Chapter 63: Clan's Worries

When Sanada Masayuki walked briskly to the door of the inner room, Asada and the dragon girl, who heard the footsteps, had to quickly arrange their clothes and sit down neatly in an instant. Although the dragon girl's face was flushed, she still pretended to be calm, but Sanada Masayuki didn't know what was happening.

"My lord, Uesugi Kenkatsu has fled to Jade Rope Castle, and Hojo Tsusunari has escorted him to Odawara Castle." As soon as Sanada Masayuki received the news, he immediately wanted to tell Chaoding, otherwise his little surname would come to an end.

"Well, if you don't have anything to do, you can step back first." Chao Ding waved his hand directly, he still hated the light bulb.

"Yes." Sanada Masayuki has been with Chaoding for a year and a half, and he still knows how to behave more or less. He then walked away quickly.

After a while, he sat down next to the dragon maiden, and handed the dragon maid a cocha with the bamboo and finch family crests on his body.

"Dengzi, just rely on this to make amends?" The dragon girl was obviously angry, and directly threw the concord to Chaoding.

"Don't, depending on the situation, we will join forces and the Kwantung generals will be able to send troops tomorrow and attack Sagami in a few days. Odawara Castle should not fight, this is also for the success of my strategy. Asadachi handed the Kyosashi to the dragon maiden again, "We will have a wedding in Kamakura's Tsuruoka Hachiman Shrine, which is just an early round house." I don't know if I will have time in the future, right? ”

"Humph! Don't think about it in the future! The dragon girl walked out slowly with the cocha in her breath, she still had a little pain in her lower body, and she couldn't stride out of the meteor.

"Hey, what a tsundere." Chao Ding shook his head and quickly left the inner room, if it weren't for Musashi's peace, he wouldn't dare to move Ayahime and the rest of his family into Kawagoe. Now, as long as he follows the plan, he can defeat Hojo's living forces and gain a complete foothold in Kanto. Besides, Aizu, Shimono, and the territories of Kitamusashi and Ueno where they are located are not connected, so they are somewhat inconvenient. Thankfully, Chao Ding has arranged Wise Mitsuhide, Tao Zhuo Zhenxuan and others, who can take charge of themselves, in the rear, and there is no need to worry about a fire in their backyard at present.

Having said that, after capturing a fast horse when leaving Kawasei Castle, Uesugi Kenkatsu 'got rid of' his pursuers after being chased by the Uesugi cavalry for a day and a night, and it took him three days to reach Tamasho Castle, which was garrisoned by Hojo Tsunari. When Hojo Tsunaitsu learned that Uesugi Kenkatsu had a confidential letter, he politely escorted him to Odawara Castle and asked him to meet with Hojo Shiyasu.

"Clan Kanggong, Uesugi Asada's tail can't grow." After Uesugi Kenkatsuichi entered the Ohiroma where Hojo Shiyasu was located, he immediately handed all the letters he was carrying to Hojo Shiyasu. This made Hojo Shiyasu, who was still drinking tea, stunned, and even the Hojo Phantom Temple next to him was helping to check.

"The paintings on these letters don't look like they're fake." Although Hojo Shiyasu is not like his grandfather, who was born as a close minister of the shogunate, he can still see a little fame by looking at the paintings.

"Yes, the poor monk doesn't look like the letter from the Soma family when he looks at it." Hojo Phantom has only studied the surrounding daimyos, and I don't know whether the letters like Akechi Mitsuhide and Tao Zhuo Needleken are true or false.

"I also finally took advantage of the opportunity that Uesugi Asada went out to worship Uesugi Asanori and other Uesugi family retainers who died in battle, and was found when I went out of the city, if I hadn't found a fast horse, maybe I would have lost my life there by now." Uesugi Kenkatsu has not replaced the carcass on his body until now, which makes Hojo Shiyasu and Hojo Hanan feel that they can believe it after looking at it. After all, the Wind Demon Ninja was completely unable to infiltrate the territory of the Uesugi family, which made the Hojo family have to defend the castle.

"My lord, Uesugi Asada-sama has killed the family's Taka-sama of the Tatsuyo Week, Lord Hojo Tsunaka, Lord Hojo Clan, Lord Ota Shitaka, Lord Ueda Asano, Lord Kenhide Matsuda, and Lord Yasutoshi Mamiya have been killed, and these hatreds have to be avenged!" Ryosei Ando, who was sitting on the side, couldn't help but complain, the 'five-color preparation' that the Hojo family was once proud of was greatly damaged after losing Kurobi led by Tame Mototada and Akabi led by Hojo Tsunataka in succession. Only Hojo Tsunari's Huang Bei's combat effectiveness still exists.

"Yes!" Hojo Yasuichi recalls that when he led his troops to pursue Uesugi Kenmasa, Tamu Mototada was defeated by the white-robed cavalry led by Uesugi Asadashi during his raid on the Kanto coalition army. That was the most humiliating battle for him, he was obviously nearby, but he couldn't return to the division in time to help!

"Acting as the leader, please go and freshen up with the lower officials." At the suggestion of Hojo Shiyasu, Nakayama Iefan led Uesugi Kenkatsu out of the tearoom to freshen up.

"Ueda Asanao's child is left with Ueda Kenda, and if he dies, then there really won't be any Musashi people to go to his family." Hojo Shiyasu recalled that the Ueda family had taken the initiative to take refuge and helped the Hojo family to take Edo and other places, and felt that he had really treated the Ueda family badly.

"My lord, don't think about sad things anymore, the Takeda family's power in Ueno has been expelled from Ueno by that old man. The newly formed Kohata Akabei also suffered heavy losses. It seems that the family will not be able to seek the help of the Takeda family. "Yasukei Ishinomaki was angry at the thought that the Takeda family could be defeated by the former retainers of Uesugi Kenmasa! Since the Takeda family was able to get in, why was they expelled in a vulnerable manner?

"Well, the Takeda family is also an ally of the family. The Takeda clan was defeated by the Nagao and Uesugi armies on Kawanakajima, losing thousands of troops and several important ministers. Even the Red Reserve Legion, which they were proud of, was completely wiped out, and the strongest legion that Takeda Shingen had spent more than ten years building was wiped out overnight, which must have been a big blow to the Takeda family. "Hojo Shiyasu knew that the price of vermilion lacquer was not cheap, not to mention the thousands of horseback warriors of the Red Reserve Legion, many of them were killed by the Uesugi army's iron cannon shot. In addition, Iitomi Huchang disobeyed Takeda Shingen's orders and failed in a night attack without authorization, resulting in the total annihilation of his troops.

"The Imagawa family is at least still supporting the family's 3,000 troops when they are still in Shangluo! The Takeda family didn't say anything about it, and they lost Ueno's 50,000 stone territory! Sheng Chang, who was drinking tea on the side, said angrily.

"Don't mention it, Lord Dadaoji doesn't know yet, Ling Ai was beheaded after Kawagoe Castle was captured by the Uesugi army." Tominaga Naokatsu, who had been looking at the Great Dao Temple and was dissatisfied, sneered and said. His status was promoted by virtue of his military merits, even if he is still a general of Qingbei, but his territory is not as prosperous as the Great Dao Temple, which does not even have many military merits.

"What?!" After listening to the Dadao Temple Shengchang, it was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day! He didn't think that after the Uesugi army broke the city, they would sacrifice their 'innocent' daughter to the flag! He fainted after a while, and when Hojo saw this, he immediately asked the little surname outside the door to carry him out.

"But then again, Uesugi Asadatsu didn't behead the daughter of Oishi Dinghisa, who had betrayed the Uesugi family, and let their mother and son leave Uesugi unharmed." Tominaga Naokumaki still cares about some information, and the spies under him are all hired foot traders, so the news is naturally much better than that of Hojo Shiyasu.

"Maybe it's because he has a child too." Hojo Masa, who had been sitting behind Hojo Shiyasu, finally spoke at this time, his child had only been born recently, and he was probably the only one sitting here who probably knew what was going on.

"Probably." Hojo Shiyasu was already deep in thought at the moment. He didn't know what he was going to do at the moment. Whether to defend the castle first and wait for the Nagao army to retreat and then attack the Ogiya Uesugi family, or to stay in Odawara Castle all the time. If he had chosen the latter, his grandfather would not have had to travel all the way from Kyoto to Kanto.

For a while, all the retainers in the Ohiroma were silent, and they all understood that this was the moment that decided the life and death of the Hojo family. They were all looking at Hojo with hope, hoping that he would make a decision as soon as possible.

After a while, Hojo Shiyasu finally spoke slowly: "Listen, as long as the Kanto generals and Nagao Keihu evacuate, they will immediately attack the Musashi Uesugi family, and be sure to expel the Uesugi family again!" If the family can drive them away once, there will be a second time! ”

"Oh!" The retainers who heard this were full of confidence, since their lords were not afraid, then they would be able to make meritorious contributions!

"Everyone go back and prepare, the Nagao family won't be in Kanto for too long." Hojo clan Yasu has decided to completely destroy the Uesugi family. Since Uesugi Asada's backyard is on fire, his main force will not stay in Musashi forever, and the Kamisu soldiers who remain behind to guard the Ueno stable bridge will also leave soon, so that as long as Nambata, Kawagoe, Iwatsuke and other places are captured, the Hojo family will once again be in Kanto! Just by capturing Musashi Province, a suitable foothold can be established in the Kanto region.

"Yes." The retainers then left, but Hojo Hanan did not go with them.

"Why is Uncle still here?" Hojo Shiyasu didn't understand a little bit about the thoughtful way Hojo Phantom was sitting there, and the military council had already decided why he didn't say something at the meeting.

"Lord, it's not that the poor monk wants to pour cold water on you. It's just that you don't know if Nagao Keitora is going to continue attacking the family or if he'll leave after Kamakura takes office. "Hojo Phantom is most worried about nothing else, but I am afraid that the people of other cities in Sagami will be sacked by the forces of the Kanto generals, which will make it even worse for the Hojo family.

"It doesn't matter, there are always casualties in war. Although my grandfather was in the spirit of saving the people from fire and water, they were not grateful! A single famine caused a large number of people to flee, and even many of the people in Sagami fled in the country. If it weren't for that, would he have been able to muster an army of 5,000 men in a short period of time? Also known as Shangzhou soldiers! "The more the Hojo clan said, the more popular it became, the Hojo and Ogiya Uesugi families are really national enemies, and the hatred is already inextricable, this is already a hatred that has been saved for generations, and if it really wants to end, it will only stop if one party is completely destroyed.

"Hey, my Buddha is compassionate." Hojo Phantom Nunnery can't say anything more now, at present, there are only 5,000 troops in Odawara Castle, and there are only more than 10,000 defenders in various important places in Sagami Province. The 3,000 troops garrisoned by Izu Province have not yet been fully mobilized, and although the Imagawa family has already supported the 3,000 troops, it is still a drop in the bucket.