different warring states of japan

Chapter 939

The situation in the Kanto countries is a cloud of fog.

The ridiculous thing is that Uesugi Terutora and Hojo Ujiyasu are chess players, and it is difficult for them to determine where the chess pieces in their hands will go.

The entire Kanto Plain, the main body is divided into two parts, the west and the east, and the Boso Peninsula extending overseas in the middle, presenting an OIO shape.

The Ueno, Musashi, and Sagami Three Kingdoms in the west, the Chichibu Mountains, Musashi Mountains, and Tanzawa Mountains that extend the Kanto Plain with the Kanto Mountains in the back, and the Tokaido and Koshin Mountains in the west.

The Tone River, Watarase River and other rivers in the central part divide the western and eastern parts.Geographically, the Shimoso, Kamiso, and Boso Three Kingdoms, which protrude from the coastline, become the Boso Peninsula.

Shimono in the east, Hitachi country, from north to south, is isolated by geographical mountains and rivers such as Mount Akagi, Watarase River, Kinugawa, etc., and becomes a relatively independent northeastern plate of the Kanto Plain.

Shimono and Hitachi are separated by the Bagou Mountains.The relationship between Xiaye Kingdom and the core area of ​​the Kanto Plain is relatively close.

The Hitachi country is the main passage from the Kanto Plain to the Ou and Ou countries in the northeast, and it has been the bridgehead for the central government to develop the Ou region since ancient times.

From a bird's-eye view, the southeast of Ueno, the southwest of Shimono, the northeast of Musashi, and the northwest of Shimoso form the core area of ​​the Kanto Plain.

Especially the Tone River Basin, where the four countries meet, is the focus of the samurai's struggle.Such as Uenokan Forest Castle, Shimono Ashikaga Castle, Shimoso Furukawa Castle, and Musashi Ninja Castle.

The Utsunomiya family, the Satake family, and the Satomi family seem to be big names in the Kanto Plain, but their territory is too far away from the core area of ​​the Kanto Plain, and their strength is insufficient.It's okay to fight for hegemony, but it's hard to sit big.

There are only two truly competitive daimyos.

Uesugi Uesugi came back in the name of the Yamauchi Uesugi family, because the traditional territory of the Yamauchi Uesugi family is in the Ueno Kingdom and northern Musashi, and has a deep relationship.

Deeply cultivated in Izu Sagami and the two countries for three generations, with a solid foundation, she steadily won Hojo Ujiyasu in the southern part of Musashi, and she firmly occupied part of the core area.

But the problem is that the territories of the two are far apart and there is no adjacent border.This made the confrontation between the two sides quite weird before it even started.

The base of the Uesugi family is in the Echigo country, and the foundation of the Hojo family is in the Sagami country.The place where the two are fighting is in Ueno Musashi and the two countries.

The buffer zone in the middle of the two territories is composed of large and small national leaders. No one knows what will happen to these two-skinned warriors facing Qin Muchu.

What the two sides played was not the chess of the Chu River and the Han Dynasty, but the black and white Go.

Today I will rob you, tomorrow you will give me an eye.Dozens of hundreds of national leaders, white and black, can't figure out who is the enemy and who is the ally.

For example, Terutora Uesugi went south smoothly, and the samurai leaders of the country surrendered one by one.Then, the Hojo family instigated several families behind her, and the sunspots on the back road instantly turned back, what should she do?
For another example, Hojo Ujiyasu arranged the defense seamlessly, and the core area of ​​Kanto seemed to be all his own Baizi.But when Uesugi Terutora came, most of these white men jumped to black, so she couldn't vomit blood?

The most interesting thing is that Terotora Uesugi and Shiyasu Hojo are not sure whether these things will happen.The relationship between the people of the country is too complicated, and loyalty and betrayal are only a matter of thought, which cannot be determined.

The Guandong Plain has been in chaos for more than a hundred years, and all honest people have died long ago.The world is going downhill, and people's hearts are not old.The atmosphere that has been broken for more than a hundred years cannot be corrected in a short while.

No one knows how to choose among the many national councils.But if the two sides want to go to war, they have to rely on these absolutely unreliable local warriors.

Uesugi Terotora will not just watch Hojo Ujiyasu complete the dominion of these bastards and turn the territory into his own strength.

Hojo Ujiyasu will not return to Sagami, waiting for Uesugi Terutora to train these bastards into Uesugi Samurai with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, art and labor.

Since they are still unwilling to give in, they can only pinch their noses and forcefully beat each other up with these bastards.

The result became what it is now. The strategies of both sides have been planned out, and they are ready to play their cards, but they are still feeling nervous.

The big bosses at the top have no idea, but they have to bite the bullet and fight this foggy battle. Isn't it ridiculous?
It was because of this helplessness that Hojo Shiyasu agreed to his daughter's request to send troops.

For the Hojo family, the best way to deal with Terutora Uesugi is to stick to it.Echigo's army ran thousands of miles, and the best thing to do was to defeat the Hojo family in one go.

If the Hojo family can hold out, the Echigo army will be dragged down by the elongated supply line, and the morale of the army will be turbulent, which is the most advantageous strategy.

But the reality is that once the Hojo family appears to be too cowardly, those idiots in the Kanto Plain will immediately turn their faces and deny anyone.

At that time, the Hojo family will return to the dangerous situation before the Battle of Kawagoe. The anti-Hojo samurai alliance united by most of the Kanto Plain will be pressed to the ground and beaten to death.

This time, the Hojo family may not be able to usher in the miracle of the Kawagoe night battle, or they might be beaten to the point of paralysis, and the family business will be ruined.

Hojo Ujiyasu glanced at the excited Hojo Ujimasa and sighed in his heart.

Weighing the pros and cons is easy to say.But there are a few people who can really understand what is good and what is bad.Even if you don't understand it, and you still weigh a p, that's called gambling.

Hojo Shiyasu didn't know whether he would win or lose if he continued his bet.But she had to gamble, which was helpless.

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Echigo, Zhongyue Sakado Castle.

Kawada had just arrived with his troops, so he went to the city to meet Uesugi Keishobu who was in charge of the city for Ueda Nagao's family. Numata Kenyasu and his mother and daughter were also present at the banquet.

Numata Xiantai is here to contact the cronies of Numata's family, preparing to lead the way for the army to enter Numata.

The summer harvest was not over yet, and He Tian's eldest relative had just arrived, and the three parties just met for a courtesy.Naturally, it is a happy and harmonious time, and the host and guest enjoy themselves.

After receiving the logistical guarantee from Uesugi Jingxin and Numata Xiantai explaining some internal information of the Numata family, Kawata returned to the station outside the city.

At this time, in her own shogunate, Jijiang Zijian and Shisaka Nagami had been waiting for a long time.

Hetian Changqin sat down and sighed, and said to the two capable generals with a wry smile.

"My face was frozen with laughter."

The two laughed, and the gloomy atmosphere relaxed a lot.

Jiken Yoshie and Nagasaka Nagami are not Kawada Nagain's retainers, but Yuri Uesugi Terutora sent to assist.

It's just that the three of them are all from Omi, so they feel that they have developed together as a group, and together with the samurai under their command, they have become the emerging Uesugi Omi School in the eyes of outsiders.

Among the three, Kawada Changqin is the most capable and has the highest status, and he is the leader of the Omi faction without hesitation.

This time, Kawada Changkin's department was sent to attack the Numata family, and he was the vanguard general envied by others.With the size of the Numata family, how can they withstand a blow from the Echigo samurai family, and their military exploits are absolutely guaranteed.

But Hetian Chang kissed himself, but he really didn't want to come.

(End of this chapter)