Chapter 326 The Battle of Siege

Li Xiao learned from the letter that after the battle of Sakiyama, the Takeda family swept Suruga with a strong wind is a foregone conclusion.

On December 13, after Shingen Takeda defeated the Imagawa army, his army entered the main castle of Imagawa, the center of Suruga, Sunfu Castle.

On the same day, Tokugawa Ieyasu stormed the Toke of Imagawa family with 7,000 troops, and then captured Hamamatsu Castle.

Under two strikes, Imagawa's rule in Suruga Toe disappeared.

The Imagawa clan was really almost alone, and went to Kakegawa Castle to go to the Hina Tai dynasty.

Nowadays, the family is in Yuanjiang, and Suruga's rule is only three or four cities left.

After reading the letter, Li Xiao sighed. As in history, the famous Imagawa family, who has been entrenched in Suruga for two hundred years, has almost lost its territory under Takeda Shingen's full blow.

According to this historical event, as an ally of Imagawa, and at the same time thinking that to prevent the Takeda family from annexing Suruga Toe to become bigger, the Hojo family is bound to intervene in this matter.

At that time, Ranwen Novel.com, the Hojo clan, the number one famous in the Kanto area, and the Takeda clan will have a **** battle with each other.

However, under the control of the Hojo family, Shingen Takeda will not be able to give Li Xiao a single-handed support in the next few years to attack Yuezhong.

The meaning of Takeda Shingen's letter is to let Li Xiaohao do it for himself.

At the same time, it also brought a very bad news to Li Xiao.

That is, the Hojo family is likely to form an alliance with the Uesugi family in the near future.

The secret tune between Hojo and Uesugi is not a matter of one day or two, but the Takeda family has basically grasped this situation through a large number of meticulous explorations in Hojo Uesugi.

At the moment, the two alliances lack nothing but dignity and put this matter on the stage.

If the two parties reached an alliance, the Xiangyue Alliance (called historically) would be incredible for the time.

Because one of the conditions for Uesugi Kenshin to inherit the Kanto rule was that the former leader Uesugi Constitutionalist asked Kenshin to destroy the Hojo family.

Therefore, in Yonglu four years, Uesugi Kenshin led the 100,000 Kanto coalition forces out of Odawara.

For Uesugi Kenshin, the conclusion of the Xiangyue Alliance means a betrayal of Uesugi's constitutional commitment.

Not only that, Uesugi Kenshin also acknowledged the status of Ashikaga Yoshiki, the puppet that the Hojo family had been supporting.

When Ashikaga Takashi entered Kyoto, his fourth son Ashikaga stayed behind in Kamakura, the center of Kanto.

Ashikaga was ordered to control the ten Kanto countries, and its power was not inferior to the Ashikaga clan in Kyoto. Ashikaga was known as the Kanto Kōkai and also the Kamakura Kōkai.

Because the Ashikaga clan is far away from the emperor, he holds the power, and the Ashikaga clan in Kyoto Rinai, forming a situation where the weight of the East and the West are opposed to each other.

In order to monitor the Kamakura family, the shogunate has always been led by his maiden family, Uesugi, as the Kanto governor, plus gold medalist Suruga guarding the Imagawa family, together to supervise the Kamakura Seki.

In fact, before the rise of the Hojo family in Kanto, the situation in Kanto has always been a situation in which the Kanto governor and the Kamakura chief are biting each other.

However, in name, Kamakura Seki was still the highest authority in Kanto, and the latter Kamakura Koki was weak. The office was also moved from Kamakura to Furukawa and was renamed Furukawa Koki.

At present, the Furukawa family has long been a puppet at the hands of the Hojo clan, and Ashikaga himself is also the son-in-law of the Hojo clan.

And the Hojo family now let Uesugi Kenshin recognize the status of Furukawa as the governor of the Kanto family, which is tantamount to using the imaginary name of righteousness to suppress Uesugi Kenshin's head and let him recognize that the Hojo family is the real Kanto. Lord.

After all, in name, Furukawa is the real master of Kanto.

After that, Kenshin Uesugi never sent troops to Kanto again, just like giving up the Kanto strategy plan.

For Li Xiao, there is nothing worse than this. Kenshin Uesugi gave up his plan of Kanto Raiders, thinking that he would concentrate on the Yuezhong Raiders and proceed with Shangluo.

It also means that Kenshin Uesugi will use all his strength next year to attack Yuezhong.

So now Li Xiao's power, even with a Shiina clan, can withstand Uesugi Kenshin's full blow.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao looked at Muzhou City outside the military tent, with a more solemn look on his face.

Now he is more determined and determined to take down Muzhou City.

In the twelfth year of Yonglu, the first month of the year was 1569 AD.

The Takeda army has been struggling for the second month under Muzhou Castle.

In the cold wind, everything is lonely.

Wearing thick fur clothes, Li Xiao patrolled the barracks accompanied by Kinoshita Xiuchang and several people nearby.

Outside the tents, the guards of the Zuqings, almost wrapped up in clothes for three people, wrapped themselves into a big zongzi.

In the barracks, with the exception of a few guards, most people crowded in the barracks, cuddling each other to keep warm.

These books were trembling aside, and those who were able to move, saw Li Xiaoqin coming to visit, they couldn't help showing excitement, and a few people were even moved to tears.

"Meet the Lord Lord."

Seeing Li Xiao's personal arrival, everyone bowed down.

Seeing Li Xiao's hard perseverance in the city over the past month, his subordinates couldn't help but feel no resentment towards him. On the contrary, they were still loyal to him, and couldn't help being moved.

In the other military tent, there was an exception to the charcoal fire in broad daylight, while the other side of the fire was simmering hot soup little by little with a small fire.

This is the wounded camp in the military tent.

This is specially set up to treat wounded soldiers.

With the severe cold weather, insufficient firewood, and lack of food, many soldiers fell ill.

Worried that the sick soldiers would affect the morale of the army, and in order to better take care of them, the lieutenant will intensively take care of the wounded soldiers.

Despite this, the number of people falling ill every day is still increasing.

In the wounded camp, despite the best care, the death of illness is still inevitable.

"Lord, seven more people died of illness today, the most day so far."

Hearing this news, Li Xiao couldn't help but feel troubled.

Just when Li Xiao was struggling under Muzhou City.

The situation in Suruga has changed again.

On the 5th day of the first month, Hojo clan sent an envoy to the Takeda family in the name of New Year’s congratulations, and formally negotiated with Takeda Shingen, claiming that there was nothing wrong with the Imagawa clan before, but now the Takeda clan has already executed punishment. After the incident, Hojo clan Yasushi I hope that Shingen can recite the relationship in the Three Kingdoms Alliance and cede the land of Suruga and return it to Shima Imagawa.

To this request, Shingen Takeda did not refuse and did not agree.

However, Hojo's Kang lost his patience.

On the 26th of the first lunar month, the Hojo family sent troops to Suruga to fight the Takeda family.

Hojo Shiyasu, the Sagami lion, finally extended his paw to the Takeda family.

Hojo Clan Yasushi and his son, Hojo Clan Masaru, led the army from Odawara.

In order to fight Takeda Shingen, the Hojo family used a force of 45,000.

As the number one name in the Kanto region, these 45,000 military forces are not the limit mobilization of the Hojo clan, but the number of troops has far surpassed the Takeda clan.

The momentum of the Hojo Army is like a rainbow, from Izu Mishima to Sakai Mountain Hachimanbara, soldiers and horses are endless on the way, and the third-order Qi's flags cover the sky and the earth.

After hearing the news, Takeda Shingen also led the Jiashin army to Sakai Mountain to fight Hojo's Kang.

In the face of Takeda Shingen, the Hojo clan did not rashly send an army to fight, while Takeda Shingen was photographed by the Hojo clan, and he did not attack the Hojo army.

In turn, the two armies began to confront each other as long as the island of Chuanzhong on the Hachiman Plain under the Sakai Mountain.

In February, the wooden boat is under the city.

The Takeda army under the castle has been through a bitter winter.

In the cold winter, the two reserve teams of Li Xiao's besieged city had a staggering 300 people attrition due to freezing and starvation.

In any battle that Li Xiao experienced, the two teams of Banner and Snake Tail had never paid such a heavy price.

Under the leadership of Li Xiao's strong perseverance, the Takeda army is still firmly nailed under the castle, forming a tendency to encircle the Muzhou city.

It is now spring, everything is recovering, and gradually the coldest winter has passed.

The most difficult time for Li Xiao is that Ranwen Novels.com has passed, and there is an endless supply of supplies from Yuezhong Salt House merchants.

Seeing that the supplies were getting more abundant, Li Xiao ordered the newly surrendered Yuezhong Kano family to lead his army to join the siege camp.

After nearly three months of siege, Muzhou City finally showed signs of inability to hold on.

Just this morning, cooking smoke reignited on the head of Muzhou City.

It was not for other reasons, but the castle lord Ishiguro Chengzuna cooked all the food left in the castle together to entertain the samurai under his command.

After that, Ishiguro Chengzuna led the samurai in the city and carried out a desperate charge against the Takeda army outside the city.

However, this charge was easily repelled by the Takeda army who was waiting for it.

Ishiguro Chengzuna was wounded and fled back to the city. Afterwards, the castle tower in Muzhou Castle was ignited with a raging fire.

In despair, Ishiguro Chengzuna burned the castle tower after killing his family, and killed himself in it.

Some of the other Ishiguro warriors were martyred, while others fled.

At the moment when Muzhou City was captured, countless Takeda soldiers shouted in excitement, raising their guns and cheering.

Three months of hard work has finally paid off at this moment.

After three months of long siege, Li Xiao captured Muzhou City and completed the unification of Sheshui County.

"Lord, it's unbelievable, we succeeded." Kinoshita Xiuchang was also a little excited at the moment.

Li Xiao was noncommittal.

All the generals looked at the burning wooden boat city.

Hideharu Kano also said: "So I can comfort the soldiers who died of freezing under the castle~lightnovelpub.net~."

Seeing the joy on the faces of the soldiers, Li Xiao also nodded, but his face was not a little bit of joy.

With a secret letter sent yesterday in his arms, Kenshin Uesugi put down the long rebellion in Honjo.

Honjo's long rebellion is destined to be a cup. The Takeda Army West Ueno Corps should have been transferred by Takeda Shingen to attack Suruga.

Before, Ming Clan Ash, after hearing the news that the Takeda Clan had not sent troops, also changed his mind halfway through.

Therefore, Honjo Shinzo is almost one person against Uesugi Kenshin's counterinsurgency army.

However, Honjo Fanchang also showed enough strength to defend the castle firmly in the siege of Uesugi Army, and in a counter assault, he also killed the famous Echigo general Masaru Ikube.

However, the prosperous Honjo still lost to Uesugi Kenshin, and finally took the eldest son as a hostage to subdue Uesugi's family.

After Uesugi Kenshin resolved his worries, he could finally put the crusade against Yuezhong on his agenda. . ..