Time flies, time flies. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoA year later, Soji Tsugawa stood outside the castle tower of Tsugawa Castle, silent. This year has been particularly exciting for Soharu Tsugawa.

In the late spring of April of the 11th year of Astronomy, a large team of samurai and priests slowly arrived at the Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine in Kamakura, Kanto, with solemn and solemn steps, and came to visit the Hachimangu Shrine Otorii (a gate-like building in front of the RB Shrine, which is said to have an enchantment and prevent the invasion of ghosts) to be successfully restored.

Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine is the place where the patron saint of the entire Kanto samurai is located, and it is also a gate dedicated to the ancestors of the Genji martial arts. The White Flag Shrine in Hachimangu Shrine, Genhei Pond, the Taiko Bridge across Genhei Pond, the Maiden, and the Great Ginkgo are all reflected in the eyes of Hojo Shiyasu, the lord of Odawara Castle and the third head of the Go-Hojo clan.

Kamakura Tsuruoka Hachimangu Palace, the people who came to pay their respects were not the Ashikaga shogun's family, their family was in the war in Gyeonggi, hiding in the east; It's not the Kamakura family, their family has long been expelled from Kamakura and lives in Furukawa Castle, losing their century-old roots.

Those who came to pay homage were the Later Hojo family, who claimed to be from the Isehira clan and pretended to be the "Hojo" Miao character in the Kamakura shogunate.

Starting from Ise Sakumo (Hojo Sakumo), who was born in the shogunate Shin Jizhong, he captured Izu and Sagami countries through surprise attacks and other means; By the time of the second family governor Hojo Tsuna, he changed his surname to the Miao character Hojo, ran the fortified fortress of Odawara Castle, defeated the Meimon Yamauchi Uesugi and Ogiya Uesugi that were originally entrenched in the Kanto region, and killed Kokumi Gongfang in the Battle of Kofutai, and expanded his power in Musashi and Boso; By the time of the third generation of family governors, Hojo Shiyasu, it was time to rush to prove that my Hojo family was the new king of Kanto.

Hojo Shiyasu of the Ekana Hiroshi Belt is at the front of the procession, passing through the Wakamiya Avenue on the side of Yubihama, where the tide roars, which runs north and south through the shrine, and is called Kamakura's Suzaku Avenue, which was built by Minamoto Yoritomo, and passes through three torii gates, and then climbs up the stone steps to the majestic shrine.

At the end of the visit, the 28-year-old Hojo Shiyasu rode slowly on the Yubihama side and looked out at the sparkling waves of the sunset, "Now that this treasure land belongs to me, Hojo Shiyasu, I will never let anyone take it away, never." Clan Swore silently in his heart.

But soon, the enemy who came to grab the land came, and that was the two Uesugi families who were fighting with the three generations of Go-Hojo.

In June, less than two months after Shiyasu's visit to Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine, the Kanto Governor Uesugi Kenmasa visited Kashima Shrine in Hitachi Province, the seat of another martial god in the Kanto region, and made a vow to the gods and Buddhas to "defeat Hojo". Soon after, Uesugi Kenmasa and Uesugi Asada, the governor of the Ogiya family, formed an offensive and defensive alliance, and in the name of the governor, they called on the samurai of Ueno, Shimono, Musashi, and Boso to come and join the army, and in one fell swoop wiped out the foreign nouveau riche Go-Hojo. In addition, Uesugi Kenmasa also secretly wrote a letter to the Ashikaga Harumi clan, the princess of Furukawa Castle, asking the Harushi clan to come together to bring down Houjo.

Ashikaga Haruka, is the fourth generation of Furukawa Gongfang, pinching his fingers, since the first Ashikaga Nari clan settled in Furukawa Castle, nearly a hundred years have passed. The power of this public side,It's not as good as a generation.,At this time of the Qing clan.,First split out a small bow Gongfang.,And then lost a powerful public Chiba family (this family fell to Hou Hojo),Finally, in order to suppress the small bow Yoshiaki's soldiers,,I had to take refuge in the Hojo clan,It's also equivalent to the puppet in the hands of Hou Hojo.。 While Hojo was still alive, he married his daughter, Clanyasu's half-sister Yoshishunin (the girl's mother was from the Konoe family, one of the Five Families), to Haruhura, and gave birth to a son of Go-Hojo blood, the later Ashikaga Yoshiji of the Five Generations.

Subsequently, under the coercion of the clan and the father and son, the Ashikaga Haruhi clan made the decision to "depose the Uesugi family in Yamanuchi and let the Hojo family take up the position of public administrator" - from then on, Hojo Shiyasu repeatedly happily referred to himself as the "new Kanto governor" in his documents, which made Uesugi Kenmasa very annoyed. The constitution is unpleasant, in fact, the good young man of the Ashikaga family, the Harushi is not happy, after all, he is a child of the anti-bone family, whether he has talent or not, the unruly blood is always flowing, so after receiving the constitutional documents, the Harushi resolutely decided to cooperate sincerely with the old rival Uesugi family, and the Houhojo was willing.

Originally, Hojo Shiyasu still attached great importance to the friendly relationship with his brother-in-law, and tried his best to win over the chief minister of the Furukawa Princess, the lord of Sekijuku Castle, Shikita Takasuke, so that he could act as a lubricant between the prince and his family. Shikita Takasuke,Originally, he was running a fart for the alliance between Go-Hojo and the lord.,But soon I felt that something was wrong-Shikita Takasuke's daughter also married the Haruka.,And also gave birth to a boy for the Haruka clan (later Ashikaga Fuji's),Isn't this a competitive relationship with the child of Yoshiharuin (this is the youngest son of the Haru-in)? Thinking of this, Shiruta Takasuke also gritted his teeth, and resolutely supported the lord Haruhura, and also got into contact with him Houhojo!

At this time, several major forces in the Kanto region, Yamauchi Uesugi, Ogiya Uesugi and Furukawa Princess, in order to prevent their own families from falling to the point of the Horikoshi Princess, and to protect their respective territories, joined forces for the first time to form the siege network of Go-Hojo. Among them, the first place to bear the brunt is Kawagoe Castle in Musashi Province. According to some historical records, the Kwantung coalition forces that surrounded and attacked Kawagoe Castle actually amounted to 86,000 people, and even if this was a big exaggeration, there were 30,000 or 40,000 if half of them were removed, which was also a rather terrible number for the Sengoku daimyo who had a general mobilization force of about 20,000 at that time. Uesugi Kenmasa sent a delegation of emissaries led by Namba Danmasa and Ono Inaba Mamoru to promise the Ashikaga Haruhi clan of Furukawa Castle that "the Hojo family's wolf ambition will dominate the Kanto region sooner or later, and His Royal Highness Gongfang may join hands with my leader at this moment to welcome His Highness back to Kamakura after victory and restore his former authority."

Of course, these are all things that will happen in the future, and now the Hojo family is having a hard time anyway. Faced with the joint attack of almost all the forces in the Kanto region, Hojo Shiyasu was like a Chihuahua, and he didn't feel a good feeling in his heart (Chihuahua: Made, did I mess with you. ）

Kawagoe Castle, one of the "Seven Famous Castles in the Kanto region", is said to have been built by Michikan Ota's father and the residence of the sixth generation of the Uesugi family of Ogiga, and it is a strong fortress built on the plains, which has been operated by the Ogiya family for more than 80 years. Most of the castles in the previous RB were built in the key places at the foot of the mountain, and to be honest, they were just simple fortresses surrounded by wooden fences and wells, and a few granaries, wells or vegetable fields were built in the middle, which only had a purely military significance. By the time of Ota Michikan and his sons, the castle was not only guarded by stone walls, but also had "curved wheels" for garrisons, and the castles were connected together according to the topography, so that the castle could be built on the plain, so that it could have the triple functions of politics, economy, and military (the plains and rivers were often areas with developed agricultural production, and the daimyo castles in the middle and late Warring States periods were often Heijo), and they were called "Heijo".

The architectural pattern of Kawagoe Castle embodies the essence of the "Ota Stream" castle construction technology: the entire Kawayue Castle covers an area of 50,000 tsubo (one tsubo is about 3.3 square meters), there are eight gates and eight oars, the castle is divided into three parts: the sub-city, the middle city and the outer city, which are connected by a crankwheel, which can not only support each other, but also fight independently, and build two (one about 1.8 meters) high earthen ramparts around each crankwheel and the castle, and dig a large wall to isolate the enemy attack, and build a take-off bridge for traffic. In addition, it is worth mentioning that Kagosu Castle has many "food violations", which can force the besieging enemy to go out of the "S" shaped route, so that the maximum lethality of flank fire against the enemy can be used.

The sturdiness of Kawagoe Castle is reflected not only in its own conditions, but also in its geographical location, which is located on the transportation nodes of Sagami, Musashi, Ueno, and Shimo, with the Iruma River to the west, the Akama River to the north, swampy wetlands to the east and south, and the vast alluvial plains called "Kawahi" around it, which produces a large number of crops every year, and is also the richest place in the Kanto region. Some students may have questions: Kawagoe Castle is so strong and so important, so how did the Ogiya family lose this vital castle to the Hojo family?

Speaking of this, the governor of the Ogiya family, Uesugi Asada, burst into tears, and he said sadly: "This is all the masterpiece of the Hojo family, who is good at secretly black knives!" It turned out that the last governor of the family, Uesugi Asahei, was fighting with the Hojo clan Tsuna, and in April of the sixth year of Tenmon (1537), Asahio was not in good health, so he called his son Asada, who was only thirteen years old, and left the famous sentence: "I am going to die, after death, you should not just focus on defending the city, but do more magic for me." "You understand, this valley Uesugi family is all in charge of these characters, and it is simply unreasonable to be undefeated. Uesugi Chaoxing kicked his feet, his son Chaoding wore linen and filial piety, and followed the help monk crying to the sky - the cry did not invite the Buddha, but directly attracted the wolf, in July, the Hojo clan organized elite soldiers to blitz Kawagoe City, Chaoding was still doing things, and before he had time to summon the Hao clan to join the army, he was surrounded by the clan gang. In the end, Uesugi Asada, who had fought hard, had to abandon Kawagoe Castle and flee to Musashi Matsuyama Castle for refuge, and Kawagoe Castle, a vital place, was easily captured by the clan.

And the upcoming war revolves around Kawagoe Castle. But the war in the Kanto region was still too far away for Tsugawa Soji.