At the same time that Takeda Shingen sent Tada Mitsuyori to Izu, Kudo Masasuke received a report in Nirayama Castle about a suspicious person entering Nirayama Domain. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info, however, turned out to be that after confronting these suspicious characters, he only got a letter that they "accidentally" left behind while escaping. When Masasuke Kudo took this letter in his hand, he took a closer look and realized that it was an oath written by Nobumoto Katsunuma to the Uesugi family! At this time, Kudo Masasuke couldn't be the master himself, so he could only send someone to deliver the letter to Kofu. And he himself didn't know that he was being targeted by Takeda Shingen.

The situation in Kyoto, on the other hand, is changing rapidly. At this time, Ise's Kitada Genaka Nagyangokyo also joined the Hatakeyama family's side.

Kenshin wanted to quickly pacify the Yamashiro Kingdom, and directly ordered Nakanishi Jirobo to infiltrate the castle and open the gates of Nishinomaru and Kitanomaru, which had only recently been built by the Ise family, and let the crusaders enter. Then the pressure on Ise Sadataka increased. The crusading army was attacking on almost all sides, and the remaining Ninomaru and Honmaru defenders in the castle were less than 2,000.

Ise Sadataka's confidant retainer Ise Bichumoru did not return directly to Yamashiro Province after failing to persuade Ashikaga Yoshiei, but went to Hatakeyama Takamasa, who was still fighting with Miyoshi Yoshiken and Matsunaga Hide. Hatakeyama Takamasa saw that Ise Sadataka had promised him the face of "taking charge", so he directly invited Neraiji Temple as a mercenary, and asked him to send troops to Kyoto first to relieve the siege of Ise Sadataka. In fact, Hatakeyama Takamasa was not very wealthy, so he could only ask Genraiji Temple from Izuki to send troops to Yamashiro Province, while the Saga people acted with him.

Naturally, Genrai Temple immediately sent troops when it was rich. And Genraiji Temple is very much to Hatakeyama Takamasa, an "old customer", and directly sent Suginobo among the four squares of Genraiji Temple, and the general will be Tsuda's son Genraiji Kuaixiu. Neraiji Kuaishu not only sent troops himself, but also brought in Honganji's officials in Kii, such as Shimamoto Shimamoto, Shoji Kahito Uemon, etc. Soon, Neraiji Kuahide expanded the number of troops in Kyoto to more than 6,000.

And the road to Kyoto can be described as "Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky".

Although the Tsutsui family is also in collusion with the Rokkaku and Hatakeyama families at the moment, Miyoshi Nagakei is not a person who sits idly by. Miyoshi Nagakei really didn't want the Uesugi family's influence in Kyoto to further expand, but when the interests of the two sides were the same, they had to cooperate intentionally or unintentionally.

On the night of September 7 in the first year of Eiroku, Uesugi Kenshin led Akechi Mitsuhide and other troops with a total of more than 8,000 troops to withdraw from Nakao Castle. She didn't want to be caught in the middle of a siege by enemy forces inside and out. She chose the best place for the decisive battle – Kyoto.

At this moment, Hatakeyama Takamasa is leading his important ministers Yasumi Sobo and Yuzo Nobu to approach the important town of the Miyoshi family, Kishiwada Castle. Miyoshi Changqing reacted very quickly, and he directly ordered his sister-in-law Miyoshi Yoshixing to lead 7,000 troops to resist. In addition, he also gave his younger brother Katsurui Castle Lord Miyoshi Yoshiken the right to command the three kingdoms of Hanoi, Awa, and Awaji. Matsunaga Hide's mission was changed, and he was arranged by Miyoshi Chokei to lead the Yamato 6,000 troops to suppress the resistance forces in Yamato's country and repel the Neraiji Kuaixiu.

At first, both the Hatakeyama Army and the Miyoshi Army only confronted each other near Kumidaji Temple, and did not engage immediately.

Kumida-ji Temple is a temple where Emperor Shomu made a wish and Gyoki Bodhisattva served as the first abbot, and it was the Tachibana brothers who supervised the construction of this temple, so the tomb of the brothers is also on this mountain. The Sanhao army lined up on this mountain, dug down the tomb of the orange brothers, and took out a stone cabinet imitating the Tang style. The remains of the tomb were used as an impure place to arrange the killing, and attentive people saw that the stone cabinet was engraved with the inscription "The brothers are the noble father of Qingyou, and the daughter of Qingyou is the queen of Tanlin." The Empress of Tanlin, the wife of Emperor Saga. Gong Chang sleeps here, there are passers, please do not disturb the "clouds." In the battle, Yixian felt something, so he composed a song and said: "The grass is dry and frost is dead today, and cause and effect are not ambiguous and come in an instant." It expresses the uneasiness before the war. (Original text: 草枯すfrostまた今朝の日に消て因果は遦めくり来にけり)

At that time, the Ataku Settsu Shou Dongyasu (one of the thirty-six kasens outside the set) in Kishiwada Castle knew the mind of Yoshixian when he saw the song, so he wrote a waka cloud in the opposite way: "Cause and effect follow like an outside the wheel, and the distant trail is ethereal Musashihara" to comfort his brother. (Original text: Cause and Effect とははるか车の轮の外にめくりも远き武蔵の原) Although he was comforted by Dong Kang so tactfully, there was a discussion among his subordinates that "this guy assassinated the lord and took the surviving man of the Duke of Zhilong as his wife, and he must not escape the karma".

Under the guidance of the Yamato wealthy clan Akiyama Naokoku, the Root Lai Temple Kuaishu still crossed the mountains and entered the Yamashiro Province. And after merging with Hosokawa Motoken, Miyake Kunimura, and Miyake Kunimori, the important ministers of the Hosokawa family, they successively captured Katsuryuji Castle, Yodo Castle, Yamazaki, Maki Island Castle and other places. Ise Sadataka and Ise Sadara of Nakao Castle also regrouped 3,000 troops, and after the rebel army reached 14,000. In addition, the number of iron cannons equipped by the Genlaids was also 2,000.

In the early morning of September 9, the rested rebel soldiers marched on two routes to Kyoto, which was under the control of the shogunate.

Toba in the southwest of Kyoto and Fushimi in the southeast held the rebels' path. Kenshin sent three of Katada's three people, Matsujiro Kochu, Kiyoshi Rinto, and Sun Jiro Baba, to lead 1,500 troops to defend Toba; Fujita Administration, Fujita Hideyuki (Fujita Administration's son), Hida Noriya, and Seta Sakyo led 2,000 troops to defend Fushimi.

Kenshin also seized the three places of Mikanomiya, Momoyama, and Ryuunji Temple, which are higher to the northeast of Toba Fushimi. She deployed a hundred iron cannons under Akechi Mitsuhide in Momoyama, while Ryuunji Temple and Mikanomiya were equipped with horseback samurai and the remaining troops.

The 6,000 troops of Neraiji Kuaisei stopped before they could reach Toba, while the 8,000 troops, including Ise Sadataka, Ise Sadara, Miyake Kunimura, Hosokawa Motoken, Akiyama Naokuni, Kato Shogun (Lord of Iga Kato Castle), and Nakano Sukezaemon, quickly set out from Yodo Castle and crossed the Bungo Bridge and followed the Uji River bank to Fushimi. Ise Sadataka also set up a main camp in the office southwest of Fushimi and confronted the shogunate army.

The Uji River is located on the south side of the office in the southwest of Fushimi and is connected to the south bank by the Bungo Bridge. To the southwest, it is connected to Yodojo via Higo Bridge to Ishiyama Honganji Temple on the westernmost side. To the north of Toba, Fushimi, and the offices are Nijo and Kujo towns, which have the highest density of buildings.

On September 10, the first shot was fired at the Genraiji Kuaixiu. Early in the morning, he ordered 2,000 iron cannons to fire a volley at the Toba Plate and Otemon. The Battle of Toba Fushimi in Kyoto has officially begun.

A large number of iron cannons in the hands of the rebels suppressed the Toba Rock with fierce firepower. However, the three of them, who were stuck in the Toba Cave, were forced to fire a salvo of bowsfoot light, blocking the offensive of Neraiji Kuaixiu. Subsequently, the fast show of Neraiji Temple formed a trend of outflanking Toba.

Although the rebels were outnumbered, they were not numerically superior in the narrow alleys. The near-dense formation caused the rebels to be attacked by the shogunate forces who had been in ambush for a long time when they entered the streets around Toba. Many monks and soldiers fell on the road to Kyoto. Seeing that the battle situation was gradually unfavorable to his side, Neraiji Kuahide hurriedly ordered the owner of the house to go back and forth to Ukyo, and led the people of the headquarters to set fire to the surrounding houses such as Fushimi Town and Nijo Town.

On the other side, Ise Sadataka was also attacked by the shogunate army when he attacked Fushimi. From time to time, Tsuchida kinshige, who was entrenched in Momoyama, attacked Fushimi's flanks with a small number of iron cannons, and it was completely impossible for the rebels to attack Fushimi with all their might. Soon, Ise Sadataka understood that if he could not capture Momoyama, it would be impossible to successfully capture Fushimi, which was only defended by 2,000 troops. Ise Sadara was sent by Ise Sadataka to attack Momoyama, and tried every means to take Momoyama and Mikanomiya together.

More than 1,000 troops from Iga Shogun Kato and Nakano Sukezaemon hired by Ise Satara crossed the Uji River and braved a rain of arrows and bullets to force a surprise attack at the foot of Momoyama. On the other hand, the iron cannon ashigaru on the side of the shogunate army and the archashishigashi who were holding on to the Fushimi Fortress opened fire and fired arrows at the rebels who came by surprise. The streets around Fushimi had been set on fire by the fire, and the shogunate army had suppressed the surrounding flats with heavy fire, and even though the Iga people were good at fighting against each other and flying the walls, they could not escape the fate of being shot and killed by random arrows. Ise Sadarashi was hit by two shots from the shogunate during the assault and suffered heavy losses. And he ultimately failed to break through the positions of the shogunate army.

"Report to the Imperial Palace, the enemy's offensive in Toba and Fushimi has been repelled by our army!" Nakanishi Jirobo instantly appeared in the Longyun Temple where Kenshin was located.

"Good." Qianxin slowly got up.

"Ruler Palace, please make a decision!" Akechi Mitsuhide, Ueno Nobutaka (Ashikaga Yoshiki is near, for the public), Odate Harumitsu (Ashikaga Yoshiharu's righteous brother, Ashikaga Yoshiki is near) and others got up and said.

"It's ridiculous that Ise Ise Shou was so loyal to the shogunate that he didn't know how to reciprocate, but instead colluded with thieves from all over the world to try to overthrow the shogunate and try to set up another general! To defeat the ungrateful Sadataka Ise, now is the time! Kenshin said to the many shogunate ministers and Sakamoto people in front of him.

"Oh!" There was a burst of chanting in the big wide room.

"Don't cherish your life, sacrifice your life to live, fear death will die. Martial arts are in the sky, armor is in front, and merit is at the feet! ”

"Oh!" Then there was another chanting.

Immediately, the 5,000 shogunate troops at Ryuunji Temple went into action, and their target was not the Nerai people of Neraiji Kuahide, but Ise Sadataka in the southern Fushimi Temple.