Chapter 150: The Clouds Move with the Wind (I)

In mid-May, I again sent Miyata Mitsuji, Kazuki Shiroto, and Mie Bi to Bizen Province to Torakura Castle in Tsutaka County, located at the northwestern tip of the country, which had been repeatedly attacked by the Mori family. This book comes from the same time, the Uki family gathered all the forces in the territory and invaded the country of Misasaka, claiming to reclaim the territory that had been invaded. Yoshikawa Motoharu was naturally not to be outdone, and on the one hand, he mobilized vigorously in the collar, and on the other hand, he sent a messenger to Hideyoshi, accusing the Uki family of opening a military provocation without permission, and asked him to come forward to punish the Uki family.

After receiving Yoshikawa Motoharu's complaint, Hideyoshi actually sent someone to transfer it directly to me, and also wrote a handwritten letter to serve it with the complaint. In the letter, he said: "I heard that the Uki family had asked His Highness Xuanjing (perhaps only he can use this title) to administer justice, and he was received, so this matter was entrusted to His Highness Xuanjing to mediate." Fortunately, you have withdrawn from the Takeda Expedition Alliance, and you have arranged a reserve team in Bizen Country, so you can do it cheaply. ”

Do you want me to do justice? I won't get involved easily. From my standpoint, the more fierce the quarrel between these two families, the better, so fierce that they can drag Hideyoshi into the dispute, and then I will take advantage of the situation to support the side that Hideyoshi suppressed (naturally the Uki family), and divide Hideyoshi's camp (the Yamato Tsutsui family, the Kawachi Ikoma family, the Tango Hosokawa family, etc.), and launch a final showdown with him. In this case, Hideyoshi will have no way to avoid it, and he will have to fight me unprepared, and the result will be no suspense.

However, Hideyoshi seemed unwilling to be led by the nose, so he kicked the mine over. Fortunately, I had considered this situation in advance, so I immediately wrote back to Hideyoshi, replying that I had adopted the Xuan family as an adopted son, and that there was a relationship between the two parties, so it was inconvenient to make a ruling; As for sending a reserve team, it was because Fu Yu was going to the Bodhi Temple of the Miura family to pray for blessings, so he accompanied the guards, and he had no other intentions, which meant that he didn't want to take care of this matter.

As a result, neither Hideyoshi nor I intervened, allowing the two families who had jointly sent troops to participate in the Battle of Shidake and were nominally subordinate to Hideyoshi to fight in Mimasaka Kokudai.

The strength of the Uki family is much weaker than that of the Maori family, and in the previous few encounters, they all relied on strong cities and even reinforcements to withstand the invasion of the Maori family, and if they were facing head-on, they would definitely not be the opponents of the Maori family. However, now the Maori family is not unified internally, not only Kobayakawa Takakei refuses to fight the Ukika, but also Maori Terumoto is inclined to give up Mimasakaku, so as to pinch the fuse of this mine, so as not to detonate a bigger bomb - anyway, that half-country was privately embezzled by Yoshikawa Motoharu, and the benefits also belong to Yoshikawa Motoharu, and there is no benefit to the Maori clan.

For this reason, what the Uki family needs to face is just the strength of the Yoshikawa Motoharu family. In addition, since Tsutaka County, which borders the Yoshikawa family, has a reserve of the Kira family, Yoshikawa Motoharu will never dare to invade there, so they don't have to worry about the defense of the territory, and they can devote all their strength to the Misasaka national front. With such a long and a long dissipation, coupled with the previous connections in Misakoku, they actually took advantage of the scene, and slowly recovered the original control territory, which also made Yoshikawa Motoharu even more angry, and once again appealed to Hideyoshi.

Hideyoshi still didn't respond. He is attacking Sasa Narumasa and the Takeda family at the moment.

Previously, before the Battle of Shidake, in order to gain the support of the Uesugi family, Hideyoshi had promised Uesugi Keikatsu that he would be free to cut off the country of Vietnam. However, Uesugi Keikatsu was not strong enough, and he was still facing the rebellion of the Shinbata Shigeya after North Vietnam, so he was unable to make a knife for a long time, and allowed Sasa Seimasa to live in Toyama Castle in Echichu, Hideyoshi had to give up waiting and personally deal with Sasa Naruma, so as not to prevent him from continuing to contain the Hokuriku Front army that was holding down Hara Hidenaga.

By mid-May, Sasa Narumasa accepted Tomita's persuasion to surrender and surrendered his wife (Murai Sadakatsu's daughter), son-in-law Sakuma Katsuyuki (Sakuma Morima, Shibata Katsumasa's younger brother, who was the adopted son of the Katsu family), and the widowed second daughter Sasa Teruko (her husband Sasa Kiyozo died at Honnoji Temple and later married to Shirataka Shinobo) as hostages, so that he could continue to retain the kingdom of Vietnam. This incident surprised many former ministers of the Oda family, because Sasa Narumasa had always been at odds with Hideyoshi, and he especially looked down on Hideyoshi, who was born as a peasant. However, for both of them, this is indeed the best ending, Sasa Narumasa certainly saved the territory and life of Toyama Castle, and Hideyoshi Yura was also able to make a big noise, sweeping away the decline after the Uki family switched.

In addition, his Takeda family strategy has also made great progress. At the end of the first half of May, Takeda Nobuyoshi of Minami Shinano saw that Jing Xiu was strong, abandoned Oshima Castle and retreated to Kai, but was intercepted by Mori Naga, who had surrounded the castle in advance, and was completely annihilated; In the middle of the year, on the same day that Hokuriku Sasa Narumasa surrendered, Takeda Shingen's cousin Koyamada Nobushige could not resist the attack of the Hojo family, and handed over his mother (Takeda Shingen's aunt) to surrender to the Hojo family, following in the footsteps of Shingen's two sons-in-law, Kiso Yoshimasa and Anayama Nobuyumi; Upon hearing this, Kei-su immediately abandoned the march to Shinfu Castle and instead attacked Takato Castle north of Shinfu, killing the defender Nishina Morinobu and blocking Takeda Katsuyori's escape to Kita-Shinano. Coupled with the prosperity of Kohata who died of illness not long ago, the former famous "Takeda Twenty-four Generals" have all fallen so far, and they have dealt a great blow to the Takeda family in terms of strength and morale. In particular, Nobushige Oyamada, not only the only one of the twenty-four generals to surrender, but also the most powerful general of the Takeda family at present, in the Battle of Nagashino a few years ago, he provided as many as 3,200 people (more than 1,000 of them were killed in battle), after which the Hojo family broke the alliance and was ordered to preside over the southern front and defend the Hojo family with Iwaden Castle as a stronghold. His surrender can be said to have basically declared the destruction of the Takeda family, because at this time, the outer fulcrum of the Takeda family had all fallen, and in addition to the Jucheng Xinfu Castle, there was only one Sanada family left who was born in a foreign style, not only did not have many troops, but was also divided by Jingxiu, sandwiched between Jingxiu's Takato Castle and Uesugi Keikatsu's Kaizu Castle, unable to provide much help.

When I heard this, I immediately decided to give up the wait-and-see and immediately mobilize the entire military forces of Shikoku and Kyushu to launch a military operation against the Mori family. The first to receive the order were Shimazu Yoshihisa and Yasutoshi Yamauchi of Nagato Province, who officially played the card of Ouchi Keihiro and launched an attack on Zhou Fangguo, which had been in the Ouchi clan for generations and was currently controlled by the Mori clan. Then, I divided Shikoku and Kyushu into four divisions: Shikoku, Southern Kyushu, Central Kyushu, and Kitakyushu, and issued separate mobilization and march orders, led by Shinkei and I to march to Sanyo from two directions. On my side, Hosokawa Shinyuki was appointed as the general of Shikoku, and immediately after being summoned, he rushed to Bizen Province, and the three kingdoms of Hinata, Osumi, and Satsuma in southern Kyushu were headed by Gamo Nobuhide, and after being summoned, he advanced to the port of Sangi-Utatsu, and threw himself into the Sanyo front or the Kinai front depending on Hideyoshi's actions; On the side of Shinkei, Nobuyo himself led the three forces of Hokukyushu Bunzen, Chikuzen, and Hizen to Nagato Province and entered Hagi Castle in Shimazu Yoshihisa, posing a threat to Iwami Province, and the three kingdoms of Bungo, Chikugo, and Higo in Central Kyushu were led by Otomo Yoshitomi as Keshichiro's formation, and Shimazu Iehisa served as the vanguard, supporting Nagato Sei in the name of the Ouchi family in the name of the Otomo family, and attacking the Zhou defense country of the Mori family together.

Taking out the name of the Ouchi family is not only a little reluctant, but it may reduce Kobayakawa Takakei's identification with the family, but after the war is over, I must assign Zhou Fangguo to the Ouchi family in this name. For me, it's a bit of a loss, but who kept the Maori family from moving? I thought that when they got the news that I had restored the name of the Ouchi family, they would attack Ouchi Keihiro in anger, but they were so calm. I don't know if it's because Mori Terumoto is hesitant and lacks the bloodiness of Yoshikawa Motoharu, or is it because Kobayakawa Takakei took advantage of Yoshikawa Motoharu's absence to control the situation in order to keep the Mori family?

- Forget it, anyway, it's just less than 200,000 stones, so I'll hand it over to the doll of Ouchi Keihiro! As for Kobayakawa Takakei, it is good to appease after the war.

Since Shikoku and Kyushu have moved, then the Kinai and Tokai sides and naval forces must also take action. On the Kinai side, led by Xiujing and Zhou Jing, the main thing was to hold Quanzhou City and greatly contain Hideyoshi; On the Tokai side, Keimasa was in charge, and he effectively grasped the movements of Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, and then went out to Yamato at the right time, accepted the surrender of the Tsutsui family and the Ikoma family, and stabbed Hideyoshi in the back. In terms of the navy, it can be said that there is no suspense in the contest, with the personal ability of Konishi Yukicho and the strength of the navy, it is absolutely impossible to pose any threat to our side, and his flagship, which was renamed "Seto Maru", because of the lack of naval guns and the cooperation of the rest of the ships, is just a huge cruise ship with old-style armament.

After sealing several orders and sorting out the maps on the table, it was already late. Looking out through the window, a pale yellow waning moon has hung in the sky. I suddenly remembered that today was the 20th of May, and 22 years ago today, I was watching the moonlight outside Nobunaga's bedroom, and then in the second half of the night, Nobunaga heard the information from the front line, danced the world-famous "Tsumori" Yukiwaka dance, and immediately went out to meet Imagawa Yoshimoto...... Today, Nobunaga, Katsuie Shibata, and Nobumori Sakuma, who presided over the war, have all passed away, and it seems that only me and Ikeda Tsuneko are the only two generals who were at the level of generals, and even Yutsu, who was only a few months old at that time, passed away a few months ago.

It's been an indescribable time. And Nobunaga's Bucket Gorge, in my original era, is generally considered to be the beginning of the unification of Japan's Warring States period, so let me put an end to this entire Warring States period once and for all!

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On May 22, when the military forces of Tosa Province were assembled, I held a ceremony for the nine-year-old Keirokuro at the Kira Castle Pavilion, and named him Kamikawa Keirokuro Keishige, temporarily taking possession of the 110,000-stone territory of the three counties of Higashi-Tosahata, Takaoka, and Gogawa. Due to the suddenness of the incident, only the genealogies of Tosa Province were present, including Tsuno Dingkatsu, Satake Yoshihide, Fukiji Fujiko, Nagamune Ibe Yorikin, Ikeyori Kazu, Suzuki Shigehide and others, and the clan only came to one Fujido Takatora, who was summoned by me from Quanzhou Castle and arranged for Keizug to serve as the head of the Gomi family, and assisted Keishige with Hatashiki Fujiko, Takaoka Tsuno Seikatsu, and Satake Yoshihide.

Before leaving the battle, Xiao Xia reprimanded his attendants and personally put on the armor for me. Her movements were very slow, and she seemed very reluctant, which made me a little amused.

"Don't worry! I'm just going to Awa and handing over Tosa, Iyo Ryose, and Keirokuro to His Highness Shinno, and I won't personally lead the army to Sanyo! Wearing it is just following the conventions of the army," I pointed to Keishige, "Speaking of which, Keirokuro is the Tosa Country general who is going to go into battle!" ”

"But there's still going to be a war...... Really, seeing His Royal Highness's rare leisure for more than half a year, I thought it had been like this all along. However, when I saw His Highness wearing this armor again, I realized that after all, I was in a troubled world! Xiao Xia looked at me, then at Jing Zhong, and let out a heavy sigh.

However, Jingzhong listened to my words and felt very good, shaking the armor on his body, with an excited expression on his face. However, the armor on his body, although very delicate and gorgeous, was made temporarily, and he was growing his body, so he probably wore it this time!

"This troubled world will soon be over. If Jing Liulang doesn't participate in this battle, maybe he won't have a chance to fight in the future," I smiled and touched Jing Chong's head, "Even this time, it will be difficult for him to encounter a real battle, and there are Gao Hu and many close guards to protect him." ”

"In short, I just can't put my mind at ease." Xiao Xia said sullenly, reluctantly holding Jingzhong's helmet in his hand.

"Okay, don't bother, you're all waiting!" I took the helmet and hung it on Jing Chong's waist, and got together with the trumpet knife and the trumpet rib gap inserted, "Your Highness Jing Chong, let's set off together!" ”

"Yes!" Jing Zhong straightened his chest and bulged his belly, and responded decently, which made Xiao Xia laugh.

"See you then! Mother-sama! Jingzhong smiled and nodded, and walked out of the room with me.

Outside the Kira Castle Pavilion, the 8,000 troops of the entire Tosa Province had been assembled, and Fujido Takatora and Nishitosa Guardian Daicho Sobe Yorito stood side by side at the front of the entire army, and when they saw our father and son coming out, they led all the attendants to kneel on the ground and shouted, "General! The army has been assembled! Please give the order of the general! ”

I nodded slightly, and shouted the same loudly, "Go!" ”

"Yes!" Everyone roared into the order, and the sound shook the entire Kira Castle Pavilion.

I jumped on the white horse first, and then stretched out my hand to help Jingzhong ride on the other horse, but Jingzhong shook his head and jumped up on the stirrup himself.

"Not bad!" I smiled and complimented, "When I'm your age, I don't have the ability to do that." ”

"Really? Can't even my father? "Jingzhong was very pleasantly surprised. He has always considered me to be the most powerful, unparalleled outstanding military commander in the world, and regarded me as an idol.

"Of course it's true." I laughed. What was I doing when I was nine years old? Going to elementary school, visiting parks, playing game consoles...... If you want to ride a horse, it's a merry-go-round at best! ro！ ~！