Samurai of the Takeda Family

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In Echizen's Kitanosho Castle, the first heavy snowfall came in winter. --/--/

As the country of Hokuriku, Echizen's climate is still slightly colder.

The 50,000 army of Li Xiao's army also divided the troops under the city.

Li Xiao ordered Li Zheng to return to the nearest Three Kingdoms with 20,000 troops to spend the winter.

Sanguo Minato is close to the harbour and closer to the supply line, which is convenient for feeding and can protect the important food town.

However, Li Xiao led more than 30,000 main forces, and had to continue to besiege the city under the city of Beizhizhuang in this freezing environment.

After nearly a month of siege, the Takeda Army built three trenches around Kitanosho.

It was still slightly difficult to besieged the nearly ten thousand Shibata regiments in the northern village with 30,000 troops.

Li Xiao can only do so at present, deploy heavy defenses in several important places, and patrol and guard the rest.

Among the three trenches, between the first and second trenches, they are mainly used for combat defense.

In the second and third trenches, mainly samurai, general-level resting places, and wounded soldiers will also be properly taken care of here.

In the besieged city in this cold weather, the wounded did not come from combat, but mainly from injuries and frostbite.

In fact, the Shibata Army in the city has only dealt with sexual harassment a few times since the fortification, and there is no real threat to the Takeda Army.

It seems that the Shibata Katsura is eager to wait, and Oda Nobuada has come to the reinforcements from Azuchi Castle.

According to the information obtained by the Takeda Army, it was in Kitanosho Castle. There is a deep well excavated inside, and the food, grass, and water sources are very sufficient.

Of course, this was Shibata's previous plan, and it was obviously single-minded.

It seems that the Shibata Katsumi is determined and is about to stay in the North Zhuangcheng.

As soon as the heavy snow came, the sky was cold and the ground was freezing, and all the siege affairs were temporarily stopped.

The soldiers of the Takeda Army entered the temporarily built house outside Kitanosho Castle. Crowded in one place, light a fire to warm it up.

The scene of this scene reminded Li Xiao of the time when he attacked Muzhou City in Sheshui County.

But at that time he was far from commanding so many troops.

Kitanosho Castle did not fall in a single battle, so Li Xiao’s daily business is to learn about the Kanto war situation and the actions of the Oda family in Kinki through the ninja intelligence organization.

It seems because of the snowfall. Oda Nobuya also didn't take much action, which made Li Xiao relieved a lot.

But with regard to the Kanto war, Takeda Nobuhiro has been fighting the Hojo clan for more than a month, and the situation is still very uncertain.

Masayuki Sanada is as swift as ever, and the Sanada family is also the most troublesome opponent of the Hojo family in history.

Now it is almost a country in Ueno. The leader of the country, Masayuki Sanada, led the Sanada clan, which was several times stronger than in history, and presided over the war with the Hojo clan at Musashi.

Half a year ago, Li Xiao's daughter Mingchuan Fengguangguangguang married Sanada Nobuyuki.

Li Xiao gave the Sanada a 10,000 consistent dowry in one breath, as well as countless dowry Nanbans. A thing of the Ming Dynasty, this lavish capital made a sensation among the retainers of the Sanada family.

In the past, Li Xiao's move was not to scoop his own money off the Sanada family, but also to let the Sanada family understand the strength of his wife's family and dare not to neglect it, so it was also for the sake of his daughter's happiness.

This is also a precedent in the Warring States Period. At that time, Nobuto Takeda married his daughter into the Imagawa family, and also gave the newly captured territory to the Imagawa family, which was specifically used as the daughter's imperial land.

Therefore, Masyuki Sanada is already the relatives of children, Nobuhiro Sanada served under Li Xiao's command, and both Li Xiao and Masyuki Sanada were hand-picked by Takeda Katsuyuki.

Now the Sanada family and Li Xiao are alliances within the Takeda family, and they advance and retreat together.

Li Xiao and Masayuki Sanada receive more than two letters almost every month.

And Li Xiao also learned more intuitively about the situation of the Kanto war this time from the letter of Sanada Masayuki.

Now the world’s center of gravity. It does not lie in the Hokuriku-do where Li Xiao is located, or the offensive that the Oda clan integrates with Kinki, nor does it lie in the war of Ukita sent by the Maori clan, nor does it lie in Shikoku or Kyushu, but in Kanto.

Out of a sober judgment of the future, Masuko Sanada and Li Xiao have very consistent views, that is, whether this time the Kanto War can conquer the Hojo clan is a crucial battle for whether the Takeda clan can go to Luo and conquer the world.

Otherwise, Li Xiao doesn't need to scoop out his family, fight to block Hokuriku Road, monitor the actions of Azuchi Castle Oda Shinta, Sanada does not need to buy enough old power to attack Ueno and Musashi.

But until now, the battle is still confusing. It's hard to say which Takeda Hojo has the upper hand.

Masayuki Sanada has done his best.

Nobuhiro Takeda's 35,000 army, far away in Sagami, confronted the main force of the Hojo Army in Odawara Castle.

The Baba Shinbo Corps fell into a quagmire under Nirayama Castle in Izu Country, and fought hard against the Hojo clan.

The offensive of the Takeda family's three-way army has all come to a standstill. As the offensive side, it is natural that it cannot last for long, and can only pin hope everywhere.

The performance of Utsunomiya's family governor's talent, not only didn't help the battle situation, but also put himself in a predicament under the rebellion of his ministers.

With the continued actions of the Hojo clan, Mibu Castle of the Utsunomiya family, Yoshio Mibu, the lord of Kanuma Castle, Takachi Hagata, the lord of Moka Castle, and two retainers of the Utsunomiya clan were opposed by the Hojo family.

Utsunomiya Hirotsuna heard that these two important ministers had turned against each other, vomiting blood three liters of anger, and was bedridden.

After Utsunomiya Hirozuna fell ill, the Utsunomiya family had no leader and was unable to organize an offensive against the Hojo family. This made him swear an oath at the Bodhi Temple and became the laughing stock of the Hojo family.

As for Yucheng's family supervisor, Yucheng Qingchao is not a decisive and courageous supervisor.

Because Yuki Harasa had no children, he adopted the son of Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, the son of Utsunomiya's family governor, and Yuki Asakusa, as adopted sons, as the future inheritor of the family.

Yuki Asakusa's mother is also the daughter of Satake Yoshiaki, so Yuki Asakusa's background is from Satake, Yuki, and Utsunomiya.

This is also the guarantee for the alliance of the three big names.

In addition to his lack of decision-making power, Yuki Haruka was also of an improper background, which was criticized by his retainers because he was not the son of the previous governor, but came from the Xiaoshan family.

Therefore, in the crowd, he is not very convinced.

When Yuki Haru was reigning, he constantly contacted Satake and Utsunomiya as an alliance, and at the same time worked hard to establish a good relationship with the surrounding daimyo.

In the face of the constant cannibalization of the Hojo family in the Kanto region, Yuki Haru was not firm enough. He had repeatedly expressed surrender to Hojo, but now he rebelled again, thus reducing the prestige of the owner.

Therefore, the Patriarch is weak, and the Yucheng Army's offensive in the Xiaye Country is also very exhausted.

Therefore, before the war, no matter Takeda Nobuhiro, Li Xiao, or Sanada Masakun did not place much expectations on Yuki and Utsunomiya's family.

However, strength has been used as a weight to influence the Kanto structure, and the Date family, which Takeda expected the most, was disappointing this time.

After the war started for more than a month, the Date Legion came from Mutsu, using the heavy snow as an excuse, the march was dragged and dragged. It was a journey that could be completed in a few days. After abruptly walking for more than a month, I still didn’t see any shadows. .

Li Xiao heard from Sanada Masayuki that the inside story of the situation in the Date family was that the Hojo family lobbied for it.

The Hojo clan sent a lobbyist Itabe Okae Yuksai, and went to Yonezawa Castle in person to lobby Date Keizong.

Date Huizong was very hesitant about the decision to unite the Takeda family and destroy the Hojo family, but only with the support of his eldest son Brahma Maru and his retainers did he reluctantly send troops.

Itabe Okae Yuksai analyzed the benefits to Date Keizong, and promised to cede the benefits after it was done.

Date Huizong was immediately moved by his heart, and immediately ordered the general in front of him, Date Minoru, and Ghost Garden Zuo Yue stopped advancing, and at the same time, he didn't want to offend the Takeda family, and gave an excuse to seal the road with heavy snow.

When Li Xiao heard Masayuki Sanada talk about this, he clearly understood how similar the other party's anger was.

When Shingen went to Luo, the Asakura family also used the excuse of heavy snow to seal the road, and the delay in entering the army led to Nobunaga's final victory, and the Asakura family itself was destroyed.

Li Xiao thought of this and couldn't help but snorted. Historically, Date Masamune also staged a similar scene when Toyotomi Hideyoshi conquered Odawara. It was too late for excuses, and finally saw the destruction of the Hojo family soon. This time he led the troops. .

Date Masamune himself was almost beheaded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Date's house was also cut off.

Then again, if Date Masamune was really disappointed that he was not able to contend for the dominance of the world twenty years earlier, he should unite with the Hojo clan to fight against Toyotomi's dominance of the world.

Although in this situation, the risk of failure in the end is still high, it is after all the best chance in Masamune's life.

Li Xiao paced in the military account. In the past few days, he paid more attention to the map of the situation in the Kanto region than the situation in Hokuriku.

He refocused on the large Kanto map hanging in front of him, and the situation on it was staggered.

I have to admit that under the Hojo siege organized by Nobuhiro Takeda this time, Mr. Hojo said that it was pretty good.

Although in Li Xiao's view, the Hojo clan was still too gentle and did not scoop out the courage to fight Odawara Shita with Takeda Nobuhira, this was a mistake.

But the Hojo clan was not Hojo clan Yasushi after all, and such determination and determination and the ability to fight in battle were not what he was good at.

Even when Hojo's Yasushi was alive, facing Uesugi Kenshin's 100,000 Kanto coalition forces, he had only the tactic of trapping Odawara.

In fact, besides the strategy of war ~www.wuxiamtl.com~, the skill and strategy are also very important.

And now, regardless of the opposition to Utsunomiya’s retainers and the sending of messengers to persuade Date to retreat, Hojo's diplomatic and adjustment efforts have also been very effective. In this way, the Hojo encirclement network carefully constructed by Takeda Nobuhira was created. The power of it is greatly reduced.

Now the Hojo family still has an apartment, and the general reserve army has not yet been used, and the Takeda army has shown fatigue this time around the encirclement.

If this situation continues, the Hojo clan will reproduce the first two late-competition strategies and finally win the battle.

But in Li Xiao's view, Nobuhiro Takeda still has a chance of winning this time.

And where this changed situation that affected the Kanto Campaign, Li Xiao turned to look at Changlu Country on the map.

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