different warring states of japan

Chapter 1067 Rebirth in a desperate situation
Ashikaga Yoshiki died, what happened to Ashikaga General's family?What happened to the Kyoto Shogunate?How's the Splendid going these days?

Yiyin was in Kanto, holding the imperial sword she gave her to show off, acting like a wolf with a big tail, but she herself was stolen by Miyoshi's family in Kyoto.

Did you make a mistake!

After a short period of sadness, Yoshihiro returned to his senses, and Yoshihiro was suddenly stunned. His painstakingly planned strategic concept collapsed with Ashikaga Yoshiki's death.

With the death of Ashikaga Yoshiki, the shogunate is bound to go through a major reshuffle. Being in the southern part of the Yamashiro country, it is impossible to stay out of it.

Yoshigin developed his foundation in Kanto, and all his status and power were built on the Kanto Shige, which was given by Ashikaga Yoshiki.

It has only been two years since Siba's family revived, and Siba has not been able to gain a firm foothold in recent days, so he came to Kanto.The Kanto strategy has just begun, with a shallow foundation.

At this time, Yiyin very much needs the blessing of the name from the descendant of Hanoi Genji.The signboard of Ashikaga Yoshiki's Royal Tower is really easy to use.

He suddenly felt a deep sense of loss. There are always a few people who know how important she is only after losing.

With Ashikaga Yoshiki's death in battle, all of Yoshigin's strategic plans collapsed in an instant, and thousands of thoughts came to his mind, and finally turned into a question mark.

How to do?What should I do next?
Uesugi Terutora on the side had another feeling, she couldn't even believe her ears, and looked at Naoe Kanetsugu behind Ishida Mitsunari.

Seeing the inquiring gaze from the lord, Naoe Kanetsugu bowed and said.

"It is absolutely true that Miyoshi's rebellion happened, the first person to send a message was Akechi Mitsuhide of the Shiba family.

When the news arrived in Naoetsu just now, we couldn't believe it.It is too appalling for the Miyoshi family to dare to kill the king.

But afterwards, Takada Yono-sama from Sakai Port, Niko Katsuhisa-sama and Maeda Mashiro-sama from Shiba in recent days all sent urgent letters.

Even His Royal Highness Kita Omi Asai Nagamasa and Asakura Keiki-sama from Tsuruga County sent a warning message, and we decided that this matter was true.

Okuma Asohide-sama and Naoe Ketsuna-sama thought that the matter was of great importance, and ordered me and Ishida Mitsunari-sama to put down all the affairs in hand, and hurried to Odawara Castle to report to the two lords. "

The more Uesugi Terutora heard, the more he believed that Ashikaga Yoshiki was really dead.She was so happy that she couldn't help wanting to scream up to the sky, God helped me!
Ashikaga Yoshiki was killed, and Shiba Yoshigin's marriage with her was of course terminated, and there was no more one man and two marriages, and the moral hidden danger of overstepping the monarch.

The Kanto strategy went smoothly, and Echigo's army fought all the way to Odawara Castle. As long as Hojo's family is subdued, the situation in Kanto is certain.

Uesugi Terutora, who has ushered in a double harvest of career and love, can hardly bear the ecstasy.If it wasn't for the last bit of reason to warn herself not to laugh, she would be singing and dancing at this time.

Ashikaga Yoshiki was the shogun, and she was the first to admit that she was in charge of the Kanto region, and Shiba Yoshigin was her unmarried husband.

Uesugi Terutora, who was deeply favored by the general, must not show a hint of joy at this time, otherwise she will be a beast that is not as good as a beast.

How can she laugh when there is a friend in front of her and a widow next to her?Unless you can't help it.Terutora Uesugi finally couldn't help letting out a hey, and quickly covered it with a violent cough.

This burst of coughing also woke up Yoshihiro Shiba, who was thinking about the problem.He looked blankly at Uesugi Terotora beside him with a weird face, and suddenly came to his senses, a chill rushed from his tailbone to his head.

My God, without the excuse of Ashikaga Yoshiki, Yoshigin found that he no longer had a good reason to reject Uesugi Terutora's love, this time something really happened!
His face was livid, and he uttered a sentence coldly.

"Go back, go back and talk."

Yoshigin turned around and left, embarrassing Uesugi Terotora for a while.

She had a fever on her face, she felt that she was really not human, how could she laugh out loud at this moment, it was still in front of Shibo Yoshihiro.

He had just passed away his fiancée, and his appearance as a villain was really ugly, and he felt ashamed for a while.

Terutora Uesugi coughed twice, pretending to be calm, and said to Ishida Mitsunari and Naoe Kanesuke.

"Come on, go back and talk."

A group of people walked back to the camp silently, lamenting that the world is impermanent, and in the troubled times, noble as General Ashikaga, it is inevitable to encounter misfortune.

Goose feathers fly all over the sky, wrapped in silver as if going to a funeral, and the snow tells the fate in the long night, and the world changes in an instant.

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In the residence hall of Odawara Castle, Ujiyasu Hojo was in a quiet room.

She dared to show her fatigue only when no one was around.The majestic and unyielding Sagami lioness on the outside is just a disguise for her inspiring morale.

The situation is far more serious than imagined. Although the use of strong external threats temporarily suppressed the internal contradictions of the Hojo family, they were unanimous to the outside world.

But with the rapid imbalance of power between the two sides, the pressure on the Hojo family is also increasing.

One hundred thousand troops are raging on the core territory of Hojo in Sagami country. What is the concept?The total strength of the two sides in the decisive battle at the Sano Territory did not exceed [-] soldiers.

Although the [-] Kwantung Allied Forces have a lot of moisture, most of them are auxiliary soldiers.But at this time, the Hojo family also lost all their elites and had no power to fight back. They could only rely on the defense of the city to support them.

The heavy snow in winter was finally expected by Mr. Hojo, but the situation still didn't improve, it just slowed down the speed of deterioration.

There was a severe drought in Kanto, and the grain harvest failed.

This time, in response to Uesugi Terutoro's call, most of the Kanto samurai who came to Sagami to participate in the war were actually unable to eat enough in their own territory, and plundered the territory of the Hojo family in the name of righteousness, and gave food to the enemy.

Great righteousness, how many crimes have been faked in your name.

Hojo Ujiyasu didn't think that the Kwantung Allied Forces could break through Odawara Castle and break the hearts of the Hojo family by ruining the territory.Burning, killing and looting will only increase hatred and make the Hojo family more united.

What she was afraid of was the continuous blood loss of the Hojo family.

The battlefield between the Echigo side and the Hojo family has already gone from the buffer zone in the Ueno Musashi area to the Odawara castle in the Sagami country.A siege is not difficult to solve, but after that?
The winter plowing and spring plowing in Echigo would not be affected, and it would be impossible for the Hojo family to fight back in the summer and autumn harvests and invade the Echigo Kingdom through the Echigo Mountains.

When the two sides competed, they were always tossing and turning in the Hojo family's territory.If things go on like this, the strength will weaken and wither, how long can the Hojo family last?

The Kwantung Samurai family aspires to Echigo, and Echigo's strength will become stronger and stronger as time goes by.And the Hojo family was invaded again and again, people's hearts would be numb, morale would be low, and finally it would collapse.

Most of Hojo's family were worried about the [-] army besieging the city.Hojo Shiyasu was far-sighted and even more desperate for the future.

She needs a big victory, similar to the kind of victory that the Echigo army won in Sano, to completely reverse the decline.

At this time, Hojo Shiyasu saw no chance of counterattack.She sighed, remembering the grand occasion of the three alliances of Hojo, Takeda and Imagawa.

If the alliance of the three families is still there, both the Takeda family and the Imagawa family will send troops to rescue them.How dare Uesugi Terutoro has the guts to stay under Odawara Castle and show off his might.

The collapse of the Hojo family's strategic advantage all stemmed from that man, Shiba Yoshiyin.

It was he who reached a compromise with Takeda Harunobu after the Kawanakajima battle, causing the Takeda family to turn around and go south, invade the Suruga country, and tear up the alliance of the three families.

It was he who sorted out Echigo's interior for Uesugi Terutoro, suppressed it with one hand and lured it with the other hand, and organized the Echigo Samurai Group into a docile way, twisting it into a rope.

It was he who created the Hokuriku Road trade route, allowing Hokuriku to replace the turbulent Tokaido as the main logistics route in Kanto and Kansai, uniting Hokuriku with commercial benefits, and allowing Echigo to escape from the quagmire of Echchu.

In the end, it was he who brought out the Plate Armor Ji warriors, and on the plains led by Sano, defeated the Hojo elite with the heavy armored corps of the Kanto Servant, and completely pulled the Hojo family into the bottomless abyss.

Hojo Ujiyasu realized that the biggest mistake he made was to underestimate this Odaisho from recent days.It was she who underestimated the existence of this man that caused the situation to get out of control.

If it weren't for Shiba Yoshigin's strategy, Uesugi Terutora's power would never have swelled to the point where it was hopeless and irresistible.

From the moment he came to Kanto, Uesugi Terutoro was no longer the original Uesugi Terutoro.

The master of Echigo got rid of internal disputes, settled the quagmire of Echigo, and reached a compromise with the Takeda family.In the end, the Echigo army went south to the Kanto Plain and defeated the Hojo army in World War I.

Hojo Shiyasu became more and more desperate as she thought about it, and she found that everything in the future was out of her control.No matter how hard you try to make amends, you can't stop the situation from getting worse.

unless. .Unless Shiba Yoshigin and Uesugi Terotora fall out, and the Echigo duocratic politics is in a major political crisis of turmoil and collapse, the Hojo family will no longer have a chance to come back.

The snow outside the door was getting bigger and bigger, and the wind was blowing snowflakes to hit the paper door fiercely, and the whistling sound was endless.Yasushi Hojo couldn't think of a way out, and closed his eyes sadly.

Could it be that the Hojo family is doomed to perish in my hands?The three generations of Hojo have worked hard to develop the hegemony of the Kanto, and will the curtain call be here?
Mr. Yasushi of the Hojo Clan burst into tears and cried out silently.Not reconciled, I am not reconciled!

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Just as Hojo Ujiyasu hid in his room and wept secretly, sighing for the inevitable doom of the Hojo family, there were hurried footsteps outside the door.

She calmly wiped away the tears on her face, and took a deep breath to calm her mood.No matter how desperate she is, she is still the backbone of the Hojo family and cannot let outsiders see her decadence.

The moment she was mentally prepared, the sliding door was knocked respectfully a few times.

"What's the matter? I said that I should meditate for a while, and don't disturb me if I have nothing to do."

Hojo clan's urgent voice came from outside the door, saying.

"My lord, I have something important to report."

Hojo Shiyasu's heart shuddered.

The Hojo clan government is deploying defenses in the city, she dared to come in a hurry, could it be that there is something wrong with the defense of the city?

"come in."

"Hi!"

The sliding door was opened too fast and too big, the wind and snow outside the door rushed in first, instantly extinguishing several candles and the brazier in the center of the room, and the cold wind blowing in the face made Hojo Shiyasu unable to open his eyes for a while.

Hojo Shizheng felt anxious and couldn't help cursing.

"Bageya Road! Can you bastards do things!"

The servants outside the door kowtowed to the ground, looking at the furious current governor in horror, begging for forgiveness.

Hojo Shiyasu shouted.

"What are you arguing about! Didn't you say something important? Come in and talk!"

The Hojo Clan's eyes twitched, he pointed to the kneeling servants, and cursed.

"Go away!"

After she entered the room, she closed the door and tried to light the pot of fire with flint, but her trembling hands failed several times.After finally lighting the fire, she wanted to light the candle again, but was grabbed by Hojo Shiyasu.

Hojo Ujiyasu pushed his daughter back to the tatami, and they were very close to each other.The charcoal fire of the brazier exploded several sparks, burning a small hole through her sleeve.

The faces of the two people flickered with the shadow of the fire.Hojo Shiyasu stared at his daughter closely, feeling her uncontrollable trembling, and asked coldly.

"What the hell happened?"

Hojo Shizheng chewed a few times dryly, swallowed his saliva, and spit out six words.

"Three Goods Great Rebellion and King Killing."

Hojo Shiyasu's pupils shrank instantly, and her heart couldn't bear the explosive news, she just felt a pain in her chest, and she fell forward in a daze.

Hojo Shizheng turned pale with fright, quickly supported her, and shouted.

"Mother! What's wrong with you, mother!"

"To shut up!"

Hojo Shikang's brain was buzzing, his heart was cramping, and he scolded his daughter with a ferocious expression.

"Don't yell, calm down!"

She was breathing in a hurry, with countless cold sweats oozing from her head, Hojo Shizheng carefully helped her back to her original position, and looked at her nervously.

Nothing can happen to Hojo Shiyasu, she is the backbone of the Hojo family.At this time of crisis, if she falls, the Hojo family will really fall apart and be completely ruined.

After wiping the sweat off his forehead, Hojo Shiyasu said reluctantly.

"Give me hot water."

Hojo Ujimasa took water from the hanging pot on the brazier, and served it in front of his mother with both hands in a teacup.

Hojo Shikang tremblingly took the water glass and took a sip.After drinking the hot water, her mind started to work again, and she asked.

"Say, what's going on?"

Hojo Shizheng said in a low voice.

"You know that the caravans that took the Tōkaidao trade route were beaten up by the Hokuriku people this year with a commercial war, and most of them switched to the Hokuriku trade route.

But there are always a few businessmen who offend each other too much, so they have to continue to take the Tokaido and cooperate with us. "

Hojo Shiyasu nodded slowly.

Before the rise of the Hokuriku Road trade route, the Tokaido trade route was the main commercial logistics channel in Kanto and Kansai.

The status of Suruga Country's Junfu City is equivalent to that of Kochigo Naozu, the transportation hub of the Tokaido, and the distribution market of the Kanto and Kansai.

The early Hojo family took the Izu country with the help of the Imagawa family, and exchanged the gold mines of Izu in Junpu Castle for military supplies for the expansion of the Kanto.

The Hojo family established contact with the caravans of the Tokaido. Her family was originally from the Ise branch of Kyoto, so of course she knew how to use business to profit.

Hojo Ujimasa continued.

"My family's business practice is to go to Sakai Port to contact the caravan to discuss next year's business before the winter. She has not come close, but she got this shocking news in the Ise country area.

The three of Miyoshi went to Luo and stormed Nijo Castle. General Ashikaga was killed on the spot, and the recent shogunate was in chaos.

Shang Fengxing repeatedly confirmed the authenticity of the news, did not dare to waste time, and directly boarded the ship from Ise Kingdom and returned to his hometown.

She returned to Izu country before the port was closed in winter, and then rushed to Odawara Castle without stopping. She just landed today and reported the matter to me. "

Shiyasu Hojo thought carefully and asked a few more questions.After judging that the news was true and correct, she let out a long breath.

The Hojo family is saved.

(End of this chapter)