Chapter 514: The Plague of Kyoto

Tokugawa Iemitsu looked at his side, the less than 50,000 people, and suddenly felt sadness in his heart, with tears in his eyes, and sighed to the sky:

"I, the ancestor of Tokugawa, how heroic I was, established our Tokugawa shogunate, but I don't want to be defeated in my hands today, my Tokugawa family is light, and I have no shame to face the sages of the Tokugawa family!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu's sigh, the surrounding Tokugawa family diehards, were all moved, and Tokugawa Iemitsu sighed together, and the entire army was suddenly immersed in a sense of grief.

Yamada Nobunaga saw that Tokugawa Iemitsu had lost his fighting spirit, thinking that he was looking for Zhu Hao for revenge, and he had to rely on the Tokugawa family, so he hurriedly stepped forward and comforted:

"General, don't grieve, although we have suffered some losses this time, but at the moment we still have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, we can rely on Kyoto to defend, measure the Ming army, and we can't help us!"

"Besides, the subordinates have just carefully observed, the Ming army retreated in an orderly manner, not like it was to lure us, but for it, it seemed like it was really going to retreat!"

"As long as the Ming army retreats, then there is still no one in the entire Great Japan who can compete with you, the general, and then your Great Japan will still be in your hands!"

"This time, you are also just right, see the faces of some people clearly, and wait for the Ming army to retreat, you can teach them some lessons, let them know what kind of fate it will be to betray you, General, which will be conducive to the stability of your rule!"

I have to say that Yamada Nobunaga knows the character of Tokugawa Nobunaga very well, and if he is so happy, if Zhu Hao hears it, he will definitely at least reprimand Yamada Nobunaga, and he doesn't want Tokugawa Nobunaga to be really attracted by Yamada Nobunaga's words after hearing it, and he remembers that after the retreat of the Ming army, he ruthlessly cleaned up the picture of those local forces.

At this moment, Tokugawa Iemitsu gives people the feeling that he is already penniless and worried about food and clothing, but under the flickering of Yamada Nobunaga, he imagines the day of becoming the richest man.

This is a typical utopianism, the confrontation between the two armies, in addition to the strength of both sides, the character of the commander also affects the outcome of the entire battle.

Tokugawa Iemitsu's unrealistic and pragmatic character seems to have written his ending at the very beginning of the war between the two sides.

In Tokugawa Iemitsu, after being extremely moved by what Yamada Nobunaga said, Tokugawa Iemitsu's face gradually recovered, and he patted Yamada Nobunaga on the shoulder and said:

"Yamada-kun, you are worthy of being my chief of staff, after listening to what you just said, Ben Jiang suddenly felt much better in his heart!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu completely forgot at this moment that it was this Yamada Nobunaga who had just instigated him to continue the war, which led to this defeat.

Yamada Nobunaga listened to Tokugawa Iemitsu's words, and naturally couldn't help but be polite, and complimented Tokugawa Iemitsu a few words.

In the face of Yamada Nobunaga's compliment, Tokugawa Iemitsu naturally smiled and accepted all the orders, just when Tokugawa Iemitsu was immersed in Yamada Nobunaga's compliment, Xu Chuzheng was ordered to leave a huge surprise for Tokugawa Iemitsu in Kyoto, Wajima.

Xu Chu accelerated the execution of Zhu Hao's orders, and on the other hand, he paid attention to the movements of Tokugawa Iemitsu's department, in fact, with Xu Chu's 30,000 elite soldiers and horses, and Tokugawa Iemitsu's 50,000 remnants of the defeated generals, a big battle is also very good.

However, Zhu Hao first did not want to lose the Ming soldiers for no reason, and the second was to return the way to the other, so the order he gave to Xu Chu was that after occupying the Japanese island and Kyoto, after carrying out his deployment, he must evacuate the Japanese island of Kyoto before Tokugawa Iemitsu returned.

The military order was like a mountain, and Xu Chu naturally did not dare to disobey Zhu Hao's order.

Therefore, after Xu Chu had deployed everything, he evacuated safely before Tokugawa Iemitsu returned to Kyoto.

After Tokugawa Iemitsu returned to Kyoto, he heard that Kyoto had fallen into the hands of the Ming army, but the Ming army had evacuated before he returned, which made him feel very puzzled, and he quickly summoned his chief of staff, Yamada Nobunaga asked:

"Yamada-kun, you said that the army had already occupied Kyoto, why did you evacuate before the general returned?"

"Even if they feel that they are not defeated by the general's soldiers and horses, they should always resist before they know that since the war with the Ming army, the general has never seen the phenomenon that the Ming army fled before fighting!"

Yamada Nobunaga listened to Tokugawa Iemitsu's words, and immediately bowed down and said:

"Congratulations to the general, congratulations to the general!"

Yamada Nobunaga listened to Tokugawa Iemitsu's words, and suddenly said a little puzzled:

"Where is the joy of this general, and where does the joy come from?"

Yamada Nobunaga listened to Tokugawa Iemitsu's doubts, and immediately explained:

"General, didn't you ask your subordinates just now, why did the Ming army flee without a fight after occupying Kyoto?"

"This is the happy event of the general!"

"If it is expected to be good, it is that the Ming Dynasty's attack on Kyoto is fake, the retreat is true, and their attack on Kyoto is just to bluff and cover the retreat of their army!"

"And the withdrawal of this Ming army is naturally a great joy for the general!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu listened to Yamada Nobunaga's analysis, and thought that his analysis was reasonable, and his expression became a little excited:

"Yamada-kun, what you said makes sense, it seems that the evacuation of this Ming army is true!"

Tokugawa Iemitsu said, and immediately ordered:

"Come on, pay close attention to the movements of the Ming army, if they really evacuate, report to the general as soon as possible, Ben will clean up those half-hearted guys one by one, and let them know the fate of betraying my Tokugawa Iemitsu!"

With Tokugawa Iemitsu's order, within a few days, he received news that all the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had left Wajima.

After receiving this news, Tokugawa Iemitsu immediately issued an order to reorganize his troops and prepare to conquer those families who were half-hearted with him.

Just when Tokugawa Iemitsu was preparing everything, a plague broke out in Kyoto on Wajima, and it quickly spread throughout the city, and everyone in Kyoto was in danger and fell into panic.

Because of this sudden plague, Tokugawa Iemitsu no longer had the intention of conquest of those families who were half-hearted towards him, and he just wanted to leave Kyoto and hide to avoid being infected with the plague.

There is a saying that blessing is not a single line of disaster, and Tokugawa Iemitsu responded to this sentence at this moment, when he just wanted to leave Kyoto, Xu Chu's retreating army of 30,000 went and returned, and surrounded Kyoto again.

Seeing this, Tokugawa Iemitsu hurriedly asked someone to call Xu Chu, telling Xu Chu that there was a plague outbreak in the city, and asked Xu Chu to leave quickly, leaving a way for himself to live, and also a way to live in the city.

After Xu Chu heard Tokugawa Iemitsu's shout, he immediately replied:

"Since the plague has broken out in the city, for the sake of humanitarianism, the people in the city cannot be allowed to go out to infect others, and they will be locked down here now, and all the people in the city are not allowed to leave the city, otherwise they will be killed!"