Chapter 10: Kansuke's Strategy
In addition to serving as the Bodhi temple where the ancestors of the Kira family have been worshiped for generations, it is also the famous Kannon Dojo of Tokaido, and the temple enshrines the Ruyi Wheel Kannon, which is very famous in the countries of Owari, Enoe, and Suruga in Tokaido, and at the same time, the Myoshinji sect is the most powerful of the Rinzai sects, and not only the Kira clan has been a Buddhist disciple of the Myoshinji sect for generations, but also the Imagawa clan, the Takeda clan and other samurai families are also believers in the Myoshinji sect.
If the residence of the Misho An Guozen Temple, Nishiyama Soyan, is really ordered by Taiyuan Xuezhai to operate in the Kira family, the consequences are really unimaginable, the influence of the Miaoxin Temple faction in Xisanhe is not small, especially in the Kira Territory has always been the first major sect, and most of the retainers and countrymen of the Kira family follow the belief of the main family and believe in the Miaoxin Temple faction.
The wealthy clan near the temple, the local servant was co-opted into believers by the honshoji temple of the Honshoji sect, and once the residence of his Bodhi temple lobbied for the Imagawa family, the Kira family's will to resist would soon collapse, not to mention what to gather a large army to cage the city and hold it, it would be good not to be secretly opened by the Hao clan to offer the city and surrender.
"Speaking of which, Taiyuan Xuezhai has a relationship with the family, but he is a retainer of the Imagawa family, and the contradiction with the family is destined to be irreconcilable. Sure enough, it's a salute before the soldiers.,If I don't obey and have a reason to send troops to Hato-gun.,When the time comes, no one will blame the Imagawa family.,Who called the family ignorant of current affairs? This is really wishful thinking! ”
Kira Manmatsu Maru has an understanding, but this realization is really too bitter, knowing that these famous generals are not easy to fool, the Imagawa family often has the ambition to annex Mikawa, and wishful thinking that others will not come to fight themselves, which is really an unforgivable naïve and naïve disease.
"There's no solution to this! The Imagawa family took the initiative to attack, the family was passive defense, and the opponent's offensive had not yet begun, and the family was in chaos, which was waiting for the family to make a mistake! It's useless to do anything now, and the more you do, the more you will go wrong. "Think about Taiyuan Xuezhai's military strategy, in last year's battle of Xiaodousaka, with 10,000 troops against 4,000 Oda troops, and still arranged ambushes and Daozuo raids, how much ability does he have to win such a stable old fox?
He really couldn't think of a way to deal with Taiyuan Xuezhai, he couldn't block Xishan Zongyan and not let him out of the temple, but once he moved, the important ministers in the family would be shaken, and when the time came, would he fight or surrender? The battle is absolutely not able to fight the tens of thousands of troops of the Imagawa family, and it is impossible to report the death of his brother Kira Yoshigo and the Tojo family Kira Mochihiro, and those important ministers of the genealogy will not easily succumb to the Imagawa clan, which is a branch of the Kira family, this is simply a dead knot.
Kira Manmatsu Pill felt very wronged, his father Kira Yoshiyao rebelled against Imagawa for a lifetime and finally did not have any results, his brother Kira Yoshigo lost his life because of his opposition to Imagawa, he himself understood that the Imagawa family was so strong that his body could resist, but the will of the retainers was not controlled by him, and the retainers of the Kira family tree were like beating chicken blood one by one when Imagawa screamed, what could he do?
The Kira family inherited the territory of Mikawa Province from the early Kamakura period to generations, and the Kira clan controlled Higashi-Mikawa after the separation, and no matter the Muromachi shogunate appointed the Hosokawa clan and the Isshiki clan as the guardians of Mikawa, it was impossible to avoid the strong influence of the Kira family, and the Kawa clan only completed the annexation of the Tooe country, and was still powerless about that part of the Mikawa country.
It's just that all this has changed with the decision of the previous governor of the Shimojira family, Kira Mochihiro, since the beginning of Shimojira's division to Tojo Castle, he often has the ambition to annex the clan, and when he came to his generation, he quickly seized the opportunity, he found that the minister and his father Kira held Qingqing, and worshiped the one-word biased Matsudaira Kiyoyasu is a rare general, so with the support of Kira Chihiro, Matsudaira Kiyoyasu all the way to defeat many retainers and countrymen close to the clan, making the rebellion of the two Yoshira rise to a more intense level.
His short-sightedness soon paid the price, Matsudaira Kiyoyasu gradually ceased to obey Kira Mochihiro's orders, and the intention of self-reliance could not be stopped, although the accident of the Moriyama avalanche bankrupted his plot, but once the idea of independence took root, it could no longer be stopped, just as Owari Oda relied on a single sect spread all over the country to quietly complete the move of the next subordinate, the Matsudaira clan also had a large number of branch clans spread across half of the Mikawa, and they had the idea and ability to emulate Oda to usurp the country of Mikawa, and worked hard to put it into practice.
Unwilling to fail, Kira Mochihiro took the initiative to establish contact with the Imagawa family, and he appointed his younger brother Arakawa Yoshihiro to contact the Imagawa family, and released this hungry wolf who was not allowed to enter the Mikawa country, so that the originally solid defensive barrier appeared flawed, and from then on the Kira family's rule over Mikawa was destined to end here.
Unfortunate things happened soon, the scheming Taiyuan Xuezhai kept adjusting the people of Mikawa, so that the influence of the Imagawa family gradually penetrated into Higashi-Mikawa, and the people who originally belonged to the upper and lower Yoshira began to waver, and the people of the countrymen were rebelled against in the eight counties of Higashi-Mikawa and Shiraku, and even some of the countrymen directly became the servant army of the Imagawa family to invade Mikawa.
The governor of the Matsudaira family, who was facing extinction because of the Mori landslide, worshiped the biased Matsudaira Hirotada, who led Kira Mochihiro, and soon switched to the new master, the Imagawa family, and Imagawa Yoshimoto took the opportunity of Matsudaira Hirotada to vote to force the upper and lower Yoshira to recognize the complete independence of the Matsudaira family from the Kira family.
It was also since then that the Tojo Kira family woke up, in order to redeem the defeat and atone for his sins, Kira Mochihiro sent his son to Owari Province, and welcomed Kira Yoshian as the heir to the family governor from the clan, but it was too late for him to do all this, and the influence of the Imagawa family was already unstoppable in Mikawa.
Ten years ago, in the battle of Yamian Mountain, the army of 10,000 formed by the army of the Imagawa family and the pro-Imagawa Yoshihiro broke the 6,000 army hastily organized by the two Yoshira at the Eight Mountains, and the governor of the Kamiyoshira family, Yoshiro Yoshigo, the governor of the Shimojira family, and most of the people were all killed, and the Kira family was killed by 800 people, and the family business almost collapsed.
Fortunately, God gave the Kira family another chance, and the Oda family's invasion of Nishimikawa temporarily lifted the crisis of the Kira family's extermination, even so, the two Yoshira were just surviving, and the original system of Mikawa was corroded with holes, and most of the people in Higashimikawa fell to the Imagawa family, and the two Yoshira were like terminally ill old men, and they could choke at any time.
This question had been haunting his mind for several years, until today he finally understood: "This is the law of the bloody jungle that applies to those in high power!" The samurai's deformed and demanding demand for the land has evolved into a tragedy, because this is why fathers and sons will turn against each other, brothers will kill each other, and the rebellion of the Chinese people will come from this, and you just want to farm the land and be a little lord or something, or forget about it. ”
“…… The owner! Your subordinates have served my family for a few years, and I have practiced eight hundred ashigari for my family, which should help my Kira family's great cause! As if to comfort him, Kansuke Yamamoto brought up the old story of training a few years ago, when he was promoted to general for his work in rebuilding Saijo Castle, and then he asked himself to train a standing butageu for the Kira family.
At that time, it was his father Yoshiyao Kira who was the governor of the house, and in order to save the crumbling family business, he agreed to this proposal as a live horse doctor, and he went to see it a few times before his father's body collapsed, and each time he said that he would continue to train Yunyun before he had finished training, and as for when he would train these soldiers, Yamamoto Kansuke had been secret.
Since Kira Manmatsumu has been in power for more than a year, he hasn't heard Yamamoto Kansuke mention this matter much, and he forgot about it after a long time, this time after he talked about it, he remembered that a large part of the annual Kira family's expenses were allocated to Yamamoto Kansuke to train recruits, and this soldier was trained for more than five years, which time was long enough, what soldiers had to train for more than five years, was it planned to train 800 samurai?
"Is the training done? What is the standard of these ashigaru? "Hearing the training of the soldiers, he suddenly came to the spirit, in this era there are soldiers and food is the fundamental, without these even if you are a famous noble, it is not much use, you don't see the emperor in Kyoto to sell paintings for a living, the secretary of state wants to sell vegetables on the street to make a living, the minister of the Manchu Dynasty has to go down to the distant country to eat as fragrant dumplings, no matter how high the family name is, it is still useless to eat.
"Most of these 800 standing ashigaru are from the Chinese people, and after layers of selection, your majesty dares to say that most of the essence of Xisanhe is concentrated in these 800 people!" It can satisfy the demanding Kansuke Yamamoto, and it does look very good.