The father and son of Yoga Takacho, Minagawa Toshimune, and Minagawa Hiroteru, who originally supported the Sagami Hojo clan, also changed their attitude to support Utsunomiya Hirotsuna's troops, and the brothers of the Oyama clan of Shimono Province and Yuki Harumo of Shimoku Province, as well as the three brothers of Otawara Tsunakiyo, Oseki Takamassu, and Fukuhara Shitakaka, who were very active in the Nasu family, also changed their camps and sided with the Kira army, and Sano Masatsuna's reaction was even more rapid, and he took 500 troops to stand next to his relative Kiryu Suke Tsunada, as if he was a hardcore Kira family supporter.

There are still some people in the Kanto Kingdom who are a little slower to react, such as one of the eight houses in the Kanto region, Shimono Kuni, Nasu Ziyin, Chiba Yinfu of Shimoku Province, Oda Shiji of Hitachi Country, and Edo Shigetsu, another powerful countryman in Hitachi Country, did not react so positively, they are all die-hard supporters of the Hojo family, and they are a little out of order if they don't pull a hand when the Hojo family is alive and dead, and it is really a bit difficult to wipe off the face if they hit the well again.

Of course, most of the time, face is just a stepping stone for them to surrender dignity, and they did not choose this because of loyalty to their allies the Hojo family, but by slowly making a statement, waiting until everyone decides to fight Hojo before voting in favor, trying to avoid that the Hojo clan will settle accounts with them in the future if they survive the invasion of the Kira army.

The so-called "don't put all your eggs in one basket" is not new, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign lords, kings and even emperors are interpreting this truth with their own actions, but the ancients lacked an inductive summary and did not turn this complex political choice into a simple and concise sentence.

The so-called loyalty and bravery have long been washed away in the war in the Kanto region for more than 100 years, and the so-called brave and strong samurai genes have died one after another in the war. Those who survived were samurai genes that implied conspiracy, treachery, and betrayal. These Kanto people's festival exercises have fallen very quickly in recent years. There is no psychological burden at all to do the work of crossing the river and demolishing the bridge.

The people of the Kwantung Kingdom thought very well, standing under the big tree of Kira Yoshi, it was good to enjoy the shade, and it was wonderful to eat meat and drink soup while fighting Hojo, but they did not find out in advance the temperament of Kira Yoshitoki, and the envoy sent to the main camp of Kishiyoshi in Kawagoe Castle was reprimanded and couldn't even raise his head.

Kira Yoshitokimori's cold gaze swept over the faces of Okamoto Zenzhe, Fanga Gaoding, Oseki Takamassu and others one by one, and sneered: "Everyone in the world says that the Kanto wall is grassy, and the wind blows on both sides, and at first Yu felt that this was a slander against the Kanto samurai. Think about how powerful my Kamakura samurai was three hundred years ago, my Ashikaga family is all Kamakura shogunate royal family, in the past for the seven generations of Genji pillar right shogun hall born and died to make great contributions, the long-lasting rebellion swept the imperial court in one fell swoop, and laid the world of my samurai family for hundreds of years!

But look at you Kanto samurai, you don't know loyalty and don't distinguish between right and wrong, swaying from side to side, like the wheat grass in the countryside, yesterday you were the minister of Ashikaga and Uesugi can be the minister of Hojo today, and tomorrow you can't say that you will be the retainer of the country with mud legs and turtle people in the countryside, where is your loyalty? Where is the dignity of your samurai? There is only land in your eyes, why don't you hold the land for a lifetime, what kind of samurai do you do, what kind of samurai do you do, what kind of armor do you wear, what kind of sword you use to kill someone?

Your ancestors fought for my Genji in Hanoi. After death, you will become a heroic spirit and enjoy the incense offerings of the earth in the high heavens, and if they know that you have committed such an act of disloyalty and shamelessness, they will surely feel ashamed of your deeds! You should never think of going to Takamagahara. There is no place for you in Elysium, and you will have to pay the price for your shameful deeds, and after you die, you can only go to Huangquan Birasaka to be punished by karma! ”

Who would have thought that this person would accuse them of disloyalty and injustice in front of them, just like when Takeda Shingen was scolded and fainted, the scene of several old samurai fainting on the spot with shame and anger highlighted the sad and uneasy scene of the Kwantung samurai.

The young samurai couldn't bear the shame and was about to cut his stomach, but he was kicked by Takigawa Tokimasa, Shima Tokikatsu, Nagasaka Nobumasa, Watanabe Moritsuna, and several others, and the Tai Dao Rib Cha who took them away yelled: "Do you bastards think that you can atone for your sins by seppuku suicide? Only cowards think of dying, and samurai who dare not face the cruel reality are not qualified to inherit the inheritance of their ancestors, let alone bear the prestige and glory given by your Miao characters! ”

A few young people relied on the murderous aura and the ferocity of many years of fighting, and they just suppressed some of the out-of-control scenes, but their words could not suppress a few old foxes, Fanga Gaoding and Daseki Gaozeng are the chief advisers of the people of their respective countries, Okamoto Zenzhe does not need to be tabooed as an outsider, although the envoys of the people of several other countries are not enough to be suppressed, but it is precisely because of the lack of weight that they do not have to worry about affecting their main family.

Fanghe Gaoding suddenly smiled and said: "The town government duke's high-level remarks are thought-provoking and our ears and eyes are shocked, and our army's rise this time is the order of the corresponding town government duke, if there is any offense in words and actions, please forgive us for the sake of the rude behavior of the countrymen." ”

"The actions of the town government to my Kanto samurai are deep love and hatred! We and other Kanto samurai do have all kinds of unsatisfactory points, some are historical reasons, some are their own reasons, in short, we are still very grateful for the teachings of the town government, the original intention of this battle in the Kanto region is also the general order of the corresponding town government, the reason why there is neglect is really a last resort! There was some hesitation in repairing the doctor's hall at Nasu, the main house below, so ......"

Daguan Gaozeng did not forget to dedicate his lord Nasu Ziyin to Kira Yoshishi at the end of the slander, so ignoring the virtue of the great festival of the loss of the deeds made Kira's genealogy people can't help but shake their heads, Ben Tashi is unhappy and said: "Daguan Mei is not right to keep this, even if the repair hall is wrong for a while, but after all, it is the governor of the Nasu family, and the act of slandering the lord's family is a taboo of my martial arts, so it is appropriate not to mention this in the future!" ”

"Hehe, what Honda Hall teaches is ......" Daguan Gao lowered his head in a muffled voice and bowed in apology, taking this opportunity to quietly suppress the anger and dissatisfaction in his eyes.

Although his movements were extremely ingenious, they could not deceive Yoshiga Gaoding, who was sitting beside him, and he knew very well the arrogant and vicious nature of this person. He looked back at the unaware appearance of the Kira retainers. In my heart, I was thinking about how to use the anger of the high increase in the big pass to make some trouble.

Wait for these diplomatic envoys from all walks of life in the Kanto region to retreat one by one. Kira snorted angrily: "These treacherous people have evil intentions! Sure enough, as expected, Yu poured into the match of the Ashikaga family, but who gave you the courage to seize the territory under Yu's nose? When Yu issued the Kanto crusade order, he pretended to be deaf and dumb one by one, and when he saw Yu win the Hojo Army, he jumped out and grabbed food, he was really bold and didn't know whether he was alive or dead! ”

Langoka shook his feather fan and said, "Although these people of the Kanto Kingdom have their own evil intentions, they should still be trusted and reused!" It's just that the ministers still found something unusual from Fang Cai's performance, and the people of all walks of life in the Kanto region have different attitudes towards His Royal Highness, such as the Satomi clan and the Chiba clan just sent a little-known retainer as an envoy.

Although the Tokichi Satake clan sent Okamoto Zenzhe, a diplomatic monk who was famous in the Kanto region, the senior monk maintained a perfunctory posture of few words from beginning to end. In contrast, the Utsunomiya clan and the Nasu clan of Shimono Country attach more importance to it, and the sent Oga Gaoding and Daseki Gaozeng are also the principals of the family, but the attitude of these two people is very ambiguous, and I am afraid that it is also a difficult point to deal with. ”

Hosokawa Fujitaka, who was in charge of the Kandai Commissioner, accompanied the army and asked his brother-in-law, "What does the Kanto Palace mean is that the people of the Kanto Kingdom don't take His Highness's rebuke seriously at all?" ”

"Not bad! It's a completely dismissive attitude! Honda nodded very firmly, narrowed his eyes and smiled slightly, as if he was a harmless good person, but in fact, he tried his best to hide the cold light in his eyes: "Your Majesty has long heard that Oseki Misaku is rampant in Nasu's house, which is quite unstoppable, and the family governor Nasu repairs the hall is strongly dissatisfied, so he has the vicious idea of abolishing the family governor, so he deliberately used words to spy on Daguan Mizuo. Sure enough, he tested the narrow-mindedness of Misakumoru Oseki. ”

Takigawa Shiyi pouted and said, "Is that the smiling tiger just now?" That guy kept his head down for a long time and didn't get up, and his subordinates almost mistakenly thought that there was something wrong with his body! ”

"Keijiro is still so unforgiving!" Shima Shikatsu shrugged with a smile. Yan said: "Didn't you notice that guy deliberately hid the anger in his eyes just now? I saw him clenching his fists! And the eyes of the Yoga Iga Shouden kept rolling, probably thinking about how to use this little contradiction in order to profit from it! ”

Takigawa Shiyi suddenly coughed strangely, and said with a very sad look: "Eh! Playing carefully in front of the samurai who is the best in my eyes in the Ashikaga family...... It's really a self-defeating thing! I can only mourn for the two of them, I wonder if His Royal Highness will deal with these two martial artists? ”

Ji Liang Yoshishi waved a folding fan to cover his cheeks, and said with a cold look in his eyes: "This is not in a hurry for the time being, Yu has always been not afraid of the people who are unpredictable, these Kwantung people want to play tricks and let them move, Yu Zhi wants to see if they can stab this sky, there is always a chance to deal with them slowly!" ”

Kira Yoshitoki's first meeting with the people of the Kwantung Kingdom ended in a hurry when he was completely seen through, not to mention the panicked departure of the envoys of the other countries, and the little tricks of Yoshiga Takacho and Daseki Takasamai who thought they had won had been seen through a long time ago, and playing tricks in front of a group of conspirators, just like the ignorance and ridiculousness of Luban making a big axe in front of the gate, on the contrary, Okamoto Zenzhe's unspoken and ambiguous attitude aroused the vigilance of some retainers.

The continuous emergence of Chinese samurai from all over the Kanto region soon swelled this national alliance army to more than 80,000, just like the Kanto Astronomical Rebellion ten years ago or the Kawagoe Night Battle fifteen years ago, these 80,000 allied forces were divided into hundreds of large and small forces and formed various names of the country, just like the "Lang Party" in the Genhei era, this kind of countryman represented the overall strength of the Kanto samurai group.

Different times and different backgrounds, the powerful Kami-Ashikaga family did not need to call on these Kanto people to unite and fight under his command, of course, Kira Yoshitoki did not have the name of calling on them, these Kwantung people spontaneously formed a coalition and "responded" to his call It has nothing to do with Kira Yoshitoki, they are here to grab land, food, and women, not to serve the Kami-Ashikaga family, they have never said that they will be loyal to him.

The so-called people of the Kwantung Kingdom are more like the wild people of organized mountain bandits, and the "three-light policy" that was carried out in Musashi Province back then is still hated by the people of Musashi and Shimo, and these brutal people are killing people, regardless of whether you are an obedient samurai or a pauper. As long as they find out, it's theirs. If you dare to resist, even if you are a samurai who has returned to you, you will be killed mercilessly.

It is because of their bad behavior of plucking the feathers and leaving no room for it. As a result, how many young samurai families were taken away by this group of brutal bandits, and how many families were broken by their invasion, so when they gathered again to attack the Hojo Leader of the Shimoku Kingdom, they met with strong resistance from the Hojo family, including the Chiba clan, the Yuki clan, the Hara clan, the Takagi clan and other people who had been subordinate to the Kira family, and also secretly provided intelligence and food and ordnance support for the rebellious Shimoku people.

In addition, Ashikaga Fujimasa of the Furukawa Imperial Palace, with the help of Matsunaga Tsunamo, successfully held Harusuke Haruta hostage, and asked him to order the people of the Kwantung Kingdom to immediately stop attacking and resist this Kwantung Coalition Army, which made the people of Shimo, Hitachi, Shimono and other countries fall into turmoil. Most of the trumpet lords still recognize this Kwantung Princess, and at this moment, the Princesses have made them dare to make a move against the Lower Kingdom.

The Satomi family of the Kamiki Kingdom was also strongly resisted by the Hojo Army who stayed in Kururi Castle, and the Kururi Castle guarded by 5,000 defenders instead became the first line of defense for the Hojo family to resist the counterattack of the people of the Fangsu Peninsula, and the Kururi Castle that was still unable to take down the soldiers for more than a month was still full of soldiers and food, and the high base of the castle was deep, and Satomi Yoshihiro tried to raid Kururi Castle through the secret passages buried in the city, but dozens of elite samurai were killed in vain only to find out that the Hojo family's Wind Demon Ninja had already explored the inside and outside of the city.

In addition to the fact that the Hojo Army, which was held by Kururi Castle, was a hard bone, the Satomi family successively reclaimed several branch castles in the Kamiki country, and finally reversed the strategic defensive posture and took advantage of the situation to bring the morale of the Satomi army back to a normal level, and as the center of gravity of the Hojo Army shifted from Musashi Province to the Odawara Castle defense network, the Fangsu Peninsula across the sea once again became the support point of the Hojo family. The 2,000 Hojo Army that set out from Sagami Province rushed to the Kamiki Peninsula on the ships of the Sagami Navy, and once again pressed back the Satomi family, who had just improved.

It is not surprising that there is intermittent weakness caused by the lack of organization among the people of the Kwantung region. If they had been able to unite against the Hojo family, they would not have been severely beaten and killed in the night battle of Kawagoe fifteen years ago, and the people of the Kwantung Province who had not remembered to eat and fight ten years ago were once again planted in the hands of the Hojo clanyasu, which really confirmed the counterexample of falling from where you get up.

Kira Yoshitoki did not give them any support and preferential treatment, and did not intend to let them participate in the upcoming siege of Odawara, in another time and space, Uesugi Kenshin invited the Kwantung people to fight in Odawara because of the lack of troops, but instead exposed the shortcomings of his own lack of strength, and after the end of a doomed siege, he let the old fox Hojo Shiyasu rest assured and boldly manipulated the people of the Kanto country against the Uesugi family, so as to successfully beat the Uesugi family to fight again and again on the land of the Kanto region.

In the long tug-of-war unconsciously entered the early summer, the hot weather made the samurai who were accustomed to the cool climate of Echigo a little uncomfortable, and the rhythm of the war gradually dragged on.

Uesugi Teruto, who has more than 50,000 troops, is not in a hurry to attack the city at any cost, and the low-intensity harassment war that lasted for more than two months gradually showed a trend of day and night, and in desperation, Hojo clan Yao managed to ask his nephew Hojo clan for help, Odawara Castle immediately sent 8,000 troops to try to rescue Hojo clan Yao, but was easily defeated by Uesugi Terutora with 5,000 cavalry, if it weren't for the interference of the wind demon ninja and the Sagami water army in the Tama River, this army would have become a meal for the Kira army.

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In the cool of early summer, Kyoto, the war-torn ancient capital is rapidly rejuvenated with the support and reconstruction of the world's daimyos, many dilapidated monuments in the Ukyo area are still being restored, and displaced monks can always be seen sitting in front of the ruins chanting sutras in the streets and alleys.

The razed temple can be rebuilt, but the wounds of the war deeply rooted in the heart cannot be erased, watching a few ragged little novices standing beside the master in a daze, passing by the pedestrians and merchants can only fold their hands and salute these outsiders respectfully, and then lament the difficult way of the world and leave in a hurry.

There are no monks who can't help but drink meat in the temples that live in Kyoto, and all the three refuge and five precepts must be strictly observed, and there is no sloppiness in the sloppiest, and some monasteries with strict rules are only a dozen monks practicing in them. The rules are so strict that pilgrims are only allowed to visit for a few months. I just relied on the garden in the temple to grow vegetables in exchange for some food.

This is the case, for example, of Saiyoji Temple, which was revived in the hands of Ashikaga Yoshiteru. It is said that this temple was built in the Tenpyo period of the Nara period (729 AD), and it was originally the mountain gate inheritance of the Hosho sect, but it was abandoned several times because of the war, and in the early days of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Rinzai sect monk who was called the "Emperor of the Seven Dynasties" dreamed of the stone in the middle of the temple, although it is not the famous of the five mountains, but it is also a rare quiet place.

Xifang Temple is a pure practice temple, every year only in the spring and summer when the bag is shy will open the temple door to welcome pilgrims, and must be a good man and woman who know the roots or familiar believers to accept, if the roots of the pilgrims are rash to come to the door. I'm afraid that I won't even want to get close to the mountain gate, and I will be persuaded to come back.

The rules for entering the monastery are also very large, you must enter the monastery in the morning, listen to the monks' morning class, and copy the "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra" before entering the temple to pay homage to the Buddha and Bodhisattva Arhat statues, have a fast meal at noon, listen to the monks' lectures in the afternoon, answer questions, and solve doubts, with climactic knowledge and wisdom to resolve the uneasiness and confusion in the hearts of the believers, to a bit similar to the meaning of the Western religious confession room.

On this day, Konoe Kenko came to this Xifang Temple with a group of attendants and maids, her face was pale, her eyes were red and swollen, as if she had just cried, she listened to the explanation of several monks in the temple for a long time and did not move, several monks sighed and saluted: "The female Tanyue has a dull complexion and a depressed heart, she must have a very serious deficiency and cold disease, her eyes are full of sorrow, her eyes are slightly red, and her heart disease cannot be cured. Forgive the old monk for the powerlessness of what the female Tanyue asked! ”

The attendant serving outside the hall took out a bag of gold and handed it to the monk, and gently knocked on the door to remind the talker inside. Konoe Xianzi put on a hat to restore the posture of the ancient well, and sighed quietly after a long time: "I have heard for a long time that Xifang Temple can solve puzzles, and the concubine body has just broken in regardless of the etiquette, but I don't want a few senior monks to be powerless, it is really disappointing for the concubine!" ”

The first seat of Xifang Temple is a white-eyed old monk, clasped his hands together and said apologetically: "Female Tanyue's heart disease, the old monk really can't cure it, I wait for the monks who were born to practice never speak, so that the son of the world died in less than a hundred days and the symptoms are extremely dangerous and treacherous, and people like the old monk are really powerless!" ”

Konoe nodded noncommittally and then got up and left, and when the group was far away, he heard the white-eyed old monk sigh: "Kyoto is about to fall into a dispute of right and wrong again!" The temple gate is closed as soon as possible, the monks enter and exit the mountain gate, and the pilgrims who are scheduled to visit apologize for giving a manuscript of the "Diamond Sutra"! ”

The thin old monk sitting next to the white-eyed old monk sighed: "His Royal Highness is really ill-fated!" The concubine died mysteriously less than 100 days after his birth, and it was also involved in an unfathomable conspiracy, and it is really not suitable for us and other outsiders to participate in it, but in this way, how can we repay His Royal Highness for taking in us the monks who have been displaced and achieving the kindness of revitalizing the mountain gate? ”

The white-eyed old monk was silent for a while, and said: "Only by lighting an everlasting lamp for His Royal Highness can bless this noble man to be too safe and healthy." ”

Not long after Konoe returned to Kyoto a long time ago, Ashikaga Yoshiteru was born less than 100 days ago and his sister-in-law Terukamaru died mysteriously, it is said that Teruwakamaru died when his whole body was bruised and very terrifying, and Konoe Kenko, who learned that his son-in-law had died, fainted on the spot, and Ashikaga Yoshiteru was also stimulated by the madness of the madness to pull out the onimaru Kunitsuna and kill several maids with small surnames.

The shogunate samurai who rushed to hear the news were forced to have no power to fight back by the swordsman general with superb swordsmanship, if it weren't for the tacit understanding of more than a dozen people who cooperated with each other and delayed not to seek merit but to seek no fault, and Ashikaga Yoshiki fell into a state of madness and completely relied on instinct to chop, I was afraid that these shogunate samurai would be killed by him one by one.

The general's madness is a great thing, and the samurai who rushed to hear the news surrounded Ashikaga Yoshiteru, worried that His Royal Highness the general would really go crazy and it would really be over, just when Qu Naase Michizo anxiously urged the samurai to restrain His Royal Highness the general, Ashikaga Yoshiteru's daughter was frightened and cried out to bring the crazy general back to his senses.

Although people regain their senses, how can the psychological trauma be easily erased, and the usual Ashikaga Yoshiteru's always aggressive momentum has weakened a lot, like an ordinary father's son who has lost his sister-in-law who has worked hard to raise for many years, and he doesn't know whether he is in a trance or stunned when he sits in the Buddhist hall all day long.

The result of the diagnosis of Qu Naase Michizo was that the shogun Shiko Terukamaru was poisoned, and afterwards the shogunate samurai inspected the Nijo Imperial House and found the medicine bag and some scattered tools, and determined that the perpetrator was the shrine maiden who claimed to be Izumo Aguo, and in order to catch the culprit, the shogunate immediately blocked Kyoto Qikou for a big rope, but how could the sea of people be so vast that it was like looking for a needle in a haystack to catch the fruitful monk who was good at changing his voice and changing his appearance?

Although the merchants and townspeople were shocked and saddened by the mysterious murder of the shogun's son, the normal operation of Kyoto as a commercial center could not be delayed by the search for a long time, not to mention that the shogunate had only a few hundred people engaged in the search, and it would be a drop in the bucket to find someone in Kyoto, which has a permanent population of more than 200,000 and nearly twice the floating population.

As the general's Imperial Observatory, Konoe Kenko is under a lot of pressure, and even her aunt Keishouin, who has cut her hair and became a nun, blames her for not taking good care of the child, but she still can't explain and refute, the nurse who takes care of the child and several maids have been cut in two by his crazy husband, and the dead person cannot continue to be held responsible, so only the child's biological mother bears the blame of the aunt and mother-in-law.

Under the effect of this tremendous pressure, Konoe Kenko would rush to the doctor to find Saiyoji Temple to find a way to save her husband from the predicament he was experiencing, but it was completely unreliable to rely on the skills of these foreign monks to help her, even if she subconsciously knew this result, she still tried without looking back, which was the only thing she could do as the child's mother, the general's wife.

The news that the shogun had gone mad and recovered spread throughout Kyoto in just half a day, and after learning that the shogun had been stimulated and his spirit was severely damaged, the emperor who was living in Ouchi was also very worried, and hurriedly issued an order that the high monks of Kinai and the monks of the southern capital of Kitaryo took turns to hold water and land pujas for the prince, and several priests of Kamo Shrine treated His Royal Highness Gongkata, confirming that His Royal Highness Gongkata was possessed by evil in hell and needed to open the altar for 9981 days to expel the evil.

For a time, Kyoto was full of turmoil, people were talking about how to cure His Royal Highness's illness, some enlightened businessmen and cultural people were also holding banquets day and night to discuss the adverse effects of His Royal Highness's illness on the shogunate's Zhongxing, and the idle cultural people were compiling their new jokes, and the evil filth that had accumulated under Kyoto for thousands of years was quietly spread in Kyoto to destroy Abe Harumi's French seal in Kyoto, and release the ultimate demon king in hell, Naraku. (To be continued......)