From the first month of the seventh year of Motogame (1574) to April, Heite Honshu mobilized an army of 70,000 people from inside and outside to besiege Kitada Gukyo at Okochi Castle in Ise Province for three consecutive months.

During this period, just people ate horses and chewed horses, and there were 100,000 stone of military rations. A total of 600,000 rounds of arrows were used, 170,000 large and small projectiles were fired, and the rest of the civil engineering works such as excavation and platform construction, the construction of ladders and wells, the construction of camps, the maintenance of order, and the resettlement of thousands of wounded and sick people...... This kind of total is probably not four or five hundred thousand yuan in total.

In this battle, the defenders were backed by natural dangers, the walls were strong, the troops and supplies were relatively sufficient, and the flat hand was unwilling to launch a strong attack, so it was said that it was necessary to besiege for a long time, and there would be no worth mentioning results for three months.

However, such a large investment regardless of the cost of the tie show broke the conventional cognition of the times.

In terms of the technology of the Warring States period, the stone defensive structures built by the mountains and rivers seemed to be difficult to destroy, but under the salvo of the large cylinder and trebuchet for dozens of days, there were two obvious collapses and multiple cracks in the outer walls of Okochi Castle. Although the attackers did not immediately launch a surprise attack, leaving room for the defenders to make up for repairs, the psychological pressure caused can be imagined.

In addition, the archers and iron gunners on the wells and earthen platforms continued to shoot, which also caused considerable casualties to the soldiers in the city. However, the defenders' supplies were limited, and they could only huddle in the arrow turrets and yakura in the back, relying on the narrow shooting holes to resist sporadically, and did not dare to climb the city wall to shoot at them.

Kitada Gukyo also tried to sneak out of the city, trying to destroy the equipment, but under the tight defense, the three operations were returned, and the soldiers were lost in vain, and then there was no idea.

In the past, 100,000 people surrounded Odawara in Uesugi in the Kanto region, or 80,000 people in Otomo in Kyushu surrounded Imayama, and a large number of peasants and soldiers were mobilized to form a rabble of mixed fish and dragons and uneven levels.

However, the 70,000 people mobilized by the Tieshou Tunxiu this time were recruited at the standard of 200 to 400 people per 10,000 stones, ensuring that all the elite forces were selected, and the impact on agricultural production was not very great. In addition, there is also his own flag book as the backbone of the camp from time to time patrolling between camps, and the atmosphere is very different from that of his predecessors.

In the past few months, the daimyo of the countries have naturally not stopped, and many forces in Kyushu and the Western Kingdom have been fighting endlessly, needless to say. However, Takeda, Uesugi and Hojo in the Kanto region reached a rare all-out truce, and jointly condemned the bad behavior of Hirate Honhide for "holding the imperial court and the shogunate hostage and blinding the imperial court and the shogunate, and attacking the famous Hokahata clan for no reason".

Yamashina Mantra, Satomura Shaoba, Asayama Hisakari and others implicitly conveyed this meaning.

However, when he heard this, he immediately ordered someone to write a reply, saying: "As a dignified samurai, if you are dissatisfied with the contemptible people, you might as well draw your sword and fight." If you don't dare to fight, what kind of face do you have? Isn't it smiling and generous to take advantage of lips and tongues in vain? ”

I don't know how those three people will feel when they receive the reply, anyway, the next thing is still just a mouthpiece, and not a single soldier came to.

This move can be described as very different from the old style of the tie show.

People are very puzzled by the reason for the rebellion against the Kitabatake, and in the final analysis, the source of the conflict is actually just a small conflict over words.

Kitabatake Gujiao prides himself on being a high-ranking family, arrogant in words and deeds, and looks down on the retainers who were born as merchants of the Heite family, is this a major event worth mentioning?

There are a lot of conspiracy theories in the market.,Some people say it's because there were old grudges in the past.,Some people say it's because the woman who took a fancy to the Kitabatake family was rejected and became angry.,Some people say it's because the Kitabatake Gujiao unintentionally broke some conspiracy and adultery...... In short, there are different opinions, and the only thing that is recognized is that under this posture, the Kitabatake family has taken the pill.

In April, finally, the defender of Sakauchi Castle, the westernmost branch of Okochi Castle, a man named Sakauchi Yoshi, could not bear the pressure, and after receiving the promise of saving his life, he raised the white flag and surrendered.

The defenders lost an important corner.

Not long after that, Matsuzaka Castle, a branch city on the north side, also announced that it had given up resistance.

Ichikawa Oka Nobu of the Heite family, as a representative, went to the surrender and received the castle supplies together with Sasa Hidenari of the Oda family.

Unexpectedly, this turned out to be a deception.

The defenders first sent the general's women and children as hostages, and told half of the troops to lay down their arms and leave the city, breaking the vigilance of the attackers. Then, regardless of the safety of the hostages, he suddenly sent elite soldiers to launch a fierce charge.

In a hurry, the young scholar Ichikawaoka Shin was killed before he could react, and Sasa Hidesei was stabbed twice in the shoulder and thigh and was desperately rescued by the guards, but several people such as Maeno Kobei and Sakamoto Shotaro were killed in a bloody battle.

The scene was extremely chaotic for a while, but fortunately, Honda Tadakatsu, who was stationed next to him, was very shrewd, and reinforced in time, taking the lead in fighting the second general, and only then did he prevent further losses.

The interrogation revealed that the granary in Songban Castle had been hit by a catapult and had caught fire, and the defenders were unable to hold out and unwilling to surrender, so they launched such a decisive battle.

Afterward, the casualties were counted, and the Oda army suffered as many as 2,000 casualties, including many generals. General Sasa Xiucheng was seriously injured and had to stay in bed for half a year.

Seeing what happened to his son-in-law, Hirasho was furious and ordered all the hostages previously offered in the city to be killed, and then set fire to destroy the city.

Hundreds of people were summarily executed, and for a moment ghosts cried wolf howls, and the tragedy was miserable.

The local Xilian Temple, which is responsible for the liaison between the center, is believed to be suspected of colluding with the enemy to commit fraud, and has been subjected to a rigorous torture investigation.

Of course, the other side broke its promise first, and in this era, it is completely reasonable to retaliate, and there is nothing to criticize. It's just that it was made by the Lord of the Flat Punishment Department, which is quite surprising.

In May, the Kitabatake Gujiao in Okochi Castle finally couldn't hold on, and sent a letter saying that as long as he could keep the Miao character and the family business, he was willing to express his apologies in any specified way, no matter who he knelt and kowtowed to, or who he held his shoes.

In this regard, the flat hand Hoshu just sneered: "I came here at the beginning, and I really just wanted to see the sincerity of the Kitabatake family." But now that the army is extravagant, and there are a lot of casualties, your Excellency still wants to try to keep your family business? ”

Twenty days later, Kitabatake Gukyo changed his words again, saying that he just wanted to keep his family's name, and he was willing to go to the wilderness and ask for a piece of pension land.

Seeing that Nobu Hei smiled and said to the left and right, "As you all know, the Kitabatake clan has deep roots in the southern half of Ise, and although it is Shimono at this time, once there is a change in the future, I am afraid that you can still try to recover!" ”

So he still sternly refused.

Then, from this time on, Yamashina Honkyo, Hosokawa Fujitaka, Toraya Soo, Hatakeyama Takamasa, Kyogoku Takayoshi, Takeda Motoaki, Tsuda Mune, and ...... and so on, a large number of people came to intercede one after another.

They were not commissioned by the Kitabatake family, but they thought that such a famous Miao character should not be cut off.

Among the affiliated forces and even the retainers under the Heisate, many people expressed similar thoughts.

Everyone knelt in front of the door one after another and pleaded, and the flat hand raised his noble hand and proposed: "Let Kitabatake Gujiao apologize for his sins, and his son can continue to use the 100,000 stone territory as a family business." ”

Communication was made on this condition.

Kitabatake agreed.

But his son Kitabatake's house wrote a blood letter: "Rather give up 100,000 Ishida property and save his father's life!" ”

I don't know if this kid is really filial or smart.

It is said that Kitabatake Gukyo is a famous swordsman, superb in martial arts, proficient in etiquette, and has a refined temperament, and is completely a standard traditional samurai model, and he hates people's hearts. And Kitabatake's house was born extremely obese, he couldn't even ride a horse, he only had civil and administrative means, and his martial arts were far behind, and he was always ridiculed.

If the conditions of the tie are really implemented, Lao Tzu died and his son survived, so the cohesion of the Ise Kitabatake family did not exist.

Unfortunately, it didn't work out.

Due to the disagreement between the Kitabatake family, the two sides negotiated again.

During this time, the troops outside the castle continued to exert pressure, but with the exception of the direct troops of the Heite family, the fighting spirit of the subordinate forces began to decline from top to bottom.

It may be the feeling of "rabbit death and fox sadness".

After some twists and turns, Hirate Honhide finally showed his "kindness" and accepted the peace conditions of "Kitabatake Ichigono, Kyoto to be monitored, and Ise to establish a new master".

Finally, on the fifth day of the sixth month, the agreement was executed.

With the matter of "fraudulent surrender", the attacking army is naturally preoccupied and will not allow any more accidents. The defenders didn't have the strength to play tricks anymore, and honestly disarmed and sacrificed the city.

According to rough statistics, in the city of Okochi and the three surrounding branches, a total of 6,000 people have been killed in the past six months, of which only 30% were directly killed by arrows or firearms, and the rest are injuries that have worsened or sudden illness, and the soldiers in the city are so tired that they can't even finish disposing of the corpses, and many of them are piled up directly on the ground, so it's no wonder that they can't hold on.

Kitabatake's sect will be "escorted" to Kyoto, where he will "live in seclusion" with Rokkaku Yoshiken and Rokkaku Yoshiji. They are all daimyo of Shimono, and they just enjoy "Qingfu" together.

And the Ise side is divided into generals.

First of all, two counties were assigned to Oda (Kobe) Nobutaka, although this kid has no credit, after all, there are many wealthy families who are "set things right" in such a name.

Then Takigawa Yiyi, who was suspected of "harboring the chaotic party", stayed for half a year and was quite honest, although he did not completely clear the suspicion, he also placed the land of the second county to show encouragement.

At the same time, Nakagawa Yoshitoshi, who fought against him in Taiwan, naturally did not pursue it, and because of his excellent attitude, his territory was doubled and sent to the three prefectures of North Ise.

In this way, Minami Omi is basically completely empty, and the historical problem is solved by the curve, and it can be dealt with slowly.

In addition, the Tokugawa family's Honda Tadakatsu performed well, preventing the possibility of capsizing in the gutter, and deliberately rewarded the "enclave" of Ichi-gun as a zhiyuki.

Honda Tadakatsu expressed his gratitude, but insisted that he should receive the reward only in the name of the Tokugawa family, not in the name of the individual.

In addition to these, there is also about 150,000 stone land, and with a wave of his hand, he decided to hand it all over to his son-in-law Sasa Hidesei as compensation for serious injuries.

Unlike Honda Tadakatsu, Sasa Hidenari did not emphasize the Oda family, but received this knowledge in his personal capacity.

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