Pillars of the Wu family

Uesugi Kenshin’s brilliant achievements in the military almost need to be repeated. The Kantohojo family who fought did not dare to fight. In the harsh situation of being unfamiliar with Dewa country and lacking logistical intelligence support, he was still able to sweep the entire Deba area alone. With so many people in the country, the Vietnam-China counterattack wiped out all the main forces of Vietnam and China.

Accurately judged the short-lived predicament of the emptiness in the Kaga country, immediately made a bold plan to invade the Kaga country, swept the Kaga Ichikui army on the southern bank of the Tetori River, and achieved the strategic goal of completely smashing the Kaga Ichikui revival, giving Ashikaga Create a good environment for display in time.

Then they invaded Musashi country and captured it easily within ten months. They also captured Hojo Tsunari and Hojo clan, which changed the direction of the battle, and then successfully captured Sagami country. An ingenious design of a siege plan gave the tens of thousands of defenders in Odawara city to life. "Pressed" into a dead corner and unable to move, very cruelly deprived the Hojo family of the right to fight the trapped beasts, only to be a lamb to be slaughtered and not to fight back.

The samurai discussed the gains and losses of the battles in recent years in low voices. They didn't notice the soft footsteps in the corridor, but heard a voice outside the door: "There is no doubt about the power of the Uesugi main hall. It’s really thanks to His Royal Highness sitting in Utsunomiya Castle and attacking in time, otherwise it would be very difficult for my Kanto Ashikaga family to keep the honor of being undefeated.”

Sanada Yoshiyuki wondered: "Huh? Isn't this Nagano Toe Shouden? It should be in Anfang Country to appease the people recently! How come here when you are free?"

"An Fangguo's take-off service was handed over to Mitsui Gao Andian, and I was ordered to go to the front line of the tutelary fort to allocate the new season's grain and grass." Nagano Yegu was already thirty years old.Ever since he became a blockbuster a few years ago, getting married, having children, getting promoted and making a fortune has all happened to him.It can be said that the spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease.

Xiao Banxinzhen walked over and patted his shoulder, and said, "I thought you would come over in a few days, why did you come so soon and didn't say anything in advance?"

"There was a change in the original plan and we set off a few days earlier. I just heard that you guys were having a tea party and came over to have a look after handing over the mission. I happened to hear them talking about the part of the Oshu War." Nagano Yegu turned to greet many colleagues warmly. Every samurai in the event seemed to be very familiar with him, even the three brothers Hojo Ujibun, Hojo Utero, and Hojo Ujiki, who were brought by Hojo Shigeru for the first time, also showed a familiar and enthusiastic attitude.

The identity of the Ueno people represented by Nagano Yegu in the system is very strange. Their origins are from the Ueno people and they can be regarded as orthodox Kanto samurai.However, the early approach to Echigo played a vital role in the successive battles of Ueno Middle School, so they were incorporated into the Echigo Legion system very early, which allowed them to have dual identities. Swimming in the two systems is like a fish in water. [

Nagano Yegu smiled wryly and said: "We fought for four years before and after the Oshu War, and it was really a headache to see the war repeatedly. At that time, I happened to be one of the executives in charge of managing the storage and distribution of military rations on the front line. I learned about the battle from the rear. Many details are caused by the sudden return of Date Kyozhaoden. Even Iwaki Shigetaka, Soma Morin, and Yuki Haruzuna, who have already been cut into our camp, are also shaken, and Tamura and Nikaido are even more Immediately transfer to Date's camp, it's really a headache!"

Sanada Yoshiyuki nodded and said: "I really didn't expect that Date Kyozhaoden would suddenly come back, and he could use his personal prestige to re-knead the already collapsed Mutsu country together. Iwaki Shigetaka and Yuki Haruzuna suddenly cut each other Leaving the front line, Satake Tochirokusuke almost fell into a desperate situation of collapse. The Satake Army did not go deep into the enemy's territory, and successfully escaped with the best efforts of the Nasu Army and Utsunomiya Army."

"The most powerful part of Date Jingzhaoden lies in the strategy. After driving away our army, we immediately garrisoned troops and wrote a truce to contact the shaken daimyo samurai from all over the country. Shigetaka, please go over and talk, and within a few days, Mutsu Kingdom was re-kneaded into an iron plate. I heard that Master Asayama Nichijo couldn't even eat during that time, but it has reduced a lot!"

Kobata Nobusada patted his head.Haha laughed and said: "I remember! I still vaguely remember that interesting incident. After that incident, once I met Master Asayama Nichijo who ate and drank wildly and asked the master what was going on. The master told me to Eat back the body that was starving, and said that the rich monk is more pleasing, I couldn't help laughing out loud after hearing this."

"Master Asayama Nichijo is a very easy-going person, at least he is much better than that great monk Sugiura Genren, that reckless man just sang his poems in the yard with a broken voice, and said that he is The new generation of waka masters will publish waka collections in the world in the future, which is really maddening." Hojo Shigeru's head was throbbing with veins, and he expressed great dissatisfaction with Sugiura Genren, who had converted to the Myoshinji sect of Rinzai sect. Many samurai He also showed a concerned expression.

In the past, Kaga Ichikui Ichikui General Sugiura Gento was captured for many years, and he was imprisoned in Echigo Myokakuji Temple to restrain this irritable Ichizobo official with meditation practice. Believe in the Rinzai sect, and voluntarily surrendered to the Kanto Ashikaga family, starting from the head of an Ashgaru group.

This guy is not good at other skills, his brain is simple and rude, he has no technical content and a lot of weaknesses, but he has one advantage: he is simple and has no complicated tricks, and he has been fighting for more than ten years. With a unique skill, and a martial art that has been tempered and polished by the daily rough work in Miaojue Temple, it has become more and more courageous and diligent. With this ability, it only took three years to rise to the rank of general of the reserve team. It is indeed not easy.

After all, he is an uneducated reckless man, trying to change his rude temperament is even more difficult than changing the country. At the beginning when he was in Yuezhong guarding the mountain city, he was flattered by Zhang Jinbao's unintentional flattery, and then he didn't know How to develop the habit of creating your own waka, the level of waka is similar to the doggerel of a bandit warlord.

"Forget it, let's not mention that rude bastard." Hojo Shigeru noticed that everyone was being swayed by him, and said apologetically, "Date Kyozhaoden's subterfuge is so powerful that Asayama Nichijo Grandmaster’s hard work and strategies have been put to waste, but after all, Jing Zhaodian is old and weak, and can’t take into account the changes in the battle situation. He only uses his personal prestige to coordinate the respective responsibilities of the Mutsu people, and he can’t direct the direction of the battle from the front.”

Yoshiyuki Sanada clenched his fists excitedly: "That's why the Mutsu coalition forces suffered a big defeat when they counterattacked Shimono country for the first time. They were caught off guard by Uesugi Seiden's casual raid, and the first assault of the Shirasaka Hezhan took Yuuki Haruka's head led to the collapse of Shirakawa Yuki's and Komine's morale, and Ashina Mori's flank lost protection and was almost captured alive by Saito Shimono Shouden.

On the other wing, Kakizaki and Izumi Shouden asked Uenosuke who stayed behind without any precautions. Hojo Kamisuke raided the retreating Iwagi army and captured Iwaki Kintaka in one fell swoop and forced the Iwaki army to surrender on the spot. The rest were Tamura, Nikaido, Kokubun, Watari The first-class are all throwing away their helmets and armor and fleeing!The Shirasaka battle played out the prestige of my Kanto Ashikaga family, and also knocked out the pent-up anger in the hearts of the samurai, making the people of Mutsu country terrified and sleepless at night after hearing our name. "

The instinct of animals is to worship the strong.Human beings are the spirits of all things and naturally have a bit of animal instinct. The stronger Uesugi Kenshin is, the more excited the Kanto people are. On the contrary, the people of Mutsu are frightened and dare not take advantage of them for a while. The confidence and unity that the crowd had accumulated with great difficulty were broken up again. It can be said that a group of warriors did some useful work at the end of their busy schedule.

"Knowing that there was a fiasco ahead, Date Jingzhaodian fell into a coma on the spot, and then died in a coma in the city for more than three months. All the efforts of the Date family were in vain. .” Nagano Yegu made a simple description with a flat tone, and understated the big change that stirred up the bloody storm in Minamimutsu and brought it to an end.

Winners are always more qualified to judge the losers with their tone. Shigeru Hojo said with a smile: "In fact, Date Kyozhaoden's body has already collapsed. The main battlefield of the Baisaka war near the border of Mutsu is three days away from Maruyama Castle. He has lived in seclusion for more than ten years and does not ask about world affairs. He knows the strength of the Ashikaga family in Kanto. I am afraid that an old man who does not know the level of the lords of the Mutsu country will not be able to do it. What is it!"

"That's right, we should sympathize with what happened to him, the monster can only blame the Date family..."[

"Hmm! Don't continue talking." Nagano Yegu stopped Nobusada's big mouth in time, and the Kanto General's Mansion banned such kind of speech, because Ashikaga Yoshitoshi personally led the army to besiege Yonezawa City two years ago. when.Yi Da Huizong took the initiative to surrender to the city by pleading guilty.

Sanada Yoshiyuki suddenly remembered that Date Teruzong also had a good relationship with him, and immediately changed his words: "The Date family's surrender is also a last resort choice! The people of Minamikuo almost lost their family property in a big defeat. Date Tsukimune was pissed off to death, the left-behind political scene was captured, Iwaki Osaka was captured alive, Ashina Mori was almost captured, and Yuuki Haruzuna was captured.

In this battle, the elite of the Nanlu Austrian people was reduced by as much as [-]%. Half of the remaining [-]% of the people are still neutral small countrymen, and the remaining half may not even be able to display their basic strength. How much confidence has been lost and shaken, and how many are ready to surrender is still unknown. It is not easy for the Date family to last until the eighth year of Yonglu before Kaesong surrendered. "

"Yeah yeah……"

Xiao Banxinzhen said disapprovingly: "It's not easy. After our army finished the Battle of Baisaka, we stationed in Baichuan City to take stock of the income and appease the local people. It was not until the spring of the seventh year of Yonglu that we started a new round of invasion. Yi Most of the Tatsu family’s family business is in Yonezawa Castle of Dewa Country. Dewa Yonezawa ranks at the bottom of our army’s priority to attack Yuao, so let him persist for one more year, not to say that Yonezawa Castle is like Odawara strong as a city..."

"Ahem...then what, let's not talk about Yonezawa Castle!" Hojo Shigeru was so embarrassed that he wanted to find a crack in the ground to sneak in. The faces of the three brothers Hojo Ujisho, Hojo Ujibun, and Hojo Ujiki turned black. The control of common people is relatively loose, and the Miao characters have not been changed. The next generation will gradually change the Miao characters to the familiar "time".

What Kobata Nobusada said caused many samurai in the hall to look sideways, and Nagano Yegu realized that he hadn't paid attention to the seat position just now, and took a closer look. This is exactly the seat with two camps on the left and right. Usually, there are two seats in this way. One of the ways to distinguish camps between factions, such as the popular dispute between the Wenzhi faction and the Wugong faction, but today their seats are not divided according to Wenzhi and Wugong, but according to the division between the north and the south.

The so-called north-south division actually has a division method of seven northern countries and eight southern countries in the Kwantung General's Mansion system. This division method takes the Kanto invasion in the fourth year of Yonglu (1561) as the dividing line.The Echigo, Shinano, Ueno, Etsuchu, Kaga, Hida, and Dewa countries previously held by the Ashikaga family in Kanto were known as the Northern Seven Kingdoms, and the Musashi and Sagami countries that were captured after the Kanto invasion , Izu country, Xiasuo country, Shangsuo country, Anfang country, Shimono country, and Hitachi country are called Nanba countries.

These fifteen countries account for more than one-fifth of the 66 countries in the world.Someone once joked that this is the "one-fifth palace" of the Kanto, but the Kanto General's Mansion seems to reject this statement, and strictly prohibits the people from mentioning similar statements in any form. The reason is that the Kanto government is loyal to the shogunate It should not be compared with Tokiyoshi, the mountain name who defied Luonin (Ashikaga Yoshimitsu) unrulyly.

There are some waters in the seven northern countries that have not been squeezed out. For example, the Shinano country and Suwa County are in the hands of Kai Takeda, the Dewa country and the Hago half country are in the hands of several people, and the Kaga country is only in the eastern half of the country. territory of the country.The relatively complete Shinano country of these three countries can barely be called the dominant country, and the Dewa country and the Kaga country only have half of the dominance and should not be called the northern seven countries.

Nagano Yegu said flatly: "Date Kyozhaoden finally surrendered because the territory of the Mutsu Kingdom was completely wiped out. The Nikaido, Nihonmatsu, Tamura, Kokubun, Watari, The Kurokawa Clan surrendered one after another within a year, and the unconvinced Akiho Clan, Kuroki Clan, and Rushou Clan were wiped out. Ashina Xiuden hid in Aizu and did not dare to come out. After all, most of the wings of the Date family were cut off. , Surrender is a matter of time."

The people of Ozhou who get together are all related and unclear.Today, two good brothers who are like brothers are eager to be honest with each other. Tomorrow, maybe the two families will be honest with each other. The jokes are staged almost every few years.

Everyone says that Northern Ise is a small Warring States, but in fact, that bunch of "messy" Chinese people fighting each other over such a small thing is not a small Warring States.On the contrary, a bunch of messy relatives in Minamimutsu beat each other up, and even caused a farce of the Astronomical Chaos, which is more like a small warring country. Of course, Shimono Kingdom can also try to compete for this Small Warring States quota.

Then the samurai began to talk nonsense, and some talked about Kasai Harunobu who swept away his pro-Date Huizong two years ago and resolutely resisted Osaki Yoshinao.In the face of the attack of an army of [-], he still wanted to rely on the centuries-old way of doing things of the Mutsu people, and put on the posture of a cage city defending the rescue army and resisting to the end.It happened that the only [-]-ton galleon carrying a half-snake cannon along the coastline came to the mouth of the Kitakami River and bombarded Ishinomaki Castle. Kasai Harunobu, who had been very tough that afternoon, was frightened and surrendered to Kaesong.

"Actually, I think Uesugi Seiden played a greater role in the Oshu war. At least in the past few years, as the general who stayed in Oshu, Uesugi Seiden has done a good job!" As a staunch fan, Sanada Yoshiyuki never forgets to praise Uesugi Kenshin, he is an admirer of the dragon of Echigo and there is another story.

It is said that Sanada Yoshiyuki has always felt that he and Uesugi Kenshin have many similarities, because they both have a great father, and both fathers have suffered tragic failures. The most important thing is that both of them are very smart and capable. Can be or will be a great warrior, although this is not generally recognized by his peers.

Uesugi Kenshin was a monk in Echigo Linquan Temple in the fourth year of Yonglu. The seventh abbot of Linquan Temple, Yiwen Zongqian, personally shaved his hair and gave him a word of modesty in the dharma name. In the end, he chose not to get married and spend the rest of his life in the cause of serving gods and Buddhas. This is not only because Uesugi Kenshin is a devout Buddhist, but also to support his little nephew Ashikaga Jinomaru.

Sanada Yoshiyuki didn't know the inside story, and thought that Uesugi Kenshin was a Buddhist with a noble character and no sense of power. It is hard to think of a second reason for his willingness to give up power, position and territory for his faith. At first glance, it seems that It is not surprising that monks with pure beliefs, but there must be deep-seated reasons why samurai who guard the daimyo class are pure believers.

The smart Uesugi Kenshin made a concession to avoid the "chaos" in Echigo, but taking a step back does not mean everything will be fine. He is well aware that there are many ills in the Kwantung General's Mansion system. On the one hand, there are many retainers from different backgrounds. The contradictions are fierce. The three factions of Kyoto, Echigo, and Kanto are fighting each other very seriously, and the power struggle between the adherents and the generals is also looming. What worries Uesugi Kenshin is that the Nagao family is too strong.

The descendants of the Nagao family, Shirai and Sosha, and the head of the Yamauchi Uesugi family, Ashikaga Nagao aside, the Echigo Nagao family has expelled the lineage of Nagao Uesugi Kenshin in Fuchu who has no heirs, Nagao Echizen Mori Masaki, Nagao Toyo Maekori Kagenobu, Nagao Kodaira Jikeren, Nagao Gonshiro Kageaki, Nagao Kanshiro Kageko, Nagao Koshiro Kagenao, Nagao Kankuro Joharu, Nagao Yashichiro Kagetsu, and Nagao Masakage The son-in-law Nagao Yoshikage waited for a large group of people.

It’s just that having too many relatives doesn’t count. The scary thing is that each of these relatives has extraordinary abilities, either they have made great achievements in internal affairs, or they are the generals of the reserve team, who hold important positions in the Kwantung General’s Mansion and have extraordinary influence. They are all grown men In the system, he successively married important ministers, married wives and had children and reproduced, gradually weaving a daunting network of relationships.

There is no useless wood, and all of them marry wives and have children. If they are allowed to develop freely, they will form a new samurai group in two generations. Maybe they will become a fearsome Kamakura Hojo clan in the future. Shi Shi came up with a new word for the Sagami Hojo clan, which also implies the meaning of knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger. It is not a good feeling to always see Hojo Shizheng in front of his eyes, and the members of the Nagao family who have certain ideas will also be worried about it. disturbed. (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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