Zhou Zhong waited until the Ming Dynasty agreed to annex Korea, and saw that the people and merchants in the Ming Dynasty began to be attracted to North Korea, the big stone hanging in his heart finally let go, and then he immediately ordered to move the Governor's Mansion from Weihaiwei back to Shuangyu Port again, after all, his mission to Weihai has been completed, and as for the war on the side of the Wa Kingdom, he no longer needs to worry about it.

Originally, the Ashikaga clan and the Hosokawa clan on the side of the Wa country should have broken out a big war a long time ago, but they didn't expect the big earthquake in the spring, so they all suffered heavy losses, so they had to recuperate for a while, and now that the summer has passed, the leaves on the trees have begun to turn yellow, and the Ashikaga clan and the Hosokawa clan, who have been impatient for a long time, have finally broken out into a big war.

This battle was first provoked by the long-dormant Ashikaga Yoshizai, who joined forces with Tayama Naoshun and launched an attack in the direction of Kyoto from the south, while the Hatano clan in the west also raised a large army, but his forces were relatively weak, so he did not attack this time, but only needed to contain the strength of the Hosokawa clan.

At the beginning of the war, Ashikaga Yoshisai and Tayama Naoshun took the organized 20,000 troops to send Iimori Castle, Iimori Castle is an important fortress of the Hosokawa clan to guard the Tayama clan, the entire city is built very strong, and there are 5,000 troops stationed in the city all year round, but the last time with Ashikaga Yoshisai, Iimori Castle was transferred 1,500 people, and the result was a complete defeat, and the transferred soldiers did not come back a few, and now there are less than 4,000 people left in the city to defend, it can be said that it is a good time to attack it.

Ashikaga Yoshisai and Tayama Naoshun did not waste this opportunity, and their combined forces initially made a gesture of attacking another fortified castle of the Hosokawa clan, that is, Tenglongji Castle. This caused the defenders in Iimori Castle to relax their vigilance. But on a bleak autumn night. The 2,000 elites of the Ashikaga clan and the Tayama clan took advantage of the darkness to climb to the cliff next to Iimori Castle, and then slid into the city by ropes, and although many people fell to their deaths, 1,800 or 900 people managed to enter Iimori Castle in the end.

After this team of less than 2,000 people entered Iimori Castle, they unexpectedly took control of the gates of Iimori Castle, and then opened the gates to welcome the combined forces of the Ashikaga clan and the Tayama clan. As a result, except for a few loyal members of the Hosokawa clan, most of them chose to surrender, after all, the Wa Kingdom of this era did not have the spirit of bushido, and it was not a shame to surrender to the victor.

The fall of Iimori Castle can be described as a very huge blow to the Hosokawa clan, and the reason why the Hosokawa clan was able to suppress Tayama Shangshun before was unable to move, all because the Hosokawa clan held four cities in their hands, namely Iimori Castle, Shinguiyama Castle, Tenglongji Castle and Tawenyama Castle, these four cities were very close to each other and were guarded by the Tayama clan's external traffic arteries. The four cities were interdependent, and each city had a large army stationed in it. As long as there is any change in the Tayama clan, the armies of these four castles will be dispatched, so although Tayama Naoshun was also a hero who supported Ashikaga Yoshisai to regain the position of general, he was finally driven out of Kyoto, the main reason was that there was a threat from these four castles, so he had to obey the orders of the Hosokawa clan.

It is precisely because of the importance of the four cities, so when Ashikaga Yoshisai established his authority, the first one took the weakest Xingui Mountain Castle to open the knife, but his luck was extremely good, and he took the Xingui Mountain Castle in one fell swoop under the sneak attack, and then the heavy snow blocked the reinforcements of the other three cities, which allowed him to break the alliance of the four cities in one fell swoop, and gnawed off a piece of this fortress group.

Shinkiyama Castle is the weakest defense of the four castles, because this fortress was built the latest, and the garrison in the entire fortress is also the least, so after losing this Shinkiyama Castle, the impact on the Hosokawa clan to hold the Tayama clan is not very large, at least if the Tayama clan wants to send troops to Kyoto, it will definitely not be able to bypass the attack of the Hosokawa clan.

But now that the Hosokawa clan has lost even Iimori Castle, and half of the four castles that strangled the Tayama clan have been lost at once, these four serial war fortresses have actually lost their effectiveness, and even as long as the Tayama clan and the Ashikaga clan are willing, they can capture the remaining Tengryusa Castle and Tawenyama Castle in the shortest possible time, and then head straight to Kyoto, which is simply a disaster for the Hosokawa clan.

It is precisely because of this that the Hosokawa clan immediately sent a large army to reinforce Tengryuji Castle and Tawenyama Castle after knowing the news of the loss of Iimori Castle, but when the army of the Hosokawa clan arrived, it happened to meet the armies of the Ashikaga clan and the Tayama clan who were besieging these two cities, which made Hosokawa Takagoku, who personally led the troops, very angry, and commanded the army and the Hosokawa clan army in the city to attack on both sides, which defeated the armies of the Ashikaga clan and the Tayama clan and kept the only two remaining castles.

Four war fortresses that each occupy a diamond-shaped corner, the Ashikaga clan and the Hosokawa clan each occupy half, so in the next war, the two sides launched a hard battle in the diamond-shaped area surrounded by the four fortresses, either the Ashikaga clan sneak attack and the Hosokawa clan's fortress, or the Hosokawa clan sneak attack the castle of the Ashikaga clan, although both sides have occupied each other's fortresses several times, but soon the other party recaptured another fortress, as a result of this endless war, the four castles changed hands several times in the hands of the Hosokawa clan and the Ashikaga clan, But because the strength of the two sides is not much different, the last one always occupies two cities each.

For the tug-of-war between the Ashikaga clan and the Hosokawa clan, it is the situation that Zhou Zhong wants to see the most, because in this tug-of-war, the strength of the Hosokawa clan and the Ashikaga clan are slowly depleting, and the number of dead and wounded is also increasing, although both of them know that if they continue to fight like this, it will not be beneficial to each other, and it may even allow local daimyo like the Ouchi clan to take advantage of the situation.

But Zhilu Dao is known to Zhilu Dao, and now both the Ashikaga clan and the Hosokawa clan have reached the point of not dying, even if the upper echelons of Ashikaga Yoshisai and Hosokawa Takakuni want to stop the war, but the people below will definitely not agree, after all, both sides have already killed the red eye, and it is absolutely impossible to stop without distinguishing the winner or loser.

When Zhou Zhong left Weihaiwei, it was the time when the battle between the Ashikaga clan and the Hosokawa clan was the most fierce, the two sides had mobilized all their strength, and there were no longer any reservations, with Zhou Zhong's estimate, even if one side could win in the future, I am afraid it would be a disastrous victory, and then it would no longer be able to control the power of the shogun, and the daimyo who had risen in various parts of the country would definitely not let go of this opportunity, after all, they had coveted the power of the shogunate for a long time, Ouchi Yoshiko was one of their representatives, and only then did it happen, The real Warring States era of the Wa Kingdom has really arrived.

Thinking of the endless wars of the daimyo in various parts of the Wa Kingdom in the future, Zhou Zhong couldn't help but be secretly proud, because it was his intervention that made the climax of the Warring States Period of the Wa Kingdom come ahead of schedule. In addition, when the internal chaos of the Wa Kingdom is really in chaos, he can take the opportunity to establish his own power in the Wa Kingdom, and the Wa Kingdom will not be destroyed at that time, but he must build a port on the east coast of the main island of the Wa Kingdom, because only through the ocean current to the east can he reach the Americas from Asia.

When Zhou Chong returned to Shuangyu Port, it was already late autumn, and Jinxuan and Lingyun had already given birth to two sons for him, although the two sons were only two days apart, but Jinxuan's son was the eldest son, and Lingyun's son could only be the second son, which made Lingyun very unhappy, because she knew the true identity of her husband, and also knew that the current emperor of the emperor wanted to succeed Zhou Chong's eldest son as the prince of the Ming Dynasty, but now there is only a difference of two days, and her son has missed the position of the prince, which makes her not sad?

Xie Lingyun was unhappy for a long time because of her son, which made Zhou Chong very helpless, so he could only accompany her every day to relax, and it took a long time for Xie Lingyun to recover from regret.

In fact, Zhou Zhong did not feel too happy about his son to inherit the throne of Zhengde, and even if possible, he did not want his son to inherit the throne at all, after all, he knew that the position of the emperor of Lu Dao was not so easy to do, if he was a good emperor, he would definitely be tired, if he was a mediocre emperor, he would not only harm the people in the Ming Dynasty, but if someone succeeded in rebellion, I am afraid that he would not even be able to save his life.

It is also clearly aware of the danger of the profession of Emperor Dao, so Zhou Chong does not really want his son to sit in that position, in addition, he is so young now, in case Zhengde passes the throne to his son, he is not dead, then he will be his son's courtier, Lao Tzu will salute when he sees his son, which makes Zhou Chong really unacceptable.

It's a pity that Zhou Chong's worry doesn't exist at all for Jinxuan, and she has been excited that her son will be able to inherit the throne in the future. It's strange to say, Jinxuan was originally a quiet character, and she didn't value fame and fortune, and even didn't fully support Zhou Chong's becoming an official, after all, in her opinion, her father had been an official for half his life, but her family was worried, so it was enough for her husband to accompany her to live a peaceful life.

But Jinxuan's tranquil temperament is only aimed at Zhou Chong, as a mother, she has another mentality towards her son, that is, she hopes that her son will become a Chan, and now her son can really become a Chan, so this makes Bu Jinxuan very excited, holding her son every day and not letting go, for fear that her baby son will be hurt a little, and even the eldest daughter Xia Xia and her husband Zhou Chong don't have time to pay attention to it at all, which makes Zhou Chong very resentful, so he has to hold his daughter every day to play, and make up for his daughter's lack of maternal love with father's love.

However, just when Zhou Chong had just returned to Shuangyu Port and had not been idle for a few days, two uninvited guests suddenly came to visit. (To be continued......)