The iron cannon handed over to the shogunate was not handed over to the shogunate immediately, after all, he was in Gyeonggi now, and if the shogunate received the iron cannon at this time, then Matsunaga Shu would definitely put Yoshinaga and others on the list of suspicions.

When the time comes, as the Tennoji House with Yoshinaga and the pressure of the Miyoshi family, the cooperation will definitely be severed at that time.

The current Yoshinaga can't leave the cooperation of Tennojiya, and in addition to the sale of paper and other goods, there is now a new loan of 50,000 kan.

The previous 30,000 guan has been repaid, 50,000 guan is newly borrowed, 20,000 guan has been spent on the previous war and city repair, Shangluo and his party have also spent a lot, and now there are 20,000 guan on the account.

Now his territory has expanded by one county, and there are tens of thousands of more koku of territory, and now he also has a territory of about 250,000 koku, and the territory of the retainers and the Hokushinano people is 70,000 koku.

Among them, the Takanashi family has the most territory, which has exceeded 10,000 koku, followed by the Sanada family's 6,000 koku, and then the 5,000 koku of Ogasawara Natakaka.

Now, the territory that directly belongs to Yoshichang is about 180,000 stones, and you can harvest 90,000 stones of grain, but these are still rice, and after processing, there must be no 90,000 stones.

In terms of money, the income from grain is more than 100,000 yuan, but after deducting the expenses of the army, the retainers' salaries, the repair of the city, and the casting of weapons and equipment, these more than 100,000 yuan cannot be left.

However, the wild greens and hot spring rice he planted this year, as well as the wasabi and mustard wheat from Anyun, are all produced.

Hot spring rice and wasabi have not yet become cash crops, and mustard noodles have not yet become popular foods, so for the time being, Tennoji Temple is opening a wasaba shop to cause a trend of wasabi.

For the time being, wasabi can only be sold as wasabi until Echigo, and the income in the first few months of this year is less than 2,000 kan.

The income of Nozawa greens is more expensive, some of the greens are kept at home, and the other part is also collected by Echigo, and the income in one or two quarters is about 4,000 kan.

Therefore, from the perspective of Yoshina's finances, Tennoji House cannot afford to lose.

As for the iron cannon promised to the shogunate, it could not be handed over to Mibuchi Fujiei until Yoshinaga left Gyeonggi.

As for Yoshicho and Masaho, they didn't stay long after meeting the emperor and the general, and the current situation in the two countries is not very good, and they are approaching the end of the year, so three days after meeting the general, Yoshicho and Masanho set off to go back.

The twenty-first year of astronomy is coming to an end, and this year, Yoshinaga survived the encirclement network woven by the Takeda family, and not only that, but also hit the Takeda family hard, and wait until next year, Masato will gather the people of the eight countries of Kanto to counterattack Hojo, defeat the Hojo family, and break the other arm of the Triple Alliance, then Yoshinaga can attack Suwa Prefecture with all his might.

It wasn't until the end of October that Yoshinaga was able to return to Ueda Castle, and by this time, the retainers had already returned to their own domains to listen to the reports of the courtiers, and then prepare for the year-end settlement, and wait until a few days before the Spring Festival to report back to Ueda Castle.

For these retainers, they also have hostages in Ueda Castle, so they don't care where they celebrate the New Year.

This year's Spring Festival is similar to previous years, and after the lively Chinese New Year's Eve and Spring Festival, Yoshicho took Satomi Akizuki and them to visit the people in the city again.

After that, Yoshinaga checked the information in the family, which was all the political affairs handled by Sanada Yutaka and sorted out and summarized.

After reading this, Yoshinaga decided to recruit 1,000 standing ashigaru again, and at the same time speed up the progress of building large iron cannons and artillery.

The previous large iron cannons and copper cannons have been destroyed in the war, and if you want to attack and take Odawara Castle this year, the number of copper cannons must be at least two, and as for the large iron cannons and large barrels, there are more than a dozen.

However, in March of the 22nd year of Astronomy, Uesugi Masato, who had inherited the position of Kanto governor, sent an envoy to Shinano to inform Yoshinaga that Echigo was going to send troops to attack the Hojo family.

It turned out that after Masato returned to Echigo, Masato told the retainers about the harvest this time, and of course many retainers were a little dissatisfied with Masaho's false name.

However, Uesugi Kenmasa was very happy and handed over the position of Kanto governor to Masato.

Zhenghu immediately said that he would wait until the beginning of spring next year to crusade against the Hojo family.

Usami Dingman felt that the Hojo family was powerful, and if Echigo sent troops, it would definitely not work, and he had to inform the eight countries of Kanto.

Therefore, Echigo's side sent people to run around and tell all parts of the Kanto region that Uesugi Masato, the lord of Echigo, was the adopted son of Uesugi Kenmasa and inherited the position of Kanto governor.

And Echigo will send troops to attack the Hojo family in March of the 22nd year of the Astronomical year, hoping that the people of the country can defeat Hojo together with the leader of the Uesugi Guan...

Don't say it, the Hojo family has a lot of enemies, and many of the countrymen who surrendered to the Hojo family are not sincere.

At the same time, because some of the rules of the Hojo family affected the relationship between the countrymen and the Hojo family, the land tax rate was generally five gongs and five farmers, and in countries like Kai, there would even be four farmers and six gongs.

And the Hojo family is more generous to the people, it is four princes and six peasants, and such a rule makes those who are used to five peasants and five peasants unhappy.

After all, this has always been the case under the management of their Kanto Governor.

At the same time, because of the First Battle of Kofutai, there was a wave of enemies to the east of the Hojo family.

This enemy is mainly led by the family in the house.

So when Uesugi Masato's inscription spread all over the world, undercurrents surged all over the Kanto region, and Hojo knew that the crisis of the Hojo family was coming.

He also began to prepare, for this reason, he first sent people to the Takeda family and the Imagawa family, after all, the three families have just signed a treaty, and they will not sever relations at this time, right?

Takeda Harunobu learned that Uesugi Masatoshi attacked the Hojo family in the name of the Kanto governor, and his heart was very heavy, why did he want to form an alliance with the Hojo family, in addition to relieving his own back hidden dangers, but also wanting the Hojo family to contain Echigo.

If Uesugi Masatora really gathered the people of the Eight Kingdoms of Kanto to get rid of Hojo, then he would be finished, so he immediately agreed to send troops to support.

As for Imagawa Yoshimoto, he originally wanted to ignore it, but under the persuasion of Taiyuan Xuezhai, he agreed to send troops.

This time, the entire Kanto region is going to make a fuss.

At the beginning of March, Yoshinaga entered Echigo from Kita-Shinano with 1,000 standing ashigaru, a large barrel of Miki's artillery corps, and 5,000 miscellaneous soldiers.

Masaho led an army of 10,000, and after joining Yoshinaga, he went south and joined Nagano Yoshimasa's army in advance, so that the coalition army exceeded 20,000.

In the face of such a strong military situation, the people of the eastern part of Ueno Province who surrendered to the Hojo family all went anyway and joined the coalition of the Shoto.

Not only Ueno, but also people from Shimono, Shimoso, Hitachi, and other countries led troops to converge.

Seeing that the coalition forces were strong, the Hojo family had to shrink their forces to Odawara Castle.

Odawara Castle has been repaired by the Hojo family for several generations, and even the outer periphery of the castle town has been repaired, and the arrows on the castle wall are densely packed.

Historically, Uesugi Masata called for 100,000 friends, and besieged Odawara Castle for a month but failed to conquer it.

This time, there were not many people called by Uesugi Masato, only more than 80,000, and there were already Nabo clans and Akai clans who had defected to the Hojo family and were defeated by Masato.

Originally, these two families were to be forgiven by the political tiger, but when Uesugi Kenmasa found out, he hurriedly came to Ueno and personally ordered the destruction of the two families, and the territory of these two families was temporarily under the control of Nagano Yemasa.

It is said that Uesugi Masato's army of more than 80,000 was deployed outside Odawara Castle, while Hojo Shiyasu was waiting for the coalition to attack the castle inside the castle.

Hojo Shiyasu still has a good idea of how strong Odawara Castle is.

Today, in Odawara Castle, there are more than 10,000 Hojo Army, and with the reinforcements of the Takeda Imagawa family, there are also 20,000 people.

Hojo Shiyasu looked at the hill outside the castle, and the trees on the mountain seemed to have been stopped by banners, and the scene was spectacular.

He turned around and said, "You say, how long will it take for Uesugi Masato to break through the outer pill?" ”

As the first fierce general of the Hojo family, Hojo Tsunari, known as "Jihuang Hachiman", said: "My lord, let your subordinates guard it in Waimaru, it only takes one month, and Uesugi Masatoshi will definitely retire." ”

Speaking of which, Hojo Tsunari's father was an important minister of the Imagawa family, but unfortunately, his father Fukushima Masari was killed by Kai's Hara Torayin, and there were loyal ministers who escaped from Suruga with Hojo Tsunari.

This is actually related to the Imagawa family's Hanakura Rebellion, and it is rumored that Fukushima Masanari was involved in this rebellion, but the information shows that Fukushima Masanari died in the first year of Aei (1521).

Compared to the Hanacang Rebellion a few years later, the timing is not right.

However, the Fukushima family was involved in the Hanakura Rebellion and was an opponent of Imagawa Yoshimoto.

In this way, Hojo Tsunari, named Katsuchiyo, ran to the Hojo family and became a retainer.

Moreover, in Kawatsu Castle, with only 3,000 men, he resisted the tens of thousands of troops of Uesugi Kenmasa, and he was very experienced in defense.

For Hojo Tsunari's confidence, Hojo Shikang is still very relieved.

Hojo Phantom on the side said: "Although the number of enemy troops is the biggest advantage, it is also a disadvantage, so many people, the pressure on food and grass is very great, and the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for them." ”

Duomu Yuanzhong nodded and said: "You only need to hold the front for a while, as the so-called one blow, then decline, and three exhaustion."

If one stone cannot be captured for a long time, morale will inevitably decline, and the enemy army is a coalition army, as long as the time drags on for a long time, many people will have different thoughts.

The coalition seems to be powerful, but in fact, it is easy to fall apart. ”

Hojo Shiyasu nodded very happily and said: "Hahaha, with this strong city, our army is invincible!" ”

Unlike the Hojo family, which was full of confidence, in the shogunate of Uesugi Masatora, people from all countries sat down according to the size of their power, and of course, there were enemies among them, and they sat opposite each other.

As for Yoshicho, he sat in the first position below.

The identity of these righteous chiefs of the Kanto people is naturally not embarrassed.

Soon, Uesugi Masahu patted the fan in his hand and said, "This time, I uphold the way of heaven and are ordered by His Majesty the Emperor to crusade against the non-ministers, hoping that the lord will work together to defeat the Hojo family." ”

"What the temple said is too good, Kanto Kuhojo has been in the past for a long time!"

"The hall only commands, and the subordinates will definitely serve!"

"I am willing to be the first to send troops to attack Odawara Castle!"

The lying down countrymen shouted one after another, showing their loyalty to Uesugi Masato.

Uesugi Masata was also very happy to see everyone so enthusiastic, and in this regard, he clapped his hands and said, "You are quiet, there is no hurry to attack the city for the time being, and Ogasawara Shinano Mamoru is very confident in the siege." ”

In fact, these people are polite and polite, and since someone takes the lead, it would be better.

Yoshicho said: "Everyone, please rest assured, wait for a day of rest, tomorrow will officially attack the city, I have an elite army under my command, which will definitely make the Hojo family panic." ”

Hearing Yoshinaga's words, most of the countrymen praised a few words, but although Tokiru Sasuke, Anfang Satomi, Shimoji Takeda and other countrymen didn't say anything, they didn't believe it very much.

In this way, on the second day, Yoshicho personally led the troops out of the battle, and Masato led the Echigo army to suppress the battle.

Hojo Shiyasu has been in Kanto for many years, and he looked at Ogasawara's banner and was stunned for a while before he reacted and said, "Is this Shinano's Ogasawara family?" ”

As the commander of Takeda's reinforcements, Kansuke Yamamoto nodded and said, "Over there is Shinano's Ogasawara Army, and under that banner is Ogasawara Yoshinaga." ”

Hojo Shiyasu nodded, and said thoughtfully: "Then I'm going to know this Shinano Mamoru for a while." ”

At this moment, Hojo Tsusunari was taking a good position in the bow and foot light of the various divisions under the command of Waimaru, waiting for the Ogasawara army to approach before attacking.

It's a pity that Yoshicho didn't plan to get closer, so he asked Miki to push out four copper cannons, which were already all of Yoshinaga's copper cannons.

Four bronze cannons lined up against the walls of Odawara Castle.

Yoshicho himself said to Miki Otsu: "First bombard the city wall, and then smash the city gate for me." ”

Miki patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, your majesty will do it." ”

After saying that, the artillery ashigaru reloading ammunition began.

Hojo Tsusunari saw the Ogasawara army tinkering with things a hundred paces away, and he was a little puzzled, and the retainers around him smiled: "Didn't you see the banner of the lord and was so frightened that he didn't dare to march?" ”

Hojo Tsusunari listened to the words of his retainers, and was a little embarrassed, but the cannon went off.

Four projectiles smashed into the walls of Odawara Castle, and Hojo Tsunari clearly felt the tremors.

However, Hojo Tsusunari didn't have time to pay attention, and the deafening sound of the copper cannon shocked many Chinese people who spoke yin and yang, even if it was Hojo Tsusunari's side, whether it was Ashigaru or samurai, they were stunned.

As for the Kanto people from all walks of life, they were also frightened.

The head of the family in the Anfang family was surprised: "What is this, I have never seen it before, this power is like the wrath of the gods?" ”

The rest of the countrymen followed suit.

Zhenghu turned around and said: "This is the most powerful place of Ogasawara Shinanomoru, I think this weapon is called the collapse of the country, as soon as this thing comes out, the general leader can't bear it."

However, this Odawara Castle is really a strong city, and it seems that it will take a while. ”

Hearing this, the hearts of the people of the country were panicked, such a weapon simply frightened them, if the Kanto Governor had this weapon, they could only obediently obey.

Satomi Yoshiyao was very fond of such a weapon, but he knew that it was just his delusion.