With the passage of time, the situation in Korea is also constantly changing, and finally formed five major forces, among which the king of North Korea, Li Long, still firmly controls the two provinces of Gyeonggi, which is the most elite part of North Korea, not only the most densely populated, but also the most developed economy, at the same time, Li Long also has a considerable number of officers and soldiers in his hands, and still occupies an advantage in all aspects of North Korea's strength, even if it is the strongest Chungcheong Army in the rebel army, it still cannot be compared with Li Long's official power.

However, although Li Long's strength is strong, it is in the encirclement of the four-way rebels led by the Chungqing Army, except for the west side of Gyeonggi Province, which is the Great Overseas, the other three lands have been occupied by the rebels, and the goal of these rebels is the same, that is, to eliminate Li Long, the tyrant, so although Li Long's strength is strong, but under the attack of the four major rebels, he has almost fallen into a storm and may be destroyed at any time.

But it may be that Li's North Korea is really not finished, the winter of Zhengde seven years came extraordinarily early, and the climate is also extraordinarily cold, only in September, the area north of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty is already full of snow, many crops that were harvested relatively late were frozen to the ground, and the yield was also subject to some losses, but fortunately, sweet potatoes and corn have begun to be promoted in some areas, and the harvest is very amazing, which is enough to make Daming's grain production rise to a level, which also makes Daming extremely prosperous this year, Many disaster-stricken areas do not have to worry about running out of food, but it is just a bit troublesome to transport grain in winter.

The winter of the Ming Dynasty came exceptionally early, and North Korea was no exception, and the latitude of North Korea was relatively high, so it was not yet September. North Korea has become extremely cold. In this cold weather. As a result, the rebels led by the Chungcheong army had to stop the attack on Li Long's army, and then retreat to the city under their control for the winter.

It was also the abnormal climate in Zhengde for seven years, which made Li Long's officers and troops take a breath, but they didn't have time to rest at all, because Li Long ignored the severe cold of winter and ordered his troops to start strengthening the defensive line, after all, when next spring, there would definitely be a more fierce attack by the four major rebels.

It's just that what everyone didn't expect was that. This year's weather anomaly is far from over, this winter not only came very early, but also very cold, at the beginning Zhou Chong did not pay attention, until one day someone came to report, several ice-free ports north of Songjiang were also frozen because of the extremely cold weather, this attracted Zhou Chong's attention, and when he recalled the information in his mind again, he suddenly found that Zhengde seven years is known as the coldest year in the history of the Central Plains, and the only snowfall record on Hainan Island in the south. It happened in the seventh year of Zhengde, and even Hainan was snowing all year round. It is conceivable how cold the weather will be this year, and even when March 9 comes, even Shuangyu Port may be frozen.

Thinking of the severe cold weather in Zhengde for seven years, Zhou Zhong immediately wrote a letter to Zhengde, telling him that the weather this year was too abnormal, and hoped that Zhengde could prepare for the cold by asking the imperial court to notify all places. In addition, Zhou Zhong has also made arrangements for several ports such as Shuangyu Port, such as trying to advance or postpone the delivery time, and stagger the coldest period in winter, so as to avoid the port being unable to use normally after the port freezes.

The Ming Dynasty made all kinds of preparations to resist the severe cold this year, but North Korea, which had experienced more than half a year of war, had no preparations at all, including Li Long and the four major rebels felt that the climate this year was a little abnormal, but they were all stepping up their time to prepare for war, so they had no time to pay attention to these "little things" that seemed to them irrelevant, and it was impossible to organize the people to resist the cold, and even in order to ensure the normal supply of materials for the army, Li Long and Qi Yanming and others actually sent troops to steal the people's food and warm materials.

It is precisely because of this that the seven years of Jeongdeok, which was affected by the Xiaoice period, was a nightmare that the North Koreans could never wake up to, when the wind and snow swept the land, the temperature dropped to extremely low, and many war-torn Koreans lost their houses, they dug a big hole in the ground, covered a shed and slept in it, thinking that they could survive the winter, but this year's extreme cold made them unable to sleep in the hole at all, unless there was enough fuel and food, But these two things are what they lack the most, so as winter comes, groups of North Koreans are frozen to death in their burrows.

In addition, even the Korean people living in the towns and cities could not withstand the invasion of the cold, especially when the heavy snow blocked the roads, and the towns became closed kingdoms, and the food and fuel needed in the towns could not be brought in, so to some extent, it was more dangerous to live in the towns.

Even according to later statistics, after the winter of the seventh year of Zhengde, at least 20% of the towns in North Korea have become dead, and the people in the whole town have died of freezing and starvation because of lack of food and fuel, and the only ones who survive are those wild dogs, but it is said that these wild dogs have turned their eyes green, and they often attack humans, and I heard that they are all because they eat too much human flesh.

North Korea suffered in the winter of the seventh year of Zhengdeok, all military operations stopped, and there was a strange peace in the country for the time being, but Li Long and the rebels knew that this peace was only temporary, and when the next spring came, a life-and-death war would definitely break out between them.

Although peace has been restored to North Korea temporarily, but the Wa country across the sea from North Korea is a dark tide surging, affected by the warm current, although the winter of the Wa country this year is also very cold, but it has not yet reached the unbearable level, especially the southernmost ports have not frozen, and the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty to transport goods are still coming and going.

After Ashikaga Kazuki led his Ashikaga Chamber of Commerce back to the country, he settled in the westernmost tip of Kyushu Island, that is, the Nagasaki region of later generations, which was originally the territory of the Matsuura Party of the Hirado Domain of the Wakoku Kingdom, speaking of the Matsuura Party, they are the main source of the Japanese in the coastal areas of Daming and Korea, because their nest is on the three islands of Tsushima, Iki and Hirado, so they are called the Mishima Wako by the Koreans, and later the Wako Rebellion during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty is also supported by the Matsuura Party.

Although the Matsuura Party was the head of the land, Ashikaga Kazuki was strong, and led people to defeat the Matsuura Party's army one after another, and even entered the Matsuura Party's lair, captured Matsuura Konobu, the head of the Matsuura Party, and exterminated the Matsuura family, conquering the northern part of Hizen Province on the island of Kyushu and the vast area of Iki Province in one fell swoop, becoming the new daimyo of the Wakoku Hirado Domain.

After Ashikaga Kazuki occupied the Hirado Domain, he immediately completely opened the original Hirado Castle as a free port, allowing the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty to enter and exit, relying on trade with the Ming Dynasty, Ashikaga Kazuki soon accumulated a large amount of wealth, which also gave him more strength to support his party Ashikaga Yoshisai, as a result, with the support of Ashikaga Kazuki's money, Ashikaga Yoshisai's strength grew rapidly, and at the same time, the alliance with the Tayama clan and the Hatano clan became stronger and stronger.

For the growth of Ashikaga Yoshisai's strength, Ouchi Yoshiko and Hosokawa Takakuni are not blind, they also found out the relationship between Ashikaga Yoshisai and Ashikaga Kazuki, and also saw the collusion between Ashikaga Yoshisai and the Tayama clan and the Hatano clan, although they wanted to kill Ashikaga Yoshisai directly, but Ashikaga Yoshiko was a nominal general after all, and he was very strict against them, which made Ouchi Yoshiko and Hosokawa Takakuni not sure that they could kill Ashikaga Yoshisai in one fell swoop, if Ashikaga Yoshisai escaped, Then the next step will definitely be a joint crusade between the Tayama clan and the Hatano clan, and then they will be passive.

In addition, Ouchi Yoshiko and Hosokawa Takakoku are not of the same mind, as the two of them serve as the ruler of the Wa State at the same time for longer and longer, the two of them because of political opinions and interests The difference is getting bigger and bigger, and even Hosokawa Takakoku has been squeezing out Ouchi Yoshikoku, if there is no careful intervention, Ouchi Yoshiko will be squeezed out by Hosokawa Takakuni in a few years, and then the Hosokawa clan will once again monopolize power.

It is also the contradiction between Hosokawa Takakuni and Ouchi Yoshiko, plus the fact that both of them are a little jealous of Ashikaga Yoshisai and the Tayama clan and the Hatano clan, so they did not dare to take direct action against Ashikaga Yoshisai, and at the end of the day, they could only watch Ashikaga Yoshisai with the help of Ashikaga Kazuki, and his power grew like a snowball.

If this situation continues, it is likely that the Ashikaga clan will slowly accumulate enough strength and regain the power of the shogun from the Hosokawa and Ouchi clans.

But there will always be some accidents in the development of things, in the autumn of the seventh year of Shotoku, Ouchi Yoshiko and Hosokawa Takakuni suddenly woke up, they found that if they continued to fight like this, they would only make the Ashikaga clan fisherman profit, so the two heroes quickly made a decision, the two families reached a reconciliation as soon as possible, and Ouchi Yoshiko married Hosokawa Takakuni's sister as his wife, and Hosokawa Takakuni married the daughter of Ouchi Yoshikoi, relying on this in-law relationship to make the relationship between the two families stronger.

After Ouchi Yoshiko and Hosokawa Takakuni united, they immediately targeted Ashikaga Yoshisai, and even they wanted to kill Ashikaga Yoshisai in one fell swoop with thunder means, as long as Ashikaga Yoshisai died, then his alliance with the Tayama clan and the Hatano clan would be self-defeating, even if the Hatano clan and the Tayama clan fought with them in the future under the banner of revenge for Ashikaga Yoshisai, the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan would not be afraid of them.

Unfortunately, Ashikaga Yoshisai was extremely shrewd, and when Ouchi Yoshiko and Hosokawa Takakuni had just united, he escaped from the secret passages of Kyoto Castle, and also took most of the strength of the Ashikaga clan with him. After escaping from Kyoto, Ashikaga Yoshisai immediately came to the territory of the Tayama clan and began to actively prepare for the war, and the Hatano clan did not hesitate to join in.

For Ashikaga Yoshisai's preparations, Ouchi Yoshiko and Hosokawa Takakuni also began to prepare for war, and Hosokawa Sumimoto, who fled to Awa, also began to move, seeing that a major war was about to be staged in Wakoku. (To be continued......)