A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Chapter 63 22. Genin Castle without Blood or Injury

The Ninja Castle that currently stands in front of Nagao Kagetora's 50,000-strong army is a solid castle built on the swamp where the Tone River and Arakawa meet. It was built in the second year of Ende (1478) by Narita Chiyasu, the previous head of the Narita clan. It is one of the most important branch cities of Northern Musashi.

Ninja City is called Turtle City and Floating City. From this name, it can be seen that Ninja City is closely related to water. The castle is surrounded by acres of paddy fields and low-lying wetlands and swamps. Even with a million troops, they can only attack with very few troops along the roads.

In addition, the entire castle is not located on a flat land. Instead, more than ten pieces of flat land in the swamp were artificially reinforced, and then the castle was built on all the flat land, interlocking with each other. Each small village is connected by paths between swamps. Fighting a ninja city is equivalent to fighting a dozen large-scale fortresses that are interconnected and clustered together.

After the castle was built, it was attacked by the Uesugi clan and the Hojo clan. As everyone expected, neither of these two giants was able to capture Ninja City, which was defended by only a few hundred people. Theoretically this castle has not been conquered by force since it was built, that's how realistic it is.

"This is really a fortified city that is difficult to attack!" The generals stood around Nagao Kagetora. Apart from this sigh, they had almost no constructive opinions. Everyone stood on the Marumu Tomb Hill and observed the situation around the castle. Nagao Kagetora quickly distributed tasks and designated combat zones for each. Prepare to attack Ninja City from all sides, and Keqi will go down to the city.

There is no good solution for the time being, but there are many people in Nagao Kagetora, more than 50,000 people, and even a human attack on the city is just a matter of words. A frontal attack is a frontal attack. Anyway, everyone has used it to attack the city. It is the most common method.

Nagano Ye was waiting for Nagao Kagetora to finish assigning tasks, and it was really disgusting to see people attacking the city. So Nagano Yasumasa took the initiative to suggest that he could try to persuade him to surrender. "In the main hall, I am a bit unpopular in the city. Can I send someone to the city to negotiate?"

Hmm~~~? You have acquaintances, and you are really famous. You are a local snake in Guandong, and your network of connections is huge.

Koheita took a few steps back and saw Nagao smiling silently in front of him, so he pretended to ask him unintentionally: "What kind of relationship are Shinano Mamoru (Nagano Yamasa) and Shimotsou Mamoru (Narita Nagayasu) related by marriage? Or is it a retainer? connect?"

Nagao casually introduced on the spot that Shinano Mamoru's sister was Nagao Keih's first wife, Nagao Keih's daughter was Shimo-sou Mamoru's main wife, and Shinano Mamoru's daughter was Shimo-sou Mamoru's son Narita Nagatada's main wife. Anyway, Xiao Pingtai didn't understand this relative relationship. But it seems to be quite close. No wonder Nagano Yasumasa said that he could try to persuade him to surrender.

Nagao Kagetora is not willing to fight such a disgusting battle. It would be best if someone gives it a try.

He immediately said: "Since Shinano Mamoru is willing to give it a try, I will leave everything to Shinano Mamoru." Then Nagao Kagetora turned around and called the generals to discuss.

Koheita silently observed the Kanto generals. When Nagao Kagetora assigned them the task of siege, they all agreed with great enthusiasm, but Koheita didn't see the slightest hint of what they were thinking on their faces.

After Nagano was taking the initiative to go to the city to persuade him to surrender, Xiaoheita saw that there were a few people who couldn't calm down and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. On the surface, he is still calm and calm, but in his heart, he definitely still hopes that Nagano Yomasa will succeed.

Facing the expectant looks of many people, Nagano Yasumasa did not hesitate and sent people with flags into the city to negotiate. Surrender can actually be divided into surrender after defeat, surrender without a fight, and surrender after a fight to show off muscles. The treatment they enjoy will definitely be different, depending on how Narita Nagatai and his son make their choice.

However, Nagao Kagetora himself was obviously prepared to use war to promote peace. After all, it was the first time in his life that he had fought for the prosperity of more than 50,000 people. It would be a pity not to show off that you have many soldiers and generals!

Turning around to the next day, the armies each entered their starting positions, but the battle had not yet begun. Some people came out of the city with flags and shouted for a temporary truce.

The person who came was indeed a member of the Narita clan, Taisuki Narita (the old man who suffered a stroke in the Puppet City, the father of the protagonist Narita clan). He claimed that the Narita family was originally Uesugi's retainer, but because of Hojo's Ling He was forced to submit to the Hojo clan, but now he is willing to do anything and is willing to be taken in.

Nagao Kagetora looked at him in amusement, Narita Taiji chattered, and Nagao Kagetora remained silent. Nagano Yamasa was still very eye-catching, after all, he was considered a relative, so he came out to say that the Narita family is now paying tribute, which can be regarded as setting an example for the people of the Musashi country, so that others can follow suit in the future.

It would be easier if someone took the lead. Ashikaga Nagao's Nagao immediately came out to persuade, saying that the Narita clan also resisted the Hojo clan's attack at the beginning. It was indeed after the Ogitani family fell and the leader was completely untenable in the Musashi Kingdom that he surrendered to the Hojo clan.

Others, more or less, you said something to me, and it was treated as a face-off to the Narita family. Feng shui is changing, and when someone is in trouble, leave a trace of love.

After everyone finished speaking, Nagao Kagetora hit the back of his hand with a riding crop, stood up, looked at Narita Taiji who was kneeling on the ground, and said: "I feel the feelings of the general, and ask the generals to provide two thousand military rations to him." Shi, take 1,500 people with you to join the expedition."

This condition is not too harsh. No matter how small the Narita family is, it is still a powerful leader with close to 10,000 guan. It is normal to mobilize 1,500 people. As for food, the Narita family may bleed a lot. But who asked you to follow Hojo? This punishment is for all the people of the Hojo clan to see. It's also to protect Nagao Kagetora's face. I can't forgive you without asking for anything. Get some rice and share it with your little brother so that others can continue to follow him.

Narita Taiji breathed a sigh of relief and directly expressed his willingness to accept it without even thinking about it, so he opened the city without blood. Nagao Kagetora felt a little unfinished, but the Kanto generals secretly rejoiced that the immortals were sharing the spoils in vain.

The war had only been fought for a few days, and a lot of rice was obtained in vain. As expected, it was not in vain. The good thing of not working and eating for free does not happen every day. If you can come across it once, you are considered lucky.

And here, the Narita clan of Musashi Ninja City is indeed the leader of the Wuzhou people. They just saw the change of flag in Ninja City, and the Hojo third-level scales thrown to the ground have not yet cooled down. Turning around, the Nishikoda clan came with food and troops, and Matsuyama Castle, which was a little further away, surrendered immediately.

Speaking of which, Ueda Asanao of Matsuyama Castle can be considered a semi-independent and powerful national. He was very discerning when he sold Ogiya Asadai, and now he sells Hojo Ujiyasu cleanly and without any sloppiness. It's really a grass on the wall, it will fall wherever the wind blows.

In this way, the army opened the road to Kawagoe and Edo without any obstruction.

The march was really smooth as never before.

The 30-day new book period is over, with 133,000 words.

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