A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

After carefully reading Hosokawa Harubiya's letter, everyone in the Yamauchi family felt relieved. Now that it's snowing heavily, it's impossible to fight. Hosokawa Harubiya will have no problems at least for the past three months.

Now, as long as the snow melts next year, we can lead our troops to support them. However, the Ueno-Shinano road was blocked by Murakami Yoshikiyo, and the Sagami-Musashi road was blocked by Hojo Uzanao. Both of them are not easy to deal with. They can only wait for Uesugi Teruhora to send Echigo soldiers into Kanto, beat Murakami Yoshikiyo home first, and then conquer Matsuyama and Kawagoe to connect the Eight Princes.

In addition, Takeda Harunobu's movements are very confusing. He helped his son-in-law recover Sagami, and after he got Tsukui, he withdrew his troops and returned to Kaijia. The main force was not used at all. He will definitely have some plans next spring, which is difficult to guess.

After the great turmoil in the Hojo clan, all Sagami except Tsukui recovered, most of Musashi recovered, and Shimoso's allies also got together. He became a great name with 120,000 ken. The point is that there was no internal strife within the Hojo clan.

During the Warring States Period, there were too many cases of brothers fighting each other, and it was even more common for uncles to steal their nephews' family property. Mourimoto just scared his nephew to death. Satomi Yoshiyori's brave brother who suffered a humiliating defeat in the Hojo family at Mifuneyama. Yoshihiro Satomi died in his forties. His family His career was usurped by his own brother.

However, the Hojo clan was very clever, and uncles such as Teru Oishi and Kuni Fujita did not change the name back to Hojo Miao, as a sign of joint assistance to the Hojo clan in inheriting the family business. As for Hojo Nobu, the son of Hojo Nagatsuna (Genan), he still retained the name of the Hojo clan. However, Hojo Nagatsuna, who had lost the Izu clan, was the weakest. (It is indeed strange. It was rare during the Warring States Period that a powerful younger brother did not rise up to rebel against his elder brother's rule. Hojo Ushimasa and his gang of brothers worked together as one.)

Therefore, it is said that if the roots are not removed, the grass will grow again when the spring breeze blows. Last time during the Battle of Odawara, Terutora Uesugi's opinion should have been listened to. All men over fifteen years old should commit seppuku, and all men under fifteen years old should be sent to Zenkoji Temple to become a monk, and a child of one or two years old should be given a 20,000 kangan. If we had done this, how could we not have the bad things that we are doing now? (Of course, if we had this condition at the beginning, we would have had to fight for at least half a year based on the level of Odawara Castle.) We would have been able to sleep peacefully at home.

The top priority is to contact Echigo's commander, Dan Shobi Uesugi Terutora. As soon as he takes action, at least more than half of the Kanto gang will immediately change the king's flag on the city wall. With these miscellaneous fish as the starting point, even though Hojo is having a lot of fun now, he might be beaten back to his original form.

And this time the evil must be eliminated. Anyway, Imagawa Yoshimoto kidnapped a Hojo Sukegoro, and the Hojo family will not be extinct.

Afraid of peace with the Kaishu, Uesugi Teruhu faced tens of thousands of troops from the Hojo Ichimen and more than 10,000 troops from Kaitora. In this case, the miscellaneous fish can't count on them. If Terutora Uesugi has to rely on himself, his eight thousand people will not be enough.

Koheita returned home from Yamauchi Yoshiharu's residence. The New Year's atmosphere in Fuchu Castle was much lighter this year. Everyone knew about the news that Hachioji was besieged. But people are not panicking. After all, no one has been able to break into the mountain. Most people who are not in pain just express anxiety or uneasiness.

Sitting next to the fire pit with Uncle Tsuna, he didn't have to worry about Uesugi Teruhora sending a messenger. The two of them thought that next year there would be a massive mobilization of tens of thousands of people, but they didn't know whether to take the Nakasen Road or the Tokaido Road.

Taking the Nakasen Road means cooperating with Nagano Yamasa and others to defeat Murakami Yoshikiyo. Taking the Tokaido Road means attacking the flanks and threatening the Hojo clan's Odawara. Then Uesugi Teruhora will penetrate Kanto again from Echigo, and the two sides will successfully meet up with Sagami.

Both methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. Uncle Tsunaliang believed that the Eighth Prince was in danger. In the end, Yamauchi's army must have tried to quickly open the road to Jonon Ueno and then support it. Koheita estimated that Yamauchi Yoshiharu would do the same, after all, it would be safest to join forces with Uesugi Teruhu.

Just wait, the New Year will pass soon, and once the snow melts, the chaos in Kanto will begin again.

The whole mountain was busy preparing for the battle in the spring of next year, but another envoy braved the heavy snow and came to the foot of the city in the middle of the mountain.

It brought the news of the death of Kiso Yoshizai, the famous leader of Shinano Kiso Valley. This famous Genji family member, known as the "Romantic Governor", completed his life of more than sixty years.

This man was also a prominent figure in the early Warring States period. He conquered the east and west, invaded the south and fought in the north, and he immediately passed half of his life. Later, he made peace with the local forces in Hida, and participated in the alliance of Shinano daimyo to deal with the Takeda clan, and was defeated again and again. He must have died unwillingly in frustration.

His son Yoshiyasu Kiso, who had long since succeeded to the throne of the family, spread the news of his father's death to all the lords in Shinano. There is such an advantage in inheriting the head of the family in advance, which avoids the turmoil in the family due to the heir. Inheriting in advance also allows Kiso Yoshiyasu to cultivate his confidants and control the army early. So he didn't have to learn from Xiaosi and conceal the death of his tiger father for three years. He could openly tell everyone: My father is dead and I am the head of the Kiso family!

In this way, only one of Shinano's four generals, Murakami Yoshikiyo, has achieved great results. Suwa Yorishige was trapped and died by Takeda Harunobu, Ogasawara Nagaki ran away after being beaten violently by Murakami Yoshikiyo and Takeda Harunobu, and Kiso Yoshiki died of old age in his hometown. Shinano is now considered a dominant family, and Murakami Yoshikiyo's huge strength of 80,000 kan is eyeing the Yamauchi and Takeda clans to his south.

As for the Kiso family whose father died, they are no longer in everyone's eyes. Ever since Takeda Nobutora was held back by the four generals of Shinano, this group of people has started fighting among themselves. The current results are self-evident. The Kiso clan has been reduced to a small territory of only seven or eight thousand kankan in the Kiso Valley. The bits of ancestral territory of Hida and Mino have long been eaten away.

Minamoto no Yoshitaka once mentioned that the great army of the Eastern Kingdom went to Luo and entered the capital. He was such a majestic figure, but he never thought that his descendants would end up in such a miserable state. Not to mention that according to the historical trend, the Kiso family will completely lose their territory and become a common people after constant internal and external competition.

Anyway, the survival of these small forces is not what a big name like the Yamauchi family with fifty or sixty thousand guan cares about. All the Yamauchi family cares about is the snow melting in spring and marching out of Kanto.

In view of the cutoff of the Shinano and Ueno roads, in addition to continuing to take risks and send people to take these two roads, Yamauchi Yoshiharu also sent people to pass through Kiso Valley and Hida, directly to the Ezhong half of the country nominally controlled by Uesugi Teruhora, and then If you take a boat to Kashiwazaki, you can reach Mount Kasuga smoothly (here is a question about traveling through Hida in winter. When Hida had the heaviest snowfall, the snow was more than three meters deep. In theory, walking in winter is a dead end. . But historically, in order to form an alliance with Tokugawa Ieyasu against Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Sasaki once crossed dozens of people through the heavy snow of Hida in winter and arrived in Hamamatsu unscathed to meet Tokugawa Ieyasu, so he sent three five It is theoretically and factually feasible for an envoy to cross Hida to get to Echu. As for the problem of three meters of snow and more than ten degrees below zero, I don't know how to solve it. If you want to know, you can ask Zuo. Sasaki Masaru, thank you!)

These envoys had gone through countless hardships, and everyone was almost freezing to death. They finally arrived at Kasuga Mountain, and the climate in the mountain was slowly getting warmer.

The surface of the frozen Lianchuan River is still covered with snow, but it is already flowing happily under the ice. The white snow piled on the forests of Shinano Mountains is shaken off by the big trees from time to time, and traces of green gradually appear in various places in the mountains.

It even seemed to Xiaopingta that he heard the singing of birds from the south in the morning, and spring had indeed arrived as he should.

Not because of manpower reasons, it came quietly, and the time came for the Yamauchi family to assemble the three armies.

Koheita also pulled out all the teppanyaki ashigaru who had been suspended from training all winter and fired a few shots to practice their skills to prevent them from getting rusty.

It seems that the entire mountain is ready to go out to Kanto, and the first military meeting after the New Year is coming as scheduled.

Koheita watched all his acquaintances enter the city. They all looked high-spirited and were obviously ready to follow Uesugi Teruhora into a big fight.

The Yamauchi generals with fighting spirit were sitting in rows in the large wide room that was still a little cold, waiting for Yamauchi Yoshiharu to issue an order for general mobilization, but they heard Yamauchi Yoshiharu say something leisurely.

"His Royal Highness, the governor of Echigo, will not send troops to Kanto."

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