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“Aside from Kaiju Castle, there is nothing else to discuss.” Oda Nobuo wasn’t getting cocky; his advantage was so great that there was no need to concede to the Hojo clan.

"We were guilty of rebelling against the royal army alongside the Uesugi clan, and we are willing to surrender the city. However, after the surrender, the mastermind committed seppuku..." Kasahara Masaharu must have asked about this.

If the Hojo family is guilty, you can kill the entire Hojo family. Why kill us lowly minions? You, the great general, treat us like farts and just let us go.

"Hmm?" Oda Nobuo turned his head and looked at the important retainers on his left and right.

Because Tokugawa Ieyasu married Lady Oichi and they had a son, he became a true member of the Oda clan. After all, his son with Lady Oichi theoretically even had a right to inherit the Oda clan. As Oda Nobunaga's sworn brother, Nobukatsu had to address him as uncle.

Besides him, Shichibei and Niwa Nagahide were also present, while Hashiba Hideyoshi and Hashiba Hidekatsu became Nobunaga's personal attendants. They entered Azuchi Castle, and Mori Terumoto was the governor of Kyoto. Once Odawara Castle opened, Oda Nobunaga would bring his personal attendants to inspect his new territories in Kanto.

He'd make an appearance in his new territory to announce the change of power. Nobunaga had also toured Kyushu before. It was a way to demonstrate his authority as the ruler of the land; he had to show it off.

Takigawa Kazumasu was still sweeping through the defeated Hojo clan forces in various places. Many of them, after their defeat, attempted to attack the supply lines and small units of the army that were marching from Ueno, Hitachi, and Shimotsuke to Odawara Castle. Although they could take Oda Nobukatsu's territory once they reached Odawara Castle, they still had to plunder the Hojo clan's territory on the way there.

So now Oda Nobuo is trying to find out the opinions of Niwa Nagahide, Kawamura Nagayoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. As for Oda Nobuhisa and Oda Nobushige, although they are of extremely high status, one is twelve years old and the other is thirteen years old. Who cares?

“Seppuku is a samurai’s honor, what’s wrong with it!” Niwa Nagahide said with a dark face after being prompted by Nobuyuki.

“Even so, ants still cling to life.” A hint of hope flashed in Kasahara Masataka’s eyes.

Just like I always say, the principal scolded me, saying...

It means he cares about me. If he can curse me like that, then I'm at least a major general.

The fact that Prince Niwa is now taking a high-profile stance instead of remaining silent with a cold laugh indicates that there is room for negotiation, it's just a matter of differing conditions. At this point, betraying one's master isn't out of the question.

"Ants? This Odawara Castle is as magnificent as a mountain, it's hardly ant-like." Tokugawa Ieyasu understood perfectly and also put on the act.

"Exactly, exactly." Seeing their performance, Shichibei naturally had to chime in.

You, Kasahara Masaharu, are naturally an ant, but if you can shake the mountain of Odawara, then you are no longer an ant.

Do you have the ability to get your father, Matsuda Norihide, to open the door?

Those who can open the gate are considered meritorious, and according to custom, not only will their entire clan be protected, but their territory will also be secure. Compared to the Matsuda clan's territory of over one million koku, this small territory of over one million koku is still enough to ensure their security.

"That's exactly what I want, but words are no proof." Kasahara Masaharu came to talk about opening the door, but he couldn't just go back in a daze.

Write a written agreement!

It wasn't just Oda Nobukatsu who signed it; all the Oda clan generals present also did as well.

It also needs to be countersigned. Just in case they turn their backs on you later and pretend nothing ever happened.

"Hmph hmph hmph..." Oda Nobuo laughed. It's just a written agreement, what's the big deal?

"Consider it as your family's 5,000 kan!" Oda Nobuo also wrote a large stroke of his pen, giving away the 20,000 koku of land he had just said.

But at this point, he really couldn't afford to be stingy. Both the Oda and Hojo factions had men making solo runs, and Honda Tadakatsu was also attacking the ring of watchtowers atop the earthen ramparts. It was indeed a difficult battle; the Japanese lacked experience in attacking large castles more similar to those in the Central Plains.

Japanese castles rely on layers of winding ramparts to constantly wear down the attacking force, demoralize them, and defend themselves through strategic maneuvering. Alternatively, they might be purely mountain castles, with only one path leading up the mountain since ancient times – a truly daunting prospect.

Similar to the Central Plains style, it was surrounded by walls on all four sides, with numerous watchtowers and enemy platforms. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians were stationed within, defending every inch of the city. It was truly difficult to know how to capture it. This is similar to the situation during the Wanli Emperor's campaign to aid Korea, when the Ming army attacked a completely unfamiliar Japanese castle, unsure of how to proceed.

The Ming army was very familiar with either attacking towns in the Central Plains or attacking Jurchen mountain strongholds. Generally, breaking through the city gate was considered a success, and they could enter the city to behead the enemy and record their achievements.

The Japanese castle is different. The castle gate is just one gate. Behind it are four, five, six, seven, or eight layers of curved wheels. You have to grind the meat one curved wheel at a time.

This has nothing to do with the level of combat power or the quality of combat skills; it's simply that we haven't experienced it before and have entered the deep waters of war, so we can only feel our way across the river.

Although Oda Nobuo had been drinking and singing with the daimyo of northern Kanto, Oshu, and Ushu these past few days, the lower-ranking samurai had still gone "alone" many times.

Some truly go it alone, while others are hard to say.

In any case, with these mid-level samurai acting alone, the Oda army conducted considerable probing and attacks on various defensive structures of Odawara Castle. Some were captured, while others couldn't even be touched.

It should be noted that the Oda army at this time consisted of seasoned veterans who had been fighting continuously for decades. This was unlike the historical Tokugawa Ieyasu, who led an army that hadn't fought a single battle in over a decade or two and was now filled with useless greenhorns to attack Osaka.

The veterans in front of us are struggling to fight. If this situation drags on for several years without being resolved, Odawara will inevitably become a major threat.

Niwa Nagahide, Kawamura Nagayoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, deputy directors, took the red seal.

Kasahara Masaharu fled back to Odawara Castle under cover of night. Whether he could persuade his father, Matsuda Norihide, to open the castle gates and let the Oda army into the city remains to be seen.

Based on his limited memory, Shichibei recalled that Matsuda Norihide was eventually captured by Hojo Ujimasa after his plot was exposed. His son was also killed without any success in opening the door.

There are many like him in Odawara Castle; it's just a matter of who opens the gate first. Those who can open the gate will be rewarded, but those who can't? Even writing ten or twenty petitions with official seals won't do them any good.

"The morale in the city is indeed wavering." Niwa Nagahide watched Kasahara Masaharu's hurried departure.

"It's just one step away." Tokugawa Ieyasu did not believe that Matsuda Norihide alone could shake the entire Odawara Castle.

Historically, when Hideyoshi attacked Odawara Castle, he also built the so-called "Ishigaki-yama One-Day Castle." This was to intimidate and demoralize the people inside the castle, urging them to surrender.

Hideyoshi was indeed very skilled at siege warfare. He had long since mastered the principle that winning hearts and minds is superior to conquering cities.

"I remember when the Hakata retainers attacked Miki, they used earthworks to breach the castle." Shichibei recalled his glorious days with Hashiba Hideyoshi.

"Earth attack the three trees, water attack the tall pine, without losing a single soldier, starve the Tottori." This rhyme was known throughout Japan, and Oda Nobuo recited it subconsciously.

What does that mean? Odawara Castle was built on Mount Hachiman, right? And to its south was the vast town of Odawara Castle. It was surrounded and protected by a long earthen wall, and fortified with watchtowers, making the entire castle impregnable.

Even the most impregnable castle has its weaknesses. One such weakness is that Odawara Castle itself is effectively "independent" in the northwest corner of the entire castle complex. It's similar to an inner castle, or more accurately, the Hojo clan's "imperial castle."

Could we build a tall earthen platform, or rather, a hill, about 200 meters away from Mount Hachiman? Then we can bring up any kind of Nanban cannon we got from the Ōtomo family.

We'll bombard the main keep of Odawara Castle on Mount Hachiman in the northwest corner, and show them what a Nanban cannon is all about. Even a large breech-loading cannon wouldn't be a problem, although firing a single shell at 200 meters might not be very accurate. But as long as it hits the main keep, it will completely shake Odawara Castle's resolve.

With our hundreds of thousands of troops besieging the city, let alone building an earthen hill, it wouldn't be impossible for us to simply reclaim land from the sea and carve out a road to enter Odawara Castle Town by sea.

"Great!" Xinxiong loves big events, the bigger the better.

We must be bold and unrestrained!

While searching for someone to open the city gates, they mobilized troops to begin construction on the earthen mound. Following the example of Toyotomi Hideyoshi at Bitchu-Takamatsu Castle, they offered a liter of rice and ten coins to any farmer from the surrounding area who brought a rice sack filled with soil to the Odawara construction site.

No limit on the number of times, regardless of age or physical condition, anyone can come. As long as you can bring rice rations filled with soil, you'll get paid.

There are still 100,000 koku of rice in Ejiri Port, Suruga, and tens of thousands of koku in Tsushima, not to mention Pei-cho. It's just rice, as for money? Pei-cho's mints are working day and night to mint Tensho Tsuho coins.

He's a spendthrift; there's no battle that Oda Nobuo wouldn't fight if it involved spending money.

Today, I, Oda Nobuo, will also put on a show of building a "one-day mountain" in Odawara, mobilizing soldiers and civilians to build an earthen mountain at all costs.

At least 100 meters high, that's enough to wash the ground of Odawara Bunmaru Castle Keep on Mount Hachiman. Let Hojo Ujimasa taste the might of the Nanban cannons.

It's done!

The Oda army, which had been enjoying drinks and singing, suddenly mobilized and moved in large numbers towards the west side of Mount Hachiman. Furthermore, the barricades and other obstacles previously set up there were removed. More than two thousand arquebusiers arrived carrying bamboo bundles and wooden shields, ready to exchange fire with the Hojo army, who might come to stop the construction of the mountain.

The lords of northern Kanto and Oshu, who were waiting in the camp to watch, saw that Oda's army was suddenly making a large-scale mobilization and extensively "mobilizing" the farmers in the surrounding areas, and they knew that Nobukatsu was about to make a big move.

However, lacking experience in siege warfare, they were powerless to do anything about it. Meanwhile, the Nanban cannons, including the large breech-loading cannons, which were originally loaded onto the Kuki Yoshitaka ship and transported by oxcart, were being moved towards Tsukiyama.

It's true that the Hojo clan had good governance among its officials and commoners, but you can see that by looking at the people near Oshi Castle. Narita Ujinaga wasn't much worse off to the people of Oshi Castle either; there were even three thousand people willing to enter the castle and defend it to the death with him.

However, upon hearing that Ishida Mitsunari was providing money and rice to assist in the construction of the dam, the people of Oshijo came eagerly. Not only did they come, but they also built the dam for Ishida Mitsunari in a short period of time.

Now that we have Shichibei as a big wallet, what's there to hesitate about? Oda Nobuo waved his hand and said, "Come on, everyone come! As long as you bring your tsuchi, you'll get tons of gold."

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