Yuki Haruchao shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It's not proper! If you really do this, you will definitely be laughed at by the town government! We have been loyal servants of the Furukawa family for hundreds of years, and it will cause a huge hindrance to the statement if we sacrifice it like this! In the future, it will be difficult to get out of the retainers of the town government. ”

He had thought about Koyama Hidetsuna's proposal many times, but he still didn't dare to do it because of all kinds of concerns, if there was a chance for him to go to the town government, it would definitely be a thousand willingness, and now he was worried that he would regret it for the rest of his life if he couldn't hold this thick thigh, but the samurai family always needed to be supported by things like face, dignity and reputation, and if there was no decent step down, it would mean that they would probably not be able to mix in the new system in the future.

It is precisely because of this concern that many samurai of the Furukawa Gongfang retainers have been hesitating, including Yuki Haruhuza, Koyama Hidetsuna, Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, Nasu Ziyin and other powerful samurai, this Furukawa battle made the entire Kanto warriors see a clear truth, that is, the Kira family really can't be messed with, even if Satake Yoshiaki and Date Terumune don't dare to mention the stubble of the anti-Kira Alliance, countless Kanto samurai have used their lives to understand a truth, that is, this family is many times more terrible than the Hojo family.

I don't dare to provoke and am willing to hug my thighs, but I hug my thighs and hypocritically want to pinch a stinky shelf, and I want the Kira family to take the initiative to give him a decent step down, for example, most of the most priority issues of the people of the Kwantung Kingdom are: "Will such a simple surrender be looked down upon by the new master's family, should I behave a little more dignified, more righteous and awe-inspiring, it seems more different, my family has been defending the territory of the Furukawa for generations, you really shouldn't you, why don't you hand me a ladder and let me come down first and take refuge in you?" ”

The idea looks fine. But they didn't even think about whether the Kira family would cooperate with their actions. The Battle of Yuuki used the cruel facts to tell all the Todai warriors a truth. The so-called "peace" under the decent staircase is simply impossible, and Kira Yoshitoki will not be considerate enough to hand them a ladder, and the Yuki family, who fails to make peace, will lose the entire territory of Shimoku Province and Hitachi Province.

The Yuki clan also jumped from the powerful daimyo of Kanto to the abyss, and was reduced to the level of a small and medium-sized countryman lord at the end of the second rate, probably worse than Sano Masatsuna, and the lesson of blood taught the Kanto samurai a cruel truth, this is the law of the jungle of the jungle, and if you want to take refuge, you must act as soon as possible. Waiting for the stairs to come down probably won't wait until the day of old age and death.

Sure enough, within a few days, the 30,000 troops of the Kira Legion met again under the Oyama Castle, and Koyama Hidetsuna hurriedly summoned the military service to make a gesture of holding the cage city, when the land of Kanto turned into a golden festive color in September, and the lords and the people were busy with the autumn harvest.

Koyama Hidetsuna found that he couldn't wait for reinforcements from the samurai from all over the country after waiting for a few days, and then he realized that the situation he had encountered had been so bad that the retainers and samurai had to abandon the hill.

"Shichiro! Send His Highness out immediately. This His Royal Highness the Duke can't afford it in my small mountain town! ”

"But my father ......," Yuki Haruma said embarrassedly, "That's His Royal Highness the Furukawa Princess!" ”

"Sharp Mind Faint!" Seeing that his son was still dead-headed, the angry Xiaoshan Gao Chao beat his chest and scolded: "You are even more stupid than an old man like me!" With the current turbulent and erosive war situation in the Kanto. What other samurai can keep His Royal Highness Furukawa Gongkata! You have protected the family business of the Yuki family once and decayed, and now you still want my Xiaoshan family to be protected as a lost dog? ”

"Father, I'm angry." Koyama Hidetsuna pulled Yuki Haruhao, who was still about to argue, and said with a smile: "Father is right, now the momentum of the town government is like the sky, within half a year, he will seize Musashi and attack Sagami in this degree, and then snatch the land of Shimoku to enter and exit Changlu and Shimono, and the vertical and horizontal is like entering a no-man's land, so that we and other Kanto samurai dare not plunder his edge, but he is not a Kwantung samurai after all!" His Royal Highness Furukawa Gongkata is, after all, the co-master of my Kanto samurai! ”

"Koshiro...... You've listened to Shichiro's words! Are you going to be angry with the old man! Bastard! Xiaoshan trembled vigorously, pointed at his son and scolded: "You bastard boy has not become the governor of Xiaoshan's family, so disobedient!" Are you going to ruin my little mountain family's family business? ”

"The lord is angry, what Shaodian said is also very reasonable, but he didn't take into account the real predicament of my Xiaoshan family!" The old Iwashang Chaojian of the spectrum family turned to Xiaoshan Xiugang and persuaded him: "The idea of the young hall is remarkable, but the practical difficulties of my Xiaoshan family should also think about it more, the family background of the Yuki family is much thicker than my Xiaoshan family, even so it still can't stop the thunderous blow of the town government, my Xiaoshan family forcibly resists with its own strength If it ends up with the fruit of defeat and death, is the young hall worthy of the ancestors of the Xiaoshan family?" ”

Koyama Hidetsuna was speechless when questioned, in the end, his political experience is not as good as his younger brother Yuki Haruto, he has been seen by his father as honest like a quail all these years, and he never thought about how heavy the pressure on the Koyama family was, the Utsunomiya clan was paired with the countryman Minagawa Junzong, and Utsunomiya Hirotsuna himself all advocated launching a territorial invasion of the Koyama family, and the Koyama family lost a large piece of territory in just a few years.

So much so that the dignified Kanto Yaya-shaped Koyama family, the actual territory is not as strong as Sano Masatsuna of Karasawa Mountain Castle, and the territory range in Shimono Country can only be ranked fifth, if it weren't for the Yuki clan of the Shimoyama Kingdom and the Shirakawa Yuki clan far away in Nanjitsu who can be cited as Austrian reinforcements, the small body of the Koyama family is not just a few mouthfuls to be annexed, and it is precisely because of this that the Koyama Takachao family governor should be walking on thin ice and trembling.

Xiaoshan Xiugang doesn't understand the root knot, but it doesn't mean that the family lineage retainers don't understand this truth, Iwagami Chaojian's voice just fell, and then the lineage retainers group also stood up to support the decision of the family governor Koyama Takachao, and the genealogy of the Xiaoshan family used their own practical actions to tell Koyama Hidetsuna and Yuki Harumi that you brothers play The way of loyalty and righteousness of the monarch and the minister, we agree very much, but we want to live well and inherit the inheritance, and we are not willing to put our own lives and family business together for this name.

Dying for the sake of the monarch is commendable, but not every monarch is worthy of his retainers. Mencius once said, "A king treats his ministers as if they were his siblings." The minister regards the king as his heart. The monarch regards the ministers as dogs and horses, the ministers regard the monarch as the countrymen, the monarch regards the ministers as the mustard, and the ministers regard the monarch as the enemy. ”

This is the truth of royal grace and dedication, there is kindness to be loyal and brave, there is grace to have loyalty, loyalty and bravery are not obtained for no reason, not many people are willing to be loyal to a faint king who treats himself as a dog. It is incorrigible to risk his family business to keep a faint king, Xiaoshan Gao Chao is not so stupid, and the retainers of the spectrum are not so stupid, and it is these two brothers who are stupid in their opinion.

Yuki Harumi had long been aware of this critical situation, but he always had some luck in his heart, thinking that maybe his father would support him and encourage him at a critical moment, maybe Utsunomiya Hirotsuna would send love reinforcements to help them at a critical moment, or maybe at a critical moment...... As soon as the idea of luck pops up, it is like an addiction, and the chaotic thoughts fly out in a mess.

Fantasy is always like a wonderful honey that makes people intoxicated, but reality is like a peak above ten thousand people, and people shiver in the cold mountain wind. The samurai were an extremely realistic species, and they could oppose the invasion of a powerful power for their own benefit, if possible. But when they find that they can't withstand this powerful force, they will give up resistance and obediently surrender and become one of them.

There is a proverb in England to the effect that "if you can't beat it, then join it", under the system of feudal society, people do not think that worshipping the strong is a shameful behavior, the law of the jungle has long been embedded in the genes of human beings, the strong are respected, and the weak remain subordinate is the law of nature, and forcibly using etiquette to be comfortable is contrary to the competitive instinct of human beings, and it is also against the law of natural evolution.

The genealogy of the Koyama family looks at the powerful Kira family with a realistic eye, they don't think there is anything wrong with Kira Yoshitoki's approach, and if the Ashikaga family wants to become the Kanto Ashikaga family, it is also the shogunate's housework, and when His Royal Highness the shogun shogun did not say a word to rebuke Kira Yoshi, it means that the shogunate acquiesced to this action, so what is the point of them Kanto samurai still trying hard? The first fight is not enough, and the second Furukawa Gongfang is not a lord worth fighting for.

Under the joint pressure of the family governor and the spectrum of the people, Koyama Hidetsuna and Yuki Harumi can only make a choice to submit, if they don't give in, it is very likely that they will be claustrophobic or even kicked out of the small mountain city, not to mention that they can't save the life and safety of Ashikaga Fujimasa, even their own future survival will become a question mark.

At midnight at three o'clock that night, the Koyama family sent a team of mounted samurai to escort a carriage out of Koyama Castle in a hurry, and the carriage was naturally filled with a straw bag Ashikaga Fujimasa, and he also attached a handwritten letter written by Yuki Harumi to Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, in which he sincerely expressed his sympathy for the misfortune of the Furukawa Prince, but he was unable to protect the Furukawa Prince, so he specially asked Utsunomiya Hirotsuna to take refuge on his behalf.

After confirming that the escort left the Koyama Territory safely, Koyama Takatomo took Koyama Hidetsuna and Yuki Haruma to surrender to Kaejo that morning, and the four gates were wide open to welcome the army led by Kira Yoshitoki, and the Koyama Takachao, who was over fifty years old and had a pale face outside the Oyama Castle Gate, straightened his waist and welcomed the Kira army into the city, and his two sons lowered their heads and did not dare to raise their heads and sweep around, for fear that they would be targeted and scolded by their father again.

After a while, I saw thousands of arrogant Akabi samurai galloping towards with whips, and the leading few Akabi generals slowed down with a shout, slowly walked to the big hand door and leaned over to stare at the hill for a while, and said, "This is the hill to the wild guard!" My Royal Highness thinks highly of you! I hope that Shimono Moriden can grasp the opportunity to serve! ”

"Yes, yes!" A flower bloomed on Xiao Shan Gaochao's excited face, and the pleats were squeezed together, not to mention how funny it was, and hurriedly asked: "Dare to ask this for the name of His Highness, I dare not forget your mention!" ”

"I'm close to the left of the island, and I'm going to be a minister in the same hall as the Shimono Shouden in the future." After the cavalry finished speaking, he rode his horse into the city first, and it was a common practice in the battle array to ensure the internal and external safety of the entry into the city, not to mention that Kira Yoshitoki's status was so noble, even if a few more layers of defense measures were added.

After a while, a group of horseback warriors appeared near the small mountain castle, and it was strange that they did not enter the city, but scattered and wandered around as if they were idle, gradually enveloping the entire small mountain castle within a radius of one mile, and after a while, the black-clothed masked warriors without armor on their bodies rode into the small mountain castle without saying a word.

At the end of the lineup of Koyama Takato, a group of young Koyama samurai gathered to watch the actions of the Kira army, and one of the samurai whispered, "Hey. It seems to be the ninjas of the Kira family. I've heard that these people have magical abilities to detect all kinds of intrigues! ”

Another young samurai pouted and said, "Cut! Isn't it just a common chaos among the people! And changed the name to a confusing one...... Ninja. What kind of person do you endure? ”

The samurai who spoke in front shook his head and said, "The little turmoil in our Shimono country is not comparable to others, and it is said that there are thousands of samurai in this Kira ninja!" A thousand samurai! That's a staggering amount in my Shimono Country! ”

The pouting samurai opened his mouth and thought for a long time to feel justified and no longer entangled, there was no standard title of ninja in the Warring States Period, most of the samurai still called them chaotic waves or chaotic breaks, such as Koga ninja Iga ninja is not a cheap servant, these ninjas are authentic samurai born of the country.

It's just a special class that evolved as a samurai class, and it doesn't affect their own identity and status as samurai, for example, Mochizuki Izumo Mamoru Mamoru Yoshito is a powerful member of the Shino clan Mochizuki clan. There are branch cities and territories that have been developed for hundreds of years, and the dancing sword is mounted on the war horse, and the art of bowing and riding may be better than that of many samurai.

Not long after the ninjas of the Kira Army were officially incorporated into the special number of the legion, Mochizuki Yoshicho and Hattori Masaaki teamed up to design a new ninja training method, which greatly accelerated the training efficiency of the Kira ninja with this training method.

As a special class in the legion, the Kira ninjas do not need to sneak around and act in dark corners like thieves, they can follow the cavalry of the Kira army in the open. As a scout, he completed a small area of intelligence collection and analysis, and was completely embedded in the main force of the Kira Legion. Complete the transformation from a despicable villain hiding in a corner to a righteous and bright battle.

The young samurai of the Koyama family noticed the ninjas in the Kira army, but Yuki Haruhatora observed another important discovery and wondered, "I have seen at least four thousand horsemen in this moment's effort, how can there be so many war horses...... And what about four thousand samurai? ”

"Isn't the Kira Legion known as the division of ten thousand horsemen? Could it be that they really have 10,000 samurai? Koyama Hidetsuna opened his mouth wide in surprise, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I really can't imagine what kind of concept it is to have 10,000 samurai." ”

Koyama Takachao suddenly turned his head and said: "Not all of them are samurai, the military service method of the Kira Army is completely different from our Kwantung samurai, it is said that the military service of the Kira Army is a way called the separation of soldiers and farmers, and the good sons of the good families who can be recruited and good at fighting are trained and taught riding and spearmanship, and then compiled into a preparation to experience the baptism and polishing of the battle array, you can become a brave and good cavalry reserve, probably only half of them are samurai!" ”

"Half is a staggering number! The town government is really powerful...... Five thousand samurai are almost equal to all the sons and daughters of all the samurai families in my Shimono country, right? Maybe that's not enough...... The following countries should be added. Koyama Hidetsuna's attitude towards Kira Jun changed from cold and contemptuous to admiration, and the retainers of the spectrum also showed similar expressions of admiration, they didn't feel that it was a shame to worship the strong, just like Koyama Takatsuna didn't feel that there was anything wrong with hugging his thighs, but he wanted to thank Shima Shikatsu for asking him to hug his thighs.

After another half an hour, it wasn't until the sun rose that Lao Gao saw the flag seal of the Kira army slowly approaching, Kira Yoshitoki rode the Trekna war horse brought from Echigo, wearing a gold-inlaid armor made in full accordance with the traditional craft of "thin gold armor", and the whole person was shining like a large golden man under the reflection of the sun, which was almost blinding the eyes of the three fathers and sons of the Koyama family.

"Am I transformed into Golden Sparkle at this moment?" Kira Yoshitoki helplessly brandished his horsewhip and rode his horse listlessly, it was yesterday that the retainers of the genealogy came up with a bad idea, fooling him to take the opportunity of this entrance ceremony to show off the wealth of the Ashikaga family, and took out a thin gold armor high imitation of one of the eight collars of Genji to scare people.

The whole body is inlaid with gold and silver armor on the body to not be too heavy, but this golden shining shape on the spot let a few greedy bastards flow out, Kira Yoshishi is too tall so that this imitation has to increase several sizes, when he first made it, he felt that the traditional shape was really not very handsome, and put forward some suggestions for transformation to increase the material on the armor.

In the end, the inlaid "ornament" consumed seven or eight catties of gold and four or five catties of silver. An arrow landed on his body, and he might rub off half a tael of gold. This pit daddy's armor is not meant to be protected. It's purely to show off how good you are, and you can get a golden holy coat to scare you turtles.

Ji Liang Yoshitomi rode his horse all the way to attract the attention of countless people, even if the inner and outer three layers were surrounded by his shape was very blinking, when he entered the small mountain castle castle town, it still attracted a burst of exclamations, which made him feel even more uncomfortable as if he was being treated as a monkey, and secretly said: "The aesthetics of the Genhei era really can't be agreed!" ”

Before he had gone for a while, he realized that it was not like that, and the eyes of the townspeople changed when they looked at Kirayoshi, and they were surprised, envious, afraid, and adored that he could not understand, and the retainers of the lineage seemed to be happy like proud peacocks. I want to raise my chin higher than my head.

Ji Liang Yishi wondered slightly: "What is the situation?" Could it be that because I wear a golden robe, these samurai and townspeople think I'm even more powerful? ”

With this question in mind, he came to the outside of Xiaoshan City, and once again successfully shocked the three fathers and sons of the Xiaoshan Gao Dynasty, the old man knelt down and saluted without saying a word: "The descendant of Fujiwara Hidego, the general of the town guard, the descendant of the Shimono Shou Xiaoshan clan, and the descendant of the Shimono Shou Xiaoshan clan, Koyama Gao, pay a visit to His Royal Highness!" I wish His Royal Highness the princess a good health and a long military luck! ”

"Please get up!" The corners of Kira Yoshitoki's mouth curled slightly, and he said secretly: "This armor looks like it still has a good effect!" ”

Kira Yoshitoki didn't mean to blame the Koyama family, even if he offended his taboo Yuki Haruhuna, it was also courteous, in fact, he knew very well in his heart that Yuuki Haruhuna would not pose a threat to him, and he could lose most of his own territory for this stupid Furukawa Prince. Suffice it to say that this young warrior, who was only twenty-eight years old, had not yet grown to the point where he was as scheming as a fox.

What's more, he has lost all his territory, and his reputation may not be criticized and ridiculed by the retainers of the spectrum and the people of the Kwantung region. It's just that the sharp decline in strength has reduced the Yuki clan from the level of powerful people in Kanto to the level of dispensable soy sauce people in Kanto in the blink of an eye, and it is impossible for the remnants of Shimono Province, which is less than 10,000 koku, to pose any threat to the Kira family.

The territory in the pocket when he entered Kira Yoshishi would never spit it out, so there was only one way for Yuki Haruhuna to recover, hug Kira Yoshitoki's thigh tightly to be a loyal minister, and accumulate rewards for his merits to become a powerful daimyo of the famous party again, this is the reality of Hongguoguo If he doesn't grasp this reality, his life will really be finished.

The three fathers and sons of the Oyama family rarely maintain the same obedient posture, in fact, it is enough to represent the mentality of most samurai in the Kanto region, the Ashikaga family is the Lianzhi of the Ashikaga Shogun's family, and the Furukawa Ashikaga family is also the Lianzhi of the Ashikaga Shogun's family.

In the eyes of many Kanto people, this is not the reason why more than 100 years ago, the eighth prince Jishoin (Ashikaga Yoshimasa) ordered his half-brother Ashikaga Masachi to return to the world, and went to Horikoshi in Izu Province to set up the Horikoshi Imperial Palace, and for more than 30 years after that, Ashikaga Masachi Horikoshi has been trying to kill Ashikaga Narishi so that he can replace him as the Kanto prince.

At the beginning, there were still many Kanto samurai who stood in the camp of the Horikoshi Principality to deal with the Furukawa Principality, so there was such a lesson that made the Kanto samurai not so repulsive to Kira Yoshishi, even if they were half a step away from the Miaozi Ashikaga Lianzhizhong, it could no longer be counted as the "retainer" class in charge, but the equivalent of the "king" of the imperial office, as long as they fought for Ashikaga Fujimasa, it could not be regarded as a shame when they defected to Kira Yoshishi, after all, they had already done what they should have done.

The news that the Kira army entered the small mountain castle flew all over the Kanto region like wings, and only a few days of kung fu came out that Kira Yoshishi appeared in the small mountain castle wearing gold armor, and the tall and strong man sat on the Trekna war horse that was nearly a head higher than Kisoma, and looked particularly majestic, wearing a "golden holy clothes" that were several sizes larger, and his majesty was as majestic as the gods descended from the earth, which was simply blinding.

It's nothing more than that the long-tested old samurai of Koyama Takachao was also frightened and panicked, and there are many people who have never walked out of their own territory in their lives among the native Kanto samurai, and where have they seen this way of playing cards according to the routine, but there is a saying about this shape when Yoshira Yoshi.

It's not a secret that the Ashikaga family originally enshrined thin gold armor, and he really can't say that he is a burnt bag or a turtle nouveau riche when he gets a replica to wear on his body, and if he wants to scold, he will have to scold the body of the five generations of pillars of the source of righteousness, who called this lord to think of wearing this armor in Kyoto to watch the door for the emperor.

The people of the Kanto Kingdom didn't care how cool the golden glitter was, they were worried about which direction Kira Yoshitoki's next march plan would be aimed at, because a Ashikaga Fujimasa had already collapsed the Yuki family and the Koyama family had surrendered, the Kanto Hachiya Shape had gone in the blink of an eye, and the remaining six families were so frightened that they couldn't even sleep.

At this time, Utsunomiya Hirotsuna received a "gift" from Yuki Harumo, and when he held Yuki Haruma's handwritten letter, his face was blue and black as the bottom of a pot staring at Ashikaga Fujimasa as if he had seen a ghost, and he scolded in his heart: "Yuki Haruma, this bastard is going to kill his family!" My Utsunomiya family has no grudges with you in the past, and there is no enmity in the near future, so why are you sending this scourge to me...... If you insist on hatred, does occupying the territory of the Xiaoshan family count? Even then, you can't send this bale over! ”

Utsunomiya Hirotsuna was very embarrassed, and he couldn't get angry in front of Ashikaga Fujimasa, so he could only take the letter and pretend to read it hard, but in fact, he kept signaling the retainers to speak with his eyes, and he stood up and said: "His Royal Highness Kurama was originally supposed to leave His Royal Highness Gongfang to recuperate for a few days before setting off, but my Utsunomiya family's home is also in chaos, and I'm really embarrassed to force His Royal Highness to stay in the Hokuka, so it's better to set off to Nasu's house!" ”

In the mouth of Fanga Gaoding, this hot potato has become a "northern hunting", as if Ashikaga Fujimasa is just going out to hunt far away, as for what shelter one or two mentioned in Yuki Haruha's letter is completely filtered, His Royal Highness of course focuses on the major events of "Northern Hunting", and other side matters are automatically filtered out.

As soon as the words fell, he didn't wait for Ashikaga Fujimasa's reaction, and Fanga Gaoding recruited several samurai to "invite" Ashikaga Fujimasa to "invite" the carriage to continue to flee north, and this Furukawa prince fled into Nasu Ziyin's territory one after another, and at this time Nasu Ziyin was busy fighting with his uncle Daseki Takassu, Otawara Tsunakiyo, and Fukuhara Shitaka, where is there the kung fu to serve this "Kitakaji" Ashikaga Fujimasa.

After reading the letter of Yuki Harumi for a long time, Nasu Ziyin sneered: "A bunch of fools from the Utsunomiya family are bullshit, but my Ziyin has already switched to the martial arts family under the town government, and I sent this straw bag to the public party and counted on my Ziyin to send him to the Mutsu Kingdom?" This is to treat me Ziyin as a fool! Instead of sending it to Mutsu Province, it would be more appropriate to send it to the town government camp! (To be continued......)

PS: Thanks to Hattori Masanari for the reward, especially thanks to the book friend Xiao Zimu for the reward, and added another helmsman, next month Ume will consider adding as much as possible at a certain point in time as a thanks!