Chapter 210: Shangluo Shangluo
After discussing with the Takeda army, the Oda Miyoshi coalition army, which was blocked under Urahara Castle, decided to take the risk of dividing the 50 gates and sending 20,000 troops from the three sides together. If you can gain a foothold, then you will mainly besiege Urahara Castle, and the main forces of the other armies will go north together and attack with Kai. Although this will cause great pressure on logistics, Oda Nobunaga, Takeda Shingen, and Miyoshi Nagakei will not dare to attack Izu by sea and cut off the back road of Urahara Castle.
On the other side, Ashikaga Molong issued a letter asking Nagao Masaki to send more than 10,000 troops to attack Kita-Shinano, but the Ashikaga family was still on the defensive as a whole and did not seem to be actively attacking. Just when Takeda Shingen personally led his troops to trek through the Kai mountains, Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi Nagakei learned a piece of news that made them collapse: Ashikaga Molong led his troops to land in Owari!
More than 200 large and small warships directly flattened the coastal garrison fortress left by Oda Nobunaga, and the follow-up transport ships rushed directly to the beach, more than 30,000 Ashikaga troops have landed, and after easily knocking open all the fortresses of Owari with a large cylinder, Ashikaga Molong led his troops straight to Mikawa Province. As a result, the surviving people of Mikawa Province ran out of the gutter where they were hiding to welcome the king, and Ashikaga Moryu's corps suddenly expanded to 50,000 men, and continued to attack Enoe Province.
Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi Nagakei, who originally wanted to block the news, learned that the bad news that their back road was cut off had spread throughout the army, and the two who instantly realized that there were too many Ashikaga Molong's dark lines in their army were very helpless, Urahara Castle could not be opened in a short time, and their back roads were cut off, or it would not be long before even food would be insufficient. In desperation, the two decided to simply retreat, first defeating Ashikaga Miryu with overwhelming strength, and then turning back to force Ota Shimasa to surrender.
Unexpectedly, after the news of the withdrawal spread within the coalition like a plague, there were signs of the collapse of the army, and countless wealthy clans absconded directly overnight, and what made Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi Nagakei even more crazy was that as soon as they retreated, an elite army of more than 30,000 people actually poured out of Urahara City. Looking at the flag, it was Zhou Dingguo who swept Mutsu in a month to lead the troops.
Zhou Dingguo did not fight with the coalition forces, but hung far behind, Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi Nagakei ordered several times to counterattack Zhou Dingguo, but the result led to a larger scale of desertion, and even thousands of people ran to Zhou Dingguo's side. This is the Achilles' heel of the Great Alliance, when the wind is blowing, they can still work together, and once the situation is not good, it will collapse in an instant. In the battle of Weishui in history, the army under Fu Jian's command was all the elite of the rest of the battle, but it came from countless different small forces, and after being raided by the Beifu soldiers, it directly collapsed, not that it could not be defeated, but that it could not be trusted by the surrounding comrades-in-arms at all, especially among them, there must be many careerists who are waiting to see the overthrow of the overlord now and profit from it. And whether it is Fu Jian, Oda Nobunaga, or Miyoshi Nagakei, their own lineage is not strong enough to suppress the whole army, so in such a situation where the military spirit is fluctuating, they are also powerless. The greatest possibility is that the troops will mutiniate directly, which will be even more miserable.
On the other hand, Ashikaga Molong, who has worked hard to run the Kanto region for five years, has trained several batches of talents, and the disobedient and potentially disobedient thorns have been transferred out of the front-line command post in the past five years. His control over his subordinates is far from being comparable to Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi Nagakei, who did not sink down and reorganize their troops after expanding at a high speed. Of course, Ashikaga Molong will not give them time to reorganize their troops, which is one of the reasons why Ashikaga Molong set a five-year Shangluo plan, in order to put pressure on them to expand. Let Miyoshi Chokei and Oda Nobunaga equalize all the forces in the land of, and Ashikaga Molong will not have to face so many thorns when he invades in the future. You must know that the forces that don't like the rule of Miyoshi Nagakei and Oda Nobunaga will inevitably not like the rule of Ashikaga Molong, since this is the case, then let them die.
Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi Nagakei ushered in the darkest moment of their lives, when they led their army to Inima Castle, only more than 80,000 of the 150,000 troops remained, and almost all the reduced numbers ran to the opposite side. The two major armies of Ashikaga Molong and Zhou Dingguo swelled to more than 100,000 and surrounded the coalition regiments around Yinma City.
That night, there was a lot of singing around the castle, full of folk songs from the land, which gave the coalition forces who were already panicked the final blow, and the coalition forces began to surrender as a formation, and some people even reported that they were willing to go to the Ashikaga army as internal responders, but Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi Nagakei could only let them go, anyway, they were just a fig leaf, and they would never come back. This move is really vicious, but the overlord of Chu brought his soldiers in Chu back then, and he couldn't bear this move in the encirclement, and the loose coalition army led by Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi Changqing couldn't bear it.
The next day, Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi Nagakeiichi counted the number of people, and almost fainted on the spot: there were less than 30,000 people left, and the remaining people obviously did not have the will to fight, but they might not have the opportunity or dare, or they might have a little loyalty in the end, but if they were forced to attack the Ashikaga army, which had swelled to 200,000 on the opposite side, it would definitely be no fun.
In desperation, Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi Nagakei went out of the city to surrender to Ashikaga Molong, and Ashikaga Molong accepted their surrender at the cost of saving their lives and the lives of their clansmen, of course, how to deal with them will have to be discussed later. As for Takeda Shingen, who was still trekking in the mountains, he was a bachelor enough, and after hearing that Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi Nagakei had surrendered, he immediately led his troops back to Kai and sent his son Takeda Yoshinobu to beg for mercy. Ashikaga Molong asked the Takeda family to give up their arms, in fact, in order to deal with Takeda Shingen, Ashikaga Molong also formed the Nagao Keihu Legion and the Sasaki Nagahide Legion, these two legions each have 30,000 people, one is stationed in Ueno, and the other is stationed in Musashi, in order to give Takeda Shingen a ruthless, but Takeda Yoshinobu came to intercede, and he couldn't really slaughter Kai and Shinano, just let those two major legions be stationed in Kai and Shinano, and Takeda Shingen couldn't do anything, how to deal with it when the time came, just go with the Oda family Miyoshi family.
Ashikaga Moryū, who was armed with 230,000 troops, began his great parade in Joraku, with Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi Chokei in hand, and all the castles were opened to Ashikaga Moryu, and those forces who resisted the rule of Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi Chokei also came out of hiding to welcome the king. In this way, Ashikaga Molong came to the legendary Kyoto and met the current shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru again. After having a cordial and friendly personal conversation with Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Ashikaga Yoshiki generously told everyone that he was shallow in virtue and ability, and it was difficult to continue to assume the position of shogun, so he gave up the position of shogun and the position of governor of the Ashikaga family to Ashikaga Molong. That's it, the rule of the Ashikaga family can survive, Ashikaga Yoshiki doesn't have to worry about choking to death from drinking water, choking to death from eating, and Ashikaga Molong doesn't have to dirty his hands, although Ashikaga Yoshiki doesn't agree, it's a big deal that Nijo Castle will catch fire again, but this kind of thing can't be done often, and now Ashikaga Molong is a decent person, and the Ming Emperor canonized the king of the Wa Kingdom.
However, after Ashikaga Molong ascended the throne in the Wa Kingdom, he played the political system of the Ming Kingdom, and the sight of the Imperial Family still asked them to go to the Ming Kingdom to pay homage to the real emperor, and then drown them all on the way. Dare to pretend to be the emperor in front of the Ming Dynasty, aren't you looking for a draw? Not only the kingdom of the United States, in fact, the group of small countries in Europe is the same, people do not use Chinese, as a result, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the literati were beaten miserably by the powers, raising a bunch of licking dogs, the heyday of the Shinra translated into the emperor is also counted, in the Middle Ages, the fart of the big country can also be translated several emperors, that is really the emperor everywhere, the empress is not as good as a dog.
Ashikaga Molong directly learned from Qin Shi Huang, and nominally retained the feudal system in his own territory, but in fact, he played the county system, but the salaries of those nobles were still paid as usual, and the number of stones in the territory was also numerical on paper, but the specific location of the territory was not written. If it had been before, the wealthy clans in would definitely have to resist a wave, but after being sifted through the two big sieves of Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi Chokei, they really didn't have the strength to do things anymore. After the unification of the prefectural system, the modern state system was also to be developed, and the merchants, who had been excluded from the ruling circle, were also drawn into the high-level clubs, and the nobles formed the highest authority: the House of Lords, the cabinet in charge of administration was also necessary, and the Generalissimo Office, which was also concurrently served by the shogun, was responsible for the military affairs of the whole country. The preliminary shelves were set up like this, and Ashikaga Molong was not in the mood to continue to expand his territory, he needed to reorganize his troops.