The current Hojo clan in the Wakuni civilization region can be said to be the earliest daimyo of the Wakuni Sengoku period, and in reality it is often called the Later Hojo clan, which is not the same thing as the Hojo clan in the Kamakura shogunate period.

And from the story of Uesugi Wazi for most of the day, Yang Rui also learned in detail about the rise of the Hojo clan.

The first generation of the Hojo clan, Hojo Sakumo, was first assigned by the shogunate to Suruga Province, when the guardian of Suruga Province, Imagawa Governor Imagawa Yoshitada, was killed during the attack on Enoe, and his sudden death brought a crisis to the Imagawa family.

As a distant relative of the shogunate and its spokesperson in the eastern country, the Imagawa family naturally did not want a crisis in the Imagawa family, so they sent Hojo Sakumo to mediate.

The shogunate and Hojo Sakumo supported the son-in-law Ryuomaru, but Oshika Nomitsu was also supported by the Kanto forces Ogiya Uesugi and others.

After all, Hojo Sakumo represented the shogunate, and the shogunate still had a certain influence at that time, so Hojo Sakumo's mediation was quite successful, and after the compromise of several forces, because Ryuomaru was still young, Oka Fan Mitsuru temporarily succeeded to the Imagawa family governor, but when Ryuomaru became an adult, he still needed to return the position of family governor to Ryuomaru.

This situation is obviously a temporary compromise, of course, it also gave Hojo Sakumo the opportunity to gain a foothold in Suruga Province, and when Ryuomaru became an adult, the conflict between the two sides really broke out, so Hojo Sakumo assisted Ryuomaru to successfully destroy Oka Fanman.

Hojo Sakumo got his first foothold in the eastern country and became a retainer of the Imagawa clan and the guardian of Suruga Province! And that's just the beginning.

The next encounter with Hojo Sakumo was very extraordinary. After he hit the attention of Izu Kuni. Under the guise of Shuzenji Temple to treat the sick. I found out the situation in Izu clearly.

And taking advantage of the fact that a large number of troops in Izu Province fought against Yamauchi Uesugi in Ueno Province and the country was empty, he successively captured Nirayama Castle, Horikoshi Imperial Palace, Kano Castle, Fukone Castle and other four most important castles in Izu Province at a small cost, and expelled the guardian of Izu Province - Chachamaru, since then the Horikoshi Princesses have existed in name only, and Hojo Sakumo has also taken Izu Province Nirayama Castle as a new residence.

After occupying Izu Province, Hojo Sakumo really had the first territory and gradually became independent, and then Hojo Sakumo can be said to have made great efforts to stabilize the Izu Province as a base area. And in the name of chasing Chachamaru, the road of annexing territories to foreign countries began from then on.

In fact, Hojo Sakumo's expansion path is nothing more than taking advantage of the gap between the contradictions of all parties in the eyes of Uesugi Wazi, and at the same time having a little luck.

As Uesugi Wako said, after Hojo Sakumo occupied Izu Province, he still had not set foot in the Kanto region, and compared to the three major Kanto tycoons at that time - the Yamauchi Uesugi clan, the Ogiya Uesugi clan and the Furukawa Gongkata!

For example, with his annexation of the territory of Sagami Province, Hojo Sakumo first intervened in the dispute between the two Uesugi clans, the Yamauchi Uesugi clan and the Ogiya Uesugi clan, and openly supported the Ogiya Uesugi clan, but took advantage of the crisis to seize Odawara Castle with a very disgraceful strategy.

After that, the Ogiya Uesugi clan weakened and eventually surrendered to the Yamauchi Uesugi clan, the Echigo Uesugi clan, and the Furukawa Principality Alliance. In the end, the three Uesugi clans and the Ashikaga clan of Furukawa unexpectedly came to an alliance with the Hojo clan, which was the most critical moment for the Hojo clan.

But then a series of things. But it was inadvertently saved the Hojo clan, and it was the little luck that Uesugi Wako said.

There are two main events, one is that Hosokawa Masamoto was killed by his retainers, which caused the political position of the Yamauchi Uesugi clan to weaken, but although this incident had an impact on the Yamauchi Uesugi clan, it did not completely change the situation.

But the second thing is serious.,Echigo guardian generation Nagao for the scenery started the Xia Ke Shang mode.,Kill the Echigo Uesugi family governor Fang Nong (the younger brother of the Yamauchi family governor Kending).,This time you can remove an arm from the Yamauchi Uesugi family!

Seeing this opportunity, Hojo Sakumo immediately formed an alliance with Nagao Weijing and Nagao Keiharu, and the north and south contained the Yamauchi Uesugi clan, and took the opportunity to launch an attack on the Ogiya Uesugi clan, which was already very weak, which can be described as very unscrupulous.

Rao was like this, the Yamauchi Uesugi clan and the Ogiya Uesugi clan still breathed a sigh of relief, and with the assistance of the Miura family, a powerful countryman from Higashi Sagami, they jointly attacked Odawara Castle and defeated the Hojo clan.

At this time, the three major forces agreed to the Hojo clan's request for peace, the reason was that there was a dispute within the Yamauchi Uesugi clan, and the weakened Ogiya Uesugi clan and the Higashisagami Miura clan were not enough to guarantee the capture of Odawara Castle.

So the Hojo clan actually got a respite!

After a series of previous chaos, the four coalition forces that were originally the bosses of the Kanto region, Echigo Province was temporarily abolished, and the Yamauchi Uesugi clan and Furukawa Gongkata had civil strife, leaving a half-crippled Ogiya Uesugi clan, and it was no longer possible to do anything with the Hojo clan.

Uesugi Wazi was able to understand the Hojo clan so carefully, and took the trouble to tell Yang Rui a lot of information, in fact, it was to let Yang Rui know his opponent and confidant, and he would not be defeated in a hundred battles.

At the same time, who is the long-tail scene of the parties? Naturally, he is the nominal biological father of Uesugi Wazi, and perhaps it is because of this that Wazi can understand these things so carefully.

In fact, when Uesugi Wazi told about the above series of events, Yang Rui already had a good understanding of the Hojo clan, especially Hojo Sakumo, this product is simply a hypocrite, an old fritter, and he has done nothing less than anything about treachery.

Especially when Uesugi Wazi mentioned the ending of the Higashi Sagami Miura family, Yang Rui deepened his understanding of the Hojo clan.

However, it is said that although the Hojo clan and Ogiya Uesugi sued for peace, the Miura family of Higashi-Sagami also came to attack Odawara Castle, but there was also not much to do about the old fritter of Kami-Hojo Sakumo.

At first, the Miura family army was still majestic and high-spirited to fight, but after a flash of almost two years, the Miura family army had completely abandoned its vigilance, and near Odawara Castle, it was as warlike as the spring outing, and at this time, the Hojo clan in the city suddenly came out, killed the Miura army and fled back to East Sagami.

The Hojo clan's forbearance has been two years, and when Yang Rui heard Uesugi Wazi talk about it, all that came to his mind for a while was the image of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! (To be continued.) )