Chapter 116: Changes in the City of the Headquarters
After Saito Michizo used his strength to annihilate the forces of the head office, the Ao family, the Ueno Wada family, and the Kurakano family, the pit viper set his sights on the area of Anaka Castle and Matsui Tianjo.
The Anaka family took possession of Matsui Castle, an important town in Ueno, and although it was not a large-scale general operation in recent years, Matsui Castle as a branch city was strengthened and expanded to the point of being extremely strong (the original triple crank wheel structure was later added to Nishinomaru). In addition, Matsui Tian Castle was built on a mountain, and the west side of the castle was on Mt. Myogi, but the water source was not near the castle.
Anaka Tadamasa's sister-in-law, Anaka Tadamasa, also married the daughter of Nagano Yesamasa as the main family, but Anaka Tadamasa is still the governor of the Anaka family after all, and he has already made up his mind to turn against the Uesugi family and the Nagano family from the beginning. However, he did not let Anzhong Tadanari and Nagano Yemasa's daughter separate, maybe this is a way for him to live for Anzhong Tadanari.
At the beginning of the Koji Rebellion, Anaka Tadanari was strongly opposed to opposing the Uesugi family and the Nagano family. The Anchu family occupies only six castles in Ueno: Matsui Tian Castle, Anchu Castle, Tennoyama Castle, Dansheng Castle, Gokan Castle, and Usui Ice Castle, and the height of the territory stone is 18,000 stones. In terms of strength, the Anchu family can't even defeat the Nagano family, let alone the Uesugi family who are like behemoths behind the Nagano family.
When the news of the murder of Nagao Keihide and others reached Sosha Castle on the eastern side of Haruna Mountain, Nagao Keimichi, who was left behind, couldn't believe that Hideki Kuragano and Wada Yeshiro could do such a betrayal. However, Nagao Jingdao didn't have time to grieve for the ancestor - Nagano Yoshimasa's 3,000 troops had already conquered Canghai Castle and Momoi Castle one after another, and the troops reached the head office castle.
Nagao Keido, Nagao Keitaka (Nagao Kei's younger brother), Ushiwa Keishi, and other head office presidents, retainers, and the retainer of the Kiryu family, who defected, Satomi Katsuhiro, supported Nagao Keihide's son, Nagao Keito, as the head of the president, the head of the family, and the head of the family.
Nagao Jingdao and others supported the sixteen-year-old Nagao Jingzong to serve as the head of the head office, and it was really helpless. If the head office of the head office is not even in charge in the face of the great enemy, how can the samurai and ashigaru under his command be effective? How to defend against Nagano's attacks?
Even if Nagao Jingdao and others don't support Nagao Jingzong as the leader, the strength of the head office is not as good as before. With the death of Nagao Keihide and others and the surrender of the head office's head office's army to the Uesugi army, a large number of samurai were seppuku and killed at Kuraga no Castle, and the head office head of the head office at this moment could only gather 300 people, and it was simply impossible to resist the Nagano army, which was ten times his size.
What's more, most of the troops gathered by the head of the president, Oya, were peasant soldiers and wild samurai, and only the thirty Kiryu family samurai brought by Satomi Katsuhiro had some combat experience.
Satomi Katsuhiro defected to the head office of the Oya family not to avenge the main family, and Kiryu did not surrender immediately after the seppuku of the head president, but went to the head office of the head office to seek refuge. This time, it was also his idea to encourage Nagao Jingdao and others to continue fighting the crusading army. Satomi Katsuhiro wants to capture or kill all the remaining clansmen of the head office Nagao family when Nagano Yoshimasa's army is approaching the castle, so that he can return to his old domain.
Satomi Katsuhiro had already discovered when he was fighting with Kiryu Suketsuna and the Uesugi army that the Uesugi family was not an object that the Kanto generals could easily defeat, and it was better to take the initiative to make meritorious contributions. In addition, the head office Nagao family and the Nagano family are not related by marriage, and Nagano Yemasa will not care too much about the life and death of the head office Nagao family.
However, what Katsuhiro Satomi couldn't predict was that the Shirai Nagao family quickly sent the reinforcements that the head office Nagao family needed the most.
Nagao Kenjing, who is in Shirai Castle, knows very well the truth that his lips are dead and his teeth are cold. If the head office is destroyed by the Nagano Army, then the next target of attack will definitely be himself, so it is better to send reinforcements to the rescue immediately.
Since Shirai Castle was very close to Soja Castle, reinforcements from the Shirai Nagao family arrived at Soshin Castle within the next hour under the leadership of Nagao Tanetsune. Originally, there were still some voices of surrender in the city, but they disappeared with the arrival of a thousand Shirai Nagao troops.
Sosha Castle was originally relatively strong, and some fatigue after the continuous siege of the Nagano army made Nagano Yemasa lead his army to rest in Momoi Castle. However, although Nagano Ye has the name of 'Shangshu Yellow Spot', he also understands that the siege of the city requires three times the number of troops defending the city, and at this moment, the number of people in the head office has reached more than 1,300, and he only has 3,000. Nagano was planning to join up with Michizo Saito's army before attacking the city, and he didn't want his troops to lose too much.
On the other hand, the Azuma Saito family also sent reinforcements. The reinforcements of the Saito family were led by a major minister, Saito Norori, and because they still needed to guard the western side, they did not have the same number of troops as the Shirai Nagao family - five hundred. At least, the Azuma Saito family still sent reinforcements, but the Numata family did not send a single soldier. Numata Yumitsu of the Numata clan has long secretly communicated with the Uesugi family, and dragged the Numata family for the Uesugi family. Numata Yumitsu thought that the Numata family should guard against an attack from Echigo-Ueda, and refused to send reinforcements to reinforce the head of the company.
Numata Yumitsu's IQ is much higher than that of Numata Kentai of the same clan, and he knows very well that he must not perish with the stupid Numata people. Therefore, Numata Yumitsu started a secret contact with the Uesugi family at the beginning, and promised to contain the actions of the Uesugi family to buy time for the crusaders to defeat the rest of the Ueno people.
As for why the Hamao family and others didn't send reinforcements to support the head president's family, it was because the Azuma ninjas attacked their granaries, weapons depots, stables, etc., day and night, and from time to time they set fire to the samurai and ashigaru yashiki. These wealthy clans didn't even see the shadow of the ninja who caused the incident, so where did they have time to send someone to support the head of the company, the Ao family?
Just after Hojo Shiyasu was still in Hachioji Castle and heard that Ueno's battle situation was becoming more and more favorable to the Uesugi family, he finally couldn't sit still. The Wisteria Shinroku of the Hojo family's Imperial Horse Warriors was sent to Josoku Ruri Castle to urge Hojo Naosada to quickly dispatch local troops into Musashi.
The Hojo clan was defeated by the Raider Army, and the name of the family was severed for several days, and the Ueno Yokose family, the Wada family, and the Kurakano family were defeated by the crusading army. Even the head of the company, the head of the O, the head of the family, the governor of the family, and a major retainer of the family were killed in Kuragano Castle, and most of their forces surrendered to the crusading army led by Saito Michizo. In addition, the Uesugi family in Fukaya, whose family name was severed before, has no daimyo and wealthy families who can contain the Uesugi family. The Hojo family's military advisor, Ise Bichumomo, also saw the purpose and ambition of the court - to use the Ashikaga Fuji clan's rebellion to increase the power of the Uesugi family.
On the other hand, the main forces of Michizo Saito and Yoshimasa Nagano in Ueno could advance eastward into Shimono as long as they annihilated the followers of the Furukawa Shogunate, who continued to resist. The combat effectiveness of the Ashikaga Nagao family, the Koyama family, the Sano family, and the Motegi family in Shimono could not compete with the nearly 20,000 troops of the Ueno Army. The people of Shimono were already struggling to fight against the Utsunomiya family, and after they had conquered Utsunomiya Castle, they had to continue to Nasu County to help Nasu Ziyin attack the wise people led by Akechi Mitsutada.
After learning that the battle of Nekoya was going well, Asadaki rushed to Iwatsuke Castle with the small surnames (Sanada Masayuki, Mori Keihiro, Nagano Yosei, etc.) and the 2,500 troops of the Shinbata Nagatsu Department (among the Nuggets, a group of 'willing' to serve the Uesugi family were selected to join the Shinbata Army) and rushed to Iwatsuke Castle first, and he needed to pack up the center and banner of the Furukawa Shogunate, the Ashikaga Fuji clan.
On the 19th of January, Ota Shigemasa had already completed the relocation of the people of Shimoshoseki Sucheng to his own Iwafu domain. At this moment, Ota Zizheng still has 5,000 Shangzhou soldiers and 3,000 soldiers and horses in his headquarters, and 200 troops in the Mubu Fan Hu Division, totaling 8,200 people. As long as the Uesugi army drove the Ashikaga Fuji clan out of the Furukawa Imperial Palace with superior forces, the northern part of Shimotokoku could quickly settle down, and the Uesugi army could quickly move south, and the soldiers and horses of the two men and horses of Kaikai and Yamamoto Temple and Miyagi would defeat the Furukawa shogunate army such as Oda and Shimoto-so-prime ministeroma.
As soon as Asadai arrived at the castle of Sekijuku, he went to visit the old Ota Shimasa of the Bitou family, and the soldiers of the Uesugi Army who had been fighting until this moment, but they didn't even care about the New Year, and they were fighting the rebels here. After a little communication with Ota Shimasa, Asadachi decided to first break through Sekijuku Castle, the gateway of the Furukawa Imperial Palace, and then concentrate the more than 10,000 Uesugi troops he currently had to attack the soldiers and horses of Ryoda Harusuke and others.
Liang Tian Harsuke transferred 3,000 people from the headquarters team out of the headquarters before, and it was still a bit prescient to pass the city. At least his main force was not surrounded and attacked by the Uesugi army, and the strength of the 4,000 troops of the two families of Tagaya and Mizutani who came to meet could still fight with the Uesugi army.
However, Oda Shiji and others, who were still at war with Yamamoto Temple Shotaga, did not intend to take the remaining thousands of troops north to join Ryoda Harusuke, and they were fiercely blocked by Yamamoto Temple Shotaga and Miyagi Masaki outside Kogan Castle and suffered heavy losses.
On the 20th, the Uesugi army launched a general assault on the demoralized Sekijuku Castle with a force of 10,700 troops. In just half an hour, all 200 people under the mountain and river Naosada, were killed in the battle, and the gate of the Furukawa Imperial Palace was completely opened.
"His Royal Highness the General, Father! Sekijuku Castle was captured by the Uesugi army, and in just half an hour, only 200 castle soldiers led by Naosada-sama Yamakawa were killed! At this time, Ryoda Harusuke's sister-in-law, Ryoda Mosuke, rushed to the Kohiroma in the Furukawa Imperial Palace and reported the bad news to Ryoda Harsuke, whose face was already blue.
"Damn!" Liang Tian Harsuke angrily threw the folding fan in his hand to the ground.
"I'm afraid the generals of Ueno will no longer be able to resist the iron hooves of the Uesugi army!" Tagaya Ieshige, a member of the Furukawa Ashikaga family, was already worried about the future of the Furukawa shogunate. Tagaya's Miao character was given to their family by the previous Furukawa Princesses, and no matter what the outcome of the Tagaya family is, he will continue to follow the Furukawa Ashikaga family.
"The Yokose Yura family, the Fukaya Uesugi family, the Kiryu family, the Wada family, and the Kurakano family were destroyed one after another, and the fate of the next head president, the Ao family, the Shirai Nagao family, and the Yasunaka family has been decided. Their demise is only a matter of time. Tamaoka Masahiro paused and continued, "As long as Michizo Saito and Yoshimasa Nagano clean up the people of Ueno who are following their family, they will either lead tens of thousands of crusaders into the confluence of Shimoso and Uesugi Asada; Either lead the army to attack the lower field, capture the entire Yezhou and complete the siege of the family. ”
"I'm afraid that the Uesugi family, which has a lot of troops, should adopt a strategy of encircling their own family." The Yamakawa clan did not think that the crusading army under the command of the Uesugi clan would quickly merge under the Furukawa Imperial Palace Castle, "The tens of thousands of Hojo troops and the tens of thousands of Uesugi troops of Hojo Sakyo Daifu (Hojo clan Yasuke's self-proclaimed army) were holding each other, and a special force of more than 2,000 people was completely wiped out by the Uesugi army. The Hojo Army from all over the house has not yet arrived in Wuzhou, and I am afraid that the Uesugi family has always had the initiative. ”
"Impossible! If the Uesugi family had the initiative, how could they allow the Utsunomiya family, the Satomi family, the Soma family, and the Satake family to be besieged and destroyed! The Satake family is also in danger at the moment, and it will be destroyed by the people of Hitachi who follow their family within half a month at most! "Ryoda Mosuke is not young, he is almost thirty years old, and he still doesn't believe that the Uesugi family has always had the initiative on the battlefield.
"Father told you that it's very easy for the Uesugi family to do this! Once they are wiped out one after another by the wealthy clans who follow their own family, then the ensuing crusading army will be able to sweep away all the people who surrendered to their own family and those who followed their family in the first place! In this way, the Uesugi family will be able to completely occupy the eight countries of Kanto! The Soma family was destroyed by the Date family, but the brothers Soma Yoshiyin and Soma Takayin entered the Uesugi family's Aizu domain under the protection of the Soma family's retainers, and as long as the Uesugi dynasty pacified the Kanto region, the next thing would be Okuha! "Liang Tian Qingsuke doesn't understand, his IQ is okay, why did he give birth to this stupid son?
Although the Kanto region is still fighting hard, Ashikaga Yoshiteru in Kyoto does not know. As the news of the defeat of the Utsunomiya family and the Soma family reached Yamashiro Province, many of the shogunate's ministers and close ministers were very frightened, and if the Uesugi family was defeated, then the Furukawa shogunate army would gather a large number of Banto samurai Kamiraku. What angered Ashikaga Yoshiteru the most was Date Harumune's attack on the Soma family. At first, Ashikaga Yoshiteru thought that the Date family, who had been loyal to the Muromachi Shogunate for generations, would not easily join the Furukawa Shogunate, but who knew that Date Harumune was won over by Iwaki Shigetaka and led his army to destroy the weak Soma family. Now, Date Harumun was pulled on the list of traitors.
Date Harumune didn't actually want to join the Furukawa Shogunate from the beginning, he just wanted to regain the territories that the Date family had lost. Therefore, he did not launch an offensive against the Uesugi family at the beginning, but against the Soma family, which was already not united internally. Ashikaga Yoshiteru didn't think too much about it, and directly counted the four families of Mutsu's Date family, Kasai family, Osaki family, and Iwaki family as members of the Furukawa shogunate.
Although the head of the head office, the head of the flag, has received reinforcements from several families at the moment, the new head of the company, Nagao Kei, no longer wants to continue fighting. Nagao Keiji is very clear about the outcome of continuing to fight against the Uesugi family, and examples of families such as the Kiryu family, the Kuragano family, the Wada family, and the Yokose Yura family are all in front of him. However, it is impossible for Mr. Nagao Kei, as the governor of the family, to turn back, so he found his younger brother Nagao Keitaka.
"Brother, for the sake of the future of the president's family, you might as well leave here and go to Kawagoe City." Nagao Keiso was only sixteen years old, and he had no children. Therefore, he is even more worried about the future of the President of the ACCCIM.
"Brother, why? Did I do something to be sorry for the head office's Oya? Nagao Keitaka didn't know the reason and purpose of Nagao Kei's solo conversation.
"For the sake of the bloodline of the head president's tail family, you must live! The armies of the Uesugi family and the Nagano family have already swept through the city, and once tens of thousands of crusading soldiers descend on the castle, the Sosha Castle will be completely breached in an instant! Therefore, you must go to Kawagoe Castle to plead guilty and keep your blood for the head president's family to live! "Although Nagao Kei-sa is only sixteen years old, he doesn't want the head office's Nagao family to be completely wiped out by his generation, and there is no bloodline.
"Yes!" Nagao Keitaka reluctantly agreed, and he soon sneaked out of the city and rode towards Heyue City.
Nagao Jingtaka took advantage of the night and quickly left the headquarters city. However, he found that if he continued to ride on horseback, he would sooner or later be discovered by the Uesugi army stationed in various places, so he had no choice but to sell his mount near the castle and travel on two feet.
Just when Nagao Keitaka left the head office on the front foot, Katsuhiro on the back foot took action. Satomi Katsuhiro and Saito had a secret conversation with him and bribed him, and humiliated the Nagao Tanetsune of the Shirai Nagao family, causing him to leave Soja Castle in anger with a thousand Shirai Nagao troops. At this time, most of the soldiers in the castle were Satomi Katsuhiro and Saito Norumi, and the small number and insufficient combat strength of the chief president Ojun were not their opponents at all.
On the night of the 21st, before Nagano Yoshimasa had fallen asleep, some of his retainers came to inform him that the Shirai Nagao Army in the head office had left. Nagano immediately understood that something was about to change in the city.
Satomi Katsuhiro took the thirty samurai under his command and quickly rushed into the castle of the head office with a sword in hand. After the group cut down several samurai of the head president's family, they entered the residence of Nagao Kei. At this moment, Nagao Keiji was also woken up by the shouts outside, and he had already guessed that he was likely to be assassinated by his 'allies' like his father Nagao Keixiu. Saito, on the other hand, led the army to defend Ninomaru and repelled some of the presidents who came to the rescue, Ashigaru O, and samurai.
Nagao Kei didn't want to die at the hands of the betrayer, and he quickly seppuku with the help of the side. Nagao Keimichi, who served as the go-seeker, was attacked by Saito Norimi and his army in Ninomaru's house, and Nagao Keido was killed in his living room. With the death of the head of the head of the head of the tail family and the head of the Gomi family, the remaining head of the head of the head of the tail clan were tragically poisoned by Satomi Katsuhiro and Saito Noromitsu. All the people of the head of the head of the city in the castle and in the castle town were all hunted down one by one, and not a single one was left. And Nagao Keitaka, who left earlier, was lucky to be the only survivor of the head office's head family.