Chapter 189: Hexagonal Surrender

On September 2, the first year of Eiroku, Rokkaku Yoshiken stopped the mobilization of troops in Minami Omi and Iga under the persuasion of his son Rokkaku Yoshiharu and many other retainers and ministers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Under the supervision of the young lord Rokkaku Yoshiharu, large-scale additions and renovations began on the eighteen eastern castles of the Rokkakury, including Misaku Castle, Wadayama Castle, Nakano Castle, and Megada Castle in the Rokkaku Domain. However, the current renovation of the Rokkaku is limited to the addition of arrow turrets, shooting holes in the walls, and the addition of pills. They believed that it was not the shogunate and the Uesugi family that should be guarded against the most, but the Asai family, who had surrendered after the defeat before.

And at this moment, the Miyoshi family is also beginning to be unwilling to be lonely. Miyoshi Nagakei didn't want to watch Hatakeyama Takamasa intervene in the Gyeonggi area so easily. Otherwise, the hegemonic image that the Miyoshi family has managed to establish in Gyeonggi will be hit.

As soon as Miyoshi Nagakei learned the news that Hatakeyama Takamasa had led 10,000 troops into battle, he immediately ordered Matsunaga Hide, who was in Yamato, to lead the people of Yamato to send troops to refuse. Miyoshi Chokei's move made Ise Sadataka lose a powerful reinforcement. At this moment, the Hexagonal family also began to stop recruiting troops and began to renovate the inner city, and even the more than 6,000 Hexagonal troops who had besieged the restaurant city before stopped their onslaught and began a simple siege.

With the sudden reversal of the situation, the father and son of Ise Sadataka and Ise Sadara began to sit still in Nakao Castle. Instead, they planned to go to Rakusho in advance to ask the Imperial Court to issue a decree abolishing Ashikaga Yoshiteru's position as the shogun of Seiyi, and replacing it with Ashikaga Yoshiei, who was born in Awa (former Awa Gongkata). And this task of persuading Ashikaga Yoshiei to leave for Gyeonggi was handed over to the important minister of the same clan, Ise Bichumori Irimichi. Ise Sadataka wanted him to negotiate with Ashikaga Yoshiei's henchmen Hosokawa Suruga Mamoru and Hatakeyama Izu Mamoru and others. As long as you convince Ashikaga Yoshiei's henchmen, it will be much easier to convince Ashikaga Yoshiei. However, this is not an easy task.

Of course, Ise Sadataka did not forget to deal with the imperial court. He first asked his son Ise Sadarashi to negotiate with Nayan Harutoyo, who was in the temple of persuasion at the time, with 5,000 kan Yongraku money. However, this samurai legend obviously does not give Ise Sadataka face. If it weren't for the fact that Ise Satara bribed Harutoyo's subordinate Koshikatsu Mamoru and held a knife to his neck, I'm afraid that Harutoyo Koshiji wouldn't be willing to help Ise Sadataka report. It's a pity that Ise Sadataka has already taken a wrong step in letting his son Ise Sadara go to the imperial court. Because the Konoe family and Ashikaga Yoshiteru, who was born in the Horikoshi Gongkata, had a marriage, even the previous generations of generals. Not to mention that the former heir of the regent Sekihaku Konoe at the time was also a supporter of the Uesugi family and a spokesman for the imperial court.

As soon as Konoe learned that Ise Sadataka wanted to appoint another general, he hurriedly mentioned that Emperor Shokincho rejected the proposal, and then hurried to Sakamoto Castle to inform Kenshin and Akechi Mitsuhide about the matter. He didn't know that Ashikaga Yoshiteru was also in Sakamoto Castle beforehand, so he was really surprised when he saw Ashikaga Yoshiteru in Sakamoto Castle later.

It's not just the Konoe heirs who oppose it. There are many ministers in high positions in the imperial court, and they all know that Ise Sadataka is just a clown. Miyoshi Chokei, the overlord of the Gyeonggi region, did not support him, so it was only a matter of time before the Ise family fell. Then, Yamashina Daigo, Nibata Gonaka Nagon Shigebo, Kuga Gondai Nayan Harumi, Kikutei Right Minister Haruki and other ministers successively met with Emperor Masakin-cho, hoping that he would not agree to change the shogun.

After the persuasion of a group of high-ranking ministers, Emperor Masakimachi ignored Ise Sadataka's request. Everyone in the imperial court knows that the Uesugi family donates a lot of money every time, and this time Ise Sadataka wants to use 5,000 kan Yongle money to replace the general of Seiyi, is it too cheap? Moreover, the "God of Wealth" of the imperial court, Uesugi Kenshin, is fighting against the Rokkaku family in the Gyeonggi area, and she will continue to give gifts when the time comes, and the imperial court still has income, and it is not bad for Ise Sadataka's money.

The imperial court rejected Ise Sadataka's request on the same day, which made Ise Sadataka lose his righteous name. And Miyoshi Nagakei learned that Ise Sadataka vainly tried to replace the candidate for the general of Seiyi from Matsunaga Hide. And Matsunaga Xiu learned about this by himself as the son-in-law of the three criminal ministers in the imperial court - Takeuchi Nagaji. Takeuchi Nagaji's younger brother, Takeuchi, was still a retainer under Matsunaga Hide.

Ashikaga Yoshiteru knew about it the next day. And he was furious at what Ise Sadataka had done, and immediately pulled out a knife and cut off all the flowers and grasses, grass and trees in the courtyard of Sakamoto Castle. Holding it all the time is not good for the body.

At the same time, Kenshin also began to prepare with the cooperation of the Katata people to repel the more than 6,000 hexagonal troops besieging the castle by attacking from three sides. At this moment, the wealthy clans of Nishi-Omi, such as Yamamoto Kumasa and Isoya Kuji, were persuaded by Ashikaga Yoshiteru to send troops to assist Kenshin in the battle against the Rokkaku. In this way, Qianxin's available troops reached more than 7,000, and they were completely capable of engaging the Hexagonal Army head-on. However, the Roxagonal retainers such as Yamaoka Keiyuki, Sankumo Dingji, and Mabuchi Futsunade had not yet received the information collected by the Koga people, so they thought that the combined strength of Kenshin and Akechi Mitsuhide had not yet reached 6,000.

Of course, Humility will not be idle at this time. Since you hexagons are cowering and suspicious, then I will add another dose of fierce medicine to you to strengthen your determination to withdraw from the army. Kenshin prepares to launch another night attack, and the first target chosen to attack is the head of the Rokkaku family's banner on the Minami-Omi side, Yamaoka Keiyuki.

In the twilight, an army resembles a ghost, quietly marching on the road to the castle. The leader was none other than Kenshin Uesugi. Kenshin used the strong mobility of the Katada people on Lake Biwa to attack and feint on the Rokkaku family's castles around Lake Biwa, while he himself prepared to attack the Rokkaku army by surprise with a carefully selected force of 3,000 troops, hoping to defeat the 6,000 Rokkaku Army in one fell swoop and stabilize Nishi-Omi. By the way, you can also drive a wedge into Minami Omi, where the Rokkaku family is located.

Although the Hexagonal Army has repeatedly failed since its departure, the Hexagonal Army surrounding the Zensho Castle is still full of morale. Because they knew that it was impossible for Uesugi Kenshin and Akechi Mitsuhide and others to recruit a large number of troops to come, and what they didn't know was that the 3,000 reinforcements that were originally planned to come to support them had been defeated by Kenshin with 200 troops, and Rokkaku Yoshiken was just suppressing it and not letting it spread around.

Just as the Ashigaru and peasants of the Rokkaku Army were preparing to rest after nightfall, Tsunojiro of the Hinda Clan was the first to lead his troops from the beach along the coast. Immediately afterwards, Captain Wise and others came out of the city with two hundred troops. This made the Hexagonal Army, whose morale was not low, lose its fighting spirit in an instant. Even if the Roxagonal Army had Samurai and Standing Ashigaru leading samurai and standing ashigaru to engage the attacking Uesugi army, after all, at night, the visibility was low. The first reaction of a large number of ashigaru and peasant soldiers was to spread their legs and run, which was completely unstoppable.

By the time Qianxin led 3,000 troops to join, the Hexagonal Army was almost gone. Keiyuki Yamaoka and the others could only be forced to retreat. Later, Kenshin ordered a simple cleaning of the battlefield first, and the number counted was more than 300 people who killed the Rokkaku Army, samurai, and ashigaru. The rest of the Hexagon Army all returned to the Hexagonal Collar. This is also the result that Humility hopes to see. After all, she still needs a lot of troops to counterattack Kyoto for Ashikaga Yoshiteru and recapture the Nijo Imperial Palace.

The next day, just one night after Kenshin's victory, Rokkaku Yoshiken came to Sakamoto Castle. Rokkaku Yoshiken came this time with two retainers, the general of the Lixiang Nunnery and Zhou Yang of Zhenxing Temple, and did not bring a single soldier. The arrival of Rokkaku Yoshiken had only one purpose - to surrender to the shogunate and admit his mistakes. The Hexagonal Family's dispatch of troops this time has exposed too many problems. For example, the Achilles heel of the Koga people, such as the lack of careful reconnaissance of intelligence, the slow recruitment of troops, the insufficient training of samurai and standing guards, and the fact that the peasants and soldiers were on the verge of collapse at the touch of a button as soon as they engaged.

"The criminal minister Omi guards the hexagonal Sakyo doctor Yoshiken to meet the general." As soon as Rokkaku Yoshiken entered the Great Hiroma, he saw several familiar and new faces. The familiar face is naturally the current general of the Seiyi Ashikaga Yoshiteru and the former heir of the regent Sekihaku Konoe. And the raw faces are Kenshin Uesugi, Mitsuhide Akechi, Yodogawa Sanemon, Katsutsuji Kawa, Kuniaki Ohata and so on.

"Rokkaku Sakyo has not seen him for several years, and his courage is a lot greater. In the past, when Yu and his father were driven out of Kyoto by Sanzhu several times, they still relied on Rokkaku Jishoin to return to Kyoto to reopen the government. Why did Rokkaku Sakyo's generation start to fight against the shogunate again? "Ashikaga Yoshiteru is not prepared to punish the Rokkaku family too severely. After all, there will still be places to rely on the Hexagonal family in the future.

"The sin deserves death! South of the Ise thieves, all the shogunate offices in Omi were freely cut by the ministers, and only the ministers dragged the wise Hinata Mamoru to them. The rest was done by the Kawachi Hatakeyama family and Ise Sadataka. There is also a sand ti, and I am also going to ask Awa Gongfang Ashikaga Yoshieiden to succeed you as the general of the Seiyi. "Rokkaku Yoshiken is starting to tell the truth, after all, looking at it, how many people in the whole world dare to fight the Uesugi family alone? The Uesugi family has millions of stones in the eastern country, and once it goes to Luo, then the Rokkaku family will definitely be wiped out in an instant. Rather than being irretrievable at that time, it is better to give in time now, and strive to leave a good impression on the general and Qianxin.

And neither Ashikaga Yoshiteru nor Kenshin wanted to fight Rokkaku for too long. Because I also hope that the Hexagonal House will curb the expansion rate of the Miyoshi Family. No one wants the Miyoshi family to be dominant in the Gyeonggi area for a long time.

"Since Rokkaku Zuojing has the heart to change, he is very relieved. No man is born wise or learned. In the future, the Rokkaku family will continue to serve the shogunate with the imperial offerings of the shogunate. "Since Rokkaku Yoshiki is so sincere to Ashikaga Yoshiteru, it is impossible for Ashikaga Yoshiki not to give Rokkaku Yoshiken a step down. After all, now the shogunate can contain Miyoshi only Rokkaku and the daimyo of Rokkaku.