In this battle of Yamazaki, Akechi Mitsuhide's forces were superior to Hashiba Hideyoshi.

However, the situation was even worse for Akechi Mitsuhide, who led an army of 50,000 men in Mori Terumoto in Sanyo Province and was heading for Kyoto.

In the Nakasendo Road, the main force of the Takeda Army was more than 100,000, and they also came day and night.

These two military forces, for Akechi Mitsuhide, are not his current forces, and they can be defeated.

However, Akechi Mitsuhide is a high-minded and arrogant person, and until the last moment, he will never give up his efforts.

After consulting with the generals, Akechi Mitsuhide agreed that the only way to make peace with Mori was to give priority to defeating Hashiba Hideyoshi, first establish an advantage, and make peace with Mori, and then call on the nobles to fight with Takeda to fight city by city, as long as the war drags on into winter.

After Akechi Mitsuhide relieved himself, the situation still has something to do in the coming year.

Therefore, it is his top priority to defeat Hashiba Hideyoshi with extremely fast and fierce tactics and establish his wise and glorious power to the world.

Hideyoshi Hashiba, Akechi Mitsuhide, the last two outstanding strategists of the two Oda families, fought a fierce battle in the land of Yamazaki.

Akechi Mitsuhide scattered all his family wealth, and distributed all the Kaki countries to his generals, and rushed to support his wealthy family, and he only took one country, Yamashiro, in order to motivate his subordinates.

Under this call, Akechi Mitsuhide concentrated 35,000 troops and launched a fierce attack on Hashiba Hideyoshi's army.

This battle lasted for two days and one night, and Hashiba Hideyoshi was on the verge of collapse several times.

Hideyoshi Hashiba commanded generals, such as Asano Nagayasu. Masaharu Mikoda and Masanori Fukushima were both killed in battle, and the deaths of their subordinates were difficult to accumulate.

Just when everyone thinks that Akechi Mitsuhide is going to win this battle.

Akechi Mitsuhide learned that the general of the Mori family, Kobayakawa Takakei, led an army of 15,000 to land in Kaimachi.

Kobayakawa Takakei detoured to the back of Akechi Mitsuhide's army and cut off his retreat to Kyoto.

When this news came out, the morale of the Wise Mitsuhide Army collapsed.

Akechi Mitsuhide was unable to contain his wealthy clans, and they all led their own troops to flee for their lives and leave Yamazaki.

But Hideyoshi Hashiba seized the opportunity. Launch a counterattack against Akechi Mitsuhide.

This time, the wise and glorious army showed its strength, and in less than half an hour, the battle line collapsed and the whole army was defeated.

The Yushiba Hideyoshi army took advantage of the situation to chase and kill more than ten miles, beheading countless people, and the generals under the command of Akechi Mitsuhide, such as Akechi Hidemitsu, Saito Toshizo, and Yamazaki Nagatoku were all taken. The first class is offered.

And Wise Mitsuhide, together with the general Mizoo Zhuangbei, led more than 700 remnants of the army to retreat to Longsheng Temple City.

Hashiba Hideyoshi personally led a large army to pursue him, and then attacked Ryukatsuji Castle with the battle method of encircling three and missing one.

The Wise Army was now disheartened and fled through the gap, and was killed in the battle after the Gouwei Zhuang Guard. Akechi Mitsuhide only led a dozen horsemen to escape from Longsheng Temple Castle, and his whereabouts have been unknown since then.

As for the whereabouts of Akechi Mitsuhide, a hundred years later, this matter is an unsolved mystery.

Some people say that after the city of Longsheng Temple was broken. On the way to Sakamoto Castle, Akechi Mitsuhide was killed by a local farmer's fallen warrior hunter, and was wounded and killed.

The head was buried by his subordinates in a secret place, and his subordinates followed him to his death.

More people say that after the Wise Light Show City was broken, he was incognito. Incarnate as a monk, a ronin, a pipa monk, and even a minister of other countries, waiting for the time when the world is in turmoil, and then rise up again and compete in the world.

Of course, the most romantic way to say it is that Akechi Mitsuhide knows that he is not fortunate in Japan. Therefore, he fled overseas, and on top of a certain country in the Southern Barbarians, he relied on his own force to subdue his retainers and create a hegemony of a country.

During his lifetime, Mitsuhide Akechi disappeared from Japan and spent his old age overseas.

It is said that there are many clouds, but in any case, the hegemony of Akechi Mitsuhide, and his Toki clan, has completely disappeared with the defeat of Yamazaki. …,

And now, the armies of Kobayakawa Takakei, Hashiba Hideyoshi, and Ikeda Tsuneko have arrived in Kyoto, just one step away.

On the contrary, it was one step faster than the 140,000 troops of the Takeda Army, which was slowly advancing along the Nakasendo.

However, just before Hideyoshi Hashiba was about to lead his army into Kyoto, the entrance to Kyoto, he was stopped by Mori Terumoto himself.

Because to the east, the vanguard of the Takeda family's 140,000 Kamiraku army has approached.

Shangluo's dream of being a king is the twenty-fourth generation governor of the Takeda family, and he has pursued it all his life.

If at this time, the army of the Mori family entered Kyoto, it would inevitably turn against Takeda.

At present, the Maori family has two choices, one is to take advantage of the power of the defeat of Akechi Mitsuhide, take advantage of the situation to enter Kyoto, and control the most elite place in the world.

Of course, this is absolutely intolerable for those who are determined to go to Luo Wutian.

Sekigahara bloody battle, defeated Oda, the Takeda family spent a lot of effort, if Maori was so cheap, entered Kyoto and seized the world, then Takeda Shinfan, Li Xiao and the two are just false people.

In this way, Takeda, Maori will have a decisive battle.

The second is to cede Kyoto, while the Mori family is content with the status quo, settle for the western country, and cede the world to Takeda.

This dilemma left the Maori family in hesitation and confusion.

Mori Terumoto, Kobayakawa Takakei, and Yoshikawa Motoharu all fell into the long test before falling into the key one like a chess player, although Hashiba Hideyoshi and Ikeda Hengxing all worked hard to persuade them, but they did not make waves.

In the end, Yushiba Hideyoshi was extremely disappointed, looked up to the sky and sighed, and said loudly: "Maori is not enough and conspiracy." ”

On the side of the Takeda family, after learning about the Mori family, the combined forces of Hashiba Hideyoshi defeated Akechi Mitsuhide.

The Takeda family was also shocked, and quickly held a military discussion.

After discussing with Takeda Nobushi, Li Xiao, Sanada Masayuki, and Takasaka Masanobu, they immediately set aside a cavalry team to form a rapid force to seize before the Mori family.

The top of the Takeda family, composed of these four people, although they did not get along with each other, still maintained the same pace in the face of possible provocations from Maori.

The four of them assembled a cavalry regiment of 5,000 troops, led by the elder of the family, Nobushige Yamada, the general Nobutada Kohata, and Masatsune Tsuchiya as the deputy general, as the first batch of generals of the Takeda family to take charge of Kyoto.

From the shores of Lake Biwa in Omi, this cavalry regiment marched quickly after a day and a night without sleep.

The 5,000 troops marched along the Nakasendo Road into the Yamashina Basin, passing through the east gate of Mt. Hiei Enryakuji, Kusatsu, and Otsu, and finally came to the long bridge of the Seda River, the entrance to Kyoto.

The Kara Bridge of the Seta River is one of the three ancient bridges in Japan, spanning the Seta River, and is the only way to enter Kyoto in the west.

When they arrived at the Long Bridge on the Seta River after a day and a night, the mist of early winter that Takeda had seen was still shrouded over the long bridge, and the outline of Kyoto could be seen in the distance.

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