The autumn in August is cool, the summer in northern Oshu is cool and pleasant, and the Kitakamigawa River basin in Oshika-gun, Mutsu Oshino, is also known as the Ishinomaki Plain, and in later generations he has a famous new name, Sendai Plain, the so-called Sendai Plain is the Matsushima Hills that cross and divide into two alluvial plains, the southern part is called the Sennan Plain, and the northern part is called the Senkita Plain.

Ishinomaki Plains is an alluvial lowland formed by the flood platform where the Kitakami River and the Naruse River meet, and because of the characteristics of low wetlands, it has become a famous rice grain producing area in Mutsu Province, and because it is located on the largest coastline in the eastern part of Mutsu Province and has some inland climate, it is mainly Harirashi in winter when it is blown by the sea breeze in the south, but occasionally there are a few snowstorms from Dewa Province in the west to block the road.

Ishinomaki Hirano is the core territory of the Kasai clan, and Ishinomaki Castle in the lower reaches of the Kitakami River is the ancestral residence of the Kasai clan, located next to the mouth of the Kitakami River that flows into the Pacific Ocean, enjoying the warm and humid sea breeze all year round, and the largest and richest Ishinomaki Plains in Mutsu Province.

During the Kamakura period, the Kasai clan moved the castle from Terike Castle in the north of the Hirano to Ishinomaki Castle, which was closer to the coast and warmer, and the warm coast and the support of the large plains behind it made the Kasai clan the most powerful lord of the Michinoku kingdom for a time, and this good fortune was not until the Osaki clan joined Oshu to become his neighbor.

Today, the 300-year-old Ishinomaki Castle has been demolished, and a new city, the Oshu Castle Castle, has been built near the ruins of the Ishinomaki Castle, where the three great Shoguns and the shogun Ashikaga Yoshitoki are located, and this new city has also become the front base of the Kanto Ashikaga clan's expedition against Mutsu. The town guard palace was built according to the reduced formwork of the Edo Imperial Palace. It took more than three years from construction to completion. Ashikaga Yoshitoki led an army of 50,000 to stay in the newly built town guard for half a year.

The beautiful autumn leaves in the palace are dyed bright red, and the autumn leaves are quietly falling, indicating that late autumn is quietly coming, Ashikaga Yoshitoki sat in his room and looked at the fallen leaves in the courtyard, and sighed: "The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year, and the world has changed beyond recognition between the flowers blooming and falling." ”

"Since His Royal Highness ruled Kanto, the commotion in the world has become more and more amazing! This Yongroku is the manifestation of the turmoil of the samurai family in the eastern country. Hondoshi was still unsmiling, and as he grew older, he began to grow two majestic beards, and his eyes seemed to contain a rolling cold snap that was intimidating. It is said that the new staff are most afraid of making eye contact with him, as if every time they look at each other, they will be peeped into their true thoughts.

Hojo Tokimasa said: "The stronger His Royal Highness is the more powerful the samurai daimyo, the more restless the samurai daimyo in the world become, and His Royal Highness the Shogunate has issued edicts for many years to reprimand us for not being able to restrain the samurai, which has caused chaos in the Kanto region and the people's hearts are also a manifestation of this appearance. ”

Langgang Rongfang shook his head with a smile: "Hehe, there is no excuse for the crime that you want to add, they can say it if they want to, as long as Kanto is still tightly squeezed in the hands of His Royal Highness, no one can say anything irresponsible to Kanto." ”

"If they are in a hurry, let them be in a hurry. I've got a bunch of things to do, so why don't I care about their actions. Yoshishige Satake grinned and expressed dissatisfaction. In recent months, he has only played a few battles, and many wealthy clans have surrendered to the wind as soon as they see the Kwantung Army, and he is very unhappy that he cannot meet a decent opponent.

While Ashikaga Yoshitoki was chatting with a major minister, a group of young samurai gathered in another courtyard to sit and chat, including powerful warriors from Ueno such as Nobutasa Kohata, Shinano samurai such as Sanada Yukitaka's sister-in-law Sanada Yoshiyuki, and Kanto generals such as the Hojo clan.

"It is said that the Satomi clan personally opened the prelude to Eiroku's victory, but because his skills were too poor, he didn't last a month and was wiped out, and it was too stupid to try to challenge my Ashikaga family."

Sanada Yoshiyuki said: "The gun Daizen Masaki Tokishige died of illness, Katsuura Castle Masaki Toki, Manki Castle Toki Ryori, Toki Castle Sakai Jiyin, and Masaki Toshige's sister-in-law Masaki Kentoki rebelled one after another, and the Satomi clan rebelled and left their relatives for a long time, and it was a last resort to kill themselves before the destruction of Kururi Castle. ”

"Satomi Yoshihiro also pulled Masaki Shizhong in to cushion his back before he died, the death of this rebel may be predestined!" Nobutasa Kohata's speech drew a chorus of approval, and the loyalty, bravery, and selflessness advocated in the Ashikaga family were the most despised by the young samurai as traitors.

Many of the samurai of the Ashikaga clan had basically the same view of Satomi Yoshihiro and Masaki Tokitada, the former disobeying the edict of the Kanto Princes and gathering a crowd to rebel, which led to Eiroku's rebellion, and the latter repeatedly surrendering to the representative of the undisciplined samurai, and the death of both at the same time did not arouse the sympathy of the samurai.

The samurai sighed: "The destruction of the Satomi clan is just the beginning, and the big head is still dissatisfied with the people of the Kanto Kingdom of His Royal Highness, and the intermittent joint battles have not stopped in the past few years. ”

Since five years ago, when Satomi Yoshihiro refused to accept Ashikaga Yoshitoki's order to reduce the seal and raise troops to make a rebellion, the internal rebellion of the people of the Kanto Province and the people of Oshu and the people of Oshu broke out in a series of rebellions that shocked the world, and the entire Kanto region once again set off a wave of rebellion, and the angry Ashikaga Yoshitoki led a fleet to raid the Fangsu Peninsula and bombarded the thick Otemen of Sakan Castle with artillery, completing the first appearance of artillery in the Kanto region.

This Yongroku fight began in the fifth year of Eiroku and lasted intermittently until the tenth year of Eiroku, during which dozens of small battles were fought by tens of thousands of soldiers killed and wounded on both sides, and millions of innocent civilians were implicated.

"But the war in Austria has been very hard in the past few years! It's been a long time since I've been home. ”

"Yes! It's really hard to go down and go back, and come back and fight again! ”

The people of Mutsu are not convinced by the Kanto Ashikaga family, especially Date Terumune, whose relatives cover a large area of southern Oshu, and the Ashina clan, Watari clan, Kokubun clan, Stay-behind clan, Tamura clan, and Iwaki clan are all on the side of Date Terumune. The Shirakawa Yuki clan, the Nihonmatsuhata Yama clan, and the Nikaido clan remained neutral and played soy sauce.

The first battle of Oshu in the fifth year of Yonglu was very unsuccessful. In the entire southern part of Mutsu Province, only the Soma family listens to the greeting. It was very difficult for the Kwantung Ashikaga Army to invade Mutsu Province, and the Ashikaga Legion from afar was very unaccustomed to the climate of Mutsu, and many samurai were seriously unaccustomed to the water and soil as soon as they arrived in Mutsu, and the dilapidated roads and backward houses and water facilities caused infectious diseases in the army.

The dilemma of going out of the division was unfavorable, and the commander-in-chief Ashikaga Yoshitoki was forced to change his tactics, mainly to lure the snake out of the hole, combined with the strategy of luring the snake out of the hole, combined with the southern Michiku national lords, in an attempt to exchange time for strategic space, this method could not change the unfavorable dilemma of the Ashikaga army. With the onset of the rainy season, the number of sick people in the army increased, and finally forced the Ashikaga Legion's first crusade to end in retreat.

The hasty decision to send troops, the lack of logistical preparations, and the incomplete collection of intelligence, the Ashikaga Army, which is like the pride of the sky, reaped a bitter defeat with its own rash actions, for the proud samurai who have won a hundred battles, failure to achieve brilliant results is the biggest defeat, and failure to win is a loss or a big defeat.

This spirit of excellence is worth advocating, and limited pride is a sign of self-confidence, but the samurai of the Kanto Ashikaga clan are too proud. Many of them have never suffered defeat or setbacks, and at first glance they seem to be invincible in a hundred battles, as if they were the best in the world. In fact, I have not been hit by setbacks, and it is really difficult to say how strong I played in adversity.

Returned to Kanto to rest for a year to reflect on mistakes and learn lessons, and when Eiroku raised troops to invade Oshu again in the sixth year, but this time it was replaced by Satake Yoshishige as the vanguard general, and united Nasu Shiyin, Utsunomiya Hirotsuna, Koyama Takato, and Yuki Harumo's headquarters to enter Oshu, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki's main camp only took 20,000 troops to sit in Utsunomiya Castle to monitor the changes in Mutsunoku.

The appointment of indigenous daimyo as the vanguard achieved very good results, and the stalemate gradually opened up in this year's war, and the people of Mutsu and the Utsunomiya clan, the Nasu clan and the Satake clan were very deeply involved, for example, the Nasu clan was once the heir of the Shirakawa Yuki clan, and theoretically just like Satake Yoshiaki had the right to inherit the Kanto clan, he had the power to interfere with the Shirakawa family's decision.

The Shirakawa Yuki clan and the branch Komine clan are from the branch of the Shirakawa Yuki clan, and it is the branch of the Koyama clan, although the relationship between the two families has not been harmonious for many years, but the kinship between each other is always continuous, in the face of the clan family led the army to the Mutsu country to deal with themselves, the Shirakawa Yuki clan and the Komine clan were very flustered, for fear that the retainers of the spectrum would be easily bluffed by the clan family, and it would be terrible to exile themselves in a blink of an eye.

The current governor of the Iwaki clan, Iwaki Shigetaka, was originally also pro-Date Clan, and in the early years, because he had no heir, he was pro-Takashi from the adopted son of the Date family, but this Date Terumune's brother turned around and married the daughter of his uncle Satake Yoshiaki, and the relationship between the relatives and relatives brought the Iwaki family to the camp of the Satake clan.

When his brother-in-law Yoshishige Satake led the army to kill, Iwaki Kintaka almost didn't think about the fact that his younger brother was Date Terumune, and made a gorgeous turn under the tone of Satake Yoshishige, and became the leader of the Kanto Ashikaga family's invasion of Mutsu, and made a lot of achievements for the invasion of Oshu.

The appointment of a strong local samurai as the vanguard, combined with military coercion and other means to make the local indigenous samurai rebel and lead the way, achieved good results in the six years of the war in Eiroku, during which Ashikaga Yoshitoki once returned to Edo Castle to preside over government affairs, and Uesugi Kenshin served as the general of the military as the chief general of the army, which also showed great confidence in the Mutsu Ichichi crusade.

Sanada Yoshiyuki lamented: "The second Oshu crusade was much stronger than the first, and the minority of the people of Oshu was shaken by the majority of the rebellion, and made a great contribution to our army to break through the Mutsu barriers. ”

Hojo Shigeru agrees: "The sudden comeback of Date Kyoshoden greatly exceeded the expectations of samurai such as us, and the most influential daimyo in Tohoku since the Eishō era really lived up to its reputation, and our army hit another nail in front of the Date family, and the Date family was much more difficult than the Kanto samurai." ”

In the face of the unrelenting posture of the Ashikaga army, Date Terumune was of course unwilling to bow down to Ashikaga Yoshitoki, the wife and enemy, but with his personal prestige, he could not affect the decision of a group of uncles and uncles, and after thinking about it, he decided to admit it and ask his father Date Harumune to come out of the mountain. Coordinate the people of Nanmutsu against the menacing Ashikaga Army.

The majority of the people of Oshu are not particularly eager to rebel against the Kanto. Even if many of these samurai were deeply connected to the Date family, they were reluctant to put themselves in for their relatives. At this time, there was a special need for a noble samurai to serve as the general of the Oshu Ichiku, and to reunite the scattered people of Mutsu against the invading army with his personal prestige and charisma.

As soon as this proposal was mentioned, Date Harumune denied it, and instead persuaded Date Terumune to go to Maruyama Castle to invite his grandfather Date Minoru out, this old man is definitely the top existence in the Northeast in terms of prestige and influence, and in the early years, the southern and northern wars were all over the Yuo, and there were many interferences in Hitachi Province, Shimono Province and Echigo Country. In his hands, he expanded the Date family's kinship network several times, and successfully took away the hereditary Oshu Exploration from the Osaki clan.

There is the effect of the loud support of countless samurai with the words of Date Harune, as for Date Harumune's own reluctance to go out of the mountain and instead recommend his reclusive old father to come out, he also has his own considerations, Date Harumune's relationship network is no worse than his father's, and his wrist knowledge is not the slightest worse than his father's, but he is likely to make the soy sauce fight become a hostile force, after all, there are still many people in the Astronomical Rebellion who are as resolutely anti-Date as the Soma clan.

Date Harumune's vision is indeed extremely accurate, he knows better than anyone what kind of samurai his father is, smart and strong, especially good at winning people's hearts, the Oshu Astronomical Rebellion is so widespread and has such a big impact. Or is it because his father's influence is so strong that the daimyo of the entire Northeast have to stand in line and make a choice.

The process of inviting Date Minoru was not complicated, and the old man had been living in seclusion in Maruyama Castle near Soma County in Mutsu Province. There were only five villages of hermitage as a support, and the life was very hard, Date Terumune ran to Maruyama Castle with a number of gifts and a few of his uncles and began to cry on his knees, crying that the Date family was about to fall and become the enemy, and crying that the Date family was about to die, and no one would worship the ancestors of the Date family at four o'clock.

As the governor of the family, he attaches the most importance to the cultivation of culture and etiquette, and his words and deeds are always stared at by many pairs of eyes, just like exposing himself to the stage under the noses of the public, saying the wrong thing with the wrong expression or behaving frivolously and speaking presumptuously, etc., will attract dissatisfaction and criticism and even more serious political incidents.

Therefore, the more great nobles in ancient and modern times, the more rules there are, these rules are not set for the better of their lives, but to maintain a bright public image and the demeanor and proper manners of a nobleman.

He didn't want to cry and had to cry, crying loudly for no reason was a neurosis, Date Huizong was physically and mentally normal, it wasn't like there was a problem with his head, so he had nothing to cry in his throat, there must be other reasons, such as attracting Date Minoru's attention, gaining sympathy, mercy, or a little bit of pity, as long as it can attract Date Minoru's attention, this crying is enough.

This is Date Harune's trick to his son.,It's really hard to invite that grandfather out if you don't do it.,Since the Astronomical Rebellion was defeated by his son and forced to live in seclusion.,Date Minoru's whole person is like a pool of stagnant water without waves.,These years, whether it's the shock of Kanto or the new situation of Yuao, it can't arouse the slightest attention of this old man.,The time of Maruyama Castle seems to be forever frozen on the day when Date Minoru was defeated and retreated.,There is almost no sign of activity in the city.,It's as if it's dead.。

Date Huizong cried for three days in a row, every morning as soon as the sky dawned outside the city, and cried until the evening before returning to the nearby temple to rest, three days of hard work crying throat hoarse, two eyes swollen like peaches, pay a painful price finally made Date Minorune's dead heart glow a hint of recovery, he finally agreed to go out of the mountain to help Date the family tide over the difficulties.

"It's a surprise to us that Date Kyojoden has made a comeback, but my Kanto Ashikaga family still hasn't suffered a loss, because we have the general Echigo no Ryu in charge!" Yoshiyuki Sanada admires Kenshin Uesugi, the god of the Northern Army, and his legendary story is familiar to almost all the young generation of the Eastern Kingdom.

When the young army rose up to fight against the rebels to establish prestige, and then replaced the sick and foolish brother Harukei as the governor of the family under the support of the ministers, when Kamiraku entered Beijing and met Ashikaga Yoshi, who changed his life, the two legendary samurai met and formed a bond of marriage, and then took the legendary general who shook Kyoto down to Echigo, thus opening a magnificent epic legend.

There is no doubt about the brilliance of Ashikaga Yoshitoki, and it took only a few years of hard work to create the myth that Echigo Ishigao and 400,000 koku had skyrocketed to 2.8 million koku, and in the face of the hardship of the Sagami Hojo clan, the Kai Takeda clan and the people of the Ha-Austria country, they were still able to break through a series of staggering legendary achievements, and the invincible spirit of the brave men of the eastern country was like a chicken and a dog, all of which shrouded Ashikaga Yoshitoki with a layer of mysterious brilliance. (To be continued......)