Uesugi Keikatsu preferred to change the character of Miao to Nagao, so that the 42,000 men of Yoshimitsu Herate could cross Uozu Castle without a single effort as allies, and march straight to Kasugayama, preparing to sweep the entire territory of Echigo and expel the forces of the Hojo family.

At the same time, the main crusading army of Odawara also began to expand its formation.

The 46,000 people of the eastern country, including Tokugawa Ieyasu, Takeda Katsuyori, and Oda Nobutada, gathered in Nishi-Ueno and were responsible for attacking Haragashi, Numata, and other places, and then attacking Musashi Province to the south.

The 33,000 people of the Western Kingdom, including Kobayakawa Takakei, Ukita Naoie, and Araki Murashige, marched to Sagami via the Tokaido and directly threatened the enemy's core.

A total of 26,000 and Shikoku people, Sasa Hidenari and Miyoshi Yasunaga crossed the sea to the Boso Peninsula to deal with the pro-Hojo faction of the Satomi family, and then went around to the east and fought in a roundabout way.

There were 1,000 ships and 10,000 sailors, who belonged to the Nine Ghosts Kataka, Azaku Nobuyasu, and Kurijima Dosu, blocking the coasts of Izu and Boso and controlling the lines of communication by waterway.

Pingshou Tsusho led 48,000 people to stay in Junfu, ready to move at the opportunity.

The diplomatic dimension is equally significant.

Takeda Katsuyori has been obsessed with infiltrating the Anbo Satomi clan, and has achieved decent results. The only son of the previous head of the family, Yoshihiro Satomi, now lives in Suruga, and the Yoshiyori on the stage is just a branch close to Hojo, which is obviously a great weapon to divide and attack the enemy.

Tokugawa Ieyasu quietly contacted the Satake family in Hitachi, as well as a group of "Kanto nail households" such as Utsunomiya, Yusei, and Sano. They only need to be maintained by the original leader and are willing to lead their troops to help, not because they have a good impression of the tie, but because they have too much hatred with Hojo.

On the Ou side, the southern Anton whip is out of reach and only expresses friendship in name, Date is busy attacking Soma, and Mogami is anxious to quell the civil strife, and everyone declares that they are "the long-admired Naifu of Hite, and there is no resistance to the dogs and horses", but the fight is in full swing, and it is still fighting.

Several other forces that were relatively close to each other, after learning of the end of the draw, raised the banner of anti-Hojo one after another, but did not go south to participate in the siege, but instead ran desperately to Echigo, trying to seize the castle under the command of Uesugi Keihu.

Especially the Ashina Mori clan in the Aizu area, the old fox is the most energetic.

For the obvious head-grabbing behavior, Hirata Hirahide's pretended not to know, and decided to hand it over to Uesugi Keikatsu in the future - at that time, it might have been called Nagao Keikatsu to get a headache. If you talk about the ideal result, it is naturally good, but if you can't talk about the result...... Maybe it's even better.

The work in several directions was not directly taken over, but the appearance was fully allowed to play on its own.

This seems to affect efficiency, and it gives Takeda and Tokugawa the opportunity to deceive their superiors and subordinates in private. However, the advantage is that you can not express your position at first, leaving room for a final ruling.

It was for the same reason that Heite did not forcibly claim the official position of "General of Seiyi", but was satisfied with the identity of "the second Minister of the Interior and the General of the Left Guard, and the general who led the town and guarded the government".

The name is in an ambiguous state, and the last veil has not yet been completely revealed, so the daimyo of Ou and Kyushu can still pretend to be deaf and dumb, while maintaining the appearance of deference, while stepping up the time to expand and merge.

It just so happens that Hite-ho is not as impatient as Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the original history, and would rather spend a little more time to give the world's heroes one last chance to shine.

After burning out, leave a cloud of smoke and dust, it will be better to clean up!

On the other hand, it is also to sell face to Tokugawa Ieyasu and Takeda Katsuyori, so that they can rarely represent the imperial court in front of remote forces, shake their majesty, and try the feeling of "angels".

One of the two has always been conscientious and diligent, and the other took the lead in standing in line after Ashikaga Yoshiaki ran away, which should have been commended. For a daimyo of this level, if you give 50,000 stone territory, it is not a big reward at all, but it is very good to give a chance to show your face.

Only when there is a difference between intimacy and intimacy, and between the old and the new, can appropriate incentives be generated.

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At this time, the Hojo clan actually controlled Sagami, Izu, Musashi, and Shimoso, as well as parts of Kamiso, Shimono, Ueno, Hitachi, and Suruga, with a total size of about 180,000 to 2.3 million koku. At the same time, it also has vassals such as Oda Clan and Oyama Hidetsuna, as well as hardcore allies such as Uesugi Keitora and Satomi Yoshiyori - in the current situation, they have to be iron-clad.

At the time of the break, the Hojo clan issued the largest conscription in decades, requiring all men over the age of fifteen and under the age of seventy to join the army.

Obviously, given the administrative power of the Sengoku daimyo of this era, it is impossible to truly carry out such an order. However, since this is not completely useless, according to rumors, it is said that a super large army of more than 100,000 people has been assembled in various places, and if you count Uesugi Keitor, Satomi Yoshiyori and others, there may be 1230,000.

Hearing this, Tieshou Fan Xiu was not in a hurry, but laughed, and said: "If the other party concentrates 50,000 elite troops, gives full play to the advantages of local operations, and uses the familiarity with the terrain to move flexibly, then I will have a headache, and I am worried that all of them will be broken by each one." But now the Hojo family dared to recruit 100,000 troops without preparation, just afraid that the transportation of food would overstretch them, so that it was difficult to move an inch with a large army in vain, so they could only disperse to defend! ”

At that time, less than 10 percent of the people understood this statement immediately, about 2 or 30 percent understood it after pondering it, and the rest of the people could not understand how they thought about it.

The large number of enemy soldiers made the Lord of the Inner Mansion happy, what is the reason?

"The territory of 200,000 stone is enough to support 10,000 troops to fight, and now that the Hojo family has the strength of about 2 million stones, why can't they support 100,000 troops to fight?"

The one who asked this question privately was a genius child who was not yet nine years old, Ume Wakamaru.

Of course, Fan Xiu was patient and generous to his son, and he casually took a circle on the map and explained vividly: "If a daimyo's territory is only 200,000 stones, then the scope of his strategy is basically impossible to exceed a three-day march, and the logistics are easy to meet, and 10,000 soldiers may only need a thousand, or even 800 baggage personnel supply." But if it's a force of two million stones...... If you look at the current Hojo family, it takes half a month to walk from Izu, the southernmost part of the country, to Ueno, the northernmost area. Without a series of well-planned military stations to transport food for 100,000 people, how much pressure would there be? ”

Umerumaru seemed to understand whether she understood or not, staring at the map and falling into deep thought.

Many of the above concepts are too abstract for even a gifted child to understand immediately.

Jing Yi Zhihu next to him suddenly said: "The concubine understands." The fact that His Highness has set up so many military stations in over the past few years is not just a boast of wealth, but a long-term expectation! ”

"That's right. The larger the scale of the joint battle, the more important the ability to act. Mobility, on the other hand, depends on logistics. Fan Xiu explained, and then suddenly "furious" stepped forward, and whispered: "You woman, it turns out that you used to slander your husband like this? Tonight we will be punished! ”

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As Heide Hatsuhide had predicted, the Hojo clan had gathered an unprecedentedly powerful army, but it was not used in a centralized manner.

About 40,000 people were stationed around Odawara Castle, and then it spread, and the branch cities of Kawagoe, Hagatata, Shimoda, and Hachioji each gathered thousands to 10,000 troops, and then it was as if time had stood still, and there was no more movement.

Throughout July, the Hojo family did not seem to have issued any other directives other than the mobilization order.

In fact, the mobilization was completed at most in the first half of the year, and there were at least 20 days of idleness.

Many people of good deeds ridiculed it as: "Odawara Castle must still be in the process of reviewing!" "After all, everyone knows that meetings are a characteristic of the Hojo family, and you can't help but taste them.

Of course, this may also be one of the reasons, but the more important reason for the draw is that after the sea lines of communication were blocked, the other side no longer had enough logistics forces to carry out large-scale active operations, so it had to remain on the defensive.

If the Hojo clan really dared to gather an army of 100,000 in one place, I am afraid that there would be no need to fight, as long as it dragged on for a month or two, it would collapse and collapse on its own.

Behind the crusading army of the flat hand is 500,000 stone grain, 200,000 pieces of silver, 80,000 servants, 36,000 pack animals, a time-tested team, and more than four years of experience in the operation of the military station.

The administrative ability of the Hojo family was of course the best among the Warring States daimyo, giving a clear identity and division of rights and responsibilities to the family members, implementing the essence of the system of sending children and relatives, excluding the influence of the village head and local servants, directly connecting with the people and paying attention to the voice of the people, and regularly evaluating so that the representatives of all interests can share the central right to speak, without having to resist the yang and the yin.

There is no doubt that its stability is the first in Fuso, and after nearly 100 years of rule by several generations, there has been almost no mention of civil strife and civil unrest in the whole process, which is the foundation of their continuous expansion.

But it also means a long period of light work, cumbersome decision-making processes, and a conservative tendency to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

In addition, there are no gold and silver mines or commercial towns in the territory.

At critical moments, they cannot squeeze the war potential of their territory with all their might.

Controversial orders such as "Execute retainers, even if they are a large number of people or even their heirs, who disagree with the target of the raid," "Gather all soldiers at Odawara Castle, leave the old and the sick alone, and rely on plunder to maintain supplies in addition to their own rations," or "Require all wealthy households in the domain to voluntarily pay temporary taxes until there is enough money and food," and such controversial orders were discussed for a long time, and most of them were ultimately vetoed.

And heroes such as Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin only need one sentence - of course, how many sequelae are caused afterwards is another yard.

You can gather 100,000 soldiers, but you can only divide the city and defend it, which is a typical Hojo family.