The season gradually changed from summer to autumn, and new changes began to take place on the battlefield in the Kanto region.

The Kinai and Shikoku coalition forces on the southern front held up the name of "restoring the status of the rightful successor Umeomaru", and after easily pacifying Anbo and Kamiso, they continued to advance and besieged Honsakura Castle and Moriyama Castle, which were vassals of the Chiba clan of Hojo.

Its lord Chiba Kuniyin is the son-in-law of the Hojo clan, with a firm position, martial arts and good fighting, and 7,000 elite soldiers, which is not easy to match.

So the city could not be broken for many months.

The time dragged on, and by the middle of September, it was suddenly attacked by the direction of Guofutai, and although the enemy generals Tominaga Masashi, Tamu Nagamune and others were not well known, they were quite brave, and they were divided into two roads with thousands of soldiers, one positive and one odd attack.

Sasa Hidesei couldn't react, and the army was instantly defeated and forced to flee backwards.

The siege of Honsakura Castle was lifted.

But then Tominaga, Tame and others advocated continuing the battle, and the Chiba clan advocated entering the city to rest, but there were differences of opinion and disputes, and the former decided to pursue alone.

Besides, Na Sazuo Xiucheng returned in embarrassment, deeply ashamed, swallowed his earlobe that was cut off by the arrow alive, and claimed to be "ashamed" with a bloody face.

His Ise people, who had more than 10,000 people, were greatly damaged, but the friendly Shikoku people, who also had more than 10,000 people, still maintained a complete structure. Seeing the son-in-law of the Tie Inner Mansion like this, he had to pat his chest and ask for battle.

It just so happened that the orders of the Hojo Army were different, and only some of them were chasing after them, and most of them were already tired. Shihe Depository, Saionji Gonghiro, Kagawa Scenery and others stepped forward to meet the battle and gained the upper hand.

Tominaga, Tamu and others won first and then lost, and withdrew to the area of Guofutai.

As a result, the two sides still maintained a situation of confrontation along the demarcation line between the upper and lower general administrations.

The high-profile "son-in-law of the Hete Inner House" saved face by relying on the fault tolerance brought by the advantage of troops.

At this time, the "son of the inner house of the peace" is proud of the spring breeze, and the good news is repeated.

Of course, this comparison is not fair, because there are Kawada Nagakin, Konishi Yukinaga, Takigawa Kazuki, Takenaka Shigeji, Ii Hidenao, Kato Kiyomasa...... And so many others helped.

In Ueno, faced with the enemy's still relatively strong defensive line, Uesugi Keikatsu, who accompanied the army, proposed a method of "letting the contemptible retainer Barrelguchi continue to go to the Hojo Takahiro".

Got permission from Yoshimitsu Hirate, and it went well.

Hojo Takahiro showed the reason why he repeatedly changed jobs but was criticized too much - this guy accepted the recruitment of the barrel mouth, but did not defect on the spot, but sent his second son and third son to the Hojo clan of Odawara Castle, and the front-line commander Hojo Clan Teru, clearly expressed the meaning that "in order to continue the family plan, in the future, I can only be the enemy of the kings, and I can no longer fight side by side", and then officially changed the flag and turned the gun.

In this era when the situation is changing rapidly, everyone is in danger, and who doesn't know if friends and foes will change at any time, his approach can be regarded as a deep samurai.

In the entire Higashi-Ueno, more than eighty percent of the wealthy families changed their positions under his influence.

Numata and Covered Bridge opened the castle without blood, and only Kanayama Castle, the gateway to Musashi, remained, in the hands of the Hojo family.

For this, Yoshimitsu Hirate thanked Katsu Uesugi and Kazuguchi Kane, and verbally said, "The final decision belongs to my father, but no matter what, I will do my best to keep the Miao character for Your Excellency." ”

Interestingly, at this time, Shimono's "anti-Hojo Nailto coalition army" was in trouble.

Mainly because the Nasu clan, a long-established force, has always had regional disputes with Satake and Utsunomiya, and there is not much hostility towards Go-Hojo, and it has been less than a year since he was forced to change his position and join the "Anti-Odawara Alliance" due to the overall situation.

It just so happened that his lord Nasu Ziyin was old and seriously ill, and his heir Nasu Ziqing was a brave and less worried person, and after a quarrel with his allies, he led his troops back in a rage, causing a gap in the formation.

The experienced "Rehmannia Hachiman" Hojo Tsusunari keenly seized the opportunity to make the appearance of encircling the Utsunomiya army (led by the old Nakamura Nagamu), but in fact he arranged an ambush and severely damaged the main force of the coalition forces that came to reinforce Yoshishige Satake, and achieved a great victory.

It's a pity that this active performance failed to win the opportunity to expand the results.

Since Ueno is lost, Musashi is in danger. It's useless for you to beat the group of nail households in Shimono ten more times, after all, it's only a secondary front.

The only thing he could do was to quickly turn back with the Hojo clan and return to his core area to build a defensive line around Kawagoe Castle, Ninja Castle, and Bowl Castle.

Then, Ueno and Shimono were quickly pacified by the Heite family.

Representatives of daimyo such as Satake and Utsunomiya came to meet one after another, and they officially received the promise of "staying in place", but they did not mention it.

A few years ago, the forces such as Koyama and Oda who were forced to succumb to Hojo took the initiative to surrender, and the Nasu family, who had caused trouble, also came to ask for guilt.

Heite Yoshimitsu appeased everyone, and planned to transfer these families to the West Country with one-third of the size of the original territory. After Shigeharu Takenaka found out, he persuaded him, "This matter seems to be not worth mentioning, but in fact it has a lot to do with it, so it is advisable to ask the inner government first." ”

Sure enough, Fan Xiu got the letter, and the reply he sent was, "Since you keep one-third of the original collar, you don't have to transfer it." ”

Yoshimitsu had a private meeting with Takenaka, who sighed, "It seems that the inner government does not intend to let Kanto settle down once. ”

This is not an outsider.

As for the follow-up arrangement, Hirate Yoshimitsu took Honda Tadakatsu as the vanguard and took Shinobu Castle, Tokugawa, Takeda, and Oda joined forces to attack Hagata Castle on the west side of Musashi, and Uesugi, Satake, Utsunomiya, etc., went to Shimoso via Hitachi, and joined up with Sasa Hidenari and Tokawa Kurbo.

At this time, the frontal battlefield finally took a turn after the tie and Tsunohide himself took over.

With the cooperation of gunboats, Yamauchi Kazutoyo conquered Shimoda Castle on the coast of Sagami Bay, and killed 570 defenders, and the enemy general Yasuei Shimizu took his own sword. Immediately, this Einsatzgruppen ran rampant in the Izu area.

It took Nakamura a few months to finally get a complete picture of the terrain, and with 2,000 elite soldiers, he crossed the Hakone Pass and attacked three strongholds in the mountains, cutting off an important link between Odawara Castle and the front line.

The city is still well guarded, but it has gradually become a lonely peak. Hinote Honohide kept firing at the front, so that the Hojo clan had no way to get out, and then sent many people around to the weak garrison to break through each one.

In response, the Hojo clan reacted to further shrinkage, and all the living forces gathered at Odawara Castle without reinforcements to the front.

At the same time, he put forward a request for peace, claiming that as long as he kept Izu, Maeaki, and Musashi, he would be satisfied, and he was willing to go to Kyoto to meet the Herate Inner Mansion and publicly proclaim himself a minister.

But by this time, it will be too late.

Itabe Okae Yukisai was cheeky and found the relationship between Tozaya Soyi, forcibly delivered the letter, and then turned around and left.

Hu Zai Zongyi asked suspiciously: "Aren't you waiting for a reply?" ”

Itabe Okae Xuesai was stunned for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "What do you have to wait for a reply?" Rather than expecting the Lord of the Inner Mansion to agree to this stupid condition, it is better to hope that the ancestor will suddenly come back to life and 100,000 ghost soldiers will be drilled underground to help, which is more reliable. ”

Hu Zai Zongyi couldn't help but sigh deeply, hesitated for a moment and said sincerely: "The talent of Fayou (both of them are monks) is known to the world, but why didn't you get its master?" Nowadays, it is impossible for you not to understand, if you are interested, please stay here and don't leave, the poor monk is willing to recommend it to the Pingshou Inner Government. ”

Itabe Okae Xuezhai was unmoved, and shook his head categorically: "The poor monk failed to persuade the contemptible lord to embark on the right path, and he only felt guilty, what kind of face did he have to change to the new master?" The inner mansion is surrounded by heroes, and it is not bad to think of it. ”

He then resolutely returned to Odawara Castle.

Tiger Zai Soyi relayed the matter to Hinote Hohide, and praised him. Fan Xiu also said: "As long as the sword is not eyeless, this person will be pardoned and employed." ”

As for the Hojo clan's request for peace, he laughed at it and didn't bother to pay attention to it.

Seeing that Ueno, Shimono, Kamio, Shizoo, and Anbo are all lost or about to be lost, and only the three kingdoms of Izu, Sagami, and Musashi are still in control, but what does it say that "you can be satisfied by keeping these three kingdoms", isn't it a fool's dream?

I have the impression that this guy Wen Taowu has a lot of achievements in all aspects, how can he be so much worse than Maori Huiyuan?

Some people commented, "It's good to hit the front soon!" ”

But in all fairness, Kobayakawa Takakei a few months ago couldn't attack the castle with the strategy of a tie. Because he only nominally leads the people of the Western Kingdom, and in fact he does not have the ability to make the troops bow down to orders without saying a word, and only by concentrating everyone under the nose of the front can he ensure that there will be no chaos.

Besides, fighting a war was not what he was good at.

However, now Kobayakawa Takakei suddenly found the space to show his skills. He found that although the Hojo clan, the commander of Nirayama Castle, was from a common background, he went to Suruga as a hostage when he was young, and had a good relationship with the locals, and later absorbed some remnants by his side when Imagawa fell.

In such a desperate situation, would it be useful to ask the reclusive Imagawa clan to be a lobbyist?