After the attack on Kokuho Castle, Kohata Kenshige not only killed Kohata Keisun of the same clan and recaptured the original residence, but also used his original influence in Ganle County and Tahu County to attract the local wealthy families to surrender to the Takeda family and deliver the hostages.

This move completely caused the Nagano family to lose control of Ganraku County and Tahu County, as if a right arm had been cut off. The 3,000 troops of the Takeda family continued to attack the castle without stopping, and this time besieged Kurakano Castle, the outer branch of Minowa Castle.

After two or three sieges, Takeda Nobuyoru received a letter from the former head of the Hojo family, Hojo Shiyasu. At present, Hojo Shiyasu, who is known as the Sagami Lion, has passed the position of family governor to Hojo Clan, but he still holds the military and political power of the Hojo family.

Hojo Shiyasu's letter said that he wanted the Takeda family to transfer to Musashi Province, meet with the Hojo family's army led by him, and besiege Uesugi Kenkatsu, who was stationed at Musashi Matsuyama Castle. The generals of the Takeda family held a military council and decided to send troops to support the Hojo family's attack on Matsuyama Castle.

At that time, when the Takeda Army Hojo Army arrived, the powerful families of Ueno Province, who had a fine tradition of wall grass, such as Narita Nagayasu, Sano Masatsuna, Koyama Family, and Oda Family, changed the Great King Banner at the head of the castle, severed their relationship with Uesugi Kenshin, the Kanto Governor, and took refuge in the Hojo family.

Almost overnight, Uesugi Kenshin woke up from a dream and found that his power in Ueno Province had suddenly been reduced by half.

Since the Battle of Kawase, after the Hojo Army, which commanded 11,000 Hojo Army, defeated the 80,000 Kwantung Coalition Army, the name of the Ogiya Uesugi clan was cut off, and the Uesugi side of the former Kanto Governor was also severely damaged. Under the invasion of the Hojo family Musashi and Ueno, the former Kanto governor Uesugi Kenmasa had to go to Echigo in the 21st year of Astronomical to join Uesugi Kenshin, and began a ten-year sojourn life.

In the fourth year of Eiroku last year, four months before the fourth battle of Kawanakajima with Takeda Shingen. He asked Uesugi Kenmasa, who had been staying in the mountain castle of Chun and eating idle all day, to summon the Kanto group of heroes to march into the Hojo family in the name of the Kanto governor. At that time, the Hojo family, which was extremely unpopular, was besieged by 100,000 Kwantung coalition troops from Ueno, Shimono, Musashi, Hitachi, Kamiso, and Shimoso.

As a result, the Hojo family relied on the fortified castle Odawara Castle to survive strongly, and Uesugi Kenshin had to withdraw from the siege, and on the way back, he also pulled out the Hojo family's key fortress in Musashi Province, Matsuyama Castle, and sent Uesugi Kenkatsu to garrison it, and at the same time ordered the lord of Iwatsuke Castle, Ota Shikasa, to help defend Matsuyama Castle and prevent the Hojo family from extending their clutches into Ueno Province again.

After completing the Matsuyama Castle raids, Uesugi Kenshin was relieved to officially succeed the Kanto governor from his adoptive father Uesugi Kenmasa at Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine in Kamakura, and in his nominal capacity, he governed Musashi, Sagami, Hitachi, Kamiso, Shimono, Anbo, Ueno, and Shimono Kanto Prefecture, as well as Kai and Izu, a total of ten reiji countries.

However, later it turned out that such a righteous name was fundamentally unreliable in the Warring States Period. Uesugi Kenmasa was alive, and the wealthy families of Kanto didn't buy his account much, otherwise he wouldn't have been chased everywhere by the Hojo family like a lost dog, and even the main city of Hirai Castle was captured, and he had to go all the way to Echigo for refuge.

When Kenshin Uesugi succeeded to the Kanto region, the name was even less good.

When Uesugi Kenshin was strong, the group of tycoons saw that there was a bargain to pick up, and the Hojo family had been doing evil for a long time, so they all came to Odawara to beat the Hojo family as a rake, and after the fourth Kawanakajima battle, Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen were both defeated, and their influence in Ueno Country declined a lot.

At this time, the Hojo family united with the Takeda family to return their forces to Ueno Province, and the local wealthy clans, who put their own safety first, turned around, accused Uesugi Kenshin of being despicable and shameless, and then threw themselves into the warm arms of the head of the Hojo clan like a lost child.

After gaining the allegiance of some of the wealthy clans of Ueno Province, Hojo Shiyasu focused all his attention on Matsuyama Castle, and the Hojo family's army of 16,000 under the castle attacked Matsuyama Castle with all his might.

Therefore, when the army of the 3,000 Takeda family drove to Matsuyama Castle in Musashi Province, they saw that the mountains were full of Hojo Army's military tents, and Matsuyama Castle in the land of projectiles was surrounded by water.

On the same day, in order to thank the reinforcements of the Takeda family of the alliance, the Hojo clan Yasu held a banquet under Matsuyama Castle to entertain the generals of the Takeda family.

The banquet was held on a flat ground, and then a rectangle was formed on all sides with a curtain painted with the Hojo Mitsuki, or the Sansho Rinhojo family crest.

Historically, Hojo's first governor, Hojo Sakumo, was established in Sagami Odawara Castle and was called the Later Hojo clan in order to distinguish it from the former Hojo clan during the Kamakura shogunate, who did not have the power of the shogun, but had the actual shogun.

In fact, Hojo Sakumo was born at the grassroots, and his original name was Ise Shinkuro Choshi, and later after seizing Izu Sagami, in order to raise his own value, he claimed to be a descendant of the Hojo clan. Therefore, the family crest also uses the original Hojo clan's three-lin pattern.

The original Hojo clan's three-lin pattern is a substitute pattern that is different from the family crest of the main family Hengwu Taira's family feather butterfly. There are many substitute patterns used, such as the Anayama family (Anayama Nobuyun), which is a branch of the Kai Takeda family, and in order to distinguish it from the main family's four cutting rhombuses, the family crest of the three flower rhizons is used on the flag fingers.

Now the Hojo family, after the Hojo Sakumo, Hojo clan Tsunada, Hojo clan Yasu three generations of family governors run, the territory has been directly under the jurisdiction of Izu, Sagami, Shimoso, Musashi Shikoku, forces invaded Ueno, Kamiso, Hitachi.

In the curtain, the two generals of the Hojo family and the Takeda family sat in the center, while the generals of the Takeda family and the generals of the Hojo family each sat face to face at the head of the general.

Hojo Shiyasu, the owner, was sitting on a cushion, wearing a black-painted and towering black hat, wearing a hunting suit and holding a cypress fan, chatting with Takeda Nobuthiro with a smile. At present, Takeda Shin Honest continues to play the role of Takeda Shin Xuanying Warrior, anyway, the two brothers are similar in appearance, if it is not for the long-term service of the acolyte, or the old retainer of the Takeda family, it is difficult to distinguish the two.

Because of the night battle of Kawagoe, the Hojo clan, who became famous in the first war, is known as the Sagami lion, and is now forty-seven years old, six years older than Takeda Shingen. Hojo Shiyasu, who has been fighting on the battlefield since the Yuan costume, has a calm and determined temperament, and when he talks and laughs with Takeda Nobuyo, his eyes still sweep over the Takeda generals who are sitting under Takeda Nobuyoshi and drinking in a large row.

Li Xiao sat in the middle of this group of generals of the Takeda family, picked up the wine bottle in his hand, poured the wine into the small plate containing the wine, and drank it all in one gulp.

I have to say that Benyin is really stingy, and such a flat plate is actually used to hold wine, as if he is afraid that people will drink too much in one sip.

The banquets are all traditional meal sharing system, that is, each eats its own, and the unified standard is three dishes and one soup, and the three dishes are one meat and two vegetarian dishes, and then some sake and rice.

In addition to a few mussel shells as meat dishes, the small wooden table in front of Li Xiao was pickled radish, vegetable leaves, a bowl of miso soup, and a bowl of rice that was not enough for a few bites.

Daddy, Li Xiao, who grew up in New China, where he didn't have to worry about food and clothing, suddenly felt like crying without tears, crossing through the work that real TM is not done by people, and came to this era of extreme material poverty. At that time, he said that he believed in Buddhism, except for birds and fish, he was not allowed to eat any meat, and all the dishes were light and salty.

However, such a banquet grade is a rare meal for most of the generals of the Takeda family, and it is no wonder that these days of marching and fighting, every day is rice balls with miso soup, or eat some knife-cut noodles. In comparison, the grade of the Hojo clan banquet is indeed much higher.

So in front of such a 'sumptary' banquet, the generals of the two armies ate quite harpie, and there was a little sake to cheer up, and suddenly a few generals couldn't control their mouths and began to run the train with their mouths full.

"I said, did your Takeda family fail in the battle of Kawanakajima last time, and their vitality has not recovered, so this time they sent a mere 3,000 troops to support my Hojo family. Rather than that, it's better to hurry home. ”

There was a general of the Hojo family who seemed to be very drunk, and he began to talk to the Takeda family, and when he heard this, the generals of the Takeda family immediately stopped eating.