In the face of the strong force of the Hojo family's army, in order to prevent the enemy from using the castle town as the front line of the attack, the Tai-Tian family and the Luo family set a large fire and burned the castle town of Edo Castle. The flames rose red, and they looked particularly dazzling in the night sky.

The next day, the 7,000 troops of the Hojo clan, who had marched overnight, also arrived at the castle of Edo Castle and quickly set up their headquarters on the hill to the east of the castle, and the three scale banners stood tall above the main camp. Coupled with the previous Hojo Phantom An's vanguard military momentum, the strength of the Hojo Army instantly reached the military strength of tens of thousands of people.

So far, from the Hojo clan to the Yasu, most of the famous Hojo generals have gathered here, including:

The Imperial Family: Dadaoji Shigeshi, Dadaoji Shengchang, Dadaoji Zhengfan, Dadaoji Naoji, and Duomu Yuanzhong.

Odawara people: Matsuda Morihide, Matsuda Kenhide, Matsuda Hideji, Matsuda Yasunaga, Matsuda Yasugo, Itabe Okae Yukisai.

Matsuyama people: Kagawa clan continuation, Kagawa Yasutada, Ueda Asanao, Ueda Kenda, Kano Yasumitsu.

The royal family: Ise Sadatsu, Ise Sadaun, Ogasawara Motosu, Ogasawara Yasuhiro, Ogasawara Nagabo.

Imperial horse returns: Ishinomaki Jiasada, Ishinomaki Kangho, Ishinomaki Kangjing, Yamakaku Kangding, Yamakaku Dingsheng.

All the generals of the Hojo Army led an army of 10,000 men to Edo Castle. Previously, when facing Uesugi Kenshin's Kwantung Coalition Army, Hojo Shiyasu was able to shake Hojo Kenshin's 80,000 Kwantung Coalition Army head-on with 23,000 men. This time, however, he mobilized an army of 10,000 men to surround Edo Castle, a land of projectiles, and there were only less than 1,000 men in the city, including Takahashi Shaoyun and Taida Yasushi, and the disparity between the forces of the two sides reached a disparity of ten to one!

Such a powerful army was gathered in Edo Castle. It seems that as long as everyone spits on it. It can be flooded with Edo Castle.

It can be seen that Hojo Shiyasu is determined to win this time. vowed to take down Takahashi Shaoyun and Taitian Yasushi, and even surrounded the point at the same time to send reinforcements, so as to deal with the reinforcements of Taitian Zimasa and Satomi Yoshihiro. It was for this purpose that the Hojo Army did not immediately attack the castle, but surrounded the three outer layers of Edo Castle.

The Hojo Army set up roadblocks at various flat intersections to prevent Takahashi Shaoyun and others from escaping, and at the same time, it was also wary of the Tai-Tian family and the Roshi family alliance from raiding the Hojo Army's position. Even when they broke through, they were not worried at all that they would not be able to capture Edo Castle, but only worried that they would escape a few fish such as Takahashi Shaoyun and Taida Yasushi, which would affect their plan to encircle the point and send reinforcements.

And in order to quickly attract reinforcements from Tai-Tian Zimasa and Satomi Yoshihiro, the Hojo Shiyasu's Phoenix Demon Ninja were also all dispatched, spreading the news that Edo Castle was besieged by the Hojo family's army in various places.

On the night of Hojo's arrival, there was a thumping of trees outside the city, the sound of boiling people, and the sound of thumping wooden stakes rang all night, and the soldiers of the Tai-Tian family and the Luo family alliance in the city were affected by this and stayed awake all night.

The next day, it was dawn. After the Tai-Tian family and the Luo family got up, they looked out towards the hole in the curvature wheel. There are countless tents and wooden huts erected, as if a castle town had been rebuilt on the current flat ground.

Relying on a huge amount of manpower, the Hojo Army built a complete camp overnight, with trenches vertical and horizontal, horse fences, watchtowers, and barracks one after another.

Not only were the Tai-Tian family and the Luo family's coalition forces dumbfounded, but even Takahashi Shaoyun, who was watching from the Ninomaru arrow, was also secretly speechless.

"What a Sagami lion!"

After watching Hojo Shiyasu's formation, Takahashi Shaoyun couldn't help but sigh. Diametrically opposed to the combat style of the lord Luo Masara's bold surprise attack, the deployment of the Hojo Army seems to be very old-fashioned and rigorous, and it is a bit similar to Imagawa Yoshimoto's combat method, but in comparison, Imagawa Yoshimoto's formation often seems too rigid, while Hojo Shiyasu's formation is rigorous and flexible.

And after seeing such a complete defense of the Hojo family, Takahashi Shaoyun didn't even have the idea of attacking at night and going out of the city to fight. At present, Takahashi Shaoyun has only one idea, that is, to be ready to stick to and wait for help. Fortunately, Edo Castle was also a fortified castle with enough food and water to hold on, and the defenders had peace of mind.

When Takahashi Shaoyun led his army to attack Edo Castle, if it was not for Tai-Tian Yasushi's counterattack, the inner and outer alliances were able to enter the fortified castle, and then they confronted the Hojo army that reacted in the city.

However, it is a pity that although the Toyama Tsunade Kei army was defeated and thus occupied Edo Castle, because Hojo Shiyasu did know very early on that Tai-Tian Yasushi was secretly communicating with Tai-Tian Zizheng, in Takahashi Shaoyun's opinion, Hojo Shiyasu really planned to calculate Tai-Tian Yasushi and Tai-Tian Zimasa, but after his sudden intervention, he destroyed the calculation of Hojo Shiyasu, and the annoyed Hojo Shiyasu simply mobilized most of the Hojo family's army near Edo Castle. It's directly a layout of encirclement points to send reinforcements. Moreover, the speed with which it mobilized its troops was really shocking, and it was really shocking and admirable that such a large army could be assembled in just two days.

If it was the army of the Luo family who was rushing to the rescue at this time, then Takahashi Shaoyun would naturally be desperate not to let the Hojo Shiyasu's plan to send reinforcements to this encirclement point succeed, but now it is the reinforcements of Tai-Tian Zimasa and Satomi Yoshihiro, so he is not anxious at all, after all, this can completely entangle the Hojo family, so as to prevent the Hojo family from continuing to support the Suruga Imagawa family. Therefore, now he is still a little worried that Tai-Tian Zimasa and Satomi Yoshihiro will see Hojo Shiyasu's plan and not come to the rescue.

Therefore, under such a situation, under the command of Taitian Yasushi and Takahashi Shaoyun, the combined forces of the Taitian family and the Luo family were desperately preparing for war, strengthening and repairing the castle in various places, vowing to resist the onslaught of the Hojo army.

And on the same night, an envoy sent by Hojo Yasu to persuade the Tai-Tian family and the Luo family to surrender arrived at the foot of Edo Castle.

The fire in the castle of Edo Castle was blazing, and the four fields were illuminated. Takahashi Shaoyun, Taida Yasushi and other allied generals climbed on the arrow oars of the Waimaru Tengu Maru and watched the Hojo Army formation at night.

Takahashi said, "Edo Castle is not far from the Hojo family, but it is separated by mountains and rivers. And the territories along the way have just been destroyed by the Kwantung coalition forces. Tens of thousands of Hojo troops gathered here. But it's not easy to replenish. ”

After hearing this, Taitian Yasushi shook his head and said, "Lord Takahashi, do you want to attack the Hojo Army's food route, or wait for the Hojo Army to run out of food and retreat?" I have been with Hojo Shiyasu for many years, and I am well aware of the means of supply for the Hojo Army. You see! ”

Tai-Tian Yasushi stretched out his hand and pointed to the camp of the Hojo clan, only to see in the distance several groups of horseback with torches, or small loads of loads, constantly coming and going to the camp one after another.

Yasushi Taida explained, "The Hojo Army's method was to supply on the spot. ”

The war that Hojo fought at the beginning of the war. It is a war in the territory of the territory, and the two armies fight back and forth in a country, and they are generally only half a day, a few days away, and they can be reached by walking, so the so-called logistics is the waist stool (dry food bags) carried by the soldiers, and the so-called large-scale logistics supply is impossible to talk about.

After that, when they went out to Kanto, they were all fighting in the territory of other countries, so the problem of logistical supply also came, and they had to be supplied locally from the Hojo family. Transportation is not too convenient, and the supply time is too long. So Hojo Clan Yasu generally takes the means. It's local supply, in other words, it's local raiding.

Then the coalition generals discussed various ways to break the siege, but they were all vetoed one by one. In the face of the strong military strength of the Hojo Army, generals like Takahashi Shaoyun are at a loss, and there is no way for others. At this time, there was an abnormal movement on the side of the Hojo family's military camp, and a large number of soldiers and horses were seen in the camp, moving back and forth.

The people in the city couldn't help but be surprised, and some of them were even more surprised and said, "Could it be that the Hojo clan can't wait even overnight, and wants to attack the city overnight?" Do you want to beat the taiko drum to prepare for battle? ”

"No, where is there a reason for cavalry to attack the city. Let's take a look at the movements of the Hojo Army first. Takahashi Shaoyun stopped with a voice.

Sure enough, I saw the door of the Hojo military camp open, and a group of nearly 100 Hojo cavalry galloped over, and then stopped outside the range of the iron cannon from the city.

The Tai-Tian family and the Luo family alliance did not know what was going on, and the soldiers on duty at night talked about it.

Takahashi Shaoyun also saw that in the firelight, more than a dozen Hojo generals dressed in eye-catching armor pointed at the castle of Edo, and no one laughed loudly, ignoring the combined forces of the Tai-Tian family and the Luo family in the castle.

At this time, a samurai on horseback from the Hojo army rode to the castle and shouted, "I am a diplomatic envoy of the Hojo family, please don't shoot!" ”

The samurai on horseback shouted a few words and galloped down the city.

Takahashi Shaoyun was in the arrow of Tengu Maru, and shouted at the other party and said, "There is nothing to say, reply to Dr. Sakyo, I, the Imagawa family of Yuane Imagawa, Takahashi Shaoun, have decided to fight him to the death." ”

The samurai on horseback turned his horse's head, came to Takahashi Shaoyun's arrow, looked up and said: "It turned out to be Your Excellency Takahashi Shaoyun of the Enoe-Imagawa family, in the lower board of the Okae Yukisai, where your Excellency is located, the Enoe-Imagawa family fought along the Oigawa River in Enoe Province, which can be said to have completely offended the family, and now that the tens of thousands of troops of our Hojo Army have surrounded this place, can you hold the castle with your little strength?" Doctor Zuojing of this family is kind, respects Your Excellency as a brave general, and can't bear to see the scene of the soldiers in the city shattering here, so he sent me to ......"

"A bunch of nonsense" At this time, Takahashi Shaoyun rebuked loudly, "Doctor Zuojing is not ashamed to say that the dispute between the governor of the Imagawa family was originally the matter of my Imagawa family, but Doctor Zuojing suddenly intervened in the internal affairs of his family, and his wolf ambition can be said to be obvious!" How can such a shameless man take this city? I advise Dr. Zuo Jing to go back and get a good night's sleep! What's more, I'm afraid that Odawara Castle is also empty at this time, and I would like to advise Dr. Sakyo to hurry back and watch the house, whether it is the Imagawa family in Suruga or the Takeda family in Kai, it is not so credible, even if the two families do not move, the fleet of the family does not mind going to the sea near Odawara Castle. ”

This time the previous scolding and fighting, it was the two sides talking to each other. Previously, the reason why Takahashi Shaoyun revealed his identity was to strengthen the confidence of Taitian Yasushi beside him. After dealing with Tai-Tian Yasuzi several times, Takahashi Shaoyun knew very well that Tai-Tian Yasushi was a soft bone, and if this guy couldn't stand the pressure, it was really possible to surrender. In this way, Takahashi Shaoyun worked so hard to provoke the situation of confrontation in the Kanto region, and it was about to dissipate because of this. The Hojo family will also be able to increase their support for the Suruga Imagawa family. This is unacceptable to Takahashi Shaoyun. So even if he dies this time, Takahashi Shaoyun will die here dragging the army of the Hojo family.

On the side of the Hojo family, the Hojo samurai Itabe Okae Yukisai wanted to crush the resistance of the Tai-Tian family and the Luo family's coalition army with the strength of the Hojo army, but the coalition army refuted it with the Hojo army's full strength and the emptiness of the nest to shake the military spirit of the Hojo army.

When this Banbu Gangjiang Xuezhai heard this, he was not refuted, and laughed: "Your Excellency's words are sharp. It's a pity that you don't know the general trend. The capture of Edo Castle cost our army a few days. Your Excellency Takahashi Shaoyun, you can go your own way, but do the soldiers of the city have the same idea as you? They all have wives and children at home, aren't they afraid of death? Doctor Zuo Jing, uphold righteousness, will definitely treat the surrendered people well, as long as you are willing to go out of the city and surrender, Doctor Zuo Jing can guarantee ......"

"Shut up!"

"Bang!"

I heard only the sound of an iron cannon, which was particularly harsh in the night. The projectile hit in front of Itabe Okae Yukisaima. Itabe Okae Yukisai was caught off guard, and saw the horse's back shaking. He fell from his horse, but he was not hit by the cannonball.

I saw the arrow on the top of the oar. Takahashi Shaoyun held the iron cannon in one hand and pulled the trigger in the other, stood there and said: "This shot is just a warning, don't think that you are an envoy, we dare not kill you, go back and tell Dr. Zuojing, my coalition army is united, and there will never be anyone who surrenders." ”

Itabe Okae Yukisai wolf climbed back onto the warhorse, and barely controlled the frightened warhorse to return to the Hojo army. However, at this time, another member of the Hojo Army, galloped towards the castle. However, this time he changed to a few dozen meters away from the city, and Le Ma stopped.

Seeing this, Takahashi Shaoyun immediately shouted: "If Dr. Zuojing just blindly sends people to vainly try to surrender our army and shake the morale of the army, this method is too despicable. ”

I saw that the other party raised the whip in his hand, pointed to the arrow and said loudly: "Kangzi, don't come to harm!" ”

I saw Tai-Tian Yasuzi beside Takahashi Shaoyun suddenly, his face changed drastically, he held the guardrail in his hand, and said in a trembling voice: "Lord...... Public...... Big...... Person! ”

Takahashi Shaoyun and the others were immediately taken aback when they heard this, and looked at the city together in disbelief. I saw that the samurai on horseback under the castle was wearing a golden hood on his head, wearing a sero-sonic belly roll, holding the reins in one hand and a horsewhip in the other, it was the Sagami lion Hojo Shiyasu.

The Hojo clan is famous all over the world, and even the alliance of the Tai-Tian family and the Luo family, who are enemies, is also deeply admired! As a result, when the allied forces of the Tai-Tian family and the Luo family in the city heard that the Hojo clan actually dared to take the risk in person and came to such a place so close to the city, they were all excited, and many people squeezed their heads, and the narrow mouths of the row of curved wheels were full of faces. One by one, they squeezed their seats, stretched out their heads and looked out, all wanting to see what this Sagami lion Hojo Shiyasu really was.

Hojo Shiyasu drove his horses to the left and right, with the aim of not staying where he was, so that the iron cannon bow and arrow could be aimed and thus sniped. But when he saw this scene on the castle tower, he couldn't help but smile, and simply took a few steps forward and stood with his horse, as if he wanted you to see it clearly.

Hojo Shiyasu even raised his head pocket up, revealing his face under his head pocket, and shouted loudly: "Yes, I am Hojo Shiyasu!" ”

When the Tai-Tian family and the Luo family allied forces heard this, they all looked incredulous, and looked at each other and said.

"It's really Dr. Zuojing."

"Look."

I saw that Hojo Shiyasu was still sitting on his horse and walking slowly, and his determined bearing made the coalition forces in the city, including several generals, all heartbroken.

Takahashi Shaoyun rushed down the arrow turret and asked the allied iron cannon officer, "At this distance, can you call the iron cannon to hit the Hojo clanyasu?" ”

The iron cannon of the Tai-Tian family and the Luo family's allied army thought for a moment and said: "At this distance, it is too difficult for one or two iron cannons to hit, unless dozens of iron cannons are transferred to fire a salvo, there is a seventy percent chance." ”

"Good!" Takahashi Shaoyun nodded and said in a deep voice, "Go and transfer all the iron artillery teams here, I want to see if Hojo Shiyasu can escape." ”

Previously, when Uesugi Kenshin went out to Kanto and besieged the Hojo family's Odawara, Uesugi Kenshin was alone, came to the range of the Hojo family's iron cannon, and drank alone. And the dozens of iron guns and bows and shots that the Hojo family transferred to shoot continued to shoot at him, but Uesugi Kenshin was like a ghost, no matter how he shot, he couldn't hurt Uesugi Kenshin in the slightest. But Takahashi Shaoyun didn't believe that this Hojo clan would be able to have the same good fortune as Uesugi Kenshin.

And just when the iron gunners and archers were being transferred in the city, I heard that at this time, Hojo Shiyasu said loudly: "I just raised the iron cannon to shoot, but Lord Takahashi Shaoyun? ”

In the face of Hojo Shiyasu's inquiry, Takahashi Shaoyun then stood on the arrow turret, looked at Hojo Shiyasu for a while, and then said: "It was in Xia, when Your Excellency was victorious in the battle from Musashi Province before, and you also witnessed Your majesty on the side of the road, and now I haven't seen you for a few months, Your Excellency is still in style." ”

And just as the defenders of the castle were looking at the Hojo clan under the castle, a team of iron cannons transferred by Takahashi Shaoyun was rushing towards the curved wheel of Tengu Maru, holding iron cannons in their hands and carrying small bags containing projectiles and gunpowder.

And the castle Hojo Shiyasu did not seem to be afraid that the defenders in the city would snipe him with iron cannons, only to see him look at Takahashi Shaoyun standing on the arrow oar, and said eloquently: "Takahashi Shaoyun, Your Excellency can destroy Zaixia's plan this time, and defeat the general of the family to capture Edo Castle, it is indeed a great admiration for Zaixia, and now the army under the army has heavily surrounded Edo Castle, and you have no possibility of breaking through." Rather than your Excellency dying with the city, it is better to stay useful and descend to the Shimohojo family. In the Shimo-Hojo clan, Yasu swore that as long as you are willing to surrender to the Shimo-Hojo family, you will immediately withdraw your troops and spare the lives of the people in this Edo Castle castle. ”

"Wow!"

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