During the Yongroku period, Yasukatsu Kasahara, who saw the weakness of his master's family, began to liven up his mind. He was not a retainer who could be loyal to the Hojo family to the end. On the 9th day of the seventh month of the first year of Eiroku, after Kasahara Yasukatsu received the document of the territory given to him by the Uesugi family, he immediately gathered his retainers and military forces, and used his more than 2,000 troops as the vanguard to lead the way for the subsequent Uesugi army.

Then, not long after the tens of thousands of Uesugi troops broke through the mountain castle of Nakadate, the capital of Anbo Province, Kasahara Yasukatsu finally got something that was in line with his exploits - a letter from Asadachi and Kenshin appointing him as the guardian of Anbo Province:

"Anfang country guardian acting minister, Ren Wang Shen Yi, the general of the town guard (Fujiwara Chaoding) can be the marquis.

On the 4th day of the seventh month of Yonglu Yuan

Kanto Governor (Kenshin Uesugi)

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Kasawara was able to ascend to the temple. ”

At the same time, Asadachi also sent a letter to Kasahara Yasukatsu:

"Anfang Guo guards the ministry, Ren is expected to apply, is the book written by the emperor Hou Bi, the face of the marquis, can be drawn early to the war marquis, I am afraid to speak.

On the 4th day of the seventh month of Yonglu Yuan

Shogun of the Castle (Fujiwara Asada)

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Kasawara Notobu Shoden"

On the surface, Kasahara Yasukatsu waited for the position he dreamed of, and had previously obtained a total of about 30,000 stone of territory security documents from Kano Hideji from Kano Hideji. In fact, Kasahara Yasukatsu did not have absolute control over the country of Anbo. Since the Uesugi clan in various parts of the country did not take the entire territory under their rule, they could only leave the Kasahara Yasukatsubu in the territory of Anbo Province first, and let them expel or exterminate all the local samurai, retainers, and lords of the Hojo side.

The wrecked ship of the Hojo family is going to sink after all, and it is better to struggle to survive than to accompany the funeral. And Yasukatsu Kasahara is one of the representatives.

On July 11, Soga Yujun came to Tateyama Castle in Anbo Province. As the name of the dynasty, he came to inform Kasahara that the emperor had agreed to give him favoritism.

The word 'Yasu' in Kasahara's name was originally given by the Hojo clan's yasu, and Kasahara Yasukatsu was no longer a retainer of the Hojo family at this moment, so he wanted to abandon the bias given by the Hojo family. However, since he was Riche, he had been so busy leading the Uesugi army led by Saito Michizo that he did not have enough time to ask for the court or Kenshin to 'pay homage to the word'.

However, even if Kasahara Yasukatsu didn't say it, Asadaki had already thought of this. Therefore, the Asadachi general Soga Yujun hurriedly sent to Anbo Province in order to let Kasahara Yasutsu change his name as soon as possible and serve the Uesugi family with peace of mind, hoping that he could play a greater role in the Uesugi family in his new post.

Kenshin didn't have much interest in Kasahara Yasukatsu's Riche, she knew that although she could be invincible in the field, but after seeing Odawara Castle, she knew that the continuous victory in the field was not of much effect, and in front of the strong castle, she didn't even have the idea of attacking the city. In addition, her main target is Shingen Takeda, not the Hojo family, who has been crippled. And Kenshin doesn't like to take advantage of people's danger to attack the Hojo family, as for the cannibalization work of the Hojo family, it is naturally handed over to the Asada.

Just after Soga Yujun told Kasahara that he could use the biased word 'ding' in his name, Kasahara immediately changed his name to 'Kasawara Ding'. After changing his name, Kasahara was first the guardian of the Uesugi family's Anfang country, and after adding the word worship, his status instantly rose to the middle class of the Uesugi family's retainers.

On the other side, the powerful general of the Hojo family, Hojo Yasukane, and one of his kinship samurai, were all killed or committed suicide on the Boso Peninsula. And the Hojo family is facing a situation of lack of morale at the moment. The Hojo clan had no choice but to send his younger brother, the Hojo clan, to the town of Misaki on the Miura Peninsula. The Hojo clan believed that as long as the defense of the line from Tamasho Castle to Misaki Castle could be secured, the Uesugi army would not be able to easily pass through Kaneda Bay and Owada Bay from the Boso Peninsula.

However, Hojo seems to have forgotten that even the strongest fortress can be breached from within. Ota Terushi and Ota Shisada, who had previously entered Musashi and defected to Ota Shimasa, were the common samurai of the Edo Ota family, and when they saw that the Hojo family was already in danger, they immediately broke away from the protection of the Hojo family, fled directly to Musashi, and returned to the Uesugi family. The two of them are also an example. And within the Hojo family, there are still several former retainers of the Ogiya Uesugi family. They contacted the Uesugi family as early as after the defeat of Hojo Shiyasu in Musashi Fuchu. They are very eager to atone for their sins and return to the Uesugi family.

There is no doubt that Kasawara's victorious Richie will be extremely fatal for the Hojo family. First of all, the tens of thousands of Uesugi troops on standby in the two countries will be able to withdraw themselves to support other places; Second, the Hojo family lost all the Minato and seaports on the Boso Peninsula, and at the same time lost a lot of trade income and taxes; In addition, the Hojo family also lost wood from the Boso Peninsula. Several lumber factories at the foot of Mt. Kamiso and Anbo were occupied by the Uesugi army.

It can be said that the loss of the Boso Peninsula was not only a military and strategic defeat for the Hojo family, but also an economic and construction blow. Coupled with the death of a major minister, Hojo Yasukane, the Hojo family has almost no generals in charge. Kasawara's victorious Richi caused the loss of the Hojo family's only reserve that could preserve their combat strength, and more than 200 samurai on horseback and more than 1,800 ashigaru soldiers of Shirabi changed hands in an instant.

Hojo clan politics is bitter and can't say. The successive defeats and loss of land during the reign of his father Hojo Shiyasu directly led to the rapid decline of the strength of the Hojo family. In addition, although Ashikaga Yoshiteru in Kyoto ostensibly issued an imperial order, the Uesugi family could not attack the Hojo family at will. However, the fact is that the Uesugi family is still encroaching on the territory of the Hojo family, and the Hojo family is powerless to stop it. The Ashikaga Yoshiji, the new Kamakura Shogun appointed by the shogunate, and the Kanto Shogun, were both attacked and killed in broad daylight by the Uesugi family's retainer Toshimitsu Anazawa, and the Uesugi army burned the Kamakura Prefecture. Hojo Clan can only sigh what is the difference between this move and 'Shimokagami'?

However, after all, Asada is not Asakura Takashi. He took the initiative to cede part of the territory and turn it into the imperial court's imperial territory, so that the court's public opinion never received any condemnation. On the contrary, under the operation of Konoe's former heir, the Uesugi family has also been praised by many ministers. Some ministers wrote in their books that the Sugi family was good, and changed the matter of the Asada's instruction to Anzawa Toshimitsu to attack and kill the Gongfang into 'The thieves attacked and killed the Gongfang, and the Uesugi army entered Kamakura Prefecture to arrest the thieves, but unfortunately it didn't work out.'

The successive defeats caused the Hojo clan to become disheartened. In order to make himself very calm and relieve his pressure, he began to kick and bow with his retainers and side to side for days; In order to prevent his increasingly thin face from being seen, he could only wear heavy makeup from morning to night, making it the same as the minister; In order not to let the people in the neighborhood smell the smell of his own unwashed for several days, he had to light incense for a long time in the places he frequented in Odawara Castle Honmaru.