Pillars of the Wu family

Monk Xu trembled all over his body, looking back he saw Layman Guoxin holding two gleaming small katanas, the bright blades showed a dim yellow reflection under the light, Monk Xu's legs softened and he fell to the ground and exclaimed: "You... ...Guo Xin...you actually went and came back! What did you want to do when you broke in?"

With a sneer on the corner of Layman Guoxin's mouth, he walked slowly to Seng Xu's side and bent over to him, saying, "Because someone offered money to buy Master's life, and the reward he paid was too great for me to refuse. "

"What reward! I... I'm willing to give you double the reward! As long as you let me go!" Monk Xu panicked and wanted to get up, Nainian was old and weak and had lost [-]% to [-]% of his ability to scare him. Under the persecution of Layman Guoxin, he couldn't even stand up.

Layman Guoxin gently put the small sword across Monk Xu's neck, and said: "The reward he gave is all the property under the name of Master, the gold and silver behind Master, this small courtyard and several properties in Kyoto are all It belongs to me, Master must know who this person is!"

"It's my rebellious grandson! It must be him! I didn't expect the old man, wise and wise, to raise such an unscientific white-eyed wolf! I really hate me!" Xu Seng cursed himself, beating his chest and crying loudly. His grandson, from the corner of his eye, glanced at Layman Guoxin's expression and movements from time to time.

"Okay! Guoxin won't delay Master's time to go on the road, farewell!" Layman Guoxin lightly swiped his hands to interweave the two knives into a gorgeous line of blood, and the next moment his head full of shock rose into the sky , The hot blood sprayed from the corpse cavity splashed on the golden copper coins.Witness a horrific tale of betrayal.

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In the summer, Sanhe Country is becoming more and more unbearably hot, even if the sea breeze is not blowing against the Sanhe Bay, it can't relieve the scorching heat here.Matsudaira Ieyasu rode a tall horse produced by Mutsu and commanded five thousand troops to besiege Saijo Castle. It has been three years since the Battle of Ozama. In the past three years, he has been conscientiously expanding the territory of Mikawa Kingdom. He never gave up his pursuit of power and land. He is a man with ambition and ambition.

The former son-in-law of the Imagawa family has long since transformed into a famous overlord in Sanhe, only a slightly immature face can reveal his true age, he can become independent at such a young age, conquer a large territory and dominate most of the Sanhe country , No matter how you look at it, you are an outstanding talent.If you don't count the monster-like figure of Yoshito Kira, Ieyasu Matsudaira can definitely be regarded as a hero of the Warring States Period. [

As early as the conclusion of the Kiyosu Alliance last year, Matsudaira Ieyasu’s dominance over Mikawa was established. In recent years, his expansion is also trying to implement the original strategic goal of dominating Mikawa. The Saijo Castle in front of him is the last target of the Mikawa Kingdom, and he commanded The [-] troops came from all parts of the Mikawa Kingdom, and whether they wanted to or not, they would attack the territory of the Kira family under the banner of the Clover.

Ishikawa Hoki, who served as the genealogist of the old Okazaki Castle, is in a good mood. Since the raid at the beginning of the first month, he has successfully captured several branch cities of the Kira family in Numeda County.In less than half a year, the Matsudaira family has been triumphantly sweeping across the countrymen in Eda County, Bihai County, and Banto County. With their superior military strength and excellent command, they defeated Kira led by Yoshian Kira several times. military.

Counting the Dongsanhe counties that had been basically won before, the Matsudaira family could already be regarded as the veritable lord of the Sanhe kingdom. Such a rapid expansion allowed Matsudaira Ieyasu to accumulate lofty prestige in just three years.Several genealogy elders who had a strong voice in the past were dismissed one after another, completely establishing his uncompromising position in Sanhe Kingdom.

At this time, five thousand Matsudaira troops were surrounding Saijo Castle to prepare for a general attack. Ishikawa Shuji was looking at the dark siege army and said: "Saijo Castle is worthy of being a strong castle rebuilt by Sado Yamamoto. Even though it is located beside the Yahagi River It still has a solid defense that can’t go down the mountain city! But why is that Kiraden not willing to open the city and surrender?”

"The main family has no plans to do anything to the Kira family. Anyway, we are still relatives of Mikawa. We are all Mikawa samurai. If there is any problem, we can't sit down and discuss it?" Matsudaira Ieyasu rubbed in distress The head said: "Although there are some conflicts between my Jiakang and Kiraden. But those are all things in the past, so don't worry about it. As long as His Highness Kira is willing to submit to the family, the family is willing to give him Yuyu... the treatment of a family!"

Ishikawa Shuzheng hesitated and said, "Maybe it's because of the town government official from Echigo!"

"Is that the town government official from Echigo?" Matsudaira Ieyasu frowned.

The young Naito's parents said enthusiastically: "I heard that Kai is a very powerful person, and he has a great reputation in Kanto! Even a samurai as powerful as Takeda Ozen was defeated. He really deserves to be a role model for my Mikawa samurai. ah!"

Ieyasu Matsudaira's brows almost twisted into a pimple when he saw the young warriors of the vassals express their approval one after another. The chief minister Sakai Masakazu noticed this and said casually: " The prefect has already abandoned Mikawa Echigo, and strictly speaking, he should not be counted as my Mikawa's samurai."

The family governor of the Nishino Ishikawa family, Ishikawa Hyuga Shoucheng Cheng echoed: "That's right! Mikawa Kira's family should be the Kiraden in Saijo Castle, and the town government has long been the Shangsuo Ashikaga family in Kyoto, so it can no longer be counted as us. Samurai of Mikawa."

If you want to say that the most taboo topic among the genealogies of the Matsudaira family in Mikawa is the time when Echigo’s glory was limited. The vassal group also upholds the concept of the family governor and never mentions how beautiful Kira Yoshi was, even in the Imagawa family back then.

Refusing to discuss and never mentioning means a gesture of resistance. He is eager to approach Kira Yoshian and is even willing to put his face on his cold ass. Considering how to entrust Yoshiya Kira to seek more benefits.

The young samurai didn't notice the turbulence in these few words at all, and foolishly "rubbed" and "rubbed" his head and ran to the front of the battle to continue to wait and see, until Tadaka Sakai, who had retreated to the second line, said with a fake smile: " In fact, this Saijo Castle is the former residence of the town government. The place where we are standing is the territory of the Kamiso Ashikaga family, and we will definitely cause the town government's strong dissatisfaction!"

"This..." Ishikawa Iamari said cautiously, "Should I send an envoy to Echigo..."

Ishikawa Shuzheng coughed and said, "That's actually the case. My lord deeply felt that Mikawa had suffered from wars for many years, so that we and the Mikawa samurai were poor and poor, so my lord and Dashu Temple raised troops to fight everywhere to eradicate the rebellion." "The people of Sanhe Kingdom, in order to restore the order of Sanhe Kingdom to normal as soon as possible, it is "forced" to make some sacrifices for this, I believe the town government will certainly understand our difficulties." [

"You're right, you're right!" Several family members responded enthusiastically, gradually pushing Sakai Tadasaka out of the circle.Angrily, the old man, with his beard and hair all stretched out, secretly scolded the group of scholars for being so disrespectful to him, the elder of the genealogy family, and angrily rode his horse and ran to the rear to sulk.

The Tokugawa retainers watched the progress of the siege talking and laughing. The attack on Saijo Castle had lasted for more than two months. The siege of more than 60 days had already forced a thousand defenders in the city to the edge of the cliff. Since Yong Zhongyuan's accidental death, all the wars presided over by Kira Yi'an have achieved a brilliant record of losing streak, whether it is Okochi Nobuya or Yamaoka Yaoyuan, Takahashi Masanobu, Ehara Masahide and others' personal support.It still cannot change the embarrassing situation of successive military failures.

Okochi Nobusada has sent envoys several times to reprimand Matsudaira Ieyasu for his shameful intrusion. Unfortunately, his methods can only target honest gentlemen who abide by the laws of the shogunate, but they cannot effectively target the cruel and ruthless samurai daimyo. Matsudaira Ieyasu simply ignores you Protest and reprimand, insist on encroaching on Kira's territory little by little according to their own ideas of going out.

Seeing that this guy was unreliable, Okochi Nobusada sent someone to contact Oda Nobunaga in Owari to ask him to uphold justice.In any case, this is also the ally relationship of the Kira family. It should be no problem to preside over justice. Oda Nobunaga did immediately respond that he was willing to be the arbitrator of both parties. A reason to keep fighting.

Even if it is a small territorial dispute between two villages, it must be intervened under the banner of the banner. Just imagine that in the rural areas of that era, let alone conflicts of interest between villages.Even if the village can still break out a ugly Yinmao, one can imagine how angry he is to Nobuzhen Okochi for doing so.So the two sides fought ping-pong-pong, and this fight resulted in a series of miserable defeats.

The Mikawa Kira Army has hardly mobilized troops in the past ten years. Since joining the Imagawa family, it has always been treated as a distinguished family. Go shout out, Okochi Nobusada of Saijo Castle has no intention of sending troops at all. At first glance, this is really cool, but it is actually a further weakening of the military strength of the Mikawa Kira family.

Ten years of no war means that the strong army will always be reduced to fish belly, not to mention that the defenders of Saijo Castle are not strong at all. All good samurai and ashigaru naeko were sent to Omi for training, and blood transfusions for several years completely destroyed the samurai ecosystem in Mikawa country and even the Kira family.

No matter whether it is Tojo or Saijo, the Mikawa Kira family does not have more than one palm, and the only ones who can barely be considered good are Tominaga Tadamoto of Tojo and Yamaoka Yomoto of Saijo. It is also impossible to shoulder the important task of commanding the army, and as the general, Yoshiya Kira does have enough to bear. From the beginning of the random command that caused the failure to the later pretending to be deaf and dumb, he still has to suffer failure. Let him, Mikawa Kira The family governor and Huang Fanxing are equated.

This defeat after defeat and three defeats continues, even if the confident warriors fall into hesitation and confusion, and the brave soldiers are shaken and confused, nothing can be lost as an army than the loss of morale and morale. Confidence is even worse, Mikawa Kira's family encountered such an embarrassing situation.

The huge autonomy given to Saijo Castle by Kira Yoshishi included a series of administrative decrees, and there was no stationing of Monomi Bantou, but the privilege of direct participation in Okochi Nobuzawa. The more dominions controlled by the acting retainer group, the more they are given, the less Kira Yoshishi cared about them. After all, the cup of tea in Saijo City should have been cold for 12 years after leaving home. The so-called maintenance of monarchs and ministers is just Years of relationships and the maintenance of eternal interests are nothing more than that.

Okochi Nobusada wrote several letters to Kasugayama Castle, Echigo, but Kirayoshi had already gone south to Kanto.The genealogists who stayed at Kasugayama Castle did not dare to preside over the letter and forwarded the letter to Kira Yoshitoshi, but with the expansion of the Musashi Kingdom, the military affairs Kira Yoshitoki faced became more and more complicated.I didn't pay much attention to receiving the request for help that was a month late.

In Kira Yoshitoshi's view, defeating a critical battle was also acceptable, so he sent an envoy to ask Oda Nobunaga to urge Matsudaira Ieyasu to withdraw his troops immediately, and declared that as long as he withdrew, he would not be held accountable. The last help letter gradually became worse. From the first help letter, he only lost one game, and then he lost two games, three games and four games. The more he lost, the more he lost even half of Sanhe.

But all this didn't become clear until half a month ago.Okochi Nobusada's request for help is still going from Mikawa to Echi and then to Ueno, and then forwarded to the moving Kira Army main camp. It is not clear where the main camp will move, and I don't know when I will see the latest request for help. Yoshihiro Kira Shi Shi didn't even think about how to bypass layers of barriers to help them. There was only one thing in their hearts.

Driven by this mindset.From Kira Yoshian to Okochi Nobusada did not respond to the continuous failures with too much psychological fluctuation. In their view, as long as they are ready to ask for help, the protective umbrella above will definitely come to them from a tricky angle. It is shameful to defeat them. Matsudaira Ieyasu and safeguard their interests.

They naively thought that Kirayoshi did not send anyone to monitor Saijo Castle, but it was actually their trust and support for this group of hereditary genealogy generations. They could enjoy the food and sea salt income of Xisanhe to their heart's content.Living close to the days when Kirayoshi was in the Mikawa country, they never thought about betrayal and did not plan to betray. Why bother to betray, which loses both reputation and profit?Sometimes this kind of thinking is more dangerous than traitors.

It wasn't until two months after the siege that Kira Yoshishi's emergency rescue was not received that Kira Yoshian and Okochi Nobusada despaired and realized that they were wrong. Almost all of Kira Yoshishi's main forces were transferred to Kanto to fight.They couldn't spare any extra power to rescue the old leaders who were several countries away. They didn't even know that Yoshitoki Kira was in Kawagoe Castle and Edo Castle at this time.Still have come to Odawara Castle.

The record envoys sent by Yoshitoshi Kira kept contacting the Oda family, hoping that he would urge Ieyasu Matsudaira to withdraw from Nishimikawa as soon as possible, but the attitude of the Oda family became more and more ambiguous, choosing and playing word games, and Ieyasu Matsudaira's offensive became more and more aggressive. The stronger he was, the samurai of Mikawa Kira's family were scared into a cold sweat by almost breaking the Otemon several times.

In the assessment room of Saijo Castle, Yoshiyasu Kira said worriedly: "In this autumn of life and death, all the gentlemen are talking about what to do with our family?"

Jukai Shinzaemon Yaozuna said with a bitter face: "Are you really going to surrender? I really don't want to be reconciled!"

"How can we subdue a samurai family from Kyoto! We and the Mikawa samurai must not bow to them!" Yamaoka Yomoto's sonorous and forceful speech blocked this last "possibility". The Matsudaira family is from the Kyoto Kamo clan The deeds of being sent by Ise Sadachin to suppress Ichikui of Nukata County are also widely spread in Mikawa country, but gradually disappeared with the rise of Matsudaira Ieyasu, but some facts will always be buried in the hearts of Mikawa warriors and will not change.

Okochi Nobusada is much older than 12 years ago. With his gray hair and rich face, it is difficult to see that he is the personable Mikawa culture person back then. At this time, his eyelids are swollen and he said hoarsely: "Compared to the next To the Matsudaira family that is less than a hundred years old in the Mihe Kingdom, I, the Kira family and my accompanying family members are more qualified to be called Sanhe Samurai! If we were not about to take a wrong step in the Southern Dynasty, why would the Hosokawa family and a group of 『 Se's fight for the protection of the Three Rivers is bloody!"

Yoshian Kira listened carefully to the discussion of the Matsudaira family's origin by this group of genealogical retainers, and found that this evaluation seemed to be a bit of a topic, and hurriedly said: "Your lords can't come up with any effective ones. Is there a way? Seeing that the menacing Songping army is about to attack the door!"

The vassals of Xijo Castle looked at each other in dismay. The superior life of more than ten years made them gradually fatter, just like the samurai of Sanhe who were not elite soldiers were not strong. In terms of strategy, you can live comfortably without having to worry about it at all. It's like the degeneration of the five senses. The more you don't use your brain, the more dull it becomes.

This evaluation meeting will start with Kira Yoshian's question and end with Kira Yoshitoki's question. The genealogists of Saijo Castle did not answer his question, because they themselves did not know how to deal with it, and because Kira Yoshian is not the actual owner of Saijo Castle, and the vassals of the Pudai have always had some resistance to this "Yellow Banner Star".

A group of warriors in Saijo Castle spent the best time to escape in the entanglement. When the Otemon Gate of Saijo Castle was breached, it was too late to escape. Okochi Nobuya asked Kira Yoshian to bring his family and children Immediately retreated to the territory of Owari country, and then took the opportunity to go to Echigo to join Kira Yoshitoki, the leader of a sect.

Yoshiaki Kira thought about the safety of his uncle Yoshiaki Kira and Yoshitomi Kira, and repeatedly asked the two to leave Saijo Castle with him as soon as possible, but was rejected by the stubborn old man Yoshito Kira. Not intending to leave Saijo Castle, and the delay wasted the most precious escape time. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m to read.)

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