Chapter Ninety-Seven: Satomi's Decision
Ota Shimasa still failed to catch up with the Battle of Mifune Mountain after catching up with the father and son of Yamamoto Temple, but the Satomi family still didn't blame the Uesugi family. The Satomi family, which was already short of people, didn't want the Uesugi army to withdraw at all, but the Satomi family didn't have the strength to fight back to Anbo Country. And Hojo Shiyasu also fell ill at Tateyama Castle at the moment, and this news is still in a state of blockade and has not been known to outsiders.
Hojo Shigeru, Hojo Naodari and others were stationed on the border of Anbo Province, and neither the Satomi Army nor the Uesugi Army could easily cross the border. However, at this moment, the Hojo Army is also a sheep-like tiger skin. It's okay for him to scare the children, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the current Hojo Army is not an opponent with difficult births, and as long as they have a numerical advantage over them, they can be defeated.
At noon on September 10, the Hojo clan, who was originally in charge of defense and government affairs at Odawara Castle, was also notified by the ninja Nikowa Inosuke sent by the Hojo clan. Along with the Hojo clan were the old retainers of the Hojo family, Ryozen Ando, Yasukei Ishinomaki, Masahiro Daiji, and Yasuei Shimizu.
When the Hojo clan entered the palace of Tateyama Castle Honmaru, he saw Mamiya Nobutada, Oto Keinaga, Yamanaka Morita, and Ogasawara Yasuhiro in a circle, and it was his father Hojo Shiyasu lying in the middle.
"Father! What the hell is going on here?! "Hojo Clan didn't believe that his father would become like this! Even if the Battle of Isonuma was fought and the Hojo Army suffered heavy losses, and even the Hojo Tsunade Chengdu was killed in the battle, the Hojo clan Yasu was still very tough at that time.
"Young Lord, Saemonsa-sama has already died in the Battle of Mifune Mountain and Kiraden!" Yasuhiro Ogasawara said while crying.
"What?! Even my uncle ・・・・・・ "Hojo Clan Masa" couldn't help but take a few steps back.
"The young lord mourns, the lord was seriously ill yesterday. The 3,000 Imagawa Army was wiped out, and Abe-sama's father and son were killed by the Satomi family's iron artillery team. "Mamiya Nobutada also feels that the retainers of the Imagawa family may no longer pin their hopes on the Hojo family.
"Even the generals of the various reserve teams who broke out of the siege returned to Anfang Province with injuries, and the samurai and ashigaru were all very embarrassed, and no one came back clean. Now that the family's forces and allies in Kamiso have been defeated, the 11,000 Uesugi army has been stationed in Kamisu Hirooka Castle and other places, and it is completely in a situation of stalemate with our army, and it will not be long before we will engage our army. "Ogasawara Harima Mamoru is the advisor of the Hojo family, he can only sit aside, this time the battle Hojo Clan Yasu did not ask him, and he also said that the Hojo clan Yao is overwhelmed.
"Harima Mamoru understands that this defeat is my underestimating defeat. And I buried them, I can't live with them! Hojo said with tears in his eyes, he originally thought that he could defeat the Satomi family with the number of the Hojo army, but he didn't expect the Satomi family's Jedi counterattack at all.
"Father, when my son came, I learned that 11,000 Uesugi troops had entered Kamiso Province, which was bad news for my family. If the Uesugi army launched an attack at this time, then the family would be newly defeated and their morale would already be low, so how could they fight again? "The Hojo clan is not aimed at anyone, the problem is that the Hojo army in Anfang Province really does not have the strength to fight with the Uesugi army, at most it is okay to hold each other, but if it really fights, the Hojo family will undoubtedly be defeated again.
"Well, the Edo people and the Jade Rope people have suffered heavy losses, and the family is no longer able to fight, so let's send someone to negotiate peace with the Satomi family." Hojo Shiyasu's original purpose was to destroy the Satomi family and then surround the Uesugi family, but now not only has the goal not been achieved, but even the Edo people and the Jade Rope people have suffered a lot of losses, and if they continue to fight, they will have no chance of winning.
"Father, you have to think clearly, if the Satomi family proposes peace, it is very likely that the Satomi family will hand over the Anfang country and return the ability, then it will be meaningless to lose so many retainers and samurai this time!" Although Hojo Clan did not oppose the peace, he would not approve of the immediate peace.
"Yes, my lord, the family should continue to increase the number of troops, and I also have to ask Shimizu-sama to defeat the Okamoto naval army again, as long as the Satomi family's living forces on the sea are defeated, they will agree to peace." Ogasawara Harima Mamoru said confidently.
"In that case, the minister is willing to ask for war!" Yasui Shimizu fought a rare victory, and naturally he had to beat the Okamoto Navy who fell into the water.
"Well, Shimasa, from today onwards, you will be the head of the Hojo family, and I am no longer suitable to continue to be the head of the family・・・・・・" Hojo Shiyasu felt that he was suddenly much older.
"Father?!" The Hojo clan is obviously not mentally prepared, after all, the Hojo clan is not old enough to govern.
"You can do it, the retainers will assist you well, as long as the Hojo family has time to recuperate in a few years, then the Uesugi family will definitely be defeated." The Hojo clan is stable and stable in the Hojo clan, but even if the current Hojo family recuperates for ten years, it may not be able to defeat the Uesugi family, and as long as the dragon girl will go south, then tens of thousands of Echigo troops will be able to defeat all the recruits of the Hojo army. At this moment, most of the land in Echigo has been recovered from temples and shrines, and even the retainers have transferred a lot, and Echigo has become an iron plate.
However, the 'four public and six people' practiced by the Uesugi family and the Hojo family were different. The four princes and six people of the Hojo family refer to the four copies of the Hojo family who were converted into money and handed them over to the Hojo family, and in the event of a famine or drought, the people will inevitably not be able to hand them over, resulting in a large number of flights. Just like this time when Nagao and Uesugi jointly invaded the Kanto region, the Hojo family lost a large number of peasants.
However, the Uesugi family handed over the four crops without exchanging them for copper coins, and handed them over directly. However, a businessman's personal income must be handed over a lot, and this is the policy of the Uesugi family. Therefore, this is the reason why more farmers are willing to bring their families to become the lords of the Uesugi family. Otherwise, the Shangzhou soldiers formed before the court would not have gone so smoothly.
On September 11, Yasuei Shimizu once again led the main force of the Izu Navy to wait for an opportunity to engage the Okamoto Navy Army, but Okamoto Yasuei was defeated again. The two armies were fighting in the southern part of Edo Bay, and Hasegawa Yoshihiro saw it very clearly. First, the Okamoto Navy and the Izu Navy started a broadside battle with the Izu Navy with great momentum, but the Izu Navy used three small early as bait, which were full of flammable and explosive materials, and just when the sailors of the Okamoto Navy were just entangled with the bait, a Izu Navy Thousand Stone Boat threw baked jade at them.
What followed was an instant explosion of the three Izu Navy Commanders, while the ten Okamoto Navy's Mornings around were overturned and burned. This time, Okamoto's navy was beaten by baked jade again, but Okamoto Antai had no way at all. He could only order Katsusada Anzai and others to scoop up the fallen sailors and retreat to Kawasaki Castle, the nearest castle where the Uesugi family owned a port.
The Okamoto Navy suffered heavy losses after being defeated twice in a row, and all of the original Kozai were sunk or unusable, and one or two ships were captured by the Izu Navy Army. Okamoto Yasutai also entered the territory of the Uesugi family with an Ataku ship, five Sengoku ships, and ten Sekibunes. Shimizu Yasuei did not dare to openly enter the territorial waters of the Uesugi family, he knew the consequences very well, as long as he led people to invade, although he could completely defeat the Okamoto naval army and destroy the Uesugi family's newly formed naval army by the way, but the more than 10,000 Uesugi troops in the Kamiso country would drive the Hojo family back to Sagami and Izu, then it would not be worth it.
Yasuei Shimizu then led the Izu naval army to retreat. This time, the Izu Navy exchanged three Kozao for the ten Kozao of the Okamoto Shogun, which was completely cost-effective. The current Okamoto Navy has lost the port and stronghold from which it built its ships, and even the Uraga Waterway is under the complete control of the Izu Navy Army.
Two days later, Satomi Yoshiyao and Satomi Yoshihiro also learned of the Hojo clan's appointment as head and governor of the Hojo clan at Kururi Castle, and also learned that Okamoto Yasutai had fled to the Uesugi family's port after being defeated by the Izu naval forces. At this time, the Satomi family has lost the ability to balance the Hojo family with the water army, and both land and water have lost their combat capability. Although the Hojo family did not dare to take the initiative to provoke a war, the Satomi family had also lost the idea of retaking Anbo Province alone.
And the interior of the Satomi family is not monolithic, and the two of them, Toki Weilai and Masaki Shizhong, who returned to the Satomi family, made Satomi Yoshiyao and his son very unhappy, but they didn't have enough strength to exterminate them. In addition, Toki is the daughter of Yoshiyao Satomi or the side room of Satomi Yoshiyao, he has to be a little merciful, coupled with the timely defection of Toki Yoriri in the Battle of Mifune Mountain, he directly took the general of the Hojo Army, Hojo Shiyao and the son-in-law of Hojo Shiyasu, Kira Clan.
Although the Uesugi army was able to temporarily garrison Kamisoku, it was not permanent and unpaid. The Uesugi family only needed superficial fame and actual benefits to send troops to help, especially Uesugi Asada.
After several wealthy clans of the Ueso were exterminated, the Uesugi family obtained the 44,500 koku territory of the Ueso Kingdom. Moreover, all the forces supporting the Hojo family in the northern part of the Uesu were swept away. As long as the next dynasty will deploy a powerful retainer in the president, even if the Hojo family invades the Satomi leader, they can rush to support in time, and if the troops are not enough, there are Nambada Hiroyoshi, Miyagi Masayi father and son, and Yamamoto Temple Dingcho father and son, so there is no need to worry at all.
As the head of the Uesugi family, the arrival of Ota Shimasa Satomi Yoshiyao and Satomi Yoshihiro did their best to entertain him and his fellow Yamamoto Temple and Yamamoto Temple Katsucho, and did not dare to slack off. However, Satomi Yoshiyao proposed to give his daughter Toyohime, who had not yet been associated with any retainers and wealthy families, to the court as a side room. Ota Shimasa used the excuse that he could not interfere in the family affairs of the main family, but he promised Satomi Yoshiyao and Satomi Yoshihiro that he would send someone to Kawagoe Castle to inform the court of this matter. Satomi father and son just want to marry Toyohime into the Uesugi family in exchange for the Uesugi family's continuous assistance and defense, etc., otherwise Asadaki really wants to watch them fight to the end and not make a move.
Toyohime, as the youngest child of Satomi Yoshiyao, of course Satomi Yoshiyao himself didn't want her to marry so early, but the situation forced her. His sons are not all opponents of the Hojo family, and if he doesn't think about the survival of his family, he really can't do it. Although Yiyao has always regarded it as a pearl in her palm, she is only fourteen years old. Moreover, Satomi Yoshiyao originally felt that there were few people under him who were of fancy use, and then he never looked for her in-laws.
However, after Nagao Keitor's crusade against Hojo began, Uesugi Asadashi also sent troops from Aizu to help, and the Hojo family was soon defeated by Sagami and Izu. Even Nagao Keitora himself was adopted as an adopted daughter by Uesugi Kenmasa to inherit the head of the Uesugi family and the Uesugi family. At this time, Satomi Yoshiyao and Satomi Yoshihiro, father and son, were also present, and saw Uesugi Asadatsu, who was following Nagao Jinghu.
Asadachi was locked by Satomi Yoshiyao and his son from the beginning, and as the head and governor of the Ogiya Uesugi family, he never had a defeat. And in a series of large and small battles with the Hojo family, he repeatedly defeated the Hojo family, and the old man of the Hojo family, Tamu Mototada, and the Hojo Tsunagao were successively taken. Moreover, Asadai is also known as the 'lord of Zhongxing' of the Uesugi family in Ogiya.
However, when Satomi Yoshiyao and his son went to Honmaru's courtyard to talk to Toyohime, she was a little unhappy.
"Father, why should I marry someone I've never met? What if he is the Kanto Governor and Musashi and Sagami? I don't want to leave my father and brother, I don't want to leave the country! Although Feng Ji is already fourteen years old, her coquettishness and arrogance have not changed.
"Sister! Chao Dinggong is the benefactor of his family! Not to mention taking in the Okamoto naval army that was about to be wiped out, and giving them food and grass supplies and repairing ships, if the 11,000 reinforcements of the Uesugi army don't come this time, then the family will be destroyed by the Hojo family! "Satomi Yoshihiro used to be able to make this eldest lady angry, but now it's different, this is the survival of the Satomi family, as long as the Uesugi army withdraws, then the Hojo army will continue to attack the Satomi family, and Masaki Tokitaka and Toki will turn against the Hojo family again.
"Feng'er, my father knows that you don't want to leave us, but you also saw that when the Hojo Army invaded our family, the family members had to evacuate quickly! If this family could protect itself, it wouldn't let you marry into another family so early! Satomi Yiyao is also easy to say, as for whether he agrees with the same or not, it depends on Chaoding's meaning in the end, as long as Chaoding wants, then he can only pack her up and send her to Heyue City; If Asada doesn't want to marry the Satomi family, he doesn't have to bother much.
"Didn't the family win at Mifuneyama? Why do you still need the rescue of the Uesugi family? "Toyohime didn't know anything about the outside world, and she didn't know that the Hojo Army still had 15,000 combatant troops stationed in Anfang Province.
"Well, it's a win, if it weren't for the defection of Toki Weilai and Masaki Shizhong, the family would probably only be defeated." Satomi Yoshihiro was afraid when he thought about it, if Toki Weilai and Masaki Tokitoki did not rebel, then Masaki Tokishige's special forces might be wiped out.
"The Hojo Army still has 10,000 troops stationed at Kanaya Castle, the Uesugi Army with 5,000 troops stationed at Hirooka Castle, and 6,000 troops stationed at Taki Castle, if it weren't for them, they wouldn't be so stable now." Satomi Yoshiyao sighed, if only his youngest daughter knew something, he wouldn't have to worry about the future of the Satomi family.
"Father, then if I don't go to the Uesugi family, all the Uesugi troops in the Uesugi army will be withdrawn?" Toyohime seems to have only now realized that the situation of the Satomi family is already stormy, and if it weren't for the umbrella of the Uesugi family, the Satomi family would have been finished long ago.
"Well, although Ota Minomoru will not withdraw immediately, he will also evacuate within a few days, and the Hojo family will already know about it at that time." Satomi Yoshihiro shook his head after saying it and left, but Satomi Yoshihiro kept it.
"Brother, my father has never been like this, is it true that the family is about to be destroyed by the Hojo family?" Feng Ji only saw Satomi Yoshiyao's helplessness and disappointment at this moment.
"Well, if you don't agree to go to the Uesugi family as a side room, then the family will really be destroyed, the Hojo family still has nearly 8,000 troops in the battle of Mifune Mountain to withdraw into the Anfang country, and the family does not have the strength to fight a decisive battle with the Hojo family now. Therefore, it can only be used to survive with the help of the power of the Uesugi family. Although Satomi Yoshihiro pretended to be calm, he was still very worried in his heart.
"Brother, what kind of person is the 'Chaoding Gong' you are talking about? Wasn't he the head of the Uesugi family in Ogiya before? "Toyohime seems to be starting to take an interest in the court.
"I'm afraid that in Kanto, there is no one who can stand out now." Satomi Yoshihiro's answer was brief, but it also stated the fact that no one in the Eight Kingdoms of Kanto could defeat Asada.
"What?!" Toyohime couldn't believe her ears, she only knew that her father and brother were very powerful, and even the second brother who died in the war was the pride of the Satomi family.
"Well, although in the past, in order to protect the former Kanto governor Uesugi Kenmasa went to Echigo, his residence was attacked, and the Ogiya Uesugi clan was once annexed by the Hojo family, but in just a few years, he borrowed thousands of the Long Tail Army to defeat the Ashina family and other local nobles who called themselves 'Aizu Guardians', and obtained 270,000 koku from all over Aizu, and then further defeated the Date family, Mogami family, and Osaki family who dominated Ou; Before going south, he also united the Utsunomiya family and the Satake family to defeat the Nasu family, and seized the Nasu territory of 100,000 stones. After uniting with the Nagao family to launch the Kanto Raid, they instantly wiped out the Akai family and the Dahu family, the wealthy clans of Ueno Province who submitted to the Hojo family, and united the Kanto generals to crusade against Hojo. Satomi Yoshihiro said that Toyohime had been listening carefully, and he used to hear Satomi Yoshihiro tell stories all when he fell asleep or was bored and walked away, but this time it was different from the past.
"Next, the prince of the court defeated and imprisoned Uesugi Kenkatsu, a traitor to the Uesugi family in Ogiya, and it is unknown how he escaped from Kagoshi Castle; When Uesugi Masatoko led the Echigo army to withdraw its skills, Hojo Shiyasu gathered tens of thousands of troops to invade the new Kanto governor, but he did not expect that the Asadako sent the general Namba Tian Kenji to drag tens of thousands of troops under Namba Tian Castle with an army of less than 3,000, and the head of the Setagaya Kira family Kira Yoriyasu and some important ministers of the Hojo family were still killed under the castle. It is said that the Takeda family's alliance with the Hojo and Imagawa families was personally coordinated by the Asadako, and after Takeda Shingen's invasion of Suruga, the Hojo clan Yasu left more than 10,000 troops including Hojo Tsunari, the first fierce general of the Hojo family, to continue the attack on the Uesugi family, but he himself led more than 20,000 troops back to Sagami. After that, there was a good story that the Asadako mobilized tens of thousands of troops and defeated Hojo Tsusunari in Kawagoe Castle and Isonuma and annihilated tens of thousands of Hojo troops. When Satomi Yoshihiro said this, he realized that Toyohime had been listening carefully, and he himself couldn't believe it.
"It turns out that this court prince seems to be really powerful, but he must also have a lot of wives...... "Although Toyohime hasn't married yet, she can guess that ordinary daimyo will be like this.
"Well, the two people in the main room, that is, the current Kanto governor Uesugi Masatoko and her sister Ayagozen; Side room no Gomae, daughter of Mino Saito Michizo; Side room Isehime, daughter of Chiba Cainu of the Ueno wealthy clan; The side room Ii Naotor, the daughter of the Ii family who once dominated the Ene country, was originally the side room of the Imagawa Jibe Daisuke clan, but because he didn't like her, he didn't have a round room with her, and finally she escaped to Musashi and became the side room of the Asadako. That's so much. "Satomi Yoshihiro also did his homework before, and found that there were only five wives in the court, and there were not many.
"So, will he like me?" Toyohime felt that she didn't seem to get much 'care' in the past, and the two main rooms couldn't be offended except that Isehime was the daughter of a wealthy family. One is the current Kanto governor, the other is the sister of the current Kanto governor, and she is also the first main room of the Kanto governor plus Musashi and Sagami to protect Uesugi Asada.
"It can be said that sister, as long as you marry in the past, you don't mess with the two main rooms, any one of them will be embarrassed by the situation of the family as long as they say a word." Satomi Yoshihiro understood the combat effectiveness of the Uesugi Masato, who had previously slashed tens of thousands of disciples of the sect in the battle with Asada, and the entire Hokuriku was terrified! In addition, after the First World War of Isanuma in the Asada, no one in the eight countries of Kanto dared to openly defect to the Hojo family.
"Well, since it is for the sake of the Satomi family, as the daughter of the samurai family, you should have such an awareness!" In an instant, Toyohime's painting style changed abruptly, making Satomi Yoshihiro completely unable to adapt to it.
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However, the decision made by Toyohime is still of far-reaching significance to the Satomi family, even if the Satomi family can't hold on and is destroyed by the Hojo family in one fell swoop, as long as Toyohime gives birth to a boy in the future, she can revive the Satomi family, and this is why Satomi Yoshiyao married Toyohime to the most suitable and powerful Asada.