Pillars of the Wu family

The eight nearby military strongholds are scattered around in a patchwork manner. This layer of defense network is so powerful that it almost drove the Hojo clan to despair. Several small-scale trials in Odawara Castle only resulted in the loss of soldiers and generals, which proved that Uesugi Terutora is not only good at attacking He is a great general, and he also has a set of special skills to deal with the Hojo family in defense.

When Kira Yoshishi received the detailed information, he laughed and said, "Brother, this is going to suffocate the Hojo family to death! The traffic jam in Ashgara Hirano will cut off the land traffic of the Hojo family. The daily business loss is enough to make Odawara Castle You can't stop scratching your head! There are more important soldiers and food that cannot be replenished, so if you just pin down the Hojo family and besiege it, maybe you can really surround the Hojo family to death!"

"The Hojo retainer group is unexpectedly united and tenacious! It has been so long and few are willing to follow suit. It seems that Hojo Ujiyasu's deeds over the years have really won the hearts of the people!" Honda Shizheng's exclamation is more like a reminder The tenacity of the Hojo family is completely beyond imagination. The united retainer group means that this is not a fortress that can be breached from the inside. There are only two ways to take down Odawara, a storm at all costs or a siege at all costs.

The reason is the same, but the price paid is different. The former loses the elite teachers who have been trained for many years, while the latter loses only money, time and morale. It was much better than losing soldiers and losing generals. Although Kira's family was neither short of soldiers nor food, they couldn't use their lives to fill the hole in Odawara Castle even if they had soldiers.

A fortified city with an area of ​​nearly ten square kilometers, a well-equipped internal civil town, no shortage of food, grass, medicine, and water, and [-] elite guards, how much it will cost to take it down is a very difficult problem, Uesugi Teru Tiger's sense of war and ability to capture fighters are superb, and he is fully confident in dealing with any encounters.

But this does not mean that his siege tactics are as invincible as field battles. The siege tactics of the Warring States Period are usually only those few moves back and forth. It means that it is very difficult to dig the earth and build a secret passage.And it doesn't have the conditions for water attack at all.

Under the constraints of various unfavorable conditions, the siege battle fell into a long-term stalemate. Either bloody troops were used or the tactics of "soldiers and food attack" were used. These two competitions were all about determination, willpower and domination skills , and this aspect happens to be one of Hojo Ujiyasu's best specialties. Hojo Ujiyasu is a benevolent man who is lenient inside and strict outside. Kanto Minzhengjia is not a nickname given by some flattering Kanto warriors.Instead, the common people praised the market name passed down by word of mouth, and the samurai still called him the lion of Sagami.

Kira Yoshishi was still thinking about how to deal with the difficult Hojo family. He knew very well that this strong Hojo family would have to persist for another 30 years in another time and space, until the Tianxia monkey led an army of 20 and used the big siege technique from all directions. It took nearly half a year to attack by means of coercion, lure, ostentation, intimidation, storm and siege.

He doesn't have an army of 20 and doesn't plan to use all kinds of messy tactics. He just wants to force the Hojo family to surrender as soon as possible with relatively peaceful and less drastic means.After thinking about it, he decided to continue to maintain the high-pressure siege of Odawara Castle, and ordered Ota Zizheng to lead an army of [-] troops to take advantage of the snowfall in the winter moon to raid several Hojo family fortresses near Mount Ashigara, completely blocking the road leading to Sagami from Ashigara Pass. country, especially Odawara Castle, to ensure that every grain of Izu Country and every strong man is blocked outside Odawara City. [

Secondly, Kira Yoshihito adopted a fortification strategy, which was based on the big camp and eight fortresses built by Uesugi Kenshin, and then built more than a dozen military forts according to a section of about three rooms, and used several sections to build a camp step by step. Proceed to the base of Odawara Castle.And gradually blocked all contact methods of Odawara Castle.

This kind of method can be regarded as a stupid way that wastes money and money, but even if the Kira family is not short of money and doesn’t care about the cost, there is nothing they can do. No matter how stupid the method is, it doesn’t matter as long as it is useful. The benefits of this stupid method are obvious. First of all The Bingzhai’s advance tactics can ensure that the Hojo family will lead an army to raid and burn down these newly built Bingzhai in a short while, and the Kira Army behind them can protect the newly built Bingzhai at any time.

Going out of the city to fight means having an encounter with Terotora Uesugi in the wild. This is a situation that the Hojo family tried their best to avoid, so Yasushi Hojo would not dare to hastily issue a raid order.However, it would not be effective to build a military stronghold under the Odawara castle in a big way. First of all, it takes a long time and many farmers to build a military stronghold. This process is not a day or two, but a half month to a month Waiting process.

Under the Hojo family's eyelids, such a blatant construction of arrows and arrows is probably to deceive all the Hojo family warriors into fools. You must know that the Hojo family warriors are also elite fighters who have undergone years of training, and their intelligence is not necessarily better than that of the ordinary Kira family. As much as the genealogy of the retainers is different, the ability is not necessarily so much worse.If I can't beat you during the day, then it will be no problem to sneak attack at night!

No matter how powerful your Kira family is, if you can guard against it during the day, can you stay in the middle of the night all the time? Whether you can guard against it today and tomorrow is still a question. When the tiger still naps, so many soldiers are scattered around. A huge irregular city wall requires a lot of troops to look after several points.From a military point of view, this is a very risky move.

The so-called principle of siege from ten is to warn the generals in command not to be blindly arrogant. They must obtain an absolute advantage in military strength and logistics to be able to siege for a long time. A strategic siege at every step, and building a city directly outside Odawara Castle is a very arrogant behavior.

The strength of the Hojo defenders inside the city is not much worse than that outside the city, and the besieging party must divide the heavy troops into several groups and enter the city to defend Odawara Castle. How can it be equal to the force of "inserting" with five fingers, the former is a heavy hammer and the latter can only be regarded as a rake.

Such dispersion is very dangerous. If you are not careful, you may be rushed out by the Beitiao army in the city, hacked, killed and burned a certain city. By the time your army arrives, the Beitiao army has already retreated into the city and cannot come out. It is still very difficult to deceive Hojo Shiyasu with a trick, and you must be confident enough to play with the resourcefulness between Hojo Shiyasu and the palm.

This is not the interpretation of Zhuge Liang, who is not wise enough to be a monster. Yoshihiro Yoshishishi did not have the confidence to set up a trick to trick Yasushi Hojo out of him when he hit the gate of Odawara Castle. This is not to underestimate the IQ of Yasushi Hojo. In overestimating one's IQ, it is more reliable to use stupid methods in comparison, and using the city to enter the system can also form strategic depths by the way.Even if the Hojo family occupies or burns several military strongholds, it cannot change the fate of being cut and surrounded.

A few days later, Yoshitoki Kira proposed the latest rotation plan. Uesugi Terutora’s [-] troops, from the general general down to the ashigaru, will be rotated once before late December. Sanada Yutaka will lead the Shinano, Ueno, and More than [-] generals from Kira Yoshishi's direct line army took over Uesugi Terutora's burden. This rotation is initially set to be every three months. The withdrawn army is stationed near Edo Castle to rest and restore its morale and energy. state and then perform a new rotation.

Using the superiority of troops to continuously consume the morale and confidence in Odawara Castle.Even if Hojo Ujiyasu followed suit and came up with a rotation strategy, it could not change the fact that morale was gradually declining. The withdrawal of the Kira Army was nothing to do with self-cultivation, play and reorganization training. Just slow down.

With the end of the war in the Shimano Kingdom, more than [-] people from the Kanto Kingdom recruited returned to their territory to celebrate the New Year. Yoshishiki Kira assigned their own tasks to the newly attached Kanto Army. Raiders in the direction of the task.Including Yoshihiro Satomi, who did not participate in the anti-Kira alliance and did not contact the Kira family, was also listed as the target of the Raiders.

In Kira Yoshishi’s plan to conquer the Kanto, there was no such thing as past hatred and Japanese enmity. Kira Yoshishi, who was referring to the throne of the Kanto government, was eager to control the actual control of the eight countries of the Kanto and become a ruler of the government that surpassed all previous generations. He must beat and teach the people of the Kanto Kingdom who are not very husband and wife in their hearts. He wants to establish his absolute dominance over the eight kingdoms of the Kanto Kingdom, and he must obey conditions whether he understands or not.

Satomi Yoshihiro, who is known as the "Kanto Deputy Commander" family, obviously cannot accept it, just like he cannot accept the olive branch extended by the Hojo family.The army of the Kira family took advantage of the retreat of the Hojo army to invade and occupy the Shangsuo country, which also violated the fundamental interests of the Satomi family. Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that they are hostile to Yoshiki Kira's domineering demands.

Sometimes the absolute difference in strength is not enough to make up for the huge difference in interest identification. The Satomi family is not the weak Utsunomiya family, and the ambitious Satomi Yoshiyao and his son are not the Utsunomiya Hirozuna without a backbone. In this era, friends often appear The fundamental reason for the huge transformation into an enemy is still inseparable from the word interest. [

What people seek in this world is not the four words of fame, wealth and power "color". People with ambition and ability are more inclined to expand their own interests, while those who lack ambition and strength are more inclined to stabilize their status and interests.This is the difference between Satomi Yoshihiro and Utsunomiya Hirozuna. The strong man is stronger than the latter in terms of skill, vision and ambition, so the Satomi family can maintain silent hostility, while the Utsunomiya family can only shout about unfairness Then throw in the towel.

The huge turmoil created by the Kira family in Kanto had a great impact. This not only shocked many samurai in the Eastern Kingdom, but also shocked the whole world. Once upon a time, the Kamakura government was the confidant of the Muromachi shogun’s family, and the reborn Furukawa government is still Adhere to the strategy of hostility to the Muromachi shogunate.Gathering a group of people from the Kanto Kingdom to cause unrest in Kanto every three days is a headache.

From Ashikaga Yoshinaka to Ashikaga Yoshimasa, several generations of the government have dreamed of eliminating the Kanto government, or finding a new government close to the shogunate to replace it. Their actions have proved to be very unsuccessful. The Kamakura government can still rise when the Kamakura government falls. Public side.Even if the Furukawa government falls, another government may rise again. As long as the banner of the Kanto remains, there will be a steady stream of Kanto people to stand up.

So not long after Horikoshi was proved to be hardworking, Hosokawa Masamoto took advantage of the successive deaths of Ashikaga Yoshimura and Ashikaga Yoshihime to launch a coup d'etat. A puppet, and secondly, Hojo Soun, who has the background of the Imagawa family, was appointed to manage the Kanto. Of course, this move collapsed with the collapse of the management system before it could be done well.

Yoshihiro Kira was fulfilling the wildest ambitions of his predecessors. He will become the first Kwantung government under the control of the shogunate and loyal to the general who conquered the barbarians. This is his dream and the greatest hope of years of struggle. Looking back on this journey How many ups and downs and tribulations he has come along, there has been laughter and anger, there has been victory and there has been sorrow and pain, and how much sorrow is hidden under the surface scenery, now he is like an acrobat walking a tightrope holding a plate, an inattentive It's just a chicken and an egg knocked down.

As a governor, he always had to be perfect.Always maintain the posture of wisdom pearls in your hands to give more people strong confidence. He is no longer the boy who lives for himself. Paying the price for not being alone, the ideals in his memory are quietly fading and turning into yellowed photos. Those scenes of deja vu are exactly what he has been trying to do in the past 20 years.

Looking at the little afterglow of the setting sun on the top of the distant mountain gradually dissipating, he muttered to himself: "If you are not victorious, you will die. If you are not prosperous, you will perish... I am fulfilling my oath! Please protect me from my ancestors, and let me go to the Ashikaga family! "

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At the end of October, the temperature in Kyoto drops. The temperature difference between day and night is nearly ten degrees. Hui and Jinwei sat facing each other drinking tea a long time ago.The two did not choose the time-consuming and labor-intensive traditional tea ceremony, but instead used roasted green tea as a social tool in private conversations.

The advantage of the new tea ceremony is that it is easy to learn for both refined and popular tastes. The elegant ones still need to bathe and burn incense to purify the mind and body before using the tea ceremony etiquette. The vulgar ones only need a few simple steps to taste the pure fragrance of green tea. You can drink whatever you want, without paying too much attention, it is more refreshing and comfortable. A small handful of tea leaves can be re-drinked for five or six brews.These five or six cups of tea lasted nearly an hour, which was enough time to discuss many things.

At this time, Ashikaga Yoshiki's complexion was dark and his eyes were sunken. He looked like a refugee who had escaped from a refugee camp. He was so thin that only a handful of bones were left. He said to Konoe Maeku in a spirited voice: "According to what was said a long time ago, Yoshishi asked Yu to give him the title of Guandong Gong, right?"

A long time ago, Konoe shook his head when he saw Ashikaga Yoshiki's powerful appearance, and he also persuaded him several times, but he still couldn't pass this threshold, and said regretfully: "Yes. Yoshitoki was in Kanto. The offensive is at a critical moment, as long as Ashikaga Fujimasa is captured, Kanto can be easily controlled, and then most of the entire Eastern Kingdom will be under the control of the shogunate, this is a golden opportunity.”

"Is Yoshishi so eager to become the Guandong Duke? Will he be eager to get Yu's throne after becoming the Guandong Duke? How did Yu Huiruomaru die! Yu must find out to repay my poor child! Great Enmity!" Ashikaga Yoshiki's mental state is still very poor, as if he can't get up any strength, the so-called heart disease must be healed by heart medicine.If he fails to cross this threshold, Ashikaga Yoshiki may lose his ambitions and transform into a mediocre public with collapsed ideals.

Since Teru Wakamaru's bizarre death, Ashikaga Yoshiki's life seems to have slipped from the brilliant apex to the dim abyss.His son, Teri Wakamaru, entrusted all his hopes for the continuation of his dream. A man without heirs is miserable. No matter how hard he tries, he is doomed to be in vain. Just like Ashikaga Yoshike who is still lonely when he dies, but who would have thought Back then when he was called Ashikaga Yoshiki, he was so beautiful.

Ashikaga Yoshiki suddenly understood the feelings of the "Rugong Fang" Ashikaga Yoshitsuke. Thinking of him, Ashikaga Yoshiki, the great general who conquered barbarians, couldn't even keep a son. His son-in-law Takeoumaru also didn't keep the similarity. Perhaps the most similar thing between him and Ashikaga Yoshitsuki is that he was proud of the spring breeze in the first half of his life, but the long-distance runner failed more than him in the second half of his life.

Compared with the tragic fate he experienced, Kirayoshi's dominance of the Kanto was not so important. A few years ago, the shogunate might have paid attention to the political changes caused by the turmoil in the Kanto, but these years the shogunate has continued to gain momentum The slipping down has long since lost the wonderful feeling of "sitting on the world".

In these days, the tragic scene of his son Teruwakamaru's death always echoed in his mind. This was the worst scene of failure he had experienced in the first half of his life. He only vaguely remembered being surrounded by many samurai. His memory is full of fragments and chaotic fragments, and he can't remember what he has done at all.

After spending several months in a daze, he gradually recovered his normal thinking as a general, but the trace left by this imprint was so deep that Ashikaga Yoshiki could never forget it. He does some presumptuous acts, but he will never allow anyone to offend his majesty as a general, and his poor child Teruwakamaru.

"This..." Jinwei was a little bit off topic a long time ago, "The so-called two masters of the people in the second day, the people of the Guandong Kingdom are about to lose the Guandong Gongfang, if the shogunate can't fill it in time, they will have to let those young people support another one, Maybe it will cause the "rebellion" caused by the Ashikaga Chengshi again."

"The establishment of a new Kanto government will only lead my Ashikaga family into an endless abyss!" Ashikaga Yoshiki smiled coldly, closed his eyes and slowly sipped tea, trying to sort out the chaotic thoughts for himself His brain is more sober. He has realized that what Kira Yoshi did in Kanto was very dangerous, but he can't always think more about dealing with him. This may be the tragedy of being a general. (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.)

ps: Bow down and thank Xiao Zimu and Jane Eyre for their rewards. Wu Mei is a little embarrassed for being so generous. It's still the same sentence, what I said will definitely be fulfilled.

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