Pillars of the Wu family

Facing Hojo Genan's negotiation, Uesugi Terutoro pointed directly in the direction of Edo Castle and told the kind-hearted old monk to go there to find the rightful master. After sending the Hojo family's envoys away, he was busy sending troops to mop up Musashi's domestic rebellion against orders. There are many people in the country. The Hojo family has been operating in Musashi for more than 20 years. No matter what, it has accumulated a lot of popularity. The annual tribute system of four people and six people is the first of its kind in the Warring States period. A large number of farmers are still willing to work for the Hojo family.

These Somura groups are local forces based on Su Laodishi. They are not very powerful, but they are more down-to-earth and very difficult to deal with. The failure of the Kanto Astronomical Rebellion more than ten years ago has something to do with these Somura groups. There are various factors at play in the failure of the Kanto Astronomical Rebellion, and there are many reasons for it after careful analysis.

For example, the people in the Kanto country are not in the same mind and have different orders. For example, they conspired with each other to compete for the commanding power of the leader. There were differences in the division of the newly acquired territories, etc. These factors greatly affected the confidence of the coalition forces. One of the more inconspicuous ones was the fierce resistance of the Musashi Kunimura group.

In fact, the Kanto Astronomical Rebellion was not a legal action, because the Kwantung Nationalist Coalition Army did not obtain the guarantee of the Kanto government and the Kanto governor as an endorsement. Furukawa Ashikaga fell into a temporary decline because the government was killed, and the Kanto governor Uesugi Constitutional Government Abandoned by his own genealogical retainers, neither of the two titular lords led the action.

As a group of invaders gathered everywhere, this group of Kwantung Chinese allied forces came here for profit, and no one is willing to go through life and death for a word if they can't get profit.So as soon as they entered the Musashi Kingdom, they were busy hunting and hunting people wantonly, for fear that others would snatch these immediate benefits if they were too late.

Although they have their own reasons for doing this, it has dealt a huge blow to the wealthy local servants and the Somura Group in the Musashi Kingdom. Originally, the Musashi Kingdom was not the territory of the outsider family, the Sagami Hojo Clan, but the Ogiya Uesugi Clan. Aboriginal leaders.When the Kwantung Allied Forces came back after a few years, there were quite a few local servants who were willing to be the leading party.

When these local servants realized that the people from the Kanto Kingdom were not doing human affairs, they immediately changed their faces and became staunch rebels and began to support Hojo Ujiyasu. Offending the local faction of the Musashi Kingdom with some money, the first step in this war is about to go wrong, no matter how fast or hasty this step is, it is meaningless.

The same situation also occurred in the Beitiao collar of the Xiasuo country. This group of people rushed to grab money, food and women, which was completely done by the king of the mountain.This made the local indigenous village group hate these Kanto people to the bone. Later, when they saw that Hojo's public four people six and water control strategies were really good, they simply became die-hard supporters of Sagami Hojo's.

It means that this group of so-called Kwantung people's allied forces are nothing more than unorganized and undisciplined military looting under the banner, without a general who has enough prestige to convince the public as restraints, which makes this Kwantung people's coalition inevitably fall into stupidity and short-sightedness , It's like a group of bandits, criminals, prisoners, murderers, robbing wealth and screaming together in the mountains and forests.One day, he suddenly remembered that he wanted to be a big voter, so he went around grabbing territory, killing people and setting fire in the name of "walking for the sky". In the blink of an eye, bandits turned into rebels.It always seems a little absurd and nonsense. [

The actions of these bandits seem so glorious and remarkable, but in fact they are just a group of stupid and short-sighted warriors. The messy command and more ingenuity put on intrigue make this group of people doomed to only reap the bitter fruit of failure. The Kwantung National Coalition Army is more legitimate than that kind of people in name, and the effect of harvesting is actually slightly better than that kind of people.

It's just that the head of the Kwantung National Alliance was used to re-gift Hojo Ujiyasu's notorious reputation as a wise and mighty great lord.Tell me how deeply I love you, see if I send you a human head and send you to Chaoshen, my head will fulfill your prestige, it is such a sincere emotion.

In the nearly ten years since the ridiculous Kanto Astronomy Rebellion, Hojo Clan has painstakingly managed the territories of Musashi Kingdom and Shimoso Kingdom and established extraordinary influence there. Sagami Hojo Clan seems to want to use these new territories as a Demonstration or a benchmark, the worse the Kanto people treat you.The better I treat you, they rob you of your money and food, and I will give you money and food. The more obvious the contrast, the bigger the contrast.

So when the Kira Army suddenly invaded the Musashi Kingdom and captured the entire Musashi Kingdom in just a few months, the powerful and terrifying attack power shocked the people of the Musashi Kingdom, just like a little goat being surprised He would fall down and pretend to be dead in an instant, and the first reaction to something terrible was to pretend to hide himself, and the people of Musashi Kingdom were also scared and shrank and did not dare to resist.

But when they realized that this terrifying monster didn't seem to have any intention of dealing with them, many of the wealthy land servants became restless. They felt that the Kira family was not as scary as they imagined. The so-called strong dragon does not suppress local snakes, this group of village groups just want to express a kind of thoughts of local snakes.

"I'm a local. You have to respect my autonomy. The Hojo family has four people and six people, and you continue to implement a series of strategies to benefit the people. Otherwise, I will use a knife to compete with you who is more powerful." Probably The meaning of this is to tell you that I want to protect the privilege of invulnerability, and I also want to emulate all the privileges given to us by Saga Hojo. If you don’t give me it, continue to fight to see who is more powerful.

Logically speaking, this method is still feasible, at least in the eyes of the Kwantung Allied Forces, it is a big deal, but in the eyes of the Kira family, it is not a big deal at all, they are wrong and wrong very outrageously, Ji Liangyi did not give them a chance to negotiate at all. He never asked the three ministers to meet with a group of country samurai who did not even have a rank. The Kamizu Ashikaga family would not discuss anything with this group of country samurai. He is not in decline. shogunate.Nor are they rampant taboos.

The interest demands of this group of powerful land servants and more mud-legged people are essentially the same as those of the Shancheng Kingdom. If you give one, he wants two, and if you give two, he wants three, four, or even five, six, and seven. , I always want to push my nose on my face for more benefits.This is the case with Sheng Mien and Mi Qiu. When Kira Ninja immediately recorded all the troublesome Somura groups in a small book and presented it to Kira Yoshi, it would be easy to have this list and a detailed roster.

Kira Yoshitoshi immediately unloaded an edict and issued it to Uesugi Terutora, ordering him to separate [-] troops as the Musashi Anti-Rebellion Army. All the thorns circled on the list in the country will be cleaned up. In case of resistance, they will be killed on the spot and will not be pardoned. One person will kill one person and one village will be wiped out.Kill until they give up resisting and bow their heads to surrender.

Sanada Xingtaka fulfilled the mission entrusted to him by Kirayoshi very well. In the next more than a month, he successively conquered dozens of cottages in the Musashi Kingdom, and repeatedly used unpredictable schemes to provoke the powerful Somura Allied Army into a trap. Civil strife, rampage in the Musashi Kingdom and killing all the way, the local snakes realized that their strength is so weak, under the strong suppression of the Kira Army, they could only scream and be defeated one by one.

The whole month and a half of sweeping through the villages in Musashi was like a sieve.All the villages on the list and the villages suspected to be against the Kira family were taken care of, but Yutaka Sanada still made some adjustments during the implementation process.He felt that the killing method proposed by Kira Yoshishi might be out of anger, so he changed the killing into a strategy of expelling the chief culprit and expelling the remaining party, further reducing the willpower of these local snakes to resist.

When Kirayoshi learned of his countermeasures, not only did he not get angry, but he gave him a very high evaluation of his flexible use. Yin and yang must be combined with the military force to ensure the peace and harmony of a city and a country. Generals have always had to adapt to the times and situations.Only a mediocre general will implement the original plan step by step regardless of the situation.

After disposing of these Chinese lords, Yoshiki Kira moved all the villagers on this list to Echigo Kingdom, where they broke up and reorganized to completely destroy the unity of the rebels. After the first step is completed, there will be more All the disobedient Musashi residents were moved into Echigo one after another, and no matter whether there were [-] or [-] people, they all moved out. Under Echigo's complete enforcement system and strong control power, it is impossible for these Musashi people to have Any chance of turning around.

The Musashi people who migrated to the north will be scattered and migrated to Etchu, Kaga, Shinano and other places according to the situation.Then, as for how many people are moved from Musashi Kingdom, they must immediately be replenished from Echigo Kingdom and returned to Musashi Kingdom, because the impact of natural disasters over the years has caused the population to decline. The total population of Musashi Kingdom is only more than 30. It will not affect Echigo's control.

This is exactly what Kira Yoshitoshi decided, except that his method was not to change places, but to transfer some of them to move around to break up their cohesion, and then planned to migrate 30 farmers in batches into Musashi Kingdom Settling down, this method is the way to deal with the bottom line. Even if you Hojo Shiyasu has three heads and six arms, there is no way to affect the Echigo leaders who are loyal to the Kamiso Ashikaga family. [

At the same time, this move is to completely change the customs and habits of the residents of Musashi in various fields such as culture, customs and dialect. Change the old problem of scattered behavior and lack of cohesion among the people of the Kanto Kingdom.

On July [-]th, a rational assessment meeting was held in Edo Castle of Musashi Kingdom. The lords of Katsunuma Castle from all over the Musashi Kingdom were from all over the country. Straight, Takiyama Castle Oishi Harima Mori Sadamaka, Iwatsuki Castle Lord Ota Susuma, and Edo Castle Lord Ota Yasuko attended the meeting as non-voting delegates.

Together with the Hachigata Castle, Kawagoe Castle, and Oki Castle that Kira Yoshitoki directly controlled, they have completely controlled all the important cities in the entire Musashi Kingdom. , In front of Kira Yoshitoki, he was obedient and did not dare to raise his head at all.

At the meeting, Benta was reporting the recent military actions of the Musashi Kingdom. Uesugi Terotora, who was in Xiaojicheng, led an army of [-] troops to defeat the Hojo Army's counterattacks several times in a row, and assisted Sanada Yutaka to calm down several resistance forces from Minami Musashi. In several battles, Honjo's performance was very good, if it wasn't for the Hojo army breaking the rules and making a mess, they would fight for a duel.He had already successfully beheaded Hojo Shige, the vanguard general of the Hojo Army.

"Ghost King" Saito Chaoxin led his [-] "ghost army" cavalry into the Sagami country on a rampage, killing several Hojo troops who tried to resist and fled in embarrassment, and five self-confident and brave soldiers were also reported. The Hojo warriors attacked him at the same time, but he easily dispelled them and chopped two of them with swords and guns.

Frightened by his aura, the remaining three turned and fled. Saito Asanobu threw a large gun and pierced one of the fleeing samurai to death on the spot.The fast horse caught up with the second fleeing warrior and dragged him to his horse, smashed his throat wheel with a fist and crushed his Adam's apple. The last fleeing warrior felt that he was running fast and looked back, being chased Saito Chaoxin, who came up, was directly caught by the horse rope, tied behind the horse and dragged along, and was finally trampled into a pulp by the war horses in the chaotic formation.

With the leading role of Saito Chaoxin, the samurai who believed in their extraordinary strength ran to Uesugi Terutora one by one to fight in front of Uesugi Terutora. They brought their own clans to invade the Sagami Kingdom again and again, which seemed to be a pitfall for the local Chinese lords of the Sagami Kingdom.Sagami's territory is narrow and lacks strategic depth. The total number of large and small cities in the country is less than 300. Compared with Tango Guo, which has more than [-] large and small cities in the same small territory, it is really far behind.

Since Hojo Ujitsuna, the second-generation family governor of the Sagami Hojo Clan, Sagami Kingdom has not been harassed by large-scale invasion for decades. The two most serious injuries during Hojo Ujiyasu’s administration also occurred in Musashi Kingdom. In this relatively peaceful Under the atmosphere of turmoil, the people of Sagami country lack the necessary defensive psychology.I thought it was relatively safe to be in the hinterland.

This illusion made the Sagami 21 subordinates of the Hojo family completely defeated in the confrontation with the invading army of the Kira family. In less than half a month, dozens of collisions, large and small, basically ended in disastrous defeats.A small number of samurai organized a big counterattack, but they only repelled the Kira army who came in a hurry and didn't know where they were.

Even though I worked hard to repel the small invading army, the Kira Army who was cruising nearby appeared at any time and did not dare to pursue it. That is to say, most of the time was unilaterally crushed and cleaned by the Kira Army. Winning a small competition without being able to expand the results to obtain actual benefits. In this unilateral war of attrition, the people of the Hojo family of Togashi Sagami have no power to resist the invasion of the Kira army.

Honda Shizheng's long speech lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour, systematically summarizing the huge advantages that the Kira family has achieved today, and deliberately pointing to the vulnerable situation of the Hojo Army in front of the Kamiso Ashikaga family.Finally, he made a concluding speech: "The performance of the samurai is very good. I believe we will completely solve the Hojo problem that has plagued the Kanto for decades within this year, and return the Kanto to a peaceful and peaceful world."

No matter how much water was in what Ben Taji was saying, at least it frightened the Musashi people here. Hearing the admiration of the samurai present, he quickly echoed a few words, poking his head out to find out about the incredible Kira family. What a terrible power lies behind the military victory.

This is naked military showing off, which is like a lion patrolling around its territory.Roaring from time to time spreads its own scent to show its dubious ownership of this territory, and it is like a gorilla beating its chest to show its strong posture. The application of showing off by humans appears in every link, with another meaning Similar vocabulary to describe is the display of self-worth.

The territory of Musashi is not small and the stone is very high. Its status in the eight countries of Kanto is about the same as that of Omi in Kinki. It is also located in the center of a large plain, and it also has abundant water resources and considerable grain production. Mastering here is equivalent to Mastering the region is tantamount to mastering the best stepping stone, which can further control the core interests of the entire region.

When Kirayoshi chose the Omi country, he valued the core interests of being close to Wuji. At the same time, it has abundant water resources and excellent location advantages. With the convenience of water and land transportation, a huge domination network can be established. To a certain extent, the Musashi country The Tone River, Arakawa, Tama River and other rivers are rich in water resources and have a high strategic value as the heartland of the Kanto Plains.

To some extent, the strategic significance of the Musashi country is greater than that of the Omi country. Probably only the vicinity of Sakaicho in Osaka Bay can wrestle with Musashi. The Sakamoto area of ​​the Omi country relies on the river transport advantages of Lake Biwa and the Uji River, but it is not as good as imagined. Excellent, at least not as good as the network of rivers extending in all directions around Edo Castle.

The eminent monk Asayama Nichijo said with a smile: "His Highness Huanan, the diplomatic envoy of the Sagami Hojo Clan, requested a truce. His Highness Huanan, on behalf of the Hojo Clan, paid high respects to His Royal Highness, and said that there will never be any opposition to His Royal Highness. I express my disappointment with everything that happened in the Musashi Kingdom, and the Hojo family sincerely hopes to live in harmony with the Kamiso Ashikaga family, and I urge His Royal Highness to give you an opportunity to meet and explain your thoughts.”

Hojo Huanan is an authentic and gentle literary monk, while Asayama Nichijo, a half-way monk Mang, is more like a bandit. Although his words and sentences are much more elegant than a few years ago, his fat and slightly vicious The cheeks, and the burly and heavy body really make it hard to see the appearance of a virtuous monk.