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Mikawa Butterfly Chapter 499 Nobunaga¡¯s Plan

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    Kira Yoshian defended his dignity with his life. He had already been forced to surrender to the Imagawa family because of life. He could no longer surrender to the Matsudaira family due to real crises. His self-esteem did not allow him to break through his psychological bottom line again and again.  , and he is not allowed to surrender to a low-ranking Matsudaira family. When he chose to surrender to the Imagawa family, he still had the reputation of being a member of the family, and he was also a son-in-law.  It was too difficult for the Ise clan to be imprisoned.  Among the samurai who died in Saijo Castle were a number of family members, there were also two heavyweights of the Kira family, their great-uncle Yoshitomi Kira, who was over eighty years old but still very energetic, and Yoshiaki Kira, the biological father of Ashikaga Katsuhime.  It was not as simple as the death of Kira Yoshiki. It even offended the current boss of the imperial court, Konoe Maekyu and the shogunate Ashikaga Yoshiteru, as well as Kira Yoshiki, who was running rampant in Kanto.  These things of death and immortality were achieved at the same moment. Matsudaira Ieyasu was a little unsure whether he went out without looking at the almanac or forgot to bring toilet paper when he went out. All the members of the Saijo Castle family, including the ten-year-old Shoudai family, were destroyed. Matsudaira  My home is so unlucky that I have no place to cry.  The mess in front of him forced Matsudaira Ieyasu to dare not do anything. He went all out to search for Imagawa Tsuruhime and his legitimate son Manzhumaru who had escaped under the escort of the Kira family's dead men. A fire attracted everyone's attention away and they were given makeup.  The escaping mother and son had a huge room for escape, and a group of more than a dozen people could find it wherever they could, just like water dripping into the sea.  Naturally, the result was that after working hard for half a month, nothing was gained. Then the envoy from the Oda family arrived. This time, the envoy sent by the Oda family was no longer an ordinary executive officer.  It was Niwa Nagahide, Oda Nobunaga's right-hand man.  Matsudaira Ieyasu knew that the envoy from the Oda family had come with bad intentions.  The two of them greeted each other respectfully and greeted each other in turn.  Then I heard Niwa Nagahide say loudly: "I heard that the Saijo Castle massacre occurred near the Yahagi River. The great-uncle, uncle, and brother of the Lord of the Town all died at the hands of the Matsudaira Tibetan Temple. My Lord was very shocked by such evil acts.  and indignant, so I am specially sent to Okazaki Castle to question Matsudaira Zonin-don on behalf of my lord!" Matsudaira Ieyasu said secretly, and he took a deep breath like a young samurai facing a major test, and stared with bated breath!  Said: "Please tell Niwa-don!" Niwa Nagahide coughed and said: "First, why did Matsudaira Zonin-den repeatedly refuse to listen to my lord's dissuasion and insist on attacking Saijo Castle? Secondly, Matsudaira Zonin-den  Why did they force Mikawa Mikawa of Kira and his relatives to death when they attacked Saijo Castle? Thirdly, why did Matsudaira Zojin-den want to attack Mikawa for half a month, even the widow and orphan of Mikawa Kira?  "My lord, I've finished asking all the questions." Matsudaira Ieyasu broke out in cold sweat. He immediately leaned over and said in panic: "In the name of a follower of the Pure Land Sect, I swear to Amitabha Buddha in the Western Paradise, and I will be enlightened in my heart."  The idea of ??harming Kira Mikawa Shrine, the purpose of attacking the city was just to force Kira Mikawa Shrine to give up resistance. Ieyasu never thought that Kira Mikawa Shrine and the princes in Saijo Castle would commit suicide!  Please ask them to come back and inherit Saijo's legacy. I, Ieyasu, have absolutely no other intentions!" Niwa Nagahide nodded noncommittally.  Behind him, Ikeda Tsuneaki curled his lips in disdain and suddenly said: "Matsuhira Zonin-dono has caused such a huge disaster! Is it because he found out that the Zhenfu Gongti's army invaded Kanto that he dared to provoke the Kira Territory? If my lord hadn't been killed by Mino  Ieyasu Matsudaira hesitated and said: "This" "  I'll go back after asking three questions. I'm really sorry for bothering Matsudaira Sorenden with such a troublesome interview, so I'll take my leave!" Niwa Nagahide quickly stood up and left, his whole action clean and neat without any sloppiness.  Honda Heihachiro, who was close to Matsudaira Ieyasu, wanted to argue with grievances, but Honda was held down repeatedly by the sharp-eyed and quick-handed Honda. Kubo Tadoshi, the boss of the Hodai family, asked doubtfully: "Why do you think that the envoy from the Oda family is not a good person? See  Their tone seemed to be scolding me for not doing things well. Why did my allies of the Matsudaira family become like this?" No one from the Matsudaira family spoke. Matsudaira Ieyasu hesitated for a while and then said: "That's it.  At this point, Ishikawa Hakushouden is serving as the leader of the Nishi Mikawa flag. Hoshikawa Shoden has a very important task! He must calm down the former Kira Territory residents as soon as possible, and serve as the samurai to appease Nishi Mikawa, so as to establish enough power for our Matsudaira family in Nishi Mikawa.  "Ishikawa Sumasa said respectfully: "Yes! Please rest assured, my lord, I will go through fire and water for the Matsudaira family!" Matsudaira Ieyasu added: "Appoint Sakai Zaemon Wei Tadashi as the leader of the Higashi Mikawa flag.  The country of Dongsanhe?Lord, and the vanguard general who is responsible for conquering Yuanjiang Kingdom. The future strategy of our Matsudaira family will be Yuanjiang. Please lend your support to me to overcome this difficulty together!  "  On June 28, the fourth year of Eiroku, in the castle tower of Kiyoshu Castle in Owari Province, Oda Nobunaga put his arm around Gui Die's shoulders and shouted loudly: "Bring me some wine!  Get the wine!  I'm going to have a drink to celebrate today's great day!  " Several minor surnames brought a few bottles of sake out of breath. Oda Nobunaga opened it and threw it aside, shouting for the limited supply of sake from the Kira family. Guidi took his arm and scolded: "Your Highness is doing this today.  What happened?  I have been inexplicably happy all day long, making me think that Your Highness is sick!  " "I believe that if you grow strong and healthy, you won't get sick!  "Oda Nobunaga laughed and said: "My family has two joys. The first joy is that your brother Saito Yoshiryu, who killed his father, died suddenly!  It¡¯s really interesting to talk about Guidi¡¯s elder brother. He contracted leprosy only three years after he killed his father-in-law. He died two years after the onset of the disease. This must be because the gods and Buddhas couldn¡¯t bear to see this parricide living in the human world, so they went out of their way to  Bring disaster and take away his life.  " "Is my brother still sick and dead?  It's better to die" Saito Guidi lowered his head in melancholy. No matter what Saito Yoshiryu had done to her father, after all, he was her biological brother and had an inextricable blood relationship. Suddenly, from her husband's mouth,  After hearing the news that his brother had died of illness, he could not help but feel a little lonely and lonely. Oda Nobunaga then said with a smile: "This second happiness is caused by that stupid boy Matsudaira Takechiyo.  Accidentally forced Mikawa Kira's entire family to death.  Now we have provoked the behemoth Echigo. Under the watchful eye of that monster from Kanto, this boy Matsudaira Takechiyo will never escape the clutches of our family!  Isn't this a very happy move?  " "Didn't that Matsudaira Zoren-den just form an alliance with His Highness?  Tokuhime is also married to Chiyo Kotake of the Matsudaira family. Such a close relationship I really can't understand it!  Saito Guidi thought for a while and then said: "I, I still remember that His Highness often said, if I go to the west and you go to the east, the two brothers will share the world equally?"  "    "oh!  It turned out that Madam had written down that sentence!  "Oda Nobunaga raised the newly brought shochu and drank it in one gulp, then laughed and said: "These are just a few excuses made when forming an alliance. I still don't believe it.  How could that boy Takechiyo believe that Now that Takechiyo Matsudaira has offended that Echigo man, the days to come will become more and more difficult. The more difficult his life is, the more he will hug the big tree of his family and pray for protection from the wind and rain.  Opportunity, don't forget that our family invested two precious sisters for the Yueshi Alliance!  If you can't make back your capital with profit, wouldn't it be a big loss!  "The world of men is always full of intrigues and bloody cruelty, even for Oda Nobunaga. This is essentially the case. The Echio Alliance he refers to is actually the Owari Alliance between Kira Yoshitoki's Echigo and Oda Nobunaga.  Relationship, the original intention of the alliance between the two families is far less pure and pure than the Qingshu Alliance. Oda Nobunaga is not the Matsudaira Ieyasu who went to Qingshu to beg for a hug. The marriage and alliance between Oda Nobunaga and Kira Yoshi is essentially the same.  The political speculations of both sides are not directly adjacent to each other, and there is no stake in the family business. It is just a political attempt to make friends at a distance and attack closely. Therefore, the two sides have not evolved into a weak party seeking protection from the strong one.  It became an equal alliance in which several Ming Dynasties formed an offensive and defensive alliance to develop together for a certain goal or several goals. The relatively weak Oda family did not feel that they were weak. Oda Nobunaga controlled the Owari Kingdom and actively invaded Higashi Mino.  , in an attempt to gradually shrink the Mino Saito clan's activity space. He needed the Kira family's military, political and economic support in many aspects, but it was not to establish an unfair and painful alliance. This made Oda Nobunaga's attitude towards Kira Yoshitoki far away.  Not as awe as expected, but 70% fear, 20% vigilance and 100% admiration. The situation at Kiragi Toki's side is similar. His attitude toward the Oda family is more about use than genuine alliance, just like using the North.  The Kurama family turned the conflict in the first half of Hokuriku into a pot of porridge, and the Oda family was another war hammer in Kira Yoshitoki's hand, in order to crack open the hard egg shell of Kinai so that he could attack Kinai more easily.  The future layout will open up more space. Neither of them has settled down, so it is impossible to say who is sorry for the other. What's more, the political acumen of both of them is considered to be at the top level, which can be roughly seen from each other's coping strategies.  Some of the other party's ideas formed an invisible tacit understanding. This tacit understanding means that each other knows their respective interests and establishes a set of political relationships that utilize each other. How long this relationship can last depends on the changes in the current situation and the decisions of the two family governors.  These days, Imagawa Tsuruhime and Manzhumaru live in Qingzhou. She and her legitimate son, who is less than three years old, hide in the house arranged by the Oda family all day long and dare not go out, for fear that the Oda family will one day send them away.  Oda Nobunaga's move to return to Mikawa just looked at the situation.?? plans.  A few days later, the diplomatic envoys of the Kira family arrived at Seiju City. Because they were so late, the envoys of the Kira family were completely unaware of the great changes that had taken place in the Mikawa Kingdom. They still urged the Oda family according to the script to have the Matsudaira army withdraw from Nishi Mikawa as soon as possible. Matsudaira was completely unaware of this.  Ieyasu has completed a series of processes of exterminating families and grabbing land.  When Imagawa Tsuruhime and Manzhumaru came to the envoy of the Kira family, the envoy asked in a panic what happened in Mikawa Kingdom. This question actually frightened the timid envoy and fainted on the spot.  After being helped up by the younger brother of the Oda family, the envoy realized that the impact of the incident was completely beyond his imagination. The purpose of his trip was to come for Mikawa. Now that Mikawa was gone, it was meaningless to stay, so he left behind a few  With a harsh word, Imagawa Tsuruhime and Manzhumaru returned to Echigo.  Looking at the convoy slowly leaving in the carriage, Oda Nobunaga stood in front of the terrace and leaned on the railing to look into the distance, thinking to himself: "Kill! Let's make trouble! The more chaotic the Kira family is, the better! It's best to be trapped in Kanto.  I can¡¯t come out for ten years, so that I can eat Mino as soon as possible and open up the passage to Luo! I, Nobunaga, will finally realize my dream of spreading weapons all over the world!¡± ¡­ In June, Kanto has entered the rainy season.  Wave after wave of storms rolled in from the Pacific.  This forced the Kira Army to abandon its rampage tactics and instead adopt a long-term siege strategy. More than 50,000 troops were deployed along the border between Sagami Province and Musashi Province, completely dividing the two countries into two war zones.  At this time, the small machine city was finally unable to withstand the endless offensive harassment. It was not because of Hojo Ujiyao's lack of ability or the lack of hard work of the Hojo samurai. The absolute gap in military strength and the day and night harassment of the Kira Army were really unsolvable.  , people always need to eat and rest to have the energy to do things, but when they beat drums to attack the city during the day and raise fire to harass at night, how can people eat and rest in peace.  The Kira Army¡¯s most commonly used food-deprivation strategy came into effect, which had a great impact on the small machine city and even the entire Hojo family.  The three consecutive years of disasters in Kanto have had a huge impact on the Hojo family's food reserves. Normally, the food reserves in the small machine city can be easily maintained until the end of the autumn harvest. However, after all, this is a war period that is different from peacetime food consumption. Soldiers  In order to ensure sufficient energy, they need to eat three to four meals a day, recruit townspeople to rush to repair the destroyed soil, and the arrows and oars all need to consume more food.  At first, I didn¡¯t think this was a lot of consumption, but as time went by, spring turned to summer and I gradually became unsatisfied. The Kira family¡¯s siege army did not simply send out 81,000 troops to stand in the four corners, but  It was the serious 50,000-strong army that completely blocked the eight directions. This changed from the traditional gate-blocking tactics of Japan's Warring States Period to the eight-sided siege tactics of the Ming Empire.  The so-called siege must be to give the enemy a chance to survive and let him escape.  As long as a weak-willed general considers abandoning the city and fleeing at this time, as long as he has this idea, he is destined to escape.  Escape from the city means losing the support of the fortified city. Facing the ambushes on all sides in the wilderness at any time, there is simply no way to survive, so escaping will lead to death faster than defending the city.  Many generals understand the reason why a city must be besieged. This move is used to deal with those stupid generals. As long as they are not stupid generals, they will not choose to abandon the city and escape this dead end. Of course, Hojo Ujiyao also understood this reason, so he chose  He will persevere and never give up even if he faces the crisis of falling into the city at the last moment, but there are some things that will not be useful if he does not give up.  Hojo Ujiyao still died. After stubbornly persisting for more than three months under the siege of more than 50,000 troops by Uesugi Teruatora, he could not escape the end of the destruction of the city and his death. Even though Uesugi Teruatora was unwilling to lose his troops and resorted to harassment and attack.  The method of using the city as a supplement was still unsustainable at the end of June, the third month of the siege.  As the fourth brother of Hojo Ujiyasu, Hojo Ujiyao died a heroic death. He first negotiated and asked the town government to pardon more than a thousand soldiers in the city. After receiving a positive reply, he committed seppuku in the vast room. Hojo Ujiyao's legitimate son and genealogy  More than a hundred people, including Dai retainers, Hatamoto samurai, and minor surnames, knelt on both sides and committed seppuku as if holding an appraisal meeting. More than 20 people, including Hojo Ujiyao's wife, two underage daughters, and maids, committed suicide by taking poison.  The entire Hojo clan was destroyed and no one survived.  The destruction of Koji Castle marked the fall of the Hojo family's last stronghold in Musashi Kingdom. All the Sagami Hojo clan's plans to conquer Musashi Kingdom for decades collapsed. Just like the Kai Takeda clan lost Shinano Kingdom, the entire Hojo family was destroyed.  This news was such a shock that Hojo Ujimasa had no time to think about rescuing Suruga and maintaining the territories of Shimo and Kamisaki.  Especially when Hojo Ujiteru and Hojo Ujiki brought back an important piece of news. The Hojo clan and Hojo Tsunari were likely to die in the hands of the Kira family. The Hojo family became even more worried about their own fate. Hojo Umasa, the young family governor.  He was a bit unable to control the situation, and he needed strong help from his wise father.  Hojo Ujiyasu has long been aware of the matterThe seriousness of the situation. As a retired governor, he has to face not only the crisis of the family business, but also to worry about some changes in the mentality of his eldest son, the current governor Hojo Ushimasa. In order to support the Hojo Ujimasa, he has to reduce his public appearances.  After all, he is already a retired family governor and cannot hinder the new family governor's establishment of prestige. The family will eventually be handed over to young people.  Under the crisis, Hojo Ushimasa asked his father for help. This was not only a low-profile request for help, but also showed that he was temporarily unable to cope with the current crisis. Hojo Ujimasa needed to temporarily come back to calm the chaotic Hojo family. In a sense  This also caused a huge loss to his prestige as the family governor, but the situation was stronger than the people and he could not destroy the Hojo family for the sake of face and prestige.  Hojo Ujiyasu, who had made a temporary comeback, made various adjustments to the Hojo family. First, he sent Hojo Genan as an envoy to request a ceasefire. He repeatedly stated that he had no intention of challenging the Ashikaga family and the Lord of Jinfu. At the same time, he sent Itabe Okae Yukssai to Kyoto to ask for help.  The Hojo family were authentic Kyoto samurai. Many of their family members had served the shogunate in Kyoto decades or even a few years ago, and their connections were very easy to find.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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