To be precise, the imperial book issued by the emperor of Masamicho was also spread in all directions, but unfortunately most of them were blocked by the Oda samurai in Kinai, and only Ashikaga Yoshitoki took a special path along the way, and several roads from Maizuru Port to the west of the country and Kyushu were not blocked, even so, the moment Ashikaga Yoshitoki announced the court announcement, let the world know what kind of group of mad people in Kyoto.

This turmoil is known as the change of the Eiroku ban, Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Oda Nobunaga and his party, on the day of the Shodan Dynasty Meeting, raided Ouchiri, imprisoned hundreds of officials in the palace and could not get out, forced Emperor Masakincho to write an edict of abdication, and then embraced the young Prince Seihito to the throne, Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Nijo Harura stood on the left and right throughout the whole process, and Oda Nobunaga was even more arrogant to enter the palace with a sword, and its proud posture was no less than the Heikiyomori family in the heyday of the year.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki is crazy, at least Ashikaga Yoshitoki thinks so, but he himself does not have the self-knowledge to go crazy, but after supporting the new emperor, he immediately promoted the meritorious minister Oda Nobunaga to the official position of three senators, and in just two months, Oda Nobunaga was promoted from one to the fifth to the top of the three senators.

All this is like a dream, Ashikaga Yoshiaki will not be less to treat himself, anyway, the emperor is also his own, very simply write a promotion order for the emperor to sign, from the original three of the Great Minister, jumped to the two ministers of the interior, the left guard general, from the low-level secretary of one step to the ranks of the senior secretary, it is comparable to one step to the sky.

This promotion speed is not an exaggeration, at first he wanted to write a right minister in one go, like his dead hapless brother Ashikaga Yoshiteru. As a result, Hararashi Nijo refused without hesitation. This Guan Bai still has a bit of a conscience. Knowing that the rules can't be so unscrupulously broken, otherwise the secretary of state is not comparable to an old farmer selling vegetables on the street and has no authority at all.

It was not enough to reward Oda Nobunaga for the three senators, Ashikaga Yoshiaki added another name to Oda Nobunaga, named Oda Nobunaga as the deputy general, and his son Oda Nobutada as the five attendants, and enjoyed the three-pipe collar family character, the samurai of the Oda family were all entitled, and the Shibata Katsuya was promoted to the fifth place to repair the bright. Niwa Nagahide was promoted to the fifth Shimoetsu Mamoru and even Kinoshita Hideyoshi, who had contributed to the strategy, was also rewarded, and he was promoted to the fifth Shimotsu Mamoru and renamed Hashiba Hideyoshi.

Wise Mitsuhide also got a reward, and was rewarded by the five Daisuke of the Upper Punishment Department, this is still because Ashikaga Yoshiaki feels that this guy betrayed him, otherwise according to the general's temperament of great joy, it is not too much to give four subordinates, it can really be said that one person has ascended to heaven, and everyone has to be rewarded with a title. Anyway, the imperial court is equivalent to their family.

In this case, the new emperor becomes a complete puppet. Anyway, in the past, I still had some power to write an edict to send a minister to turn the fate, or send the secretary of the Qinghua family and the minister's family to the distant country to negotiate with the lords of the daimyo in various places, the manor you occupied was the imperial material of the Heavenly Emperor before, and the imperial court did not plan to return to those manors, but you have to give the imperial court some imperial material money.

Now it's good, the emperor is getting more and more back, and he doesn't even have a chance to turn into a relationship, and the shogunate directly cut off the contact between the emperor and the minister, and the inner court asks Nijo Harara, the outer court asks Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and the military situation asks Oda Nobunaga, and the power inside and outside Kyoto is controlled in the hands of these three people.

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On the eighteenth day of the first month of the twelfth year of Eiroku, half a month after the end of the Forbidden Rebellion, Oda Nobunaga gathered a total of 80,000 troops from all four directions in Kinai to attack Sakamoto Castle, and the 20,000 troops of Asai Nagamasa and Asakura Yoshikei who were anxious to fight for merit acted as the vanguard and launched an attack on Ika-gun, like a hungry wolfdog pounced on its prey greedy and brutal, Nakajo Tokihide saw that the situation was not good, and immediately tightened his army and burned down the castle, and the army retreated to the relative safety of Takashima-gun to continue to cage the castle.

Then the Oda army attacked in a big way, the water army of the Nine Demons Kataka blocked the waterway, and attacked Otsu Castle with the main force of 60,000, Nakajo Tokihide desperately resisted but could not stop the military momentum like a tide in all directions, Usayama Castle was in danger, Otsu Castle was in danger, and Sakamoto Castle was also in danger.

The deeds of the Hattori Baochang desperately rescuing the Emperor gradually became known, and his sons Hattori Baoyuan, Hattori Baozheng, and Hattori Baojun three brothers, and more than 120 ninja with their subordinates spilled the blood of Ouchi, in order to save the Emperor Masakincho was killed by a steady stream of Oda Army swords, and Hattori Baochang himself was seriously injured, escorting the Emperor Masakincho to escape into Sakamoto and fell unconscious.

Thanks to Qu Naase Michizo who happened to take refuge here, he personally spent countless medicinal stones for Hattori's chief diagnosis and treatment to save him, although this injury did not take his life, but he abolished half of his ninjutsu mastery, and this life must not return to its original peak, I don't know if this is a blessing or a curse.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of February, in the Song Dynasty it is called the Flower Dynasty Festival, the Yuan Dynasty is called the Qingqing Festival, the Ming Dynasty is also known as the Dragon Raising its Head, in Japan it is also called the Flower Festival, in ancient times the Flower Dynasty Festival corresponds to the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is also called the Flower Dynasty to the moon and the evening, Japan is also to see the flower and the moon as opposite, and the contrast is wonderful.

At this time of year, when the spring flowers bloom and the river thaws, it is a good time for young men and women to go on an outing, and what a beautiful sight it is to see the cherry blossoms blooming all over the mountain, but at this moment Sakamoto Castle is heavily guarded as if it is facing a great enemy, and the shores of Lake Biwa have become an enemy-occupied area of the shogunate army, and Sakamoto has become the base camp of "thieves".

At the head of Sakamoto Castle, Nakajo Tokihide looked worriedly at the fierce battle on Lake Biwa, this was the third counterattack of the Oda Navy in recent days, the cunning Nine Ghost Yoshitaka knew that Sakamoto's Navy was very powerful, so he caught dozens of civilian ships outside Sakamoto Port as a vanguard, and hundreds of boats under his own department hid behind to attack Sakamoto Port.

With excellent iron artillery fire support, as well as Yodogawa Mitsunaga's flexible command, he led dozens of Kozao to easily bypass the civilian ships in front of him to raid the Oda naval army's main formation, and the Oda naval army, which was not good at inland river operations, had no power to parry, just when the naval army was preparing to pursue the victory, the nine demons Yoshitaka cunningly left dozens of Kozao to block the way, and he took the front team of the main fleet to the rear team, and fled back to Ujigawa like a smoke, forcing today's counterattack to return again in vain.

Matsui Masayuki said worriedly: "Far water can't solve the near fire, and no matter how strong the Kanto is, it can't fly thousands of rivers and mountains." You can't conjure up a divine soldier from the sky! ”

"Nine Ghost Jialong, this is relying on his own thick foundation. Constantly testing the bottom line of Sakamoto's water army. I tried to use time to squeeze out all the excess space of Sakamoto like squeezing soybean oil. Ninagawa shook his head and said, "There's not much time left for me to wait!" I hope His Royal Highness can make a move as soon as possible, Sakamoto won't be able to hold out for long. ”

"To be able to last one day is one day, to be rewarded with loyalty, this is the duty of my retainers, in the words of the Ming Kingdom, this is called the matter of eating the king and being loyal." Nakajo Tokihide rubbed his slightly stiff cheeks and said, "What is the situation with military service and husband service?" ”

Odate Haritada took out a document and handed it over, saying, "After the townspeople learned about the great changes in Kyoto and the crisis in Sakamoto. The enthusiasm for signing up for the battle has been greatly improved, and after multiple layers of screening, it has been determined that 10,000 strong men who have received military training, and 8,000 people who can be used as potential military service for the next level, sufficient food, grass, and ordnance are prepared, and the defense facilities of each city are complete, and Usayama Castle, which is the most dangerous, will not have a problem for the time being. ”

Yanagisawa Motomasa pretended to be relaxed and said: "Excluding the Ixiang Prefecture that fell into the hands of the enemy, the total population of these three counties is 280,000, and there are 30,000 military servants and 8,000 husband soldiers, which has almost reached the limit of the burden of military service. Every family has a male to take on military service, and sure enough, the people's aspirations can be known. His Royal Highness Gongfang's hard work for 20 years has not been in vain, and the hearts of the people of Omi Province have always been on our side. ”

Tokihide Nakajo leaned on the railing and looked at the beautiful scenery on Lake Biwa and said, "It's still difficult!" This lecture set up a set in Takashima County to defeat Asai Nagamasa's vanguard general Isono Yuanmasa,Within a few days, this Asai Nagamasa converged with Asakura Yoshikei to launch another attack,Was the second surprise attack of this lecture to defeat the real handle Naotaka team,Still persevering to make a comeback,Can't beat our army and stalk is really annoying.,If it weren't for the Oda family surrounding Usayama Castle,Ben will definitely clean them up.。 ”

"The water army can't get out, and the infantry army can't get out! It's not a way to go on like this, you must first break all the way to temporarily solve the crisis! ”

Odate Qingzhong's brows twisted into a ball, and said, "Let's move the water army first!" The harassment and siege of the Oda navy has seriously affected Sakamoto's commercial operations, in order to avoid the war affecting a large number of merchants who have left Sakamoto, in recent days, the Oda family's practices have become more and more excessive, wantonly capturing merchant ships close to Sakamoto, so that the port's cargo transshipment has been weakened by nearly eighty percent. ”

"The siege of Sakamoto really can't be consumed any longer." Nakajo Shixiu thought about it again and again, and clapped his hands and said: "Then give the Oda Navy a head-on blow and temporarily relieve the siege of the Oda Army!" ”

In order to prepare for this water battle, Yodogawa Mitsunaga formed a whole naval army early, and in the next few days, gradually reduced the ships that met the Oda naval army, and each time the Oda naval army was defeated, it did not pursue, but turned the bow of the ship and returned to Sakamoto Port to rest, and the number of Sakamoto naval forces attacking became less and less in a few days, and slowly the Oda naval army could obtain an absolute advantage on the ships, and the Sakamoto naval army began to choose the attitude of retreating and avoiding the battle.

Nine Ghost Yoshitaka himself felt that he had mastered the actual situation of Sakamoto's naval army, and gradually stopped using the trapper ship as a precursor tactic, this kind of behavior that undermined the fairness of commerce has been strictly prohibited by Oda Nobunaga, who attaches great importance to business, if it were not for the fact that the military operation of the siege of Sakamoto was very important, Oda Nobunaga would not make an exception for the Nine Ghost Yoshitaka to use such a tactic that outweighed the losses, and at the same time allowed the use of a warning to him, can it be used less than one day or as little as possible.

The general of the navy across Ise Bay really didn't dare to use it more, and immediately stopped using it when he noticed a change in the movement of the Sakamoto navy, and the nine ghosts Yoshitaka, who had always been cautious, originally planned to observe for a while before acting, but Oda Nobunaga, who was not making smooth progress on the land route, urged him to make a bold prediction, that is, the Sakamoto navy had run out of oil.

There is also a certain reason for this judgment, these days the size of the fleet of the Sakamoto Navy is decreasing, and it is a large-scale reduction of similar civilian ships of the Kohaya team, which can judge a possibility, that is, the scale of the Sakamoto Navy is not as large as imagined, this time it is likely that in response to the attack of the Oda Navy Army, a large number of civilian ships were temporarily recruited as Kohaya Imperial Envoys.

With the blockade of Sakamoto Port for many days, and the merchants fled to Kohama on the opposite side, there were more and more civilian ships escaping, resulting in a serious shortage of controllable envoys, so the fleet of Sakamoto naval forces was getting smaller and fewer, and this was the best opportunity at the moment, even if there was a huge danger in this opportunity, he had to gamble. If you win the bet, you will become famous, and if you lose the bet, it seems that there will not be much loss.

In short, in order to get the first merit and want to show his face in the shogunate, the nine ghosts Yoshitaka is determined to give it a go, in his opinion, the 80,000 army is surrounded by Sakamoto in all directions, at this time, this famous city in Kinai has long been a turtle in the urn, even if the Oda naval army led by him is defeated once, it will not be anything, these days have been frustrated one after another and not once or twice, according to the usual practice, as long as you are cautious and flexible, even if you lose again, you will not lose much.

So early in the morning of 28 February, the Oda navy gathered more than 600 ships, including one flagship Ataka ship in charge of command, nearly 500 Kozao, more than 80 ships and more than 20 ships transporting troops, and tens of thousands of soldiers and sailors slaughtered towards Sakamoto Port.

The composition of the members of these more than 600 ships is relatively complicated, some of them come from Ise, Owari, Kii, and even the Minogawa River, and the larger part is a hodgepodge of small water forces from Lake Biwa that broke away from the Sakamoto water army, a small group of water troops from Yodo River that is not very good under the Yodo River Mitsucho team, and a smorgasbord of water forces such as the Kizu River water army, which has never been very well connected with the Yodogawa water army.

Men, women, and children go into battle together, the momentum is not small but the quality is insufficient, hundreds of messy flags of different flags are waving in the wind, almost every ship has its own name, this unevenness is absolutely dazzling, the nine ghosts Jialong doesn't care what these people are, as long as the prestige is big enough, the Sakamoto Navy is only more than 300 boats when it is dispatched, not to mention that now there are more than 100 ships guarding the port, it is not a trivial matter that can be solved in minutes.

The mighty fleet attacked Sakamoto Port in a big way, and the messy colored flags were still quite grandiose in the wind, and the Nine Ghosts Jialong sat triumphantly on the top of the ship, pointing to the dozens of large and small ships hurriedly lined up in front of the port, and laughed: "This is the mighty Gyeonggi, the Sakamoto Navy that once made the Awaji Navy helpless?" It doesn't look like Er'er, but he has no power to fight back against the Miyoshi family, and sure enough, none of the Gyeonggi sailors are people who lead the seeds? (To be continued......)