Chapter Eighty-Three: Hojo Captures Tokura

When the Hojo Army sent troops to Kanto again in July of the third year of Koji, Asadaku knew about it for a long time, but did not let his troops stop and attack. As for the reason, it is natural that he does not want Oishi Dinghisa and Uesugi Kenkatsu, who betrayed the Uesugi family, to continue to live. Once, Asada wrote a letter to Oishi Dinghisa, and the content of the letter was to stop stubbornly following the Hojo family. As for the way out of Oishi Dingjiu, Chao Ding did not say it clearly.

However, Oishi Dingshi's original plan was to wait for Koyamada Nobushige's army to arrive and immediately serve the Takeda family and guide the Takeda army to attack Musashi, but who knew that Oyamada Nobushige was directly transferred by Takeda Shingen, making Oishi Dingjiu completely lose his reinforcements and become isolated.

In fact, as long as the speed of the Hojo clan is faster, and the Hojo Phantom Ann captures the unguarded Ono Road Castle, the Hojo family can still gain a foothold in the southwest corner of Musashi. As for whether there is any spare strength to go north, that is a matter of Hojo Shiyasu.

Uesugi Asadachi really occupied the northern, eastern, central, and southern parts of Musashi (except for Setagaya Castle), while the western part was not yet able to be occupied, so it was left to the Hojo family. Due to the large number of people and peasants who fled abroad, the court had no choice but to order the Uesugi family to be tax-free in the Musashi area for two years. This policy made the people in the Uesugi family's domain grateful to Dade, and also made the Uesugi family win the hearts of the people in Musashi.

Oishi had already had the idea of surrendering since he had been besieged in Tokura Castle for a few days, but he knew very well that if he surrendered, he would likely be killed, so he hesitated to this day. However, his younger brother didn't have so many things to do, so he went directly to the camp of the Hojo clan at night and took the initiative to ask for an internal response. The Hojo clan was also happy to do this, and the Hojo army was able to reduce its losses.

In the early morning of July 7, just after the first round of charges launched by the Hojo Army, Oishi Kennaka, the younger brother of Oishi Dinghisa, opened the Otemen with the two hundred foot light generals of the headquarters and put down all the flags. The pioneer of the Hojo Army, Yasuei Shimizu, directly led a thousand troops and completely occupied Sannomaru under the guidance of Oishi Kennaka.

Just an hour later, the 1,500 Qingbei army led by Tominaga Naokaka, the second echelon of the Hojo Army, replaced Yasuei Shimizu and continued to attack Ninomaru. Soon, under the suppression of the firepower of the Tominaga Naokikatsu team's 200 iron guns, Ninomaru was also broken, and Ninomaru was lost in a short time.

"It seems that we are all my brother's pawns・・・・・・" It was only now that Uesugi Kenkatsu realized that he was completely used as a pawn by the court, and this time was no exception. It's like it's been arranged in advance.,Destroy yourself by the hands of the Hojo family.,There's no need to be criticized by the world.,It's a trick to play high.。

"The prince of Chaoding is indeed unfathomable, and I shouldn't have defected to Hojo back then!" Oishi shook his head helplessly, and directly ordered his retainers to guard the door of Honmaru, and he walked towards his own room, he wanted to kill his wife and side room before cutting his stomach.

"May I be a loyal minister in the next life・・・・・・ Uesugi Kenkatsu then stabbed his wife and eldest son to death and killed himself.

Soon, after killing all his family, Oishi Dingjiu set fire to all the Honmaru's Ohiroma and Iikan buildings, and he committed suicide by cutting his stomach in the fire.

After a while, the seven samurai who defended Honmaru were also killed, and Kennaka Oishi led Naokatsu Tominaga and Yasuei Shimizu into Honmaru to extinguish the fire.

The next day, after the fire in Tokura Castle was extinguished, the Hojo clan changed his mind and originally wanted Ichido or Gendai retainers to be the lord of Tokura Castle, but now he appointed Oishi Kennaka as the lord of the castle. However, this was not an expression of his trust in Oishi Kennaka, and he subsequently appointed Yasuei Shimizu as the jo representative, Shimizu Masakatsu (Yasueiko Shimizu) as the general commissioner, and Shimizu Saemon as the zo commissioner. Naturally, the 1,000 troops under the command of Yasuying Shimizu will always be stationed in the city. This made Kennaka Oishi, who originally thought that he could get Tokura Castle completely, completely disappointed, and he was instantly hollowed out, and he had no real power at all.

The Hojo clan did not hesitate, and ordered Tominaga Naokakatsu to occupy Ono Road Castle non-stop and serve as the lord of the castle, and his son Tominaga Masatsu served as the commissioner.

In this way, the Hojo family used the three castles of Onoji Castle, Hachioji Castle, and Tokura Castle as a triangular line of defense, and one side would definitely be rescued if it was in trouble, unless all three castles were besieged. The Hojo family, which originally occupied most of the Musashi territory, now only has three branch towns in Tama County, and with the loss of a large number of main forces, the Hojo family has now lost the strength to win the Kanto region. However, as the son-in-law of the Hojo clan, the Kira clan was to be ignored by the Hojo family 'temporarily'. After all, the defense of the homeland is much more important than that of him, the head snake, and the main combat power of the Setagani Kira family was basically lost under Namba Tian Castle, so it can be said that the chess piece of the Setagani Kira family, the Hojo clan, is ready to be an outcast.

Not only the Setagani Kira family, but even the Chiba family, which is the strongest in the overall strength, was abandoned by the Hojo family. The Chiba family sent the troops of the Takashiro family and the original family that belonged to him to Musashi to help, and they were also called 'Hojo family other countries'. Even so, the Hojo clan now can't take care of the Chiba family, and even the Kira clan, which is relatively close, can't save him, let alone others. In short, the Chiba family will definitely be liquidated, but it will not be possible to settle accounts with him until the Narita family and the Setagaya Kira family are liquidated.

However, the Hojo clan, who participated in the battle this time, asked the Hojo clan if he could negotiate with the Uesugi family to exchange the head and body of Hojo Tsunari. As the new general of Huang Bei and the leader of the Jade Rope Clan, Hojo Clan Masato had to pay attention to it, and then returned to Odawara Castle and asked his father Hojo Clan Yasushi directly.

Hojo Shiyasu also knew that Hojo Tsunari's status in the Hojo family was extraordinary, and if he could exchange his body and head back, he would naturally be able to get the allegiance of the Jade Rope people and stabilize the retainers, but to put it lightly! It's even harder to really change it.

Uesugi Asahi will not be able to generously return the head of his sworn enemy Hojo Tsunari, I have long heard that he has already taken down all the heads of all the Hojo Army samurai who died in Isaguma or committed suicide, and cast Kyokan in Asaseiji Temple! At this time, all the generals of the Kwantung countries knew that the news that Hojo Tsusunari was defeated and died in the battle of Isanuma even the wealthy families and daimyo who originally recognized the Ashikaga Yoshishi clan as the Furukawa Principality denied it, and recognized the Ashikaga Fuji clan as the Furukawa Principality. It can be said that 'those who have attained the Tao have many helps, and those who have lost the Tao have little help', and the Utsunomiya family, the Satake family, the Nagano family, the Yokose family, the Shirai Nagao family, etc., all call the Hojo clan Yasu of Sagami Odawara Castle 'Ise'! Both the imperial court and the shogunate became traitors to the Hojo clan, and they almost became 'enemies'. Therefore, no one will sympathize with the Hojo family, and even if Takeda Shingen attacked Izu and occupied it, no one pointed out that it was unjust. Uesugi Asadashi directly transferred the position of guardian of Izu to Masanobu Takasaka, making the Takeda family's rule in Izu more solid.

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Hojo Shiyasu doesn't want to take the initiative to negotiate with the Uesugi family, but the people under him are not like this. As an important retainer of the family and a retainer of the lineage, Hojo Phantom An, the first task of personally going to Koe Castle was to negotiate with the Asadachi to return the 2,600 captured Hojo Army Ashigaru and peasant soldiers, followed by the corpses or heads of high-ranking samurai such as Hojo Tsunari. As the saying goes, 'people walk tea and cool', and Hojo Tsunari is no exception. Since he is dead, then Hojo Shiyasu is not a stupid person, he knows that a dead person is no longer of much use, and it is not as useful as the two thousand six hundred people who are still mining in the Uesugi family! Hojo Phantom An's trip to Kawagoe Castle this time was just wishful thinking, not an order from Hojo Shiyasu, in his opinion, Hojo Shiyasu, the nephew, still can't play Uesugi Asadachi diplomatically.

Just when Hojo Phantom arrived at Ishigamii Castle with two samurai, Asada's appointment of Ota Shimasa as the guardian of Musashi was temporarily in charge of all affairs in Musashi. However, Asadachi himself took Saito Rizo and 200 white-robed cavalry of the Kawagoe Knights, 500 gunneru under the command of Namba Tian Kenji, and 300 iron cannon Ashigaru led by Ogasawara Akimura to ride Nishijo Castle quickly, and transferred 1,100 troops of Hosoya Shito's army to Ninja Castle after transferring 2,000 troops of Honjo Shigeru of Bowlata. Going to Ninja Castle, the purpose of the court was very simple, either to hand over Narita Nagatayasu and Oda Asakei, or to wait for the follow-up Uesugi army to arrive and seize Ninja Castle.

On July 10, when the Asada's 4,000 troops lined up under the castle, the Narita family in the castle was at a loss. The lord of the castle, Narita Nagatai, had long been ignoring political affairs and had been raising flowers and grass in his own room, and when Narita Yasuki (Narita Narita's third brother) took Narita Narita Nagataya's second son), Oda Chaoxing (Narita Narita's second brother), Masaki Tanba Mamoru Toshiei, Shibasaki and Izumi Mamoru, Oda Ietoki, Komiyayama Tadashi and other family members and important ministers all entered Narita Narita Nagataya's room and directly put him in the big hiroma.

Asadaki set up a camp in Samaguchi in the south of Ninja Castle very leisurely, and waited for the Narita family to send someone out to meet him.

"Brother! More than 4,000 troops of the Uesugi army are already on standby under the castle! If it really starts, how can the family fight with the strength of the 300 troops in the city? "Narita Taiki is very worried about the future of the Narita family now, as one of the famous families of the 'Kanto Hachiya Line', if the Uesugi family is really destroyed, how can they explain to their ancestors and ancestors?

"Father, the only way to do this now is to ask the Uesugi family for their guilt, even if it is to pay compensation and offer hostages!" Narita Nagata knew in his heart that the Narita clan was dead, and naturally he could inherit the Narita family, so he dared to casually say these conditions that the Uesugi family might propose.

"Goya Xingden, if you give the minister 500 troops, you can defeat all the Uesugi army!" Shibasaki and Izumi Mamoru didn't take the Uesugi army seriously at all, if it weren't for the last time Narita Taiji pressed him, he would have gone out with Narita Nagataya. Maybe he didn't see the horror of the Uesugi army, and he dared to make a big statement, and people like Oda Asako didn't dare to threaten to defeat the Uesugi army.

"Izumi Mamoru, your tone is too big. You must know that Kenji Nambata, the old man of the Uesugi family, was able to withstand the attack of tens of thousands of troops of the Hojo Army with nearly 4,000 troops in Namba Tianjo Castle, and made the Hojo family more than 17,000 and lose several retainers, can you do it? "When Oda was in the family, as a person from Narita Taiji, he naturally wanted to suppress the main battle faction.

"That is, not to mention far away, in the battle of Kawagoe Castle Isanuma, tens of thousands of Hojo troops were defeated, Hojo Tsunari, a major minister of the Hojo family, was killed in battle, and even Hara Yinei, Takajo Yinchen and others were then hunted by warriors on the way to escape, but they were only 4,000 more than the Hojo army. If the Uesugi family had sent tens of thousands of troops, Ninja Castle would have ceased to exist a long time ago! When Tadataka Komiyayama replaced the Oda family, he angrily reprimanded Shibasaki and Izumi Mamoru.

"Enough! I'll go out of the castle to meet the general of the Uesugi army in person. Narita Nagata now clearly understands that if the Narita family wants to continue to exist, then they must ask the Uesugi family to blame, and the price may be their own seclusion or exile・・・・・・

"Yes!" Everyone immediately followed Narita Narita, who was already haggard, and slowly walked out of Honmaru.

Narita Yasuki knew very well that if Narita Nagataka was really allowed to sit in the position of the head of the Narita family, he or Narita Narita would have to go to the Uesugi family as hostages, and it would be better to exile all the men of the clan family and then surrender to the Uesugi family.

"You go and gather all the three hundred troops of your family, and then go to Samaguchi to stand by." Narita Taiji directly ordered Oda Ietoki and Komiyayama Tadataka to take the three hundred troops in the city to stand by near the castle wall at Samaguchi, and it is really unknown what he wants to do.

"Yes." Oda and Komiyayama Tadataka immediately retired.

Narita Taiji's move made Shibasaki and Izumi Mamoru and Masaki Toshiei, who were walking in front, a little suspicious, and they felt that Narita Taiji was probably going to make some moves. Today's Narita family's current military strength is all Narita Yasuki's people, and Narita Narita's military strength was basically reimbursed during the battle with the Uesugi army near Ishito Castle.