Chapter Eighty-Eight: Imagawa Abandons Yuanjiang
Takeda Nobuyoshi had no choice but to retreat into Suruga Province after a long period of unfavorable battles in Toe Province, and the Toe wealthy clans who had raised troops to assist could only reluctantly return to their skills. At this time, the Imagawa clan really took the advice of the Sekiguchi clan and others, and in order to better govern the Toe family retainers and the wealthy family, they were about to form a relationship with Ii Naotora.
But Imagawa Shin himself was ready to get married to Naohu Ii when he had no choice but to do so, and he didn't like to live under the same roof with a short-haired woman all the time. Ii Naotora himself didn't want to be associated with the Imagawa clan, and if it weren't for the preservation of the Ii family's strength and status, he wouldn't have made such a big sacrifice.
On the 20th of July, the Imagawa clan and Ii Naotora held a marriage ceremony at Hishima Castle. Naturally, only members of the Ii family will also participate, such as Iei Naonari, the lord of Ihei Castle. However, what Naoka Ii didn't know was that Naonari Ii would also die here.
It can be said that the two of Imagawa Shin and Ii Naotora were completely lifeless at the ceremony, and there was no cheerful atmosphere at all. And Ii Naonari, who has been sitting on the outermost side, has been drinking again. After Naohu entered a smaller room that had been cleaned, Naonari was assassinated by an unknown person on the way out.
"Imagawa Osabu Daisuke, the concubine wants to hope that the Imagawa family can correct the name of the Imagawa family, the Imagawa family has been doing their best to serve and fight for the Imagawa family since becoming a retainer of the Imagawa family, why do you want to listen to the slander of Ono Michiyoshi and kill many Ii family members and relatives?" Ii Naotora has wanted to ask for a long time, but he can't enter Inkya City at will, but now is the best time to question the Imagawa clan.
"Why? Your Jingyi family has always supported the army and respected itself, and most of the Yuanjiang Kingdom used to be your world, can this family not be afraid? As soon as there is a wind and grass, many important ministers of the family are all soldiers! Later, the family took Yuanjiang Half of the country into the bag, but if I hadn't taken back the ruling power of Half of the country before, would I still have a place to go now?! Of course, the Imagawa clan was scared, after all, his father Imagawa Yoshimoto had died in battle, and he himself could not rule most of the Imagawa family's retainers and wealthy clans now. If he really had his father's eloquence, then when Takeda Shingen attacked Suruga, there would not have been a large number of wealthy families responding and defecting, and he would not have been escaped from the Sunfu Pavilion overnight.
"Aren't the samurai of the Ii family samurai?! Does it have to be the samurai of the Imagawa family to be the samurai?! "Naotora Ii has now finally seen what the Imagawa family, which his father and grandparents have always been loyal to, looks like.
"Not bad! You are the same as the people of Trois-Rivières! can only be responsible for charging for the family! "The Imagawa clan really didn't like her, and now she doesn't even have the heart of the round house.
"You!" Ii Naotora is speechless, she has really lost confidence in the Imagawa family, no wonder the Takeda family wants to betray the alliance, the Imagawa family is not a good thing at all.
"Feel free to do so! Anyway, the life or death of the Ii family has nothing to do with me! "The Imagawa clan ran out directly, but he felt that it was better to be with Mrs. Hayakawa, at least in the future, he might have to rely on the power of the Hojo family to recover Suruga. Of course, Imagawa's dream is of course delusional.
Jing Yi Naohu now knows that if he leaves this city, then the Jing family will be destroyed, plus the Jing family now does not even have a successor, let alone himself, and he is only a nominal governor, not a real governor. And the three of Iya have long dared to be angry and dare not speak, and her words can only recommend them to take refuge in Matsudaira Ieyasu in Mikawa Province, otherwise, it is better to take the initiative to defect than to wait for the Imagawa family to slowly liquidate, and still save the strength to fight back.
In this way, when Naotora Ii learned that his brother had died on the way out of Sunfu Castle, he was even more determined and decided to help his retainers find a way out!
On July 22, after the reconciliation between Takeda Shingen and Hojo Shiyasu, Takasaka Masanobu, Takeda Nobuyoshi and others led their troops to withdraw from Izu Province. Of course, the gold mountain in Tufei City finally took away all the gold that had been mined. As for why Hojo Shiyasu was able to compete with the Kanto generals, he could only accept Takeda Shingen's proposal to recognize the occupation of the Takeda family in Suruga Province. The Hojo family was in charge of settling down the Kawa family. Naturally, Hojo Shiyasu's fourth son, Hojo Shigui, was able to return to Hojo's house peacefully. Moreover, the ownership of the Enoe Province naturally belongs to the Takeda family.
It was only two days before the news of the reconciliation reached Enoe, and after Takeda Nobushigeru gathered 7,000 troops to enter Enoe again, Hojo Shiyasu also sent Hojo Shiyasu to persuade Imagawa Shima to 'temporarily' abandon Toe Province and take refuge in Sagami Province.
When the Hojo Phantom Nunnery arrived, many Imagawa family retainers thought that the Hojo family came to mediate between the Takeda family and the Imagawa family, but they never thought that it was to persuade the Imagawa family to give up the territory! This especially made the three of Okabe Motonobu, Asahina Taichao, and Asahina Shinoki, who were still fighting on the Mikawa front and Enoe Kakegawa Castle, the most angry! As the last line of defense of the Imagawa family, they were not defeated by the Takeda family and the Imagawa family perished, but because of the incompetence of their lord, they actually listened to Hojo Han's partiality towards Sagami! This was unacceptable to them for a while. Although Asahina Shinji was the 150th cavalry general of the Imagawa family, it was a great shame to let him leave his homeland and cooperate with the takeover of the Takeda family.
After many Yuanjiang wealthy families threw themselves into the arms of the Takeda family, Okabe Motoshin and others were helpless, but the three of Iiya went directly to the Matsudaira family after killing Ono Michiyoshi. In addition, the Hojo family directly gave up the alliance between the Imagawa family and the Imagawa family for their own survival, although they accepted the Imagawa clan and others on the surface, and they were able to settle down, but what is the difference between them and puppets? Moreover, the Imagawa family's territory in Mikawa was directly and indirectly given to Matsudaira Ieyasu, and Yoshida Castle, which Okabe Motonobu had been holding onto, was also declared to belong to the Matsudaira family.
As soon as he thought of this, Okabe Motonobu consulted with Asahina Shinji and Asahina Taichao, and both led a total of 200 samurai from various ministries who were still willing to be enemies of the Takeda family, and prepared to defect to Uesugi Asadachi in Musashi. At this moment, Ii Naotora didn't want to stay at Imagawa's house for a long time, and after she came into contact with Okabe Motonobu, she took the ten samurai of the Ii family and some of the maids of the family to leave Enoe by boat, and naturally accompanied them and their families. Ostensibly they were going to Sagami with the Imagawa family, but in fact they were preparing to sail directly into Musashi Edo Bay.
However, there are very few retainers of the Imagawa family who are willing to follow the Imagawa clan to Sagami, except for the Imagawa family's family members and genealogy retainers. For example, Sekiguchi Shihiro, Horikoshi Sadaki, Asai Masatoshi, and Asahina Motocho (Imagawa Yoshimoto's son-in-law) are four. As the genealogical retainers and members of the Imagawa family, they are naturally willing to follow the Imagawa clan all the time, and the people of the country are a little unhappy.
Takeda Shingen was ready to directly transfer Enoe Province and Suruga Province to important cities in various parts of Enoe Province, so he transferred part of Enoe's territory to Takasaka Masanobu, who became famous in the Izu War, and made him the lord of Inimajo Castle, with 20,000 koku; Naito Masahiro was the lord of the castle and received 8,000 stones; Ogasawara Nobuki was the lord of Mafuzuka Castle and had 6,000 koku; Ashida Shinfan was the lord of Jiutou Township and received 4,000 stones; Shimosone Nobutsuna was the lord of Futama Castle, and received 7,200 stones; Takasaka Masasumi was the lord of Tianfang City, receiving 4,500 stones. However, Takeda Nobuyoru, Kawawa Nobushi and others still returned to the Suruga territory.
That's not all, Takeda Shingen also took the Kakegawa Gold Mountain in the country of Enjiang into the owner's possession, and even the nearby shipping income was the same.
And Amano Keikukin, Ogasawara Nagatada, Watanabe Teru and other Yuanjiang wealthy clans Takeda Shingen only gave them the ability to block them, and there were no other rewards, at most, they verbally praised their actions for being good, and so on. Takeda Shingen also gave 3,100 stone of Suruga Asahi Mountain Castle to Kato Nobuni (Spectrum Castle), Enoe Koyama Castle 4,000 stone to Hinata Masari (Spectrum Generation, son of Hinata Tiger), Enoe Takatenjin Castle 12,000 stone to Kanamaru Masayoshi (Spectrum), and Tsurumino North Matsuno Castle 3,600 stone to Komai Masanao (Masanao).
With Takeda Shingen step-by-step transferring the genealogy and a retainer to the feudal family, the Kai Kingdom has almost become the direct leader of the Takeda family. In addition, a considerable part of the original Suruga Province was still the territory of the former Imagawa family's retainers, and now with Takeda Shingen's slowly transfer of the retainers, half of the land of Suruga has been under the control of the Takeda family. Two-thirds of the Ene Kingdom is still not under the control of the Takeda family, but depending on the situation, Takeda Shingen will definitely not let the Toe wealthy family stay too much, as the Takeda family must pass through the place of Kamiluo, the Enoe is going to be built into a military station-like existence, and the current Suruga Province has begun to prepare roads in various places.
At present, only Okabe Kuzuna, Okabe Masatsuna, Katsuyama Clan, Ojuku Nobutada (Tsunaji), Mijuku Tomotsuna, Sena Nobutiru, Ohara Zhenmi, Miura Yuanhisa, Miura Yoshikagami, and Pregnant Ishi Motoyasu still have the ability to block the documents issued by the Takeda family, and the other wealthy families were basically quickly cleaned up by Takeda Nobuyoshi. Okabe Masana and Okabe Motonobu are still brothers, but the two of them have taken different paths. Okabe Masatsuna first took refuge in the Takeda family, and as Okabe Masatsuna's younger brother, Okabe Motoshin held on to the territory for the Imagawa family, and in the end Okabe Motonobu was still unwilling to surrender to the Takeda family.
Let's talk about Okabe Motonobu and his party, who were originally sailing with the Imagawa clan's real ship. However, on the 28th, when the fleet sailed to Sagami Bay, more than a dozen ships of Okabe Motonobu and others all changed course and sailed directly into Kaneda Bay. This was unexpected by the Hojo Phantom An, who was on the same boat as the Imagawa clan and the Hojo clan, and the Izu naval army did not come to escort on time, so they could only watch Okabe Motonobu and the others drift away.
Two days later, all of these ships sailed into Edo Bay, and they met with Motonobu Okabe, Asahina Taichao, Asahina Shinji, Ii Naotora and Joshiro Hirosawa Tadanobu, who demanded to meet Asadatsu. Because of the importance of the matter, Hirosawa Tadanobu also knew that if he did not report it in time, the consequences would indeed be unimaginable, after all, this was the person who the Imagawa family had defected to, and they also brought two hundred and ten samurai and nearly a hundred family members with them. Tadanobu Hirosawa could only temporarily arrange for them to live in a dozen or so larger houses in Shinagawa, and they were all contracted.
Although the Hojo family regained the Izu country, after all, the stone height was only 79,000 koku. Although the original Izu people were able to return to their original territories, many Musashi clans, small machine people, and Edo people had no territory, which had to give Hojo clan Yasu a lot of headaches.
Hojo Shiyasu also knew the strength of the Uesugi family, and he could annihilate more than 10,000 elite Hojo troops in a one-to-one situation, which had to make many retainers in the family frightened. In particular, Yasukatsu Kasahara and others, who fled back desperately, did not dare to speak lightly of fighting with the Uesugi family. In contrast, Hojo Shiyasu could only set his sights on the Boso Peninsula. Although the strength of the Chiba family on the Boso Peninsula is not small, it is still pressed and beaten by the Yamamoto Temple Dingchang, and the Takashiro family has been driven out of Xiaojincheng and other places, and the national capital Taicheng has also been exposed under the soldiers of the Uesugi family. Even the Satomi family was able to break into Shimokoku, and the Hojo family had to think about the survival of their 'strong' ally. If the Chiba family is destroyed, then it will be really difficult for the Hojo family to fight Sagami, and the Satomi family's naval army is even stronger than the Izu naval army.
Although Hojo Phantom began to build and repair the city in Onoji Castle and other places, but after all, this is still too lazy to care, as long as the Uesugi family gathers troops to reach tens of thousands, then the Hojo family's territory in Musashi will also be lost in an instant. Now that the five-color preparation has existed in name only, the Hojo clan can ignore this army. Although his younger brother Hojo Shiyao was still the nominal general of Shirabi, most of the troops under his command were killed in Musashi-Isanuma or mining at Chichibu Kanayama.