Throughout September, Uesugi Terutora continued to test the reaction of the Hojo family, using the strong combat power of the Kira army to continuously wear down the military strength of the 21 Sagami families, forcing the people of these 21 countries to either abandon their own territory and lead the army into Odawara Castle cage Castle, or take their own army to resist stubbornly in the corner of the castle.

This kind of stubborn resistance quickly collapsed under the strong pressure of the Kira army, and it was of very little significance for hundreds of people to stick to a small city, especially when the Kira army adopted a rotation strategy, changing the army every half a month to ensure that there was always a fresh force, which made it even more difficult for the people of Sagami to resist, and the letters for help were delivered to Odawara Castle, which made the Hojo clan feel very tricky.

The Hojo clan is very distressed in Odawara City, the 21 Sagami families and the Izu 14 families are the main soldiers of the five color reserves, and now the people led by the 21 Sagami families have been hit by a huge blow, and the bad impact on the Hojo family is even more than the sum of the loss of several important cities, and the city can be snatched back sooner or later.

Uesugi Terutora did not besiege the city, and set up a confrontation a few miles north of Odawara Castle, and the materials used for the camp were still the camping materials prepared by the Hojo clan for several months, and the food eaten was also the military rations that the Hojo family had worked hard to accumulate, and the equipment used and the small packer team were all captured by the Hojo Army, and it was really uncomfortable to be slapped in the face every day.

The most important thing is that Uesugi Terutora is not very satisfied with this large camp, and the people who requisitioned and sent Sagami Province continue to build a large camp and set up a few small barns nearby to serve each other as horns, this posture is to tell the Hojo clan with actions that they are not ready to leave Sagami Country when they come this time. If you don't take this country, you will definitely not stop.

Uesugi Terutora's main camp numbered 20,000 men, and they were stationed in the camp and kept in a defensive state. On the Ashigara Plains walked the army of more than 15,000 people sweeping away the rebellious nations. Even if they regained the full support of the 21 Sagami families and the 14 Izu families, which were heavily damaged by the Kira army, the number of troops in Odawara Castle was only more than 22,000, and the main camp against Uesugi Terutora still did not have a numerical advantage, not to mention that the 15,000 sweepers could come back at any time.

Just as Hojo Clan Yasu and Hojo Clan Masa and his son held a series of evaluation meetings to discuss strategies to meet the enemy with the retainers of the Spectrum Dynasty, a series of dazzling news came from the eastern Kanto region, and Kira Yoshitoki won a series of incredible and brilliant victories in Shimoshino, Hitachi, and Shimono provinces.

Captured alive and claustrophobic Ashikaga Fujimasa, subdued a large number of people from Shimo, Shimono, and Hitachi such as the Koyama clan, Yuki clan, Chiba clan, Hara clan, Takajo clan, and Hitachi clan, and made a large number of people such as Sano Masatsuna, Osho Sadakuni, and Nasu Ziyin successively bow down to the Kira family. Almost single-handedly, it took a short year to achieve the annexation of Kanto.

Needless to say, the young Hojo clan was almost scared silly, even the long-tested Hojo clan Yasu was also shocked, and the confidence of the Hojo family tree generation was greatly damaged, and Kira Yoshitoki was so ruthless that he made dumplings for the people of the Kanto country, and completed the qualitative change process of the snake swallowing the elephant with his own strength, and from then on I really don't know who can stop him.

After all, this is not Odawara thirty years later, and the Hojo family has no effect on the strength of the 80,000 tigers and wolves under the command of the Eight Kingdoms of Kanto, whether in terms of the overall strength or self-confidence of the Hojo family, it is completely incomparable to the Hojo family in another world, and it is very similar to the scene of Uesugi Kenshin leading an army of 100,000 to besiege Odawara Castle in another time and space, and the tension about Uesugi Kenshin's strong strength. Full of fear and worry about unknown and powerful enemies.

If it weren't for the fact that the core of Uesugi Kenshin was only those 8,000 soldiers, the 35,000 tiger elites in front of him would be staring at the Hojo family's every move. Perhaps the "indestructible" Odawara Castle had already been breached thirty years earlier, and the strength and self-confidence and necessary luck determined the fate of a samurai.

A few years ago, during the Takayama War, the wise and martial artist Hojo Shiyasu tasted a great defeat at the hands of Uesugi Terutora, and as a result, he fell seriously ill not long after returning to Odawara Castle, and then made the decision to let the monk governor retire, and since then the Hojo family has been living in the shadow of the Kira family, and the samurai of the Hojo family look at the northern sky, as if they have seen an evil dragon that has been showing its teeth and claws, and his terrifying body and hideous fangs make every Hojo samurai tremble and can't sleep at night.

In the final analysis, there is still a lack of sufficient self-confidence, which can't be blamed on the incompetence of the samurai of the Hojo family, it is really that the Kira family is too powerful and cunning, and the routines played by Kira Yoshitoki are not at all the common routines of this era, it looks like a deviant mess, but in fact, he has not stepped out of the circle and still plays within the rules of the game, which is hundreds of millions of times more than Saito Michizo, Niko and other national thieves, and the Hojo family's bad money is even more qualified to accuse him.

The behavior habits of the Kira family are always traceless and difficult to figure out, and the entire Kanto and even the entire world of samurai are guessing what to do next when Kira Yoshi, but no one would have thought that he could capture Ashikaga Fujimasa alive and be claustrophobic, which is based on the wisdom of Hojo Shiyasu can only mean that he is powerless, every step is beyond the imagination of the Kanto samurai, and every time he happens to step on the red line, it makes people uncomfortable and has no way to resist, this is the strange method of Kira Yoshi.

Hojo Shiyasu suddenly understood why Takeda Shingen was so aggrieved, and how he suddenly thought of poisoning the Imagawa clan, maybe it was the psychological distortion of being forced by various conspiracies inside and out of Kira Yoshitoki, or maybe the Takeda family tree generation was also forced into madness, he felt that behind this Suruga invasion might be hidden Kira Yoshitoki's figure.

Glancing at the retainers of the spectrum generation like lost dogs, holding their tails in a panic all day long, Hojo Shiyasu knew that this time was really bad, shook his head and sighed: "This is really terrible!" Why did the old man meet such a strong opponent...... What did my Hojo family do wrong, so that the gods and Buddhas repeatedly punished them! ”

Hojo Shiyasu's fear was not wrong, no one could guess Kira's next move, and at the moment when the siege of Odawara first appeared, Kira Yoshitoki led an army of 30,000 and gathered 20,000 Lang parties of Shimoshi, Shimono and Hitachi to attack the Utsunomiya family with an army of 50,000, and the name of the attack was Haga Takada, who advocated participation in the anti-Kira alliance.

There was a panic in the Utsu Miyagi assessment room, similar to the situation in Odawara Castle. The genealogy of the Utsunomiya family was paralyzed by fright on the spot. The rest are like defeated dogs, wailing and shouting meaningless slogans for mercy. Where can you still see the posture of being brave and good at fighting and not afraid of death in the past, and several important ministers of the spectrum shrank their heads like quails and did not dare to move, for fear that the Utsunomiya Hirotsuna would throw out some thorny problems that could not be solved by clicking on their names.

"What a good thing that is! It's going to be hard to kill my family! "The situation of Utsunomiya Hirotsuna is similar, since he got the Kanto crusade order that was personally written by Kira Yoshishi, his legs and feet have been weak for a few hours and he has not even had the strength to stand up, he never expected that the dignified general of the town guard would attack him, or rather, to his most kind of auxiliary minister, Fanga Gaoding, he really didn't know how to take charge of the family business after leaving Fangga Gaoding.

The Utsunomiya family tree kept secretly looking at Fanga Gaoding with their eyes. And worried that his aim was too obvious and Fang He Gao Ding found out about his small movements, they were really afraid that Fang He Gao Ding's conspiracy and tricks would be dealt with on him, even such a powerful character as Mibu Tsunabe was assassinated by his poisonous scheme, and the sworn enemy of the Utsunomiya family, Nasu Gaozi, was also killed in his scheme, there is such a vicious and cunning samurai working with him, this day is not too uncomfortable.

He didn't care what these idle colleagues were thinking, and read the crusade over and over again, as if chewing on the hidden meaning of the words and phrases in the crusade order, until he put down the text and slowly bowed to the U Miyakuri, and then laughed out loud. The laughter is so hearty and cheerful, and the tears of laughter will flow out. The laughing Utsunomiya genealogy generations don't know what to do.

"Gaoding Palace...... What do you mean by that? Utsugong Kuo Gang was in a hurry, and said hesitantly: "What do you have to say, I, Kuo Gang, will never abandon any of the genealogy retainers, don't think about it!" ”

"Nope! My lord, you misunderstood! I'm not crazy...... I'm really sorry to make your Highnesses laugh! Fanghe Gaoding gradually returned to normal, pointed to the crusade order and said with a smile: "Does the lord know what is the significance of the town government duke's crusade order?" Why do you want to name and force the Lord to go out of my high order? ”

Utsunomiya Tsusuna and the spectrum of the people looked at each other, and said in their hearts that it was fortunate that this conspiracy expert was not really crazy, and was thinking about how to persuade him to hear this question, so he shook his head and asked: "The family doesn't know what is going on here, but the Gaoding Hall has understood the cause and effect?" ”

Fanghe Gaoding laughed and said: "Although your subordinates don't dare to say that you know it thoroughly, you can at least be sure of one thing, that is, the territory of my Utsunomiya family is about to be reduced, if it weren't for this, the town government would not have moved the people to do something to my Utsu palace family, and secondly, I Gaoding is a person who is important to the town government, and the lord must hand over his subordinates to keep peace." ”

"This simply makes no sense! Gao Ding is the genealogy of my Utsunomiya family, and he has made great contributions to my Tsutsuna's recapture of Utsunomiya Castle, if it weren't for Gao Ding's best efforts, there would be no me Tsuyozuna today! This must not be agreed, never! After all, Utsunomiya Hirotsuna is a young man, and he was aroused by the surging anger in his heart by a few words from Fanghe Gaoding, and threatened to fight to the death with the Kira family and never back down.

This can scare the Utsunomiya genealogy generations, several older genealogy generations have just been rescued and woken up, heard the lord's statement and were shocked and fainted, Utsunomiya Hirotsuna stood up and jumped to his feet and cursed Kira Yoshi, and the small surnames led the doctor to treat the fainted genealogy retainers, and the assessment room was suddenly chaotic into a pot of porridge.

At the moment of facing a life-and-death crisis, Utsunomiya Hirotsuna can still insist on protecting Yoshiga Gao Ding to the point that this Warring States conspirator will be moved, but he does not agree with the decision made by the young and inexperienced lord, shook his head and smiled: "The lord is very wrong to think so, the lord as the governor of the family should focus on the family business of my Utsunomiya family."

His Majesty is just a mortal compared to the foundation of the Utsunomiya family, like a shining fire, and dare not compete with Haoyue, it is unwise to offend the town government for the sake of the subordinate, and it is unfilial piety to give up the foundation of the Utsunomiya family for hundreds of years for the subordinate, if the lord really wants to do this, how should he face the ancestors of the rank under Hirasaka? ”

Utsunomiya Hirotsuna's heart was half cold, like a raging fire gushing out of the moment ushered in a stormy attack, just now he was still ambitious to plan a Jedi counterattack, to the arrogant Kira Yoshitoki a profound lesson, just a moment after the kung fu was poured cold water on his head and face, in the end he is still too young to lack enough insight and experience, political skills are only the surface of what he has learned from Hoga Gaoding in the past few years.

However, Haga Gaoding is a middle-aged samurai who is over forty years old. With his rich experience and excellent wisdom, as well as his deep understanding of Shimono Province, he can play with the people of Shimono Province from all over the country. It is even the main source of the direction of change in the entire Kanto Eight. It's like Michizo Saito and Niko Tsukusa, who also seized the family business based on a high level of local knowledge and rich resourcefulness.

Sanada Yutaka who was previously in Shinano's strategy, and Mori Moto, who fought in the western country, also belong to this type, but the two have been successfully transformed due to various factors, the former has become the veteran commander of the Kira family, leading tens of thousands of troops as the vanguard to carry out the strategy against the Utsunomiya family, and the latter won the battle in Itsukushima to achieve the glory of the new generation of overlords in the western country.

Of course, this type of samurai is also the same as Matsunaga Shu, Mogami Yoshimitsu, and Ukita Naoya, this kind of talented samurai has a major characteristic, and it is almost impossible to fight them in his own country, but because of its own characteristics, it is more strategic, so that the overall ruling strategy is more feminine. The rigid control over the subordinate vassals is relatively weak.

And Haga Gaoding with its unique means and loyalty to win the trust of Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, this influence is even big enough to influence the young governor's mood and decision, take the crusade just now, the same sentence written on the text made Utsunomiya Hirotsuna frightened panic, from his mouth to repeat it aroused the anger in his heart, and he said a word to calm down immediately, this push and pull between the means of controlling the governor between the palms of the hand is amazing.

Fangga Gaoding said: "The lord should understand a truth, my Utsunomiya family must surrender and only surrender, and it is not the Kira family that we are waiting to surrender but the Kanto Princess!" This troubled era of the Warring States is like a pot in a fire, and we are like a fish in a kettle that cooks when it encounters fire. In order to make a living, the only way to survive is to swallow each other and seek self-preservation, and now the town government is born like a scoop of cold water outside the kettle that can extinguish the fire of the troubled times. Why did my Utsunomiya family give up approaching this scoop of water? ”

"Is it really that important?"

"Of course there is, my lord, and look at how many of the eight countries of the Kanto region are still resisting the town government now?" Haga Takading got up and walked to the corner to get a map scroll, on which a simple map of the eight countries of the Kanto region was drawn, and in a few words of his line, he drew the country of Musashi, the country of Sagami, the country of Shimo, the country of Ueno, most of the country of Shimono, a small part of the country of Kamishi and the country of Hitachi, the entire eight countries of the Kanto region actually occupied part or most of the territory of the six countries, only the relatively remote and small country of Anfang and Izu country escaped.

At the beginning, Utsunomiya Tsusuna didn't care much, and after a closer look, he found that he was surrounded in all directions, and the territory of the Kira family was dozens of times larger than his own, and then he heard a few words from Fangga Gaoding, and estimated that the Kira family had an army of 100,000 people, and he trembled all over his body when he heard it, and his legs and feet were soft like noodles and couldn't lift them.

Utsunomiya Hirotsuna said bitterly: "How is this good! Is Gaoding Hall really going to be handed over? You're the old man of your family! Wouldn't it be life-threatening to send Gao Ding out? No! Even if there is no life safety, it is not good to be claustrophobic! ”

"Hehe, the lord doesn't have to worry, presumably the town government is most likely drunk this time because the drunkard is not drinking, I Gaoding is just one of the people who are circled, maybe someone will be forced to take it away, this should be the counterbalance of the town government to deal with me and other new martial artists! As for the safety of my Gaoding, there should be no problem, and the town government will never be claustrophobic because of some transgressive behaviors of his subordinates. He comforted softly, as if he didn't care about his future situation.

He really doesn't have to worry too much about his own safety, from today onwards, the Utsunomiya family must be subordinate to the Kira family, and will even be forced to become a retainer of the Gendai family and lose the privilege of autonomy, and all the unfavorable actions against the Kira family before should not be counted in the old accounts in the future, otherwise it will be Kira Yoshitoki himself who has lost his trust in his subordinates, and I believe that many samurai, including Sanada Yukitaka, will feel uneasy.

If Yoshitoki Kira is so unwise, he will not become the new master of the eight countries of Kanto, Haga Takatsu can be sure that he will never be threatened, and the rebels who protect the Furukawa Princess, such as Yuki Haruho, can finally escape punishment, and he is just a powerless Buntomi who has no power to come up with a few ideas It doesn't matter at all, he can be sure that Yoshitoki Kira is looking for a reason to clean up the Utsunomiya family, and the biggest force in the Shimono country should be a man with his tail between his legs.

The new official took office with three fires, and when Kira Yoshi, the unsealed Kanto Duke had already burned two fires, and these two fires burned most of the Kanto region involving countless samurai, and it was not uncommon for the Utsunomiya family to be targeted as a small overlord of Shimono, especially the Utsunomiya family had been the hardcore of the Furukawa Gongfang family before, whether it was directly targeted or to find fault in the future to settle accounts after the autumn, it was not unusual, and Kira Yoshitoki chose to hit the door on the spot, so as not to settle accounts after the autumn in the future and stir up a big turmoil.

For the attitude of the Kira family, the Utsunomiya family tree generation is also well known, after all, the territory of the Utsunomiya family is several times that of the Koyama family and is in the essence of the Shimono country, and there is also the well-known Nikkoyama Rinnoji Temple in the territory, which is one of the famous Buddhist holy places in the entire Kanto region, and the other is the Bodhi Temple of the Utsunomiya family, Shimono Kuni, Pink River Temple, these two Buddhist holy places establish the special status of the Shimono country in the Kanto region, and both of these places are under the control of the Utsunomiya family, which is not allowed by a strong person like Kira Yoshito.

Kira Yoshishi's way to deal with him is very simple, find an anti-Kira reason to directly remove the spine of the Utsunomiya family, and I want to punish the retainers of the Utsunomiya family for the territory, and I will also take it away, if it is after the Utsunomiya family surrenders, it will be even more difficult to rob the retainers of the spectrum, after all, it is inappropriate for the rulers in the system to rob the retainers who have joined the new retainers, and in another time and space, the monkey has a small love for Naoe, and it is a failure for Katakura Kojuro to lure him to his advantage.

Based on this judgment, Fang He Gao Ding settled down to comfort the family governor to be relieved, and the smile just now just sighed that he had planned for the Utsunomiya family for decades, but in the end he was smart but was mistaken by the smart in this smart head, and in front of Kira Yoshitoki, the class got an axe to show his horse's feet to be stared at, and this time he was named by the Kira family to leave, but there was no room for resistance, this is a portrayal of conspiracy and intrigue that is pale and powerless in the face of absolute strength.

On the third day of the departure of Hoga Gaoding, he saw the envoy of the Kira family enter Utsunomiya Castle and announce the edict, to the effect that the Utsunomiya family participated in the anti-Kira alliance several times, and sheltered the former Furukawa Duke Ashikaga Fujimasa, which was a big mistake that must be punished.

Since it is a punishment, it will not be very light, and part of the territory of Hoga County and Shiotani County and part of the territory of Hanoi County in the core area of the Utsunomiya family will be cut out as a punishment, and Kira Yoshitoki does not intend to force the Utsunomiya family to jump over the wall at one time, so when he stabbed it, he just classified the retainers in the southern part of Utsunomiya Castle into his own match.

This includes the powerful genealogies of the Utsunomiya family, such as the Duogong Castle Lord, the Yama Castle Lord, the Yama Kanechao, the Tsunayama Castle Lord, and the Upper Mikawa Castle Imazumi Takamitsu, etc., and taking them away means that the Utsunomiya family will not only lose a large territory, but also face a major loss to the genealogy retainers.

However, Utsunomiya Hirotsuna had no way to do all this, and the edict of Kira Yoshitoshi stated: "Utsunomiya Shimono Mamoru is allowed to arrange for the retainers of the various territories to go and stay, but those who wish to stay in the Utsunomiya family and continue to serve as the retainers of the pedigree can be given permission to go, and from now on, a fifteen-day decision period will be given, and those who do not give a clear answer after the decision period will be assigned according to the location." ”

The meaning of this is to tell Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, I have to take away the land and not necessarily the genealogy retainers, what you want or the genealogy retainers want to take away all of yours without leaving one, on the surface it is to give the Utsunomiya family a wide choice space, but in fact, how can the Utsunomiya Tsuna, who has been cut off a large piece of territory, have so much food to feed these large genealogy retainers.

The territory of these retainers is as little as a few hundred stones and a few thousand stones, and a large group of people in the Zongjia family always have to increase the number of mouths to feed, and their territory is taken away and then kicked to Utsunomiya Hirotsuna by the Kira family like garbage, how can he, the head of the house, let these "loyal to the Lord" and homeless retainers eat chaff.

People are for the Utsunomiya family to abandon their thousands of stones and hundreds of stone territory to join the family governor, he does not show sincerity how to mix in the country of Shimono in the future, in the end he has to grit his teeth and take out the direct collar to support the retainers of the spectrum, this kind of stupid thing Utsunomiya Tsuyozuna will never do, Fanga Gaoding explained to him before leaving, you must beware of being played into the pit by the Yang Mou of the Kira family, even if he says that he will be killed and can't do it. (To be continued......)