On September 5 of the first year of Yonglu, the house was finally unable to continue to support after holding on to the Jade Rope City for nearly half a month. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info He knew very well that there was nothing he could do about it, and once Jade Rope Castle was lost, then the Miura Peninsula would be taken by the Uesugi army in an instant. Even Odawara Castle will immediately be within the range of the Uesugi Army. Now he has no ability to make a living for the generals under his command. Before leaving the Kanto region, the court strictly ordered Okabe Motonobu and others not to accept the surrender of the defenders of Jade Rope Castle, nor to storm it. As a result, the original 500 defenders were now reduced to less than 300 due to hunger and disease. There was even cannibalism in the city.

"Shiro Guard, go and gather everyone, and everyone who can walk and run will take up their weapons and put on their armor." After looking at the tight encirclement under the city, the house was crowded on the tower and felt that there was no hope of breaking out.

"Adult ······" Sato Shiro Bei was a member of the Yellow Guard, and was one of the few young samurai who survived the middle battle in Musashifu. At this moment, he guessed the purpose of the mansion - jade shattering.

After a while, Sato Shiro Guard, Yano Yojiro, and Matsuda Yasutaka (Hojo Tsunari's nephew and Matsuda Kenhide's brother) came to Xiang Mansion.

"My lord, there are only two hundred and thirty-one people who can go out of the city to fight······ counting a few of us." Sato Shiro Beibei said unwillingly.

"Enough, when we get out of the city, it's time to see the old master, everyone is happy!" The house said with a smile.

"Yes······" Everyone responded weakly. All of them knew what the end of this meaningless siege would be, nothing more than a dead word. It's not that they're afraid of death, they just feel that the Hojo clan is incompetent. They have not seen a single reinforcement until the siege. Although the Hojo clan symbolically sent hundreds of reinforcements from the Hojo Yasugen Division, they were instantly defeated by the Uesugi army, and the general Hojo Yasumoto was also captured.

At midnight the next day, the taiko drums, which had not sounded in the city for a long time, sounded at this moment. More than 200 Hojo Castle soldiers, under the leadership of the house and Fang Fan, with the heart of death, dragged their tired and hungry bodies from the Oteemon Gate and the side gate to shout and swarm out of the city. Some of them hoped to break through the defenses of Muraoka Castle and Otani Castle, which were garrisoned by Motonobu Okabe and Teruhisa Yamagami. In fact, this was nothing more than a desperate breakthrough, and the Uesugi army, which had been waiting for it for a long time, took their places when they heard the sound of the taiko drums. The Uesugi army set up Matsuaki in the dense forests everywhere, and some with knives and some with guns pursued and killed the Hojo Army, who had only half a life left.

The samurai of the Hojo Army, who swept through several countries in the Kanto region in the past, were now rolling in their heads and wailing. How would Hojo Tsunari and others feel when they saw it? The retainers of the Tama-Hojo family, such as Yasushi and Yano Yojiro, Matsuda Yasutaka, Sato Shiro Guard, and Horiuchi Morikin, were all taken after fighting hard for half an hour with the densely surrounded Uesugi army. And the house house Fang Shigeru himself was taken by the young samurai Tokita Tsuru Chiyo under the command of Okabe Motonobu.

However, even under the siege of tens of thousands of Uesugi troops, there were still people who took advantage of the chaos to escape. Horiuchi Kinkane, Horiuchi Shigekane, and Fukuhara Shigeyuki were lucky enough to escape along a mountain trail south of Jade Rope Castle, and entered Misaki Castle, where the Hojo clan was stationed, in the early morning of the 6th, and reported the news of the loss of the defenders Tamashi and Jade Rope Castle to the Hojo clan. The news of the loss of Tamasho Castle was later reported by the Hojo clan that the Hojo clan had sent people to enter Odawara Castle by sea.

Immediately, Okabe Motonobu and others quickly cleaned up the battlefield, and also held the first inspection in the Nigenji Temple on the east side of Otani Castle. According to statistics, a total of 228 corpses of the defenders of Jade Rope City were collected and buried, and there were more than 50 people whose names were identified. But it didn't end there. After that, Namba Kenji, who did not participate in the battle on the outskirts of Nifunji, led more than 4,000 troops including Saito Toshizo and Yamada Naotari into the castle, and killed all the remaining 62 city soldiers. Since then, the entire territory of Kamakura Prefecture in Sagami Province has been captured by the Uesugi army. And it was only a matter of time before the Hojo clan in Miura Prefecture was attacked.

At present, the Hojo family is only left with the three counties of Ashigara Upper Gun, Ashigara Shita County and Miura County. However, the fall of Jade Rope Castle and the total destruction of the defenders sounded the death knell for the Hojo family. When the Hojo clan Masato learned the news of the loss of Jade Rope Castle, he was not surprised, he had already guessed that there would be such a day. It's just that I didn't expect that the house would be complicated for a period of time faster than expected.

The Takeda family also became vigilant after learning the news that the defenders of Jade Rope City had been completely wiped out. Since there was a precedent for the Uesugi army to suddenly attack and harass the East Kai, Takeda Shingen did not plan to move troops in the near future. Even Masamitsu Yamagu, the pioneer of the missile invasion army, was urgently ordered by Takeda Shingen not to go too deep behind enemy lines. The follow-up missile invasion force composed of the generals of Minami Shinano led by Takeda Katsuyori was also asked by Takeda Shingen not to go deep behind enemy lines, but only to destroy the forces such as Sister Koji.

Takeda Shingen knew that the current Takeda family did not have enough time to digest the large number of seized territories, and as for the Pure Land Shinshu on the Kaga and Noto sides, he didn't want to pay much attention to it. His current biggest enemy is still the Uesugi family, and once Kenshin enters Echichu or Echigo, then the scale of the joint battle that breaks out must be not small. At this moment, Naito Masatoyo is still trapped in Nishiueno without any support.

Takeda Shingen also felt helpless about not being able to rescue Naito Masatoyo, after all, Nishiueno at this moment was already like a "chicken rib" to the Takeda family. "It's tasteless to eat, and it's a pity to throw it away." The current Ueno is no longer the Ueno of the past. Originally, a large number of national lords were exterminated by the court, and only Nagano and other people who married each other in Nishi-Ueno remained. And these countrymen and lords all support the Uesugi family, so they can't start to transfer out at all. Even Sanada Yukitaka, who has always been known for his transfer and separation, has more than enough ambitions to go west.

But Kansuke Yamamoto didn't think the same as Shingen Takeda. As the military advisor of the Takeda family, his vision is farther than Takeda Shingen. Don't look at the current Uesugi family's power and strength are the best in the world. However, the key leaders, Kenshin Uesugi and Asadashi Fujiwara, are not in their own portfolio. One is in Kyoto and the other is in Ou. And this moment is undoubtedly an excellent time for the Takeda family. He then stepped forward to offer advice to Takeda Shingen to show his ingenuity, and incidentally to reflect the idiots and stupidity of some of the people in the prefecture who had been dispatched to propose the consolidation of the defense.

Yamamoto Kansuke didn't deliberately pour cold water on the retainers who proposed to strengthen Koshin's defenses. It's just that his own character is destined that Takeda Shingen will not adopt all his suggestions. Even if he had no last resort, Shingen Takeda wouldn't trust him completely. His problem is that he only knows how to seek a country and does not know how to seek a life.

Seeking the country and the army is for the sake of the great plan; The ability of the great plan marks the level of a strategist. For example, Cheng Yu during the Three Kingdoms period knew that he was not good at making a living, so he simply told his old man early and returned to his hometown to avoid trouble, and his ending was good. However, such as Yang Xiu's generation, the end can be described as miserable. Kansuke Yamamoto has been very close to Takeda Katsuyori in recent years, and he has been following Takeda Shingen's side, but this time seems to have deliberately alienated Takeda Shingen. This is where Kansuke Yamamoto's current problem lies, and although he is scheming, he doesn't care about personal relationships, political speculation, etc. He believed that his own ability alone was enough to make the lord favor and attract the attention of his colleagues. However, Kansuke Yamamoto does have the ability to be there. The more he sees through the enemy's weaknesses and shortcomings, doesn't it show that the people around him are stupid and stupid? You're the only smart person in the world? All are big fools? However, the members of the Takeda family and the retainers of the Pudai family did not listen to him this time. Even Shingen Takeda didn't want to follow his advice. At this time, the Takeda family lost the perfect opportunity to attack Echigo in one fell swoop.

However, the Yamayama Prefecture Masamitsu and others of the missile invasion army were progressing extremely smoothly. Hirose Sojo, the son of Toshiharu Hirose, a wealthy Missile, sent several retainers to serve as the vanguard of the Takeda Army, causing the Takeda Army to defeat several castles such as Takanekan, Asahikan, Takayama Castle, and Kanebuchi Castle in one fell swoop. Nabeyama Castle and Takayama Castle were surrounded by the Takeda Army, but Sister Koji Yoshiyori was unable to send reinforcements to rescue Takayama Gaiki and Nabeyama Amuro.

At this time, Takeda Katsuyori also led an army of 4,000 troops composed of the Southern Shinano clan, including Kaneda Morisu, Chijo Yoriryyu, and Zakoji Zuo Jinjin, into the missile. Their spearhead was sent by the Ki family, and Takeda Katsuyori's first goal when he entered the missile was to capture Sakurato Castle in the south of the missile, and then go north to join Yamachiyama Masamitsu and others.

Since Takeda Katsuyori is the general of the missile raider army, and Takeda Shingen ordered him not to go too deep behind enemy lines. Therefore, he planned to seize Masuda-gun and Ono-gun of the missile first, and then attack Yoshijo-gun, which was under the control of the Uesugi army.