Chapter 367: Persuasion and Faithfulness
In the third year of Yonglu, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. After the defeat of the Rokkaku family in the Battle of Norata, the Miyoshi trio contacted Rokkaku Yoshiji, hoping that he would turn a blind eye to it when the Miyoshi army attacked the Yajima Imperial Palace, so that the general's candidate Ashikari Yoshiei would be granted the position of Rokkaku family manager after ascending to the position of the shogun of Seiyi. Otherwise, the Miyoshi family would gather tens of thousands of people from Awa, Sanuki, Izumi, Awaji, Yamashiro, Kawachi and other countries to attack the Rokkaku family territory in Minami Omi.
After weighing it repeatedly, Rokkaku Yoshiji felt that the new defeat of the Rokkaku family urgently needed time to recuperate, and the current Rokkaku family was not the opponent of the Gyeonggi overlord Miyoshi family at all, so he had to sell the Miyoshi family a face, and he also had the identity of the shogunate to better control the generals of the southern Omi River and establish the prestige of the governor.
On August 20, Miyoshi Sanshi, Matsunaga and others led an army of 5,000 to attack the Yajima Imperial Palace, but thankfully, Okusa Kishishige, Matsuda Yoritaka, Ishitani Mitsumasa, Kato Kyoaki (Mikawa Samurai, Mikawa Ichijo lost his command after the defeat of the Ashikaga Shogun) and other public samurai finally temporarily repelled the Miyoshi Army after a bloody battle with Akechi Mitsuhide and Wada Castle Lord Wada Castle in Shiga Prefecture (Shiga Prefecture).
However, Ashikaga Yoshiaki found that the Minami Omi Daimyo Rokkaku family, whom he regarded as his right-hand man, secretly colluded with the Miyoshi three, and in order to save his life and restore the shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshiaki had to lead the public samurai to quickly leave the Yajima Imperial Palace, and temporarily enter the Akechi Mitsuhide Ryō Manoshi Castle in Shiga County to rest, intending to go to Wakasa in early September to protect Takeda Yoshitomi, and prepare to avoid the limelight in Wakasa country.
Miyoshi and the trio, who had already been aware of Ashikaga Yoshiaki's actions, took the opportunity to collude with Rokkaku Yoshiken and Rokkaku Yoshiharu father and son, and marched to Sakamoto Castle, Usayama Castle, Otsu Castle, and Zensho Castle in Shiga Prefecture on August 25. When the Rokkaku family saw that the Miyoshi family was attacking Shiga Prefecture in a big way, they also made an appearance to support the Miyoshi family, and sent Shigetsuna Aochi (the former lord of Usayama Castle and the elder of the Spectrum family), Hirai Dingwu (the elder of the Spectrum family), Kurokawa Shujin (the wealthy clan of Koga County) and others to lead an army of 3,000 to burn down the Yashima Imperial Palace and assist the Miyoshi Army in the invasion of Shiga Prefecture.
Due to the betrayal of the Rokkaku family, the Minami-Omi area has become extremely dangerous. For the sake of Ashikaga Yoshiaki's safety, Akechi Mitsuhide had to quickly dispatch his subordinates Katata Yoshiro Juchu and Baba Sunjiro to escort Ashikaga Yoshiaki across Lake Biwa to Wakasa, the territory of the Wakasa Takeda family.
However, what Ashikaga Yoshiaki did not expect was that the current Wakasa Takeda family was in the midst of a double civil strife between the competition for the governor and the rebellion of the important ministers, and it was impossible to support Ashikaga Yoshiaki to ascend to the position of the general of the expedition. However, out of support for Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Takeda Yoshitomi only sent his younger brother Takeda Nobuyo to Ashikaga Yoshiaki. Ashikaga Yoshiaki had no choice but to go to Echizen Province to seek the assistance of Echizen Guardian Asakura Yoshikei and wait for the opportunity to send troops to Kamiraku.
In order to be able to exchange for the Asakura family's troops, Ashikaga Yoshiaki quickly went to the imperial court after entering Echizen Province, and made Yoshikage's mother an official from the second rank. However, Asakura Yoshikei intended to put the Ashikaga Shogun's Reneda Kuraya Duke Ashikaga Tsushichi (a descendant of Ashikaga Yoshiji) to the position of Shogun of Seiyi, so he was not interested in Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who had already returned to the world. However, after all, the visitor was the younger brother of the former shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and Asakura Yoshikei could only entertain him well, and he continued to hold welcome banquets such as cherry blossom viewing and singing parties for several days. In this way, Ashikaga Yoshiaki stayed in Echizen Province for a long time, and the shogunate such as Ueno Kiyonobu and Odate Harutada went to Echizen to pay tribute to him.
At the same time, Akechi Mitsuhide knew that he was no match for the Miyoshi family, so he spent a lot of money to ask Hieiyama Enryakuji Temple to mediate the war with the Miyoshi family. The three of Miyoshi and Matsunaga Tong and others were not offended when they saw the Enryakuji Temple of Mt. Hiei appear, so they had to withdraw their troops and return to their respective territories. After seeing the Miyoshi Army withdrawing, the Rokkaku Army felt that it would not be able to capture the southern part of Shiga Prefecture on its own, so it had to quickly retreat into the Rokkaku Territory.
At this time, Kenshin, who was in Echigo, also learned the news that Ashikaga Yoshiteru had been killed in the Nijo Imperial Palace, and she immediately sent more than 3,000 generals to lead more than 3,000 troops into Vietnam, such as Ganya Keichi, Honda Nagasada, and Suga Shengneng, to assist Nagao Keiren, Nagao Keikin, Yoshie Keiken, Koma Tsunemitsu, Okuma Ashide, and other Vietnamese generals to launch a fierce attack on the people of East Vietnam, and it was necessary to completely pacify East Vietnam within three months. Qianxin intends to lead the army to Shangluo to establish a foothold in Li Yiqiu as the general of the expedition after pacifying the two countries of Viethorn and Kaga.
However, Kenshin's idea was very good, but the two of them, Noto Guardian Usami Dingmi, and Kaga Guardian Kakizaki Keike were firmly opposed to Kenshin's dispatch of troops to Kamiraku, and at the same time sent his retainers to Kawagoe Castle in the hope of getting the approval of the Hatada. When Asada, who was in Takaku, who was in Takaku, who was in front of Konoe Maehisa, learned about this, he immediately stopped Takayama Hunt and went to Kasuga Yamajo Castle with Konoe Maehisa to advise Kenshin.
The court was not prepared to immediately send troops to Shangluo like Kenshin about the death of Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and could only sympathize with the experience of the Ashikaga shogun's family and sigh that Ashikaga Yoshiteru had grand ambitions and strong character, but he could not see the general trend of the shogunate's demise, but unfortunately died young in the end, which caused people to sigh. It can only be said that the ancestors created evils and brought disaster to their descendants - the Ashikaga Shogun's family has been terminally ill for a long time, and it is not within the reach of manpower at all.
Asadachi and Konoe arrived at the Echigo Fuchu Imperial Palace late at night on August 26, and without taking a break, they directly advised Kenshin not to send troops to Shangluo at this time.
"Fujiwara Town General, Bo Lu Gong, the two of you should know that the three of Miyoshi, Matsunaga Shuangtai and others dare to kill the general, it is unheard of in ancient times!" Qianxin didn't want to let go of the Miyoshi family.
"Doctor Uesugi Goshi, the situation is not clear at the moment, why did you rush to send troops? How about sending subordinate officials to inquire about the news after Yu returns to Gyeonggi? Konoe was also worried about his sister's safety.
"What Bo Lu Gong said is extremely true, otherwise we will be like the Ouchi family, coming and leaving in a hurry, and we will not be able to gain a firm foothold in the Gyeonggi area." The plan of the court is to destroy the southern family of Hokuritsu's henchmen first, otherwise he will not be able to rest assured of his strategy.
"Isn't it possible to let the murderer of His Royal Highness the General go unpunished?!" Kenshin was reluctant to see that the court and the guard had been opposed for a long time.
"There is nothing to do, not only do we have to wait and see the changes in the situation in the Gyeonggi area during this time, but also let the Azhou Duke ascend to the position of the general of Zhengyi." As soon as Asada's words fell, both Konoe Maehisa and Kenshin looked at him in surprise.
"Fujiwara Shogun, what do you mean by that?" Konoe didn't understand what the court meant.
"Once the family sends troops to Shangluo, then the rival daimyo such as the Takeda family and the southern family will immediately send troops to attack the territory of the family, and when the territory is empty, how can they resist their army?" Chao Ding also came up with a method out of desperation.
"Takeda Shingen is still the guardian of Shinano and Kai appointed by the shogunate, how can he be facing the sword soldiers of his family at this time?!" Kenshin felt that Takeda Shingen was at least able to prioritize the priorities.
"Hmph, how is that possible? As long as it is the governor of the Takeda family or Takeda Shingen, it is possible! The Takeda family took the initiative to attack Xiangshu in the seizure of Junshu, Enshu, Sanshu, Feishu and other places, and it can be seen that its ambitions are not limited to seizing the sea mouth, and his ultimate intention is to put the banner of the Takeda family in Kyoto and dominate the world. For the Takeda family, there is no real ally, and once it loses its use value, it will be immediately abandoned by the Takeda family. Chao Ding said after sneering.
"In order to keep the peace and the Son of Heaven in the Gyeonggi area from being frightened, we can only let the Aju Duke succeed to the post of General of Zhengyi." Konoe didn't have much of a good impression of Ashikaga Yoshiteru in front of him, after all, there was a confrontation not long ago, and the two almost broke off their relationship.
"Then leave everything to the Bolu Gong" Asadachi plans to completely expel the forces of the Takeda family from the Kitashinano family and destroy the southern family first, so that the Uesugi family will have no worries from Hokuriku, Tokaido and other places in Kamirakura.
While Kenshin agreed to continue to watch the situation in the Gyeonggi area for the time being, the remnants Chinese of the Jimboh clan, including Kohata Kusuke, Shibata Hisamitsu, Tatedanmasa, and Captain Shogoro Zuo, who returned to Vietnam, jointly returned to Vietnam, such as Jimbau, Terajima Jobada, Yamada Shu, Iida Toshitada, Irizen Yataro, Matsubara Dewa, Takeki Ishimimori, and Tahara Shingo, and other remnants of the Jimbo clan successively attacked Inamura Castle, Nichu Castle, Akaikan Castle, and Terada Castle in Shinkawa County. Seeing that Jimbo Nagakoku and others who had been dormant in Tateyama and Mt. Karashi, Jimbo Nagashige, Jimbo Shigemasa, Jimbo Dehamori, Jimbo Clan, Jimbo Nagatori, and others were unwilling to continue to hibernate after seeing that Jimbo Nagaguni and others were constantly victorious and seized some of the previous old domains, they immediately led their Lang Party to Izushi Jimbo Nagaguni, intending to restore the old lords and family names of the Vietaka guardian Daijimbo family and the Shoushan Jimboo family.
Most of the generals in Vietnam and China were all under the command of Humility and faith, and they were not good at warfare, so they were defeated again and again. Thankfully, the old and young Tsuneko of the former Shiina family did not follow Jimbo Nagakuni and others, but guarded Ikeda Castle and Oyamakan, and continued to attack and harass the Ichiku, causing Jimbo Nagakoku to send Terashima Ichijo, Jimbo Dewa Mamoru and other generals to lead more than 500 troops to contain Koma Tsunemitsu.
On August 29, in order to prevent Takeda Shingen from taking advantage of the opportunity, Chao Ding replaced Kenshin and led the banner to fight in East Vietnam. Knowing that Asadaki led his army out of Dongyue, Takeda Shingen immediately dispatched Baba Nobubo, Hoshina Masatoshi, Fujisawa Yorikina and other generals to lead 5,000 troops to Gugang Castle, Iwahara Castle and other places, ready to cross Mt. Yanzhi, Tateyama Lianfeng and enter Dongyue at any time.