Chapter 483
Iwazuki Ota
Chapter 483 Iwazuki Ota
When Daodaoji Zhengfan saw Mr. Narita coming, he knew in his heart that he might really die.
Looking at the head of the Narita clan who walked in front of him, Daodaoji Masashige sneered, "Is the lower chief guard here to see me off? I heard that you directly demoted the right general in Ueno. How can you be worthy of the kindness that Xiandian has shown you? "
Mr. Narita was indeed here to see his old colleague off, but he felt a little uncomfortable when he said this, and said to him, "I heard that you also begged for forgiveness from the right general just now, and you wanted to negotiate peace with him a while ago. Are you worthy of Xiandian?"
"You!.I.I have been loyal to the Hojo Clan to the last moment."
Faced with Narita's head's rebuttal, Daidoji Masashige wanted to refute, but was heard by Hideka who happened to come out.
Before he finished speaking, Hideka's voice sounded from behind, "Suruga Mamoru's loyalty is truly visible, so I will honor your name of loyalty even more."
After finishing speaking, he said to Nobushige Sanada behind him, "You can ask the samurai who is in charge of guarding Suruga Mamoru later, and be sure to record today's story completely and intact, and it must not be changed."
Sanada Nobushige followed behind Hideka and replied with a smile, "I obey."
When Zheng Fan of Dao Dao Temple heard such an arrangement from the Xiu family, his face instantly turned pale. After all, life and death are small at this time, and Ming Jie is big.
But the Xiu family didn't give him this chance. He turned to look at Mr. Narita and said, "Shou-shou, Suruga-shou seems to have unfinished business. After all, you are a colleague, so you go and help him, so that he can do his best with peace of mind." Loyalty."
Daodaoji Masabushi Yu Narita didn't know Hideka well, and he didn't know Hideka's talking habits. Hideka's irony made them very uncomfortable.
Daodaosi Zhengfan originally wanted to struggle, but seeing that the Xiu family had given him no chance to give birth, he could only beg the Xiu family to forgive the Daodaosi family.
Hideka knew that Ishida Mitsunari was besieging Kagoe Castle, and the ending of Kagoe Castle would not be happy, so they just said ambiguously, "Suruga is famous for his loyalty and righteousness, and your son must be sought after by everyone."
Seeing that the Xiu family has been reluctant to make a promise, Daodaoji Masashige shook his head helplessly, looked up to the sky and sighed and left a death poem before committing suicide, and Narita's head became his intermediary person, and relieved his pain in time.
After the head of Daodaoji Zhengfan was cut off, Xiujia ordered someone to take care of the head and send it to the Ishida Sangen Array outside Heyue City.
Once the head of Daidoji Masashige is delivered to Kawagoe Castle, Ishida Misachi must end the water attack on Kagoe Castle.
You must know that this time he gathered all the generals of the Kanto around him to flood the city of Heyue for the sake of establishing his prestige.
When Daosi Zhengfan is not over here, he should attack the city no matter what.But once the winner is decided on Shinobi Castle, no matter whether Daidaiji Masashige surrendered or was killed, he needs to stop the offensive against Kawagoe and send people into the city again to ask for advice on surrender.
If Daidaiji Naoshige, who was on duty in the city, chose to surrender, he had to accept it unconditionally, otherwise he would have a bad reputation of oppressing the wealthy Kanto clan, and even implicate Hideyoshi.
It really wasn't that the Xiu family tricked him, the Xiu family had already delayed the time for him as much as possible, the Xiu family had persuaded him to attack Yan Fucheng before, and it was he who insisted on attacking Heyue with water, and he could only blame himself if he wanted to.
As for the fact that the Hide family put Daidaiji Masashige back, it was even more impossible. According to Daidaiji Masashige's personality, he would probably surrender directly after returning to Kagoe.
Therefore, it can only be said to be a helpless ending when things turned out like this.
As for the disposal of Ninja Castle, the Xiu family handed it over to Mr. Narita himself.After all, until now, the Xiu family has not established a new reward arrangement, so he is still the surrendered city lord of Ninja City.
Besides, the Xiu family has already finalized the marriage with him, so the head of Narita is considered to be a member of the family, and he can rest assured if he is in charge of his own future.
It is impossible for the Xiu family to let go of the nearly 2000 captives. The location and defense foundation of Ninja Castle are very good, and it is just right to take advantage of the opportunity of Mizubori to overhaul Ninja Castle.
As for the plans and plans for building Ninja Castle, Hideka asked Mr. Narita and Akashi Keiki to discuss and agree on it.
Yes, after the fall of Ninja Castle, Hideka summoned Akashi Kageko from Ueno back. Ninja Castle is located in the Kanto region, and its geographical location is too important to be guarded by him.
After dealing with Ninja Castle, Hideka set off again, heading south along the Arakawa River, spreading troops out to sweep up many small cities in Musashi, while the main force went straight to Iwafujo Castle, another core city of Musashi.
Iwafu Castle is a very important castle in the central part of Musashi. The earliest historical point of view is that it was in 1457 (the first year of Changlu), in order to fight against the Furukawa Lord Fang Ashikaga of Furukawa Castle, Ogaya Uesugi Mochi and his retainer Ota Michizane and Ota Michikan father and son built it together with Edo Castle and Kawagoe Castle.
However, since the beginning of the new century, according to the discovery of historical materials that record the construction of the castle by the father of Narita Kenyasu, the lord of Shinobi Narita under the Furukawa government in 1478 (the 10th year of civilization), there is also a theory that the Narita clan built the castle.
The main reason for the contradiction between the two viewpoints is that the names "Zhengwai" and "Xiantai" are both mentioned in the historical materials. Due to the unknown records, their full names cannot be confirmed, so they have their own conjectures.
On the other hand, the original school believes that "Zhengdou" as the builder in the newly discovered historical materials refers to Ota Michizane (Ziqing) whose legal name is "Zhengdeng" but the dharma name is Zhengdeng.
And "Xiantai" is not Narita Xiantai, but the third son of Nagao Takakage, who later became the adopted son of Ota Michizane.
No matter who built the castle, it was later transferred to Ota Michikan. Later, the Edo and Iwatsu Ota clans separated, and after a round of transfers, it was finally inherited by Ota Sukmasa.
Initially, he, his father Yasuzi Ota, and his elder brother Ota Sukeken were officials of the Ogiya Uesugi clan.
After the death of his father in the 5th year of Tianwen (1536), his elder brother succeeded him as the governor of the family. Because Zizheng and Zixian didn't get along well, he left Iwafujo Castle and went to live in Matsuyama Castle, where his uncle Namba Tenonshige lived.
Afterwards, the Hojo Clan, Zi Masanori, and Kenshige, whose elder brother took refuge in Sagami, still served in the Ogaya Uesugi Clan.
In the 6th year of Tianwen (1537), Kenshige Namba fought with the Hojo clan, and lost three sons and nephews Hayato and Zimasa. He became the adopted son of Kenshige's son-in-law, and obtained the inheritance right of Matsuyama Castle.
In the 15th year of Tenmon (1546), the lord Uesugi Tosada was killed in the Kawagoe night battle with Hojo Uesuyasu, and the Ogiya Uesugi clan perished.Suzuki Ota withdrew from Matsuyama Castle and settled in Ueno Arita, who was under the control of the Yokoze clan for the time being.
In September of the 16th year of Tianwen (1547), he took advantage of the Hojo clan's unpreparedness to attack Matsuyama Castle and take it back.
In October of the same year, his elder brother died. In December, when the master was away, he attacked Iwafu Castle and succeeded as the governor of the family with military strength. He was immediately counterattacked by the Hojo side.
Because the defense of Matsuyama Castle, Ueda Asanoo, was sent back by the Hojo Clan, in January of the 17th year of Tenmon (1548), Ota Sukinomasa surrendered to the Hojo Clan.
After the Three Kingdoms Alliance between the Sagami Hojo clan, the Kai Takeda clan, and the Suruga Imagawa clan, the struggle between the Kanto Hojo clan and the Echigo Uesugi clan began.
Zizheng was a retainer of Hojo at that time, and Hojo Ujiyasu considered that Zizheng was a descendant of the famous Ota family, and was also a retainer of Furukawa Lord Fang Ashikaga Yoshishi in name, so he married his daughter to Zizheng's son Shizi.
However, in the 3rd year of Yongroku (1560), Echigo Kuni Uesugi Kenshin led the Kanto Army to surround Odawara Castle (Battle of Odawara Castle), Zizheng rebelled and became the Uesugi Army's side, and rebelled from the Hojo clan.
In the 7th year of Yonglu (1564), Satomi Yoshiyao of Anbo was invited by Uesugi Kenshin to lead the army and planned to harass the Hojo clan from behind.
Ota Zimasa also led an army to support the Satomi Army. The two sides fought a decisive battle (the second Kofudai Battle) in the north of Ichikawa, but the Satomi Ota Allied Forces were defeated.
Fortunately, in May, Iwafu Castle was still preserved with the support of the chief executive Yoshiji Sakai (who rebelled from the Hojo side). In July, Zizheng went to a secret meeting with Satomi, but under the plan of Hojo Ujiyasu, the son of the pro-Hojo faction, Ujiyasu took the opportunity to join forces with the Hojo clan to imprison his younger brother Kajiwara Masaki, took advantage of the situation and occupied Iwafu Castle, and officially released Zizheng.
In the 10th year of Yonglu (1567), Ota Shizi died in the battle of Sanfushan in Shangzong Kingdom.
Since the clan had no children, the Hojo clan directly took charge of Iwatsuki Castle.In the 8th year of Tensho (1580), Ota Gengoro, the younger brother of Hojo Shizhi, succeeded as the castle lord. After his death, another younger brother, Ota Shibo, succeeded him.
At this point, the Hojo clan finally brought Iwafu Castle completely under its jurisdiction.
Many people in history are very strange. The Hojo clan clearly occupied the three countries of Izu, Sagami, and Musashi when the tiger was still showing his butt in Kai, and later developed to Ueno and Shimo. Expand out.
In fact, it can be seen from the process of the Hojo family dealing with the Ota family that the place of Musashi is really a mixed bag, and the local samurai are too deep-rooted.
Kanto is different from Shinano. In Shinano, there are mainly daimyos such as Murakami and Ogasawara. If the tiger wins these enemies, he can take over the territory.
In Kanto, whether it is Uesugi or Ashikaga, they were all daimyos who were sent here to monitor the princes of the Kanto. Similar to the ancient governors of the mainland, the essence of Kanto is still under the rule of these princes of more than ten thousand stones.
This also led to the fact that even if the Hojo clan attacked the Ogaya Uesugi clan and forced the Kanto government to surrender, they still had to face the rebellious nobles in the territory one after another.
In other words, the wealthy Kanto family has a great voice in Kanto.
This also caused Hojo to change its strategy of snake swallowing whales from Shikang to a strategy of steady progress and gradual digestion.
Judging from the fact that the Ota clan alone has digested it for nearly 20 years, the arrangement of the Hojo clan has indeed seriously slowed down the pace of the Hojo clan's expansion.
As a posterity, it cannot be said that Hojo's strategy is right or wrong. The Hojo clan has indeed greatly strengthened the centralization of power through such changes.
But his bones are still enfeoffment system, which makes this political system somewhat different.
You may not see the problem when you are expanding or have a large power, but when Hideyoshi and Uesugi Kenshin went south, they discovered that this political system actually combined the shortcomings of both centralization and enfeoffment.
Today, since Hojo's house is assisting in the defense of Odawara Castle, Iwatsuki Castle is defended by his old man, Date Fangmi.
According to the previous information, there are 400 cavalry and more than 2000 peasants and soldiers defending Yanfu City. According to historical records, the number should not exceed 2.4, while the Xiu family has [-] troops.
The castle defense of Iwafu Castle is very interesting. He used the old river channel of Motoaragawa River and the Hejian Island in the middle of the river to build a castle facing the water on three sides. There is no water hole on the west side and set up a general structure on the periphery like Odawara Castle. As the outer line of defense, there is a small road on the east side, connecting the other side of Arakawa.
This city is very beautifully built, and the city defense structure is somewhat similar to Stable Bridge City.Compared with Ninja Castle, the walls are more compact than Ninja Castle, and it is not as loose as Ninja Castle. Even without the protection of Mizubori, it is still a solid Hirayama Castle.
Moreover, Iwafu Castle was originally built on the earth hill beside the Arakawa River, and the surrounding area is flat land. Iwafu Castle is the only commanding height around it, and Hideka cannot stand on the commanding height like Ninja Castle to conduct operations.
In this era when Arakawa hadn't been diverted, Iwafu Castle was so good that you couldn't imagine it. It not only has excellent terrain and geographical location, but also doesn't have the headache of drinking water like Edo Castle, so Hideka saw it with his own eyes. At the moment of this city, there was the idea of using him as the main city that was about to rule the Kanto.
But all of this needs to be discussed after Iwafu Castle is taken down.
The defenders of Iwafu Castle were less than 2000 people, while Hideka's force was 20 times larger than that, and they were deployed directly along the banks of the Arakawa River. All 13 artillery pieces were deployed on the west side, and they directly bombarded Iwafu Castle.
At the same time, under the command of the samurai, the iron cannon ashigaru and the gun ashigaru attacked it from the west, and destroyed the outer structure in the morning.
Then the position moved forward, and Hideka ordered some houses in the structure to be demolished, and a 2-meter-high fort was built to bombard the main city of Iwafu Castle.
The main force attacking Iwatsuki Castle was still in charge of Sakuma Morimsa and Ogasawara Hidetada. With the support of Hideka's artillery fire, they entered the Oteguchi of Iwatsuki Castle in the evening of the same day and entered Sannomaru.
Hideka originally wanted to order the cannons to move forward and continue to bombard Nijimaru and Honmaru, but Date Fangshi, who was guarding the castle, also realized that he could not defend Iwafujo Castle, so he asked for the whole city's troops on the condition of seppuku. life.
The Xiu family really admired this talent, not only agreed to his request to save the lives of the whole city, but also promised to take him as a retainer.
Hideka had originally planned to divert to the east to attack Shimono after the completion of Iwafu Castle, but at this time Ishida Mitsunari sent a letter from Kawagoe Castle.
In the letter, he praised Hideka for his swiftness in the Raiders of Ninja Castle and his handling of the Daodaoji family's problems. Hideka couldn't see a trace of emotion from his words, as if he was just stating facts and problems, but Hideka always felt that Ishida Mitsunari was blaming him Own.
After reading Ishida Mitsunari's letter, Xiujia always felt sorry for messing up other people's show, so he wrote back and asked him to consider the general idea of his own strategy.
But the Xiu family didn't expect that, instead of waiting for the letter to return, Ishida Mitsunari, who was assigned to the Kanto princes, came to the door in person.
(End of this chapter)
When Daodaoji Zhengfan saw Mr. Narita coming, he knew in his heart that he might really die.
Looking at the head of the Narita clan who walked in front of him, Daodaoji Masashige sneered, "Is the lower chief guard here to see me off? I heard that you directly demoted the right general in Ueno. How can you be worthy of the kindness that Xiandian has shown you? "
Mr. Narita was indeed here to see his old colleague off, but he felt a little uncomfortable when he said this, and said to him, "I heard that you also begged for forgiveness from the right general just now, and you wanted to negotiate peace with him a while ago. Are you worthy of Xiandian?"
"You!.I.I have been loyal to the Hojo Clan to the last moment."
Faced with Narita's head's rebuttal, Daidoji Masashige wanted to refute, but was heard by Hideka who happened to come out.
Before he finished speaking, Hideka's voice sounded from behind, "Suruga Mamoru's loyalty is truly visible, so I will honor your name of loyalty even more."
After finishing speaking, he said to Nobushige Sanada behind him, "You can ask the samurai who is in charge of guarding Suruga Mamoru later, and be sure to record today's story completely and intact, and it must not be changed."
Sanada Nobushige followed behind Hideka and replied with a smile, "I obey."
When Zheng Fan of Dao Dao Temple heard such an arrangement from the Xiu family, his face instantly turned pale. After all, life and death are small at this time, and Ming Jie is big.
But the Xiu family didn't give him this chance. He turned to look at Mr. Narita and said, "Shou-shou, Suruga-shou seems to have unfinished business. After all, you are a colleague, so you go and help him, so that he can do his best with peace of mind." Loyalty."
Daodaoji Masabushi Yu Narita didn't know Hideka well, and he didn't know Hideka's talking habits. Hideka's irony made them very uncomfortable.
Daodaosi Zhengfan originally wanted to struggle, but seeing that the Xiu family had given him no chance to give birth, he could only beg the Xiu family to forgive the Daodaosi family.
Hideka knew that Ishida Mitsunari was besieging Kagoe Castle, and the ending of Kagoe Castle would not be happy, so they just said ambiguously, "Suruga is famous for his loyalty and righteousness, and your son must be sought after by everyone."
Seeing that the Xiu family has been reluctant to make a promise, Daodaoji Masashige shook his head helplessly, looked up to the sky and sighed and left a death poem before committing suicide, and Narita's head became his intermediary person, and relieved his pain in time.
After the head of Daodaoji Zhengfan was cut off, Xiujia ordered someone to take care of the head and send it to the Ishida Sangen Array outside Heyue City.
Once the head of Daidoji Masashige is delivered to Kawagoe Castle, Ishida Misachi must end the water attack on Kagoe Castle.
You must know that this time he gathered all the generals of the Kanto around him to flood the city of Heyue for the sake of establishing his prestige.
When Daosi Zhengfan is not over here, he should attack the city no matter what.But once the winner is decided on Shinobi Castle, no matter whether Daidaiji Masashige surrendered or was killed, he needs to stop the offensive against Kawagoe and send people into the city again to ask for advice on surrender.
If Daidaiji Naoshige, who was on duty in the city, chose to surrender, he had to accept it unconditionally, otherwise he would have a bad reputation of oppressing the wealthy Kanto clan, and even implicate Hideyoshi.
It really wasn't that the Xiu family tricked him, the Xiu family had already delayed the time for him as much as possible, the Xiu family had persuaded him to attack Yan Fucheng before, and it was he who insisted on attacking Heyue with water, and he could only blame himself if he wanted to.
As for the fact that the Hide family put Daidaiji Masashige back, it was even more impossible. According to Daidaiji Masashige's personality, he would probably surrender directly after returning to Kagoe.
Therefore, it can only be said to be a helpless ending when things turned out like this.
As for the disposal of Ninja Castle, the Xiu family handed it over to Mr. Narita himself.After all, until now, the Xiu family has not established a new reward arrangement, so he is still the surrendered city lord of Ninja City.
Besides, the Xiu family has already finalized the marriage with him, so the head of Narita is considered to be a member of the family, and he can rest assured if he is in charge of his own future.
It is impossible for the Xiu family to let go of the nearly 2000 captives. The location and defense foundation of Ninja Castle are very good, and it is just right to take advantage of the opportunity of Mizubori to overhaul Ninja Castle.
As for the plans and plans for building Ninja Castle, Hideka asked Mr. Narita and Akashi Keiki to discuss and agree on it.
Yes, after the fall of Ninja Castle, Hideka summoned Akashi Kageko from Ueno back. Ninja Castle is located in the Kanto region, and its geographical location is too important to be guarded by him.
After dealing with Ninja Castle, Hideka set off again, heading south along the Arakawa River, spreading troops out to sweep up many small cities in Musashi, while the main force went straight to Iwafujo Castle, another core city of Musashi.
Iwafu Castle is a very important castle in the central part of Musashi. The earliest historical point of view is that it was in 1457 (the first year of Changlu), in order to fight against the Furukawa Lord Fang Ashikaga of Furukawa Castle, Ogaya Uesugi Mochi and his retainer Ota Michizane and Ota Michikan father and son built it together with Edo Castle and Kawagoe Castle.
However, since the beginning of the new century, according to the discovery of historical materials that record the construction of the castle by the father of Narita Kenyasu, the lord of Shinobi Narita under the Furukawa government in 1478 (the 10th year of civilization), there is also a theory that the Narita clan built the castle.
The main reason for the contradiction between the two viewpoints is that the names "Zhengwai" and "Xiantai" are both mentioned in the historical materials. Due to the unknown records, their full names cannot be confirmed, so they have their own conjectures.
On the other hand, the original school believes that "Zhengdou" as the builder in the newly discovered historical materials refers to Ota Michizane (Ziqing) whose legal name is "Zhengdeng" but the dharma name is Zhengdeng.
And "Xiantai" is not Narita Xiantai, but the third son of Nagao Takakage, who later became the adopted son of Ota Michizane.
No matter who built the castle, it was later transferred to Ota Michikan. Later, the Edo and Iwatsu Ota clans separated, and after a round of transfers, it was finally inherited by Ota Sukmasa.
Initially, he, his father Yasuzi Ota, and his elder brother Ota Sukeken were officials of the Ogiya Uesugi clan.
After the death of his father in the 5th year of Tianwen (1536), his elder brother succeeded him as the governor of the family. Because Zizheng and Zixian didn't get along well, he left Iwafujo Castle and went to live in Matsuyama Castle, where his uncle Namba Tenonshige lived.
Afterwards, the Hojo Clan, Zi Masanori, and Kenshige, whose elder brother took refuge in Sagami, still served in the Ogaya Uesugi Clan.
In the 6th year of Tianwen (1537), Kenshige Namba fought with the Hojo clan, and lost three sons and nephews Hayato and Zimasa. He became the adopted son of Kenshige's son-in-law, and obtained the inheritance right of Matsuyama Castle.
In the 15th year of Tenmon (1546), the lord Uesugi Tosada was killed in the Kawagoe night battle with Hojo Uesuyasu, and the Ogiya Uesugi clan perished.Suzuki Ota withdrew from Matsuyama Castle and settled in Ueno Arita, who was under the control of the Yokoze clan for the time being.
In September of the 16th year of Tianwen (1547), he took advantage of the Hojo clan's unpreparedness to attack Matsuyama Castle and take it back.
In October of the same year, his elder brother died. In December, when the master was away, he attacked Iwafu Castle and succeeded as the governor of the family with military strength. He was immediately counterattacked by the Hojo side.
Because the defense of Matsuyama Castle, Ueda Asanoo, was sent back by the Hojo Clan, in January of the 17th year of Tenmon (1548), Ota Sukinomasa surrendered to the Hojo Clan.
After the Three Kingdoms Alliance between the Sagami Hojo clan, the Kai Takeda clan, and the Suruga Imagawa clan, the struggle between the Kanto Hojo clan and the Echigo Uesugi clan began.
Zizheng was a retainer of Hojo at that time, and Hojo Ujiyasu considered that Zizheng was a descendant of the famous Ota family, and was also a retainer of Furukawa Lord Fang Ashikaga Yoshishi in name, so he married his daughter to Zizheng's son Shizi.
However, in the 3rd year of Yongroku (1560), Echigo Kuni Uesugi Kenshin led the Kanto Army to surround Odawara Castle (Battle of Odawara Castle), Zizheng rebelled and became the Uesugi Army's side, and rebelled from the Hojo clan.
In the 7th year of Yonglu (1564), Satomi Yoshiyao of Anbo was invited by Uesugi Kenshin to lead the army and planned to harass the Hojo clan from behind.
Ota Zimasa also led an army to support the Satomi Army. The two sides fought a decisive battle (the second Kofudai Battle) in the north of Ichikawa, but the Satomi Ota Allied Forces were defeated.
Fortunately, in May, Iwafu Castle was still preserved with the support of the chief executive Yoshiji Sakai (who rebelled from the Hojo side). In July, Zizheng went to a secret meeting with Satomi, but under the plan of Hojo Ujiyasu, the son of the pro-Hojo faction, Ujiyasu took the opportunity to join forces with the Hojo clan to imprison his younger brother Kajiwara Masaki, took advantage of the situation and occupied Iwafu Castle, and officially released Zizheng.
In the 10th year of Yonglu (1567), Ota Shizi died in the battle of Sanfushan in Shangzong Kingdom.
Since the clan had no children, the Hojo clan directly took charge of Iwatsuki Castle.In the 8th year of Tensho (1580), Ota Gengoro, the younger brother of Hojo Shizhi, succeeded as the castle lord. After his death, another younger brother, Ota Shibo, succeeded him.
At this point, the Hojo clan finally brought Iwafu Castle completely under its jurisdiction.
Many people in history are very strange. The Hojo clan clearly occupied the three countries of Izu, Sagami, and Musashi when the tiger was still showing his butt in Kai, and later developed to Ueno and Shimo. Expand out.
In fact, it can be seen from the process of the Hojo family dealing with the Ota family that the place of Musashi is really a mixed bag, and the local samurai are too deep-rooted.
Kanto is different from Shinano. In Shinano, there are mainly daimyos such as Murakami and Ogasawara. If the tiger wins these enemies, he can take over the territory.
In Kanto, whether it is Uesugi or Ashikaga, they were all daimyos who were sent here to monitor the princes of the Kanto. Similar to the ancient governors of the mainland, the essence of Kanto is still under the rule of these princes of more than ten thousand stones.
This also led to the fact that even if the Hojo clan attacked the Ogaya Uesugi clan and forced the Kanto government to surrender, they still had to face the rebellious nobles in the territory one after another.
In other words, the wealthy Kanto family has a great voice in Kanto.
This also caused Hojo to change its strategy of snake swallowing whales from Shikang to a strategy of steady progress and gradual digestion.
Judging from the fact that the Ota clan alone has digested it for nearly 20 years, the arrangement of the Hojo clan has indeed seriously slowed down the pace of the Hojo clan's expansion.
As a posterity, it cannot be said that Hojo's strategy is right or wrong. The Hojo clan has indeed greatly strengthened the centralization of power through such changes.
But his bones are still enfeoffment system, which makes this political system somewhat different.
You may not see the problem when you are expanding or have a large power, but when Hideyoshi and Uesugi Kenshin went south, they discovered that this political system actually combined the shortcomings of both centralization and enfeoffment.
Today, since Hojo's house is assisting in the defense of Odawara Castle, Iwatsuki Castle is defended by his old man, Date Fangmi.
According to the previous information, there are 400 cavalry and more than 2000 peasants and soldiers defending Yanfu City. According to historical records, the number should not exceed 2.4, while the Xiu family has [-] troops.
The castle defense of Iwafu Castle is very interesting. He used the old river channel of Motoaragawa River and the Hejian Island in the middle of the river to build a castle facing the water on three sides. There is no water hole on the west side and set up a general structure on the periphery like Odawara Castle. As the outer line of defense, there is a small road on the east side, connecting the other side of Arakawa.
This city is very beautifully built, and the city defense structure is somewhat similar to Stable Bridge City.Compared with Ninja Castle, the walls are more compact than Ninja Castle, and it is not as loose as Ninja Castle. Even without the protection of Mizubori, it is still a solid Hirayama Castle.
Moreover, Iwafu Castle was originally built on the earth hill beside the Arakawa River, and the surrounding area is flat land. Iwafu Castle is the only commanding height around it, and Hideka cannot stand on the commanding height like Ninja Castle to conduct operations.
In this era when Arakawa hadn't been diverted, Iwafu Castle was so good that you couldn't imagine it. It not only has excellent terrain and geographical location, but also doesn't have the headache of drinking water like Edo Castle, so Hideka saw it with his own eyes. At the moment of this city, there was the idea of using him as the main city that was about to rule the Kanto.
But all of this needs to be discussed after Iwafu Castle is taken down.
The defenders of Iwafu Castle were less than 2000 people, while Hideka's force was 20 times larger than that, and they were deployed directly along the banks of the Arakawa River. All 13 artillery pieces were deployed on the west side, and they directly bombarded Iwafu Castle.
At the same time, under the command of the samurai, the iron cannon ashigaru and the gun ashigaru attacked it from the west, and destroyed the outer structure in the morning.
Then the position moved forward, and Hideka ordered some houses in the structure to be demolished, and a 2-meter-high fort was built to bombard the main city of Iwafu Castle.
The main force attacking Iwatsuki Castle was still in charge of Sakuma Morimsa and Ogasawara Hidetada. With the support of Hideka's artillery fire, they entered the Oteguchi of Iwatsuki Castle in the evening of the same day and entered Sannomaru.
Hideka originally wanted to order the cannons to move forward and continue to bombard Nijimaru and Honmaru, but Date Fangshi, who was guarding the castle, also realized that he could not defend Iwafujo Castle, so he asked for the whole city's troops on the condition of seppuku. life.
The Xiu family really admired this talent, not only agreed to his request to save the lives of the whole city, but also promised to take him as a retainer.
Hideka had originally planned to divert to the east to attack Shimono after the completion of Iwafu Castle, but at this time Ishida Mitsunari sent a letter from Kawagoe Castle.
In the letter, he praised Hideka for his swiftness in the Raiders of Ninja Castle and his handling of the Daodaoji family's problems. Hideka couldn't see a trace of emotion from his words, as if he was just stating facts and problems, but Hideka always felt that Ishida Mitsunari was blaming him Own.
After reading Ishida Mitsunari's letter, Xiujia always felt sorry for messing up other people's show, so he wrote back and asked him to consider the general idea of his own strategy.
But the Xiu family didn't expect that, instead of waiting for the letter to return, Ishida Mitsunari, who was assigned to the Kanto princes, came to the door in person.
(End of this chapter)