Although it was only a disastrous victory, compared to the embarrassment of Mt. Tsuki, this battle still gave the Maori army a great encouragement, in order not to give Aoki a moment of respite, Mori Motoyasu ordered the army not to rest, arrived outside Fushimi Castle before noon, and tried to capture the city with only 3,000 men left.

After encamping in the west of the city, Mori Motoyasu convened the generals to discuss the meeting in the main formation, and learned that the general who defended the city was Aoki Kazuki, and Ankokuji Huiqiong smiled slightly: "Fushimi is a fortified city built by Taiko with all the manpower of Japan, and the soldiers, food, and weapons are accumulated in it, and there is no shortage of them, and it is really difficult to capture. Fortunately, the poor monk and Ji Yishou have known each other for many years, and how about the poor monk persuade him to hand over the city? Mori Motoyasu was very pleased to hear this, and immediately selected more than ten capable samurai to protect Ankokuji Huiqiong into the city.

Aoki is close to the age of the sixtieth year, this is an old dragon clock, hunched over, I didn't expect to put on the beloved navy blue iron two carcasses are like a different person, the waist is straight, head high, if you wear it, you can't see that you are an old man who has not asked about the war for a long time.

When Ankokuji Huiqiong entered the castle, Aoki Kazuki was patrolling Nagoyamaru, so he summoned the conceited diplomatic monk at the Imperial Palace. After hearing the intention of Anguo Temple, Aoki smiled heartily: "Chengjun is kind, but when the lord went on the expedition, he ordered me to stick to the city, and the monarchs wanted me to open the city, but I couldn't." Even if the army is outnumbered and alone, there is no change, and there is only one way to get this city. ”

"Your Excellency, may I speak?" Anguo Temple Huiqiong said in surprise.

"Attack the city, take the head of the old man, and you can take the city."

Aoki said it very casually, but Ankokuji Huiqiong was surprised: "Although it is the duty of a samurai to be faithful, but adults are already at such an age, it's time to think about yourself, and after sixty years of loyalty, there should always be a good death." ”

"Isn't the Horse Leather Shroud a good death?" Aoki replied indifferently: "The master is a descendant of the Aki Takeda clan, and he also has the blood of a samurai, how can he not know that dying on the battlefield is also a glory for a samurai?" Like a master, the ancient Buddha of the green lantern spent his last years, well... Just thinking about it makes the old man scared. ”

"My lord, the poor monk is kind to persuade him. You are sarcastic about the poor monks, and this is really impossible to talk about. Anguo Temple Huiqiong said angrily.

"That's right," Aoki smiled slightly, "Then the old man won't delay the master's chanting and prayer time, the city is busy with important matters, so I won't send it far." With that, he ordered his nephew Aoki Juzhen to send him out of Fushimi.

When Ankokuji Huiqiong returned to the main camp outside Nishinomaru, it was already dark, and after learning the news that Aoki was unwilling to hand over the castle, the Maori generals all gritted their teeth, and Maori Motoyasu said fiercely: "We have been benevolent to Kii Shou and have done our best. If you give up Fushimi and take the castle directly, it will damage the prestige of our army. And so on. It will also hinder east-west traffic. It's better to take down Fushimi in one go. In accordance with the established policy, Yamato was pacified, and then advanced to Mino and Owari. ”

After sending off Ankokuji Huiqiong, Aoki thought that a great battle was inevitable, although he lost nearly 2,000 troops at Kihata Mountain. But the Maori army has lost more than 4,000 people so far, and it is still a gain in comparison. A few days earlier, he had set up the garrisons in various places, among which Honmaru was guarded by himself, Ninomaru was handed over to Tsunamasa Sano (who was the head of Toyotomi Hideji's iron cannon group, and after Hideji's death, he started to cast Hideho) and Kinoshita Katsutoshi, who had been in the castle until then, Sannomaru was Yamato's Mitsuyoshi and Suzuki Shigeki, Ishida Mitsunariyashiki (Jibu Kowa) was guarded by his nephew Aoki Dingju, Nagoyamaru was guarded by Yamatomi Hirano Nagatai, and Matsunomaru was guarded by Aoki Hiroki. After the death of Hiroki in the battle of Mt. Kihata, Aoki Jusada, and Taiko Maru was garrisoned by Naosumi Nakae, who came to reinforce the Ise people, although Hideho did not ask Aoki to defend Fushimi, but the Aoki clan still decided to gamble on the honor of the Ichika clan to defend the castle desperately.

The Maori onslaught began that night. According to the plan of Maori Yuanyasu. First attack the weakest defense of the city, the Jibu Kowa, and then attack Nishinomaru, and then attack Honmaru. Honmaru is connected to the outside world by only two passages, one to Nishinomaru and the other to Matsunomaru, and the first offensive route that Mori Motoyasu thought of was the former, and Matsunomaru had his brother Ninomiya Tsunitsu take the lead in the vanguard, leading 5,000 soldiers to defend in case the Aoki army broke through from there.

In the dark of the night, cannonballs and projectiles rained down on the castle built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had spent a lot of manpower and material resources, and the defenders of the castle were not to be outdone, relying on iron cannons and Sasama to fire at the Maori army outside the city.

The battle lasted from the 28th to the 3rd of April, and Mori Motoyasu was already in full force, but due to the sworn resistance of the Aoki clan, even if he lost a large number of sergeants, he could not attack the Jibu Wheel, and the same plot was also played out in Ninomaru and Sannomaru, and the Mori Terumoto who learned the news was furious, and on the same day he ordered Amano Motomasa (Mori Motoyasu Seven, Mori Motoyasu's elder brother) to Fushimi to replace Mori Motoyasu as the general of the Mori Army.

Compared to Mori Motoyasu, Amano Motomasa, who had been passed on to the wealthy clan since childhood, not only had more battlefield experience, but also inherited the strategy of Mori Motosa, and as soon as he arrived in the main camp, he ordered to stop the assault on Fushimi and use stratagem to seize the castle instead.

"Major General Wakasa is in the city?" Motomasa Amano asks Kei-kyo of Ankokuji.

Anguoji Huiqiong nodded: "When the poor monk entered the city that day, he learned that the major general was in charge of garrisoning Ninomaru. ”

"Ninomaru is the Jibu Wheel in the northwest, and due north are the Nishinomaru and Taigu Pill, if you enter the city from here, wouldn't it be a hundred times stronger than attacking the Zhibu Wheel?" Motomasa Amano said to himself.

"But brother, Ninomaru's castle defense is far from being comparable to the Jibu Wheel......," Mori Motoyasu, who was forced to surrender his military power, cautioned.

"It was this kind of concern of yours that caused the 20,000 army to be wasted for six days!" Motomasa Amano roared in a low voice, "Aoki Kiimaru knows that you want Jibu Kowawa to break through the defense line, so he has deployed heavy troops in this place, and they rely on their geographical advantage to contend with our army, and even though my Mori family has ten times the number of troops, it has hardly achieved an advantage. If you continue to stumble in the curling wheel, I am afraid that it will not be effective for ten days and half a month. ”

"Then what is the brother Ti Ninomaru doing, isn't it more difficult to attack there?" was reprimanded by Amano Motomasa like this, Mori Motoyasu suddenly shuddered.

"Don't you understand, Kii Mamoru sent a heavy army to Jibu Qulun, and the second to pill is empty in defense, isn't it excellent to attack at this time?"

"But Ninomaru Castle Defense ......"

"Don't talk to me about city defense!" Motomasa Amano unceremoniously scolded: "None of the real fortified castles have been attacked from the outside, this is the case with Takamatsu Castle, this is the case with Azuchi Castle, and even more so with Odawara!" Yuankang, do you know, the reason why my father dominated China was not only by force, but also by resourcefulness, which Huiyuan did not understand, and you also don't know the essentials, it seems that the future of the Maori family is unpredictable. ”