Knowing that there was no doubt about defeat, he still insisted on fighting, which was the basic samurai ethics of a samurai, and Hojo Tsusunari worked hard to lead the army to retreat in the direction of Otemon, trying to use the assault force of the main camp to rescue the Hojo clan, and the loyal and brave Hojo samurai resisted the onslaught of the Kira army to buy more time for the Hojo clan.

In order to rescue the Hojo clan that was under siege, Hojo Tsunari sent his general Yokoi Echizen Mamoru out, this veteran is older than Hojo Tsunari, and when he was young, he followed the Hojo clan to fight in Kanto with his archery skills of opening the bow with one hand and one hundred shots, and he played a name for the unparalleled strong bow in the eight states of Kanto.

Even though the veteran is now unable to pull a strong bow and can only rely on his rich combat experience and accurate half to kill careless samurai, his very accurate bow skills are still a big threat, and Yokoi Echizen Mori's special team received bad news before they entered the city, and the Hojo clan was captured by a group of samurai of the Kira army, which was an unexpected major blow to the Hojo army.

In the final analysis, the Hojo clan was too young and impulsive, and would hold a sword to slash in the not open terrain inside the Otemon Gate of Taamime Castle, and he didn't understand that it was a very dangerous thing to hold a sword and slash in a crowded and narrow space, and it could not only threaten the enemy but also threaten itself, so the Hojo clan demonstrated a standard ending that threatened himself on the spot.

Relying on the momentum of youth, strength, courage and fearlessness, the Hojo clan held a sword to cut seven or eight soldiers of the Kira army and successfully injured several subordinate samurai by mistake, and stumbled to block several fatal stabs and cut the sharp sword with a curling blade, and many samurai of the Kira family took advantage of his discarding sword and drawing out the ribs.

The loss of the Hojo clan was the loss of the opportunity to escape. Hojo Tsunari learns that the Hojo clan has been captured alive. Without saying a word, he led dozens of brave warriors among the yellow armor to launch a decisive assault on the main formation of this Kira army. Hojo Tsusunari yelled at the soldiers behind him: "The generals listen to my orders!" Surrender and not resist immediately after my death! Kill the violators! ”

"General!" The infantry warrior who did not catch up with the pace knelt on the ground and mourned: "If the general dies in battle, we will definitely follow the general to the Yellow Spring Hirazaka!" ”

A general mourned and all the generals cried together, and in a short period of time, thousands of Hojo troops outside Taamime Castle threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground crying, and they cried regardless of whether there was any movement of the Kira army beside them, and they were crying not only Hojo Tsunari, the general who commanded the five colors, but also the Sagami Hojo clan who gave them kindness.

"This is the power of the human heart! What Yishi said is right! This Hojo family is by no means simple, and making them a huge threat to my Ashikaga family is a huge threat to the climate! "I saw thousands of people seeing off dozens of horsemen. Uesugi Terutora was also moved: "Pass on my general order to capture Hojo Kamisuke alive at all costs!" ”

Hundreds of cavalry led the order, they carried the spare lasso straight towards the dozens of horseback samurai of the Hojo Army, and ran out of the lasso in a moment before the battle, the horseback samurai of the Hojo Army hurriedly raised their swords and slashed, but unfortunately there were too many lasso, and their swords were also taken away in a few strokes, and the horseback samurai who lost their weapons were dragged off their horses and fell down without any suspense.

Hojo Tsunaru watched the warriors around him being dragged off his horse one by one, and the anger in his heart overflowed, and he shouted: "The despicable people of the Kira family. If you don't even give a samurai a chance to die with dignity, you are ashamed of your dignity as a samurai! You shameful samurai. Dare to negotiate with me! ”

"I like to beg for a ride, let me go to the letter! I'm going to take him alive! Saito Asanobu didn't even finish his sentence and rushed out first, holding a large gun cast of stainless steel and shouting: "I, Saito Shimono Moriya!" Hear the prestige of your Rehmannia Hachiman, and fight me here! ”

Hojo Tsusunari laughed and said, "It's exactly what I want!" Killing the ghost Saito before dying is worthy of the prestige of my Tsunasari! ”

It was a very honorable thing during the Genpei period, and it was strictly forbidden for anyone to interfere and influence during the period, but with the change of the times to the late Kamakura period, the Ichijo gradually faded out of people's sight, and the Ichijo usually appeared only on special occasions in the Warring States period.

For example, this time Hojo Tsusunari vs. Saito Asanobu's horsemanship, the weapon used was not the bamboo bow of the Kamakura period but the sharp weapon in their hands, the big gun, when the two horses galloped and the two guns collided with a spark, the war horse gradually unloaded the impact and turned the horse's head to come to the second round, each round of collision is a battle of wits and courage, and the slightest carelessness of one side may be stabbed to death by a shot.

Even if he is as strong as Saito Asanobu, he doesn't dare to hold up in front of an opponent of equal strength, he is sure that he will stab Hojo Tsusunari without injury but he is not sure that he will capture him alive without injury, there is no one in this world who can capture Hojo Tsusunari alive in a horse fight, neither Saito Asanobu nor Takigawa Tokiyoshi can do it.

The two were deadlocked for no less than thirty rounds, and Saito Asanobu, who had been waiting for work and a full meal, had not changed much, but Hojo Tsunari, who had not eaten a grain of rice from morning to evening, was a little unable to support it, and he was already sweating for thirty rounds, and a wave of paralysis from his right hand reminded him that he was about to reach his limit.

Hojo Tsunari suddenly laughed and said, "How about the final round!" ”

Saito caught a glimpse of Ueno Ienari giving him a thumbs up, and he replied loudly, "That's what I mean!" ”

The two rode their horses and charged again, Hojo Tsunari's arm holding the big gun trembled slightly, and with a bitter smile in his heart, he knew that he still didn't hold out to the end, and gently lowered the blade of the gun to slow down the speed of the horse's movement, and those who didn't need to be close to him knew that Hojo Tsunari was going to give up the idea of resisting suicide.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a shout behind him: "Uncle! ”

"Clan?" Hojo Tsunashi was stunned for a moment, and just wanted to turn around, he saw Saito Asanobu's big body gun slashing at him, he subconsciously raised the big body gun to resist being pressed by the instantaneous huge force to bounce the spear away, Hojo Tsunari sighed: "The clan is still alive and has not been killed, even if it is dead, you can rest assured!" ”

Just when Hojo Tsusunari was about to close his eyes and wait for death, Saito Asanobu put away his gun and stood up and laughed: "The Anbo Shouden is safe and sound, and the Kamisuke Hall doesn't have to die!" Why didn't the Shangsujie Hall get off the horse and surrender quickly? To save the lives of these 7,000 Hojo troops? ”

The Hojo clan was bound and sat on a horse by the Great Bunga. I could only poke my head anxiously and shout, "Uncle! You can't die! Your father and brother will be sad if you die! ”

"So your plan is to capture me alive!" Hojo was silent for a moment. The whole person seems to be much older suddenly: "I...... Surrender! ”

The defeat and capture of Hojo Tsusunari was a major event that affected the course of Musashi, and to say that it was the only 8,000 elite in Kitamusashi who had the power to resist was defeated and captured, and to say that it was the disappearance of the strongest military group in Musashi Province, which was a great blow to the Hojo family, especially the Hojo family samurai in Musashi Province.

But before that, Uesugi Terutora was determined to hide the news first, and with his years of experience in commanding troops, he soon saw that this was a great opportunity, so he made a military adventure that he had not thought of beforehand, and sent several scouts to disguise themselves as Hojo's envoys for help. He attempted to use a strategy to lure the snake out of the cave to defeat the remaining Hojo armies in Musashi Province.

His bold adventure was completely unexpected by the Hojo family, and the Hojo clan of Takiyama Castle and the Hojo clan of Iwatsuki Castle were completely unaware of whether they were deceitful, and hurriedly rushed to Taamime Castle with the strength of their own army to ask for help from Hojo Tsusunari and the Hojo clan.

Hojo clan is just a twenty-two-year-old young man, the younger Hojo clan is still a seventeen-year-old and a half children, seeing the murderous Kakizaki Keijia and Saito Asanobu frightened legs weak, the retainers around him took the initiative to block the knife in order to buy time for the two boys to escape, in the face of the frontal assault of these two Echigo unequaled generals, it is indeed not something that two hairy guys can resist, they only have one way to escape.

It took dozens of brave Hojo samurai to get the Hojo family out of the siege. When he turned around again, he found that his home had long since become the territory of the Kira family, and the remaining retainers were either killed or voluntarily surrendered to become the leading party of the Kira family. In just a few days, the situation has changed dramatically, and there is no place for the two of them in Musashi Country anymore.

A big defeat extinguished the ambitions of the two young people, what made a contribution and what a mighty Kanto became a luxury, and when he was hesitating whether to withdraw to Odawara, the two brothers of the Hojo clan and the Hojo clan met halfway through the diagram of the escape, and the brothers looked at each other's embarrassed and decadent appearance, and they really silently hugged their heads and cried with tears in their eyes.

The two counties immediately converged into a force of 6,000 troops and tried to get closer to Kawagoe City, but the reaction speed of the Kira army was completely beyond their expectations, and a hurried obstacle was set up near Kawagoe City so that the two of them did not dare to approach at all.

Dadao Temple Masahiro was very ugly when he saw the two Hojo brothers, not only did he not feel glad but beat his chest and lamented that Musashi Country was over, the two brothers looked at each other speechlessly and could only lament that the situation had come to this point, and Dadao Temple Masahiro did not have time to exchange views on the current situation with the Hojo brothers, and behind him followed tens of thousands of Jiliang troops must find a way to get rid of them.

"Your Highnesses, leave Musashi Province as soon as possible! Kawagoe Castle is no longer safe, and Edo Castle and Koki Castle are not necessarily safe, so the only way to do this is to return to Odawara Castle and then make plans! I am willing to lead the Kira army for the two highnesses, please let the two highnesses leave as soon as possible! After saying this, Dadao Temple Zhengfan went south with his army.

The Hojo clan pulled the Hojo clan rules and fled to the southwest for a while, and encountered several small cavalry pursuits of the Kira army along the way, and was almost bitten by the main force of the Kira army, and went through many difficulties and dangers to get out of the encirclement of the Kira army, and only dared to stay overnight on the Takao Mountain in the southwest of Musashi Province in the middle of the night, and did not even dare to enter the small machine city not far from here.

For a seventeen-year-old man, the journey of life is only a short part of the beginning, and he has an incomparably bright future, and he should strive to enjoy the wonderful life of his youth, not suffer in the wilderness, let alone suffer a huge defeat.

Thinking of what happened these days seemed to be a nightmare, the Hojo clan muttered to himself with a miserable expression: "What happened here, why did the princes change their faces in between, I always thought that Musashi Province was not the territory of my Hojo family, but when I saw that my former vassals and countrymen had betrayed me, my heart ached faintly...... Are we all wrong? ”

"Don't think too much, it's not our fault......" Hojo shook his head tiredly: "The Kira army is too strong. Powerful beyond our expectations. Uncle Tsunashi and Tsunashi are nowhere to be found, most likely because they have already fallen in Hamu Castle. We are defeated! ”

The Hojo clan is slightly older, second only to the eldest brother Shinkuro and the Hojo clan who died at birth, and is the second among the living brothers, and is much more mature than the Hojo clan who has been a hostage in the Imagawa family for several years, although he has been hit by a series of dazzling blows, but he is still trying to calm his younger brother and the morale that is almost collapsed.

The two brothers did not expect that the Kira army, with tens of thousands of tigers, would dare to carry out a series of military adventures, and the dazzling methods were completely unexpected by them, causing the defending troops of Musashi to suffer one blow after another. The people of the country who belonged to the Hojo family also set off a wave of rebellion and became a glorious leader of the party.

For example, the Katsunuma people led by the lord of Katsunuma Castle, Mita Hikamasa Shaobi Tsunahide, the Lang party such as Mao Lu Shigeru, Okabe Hiroshi, Hirayama Tsunakei, Shioka Hidemitsu, and Kanuma Shuryo Ryo were also re-launched, and the old Iwatsuki people relaunched by Ota Shimasa, Oishi Ishimi Shouxianshige, Komiyayama Danmasa Saemon, Asaba Shimomori, Kasuga Settsu Mamoru, Hirosawa Owari Mamoru Mamoru, Hamano Repair Ryū, Kato Hyobe Shosuke, Honma Kogoro and others rushed to join the Kira Army.

Narita Shimoru Nagatai led his relatives Begeto-Owari Mamoru Nagayoshi, Narita Osashi Narita, Narita Echizen Mamoru and the retainers Tanaka Shikibu Shosuke, Nozawa Hayato Usa, Bepfu Jibu Shosuke, Suga Tosa Mamoru, Hatoi Notomori, Honjo Saemonsa, and Yamada Toyogo Mamoru as the vanguard of the attack on Kawagoe Castle.

At the same time, Ota Yasushi also plotted against the remnants of Edo Castle in Edo Castle, a group of samurai who had been in a bad situation since the exile of the main family Ota Yasushi and the death of the Ota clan in the Battle of Mifuneyama, taking advantage of the fact that the Kira army had entered Musashi Province and caused a great turmoil, under the leadership of Doctor Itami Uemon and Asakura Heijiro, they quickly set off a rebellion and waited for an opportunity to seize Edo Castle.

Kira ninja took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the city and cause chaos everywhere. Yoiji Yamanaka, one of the six families of Hojo Goyuo, was unfortunately killed in the raid of the rebels, and seeing that his relatives were killed, the culprit Yasushi Ota took the former retainers of the genealogy to launch a fierce attack on the Hojo army in the castle. The current lord of Edo Castle, Toyama Tanba, Mamoru Kei widow, fled to Odawara Castle across the sea with the remnants of the party.

Nan Musashi was left with only a small machine castle to resist stubbornly, and the castles in other places fell one after another in just half a month, and the Hojo clan saw this form of impatience and became angry, and hurriedly ordered the Hojo army on the Fangwei Peninsula to stick to the territory and not to carry it, and the Hojo army of the lower country must cooperate with the Furukawa Gongfang Ashikaga Fujimasa and Chiba Yinfu to resist the attack of the Kira army.

From his attitude, it can be seen that the Hojo family still did not give up Musashi Province and the farther upper and lower territories of the two countries, but the speed of his Kira army's march was too fast, and the huge Musashi country had been digested before March.

On March 24, Uesugi Terutora led a large army to gather at the foot of Xiaoji Castle, and surrounded the southern Musashi Fortress with only 3,000 men, and after a month-long Musashi invasion battle, Uesugi Terutora killed and wounded more than 2,000 people and captured more than 9,000 people in the Hojo Army, which was a tragic defeat for the Hojo clan.

Almost all the pro-Hojo forces in the entire Musashi country were uprooted, and the Musashi control network that the Hojo family had worked hard for two generations to run was torn apart, and the most important loss was the capture of the Hojo clan and Hojo Tsunari, and nearly half of the eight thousand troops in the Hojo Tsunari division were members of the five-color preparation, which were all the elites of the Sagami and Izu countries, and they were captured in an unfair battle, which was enough to make the Hojo clan unable to sleep well for several nights.

At the same time as the elimination of the Hojo Army's vital forces, the Kira Army led by Uesugi Terutora was also rapidly expanding, from the original 45,000 troops to the current 51,000 troops, with an increase of more than 6,000 people, almost all the neutral and anti-Hojo forces in Musashi Province were all under his command, so that there were only two factions of people in Musashi Province, one was the remnants of the remnants of the Hojo clan, and the other was the vassal army that supported the Kira clan.

Kira Yoshitoki also began to move troops at this time, he ordered the Nagao Nagao of the Ashikaga Nagao family, the Nagao Kenkei of the Shirai Nagao family, and the Nagao Hankei of the Nagao family of the Nagao family to lead 5,000 troops to serve as the Ueno Country Garrison, Nagano Yoshimasa was the vanguard general to lead the 5,000 troops as a precursor, and he personally led 10,000 troops from Hirai Castle, aiming directly at Odawara Castle in Sagami Province.

At this time, the sluggish people of the Kanto Kingdom finally realized that the situation did not seem to be good, and Kira Yoshitoki was going to pinch the rhythm of the Hojo family in one go, so Anbo Kunisato Yoshihiro, Hitachi Kuniku Satake Yoshiaki, Shimono Kuni, Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, Kamiki Sakai Yinji and Yamamuro Katsunobu, and Shimo Kuni Takashiro Yinyoshi took advantage of the situation to raise troops and make a gesture in response to Kira Yoshishi's crusade against the Sagami Hojo clan.

In the blink of an eye, 60,000 troops gathered all over the Kanto region, and they did not want to attack Odawara Castle at all, but aimed at the territory occupied by the Hojo family in the lower and upper provinces. (To be continued......)