Chapter 142: Hojo's Internal Troubles

After the Kawasaki ambush, the Ashina army suffered heavy losses, and fought with the wealthy clans of Shimono Province, and after all the wealthy clans of Shimono Country were cut down, there were less than 5,000 people left standing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoFor these poor creatures whose psychology has collapsed, Tsukahara Moryū didn't stay in trouble, but let go of a way and let the other party leave.

At this time, the casualties of the Ashina family have far exceeded the critical point of 10 percent, and the Tsukahara army has been surrounded and does not accept surrender to barely maintain the team, once out of the encirclement, there is immediately a large-scale rout, the Ashina clan can not stop, originally planned to retreat to Otawara Castle or Toriyama Castle to repair, reorganize the team and then return to Aizu, but the two cities have already been attacked by Tsukahara Senbei and Sanada Nobutsuna because the army is exhausted and the defense is empty. But what made the Ashina clan cry and laugh was that the army that had been constantly breaking and fleeing saw that the two cities had been attacked by the Tsukahara army, but they didn't dare to leave the team easily, but stayed in the army tightly, as if they were afraid that the Tsukahara army would suddenly appear and surround it, so they hugged together to keep warm.

Not to mention the miserable return of the Ashina army to Aizu, Tsukahara Ryūlong appointed Tsukahara Senbei and Sanada Nobutsuna to garrison Toriyama Castle and Otawara Castle, and he himself led the main forces of the three major armies back to the division, and the troops were directed at Edo Castle. After all, this expedition to Changlu in the lower field lasted a short time, but the damage to the local area was still very huge, although each battle was to annihilate the enemy, but there were still many guerrillas who ran out bravely, endangering the place, so it was necessary to be responsible for Zhou Dashuai, who had always been responsible for the concentric people, to shoulder the work of suppressing bandits, and the local governance was also temporarily handed over to him to be responsible, and he was fully squeezed all the surplus labor value. Zhou Dashuai was naturally full of grumbling protests, but the overall situation has not yet been completely determined, and the Tsukahara Army is still in an eventful season, so Zhou Dashuai finally chose to accept the appointment.

However, the Hojo clan was an unexpected bachelor this time, and as soon as he received the news on the third day of the Kawasaki battle, he immediately ordered the troops to retreat, and the main battle sides retreated, and Takeda Nobuyhiro and Asahina Taino naturally had no obligation to stay and fight with Tsukahara Molong, and they withdrew one after another. The defenders of Edo Castle almost got up the next morning to find that all the troops under the castle were gone, and only then did they get the news that Tsukahara Ryūlong had abolished the Mutsu Coalition Army in Kawasaki, and at this time the main forces of the three major armies had returned to help and were approaching Edo Castle, and they immediately cheered.

Since then, the chaos in the Kanto region caused by Tsukahara Moryu going to Echigo to meet Nagao Keitora has finally settled, and the Hojo family has been relieved from the Second Kokufutai War, and after the victory of the Fuchu Castle War, they have once again begun to attack Musashi Province, and their territory has been restored to the Hojo clan Yasu period, and even expanded. It's just that the Hojo clan is not happy at all, because his father-killing enemy, and at the same time can be regarded as his savior, Tsukahara Moryu, has continuously and thoroughly consolidated the nascent regime, but has gone further, with the efforts of the Hojo family and the Uesugi family, luring Shimono Province and Hitachi Province to form an alliance to crusade against the seemingly divided Tsukahara family, and then fight Moyama, successfully annihilating its main force, and forming four major armies, sweeping the land of the two countries. Then he took retreat as an advance, lured the Ashina army that stretched his hand into the Shimono country, gathered the local wealthy army to pursue, set up a net in Kawasaki, and severely damaged the Ashina army in one fell swoop, and completely took the Shimono country into his hands. What made him even more heartbroken was that due to his own withdrawal of troops, the Date family, which had been halfway mobilized, began to wait and see the situation again, and the Ashina family didn't seem to care about the fiasco of the Kawasaki battle, but had the intention of forming an alliance with the Tsukahara family. Once Tsukahara Molong has no worries, with his character, he will inevitably come to Odawara with the troops of the Five Kingdoms to find a field, which will be a big deal......

However, compared to the external worries, the cracks within the originally united Hojo Army were the things that made the Hojo clan more of a headache. The old ministers of the Izu faction, led by Naokakatsu Tominaga and Hojo Mirage, have served the Hojo family for generations since the beginning of Hojo Sakumo's establishment of the Hojo family's foundation, and these people have suffered the least damage in the past few years of conquest, and their strength has not only not suffered much, but has swelled. Because the Hojo clan and his father Hojo clan Yasu did not show much talent in combat in the early years, so although these old ministers are very supportive of the Hojo family, but they have always had a lot of complaints about the Hojo clan politics, this situation basically disappeared after the Battle of Fuchu Castle, but the Hojo clan's political power attacked Edo Castle against public opinion, so that the Hojo family took the initiative to break the promise of Tsukahara Muryu in the Nikkoyama Alliance, "Unless the Hojo family takes the initiative to oppose the Tsukahara family, I will not embarrass you", which greatly deteriorated the strategic environment around the Hojo family. If they can capture Edo Castle and threaten the Tsukahara family's main city, Koganeshiro, then the old ministers of the Izu faction will not have much opinion, how can they do everything as they want? However, instead of capturing Edo Castle, the army smashed its head and bled out, and the loss of troops was even more than the entire Musashi strategy combined, especially the night attack launched by the Hojo clan Masa, which actually allowed Ota Shimasa to lead 300 people to completely collapse his 20,000 army, which is simply a great shame!

The core foreign general led by Hojo Tsunade was not the first to follow Hojo Tsunade to fight the world, but later joined, although Hojo Tsunade was later recruited by Hojo Tsunade and became one of the Hojo family, but in fact, the blood gap is not so easy to eliminate, and the Hojo family's recognition of Hojo Tsunari's son Hojo Shigeru is higher than that of Hojo Tsunade himself, and he is also very clear, so even if he has won the trust of the Hojo family governor, he has been very cautious. Like him, Kasahara Yasukatsu, Tame Mototada and others are like this, but they are the generals brought out by the Hojo clan, and they have always been hostile to the Tsukahara Moryū who killed the Hojo clan, and they are resolutely the main battle faction, so they often oppose the Izu old minister faction when it comes to the treatment of the Tsukahara family. These people have always had the consciousness of entrusting the remnants of the Hojo clan to the Hojo clan Masanori, but unfortunately the Hojo clan does not trust them very much, after all, they are serving the Hojo clan out of the idea of assisting the son of the Hojo clan Yasu, not that I am doing things with the idea of assisting the Hojo family governor, so although they are loyal and fight bloodily for the Hojo clan to fight on the front line, they will show some reliance on the old and sell the old from time to time, and they do not respect the Hojo clan as much as those young samurai. Therefore, the Hojo clan has a close but not supportive attitude towards these people, just like when he attacked Edo Castle at night, he felt that he had the chance to win, so he left these old ministers in the rear, and handed over the opportunity to make contributions to others.

The generals of the Young Zhuang faction led by Yasuei Shimizu and Shigeru of the Hojo clan are the cutting-edge forces supported by the Hojo clan, and it can be said that they are the henchmen of the Hojo clan, and resources and opportunities are inclined to this aspect. And Shimizu Yasuei and Hojo Shigeru are indeed competitive, leading the army to win many battles, and have established great feats and great prestige, and by the end of the Musashi Raiders, although the strength of the Shaozhuang faction is still not as good as the Izu faction veterans and the core foreign style generals, but they have the qualifications to challenge it. However, in the night attack on Edo Castle, the strength of the Young Zhuang faction was greatly damaged, and even the Hojo clan almost folded in, so the momentum of the young Zhuang faction's rapid rise was suddenly frustrated. However, it is undeniable that they are still absolutely loyal to the Hojo clan himself, but there is a dangerous split tendency within the Shaozhuang faction: in the night battle of Edo Castle, Yasuei Shimizu withdrew most of his troops, although the loss was avoided to the greatest extent, but it almost pushed the Hojo clan into a situation of no return, and after the war, the two had nothing on their faces, but in fact, the relationship between Akaibei and Shirobi was far less harmonious than before.