Dahu Castle is a flat castle consisting of the Renkaku style (Honmaru, Ninomaru) and the Rinkaku style, located to the south of Mt. Akagi, separated by a slender hilly area with a small north-south hori cut. 670 meters from north to south and 490 meters from east to west, the castle tower is a three-story castle tower consisting of Honmaru, Ninomaru, Sannomaru (south side), Shinomaru (south side), Tamazumin Temple (west side), Negaya (east side), and Echichu Yashiki (north side).

Hosokawa Senomaru led the crowd to the observation deck of the castle tower, watching the battle situation condescendingly, and analyzing and commenting on the battle situation is one of the subjects of the Hosokawa family's military law. This was not the first time they had participated in war, as they had already seen many battles up close during their travels. One of the most classic is the Battle of Kawanakajima, which was later called the First Battle of Kawanakajima, and is now called the Battle of Hachiman. On April 22, 1553, Takeda Shingen fought against the allied forces of Murakami Yoshikiyo, Nagao Keitora (Uesugi Kenshin), and the Kita-Shinano clan at Hachiman.

At that time, Hosokawa Senomaru used the name of the shogunate to agree with the two families to be a neutral army, and the banner of the Hosokawa family was erected on the hill next to the battle. Just like a referee, you can observe the two armies up close and make comments on the spot. However, the solemn atmosphere at the scene really made the little ones feel the bloodshed and cruelty of the war in advance.

"Well, in this battle, the Hojo family quickly attacked and surrounded Dahu Castle with 3,000 armaments, and the Dahu family only hurriedly mobilized 300 people from the castle town due to lack of intelligence, and entered the city to meet the battle. Now the Hojo family has begun to tentatively attack the city, and the banner should be Hojo Tsunari. Honda Masanobu was in charge of explaining the battle situation on the side, while Hosokawa Tokumaru was on the side to guide the main points of the battle situation from time to time: "This is the speed of the soldiers...... That's how important intelligence is...... This is..."

Japan's siege warfare is relatively boring, unlike China, which has siege equipment, except for besieging the city and cutting off food, that is, climbing the city or storming the Datemen. That's right, it's a castle climb, and the Japanese stone wall is built with a slope, and the stone surface can be climbed, but even if you climb the stone wall, there will be a wall to block it, and there is a narrow hole (perforation) in the wall to defend against counterattacks.

Looking at the below, although shouting to kill the heavens, it is thunder and rain, each other's attacks are limited, and the casualties are very small, no wonder in this era, it is often heard that a certain city resists thousands of troops with hundreds of troops.

"It's really depressing, those guns are just decorations, the top can't poke the bottom, and the bottom can't poke the top. In the future, my spear must be able to poke at the top and at the bottom. Nabe Nosuke muttered quietly on the side, Hosokawa Senmaru glanced back at this anxious child, and said, "I'll rub, you can go up and down when you have a bamboo dragonfly." Cut! ”

"Thank you for the name, and in the future, my pot nosuke's spear will be called Dragonfly Cut." Nabenosuke was elated and grateful, Hosokawa Senomaru covered his forehead and thought to himself [This Nabenosuke is brave but brave, but his head is not very bright]

Within a few days, in order to save the lives of the whole city, Dahu Xiugang surrendered in Kaesong, and his grandson went to Odawara Castle as a hostage, while the Dahu family moved to Shangquan Castle to settle down. As a result, half a month later, his father, Daihu Musashi Shouhideji, was also angry to death, and he trapped himself in his room all day long, drinking to kill his sorrows.

"Lord Isemori, please cheer up, the Dahu clan will still rely on you to support you." Hosokawa Smart Pill came over specially to persuade Dahu Xiugang this time, "Hey." It's over, it's all over. Yagatata-sama! Do you know...... "The so-called drunken spit out the truth, in fact, is to talk a lot, and Dahu Xiugang began to drunken tell the history of the fate of their Dahu family.

It turned out that their Dahu clan was from the Fujiwara surname Ashikaga clan, a famous family of samurai for generations, and it was the highest family in Ueno Province. It is no wonder that in the early years, the big Hu Xiugang went to the Ogasawara clan Takashi and asked to learn the secret "Ogasawara-ryu Art of War", and he actually taught him, you must know that the Ogasawara family has been the master of the art of war for generations since the Kamakura period in the early 12th century.

Later, in the middle of the Muromachi period, during the Totoku period (1452~1455), the old domain of the Daihu clan had been lost seven or eight out of ten, and since then the Daihu clan has begun to decline, and in order to avoid the demise of the Daihu clan, the national master of Ise, Tango, and Shima at that time was Isshiki Sakyo Daifu Yoshina (a distant relative of the Daihu family). Ichishiki Gengoro Yoshihide drove from Kyoto to Shangzhou, assisted the Dahu clan to revivenation, and later built Shangquan Castle, and used the place name as the Miao character, renamed Shangquan Yoshihide (Dahu Xiugang's great-grandfather). The Shangzhou Shangquan clan, a tributary of the Dahu clan, rose here.

Due to the rise of the Umizumi clan, the Uesugi clan became the official of the Uesugi family in the Kanto region, and the Uesuimi clan even received Dahu, Kamiizumi, Yamagami, Hanawa, and Mimata. And Umiizumi Yoshihide himself was also friendly with Nagao Keishinobu and Keiharu, the head of the Uesugi clan in Yamauchi. The so-called rich is only three generations, and the Kamiizumi clan, who was originally the pawn of the Uesugi clan and the Hojo family, actually appeared in the family's clan Dahu Chongxing's dishonorable defection to the Hojo family, causing the edifice established by the three generations of the Kamiizumi clan to collapse in an instant. Shangquan Yoshitsuna (Dahu Xiugang's father) was filled with righteous indignation, brazenly recaptured Dahu City, and changed his name to Dahu Xiuji, for the meaning of inheritance, and said goodbye to the original shameless one. Now that Dahu City is broken, and he is old, he didn't come up in one breath, so he went to see his ancestors and ancestors.

Speaking of Dahu Xiugang is also a lucky person, in this joint battle, the hostile Hojo clan Yasu is half of his apprentice, Hojo Tsunade is his father-in-law, and even his sister-in-law Xiuyin is also an official in the Hojo family, if he surrenders by someone else, he will have been cut out of his stomach and apologized.

Looking at the big Hu Xiugang who was still chattering, Hosokawa Clever Pill knew that this person, who was praised as the strongest sword saint by later generations, relied not on his background, not because of his official position in the first half of his life, but because of his wandering in the second half of his life, because of his unparalleled swordsmanship.

"Don't be discouraged Ise-samarum, there are still a long way to go, and we have to accept the reality and look forward to the future." Hosokawa Senimaru interrupted the big Hu Xiuzuna, who was still pouring bitter water.

"Shut up! You don't understand! You don't understand! Dahu Xiugang suddenly stood up tyrannically, and the boredom in his heart made him angry with Hosokawa Smart Pill.

Hosokawa Senimaru looked at Dahu Xiugang in astonishment, he was like an angry lion, and he became a dog.

"Hey~ It's the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other." Hosokawa Smart Pill's words were like a heavy blow, shattering Dahu Xiugang's heart defense.

The sorrow of a small lord in the Warring States Period, Dahu Xiugang's personal loyalty is powerless to change the inertia of the inhabitants in the territory. In order to protect their personal property, the retainers gradually became more and more similar to the movements of the people of other countries.

With the popular idea of "serving Uesugi today, Hojo tomorrow", it is not difficult to imagine why so many people fall on both sides. In fact, the people of Kanto have long been oscillating between Nagao Keitora and Hojo Shiyasu. This includes the defection of the Dahu clan, and the entry of his eldest son, Kamiizumi Tokirosuke Hideyin, into the Hojo family without authorization. In addition, a while ago, the Hojo family surrendered for the sake of the people, and the Hojo family took the opportunity to bring his grandson back to Odawara Castle, and it is foreseeable that the Kamiizumi clan will be completely subordinate to the Hojo family in the future, so that Dahu Xiugang is completely lost. In particular, the extremely shameful practices of subordination, sons, fathers, and brothers killing each other have made Dahu Xiugang have a strong misanthropic view.

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