Pillars of the Wu family

Relying on strong reinforcements from the outside, relying on tens of thousands of soldiers to defend the city can certainly resist for a while, but in the long run, defending the city is nothing more than a fight between trapped beasts to seek their own death. There are townspeople and families of samurai. That is what they protect and fight for. It carries the ardent expectations of the elders of the hometown. The Hojo family really can't do it with the lives of the local townspeople as a bargaining chip.

As wise as the Sagami lion Hojo Ujiyasu, he is very aware of the depth of the crisis lurking in the silence of Odawara Castle. The commotions in the castle show that Ashikaga Yoshitoki has not relaxed for a moment. He does not need to guess to know his own spectrum. There must be someone in the acting retainer group secretly defecting from the Hojo family. It is not very meaningful to find out who this person is, but it will further shake the confidence of the retainer group.

"What should the family do? Should the father's opinion be used? Isn't there a better choice?" The Hojo Clan leaned on the fence and looked at the majestic Odawara Castle, which had filled him with pride and glory in the past. At this moment, it was like a heavy burden on his chest, and he was almost out of breath.

The Sagami Hojo clan is weak in front of the Kanto government. The Hojo family has less than 3000 troops left in the city. Most of the samurai are full of fear and confusion for the powerful Kanto government. Unless the Hojo clan goes out to fight Sanada Yukitaka One is caught off guard and defeats or even wipes out the 1 besieging army with [-] people, otherwise this disadvantage will not be reversed.

It's a pity that there was only one such night battle in Kagoe. The Hojo Clan's military strategy was not enough to support a shocking reversal. Odawara Castle claims to have tens of thousands of troops that can't be eaten in three years. This is a very idealized situation without considering the actual food and grass. Based on the simple calculation of the supply, the food that needs to be supplied in Odawara Castle is not only the more than [-] defenders, but more importantly, the tens of thousands of castle townspeople also have to eat, and the food in the waterway and food transportation channel has been eaten up in the half year of the siege. Nearly half, the time left for Sagami Hojo is no more than half a year.

Odawara Castle is closed to four doors, and food can be distributed according to the amount to maintain short-term stability. However, it is an indisputable fact that the workshops and commercial towns in the castle town have all come to a standstill if they cannot receive business.If there is no business, the merchants can only close their doors and dismiss the townspeople. The townspeople who can’t get a job have nothing to do except receive another ration at a fixed point every day. The townspeople who are busy all day gradually like to go to wine houses and whale houses to have fun. Having fun, using alcohol to paralyze the gradually stiff brain, negative emotions generally breed.Form a terrible force that causes turmoil.

The economic order collapsed and trade exchanges were forced to stop.The market lacked the daily necessities that the townspeople needed, and the most circulated in the black market organized by the townspeople was the old grain given by the Hojo family for free, and people began to barter secretly.Yongle money lost its role as currency in the closed Odawara Castle.

The Hojo Clan’s official law received even a penny of tax from the castle town, and he had to bear the huge food supply pressure to supply the townspeople. He also had to bear all kinds of accusations and indifferent treatment for the townspeople. As the house governor, the Hojo Clan suddenly felt that the house governor It's difficult, if this situation continues, Odawara Castle will fall into turmoil in the long run.

Sometimes people’s hearts are against each other, and sometimes it’s just a thought. It is undeniable that the townspeople of Odawara Castle support the Hojo family. They are willing to send their children and grandchildren to the Hojo family to serve as Ashgaru to show that the Hojo family’s hope is still there. Not everyone likes to do it.Even if the blood boiled for a while and rushed to Ashikaga Yoshitoki desperately, with the patience and confidence day after day, the boiling passion had already been burned away. [

The young samurai who calmed down suddenly found that the beloved Odawara Castle had suddenly changed into another scene. All the passages outside the city were completely blocked, resulting in a shortage of supplies, and the price of goods from a few special channels was ten times that of In the past, this led to rapid devaluation of the currency in a short period of time and led to skyrocketing prices.

Ninety-nine out of ten commercial houses have already closed their doors and gone out of business.The decline of all industries has forced the elders in his hometown to lose their jobs and can only stay at home. Even if Hojo Shiyasu discovered something was wrong early on, his research on economic principles is almost blank. When encountering this kind of problem, the only way to solve this problem is to reduce taxes and convene businessmen. Good words to appease these few, but this will help solve the crisis in Odawara Castle.People's hearts are quietly lost in this bundle of hands.

"If this goes on like this, the city will run out of food until the autumn harvest..." Hojo clan government slapped the fence angrily, and suddenly said after a while: "No! Even if you persist in the autumn harvest, you won't get a single grain of grain, and you can't break it as soon as possible. The Edo government’s blockade of Odawara Castle for a limited time, even if it lasts until next year, the city will surrender sooner or later, then it will not be a generous condition of the alliance under the castle! Father is right, the family really has no way out said."

At this juncture, Nagano Yegu, the envoy of the Kanto government, came to Odawara Castle, and he brought the first oral order of Ashikaga Yoshitoshi to persuade the surrender: "The shogunate is pleased with the court's joy at the beginning of the Kanto, and the Kanto scholars look forward to the century-old Kanto. Tranquility is halfway done, and Hojo Sagami is guarding a corner of Sagami, and it is unwise to try to fight to the end with a single city. I hope that Hojo Sagami will defend the city quickly to avoid the crisis of life and family collapse! See the letter for the relevant articles. Note, please read carefully."

The Hojo Clan took over the letter of persuasion to surrender and unfolded it. It turned out to be similar to the reply from Hojo Huanan, but the words and sentences were more domineering. He used the tone of the Lord of Kanto to warn him to surrender quickly. This gave the Hojo Clan a strong sense of self-esteem. Intense stimulation, this young governor who has been smooth sailing since childhood is still too young.

The elders of the Pudai family even coughed and waved their hands, and managed to appease the angry Hojo clan, and when he spit out a few mouthfuls of bad breath, he snorted and said: "My family will consider it carefully, please be considerate of my Hojo family's situation, and allow me to Wait a little longer!"

"That's it! I will truthfully convey the opinion of Hojo Sagami Shouden." Nagano Yegu nodded as if surprised, and was about to get up when he suddenly remembered something and sat back, took out the cool wind letter from the pocket and handed it respectfully He said in the past: "This is before my departure, I met Hojo Kamisuke and Hojo Anboshou. These two entrusted me to send two letters from my family. Please Sagami Moriya to have a look."

The complexion of the Hojo vassals changed instantly, and many veterans stared angrily at the stack of letterheads handed over by Nagano Yegu. In the past half a year, the Hojo family's publicity center Huang Hachiman Hojo Tsunari and the Hojo clan died heroically in battle. This news indirectly prompted the Hojo samurai to unite against Ashikaga Yoshitoki.

It was less than a year later, and I saw the "dead" samurai write and mail back again. One can imagine what it was like in the heart of the Hojo family samurai regiment. The young samurai of the Hojo family sitting in the corner quietly Agitated, Hojo Tsunashige's son-in-law, Hojo Ushige, and Hojo Ujihide were particularly restless, and his son-in-law, Hojo Ujiki, didn't seem very happy either. Several young samurai intentionally looked at the group of angry family elders, Matsuda Mori Xiuji was about to speak and finally turned into a sigh.

The Hojo Clan hesitated to accept the thick stack of letter paper, but in the current era, if he didn’t accept it, he would give up his excuses. He raised his head and looked around the group of genealogy retainers, and found that the reliable samurai was either thinking or shaking his head and sighing, talking indiscriminately. After swearing a few words, he took the letter paper, Nagano Yegu didn't seem to take the opportunity to say a few words of sarcasm, and bowed respectfully, got up and retreated contentedly, leaving the Hojo vassal in the dead silence in the big room Tuan, and Hojo Clan's page-turning sound as he kept flipping through private messages.

Rather than saying that this is a letter from home, it is better to say that this is the diary recorded by Hojo Tsunashi and Hojo Ujibun in the past six months. From the whole process of being interrogated by the captives to the interrogation and house arrest to the generous treatment, the two were taken by Ashikaga Yoshitoki throughout the whole process. Everywhere I go around, I have to be invited to attend the meeting, including the confidential evaluation meeting and military meeting.

In the diary of Hojo Tsunasari, he praised the military power of the Ashikaga family, saying that this is a system that is very different from the military system used by the Kanto samurai. The samurai who created this new military system must be a master of military science. The process of invading Xiasuo country, attacking and mobilizing a surprise attack with a multi-pronged approach to seize a country, took less than one month to take down Xiasuo country, which the Hojo family has worked hard for many years, which was called the perfect embodiment of military strategy by Dihuang Hachiman.

Hojo’s diary focuses on the actions of Ashikaga Yoshitoki in Shimono, how he easily mobilized Utsunomiya Hirozuna, Nasu Ziyin, and Koyama Takatomo without flying a single soldier. During the entire process of the territory, people admired Guandong Gongfang's thunderous means of overturning clouds and rain to calm down a country, and called Ashikaga Yoshitoki "the hope of the Kanto samurai".

The more you look at the back, the darker the face becomes, and the whole body of the Hojo Clan is trembling in the back, and the family members of the genealogy family look at the family governor's face turning green and then white in horror, only to see that he has suddenly extended his period and left the letterhead in a state of embarrassment And going, the whole process was so fast that the Pu Dai retainers who bowed their heads in thought didn't see his back in a hurry.

The family members of Pu Dai didn't know why the family governor left without saying goodbye, staring at the scattered pages of letters on the ground and didn't know what to do. Daodaosi Zhengfan carefully picked up a page of letters that fell to his feet, and read in a low voice: " His Royal Highness Gongfang is a man of gods! During the ten-month period, the army swept across the people of the Xiasuo country, ten times as sharp as the elite soldiers of our Hojo family, and in the next ten-month period, the people of the Xiaye country were mobilized without a single soldier. The Satake family heard about it The wind caused Changlu to be pacified immediately, and it took less than three months to judge the three states as beyond my reach, and my Hojo family can only survive if they surrender early.”[

Many samurai picked up the abandoned letterheads and murmured in low voices, but after a while, the already shaken confidence of Hojo’s retainers collapsed in an instant, and some veterans sat down clutching the letterheads, beating their chests and crying loudly: “Shangsuojiedian, Anfangshoudian Surrender! Is it really going to be over this time? Although I have already expected this day, I always feel very unwilling to say it!"

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This is the first update, the number of words is a little less, and there will be more and more in the future, and the next one will be at 12 noon.