The eight nearby fortresses were scattered all around, and the strength of this defensive network almost made the Hojo clan despair, and several small-scale attempts by Odawara Castle only resulted in the loss of troops, proving that Uesugi Terutora was not only a general who was good at attacking, but also had a set of skills in defense against the Hojo family.

When Kira Yoshitoki received the detailed information, he laughed and said, "Brother, this is going to suffocate the Hojo family alive!" Stuck in the traffic of the Ashigara Hirano to the point of cutting off the Hojo family's land transportation, the daily loss of trade is enough to make Odawara Castle scratch his head! There are more important soldiers and food that cannot be replenished, so if you nail the Hojo family and besiege it, maybe you can really besiege the Hojo family! ”

"The unexpectedly united and tenacious Hojo retainers! After a little bit of tuning for so long, few are willing to be willing to join the tail, it seems that Hojo Shiyasu's actions over the years have really won the hearts of the people! Honda Tokimasa's exclamation was more like a reminder that the tenacity of the Hojo family was completely stronger than expected, and the united retainers meant that this was not a fortress that could be breached from within, and there were only two ways to take down Odawara, a strong attack at all costs or a siege at all costs.

The reason is the same, but the price paid is different, the former is the loss of many years of training of the elite division, the latter is only the loss of money, food, time and morale, as long as you are not demented and stupid, you can see that the loss of money and food morale is much better than the loss of soldiers, although the Kira family is neither short of soldiers nor lack of food, but there are soldiers who can't take their lives to fill the bottomless pit of Odawara Castle.

A fortified city with an area of nearly 10 square kilometers and complete internal civil towns, no shortage of grain, grass, medicine and water sources, and 20,000 elite guards is a very difficult problem to take. Uesugi Terutoka's sense of war and his ability to capture fighters are superb. Against any encounter, you can deal with it with full confidence.

But this does not mean that his siege tactics are as invincible as field warfare, the siege tactics of the Warring States period are usually only those few tricks used back and forth, Odawara Castle has a large range of facilities, and the whole foundation is unfathomable, and it is a flat mountain castle, which means that it is very difficult to dig and build a secret passage, and it does not have the conditions for water attack at all.

Under the constraints of various unfavorable conditions, the siege war fell into a long-term stalemate, either fighting for troops or using the tactics of "attacking with food and food", both of which competed in determination, willpower and control. And this aspect happens to be one of Hojo Shiyasu's best specialties, Hojo Shiyasu is a benevolent man who is wide inside and strict outside, and the Kanto civil affairs are not the nicknames given by some flattering Kanto samurai, but the common people praise the name of the market passed down by word of mouth, and the samurai still call him the lion of Sagami.

Kira Yoshishi was still thinking about how to deal with the difficult Hojo family, and he knew very well that this sturdy Hojo family would hold on for another thirty years in another time and space, until the monkey of the world with 200,000 troops besieged in all directions, and it took nearly half a year to coerce, lure, scare, scare, and besiege by means of coercion, lure, scare, and siege.

He did not have an army of 200,000 and did not intend to use all kinds of chaotic tactics, but only wanted to force the Hojo family to surrender as soon as possible by relatively peaceful and not too drastic means. Ordered Ota Shimasa to lead 5,000 troops to raid several Hojo clan branch castles near Mt. Ashigara when the snow fell in the winter moon, and completely locked the passage from Ashigara Pass to Sagami Province, especially Odawara Castle. Make sure that every grain of grain and every strong man on the side of Izu is blocked outside Odawara Castle.

Secondly, Kira Yoshitomo adopted the strategy of fortifying the castle, which was based on the large camp and eight castles built by Uesugi Kenshin, and then built a dozen fortresses in an area of about three rooms, and advanced to Odawara Castle step by step with several sections, and blocked all the external communication methods of Odawara Castle little by little.

This method is a stupid way to work hard and lose money.,But the Kira family just doesn't lack money and doesn't care about this cost, and there's no way.,It doesn't matter how stupid the method is, the premise is that it's useful.,The benefits of this stupid method are obvious.,First of all, the soldier's advance tactics can ensure that the Hojo family will not be able to lead the army to raid and burn these newly built soldiers for a while.,The Kira army behind it can protect the new soldiers at any time.。

Fighting out of the city meant having an encounter with Uesugi Terutora in the wild, which was a situation that the Hojo family tried to avoid, so the Hojo clan did not dare to hastily issue a surprise attack order, and pushed it to Odawara Castle to open a posture on the spot to build a soldier's barricade did not have this effect, first of all, the construction of the barracks took a long time and many peasants, and the process was not a day or two but a process ranging from half a month to a month.

In the eyes of the Hojo family, such a blatant soldier-building arrow is probably to deceive all the Hojo family samurai as fools, you must know that the Hojo family samurai are also elite men who have undergone years of training, and their intelligence is not necessarily much worse than that of the ordinary Kira family's genealogy retainers, and their ability is not necessarily much worse, if I can't beat you during the day, then it's no problem to come and attack at night!

No matter how powerful your Kira family is, if you can defend against it during the day and can you keep it in the middle of the night, if you can prevent it today, it is still a question of whether you can prevent it tomorrow, and when the tiger is still napping, so many soldiers are scattered around a huge irregular city wall, and a lot of troops are needed to take care of several points, which is a very risky move from a military point of view.

The so-called principle of encirclement is to warn the general commander not to be blind and arrogant, and to obtain absolute superiority in troops and logistics before he can besiege the city for a long time, and to besiege the city with a comparable force ratio is to seek his own death, for example, not to besiege the city step by step, and to build a fortress directly outside Odawara Castle is a very arrogant behavior.

The strength of the Hojo defenders inside the castle was not much worse than that outside the castle, and the besieging side had to disperse the heavy troops into several strands into the castle to trap and defend Odawara Castle, which was equivalent to dispersing a fist into rootless fingers to exert force, and how could the power of the fist be equal to the force of the five fingers inserted, the former was a heavy hammer and the latter could only be regarded as a rake.

It is very dangerous to disperse so much, and if you are not careful, you may be rushed out by the Hojo army in the city and slash and burn a certain castle, and when your army arrives, the Hojo army has already retreated back into the city and does not come out, as for the difficulty of setting up a trap to deceive Hojo Shiyasu and being deceived. You have to be confident enough to play with the wits between Hojo and Kosho.

This is not a deductive commentary, Zhuge Liang who does not have a lot of wisdom and is close to the demon. Kira Yoshitoki didn't have the confidence to hit the gate of Odawara Castle. You can also set up a set to trick the Hojo clan out of the yasu and beat it up, this is not underestimating the IQ of the Hojo clan or overestimating his own IQ, in comparison, it is more reliable to use stupid methods, and the use of the castle to promote the system can also form a series of strategic depths by the way, even if the Hojo family occupies or burns a few soldiers, it cannot change the fate of being cut and surrounded.

A few days later, Kira Yoshitoki proposed the latest rotation plan, and the 30,000 troops of Uesugi Terutora's division, from the general to the ashigaru, were all rotated by the end of December, and Sanada Yutaka led the Shinano and Ueno and Kira Yoshitoki's descendants of more than 30,000 generals to take over the burden of Uesugi Teruto. The rotation was initially set to take place every three months, and the withdrawn troops were to be stationed near Edo Castle to recuperate and recuperate until their morale and energy were restored to their peak condition.

The advantage of troops continued to deplete the morale and confidence in Odawara Castle, and even if the Hojo clan Yasuya did the same and made a rotation strategy, it could not change the fact that the morale was gradually declining, and the Kira army withdrew without any burden of cultivation and training, and the withdrawal of the Hojo army was at most just a few days of breathing and resting.

With the end of the war in Shimono Country, the more than 20,000 people of the Kwantung Kingdom who were recruited returned to their territory for the New Year, Kira Yoshitoki assigned their respective tasks to the newly attached Kwantung People's Army, and they must strictly follow the laws of the Kira family to guard the territory and follow the assigned task direction to carry out the strategy, including Satomi Yoshihiro, who did not participate in the anti-Kira alliance and did not contact the Kira family, was also listed as a target for the raid.

In Kirayoshi's plan to conquer Kanto, there was no such thing as no grudge in the past and no grudge in the present. Yoshitoki Kira, who aims to take the throne of the Kanto Princess, aspires to take control of the eight Kanto provinces and become the ruler of a generation of rulers whose power surpasses that of previous princes. He must beat and teach the people of the Kanto Kingdom who are not very husband and wife in his heart, and he must establish his absolute dominance over the eight countries of the Kanto region, and he must obey unconditionally whether he understands it or not.

Satomi Yoshihiro, who is known as the "Vice Marshal of the Kanto" family, is obviously unacceptable, just as he can't accept the olive branch extended by the Hojo family, and the military of the Kira family took advantage of the retreat of the Hojo army to invade the Kamiku Province and violate the fundamental interests of the Satomi family, and it is not surprising that the domineering demands of the hostile Kira Yoshishi in this situation are not at all surprising.

Sometimes the absolute gap in strength is not enough to make up for the huge difference in the identity of interests, the Satomi family is not the weak Utsunomiya family, and the ambitious Satomi Yoshiyao father and son are not the Utsunomiya Tsusuna without a backbone, and there is often a huge change from friends to enemies in this era, and the fundamental reason is that it is inseparable from the word interest.

What people want in the world is nothing more than fame, fortune, power, and sex, and people with ambition and ability are more inclined to expand their interests, while people who lack ambition and strength are more inclined to stabilize their status and interests, this is the difference between Satomi Yoshihiro and Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, the strong are stronger than the latter in terms of wrist vision and ambition, so the Satomi family can remain silent hostile, while the Utsunomiya family can only shout unfairness and admit defeat.

Once upon a time, the Kamakura Shogunate was still a big problem for the Muromachi Shogunate's family, and the reborn Furukawa Shogunate still adhered to the strategy of hostility to the Muromachi Shogunate, gathering a group of Kanto people to make trouble in the Kanto region for three days and two times, which made people feel very troubled.

From Ashikaga Yoshikyo to Ashikaga Yoshimasa, generations of princes dreamed of eliminating the Kanto Principality, or finding a new Principality close to the Shogunate to replace it, but their actions proved to be very unsuccessful, and the Kamakura Principality could still rise if it fell, and even if the Furukawa Principality fell, another Principality might rise, as long as this banner of the Kanto region did not fall, there would be a steady stream of Kanto people standing up.

Therefore, not long after the Horikoshi Gongfang was proven to be useless, Hosokawa Masamoto took advantage of the fact that Ashikaga Yoshimasa and Ashikaga Yoshimi died one after another to launch the Mingyuan Coup, firstly, to use the Horikoshi Gongfang as a waste and then support a puppet, and secondly, to appoint Hojo Hayakumo Jing, who had the background of the Imagawa family, to lead the Kanto, of course, this move was not done well before it collapsed with the collapse of the ruling system.

It was the ambition of his predecessors that he would become the first Kanto prince to be under the control of the shogunate and loyal to the shogun, which was his dream and the greatest hope for many years of struggle. Looking back, there have been many ups and downs and tribulations along the way. There was laughter, there was anger. There have been sorrows and sorrows in the hands of victory, and how much sorrow is hidden under the surface scenery, and now he is like an acrobat holding a plate and walking a tightrope, and if he is not careful, he will be beaten by chickens and eggs.

As a family governor, he always has to behave flawlessly, always maintain the posture of Zhizhu in his hand, and give more people strong confidence, he is not the boy who lives for himself, he has a genealogy of retainers, a huge samurai group, and the full support of countless people, he is not lonely and at the same time he is paying the price for not being lonely. The ideals in his memory quietly faded into yellowed photographs, and the familiar scenes were exactly what he had been trying to do for the past twenty years.

Looking at the little sunset on the top of the distant mountain, the afterglow gradually dissipated, and muttered to himself: "If you don't win, you will die, and if you don't prosper, you will die...... I'm living up to my vows! Please bless my ancestors and bless me on the Ashikaga family! ”

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At the end of October, the temperature in Kyoto drops, the temperature difference between day and night is nearly 10 degrees, and the autumn leaves trees around Kyoto are dyed in the color of Danzhu, and the whole city seems to be burning against the blue sky and white clouds. Instead, they used stir-fried tea as a social tool in private conversations.

The advantage of the new tea ceremony is that it is easy to get started, and there are still a number of steps that require bathing, incense, and purifying the heart and body before using the tea ceremony. The vulgar only needs a few simple steps to taste the pure fragrance of the tea, the advantage is that you can drink how you want to drink, not too much attention to more refreshing and comfortable, a small pinch of tea can be re-drunk five or six bubbles, the five or six tea kung fu has nearly an hour, this time is enough to discuss many things.

At this time, Ashikaga Yoshiteru's face was dark and his eyes were deep-set, and the whole person was like a victim who had escaped from a refugee camp, so thin that only a handful of bones were left with flesh, and he said listlessly to Konoe Maehisa: "According to the meaning of the previous time, Yoshitoki is asking Yu to give him the title of the Kanto Prince, right?" ”

Konoe looked at Ashikaga Yoshiteru's weak decay and shook his head a long time ago, and he also persuaded him a few times that he still couldn't cross this threshold but he was still strong and weak, and said regretfully: "Yes, Yoshitoki's attack in Kanto is going on at a critical moment, as long as you catch Ashikaga Fujimasa, you can easily control Kanto, and then most of the entire Eastern Kingdom will be under the control of the shogunate, which is a golden opportunity." ”

"Is Yoshitoki so desperate to be the Kanto Minister? When you become the Kanto Princess, will you desperately want to get Yu's throne, and how did Yu's Hui Ruomaru die! Yu must find out to avenge my poor boy! "Ashikaga Yoshiteru's mental state is still very poor, sluggish as if he can't lift up the slightest strength, the so-called heart disease must be treated with heart medicine, if you can't cross this threshold, Ashikaga Yoshiki may be ambitious, and transform into a mediocre public party with collapsed ideals.

Since the bizarre death of Terukamaru, Ashikaga Yoshiki's life seems to have slipped from the apex of brilliance to the bleak and bottomless abyss, and his son-in-law Terukamaru has pinned all his expectations on the continuation of his dreams, a childless princess is miserable, and he is destined to be in vain no matter how hard he tries, just like Ashikaga Yoshinori is still lonely and miserable when he dies of old age, but who would have thought that when he was still called Ashikaga Yoshisai, he was so beautiful.

Ashikaga Yoshiki suddenly understood a little bit of the feelings of the "Liugongfang" Ashikaga Yoshinori, thinking that he Ashikaga Yoshiki was a dignified general but couldn't even keep a son-in-law, which was similar to the "long-distance runner" Ashikaga Yoshinori couldn't keep his own general throne, and even his sister-in-law Takeomaru didn't keep it, perhaps the most similar thing between him and Ashikaga Yoshinori was the spring breeze in the first half of his life, and the second half of his life when the long-distance runner was displaced was much more than him.

Compared with the tragic circumstances he experienced, Kira Yoshitoki's domination of the Kanto region was not so important, and the shogunate a few years ago may have watched the changes in the political direction caused by the turmoil in the Kanto region, but the momentum of the shogunate's revival has been declining over the years, and it has long since lost the wonderful feeling of "sitting on the world".

These days, his mind will always echo the tragic scene of the death of his son-in-law Terukamaru, this is the most failed scene he has experienced in the first half of his life, and he only vaguely remembers the subsequent events as if he was surrounded by many samurai, and the rest of his memories are all fragments of fragments of chaos, and he can't remember what he has done at all.

After a few months of confusion, he gradually returned to his normal thinking as a general, but the traces left by this mark were too deep for Ashikaga Yoshiteru to never forget, he could not care about Kira Yoshito's domination of Kanto, and he could allow him to do some transgressive acts, but he would never allow anyone to offend his majesty as a general, and his poor child Terukamaru.

"This ......," Konoe was a little overwhelmed by the words, "the so-called heaven and earth have no two masters, and the people of the Kanto Kingdom are about to lose the Kanto Prince, if the shogunate can't fill it in time, it can only let those small people support another one, and maybe it will provoke the Ashikaga Nari clan to set off a rebellion of virtue." ”

"The establishment of a new Kanto Shogun will only push the Ashikaga Shogun's family into the never-ending abyss!" Ashikaga Yoshiki smiled coldly and closed his eyes and slowly tasted tea, trying to sort out the chaotic thoughts to make his brain clearer, he had realized that what Kira Yoshitoki did in Kanto was very dangerous, but he always couldn't think more about dealing with him, which may be the sadness of being a general. (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank Xiao Zimu and Jane Eyre for the reward, so powerful makes Ume a little embarrassed, or that sentence, what I said will definitely be fulfilled.