There is no strong reinforcement inside and outside, relying on tens of thousands of soldiers to defend the city can certainly resist for a while, in the long run, defending the city is just a battle of trapped beasts to find their own way to death, Odawara is not an invincible fortress that cannot be attacked in the legend, there are townspeople in the city and the families of samurai that are what they are guarding and fighting for, carrying the ardent expectations of countless hometown fathers and elders, and taking the lives of local townspeople as bargaining chips to survive, the Hojo family really can't do it.

Wise as the Sagami-sagami lion Hojo Shiyasu, he knows very well how deep the crisis lurks under the dead silence of Odawara Castle, and the repeated commotion in the city shows that Ashikaga Yoshitoki's tone has not relaxed for a moment, and he doesn't need to guess and knows that there must be someone in his genealogy retainers who secretly betrayed the Hojo family, and it doesn't make much sense to investigate who this person is, but it will further shake the confidence of the retainers.

"What the hell should this family do! Isn't there a better choice for my father's opinion to be used? The Hojo clan leaned on the railing and looked at the majestic Odawara Castle, the castle that had filled him with endless glory in the past was like a heavy burden on his chest at this moment, and he was almost out of breath.

The Sagami Hojo clan is weak in front of the Kanto Principality, the Hojo family's army left in the city is less than 13,000 people, and most of the samurai are full of fear and confusion about the powerful Kanto Principality, unless the Hojo clan goes out of the city to fight Sanada Yutaka by surprise, and defeats or even annihilates 30,000 besieging troops with 12,000 people, otherwise this disadvantage cannot be overturned.

It's a pity that there was only one night battle in Kawagoe, and the military strategy level of the Hojo clan was completely insufficient to support the earth-shattering reversal, and Odawara Castle claimed to have tens of thousands of troops to eat the grain and grass that could not be eaten for three years. This is a very idealistic simple algorithm that does not take into account the actual supply of grain and grass. The food that needed to be supplied in Odawara Castle was by no means limited to the more than 10,000 defenders. There are also tens of thousands of townspeople in the castle town who also have to eat, and nearly half of the grain in the waterway grain transportation channel has been eaten in the half year of the siege, leaving no more than half a year for the Sagami Hojo clan.

Odawara Castle closed four gates and could not be released to maintain a temporary stability by distributing food according to the amount, but it is also an indisputable fact that the workshops and towns in the castle town could not receive all the business and all the business came to a standstill, and the business houses had no business so they could only close their doors and dismiss the townspeople, and the townspeople who could not receive work had nothing to do except receive another ration every day, and the townspeople who had nothing to do all day gradually liked to go to the brewery and the whale house to have fun, and numb their stiff brains with the color of wine. Negative emotions are a pervasive breeder, forming a terrifying force that causes unrest.

The economic order collapsed, trade was interrupted, the market was scarce, and the daily necessities needed by the townspeople were scarce, and the black market organized by the townspeople spontaneously circulated the most old grain given by the Hojo family, and people began to barter secretly, and Yongraku money lost its role as currency in the closed Odawara Castle.

The Hojo clan governor was unable to receive even a penny of tax from the castle town, and he had to bear the huge pressure of supplying the townspeople with food, and he also had to bear all kinds of accusations and indifferent treatment to support the townspeople. In the long run, Odawara Castle will be plunged into riots.

Sometimes people's hearts are turned against each other, and it is undeniable that the townspeople of Odawara Castle support the Hojo family. Their willingness to send their children and grandchildren to the Hojo family to be matched with a foot light shows that the Hojo family's hope is still there, but the mantis arm as a car is not necessarily everyone's love to do, even if the blood is boiling for a while, rushing over with his arms and Ashikaga Yoshitoki, with the patience and confidence of day after day have already burned out that boiling passion.

The young samurai, who had calmed down, suddenly realized that the castle of Odawara, which they loved so much, had suddenly become a different scene, and all the passages outside the castle had been completely blocked, resulting in a lack of supplies, and the prices of goods from a few special channels were ten times higher than before, which led to the rapid depreciation of the currency in a short period of time and the soaring price of life.

Ninety percent of the commercial houses have long been closed, people go to the empty houses, the withering of all industries forced the hometown parents to lose their jobs and can only live at home, even if Hojo Shiyasu found out that something was wrong early, there was nothing to do, his research on economic principles was almost blank, and when encountering this kind of problem, there was probably only a tax reduction and tax exemption to gather the businessmen to appease these points, but this did not help to solve the crisis of Odawara Castle, and the people's hearts were quietly lost in this helpless view.

"If you continue like this, you won't be able to run out of food in the city until the autumn harvest......" The Hojo clan slapped the fence in annoyance, and after a while, he suddenly said, "That's not right! Even if you insist on the autumn harvest, you won't be able to harvest a grain of grain, and if you can't break the indefinite blockade of Odawara Castle by the Edo Princesses as soon as possible, even if you hold out until next year, the year after tomorrow will have to open the city and surrender, then it won't be the generous conditions of this alliance under the city! My father is right, there is really no way out for my family. ”

At this juncture, the envoy of the Kanto Prince, Nagano Yegu, came to Odawara Castle, and he brought the first persuasion of Ashikaga Yoshito: "Today, the initial decision of the Kanto Prefecture makes the shogunate happy and the court rejoices, and the Kanto Shishu looks forward to the hundred years of Kanto tranquility has been half done, and Hojo Sagami is trapped in a corner of Sagami, trying to resist stubbornly in a corner of the city, it is very unwise, and I hope that Hojo Sagami will open the city quickly to avoid the danger of the collapse of the family business!" The relevant articles are shown in the postscript of the letter, which can be read with caution. ”

The Hojo clan took the letter of persuasion and unfolded it to see that it was really similar to the reply brought by the Hojo Phantom An, but the words and sentences were more domineering, and he was naturally warned to surrender quickly in the tone of the lord of Kanto, which gave a strong stimulus to the Hojo clan with strong self-esteem, and this young governor who had been smooth sailing since he was a child was still too young.

The elders of the family even coughed and waved their hands, and finally calmed down the angry Hojo clan, and when he spit out a few vicious breaths, he snorted: "This family will consider it carefully, please understand the situation of my Hojo family, and allow me to wait for some more time!" ”

"That's it! In the next meeting, I will truthfully forward the opinion of Hojo Sagami Shouden. Nagano Yegu nodded as if he was surprised, and was about to get up when he suddenly remembered something and sat back, took out the cool breeze letterhead from the room and handed it over respectfully: "This is before leaving, I met Hojo Kamisuke and Hojo Anfang Mamoru, these two commissioned to send two letters to the house, please Sagami Shou Palace." ”

The faces of the Hojo family retainers changed in an instant, and many old ministers stared angrily at the stack of letterheads handed over by Nagano Yegu, who had been the Hojo family's propaganda to the outside world for most of the year, and Hojo Tsusunari and the Hojo clan died heroically in battle, and it was because of this news that the Hojo family samurai united against Ashikaga Yoshi.

It's only been less than a year, and I saw the "dead" samurai writing back again, and I can imagine what kind of taste the Hojo family samurai group had in their hearts, and the young samurai of the Hojo family sitting in the corner quietly became restless, Hojo Tsunari's sister-in-law, Hojo Shigeru and Hojo Shixiu looked particularly uneasy, and his son-in-law Hojo Shigui didn't seem to be very happy, and several young samurai looked at the angry family elders intentionally or unintentionally, and Matsuda Shengxiu almost wanted to open his mouth and finally turned into a sigh.

The Hojo clan hesitated and didn't know whether to take this thick stack of letterheads, but now that he didn't take it, he would fall into the truth, raised his head and looked around at the retainers of the spectrum and found that the reliable samurai were either pondering or shaking his head and sighing, and he took the letterhead with a few words of nonsense in his mouth, Nagano Yegu didn't seem to take the opportunity to say a few sarcastic words, and got up and retreated with satisfaction as soon as he bowed respectfully, leaving the Hojo retainers in the Ohiro room in a dead silence, and the sound of the Hojo clan turning the pages of the private messages.

This is not so much a letter from home, but rather a diary recorded by Hojo Tsusunari and the Hojo clan in the past six months, from the whole process of being interrogated and interrogated by captives and house arrest to being treated, these two were taken by Ashikaga Yoshitoki throughout the whole process, and they had to be invited to attend meetings everywhere, including the confidential assessment meeting and military council.

Hojo Tsunari's diary praised the military strength of the Ashikaga family, saying that this was a system that was very different from the military system used by the Kanto samurai, and that the samurai who created this new military system must be a master of military science, focusing on the process of the Ashikaga army's invasion of the Ashikaga army, the attack of the Ashikaga family, the multi-pronged surprise attack, and the multi-pronged forced seizure of a country, in less than a month, the Hojo family had worked hard for many years to take the lower country, which was called the perfect embodiment of the military strategy by the Dihuang Hachiman.

The diary of the Hojo clan focuses on the actions of Ashikaga Yoshitoki in Shimono Province, how he easily mobilized Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, Nasu Shiyin, and Koyama Takatomo without flying a single soldier to the whole process of being forced to dismember the territory, and greatly admired the thunderous means of the Kanto Princes to calm a country by turning the clouds and rain, and called Ashikaga Yoshitoki "the hope of the Kanto samurai".

The more I saw the back, the darker his face became, and the whole person of the Hojo clan was trembling in the back, and the retainers of the spectrum looked at the governor in horror with a blue face and a white appearance, only to see that he suddenly rolled over and dropped the letterhead and walked away in embarrassment, the whole process was so fast that the retainers of the spectrum who bowed their heads and pondered did not see the back of him leaving in a hurry.

The family retainers of the spectrum did not know why the family governor did not say goodbye, staring at the scattered pages of letterhead on the ground and not knowing what to do, the Dao Temple Zhengfan carefully picked up the page of letterhead that fell to his feet, and read in a low voice: "His Royal Highness is a god and a man!" In the middle of the month, the army swept through the people of the lower country, and the sharp force was ten times that of the elite soldiers of my Hojo family, and the resumption of the month did not cost a soldier to slightly transfer the people of the country, and the Satake clan heard the wind and made the country of Hitachi immediately pacified, which was less than three months to assess that the three states were not within our reach, and my Hojo family could only leave a trace of vitality if he surrendered early. ”

Many samurai picked up the abandoned letterhead and whispered, but after a while, the already wavering confidence of the Hojo retainers collapsed instantly, and some of the old ministers sat down with their ass on the letterhead, beating their chests and crying: "The upper hall and the Anfang Shouden have surrendered!" Is it really going to be over this time? Although I have expected this day, I always feel very unwilling to say it! (To be continued......)

PS: This is the first update, the number of words is a little less, there will be more and more later, and the next one is 12 noon.