Chapter 184: The Fall of Hojo
Hojo Masa, who had woken up from a coma, looked at the deserted surroundings, and only Hojo Shigeru knelt beside him. The famous Kanto generals who crisscrossed the battlefield, known as "brave and good as their father", the Hojo clan sobbed in a low voice like a child at this time, unlike his father Hojo Tsunari such a steady old minister, the Hojo clan is said to have a knowing grace for him, and the Hojo clan Shigeru who is always affectionate also regards the Hojo clan as his lifelong master, and he is loyal. But when he learned that the Hojo clan had given up the Hojo clan's politics, the Hojo clan couldn't help but cry bitterly.
"My lord......" Hojo said in a choked voice.
"So, the negotiations with Mo Longgong have already come to fruition?" How smart the Hojo clan is, seeing the reaction of the Hojo clan, he knows the family's decision, and also knows the plan of Ashikaga Molong: the fall of the Furukawa Ashikaga Ichigan and the death of Ashikaga Yorijun need to have one person in charge, and this person can only be him. Only when he dies can the Hojo family be saved.
"Ashikaga Molong asks you to seppuku...... I'll make a mistake for you......" As he spoke, the Hojo clan couldn't help but fall to his knees and cried, "My lord! I'll escort you out, let's go to! Go to Shikoku Island! Or go to Mutsu! No one can find us! ”
The Hojo clan smiled bitterly, "If we leave, the Hojo family is afraid that the clan will be wiped out." And he didn't believe that the Hojo family would let him leave the castle tower alive, even if Hojo Tsunari didn't mean it, the other clansmen of the Hojo family must have surrounded the castle tower with heavy troops, and the Hojo family's young Zhuang faction, who was loyal to him, was almost wiped out in the third battle of Kofutai, and no one could save him. Ironically, as the current governor of the Hojo family, he is most worried about the siege of the Hojo family, is this a ridiculous troubled time?
"Ashikaga Molong? It seems that as soon as the Furukawa Gongfang Hall is destroyed, he can't wait, so let me watch the Ashikaga clan be wiped out in hell! Hahaha! ”
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After making a mistake for the Hojo clan, the Hojo clan put on the armor he wore when he first entered the battle, holding the head of the Hojo clan in one hand and the hexagonal iron rod that had been blackened with blood in the other, and walked out of the castle tower with murderous spirit. The samurai of the Hojo clan, who had long been guarding outside the castle tower, were relieved when they saw the head of the Hojo clan, but when they saw the posture of the Hojo clan, they were quite worried about what he would do, but the name of the Hojo clan's bravery had already been proven by the corpses of countless enemies, and no one dared to step forward at this time.
Hojo Tsusunari stood outside the door dejectedly, watching Mo Ran's son get closer and closer, his lips moved, and he still didn't say anything after all. And when the Hojo clan came to Hojo Tsunari, he picked up the hexagonal iron rod and smashed the wooden door next to him with a stick, "From today on, you and I will break off the righteousness of father and son!" Hojo said almost through gritted teeth.
Seeing his son so resolute, Hojo Tsusunari shook his head, and was about to say something, but a voice that made him tremble suddenly came, "Shifan, if you want to assassinate me, you don't have to act like this, even if you kill all the Hojo clan samurai present, as long as you attack me, I will still destroy the Hojo clan!" The corners of Ashikaga Molong's mouth raised in a strange arc, and he walked towards this place with a smile, and behind him was the Ashikaga army that poured into Odawara Castle like a tide.
The Hojo clan was furious, and the moment he saw Ashikaga Molong, he wanted to burst out on the spot and kill this person, but Ashikaga Molong's words stopped all his actions, and he had to grit his teeth and say: "This is the head of the lord, now you are satisfied?" ”
Ashikaga Molong shook his head, "Clan, your lord is me, the lord of the Hojo clan is me, this is just the head of a villain who has no faith and no righteousness, now, I want you to use this iron rod to smash the head of the Hojo clan." ”
"Don't think about !!" The Hojo clan shouted violently, and the hexagonal stick in his hand immediately rounded, and he was about to smash it towards Ashikaga Molong's head, but he suddenly felt empty in his hand, and it was his father Hojo Tsusunari who directly snatched the hexagonal iron rod. Seeing his father's helpless eyes, and then turning to look at the unbearable clansmen behind him, the Hojo clan let out a sad cry, put down the head of the Hojo clan respectfully, and was about to pull out the ribs and cut the abdomen, but suddenly felt that the back of the head had been hit hard, and there was darkness in front of him......
"Lord...... Please, let this child go......" Hojo Tsunari, who had stunned the Hojo clan with his own hands, threw the hexagonal iron rod aside, and begged Ashikaga Moryūmichi.
Ashikaga Molong shook his head, the Hojo clan is indeed brave, but compared to Hojo Tsunada, it is not at the same level, and it is the best to command a legion in terms of ability, but in order to restrain Hojo Tsunade to serve himself, of course he can't beat his son to death in front of the other party, "Since Tsunade said so, send him to lecture on martial arts." "There is a special place in the lecture hall to deal with the thorns of the Hojo clan, and it can be said that there is no more than him, and there is no less than him.
However, with the backdrop of the Hojo clan, the surviving clansmen of the Hojo clan were very unbearable, and Ashikaga Molong directly transferred the Hojo clan to Hitachi, completely cutting off the Hojo family's influence on Izu Sagami. Then he led the army back to Koganeshiro, and once again sacrificed Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and by the way, Ashikaga Yorijun, and then beheaded all the Uesugi clan in front of the Kanto generals. So far, all of the Kanto have fallen into the hands of Ashikaga Molong. A terrifying force sitting on nearly three million stones was born, and Imagawa, Takeda, Nagao, Ashina, Date and other powerful feudal clans of the time also had to send envoys to Koganeshiro, like the Imagawa family is the family governor came in person, and the Takeda family also sent the young lord Takeda Yoshinobu, but the Nagao family was caught in the rebellion of the Northern People, and the main force was exhausted, so the sister of Nagao Jinghu came as a messenger. On the contrary, due to the loss of power of the Ashina clan, the Ashina family has an ambiguous attitude towards Ashikaga Molong.
The Ashina clan, a powerful magnate who was originally active in Mutsu as the No. 2 figure in the Ashina family, was almost ruined due to the disastrous defeat of the Kawasaki Battle and attacked his teammates in Shimono Province under the coercion of Ashikaga Molong, and lost his former influence. The result of the Ashina clan's almost withdrawal from the power center of the Ashina family is a new round of fierce power struggle, and the current governor of the Ashina family, the sixty-two-year-old Ashina Mori Shun, has long relied on the open and secret struggle between the eldest son of the concubine Ashina clan and the eldest son Ashina Mori to maintain the authority of the family governor. But now that the Ashina clan is losing power, the Ashina Sheng clan is extremely strong, and the 31-year-old Ashina Mori is obviously a little eager to try and want to live the addiction of the family governor. In this case, if Ashina Morijun didn't want to be kicked backstage to eat cold pork, he had to find a new balance, so he vigorously promoted the guardians of the Ashina clan, Yoshimi Tomita, and Junfan Hirata, the lord of Shiobu Castle.
The contradictions between the two sides intensified, and after Ashikaga Molong unified the Kanto region, both sides sent envoys to Ashikaga Molong to show their loyalty, hoping to get Ashikaga Molong's support. But the identity of this envoy is obviously not as good as the three families of Imagawa, Takeda, and Nagao, and they are just ordinary retainers who came. Originally, this was not a big deal, after all, the envoy who came from the Date family was only the old minister of the family, Maruyama Castle Lord Koragawa Munehide, but the behavior of the Ashina family sending two envoys made Ashikaga Molong very angry, and he was about to expel them all, and for a while, the situation in Mutsu suddenly became tense.