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Mikawa Butterfly Chapter 515 Yuuki Battle

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    Hojo Matsuhime didn't turn around when she heard the movement outside the room. She just said calmly: "Your Highness Ashikaga Ususaburo is here! Are you coming to take my life?" Kira Yoshi stood in the room with his sword in his hand.  Looking around at this quiet decoration, there is no trace of luxury. In comparison, Ashikaga Fujimasa's room looks like a nouveau riche. The vulgar gold foil covered in it reminds people of monkeys. He put his hands behind his back and admired it carefully for a while, then suddenly smiled and said: "  I have heard for a long time that the idiot has married a smart and beautiful lady. It turns out that it is true today! It is such a pity that such a beautiful woman would marry that idiot!  A woman who loves vanity is not afraid of your power and sword, kill her if you want!" Hojo Matsuhime paused and gently combed her long hair with a horn comb.  "Do I really look like a bad person? Or do I look like a bastard who attacks wives and daughters?" Kira Yoshitoshi touched his cheek, shrugged helplessly and said: "I have no intention of touching Mrs. Hojo, I just want to tell Mrs. Hojo not to think about it again.  Your husband's safety is in danger. After the death of that idiot, I will make the decision to betroth Mrs. Hojo to my sworn brother, Kira Tomo. Mrs. Hojo must recognize this person! I don't intend to occupy the Furukawa Imperial Palace.  I don¡¯t have the bad habit of robbing other people¡¯s wives and daughters. I will support Mrs. Hojo until she gets married. I¡¯ll say this and say goodbye!¡± Hojo Matsuhime sat there blankly until Kiragi was far away.  After leaving far away for a while, he combed his long hair again and again, looking at himself in the mirror and pitying himself: "It turns out that he didn't mean this to me at all, I thought he would take me to be his wife  Do I think too highly of my appearance? Let¡¯s just take advantage of that stupid boy from the Kira clan!¡±¡­ Kira Yoshito had never thought of stealing Ashikaga Fujimasa¡¯s woman, let alone using this method to deepen the relationship between the Kanto samurai.  own hatred.  And take this opportunity to attack the good reputation that you have worked so hard to accumulate.  The most important thing for someone in his position is beautiful women.  As long as he revealed similar thoughts, a lot of samurai would send their daughters and sisters over to recommend themselves as pillow mats. He didn't want the blood of the Ashikaga family to spread on the street, and if some unscrupulous descendants were produced, they would give it to his legitimate son Jinoumaru.  Looking for trouble would be even worse.  This anticlimactic Furukawa battle reflects how weak Furukawa's control over Kanto is. It's like a paper tiger that looks majestic but is actually vulnerable to a blow. Yoshitoki Kira didn't even use 50% of his strength.  He beat him down easily, which was really not as good as a finger from the Hojo family. No wonder Hojo Ujimasa looked down on this guy and chose to kick him back to the Furukawa Imperial Palace.  The real sufferers in this battle are Chiba Yinfu, Yuan Yinzhen, and Gaocheng Yinji.  As for the small-sized city lords of Xiahui Kingdom, Shimono Kingdom, and Hitachi Kingdom, it is not worth much to kill and injure a group of them. The large-scale citizens of these three kingdoms all left, making this encirclement and suppression operation less perfect.  The death of more than 4,000 people and the capture of nearly 10,000 people are not bad gains. Compared with the loss of less than 400 people, it can really be called a complete victory.  This was an unfair war. Yoshitoki Kira led the elites of the five countries to attack the people of the three countries of Kanto and Minnan Mutsu. Both the general's morale in commanding the army and the unity of the people of each country were very poor.  Far away, there was a break-up before the internal war started, and Harusuke Kada's rebellion further pushed this Chinese coalition into the abyss.  Having no power to fight back, they are competing to see who can run faster with longer legs. The Wu family with evil intentions is still thinking about how to stop their enemies.  It would be better for him to run slower and get stuck in the rolling iron current of Kira's army. There is almost no hope of victory in this kind of combined battle.  That's why Yoshiaki Satake retreated without hesitation. If he didn't leave at this time, he would have no chance to leave again.  What surprised Kira Yoshiki was that Yuuki Haruto had such courage to "rob" Ashikaga Fujimasa while the Furukawa Imperial Palace was in chaos. Whether it was out of public interest or other factors, it was a blatant desire.  Going against the Kira family greatly touched the bottom line set by Kira Yoshitoki, so Kira Yoshitoki immediately ordered an attack on Yuki Castle.  Maybe Yuki Haruto thought that he could save Ashikaga Fujimasa by doing this, which was a good two-pronged strategy. The worst he could do was wait until Kira's army came over to kill him before surrendering in a dignified manner, but he didn't understand that what Kira Yoshitoshi wanted was Ashikaga Fujimasa's.  Life, to save this good-for-nothing, the public wanted to go against him. He was so pleased with Ashikaga Fujimasa that he basically cut off the possibility of continuing to sell favors to the Kira family.  Yuki Haruto's act of snatching away Ashikaga Fujimasa should have been a temporary decision. He acted in a hasty manner and was not well prepared and did not communicate well with his brother Koyama Hidetsuna. As a result, he only led 1,500 troops to withdraw to Yuki Castle and defend it.  A messenger was sent to inform Koyama Hidetsuna that before he could get a reply, Nagano Yamasa led an army of 10,000 men and surrounded Yuki City.  Almost overnight, the winds in Kanto turned around. First, the mountains controlled by the Yuki clanThe castle was forcibly opened by the samurai of the Kira family of Naichi to lure wolves into the house, forcing the Yuki clan's powerful clan, the lord of the Yamakawa Castle, the Yamakawa Suruga Mori clan to abandon the city and flee, followed by the Yuki clan's other clan, the lord of the Kagaya Castle, Tagaya.  Masahiro's castle was also captured by Kira's army, and he was forced to flee into Yuki Castle for refuge.  The speed of the Kira family was so fast that the family members of the Yuki family were worried. That night, they gathered in the large room of Yuki Castle to discuss countermeasures. Oshima Katsuki said worriedly: "I, Yuki  The territory of the family has been lost one by one, and if this continues, the Kira family will annex all the places where we and others can stay.¡± The family members of the clan all glanced at Yuuki Haruto, as for Ashikaga Fujimasa who was sitting in the front seat.  His attitude is completely unimportant. Ever since he left the Furukawa Imperial Palace, this idiot has been like a bereft dog. He has been sitting in the room in a daze in despair. He has already recalled that he killed him with his own hands because of the collective betrayal of Kada Harusuke and his family members.  The favored minister was abandoned by the most trusted Matsu Nagatoshi, and finally came to Yuki City in a daze.  Thinking of that painful memory, the corners of Ashikaga Fujimasa's mouth twitched slightly. Even without raising his head, he could feel the contempt and hostility of the members of the Yuuki family tree. If it were other Kanto samurai, he might have been sent to Kira.  Yoshitoki asked for credit and reward, and the reason why he could barely remain polite was probably because of Yuki Haruto's face.  Ashikaga Fujimasa can only hope that Yuuki Haruto can turn the tide and use the Yuuki clan's bravery to once again recreate the great deeds of the Yuuki War in the past.  But this idiot still forgot the most important point.  The battle of Yuuki was at the cost of the death of Yuuki Mochichao and almost the annihilation of the whole family.  The Kanto samurai save the last trace of their blood for the direct descendants of the Ashikaga Mochi clan that they admire. Ashikaga Fujimasa's actions are not qualified to be revered, and Yuki Haruto has no intention of seeking life and death for this loser.  Yuki Haruto had long noticed the hopeful look in Ashikaga Fujimasa's eyes, and secretly thought to himself that if His Highness K¨­kata had known this earlier, why would he have caused so many scandals in the first place? He ignored K¨­kata's expression and turned to the samurai in the room.  : "Seek peace! As long as the Lord of the Town is willing to let His Highness go, we can talk about everything else slowly."  Kira Yoshi's main formation was located in Shankawa Castle, only one mile away from Yuki Castle.  Standing in this city, you can almost see all the movement in and out of Yuki Castle. Kira Yoshitoshi's main formation only had 5,000 elite horsemen stationed in the city.  Nagano Yasumasa led an army of 10,000 Ueno troops to surround Yuki Castle, while Yukitaka Sanada led an army of 15,000 men to turn around and attack Shimoguo.  Chiba Yinfu, Yuan Yinzhen, and Gaocheng Yinji, the most powerful people from the Lower Hui Kingdom and even the northern part of the Upper Hui Kingdom, were all detained as prisoners in Shanchuan City, making the southeastern part of the Lower Hui Kingdom almost an undefendable land. In Sanada  The combination of Xingtaka's strategy and massive military suppression made it impossible for the people of the Xiahui Kingdom to form an effective unity. Several people from the country successively took the lead in opening the city or setting up a blockade. Under the influence of their example, thousands of people were quickly united.  The Ye family's territory was encroached on to a large extent.  The remaining branch cities are all directly descended from these three families and serve as city lords. Facing the massive advance of Yukitaka Sanada's Shinano Army, they still stubbornly maintain a resolute attitude of not opening the city. They belong to the core area of ??the territories of these three families. Not only the city.  Gaolianshen also has a large number of loyal and brave warriors guarding the city.  Sanada Yukitaka's approach is somewhat similar to Uesugi Teruhora's strategy of entering Kanto.  First, a large army was sent to cut off the main roads of Xiahui Street, ensuring that several cities remained relatively silent and disconnected.  The Chiba clan's residence is Moriyama Castle on the south bank of the Tone River in the easternmost part of Shimonoseki. The terrain advantage is more conducive to the Kira army's strategy of cutting off communication.  After cutting off the contact, he was trying to catch a turtle in a urn, constantly passing on all kinds of false information about the Ji Liang army entering the Xiaju Kingdom. Some rumors said that Chiba Yinfu, Yuan Yinzhen, and Gaocheng Yinji were defeated and captured, and some said that these three family governors were defeated.  Still safe and sound, they were still holding on to the last line of defense at the Furukawa Imperial Palace. The Kira army was said to be 6,000 and then 30,000, and they were said to be 6,000 at one moment and 30,000 at another. The true and false information was passed to the hands of the city lords in each city, disturbing the hearts of the people.  Panic.  The ordinary people in the city did not understand the military affairs of the lord level at all. They just heard a bunch of rumors coming from the east and the west, and they all said the same thing. For a while, they couldn't figure out which rumor was more credible.  We fall into one of the most common logical traps. When several rumors appear at the same time, people always try hard to check the credibility of each rumor and find the one they think is the most credible and believe it.  This is the genius of Yukitaka Sanada in spreading rumors. Dazzling rumors spread out in the castle towns of Shimonasu Kingdom almost at the same time. Whether they are true, false, reliable or outrageous, they are flying all over the sky. There are also many people claiming to be outside the Furukawa Imperial Palace.  After witnessing the outbreak of the war, many townspeople were willing to believe the random stories they made up.  People always have a kind of blindnessHuman instinct means that if you tell a lie a thousand times, it will become the truth. No matter how blind the nonsense is, it will be generally accepted by everyone. Needless to say, the creators of these rumors must be Kira ninjas. They fabricate these rumors.  Of course it's not for fun, but to facilitate Yukitaka Sanada to hide his true combat intentions.  Medieval countries all have one characteristic, that is, the speed of information exchange and dissemination is very slow. It often takes half a year or even more than a year for an ordinary piece of news to spread from Guandong Road to Kinei. In other words, there is no so-called "news" in this era.  , all of which are old news passed down by word of mouth through hearsay. For example, Sanhe¡¯s movements would take a month to spread if there were channels, but if there were no channels, it would take three to two months to slowly complete the natural spread process.  An ordinary samurai will always know everything about the things in the Xiahui Kingdom every ten or eight days. After all, they are close to each other and they are all lords under the Chiba clan. They have a long list of kinship ties that are too numerous to count.  One day, they suddenly found that their information channels were not so well-informed.  A lot of good and bad news flooded my ears.  The relatively simple information identification system of the people of Xiahuo is a bit inadequate, and they cannot tell which is true and which is false.  In layman's terms, it means being a country lord in the countryside. He usually lives in his own territory in the countryside without leaving the front door. Except for occasionally going to Moriyama Castle to ask about the well-being of the country's lord, he usually spends ten or eight years there.  I would never think of traveling far away to visit relatives and friends in the eight countries of Kanto.  There are many such typical conservative samurai in Kanto. If I use one sentence to describe it, it would be "poor mobility of personnel, closed-off information, and conservative folk customs." Although they are not mountain people who live in the mountains like savages, they have a conservative temperament and  Simple and simple life is still the same.  This is also the most standard way of life for Kanto warriors.  Moriyama Castle's external communication channels are blocked, and the streets that communicate with each other at Shimono Junior High School are blocked. Without accurate information, it is impossible to self-screen the authenticity of the information. Listening to a bunch of false information provided by the Kira family, one has to do something.  Either they make completely wrong judgments, or they are too frightened to make judgments easily. The people of Xiahui happen to have both of these two kinds of people.  The first person who emerged was Shimada Yihiro, the lord of Mihiro Castle who was very close to Moriyama Castle. He rushed to Moriyama Castle with two hundred troops to find out what was going on, and ran into the main force of Yukitaka Sanada's army head-on.  The dragnet set by the enemy was surrounded by Kira's army that appeared from all directions without even reacting. The confused and disarmed prisoner became a glorious prisoner.  Yukitaka Sanada kept fabricating bits and pieces of lies and revealed them.  It gave the people of Xiahui a sense that the war was in danger but not to the point of picking up a knife and fighting for their lives. The lucky Chinese warriors still waited and watched the changes in the situation.  Taking advantage of this opportunity, he used means such as buying large sums of money, provoking and even framing, to force the samurai of the Xiahui Kingdom to serve as the guide for the Kira Army and deceive the gates of the fortress into opening.  Strong castles are often breached from within. Yukitaka Sanada understands and is good at using this principle. Every time, he can seize what the enemy samurai desires and needs most and use it to seduce him. Whether it is fame, wealth, power or sex, as long as he is killed by the Kira ninja.  If he discovers any clues, he will pull these samurai into the water through internal and external pressure. Once on the pirate ship, they will become grasshoppers on a rope, with no chance to escape from the palm of Sanada Yukitaka.  These traitors in Riche most hope that the Kira Army will capture all the cities. Because if the Kira Army captures the city, they can reward them based on their merits. Naturally, everything will be easy. However, if they cannot capture the city, they will have to worry about it all day long, fearing that the news about them will be leaked.  Go, they don't dare to take the initiative to confess to their lord, not to mention how much it will cast a shadow on their reputation and the trust of their lord, Yukitaka Sanada's gloomy and unpredictable temper is enough to make these traitors dare not go back.  Betrayal.  In just a few days, Yukitaka Sanada relied on his excellent tactics to quietly pull out more than a dozen large branch cities on the Fusui Peninsula. However, all these actions also succeeded in keeping the Chiba family's remaining soldiers in Moriyama Castle in the dark.  , the gap in strategy, military strength and information mastery has widened too much. The unfair war is doomed to a disastrous defeat for the people of the country.  Most of the people in the Shimonose Kingdom did not dare to show up. Some of the Chiba family retainers who were close to the border took the initiative to move closer to the Hojo Army of the Upper Assute Kingdom. However, at this time, the Hojo Army was surrounded by Satomi Yoshihiro's troops and chased them fiercely in Kururi Castle.  , his own fate is uncertain, how can he dare to accept these people from the lower Hui Kingdom coming all the way to seek refuge? If Kiragi is angered, he turns around and comes to the upper Hui Kingdom to beat them. Wouldn't it be a trap?  Murakami Yoshikiyo led an army of 3,000 men and made a half-circle around Shimonoseki. Taking advantage of the deep night, he attacked Usui Castle, the original residence of the Chiba clan, in a night attack. The entire siege process went much smoother than expected.  There are many. The Lord of Usui Castle, Usui Sakon Shogun Kuin, is still a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old. Four years ago, his father Usui Keiyin died suddenly and he hastily succeeded the family governor. In the few times he went out to Kanto, he still followed a clan to lead the family.Governor Qianye Yinfu has never experienced a real battle test.  Faced with Murakami Yoshikiyo's night attack, they didn't know how to respond. The Usui family's family members walked within a few miles of Usui Castle. They worked in Usui Castle during the day and returned to their home city to rest at night.  In the middle of the night, there was no way to find any retainers seeking strategic assistance. So in the panic, he took the best time to stick to the opportunity. As soon as the Otemon was broken, Usui Kyuin saw that the situation was over and surrendered.  The big movements in the south and north of Xiahui Kingdom could not be hidden from the attention of those who were interested. The blockade of the Kira Army could only maintain communication and suppression in key areas of the main streets. The Chinese lords in non-military key areas immediately changed the direction of the situation when they saw that the situation was not good.  .  He threw himself into Kirajun's big family without hesitation.  In the blink of an eye, most of the Xiahui Kingdom surrendered so easily.  The Chiba Family Genealogy Acting Retainer Group, which lacked orders from the family governor, did not intend to continue to resist.  Just as he was thinking about how to surrender in exchange for decent treatment, he heard that Yukitaka Sanada was quickly mobilizing the people in Moriyama Castle, easily opening the city gate and taking control of the Chiba family's home city. The Chiba family's pedigree saw that the momentum was not right.  All the Kaichengs took the initiative to surrender to the Kira family. At this point, the last resistance of the Xiahui Kingdom had all faded away, and no one dared to challenge the Kira family's dominance in marching into Kanto.  The news of Chiba's surrender spread like wings to the entire Fangsui Peninsula. This time, not only the Fangsui Peninsula was shaken, but also the entire Kanto people were shocked. No matter how fat Chiba is, he is not an ordinary famous name that you can control at your disposal.  of.  It only took less than ten days to achieve great victories in successive battles and sieges. A country so quickly swallowed up Suruga's invasion with speed comparable to Takeda Shingen.  The Kanto samurai family had long heard about the fierceness of the Kira family, the famous generals Yukitaka Sanada and Yoshikiyo Murakami who were both from Shinano country. The first time I saw them, I immediately gave the people of Kanto a powerful blow. Even a blind man could see it.  At this time, the Kira family was definitely not a powerful person they could mess with, so a rumor spread quietly in the Fusui Peninsula, saying that Murakami Yoshikiyo was as brave as a tiger, and Sanada Yukitaka was as cunning as a fox. This name gradually became known in the following years.  It spread to the eight countries of Guandong and even the world.  When Yukitaka Sanada captured a large territory in the southeastern part of the Fusui Peninsula, and the battle of Yuki in the northwest of Shimosu Province was also at its most critical moment, Kira Yoshitoki rejected Yuki Haruto's peace proposal without hesitation.  Instead, the Jiecheng family and many resistance forces took the opportunity to make a choice, or surrender obediently to everything.  Or you have to enjoy the pleasure of raging fire.  Yuki Haruto is not a person who is afraid of trouble. He saw that Kira Yoshiki was not going to give up, so he contacted his allies everywhere and put up a fight to the end. However, within a few days of his putting on this posture, he heard that the Chiba clan had been defeated and all surrendered.  The intelligence, the retainers were panicked for a while, and the samurai in the family were shaken.  Kira Yoshishi did not give him more time to think about how to deal with the crisis. Taking advantage of the lack of news about the siege of Yuki Castle, he used the close and far combination of the iron artillery team and the roasting team to blast away the enemies in the Hitachi Kingdom at all costs.  The Yuki clan's territory intends to take this opportunity to completely eliminate the possibility of the Yuki clan's retreat.  The lord of Shimotsuma Castle, Tagaya Masakene, is also a powerful member of the Yuki clan. He is responsible for the strategy flag of Hitachi Kingdom and ranks first among the Four Yuki Kings. Not only does he have a large say in the Yuki family, he is also a master.  Thousands of soldiers were powerful, but in the face of the Kira Army's soldiers pressing down on the territory and capturing the city, Tagaya Masakei still gave up the idea of ??committing suicide and surrendered honestly.  Tagaya Masakei's surrender had a great influence on the Yuuki family retainers of Hitachi Kingdom. When Kiragi's main formation launched a non-stop attack on Shimodate Castle, Mizutani Masamura, the most brave among the Yuuki Four Heavenly Kings, had no choice.  He planned to go out of the city to fight, but instead defended the city and resisted. This decision, which was very different from his usual character, completely exposed his guilty conscience.  After all, the Kira army's aggressive attack frightened the people of the Kanto country. The Hojo family did not expand in such a big way when they were at their most majestic. They fought from Musashi country to Shimosu country and then to Hitachi country according to the map. Such terrifying combat power is simply unheard of.  There are also unseen baked jade tactics and terrifying strategies that have never been seen before. It would be crazy not to frighten these Kanto people who don't know the details.  Yoshitoki Kira immediately seized the opportunity to pour out all the remaining baked jade in the formation, blasting open several gaps in the solid earthen walls of Shimodate Castle. Yoshitoki Kira simply ordered the samurai clan to attack in two directions, taking advantage of the Mizutani Army  When they didn't know whether to defend the gap in the wall or the broken Otemon gate, both sides launched attacks at the same time to break through the city and enter the city. Mizutani Masamura was unwilling to fail and tried to break out of the siege. In the end, he was beaten to the bottom by the iron artillery team's random gunfire.  It is a last resort to use up all the small amount of baked jade in one go. War, especially siege warfare, is like this. Either imitate Xiang Zong's storming of the city and use human lives to replenish it, or the siege takes time until he runs out of food.  Important?It means to use a huge amount of ammunition to pour out in a short time, destroying the opponent's defense system and morale.  There are no saltpeter-related mineral deposits in Japan. All saltpeter relies on trade imports from the Ryukyu Kingdom. This trade import is a one-way import. The price is high, the service is poor, and the supply is unstable. It often blocks various daimyo who want to play with iron cannons, Kira.  Yoshitoki's slightly better advantage than them is that he can make saltpetre and use local methods to synthesize gunpowder particles. But after all, saltpeter is not a mass-produced mineral deposit, so there is so much stable soil for him to use.  Even though Echigo has vigorously promoted livestock breeding over the years, the livestock soil produced by tens of thousands of livestock a year is still limited. These livestock manure must be accumulated for many years to produce high-quality livestock soil, but the high temperature advocated by the Kira family  The composting method and the use of biogas in some workshops are related to the development of agriculture and handicrafts as well as the economic layout of the Kira family. Both of these things also require a large amount of livestock manure as base fertilizer for decomposition.  Just because it is for military purposes, we can't just leave a lot of livestock manure in idle land and let it be exposed to the wind, sun and rain. After several years of natural degradation, it will form stable soil that can be used. This is inefficient and low-yield.  The land is sparse, very unstable and requires occupation of cultivated land. The Kira family's land planning is very strict. It is prohibited to cut trees on the mountains beside the river road and in various densely forested areas.  Other usable land is mainly farmland, villages, roads, cities and towns. The division of land such as developed, to be developed, and to be improved is also very detailed. It is impossible to designate a piece of wasteland and throw in a lot of manure.  It degrades freely, and who knows if it will breed countless pests and troubles this summer.  The military serves politics, and the economy also serves politics. When it is difficult for both sides to compete, short-term and long-term interests must be considered. Kiragi's consideration was economics, so the raw materials for baking jade were delayed.  In recent years, the production of soil and saltpeter has relied on digging a piece of land, then sending followers to investigate where there are stables and latrine soil, and then recruiting workers to refine black powder on the spot.  Low output, low efficiency, and unstable supply are still troubling the followers of the Kira family. Fortunately, last year, Claudia brought a lot of saltpeter to last for a while, but she was reluctant to directly refine black powder with pure saltpeter.  , always thinking of leaving some as a strategic reserve in case it is needed one day, and taking it out to make gunpowder for use.  It is precisely because of the various reasons mentioned above that the Roasting Team has had very few opportunities to appear in these years. Even Kato Kyouaki was transferred out of the Roasting Team to serve as Ashigaru General. This shows how much the lack of raw materials has affected this rare army.  Kira Yoshitoki once planned to abolish this special unit, but he remembered some old things and felt that keeping it was more or less a thought, so he kept it.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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