Chapter 466: The People of the East
"Okay, that's the family's decision. Come! Beat this megalomaniac out of the way! Expelled from the house! As soon as Hosokawa Nobumoto finished speaking, he picked up the wooden stick that had been prepared on the left and right, and smashed it at Ito Yubing's head and face.
Crunch... Crunch... The gate of Ohiroma opened again, and Ito Yubei was dragged out of the temple by the crowd as if he had been dragged to death, and was driven out of the castle tower.
"OMG! Why is it so miserable, what happened in the temple just now? ”
"Who knows."
"Looks like it's not a light fight." The middle and lower-level samurai outside were gossiping, anyway, they were talking here, and they couldn't hear it inside, and they all pointed at the departing Ito Yubing.
Ito, on the other hand, was thrown out of the Honmaru and slammed into the ground with a thud.
"Tiger Bear Maru! What's wrong with Tiger Bear Maru? How did you get beaten like this? Yoshisuke Ito, who had been waiting outside, waited for his seriously injured son, and immediately rushed forward, crying all over his life.
"Father... My lord... Child... I want to go home..."Ito Yubei looked at his old father weakly, and the corners of his eyes were filled with tears, and he couldn't bear his father in his heart.
"Well... Good... Let's go home... Go home... No more in these worldly battles... Woo woo... Let's go home... Live a good life... Woo woo woo..."Ito Yoshisuke helped Yubing up, and felt even more ashamed of his son, letting them suffer and suffer all the time with him.
The father and son supported each other, and disappeared at the end of the road with one step at a time...
"Naomasa... Naomasa..."Fujido Takatora called out to Naomasa Ii in a low voice, and the latter heard the call and looked back.
"What just happened?" Curious, Fujido asks his friend what happened.
"Hey... Ito Yubing was ashamed to speak out, angering the lord, and was almost cut down by Lord Mibuchi. If it weren't for the benevolence of the lord, just a little bit of blame, otherwise, he might not even be able to save his life. Naomasa Ii sighed and shook his head in pity.
"What is the reason exactly?" Fujido Gaohu also wants to know more deeply.
"Bastard! Shut up! The lord is speaking inside! Igasaki Michishun turned around and reprimanded in a low voice, so frightened that the people outside quickly lowered their heads, and Ii Naomasa replied with a grateful look.
"The Uesugi family's arrangement will be done as I say, as for the Takeda family... When its strategy succeeded in separating the Armor Alliance, it was the time when the family pointed its sword against the Takeda family. "The discussion continued in the temple, and now we have come to the last obstacle: the Hojo family.
"My lord, my lord thinks that I should make friends from afar and attack closely, and unite with the daimyo of Satake, Utsunomiya, Yuki and other Kanhachi prefectures to jointly fight against the Hojo family, which can also block the westward path of the Tsugawa family." Sanada Masayuki's ancestral residence is in Shinano Province, so he is naturally familiar with the situation of that generation.
Kanto has always been a battlefield full of wars. Since the establishment of the Muromachi shogunate, the Kanto region has been under the control of the Kamakura Principality, and the position of Kanto governor has been held by the Uesugi clan, an important minister of the Ashikaga clan, and this position has been held by the Yamauchi Uesugi and Inukake Uesugi families in rotation after Uesugi Kenken.
The shogunate's intention was to make the two positions work against each other, but as a result, the conflict between the Kanto governor and the Kamakura government deepened.
In the 23rd year of Onei (1416), the former Kanto governor Uesugi clan rebelled, and the Ashikaga clan of the Kamakura Principality, with the support of the shogunate, left Suruga and quelled the rebellion along the Tokaido, forcing the Uesugi party to commit suicide at Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine the following year.
Although the rebellion was put down, it changed the pattern of the Kanto region, and the Kamakura Principality became dominant in the eastern country and gradually began to fight against the shogunate. During the Eiko period, the shogunate finally decided to crusade against the Ashikaga clan, and finally forced the clan to commit suicide in Kamakura, and the Kanto region became a situation in which the Kanto clan held power alone.
Since the power of the Uesugi clan, the Kanto governor, dominated the Kanto region, the Kwantung generals were very dissatisfied with this and asked the shogunate to re-establish the Kamakura Prefecture. Due to the murder of the shogun Ashikaga Yoshinori in the "Cargill Rebellion", taking advantage of the chaos in the upper echelons of the shogunate, the Ashikaga Nari clan, the widow of the Ashikaga Mochiji clan, recreated Kamakura Prefecture in Kamakura.
As before, there was still a constant struggle between the newly established Kamakura Prefecture and the Kanto Prefecture, and the Kanto generals divided into two factions to fight each other, and finally, the Ashikaga Nari clan was driven out of Kamakura by the shogunate army, and he fled with his men to Shimoso Furukawa, where he began to be called "Furukawa Gongkata".
For the next 100 years, Yuuki, Oyama, and Nasu families supported the Furukawa Princess, and Oda, Satake, and Utsunomiya supported Uesugi Chief. It was not until the Hojo clan established the "Kosamihai Triple Alliance" with Takeda and Imagawa that the power of the Hojo clan swelled dramatically, and it had seriously threatened the dominance of the Kanto Prefecture and the Furukawa Prince.
In October of the 14th year of Astronomy (1545), the Ashikaga Harumi clan of the Furukawa Gongfang, the Ogiya family, and the Yamauchi Uesugi clan abandoned their previous suspicions and formed a coalition to attack the Hojo clan's Kawagoe Castle, hoping to knock out this foreign household. As a result, the Battle of Kawa-Etsu, one of the three major surprise attacks of the Japanese Sengoku War, broke out, and the other two were the Battle of Itsukushima and the Battle of Tsukusama.
The Kwantung coalition was defeated, but was pursued by Hojo Shiyasu Tomokatsu, further occupied northern Musashi, and expanded to the countries of Shimono, Shimoso, and Hitachi, conquering Ueno Hirai Castle successively, forcing Uesugi Kenmasa to flee to Nagao Keitora (Ueshi Kenshin). Conquered Furukawa Castle, set up his nephew Ashikaga Yoshiji as the Furukawa Prince, and controlled him as a puppet, and since then the Hojo family has become the overlord of the Kanto region, and all the daimyo of the Kanto region have surrendered to Odawara Castle.
Later, Uesugi Kenshin inherited the Kanto Command, held high the banner of righteousness, and launched a long-term offensive war with the Hojo family, and the Kanto daimyo also wavered between these two giants and attacked each other. Hosokawa Nobumoto once traveled to Kanto and visited Ohu Castle in Kamiizumi Hidetsuna, where he saw the popular idea of "serving Uesugi today, and Hojo tomorrow".
After the defeat of the Imagawa family, in order to suppress Kai's Takeda Shingen, Hojo Clan Yasu reconciled with Kenshin Uesugi, who had been a longtime rival, and formed a short-lived "Kosho Alliance", until now there is the "Kosho Etsu Alliance". The daimyo of the Kanto region were like abandoned children, and they were allowed to be claimed by the Uesugi and Hojo families at will.
The Shimojo family, which is closest to the Hojo family, saw that their own territory was being occupied and swallowed up little by little, and Yuki Haruhuna was ruthless and directly fought against the Hojo clan with his old enemies Satake and Utsunomiya clan. For the first time, the Daimyo of the Kanto region united to form the "Oriental People" Alliance, and the mountain alliance and the sea swore to defend the Kanto region against all outsiders who dared to peep at the Kanto!
In order to truly twist into a rope, the members of the alliance launched an unprecedented family fusion. After Yuki Haruto, he adopted Yuki Asakatsu, the second brother of Utsunomiya Kunitsuna, as his adopted heir, and inherited the Yuki family in the future; Kunisuna married Yoshishige Satake's adopted daughter and became Yoshishige's adopted son-in-law; Yoshige's eight-year-old son-in-law, Tokujumaru (Satake Yoshinobu), and the daughter of Nasu Ziyin made a baby kiss...
"So, these Kanto daimyo are already considered a whole, led by Satake Yoshishige to resist the Hojo family in the west and the Tsugawa family in the east." After Sanada Masayuki finished speaking, everyone expressed their approval of uniting the eight states. Please pay attention to the latest chapters in the future