Pillars of the Wu family

In the Furukawa Imperial Palace of Xiasuo Country, Ashikaga Fujimasa went crazy in the castle tower. The little surname and friends who were particularly favored in the past did not dare to get close. Threatening to bring tens of thousands of troops to the door to abolish him as the Furukawa government, this kind of shame is enough to drive Ashikaga Fujimasa crazy for a while.

He did indeed act like this. For several days in a row, he smashed things and cursed people when he saw them. God scolded all eighteen generations of ancestors of Kira Yoshishi, and even brought his own ancestors into it. In the eyes of the servants, this Furukawa government has gone crazy.

On this day, Ashikaga Fujimasa smashed another pile of lacquer wares and roared, "Yitoki Kira! Yu wants to fight against you! The Kanto warriors under Yu will tear you apart! Yu's brother-in-law, the Hojo clan, will kill you! You The bastard..."

Matsu Nagatsu hugged two good-looking maids and watched Ashikaga Fujimasa go crazy. The two maids were so frightened by the mad Furukawa that they trembled all over. It seems that Mr. Furukawa is crazy but not completely crazy. Ashikaga Fujimasa goes crazy for a while every day and returns to normal at night. Is this called crazy?Definitely Not.

After performing performance art for an afternoon, the Furukawa official was also very tired. He turned around and found that Matsu Nagato was still watching the fun with his arms around him, so he dismissed the two blind maids and complained to him: " Isn’t His Highness Matsunaga too irresponsible! Yu went crazy here for several days, why didn’t he persuade Yu a few words! It’s money to smash so many things! Now even the maids don’t dare to take out the porcelain for Yu smashed!"

Song Yongxiu was still holding the handkerchief of an unknown maid in his hand, put it in front of his nose and sniffed lightly, and said, "His Royal Highness should be angry. That Kira Yoshih who didn't know what to do at the time even threatened His Royal Highness's safety, if the public His Royal Highness Fang will definitely be looked down upon by the Kanto samurai if he cannot properly express the samurai's anger!"

"That's what Yu thought, but Yu didn't seem to be very successful. What went wrong?" Ashikaga Fujimasa was very confused, and the retainers were so frightened by the success that they dared not come to see him.But the people of the Guandong Kingdom didn't have the slightest intention to come to persuade him, and he, the official, couldn't go crazy forever.

Matsunaga said: "His Royal Highness has done a good job, but it is not enough! You should write to contact the lords of the Kanto countries to fight against the Kira family. It is not a trivial matter to attack the Furukawa Imperial Palace. If the people of the Kanto country can't understand this point It is impossible to survive in this troubled world!"

"It makes sense, I'm going to write a letter... to ask them for help!" As soon as Ashikaga Fujimasa was about to get up, he was stopped. Matsu Nagato had no hope of this idiot's IQ, but he After going crazy for a few days and then asking for help, it would be a ghost to call the people of the Guandong Kingdom. They would have come here long ago.Why wait until you pretend to be crazy and foolish before coming here. [

The current situation of the Furukawa Imperial Palace is that there is not even an important official in charge. Matsu Nagatoshi is just a dog leg who pulls the tiger's skin as a banner. At present, it seems that the tiger's skin has a tendency to lose its prestige. The main one is Ashikaga Fujimasa. This good-for-nothing family governor is not strong enough to win over the family members of the genealogy and the people of the Kanto Kingdom, so the short anti-Kirliang alliance was turned into a mess by him, and it had to end anticlimactic in the end.

Song Yongtong was also very anxious in his heart.Persuading Ashikaga Fujimasa earnestly: "His Royal Highness is so anxious to write a letter asking for help, there should be no response. With the situation of the Furukawa Imperial Palace, it is hard to say how many rescuers can be invited. And the Kira Army is so powerful that the Hojo family can't help it." I can't resist it, I think the lords of the Kanto people will definitely carefully consider the risks involved in raising their troops!"

"Then what should I do? Did I just watch Kira Yoshihime call at the door?" Ashikaga Fujimasa paled, recalling the painful Furukawa incident more than ten years ago, when the Furukawa Imperial Palace might be attacked by fire at any time The crisis made him shiver uncontrollably, which was the lingering shadow of his childhood.

12 years ago, his father Ashikaga Haru died suddenly, and his elder brother Ashikaga Fuji, with the assistance of his uncle Kota Harusuke, killed Mrs. Hojo and another brother Umechiyo Omaru, and then the Hojo family entered Furukawa Imperial Palace and killed his elder brother Ashikaga Fuji , Capture the still young Ashikaga Fujimasa.There was a time when he couldn't even save his life, and was confined in Zongying Temple without seeing the light of day.

During that time, he could not see outsiders. The eight-year-old Ashikaga Fujimasa had no idea how to survive. He was confined to live alone in a small room every day, and there were samurai guards from the Hojo family outside the door day and night. The gate, food and clothing are served by two old people, and the young Ashikaga Fujimasa huddles in a corner every night and has nightmares alone.This process lasts for a long time.

Later, for some unknown reason, Hojo Shiyasu released him and arranged for him to be the Furukawa government. From then on, his life seemed to change suddenly, from a criminal prisoner waiting to die to the supreme Furukawa government. Not only did he marry Hojo The daughter of the family is the wife of the wife, and he has also won the full support of many people in the Kanto Kingdom. For this reason, he was once overjoyed and crazy and did many crazy things.

He knows that everything he has is given by the Hojo family, so since he became the Furukawa government, he has spared no effort to support the expansion of the Hojo family. The people of the Kanto country tried to organize an anti-Hojo alliance several times, but they failed in the way. Maybe he didn’t The ability to encourage the people of the Kanto Kingdom to cause major incidents, but it is still very easy to destroy an alliance that was originally promising to succeed. This is the so-called success is not enough to fail.

What Ashikaga Fujimasa is most afraid of is that the Furukawa Imperial Palace will not come to the door again. He will do everything to prevent the invasion of Kira's family. He desperately hopes that Matsu Nagamichi can come up with a way to avoid disasters for him, but Matsu Nagamichi's idea is not It's another matter, he's not a family member of Furukawa's family, not even a guest general, he just came to the Kanto to disrupt the expansion plan of the Kira family according to his father's instructions.

The different starting points also indicate that the interests of the two parties are completely different. Ashikaga Fujimasa wants to be good as him, the Furukawa government, and continue to dream of unifying the Kanto for thousands of years, while Matsunaga only needs the Furukawa government to stand. Just come out to stop the Kira family from invading.As for whether the interests of the Furukawa government will be damaged or his own safety is not in the plan.

Thinking of this, Song Yongtong's thoughts gradually cleared up, and he said with a smile: "This is a strategy, I don't know if His Royal Highness can adopt it."

"Please tell me, Yu will definitely agree!"

Matsunaga Tong said unhurriedly: "I think that the difficulty His Royal Highness encountered is not due to the lack of defense force of the Furukawa Imperial Palace. The people of the Kanto Kingdom should send troops to help when the Furukawa government is in trouble. They have their own difficulties and some deep-rooted contradictions, so even if many people in the Kanto Kingdom want to help His Royal Highness, they will give up their rescue plans because of the external pressure on their own territory..."

Ashikaga Fujimasa hurriedly interrupted: "It makes sense, but how can I convince these hostile Kanto people?"

"Actually, it's not difficult to say. The name of the Furukawa government is a gold-lettered sign in the eight countries of the Kanto. The people of the Kanto country are willing to recognize you as the co-lord of the Kanto. It is largely because of the accumulation of His Royal Highness and his family for hundreds of years. As long as His Royal Highness finds a way for this title!" Matsu Nagato gradually revealed his fox tail, but Ashikaga Fujimasa was completely unaware that this good teacher and helpful friend was actually cheating him.

After chanting the word title a few times, Ashikaga Fujimasa sat down depressed and complained: "The last time I followed Matsunagaden's proposal to give the people of the Kanto country a public house name, but I was collectively opposed by the Kanto Hachiya form. In the end, I could only The Edo and Oda clans are very upset about pinching their noses and swallowing what they said!" [

Matsu Yongtong's face turned black.He secretly scolded this Ashikaga Fujimasa for which pot he would not open and which pot to lift, and on the surface he had to show a remorseful expression.Ashamedly said: "Last time, I was not familiar with the customs of Kanto. I made a mistake and came up with a way to mislead His Royal Highness's judgment. This time I want to apologize to His Highness. My Sanhao family definitely did not mean to deceive His Highness. !"

"Yu is very clear about this. Matsunaga Temple traveled thousands of miles from Kinei to Xiasuo country to assist Yu Yi in unifying the eight kingdoms of the Kanto. Yu is very grateful!" Ashikaga Fujimasa seemed to understand Matsunaga's loyalty and bravery when he came all the way to assist him In his opinion, those so-called Furukawa family genealogy family elders are not reliable at all, including his uncle Harusuke Kota, who either has ulterior motives or is trying to fool him, the Furukawa family.

Corrupt and corrupt genealogy retainer group.Harusuke Koda, who has a very strong desire for power, and friends with small surnames who are obedient but can use them, and the people of the Kanto Kingdom who have hardly shown their faces in front of them all day long, form the Furukawa retainers of Ashikaga Fujimasa. The group circle, if you count the self-sufficient Hojo clan, or it can be called his personal social circle.

Most of these people are useless in the eyes of Ashikaga Fujimasa, so many useless retainers are not as good as a "confidant" Matsunaga Tsutsumi, it would be great if he could be his own face up.Thinking of this, Ashikaga Fujimasa suddenly raised his head to look carefully at Matsu Nagatsu, staring at the latter with chills down his spine.

Song Yongtong had no idea what weird things this perverted guy was thinking about, and he always felt that his eyes were staring at him a little hairy, so he pretended to cough and said: "I mean that His Royal Highness has to face The Kira family must do something extraordinary, if the resistance of the Kwantung National Army cannot be raised, the Furukawa Imperial Palace will definitely be destroyed, and the fate of His Highness Gongfang will not be so good."

"Then how can Yu boost the resistance of the people of the Kanto Kingdom!"

"Of course we have to take something from His Highness Gongfang and give it to the people of the Kanto Kingdom!" A trace of cruelty and cunning flashed in Song Yongtong's eyes.

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On July [-]th, Uesugi Terutoro mobilized an army of [-] to attack Sagami Country. This time, he set his sights on Tamawa Castle, an important point in Higashi Sagami. It was Hojo Tsunashige, the son of Hojo Tsunasari, the current family governor of the Tamano Hojo clan.

This fortified city is defended by more than [-] elite Hojo troops and has abundant supplies of food and grass. From the perspective of the Hojo clan, it should be no problem to use this city to defend the city until winter to force the Kira army to withdraw. His idea is indeed reasonable. It is in line with the habits of the Kanto samurai family, but Kira Jun's description is always unexpected.

The [-]-strong army took advantage of the trend and turned into three teams, led by Kakizaki Keiya and Saito Chaonobu each with [-] troops to ravage the Sagami country in the east. Power is emptied.In terms of form, Yusheng City was completely isolated from the defense circle of the city wall of Sagami Country.

Cut off the passages in all directions and then slowly play the trick of catching a turtle in a urn. Perhaps the samurai of the Hojo Army are not familiar with the routine of the Kira Army, but as a general, Shige Hojo knows it all too well. The Kira Army is good at overwhelming people rather than simply Head-to-head fighting, bad news keeps coming from the defenders in Yusheng City.

July 23.Saito Tomonobu entered Kamakura to wipe out the remnants of the Hojo Clan, and within a few days he further captured Arai Castle, taking advantage of the opportunity to fully incorporate the Miura Peninsula into the Kira family system. As the battle ahead became more and more unfavorable, the atmosphere in Tamanawa Castle appeared. The same changes, the guarding samurai and ashigaru have varying degrees of psychological impact, and their will is far less tough and brave than they swore before.

Defending the city is not as simple as sufficient food and grass and elite soldiers. The ultimate goal of defending the city is not to completely repel the invaders. Therefore, the defenders need more than elite defenders and enough food and water.It requires high morale and the hope of persevering. Only when you can see the hope of victory can you be motivated. If the warriors always know that they will die if they can't hold on, will they still have the morale to continue to persevere?

Shigeru Hojo is not the first day to be a city lord. As a general for many years, he knows this truth very well. No matter how many troops have no morale, they are still weak. Even if there are few troops with strong morale, they can win the war.As far away as the Battle of Fujigawa in the Genpei War, a little closer, in the last years of Kamakura, [-] shogunate troops surrounded Akasaka Castle, and [-] soldiers could not attack for a long time.There is also an allusion in the Central Plains Dynasty, which shows the important role of morale and fighting will to an army.

The morale of Kira's army attacking the city was high, while the [-] defenders of our own side sat in the city and did nothing. The samurai who accompanied them were very anxious, and the peasants were even more anxious. The fortress that Kira's army attacked was their own fortress, and the villages they robbed were their own. In the village, the money and food belonged to them, and it just fell into the pockets of Kira's army for nothing.

The samurai of the Hojo Army found Shigeru Hojo and asked the general to take them out of the city to repel the Kira Army.This request was rejected by him without hesitation: "My family can understand the feelings of the gentlemen. Not only are you anxious about my family, but there are some things that are useless no matter how anxious you are! The situation outside the city is completely unclear, and my family cannot easily Leading the army to leave the city without authorization, what if Kira's army tricks our army out of the city again?"

Everyone understands the truth, but it is not so easy to do it. Shigeru Hojo is also responsible for guarding the eastern part of Sagami country. If he had followed his original intention, he would have rushed out with four thousand troops to fight the Kira army .The heavy burden added to his body prevents him from continuing to mess around like before. As a general, he must have the courage to be honored or humiliated. Shigeru Hojo did not do very well, but he has been working hard to learn to do better.

He tried to persuade the samurai of the Hojo army to go back, and when he turned around, he heard that his master was leading an army of [-] to kill Sagami River. He was so frightened that he wrote a letter to dissuade the Hojo clan government from acting emotionally. At this time, Kira The army is a cunning tiger, lurking around Sagami country looking for opportunities to pounce. At this time, leading the army eastward will definitely fall into the trap of Kira's army.

He didn't know how Odawara Castle had changed in just a few months, and he didn't know how much pressure the Hojo family had put on the Hojo family when the ninja Kira mixed in with Nishi Sagami. According to the rumors of the Hojo family, such as the Kira Army's army besieging Yusheng City, they will not give the Hojo family any chance of survival like they surrounded Xiaoji City.

In the eyes of many lower-level samurai of the Hojo family, the Hojo clan government is a very unqualified family governor. The Musashi country is the Yoshino that the Hojo family has fought hard for two generations. It is also necessary to let go of Hisahito Sagami, who belongs to the Hojo family for three generations. The evaluation of the Hojo clan's government in the Sagami country is about to catch up with the "lord of subjugation" of the Imagawa clan.

The Hojo clan faced such a mess. Not only were there wars on the Eastern Front, but the Western Front was also very uneven. Kosho Jun’s Three Kingdoms Alliance was easily torn up by Takeda Shingen. The people of the country showed varying degrees of wavering, and the dissent and debate within the Pudai group were very intense.

The ally Takeda Shingen blatantly broke the alliance and chose to kill his other ally and in-law, the Imagawa family. The Hojo clan himself was very angry and hated, but the Kira army was in front of him, so he couldn't use his strength to support the Imagawa family. , could only silently endure the accusations from the retainers, and worked hard to discuss strategies with his father Hojo Ujiyasu.

After a period of endless discussions, the Hojo clan is still determined to take command in person to meet the Kira army. Whether it is out of the personal dignity of the family governor or to do what he can for the Hojo family, he has reason to fight for it. All the strength, this The [-] army was all the troops raised from Odawara Castle. Once this army came out, Odawara would become an empty city.

The Hojo clan led an army of [-] troops and quickly marched to the west bank of the Sagami River, posing as if they were about to fight the Kira Army to the death. Seeing this posture, Saito Asanobu was overjoyed, and immediately joined the Kakizaki Kei family to prepare to cross the Sagami River. The Hojo Army launched a massive offensive, trying to defeat the Hojo Army in one go.

Ps:

Kira ninjas are human beings rather than gods. They can't fly into the sky and don't have the ability to see through people's hearts. There are thousands of ninjas in the core. Most of them are for military purposes. A small number of ninjas are dedicated to collecting information. There are a lot of peripheral ninjas. It is only used as an informant, and its skills are not good, and it is mainly concentrated in the main intelligence outlets of the five countries in the territory, Kanto, and Kinai. Among them, the intelligence collection in the territory is the most comprehensive, followed by Kanto and Kinai. The place I went back to usually had nothing to do, and there was basically no management. Similarly, Owari Ise and other countries did not set up intelligence collection points.