A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Hachioji was hunting with banners under the castle, and an army of fifteen thousand surrounded him from ten sides. They were determined to break through the castle and kill Takeda Yoshinobu in return.

The city is still the same city, but the people who guard it are no longer the same people who were united in the city!

As soon as Hosokawa's daughter arrived, the people of the Eighth Prince cheered and said that the son of the erotic doctor had arrived and that the Eighth Prince had come to save the people from hanging upside down. Not only did they bring pots and jars to meet the king's army, but they also spontaneously armed themselves and went to the camp of the mountain army to listen to their instructions.

Who didn't know that Takeda Yoshinobu was dying, and there were Hachioji peasants trying their best to escape and surrender all the time in the city. Everyone misses the warm embrace of the Yamauchi family, just like looking forward to the rain after a long drought.

There is really no need to defend this kind of city. No matter how strong the castle is, it still needs people to defend it. It is really meaningless for Takeda Yoshinobu's hundreds of panicked soldiers and hundreds of peasants who just want to run away to face the 15,000 Yamauchi troops who are waiting for them.

The only thing Takeda Yoshinobu can look forward to is reinforcements from Hojo Uzunao. If Hojo's army comes, the Hachioji can continue to survive. It's a pity that after waiting and waiting, Hojo reinforcements did not come, but reinforcements from Yamauchi kept arriving.

Konishiharazaemon and Hosokawa Saime did not immediately launch an attack on the city. They set up camp and pushed the cannon to the front of the city. They could not hit the Honmaru on the hillside. The Demaru at the bottom of the hillside was still simple and easy.

The unworthy five-wheeled cannons destroyed all the Idemaru troops. No matter how die-hard the loyal Takeda Army was, they knew they couldn't eat the cannonballs with their own bodies, so they all ran to the top of the mountain. The captured peasants ran away directly, and by the way, the Takeda Army, which had collapsed between two and three hundred, also left the city and surrendered.

In the end, there were only three to four hundred Hachioji Honmaru left, and they had no ability to resist at all.

Sanada Nobutsuna, who had done meritorious service, was the first to rush forward to attack the city without saying a word. Sanada Masaki and Muto Kihei, who were still guarding the city, opened the city gate and welcomed the Yamauchi army into the city.

You can't even say that these two are disloyal. They protected Takeda Yoshinobu from Uehara Castle all the way to Hachioji and never left them. They can be considered loyal. So many of the Takeda family's descendants have fled, and even one of their former relatives has surrendered. At this point, there is nothing to say.

Of course, if the city gate is opened at this stage, the impact will definitely be worse. Takeda Bing, who originally had the courage to kill himself and die together, had the string in his heart that was tense, but was suddenly cut off.

The people's anger was immediately released, and most of them knelt on the ground and killed them by pulling their necks. In the end, thirty or forty soldiers protected Takeda Yoshinobu and hid in the castle. Soon the entire castle was ablaze.

Ohkuma Bizen Mori Asohide, former Hayato Yushoin, Iitomi Hyobu Masatoki and others struggled outside the castle to block the Yamauchi army who tried to break into the castle to seize Takeda Yoshinobu's head.

In the end, all members died in the battle, and Takeda Yoshinobu was transformed into a sea of ​​fire and died at the age of thirty-two.

The city is broken!

People die!

The country is destroyed!

In the afternoon, the news reached the Hojo and Uesugi military camps in front of Matsuyama Castle. Hojo Uji Nao could only sigh, but Uesugi Kenshin immediately agreed to the Hojo clan's consensus. The two sides once again used the Tone River as the boundary to divide the sphere of influence in the northern part of Musashi Province. .

The Hojo family had no choice but to disband most of the peasant soldiers who had been fighting for more than a month, accepted Takeda's defeat, and Hojo fell into the cruel status quo of being surrounded on all sides, and retreated to Odawara.

Uesugi Kenshin moved to Shimono, restored the authority of the Kanto governor in Shimono country, and caused the pro-Hojo forces to withdraw from Shimono, stabilizing the Utsunomiya clan, Hoga clan, Mibu clan, Nasu clan and other daimyo.

This time, the Yamauchi family did not need to keep a general in Hachioji. The Kai Kingdom was behind them, and if something happened, reinforcements would arrive immediately. Just leave one Hatamoto and 500 soldiers here to monitor the movements of the Hojo clan.

Seeing that the Takeda family was finished, the Hojo clan took advantage of the situation and quietly swallowed up the Sagami Tsukui area that had been ceded to Takeda Shingen, which was regarded as swallowing up Takeda's last afterglow.

The forces in the East Kingdom were rapidly reshuffled in a short period of time, almost completely transforming into a three-legged situation. And what is completely different from the Three Kingdoms is that today's three pillars, Uesugi Mountain, are all big names with 300,000 guan. Even though Hojo is a big country that spans Jun, Dou, Prime Minister, Wu, General, and Chang, with a territory of 400,000 gu, it's hard to say one versus two.

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"Where is Takeda Kai's head?"

"Even if there is no head, where are the remains?"

Hosokawa Saime sat down and told everyone about the battle of Hachioji and the results. At the end of the story, after Takeda Yoshinobu committed suicide by setting himself on fire and committing seppuku, everyone asked questions one after another.

After all, everything else is just minutiae, and it is not even a priority whether the Eight Princes have conquered it or not. It is true to confirm that Takeda Yoshinobu, the banner of the Takeda clan, has completely fallen.

"With the fire, everything in the Honmaru Castle was reduced to ashes, and no trace was found."

"Are you sure that Takeda Kai is dead?" Chief Yamauchi seemed a little anxious.

"It should be good. The captured defeated soldier, also known as Takeda Kai, entered the castle and never appeared again."

"The Eight Princes are surrounded on all sides, and there is a lonely mountain. It is impossible to escape even if you don't expect it!" Hosokawa Shungu has been working as the Eight Prince Castle for many years. He clearly remembers every plant and tree around the Eight Princes.

As for the other heads, the samurai of the Yamauchi family have no intention of confirming them one by one. After recording their merits, they can reward them as usual.

Apart from this, there is nothing bigger to discuss. Today's Lianpan meeting is over. Everyone goes back to their homes and is busy with their own business. Yamauchi Taro continued to attend classes at Kuaichuan Shaoxi's place, and Koheita continued to return to the Kansei Enshrinement Office to serve as an official.

In the past, everyone walked out at will, and there was no fixed order or shift. After all, nine people are theoretically equal, one person, one vote.

Now Taro Yamauchi was the first to leave, surrounded by several people approaching him. Then the Yamauchi chief planner will stand up impatiently, get ahead of everyone, and be the first to leave. As for the others, whether intentionally or unintentionally, Xiaopingtai was the second to walk out.

At first, everyone would walk in twos and threes while talking about some personal matters, or chatting about the weather and the like. Now they are all walking out one by one, silently and striding away.

Unless there is something particularly urgent or something that requires coordination, it is rare for two consecutive judges to leave together.

On the surface, they are still in harmony and love each other, but after all, there is a layer of separation between them.

Walking to the bottom of the city, I met a familiar person, who took the initiative to run up and say hello to Xiao Pingtai.

"Get it right!"

"You are Shinkuro, right?" Koheita had a slight impression that this person seemed to be Okuhira Sadatsuna from the Mikawa clan.

"Yes, yes, I am here to present the battle report of Ise on behalf of Yoshida-don."

"Ise? Has Oda Dansho succeeded?"

"Okawachi Castle has been captured and the siege of Kiriyama Imperial Palace is underway!"