The Shinano Kiso clan is different from the Echizen Asakura clan, the Asakura clan relied on the wise family governor and a united group to establish a strong military feat, and little by little conquered the territory of the Echizen country to become a new generation of samurai famous families, and the Shinano Kiso clan did not have a glorious record at all, even if he followed the Ashikaga clan to raise troops two hundred years ago, it was just a soy sauce mixed with a skill.

This clan has hardly done anything for more than 200 years since the early days of Muromachi, and it is also to fight soy sauce when it participates in the Onin Rebellion, and the civil strife in Shinano Province is basically a cold bystander and never interferes, even the Takato clan, Fujisawa clan and Ogasawara clan of the Suwa clan in Ina County have basically chosen a neutral attitude and do not interfere.

For so many years, it was nothing more than a safe house in the Kiso Valley, and when he was in the mood, the lord might take a group of retainers to play eagle hunting, or take the samurai to drive away the mountain people who were scurrying in the mountains, or resell the wood in the mountains for a little money, and occasionally quarrel with Hida Province and the Ogasawara clan, which is also measured in ten years.

Every ten years or eight years, there are some skirmishes of dozens or hundreds of people, the biggest is to take more than 1,000 people to fight a light and intense joint battle with dozens of people in battle, and the biggest impact may be the first to change the word "righteousness" as the common word, he was seriously injured in the attack against Miki Shigeyori, who had not yet unified Nanhida, and unfortunately died, and the rest of the time to fight a joint battle is at most a kind of fun to adjust life.

Takigawa Tokiyoshi, who attended the meeting of important ministers for the first time, did not dare to speak, and seeing that all the samurai were pondering the meaning of not speaking, he raised his right hand high and asked in a very exaggerated tone: "Your Majesty has a question, why no countrymen have found out that the Kiso clan has been impersonated before?" And those people are stupid like this? So much so that when I woke up, I didn't realize that the lord had changed the word Miao? ”

Nanioka shook his head with a smile. The question of the secret channel is really a bit amateurish. However, he still patiently replied: "Presumably, it must be a series of preliminary preparations to be impersonated!" It is impossible to be exposed today and tomorrow, for example, in the era of Miki Ryori's father, Miki Naoyori, the Koji family, the sister of Hida Kuniji, has completely declined.

In the era when Miki Naoyori was the governor of the family, he began to plan the strategy of impersonating the sister Koji family, and then after two generations of decades of planning, he gradually completed the domination of Minami Hida, and naturally inherited the heir of the sister Koji family, presumably this Kiso family also made a long time of preparations before inheriting! ”

Since the people of Shinano are not stupid or stupid, not only have a sound IQ but also are very monkey spirits, how can they allow a family of unknown origin to suddenly assume the name of the Kiso clan. This must have to go through a generation or even several generations of foreshadowing, perhaps as early as the Kamakura period, not long after the death of Kiso Yoshimune, when Numata Iyo Mori moved to the Kiso Valley as a lord, he was already secretly making preliminary preparations to usurp the family name.

After waves of chaos in the Kamakura period, the warrior family who knew about it either withered or became a threat to their family, and the only impact may be the Numata clan clan in Ueno Country, as long as this family can be settled, no one else in the whole world will know about the existence of such a pretending thing.

It's a pity that after many years of planning, he encountered the embarrassment of being a hundred secrets, and the calligraphy left in the Kiso Valley for hundreds of years covered up, even if Kiso Yoshimasa could come up with the theory of fooling the shogunate, Shinano guardians, and the local lords and lords, saying that this was a trick made by their ancestors to hide people's eyes and ears.

However, the document left behind by Numata was irreconclusive evidence, and he could not explain why his ancestor had given such a strange letter to the Numata family. Even if he can still deny that this is a forged document, there will never be a fake in those more than 40 years of free supply of money and food.

The journey from Minami Shinano to Nishi-Ueno is not short, and there are many customs points that need to be notified in advance to Shinano's guardian Ogasawara family. No matter what name their family sent to the Ueno Numata family, they had to leave behind a lot of relevant documents, and if it lasted for more than forty years year after year, and then suddenly found a reason to interrupt it, it would leave many traces, and these traces might be all over most of Shinano and half of Ueno Province, and it was definitely not something that the Kiso clan had the ability to erase.

Sanada Yutaka quietly listened to the speeches of the samurai, thought for a while and said: "His Royal Highness Gongkata's judgment is very accurate, and Kiso Yoshimasa is indeed bound to be opposed, but His Majesty thinks that Kiso Yoshimasa or his reclusive father Kiso Yoshiyasu will make some moves, and may further do very bad things to my Ashikaga family." ”

Kira Yoshitoki also faintly noticed that it would not be so simple, but he didn't think about the reason for it for a while, and when he happened to touch a glimmer of spiritual light, he heard Sanada Yutaka's speech, and immediately sat up straight and said solemnly: "Please say it in the main hall!" ”

"Yes! His Majesty thought that the Kiso clan would not simply rebel, and that they would not only rebel but also make a tough stance towards my Kamiashikaga family, and they would definitely make a weak posture that was ruthlessly violated by the Kamiashikaga family, so that the world would mistakenly think that it was my Kazukaga clan who was framing the Kiso clan, and its original intention was that His Royal Highness wanted to destroy his clan and seize his land.

At that time, His Royal Highness will be unable to clear the suspicion, whether it is Numata Uenosuke Tai's ironclad evidence such as a mountain or Ogasawara-dong Yukisai's verbal records, it will be described by people who have a heart as His Royal Highness Gongkata's means to prepare in advance to deal with the Kiso clan, since it is a means, it doesn't matter whether it is true or false, even if it is true, it can be regarded as false.

His Royal Highness only needs to make a gesture of punishing the Kiso clan, and it will be regarded as another ruthless persecution of the Tokoku samurai family by the brutal Kamisuki clan in the name of the shogunate law, but this time the target of the persecution has been changed to the Kiso clan of the Kawachi Gen clan, and combined with the punishment of the Miki clan, it is likely that many very bad conclusions will be interpreted. ”

Sanada Yutaka's voice was low and powerful, and his speech speed was slow and firm, but when it fell into Kira Yoshishi's ears, it was like a sledgehammer ringing a bell in his ear, and the rumbling sound poured into his ears, and his face changed back and forth, and the bat fan he was holding tightly in his hand came out of his hand without realizing it, and his deep voice was like a beast roaring, and he was really angry at this moment.

"Yu will kill this thief! This thief is not dead, and it is difficult to rest in his heart! Kira Yoshitoki snorted angrily and ordered: "Order Ogasawara Shinano to command 3,000 troops from Takato Castle, and then order Yasuda Jibu to command 3,000 troops from Sakurato Castle." The two counties attacked Fukushima Castle in the Kiso Valley from the east and west. The local people of the Kiso Valley were ordered to break away from the Kiso clan and join the crusading army to fight together. Then the order of the Kiso clan genealogy generations, but there is repentance, and he wishes to be a pioneer, and he can be able to block it. ”

"Sometimes it's the right choice to give up pacification, and since it's going to send troops, you have to think about a problem." Uesugi Huihu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly let go of the rosary in his hand and said slowly: "If the name is not right, it is not good, so please show His Royal Highness the princess, in what name should our army send troops?" ”

"It doesn't seem appropriate to use the name of the Kiso clan to impersonate the leader...... "Kira Yoshitoki also realized that he hadn't thought about it yet, and it was really unreasonable to find a good name to fight a foreigner who was already subordinate to him, and he was not good at concocting such a high-end and undisciplined habit of concocting crimes. For a while, some people were stuck and didn't know how to plan the name of the troops.

Honda Shizheng suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said, "Isn't this Miyoshi family going to contact the Kanto Takeshi family to deal with my Kira family?" Why don't you just give the Kiso family Miyoshi Chokei who colluded against Echigo, and jointly planned the usurpation of the anti-Kira by the Furukawa Princess? Once the Kiso family rebels, they will basically join this alliance, so this is not a frame-up! ”

"Then let's go against Kiso Yoshimasa in this name! Don't delay until the autumn harvest! The descendants of the Kiso clan must be exterminated, and the recalcitrant genealogy of the sect and the recalcitrant ones will be captured and punished as usual! Kira Yoshishi waved his hand and immediately clapped the decision, giving this matter a conclusion.

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Under the strict order of Kira Yoshitoki, the entire Kira family was running at high speed like a huge machine, but in a few days, the edict was conveyed to the Quartet through multiple channels, and Ogasawara Naga, who was sitting in Takato Castle, properly placed 2,000 defenders after receiving the news, and personally led 3,000 troops out of Takato Castle and went straight to the Kiso Valley. This army quickly swelled to more than 5,000 people.

On the other side, Yasuda Nagahide's speed of action was not slow at all, and the information delivered by the Kira Water Army upstream through Miyagawa was transmitted. He received this edict slightly earlier than Ogasawara Nagatoki, leaving behind a thousand Echichu troops to guard Sakurato Castle by the veteran general Yoshie Sonobu, personally leading a thousand troops and recruiting 2,000 Hida Kuni's troops to coordinate the battle, with Kazusaka Nagamiya as the vanguard to attack the Minamishinano Kiso Valley.

The total strength of the two attacks reached more than 8,000 people, and when these two armies poured into the Kiso Valley with a terrifying might, the people of Minami Shinano near the Kiso Valley were stunned, they didn't understand at all how His Royal Highness the prince of Kasuga Mountain Castle would turn his face and ruthlessly act on the Kiso family, they still remembered that half a year ago, their lord Kiso Yoshimasa also personally went to Kasuga Mountain Castle to get the approval of the town government, why the situation suddenly changed into this appearance overnight.

The people of Kiso Valley were confused and angry, but they really couldn't muster the courage to resist in the face of the mighty Kira army, and the cage city resisted the surrender of the castle and became a prisoner in such a vague way, in this process, Kiso Yoshimasa's reaction was slow and did not make a better response, so he was so easily besieged by Kiso Fukushima Castle.

Ogasawara did not waste time after meeting with Yasuda Nagahide for a long time, and the two sides divided labor and cooperated to encircle and suppress the remnants of the Kiso clan while besieging the city, and even the two of them did not expect that the crusade against the Kiso Valley would be unexpectedly smooth, or Kiso Yoshimasa did not expect the Kira family to be so fast and ruthless, and he was surrounded by 6,000 troops from both sides before he was even ready to rebel.

From the dispatch of troops to the siege of Kiso-Fukushima Castle before and after only half a month's effort, many branch cities in the Kiso Valley also opened the castle in half a month of siege, even if a small number of retainers who held on were quickly captured and killed by the family, the Ueashikaga family announced a series of criminal evidence about Kiso Yoshimasa's collusion with Miyoshi Chokei and the Gongfang, completely annihilating the last chance of resistance of the Kiso family.

This series of incriminating evidence is like sounding the death knell for the destruction of the Kiso clan, and many genealists of the Kiso family are in confusion and shaken, and these genealogy retainers do not understand why the family governor rebelled against the Kira family, let alone how much benefit Miyoshi Changqing gave to the family governor, so that he made a reckless choice to almost go crazy to rebel.

Before the arrival of the Ashikaga family's crusading army, Kiso Yoshimasa made various military deployments in Kiso Fukushima Castle and even in the entire Kiso Valley could not hide the vigilance of those who had a heart, not to mention that the retainers of the Kiso clan were all local powerful samurai, and they knew that the governor did some unusual acts under his nose.

Even if Kiso Yoshimasa came up with a thousand reasons and explanations, he could not hide the moral behind this unusual military adjustment, and even worse, the military deployment was attacked by the fierce crusading army not long after. Let the retainers of the Kiso clan have every reason to believe that their lord is doing some big and unruly secret schemes.

Otherwise, why don't you go to crusade against other samurai families. And stared at the Kiso clan, who had just made a military move. And the error was only a few days before and after, which made many samurai can't help but think, perhaps Kiso Yoshimasa found out that the matter was revealed and hurriedly prepared to plot a rebellion, but he was still a step slower and was blocked by the crusading army to the doorstep.

Most of the lords in the Kiso Valley are genealogy retainers who have followed the Kiso clan for nearly a hundred years, and they feel that they are also the generations of the Kiso clan, but now that they have encountered such a big thing as rebellion, the family governor Kiso Yoshimasa didn't even think about calling them to discuss, which made them feel that this family governor was completely distrustful of themselves.

Being a retainer for a lifetime is still not to be trusted, which is a huge blow to many samurai who claim to be loyal and good generals. The dissipation of self-confidence caused them to develop mixed feelings of resentment and disgust, and the younger and more radical Shidai people did not hesitate to defect from the Kiso clan, and switched to the camp of the Kira Raider to fight against their former master, although the older samurai did not turn away from the main family, but they also gave up their plans to continue to be close to Kiso Yoshimasa.

But Kiso Yoshimasa still has no words, he doesn't know how to explain to the retainers of the spectrum in order to clear his suspicions, and he can't tell the retainers of the spectrum that he wants to rebel, in fact, the family background has been exposed, and he is worried that the matter will be exposed, so he would rather strike first to set off the anti-flag and splash the Ashikaga family with dirty water.

This kind of behavior is too despicable, and it is completely different from the image of the famous family that the Kiso clan has flaunted for many years, and the retainers of the genealogy did not know that the Kiso Yoshimasa clan was an impostor, and the famous clan of the Kawachi Gen clan was explained by him, but he exposed his ugliness and let the world know that he was an impostor. Instead, it will make the retainers of the spectrum even more reluctant to fight for this imposter family, and then they will die faster and more miserably.

I don't explain it, and I can't tell why Kiso Yoshimasa was attacked. It is impossible to explain the difference between making so many military deployments and preparing for rebellion, Kiso Yoshimasa originally planned to wait for the Ashikaga family to send a public investigation into the fraud, and then he would make a fuss and cause the retainers to hate the enemy, first stand on the moral high ground to establish his identity as a victim, and then rebel in the future, so it is logical not to bear the notoriety.

But now it has become a different thing, Kira Yoshitoki clearly promised to send the commissioners to investigate, but suddenly there was no news, and what he waited for half a month was that the 8,000 crusaders came to the door, and the crusading army didn't mention that there was a drama of exposing the impostority in the Kasuga Mountain Castle, and Kiso Yoshimasa couldn't be stupid enough to tell the retainers of the spectrum at this time, in fact, his own family was exposed at the assessment meeting of the Kasuga Mountain Castle half a month ago.

Kiso Yoshimasa soon found himself trapped, and he didn't expect that the Kira family would attack him directly in a different name, and the speed of the attack completely broke through his imagination, and he and his father Kiso Yoshiyasu had planned for many days to come up with a rebellion and a bitter drama that had been messed up before it could be staged.

No matter what the people of Minami Shinano think of Kiso Yoshimasa's rebellion, and there is no need to carefully explore why Kiso Yoshimasa offended His Royal Highness the prince of Kasuga Mountain Castle, but now the people of Minami Shinano understand that the Kiso clan is completely helpless, whether it is to conform to the general trend, or whether it is to fall into the ground, more and more people of Minami Shinano have joined the crusading army, and more than 10,000 troops have gathered outside Kiso-Fukushima Castle.

In this 10,000-strong army, there are relatives and friends of Kiso Yoshimasa in the past, close friends, retainers who have been confidants for many years, and young samurai seedlings who are optimistic about him.

The Kiso Valley is a long and narrow valley surrounded by mountains, with the misty Mt. Mitsuki to the west, the Tamaki River to the southwest connecting Lake Ontake, the largest lake in the territory, and the Komagatake Mountains to the southeast.

In the Kiso-Fukushima Castle Castle Castle Tower, the young governor Kiso Yoshimasa was roaring angrily, since he learned that the Kira army had invaded the Kiso Valley in a big way, his good mood had not appeared, his eyes were red and swollen like two red lanterns, his face was dark, and there were obvious dark circles at the corners of his eyes, and he had obviously not closed his eyes for several days.

At this time, there were not many retainers left in Kiso-Fukushima Castle. No matter how hard the Kiso clan tried, it was no longer possible to hide the critical situation of the all-round disadvantage. Today, there are less than 2,000 remaining troops in the Kiso Valley. Ninety percent of them were concentrated in Kiso-Fukushima Castle to fight the trapped beasts, and the remaining retainers of the genealogy were worried and couldn't hide their pessimism.

As one of the few staunch supporters of the Kiso family's genealogy, Yamamura Mikawa Moriyoshi said worriedly: "The town government will actually take us!" This is completely out of order! According to common sense, we should also question before making a decision, why would they suddenly act and not give me a chance to refute it? ”

Uematsu Yoshitoyo, who had just returned home from Kasuga Mountain Castle, obviously had more resentment and anger to vent, and said angrily: "The child clearly remembers that the town government also appeased my Kiso family, saying that he must seek justice for us, but he doesn't want to do it to my Kiso family before the rest of his voice is finished!" This town government ...... No! This Kira Yoshitoki is also a capricious villain! ”

Chimura Sabu Suke said, "How did Kira Yoshitoki detect my Kiso family's actions? Our actions are so secretive that most of the generations are unaware of them. It's hard to believe that Kira Ninja can find out such a secret message, and if that's the case, it's really terrifying! ”

Masagi Masaka, a member of the Kiso clan, shouted, "We can't be so restrained, we must act!" Contact the Miyoshi family, the Takeda family, and the Hojo family, and there may be a way! ”

"The Kiso Valley is located in a remote area, and there are vast mountains on the left and right, and the blockade of the Kira Army has reached the extreme, and I am afraid that even the information will not be able to be transmitted at this time!" Kiso Yoshiyasu could only smile bitterly at the young man and said: "This situation makes the old man really don't know what to do!" How could our Kiso family be like this? ”

In Kiso's view, this is an unnecessary misunderstanding, and if it weren't for Ogasawara Cave Snow Sai, many things would not have happened, let alone to the point that they had to fight for their own reputation. So far, in addition to regret, it is still regret.

Yamamura Yoshitori, who was only fourteen years old, said nervously: "If we surrender now, can we get the promise of Andu?" ”

"Impossible! The Kira family won't let us go so easily. Otherwise, I won't do everything possible to put a name for rebellion on me and others, and I probably won't have a chance. Kiso Yoshimasa said with a gloomy face: "No matter what, my Kiso family will never give in!" Absolutely not! ”

No matter how much Kiso Yoshimasa insisted, he could not change the situation that there was no way out, and the Kiso Valley, which was surrounded by mountains deep in the mountains, was surrounded on all sides, and the defenders in the city were limited and could not exchange for a chance to survive through surrender, which forced the Kiso family to choose only one way to defend the cage castle that had abandoned itself.

However, Kiso Yoshimasa still tried to send an envoy to try to surrender, but how could Ogasawara give him a chance to survive for a long time, his third brother Ogasawara Dong Yukisai started this war at the cost of his personal career, but he stole the chicken and made the rice make the roots of his teeth itch to hate the Kiso family, not to mention that the order issued by Kira Yoshitoki was to cut the grass and eradicate the roots and not allow submission.

In desperation, Kiso Yoshimasa gritted his teeth and insisted on not opening the castle and not surrendering, because he knew very well that Kira Yoshitoki was going to kill him, Kiso Yoshimasa couldn't understand why his secret plan was discovered, and it stands to reason that he would not act so quickly, but the fact easily defeated his self-confidence, and he was destined to be a shameful loser.

10,000 people besieged Kiso-Fukushima Castle, and this absurd and bizarre scene lasted for a whole month, until the end of July, when the autumn harvest was not far away, and Kiso Fukushima Castle, which had been suffering for more than half a year, was forced to surrender to Kaicheng, and the current governor Kiso Yoshimasa, his reclusive father Kiso Yoshiyasu, and his younger brother Uematsu Yoshitoyo committed suicide by seppuku.

More than 200 men were martyred by the Kiso clan's Shu clan, such as the Shirokawa clan, the Chimura clan, the Makino clan, the Atagawa clan, the Furuhata clan, and the Uematsu clan, and a small number of die-hard retainers such as Yamamura Saburo Kuro and Narai Rokuro Saemon were also martyred with the main family, and the large wide room in Fukushima Castle was filled with the corpses of the martyrs. (To be continued......)