Chapter 621 27. Xiaogong Lai Chun Smiled Happily
Shimotsuma Province, Koga Palace, Honmaru.
Sitting in the Honmaru Palace of Koga Castle, Koyumi Yoshizumi felt like life was a dream!
Am I the Shogun of Kanto now?
"We congratulate Your Highness, may you have a long and prosperous life and a long military fortune!" The congratulations from the samurai below brought him back to reality from his dream.
I'm not dreaming! Ahahahahahahaha!
"This return to the old city is all thanks to the efforts of you gentlemen, please stand up quickly!" Koyumi Yoshizumi calmed down and pretended to be calm.
The generals, led by Hosokawa Saijo, stood up one after another, and Sanada Masayuki and Hosokawa Saijo, who were kneeling behind Hosokawa Saijo, gave soft suggestions and talked a lot.
"Your Highness, please immediately present your sword to the Kashima Shrine and issue a petition, calling on the generals of Soshu and Boshu to raise their troops and jointly attack the traitorous Hojo clan!"
"Yes, yes, yes! Sai-nü is right!" Koyumi Yoshizumi naturally believed that Hosokawa Sai-nü, who helped him return to the city, was a good person. In addition, there were no capable people around him, so he obeyed her.
"The Sekisuku Ryoda clan only surrendered temporarily under the pressure of the Hojo clan. Your Highness should issue a letter of leniency and use them for your own purposes!"
"The Kurihashi Noda clan and the Yukute Isshiki clan are the same. Your Highness should treat them with kindness!"
"Save it!"
"Then I will send troops to attack Murokawa, Sakai, and Yumida, and Your Highness needs to recruit soldiers in Koga to repair the city!"
Koyumi Yoshizumi is now a figurehead, but he is the son of the real Koyumi lord Ashikaga Yoshiaki. Many of the warriors who surrendered in the city are fence-sitters who have already accepted their fate and surrendered to him.
However, the important retainers of the Kanto Shogun in Shimosa still need to be won over, especially the former regent Ryoda. As the chief retainer of the Koga Shogunate, he had fought with Ashikaga Yoshiaki in Kokufudai.
To put it bluntly, he was an accomplice of Kogawa Yoshizumi in the murder of his father and brother, but it is hard to say these days. Everything is based on interests. I believe Kogawa Yoshizumi has his own choice.
After stabilizing the Koga Palace, Hosokawa Saijo will capture part of the Hokushima General Territory that originally belonged directly to the Koga Shogunate, so that Kogawa Yoshizumi's territory will be connected with Shimotsuma Tagatani and Hitachi Satake.
In this case, considering their own interests, Tagatani and Satake will also come to rescue Kogawa Yoshizumi in the winter when Echigo cannot send troops. After all, the Hojo are now powerful. If they cannot resist together, then everyone will definitely die.
With the wisdom of Tagatani Masaki and Satake Yoshishige, they should understand the principle that unity makes strength and division makes weakness.
At the same time, Hosokawa Saijo's strategy can also separate the Koyama clan and the Yuki clan from the Hojo clan. If these two clans are surrounded by the pro-Uesugi camp, they will surely make wise judgments.
This is of course also Sanada Masayuki's strategy!
It is called the "recruiting soldiers with soldiers" strategy!
Hosokawa Saijo only needs to attack a few cities to make the forces in northern Shimotsu, southern Shimotsu, and Higashihitachi surrender to Kogumori Yoshizumi's side, or Uesugi Kenshin's side.
"I wish Saijo a victory!" Kogumori Yoshizumi's guarantee is a sincere wish.
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
After leaving the city, the soldiers who followed Shimotsu looked at Hosokawa Saijo with fiery eyes. After all, Hosokawa Saijo had just led them to sweep the Koga area, and now they are like hungry wolves who have tasted the sweetness.
They have been beaten to the ground by the Hojo family for too long, and this time they finally have a big brother again, and they are proud of it!
Some of the Yamanouchi army's formation men and foot soldiers who had made a fortune following Hosokawa Saemon were left behind to guard the wealth they had just made, and to repair the sluice gates of Koga Palace and help store water in the outer swamps of Koga Palace.
The remaining 9,000 Yamanouchi troops and 4,000 Shimotsuke troops began the general attack on the north. The small fish and shrimps deployed by the Hojo clan here were not worthy of fighting against the combination of Hosokawa Saemon and Sanada Masayuki. The gap in rank was too big, and it was simply a landslide.
The army almost just went to the city to show off its power, and then threatened, and these weakly defended cities opened the city to surrender, announcing that they would support Kogami Yoshizumi as the Kanto general.
As for the former general Ashikaga Yoshiuji, he had already run away, and he must have gone to join the Hojo family in Odawara.
It stands to reason that Koga Castle's terrain would definitely not allow him to escape, but the city was broken too suddenly. Not to mention Ashikaga Yoshiuji didn't expect it, Hosokawa Saemon actually didn't expect it either. At that time, they just sent the vanguard to feint and shout at the entrance of Koga Castle, and the castle collapsed.
The front team rushed into the city to rob, and the rear team was still setting up battle array outside the city.
Koga Castle was said to be scattered, but in fact there was no Yamanouchi army in the city. They all collapsed without fighting. If they wanted to escape in the chaos, they would have a chance.
When Sanada Masayuki used his hands and feet to crawl into the Honmaru of Koga Palace on the mud, the Honmaru was already in a mess, and there was no way to catch Ashikaga Yoshiuji.
This was also a hidden danger, but Ashikaga Yoshiuji was originally just a puppet of the Hojo clan, and his appeal was just so-so. In the end, the Hojo clan had to mobilize a large army to help him fight back before he would have a chance to return.
Anyway, this was not something that Hosokawa Saijo needed to consider, because his strategic goal was to respond to the reinforcements requested by Uesugi Kenshin and Nagano Yomori, and send troops to help Ueno Province and the Kanto territory of the Uesugi clan to relieve the siege.
The current situation is that the siege has been lifted. As for how far the aftermath can be dealt with, it all depends on conscience (robbery). It is not easy to bring the mountain boys out, and everyone has delayed the spring ploughing. How can they go back to see the elders and folks in Shinano if they don’t make enough money? Their wives and children are waiting for them to go out and earn some money, and then measure new clothes.
It's none of my business whether the people under the command live or die, I'm just using the banner of Xiao Gong Lai Chun anyway!
"Naizi, in our general strategy in the north, we must make an emergency landing with the Yuki clan. Yuki Shichiro (Yuki Haruto) has considerable appeal in Soshu, and he is the son of the Oyama clan, which is related to this strategy. implementation.”
"I will do everything as you said. We will conquer Yutaka Castle immediately and then return to Yuki Castle."
"Be sure to contact the Tagaya and Satake families, even if only three to five hundred people come to express their stance."
"Then help me write a handwritten letter to inform these two people."
"How about giving their family five hundred stones of food and grass?"
"It's up to you!"
Hosokawa Zaimei sometimes has to admit that some people have really smart minds. The first one is his father, Harumiya Hosokawa. As long as he sticks his butt out, his father can guess one, two, three, four, five of his actions. Later, it was his brother-in-law, Heita Xiao, who was bald, but his head was as bright as his forehead, and he had a tough mouth, and whatever he said hit the mark.
Now he met Masayuki Sanada, who was full of bad intentions and conquered the troublesome Furukawa Castle in one day and night. And he also knows how to deal with the aftermath and ensure the stability of Furukawa.
It was rare that Hosokawa Harime, who usually behaved quite arrogantly, felt something different in her heart.
"Gengoro, you're not married yet, are you?"