Ashikaga Yoshisai escaped from Kyoto at a great cost, and after joining up with the Tayama clan, he immediately began to actively prepare for war, and the Hatano clan in the west of Kyoto also joined forces with Ashikaga Yoshisai, and now all three parties are ready to wait for the warmer weather in the spring next year, and will attack Kyoto from the south and west.

Speaking of which, although the Wa country is an island country, surrounded by the sea and affected by the warm current, so the winter is higher than that of North Korea at the same latitude, but the cold winter of the seventh year of Zhengde has also affected the Wa country a lot, many people in the country who lost their land due to the war fled to the mountains, these people were very sad in the winter, and now when the winter is several times colder than previous years, these fugitives are frozen to death in large numbers in the mountains.

It was also under the influence of this extreme cold that although Ashikaga Yoshisai and Hosokawa Takakuni were eager to kill each other immediately, the weather was too cold, so they had to hide in the city to avoid the invasion of the cold. However, even when he was hiding from the cold, Ashikaga Yoshisai and Hosokawa Takakuni were not idle, among which Ashikaga Yoshizai received careful funding through Ashikaga Kazuki and was stepping up the training of soldiers, while Hosokawa Takakuni secretly colluded with Ashikaga Yoshisumi, who had previously been deposed as a general, to establish Ashikaga Yoshiharu, a son of Ashikaga Yoshisumi, as a general, and at the same time abolish Ashikaga Yoshisai's position as a general.

This is the second time that Ashikaga Yoshisai has been deposed as a general, although he was mentally prepared when he escaped from Kyoto, but when the news came, Ashikaga Yoshisai was still full of grief and indignation, not to mention that now he is no longer the puppet general of the year, but a powerful general with tens of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands, so he can't swallow this breath no matter what.

It is also this anger of Ashikaga Yoshisai. Finally, he finally made a decision. That is to send out the 5,000 troops that he has just trained. In a bright moon hanging, but it was dry and cold, he took the lead in attacking the Nobuki Mountain Castle controlled by the Hosokawa clan. In Ashikaga Yoshisai's view, this attack on the Hosokawa clan was to vent his anger, and secondly, it was also to train the troops, after all, the army in his hands could not become elite soldiers only by training, and only after the baptism of war, the five thousand troops under his command could compete with the Hosokawa clan head-on.

I have to say that Ashikaga Yoshisai's luck is excellent. In the severe cold weather of the seventh year of Zhengde, everyone did not expect that there would be people brave the cold to send troops, and the defenders of Shinkiyama Castle were naturally no exception, and the result was that the last was attacked by Ashikaga Yoshisai's 5,000 troops, and the 1,000 defenders of Shinkiyama Castle were completely unprepared to break through the city gate, and as a result, half of the 1,000 people were killed, and the remaining half surrendered to Ashikaga Yoshisai's army, and Shinkiyama Castle also fell into the hands of Ashikaga Yoshisai, which was also the first time he had a territory that belonged entirely to himself.

Ashikaga Yoshisai was almost unlucky in the first half of his life, and he was an unlucky guy who was abolished as a shogun twice in a row. Even in the history of the Japanese Kingdom, it is very rare. But it may also be that the first half of his life took away all his bad luck, so after he sent out the army. The god of luck has been very favored by him, after he was very lucky to lay down the mountain city of Xingui, the country suddenly fell a heavy snowfall, after three days in a row, the snow on the ground can already bury the house, not only the road was closed, and even many people were frozen to death in this heavy snow.

It was also the arrival of this heavy snow that made the news of the fall of Shinkiyama Castle temporarily blocked, and when Hosokawa Takakuni learned the news, Ashikaga Yoshisai had completely controlled the situation of Shinkiyama Castle, and used it as his base camp for development, and it was this heavy snow that made Kyoto's external roads impossible, and Hosokawa Takakuni even if he wanted to send troops to attack Shinkiyama Castle, there was no way to send troops.

However, although Hosokawa Takakuni was temporarily unable to send troops, the anger in his heart towards Ashikaga Yoshisai slowly turned into a kind of hatred, and it didn't matter if he couldn't send troops for the time being, there were still some old stories left by Ashikaga Yoshisai in Kyoto City, and many of them were secretly in contact with Ashikaga Yoshisai, so these people became the target of Hosokawa Takakoku's anger, which led to killing people almost every day in Kyoto City, and everyone in the city was in danger.

Time passed day by day, the weather of the country was already susceptible to the influence of ocean currents, not long after the New Year, when the Ming Dynasty and all parts of Korea were still frozen, the weather of the country was getting warmer day by day, and even the ice and snow that fell in winter began to melt, but at night, it will still be frozen hard, but this is also a good thing, because after the road surface is frozen hard, it is more convenient for others to hurry.

However, after the weather warms, Ashikaga Yoshisai and Hosokawa Takakuni, who have been recuperating for a winter, can finally have a happy fight, and the first to do it is Hosokawa Takakuni, which is controlled by the Hosokawa clan Iimori Castle, Tenglongji Castle and Tawenyama Castle, these three castles just surround Shinkiyama Castle in a zigzag shape, and the distance is not far, so after the weather warms up, the defenders of these three cities have received orders from Hosokawa Takakuni to attack Shinguiyama Castle with all the strength of the city.

The three cities sent a total of 4,000 troops, although it was less than Ashikaga Yoshisai's 5,000 troops, but they were all the elite of the Hosokawa clan, and this time Hosokawa Takakuni did not plan to destroy Ashikaga Yoshisai in one fell swoop, but sent this army to test the strength of the other party, if Ashikaga Yoshisai's strength is very strong, then this army will immediately retreat, and then he will mobilize all his forces to fight to the death with Ashikaga Yoshisai.

Ashikaga Yoshisai also knew that this time it was a temptation of the Hosokawa clan to himself, and he also knew that the Tayama clan and the Hatano clan would not help him this time, because they also wanted to see their own strength with their own eyes, if the strength they showed was too poor, then he would still be used as a puppet by the Tayama clan and the Hatano clan in the end, which he didn't want to see anyway, so he must seize the opportunity this time to let everyone see the strength of his Ashikaga clan.

Ashikaga Kazuki, who was far away in Hirado Castle, also knew the importance of this battle, and it is no exaggeration to say that this was a battle in which their Ashikaga clan re-established their authority as a shogun, and as long as they could single-handedly repel this attack of the Hosokawa clan, then their Ashikaga clan could be recognized by the daimyo in various places.

It is also the importance of this battle to the family, so Ashikaga Kazuki rushed to Shingui Mountain Castle to help him, and he also had a group of brave Japanese people, although they were used to water warfare, but they were also proficient in land warfare, and the bravery of these people should be able to play some role on the battlefield.

On February 2 of the eighth year of Zhengde, in the Ming Dynasty is the day when the dragon raises its head, the farmers are preparing for spring ploughing, the old people hold a dustpan, which is placed with ashes, sprinkled from the door to the kitchen, and then go around the water tank to turn around, it is said that this is the money dragon, can ensure that the wealth is rolling in this year, and in this day, every household makes something delicious, such as pancakes, twist dumplings and the like, the customs of various places are different, and the diet is naturally different.

However, the lively people of the Ming Dynasty did not know what to say, on this day, a tragic war broke out in the Wa Kingdom, Ashikaga Yoshisai raised 5,000 troops, and fought with the 4,000 army of the Hosokawa clan outside the castle of Shinguishan, which was why they endured humiliation and burden, and finally won a chance to rise again, so they would not give up no matter what.

After years of conquest, the domestic material shortage has reached the extreme, even if it is a daimyo of one side, there are not many troops that can be mobilized in their hands, such as the Hosokawa clan, a big family that controls the central power of the Wa country, the maximum number of troops that can be mobilized is only about 20,000 people, this time in order to deal with the Ashikaga clan, the Hosokawa clan actually sent one-fifth of the troops at once, originally Hosokawa Takakuni also wanted to mobilize more troops, but now the road is difficult, it is very difficult to mobilize the army, and other cities also need to be defended by the army, So I had no choice but to give up.

The two sides were already mortal enemies, and there was no possibility of reconciliation at all, so after the armies of both sides rushed to the small plain where they were fighting, the generals of each side immediately ordered their troops to attack, and as a result, on this plain where the ice and snow had not completely melted, the two armies collided fiercely, stirring up patches of blood-colored waves.

Hosokawa Takakuni thought in advance that he had overestimated Ashikaga Yoshisai enough, in his opinion, the other party organized five thousand troops in a short period of time, even if these recruits were equipped with the Ming weapons brought by Ashikaga Kazuki, I am afraid they could not be compared with the real elite soldiers of a hundred battles, so he felt that the four thousand troops he sent were enough to beat Ashikaga Yoshisai back to its original form, as long as there was no Ashikaga Yoshisai's signboard, then the Tayama Hibaka Tano clan would not fight to the death with him, at most after a few fights, everyone would not be able to take advantage, I was worried that I would be taken advantage of by others, so I had no choice but to stop the army and make peace.

But Hosokawa Takakuni underestimated Ashikaga Yoshisai's determination, and also underestimated Ashikaga Yoshisai's efforts to get rid of the puppet identity, he has endured humiliation and heavy accumulation over the years, and has already trained excellent generals like Hatano Hidego in his hands, and even when he escaped from the capital, even if he watched his most beloved children being killed, he had to take these excellent subordinates out of Kyoto, and these people became the backbone of his army, and it was with these people as the backbone, coupled with extremely harsh training, and the weaponry provided by Shushige, so that the army in the hands of Ashikaga Yoshisai was not as vulnerable as Hosokawa Takakuni thought.

Hosokawa Takakuni's contempt for Ashikaga Yoshisai was also transmitted to his generals, for example, this time it was a son of Hosokawa Takakuni who led the troops, this proud young man, like his father, firmly believed that the 4,000 elite soldiers in his hands could completely crush Ashikaga Yoshisai's army, but when the war began, he found that Ashikaga Yoshisai's army was far stronger than he thought, and even at the beginning of the war, his side had shown a bit of a rout. (To be continued......)