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Three Rivers Butterfly Chapter 540 Battle of Oshu

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    Uesugi Kenshin's glorious military achievements almost need not be described in detail. He defeated the Kanto Tojo clan and abandoned their armor and dared not accept the challenge. Under the harsh circumstances of Dewa country, where he was unfamiliar with the place and lacked logistical intelligence support, he was still able to sweep through the entire Dewa country alone.  The people of the country, the Vietnam-China counterattack wiped out all the main forces of Vietnam and China in one fell swoop.  Accurately judging the short-term dilemma of internal emptiness in Kaga Country, he immediately made a bold plan to invade Kaga Country, sweep the Kaga Ichiki Army on the southern bank of the Tetori River, and achieve the strategic goal of completely crushing Kaga Ichiki's resurrection and giving the Ashikaga Yoshiki a  Timely adjustments should be made to create a good environment for display within the territory.  Then he invaded Musashi Province and captured it easily in ten months. He also captured Hojo Tsunari and the Hojo Clan, who changed the direction of the war, and then successfully captured Sagami Province. He designed a unique siege plan and defeated the tens of thousands of defenders in Odawara City.  Forced into a corner and unable to move, it was very cruel to deprive the Hojo family of their right to fight with trapped animals. They could only act like lambs to be slaughtered without being able to fight back.  The samurai discussed in low voices the gains and losses of the battles in recent years. They did not notice the sound of light footsteps coming from the corridor. They only heard a voice suddenly coming from outside the door: "There is no doubt about the power of Uesugi Danzenden. That battle  The war was really thanks to the timely attack by His Majesty Danmasa in Utsunomiya Castle, otherwise it would have been difficult for me, the Kanto Ashikaga Family, to maintain the honor of being undefeated." Sanada Yoshiyuki said curiously: "Eh? Isn't this the Nagano Etsuden?  ? You should be in Anfang Kingdom to appease the people! How come you have time? " "The second duty of Anfang Kingdom has been transferred to Mitsui Takaanden, and I have been ordered to come to the front line of the garrison to allocate food and grass for the new season."  Aged thirty.  Since he became famous a few years ago, he has been able to marry, have children, get promoted, and become rich.  It can be said that the spring breeze is a happy horse's hoof disease.  Kobata Nobuzada walked over and patted his shoulder and said, "I thought you would come over in a few days. Why did you come so soon without telling me in advance?" "The original plan changed and we left a few days earlier. I just handed over the task.  I said you were having a tea party and came over to take a look, and I happened to hear them talk about the battle of Oshu." Nagano Yoshigu turned around and greeted many colleagues warmly. Every samurai in the hall seemed to be very familiar with him, even the Hojo clan.  Shige brought along three brothers, Hojo Ujikuni, Hojo Uteru, and Hojo Ujiki, who were participating for the first time, and they also expressed their familiarity and enthusiasm.  The identity of the Ueno people represented by Nagano Yakushu within the system is very strange. Their origins are from the Kanto samurai who are considered orthodox among the Ueno people.  However, they moved closer to Echigo very early and played a vital role in the successive battles at Ueno Junior High School. Therefore, they were incorporated into the Echigo Army system very early, which gave them a dual identity.  I feel comfortable walking between the two systems.  Nagano Yegu said with a wry smile: "The Oshu War was fought for four years, and it was really a headache to see and see again and again. At that time, I happened to be one of the soldiers on the front line responsible for managing the storage and distribution of military rations. I learned about the war from the rear.  Many details, speaking of it, were caused by the sudden return of Date Ky身shoden. Even Shigetaka Iwaki, Morihin Soma, and Harutsuna Yuuki, who had been involved in our camp, were shaken, and even the Tamura clan and Nikaidou clan were shaken.  It＊s really a headache to immediately transfer to the Date family＊s camp.§ Sanada Yoshiyuki nodded and said, ※I really didn＊t expect that Date Ky身shoden would suddenly come back and use his personal prestige to destroy the already collapsed government.  The people of the Mutsu Kingdom reunited, and Iwaki Shigetaka and Yuuki Haretsuna suddenly broke away from the line, almost putting Satake Tsune Ritsuke into a desperate situation.  He managed to escape despite all efforts to rescue him. " "The most powerful thing about Date Kyozoden is his strategy. He immediately sent troops to establish a truce and contacted the wavering daimyo samurai in various places as soon as our troops were driven away.  , Yuki Haritsuna, and Iwaki Shigetaka came over to talk, and within a few days, Mutsu Kingdom was remade into a solid piece. I heard that Master Asayama Hichijo couldn't even eat at that time, but he lost a lot of money in one fell swoop!  Zhenyi patted his head.  He laughed loudly and said: "I remembered it! I still vaguely remember that interesting incident. After that incident, I once met Master Chaoshan Richeng eating and drinking wildly and asked him what was going on. The master told me that it was  He regained his starved figure and said that wealthy monks are more lovable. After hearing this, I couldn't help but laugh out loud. " "Master Chaoshan Richeng is a very easy-going person, at least better than that great monk.  Gennin Sugiura is much stronger. Genjin Sugiura sings his poems in a broken voice in the yard when he has nothing to do. He also says that he is a new generation of waka masters and will publish a collection of waka in the future. "Hojo is really angry.  Ujishige's veins were pulsing in his head, and he expressed great dissatisfaction with Genjin Sugiura, who had converted to the Myoshinji sect of the Rinzai sect. Many samurai also showed sad expressions.  In the past, Kaga＊s general Sugiura Gennin was captured for many years and was imprisoned in Echigo Myokakuji Temple to practice meditation.However, he did not expect that he would be converted to the Rinzai sect by Zen Master Toraya Sect Oto, and voluntarily submitted to the Kanto Ashikaga family, starting from the head of the Ashikaga clan.  This guy is not good at other things. He is simple and crude in doing things, has no technical content, and many other shortcomings. However, he has one advantage: he is simple and does not have complex tricks. Moreover, after more than ten years of fighting in the battlefield, he is indeed very good at it.  He has unique skills, and his martial arts become more and more brave after being trained and polished by the rough work in Miaojue Temple every day. With this skill, he was promoted to the rank of reserve general in just three years. It is indeed not easy.  After all, he is an uneducated and reckless man. It is more difficult to change his rude temper than to change his country. When he was in the Echu Mountain Castle, he was flattered by Jimbo clan Zhang against his will. He was flattered, and then he did not know how to develop it  He has the habit of writing his own waka, and the level of this waka is similar to that of a certain bandit warlord's limericks.  "Forget it, let's not mention that rude bastard." Hojo Ujishige found that everyone was speechless by him, and said apologetically: "Date Kyozoden's tactics of ordering and arranging are very powerful, so Asayama Hichijo  The master's hard work was in vain, but Ky身shoden is too old and weak to take into account the changes in the battle situation. He only uses his personal authority to coordinate the respective responsibilities of the Mutsu people, and cannot stand in front of the battle to direct the direction of the battle."  Sanada Yoshiyuki clenched his fists excitedly: "So the Mutsu Allied Forces suffered a huge defeat in their first counterattack against Shimono Country. They were caught off guard by the surprise attack that Uesugi was waiting for in the main hall of the main hall. The first attack of the Baisaka Battle was to win the battle.  Shiro Haretsuna's head caused the morale of the Shirakawa Yuuki clan and the Komine clan to collapse. The Ashina Mori clan on the flank lost their protection and was almost captured alive by Saito Shimono Morden, who was guarding the Ashina repair hall.  At the same time, Hojo Kamisuke raided the retreating Iwaki army and captured Iwaki Chitaka in one fell swoop and forced the Iwaki army to surrender on the spot. The others, such as Tamura, Nikaido, Kokubu, and Watari Ichishi, all abandoned their helmets and armor and fled in the face of the wind!  The majesty of the Kanto Ashikaga family also wiped out the bad breath held in the hearts of the samurai, making the people of Mutsu country terrified and sleepless at night when they heard our name. "The instinct of animals is to worship the strong.  Human beings are the spirit of all things, and naturally have some animal instincts. The stronger Uesugi Kenshin is, the more excited the people of Kanto will be. On the contrary, the people of Mutsu are frightened after hearing the news and dare not take advantage of him for a while. This one-sided surprise battle has turned the people of Mutsu into  The confidence and unity that everyone had finally built up were shattered again. It can be said that a group of warriors were busy doing useless work.  "Hearing about the tragic defeat ahead, Date Kyozoden was so angry that he fell into a coma. Later, he died in a coma in the city for more than three months. All the efforts of the Date family were in vain." Nagano Yoshiyoshi  A simple description in a plain tone, and an understatement brought to an end a major incident that stirred up countless bloody turmoils in Minamimutsu.  The winner is always more qualified to comment on the loser with a good tone. Hojo Ujishige said with a smile: "Actually, Date Ky身shoden's body has collapsed a long time ago, and the so-called comeback is just to stay in the Maruyama Castle drama, from the south.  The main battlefield of the Shirasaka Battle near the Mutsu border is three days away from Maruyama Castle. He, an old man who has lived in seclusion for more than ten years and has no knowledge of world affairs, cannot understand the strength of the Kanto Ashikaga family and the level of the Mutsu country lords.  What's going on!" "You're right, we should sympathize with his situation, the monster can only blame Date" "Yeah! It's better not to continue talking." Nagano Yasu stopped Kobata Nobuzada in time.  Big mouth, the Kanto Shogunate banned similar talk because two years ago when Ashikaga Yoshitoki personally led an army to besiege Yonezawa Castle.  Date Huizong took the initiative to open the city and surrender.  Sanada Yoshiyuki suddenly remembered that Date Terumune also had a good relationship with him, and immediately changed his mind and said: "The surrender of the Date family is a last resort, right? The people of Minamimutsu Province suffered a huge defeat and almost lost the family's wealth. Date  The emperor was angered to death, the left-behind political power was captured, Iwaki Chitaka was captured alive, Ashina Mori was almost captured, and Yuuki Harutsuna was captured. The elite of the people of Minamimutsu Kingdom were suddenly reduced by 30% in this battle.  , half of the remaining 70% of the country has always been a small neutral country, and the remaining half may not even be able to display their basic strength. How much confidence has been lost and shaken, and how many are ready to surrender is still unknown, Ida  It＊s not easy for the family to survive until the eighth year of Yonglu before Kaicheng surrendered.§ ※Yes, yes§ Kobata Nobuzada said disapprovingly: ※It＊s not easy after our army finished the Battle of Baisaka.  They stationed at Shirakawa Castle to take stock of the profits to appease the local people, and did not start a new round of invasion until the spring of the seventh year of Eiroku. Most of the Date family's property was in Dewa Province Yonezawa Castle, and our army's priority in conquering Yuo was Dewa Yone.  Ze is ranked at the bottom, so asking him to persist for one more year does not mean that Yonezawa Castle is as strong as Odawara Castle"Ahemwhat, let's not talk about Yonezawa Castle!"  "Hojo Shige was so embarrassed that he wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in. The three brothers Hojo Uteru, Hojo Ujikuni, and Hojo Ujiki all had dark faces. As a commoner, the control was relatively loose. The Miao character has not been changed yet, and the next generation will gradually change it.  The word "Miao" was changed to the familiar "奀". What Kobata Nobuzada said caused many samurai in the hall to look at him. Nagano Yagou remembered that he had not paid attention to the seating position just now. When he took a closer look, the left and right sides were divided into one camp.  Seating, usually this is one of the ways to distinguish between two factions, such as the popular dispute between the Wenzhi Sect and the Wugong Sect, but today their seats are not distinguished according to Wenzhi and Wugong, but according to the division between the north and the south of the region.  Come and sit down. The so-called division between north and south is actually the division of the seven northern kingdoms and the eight southern kingdoms in the Kanto shogunate system. This division was based on the Kanto invasion in the fourth year of Eiroku (1561) as the dividing line.  The Echigo, Shinano, Ueno, Echichu, Kaga, Hida, and Dewa kingdoms they hold are called the Northern Seven Kingdoms. The Musashi, Sagami, Izu, and  The Fifteen Kingdoms of the Lower Sui Kingdom, the Upper Sui Kingdom, the Anfang Kingdom, the Lower Wild Kingdom, and the Hitachi Kingdom account for more than one-fifth of the sixty-six kingdoms in the world. Some people once joked that this was the "fifth of the Kanto Kingdom."  "One Temple", but the Kanto Shogunate seems to reject this statement and strictly prohibits the public from mentioning similar statements in any form. The reason is that the Kanto Shogunate is loyal to the shogunate and should not despise Luonin (Ashikaga Yoshi) with unruliness.  For comparison, there is some water in the Northern Seven Kingdoms that has not been squeezed out. For example, the Suwa County in Shinano Kingdom is in the hands of the Kai Takeda clan, and the Dewa Kingdom and the Hago half Kingdom are in the hands of several people.  In the hands of the Kaga Kingdom, only the eastern half of the country's territory is relatively complete. The relatively complete Shinano Kingdom can barely be called a dominant country. The Dewa Kingdom and the Kaga Kingdom only have half of the control rights and should not be said to be included in the Northern Seven Kingdoms.  . Nagano Yabo said without hesitation: "The final surrender of Date Ky身sh身den was due to the fact that all the territories of Mutsu Kingdom were wiped out, including the Nikaido clan, the Nihonmatsu clan, the Tamura clan, the Kokubu clan, the Watari clan, and the Kurokawa clan.  The clans surrendered one after another within a year. The unconvinced Akiho clan, Kuroki clan, and Rugao clan were wiped out. Ashina Shuden hid in Aizu and did not dare to come out. Most of the wings of the Date family were cut off and they surrendered.  It's a matter of time.  § The people of Oshu gathered together are closely related to each other. Today, the two families are like brothers and they want to talk to each other openly. Tomorrow, maybe the two families are like brothers from the other two families and are willing to talk to each other honestly.  The relationship between the two families may have completely turned against each other because of being too frank in the past. This kind of vulgar joke happens almost every few years. Everyone talks about Kitaise Sengoku, but in fact, those messy people are so indifferent to each other.  Fighting over something is not a small Sengoku. On the contrary, it is a bunch of relatives in Minnan Mutsu who beat each other's heads to pieces, and even caused a farce like the Astronomical Rebellion. Of course, it is more like a small Sengoku.  The country can also try to compete for the quota of this small Sengoku. Then the samurai began to talk nonsense, and some talked about sweeping away the pro-Date Terumune two years ago and resolutely resisting Osaki Yoshinao. Kasai Harunobu faced 30,000.  The army's attack was still relying on the Mutsu people's centuries-old way of doing things, and they held on to the cage and called for rescue troops to fight to the end. It happened that the only 500-ton Galen sailing ship carried a half-snake cannon along the coastline.  Arriving at the mouth of the Kitakami River, they bombarded Ishinomaki Castle. Kasai Harunobu, who had been very tough that afternoon, was frightened into surrendering. "Actually, I feel that Uesugi bombing the main hall played a greater role in the battle of Oshu, at least this time.  As the general who stayed in Oshu for several years, Uesugi did an impeccable job in Tanshoden!  "As a staunch fan, Sanada Yoshiyuki never forgets to praise Uesugi Kenshin. There is a story about him being an admirer of Echigo no Dragon. It is said that Sanada Yoshiyuki has always felt that he and Uesugi Kenshin have many similarities.  Because they both have a great father, and both fathers have suffered tragic failures. The most important thing is that both of them are very smart and capable. They can become great warriors now or in the future, although this has not yet been achieved by their companions.  Uesugi Kenshin was a monk at Echigo Rinsenji Temple in the fourth year of Eiroku. The seventh abbot of Rinsenji Temple, Yoshion Soken, personally shaved his hair and gave him a Ken character in his Buddhist name, making his full name known as the Buddhist monk.  In the end, Uesugi Kenshin chose not to get married and devote his whole body and soul to serving gods and Buddhas for the rest of his life. This was not only because Uesugi Kenshin was a devout Buddhist, but also to support his nephew Ashikaga.  Jinou Maru. Sanada Yoshiyuki didn't know the inside story, and thought that Uesugi Kenshin was a Buddhist with noble character and no intention of power. He was willing to give up power and territory for his faith. It was hard to think of the second reason.  It seems that it is not surprising that monks have pure beliefs, but?There must be a deep-seated reason why a samurai who protects the daimyo class could become a pure believer.  The smart Uesugi Kenshin made concessions to avoid the chaos in Echigo, but taking a step back did not mean that everything would be fine. He knew very well that there were many shortcomings in the Kanto Shogunate system. On the one hand, there were fierce conflicts between many retainers with different origins. On the one hand, Kyoto, Etsu  The three factions of the latter and the Kanto group have serious internal conflicts with each other, and the power struggle between the followers and the generals is also looming. What worries Uesugi Kenshin even more is that the Nagao family is too powerful.  Let＊s not talk about the direct descendants of the Nagao family, Shirai and Sosha, as well as Ashikaga Nagao, the head of the Yamauchi Uesugi family. The Echigo Nagao clan eliminated the lineage of Nagao Uesugi Kenshin, who had no heirs in the Fuchu family.  Maemori Kagenobu, Nagao Koheiji Keiren, Nagao Houshiro Keakiu, Nagao Kanshiro Keichika, Nagao Koshiro Keinao, Nagao Kankuro Sadharu, Nagao Yashichiro Keimichi, and Nagao Masakei's  His legitimate son Nagao Yoshikage and many other members of the clan.  It's just that having many relatives doesn't mean you are capable. The scary thing is that each of these relatives has extraordinary abilities. They are either very successful in domestic affairs or they are reserve generals who are in charge of one party. They hold important positions in the Kanto Shogunate system and have extraordinary influence. They are all adult men.  He also successively married important ministers within the system, took wives and had children to reproduce, and gradually weaved a formidable network of relationships.  There is no loser and all of them are married and have children. If they are allowed to develop freely, it will take less than two generations to form a new samurai group. Maybe in the future it will be the feared Kamakura Hojo clan. At the beginning, Ashikaga Yoshi  Toki came up with a new character for the Sagami Hojo clan, which also implies the meaning of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger. It is not a good feeling to always have a Hojo current affairs in front of you, and the Nagao family who have certain ideas will also be uneasy about it.
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