Chapter 372: Relatives
Nagao Jinghu's name change was another major event that caused a sensation in the Kanto region, this time he not only changed his name, including the courtier's surname and his own Miao characters, but also recognized Uesugi Kenmasa as his adoptive father to inherit the family of the Uesugi family in Yamauchi, thus completing the transformation from one of the many branches of the Nagao family to the leader of the Uesugi family in Kanto.
Uesugi Masato, who got the new name, gave a great impact to the people of the Kanto Kingdom, and the more and more naked desire of Echigo made it difficult for the Hojo family in Sagami-Odawara to sleep and eat, but there was no way to accuse Uesugi Masato's behavior of being wrong, and he hated it so much that he didn't dare to do it, so he had to knock out his teeth or swallow blood, and the whole army continued to attack the Satomi clan in Kamiki Province with a sullen voice.
Everyone knows that Uesugi Kenmasa, the governor of the Uesugi family, was forced to go to Echigo by the Hojo family himself, and Uesugi Kenmasa sent the hat three times and twice to the head of the hat and once became the funniest event of the year in the eight countries of the Kanto region.
Needless to say, how powerful Echigo is, just look at the appearance of the Hojo family's admittent cowardice, and the decline of the Takeda family in Kai, you can know that the two Echigo are amazing samurai, even if they are called famous generals in the world, they don't feel too boastful at all, and if someone is the chief general of Echigo, who would dare to send the army out to be tough and tough in the face of the terrifying military strength of more than 100,000 people of the four-way army?
Not to mention that several key wars were won by Echigo, even the most inconspicuous battle of the Igarashi River also exposed Echigo's strong military reserves, as soon as he shot, there were two white-armored generals with 4,000 troops, and the 6,000 troops of Mutsu who should have been killed cried wolf. Almost put Date Teruzong's life in it.
If it is said that Kanto is related. Then Mutsu and Dewa are really scared. It's not enough for people to rush to Echigo, the most terrible thing is that the main force of Echigo is attracted to the premise that it is beaten like this, if it is facing the main army of Echigo, what should I do if I am facing those inhuman generals? What kind of black dragoon, the general of the ghosts and gods is creepy to hear, and it is said that the name of the bloody dragoon is spread in the battle of Kawanakajima, which makes some people even more uncomfortable.
The retirement of the Hojo clan brought about unpredictable changes in the Hojo family, and the new governor of the family, the Hojo clan, resolutely implemented his father's strategic decision. The target is the Satomi clan in the southern Kanto.,The Satomi clan in the Anfang does have a lot of grudges with the Hojo family.,In the second year of astronomy,The Satomi family fell into infighting.,Satomi Yoshiyao, who was at a disadvantage, was helped by the Hojo clan to seize the governor.,And then turned around and stood on the opposite side of the Hojo family.。
Later, following the combination of the Hojo clan and the Ashikaga Haruka clan, at the most critical moment of the Kokufu Taihe War, Satomi Yoshiyao resolutely retreated and ruthlessly pitted the Koko Gongfang, causing him to fall into the Hojo army and die in battle, and twice in a row pit his teammates sold the Satomi family's festival to the bottom. Satomi Yoshiyao also took the opportunity to make a windfall and pocketed most of the land in Shangqi Province, and since then he has changed from a small wealthy family in Anfang to a serious daimyo.
This is not the full history of his pit teammates. In the Kanto Astronomical Rebellion a few years ago, Satomi Yoshiyao, who claimed to be the deputy marshal of Kanto and was actually a teammate of Kanto, once again pitted half of the Kanto samurai, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he once again smeared oil on the soles of his feet and ran away, and the Ota clan and Chiba clan were ruthlessly surrounded by the Hojo Army like Kobow Yoshiaki, but the governors of these two families were not so stupid and surrendered on the spot.
The Masato Valley clan fought half of his family to escape dangerously, and even the minister of the huchigu who followed Satomi Yoshiyao to fight the world was almost unable to come back after he was left behind, and then Satomi Yoshiyao began to swell again, and invaded the territory of the Masato Valley clan in the twenty-third year of astronomy, and the Masato Valley Nobumasa was defeated and committed suicide, and Wanxi Castle Toki was forced to surrender, so he completed the unification plan of the Shangqi Kingdom.
The Hojo clan ordered the countrymen of the southern Kanto region to gather an army of 23,000 under the banner of avenging the Masato Valley family, and the Hojo clan ordered the countrymen of the southern Kanto region to gather an army of 23,000 from Edo Castle, Ota Shimonomasa of Iwatsuke Castle, and the disabled Edo people.
When the Satomi family heard the news, they hurriedly gathered their retainers to call for allies, and Satake Yoshiaki and Yusei Masakatsu brought their son Yuki Ming Dynasty to lead an army, and in a short time the Satomi clan gathered 15,000 troops and gathered in Ichikawa to wait for the attack of the Hojo army.
On April 5, Hojo Tsuna, who was the first to lead the Goseki 8,000 troops, arrived on the west bank of the Oichi River in advance, and then handed over the battle to the two younger brothers of the Daijo clan with the two younger brothers of the Hojo clan, the young Hojo clan and the Hojo clan, with Ota Shimasa as the left wing and Ota Yasushi as the right flank, and the Hojo clan personally sat in the Chinese army with more than 20,000 people and slaughtered the Ori River.
There is no need to worry about the Hojo family to appease Chiba Yinfu, but the Chiba clan's national capital, Taicheng, has been occupied by Satomi Yoshiyao, and seeing that the outpost fortified castle close to the Hojo family has been captured, if there is really a chaos like the Takayama War, the Chiba clan will be finished, so Chiba Yinfu just can't think about it.
On April 6, the Hojo Army stationed its camp on the east bank of the Onichi River, unhurriedly making a large-scale offensive posture, but did not want Ota Shimasa to have an objection to the surrender of the Hojo family, and secretly contacted the clan uncle's former Edo lord Yasushi Ota, and agreed that he would join the Satomi coalition army when he started the army the next day.
Ota Yasushi is the great-grandson of the Ota Dao Guan faction, nine years younger than Ota Zimasa but a cut higher, he has long been dissatisfied with surrendering to the Hojo family but was forced to let out of the home city, so the two sides agreed to quietly contact the Satomi army on the other side, Ota Zimasa felt that although the Yoshiyao here is a bit of a trick, but everyone is an equal relationship, much stronger than following the Hojo family.
So when the next day dawned, the Hojo Army's vanguard Tominaga Naokaka led the army through Yakirito, Ota Shimasa and Ota Yasushi also actively joined the vanguard of crossing the river, and when the vanguard crossed the opposite bank of the Ori River, they found that their allies Ota Shimasa and Ota Yasushi suddenly broke away from the array and exposed themselves to the field, and then faced the onslaught of the wolf-like Satomi Yoshiyao, Yuki Masakatsu, and Satake Yoshiaki.
This Qingbei banner leader who survived the battle of the high mountains spilled the blood of the Ori River and became the first high-ranking samurai to die in this war. The new leader of the Edo people, Tominaga Naokattsu, was re-captured. This led directly to a complete collapse in the morale of the Edo people. After several years of war, the previous leader Toyama Tsunade has passed away less than a year ago, and the current leader Tominaga Naokaka has been taken again, and the Edo people no longer know how to fight, and this elite has been ruthlessly stupidized by the cruel reality.
The collapse of morale brought disastrous consequences, and the Hojo family's main camp was rushed by the defeated soldiers in a daze before they could figure out what the front was wrong with, and their own camp was also panicked, and they fled back to Edo Castle with the defeat before they even had time to clean up their own camp. The Satomi coalition sang and danced excitedly, and held a celebration banquet that night, celebrating the defeat of the Hojo Army in advance and wishing for the capture of Edo Castle and eventually Odawara in the following war.
I have to say that Satomi Yoshiyao is too careless of the enemy, compared to the level of Hojo Shiyasu is far higher than him, after learning that his Hojo clan government was confused and defeated a retreat, Hojo Shiyasu immediately realized that this is an excellent opportunity to counterattack, and the Kwantung Coalition Army, which is far less rigorous than the Uesugi Army, will definitely relax its vigilance after a big victory, so he once again sacrificed his best night combat technique, and crossed Yakirito again in the dark and windy night of the moon and the high wind to attack the national capital Tai Tai camp.
He was exactly what he expected. The Satomi coalition did relax their vigilance, thinking that the defeat of the Hojo army would scare the enemy into not daring to come out. I fantasized that the Hojo Army was terrified as if it had been hit by the Long Tail Army, but I didn't want to think about how many catties and taels I had, and the coalition forces were embarrassed to compare the elite of Echigo's hundred battles if they didn't even have unified orders.
The Hojo army came very suddenly, and in the middle of the night, they crossed the river to the opposite bank and quietly touched the outside of the camp, at this time the camp of the coalition army was like a sleeping city, and the cold wind on the face in the early spring night would be numb after a long time, and even the samurai who were keeping vigil could not help the cold and sleepiness and ran to the campfire to take a nap from the wind.
Satomi Yoshiyao, Ota Yasushi, Ota Shimasa, Yuuki Masakatsu, Yuuki Ming father and son, and Satake Yoshiaki and other national lords drank and had fun before they fell asleep in the middle of the night, completely unexpectedly that the night attack of the Hojo Army would be so rapid and so intense, as if the fire and shouts of killing sounded at the same time in an instant.
The Hojo Army, with its blue flags, poured in from all directions, raised their butcher knives and mercilessly slaughtered the sleeping soldiers, they set fire to the barracks and their ordnance, they went on a rampage and cut down every man, and the greased rockets beckoned to the tents of the Satomi coalition as if they didn't need money, and soon the whole camp became a big furnace with smoke everywhere.
Yuki Masakatsu was not in good health and didn't drink much so he rested early but didn't want to encounter such a disaster, his son Yuuki Ming Dynasty was drunk and didn't wake up, and the old man couldn't shake his son to wake up, but found that Yuuki Ming Dynasty's legs and feet were so weak that he couldn't even hold the knife, and the dozens of horsemen who came in didn't have time to protect the father and son to escape and were blocked by the Hojo clan.
In the face of the red-eyed Hojo Army, Yuki Ming Dynasty was almost not resisted by the Hojo clan, Yuki Masakatsu did not have time to call for help and went down to the Yellow Spring, Satomi Yoshiyao was unfortunate to bump into Hojo Tsunari was stabbed in the shoulder by a shot and almost hung up, or in the gun Ishan Masaki Shigeru desperately saved him from Hojo Tsunari's gun.
The unsuspecting Ota Zimasa and Ota Yasushi were caught in the camp, and the uncles and nephews of the Ota family once again became prisoners of the Hojo family, Satake Yoshiaki was more awake and smarter, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he desperately fled with his own army, and at the same time became the only daimyo in the Satomi coalition army who retreated in the whole body, and in this battle, he saw the strength of the coalition army of 15,000 troops, and together with the 2,000 rebels of the Ota clan, a total of 5,000 lives were lost, and more than 3,000 people were captured, and the rest took advantage of the darkness to flee.
This battle is known as the Second Battle of Kokufutai, in which the Hojo family lost more than 3,000 people, of which nearly 2,000 lives were contributed by the friendship of the Edo people who had been beaten stupidly, and the actual loss of more than 1,000 was the night, and many were killed by stray arrows fired by friendly troops, and the net loss was far less than imagined.
After this battle, the rising momentum of the Satomi clan was ruthlessly suppressed, Yuki Masato, Yuki Ming Dynasty father and son died, Yuki clan heirs are therefore extinct, and the genealogy of the Yuuki family urgently asked for a son to be the governor of the family from the branch Koyama Takachao, this kid was originally named Koyama Harumao, and was renamed Yuki Haruma.
The Hojo family proved their strength with a victory, defending the absolute dominance of the Hojo family in the Kanto region, they used strong force to silently tell a truth, although my Hojo family can't beat Echigo, but there is no problem in cleaning you up, the Hojo family has used actions to prove that they are not weak people who can handle it, and it is not a shame to beat Saito Asanobu, and it is summed up in one sentence "It's not that our army is incompetent, it's really that the enemy army is too cunning."
At the same time as the victory of the Hojo family, the construction of the Kai Heshizaki Museum was initially completed, the high arrow turrets and thick walls, and the bones of the peasants who were buried completed the difficult fortress, and Takeda Daizen Nobugen changed his hairstyle, and the refreshing bald head saved the trouble of hairstyling.
The battle situation in Nakashinano is becoming more and more unfavorable, and Baba Nobuharu's injury is not yet healed and he is forced to be sent to the front line to resist the occupation, and the information that the Minami Shinano Ina County Daiakiyama Nobuyo continues to transmit information about the instability of the Minami Shinano people, and the Kusakikan spreads bad news every day, which can really be described as three shocks a day, and the Takeda family is like a house with leaks everywhere, no matter how much subsidies are subsidized, they can't hide the dilemma that has been declining.
The city fell into an inexplicable panic as the Shinano direction continued to come, and the temper of the samurai of the Takeda family grew, and there were frequent incidents of fights, and many uncalm samurai drew their swords against their colleagues because of a few quarrels, causing many senseless murders.
Takeda Harunobu is very worried about this change, recently he often has been difficult to close his eyes all night long, his eyes are red and bloodshot, and he can't sleep well when he finally sleeps, endless nightmares are waiting for him, entangled him, every time he dreams of the endless night and a little fire on Kawanaka Island, and the blood-red cavalry at the moment of dawn, the blood-colored spear slashes at him in one moment, and the next moment he will be awakened by a nightmare, even if he forces himself to close his eyes, he can only maintain a half-dreaming and half-awake nightmarish state.
The pain of the family governor is deeply felt by the retainers, these days the samurai can't eat and sleep, and their bodies are becoming more and more depleted, all of them are harmed by that war, this war knocked out more than half of the spirit of the Takeda family, and the proud and confident samurai of the Takeda family in the past have become more radical and irritable, and the endless violent incidents in Kai just show that the samurai are going through a difficult period of chaos, pain, and confusion, and the goals they are fighting for are broken, and they don't know where their future should go, and the entire Takeda family has fallen into unprecedented chaos, This is what the retainers of the spectrum do not want to see. (To be continued......)