In the words of the tie, it seems that the Hojo clan has been captured as a dry bone in the mound, but the actual fight is not as simple as imagined.

With the border between Suruga and Sagami as the core, from Kai Nan to Izu in the north, and about 25 kilometers wide from Numazu to Koyama, there was originally a garrison of about 8,000 people, divided into two large branch castles and five smaller fortresses.

Seeing that the opponent's mobilization was slow and unable to react, the people of the western country took a strong attack by relying on the absolute superiority in numbers. It's a pity that after a month and a half, there hasn't been much progress.

Ukita Naoya was unwell, stopped at Suruga, and failed to come to the front line in person, leaving Yamanaka Yukimori, Araki Murashige, Bessho Nagaji these famous generals and heroes, I don't know if it was not adapted to the soil or not used to cooperate, although each fighting spirit was not lacking, and gave the enemy a lot of blows, but always lacked the final performance.

The lord of Nirayama Castle, the younger brother of the Hojo clan, was determined and flexible in his use of troops, sometimes punctual and sometimes counterattacking, and struggled to support the entire defense line.

This man had traveled to Sunpu Castle to try to obtain a tie with Honhide, but to no avail, and now it seems that his military skills may be far superior to diplomacy.

This situation may have had a certain encouraging effect on the Hojo family, and Odawara Castle finally reacted a little after a long period of difficult bickering, sending about 16,000 people with food and ordnance to the front line to support, and handed them over to the Hojo clan to command.

As a result, the situation of the Western Kingdom began to become more and more difficult, and not only did they fail to advance successfully, but they were partially defeated. Betsunaji even vaguely expressed his doubts about Kobayakawa Takakei in public, making it difficult for the latter to respond appropriately.

For this reason, the tie had to end the hot spring training ahead of schedule, led the guards and the flag, and set off to the front line to stabilize the situation, and gave the generals a written reprimand without discrimination, and forcibly calmed down the controversy in the form of "the law does not blame the public".

Then the army was completely regrouped, and the attack was launched again, and almost a month passed.

But what...... During this time, the situation of the eastern people on the upper field front was also relatively dull, so it did not make the western people look too embarrassed.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, Takeda Katsuyori, and Oda Nobutada had 46,000 troops, and it took two or three months to take the bridgehead of Matsui Tianjo with great difficulty and destroy about 1,500 enemy troops.

The Hojo clan, who commanded the garrison of Ueno and Shimono, also had more than 30,000 men, but in the east, they were still facing pressure from the "Nailtodo coalition forces" such as Satake, Utsunomiya, and Sano, which were long-cherished enemies. In fact, only a small half of the forces were needed to deal with the Western Front.

In this way, the chains of Numata, Covered Bridge, and Hirai Castles remained strong, maintaining the line of communication from Sagami to Echigo.

In the southeast of Ueno, where real estate is fertile, almost all of them supported Uesugi Keigora during the Gokan Rebellion, which was almost equivalent to obeying the Hojo clan. Its leader is the wise and brave but two-faced Hojo Takahiro. (There is no blood relationship with the Hojo family)

It is said that it was the existence of this guy that made it difficult for Tokugawa, Takeda, and Oda to guard the important gates.

Satake, Utsunomiya, and Sano, who were behind them, had a rare opportunity to counterattack and won a major field battle, but the reason was not how brave they were, but because they were lucky.

Hojo Shigeru, the son of Hojo Tsunari, the son of "Rehmannia Hachiman", led 3,000 elite soldiers to serve as the vanguard, but suddenly died of a heart attack on his horse, causing the army's morale to collapse and defeat without a fight. Subsequently, Hojo Tsunamoto, who had been in seclusion, made a comeback with his old arms and legs, and as soon as he arrived at the front line, he immediately suppressed the field, not giving the Kwantung Coalition Army a chance to expand the results of the battle.

The results of many battles can be described as "no win".

But "no win" means a victory for the defender to some extent.

In order to break the deadlock, Hirate sent another special force to try to cross the mountains and mountains along the eastern border of Kai into Musashi Province. Due to road constraints, this force could not exceed a maximum of eight thousand men and could not carry any heavy firearms. As a result, after two days of running, it was found that there were more than 3,000 people in Tsukui Castle, guarding the only exit of the mountain road, showing the momentum of being a man who could not be opened, and there was no way to pass at all.

The Go-Hojo family, which lacked group coordination as a whole, showed very excellent combat effectiveness on the local battlefield, living up to the name of "good defense" for many years.

It feels much tougher than the Maori family, and it's no wonder that they are so confident.

In the face of the pressure of the soldiers and the situation of the old enemy, there is basically no unstable situation of the retainers, which is already much stronger than the Maori family. What is even more commendable is that even if Odawara Castle has been mired in disputes for a long time and is undecided, the local branch cities can be conscripted and defended in an orderly manner in accordance with the laws and regulations of the past, and most people seem to be well aware of their own rights and responsibilities and the operation method of the entire system, and do not need a strong Chrisma-style lord to intervene in the system.

In terms of personal talent alone, each generation of Hojo Sakumo to Shizuna, Shiyasu, and Shimasa seems to be less powerful than Maori Yuan, so omnipotent. However, the continuation of several generations for nearly a hundred years has accumulated a power far greater than that of a self-made legendary god.

If it weren't for the two northernmost and southernmost fronts playing triumph at the same time, the words "must win" in the mouth of the tie would have made people suspicious.

It is important to know that when the money and food of are exhausted, they are not picked up for nothing when they fall from the sky. If there is no decisive progress, it will be no problem for 200,000 people to go to the front line to support them for a year and a half, but who will dare to guarantee it for three or five years?

If there is any natural or man-made disaster in the rear, the people's hearts will immediately be shaken or even collapsed.

Fortunately, in Echigo and Anbo, the two Hojo families were limited by their size and could not take care of their positions, and the army of the Hirate family was advancing and winning one victory after another.

Hirate Yoshimitsu was in Hokuriku, integrating the forces of Omi, Echizen, Noto, and Echichu, with an army of 42,000 people, the head snake of the Jingkatsu side as the leading party, Kawada Nagakin, Konishi Yukicho to serve the left and right, Takigawa Kazuki and Takenaka Shigeharu to give advice, Honda Tadakatsu, Shima Kiyoko charging into battle, and even Ashina and Dahoji Temple to respond behind enemy lines.

And his enemies were only two young men in their twenties from Uesugi Keitora and Hojo Clan, with a total of 15,000 peasant soldiers under their leadership.

In three months, the enemy became weaker and weaker, and he lost more and more confidence.

At the beginning, it took 27 days to attack Gokan Castle, and the large barrel continued to bombard, so that three gates overheated and exploded and were scrapped, and there were casualties.

When they finally arrived at Sakado Castle, they set up their positions in the morning and began to fire iron cannon bows and arrows at the defenders, but in the afternoon the enemy could not hold on to the castle and fled.

The two brothers, Uesugi Keitora and Hojo Clan, returned to Higashi-Ueno in a hurry with the remnants of the defeated army.

Then Yoshimitsu was generous and dignified, and joined Tokugawa Ieyasu, Takeda Katsuyori, and Oda Nobutada, who had little success.

No matter what the latter three think in their hearts, they can only be ashamed of themselves in public and claim to be incompetent.

Fan Xiu was far away on the battlefield of Suruga, and although he was very happy to learn about this, he read the letter carefully afterwards, and he had some subtle feelings.

It turned out that the strategic gist of the Echigo battle and the marching arrangements were all participated in by Takigawa Kazuki, and it was this person who went to the front line in disguise and observed the specific situation of the enemy, and then anticipated the flaws of the other side, so that he had the later method of "encircling three queyi, and not chasing after the poor".

Another Takenaka Shigeharu was unable to participate in the command due to his physical connections, but at the conference table after the victory, he succeeded in persuading the Ashina Mori clan and the Daihoji Yoshiji clan to give up their claim to the newly occupied Echigo land, make a gesture of respectfully waiting for the verdict, and join forces to go south to attack Hojo.

At the same time, in the letter, Yoshimitsu said that Uesugi Keikatsu had behaved very well along the way, and his talent was also worthy of appreciation, so he might as well be gracious and allow him to continue to use the Miao character "Uesugi".

In fact, on that day, Fanxiu had to engage in things that hurt others and himself by forcibly changing his surname, and he already had the idea of leaving a chance to sell favors to his son.

I just didn't expect it to be so soon.

The second generation, who is just eighteen years old, not only has his own team of "baby soldiers", but also begins to recruit wild sages buried in all parts of the world, and establish contacts among the daimyo of foreign domains.

The feelings of being a father are very subtle.

On the one hand, I feel relieved, after all, I am almost forty years old, and sooner or later I will have to let my child take over.

On the other hand, it's a bit depressing, young people grow up too fast, and they feel old when they are only forty years old.

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Let's not mention such a long-term matter, just look at the present, and more than 40,000 people of Yoshimitsu Hirate marched south from Echigo to Ueno, which undoubtedly greatly changed the situation of the war.

With only more than 30,000 people, the soldiers of Tokugawa, Takeda, and Oda in the west, and the coalition forces of Satake, Ukita, and Sano in the east, protected Musashi in the east and behind them, and ensured that the heartland of their own country was not invaded.

But there is another wave from the north, and they will face the situation that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

At the same time, the foreign alliance forces of Shikoku and took the waterway around the Boso Peninsula, which can be called a great show of their skills, stirring up the darkness of the sky.

The last generation of the Satomi family, Yoshihiro, is generally not too much wrong, and he has never been able to beat Hojo, so it can only be said that the difference in hard power is too great, and the retainers feel that it is good to be able to support it for more than ten years.

Therefore, his sister-in-law, Umeomomaru, received widespread sympathy, while the Shu clan, who relied on the support of the Hojo clan to ascend to the throne, lacked legitimacy.

With this card in hand, the action is very smooth.

As a dignified inner house, Honshu also climbed a family tree, saying that the Herate clan and the Satomi clan both belong to the origin of the Nitta tributary of the Seiwa Genji clan.

When Saionji Gongguang was the first to land, it had already won the support of about 20% of the wealthy families of Anfang and Shangzong. And after Sasa Hidenari and Shihe Depositor's security went ashore in turn, more than half of the Satomi retainers turned against and surrendered with courtesy. The three strongholds of Okamoto Castle, Sakan Castle, and Kururi Castle were all unable to defend due to the vacillation and hesitation of the castle soldiers, and Satomi Yoshiyori and his cronies could not organize any strong resistance, so they ran all the way to the territory of the Chiba clan of Shimoto-general to gain a firm foothold.

The whole Anfang and Shangzong were obtained by the tie army without much effort. The Chiba clan can only hold out when the troops are insufficient.

In the face of the difficulty of advancing on the front, the superiority of the north and south fronts stabilized the hearts of the people, allowing the crusading army to continue to have bright hopes for the future.