Pillars of the Wu family

Ashikaga Fujimasa, who is the Furukawa government, knows very well that Kira Yoshishi said so many seemingly useless words, in fact, he wanted to express a meaning that he was more qualified to become Ashikaga Renzhi when Kira Yoshishi, and it was impossible for the Ashikaga general's family If a new Lianzhizhong Gosho number is opened for Kira Yoshishi, then this Gosho name will inevitably fall on the name of his Furukawa Ashikaga family.

If only this is the case, he might make a compromise to adopt Yoshiki Kira as an adopted son, so he chose to take this opportunity to severely attack and humiliate Yoshiki Kira, which made him feel angry and affected the attitude of the generation of Kira's family tree. Let him, the new generation of Guandong Gongfang, think of the humiliation of Ohiroma every time he sees his family members. After a long time, it might really cause turmoil in his entourage. This trial, summed up experience and lessons from the information accidentally revealed by Yuki Haruto.

But in the conversation just now, he has already realized that his ridicule and sarcasm did not make him feel ashamed. Among the many common clans after the Ashikaga Clan's extinction, they are definitely the top contenders for the leadership of the sect.

Thinking of this, Ashikaga Fujimasa suddenly couldn't help but tremble all over. At that moment just now, he clearly saw that Kira Yoshishi's eyes were full of Hong Guoguo's desire for power and that almost bottomless ambition, angry He yelled at Kira Yoshihide: "You wicked Ashikaga villain with ulterior motives! You are talking nonsense!"

After finishing speaking, I saw Ashikaga Fujimasa suddenly rushing towards Kirayoshi like a madman, but he suddenly jumped up like a spring and kicked the idiot Gongfang out. Ashikaga Fujimasa's height is less than 1.6 meters all year round Wine and lust hollowed out the body.Under the violent kick of the burly man Ji Liangyishi.It took five or six somersaults before stopping.

Kira Yoshitoki secretly hated this guy for being so uncooperative.He actually forced him to act rough in front of the ministers to stop his physical collision, stared fiercely at Ashikaga Fujimasa and shouted angrily: "Stubbornness and stubbornness are my evaluation of you. Today, General Ashikaga's family is a descendant. A descendant of the Horikoshi Kokata of the common clan, why not just advance half a rank in my dignified Ashikaga family! Come here! Lock this person up for me and send him to Sado Island for strict surveillance!"

"Yes!" Several samurai stuck Ashikaga Fujimasa who was madly cursing and turned him out. What awaited him would be a long life of exile and claustrophobia. A small temple, Ashikaga Fujimasa will spend the rest of his life in that small temple.

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In early August, Takeda Shingen launched the Suruga invasion.As well as the influence of the Sagami War presided over by Uesugi Terutoro, the trade routes of Tokaido were temporarily blocked, and the samurai of the Hojo family forcibly blocked Uesugi Terutoro’s invading army with their stoic character, which brought huge troubles to the expansion plan of the Kira Army. [

In the last few days of late August, Shigeru Hojo, the lord of Tamanowa Castle, suddenly made an astonishing move. He opened Tamanowa Castle in the dark and left without saying a word with the [-] troops of Tamanowa Hojo clan. Knowing the news, Terutora Uesugi did not make the pursuit decision as Shigeru Hojo wished, but brought the main force to Tamanawa Castle.

"This is a trap! It's intended to lure me to chase and kill and cross the Sagami River, and then take the opportunity to attack halfway through." Hojo Takahiro smiled disapprovingly, and mocked: "It's thanks to the Hojo family for being able to think of such a rough plan. Come out. Do you really think that I will force the army to cross and eat him with a half cross, and the whole army will be wiped out?".

"It's reasonable, our army can stick to the Sagami River for a long time... It seems that something is wrong! Isn't it going to be a stalemate if we continue to fight like this? This conflicts with the strategic goal set by His Royal Highness!" Kakizaki Jingjia pinched He frowned and pondered while wearing a mustache.The atmosphere in the big room suddenly stagnated a lot.

Saito Chaonobu grinned and said: "You guys are really cautious people! If I ask Chaoxin to say that he is afraid of what the Hojo family will do, how much morale does the military force that even the Musashi Kingdom can't stand, I will wait in front of Hojo. In front of the family, lead an army to forcefully cross the Sagami River, and see if Hojo Sagami has the ability to hit halfway!"

"Yes! Fanchang also thinks that's good! I'll wait for the [-] troops to fight against the Hojo army's [-] men, but I'll still be shy. If I reach Echigo, I'll be ridiculed by the remaining samurai." Honjo Shigeru shouted. So much so that the Echigo samurai present nodded in agreement.

Ota Zimasa, Ota Yasuki, Narita Choyasu, and Mita Tsunahide don’t quite understand the customs of the Echigo samurai, but they can still understand what the Echigo samurai say. In this battle, the prestige was played to boost the power status of the new members from the Musashi Kingdom.

"Morale, everyone is on the side of my Kamiso Ashikaga family. The Hojo army will lose in this battle! Hitting at the halfway point will be the lifeblood of the Hojo army!" Uesugi Terotora, who had been sitting silently on the main seat in a daze, suddenly let go of his rosary and opened his eyes. Opening the eyes exudes a terrifying evil spirit. With the continuous improvement of the realm of meditation, the aura of Echigo no Long, who converted to Shingon sect Shugendo and enshrined Bishamonten, is also improving a little bit. He is the most powerful.

Under this powerful momentum, even a veteran general in the Kanto region like Ota Zizheng was suppressed, but he still raised a question: "It is understandable that the Hojo Army's morale will be greatly damaged after another defeat, but the hearts of the people of Sagami are stable and united." , I don’t know how to answer it?”

"The hearts of the people in Sagami are in chaos. Troubled times will be chaotic times after all, and the temporary stability of Sagami is just an illusion. If you want to establish a peaceful and prosperous world, you must experience blood and fire. The people of Sagami, who have not experienced military invasion for decades, have already lost their lives." I’m afraid.” Terutor Uesugi valued Ota Sukuma very much, and patiently answered his questions. Among the people of Musashi, Ota Sumitomo was the only samurai he saw in his eyes, and the rest were like Ueda Asuno and Narita Changyasu The flow is still much different.

The Echigo samurai were very excited to get a positive answer from the general. As the leader of the Echigo young samurai, Honjo Shigecho jumped out and said: "The general is right! Why should we worry about the Hojo army? The samurai in the Kanto are afraid of the Hojo family However, it doesn’t mean that my Echigo warriors are also afraid of them! As long as I have a [-]-strong army as a vanguard, the Hojo Army will be destroyed in one fell swoop!”

Honjo Shigecho is a confidant general of Yoshitoki Kira, and he married Terutora Uesugi's adopted sister, Ohime Nagao, the widow of the Sanjo Nagao family, and also saved Yoshitoki Kira's life and received a letter of commendation from the general who guards the house.Among the many military generals in Echigo, the position is considered to be a relatively high position.Probably only a few top generals and family elders behind their qualifications can say a few words about him.

"Chiyo Inomaru, don't brag. If you force 3000 people to cross the Sagami River, I'm afraid you will be trapped with the army." Kakizaki Keiya grinned, slapped Honjo Shigeru on the shoulder fiercely, and said loudly: "It's more appropriate for me to be the leading general! Give me Chaoxin three thousand troops to easily hold back the main force of the Hojo Army and buy time for the general to cross the Sagami River."

Not to be outdone, Ota Zizheng said: "I Zizheng believes that the people of Musashi Kingdom also have this ability. It will be safer for me to wait for the [-] troops to cross the Sagami River as the vanguard. The cavalry team led by Saito Shimono Moriya is more suitable for coming and going. For such a sudden attack like the wind, let me wait for the people of Musashi who are familiar with the Hojo Army to do the frontal resistance!"

The turbulent calls for war from the ministers can be heard endlessly.Terutora Uesugi swept his eyes away from the faces of the samurai present, and finally locked on Ota Zizheng's body and said: "Then, the Minbuden will lead the [-] troops of the headquarters to serve as the vanguard. The duty of the Minbuden in this battle is Attract the Hojo Army's attention and stick to it, and buy time for us and the main force to cross the Sagami River."

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At the time of the first and fourth watch of September, the silent Sagami Country is still asleep, only the Sagami River, which has not changed for thousands of years, is still flowing turbulently. This night coincides with the alternation of bad days once a month, without the moonlight shining The long night was dimmed, and the fourth watch was approaching dawn, but the sea in the east was still dark and unclear.

Ota Zizheng led [-] troops to gather in front of Ebina Ferry on the Sagami River and slowly crossed the river.From wearing armor last night to now without a moment's rest, Ergeng made a meal and set off with [-] troops after a full meal.In the middle of the night, they gathered at the ferry and crossed the river. It took more than an hour to transport most of the army to the other side of the river.

A river as wide as the Sagami River is not the Kamo River in Kyoto. After all, a wooden bridge can be built on the Kamo River. With the current technology, it is temporarily impossible to build a bridge that spans nearly [-] meters wide. On the east bank of the Sagami River, Ota Suzuki is sitting on a bed that looks like a horse. I closed my eyes and rested my mind for a few days, and dozens of Banner warriors around me loyally protected me.

After a while, I heard a rush of horseshoes in my ears, and Shifan came to the front with the news that the whole line of Ota's army had crossed the river. As a general, Ota Zi was the last group of warriors to cross the river. Crossing the river is one of the two methods of crossing the river. The latter method is used by Suzuki Ota. These two have their own advantages and disadvantages, and there is no way to tell which one is better. We still have to make different choices according to different situations.

When he led the army across the Sagami River, a white belly appeared on the eastern horizon. Ota Zi stared at the faintly luminous sky for a moment, and said: "The whole army obeys the order to attack the Hojo Army's camp. Attack, but you must remember the general's order first, don't be foolish and put your life in it for a while, and ruin the military and state affairs! Ten thousand deaths will not be redeemed! Those who do not respect the order of the general will be killed and pardoned...the whole army obeys the order! The ashigaru team and the archery team set up positions here, and the cavalry team follows the family to attack!"

More than a thousand cavalry teams filed out under the commonly used banners of various samurai families in the Kanto region, basically maintaining the pattern that the samurai of any family will lead their own cavalry team. These cavalry warriors may have a lot of difference in training speed, weapons and equipment , but the morale of being an elite in all battles is still very good.

The cavalry team hadn't gone half a mile when they saw a large flame light up in the opposite woods. Chief Narita, who was in charge of the vanguard, hurriedly informed the forward army to stop advancing and informed Ota Zizheng of the news. Flying and hovering in the sky like headless flies for a long time, needless to say, the generals in the battle, even the new and tender Narita chief also saw that this situation was wrong, and used a common saying to say that there is no entry into the forest.

Ota Zizheng took the rein and wandered around and ordered to retreat. The horseman who reported back from the front could already hear the faint and noisy voices. It would be really stupid to pretend to go in with a military force at this time. He When he turned around and looked for a flat piece of land to set up his formation, the vanguard of the Hojo Army had already rushed out.

The leading general is Shigeru Hojo, carrying a large body gun and rushing to the front with a murderous spirit, followed by more than [-] cavalry warriors, which accounted for nearly seven of the current cavalry team of the Hojo family. As a result, as the remnants of the Hojo Army's five-color equipment and the elite of the Chinese lords of each army, they formed an army, and their combat power was much stronger than that of ordinary Chinese troops.

Ota Zizheng is not at all surprised by the new military system in which the arms are separated and organized into one regiment.This atmosphere of separation of arms was originally brought over from Kyoto during Kira Yoshishi's time.In the eyes of the Kanto samurai, this is the new style of military training in Kyoto full of literature and art.As for how many gods and gods there are in it, I don't care at all.

Anyway, Kira Yoshishi used it quite powerfully, and it’s not like the perverted high threshold of the separation of soldiers and peasants. It’s not difficult to distinguish the cavalry, archery, and ashigaru teams separately. Whose soldiers still have it? Commanding by one's own family, without changing the command structure of the Chinese lords over their own military power, is called changing the soup without changing the medicine.

Ota Suzumasa is also a famous general in the Kanto region. Although he thought that being nearly forty and staying up all night without sleep made him a little powerless, his foundation as a fierce general remained unchanged after all. Seeing Shigeru Hojo rushing towards him In front of him, he couldn't help but raise his gun and fight head-on.There is no trick at all in the horse-riding warrior vs. horse-riding samurai fight. It is to draw out all kinds of weird weapons such as Taisao, big body, spear and sickle gun, and collide with the body or weapons.

The Hojo Army’s navy blue armor held a long lance and galloped to charge the Ota Army. The Hojo’s heavy breathing sounded like hot air, and the Hojo Army’s cavalry warriors behind him tried to maintain a similar appearance. With the breathing rhythm of Hojo Shigeru's order, he picked up the spear, fastened the rein, and leaned forward like a full-stringed bow, violently bumping into Ota Army.

The horses of the two sides collided at that moment, and the huge impact shocked the horsemen on both sides and almost flew them up. They held the reins tightly and were suddenly shocked and flew away at that moment. At the moment when he lost control, he thrust his gun vigorously and stabbed violently, but saw a white light flashing in front of his eyes, and there was severe pain in his chest.

It turned out that the mounted samurai of the Ota Army also delivered the most violent blow at this time.The spears of both sides pierced into each other's chest in no particular order, for the two mounted warriors.The entire battlefield is like a strange still picture, the rumbling iron hoofed men and horses neighing and killing howls cannot be heard, and through the two-finger wide face, one can see the warrior holding a big gun motionless.

"Dididi..." The two warriors realized a faint voice almost at the same time. Through their faces, they saw Yin Hong's blood flowing between each other's throat chakra and face, and the blood merged into a thin stream. The blood line seeped out from the gap, like a faucet that forgot to turn off and never stopped flowing.

The two samurai were seriously injured. The momentary impact and the puncture of the spear directly sank into the body, and half of the blood-stained spear blade was exposed from the other end. In just a few seconds, their bodies followed. The slowly falling mounts fell into the dust together, and in the rising smoke and dust, their consciousness gradually became blurred until they fell into absolute darkness.

Such brave warriors will always be a minority in the cavalry team. Only the bravest cavalry warriors who are very confident in themselves will stand at the front of the queue, but the reality is so cruel, and those who rush to the front are often dead The earliest ones died in the stabbing before they had time to show their martial prowess. On the contrary, the mediocre knights on horseback had more hope of surviving.

The first wave of assault is to decide the male and female in horse battles, and then the horse warriors of both sides will dismount and fight in formation. This is a major feature of horse warriors and one of the cavalry tactics of non-nomadic peoples. When continuing to assault, dismounting and fighting in formation became the only option for the warriors. This is not so crude and crude. Most non-nomadic civilizations have used similar tactics to some extent.

The advantages of the Hojo Army are gradually revealed in this dismounting formation. The sudden and sudden competition is about personal bravery and battle courage. The timid will retreat and lose their lives at the moment before desperately fighting. The dismounting formation becomes a test of riding horses. The experience of fighting in groups is exactly what the Ota Army does not have.

The so-called Ota Army is the coalition of [-] Musashi nationals with Ota Suzumasa as the general. The nationals from all over the country in Musashi have hardly been organized and trained together. When Ogiya Uesugi’s family ruled Musashi Kingdom, they never thought of fighting in groups. The possibility, when the Hojo family ruled the Musashi country, they were subordinate to the Hojo family, large and small, and the people of several countries were demolished, and there was no time to get together.

Ota's army is not the opponent of the Hojo army who has experienced the battle of Takayama for several years. They were beaten in every possible way as soon as they met each other. The weakness of the military's lack of tacit cooperation was exposed under the pull of Shigeru Hojo.After all, how can they compare to the long-fighting elite of the Hojo Army when they have just been kneaded together.

Hit and retreat until you get back to the side of the horse and you can retreat.Ota Zizheng knew that it was impossible for him to continue to retreat.Suddenly, he realized that Shigeru Hojo's cavalry warriors had charged too far and were already a certain distance away from his own horses, so he ordered the rear team to get on their horses and turn around to attack the horse cavalry warriors of the Hojo Army.

Seeing that the fat in his mouth turned into a prickly prickly prickly pear for no apparent reason, Hojo Shigeru ordered to retreat without thinking about continuing to pursue the Ota Army. Fortunately, Hojo Shigeru's main formation had already rushed over at this time, and tens of thousands of troops were overwhelmed. The cavalry team of the Ota Army who came to scare them immediately dropped the belly of the Hokjo Army and retreated.

There were not many dead in this small-scale fierce battle, and the total number of warriors who died on both sides did not exceed 150. Most warriors are still very good at using their own advantages to survive on the battlefield. "Skills.The old soldier's escape method is even more perfect, and most of the battles are fierce and few die.

The Hojo Clan led the army to follow up and bite Ota Suzumasa's tail tightly, trying to swallow this army completely to deter the arrogant Kira Army. Ota Takamasa also knew how much the Hojo Clan hated him as a traitor In the beginning, it was only an expedient move to appease the people of the Musashi country by exiling the Ota family from the Sagami country.

But he didn't want to attract a group of "robbers" to enter the house with the help of his leading party at this moment, and the Musashi Kingdom was taken down in a hurry, so that the Hojo Clan was so frightened that they did not dare to send reinforcements. Liqie defected and played a huge role as a leading party.

If the people of the Musashi country are united against the Kira army, maybe they can block the arrogant Kira Yoshitoki in the Musashi country. As long as he can pierce the invincible tiger skin of the Kira army, he will be sure to contact more The people of the country who waited and watched stood up and rebelled against the Kira family.

His father, Ujiyasu Hojo, could use the name of the Furukawa government to mediate the people of the Kanto country.Combined with the support of the people of Mutsu Dewa and even the Miyoshi family in Kinai, it is completely possible to create a great situation that blossoms internally and externally.But all of this was in vain due to the betrayal of the people of Musashi Kingdom. How can one not hate the good situation when it goes to waste.

More than a thousand cavalry teams retreated to the main formation on the west bank of the Sagami River. At this time, the ashigaru team of the Ota Army had already made wooden fences out of the wood that had been brought back by the ship. As a substitute, more than a thousand civilians recruited by Sagami Junior High School hurriedly circled around, and finally finished making all the wooden fences on the front before the Hojo Army's large-scale attack.

Ota Zizheng immediately stood in front of the battle with his spear in front of the formation, watching the huge momentum of the Hojo army approaching calmly, and secretly sneered: "What I want is the hatred of your Hojo family! If you don't hate, maybe you won't take the bait , will you not come up and bite the hook when you see the flag seal of my Ota family?".

It was already five o'clock at this moment, and the white belly of the sky gradually turned into a mass of burning clouds. It didn't take long for a round of red sun with soft red light to reveal a faint golden glow from the horizon. They ate immediately before the start of the war, and the ashigaru people quickly took out the prepared bento and leather water bags, and ate three rice balls in two or three mouthfuls with the warm water and fish rice balls poured in last night.

The eating time for this breakfast is only a few minutes, so that the samurai ashigaru of the former team can also take advantage of this as a stutter to have breakfast. It is a pity that the Hojo Army does not enjoy this treatment. The intelligence said that the Kira army was preparing to land near the Sagami River, and the Hojo clan government ordered the entire army to gather urgently overnight, not to mention that they didn't have time to eat, and their clothes might not be neatly dressed.

The Hojo Clan stared at the Ota Army who was waiting in full force, and yelled at him, saying that he was a traitor to the villain Li Qie, and other adjectives, especially when he saw clearly that the person standing in front of the battle was Ota Susuma himself, and threatened to capture Ota Zimasa alive Capture alive and then kill with your own hands a section of hatred in your heart.

Ogasawara Yasuhiro stared at the Ota Army for a long time, and suddenly said: "It doesn't seem right! Why does the Kira Army only have such a small force? According to the normal follow-up speed, the Kira Army should not have crossed the river. Why are there so few people?"

"It's really wrong. This should be the first formation of the Kira Army. It looks like there are about 6000 people in this formation. The flag seals are also the names of the Musashi people. It should be correct." The general public is very familiar with the names of the flags and sub-patterns of the Musashi people, and can easily see which flags are real and which ones are counterfeit.

Yamato Haru said: "The main hall of Uesugi is definitely not an ordinary mediocre general, and he should not have made a serious mistake of allowing the vanguard to be besieged on the river bank and help him in isolation. Looking at the posture of the Ota Minbu Hall, he should have come prepared. This wooden fence Juma should be something that has been prepared for a long time ago! If it is knocked down like this, the subordinates will doubt where the main force of Kira's army is, and where is the Uesugi main hall now?"

"Isn't it still in Tamawa Castle?" The Hojo Clan replied with some uncertainty, "For example, the Uesugi main hall was occasionally sick and bedridden..."

Yamato Haruhito replied: "There is such a possibility, but it is very small and close to small. If Uesugi Seiden is ill, he should not send a vanguard to cross the river. A few days ago, he would have let Hitaroku Jieden evacuate Yusheng City and did not pursue it. It can be seen that Uesugi Zhengden is very aware of the trap set by the lord, the lord's trick is not bad, but once it is seen through, it is very likely to be targeted by tricks, such as..."

As a qualified governor of the Hojo family, the Hojo clan's intelligence and wisdom need not be repeated. Immediately, he heard the subtext of several teachers, and his face was pale as paper. Fatal blow!"

The Hojo Clan’s guess was very accurate. At a hidden ferry downstream of the Sagami River, the main force of the Kira Army began to forcibly cross the Sagami River at four o’clock. After Terotora Uesugi’s anti-corruption calculations, he came to a conclusion that this Time to forcefully cross the Sagami River is the safest moment. The main force of the Hojo Army must have been attracted by Ota Susuma. As long as he leaves the camp of the Hojo Army, it means that the Hojo Clan has lost the best time to change its tactics. If the Hojo Army cannot change its tactics, it means Falling into the offensive rhythm of the Kira Army, this is the result Uesugi Terotora wanted.

At the end of Mao’s time, the sun had already risen high, and Terotora Uesugi ate a bowl of hot egg noodles, fresh vegetables picked from nearby fields, and stewed river fish from the Sagami River in the proposal scene on the west bank of the Sagami River. Fish soup, together with kombu, the most popular ingredient in this era, and limited supply of eggs in the army, there is simply no more perfect autumn breakfast than this.

Just after breakfast, I received two pieces of information at the same time. The first one was the latest news from Jun Fengxing. All the [-] troops under my command had successfully crossed the river. Terotora Uesugi just glanced at it and threw it aside. No matter what, the next piece of information surprised him: "The North Army has retreated!" (To be continued...)