Chapter 279: Who is the Genji family?

Two days later, on a quiet morning, Hachimangahara was greeted by a uniform array of samurai, and the influence of the drought demon made the originally abundant river very simple, and several large flags were erected as they crossed the river, the most conspicuous of which was the Ashikaga Nichijo Banner.

This army of tens of thousands of people, under the guidance of 2,000 Shinano people, crossed the arid Rhinogawa River, and appeared on Hachimangahara through the light mist of the early morning, and the cool mountain breeze blew away the mist on Kawanaka Island.

The sudden landing operation that broke the routine was intended to force the Takeda Army to make a full-scale decisive battle and crush the main force of the Takeda Army with a strong military superiority, and it would be great if he could kill Takeda Harunobu and annihilate all the samurai of the Takeda Army, and even if he was unlucky, he could take advantage of the situation to expel the Takeda Army and retreat to Nakashinano, so as to achieve the original strategic goal of seizing the stable front of Kita Shinano.

He knew very well that such cunning daimyo usually avoided the main decisive battle to determine the winner of the war, and this was Kawanakajima instead of Kyoto, so there was no reason why they had to go to Luo, and when they were in danger, the daimyo would usually turn around and run, which greatly reduced the possibility of fighting a war of annihilation.

The seemingly reckless landing battle was exactly what Takeda Harunobu and his retainers expected, and the disastrous defeat of Sanada Yutaka and the bad news that followed caused extreme uneasiness among the Takeda army.

Especially in the second watch of the night before, I received news from the rear, Kakizaki Keijia and Murakami Yoshikiyo joined forces to attack Shiozaki Castle, and the garrison of Shiozaki Castle Kurihara Sudo led 300 troops to suddenly face the siege of 2,000 troops, and the situation was very critical. The nearby Yashiro Castle attempted reinforcements, but was completely routed by the cavalry of the Kakizaki Keijia.

Once the two fortified cities in the southern part of Kawanaka Island were captured. The retreat route of the Takeda Army was completely cut off. This situation also forced Takeda Harunobu to go out in order to defeat the Kira army head-on, and this news was obviously deliberately delayed, and when the news was received, the Takeda army had lost the possibility of sending reinforcements immediately.

After a night of jealousy and restlessness, the samurai of the Takeda family, who woke up again, found that they had lost their last chance to retreat, and the huge Kira army had appeared on Hachimangahara, and the white flag with the black lead two lines was so blinking that they always subconsciously thought that it was the hostile shogunate army.

Rumbling war drums beat in the western part of Hachimangaara. The Ashikaga Nichibi and Nagao Kuyoba flutter in the wind, and the various variegated banners on both wings come from the Shinano people, among which the red and black troops sitting in the main camp are the most conspicuous, and the most striking is the 1,000 red reserve cavalry.

A few days ago, the almost uninjured defeat of the Sanada army left a very deep impression on the Takeda family, and in the face of the blocked Kira army, the reaction of the Takeda army was very calm, and the columns of reserves had already set up a formation, and there was no sense of being blocked from the momentum.

"The red background is golden, the Suwa French flag, and the blue wind forest volcano flag. Only there is no family crest flag with the Genji white flag as the bottom, and your Takeda family is worthy of being the most special one of my Genji family! Kira sneered. He was quite indifferent to the Warring States military general who often wore red armor and wore a Suwa Dharma shirt on his head.

Yamamoto didn't understand the meaning of his words, nodded and said, "Yes! Dr. Takeda Daizen is a maverick samurai, the Takeda family is coming step by step, and it is inseparable from the hard work of the two generations of Takeda, but the Takeda family met my Kira family, which can only be said to be unfortunate! ”

Seeing that there was a large group of samurai in red armor gathered in the camp of the Takeda family, Kira Yoshitoki said with a smile: "The Takeda family also has red cavalry?" No, I guess it's called Akabi Samurai! Get on the horse and march and dismount to fight! It's really like seeing what you're doing! Keijiro, the left near! Follow me to the front of the battle to answer! ”

"Your Excellency, don't do it!"

"Why not? Could it be that the master still doesn't trust his family's skills? The gunnery of this family is only a little bit lower than that of Qingci and Zuo Jin, and there is absolutely no problem with self-defense! "Kira Yoshishi was fourteen years old at the time, and his height reached one meter six, and his marksmanship was better than that of most samurai who wielded guns, and he was still very confident in his skills.

Without waiting for refusal, he rushed out of the formation, came to the front of the formation and shouted: "Takeda Harunobu came out to answer!" ”

"Who is that?" The Takeda army was in a commotion, and soon saw that the four flag seals were moving, and hundreds of horsemen in red armor moved to the front of the formation, and under the banner of Ashikaga Kamisaki Kamisaki with black letters on a white background, a samurai wearing a Kamakura-style purple carcass was standing in front of the formation.

"Answering before the battle? What exactly is he going to do? Takeda Harunobu squinted at the flag mark, slowly stood up and stepped on the horse, and several Ashigaru generals hurriedly turned over their horses, caught up and persuaded: "Don't go over, lord, be careful that person is cheating!" ”

"He's not afraid, what is the family afraid of? Spread the word that the family is afraid of a half-grown child? In the face of Takeda Harunobu's questioning, Takeda's retainers did not dare to answer, and it was worth following Takeda Harunobu closely.

Seeing a general in red armor slowly walking down the slope, but after a moment, the array in front of him separated and reached a crack, and hundreds of samurai surrounded him and walked to the front of the formation to stop, the distance between the two sides became more than a hundred meters, and it was very inconvenient to answer, but no one dared to take a step forward.

Kira Yoshitoki looked around and asked, "Who has the loudest voice?" ”

"Of course it's me!" Nobumasa Nagasaka raised his head with a very proud look, and several companions around him laughed in a low voice: "There is no other merit except fighting and having a loud voice!" ”

"It turned out to be Bloody Gun Jiulang! Read it aloud to him with the text written by his family! You can go to the front some! ”

Nobumasa Nagasaka took Xie Wen and confidently promised: "Please rest assured, Lord Pavilion!" I'll do a good job! ”

Rice Fu Huchang wondered: "What the hell is the Jiliang family doing?" Tell the lord to talk before the battle, but he can't come here, what are you going to do if you procrastinate? ”

"Probably a procrastination ploy, right? Isn't Kurihara Left Gate under siege? Eighty percent must be like this. Huden snorted softly.

"It's cunning...... Hey, there's someone on the other side! It doesn't seem to be the general on the other side! Hayato Sasho Yinyi reminded, and everyone focused their eyes on the red-armored samurai opposite.

I saw that he had no riding spear with a knife on his waist and hips, and he only advanced twenty steps before stopping. Waving his hand, he took out a piece of paper and coughed lightly: "When the law collapses today." Demons are full of evil, and the warring states are troubled. There are many people who do not respect the shogunate and are proud of their betrayal, and they don't know how to respect and obey orders, this is a rebellion of the samurai!

Today, there is Takeda Harunobu, a descendant of the Kawachi Genji, and the ancestor of the Kawachi Genji Silla Saburo Yoshimitsu, who did not know how to kill the pillars of the Genji clan and trap the brother of the same family, causing the Genji to rebel against the Genji clan, causing the Genji of Hanoi to almost collapse, and the Taira Kiyomori clan took advantage of the achievement of the pillars of the Ping clan. Fang Youbaoyuan, the rebellion of the Ping Zhi made my Genji almost in danger, and the Ping clan greatly exterminated many Miao descendants of my Gen clan, which is a great crime and ......"

The samurai of the Takeda family trembled when they heard this, and the expression of Takeda Harunobu riding his beloved mount Black Cloud to talk and laugh collapsed suddenly, and then the more he listened, the more ugly his face became, and his body shook violently and almost fell off his mount.

“…… Minamoto Yoshimitsu has four major sins, one of which is that Gen Yoshimitsu and his nephew Gen Yoshikuni competed for Changlu State, and falsely accused Gen Yoshikoku of not knowing loyalty and filial piety to make him lose the position of the pillar of Genji, which is unjust! Second. Assassinating the four generations of pillars of Yuan Yizhong, this is disloyalty!

Third. Framing his brother Yuan Yigang and destroying his clan is unkind and unfilial! Fourth, Gen Yoshitsuna, his plan to escape to Kai is still unrepentant, and he often thinks of seizing the pillars of Genji, which is shameless! Disloyalty, unkindness, and injustice, the four ancient evil sources of the source of righteousness account for three, and almost let my Yuan clan be wiped out......"

“…… Today, he has repeatedly committed Shinano in harming the people of the country, wantonly slaughtering people without respecting the orders of the shogunate, and fabricating the false impression that Shinano is singing and dancing to promote peace, which is really a heinous crime! What's more, Ruzu Takeda Nobuyoshi dared to compete with Minamoto Yorishio for the pillars of the samurai family, you Kai Genji has always had a backbone, and today you are competing with my Ashikaga family for Shinano, is it to challenge the authority of my shogunate? ”

Kira Yoshitoki sneered: "Why is the Genji of Hanoi the Ashikaga clan? Why don't you choose the Takeda clan? Are the heroes of the Northern and Southern Dynasties blind? Because only the Ashikaga clan is qualified to inherit the descendants of the Kawachi Genji, and only the Ashikaga clan can become the pillar of the Kawachi Genji family! ”

The origin of the family of the Qinghe Genji, from the sixth son of the Emperor Qinghe, Prince Zhenchun, and then the source of the six grandsons, also known as the King of the Jingji, and then the source of the Manchu Zhong divided into two branches, the first generation of the Kawachi Genji Dongliang Yuan Yoishin, the second generation of the Dongliang Yuan Yoriyi will not be mentioned for the time being, the third generation of the Yuan Yi family, the fourth generation of the Yuan Yizhong, the fifth generation of the Yuan Yizhong, the sixth generation of the Yuan Yi Dynasty, and the seventh generation of the Yuan Lai Dynasty is the inheritance of the Hanoi Gen Clan Liang family.

It can be seen from the general character that between the four and five generations is not the inheritance of the son-in-law, and the inheritance between the sixth and seventh generations is not the inheritance of the son-in-law, and the pillars of these two generations are not passed down from the word "righteousness", and the severance of the son-in-law has become the main reason for the dispute, as for why the heir will be broken, it has a deep relationship with the ancestor of the Takeda family, Yuan Yoshimitsu.

This involves a public case of Genji in Hanoi, more than 200 years ago, at the beginning of the Northern and Southern Dynasties era, when the imperial family joined forces to overthrow the Kamakura shogunate, the Ashikaga clan and the Nitta clan competed for the Genji family.

It's just because Gen Yoshimitsu gave up the originally very likely Genji pillars for his own selfish ambitions, so the Ashikaga family has always hated the Takeda family for making trouble, and from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Muromachi shogunate, the Takeda family has been locked up in Kai without giving any chance.

Although the Kawachi Genji originated in the Heian period, the real rise is the credit of the three generations of pillars Hachiman Taro Minamoto Yoshika, the first nine years after the three-year battle to cast the Kawachi Genji in the Kanto samurai foundation, passed to the Kawachi Genji seven generations of the pillar of the Kawachi Genji Minamoto Yorichao, the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate Megatron world, but there is a relative Hojo clan to get power, Kawachi Genji descendants died three times, so that the Kawachi Genji lineage was cut off.

With the extinction of the Genji clan in Kawachi, a new problem arose, and the Gen Yoritomo killed all the relatives because of the heavy killing, and those who were not killed were also taken over by Hojo Masako to continue to die, and all the sects who were eligible to inherit the pillars of the Genji were exterminated.

Since it is a battle, it is necessary to fight for a result, and several brothers of the seven generations of Dongliang Yuan Yorichao died in the Heiji Rebellion and the subsequent pursuit of the Ping clan, such as the son-in-law of the six generations of Dongliang Yuan Yoshito, who is known as the evil source Tai, was ordered to be beheaded by Ping Qingsheng, and there are only a few small ones alive such as Yuan Fan Lai and Yuan Yoshijing, who were killed by Yuan Yorichao in the place where the Kamakura Shogunate was established, and the big cats and kittens left behind are not famous.

Going back further, the six generations of pillars of the Yuan Yi Dynasty killed their father in the Baoyuan Rebellion, and killed their younger brother to destroy their father and brother. The side branches of the six generations were either cut off, or they were almost extinct by Yuan Laichao in the future. There is no ability to compete for the pillars of Genji. Those who are alive have not survived the Pingzhi Rebellion, either extermination or decline.

The five generations of pillars of the source of righteousness are not inherited by the son-in-law, and his own brother because of the early inheritance of the pillars of the source of the family, the relationship is very poor, and they have been suppressed successively, and they are all nameless, and then he was killed by his sister-in-law Yuan Yichao in the Baoyuan Rebellion, and there is no family to inherit.

The fourth-generation pillar Minamoto Yoshitada is the uncle of Minamoto Weiyi, and the position of the fourth-generation pillar causes a big turmoil, which involves the famous Takeda family ancestor Silla Saburo Minamoto Yoshimitsu. In other words, he is the reason for Genji's rebellion, and the three generations of Kawachi Genji were the Hachiman Taro Minamoto Yoshiya who was Megatron, and it was also the origin of the Genji lineage of Kawachi who became the descendant of the samurai Genji family.

The eldest son of the Minamoto family, Gen Yoshimune, died early and the position of the pillar was vacant, and he was originally intended to be handed over to the second son, the evil horse Shou Gen Yoshikin, but as a result, the source Yoshikin killed innocents indiscriminately in Kyushu, and was asked by the Isehira clan to take the head of the Imperial Court and became a villain, and his widow was the later Gen Weiyi.

The death of the eldest son and the second son hit the Genyi family hard, so it was decided to let the third son Gen Yoshikuni be the pillar of the Genji family, but at this time, there was bad news from Changlu Country, and Gen Yoshimitsu sued him as a nephew. The reason is that Minamoto Yoshikuni fought with his uncle Minamoto Yoshimitsu for territory in Hitachi Province, and was attacked by his uncle and cousin. In the end, he was sued by his uncle Yuan Yiguang in front of Yuan Yi's family.

The Minamoto family naturally knew that Gen Yoshikoku was innocent, and Changlu Country was originally the territory that Gen Yoshiko assigned to his son, but this violated Gen Yoshimitsu's rights and interests, because Gen Yoshimitsu had already taken root here for twenty years and developed, but Gen Yoshimitsu had already sued, and he, as a brother, could not favor his son, so he could only reluctantly abolish Gen Yoshikoku's inheritance.

The fourth son, Yuan Yizhong, finally inherited the pillars of the Yuan family, at this time the Yuan Yi family had died of illness, and Yuan Yizhong was assassinated by his uncle Yuan Yoshiguang for a few days before he was happy, not only the assassination was so simple, but also the guilt of the assassination was blamed on his brother, the second brother of the Yuan Yi family.

Because this Gen Yoshitsuna is the second brother of the Gen Yoshitsuna, known as Kamo Jiro, Gen Yoshimitsu is just the old three called Silla Saburo, Gen Yoshimitsu feels that the eldest few of his nephews are either dead or deposed, only his elder brother Kamo Jiro Gen Yoshitsuna is a scourge, so he has a bad intention to frame him.

Gen Yoshitada was only twenty-seven years old when he died, and the sudden assassination of Genji's pillars immediately caused a riot, Gen Yoshimitsu thought that this should be my Genji pillar, but the Genji family discussed and let the evil pair of Ma Shou's son Gen Weiyi inherit, because Gen Yoshimitsu originally had the right to inherit, which made Gen Yoshimitsu very disappointed.

The first thing he did when he came to power was to hunt down his uncle Gen Yoshitsuna, who was assassinated in 1109, and the framed Gen Yoshitsuna was immediately exiled to Sado Island, and his eldest son Yoshihiro and second man Yoshitoshi couldn't understand why they were innocently punished so harshly, and immediately committed suicide by jumping off a cliff hand in hand.

The three men were chased and killed on the way because they were implicated in the assassination, the four men committed suicide by burning themselves in the fire cave, the five men and the six men killed themselves by cutting their stomachs, and only the young son Yoshinao, who had just turned one year old, was spared, so the innocent Yuan Yigang was killed and almost extinct.

The source of the righteous is also not good, in the past 1132 the source of the righteous and to settle the general account, at that time was already over eighty years old the source of the gang had to commit suicide, this is the famous source of the righteous unjust incident, and the culprit source yoshimitsu was able to die, died in his Yuan Fu Mitsui Temple.

However, the benefits of his descendants can decline, the crime of Yuan Yiguang's assassination of Yuan Yizhong was finally discovered, Yuan Yizhong's widow Hanoi Jiguo and other brothers went to heaven and earth to hunt down the descendants of Yuan Yiguang, and several of Yuan Yiguang's sons were cut off, several of them hid in Changlu, Kai's mountain nest did not dare to escape the catastrophe, and another was chased to North Korea for refuge, and later moved to the Central Plains with the chaos, changed his surname to Zhang, and has been passed down to modern times.

Then the Kawachi Genji Pillars family was transferred to the Gen Wei Yi clan, until the Kamakura Shogunate was extinct for three generations, and the Kawachi Genji clan had many clans competing for the Genji pillars, and no one could inherit the five generations of Gen Ryō Pillars, so there was only one who could trace it from the fourth generation onwards and be eligible to inherit the Genji Pillars, and there were only a few who were very high in terms of family personality and martial arts.

Let's look at the four sons of the three generations of pillars of the Yuan Yi family: the eldest son Yuan Yizong died early. The second son, Yuan Yiqin, was cut off in the head, and his youngest son Yuan Weiyi inherited the pillars of the five generations, and his lineage was the descendant of the Hanoi Genji, which was passed down to the generation of the grandson of Yuan Laichao.

Who is the third son, Gen Yoshiko? Right! He is the founder of the Ashikaga clan and the Nitta clan, and he was also in favor of Yuan Weiyi to be the pillar of the five generations, but as a result, Yuan Weiyi made a lot of trouble with his third uncle as soon as he came to power, and finally Yuan Yoshikuni returned to the countryside of Shimono Ashikaga in a fit of anger to cultivate his baby son, and changed the Miao word Ashikaga to his son, and there was also the Ashikaga family.

The fourth son, Yuan Yizhong, is the unlucky four generations of pillars who were killed, died too early, the eldest son Hanoi Zhuguo is only a few years old, even if the Yuan clan thinks that he should be a pillar, but no one dares to bet his fate on a little child, and later Hanoi Zhengguo did the pursuit and killing, and he never thought about competing for the pillars of the Genji.

Wait until the source of the tide is the heir of the Gen family, and then see who can be the pillar of the Genji family, then there is only the source of the lineage, because the source of the Yoshikoku is the third son of the Gen Yi family, and previously competed with the source Yoshimitsu for the ownership of the Changlu country, and was sued by the source Yoshimitsu to his father the Gen Yi family, so he lost the inheritance of the pillars.

Gen Yoshimitsu instructed the samurai to take Gen Yoshitsuna's son's sword to assassinate his nephew Gen Yoshitada, blame his innocent second brother Gen Yoshizuna, and cause the famous Gen Yoshitsuna's unjust incident, this heinous Genji scum has done everything is unreasonable, Gen Yoshimitsu's reputation is like a rat crossing the street and everyone shouts and beats, so Gen Yoshikuni, who previously competed with Gen Yoshimitsu for the dominance of Hitachi Province, also rehabilitated Shōyuki, and the Ashikaga family has the foundation to inherit the pillars of Genji in legal theory.

As for military exploits, Ashikaga Yoshikane, the grandson of Minamoto Yoshikuni, stood up for the first time to support Minamoto Yorishio to raise troops against the hegemony of the Heike family, and after the end of the Genhei War, the Ashikaga clan was also pointed out by Minamoto Yorishio as the Imperial Gate Leaf, becoming a powerful sect of the Genji descendants of Gongwei Hanoi, and in the context of the wanton slaughter of the same clan by the Minamoto Yorito, he also became the person with the highest personality in the Imperial Gate Leaf, and the legitimacy of nature can be guaranteed with this endorsement.

"In the last years of Kamakura, Kawachi Genji only had Ashikaga and Nitta compete for the pillars of Genji, relying on the inheritance rights of Gen Yoshikoku back then, and the pillars of Genji have nothing to do with you Silla Saburo from beginning to end! The evil history of murdering my Genji Pillar family is even more unreasonable, Takeda Nobuyoshi and Yori's fight for Genji Pillar is even more unreasonable, and now you are even more unreasonable against my shogunate! Kira Yoshitoki smiled contemptuously, full of merciless ridicule at the Takeda family, and he was familiar with the family history, so he naturally knew what status the Silla Saburo line had in the Kawachi Genji. (To be continued......)

PS: Silla Saburo Gen Yoshimitsu's evil is hard to write.