On 30 May, just after Asadachi had been waiting for several days at Kawagoe Castle, news of Fujita Yasubang raising troops to support the Hojo family quickly arrived. Of course, his defection was also expected.

The two of them, Kiyoshi Kiyocho and Oishi Tsunagen of Itsunaga Castle in Kunimine Castle, quickly went south after being notified by Kato Danzo, and the Kiyochobu of Igawa Kiyonaga captured Tenjin Mountain Castle in one day with a force of 1,400 troops! And Fujita Yasumi is still on the way to the bowl castle with a thousand troops at the moment.

When Oishi Tsunagen led 2,300 troops into Tenjinyama Castle, Fujita Yasukuni learned the news and gave up his plan to attack Bowlata, but when he arrived at the castle, he found that his son, the main room, the side room, and other heads were all hung on the castle, and the people had long known that Uesugi Asadashi had been appointed by the shogunate as Musashi's guardian, and they were even more reluctant to resist. After seeing that the samurai and ashigaru under his command were unwilling to fight, Fujita Yasukuni could only take three of his cronies to join the Hojo clan.

After discussing with Oishi Tsunamoto, Kiyoshi Tsunaga led the almost undamaged army of the headquarters with 1,400 troops and rushed to Kawagoe Castle to support the Asada, while Oishi Tsunagen was responsible for sending people to guard the territory of Honjo

In this way, the encirclement net woven by Hojo Shiyasu broke a big hole in an instant. The Uesugi family in Fukaya didn't dare to meet the envoy of the Hojo family, because Uesugi Kenken had long known that Ueno's Uesugi army had gone south, and if he was to die at this time, wouldn't it be obvious that he wanted to work against the Uesugi family? He didn't want the Fukaya Uesugi family to perish in his generation, so he looked at his son Uesugi Kenmori, who had just been subdued, and immediately ordered his retainers to behead the Hojo family's envoy and send the head to Tenjin Mountain Castle. In this way, he can show that he will not come into contact with the Hojo family.

Fujita Yasumon is the most unlucky, and the envoy of the Hojo family said that the Fukaya Uesugi family, the Narita family, and the Oda family will all be allies of the Hojo family. However, the fact is that the Fukaya Uesugi family is bent on not befriending the Hojo family, and the Oda family's Qixi Castle was also captured, and the Narita family itself could not be protected. Fujita Yasumi's younger brother, Fujita Shigeren, was also killed by the Uesugi army in the castle.

And not all the supporters of the Hojo family in Shimoso can support the Hojo clan Yasu's war in Musashi, such as the Chiba family and the sea family (when the main sea Yintomi) is to watch over the Satomi family for the Hojo family.

There is also bad news for Uesugi Asadashi - the head of the Musashi Setagani Kira family, Kira Yoriyasu, also announced his support for the Hojo family, and led a thousand troops north to support. In this way, the wealthy families and people in Musashi who were willing to support the Hojo family jumped out, and even the people of the lower head of the country came. This seems to be exactly what Saito Michizo expected.

Actually, I have to talk about this Musashi Kira family. This time, Kira Yoriyasu also made a lot of money to let the Uesugi family leave Musashi again, but he brought out all the two hundred horseback samurai! And if one of the reinforcements from the Hara family, the Takajo family and other reinforcements to support the Hojo clan Yasu, there were 100 samurai on horseback, it would be a face for the Hojo family, and he would already be counting the Hojo family with gold on their faces! The Kira army, which had 200 samurai on horseback, had only 1,000 troops, which was equivalent to a ratio of infantry to cavalry of five to one, which was something that ordinary wealthy families could not afford. And Kira Yoriyasu has long been secretly colluding with Hojo, but he didn't show it prematurely, it can be said that if it weren't for Hojo Shiyasu's army entering Musashi, then this 'lurker' would continue to lurk.

The Sengoku daimyo Hojo clan Yasu wanted to marry his daughter to Kira Clan's adopted son, Kira Yoriyasu, a fellow of the Ashikaga shogun's family, and his uncle Hojo Nagatsuna (Hojo Han-an) sent Shiyasu's daughter a pleading, which was later called "Hojo Phantom-an Kakusho", which was a pleading, a book about the introduction of the Kira family's family style and specifications, and the content was the daily behavior and upbringing of the main room of the Kira family. In particular, it is necessary to respectfully call Lai Kang a "pro-Fang Style" and respect the Fujun Dynasty as a "Shang Sample".

For the in-laws of the Hojo family, there are really not many people who know, after all, the Hojo clan Yasu did this very secretly.

Unlike Kira Yoriyasu, the lord of Akatsuka Castle, Yasuaki Akatsuka, who had long taken refuge in the Hojo family, and the main board of Itabashi Castle, Hashigo, came to the old territory with the Hojo army, and immediately raised an army with a total of two thousand to assist the Hojo family in their attack on the Uesugi domain. The strength of these two thousand troops still has a lot of moisture. Not long after the two of them returned to their old territories, many of the lords fled to the north due to famine and exorbitant taxes, and the remaining lords and the lands that continued to be loyal to them were also few, and the 2,000 troops were basically improvised peasant soldiers, and it can be said that there were not many conscriptions!

And the Hojo clan can't chill their hearts, since they have the heart to work for the Hojo family, why not? He then arranged for them to go to Inamura Castle, and ordered the two of them to be well guarded, and not to leave without orders. Hojo Shiyasu's idea is to let them garrison Inamura Castle, and if they want to fight with the Uesugi army, it is undoubtedly to die, it is better to keep it for themselves, showing that they have so many people to support them, but Uesugi Asadashi does not have the support of many local samurai.

In fact, the only samurai who supported the dynasty were the genealogical retainers of the Uesugi family, and they preferred not to have a territory than follow Uesugi Kenkatsu. They think that the orthodox Uesugi Dynasty must be the head of the Uesugi family, and the puppet of Uesugi Kenkatsu will always be just a lackey of the Hojo family, what is the difference between being loyal to him and being loyal to his sworn enemy?

For the time being, although the territory of Uesugi Asadachi was not as large as that of the Hojo clan, the number of standing armies was greater than that of the Hojo family. Especially cavalry, iron artillery units, samurai units, etc. Similarly, even if Hojo Shiyasu had the last three-color reserve of the five-color reserve, the Shangshu soldiers, who had been trained for several months not long after the formation of the Light Dynasty, were not on the same level as the five-color reserve in terms of combat effectiveness and morale. Most of the Shangzhou soldiers are refugees who have come to defect, and the people selected among these people, their families have been properly resettled, as well as newly planned fields, jobs, etc., and they still don't repay them with death? This is just like the army recruited by Aizu, and after Asadachi led his own army and Echigo soldiers into Aizu, he abolished a series of harsh taxes and tyranny promulgated by the Ashina family, and destroyed the old Ashina family, but did not let the Aizu Ashina family perish. The Aizu people have received grace and benefits, and it is natural that they should serve the Uesugi family loyally, and the battle outside Namba Castle is the best interpretation: after one group of ashigaru is all killed, the second group of ashigaru continues, and after the second group dies, the third group continues to fight······

Such a human heart does not mean that there exists, and the Hojo clan has been listed as a traitor by the imperial court, and the shogunate has issued a crusade order. It can be said that he almost became an enemy of the DPRK, and the DPRK believes that the current Hojo family does not need to become an enemy of the DPRK, because it is not worthy! The reason why many Musashi and Shimoji will follow the Hojo family is completely because the Hojo family is very strong, and the Imagawa family and the Takeda family are all his allies! If it weren't for this layer, I'm afraid I wouldn't want to have anything to do with him.

Then again, though. The former Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine was in disrepair due to war and disrepair, and no one cared about it. After the Hojo clan swallowed the country of Sagami, he paid for repairs and reconstructions out of his own pocket. Speaking of Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine, it is a sacred place of the Kanto samurai family since the Minamoto Yoritomo period, and the town protects Kamakura, and is also regarded as the guardian saint of the Kanto samurai family, and has been maintained by the Kamakura government (Kamakura shogunate) from generation to generation. But after the disintegration and division of the Kamakura shogunate, this kind of thing has been left unattended, and it can be said that it lasted for more than a hundred years! When the Hojo clan took control of Kamakura, he had no obligation to repair and rebuild, which was originally a matter for the Kanto Governor and the Furukawa Princess. In contrast, the Hojo clan not only took the initiative to send people to repair the Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine, but also Hakone Gonen in Sagami, Izuyama Gongen in Izu, Ichinomiya Mishima Shrine in Izu, Ichinomiya Hankawa Shrine in Sagami, Sagami Shrine, and so on. At the time, he thought that if these areas were maintained and renovated, he would be able to manage the Izu and Sagami countries more stably, and he proved to be successful. The Hojo family's practice of repairing shrines and temples in various places was entirely to boast of their national and economic strength, and also indirectly opposed the two Uesugi (Yamauchi and Ogiya).

As a means of inheriting the Hojo clan, he was willing to choose the latter directly first for the two choices of loving the people and soothing the people and war. He knew that as long as the fight was over, he could slowly implement the former's love for the people and care for the people.

Almost at the same time that Fujita Yasumi raised his flag and defected, the Hojo Army launched an attack on Namba Castle. Although the current Hojo Army has lost 1,200 troops, with the support of wealthy clans and countrymen from all over the country, the Hojo Army has reached 22,300 people! And the army that directly surrounded Namba Tian Castle had already reached more than six thousand! This is really stressful for Kenji Namba. He has never fought a battle to defend the city since the Uesugi family in the Izushi Ogiya Valley! This made him very embarrassed, and although he was assisted by many retainers, he was still a little panicked. But fortunately, Toshimitsu Anazawa had fought with the Uesugi army, and he also had some tactics to defend the city, and there was no one in the city who would defend the city.

On this day, Kenji Namba Tian wore a black lacquered carcass and a white robe, and sat in the tea house of Ninomaru. This tea hermitage was specially built by his father, Namba Ta Kenshige, to entertain tea people and literati who came to Musashi from all over the world, but now it has become the main camp of Namba Ta Kenji. He thought that wearing the white robes of the Heyue Knights would calm him down, after all, he had not been defeated under the leadership of the court.

"Report to the General General! The enemy is moving! The first to advance was the Kira Army! A samurai dressed in a carcass came to report and left. This made Namba Kenji's brow furrow.

"Isn't the Kira family a distant relative of the Shogun? Toshimitsu Anazawa, you let them see the strength of our army! Namba Kenji then nodded to Toshimitsu Anazawa, who was sitting cross-legged on his right.

"Yes." Toshimitsu Anazawa then retired, knowing in his heart that the time had come for him to perform. As a famous family in Aizu, he naturally can't let others look down on him, and he also wants the Anazawa family to be famous all over the world!

Just when Toshimitsu Anazawa arrived at the south gate of Sannomaru in Namba Tajo, he heard the low and melodious sound of the conch reaching his ears, and the horn of war had been sounded!

The archers of the Kira army continued to shoot arrows into the city, and the commander of Anzawa Toshimitsu who guarded the south gate only had 300 troops in the headquarters and 500 troops in the Wushu army. He first ordered his troops to be well concealed, and then to fire arrows when the enemy approached.

And the Kira army slowly advanced under the cover of the ashigaru bamboo bundle, although they only had a thousand troops, but in terms of combat effectiveness, they were no worse than the five colors of the Hojo family. And Kira Raiyasu came this time to get some territory in the event of victory after the war.

The first echelon of the Kira army stopped when they reached the tsukihori near the city gate, and they did not come with siege equipment such as rams, which meant that they had to climb the city walls. However, Namba Castle is not something that can be climbed, not to mention that the slope of the castle wall reaches 60 degrees, and they have to enter the earthen hori before they can climb it.

In this way, the first batch of twenty saber ashigaru who were not afraid of life and death took the lead in biting the knife and climbing hard, and at this moment, Anzawa Toshimitsu ordered the Wuzhou soldiers to throw the stones and logs that had been prepared from the city, and they continued to hide after throwing them. The logs and stones quickly rolled down from under the castle, and immediately smashed down the Kira Gunashigaru, who were still three or four meters away from the castle, and they let out a terrible wail when they were hit. In a short time, the corpses of Kira Gunashigaru were piled up in the earthen garden on the left side of the south gate, and none of them survived.

This made Kira Raiyasu, who was supervising the battle behind, furious, and immediately ordered the hundred bows under his command to continue to fire arrows. However, their arrows barely hit a single person, so it should be said that the walls of Namba Castle were too high? Or should I say that Kirajun's archery skills are too bad?

After the Kira army released three volleys, the 100 gunners with two flags behind them also began to attack from the bamboo bundle array. At this moment, Toshimitsu Anazawa shouted, "Release the arrow!" Immediately, the long-awaited Uesugi Army's archers drew their bows and arrows, and quickly aimed at the Kira Army's spears and arrows, which were still charging. With the rapid release of arrows by a hundred bows, the Kira army ashigaru who was gradually approaching the city gate were killed one after another, and the heroic dozen gunashigaru still ran near the city gate. However, they were then set on fire and shot into hedgehogs.

As more and more ashigaru fell, Kira Yoriyasu discovered that Uesugi Jun was not a soft persimmon that he could pinch whenever he wanted. Less than an hour after the battle began, more than 100 people had already been killed in the army under his command, and nearly 50 people were injured! This is all a conscription of Ashigaru, he knew that Namba Ta Castle was so difficult to fight, so he should have found a large number of peasant soldiers to charge as cannon fodder.

Soon, Kira Yoriyasu called off the siege, and he led his troops to stand by and reported to Hojo Shiyasu asking him to send someone to support him. After all, Kira's army had already suffered more than a tenth of the casualties, and he didn't dare to attack the city at will. He would not act rashly until the Hojo Army transported the siege equipment.

In fact, it is not only Kira Raiyasu's team that lacks siege equipment, but also Tominaga Naokei. Although his 1,300 Qingbei troops and the 200 troops of the Hojo clan's old army surrounded the west gate, they could only use the stupid method of attacking - filling up the soil on the side of the city wall and climbing the city wall. This method has to pay a lot of casualties, especially the ashigaru who is responsible for filling up the mori.

And the guard of the west gate was Ogasawara Nagatoki, although he came out of the Uesugi family, but in his heart he still wanted to enter Shinano's homeland in the future. He knew in his heart that as long as Namba Tajo Castle was lost, then the Hojo Army would be able to drive straight into Musashi and take all Uesugi Castles in an instant. Ogasawara's headquarters had a hundred bows and a hundred spears at the West Gate, but Namba Kenji still gave Ogasawara a 300-man Takeshu soldier.

Ogasawara was not afraid of the Hojo Army, which was more than twice as strong as him outside the city, and he was now seated in the arrow turret, waiting for the Hojo Army to attack. There were enough logs and stones by the city walls.

"The ashigaru team stepped forward to fill the dirtiri!" Tominaga Naokakatsu wanted to atone for his sins, so he specially asked Hojo Shiyasu for this hard work for the siege. All he has to do is storm the city, and he will be disgraced! Then he waved his baton.

"Oh!" The first batch of 200 ashigaru who did not take weapons and removed the flag fingers were just like this, holding a sandbag and sprinting without fear of life and death. But they didn't notice why there were no bows and arrows on the top of the city to stop them.

"My lord, they still have twenty steps!" Just as one of the samurai had just retired, Ogasawara got up to check on the situation outside the castle.

"My lord, they've already entered the Tsuchihori!" This is, another samurai came to report.

"It's now! Shoot the arrows! "Ogasawara didn't want to waste arrows for a long time, didn't you Hojo Army want to fill in the earth? Then fill it with your corpses!

At the order of Ogasawara Nagashi, a hundred ashigaru armed with heavy wisteria bows fired arrows at the Hojo army Ashigaru who was still filling in the dirt horri. As the screams came, they still didn't stop firing their arrows. It wasn't until Tominaga Naokakatsu dispatched his subordinate Ashigaru to cover the bow with a bamboo bundle and release the arrows lightly.

When Tominaga Naokakatsu took a cursory look, he realized that only 90 of the 200 Ashigaru who rushed up survived, and most of them threw their sandbags into the earthen hori. However, there are still 110 Ashigaru who were shot by the Uesugi army without throwing sandbags into the earthen hori, and that's not counting. Dozens of corpses were lying in the mori.

Who was Ogasawara for a long time? After the famous door of the bow horse! The heavy vine bowshishigaku he formed were all stronger than the average bowshigaku. Moreover, the penetration of the heavy vine bow is a bit stronger than that of ordinary bows, which also makes the survival rate of the enemy army a little lower.

However, Tominaga wasn't ready to stop. He immediately dispatched 100 Ashigaru members of the Hojo clan's old department to fill the gap. This time, Tominaga Naokakatsu learned wisely, and he ordered the three hundred men of Bowashigaru to suppress the castle head with continuous fire, and let them fill the earthen hori. However, Tominaga Naokakatsu still underestimated Ogasawara for a long time.

Ogasawara had learned a little from fighting with Takeda Shingen for a long time, and he immediately ordered his subordinate Ashigaru to move two small catapults out in the rain of arrows. These two small catapults were built in his spare time, and he really didn't know how lethal they were.

"Cast!" Ogasawara also braved the rain of arrows to come to the catapult and gave the order to throw stones.

"Yes!" Immediately, after the two ashigaru each pulled down the rope with great force, the two stones that had just been placed were thrown out. And these two stones instantly smashed the three piles of bamboo bundles that were covering for the bow and ashigaru, and also smashed several Hojo military ashigaru.

"Go on!" Ogasawara heard movement outside the castle for a long time, but now the Hojo Army didn't dare to release arrows.

After several stones fell from the sky and hit the Ashigaru of the Hojo Army one after another, Tominaga Naokikatsu temporarily stopped the attack. Although the earth bori has been filled with seventy-seven eighty-eight, but now that there are catapults in the city, he really doesn't dare to attack the city at will.

At the same time, both the northern and eastern Hojo coalition forces began to attack the city, especially after learning that the south and west gates had begun to attack the city, and they were even more reluctant to fall behind them! In charge of the east and north gates are Ishimaru Jotaro (owner of Ishimarukan) and Yasuyuki Naito (lord of Tsukui Castle). Ishimaru's team was small in number, only 900 troops, but behind him was the 1,000 troops of Kasawara Iekei's team, which was responsible for assisting the Ishimaru team, which was actually to supervise the battle, and if anyone escaped, they would be killed on the spot. And Naito Yasuyuki outside the North Gate was originally a retainer of the Hojo family, and the Hojo clan Yasudang did not need to be wary of him. Although the number of Naito's team was 2,000, half of them were peasants!

Hojo Shiyasu himself led the coalition army to watch the Namba Castle surrounded by more than 6,400 troops from a temporary platform 1,000 steps away from Namba Castle. However, the first to reach him was naturally the samurai sent by Tominaga Naokatsu and Kira Yoriyasu, saying that they were unable to continue the attack.

"Humph! As far as I know, there were less than 4,000 Uesugi troops in the castle, and hundreds were wounded. Is this still difficult to fight? "The Hojo clan is a little confused, in the past few days, reinforcements from the original family, the Takajo family and others have arrived, and the Hojo army has risen to more than 22,000, what is he afraid of? Most of the Echigo soldiers had already withdrawn to Echigo, and even if some were left in Ueno, it wouldn't be 'too much', at least that's what Hojo Shiyasu thought.

"Report! Fujita Yasuboden was defeated, and Tenjin Yama Castle was captured by the Uesugi army! Just as Hojo was still thinking about who to attack after taking the entire Musashi, a samurai came over and interrupted his train of thought.

"What? Uesugi Army? How much? Hojo didn't expect the Uesugi army to quickly defeat Fujita Yasubang, which was not what he expected.

"Yes, it's the Uesugi Army of Hirai Castle and Kunimine Castle, about 3,000 people." The samurai only knew an approximate number.

"You go first." Hojo Shiyasu waved his hand, and he quickly fell into deep thought. He didn't understand how it was possible that the Uesugi army had gone south so soon!

"My lord, it is impossible for the two teams of Uesugi to merge without coordination, and the new Kanto commander doesn't seem to be simple!" Yasukatsu Kasahara, who was next to Hojo Shiyasu, interjected directly, thinking that the Echigo retainers would not easily listen to the orders of Uesugi Asada, and it must be the orders of Uesugi Masata.

"Long-tailed Jinghu, I want to see how powerful your retainers are!" Hojo Yasuke has always refused to admit that the Nagao family inherited the Uesugi family (until the end, the Etsusho alliance Hojo Yasushi called the dragon girl 'Yamanuchiden', which was never said before).

"Lord, the military strength of the Phantom Temple is stationed in the Eight Princes City, as long as the Eight Princes City is still in the hands of the family, then there is no need to worry." Kasahara Yasukatsu is not in a hurry, Hachioji Castle is easy to defend and difficult to attack, not to mention that there is Oishi Seihisa of Tokura Castle.

"Well, if the remaining two doors also fail, then we will fight again tomorrow!" Hojo didn't have the heart to continue watching, he just wanted to go and rest for a while now.

"Yes." Kasahara Yasukatsu didn't take the initiative to ask to attack the city, so his white preparation didn't have any losses.

"Lord, they won't attack Hachioji City." As soon as these words came out, Hojo Shiyasu immediately stopped.

"Tsunade, what do you mean by that?" Hojo Shiyasu didn't understand, even if he wanted to besiege Wei and save Zhao, he had to take Hachioji City to threaten the Hojo family, but what if he didn't fight Hachioji City?

"Lord Mingjian, if they didn't have more than 15,000 troops, it would be impossible for them to take the Eight Princes City in a short period of time. In other words, if the Uesugi army really had 15,000 troops, it would not attack Hachioji Castle, but would go south to rescue Namba Castle. Hojo Tsunari saw a hint of detail.

"If you take Hachioji Castle, you will be able to go south and capture the various castles of your family in Sagami, and instead of fighting, you will rescue a Namba Castle ······" Hojo Shiyasu touched his beard a little and thought, "Who is the general of the Uesugi Army?" ”

"Kenji Namba, the second elder of the Uesugi dynasty." Yasukatsu Kasahara didn't even think about saying it directly, he didn't know what the role of Kenji Namba was too big.

"There is an allusion in the Ming Kingdom that is 'encircling the point to send reinforcements', and my family is now in the 'encirclement point', and the reinforcements have not appeared." Hojo Shiyasu wanted to learn from Takeda Shingen, and first defeated thousands of reinforcements from the Uesugi army and then took Kitashinano Shiga Castle.

"The most classic example is that Kasawara Kiyoshi, the lord of Shiga Castle, was defeated by the Takeda army." Hojo Tsunari thought the same as Hojo Yasu, although he didn't approve of this, it was best to take Musashi quickly, otherwise the Uesugi army would definitely come, and then he would have to suffer from the enemy.