Xiao Ruxun's concerns about the Tokugawa Ieyasu Group are not unreasonable, but many things will not move forward as people think. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tokugawa Ieyasu did not die, he took off the general's clothes, changed into the clothes of a small soldier, and followed a group of retainers to break out of the siege at the risk of death.

Along the way, he gathered the previous garrison and the remnants of the defeated generals, and when he retreated to Nagato Province, his men regathered about 5,000 men, but they could not find the majestic momentum they had before in any way with a sad expression.

Tokugawa Ieyasu lost his first general, Tadakatsu Honda, and his first strategist, Kuroda Rusui, as if his left arm had been cut off, leaving only a lone man, and his elite were lost.

The remaining second-line troops are only 5,000, and they dare not say whether they can continue to dominate the Eastern Alliance, let alone continue to sweep the world and compete with the Toyotomi clan.

I didn't dare to touch him before, because he was the strongest, the most prestigious, and the oldest, so he let the daimyo obey, but it is worth mentioning that the most powerful of these conditions is strength, and the most useless thing is other prestige and qualifications and the like, these things are all based on strength, and the strength is not strong enough, and everything you say is in vain.

The local powerful daimyo who have just come out of the chaos of the Warring States Period value strength the most, not only their own, but also other people's, you Tokugawa Ieyasu was the strongest before, with more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, so we listen to you, but now you only have more than 5,000 horses, and you fell from the first prince to the position at the end of the crane in an instant, and you still expect our 217,800 troops to continue to follow you?

As for Tokugawa Ieyasu's Edo territory - make no mistake, if you still have 30,000 soldiers, we are still afraid of you, but you have no soldiers, once the news spreads and the Toyotomi side knows, Toyotomi Hideji, who was still afraid, will immediately attack the Edo territory with all his might, at that time, the Tokugawa clan's family cannot be saved, let alone others, you have no base, what do you expect?

What everyone can see, Tokugawa Ieyasu himself can see, according to the predetermined plan, after these daimyo pacify Kyushu, they will all attack Shikoku and the Honshu region through Nagato Province to catch up with the footsteps of the Tokugawa army, and now it is almost this time, and the scouts sent by Tokugawa Ieyasu report that they have seen a large number of troops advancing towards his place.

Tokugawa Ieyasu knew that the time had come to decide his fate, and now there was no one to help him with his staff, Kuroda was dead, and the people who could help him no longer exist, and the remaining retainers were all armed with more than brain power, and they could help kill the enemy but could not help plan the future, Tokugawa Ieyasu could only ponder it by himself little by little, but he was already confused, and he really had no spare energy to continue planning.

His intestines were all repentant, and he took regret medicine one by one, regretting why he had a hot head to go to war with the Ming army, knowing that the Toyotomi clan had lost so badly, but he still didn't know whether to fight with the Ming army alive or dead, what is it that is not looking for death? It's good now, the old foundation of many years has been exhausted, and his strength has been greatly damaged, and he was originally the leader of the Eastern Kingdom, and he fell to ten places in an instant, how can he have enough right to speak?

The situation became uncertain again with the addition of the Ming army, and the collective rebellion of the Daimyo of the Eastern Kingdom cast a heavy shadow over it, and he could even foresee the final defeat.

The road of rebellion can no longer continue, if it continues to fight, not to explain the army, even the current Toyotomi clan can break his wrist with him, the strength of that guy in the Maeda Toshiya has not been damaged, his strength is still complete, if you really want to fight face to face, the Toyotomi clan may not have no chance of winning, they can continue to survive, even if they do not have the strength to recover part of the territory that has been occupied, but it is still possible to ensure a territorial confrontation.

Tokugawa Ieyasu thought a lot, but the only thing he didn't expect was the discipline and courage of these daimyo who were allied with him, he didn't expect these guys to be so undisciplined and courageous.

After learning that Tokugawa Ieyasu's army was almost completely wiped out, and only a few thousand remnants remained, the daimyo were shocked and surrounded Tokugawa Ieyasu to ask him why the Ming army would suddenly break the alliance and attack him, and whether it was he who angered the Ming army and caused them all to suffer together?

Everyone's private territory is east of Kyoto, although the Toyotomi army has been basically wiped out and there is no threat of strength, but if they are also basically destroyed, the Toyotomi army will have time to gnaw their territory little by little, when they come, they have basically taken away all the elite troops and powerful retainers, and there are only a few elites and a large number of old, weak, sick and disabled left in the family.

Toyotomi Hideji and Maeda Toshiya got together, how could they make up an army of 70,000 or 80,000, right? The crowd tactics can kill them even if they are piled up!

Tokugawa Ieyasu was physically and mentally exhausted, but his lack of confidence made him unable to make an effective rebuttal, and he could only helplessly explain that the Ming army was too much, asking for 10 million taels of silver and the entire Iwami country, which means that the entire Iwami Silver Mountain will be taken away by the Ming army, and none of us can get a son!

The daimyo looked at each other, you look at me, I look at you, and they began to calculate their own interests and losses.

According to common sense, if Tokugawa Ieyasu established a solid rule, would they be able to get the silver of Iwami Ginzan?

The answer is no, such a big silver mountain, so much silver, the central government will definitely take it into its own hands instead of sharing it with the enemy, everyone is now an ally, and it is not necessarily whether it is a political enemy at that time, how can we still share the interests of each other? Originally, they couldn't get it, they didn't have it now, and they may not have it in the future, people like Toyotomi Hideyoshi can not give face to the Maori family, and they can control Ginzan, not to mention others.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the old fox, is not so anxious to grab the silver mountain?

So some people ridiculed Tokugawa Ieyasu in a weird way.

"If it weren't for the fact that His Excellency Tokugawa was in a hurry to snatch the ownership of Iwami Ginzan, he wouldn't have been defeated by the Ming army there, right? If His Excellency Tokugawa could take it as his responsibility to fight for the world and not care about the ownership of a silver mountain, then everyone should be about to hit Kyoto by now, right? Although Maeda Toshiya is strong, he can't compete with so many of us alone, right? ”