Yuan Yishi couldn't reply to his accusations, so he could only tactfully defend himself that the Yonglu Great Rebellion was just an accident, and he didn't want to see the tragedy of his brother and mother dying in the fire.

The samurai of the Western Kingdom chose to come to Kyoto at this time not for Ashikaga Yoshiaki, but to protect the vested interests of their own one-acre and three-point land, no matter how much empty talk and falsehood can not coax the shrewd samurai, when the name is not very useful, only rely on the fist to decide the victory, the current situation is that Oda Nobunaga's fist is relatively large, and the Western samurai feel that they can try it, so they came to Kyoto to listen to Ashikaga Yoshiaki talking nonsense in front of Ishimizu Hachiman Palace.

On April 22, the twelfth year of Eiroku, the atmosphere in the Nijo Imperial Palace in Kyoto was not harmonious, and the quarrel lasted for several days and exhausted everyone, and several major factions of samurai could quarrel with each other on the plan of sending troops, and it was said that there were several major factions such as the anti-Oda faction, the anti-Maori faction, the anti-Otomo faction, and the anti-Miyoshi faction, as well as other chaotic factions entangled with each other.

The samurai of the Asai family said to fight Sakamoto first, the samurai of the Mori family said to support Takeda first, the Asakura family said to fight Ichijomune first, and the Oda family said to deal with Hida first.

The large camps stationed outside the city of Kyoto have become a new problem for the city's security, and there are almost as many samurai lying on the streets with a hangover as there are samurai who are jealous and seeking revenge, and dozens of bloody cases have been caused in and around the city of Kyoto in just a few days. More than two hundred samurai died under the butcher's knives of the allies of the coalition forces. This is a mess of itself before it goes to war. Military morale and discipline are really a problem.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki gushed and said, "The great enemy must be united at present!" Genyoshishi of the Eastern Kingdom is eyeing the tiger, and at this moment it is a great opportunity for the samurai of Kyushu, Shikoku, and Western Kingdoms to unite under the banner of the shogunate, and Yu will formulate a new law suitable for the monarchs as soon as possible, and all the three and four positions will be handed over to the monarchs, as long as the source is defeated, it is easy to say! ”

The shogun is a bare commander, and a few people such as Wada Yumasa and Ise Sadako are also two or three big cats and kittens, and the sharp-eyed Western samurai find that the shogun is really weak, and can only be comforted by talking big and boasting about his ability. The reverence for the shogun in his heart disappeared immediately, and the shogun did not persuade him to say that it was okay, but when he persuaded him, the quarrel became even more fierce, and while arguing, he also said that the stakes were very important and he must fight for the right direction.

Akechi Mitsuhideki hurriedly walked in and said happily, "Good news! Hatakeyama Kingo Hall led 15,000 troops, Tsutsui Kazuki young monk Metropolitan Hall led 8,000 troops of Yamato country, and Honganji Temple, the main patriarch, also sent 2,000 monks and soldiers, and the total strength of the shogunate has exceeded 205,000 horsemen! If you count the 35,000 troops of the Takeda Daizen Palace, the shogunate has already gained an advantage in terms of troops! ”

The samurai rejoiced. Exclaimed, "Oh! Sure enough, I waited for more troops! Speaking of which, I counted a few times last night, and the Imperial Palace gathered 200,000 horsemen only by relying on the troops of the Western Kingdom, Kyushu, and Shikoku. Now it is not as good as in previous years, Rending and Shigao are far more than the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and we have the support of the Tokaido army, even if we gather 300,000 horsemen, it is not a very strange thing! ”

The head of Changzong said: "According to this, there is indeed such a possibility, provided that the martial artists of all factions abandon their previous suspicions and tide over the difficulties together, otherwise these more than 200,000 horses are already the limit!" After all, the logistical pressure is still very high! ”

"Rations are a real problem...... Fortunately, the main grain producing areas of Kinai and Tokaido are in our hands, and the purchase of grain at market prices within the coalition forces can temporarily relieve the grain shortage! If Miyoshi Yoshitsugu said this, he actually reminded Oda Nobunaga not to think about eating alone, and sure enough, as soon as he finished saying this, everyone looked at the new overlord of Kinai.

The large size is more eye-catching, just like Takigawa Tokiyoshi is the focus of attention everywhere he goes, the Kanto Ashikaga family, which is super large, is the world's eye-catching figure, and the slightly inferior Oda family is the largest daimyo in the territory of Kinai and Tokaido, and these grain-producing areas happen to be concentrated in the hands of the Oda family, so it is inevitable to attract the attention of others.

Since the unification of Noo, a large area of new fields has been developed, and the total stone height of the three kingdoms has increased from less than 900,000 stone to 1.6 million stone all the way, which is not far from the exaggeration of Echigo, and Omi One country has 800,000 stone, and he occupies one-third of it, that is, 300,000 stone, and half of Mikawa country must have about 150,000 stone, and the territory of Settsu, Izumi, and Yamashiro in Kinai has 600,000 stone in fragments, adding up to about 25.6 million stone.

Oda Nobunaga secretly cursed a bad word, snorted lightly and said: "The problem of buying grain, in the next will be properly arranged, but in the next first ugly words to say in front, the purchase of grain is not an unlimited purchase, let alone credit and forced buying, if it is found that a samurai is unruly, then please apologize to that samurai can only say that there is no chance to buy grain!" Kyoto's grain will not sell a grain to such people. ”

You can't go out without rules, you can't march and fight without military law, you can't govern the country without law, Oda Nobunaga is a deputy general, even if it's just honorable, it's higher than the status of a group of cats and dogs here, and he is now also the three senators of the dynasty, this is a serious minister, of course, it can't be the same thing as a rural peasant, even if he was very dirty when he was young, he also killed Matt, and the position under the ass changed and he was no longer the bastard boy who sprinkled incense ash in front of his father's spirit.

Oda Nobunaga's success in calming the situation made the Saikoku samurai realize that this was the real presiding officer of the shogunate, the deputy general appointed by the shogun, and the three senators appointed by the emperor of the dynasty, sat down with 60,000 eagle dog minions all over the East China Sea in the Kinai, if you don't count the freak of Genyishi, he must be the strongest samurai today.

The Maori family couldn't get 60,000 people with the strength to eat milk, and there were 60,000 people when the Miyoshi family was the strongest, but at that time, the Miyoshi family was the overlord of Jinnai, and now the former overlord is full of 30,000 people, and most of them don't like to listen to Miyoshi Yoshitsugu's words very much, and this time they can get 20,000 people all thanks to Miyoshi Yasunaga and Miyoshi Sanren. It's better to decorate the posture of the former overlord.

Slapping a swollen face and being fat is this kind of person. There is also a reason why the genealogy of the Miyoshi family will do this. A few years ago, the Miyoshi family was also a big guy on the King's Landing side, although it was yesterday Huanghua but he couldn't admit it in front of a group of turtle warriors, he only sent 5,000 people out of the battle, I believe that it won't be long before a large number of enemies from Shikoku, Jinai, and Sai Kingdom will hit the door.

The reason is very simple, in the past, there were 60,000 people in the Miyoshi family who beat others casually, but now they can only take out 5,000 people to be beaten casually by the Miyoshi family, and the Maori family, the Oda family, and the Otomo family, which can take out tens of thousands of powerful daimyo, will definitely not let go of the excellent opportunity for Shikoku fat to fall into the mouth. In order to deter the enemy and improve the morale of the family, he also had to grit his teeth and get 20,000 people to go to Luo.

This Otomo family is planning a war with the Maori family, as long as the Maori army that does not leave Tachibanayama Castle is successfully driven away, the Otomo family is a veritable overlord of Kitakyushu, and he can take out fifty or sixty thousand troops at any time to bully people around, this head is almost catching up with the level of the Oda family, but unfortunately the governor of this family is a little strange, a neon man has to be baptized to make Francisco's Nanban name, at first glance I thought it was Japan's Drake.

The direction of his life experience change is exactly the opposite of Oda Nobunaga's experience, Owari Dafool was killing Matt when he was young, and his middle-aged attributes were transformed into the Great Demon King mode. When Otomo Yoshijin was young, he killed his father and his teacher by the second-order collapse, which can be called a hero, and he became more and more stupid in middle age and became a Francisco model.

The entire Maori family is a strengthened version of the power of the Nizi family. It's slightly worse than the territory of Kyushu in the heyday of the Ouchi family, and it's not at all compared to the Yamana family in its heyday, and the Maori Yuan doesn't have the big ship guardian of Niko Haruha, but the strength of the Maori family is definitely much stronger than the Niko family in its heyday, but it's still much worse than the Oda family.

The Maori family looks a lot better, but they are not as thick as the thighs of the three countries of the thick tail when tied together, and the water guarded by the eight countries of Niko Haruhisa is actually just that, and it is not as affordable as one Owari country, so there are often two countries in the east that can make twenty or thirty thousand troops to fight, and the western country is often the overlord of five or six countries to get twenty or thirty thousand people to fight, and the western country is really too poor, second only to the poor samurai of southern Kyushu, who can probably compare with the bitter cold Mutsu Obi.

The samurai of the western country, Kyushu, and Shikoku realized that the Oda family was too powerful, and Oda Nobunaga had soldiers, money, and food in his hands, and he held the power of the two commercial centers of Sakai Town and Kyoto, as well as the strong backing of the Omi and Omi countries' grain producing areas, and the 60,000 troops were almost scared to death.

After a few days of quarrels, Oda Nobunaga gradually understood the respective opinions of the so-called Western elites, and the ideas between each other overlapped and conflicted, such as the shrew's quarrel was endless, and he couldn't bear it anymore and finally stood up and said: "The threat of Hida and Kaga is just a disease of scabies, and Bandong and Shinano are far away from the mountains and mountains can be regarded as a change in elbows and armpits, and only Sakamoto in the Bilinggi is a big trouble, and Sakamoto is not uneasy in Gyeonggi!" Can't let Genyoshi be unscrupulous, before Genyoshitoki marches into the East China Sea, Sakamoto must be captured! ”

Oda Nobunaga was more determined than ever, he was extremely sure that his lifelong rival was only that person, and when Genyoshi was reborn again and again, the boy he was expecting back then still chose the opposite path to himself, a path that guarded the past that would be abandoned and went against his ambition to innovate.

"I'm disappointed by your performance! Why don't you understand that the stubborn old school is bound to perish, and only by following the pace of Nobunaga's innovation can we bring new hope to Japan! Insisting on guarding the spurned past will only make you lose yourself and indulge in the past, it is a waste of your talent, the dream of conquering the seven seas urgently needs your strength, why are you unwilling to help me? Why do you want to do that abominable old gate valve! ”

When he hated Genyi more than ever, this hatred made him like an angry lion, his eyes seemed to be bursting with flames, and he secretly sneered: "Do you think you have won? Do you think that 230,000 horsemen will be able to lock Kyoto and book the throne of the Great Shogun? You're wrong! There is no such thing as a victorious war, and even your cunning calculations will eventually have the strength to deal with you! Wait! When I clean up Sakamoto is going to deal with you......"

In the evening of the same day, the Nijo Imperial Palace reached an understanding for the first time, and several samurai agreed to Oda Nobunaga's proposal to send troops to attack Sakamoto Castle. At the same time, the naval forces of the Western Province, Kyushu, and Shikoku had to carry the Kinai legions to the aid of the Tokaido. Assist the Takeda family in the defense of Junyuan San. Resolutely defend the security of the gate from the Tokaido to Kinai.

On April 25, the shogunate army swore to march, and the 150,000-strong army surrounded Kita-Omi from all sides.

Kobayakawa Takakei was very cunning, and when he learned that the Oda navy had suffered a crushing defeat at Lake Biwa, he deliberately let the Kobayakawa navy avoid the Sakamoto navy. Just like the similar means that Ataka Fuyasu did back then, spread out little by little from the main stream of the Yodo River, slowly block the mouth of the Uji River and then slowly infiltrate into the Uji River, the army was besieged on all sides, and there was no way to retreat, even if the Sakamoto naval army had the ability to reach the sky, there was nothing to do.

Yodogawa Mitsucho reluctantly rushed into the Uji River, trying to raid the main force of the Kobayakawa naval army and thwart a counterattack by the Oda army, but Kobayakawa Takakei would rather abandon a ship than retreat, and he retreated very simply this time, and retreated all the way back into the Yodogawa with the main force of the naval army. On the contrary, the Sakamoto Navy is not embarrassed to stay in Ujichuan, to chase or not to chase? Chasing the past is definitely a trap. If you don't chase and are unwilling, you will run in vain to expose your whereabouts and lose your only ambush advantage, and it looks like a big loss.

"Can't chase! The army of the western country is gathered in Kyoto, and more than 200,000 horses cost how many boats, and this Kobayakawa Navy is only one of the rivers, as well as the Mishima Navy Army, the Otomo Navy Army, and the Awaji Navy Army, I can't fight! Must go back! Yodogawa Mitsucho hesitated for a long time but decided to retreat, his mission was not to cripple the sailors, he was behind the pearl of Lake Biwa, Sakamoto was the home he loved.

Seeing Yodogawa Mitsunaga retreating in a hurry, Kobayakawa Takakei laughed out loud and ordered the whole army to regroup and fight back to Ujigawa, behind him hundreds of Mishima Naval Army, Awaji Naval Army The fleet was neatly arranged, they held black powder jars in their hands, that is, the exclusive secret technique that the Mishima Naval Army was proud of, even if this secret has been inherited and carried forward by the Sakamoto Naval Army, even if he is no longer a secret weapon, but in this era of wooden boats with sails and oars, gunpowder is always the most threatening weapon.

Fourteen hundred ships and tens of thousands of sailors, the best of the Seto Inland Sea are gathered here, Lake Biwa is still so clear and blue as a beautiful sapphire, and all this is gradually dyed red by the vivid blood and fire, the sky of Otsu Port is reflected in blood, the fire rises to the sky, crying and cursing endlessly, this beautiful city has fallen in less than half a day.

Thousands of sails competed outside the small Otsu Port, and thousands of people screamed, and the Sakamoto naval army did not dare to meet the enemy head-on, with more than 200 warships fighting several times the enemy, each iron cannon needed to fight against several times the bow and arrow iron cannons, unless everyone became a sharpshooter, and the other party had to cooperate and not hide and shoot black guns, otherwise there was not even a chance to win.

As soon as Yodogawa Mitsunaga withdrew to Sakamoto Port, he learned that Otsu Port had been captured, and tens of thousands of shogunate troops had ravaged that beautiful city, and the red and black smoke of the war had turned twenty years of hard work into ashes, and Otsu Castle turned into flames in the billowing smoke, Yodogawa Mitsunaga closed his eyes in pain, and the defender of that castle was his long-time friend Suganuma Dingji.

The attempts of the Sakamoto Navy to rescue Otsu Port have all failed without exception, and the preparation of the Western Navy is very sufficient, Ataka Nobuyasu, Murakami Takeyoshi, and Kobayakawa Takakei are all heroes, and the unparalleled wisdom of the Maori family, Kobayakawa Takakei, is even more intelligent, commanding the Navy to move the formation in the center, and forcing the Sakamoto Navy to block the Sakamoto Navy from the wall.

"Lost the opportunity! Retreat! Yodogawa Mitsucho stared at the burning beautiful city for the last time, and turned around and left without hesitation, because at this moment the shogunate army had already reached the outside of Sakamoto Castle, and at the critical moment when the 30,000 defenders were resisting the siege of the 150,000 army on all sides, the Sakamoto naval army was the only mobile force that could be used.

The battle situation on Usayama Castle was unusually tragic, the brave and good warrior Okochi Kunitsuna guarded Usayama Castle, and dragged the 30,000 troops of the shogunate side with 3,000 defenders alive and could not move, whether it was Shibata Katsuie, Yoshikawa Motoharu and other senior generals, or Takahashi Shaoyun, Narimatsu Nobukatsu, Kira Kinsada and other young samurai could not take him, the defenders' iron cannon fire was too fierce, and the price of risking death to rush to the gate of Oteji to attack the city was too heavy.

In addition to this difficulty, the entire Shiga Prefecture is almost not called a strong point, Oda Nobunaga personally led an army of 30,000 to attack Sakamoto Castle, forcing Nakajo Tokihide to withdraw from the front line of the coalition forces of Takashima County and Asakura, Asai, Wakasa Takeda, and Tango Isshiki, and the gap in the battle situation brought about by the huge disadvantage of the army is becoming more and more obvious, and the Sakamoto Castle, which is known as an undefended city, has only one water castle to resist, but a large area of the castle town outside the city is not good to defend, and it means that many years of hard work have come to naught.

The cunning shogunate army adopted suppressive tactics and attacked everywhere to suppress the defenders' range of activities, just like a wild wolf that has been cunning and hiding in the bushes to seize the opportunity to bite, and from time to time it will use the shameless tactics of shrinking the head of the turtle, I will retreat when you come out, and I will come out again if you retreat, and a street can change hands several times throughout the day.

In such an unrestricted standoff battle, morale is disappearing little by little, and the Sakamoto defenders can only rely on the iron artillery ammunition stored for many years in exchange for a temporary balance of power, the unbalanced balance of power is also called the terrifying balance, the difference in strength between the two sides is very large, just for various reasons to maintain a superficial balance of power, this is a very dangerous state. (To be continued......)

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