disaster, the agricultural harvest of the Fangxuan Peninsula has also been hit hard. The food stored in Kururi City cannot support the consumption of the long-term defense of the city. The embarrassing situation of not having enough food to eat within one month of the siege , In this way, Satomi Yoshihiro in Sanuki Castle is forced to take the lead, otherwise the day when Kururi Castle falls will not be too far away.

Satomi Yoshihiro discussed with Masaki Tokimo and decided to launch an attack, making the illusion that the Satomi family came out to help Kururi Castle, but in reality, Masaki Tokimo attracted the attention of the Hojo family with an army of [-], and Waiting for the opportunity to delay the main force of the Hojo Army to buy time, and Satomi Yoshihiro himself led a [-]-strong army to raid the Hojo camp on Mount Atago, and then staged a good show of a night attack on Mount Mifune.

On the morning of March [-], Masaki Tokimo led [-] troops out of Dashicheng, and moved to Daifuku Mountain in the evening of the same day to form a posture of long-term resistance.Dafushan is less than ten kilometers away from Kururi Castle.If the Satomi army chooses to make a surprise attack, it can be done from morning to noon.Hojo Genan was very cautious about this, and he ordered the Hojo Army to shrink across the board and return to the Atago Mountain Camp.

The Hojo Army remained unmoved for half a month, no matter how provocative the Satomi Army in Kururi Castle was. Masaki Tokimo sold several loopholes but failed to trick the main force of the Hojo Army out of the Atago Mountain Camp , the five thousand army of the Hojo Clan government also turned into a shrinking turtle, hiding in Zhenli Gucheng all day long, dancing the wind, enjoying the moon and singing and tea ceremony all day long Peninsula vacation.

Masaki Tokimo's heart was burning with urgency, but he couldn't do anything, and Satomi Yoshihiro, who was huddled in Sanuki Castle waiting for the surprise attack, also wanted to curse in a hurry.The Hojo family is so big that they don’t need to care about this food loss, but the Satomi family now only has half of the Shangsuo Kingdom and the small Anfang Kingdom left, but they support nearly [-] troops. Small horses and carts are fine for a short period of time. It's been a long time, but I can't afford it.

Seeing that the grain and grass in Kururi Castle were about to run out, Yoshihiro Sato could not sleep all night long. At this time, there was another piece of news that was not good for Satomi's family from the Fangso Peninsula. At that time, they won the support of the local Chinese lords, and launched attacks on Ono Castle and Chenggu Castle on the flanks of Daxi City.

The two branch cities are small and short of soldiers and food, and they are completely unable to stop the rebels who have soldiers and food and are supported by the Hojo family.The two cities were successfully breached after three days of struggling, and the Eastern Front of Shangsuo Kingdom was completely exposed to the front of the Hojo Army.Daxi City, which lacks a large army, may be attacked by soldiers at any time.

Masaki Tokimo was shocked when he received the bad news, and he no longer had the peace of mind to sit firmly on the Diaoyutai. Most of Xicheng was Masaki Tokimo's old nest in the city, and it was also the basis for Masaki's family to gain a foothold in the Fangsuo Peninsula and be reused by the Satomi clan. The Yaqianjiro under him are all Chinese lords near Daxicheng. When they learned that their territory was about to face the crisis of losing their territory, how could they have the mood to resist the attack of the Hokjo army? .

The morale of the army has been shaken and the morale has fallen. The general trend is irreversible. Masaki Tokimo agreed to the request of the people of the country without much consideration. It is not easy to think of sending a message to Satomi Yoshiyao, who is standing firm in Kururi Castle, and Satomi Yoshihiro, who is staying in Sanuki Castle, respectively. [

As Masaki Tomomo retreated silently, Kururi Castle also lost its last barrier. When Satomi Yoshiyao learned that Odaki Castle was in crisis and forced Masaki Tomomo to withdraw his troops and return to the city, he knew that Kururi Castle was the There was really no way to keep it going, and he stuck to it for seven days to eat up the last food and grass in the city. On a dark and stormy night, Li saw Yiyao retreating to Owada Mountain Castle with an army of [-], announcing the complete fall of Kururi Castle.

Hojo Genan only dispatched [-] troops to garrison Kururi Castle early the next morning, and at the same time sent [-] troops to station at the former Masaki Army camp in Daifukuyama, as an offensive posture to continue to oppress the direction of Otaki City, and personally led [-] soldiers The army slowly moved to Onodai, and launched an attack on Koito Castle, which served as a barrier for Yamatoyama Castle.

This series of offensives, which seemed to be arranged in a calm and unhurried manner, has achieved an absolute advantage in suppressing the Satomi clan, especially the victory of Kururi Castle, which had troubled the Hojo clan's administration, without a single soldier. This was a great inspiration to many young warriors of the Hojo family.

Many generals, including the Hojo clan, are thinking about a question, whether the offensive of the wind and fire is suitable for the Hojo family's offensive strategy. Although the Hojo family has never lacked the support of elite soldiers and fierce generals, they still face a heavy burden compared to the more capable Kanto warriors. Every time we fight a war with an absolute advantage, we have to face the problem of insufficient resources.

This is why he followed Hojo's Tsuna to fight Uesugi, but he was unable to gain a frontal battlefield advantage against Takeda's Five Colors. The root of the Hojo family is still the Kyoto samurai retainers who followed Hojo Soun to Izu back then. , such as the Ise family of the same clan, the genealogy of the family is mainly concentrated in the 21 families of Izu and the [-] families of Sagami, the Ogasawara family, the Yamakaku family, the Toyama family, the Matsuda family, the Tominaga family, the Daidoji family, and the Ishinomaki family , Shimizu, Ando, ​​Tamame, Kasahara and many other retainers were mostly from Kyoto samurai.

The retainer group relies heavily on the support of the original team in Kyoto, but it is impossible for these families to have many outstanding retainers in each generation. With the change of the three generations of Hojo Soun, Hojo Utsuna to Hojo Ujiyasu for more than 60 years.The originally powerful genealogical generation inevitably fell into a state of decline in which descendants replaced each other to support power.

And the Hojo family is in need of more powerful retainers to support the expansion.Since the Hojo Ujizuna era, the multi-party campaign to win over the people of Musashi has lasted for 30 years.In the end, the result was the betrayal of love again and again from North Musashi to South Musashi, forcing Hojo Ujiyasu to replace a large number of relatives and genealogies as city lords to stabilize Musashi's territorial domination.

In recent years, with the end of the Kanto Astronomy Rebellion, the Hojo family has entered a new round of rapid expansion. Without the interference and influence of the Echigo Kira family, Hojo Ujiyasu would have eaten the entire Ueno country and took advantage of the situation to attack the Shimono country. , Shangsuo country launched an attack, although many detours were made in vain because of the Kira family, but it still played a good role in the personal experience of the Hojo clan.

Just like the battle of Kururi Castle led by Hojo Genan this time, it looks like a simple garrison like fooling around.Neither sending troops nor paying attention to the provocations of the Satomi Army, the general only needs to do a good job of boosting morale to win half of the victory. Through the oppression of his own main force, the nearly [-] troops of the Satomi Army dare not act rashly. , Toki's attack can easily break the Satomi Army's surprise attack plan.

The Hojo Clan was watching the direction of the whole war in the city of Marigo, and as a player in the game, he could see the changes on the battlefield clearly. Although he made a gesture of being able to be the governor of the family to come on vacation, in private, he was not willing to give up any time. What a waste, the assistant around him is such a resourceful person as the Hojo Army Division, how could he teach a stupid apprentice.

Under their earnest teaching, the Hojo clan government quickly touched the threshold of the true meaning of military strategy.He sighed: "Is this the so-called crushing battle? Even if you don't need to fight together, you can easily "force" the enemy to submit. Similar tactics are also used by Shinano Chief General Sanada Masada of the Kira family...

It's just that his tactics are more complicated.Diversion of attention through the national adjustment strategy and division of troops, so that Takeda Norishiden, who is defending the Suwa Basin, has to divide his troops into Ina County when he has gained a defensive advantage. , but still forced the Takeda family to finally make a decision to cede Ina County in exchange for peace. This is a strategy! "

Dahe Qingtong said with a smile: "This is the crushing of national power. I heard the town government once said a word, but those who fight for land are fighting for resource rationing. Those with strong national power can fight again after repeated defeats." , the weak national power won repeatedly but became more and more embarrassed. In the history of the Tang Dynasty, there was once a Western Chu Overlord whose bravery was ten times that of General Asahi, and he was also an invincible general. The general is even more powerful, but due to lack of intelligence and national strength, he became weaker and weaker, and finally ended up being defeated in Wujiang and harming himself."

It was only then that the Hojo clan realized all the mysteries of the method of marching, and murmured to himself: "So, this is what happened in history! No wonder His Majesty Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty once said that copper can be used as a mirror to correct the situation. Clothes, you can know the gains and losses by taking people as a guide, and you can know success and failure by taking history as a guide... In the past, I never thought about the wise words of the sages, and it is only now that I understand that the wisdom of the predecessors is deeper than mine!"

Ise Zhenyun saw that the Hojo clan's political trap was a bit too deep, worried that he would fall into the magic barrier and come out of it, so he explained to him: "My lord, don't belittle yourself, these sages are gathered from the elites of the Tang Dynasty, and it will take a hundred years to meet one of them." If you are a talented person, our warriors can understand the truth, know the strategy, defend the family and protect the land, and we are already outstanding people."

"Not necessarily! Isn't there a hero of heaven in Kasuga Mountain City?" Ogasawara Kohiro said very uncomfortably: "From ancient times to the present, how many people can become famous generals at the age of ten, and the judge of Kuroji Yoshitsune has not yet reached that age?" Go to Kurama Temple and become a monk... By the way, have you ever expected the changes in Kasugayama Castle? Sanada Masao and Murakami Habayashi led five thousand elites back to Echigo, I don’t know what happened!"

Ise Zhenyun thought for a while, then still shook his head and said: "I don't know, Echigo's defenses against Kanto are very strong, and Fumo's many spying parties have not obtained effective information. It is just that there have been a lot of changes in armaments in the past six months, which seems to be on a large scale. To reorganize the army, it is found that Dr. Takeda Ozen did not hesitate to cede Ina County Kiwa because there is an army in Etsuchu led by Yasuda Jibu Shaosuke, who is preparing to attack Hida."

"There is only one county left in Shinano, Suwa, and the Takeda family will definitely not be able to last long! Maybe there will be no problem in a short period of time, but if it is extended to three to five years, it will endanger the status of Dr. Takeda Ozen, but I don't know that Takeda Ozen How should I deal with it?" Ogasawara Yasuhiro said sarcastic words.

The Hojo Clan Government frowned and thought for a long time, always felt that something was not quite right, and hesitated: "Where is the Kira family gathering troops to use troops? It seems that there is no place to use troops in the entire Eastern Kingdom. Could it be that the town government has already realized that the Miyoshi family Have you launched an action against the Eastern Kingdom samurai?"

"Huh!" Yamato Haruto was stunned suddenly: "It's very possible to say it! Leaving aside the people of Mutsu Izuha, the plight of the Kai Takeda clan is in great need of forgiveness from the Kira family. Maybe it’s time to reveal this news!” (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!

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