After the battle, Yukinaga Asano counted the battle damage and found that he had killed more than a hundred soldiers of the Tokugawa army, and finally gave himself a sigh of relief.

"We overcame! Starting tomorrow, we will give the Tokugawa army one serious blow after another, until we send them to hell! ”

"Oh!!!!"

The morale of the Toyotomi army was boosted.

An hour later, the Tokugawa army did not attack again, and Asano Yukinaga laughed, saying that the Tokugawa army was a paper tiger, and he would not dare to come again if he was beaten once, and like Tokugawa Ieyasu, he knew that he would shrink and sneak attack.

Asano Yukinaga looked at the sky and found that it was already the second half of the night, and after doing the math, he felt that the other party also had to rest, and he would not come again after three consecutive night attacks, so he instructed his subordinates to inspect the entire military camp instead of him and go to sleep by himself.

The general ordered the highly nervous soldiers in the middle of the night to go back to rest, and he pulled a group of people in good spirits to patrol to prevent the Tokugawa army from raiding.

On the other hand, Naomasa Ii ordered all members of the Red Reserve to wrap cloth around the horses' hooves and attach branches to the horses' beaks, so as to prepare for a night attack.

"The moonlight is hazy tonight, and there is wind, it is a good opportunity to set fire, it seems that God is going to give me a chance, and the east wind is blowing, Asano Yukinaga set the military camp in the downwind, this time, I want to call him to come and go! Someone, give me the torch! ”

Naomasa Ii found the best fighter plane, so he told his generals about his tactics, asking everyone to bring torches and fire oil, go to Toyotomi-kun's military camp and set it on fire, make a big move to make their military camp chaos, it is best to bomb the camp, and then Yasumasa Kamihara led the main infantry force to kill the past and completely solve Asano Yukinaga.

After the plan is decided, then it is time to start executing, in the second half of the night, when people are sleeping the most soundly, Ii Naomasa and the members of the Red Reserve Team started the night raid operation, the operation is very smooth, the stealth ninja successfully eliminated the gate guards, and then, the barbecue meeting began.

Yasumasa Kamihara led his troops to the outside of the camp of Asano Kocho's department, and at the sound of an order, a round of rockets rose into the sky and attacked straight towards the tent of Asano's Kocho's department, and the night attack officially began, and the cruel game began.

Anyway, Asano Yukinaga didn't expect that after the endless battle during the day, Naomasa Ii would actually take advantage of the night to attack at night, he only left the same night vigil troops, and the rest went to sleep to accumulate physical strength, and it was the time when he slept the most soundly.

The results speak for themselves.

The Ii Red Reserve rushed into the Toyotomi camp like a whirlwind, setting fire to everything they went, and the Toyotomi camp, which was already burning from the fall of a rocket, was even more burned by the action of the torches.

Then in the second half of the night, the east wind blew again, and the Toyotomi camp was at the downwind outlet, and the wind helped the fire, and it burned out of control.

The Toyotomi camp burned hotly, and the red reserve team fought very hotly, and the raging fire greatly boosted the morale of Ii Naomasa's troops, shouting the battle cry and fighting desperately, and the soldiers on the Toyotomi side woke up from their sleep, delirious, and had no orders, so they had to flee for their lives.

As for Yukinaga Asano, he was lucky enough to have fled under the escort of his retainers.

Although he woke up, his retainers made a judgment that it was too late and that it was really pointless to continue resisting, so he picked up Asano Yukinaga and fled, leaving behind the disorganized army.

Asano Yukinaga never expected that the confrontation between the two armies after a few years under his own command would actually end in his own defeat, and the defeat was so sudden, and the selected battlefield was defeated by Ii Naomasa in a surprise attack before he could use it.

In the battle, the Tokugawa army under the command of Ii Naomasa and Kamihara Yasumasa won a complete victory, and the Toyotomi army under the command of Asano Yukinaga was defeated, Asano Yukinaga was only spared, and the Toyotomi army was almost completely annihilated, and a large number of ordnance materials were all captured by Ii Naomasa.

When Asano Yukinaga tied himself up and knelt in front of Toyotomi Hideji to plead guilty, Toyotomi Hideji was very angry and learned that Asano Yukinaga sent troops without authorization to fight a big defeat, not only losing people, but also losing face.

Toyotomi Hideji, who was originally going to punish Asano Yukinaga, learned that more than a dozen powerful generals kneeling outside his mansion sent daimyo to intercede with Asano Yukinaga, and after thinking about it again, he decided to pardon Asano Yukinaga for the time being, punished him with fiefs and money, and made him guilty of meritorious service.

After that, Toyotomi Shuji summoned Ishida Mitsunari.

Ishida Mitsunei cried to Toyotomi Shuji about his escape from house arrest, blaming himself for his incompetence, ashamed of his failure to stop Asano's attack, and willing to apologize with his death.

Toyotomi Shuji stops Ishida Mitsunari.

"This is not a good thing, the military generals have always been very arrogant, very arrogant, this time do not listen to my orders to attack directly, if they win the battle, I feel that things are not easy to clean up, now that the battle has been lost, the heart has been hit, and the heart must be weak.

Although we are in a disadvantageous position at this moment, this is not necessarily an opportunity, and if I can take the opportunity to win a battle and show the majesty of Toyotomi, I will definitely be able to vigorously deter the military generals and make them bow down to their orders. ”

Crisis equals danger + opportunity, this is what Toyotomi Hideyoshi once said to Toyotomi Hideji, in the past Toyotomi Hideji did not understand, now, he understands.

Skillfully exploiting the crisis and turning danger into opportunity, this is what he wants to do.

Ishida Mitsunari also realized this, and found that Toyotomi Hideji was changing to a qualified ruler, which was very gratifying, but the timing was not good, because opportunity is war, which means that Toyotomi Hideji, who did not want to go to war in the first place, must go to war.

Only by starting a war can we turn danger into opportunity and make use of it, and achieve the hegemony of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, otherwise, it will be directly silent.

In this situation, Ishida Mitsunari can't worry about the Qin army's strategy anymore, but he must march into Iwami to defeat Ii Naomasa.

Despite this, looking at the slightly excited Toyotomi Shuji, Ishida Mitsunari was still very worried.

Could this also be part of the Qin army's scheme?

It's hard to say, it's really hard to say, Ishida Mitsunari really can't believe that this situation can be expected by Xiao Ruxun, it's really terrifying.

But in any case, this war is inevitable, otherwise, public opinion in Kyoto alone can drive Toyotomi Shuji crazy.

So that night, Toyotomi Hideji urgently convened a meeting to go to war.

Early the next morning, he went into the palace to meet the decrepit man who had become the king of Japan, and cried a little bit, and then obtained the royal flag, got the name of righteousness, and declared Tokugawa Ieyasu a rebel and a thief army, and he was an imperial army.

A war for hegemony has turned propaganda into a war against rebellion, so it can be seen how important it is to grasp the high ground of public opinion.

From ancient times to the present, the power of people's mouths is not as small as imagined.

Sometimes, the power of the mouth can even dominate the course of history, which was proved by a group of people called Zonghengjia in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China.