Takamizu Temple Castle, Shiba County, the heart of the Mutsu Kingdom, was originally the city where the Oshu Spo clan lived for generations, and there was also the Shiwa Imperial Palace of Spo Quanzhi in the city, and at this moment, the camp of the Oshu Expeditionary Army in this city was stationed outside the city, and 40,000 troops from all over the Kanto and Mutsu were stationed outside the city, and 12,000 soldiers were requisitioned here, and the huge military force stationed here brought a lot of inconvenience to the samurai in the city.

As a relatively weak national lord in the land area, the construction level of Takamizuji Castle was not as good as Kaizu Castle in Shinano Province, and the narrow and cramped castle town was sparsely populated and backward, and the houses of the castle town were all straw houses, and none of the townspeople walking in the town were clean and tidy, and the black clothes on their faces were so dirty that they could not be seen in their original colors, and from a distance, it seemed that every townspeople they met on the street were almost the same.

The Echigo samurai were very unhappy when they first came here, and it was inconvenient to go to the poor countryside after living a good life, not to mention that there was no favorite drink in the sake brewery, and there was no sake that was usually worshiped at the shrine, but the turbid sake brewed by the townspeople was still available in limited quantities, and the poor search of the castle town could not find enough alcohol for these 40,000 people to drink.

There is no food to drink, and there is no decent, the rice pickled radish root and miso soup can only be enjoyed by the samurai, the peasants and soldiers only have brown rice rice balls with pickled radish, and they can also catch some kelp and seafood in the summer season, and even eat pickled radish for half a month, the samurai complain that they can't live this day, and they can't really go back to the hard days of more than ten years ago.

Gaoshuiji Castle is really too bad, and travelers who have just arrived here may not be able to link a small broken city to the legendary Oshu Sibo clan's imperial residence city. The current Oshu is like the Echigo Province before Ashikaga Yoshimochi went to the east more than ten years ago. A series of adjectives such as poverty, stubbornness, bigotry, etc., can be applied to them. Takasuidaji Castle is not a good city, and Mutsu is not a rich land.

Since the beginning of the summer, the battle of Oshu has become more and more intense, Uesugi Terutora personally led an army of 40,000 troops out of the land to crusade against the southern Haruma of Sanhe Castle, all the way to the north, the Oshu national servant army swarmed, from 40,000 to 60,000 in the blink of an eye, the peak of the military appearance made the people of Oshu tremble, and also made the southern Harumasa who was huddled in the three castles cold.

Kaneda Ichijo, three kilometers away from Minohe Castle, was the home of Uesugi Kenshin, and Hojo Tsunaru was unwielding a horsewhip and beating the case. said: "His Royal Highness urges us to destroy the southern family as soon as possible, the endless war and the upcoming heavy snow are extremely unfavorable to us, and we must make a decision as soon as possible." ”

Yuki Harumao said: "The battle of Oshu has indeed dragged on for too long, it's time to end this endless siege as soon as possible, so it will take less than a month, I still have to return to the town guard house to standby, and wait until next year's spring flowers bloom and then go out and besiege the city again, three or five months without effect, another year has passed, and this siege year after year is not a way." ”

Haga Gaoding's gaze glanced at the group of Oshu samurai sitting upright in the corner of the assessment room: "It can't be said that it has no effect at all!" At least the nine castle lords of the nine households, the nine households of the left of the general, the nine of the palaces, the lord of Oura Castle, the lord of Oura Castle, the lord of Oura Castle, the lord of the first household, the military department of the Daisuke Shory, the seven families of the seven households of the seven households, and the Tsukito Castle of the Castle and the Kiyocho of the Castle have surrendered. ”

"Dr. Dashan in the south does not know the reason, and vainly tries to use the land of one family to fight against the divine power of His Royal Highness, this is the way to die! We and other Oshu samurai have always been grateful to the shogunate. Today, I am fortunate to see tens of thousands of tigers led by the Commander's Palace, which makes me and others more confident in obeying the orders of His Royal Highness. "Oura is young and has an extraordinary appearance. generously admitted that he surrendered when he saw that the Kanto public side was powerful, and the naked weak obeyed the strong mentality, and did not forget to add a few high-sounding words as a cover.

Daguan Gao said with a smile: "Youjing Liang's words are wrong! The strength of His Royal Highness is not only in the strength of the soldiers, but also in the Kanto Prince's ability to rule and pass, and the samurai of the Eastern Kingdom, whether it is Hokuriku Kanto or Dewa Mutsu, must obey unconditionally, and the intention of the Southern Daizenden to divide the Hokurichi is in conflict with His Royal Highness, and the crusade against the Southern Daizenden is because the Southern Daizenden does not obey the order, and the non-Gongfang Highness's soldiers are strong and the horses are strong and deliberately insult the Oshu samurai. ”

"I see, I've been taught." Oura nodded his head as if he suddenly realized and made a happy look, but it was a pity that the samurai present knew his little tricks to play tricks, and Oura smiled disapprovingly in his heart, and the people of Oshu did not believe in loyalty in their bones, and the reason for this was caused by history.

The people of Oshu, especially the people in the northern part of Mutsu, have always had a very thin sense of identity with the shogunate, and the relatives of the southern clan are almost the remnants of the southern dynasty, who followed the prince of the southern dynasty to overthrow the Kamakura shogunate, and then followed the Nitta Yoshisada and the Kitabatake family to attack the Ashikaga clan, and followed the Kira family to fight against the several major stewards sent by the shogunate.

It can be said that the Muromachi shogunate successively sent the Nihonmatsuhata Yama clan, the Shiben Matsuishibashi clan, the Oshu Shibo clan, the Osaki clan and his branch Mogami clan, the fundamental purpose is to suppress the remnants of the Southern Dynasty in the Hachitsu Oku Kingdom, such as the southern clan that is dealing with in front of him, and has been harboring the Nanchao remnant party Nanaoka Kitabatake family, and for example, there is an eight family clan among the relatives of the southern clan, which has changed the Miao character Nitta clan, and the current family governor is named Nitta Samasuke Administration.

It's just that the group doesn't have much respect for the shogunate, and Shangluo sees that the public side is just a samurai who spends money to buy a name, and it is completely useless to talk about those names and the like, it is better to directly show a big fist in a sand bowl to scare them, you are afraid if you are not afraid, and you know the rules if you don't know the rules, you know the rules, it is very violent but also very effective.

The Langoka Kitabatake family is the authentic leader of the remnants of the Southern Dynasty, and the ministers of the imperial court also want to give them a few idle official positions to appease this remnant party and not make trouble, and the Langoka Kitabatake family is indeed unable to continue to make trouble, and the change in the Kawahara Imperial Palace broke out in the fifth year of Yongroku, and Langoka Guyun was assassinated by his uncle Langoka Guxin, and his brother Langoka was killed by his uncle Langoka Guxin in revenge.

The genealogy of the family retainers pulled out their swords against each other and killed each other, just like the decline of the Niko family due to the disposal of the Shingu Party by Niko Haruha, the Nangang Kitabatake family also declined in this turmoil, fortunately, there is still a person in the Langgang family who left the house early to create his own. That is the three senators right guard lieutenant general Nanoka 顖.

At this moment, Langoka is also sitting in the assessment room. Beside him was his thirteen-year-old nephew, Nanaoka. The children listened carefully to the conversations of the adult samurai with their eyes wide open, and it would be a great opportunity for the young Governor who had just begun to pay for the Yuan Costume and was still inexperienced, and it would be a great opportunity to participate in a few more assessments of this scale.

Satake Yoshishige snorted coldly: "The Southern Great Dining Hall is obsessed, and he consciously holds the Sanhe Castle until it snows, and he has a chance of winning, but he doesn't know that this time is not as good as in the past, His Royal Highness got a few powerful cannons from the hands of the Southern Barbarian merchants, and he can blast open the big hand gate of the Sanhe City in just three or two strokes, and he will have no chance to surrender when the time comes." ”

Listen to him mention the artillery he is proud of. The people of Oshu have two completely different expressions, and many of the people of Nanlu Okuku have also been repaired by Ashikaga Yoshitoki, especially when they attacked Ishinomaki Castle Kasai Harunobu a few years ago, many of the people of Oshu saw the fire and smoke spewed out from the galleon, and destroyed the famous fortified castle of Nanjiku in a few clicks.

The people of Hokurichi Okukuo didn't seem to believe his boasting, but they didn't believe it and didn't dare to say it, and the arrogant Echigo samurai and Kanto samurai who had been arrogant for the past two years had used the Oshu Plains as their racecourse, and had tens of thousands of horseback teams rampage through their territory, but the news of the rebels came like a swarm of sharks swarming out of the smell of blood, and the unbelieving samurai either turned into dry bones in the mound. Or just take advantage of the fact that they are not paying attention and curse a few words before retreating back into the city.

In fact, the people of Mutsu have long been scared by the Kanto Ashikaga family, and the southern Harimasa has long been like surrendering, but Ashikaga Yoshitoki is unwilling to let him surrender in peace. He had to hand over half of the land before he was allowed to surrender, and the reason for beating him was also high-sounding, and he did not participate in the inauguration ceremony of the Kanto Princess, and in recent years, he has repeatedly insulted the Oshu Spo family, who is also a neighbor, and has a refusal to reject the imperial book issued by the Kanto General's Office, which has violated the legal norms of a samurai, and you deserve to be unlucky to beat you.

Of course, these reasons could not make the Southern Harumasa and the people of the first genealogy feel confidant, and their defense letters were handed to distant Edo Castle and further Kyoto, in the vain hope of bypassing the Kanto Princes and asking Ashikaga Yoshiteru to mediate in exchange for peace.

When it wasn't for Ashikaga Yoshishi, he was afraid of his complaint letter, even if the complaint letter from Southern Harusaa was sent to the Nijo Imperial Palace, it didn't have much effect, Ashikaga Yoshiki was worried about Ashikaga Yoshito, don't jump out and make trouble, and the defense of Kyoto still relies on Sakamoto's deterrence to make the Miyoshi family dare not act rashly, how can they fall out with him at this juncture.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki was very disgusted with this kind of self-proclaimed smart samurai, and when he learned that he was complaining everywhere, he issued an edict to the Kanto Yuoku Imperial Teaching, to the effect that the Oshu native Nanbu Harumasa had repeatedly disrespected the public side, and the Kanto Shogun's Office had reason to suspect that he was guilty of rebellion, so he specially ordered the Utsunomiya clan to transfer the title of Luzhong to replace the former Luchu Jitou Nanbu clan leader.

This trick is called the bottom of the kettle, and the pride of the southern clan is that for more than 300 years, the land of the three households in the land has been dominant, since he is disobedient, then the three households will be removed and replaced by someone else, the so-called royal grace is what it means, the reward needs to be exchanged for the public, and the heavens will not drop the favor into their mouths.

This is like a long-term worker who receives the reward of the landlord's family has to give the landlord's family a hard service, and if he does a good job, he will give the reward to the long-term worker, and if he does not do a good job, he will simply kick the long-term worker away, and it is the same thing to change other long-term workers to do it, and the good landlord who does the long-term worker cannot give the reward, so he will be united by the long-term worker to fire the landlord's squid, the former has been kicked away by many royal families, and the latter has been kicked out of the Kamakura shogunate, which is the core of the contractual relationship of the feudal system.

The southern clan is about to be kicked away by Ashikaga Yoshitoki, don't mention to him what Kamakura era royal family head, what Kagami Aoko's son Nanbu clan doesn't make sense, the clichés of hundreds of years ago are to lie to themselves, Ashikaga Yoshitoki will not sympathize with them and pity them if they can't see the relationship between the eight poles, no matter how powerful the ancestor is, it can't be used as a Danshu iron coupon, and there is no such thing as a gold medal in the samurai society.

Uesugi Kenshin's attitude towards the southern clan is also to punish the main appeasement supplemented, to the point that his brain is more thick, but Ashikaga Yoshitomi has talked to him about the opinion of Oshu to deal with it, it must be fought once so that the people of Oshu will remember it for hundreds of years, and the pure use of power to suppress it will not play the role of force deterrence, and the best way is to combine the means of the two to deal with the land snake of Yu and Austria to have a good effect.

Silently chanting over and over again. Only faith can calm his mind into a state of thoughtlessness and thoughtlessness. Behind Uesugi Kenshin is a banner with the character "Bi". This flag seal is used as a substitute for his commonly used "Nagao Taira Sankeihu" flag seal, with the Kanto steward's bamboo finch pattern and the Ashikaga Yoshitoki Gosan Tong pattern flag seal given by the emperor at the same time, the main pattern is still the bamboo finch pattern, and the secondary pattern is these two sets of flag seals.

Believing in Shingon Buddhism, the god of war Bishamonten, Uesugi Kenshin's whole temperament is a bit majestic and sacred, I saw him open his eyes and ask in a low voice: "How long will it take for the artillery to be delivered?" ”

Honjo replied tiredly, "If everything goes well, we can be there in three days." ”

At only fifty-five years old, he was already full of gray hair, like an old man in his sixties, compared to the Kakizaki Jingjia who was the same age, he was still red and energetic. In recent years, in order to appease the Echigo people and integrate into the system of the Ashikaga family as soon as possible, the hard-working Kakizaki Keijia is more old than the Kakizaki Keijia who did not have to worry about conquering.

"If you work hard for a few more days, the family will launch a general attack in three days."

Three days later, 60,000 troops outside the city of Minohe were placed in front, and all the horsemen in the formation were ordered to dismount and walk, and the horses that were afraid of the sound of artillery fire were arranged in the rear to be properly disposed of.

As a result, as soon as the cannon sounded, all the horseback team blew up the nest, and some of the samurai who were caught off guard were thrown off their horses and trampled to death by their mounts on the spot. Some unlucky people broke their necks and died on the spot, and the samurai who had trained hard for several years did not die on the battlefield but were killed by their own horses. This huge accident taught the samurai a vivid lesson, never go near it when you don't know how to play it.

The nine-and-a-half-pounder snake cannon imported from pure England was extremely powerful, the cannon roared like thunder, and the birds within a radius of several miles were frightened and did not dare to fall for a long time, except for a few unloaded live ammunition school shots, the live attack only used one shot to collapse the big gate of Sanhe City, and under the action of the huge force, the nine-pound lead pellet was pushed out at a terrifying speed, turning into a meteor that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, smashing open the big hand gate, and successively smashing several dirt mounds and embedding them straight into the mounds surrounding the main maru.

The people of Oshu who were watching were shocked, the iron cannon was seen from the Kwantung Army a few years ago, such a big cannon was almost going to scare them to death, and the timid samurai were really scared to faint, and a few of them had weak legs and a smell of urine on their bodies, and the best performance of Oura Weixin was also frightened, and his face was pale and dumbfounded,

The Kanto samurai are very contemptuous of their poor performance, and their dealings with the people of Oshu over the years have made them aware that the people of Oshu always like to have a strange tone, as if they always feel that they are tenacious in the bitter cold north, and how they are better than those who live in the warm south, this kind of argument is very disgusting to the Kanto samurai, and they fight like this if they are tenacious, and if there is a big battle of thousands of people all year round, it is powerful, and the joint battles of thousands of people in the Kanto region for more than a hundred years are countless, and I really don't know where their superiority is.

The best way to shatter the sense of superiority is to speak with facts, so that this group of arrogant guys understand that they have been too far behind the times for hundreds of years, and look at the food and clothing of the Kwantung Army and the weapons, you will know how backward they are with inferior bamboo bows with a range of no more than ten meters, broken bamboo guns, rotten carcass, and hidden brown rice balls, this cannon explosion has shattered their self-confidence and the only bit of perseverance.

The southern clan in Sanhe Castle was also stunned on the spot, watching the Kwantung Legion crash open the dilapidated city gate and rush in, Nanbu Harumasa saw that the situation was not good and begged the Kwantung Legion to surrender, willing to exchange the price of his own seppuku for the peace of a genealogy, Uesugi Kenshin agreed to his request and refused his invitation to watch his seppuku plan, it is a bit perverted to let others see how he committed suicide, Uesugi Kenshin has killed many samurai but it does not mean that he is a pervert.

Southern Harimasa used death in exchange for the surrender of all the southern clans, such as the Ichito, Shihe, Liuhe, Seven, Hachihe, Jiuhe, Kita, Nan, and Toshi clans also lost the will to resist and opened the city to welcome the entry of the Kwantung coalition army, Uesugi Kenshin still arranged the southern clan according to the requirements of the reduction of the seal a few years ago, from the southern clan to reduce all the recalcitrant samurai by half and transfer the northernmost part of the Mutsu Province to Hirosaki, the overlord of northern Oshu, the southern clan, the surrender, marking the entire line of Yasuhei in Oshu.

The skin does not have hair, and the Andong clan was also frightened after the sworn enemy of the southern Oshu clan, and saw that the southern Harunachi had been in trouble for a few years or ended up committing seppuku and reducing half of the punishment of being transferred to Hirosaki, Anton Aiji had already known the possible treatment in the future, and hesitated for so long and cooperated with the sworn enemy Southern Harusa to fight against the Kanto Princess, or for the sake of their Anton family's hard work.

Southern Haruhasa committed suicide for that bit of family foundation, he didn't keep that net worth until he died, Anton Aiji felt that he would not end well if he continued to make trouble, maybe Nanbu Haruhasa Today is his Anton Aiji's tomorrow, thinking about it, I feel that although the reduction of the seal hurts, it is much stronger than reducing the seal after being killed, on the tenth day of the surrender of Sanhe City, Anton Aiji made the most difficult choice in his life, Kaesong surrendered.

Anton's brother, Anton Shigeki, became a monk on the grounds of physical weakness and asked the Kanto Shogun's office to allow his brother Anton Aiki to merge the Minato Andong family with the Hiyama Andong family into one, which was the only way for the brothers to discuss and come up with the only way to ensure that the stone height remained at 150,000 koku.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki quickly issued a permission order, and it would be really stupid to continue to entangle the side details to this extent, the merger of the two clans of the Andong family is what they want to do, and it is not too much to say that the merger is only 170,000 koku, and it is really not a big problem compared to the southern family that has reduced the seal and still has 200,000 koku.

The surrender of the Andong family means that the clown who jumps off the beam like the twelve heads of Yuri will lose their support, and their fellow party Hongtang Liuxiang is also similar to the national autonomous alliance, and the self-protection of the city will be broken as soon as it is poked, and a few unconvinced Kwantung Legion who rushed to the news were wiped out on the spot, and the whole process of changing the easy to remove the seal quickly went down It is not too smooth, there is no need to bother to appease the small countrymen, and if you don't husband and wife, you will hit the city gate with iron artillery and arrows, and the battering hammer will hit the city gate, this set of simple and crude tactics to deal with the small countrymen is absolutely tried.

The chaotic small country lords who were reduced were not left with a few climates, and the Asari clan and the Tozawa clan saw the opportunity to quickly take refuge in the early and smooth dodge the reduced guillotine, and at this time, all the national lords of the entire Dewa and Mutsu countries were included in the jurisdiction of the Kanto Shogunate, and they would be assigned to the foreign lords to bear the corresponding taxes and servitudes, just like Date Terumune.

Heavy snowfall fell in Munop in late October, and the snowfall this winter was relatively late, which was a warm winter that was rare in decades, and if it weren't for this, Ashikaga Yoshitoki would not dare to let the army send troops to fight at the danger of snowfall, and the time to get stuck was to besiege the city for half a year and eat up the food in the hands of the people of Mutsu Province, and then take the opportunity to bombard the city gate with artillery to make them realize the severity of the absolute gap, so that it is most likely to eliminate the will of the southern clan to resist the next clan.

The 60,000-strong army went around most of the circle in Oshu and Hashu, so they disbanded the people of Oshu on the spot, and brought the Kwantung Army back to the town of Mutsu to stand by before the snowfall.

Before leaving, Ashikaga Yoshitoki issued an order that the eastern country had nothing to do: "Today, the eastern country is quiet, and then there is no objection to the waiting, and the two counties of Kanto, Hokuriku, and Yuao are talking about each other, and the ritual of mutual coexistence is called up, and the chase can be raised out of the wait, and the first enemy and the two sides can stop the bow and arrow order, and wait for the worry, and there can be no objection to the etiquette of nothingness, and if the one who violates the clan, it can make success or failure." ”

Roughly speaking, it means to tell the Kanto Yu-Austrian lord that if you want to expand your territory or other ambitions, you should pack up and wash and go to bed early, and if you think too much about doing too wrong things and violating the order of nothing, it is not that the board is raised high and gently falling, and the main purpose of this reduction is to knock the people of the Yu-Austrian country, so that they know who is the ruler of the eastern country and learn to respect the shogunate, and the next time you are disobedient, it is not as simple as beating, but to change to a knife to cut off your head. (To be continued......)

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