After the soldiers of the Kuroda family under the leadership of Hanafang Masayuki captured Yamanaka Castle, several small castles in the vicinity were already concentrated in the mountains because of their strength. In fact, there is no defensive force at all, and in the face of the attack of the Kuroda family, it is completely undefended.

For example, the surrounding Yehara Castle, Otake Castle, Hirai Castle, and Atami Castle, the Kuroda family only sent a little bit of men and horses, and they attacked it a little. After the capture of Hirai Castle, the Kuroda family began to attack Nirayama Castle.

Speaking of Nirayama Castle, in fact, it is the most important castle, and it is relatively important for the Hojo family, because it is the birthplace of Hojo Sakumo, and it actually has a very important significance for the Hojo family, just like the significance of Nanjing Castle to the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the Hojo family still arranged more than 2,400 soldiers to defend under the leadership of the lord of the city, the Hojo clan.

Hojo Clan Noriki is the fourth son of Hojo Clanyasu, the male of Kanto, and his mother is the daughter of the Imagawa clan. Hojo spent his childhood at the Suruga Imagawa family, where he was a hostage of the Imagawa family for a period of time in order to maintain the covenant between Hojo and Imagawa, and was raised by his maternal grandmother, Shouguini.

It was also at this time that the Hojo clan became close to Matsudaira Motoyasu, who was also a hostage at Imagawa Yoshimoto, and because of this opportunity, almost all the diplomatic negotiations between the Hojo family and the Tokugawa family in the future were handled by the Hojo clan.

Hojo returned to Odawara Castle from the Imagawa family during the Eiroku period, ending his career as a hostage, and soon after, under the leadership of his father Yasuyasu, he married the daughter of Hojo Tsunari, the lord of Jade Rope Castle, and inherited Hojo Tsunari's adoptive father, Hojo to provide support for Masano, serving as the lord of Sagami Misaki Castle, leading Miura Ichigun, and at the same time began to use seals engraved with the word "true".

Later, when Takeda Shingen and Tokugawa Ieyasu attacked Suruga and carved up the territory of the Imagawa family, he was transferred to the castle lord of Izu Nirayama Castle to strengthen the rule of Izu Province for the Hojo family, and at the same time to mediate between the Takeda family and the Tokugawa family.

After the demise of the Takeda family in the tenth year of the day, Oda Nobunaga also died in the Honnoji Incident, and Kai, Shinano, Nishi-Ueno, and other places that originally belonged to the Takeda family suddenly became an empty country, and for the future development of their own family, the Tokugawa family and the Hojo family both intended to seize these territories, and the two sides competed for each other, and when the two were facing each other, the clan took on the task of the messenger and shuttled back and forth, and finally reached an agreement that Tokugawa Kai and Shinano, and the long-coveted Ueno was completely included in the Hojo family's domain, and Ieyasu's daughter Toki married the Hojo clan.

In the 14th year of Tensho, after Tokugawa Ieyasu Kamiraku officially joined Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Hideyoshi, in the name of the Taisei Minister, issued the "Kanto Ou Two Nothing Order", which disguised coerced the return of Hojo in Kanto, Date in Oshu, and the best daimyo in Hashu. In August of the 16th year of Tensho, the Hojo clan met with Hideyoshi as the Hojo family's envoy, and finally agreed to surrender as long as Sanada Masayuki, who was still entrenched in Ueno, returned Numata Castle to the Hojo family.

Unexpectedly, Inomata Kunito, a retainer of the Hojo clan, ignored Hideyoshi's agreement to bury the Sanada family's ancestors east of the Tone River (this is a few nonsense) in Kuruma Castle, which was still reserved for Sanada Masayuki, and brazenly sent troops to capture it, which caused Hideyoshi to be furious, so he launched an army of 220,000 troops to attack the Hojo family on March 1, Tensho 18.

In order to protect the Hojo family, the Hojo clan took on the heavy responsibility of negotiating with Hideyoshi and Ieyasu and ran around, but the Hojo clan and the Hojo clan still decided to defend Odawara Castle and not surrender. The clan had no choice but to return to Nirayama Castle to fight against the Hideyoshi army.

On June 24 of that year, the city of Niriyama was surrendered.

On 5 July, the Hojo clan and the brothers of the main battle faction, Daido Temple Masashi and Matsuda Kenhide committed suicide by cutting their stomachs to apologize. After the fall of Odawara, the Hojo clan was banished to Koyasan along with the last governor of the Hojo family, the Hojo clan.

In August of the 19th year of Tensho, the Hojo clan was recruited by Hideyoshi and gave him a territory of 2,000 koku in Hanoi, and the Hojo clan Naoya received 10,000 koku territory from Hideyoshi.

After the death of the Hojo clan, the Hojo clan inherited his domain, which was 12,000 koku from Kawachi Sayama, which was later passed on to his heir, the Hojo clan, and became the first generation of the Kawachi Sayama domain. Hojo died in Osaka on February 8, Keicho 5, at the age of 56.

Judging from his life trajectory, there are actually a lot of slots, he has a good relationship with Tokugawa Ieyasu, and in the previous diplomatic activities with the Tokugawa family, the results of the Hojo clan rules were actually in favor of the Tokugawa family.

And after his nephew died, he got all the territory of his nephew, why is that? Tokugawa Ieyasu's support, his son also became a feudal lord. What do you think of this person? Whether it's a loyal servant of the Hojo family or not, it's really hard to say.

At this time, Shimizu Yasuei also ordered the lord of the castle of Yunmi Kamiyama under his command, Takahashi Takama led 300 people under his command to defend, and under the command of Takahashi Takama, there were also his two sons Takahashi Takataka and Takahashi Takanobu, retainers Fukuda Kanyu, Akiyama Kojiro, Ito Uemon, Hutyama Tokuzaemon and others.

Why did Yasuei Shimizu send Takahashi Goldman Sachs to Nirayama Castle to defend?

First of all, Takahashi Goldmasa's territory is relatively large, because there are thousands of stone of territory, so his subordinates can make up three hundred soldiers, this is the only powerful family that Shimizu Yasuei can send after thinking twice.

Secondly, Takahashi Takamori is a very capable samurai, although many of the fiefs he got were inherited from his ancestors, but with his own efforts, with the continuous development of the Hojo family, he also made some military achievements, and at the same time expanded his territory by forty percent, which in itself represents his ability is very strong. Because in the Hojo family, if you want to acquire land, you also need to accumulate military achievements.

Thirdly, under the command of Takahashi Takasamo, there are very powerful samurai, including his two sons, as well as Fukuda Kanyu, Akiyama Kojiro, Ito Uemon, Hukayama Tokuzaemon and others, all of whom are samurai famous for their bravery, even in the Hojo family.

It is precisely because of the existence of these people that Yasuei Shimizu sent him here, hoping that through his martial arts and the strong combat power under his command, he can resist the attack of the Kuroda family!

And there is a reason why Nirayama Castle was able to become the birthplace of the Hojo family, since it was named Nirayama Castle, it was actually a flat castle, and the reason why it was so named because it was backed by Nirayama Mountain, which is also in the mountains of Izu Province, and its topographical advantage is that it is located in the middle of the mountains on all sides, which also leads to the fact that Nirayama Castle is located on the top of the mountain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.