The townspeople of Kyoto erected a grave for the public who died in battle, such as Odate Takanobu, and placed flowers, fruits, cakes and other tributes to pray for the deceased, and from then on, June 28 became a memorial day to commemorate the samurai of the shogunate who died defending Kyoto.

In fact, Miyoshi Chokei himself respects these samurai who died in battle, no matter what era is worthy of respect for the warriors who died for the festival, it is precisely because of the lack of faith of Miyoshi Chokei that he will never be able to do these heroic deeds of throwing his head and spilling blood for the shogunate, and can only silently pray for the dead, hoping that these people will be able to get out of the sea of hell and live in Elysium in the future.

Along with the Miyoshi family, there was also a messenger of the Miyoshi family, Miyoshi Nagaitsu, he sent a handwritten letter signed by Miyoshi Nagakei, in which Miyoshi Nagakei advised the shogunate and the shogunate not to make unnecessary resistance, which would only increase casualties and ruin the prosperity of Kyoto for thousands of years, as a minister of the shogunate, he should contribute to the foundation of the shogunate, and hoped that the shogunate could understand his good intentions.

When Ashikaga Yoshiteru saw this handwritten letter, he really wanted to strangle this arrogant Miyoshi Nagakei with his own hands, and dared to say such brazen words in front of him, the shogunate.

As the official of the shogunate, how could he accept such shameless words, turned his face on the spot and threw the letter on the ground, pointed at Miyoshi Changyi and scolded: "What a good intention, a lot of sincerity!" Yu had never heard of such a loyal minister of the shogunate, and he had never seen a loyal minister of Yu who used 20,000 troops to raid and besiege Yu's branch city. Slaughter two thousand troops in a city. Such a rebellious act is indeed a well-intentioned one. From the bottom of one's heart! Hum! Wait and tell the Miyoshi repair doctor that Yu is the Muromachi shogunate shogun who swears to live and die with Kyoto, and his army just kills it to see if it is Miyoshi's repair doctor's sharp sword, or Yu's loyal ministers and warriors! ”

Miyoshi Nagaitsu was so ashamed that Ashikaga Yoshiteru was scolded and scolded by Ashikaga Yoshiteru, so he had to hide his face and run away with his head in his arms, and it was no wonder that Ashikaga Yoshiki was furious with such brazen letters to deliver such brazen letters, although the shogunate had experienced several ups and downs since the Meiji coup. There are bizarre stories such as the shogun being deposed and resurrected and being deposed again, and the two shoguns are established at the same time, but in fact, it is always the Hosokawa clan, the head of the Ashikaga shogun's family, who controls all this.

The half-general Hosokawa Masamoto launched a coup d'état to abolish Ashikaga Yoshisai, and welcomed Yoshisumi as the new general, Hosokawa Takakuni gave Ouchi Yoshiko the position of the leader and joined forces with Kamiro to launch the Battle of Funayama, and re-established Ashikaga Yoshinori who had been renamed as a general, and finally Hosokawa Harumoto supported Ashikaga Yoshiharu as a general, and Rokkaku Joyori supported Ashikaga Yoshiharu as a general, and finally Hosokawa Harumoto chose to make peace with Ashikaga Yoshiharu and abandoned Ashikaga Yoshiharu as a puppet.

This series of upheavals represents the political trend in the past 70 years. From beginning to end, it was the Hosokawa family who led the game in Kinai, and Hosokawa Masagen deposed the general to fight the Hatakeyama masan. Hosokawa Takakuni was supported by Ouchi Yoshiko to dominate Kinai again, and Hosokawa Harumoto's redominance of Kyoto was all dominated by the Hosokawa family, and the only outsider, Ouchi Yoshiko, soon died on the way back to the west to pacify Niko.

But this time it was completely different, the Hosokawa Kyotsu family, which had dominated Gyeonggi for more than 200 years, completely declined, and it was the former ruler Hosokawa Harumoto who rose Miyoshi Chokei, and the way he rose was to use the popular Shimoto, to defeat the main family and imprison it in the Pumen Temple in Settsu Province, this method is not how bad, at most some defenders who adhere to the laws of the shogunate denounce a few words.

But then the appetite of the Miyoshi family became bigger and bigger, and they had to learn from the half-general Hosokawa Masato to control the puppet new leader Hosokawa Clan on the one hand, and control the other puppet shogun Ashikaga Yoshiki on the other hand.

It's only been seven years now, and he once again led 60,000 troops to Kyoto to forcibly blackmail the shogun, and Miyoshi Nagakei's life label has long been branded as a traitor, a traitor and other bad names, if it weren't for the 60,000 troops to dominate the Seto Inland Sea and control half of's powerful power, it would have been destroyed by the swarming national army.

Don't look at Ashikaga Yoshiteru's righteous and stern reprimand to drive Miyoshi Nagaitsu away, in fact, half of the reliance in the hands of the shogunate is now very empty, and the proud elite has 6,000 people before and after, and only more than 4,000 remnants of the defeated army who have not had time to cross the river will retreat to Kyoto to hold on, counting the 1,000 remaining troops of the Nijo Imperial Palace, as well as the former military strength of Funaokama Castle, Koizumi Castle, and Kichijoin Castle, the total force that can be used is only 6,000 people.

Nearly half of these 6,000 people are the people of the Yamashiro Country, and many of their companions, relatives and friends died in the Katsuragawa Raid and the Castle of Shengryuji, and the huge blow almost completely destroyed their morale, and the hundred years of chaos have made the people of the Yamashiro Nation lack faith one by one, and they have long not understood what loyalty is, and they can be sure that many of the companions who were killed were definitely not dying in their hearts.

Almost overnight, these people of Yamashiro who had sworn allegiance to the shogunate began to take the initiative to open their relations with the shogunate, and under the pretext of prevaricating the duty of guarding Kyoto, they abandoned the weapons and equipment given to them by the shogunate and fled back to their hometown.

It's not that their quality is too high to take the initiative to return it, but the current situation is obscure, these wall grasses really don't dare to covet this little advantage, for fear that the Kira army will come back with a Jedi counterattack to save the shogunate, and then they will be arrested by the shogunate because of their despicable theft, and the people of Yamashiro are not the opponents of the Kira army at all, not to mention the lack of voice in the half-crippled state.

At the beginning of July, Ashikaga Yoshiteru woke up to find that his army had been reduced by half, and more than 2,600 carefully trained samurai Ashigaru abandoned his duties as a shogunate army and ran home.

The military strength of the Ashikaga shogun's family fell from the heyday of "more than 10,000 horsemen" to the trough of only more than 3,500 troops. Although this military strength is still dozens of times stronger than that of the year, when there were only more than 100 members of the public. But who wants to try again in the hard days of the past. A good life is used to it, and no one wants to endure the hard life of a big gap.

At present, there are only more than 3,500 shogunate troops left in Kyoto as a garrison, in addition to the Seki, Qinghua, and ministers, there are many similar half-public and half-martial samurai officials, but these people in Kyoto add up to only a few hundred.

However, the shogunate's 3,500-odd troops were shaken by the silent departure of their colleagues, most of whom were ronin samurai from all over the world. There are also a small number of samurai sons from all over the world, who came to the shogunate to seek meritorious deeds and enjoy the peace and prosperity of Kyoto is the first purpose, but there is absolutely no such thing as sending them to death as cannon fodder, and they don't believe that they have the ability to imitate Kira Yoshi, because they are too bad.

The ambitious ronin all ran to Omi Sakamoto to join the army, and the coveted ronin ran to Kyoto to join the shogunate, thinking that without the protection of Kira Yoshito, the fast-growing city of Sakamoto would sooner or later be sacked by the army, and finally like many comets, a trace in the sky and then disappeared, and Sakamoto was not hit by any war. Kyoto is facing a huge crisis.

War is a game of life between warriors, and the cowardly is doomed from the game at the outset. The 3,500 troops involved in the shogunate were shaken several times in the next half month, and they were facing the crisis of scattering at any time, and Ashikaga Yoshiteru tried his best to suppress all kinds of benefits, and raised a number of names to intimidate, but it was useless, and finally asked Nakajo Tokihide's 10,000 troops to be stationed in Kyoto, so that all these troublemakers could be suppressed.

Facts have proved that there is no elite training in the peaceful and prosperous era, and 2,500 of the 10,000 troops under the command of Nakajo Tokihide are strong troops who have experienced the battle of Mizuo Castle, and these bloody samurai walking on the streets of Kyoto make these soldiers who are accustomed to the rich life of Kyoto fearful, and inadvertently glance at the eyes of passers-by, just like the cold and merciless gaze of a lion when he locks on his target before pounceing on his prey.

The arrival of this group of fierce samurai has had both advantages and disadvantages on Kyoto, the advantage is that the security of Kyoto has suddenly changed to the level of Sakamoto Town, and the street roaming the city fox society rats and ruffians have run clean in an instant, and even the behavior of those promiscuous ronin people drinking and eating and forcing credit has suddenly disappeared, and the whole city has become very peaceful and peaceful.

The disadvantage is that as soon as the sun sets, Kyoto is heavily guarded, and under the curfew signed by Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Kyoto's night entertainment almost stopped, and ministers, wealthy merchants, and cultural people were forced to stop their daily indispensable drinking and feasting, and could only hide in their respective homes and hug their concubines Hu Tianhudi, of course, there were also bold people who took advantage of the sunset to run to a friend's house to stay at his house for the night, as for what activities these people played at night, it is not clear.

There is no way to let Nakajo Tokihide enter Luo alone, Ashikaga Yoshiteru's initial order was to let Nakajo Tokihide and Rokkaku Yoshiken enter Luo Town to guard Kyoto, but Nakajo Tokihide did not agree to this decision, Mibuchi Fujiei couldn't persuade him, and later even Rokkaku Yoshiken suddenly changed his hexagram to disagree with entering Beijing in a hurry, which made the shogunate scratch his head.

The reason for their refusal is also very simple, 30,000 troops entered Rakuchu to guard the shogunate, and there was no army stationed on the north and south banks of the Uji River, if Miyoshi Chokei ordered the 40,000 troops to take the opportunity to kill Omi, whether it was Sakamoto Town, Otsu Town, Katata Town, or the Kannonji Temple Castle of the Rokkaku Family, it would have fatal consequences for the two families, and it would be meaningless for the old nest to be returned to Kyoto.

In the end, the two generals reached a compromise agreement with the shogunate, Nakajo Tokihide entered Rakujin to defend Kyoto, and Rokkaku Yoshiken came to the camp of the Fushimi Yamahara Kira family to take over the important task of guarding the east of Kyoto.

In mid-July, when the stable situation in Gyeonggi became turbulent again, Miyoshi Nagakei seemed to wait for the answer he wanted, roughly judged the strength of the shogunate's support army, and quickly mobilized a large army to kill in Kyoto.

When the 40,000-strong army led by Yoshiken Miyoshi, Hidehide Matsunaga, and Munekatsu Naito entered Yamashiro Province from Tanba, the samurai of the ministers and even many defenders in Kyoto were dumbfounded, and the long-awaited Kira naval army suddenly lost its support. Munekatsu Naito led an army of 10,000 to attack Funaokama Castle in the north of Kyoto. Matsunaga Shu led an army of 10,000 troops to Koizumi Castle outside Kyoto Castle. And the Miyoshi Yoshiken Department went straight to Kyoto to kill.

Miyoshi Chokei played nearly 20,000 troops and sat motionless in Katsuryuji Castle, at this time Nakajo Tokihide completely understood the strategy of the Miyoshi family, the general will control the vast strategic depth south of the Katsura River, and at the same time guard the situation in the Settsu country behind him, let his younger brother and the retainers of the spectrum lead the army to attack Kyoto, and he can also use these nearly 20,000 troops as a special force, and suddenly kill as a new force when the Kyoto attack is the most tense time, so as to play a decisive effect. That's what he did with three birds with one stone.

Nakajo Toshihide can see it, and Rokkaku Yoshiken can naturally see it, so he immediately decided to leave 5,000 troops to guard the camp, and he personally led 15,000 troops across the Kamogawa River into Toba and started a fierce battle with Miyoshi Yoshixian's army.

Suganuma was directly replaced by Koizumi Castle, and the 1,000 troops he led needed to face the 10,000 troops of Matsunaga Hide, and Suganuma's military strategy could only be described as general, making it an extremely difficult move for him to be 1,000 against 10,000. And this small spring city is in disrepair, and it cannot be compared with Shenglong Temple Castle at all. It was even worse than Funaokama Castle, and the pressure on his shoulders was very huge.

Funaokama Castle Castle Castle was also replaced by a more warlike Isshiki Naogaka, and he faced Naito Munekatsu, who was also good at fighting, although his military strategy was much higher than Suganuma Dingnao, but the Naito Munekatsu on the opposite side was also more powerful than Matsunaga Hide, and this person had an arrow feud with the Kira family, and his desire to attack was far higher than that of his scheming brother Matsunaga Hide.

Both men were facing a very dangerous situation, but the joint battle that broke out in Tobawara in the south of Kyoto was even more exciting, Miyoshi Yoshiken led 20,000 troops to raid Toba Mouth, which is one of the seven mouths of Kyoto and an important passage into Kyoto from the direction of the Katsura River, Miyoshi Yoshiken is bound to win this pass, and Rokkaku Yoshiken and Nakajo Tokihide are unwilling to give up, and the two sides start a long-lasting war here.

Miyoshi Yoshiken's 20,000 army against the 15,000 army of Rokkaku Yoshiken, and the 5,000 reinforcements led by Okochi Kunitsuna, the two sides were equal in terms of the number of troops, but Miyoshi Yoshiken's army was obviously slightly stronger than the latter two, and because of the discord between the Kira Army and the Hexagonal Army, it was inevitable that there would be a big problem in coordination, and Miyoshi Yoshiken took the opportunity to cut the gap between the two armies and almost divided and surrounded the two armies.

Fortunately, Okochi Kunitsuna launched an attack on the breakthrough cut, and successfully thwarted the plot of the Miyoshi army, and the military forces of the two sides were repeatedly entangled outside the mouth of the bird, and as the sun set, the troops were finally withdrawn and returned to the camp, Miyoshi Yoshiken set up the camp at the Kosenji Temple not far from the Toba Mouth to make a long-term battle posture, and Rokkaku Yoshiken camped outside the Toba Mouth, and Okochi Kunitsuna retreated to the Toba Mouth and was stationed with the guards of the Kira Army.

The distance is only half a mile away is Matsunaga Xiu, who is camped outside the Tanba Pass, and the direction of his main attack is Koizumi Castle outside the Tanba Pass, and Naito Munekatsu has successfully broken through Nagasakaguchi, one of the seven mouths of Kyoto, and is stationed at the foot of Funaoka Mountain, which directly threatens the safety of Kyoto, Nakajo Shixiu does not dare to let this person attack the heart of Kyoto, so he can only leave 3,500 shogunate defenders in the Nijo Imperial Palace to wait, and he leads 3,000 troops to also stay at the Nijo Imperial Palace to suppress the shogunate defenders, and always keep an eye on the changes in the north and south to prevent a crisis.

The war lasted from the beginning of July to the end of July, and the Miyoshi army showed a huge advantage in strength, steadily and steadily reducing the activity space of the Kira army and the Rokkaku army, and at the end of July, the Koizumi Castle was captured, and the defender of the Kira army, Suganuma, was taken directly, and none of the 1,000 defenders in the city were spared, which was the first tragic defeat ushered in by the Kira army.

This fierce cage battle lasted nearly a month, and Matsunaga Xiu took great pains to capture this city, cutting off water and food, luring, harassing, and attacking by means such as cutting off water and food, and finally relying on the large number of people to grind the defenders of Xiaoquan City, who were scarce, and the defenders of Xiaoquan City, who were sparsely numbered, paid more than 3,600 lives to capture this city.

After the capture of Koizumi Castle, the Miyoshi army was full of joy thinking that they could make a big profit, but they searched the castle and found that there was not even a grain of grain, and the small castle tower where the military rations were stored in several places was clean enough to run mice, and the castle tower was burned down and there were no gold, silver, jewelry, and other goods, and the ordnance and armor were tattered and not a single piece was intact. The discouraged Miyoshi army could only take the thousands of residents outside the city to steam their anger. In this way, these hapless residents were subjected to the fire for no reason. I could only drag my family and flee to Kyoto City overnight.

The destruction of Koizumi Castle became a major event that changed the situation on the battlefield, and then the situation suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse in the next half month, and the Funaokama Castle, which was guarded by Isseki Zhigao, was breached because the grain and grass in the city were consumed, and the reinforcements outside the city, Nakajo Shixiu, desperately covered him and finally escaped from Naito Sokatsu's tiger's mouth, but there were not many thousand defenders left.

The destruction of Koizumi Castle and the destruction of Funaokama Castle had a great impact on the morale of the Rokkaku Army, and this effect was soon reported to the Battle of Tobaguchi at the end of August, when Miyoshi Yoshiken's army marched into Rokkaku Yoshiken's main camp. almost took his life, the general general, but in the end, it was Nakajo Tokihide's 3,000 troops who made a strong surprise attack to repel Miyoshi Yoshiken's army.

But this rescue revealed the flaws in Kyoto's heart, and Matsunaga Shu lawlessly broke through the Tanba Pass and entered Kyoto City, and Nakajo Tokihide led the Okochi Kunitsuna Department back to Kyoto, and fought with Matsunaga Hide outside the Nijo Imperial Palace and Ukyo Long Street, and the fierce battle lasted for most of the night until the sky was dark and it ended with Nakajo Tokihide winning a complete victory.

This vicious battle was extremely fierce, the 8,000 tired division of the Kira army against the same crippled and demoralized more than 6,000 Matsunaga troops, one of the two sides lacked physical strength and the other lacked morale in the streets of Kyoto melee It was particularly difficult, until Matsunaga Hide's first general, known as the "Gun Nakamura", was won by Nakajo Tokihide and became an important turning point in the war.

Matsunaga's insistence on faith came to naught with the killing of Takaji Nakamura, and he fled all the way to Tanbaguchi, and Matsunaga Hide, who was carried by the defeated soldiers and fled in embarrassment. And the Kira army mustered up the fighting spirit to chase all the way out, and even chased the Matsunaga army into Koizumi Castle. Flee all the way to the Miyoshi Yoshiken camp at Tobaguchi to take refuge.

The fundamental reason for the huge difference is that the Matsunaga Army was defeated and fled, and was chased and killed by Nakajo Shixiu along the way to obtain nearly 1,600 heads, and only those 600 people really died in the stalemate battle, and the Matsunaga Army died in this battle with only more than 700 heads, and the rest were the harvest of chasing and killing the rout.

Matsunaga Hide's 10,000 troops were completely disabled, leaving only 4,000 defeated defeated troops that were not enough to serve as a general, so they could only be merged into Miyoshi Yoshiken's army, so that Miyoshi Yoshiken's headquarters could be regrouped into 20,000 troops, and Rokkaku Yoshiken saw that the situation was not good, and immediately transferred the 5,000 troops of Fushimi Mountain to 15,000 troops to continue to stalemate with Miyoshi Yoshiken.

Until the last day of the end of August, he ordered more than 8,600 people of Naito Sokatsu's department to set out from Funaoka Mountain as the "vanguard" of Kamiraku, and on the other side, he ordered Miyoshi Yoshiken's 20,000 troops to attack Rokkaku Yoshiken.

Nakajo Tokihide's military strategy is not much different from Naito Sokatsu's, and his martial arts are even more skilled, but the troops he is equipped with are all exhausted, and the shogunate defenders are all useless, and the right-wing army where Isshiki Naokaka is located was taken care of by Naito Munekatsu and suffered heavy losses, if it weren't for the assistance of his fellow senior brother Shioka Kazuha to stabilize the situation, Nakajo Tokihide may have to suffer another defeat.

Even so, the two sides fought fiercely in Ukyo for three days, and the whole of Ukyo was in disarray, the flames of war burned and destroyed countless rebuilt courtyards, dozens of Buddhist temples in Ukyo were burned to the ground, and the ministers and monks living in Ukyo fled to Mt. Hiei for refuge, and even the emperor prayed for peace in the world.

A battle also broke out in Tobaguchi, south of Kyoto, and Rokkaku Yoshiken, who had lost the support of Okochi Kunitsuna, was unable to resist the joint attack of Miyoshi Yoshiken and Matsunaga Hide, and more than 3,000 people were killed in a defeat at Tobaguchi, and many of his family retainers were killed in the battle, and Rokkaku Yoshiken was forced to retreat to the camp with the remnants of the army.

The fire of Ukyo, which had been raging for many days, was extinguished under a heavy rain, and the will to continue fighting was also extinguished, and the two months of the great battle had already made the samurai on both sides numb to the desire for merit, and the heavy casualties of their comrades who attacked day after day were repeated, and the living samurai saw no hope.

There were only more than 5,000 remnants left in the Nakajo Tokihide Division, and the 3,500 defenders of the shogunate were killed for a while, and they withdrew early from the sequence of the Asukai battle and fled back to lick their wounds, compared to Naito Munekatsu's life was also very difficult, and less than 6,000 people were left in the 8,600 army to retreat to Funaokama Castle, mainly by the 2,500 elites led by Nakajo Tokihide who experienced the Vietnamese-Chinese War broke through the three formations and took nearly 1,000 heads in one day.

There were not many cards left on both sides, and there were more than 7,500 people in the Nakajo Tokihide and shogunate armies defending the Nijo Imperial Palace, and 12,000 people in the Rokkaku Yoshiken Department were blocked in the Toba Mouth camp, and Miyoshi Yoshiken's 18,000 troops had no way to suppress him with the absolute superiority of the 18,000 troops on the battlefield, and he was fought to the point of exhaustion at this moment with the military strategy level of Rokkaku Yoshiken.

Nakajo Shixiu and Rokkaku Yoshiken fought so hard, in fact, they were still worried that Miyoshi Changqing would take the opportunity to cross the river to change the direction of the war, in line with the intention of fighting out Issei was an attempt to deter Miyoshi's family from crossing the river, but helplessly found that the command level of the generals on both sides was different, and the difference in the quality and equipment of the soldiers was not big, and the only difference was that the gap in strength was too big.

Not to mention the difference in strength, there are still 20,000 troops sitting on the other side of the river, and the persecuting Nakajo Tokihide and Rokkaku Yoshiken are becoming more and more impatient, eager to repel the invasion and attack of the Miyoshi army as soon as possible but ignoring their own absolute disadvantage, Kyoto except for the last decent residence city counted by the Nijo Imperial Palace, Kyoto Shichiguchi and Funaokama Castle and Koizumi Castle can not be relied on, and the most important point is that the Miyoshi army as the attacking side can retreat and dodge, but the Kira army and the Rokkaku army on the defending side have no way to retreat.

As soon as they retreated, they had to abandon the Nijo Imperial Palace, but the powerful public Ashikaga Yoshiteru had already made a heavy oath at Ishishimizu Hachiman Palace that he would never repeat the tragedy of his father and ancestor, and would never allow any powerful samurai to drive the Seiyi Shogun out of Kyoto, and he would never leave the Nijo Imperial Palace, even if he died, he would live and die with Kyoto.

Miyoshi Nagakei watched the battle situation in Kyoto coldly, until Kyoto, which had been fighting for two months, entered the endgame stage, and he was determined to cross the Katsura River and raid Kyoto to make the final blow, so he used hundreds of warships of the Awaji Navy to blockade the Yodo River, preventing any ships that had just entered from the Uji River, especially prohibiting the Kira Navy, any ships that could already be used for military purposes appeared, this time Ataka Fuyasu learned very smartly, and he ordered the Awaji Navy to resolutely not pursue the Kira Navy, even if it was attacked by a sneak attack, it could not be pursued to prevent luring the enemy deep and then hit.

The turtle tactics of the Awaji Navy recognized that the blockade of the main stream of the Yodo River made the Kira Navy helpless, and the number and quality of their ships were completely incomparable to the Awaji Navy that dominated the Seto Inland Sea, and there was really no way to go through the intersection of the Yodo River to the Katsura River to block Miyoshi Chokei.

Miyoshi Changqing stood on the north bank of the Katsura River and looked at the faint bloody Kyoto in the distance, behind him was the landing of 20,000 tiger and wolf divisions with high morale, and all the ships on the Katsura River were fluttering with the flags of the three tiers of Ling Wu, Miyoshi Changqing said ambitiously: "No one can stop me from going to Luo anymore!" (To be continued......)