Ben Tashi himself is very despised for those who can only be sycophants and slap horses, and Kira Yoshitoki has repeatedly stated that the Kira family should not be useless ministers, but when it is their turn, they always have to be treated differently, and there is no one who does not like to talk to the retainers of the genealogy, but some powerful daimyo's wisdom is enough to resist the negative effects of flattery.

Kira Yoshishi didn't care much about the impact of this kind of flattery, but he didn't like the habit of sycophancy, and especially asked the retainers to be as concise as possible in their words and use more short sentences, maintain the image of the samurai in their words and deeds, and use less flashy long sentences in Kyoto culture, Ben Tashi felt that he was still too rigid, and his wife complained several times that he didn't understand Fang Yuan, and he also deeply reflected on it a few times, and he also thought that there was something wrong with the retainers of the spectrum to flatter the governor, and the Akaga family was really strong, and His Royal Highness was really powerful, which was just the truth.

The so-called first hit of the whisker is the most important, if you can't catch up with the first hit, don't go to the second place, seeing that the opportunity is a little unhappy, but he still has a killer weapon to use, and he said with a roll of his eyes: "However, there is a mention of opposition in the Oda family in the intelligence, I am afraid that Oda Danzheng Shaozhong has a thorn in his heart, which will bring an unpredictable crisis to the support and strategic layout of His Royal Highness in the future!" ”

Nanoka said with a smile: "What Shi Zhengdian said is very true, His Majesty thinks that the future of Oda Danmasa Shaozhong's aggressive direction is very broad, the southeast Mikawa country is mired in strife and civil strife, the southwest Ise country is divided and powerless to resist, and the British lord of the northern Mino country, Saito Yoshiryu, will soon be a good opportunity, and the Oda family can either go three ways at the same time, or one road as the main one, one road as a supplement, and then one road to divide all the way to sit back and relax."

Now that we have joined forces with the Ashikaga family, it means that the situation in Mikawa can be stabilized, and the other two countries should soon achieve certain results if they are in a positive position, and it will be easier if the Lord gives strong support. Perhaps the Oda family can become a wonder soldier and muddy the stagnant waters of. ”

"Three Rivers will not settle down. According to the latest information, the elder brother's general, Tomiaga Tadamoto, has been killed in battle. Ji Liang Yoshitoki's eyes flashed with cold light, and he snorted coldly: "This is the person who boasted about both civil and military affairs that my brother boasted more than ten years ago, and he was defeated and died in the hands of Matsudaira Motoyasu, this kind of straw bag is simply disappointing!" ”

In fact, this description of Tominaga Tadayuan is a bit wronged him, his death is somewhat suspected of taking the blame for the lord, in fact, he himself is not very wrong, but his luck is not very good, before he was defeated and died in the battle of Fujiba Tsuki, he also fought a victory in the Semyeong local embankment, and won back a little face for the defeated lord's family.

It has been two years since the end of the Battle of Barrel Sasa. Since the defeat and death of Imagawa Yoshimoto, it is an indisputable fact that the Imagawa family has fallen into decline, not only losing a wise and resolute governor but also a large number of loyal and brave genealogy retainers.

The power of the Imagawa family then retreated into the Suruga country and could not be held, and the Imagawa clan really focused on dealing with the commotion of the people of the Enoe country, and the more distant Mikawa country was handed over to his own one of Kira Yoshiyasu to deal with it temporarily, and as soon as the main force of the Imagawa army withdrew, the defense of the Mikawa country was in a vacuum, and the originally stable Mikawa country fell into greater turmoil, which gave some small people the opportunity to jump out and fish in troubled waters, and the best of them was the ambitious Matsudaira Motoyasu.

This era coincided with the threshold period when the daimyo in various places were actively changing from guardian daimyo to Sengoku daimyos. For example, the Sagami, Hojo Shiyasu, Kai Takeda Shingen, and the late Suruga Imagawa Yoshimoto of the Eastern Martial Arts family have preliminarily completed the process of being replaced by the official genealogy of the country, and are forming a relatively complete set of national division laws. and a systematic fiscal and tax revenue system.

The Kinai samurai family such as Miyoshi Chokei and Rokkaku Yoshiken are also actively doing the same thing, but these two families are congenitally stunted, and the progress is not as fast as the Takeda family, which faces a strong lineage, and it takes ten or even twenty years for the slower daimyo to realize the importance of the Sengoku daimyo.

At this time, it happened to be the window period for the formation of the first Sengoku daimyos, and the powerful Akaga family, the overlord of Hokuriku Province, had basically completed the overall process of the Sengoku daimyo and established a system of domination of the flag genealogy with Echigo, Shinano, Ueno, Shinano, Dewa, and Kaga as the core.

The Imagawa family in Tokaido is much worse, originally Imagawa Yoshimoto has carried out this set of work to the final stage, spending nearly ten years to promote the Mikawa Province to be replaced by the official genealogy, basically completely swallowing the countrymen and lords outside the territory of Nishimikawa Kira Yoshitoki into the system of the Imagawa family, but with the sudden death of Imagawa Yoshimoto and the death of a large number of genealogy retainers who served as the mainstay, the implementation of the Sengoku Daimyo did not advance but retreated, and returned to the scene at the end of the era of protecting the daimyo when Imagawa Yoshimoto first ascended the throne.

Guardian daimyo has a major weakness compared to the more stable Sengoku Daimyo, that is, the guardian daimyo relies on only one or two territories, and the daimyo people who nominally obey themselves may far exceed the territory they actually control, so there will be a sixth-hall in the western country, and the exaggerated and unbelievable thing of Yin and Yang Ichi Taishou, including the newly rising Yasuki Maori family, is also taking the old path of traditional guardian daimyo.

The advantage of this kind of road is that it can reduce casualties, as well as unnecessary war attrition and losses, and the disadvantage is that the territory is just playing a trick of changing the king's banner at the head of the city, and the daimyo people who still have the right to autonomy can support or ignore or even oppose the military dispatch edict issued by the nominal lord, and the relationship between them is more similar to that of allies in a combination of geopolitical interests, rather than the relationship between the lord and his retainers in the orthodox sense.

The Echigo Kingdom before the arrival of Kira Yoshitoki was almost like this, and the lord of the country was in disobedience to Uesugi Terutoka, who was still very young at the time, and often appeared to urge the troops to send troops again and again but remained unmoved, and it was clear that he was listening to the tone and not listening to the announcement to stand on his own, and in the first five years of Uesugi Terutoka's ascension to the throne of the family governor, he often faced this kind of embarrassing situation in which the lord of the country gave orders and responded to a few, and he was more like the leader of the alliance elected by a samurai alliance called "Echigo Province", rather than the traditional Echigo guardian.

This was perfectly demonstrated in the repeated rebellions and civil wars in Echigo, and it was also a major factor in Uesugi Terutora's determination to inherit the Yamauchi Uesugi family's governorship. This kind of guardian daimyo has the military strategy skills of Uesugi Teruto. It doesn't matter if you can fight all the way and keep winning. After a long time, it can still accumulate into a lot, form a qualitative change, and improve the Warring States Daimyo.

But if you don't have Uesugi Teruto's ability, it will be much worse, Imagawa really only learned his father's domestic affairs level, the flowers of the greenhouse lack the most important political vision and skill, although his grandmother Imagawa Shouguini tried her best to help calm people's hearts, but an old woman over sixty years old has lived in seclusion for nearly twenty years, and she is a little powerless when she comes out of the mountain.

The most terrible thing for the guardian daimyo is that the dominance of the lord country is impacted, and the dependent people of the country are in serious contradictions and shakes, which involves the centralization of power, the core link in the process of the Sengoku daimyo. Guarding the daimyo and the people of the country is a simple contract of dependence, and the daimyo gives protection in exchange for the allegiance of the people, which is not a small burden to carry with the genealogy of the daimyo of the Warring States Daimyo who are obliged to serve the lord's family, and the similarity is that loyalty needs to be maintained by a reward, but the former requires a much higher reward than the latter.

The Imagawa family regressed from the Sengoku Daimyo to the guardian Daimyo, and faced a crisis of uncontrollability because of the serious lack of centralization of the Mikawa Kingdom, which is like each daimyo always has a core ruling country, and then establishes the corresponding family hegemony, such as the Zhou Defense Ouchi clan, which once crisscrossed Kyushu for hundreds of years, and its core ruling countries are the Zhou Defense Kingdom and the Nagato Kingdom. The other countries that injected Chikuzen, Iwami, Yasui, and Bunzen were all sub-core dominants.

The core ruling kingdom was the core area where the family lived for generations, such as the Shimazu clan in Satsuma, the Niko clan in Izumo, the Mori clan in Yasui, the Takeda clan in Kai, the Hojo clan in Sagami Izu, the Imagawa clan in Suruga, and the Kamikawa clan in Echigo. Have your own core dominating territory to ensure the stability of the foundation, and then carry out the deployment and convergence of expansion.

Newly conquered territories usually take a long time to build up hearts and prestige, and this process may take one or two generations to manage, such as the Hojo family spent three generations running Izu Sagami and Sagami into an iron bucket formation, like a hedgehog in front of the head of the Kanto samurai family to make them dare not act rashly.

The traditional territory is definitely the safest, and the newly conquered territory requires more time and patience in comparison, and it is still a bit hasty for Imagawa Yoshimoto to digest Mikawa in only ten years, if you give Imagawa Yoshimoto another ten years, it may be a different scene when the Imagawa clan really grows up.

Unfortunately, history does not assume that the defeat of the Imagawa family occurred right in front of him, and when the entire Imagawa army collapsed and fled back to Suruga, the shadow that had been squeezing in the hearts of the people of Mikawa and Toe Province suddenly dissipated, and the loss of lordship's moderation would swarm from all directions, just like the Toichi in Kyoto.

Some scheming lords of the Mikawa people will take the opportunity to fall into the well, and unite with the old underground people of the village to play the slogan of expelling Imagawa by taking care of their own territory, and forcibly expelling the last trace of influence of the Imagawa family, the leader of which is Matsudaira Motoyasu of Okazaki Castle, a "good old man" with a simple appearance and an amiable temperament, suddenly pulled out a knife and stabbed the Imagawa family, which caught many generations of the Imagawa family off guard.

Thinking that Matsudaira Motoyasu refused the summons of the Imagawa clan in the name of avenging his father-in-law, and insisted on killing Oda Nobunaga in order to return to Sunfu with peace of mind, many genealogy retainers of Sunfu also sang praises for this, saying that Matsudaira Motoyasu was the consolidated minister of the Imagawa family in the next thirty years and must be of great use, and the Imagawa clan Shinya once regarded Matsudaira Motoyasu as the future right-hand man as a confidant.

As a result, the afterglow of the praise voice has not yet dissipated, Matsudaira Motoyasu raised the anti-flag to crusade against the "no way" Imagawa family, just like being slapped the face of the Imagawa family, he didn't know what attitude to use to express the anger and incomprehension in his heart, and the Imagawa family, who had no choice but to be completely dispersed, was really powerless for Mikawa Country. In the form of a decree, he ordered the people of Mikawa Province loyal to the Imagawa family to unite under the banner of Kira Yoshiyasu and resolutely confront Matsudaira Motoyasu, a treacherous and shameless man.

It's just that he still didn't expect Matsudaira Motoyasu's thick blackness, he actually spread Imagawa Yoshimoto's mediocrity in Mikawa Province one step in advance, and forced tens of thousands of troops to work tirelessly in Kamiraku on the grounds of personal interests and hobbies, Imagawa Shin is described as a gentleman who is obsessed with Kyoto culture, and the decline of the Imagawa family is directly related to the perverse behavior of the two generations of family governors, and the Imagawa clan was already lost before he made a move, and the only remaining reputation of Mikawa Country was lost.

At the end of the second year of Yonglu. Matsudaira Motoyasu led 2,000 troops to raid Mikawa Kira. Easily defeated the 1,600 troops of Kira Yoshiyasu's headquarters. As the governor of the Mikawa Kira family, Kira Yoshiyasu was forced to flee to Saijo Castle to seek refuge, and asked Okochi Nobutada for support in dealing with the arrogant Matsudaira Motoyasu.

Okochi Nobutaza felt that Kira Yoshiyasu was the governor of Saijo Castle, so he readily gave the support of the 800 army and was assisted by the general Yamaoka Yaonao, while Kira Yoshiyasu followed the advice of the family elder Tominaga Tadamoto and divided the 500 army led by Tominaga Tadamoto to attack Ueno Castle guarded by the old Sakai Tadasho of the Matsudaira family tree.

Matsudaira Motoyasu immediately ordered Matsudaira Yoshikashi, the governor of the Matsudaira clan, who was divided into Fukazo, to lead an army to rescue Ueno Castle, and Matsudaira Yoshikage felt that Mikawa Yoshira's strength was so bad that he didn't need to personally lead the army to help. He ordered his sister-in-law Matsudaira Yasuada to lead his army to rush to the aid of Ueno Castle, and just when Matsudaira Yoshikage was sitting in Fukagou Castle and holding his troops still, he suddenly received information that the Kira army raided Nakajima Castle between Fukatsu Castle and Ueno Castle.

Matsudaira Yoshiki couldn't tolerate such a blatant division plot of the Kira family, and immediately ordered more than 50 remaining retainers and samurai left in the city to kill the Kira army that attacked the attacker, and I have to say that the Matsudaira family in the deep ditch was very bold, and even used more than 50 horsemen to break the 700 troops led by Kira Yoshiyasu to pieces, throw away their armor and flee the road.

Seeing that a big victory in his hand was about to be won, Matsudaira Yoshiki almost didn't think about it and led the more than 50 horsemen along the road to cover the past, and he chased and fled for nearly half an hour to come to the front of Zenmei Causeway, at this time, Tominaga Tadamoto, who was supposed to attack Ueno Castle, suddenly emerged from an unknown corner, and the defeated Kira Yoshian army surrounded Matsudaira Yoshikei. In an instant, a seemingly unsuspenseful pursuit battle turned into a one-sided slaughter,

All 34 people from Matsudaira and a genealogy were killed. The Matsudaira family was hit hard and also became the prestige of Fuyong Tadamoto, and the soy sauce Yamanao Yamanao only made a posture to block the attack in the direction of Ueno Castle, forcing the lord of Ueno Castle, Sakai Tadasan, not to dare to act rashly, and made a lot of contributions to this war, and then the Kira family played a triumphant song all the way, successfully captured Nakajima Castle and the newly lost Tojo Castle, and then comfortably spent a stable winter in Tojo Castle.

But Kira Yoshiyasu didn't think that at this time, Matsudaira Motoyasu was like a wolf who had been injured, staring at Tojo Castle's every move, he didn't care about Okochi Nobusada's persuasion of the embankment, and thought that this battle was enough to suppress the arrogance of the Matsudaira family, and he, the family governor, could also smoothly sit in the position of the lord of Mikawa and unite with the Imagawa clan to deal with the Owari Oda family.

However, the world is unpredictable, and at the beginning of March this year, Matsudaira Motoyasu ordered his fellow clansmen Matsudaira Tadaji to lead 3,000 Matsudaira troops to attack Tojo Castle again, with Honda Hirotaka himself as the vanguard, and Matsudaira Koji as the rear commander to Tojo Castle.

Before the battle, the Matsudaira army made a special ceremony, Honda Hirotaka took out a carcass pill on the belt with seven big characters written on the top "Tominaga Companion Goro Tadayuan", and then threw the carcass high into the air, and was cut into two pieces by Hiraiwa Yuan's heavy eyes and quick hand, Honda Hiroshi said with great joy: "This is a good omen!" Charity, my Matsudaira Army, will definitely take the life of Tominaga Goro Tadamoto! ”

At this time, Kira Yoshiyasu in Tojo Castle did not expect that the Matsudaira family would dare to send troops, and in a hurry, Tominaga Tadashi led the hastily gathered 1,500 troops to meet the battle, and he sent an envoy to contact Okochi Nobutada of Saijo Castle to call for support.

Tominaga Tadashimoto's original intention was not to respond to the battle at this time, he knew that the Matsudaira family's eccentricity was particularly vindictive, and it was really a fool's act to use his inferior forces to fight against a military force that was twice his own, but sometimes he couldn't communicate patiently with Kira Yoshiyasu, who didn't understand military strategy, especially the family governor who was in chaos couldn't listen to anything, and he had only one way to choose to send troops.

The 1,500 troops immediately formed a formation according to the castle when they walked out of Tojo Castle, and they were ready to meet the battle at any time, and it was obvious that Tominaga Tadamoto had made up his mind to wait for reinforcements from Saijo City, which could make Honda Takashi very worried, and immediately took turns to provoke Okubo Daihachiro and Torii Hanrokuro before going into battle, but Tominaga Tadamoto still gritted his teeth and insisted.

After a stalemate for half an hour, Kira Yoshiyasu's envoy in the city came for the third time to urge him to quickly send troops to drive away the Matsudaira army, and the morale of the Kira army also declined with the provocation of a long time to avoid the battle, Tominaga Tadamoto knew that he would not have a good result if he dragged on like this, so he immediately ordered the whole army to attack to meet the Matsudaira army.

Honda Takashi saw that Tominaga Tadashi suddenly changed his strategy of sticking to it, and changed it to a completely disadvantaged attack of the whole army, and immediately decided to make a posture of feigning invincibility and retreating backwards, while Okubo Daihachiro and Torii Hanrokuro were like two wandering gods, their mouths were like a broken gong to scold the Tominaga family from top to bottom, and by the way, he insulted the governor of the Mikawa Kira family, Kira Yoshiyasu, as a straw bag waste, constantly provoking the anger of the Kira army. (To be continued......)