Chapter 73 32. We Are Very Professional at Robbery

Nagao Kagetora had been charging back and forth for a long time, and he had already changed to his third horse. He was definitely not made of iron. Although Nagao Kagetora was quite tired now, he was more radiant than before, and there was an impulse to bow down to him.

Xiao Pingtai thought to himself that this was probably the legendary aura of kingship. Anyway, even the lord Yamanouchi Yoshiharu and the strong lord Ashikaga Yoshifuji did not have such a strong aura.

Many people do not believe that when someone was born, there was a strange fragrance in the room or a red light was attached to him. Xiao Pingtai probably did not believe in any natural phenomena. It sounds unreliable that Emperor Xuanyuan and Xiang Yu both had double pupils and were bound to reach the top of the world. But the aura of a person and the kind of infectious power he exuded must be experienced by many people.

To put it in a more modern way, this thing is called personal charm. It can naturally attract people, make people bow down to you, and willingly become your younger brother.

In a good mood, Nagao Kagetora took the hand of the excited Yamauchi Yoshikatsu and walked to the top of the fort together, shaking and pointing to the Odawara Castle several miles away. The two stood on the high ground to give instructions and distribute orders.

Soon, 5,000 Nagao troops and 3,000 Oyu troops entered Odawara Town, and then took control of the gates and checkpoints, cleared the remnants of the defeated soldiers along the streets, cleaned up the corpses and collected the available weapons and flags.

As for the other troops, they were stopped and temporarily stopped outside the city. As for why. It's very simple. The population of Odawara Town exceeds 40,000, and countless craftsmen and merchants have accumulated huge wealth and materials. These things are exciting no matter who sees them.

After completely controlling all the joints in the town and guarding all the gates of Odawara, Nagao Kagetora summoned the Kanto generals and said very bluntly that they were not allowed to enter the town to plunder, and all the work would be done by the Nagao army (after all, we are the most professional). This time, the Kanto generals looked very ugly, but soon he allowed each family to send trusted samurai as a supervisor to check the specific gains of the Nagao army. Then the distribution is based on the effort made during the siege.

Now, those daimyo who were forced to charge the city by Nagao Kagetora before were all delighted. I have fought hard to charge the city. They all said, "Just listen to the orders of Lord Tansho." Then, in a harmonious atmosphere, the most joyful military meeting so far ended.

On the second day, the observation group of hundreds of people from the Kanto coalition entered the town. In front of Hojo Ujiyasu and his son in the city, nearly 10,000 Nagao soldiers broke through the doors of the townspeople who had been frightened all night from the streets to the alleys. They were very skilled in lifting the floor, pulling the beams, and knocking on the walls. It turned out that their methods were very professional and skilled.

They looked more familiar than those who lived here. They could find the bamboo baskets hanging on the beams, not to mention the warehouses, kitchens, bedrooms and living rooms. Wherever they went to find something, they would definitely get something. The skill points for robbery must have been maxed out.

Even the few copper coins pressed under the pillars when the house was built could be turned out by him. There was nothing left out. They didn't want to torture at all, and didn't even ask the owner of the house. They did everything themselves. Some people even dug directly based on the different growth and development of the weeds in the yard, and sure enough, there was a jar of copper coins underground.

This made the observation group of the Kanto generals admire it very much. It was indeed right not to rob by themselves. These methods should be learned well, and they should take out a small notebook to record them one by one for future use.

However, in just two days, the entire Odawara Town was plundered three feet, from livestock and carriages to rice bowls and straw sandals. Everything that the Nagao soldiers thought was useful was pulled out. From samurai to foot soldiers, everyone was bloated and stuffed with all kinds of things from robbery.

As for Nagao Kagetora himself, he directly controlled the rice warehouses and rice houses everywhere. After all, money was only a personal possession, and rice was his true love. He also allowed the soldiers to hide some small things privately, and most of the remaining things were registered and placed in the camp outside the city. The adjective "piled up like a mountain" is very accurate.

After a thorough search, Nagao Kagetora mobilized all the men aged 15 to 60 and women aged 15 to 40 in the town, and together with the civilians who had been arrested before, began to completely dig up and destroy the magnificent earthen ramparts that had been painstakingly built by four generations (why four generations? Because Ujimasa had nominally taken over, and although Ujiyasu was in power, he was in a retired status) and filled all the soil into the wide water moat on the spot.

No matter how far the battle would go, the vast and wide outer rampart of Odawara Castle, which was five miles long, must not be left. If this earthen wall is not destroyed, as long as things are a little bit reversal, Odawara will still be the most difficult city in Kanto to attack and fall.

So under the gaze of the Kanto gangsters, countless people were driven, shovel by shovel, and the Odawara earthen ramparts that were built with countless manpower and material resources disappeared little by little in the eyes of the people.

At the same time, Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was invited by Nagao Kagetora, arrived late with two thousand men under the banner of Nibiki Ryo and Akatori Horse. No one would believe that he didn't come on time. Since the retreat of Hojo Ujiki and Matsuda Yasugano, there were not many people defending Niuyama Castle and Yamanaka Castle. With Imagawa Yoshimoto's ability, he would fight for half a month?

He is indeed a cunning talent! I am afraid that if I come too early, I will be thrown into the meat grinder of Odawara, and I will attack the city with my name as a samurai foot soldier.

Kobayata estimated that this person must have planted people nearby to observe and report Nagao Kagetora's movements at any time, and come to pick peaches when things are about to settle. This method is very vulgar, but effective.

Nagao Kagetora was not a fool, and he would not expose Imagawa Yoshimoto's reservation of strength and not to participate in the siege. On the surface, he still pretended to be flattered. Imagawa Yoshimoto also received a grand welcome from Nagao Kagetora, who was a brother on the surface, and held a grand banquet for the Kanto generals.

During the banquet, the already cheerful atmosphere became even more lively. A group of Kanto salted fish who did not contribute much to brag to Imagawa Yoshimoto, saying how powerful they were, how they commanded the soldiers to fight the Hojo army for three hundred rounds, and fought repeatedly. Anyway, Imagawa Yoshimoto was very well-mannered and would not expose them at all.

Since Nagao Kagetora got angry last time, he should have realized that it was not right, and now he has restrained himself a lot. He didn't say much when he heard them bragging, and listened to them quietly.

Seeing that the once mighty Odawara Fortress was now in pieces and the flags inside the city were crooked, Imagawa Yoshimoto volunteered to send someone into the city to negotiate.

Nagao Kagetora was worried about not having a heavyweight intermediary, so he happily agreed.