War has always been cruel, especially in the era of cold weapons, when two hostile armies spend the master's time and energy before the war, make preparations that they think are already very abundant, and then a clash of iron and blood breaks out on the battlefield, and the previous preparations burst out in an instant, like fireworks, although the scene is magnificent, but also cruel and outrageous.

Ashikaga Yoshisai and Ashikaga Kazuki for the rise of their own family, the two made countless efforts for this, Ashikaga Yoshisai endured humiliation, was deposed twice as a general, and still did not change his mind to accumulate strength for the revival of the family. Ashikaga Kazuki left overseas and opened up another world with his bare hands, but in order to get the support of the Ming Dynasty, he resolutely gave up the Chamber of Commerce that he had accumulated with great difficulty, and returned to the Wa country to start over, in exchange for various materials that were urgently needed. It is precisely with the efforts of Ashikaga Yoshisai and Ashikaga Kazuki over the years that the Ashikaga family, which should have been eliminated a long time ago, regained a different kind of brilliance.

The battle of Shingui Mountain Castle can be seen as the battle of the rise of the Ashikaga family, Ashikaga Yoshisai and Ashikaga Kazuki personally led 5,000 elite soldiers, and the Hosokawa clan's 4,000 elite soldiers fought a decisive battle outside the city, because the Hosokawa clan was too arrogant, and took the initiative to attack without superiority in troops, as a result, it fell into passivity at the beginning of the war, and the army of the Ashikaga family was far stronger than the Hosokawa clan expected.

At the beginning of the war, Ashikaga Yoshisai personally commanded 5,000 troops and the Hosokawa army, due to the superiority in numbers and equipment, the Ashikaga army had the upper hand at the beginning, and even gradually compressed the Hosokawa army's army into a small area, although at this time the Hosokawa army's army still has the possibility of turning defeat into victory, but the possibility is too small. If you change to a wise general. Will definitely choose to retreat as soon as possible. After all, in this case, fighting any further will only bring greater casualties to yourself, so it is better to retreat in time for after-effects.

But it's a pity that this time it's a son of Hosokawa Takakuni who led the troops, and this guy was eager to prove his talent to his father, but now he was watching his army fall into disadvantage, which made him unacceptable no matter what, so even if he saw a situation on the battlefield that was unfavorable to him. He still gritted his teeth and fought to the death.

Encountering such a general, it was the misfortune of the Hosokawa clan, but it was the great luck of the Ashikaga clan, Ashikaga Yoshisai was excited, ordered all the troops in the rear to press, and even used two artillery pieces bought back from Zhou Zhong at a sky-high price, although he knew that the power of these two cannons was not great, but the deterrent power they caused on the battlefield was very powerful, at least when the artillery shells fell into the Hosokawa clan's army, it immediately caused a riot in the opponent's military formation. After all, this may be the first time that such a powerful firearm has been used in the war of the Wa Kingdom.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Hosokawa clan's army was disrupted by artillery, Ashikaga Kazuki personally led a group of brave Japanese people to wear armor all over their bodies. Wielding their long knives and slashing through the flanks of the Hosokawa army, this brave Japanese finally played a decisive role at such a critical moment, or rather became the last straw that crushed the camels.

Long knives are everywhere, flesh and blood are gone, this is the best portrayal of Ashikaga Kazuki's slaughterers, the heavy armor they wear is also bought from Zhou Zhong at a high price, there are only 100 sets in total, ordinary weapons cut on it, at most can only leave a scratch, even the sharpest sword, it is only a deeper scratch, as for those Hosokawa troops who use bamboo guns as weapons, in the face of such an enemy, there is only a share of slaughter.

It was the ferocity of Ashikaga Kazuki that finally caused the Hosokawa clan army to lose the last bit of courage, and the lowest soldiers among them were the first to collapse, and these people began to put down their bamboo spears and surrender to the Ashikaga clan, after all, they no longer wanted to face this group of terrible enemies.

With the first one, there was the second, and at first the soldiers were surrendering, and soon some of the generals of the Hosokawa clan also threw down their weapons and surrendered. Although the Japanese are fierce, they must not give in to what they imagined, they will also be afraid, and they will become cowardly when they are afraid, especially now that it is the early Warring States period, the self-proud bushido spirit of the Japanese people has not yet been formed, coupled with years of war, so the Japanese people have long been accustomed to giving in to the strong, so it is not a shame to surrender.

It was only at this time that the young son of Hosokawa Takakuni suddenly found that he had been defeated, and because of his stupidity, he was now even more dying, after all, the four thousand troops in his hands, in addition to those who died in battle and surrendered, were less than a thousand left, such a huge loss, even if he fled back to Kyoto, he would probably be killed by his father Hosokawa Takakuni himself.

It may also be that people are about to die, so this son of Hosokawa Takakuni suddenly broke out of extraordinary decisiveness, when he personally put on armor and went into battle with the remnants of nearly a thousand people under his command to fight out of the siege, and then fled to Iimori Castle without looking back, but when this remnant army just arrived in front of the gate of Iimori Castle, Hosokawa Takakuni's son committed suicide by disembowelment, in order to atone for his family, and several henchmen committed suicide with him, which also marked the complete failure of Hosokawa's plan to suppress the re-emergence of the Ashikaga clan.

In the battle of Shingui Mountain Castle, Ashikaga Yoshisai fought against the four thousand people of the Hosokawa clan with 5,000 people, and as a result, the 4,000 troops of the Hosokawa clan died nearly 1,000, and more than 2,000 people surrendered, and only a few hundred people fled back to Iimori Castle after the last day, although Ashikaga Yoshisai's own casualties were also very large, after all, the elite soldiers of the Hosokawa clan were not vegetarians, but this war Ashikaga Yoshisai finally won.

The Battle of Nobuki Yamajo marked the regrouping of the Ashikaga clan after losing the power of the shogun in the Onin War decades ago, and made the Ashikaga clan once again use its strength to enter the political arena of the Wa Kingdom. At the same time, after the victory in this battle, the Tayama clan and Hatano finally recognized the equal relationship between the Ashikaga clan and them, which also made the alliance of the three parties closer, and began to actively prepare for the conquest of the Hosokawa clan entrenched near the capital.

In addition, the impact of the battle of Shingui Yamajo is not only the above, with the news of the Ashikaga clan's victory spread, Ouchi Yoshiyu, who has been staying in Kyoto, finally made a move, that is, to leave Kyoto with his own people, return to his old nest to defend the periphery, and even withdraw his garrison in the mountain castle, such a move is really intriguing.

Speaking of Ouchi Yoshiko and Hosokawa Takakuni are allies, but in fact, the relationship between the two is not as harmonious as it seems, when Ashikaga Yoshisai was still in Kyoto, Ouchi Yoshiko and Hosokawa Takakuni were a little contradictory because of the struggle for power, but their attitude towards Ashikaga Yoshisai was surprisingly consistent, so this formed a not strong alliance, and it was they who suppressed Ashikaga Yoshisai too much, and Ashikaga Yoshisai made up his mind to get rid of their control, So he secretly contacted the Tayama clan and the Hatano clan, and this was what happened.

However, Ouchi Yoshiko is different from Hosokawa Takakuni, the Hosokawa clan was originally one of the three lords of the Ashikaga shogunate, and the territory was in Kyoto and nearby countries, especially after they seized the power of the Ashikaga shogunate, the Hosokawa clan completely took over the power of the Ashikaga clan in the capital and nearby countries, so if the Ashikaga clan wants to regain the power of the shogunate, the Hosokawa clan must defeat the Hosokawa clan, and there is absolutely no possibility of reconciliation between the two clans.

However, Ouchi Yoshiko was different from Ouchi, he was originally the lord of Zhou Fangguo, which was located at the westernmost tip of Honshu Island, a considerable distance from the capital. In addition, after Ouchi Yoshiko became the lord of the country, the Ouchi clan continued to expand outward, and the three kingdoms of Nagato, Yasu, and Iwami on Honshu Island were occupied, and Bunzen and Chikuzen were also occupied on Kyushu Island.

Ouchi Yoshiko's strength is very strong, but it is far away from Kyoto, so his influence is far from being comparable to the Hosokawa clan, but then Ashikaga Yoshisai was deposed as a general for the first time, and as a result, he fled to the Ouchi clan, and was warmly entertained by the then Zhou Defense Lord Ouchi Masahiro, that is, Ouchi Yoshiko's father, and Ashikaga Yoshisai and Ouchi Yoshiko also got along very happily at that time, so in a sense, there is no direct conflict between Ouchi Yoshiko and Ashikaga Yoshisai, and there is even some friendship.

It's just a pity that although Ouchi Yoshiko later helped Ashikaga Yoshisai regain the position of general, and he himself got Yamashiro Province near Kyoto, but out of his own interests, he began to unite with Hosokawa Takakuni to suppress Ashikaga Yoshisai, which led to a split between the two, but this is only a split in interests, at least Ashikaga Yoshisai will not hate Ouchi Yoshiko as much as he hates Hosokawa Takakuni.

It is precisely because of this that Ouchi Yoshiko saw that Ashikaga Yoshisai defeated Hosokawa Takakoku's army in one fell swoop, and saw that the two ambitious families of the Tayama clan and the Hatano clan also began to deal with the Hosokawa clan, plus his power was far away from Kyoto's perimeter area, the area of Yamashiro Province was small, and it was surrounded by the power of the Hosokawa clan, so he decisively gave up the interests near Kyoto, and it seemed that he was ready to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and even which side would be strong in the future. He'll join the powerful side, with a standard wall-to-wall stance.

For Ouchi Yoshiko's plan, Ashikaga Yoshisai and Hosokawa Takakuni can also guess some, but they don't have the slightest way to deal with the Ouchi clan, because the strength of the Ouchi clan is not weaker than either of them, and even if the two of them lose at the end of the day, I'm afraid that the Ouchi clan will directly swallow both of them in one bite, with their understanding of Ouchi Yoshixing, the other party definitely has such an appetite.

However, Ouchi Yoshikoi's departure also made Hosokawa Takakoku finally let go of his hands and feet, and he no longer had to worry about Kyoto being messed up by Ouchi Yoshiko, and Ashikaga Yoshisai did not have to worry about Ouchi Yoshiko sending troops to unite with the Hosokawa clan, which made him more confident in regaining the power of the shogunate, coupled with the warmer weather, a major war that would determine the future direction of the Wakoku was about to break out. (To be continued......)

PS: The child was finally born.,I went to the hospital in the early hours of this morning.,It's been a busy day before I came back.,Now the child is very healthy.,The old fish finally has a time code word.,Now upload today's second chapter.,It's a little late.,Please forgive me.。