Many cultural people make a living by commenting on the miscellaneous things in the world, and some people rely on a mouth to become a guest of wealthy businessmen, regardless of whether it is military and political or cultural customs, and even some gossip on the streets and alleys can be used to get through, and many people's gossip comes out of these people's mouths.

For example, ten years ago, Kira Yoshishi slashed ten rivers and survived, and eight years ago, Kira Yoshishi won more with less in the Battle of Katsuragawa, and fought against the Kinai Hero Miyoshi Chokei who did not dare to touch Kyoto for seven years, and for example, nearly 10,000 people were killed and wounded in the bloody battle of Luozhong in 100 days, and a large area of Shikiya in the Ukyo area was burned down, and the tragedy of the war was comparable to the Onin Rebellion nearly 100 years ago, and even the intensity of the local war was even more than that.

These are all explosive topics, once so hot that everyone in Kyoto from the emperor to the common people talk about every day, in the mouths of these cultural people through layers of processing into epics that can be sung and cried, just like the Taira Tsumori in "The Tale of the Heike Family", not only an explosive topic to talk about, but also a famous story that has been passed down through the ages.

And this time the battle of Shidake is also an eye-catching gimmick, in the Ki civil war, the invincible Kira army finally encountered a thorn, the Kira family's 19,000 army under the leadership of Yamamoto Tokiyuki and Nakajo Tokihide, the 12,000 army that attacked Asai Nagamasa at night was unexpectedly attacked, which is enough to prove that this Asai army and his leading generals are a great genius.

Judging from the battle losses, it was the great advantage of the Kira army, but it could not hide the embarrassing situation that the superior forces of the Kira army still did not win the battle against the inferior forces. That's definitely more than 108,000 miles. Under the propaganda of well-intentioned people, some people took out the battle between Los Angeles and China not long ago. Comparing Tokihide Nakajo and Yoshitoki Kira, the gap is still very obvious.

The public opinion in Kinai will not exhaustively investigate the many inside stories of this war, and no one cares about how Nakajo Tokihide Ming is far away in Tango Maizuru Port, and how he used to kill Ika Prefecture in Omi, it is easy to draw a straight line from the map, but there are almost no decent roads to go on this straight line, and it is all dangerous routes over mountains and mountains.

This is not a one-man hiking expedition, and it is almost impossible to achieve the speed and safety of a march of 3,000 people. There are two major roads that can be detoured, one is from Maizuru Port south to Kyoto through Tango Street, and then from Kyoto to Sakamoto and then north to Ika-gun.

The other is from Maizuru Port, through the streets of Wakasa into Echizen Tsuruga Port, and then south into Ika-gun in Omi Province, this road is the closest and the road is also very safe, and it can be completed in less than five days on a normal journey, but will the Wakasa Takeda clan let these 3,000 troops swagger through? Will the hostile Echizen Asakura clan allow these forces to pass through the territory? It's a question worth pondering.

It was not easy for Nakajo Shixiu to do this, and no one understood his difficulties, but looked down on his talent all the way. This made many of the samurai of the Kira clan indignant at this, and their 3,000 troops walked all the way over the mountains and mountains for eight days. If the dry food is not enough to eat, they hunt and pick fruits to make do with the past, and how many hardships there are in the eight days when they don't leave their clothes and armor, and how many people's feet are worn out and people are paralyzed after going through hardships.

In fact, this Kira army felt very tired from top to bottom, and the level of ten percent was only half of it at most, it was nothing more than a brave fight when the night raid battle just started, and the longer the battle dragged on, the more the disadvantages were exposed, and the weakness of lack of physical strength and weak offensive strength became more and more prominent in the back.

How can you fight without strength? How to fight a war when you are hungry? How can you fight with swollen feet like steamed buns? If you are tired, you can fall asleep, so how can you fight? If the situation of the two sides is reversed, Asai Nagamasa can take 3,000 people to turn over and cross the mountain in eight days, and no one is left behind, even if he is more powerful, it is simply a fool's dream to continue fighting.

Of course, Asai Nagamasa didn't know the inside story of this, but it didn't prevent him from continuing to enjoy the praise of the retainers and the people of the country after losing the war, and he always maintained a perfect smile showing eight teeth at the end of the day, and felt that his whole face seemed to be stiff and necrotic, and he sat in Kotani Castle to welcome waves of guests to visit and praise, and he didn't know what was going on at all.

He didn't understand the reason why he could still be praised for defeating the battle, as a general with extraordinary military strategy and excellent judgment, he could feel that the elite of the Kira family was very powerful, if it weren't for the inexplicable attenuation of battle spirit, it was really hard to say whether he could survive it, the battle of Zhiyue was a humiliating fiasco for him, and the heavy loss of grain and grass made him realize the absolute gap, not only the difference in military strategy, but also the difference between the advantages and disadvantages of military quality.

The whole world is talking about how powerful the Kamiki Ashikaga family is, and the young and vigorous Asai Nagamasa feels that this is not a problem, Kira Yoshitoki is just a young man with a higher background and better luck than him, and he may have outstanding talents in internal affairs and culture, but it is absolutely impossible to be better than him in terms of military strategy, at most he is almost as good as him, and the confident teenager thinks so.

I really fought to know that this is still far away, the losses are so heavy that even the camp of the Mt. Eido can't be set up, on the morning of the end of the Battle of Mt. Eidake, he retreated to Kotani Castle with a group of remnants of the defeated generals, although he did not verbally admit defeat and beg for mercy, but from the form it still shows that he silently admitted that he really couldn't beat the Kira army, so he retreated in defeat.

At the same time, he also changed his direction to admit that Ika-gun couldn't hold the plan to give up for the time being, he would not be so stupid as to continue to cruise around the neighborhood after just suffering a defeat, and look for a chance to defeat Yamamoto Tokiyuki, without grain and grass, there is no capital to consume, and even with Omi's wealth, it is impossible to give him a large sum of grain and grass for him to continue to squander in a meaningless confrontation.

Omi is an important producer of rice, and spring wheat or barley is not grown as the main grain, so there is basically no such thing as summer harvest. Therefore, before the autumn harvest, everyone is eating and storing grain. The stone height under the nominal control of the Asai family is more than 300,000 stones. In fact, the Asai family's direct leader Shi Gao is only seventy or eighty thousand stones, and the two fires on the mountain and under the mountain have burned a total of tens of thousands of stones of stored grain, which is enough for Asai Nagamasa and a group of geneabolic people to suffer for a few months, where is there still grain and grass to continue to use to confront.

There is another reason for not daring to confront each other, although Nakajo Tokihide's surprise attack army lost six or seven hundred people and was forced to retreat, but Yamamoto Tokiyuki's 16,000 army only lost less than three hundred people. It poses a huge threat to the 5,000 troops under the mountain.

Although 16,000 people could not be fully deployed in the large camp, and they could not exert their absolute superiority in numbers, but the combination of iron cannons, bows and arrows, and spear cavalry, it was hard to play a lot of unseen tactical cooperation, and the fighting Isono Yuanchang had no power to fight back, but could only be beaten passively but could not fight back, and every time Isono Yuanchang felt that he had to launch a counterattack, a round of iron cannon salvo could always extinguish his will to resist.

As if he could see through his thoughts, Yamamoto Tokiyuki always pulled Isono's nose and walked, the cavalry did not dare to move the spear array and was easily broken, and the salvo of the archers was blocked by the shield. Occasionally, a few unlucky eggs are shot by stray arrows and hit the jackpot, and Yamamoto seems to be dominating the rhythm of this war. The unhurried little bit of pressure on the range of activities of the Asai Army made Isono Shomasa both aggrieved and helpless, and could only watch as the army was compressed into the corner of the camp and surrounded by groups.

The sentence that had the greatest impact on Asai Nagamasa was the sentence that Isono said at the post-war evaluation meeting held in Kotani Castle: "...... I don't know how many times stronger than Gamo Dingxiu in the battle of Qino Ryota, at that moment, I Yuanchang deeply felt a sense of powerlessness, for the helplessness of the generals who could not control the military situation, the helplessness of the samurai who could not exert their martial arts, and the helplessness of being pressed and beaten after all methods were exhausted! ”

Another son-in-law of Iguchi Nobuyoto, Asai Nagamasa's uncle, Asho Awaji Mori Sadashi, concluded: "If it weren't for Yamamoto Tokiyuki's unwillingness to use the appointment to fill in a war of annihilation, I am afraid that not only Isono Tanba Mamoru will not be spared, but even the lord will have a chance to return to Kotani Castle safely." ”

Yamamoto Tokiyuki's retreat at the critical moment gave the Asai army a chance to retreat, and as soon as the battle was over, he decisively abandoned everything that was difficult to carry, and only took away a small part of the grain and grass that was not burned, and took the small pack of baggage to retreat to Kotani Castle desperately, and did not forget to order the people in the county to raise their vigilance along the way, and not to slack off in the slightest.

There are also many opinions within the Asai retainers, such as admiring Asai Nagamasa's talents or fearing the Kami-might of the Asai family, and the most mainstream and accepted by most of the Genji people is that the Kira family did not have the ambition to completely annex Omi Province.

In other words, Yamamoto Tokiyuki did not plan to fight in the northern Omi, there is a strong enemy Asakura Yoshikei in the north, and there is a more powerful enemy Miyoshi Chokei in the southwest, neither of which is a good opponent, and the difficulty of its confrontation is far higher than that of Asai Nagamasa, who is bullying or a kitten child.

Even if it takes a lot of thought to fight against the two armies alone, not to mention that the army is caught in the flames of the war in Kita-Omi and faces the attack of the north and south at any time, the Kinai Triple Alliance is not just as simple as a look, the daimyo of the three families marry each other to form a temporary stable alliance, and it is ironclad to fight one or two.

And Sakamoto Town in Kinai is the foundation and life gate of the Kira family, as long as there is a problem with this cover door, it means that the Kinai power of the Kira family has completely collapsed, Sakamoto's fragility is like a flower in a greenhouse, not to mention how much damage the invasion of thunder and rain will cause to it, that is, ordinary wind and grass will cause many adverse effects, and what a free commercial city is most afraid of is the threat of war, even if this threat is still far away.

The 16,000 troops brought out by Yamamoto Shixing, equivalent to eighty percent of the armed forces in Sakamoto Town, were taken out by him, and the defense force left in Sakamoto was only 4,000 soldiers and the concentric police composed of disabled soldiers and ronin, although these paramilitary organizations also have a number of thousands of people, but their combat effectiveness is almost the difference between the reserve and the ace army.

Even if he is as strong as Yamamoto Shixing, this general must be frightened, and winning the war is not his only pursuit. To win a war, you must try to minimize your losses in order to be qualified. Otherwise, even if you win a war, annihilate the Asai army. He lost 3,000 people, his vitality was greatly damaged, and he still failed to face the attack of Asakura and Miyoshi.

This requirement is simply higher than Ibukiyama, almost no one can do perfection under such a big pressure, Yamamoto Tokiyuki can only try his best to keep his vitality from the premise of pursuing more victories, in this process he has to weigh whether the pay and the get can be proportional, considering that most of the Asai family's grain and grass has been burned is basically unprofitable, and it is meaningless to continue to consume.

Asai Nagamasa is in the military situation, even if he tries his best to capture or kill, he can't get more benefits, and he can't get more prisoners in exchange for ransom, and he can't travel long distances to Sado Island to mine. As a result, Asai Nagamasa put Nakajo Tokihide, and Yamamoto Tokiyuki put Asai Nagamasa's comical move, which seems to be a kind of echoing action, which is also interpreted by many samurai in Kinai as a tacit understanding in war.

In fact, there is really no tacit understanding, or the only thing that can be called a tacit understanding is the tacit understanding that wants each other to die immediately.

For Asai Nagamasa, this war in Kita-Omi Ika Prefecture has ended here, and Yamamoto Tokiyuki has no intention of going south to set foot in the swamp, and he is unable to recover the revenge of the lost half-county territory, for Asai Nagamasa, this Kira family is too strong. There is really no territory that he snatched back, and it is better to bully the soft persimmon Hexagonal Yixian than to have this pursuit of the mind, which makes people feel more relaxed and happy.

For Tokiyuki Yamamoto. He also had an important task to complete, which was to burn down the Seki in Tsuruga Prefecture, and without Echigo's cooperation, it would be too difficult to carry out this task alone, so big that it was almost impossible to complete it independently with the strength of the Omi Territory, but now it had entered a critical moment, and the Kira family wanted to win the trust of the merchants of the world.

Two of the three customs offices have been burned, and the burning of the last one is enough to prove the Kira family's determination to protect commerce, even in the face of the joint efforts of the three powerful men in Kinai, they dare to fight hard, which will greatly boost the morale of the merchants in the Kira domain, and at the same time can take this opportunity to establish a good business image, and even take the opportunity to push Sakamoto into the ranks of the world's most popular big cities.

Burning down this last pass can also greatly deal a blow to the arrogance of the Kinai Triple Alliance, making them realize that the alliance of the three families still can't suppress the Kira family's determination to protect their own interests, and the next time they consider using unfavorable means and schemes against the Kira family, they need to carefully weigh their own catties and whether they can withstand the Kira family's resolute counterattack and retaliation.

This is the narrow road to meet the brave wins, the brave step further on the glorious road with a bright future, the cowardly take a step back and fall into the bottomless abyss of no return, giving Yamamoto Shiyuki a very small choice, this important task is also he took the initiative to ask to go to Sakamoto to sit in the town has been figured out.

Not long after the end of the Battle of Shidake, he began to build several strong fortresses in Shidake Mountain, Dayan Mountain and other places, namely Shiyue Mountain, Dayan Mountain, Tangami Mountain, Sakaguchi, Iwasaki Mountain, Shenmei Mountain, and Tangmu Mountain, which continued from the south of Yuwu Lake to the north of Yuwu Lake, forming a semi-encirclement around Yuwu Lake.

The mountain is easy to monitor the water and land movements of the two major lakes on both sides of the mountain, and this mountain echoes the Oiwa Mountain, which can ensure that this mountain will not fall into the embarrassing situation of being besieged alone, and become an important barrier against the interference and invasion of the Asai family.

After building these mountains, he ordered the seven heads of Takashima who performed well this time to garrison these seven large mountains, and these seven families have basically given up their attempts at independence and self-government after years of co-optation, and have fully integrated into the political system of the Uesuyamaga family.

Just when the Seven Mountains were in use, the internal strife and turmoil within the Asakura family finally broke out completely, and the huge turmoil in the Asakura family directly affected the stability of Echizen Province.

The unrest began at the beginning of July at the end of summer, when Asakura Yoshikei made the decision to convene a conference in the first month of the third year of Eiroku, but the conference was scheduled to be held in April, but due to the diplomatic activities of the Triple Alliance in Kinai, it was delayed and postponed at the end of summer.

The so-called dog chasing is the custom of releasing the raised fierce dogs, and then having the samurai shoot the fierce dogs, which has gradually become popular since the Kamakura period. The gentle and frugal literary archery of the Heian period was changed to the martial arts that demonstrated martial bravery. The Kamakura shogunate used bow horses to train samurai morality. Vigorously hold riding and archery activities such as flowing horses, hanging hats and shooting, chasing dogs and shooting objects, and send one, two, and three places to give glory and seal.

Originally intended to prepare for war and train to boost the morale of the samurai, with the prevalence of Kyoto culture in the Muromachi period, the illusion of a prosperous era full of singing and dancing also made these archery and equestrian skills from traditional exercise skills, enhance the body, into pure ceremonial social activities, and also made the world's major archery and horse masters, in Kinai, Kyoto Ogasawara clan, Wakasa Takeda clan is the most famous.

Echizen Province was the closest frontier province to the region, and in the Heian period it was one of the best places for the minister to choose a downward direction away from Kinai. Murasaki Shikibu, who created "The Tale of Genji", lived with his father in Echizen Province for a long time, and in general, Echizen Province was deeply influenced by the Kinai cultural circle, and the popular ones in Kyoto can be found in Echizen Province, and dog chasing things is naturally rare.

After all, the curtain is safer than the dangerous dense forest, and the fierce dog is better to shoot in a small field than the prey running back and forth.

On July 6, Echizen Kuni-gun, Sakai County, Okuhama, the dog chasing event was held in this way. Because the big kiln is also called Sanrihama, it is also called Sanrihama dog chasing. This conference was regarded by Asakura Yoshikei as an excellent platform to show off the strength of the Asakura family, so he ordered the elders of the family to work hard to organize an ordinary ceremonial event into a top-level event attended by more than 10,000 people.

Asakura Yoshikei left Ichijo Valley Castle on July 4 for Sakai County in the north, and the next day he came to Itozaki Temple to pay homage to the gods and Buddhas and pray for the prosperity of the Asakura family.

The samurai were all dressed in hunting costumes and hats, and the family crests of each family were printed on the tunics, the left shoulder was draped with a leather archer and the right hand was tied with a bowstring, and the saddle was a gold-inlaid chakra.

Standing in front of the hall, more than 100 people stood in two columns on the left and right, and the hall was surrounded by maids with small surnames, even the family members of Asakura Yoshikage were also among them, followed by 30 people holding gold silk cakes and drinking with honey to serve in front, and the samurai around His Royal Highness were equipped with white swords, followed by samurai using spears with silver and gold shells.

These 500 people were responsible for the safety of Asakura Yoshikei as the police guards, and Asakura Jiro Saemon Keishao, Asakura and Shiakeitomo served as the leaders of the police guards, and their protection was tightly knit and difficult to get close to, and the dog chase was not a short-term event, but a three-day carnival, attended by retainers from all over Echizen Province, as well as ministers, cultural people, and high monks invited from Kyoto, as well as envoys from the allies of the Miyoshi family and the Asai family.

During this period, not only did they watch several dog chase competitions, but they also held dinner parties at noon and evening to entertain the guests, and from the beginning of the tournament everything developed in an orderly direction, with Mahama Kuro Hyobei Yoshitsugi, Fukugo Saburo Uemon Yoshikiyo, Horitaira Uemon Yoshishige, and Yamazaki Shichiro Saemon Yoshinobu also showing their hands on the field, and then the samurai such as Uzumi, Sumi, Sakurai, Saito, and Uta couldn't help but use their skills to perform their archery skills.

Because there are more and more participants in dog chasing, from the decline of professionalism to the entertainment activities in which the whole people participate, and then they simply replaced the fierce dogs that were shot out with pheasants and hares for the samurai to shoot at will, including Asakura Yoshikage's close attendant samurai also came on the field to show their skills, such an interesting game made Asakura Yoshikei addicted, and called his retainers to try their skills.

This attracted the flag of the guard, and while the flag was distracted, a group of people who came to meet Asakura Yoshikage came to meet the countrymen, who were said to be from Echizen Ohno County, and the leading national samurai were indeed familiar faces known to the Asakura samurai, and several flag samurai were only allowed to pass after a little interrogation.

Asakura Yoshikage didn't care at all whether the people in this Ono County were called Miyake or Mikami, but just accepted some rural products and furs and other things offered by the countrymen, and then casually took some silk and satin with a few perfunctory words, and still laughed with the lady Xiao Prime Minister and Akuhime beside him.

At this juncture, suddenly a few samurai popped out of the people of His Highness's worship, took out a short iron cannon and shouted: "There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south!" ”

Suddenly the light and fire burst into the smoke of gunpowder, and the lead bullets that burst out of the iron cannon went straight towards the noble samurai in front of the hall, I have to say that Asakura Yoshikage's luck was quite good, and the moment he saw several people take out the iron cannon and shout the Buddha's name, a spirit woke up, and immediately overturned the meal on the case, and escaped by hiding under the case.

As soon as the samurai who carried out the assassination couldn't find Asakura Yoshikage, he immediately aimed at Asakura Yoshikage's two ladies, and the little prime minister was stunned by a few iron cannons pointed at the key care, and a few gunshots knocked her into the bottom of a sieve, and a face like a flower and jade happened to be hit by a shot beyond recognition, and Akuhime was a secondary target after Asakura Yoshikei dodged, and unfortunately he was hit by a few shots.

In the next moment, the maids screamed and fled in all directions, and the little surname also subconsciously rushed to the front of the hall and used his immature body to build a flesh and blood wall for Asakura Yoshikage, and the flag warrior of the Asakura family finally reacted, drew his sword and yelled "Wow Ya Ya" rushed over, and a chaotic knife looked at the people of this line of countrymen, and even the leading people of Ono County were not spared.

At the same time, commotion broke out in several places inside and outside the curtain, and several people who had been in ambush for a long time attacked the samurai of the Asakura family at the same time, and the killing of Fukuoka Yoshiya, a member of the Sokashika, plunged the entire venue into chaos, and Asakura Yoshikei hurriedly fled from Sanrihama under the escort of the Samurai of Hachimoto, and the garrison defenders who arrived quickly suppressed the riot.

A few days later, in the castle of Ichijo Valley, Asakura Yoshikage experienced a few days of crazy venting, smashing everything he could see in front of him, whether it was a cherished tea set or a beautiful Ming vase, several maids and small surnames who accidentally made mistakes were executed, and the furious Asakura Yoshikage exuded a breath that people and animals did not dare to approach.

After only a few days of hard work, Asakura Yoshikage's whole person became a different look, the whitewashed thrush was thrown aside, his hair was scattered and untied, his eyes were swollen like two peaches, his face was dull, his cheeks were swollen and decadent like a waste, and he did not have the aristocratic demeanor of pampering a few days ago. (To be continued......)