Under the Furukawa Imperial Palace, Ashikaga Fujimasa went crazy in the castle tower, and the little surname and fellow friends who were particularly favored in the past did not dare to get close, and the dignified Furukawa Gongfang was threatened by a public whose family was lower than his own, and threatened to bring tens of thousands of troops to the door to abolish him, the Furukawa Gongfang, this shame was enough to make Ashikaga Fujimasa go crazy for a while.

He did act like this, smashing things and scolding people when he saw things for a few days in a row, and the people who were attached to the Furukawa Imperial Palace did not dare to see him at all, and Harusuke Gata was even more missing for many days without seeing anyone, Ashikaga Fujimasa scolded all the eighteen generations of the ancestors of Kira Yoshishi in the past few days, and even brought his own ancestors in, in the eyes of the next people, this Furukawa prince has gone crazy.

On this day, Ashikaga Fujimasa smashed a pile of lacquerware again and roared angrily: "Kira Yoshitoki! Yu is inseparable from you! The remaining Kanto samurai are going to tear you apart! Yu's brother-in-law, the Hojo clan, will kill you! You bastard......"

Matsunaga Tong hugged the two good-looking maids and watched Ashikaga Fujimasa go crazy, the two maids were frightened by the crazy Furukawa Gongfang and trembled, allowing Matsunaga to reach into his clothes and rub it and didn't dare to move, in his opinion, this Furukawa Gongfang is going crazy and not completely crazy, Ashikaga Fujimasa goes crazy every day for a while and returns to normal at night, is this called crazy? Definitely not.

After performing an afternoon of performance art, the Furukawa prince was also very tired, and when he turned around and found that Matsunaga was still there watching the excitement with his arms in his arms, he reprimanded the two short-eyed maids and complained to him: "Isn't His Royal Highness Matsunaga too irresponsible!" Yu has been crazy here for a few days, why don't you persuade Yu to say a few words! It's money to smash so many things! Now even the maids don't dare to take out the porcelain and let Yu smash it! ”

Matsunaga Xiu was still holding a handkerchief in his hand, put it in front of his nose and sniffed lightly and said: "His Royal Highness Gongfang should be angry, that Kira Yoshitomi didn't know how to threaten the safety of His Royal Highness." If His Royal Highness can't properly show the anger of the samurai, he will definitely be looked down upon by the Kanto samurai! ”

That's what Yu thought. But Yu didn't seem to be very successful. What went wrong? Ashikaga Fujimasa was very confused, and the retainers were so frightened by the success that they didn't dare to come to see him, but the people of the Kwantung Kingdom didn't have the slightest intention of coming to admonish him, and he, the prince, couldn't go crazy all the time.

Matsunaga said: "His Royal Highness has done a good job, but it's not enough!" It is not a trivial matter to write a letter to contact the lords of the Kanto countries to fight against the Kira family, and it is not a trivial matter to attack the Furukawa Imperial Palace, and if these people of the Kanto Kingdom can't even comprehend this truth, they will not be able to survive in this troubled world! ”

"That makes sense, so I'm going to write a letter...... Write to them for help! Ashikaga Fujimasa was stopped just as he was about to get up, and Matsunaga had no hope at all for this stupid man's IQ. But he went crazy for a few days and then went to ask for help, and he was able to call the people of the Kanto Kingdom to have ghosts, and people didn't think they would have come here a long time ago, so why wait for you to pretend to be crazy and stupid and come over.

The current situation of the Furukawa Imperial Palace is that there is not even a major minister in charge, and Matsunaga is a dog leg who pulls the tiger skin to make a big banner, and at present, it seems that this tiger skin has a tendency to not be able to pull the prestige, mainly because Ashikaga Fujimasa, the waste wood family governor, is not strong, and he can't win over the retainers of the spectrum and can't coax the people of the Kanto Kingdom, so the short anti-Kira alliance was made into a four-way by him, and finally had to end in a tiger.

Matsunaga was also very anxious in his heart, and persuaded Ashikaga Tomasa bitterly: "His Royal Highness Gongfang should not get a response if he writes a letter for help in such a hurry." With the situation of the Furukawa Imperial Palace, it is really difficult to say how many rescuers can be invited, and the Kira army is so strong that the Hojo family can't resist it. I think that the lords of the Kwantung people will carefully consider the risks involved in raising troops. ”

"So what should Yu do? Did you watch Kira Yoshitoki knock on the door? Ashikaga Fujimasa's face turned pale, recalling the painful Furukawa Revolution more than ten years ago, and the danger that the Furukawa Imperial Palace could be attacked by arms at any time made him shiver, which was a lingering shadow of his childhood.

Twelve years ago, his father Ashikaga Harushi died suddenly, and his eldest brother Ashikaga Fuji killed Mrs. Hojo and another brother Umechiyo Wangmaru with the assistance of his uncle Harusuke Tsukita, and then the Hojo family broke into the Furukawa Imperial Palace to kill the elder brother Ashikaga Fujimasa, and captured the young Ashikaga Fujimasa, and for a time he couldn't even save his life, and was claustrophobic in Soeiji Temple and did not see the light of day.

During that time, he didn't see outsiders, and the eight-year-old Ashikaga Fujimasa didn't know how to survive at all, and was confined to a small room every day to live alone, and there were samurai from the Hojo family guarding the gate day and night, and the food and clothing were served by two old people, and the young Ashikaga Fujimasa cowered in the corner every night and had nightmares alone, and this process lasted for a long time.

Later, for some unknown reason, his life, Hojo Shiyasu released him and arranged for him to be the Furukawa Gongfang, and since then his life seems to have changed abruptly, from a criminal prisoner awaiting death to the supreme Furukawa Gongfang, not only marrying the daughter of the Hojo family as the wife of the main house, but also receiving the full support of many Kanto people, for which he was also once happy to go crazy and did many crazy things.

He knew that everything he had was given by the Hojo family, so since he ascended the throne as the Furukawa Princess, he spared no effort to support the expansion of the Hojo family, and the Kwantung people tried to organize an anti-Hojo alliance several times but died in the obstruction, maybe he didn't have the ability to advocate the Kwantung people to make a big deal, but it was still easy to destroy an alliance that was originally very promising to succeed, which is the so-called lack of success and more than failure.

What Ashikaga Fujimasa fears most is that the Furukawa Imperial Palace will not come to the door again, he can give everything to stop the invasion of the Kira family, he desperately hopes that Matsunaga can come up with a way to avoid disaster for him, but Matsunaga Tsumichi's idea is another matter, he is not a retainer of the Furukawa Princess, not even a guest general, but just came to Kanto to disrupt the Kira family's expansion plan according to his father's instructions.

The difference in starting point also indicates that the interests of the two sides are completely different, Ashikaga Fujimasa wants to be a good man, the Furukawa Principality, and continues to dream of the great cause of unifying the Kanto region, while Matsunaga only needs the Furukawa Principality to stand up to stop the invasion of the Kira family, as for whether the interests of the Furukawa Principality are damaged or his own safety is not planned.

Come to think of it. Matsunaga's mind gradually cleared up. said with a smile: "It's a strategy to get down." I don't know if His Royal Highness can use it. ”

"Please say, Yu must agree!"

Matsunaga said unhurriedly: "I think that the difficulties encountered by His Royal Highness are nothing more than the lack of defense power of the Furukawa Imperial Palace, and the people of the Kwantung Kingdom should send troops to help the Furukawa Imperial Court at the moment when the Furukawa Imperial Court is in trouble, but each country has its own difficulties and some deep-rooted contradictions, so that even if many people of the Kanto Kingdom are willing to assist His Royal Highness, they will give up their plans to rescue because of the excessive external pressure on their own territory......"

Ashikaga Fujimasa hurriedly interrupted: "What you said makes sense, but how can Yu convince these hostile Kwantung people?" ”

"Actually, it's not hard to say. The name of the Furukawa Princesses is a golden sign in the Eight Kingdoms of Kanto, and the people of the Kanto Kingdom are willing to recognize you, the co-lord of the Kanto region, to a large extent, because of the prestige accumulated by His Royal Highness the Princesses over the centuries, as long as His Highness the Princes find a way to do this! Matsunaga gradually revealed his fox tail, but Ashikaga Fujimasa didn't realize that this mentor was actually cheating on him.

After chanting the word name a few times, Ashikaga Fujimasa sat back depressed and complained: "Last time, I listened to Matsunagaden's proposal to give the Kanto people the number of houses, but it was opposed by the collective opposition of the Kanto Yayakata, and in the end, Yu could only pinch his nose and swallow back the words he said, so the Edo clan and the Oda clan were very unhappy!" ”

Matsunaga's face darkened suddenly, and he secretly scolded this Ashikaga Fujimasa for not opening which pot. On the surface, he still had to make a look of remorse, and said ashamedly: "Last time, I was not familiar with the customs of Kanto. The method that I came up with by mistake for a moment misled the judgment of His Royal Highness the Public Fang, this is to apologize to His Royal Highness, my Sanhao family definitely has no intention of deceiving His Royal Highness! ”

"This Yu is very clear, Matsunaga Hall traveled thousands of miles from Jinai to the Lower Kingdom to assist Yu to unify the eight countries of Kanto, Yu's heart is very grateful!" Ashikaga Fujimasa seemed to understand Matsunaga's loyalty and courage to come all the way to assist him, and in his opinion, the so-called genealogy of the Furukawa family was not reliable at all, including his uncle Harusuke Tsukita, who was either ill-intentioned or trying to fool him.

The corrupt and corrupt family retainers, the Harusuke Tsukita who has a very strong desire for power, and the obedient but incompetent and useless friends of the small surname, and the people of the Kanto Kingdom who have hardly shown their faces in front of themselves all day long The people of the Kanto Kingdom, who have never seen the head and tail of the dragon, form the circle of the Furukawa Gongkata retainers of Ashikaga Fujimasa, if you count the Hojo clan who is too busy to take care of himself, or it can be called his personal social circle.

Most of these people are useless in the eyes of Ashikaga Fujimasa, and it is better to have so many useless retainers than a "confidant" Matsunaga Tong, if you can be your own face, it would be great, thinking of this, Ashikaga Fujimasa suddenly raised his head and looked at Matsunaga Tsunaga carefully, staring at the latter's spine with a chill.

Matsunaga didn't know what strange things this guy who was a little perverted in his heart was thinking, and he always felt that his eyes were staring at him a little hairy, so he pretended to cough and said: "It means that His Royal Highness Gongfang must do extraordinary things to face the Kira family, and if he can't mention the resistance of the Kwantung People's Army, the Furukawa Imperial Palace will definitely suffer a catastrophe, and His Royal Highness Gongkata's fate will not be very good." ”

"So how can Yu boost the resistance of the Kwantung people!"

"Of course, I have to take out something from His Royal Highness and give it to these people of the Kanto Kingdom!" A hint of cruelty and cunning flashed in Matsunaga's eyes.

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On July 17, Uesugi Terutora raised an army of 30,000 troops to attack the country of Sugami, this time targeting the important point of Tamasukan Castle in East Sagami, which was an important support point for the Hojo family on the north shore of Sagami Bay, and the lord of the castle was none other than the current governor of the Tamasho Hojo clan, Hojo Tsunari, the son of Hojo Tsunari.

This fortified castle is defended by more than 4,000 elite Hojo troops and has a rich reserve of grain and grass, and it should be no problem for the Hojo clan to use this castle to defend until winter to force the Kira army to withdraw, and his idea is indeed reasonable and in line with the habits of the Kanto samurai, but the description of the Kira army is always unexpected.

The 30,000-strong army was turned into three teams, and 10,000 troops each led by Kakizaki Keiya and Saito Asanobu wreaked havoc in the eastern Sagami country, and in just a few days, the Hojo family forces east of the Sagami River were emptied, and the Jade Rope Castle was completely isolated from the fortress defense circle of Sagami Province.

Cut off the passages in all directions, and then slowly play the trick of catching turtles in the urn. The routine of the Kira army may not be familiar to the samurai of the Hojo army. But as a general, the Hojo clan is very clear. The Kira army is good at overwhelming people rather than simply fighting hard, and the bad news keeps coming from the defenders in Jade Rope Castle.

On July 23, Saito Asanobu entered Kamakura to eliminate the remnants of the Hojo clan, and within a few days, he further captured Arai Castle, taking advantage of the situation to completely incorporate the Miura Peninsula into the Kira family system.

Defending the city is not as simple as having enough food and grass and elite soldiers. The ultimate goal of defending the city is nothing more than to completely repel the invaders, so the defenders need not only elite defenders and enough food and water, but also high morale and the hope of holding on.

The Hojo clan was not the first day to be the lord of the city, as a general for many years, he naturally knew this truth very well, no matter how much the army without morale was, it was a fish belly, and the morale of the army could win the war even if it was small, as far away as the Battle of Fujikawa in the Genpei War. A little more recently, in the last years of Kamakura, 100,000 shogunate troops surrounded Akasaka Castle and 500 soldiers could not be attacked for a long time, and the Central Plains Dynasty also had an allusion to the grass and trees. All this shows from the side that morale and will to fight play an important role in an army.

The morale of the Kira army was high, and the four thousand defenders of their own side did nothing to sit in the city and do nothing, and the samurai who were in a hurry were in a hurry, and the peasants were even more anxious, and the city that the Kira army attacked was their own city, and the village they robbed was their own village, and the money and food belonged to them, so they fell into the pocket of the Kira army in vain, and if they were not in a hurry, there would be ghosts.

The samurai of the Hojo Army found the Hojo clan and asked the main general to take them out of the city to repel the Kira army, but this request was rejected by him without hesitation: "This family can understand the feelings of the kings, not only are you anxious about our family, but there are some things that are useless even if you are in a hurry!" The situation outside the city is completely unclear, and the family cannot easily lead the army out of the city without permission, what if the Kira army uses trickery to trick our army out of the city again? ”

Everyone understands the truth, but it's not so easy to do, the Hojo clan is also helpless to protect the eastern part of Sagami country, if he had rushed out with four thousand troops to fight hard with the Kira army according to his original intention, the burden of his body can't help him to mess around like before, as a general to have the courage not to be shocked by honor and disgrace, Hojo Shigeru is not very good, but he has been working hard to learn and do better.

I persuaded the samurai of the Hojo army to go back, and when I turned around, I heard that my lord was going to kill the Sagami River with 20,000 troops, and he was frightened and hurriedly wrote a letter to dissuade the Hojo clan from being emotional, and the Kira army at this time was a cunning tiger, ambushing around the Sagami country looking for an opportunity to pounce, and at this time leading the army eastward would definitely fall into the trap of the Kira army.

He didn't know what kind of changes had taken place in Odawara Castle in just a few months, and he didn't know how much pressure the Kira ninja had brought to the Hojo family by mixing up with Nishisagami to fan the flames, and even the townspeople in Odawara Castle had many rumors that were unfavorable to the Hojo family, such as the fact that the army of the Kira army surrounded Tamasho Castle and wanted to besiege and kill Koki Castle without giving the Hojo family any way out.

In the eyes of many lower-class samurai of the Hojo family, the Hojo clan is a very unqualified family governor, and the Musashi country is Yoshino who has been beaten down by the Hojo family for two generations, and he is about to give it to the Kira family before he can cover the heat in his pocket, and now he has to give up the three generations of the Hojo family Higashi Sagami, and the evaluation of the Hojo clan in Sagami is about to catch up with the Imagawa clan who is the "lord of the dead country".

It was such a mess in front of the Hojo clan, not only was there a war on the eastern front, but it was also very unpeaceful on the western front, the Triple Alliance was easily torn apart by Takeda Shingen, the Takeda army brazenly invaded Suruga Province and plundered Sunfu Castle in one fell swoop, the people of Izu Province showed varying degrees of wavering, and the dissent debate within the Shodai people was very fierce.

Ally Takeda Shingen blatantly broke the alliance and chose to poison his other ally and in-law, the Imagawa clan, and the Hojo clan himself was very angry and hated, but the Kira army was in front of him so that he could not use the strength to support the Imagawa family, so he could only silently endure the accusations of the retainers, and tried to discuss strategies with his father Hojo Shiyasu.

After a period of sleepless discussion, the Hojo clan was still determined to personally take command of the Kira army, whether it was out of the personal dignity of the governor or to do what he could for the Hojo family, he had a reason to fight for all his strength, the 20,000 army was all the troops raised from Odawara Castle, and as soon as this army came out, Odawara became an empty city.

The Hojo clan led 20,000 troops to quickly march to the west bank of the Sagami River to set up a formation, putting on a posture of going to fight to the death with the Kira army, Saito Asanobu was overjoyed when he saw this posture, and immediately joined Kakizaki Keike to prepare to force the Sagamigawa River to launch a huge attack on the Hojo army, and strive to defeat the Hojo army in one fell swoop. (To be continued......)

PS: Kira ninja is a human being, not a god.,Can't fly away without the ability to see through people's hearts.,The core ninjas have a total of thousands of people.,Most of them are military intentions.,A small number of ninjas who are exclusive to collect intelligence.,A large number of periphery is only used as an informant.,Skills are not helpful and mainly concentrated in the five countries in the territory、Kanto and several main intelligence ports in the territory.,Among them, the intelligence collection in the territory is the most comprehensive.,Followed by Kanto and Kinai.,As for the place where Mikawa hasn't been back for more than ten years.,Usually there's nothing to do., There is basically no management, and there are no intelligence collection points in countries such as Owari and Ise.