Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Hero Sees the Same Thing

Soon Hosokawa Katsumoto knew that he wanted to use diplomatic means to solve the Ming Dynasty's interference in Japan, but it was impossible.

Wang Ying didn't see him at all.

And the people he sent to Nagasaki did not see His Royal Highness the King of Nagasaki.

The reason is simple.

Zhu Qizhen set several conditions for Japan, ceding Nagasaki and seizing Japan's gold and silver deposits, although it was somewhat difficult, but in general Ashikaga Yoshimasa could accept it, and Hosokawa Katsumoto could also accept it.

However, the abolition of the Japanese emperor may not be willing to agree to this matter.

Wang Ying and Ashikaga Yoshimasa didn't say a word.

Although the emperor no longer has power, the legal system of the Ashikaga family to rule the world still comes from the emperor, even if the battle of Kyoto was a mess, Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Sect all moved to restrain their subordinates and not to harass the emperor, which can be seen.

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There was already a lot of anti-Ming sentiment among the Japanese people.

Whoever agrees to abolish the emperor is to renunce himself and lose his righteousness in ruling Japan.

Not to mention that the Ashikaga family is divided into two. The power was usurped by his subordinates, and the righteous name of the shogunate has become the biggest asset of the Ashikaga family. Even if the Hosokawa family is strong and occupies the ten countries of Japan, it still cannot have an absolute advantage over Japan, and once the emperor is abolished, the Hosokawa family will become a loner.

Neither side dared to agree to such a political adventure.

Wang Ying didn't say anything, he weighed it, in fact, only Ashikaga Yoshimasa could do this, and when the Ming Dynasty broke the Western Army and sent Ashikaga Yoshimasa back to Kyoto, there were not many people directly under Ashikaga Yoshimasa.

Unable to contend with the Ming Dynasty.

What should the emperor do then? It's up to the Ashikaga family.

It's just that Wang Ying didn't expect it.

Hosokawa Katsumoto was very decisive, and once the peace talks failed, he marched eastward.

Mobilize all the troops of the Hosokawa family, plus the people of the various subordinate departments, known as 200,000 people, although there are many false fingers. But there are also hundreds of thousands.

and erected a crusade against the thief.

The civil war with Ashikaga Yoshimasa will be expanded into a war between tomorrow

In this way, Ashikaga Yoshishi has a more favorable supporter.

Hosokawa Katsumoto's decisiveness shook the Eastern Army.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa handed everything over to Wang Ying, and even Ashikaga Yoshimasa hinted through Ise Sadako that he wanted to take refuge in China once the big thing didn't work out.

As for the Yamana family, the Spo family, and the Hatakeyama family are even more panicked.

The victory that Wang Ying had just achieved was of no use at all. made Wang Ying very angry.

He had already asked the court for troops through King Yu.

Even if the troops are transferred from Beijing, get on the ship in Tianjin, and then go ashore from Qingzhou City, it will take a month or two.

now

The Western Army is coming in a big way, where does Wang Ying have a month or two to wait.

Wang Ying is a little mediocre in terms of using troops, but in the end, he participated in the Battle of Haixi, the Battle with Annan, and he also participated in the pacification of pirates on weekdays.

Definitely not a person who doesn't know soldiers.

He weighed the advance and retreat at the moment, but he could never retreat, he could imagine that as soon as the Ming Dynasty retreated, these three families were estimated to immediately surrender to the Hosokawa family.

When the time comes, not to mention Wang Ying's loss of great prestige. The task given by His Majesty could not be completed. It was just that Wang Ying was cowardly before the battle was spread, Wang Ying. Not only Wang Ying, but Wang Ying's family of people and horses are going to be beaten into the cold palace, don't think about any promotions in the future, it would be good to let them sit on the cold bench until they died.

After all, after the Ming Dynasty chased the thorns in the north and destroyed Annan in the south, there was already a kind of proud morale, and it was absolutely not allowed to do so.

Through contact with Japanese scouts, Wang Ying also knew that Japan was not without cavalry, but the Japanese cavalry, from horse tactics, was scum in Wang Ying's eyes.

With 5,000 elite horsemen, the Ming Dynasty has the strategic initiative, and if it wins, it can fight, and if it loses, it can go.

Even if you lose the battle, going back and being punished is much better than going away without a fight. At least the Western Army is several times larger than the Eastern Army, which is also true.

So, when the Western army attacked in a big way.

Wang Yingli said: "Although the Western Army is numerous, it is not unbreakable, and now you are leaving without a fight, where are you going to flee to, flee to the Kanto region?" ”

"Even if you go to Kanto, will you be able to escape Hosokawa Katsumoto's pursuit?"

"Even if you can escape Hosokawa Katsumoto's pursuit, do you still want your family territory?"

"I'm an outsider, and I still have the heart to fight, but don't you have the heart to fight to the death?"

Yamana Soquan came out and said, "Yamana is willing to fight to the death with Hosokawa Katsumoto. ”

Yamana Zongquan expressed his position, and other daimyo expressed their positions.

Wang Ying said: "Since Hosokawa Katsumoto dares to come, we are waiting for them here." Wang Ying pointed a little bit at a place on the map. It's none other than Sekigahara, which became famous in later generations.

It was the place where the Tokugawa family and the Toyotomi family fought a decisive battle.

It was the end of Japan's Sengoku period.

The reason why the Tokugawa family and the Toyotomi family chose to fight here is not for nothing.

It is the boundary between the Kanto and Kansai regions of Japan, and it is a major transportation route on the Japanese mainland. And Sekigahara is also a small plain of little size.

It is the best place for field battles.

The reason why Wang Ying chose this place is that he doesn't trust any Japanese.

It's not just because the departments of the Eastern Army are already defeated generals. Morale in the army is decadent. Combat effectiveness is worrisome. It's also because of the complex relationship between Japanese people, you have me, and I have you.

Who knows, halfway through the fight, a certain part defected. That's a lot more embarrassing.

In this way, in Wang Ying's view, this battle was basically the Ming army's 30,000 against the west of Japan

200,000 troops. To win more with less, we must give full play to the advantages of geography.

Therefore, the decisive battle place chosen by Wang Ying naturally cannot be a wide plain. And the small plain of Sekigahara can naturally restrain the deployment of troops on both sides.

Whether it's the Mino area in the east of Sekigahara or the Gyeonggi area in the west of Sekigahara, there is no better place to be.

The so-called heroes see the same thing.

And at this moment, Hosokawa Katsumoto is also explaining to Ashikaga Yoshishi. He also set the place of the decisive battle in Sekigahara.

First, Sekihara was the only way to advance eastward, and secondly, Hosokawa Katsumoto was afraid of the cavalry of the Ming army.

The cavalry of the Ming army swept through several cities, and even one or two teams of cavalry appeared in the Gyeonggi area. The vicinity of Kyoto is frightened three times a day, and people are panicked.

Hosokawa Katsumoto didn't send people to deal with it, but the Japanese cavalry was not a dimensional creature at all than the Ming cavalry.

The cavalry of the Ming army has gone through a fierce battle with the tile spurs, and now even if you look at the world, it is also a first-class light cavalry. , the Japanese infantry can't catch up, and the Japanese cavalry can be killed by their backhand.

Hosokawa Katsumoto also had no good way to take the cavalry of the Ming army.

This is also the reason why Hosokawa Katsumoto chose to fight a decisive battle in the Sekigahara area. Sekigahara is a small plain surrounded by mountains, and fighting in such a place will limit tactics such as cavalry harassment and detours.

And there are many Japanese troops.

Ashigaru, which had the most during Japan's Warring States period, also appeared on the stage of history during the Onin Rebellion.

This time, although Hosokawa Katsumoto did not organize 200,000 troops, it was not much different, and he had only one idea, that is, to use a sea of people to kill the Ming army.

Hosokawa Katsumoto is also self-aware.

The Ming army is famous, how can he not know. That's why there is so much momentum.

And Hosokawa Katsumoto is also indispensable to move around secretly, I don't know how many ninjas quietly haunt the military tents of the major names of the Eastern Army, Hosokawa Katsumoto generously said that only if they give up Ashikaga Yoshimasa, many places can be conceded.

Even this rumor is very widespread.

For a time, people in the Eastern Army were panicked.

Although Wang Ying knew that the Yamana family, the Spo family, and the Hatakeyama family all had this huge contradiction with the Hosokawa family, and it was impossible to easily defect, but he also had to be on guard against one or two.

Wang Ying could only invite Ashikaga Yoshimasa to join the Ming army as the Chinese army, and recruit the heads of each family into the Chinese army. The armies of each family are controlled by the sons of the head of the family.

In this way, a trace of mutual trust between the two sides is guaranteed.

Under this situation where the western army was raging and mighty, the dark tide within the eastern army was surging, and the intrigue was non-stop, the armies of the two sides gathered near Sekigahara.

When the Japanese people saw this, they had already fled.

The armies of both sides were clear-cut and filled this small mountain plain.

The Great War broke out.