Chapter 51: The Kanto Endgame
After hearing the news that Tsukahara Molong came to Iga to recruit ninjas as retainers, the ninjas of the entire Iga country were boiling, and in their eyes, Tsukahara Molong was no longer the fierce god on the battlefield, but a moving door, a door to change fate! By the time Tsukahara Moryu and his party arrived at the Fujibayashi clan's territory, the entire Fujibayashi clan's territory was crowded with ninjas who had swarmed in.
There are also a lot of ninjas from the Hattori family and the Hakuchi family, not that they are worried about food and clothing, after all, they still have their own territory, but the outside world has not recognized them as a samurai class, but the entire Iga country is poor, and there are only 100,000 stone in total, how many ninjas can be fed? So in order to alleviate the financial pressure of their respective families, they also brought the good hands of their families over.
Tsukahara Molong looked at the ragged ninjas, and if it weren't for Kato Duan hiding on the side to confirm, he almost thought that they were all bandits. Seeing their expectant gaze, Tsukahara Molong smiled and waved his hand, saying that he would only recruit two ninjas as retainers this time, and the others might be hired, but they would not enjoy the status of samurai. As for the candidates, of course, they came by their own ability, and Tsukahara Moryū helped them interview one by one, although it was very time-consuming, but in line with the principle of preferring shortage to abundance, he still persevered. And the hundreds of imps were taken by Kato Duanzang to the temple where the ninja practiced to learn some basic ninjutsu. His Royal Highness the General's order, it's not in a hurry, it's been delayed for so long anyway, and I don't care about this moment.
When Tsukahara Molong was leisurely, the land of Kanto was already a pig's brain and a dog's brain.
I thought that after the loss of Tsukahara Molong, Uesugi Kenmasa would stop for a while, and Hojo Shiyasu also needed time to recuperate, but Uesugi Kenmasa felt that the Takeda family had been greatly injured after the Uedawara Battle and the Toishi collapse, so he transferred the army of the Kitashinano Murakami family, and after the autumn harvest was completed, he once again went south with a large army to fight to the death with the Hojo family.
After learning about this, Hojo Shikang almost sat on the ground, and his teeth itched with random hatred, thinking that my Hojo family had suffered heavy losses in the Shinobi Field Battle, and it was soft persimmons that could be pinched casually? Taking advantage of the opportunity of being crippled by Hojo Tsunari before the Satomi family, Hojo Shiyasu took Huang Bei under Hojo Tsunari as the right army and launched an offensive from the direction of Ninja Castle, while Kurobi under Tamu Mototada once again led the Southern Musashi people and sent troops to Musashi Matsuyama Castle, while he himself was wounded and led the main force to sit in Kogoe Castle and confront the main force of the Uesugi family.
Unlike the previous Kwantung princes who attacked it en masse, this time Uesugi Kenmasa had no way to organize such a terrifying legion, even with the addition of the North Shinano Army, the total strength under his command was only 30,000 people, but with the support of Kohata Kenshige and Nagano Yoshimasa, two generals, plus Murakami Yoshikiyo, a fierce general, the two sides were also fighting in Musashi Country, and they were evenly divided.
However, after all, neither side could help each other, after paying a heavy price, the Uesugi family could not support it first, Murakami Yoshikiyo slipped away again, and the insufficient Uesugi Kenmasa had to shrink the defensive line, and the Hojo family did not continue to pursue, but surrounded the ninja city, Narita Nagata Nagatai surrendered the Hojo family again, and then the Hojo clan Yasushi returned satisfied.
This time there was no large-scale fighting, it was a contest between several reserve forces on both sides. The Minowa people under the command of Nagano Yoshimasa and the Kohata Akabei team under the command of Kohata Kenshige are all hard bones to gnaw, Hojo Tsunari Fei Huang Bei, Tamu Mototada's Kurobei, and Kasahara Yasukatsu's Shiraki took turns to fight, but several front teeth were shattered. On the contrary, it is the Akabi led by Hojo Tsunataka who has won a lot, as the general of the Hojo family, 44 years old he is at the peak of his life, whether it is energy or experience, Hojo Tsunataka is the first-class general in the Hojo family, brave and good at fighting, second only to Hojo Tsunari. And he was competing with Murakami Yoshikiyo's cavalry team and Oishi Tsunamoto's Mo Long Bei, Hojo Tsunataka, who originally didn't want to fight Mo Long Bei, after fighting with Murakami's cavalry team, finally decided to use Mo Long Bei as a breakthrough. At first, I was a little jealous of the samurai left by Tsukahara Molong, but as the battle progressed, Hojo Tsunataka keenly found that although the samurai of Molongbei were very good at fighting, but the command of Ashigaru was average, and the commander Oishi Tsunagen was even less experienced, and he deceived Molong Bei with a little trick, and the very happy Hojo Tsunataka randomly ordered the whole army to concentrate on fighting Molongbei, and the cavalry of the Murakami family only needed to contain it. And Murakami Yoshikiyo also fully demonstrated the fine style of hanging high that has nothing to do with himself, sitting back and watching Mo Longbei being beaten by Hojo Ganggao, and then Shi Shiran's retreat. As for the Uesugi family, once the Uesugi family fails, his eastern side will be exposed to the Hojo family's soldiers, this kind of thing he will not consider.
However, no matter how unbearable Mo Longbei is, after all, he still wears the hat of Tsukahara Molong, and he is also a direct subordinate unit of Uesugi Kenmasa, so of course he can't let go after being hanged. Uesugi Kenmasa transferred some troops to supplement it, but unexpectedly caused a further decline in combat effectiveness, without him, the daring people who followed the Tsukahara Muryu Horse Riding Joint Camp were lost in the contest with the Hojo family again and again, because they were too young, this kind of head-to-head duel, it was difficult to get a bargain from the experienced samurai of the Hojo family, in the case of Ashigaru being defeated, if the ordinary samurai had already retreated with the defeated soldiers, but the veterans of Molongbei led the guards to meet them, although the combat effectiveness was very high, but after several battles, as the backbone, they suffered extremely heavy casualties, and almost the entire warriors of Molongbei were replaced. And these samurai who were temporarily added in naturally did not have the high consciousness and strong fighting spirit of their predecessors, Hojo Tsunabe Nengeng felt very clearly that at the beginning, he had to concentrate on Chibei and besiege with the troops of other wealthy clans, and pay a heavy price to repel Mo Longbei, but in the end, he could block Mo Longbei's offensive by sending a reserve team of the Hao clan casually, and the two of them together could defeat Mo Longbei in an instant. Not only did he sigh that as soon as Tsukahara Molong left, Molong was empty.