Chapter 542: Reviving the Collar System
Compared to the poor relatives who were in a mess, Mogami Yoshimitsu performed well, and during the Battle of Oshu, he also received an order to be responsible for attacking the daimyo in the north and south of Dewa Province at the same time, first of all, to assist the Ashikaga army in the crusade against Date Terumune and successfully suppress the Date clan, and under the effect of strategies such as intimidation and murder, objectively accelerate the pace of Date clan's submission.
Of course, it also further deepened the hatred between Date Terumun and Mogami Yoshimitsu, Date Terumun didn't dare to hate Ashikaga Yoshishi and didn't dare to hate Uesugi Kenshin, then only hated Mogami Yoshimitsu who acted as a dog's leg, but unfortunately Date Teruzong is the Goyuo people, and the Mogami Yoshimitsu is the Mimon Hazu, Date Terumun's 150,000 and Mogami Yoshimitsu 300,000 are a little worse than the others, it can only be said that this hatred knot is meaningless, and there is no hope of victory at all.
Date Terumune was only responsible for the reserve team to fight soy sauce in this Oshu battle, and the front line didn't intend to let him get a little bit of it at all, and Mogami Yoshimitsu's responsibilities were relatively important, he was responsible for leading the strategy of the three counties of Xianbei to launch a simultaneous strategy against Yugo, and Naito Masari acted as the vanguard to lead the army to attack the territory of the Onodera clan.
The resulting tug-of-war was fought intermittently from the fifth year of Eiroku to the ninth year of Eiroku, during which he participated in the entire process of attacking the Yonezawa Ita clan, and during the four years of the stop-and-go period, Mogami Yoshimitsu did not fight an earth-shattering battle, but gradually gained a strategic advantage with a series of small victories, which was a very clever method.
No more than 10,000 troops were involved in each battle, usually between 2,000 and 8,000 in a combined battle of medium to low intensity, and the total number of casualties on both sides usually did not exceed 200. Sengoku daimyo are usually reluctant to fight, and it is usually difficult for both sides to put all their money into fighting to the end, and they will never use it until they are desperate.
Just like Ashikaga Yoshitoki, every time he sends a large army to kill the Mutsu country raiders, most of the people of Mutsu country are in a posture of passive resistance, that is, if you fight me, I will stick to it and pretend not to see it, the only one who can be called an organized resistance, Date Terumune, was beaten and abandoned his armor and fled in embarrassment, since then there has been no large-scale battle in Oshu, and the intelligence of the Ashikaga army's large-scale dispatch was discovered, and the people of Oshu turned around and ran away like a dexterous rabbit.
Mogami Yoshimitsu used small competition and small-scale joint battles to wear down the main military strength of the Onodera family little by little, and then used military deception and other methods to effectively reduce the vigilance of the Onodeera army. Let them have the illusion that they can hold on and can fight. Every time, I felt that I was just careless and lost, thinking that I could fight back if I regrouped.
It wasn't until Onodera Jingmichi found that the dominance of the three counties of Xianbei had dropped significantly, and only one and a half counties began to be anxious when they listened to his greetings, and it happened that at this time, Mogami Yoshimitsu invited Onodera Jingdao to meet in Salmon Castle to discuss submission. Onodera Jingdao thought about it and thought that this was a good opportunity to borrow the slope to get off the donkey. He rushed to Salmon Castle with hundreds of banners to meet Mogami Yoshimitsu.
After a few years, I saw Yoshimitsu Mogami. Onodera Jingdao still felt that the young man in front of him was still the little kid who didn't have any hair back then, and he said a lot of arrogant and rude and inappropriate words during the banquet. Mogami Yoshimitsu listened quietly to his bunch of requests for harmony, and then smiled and promised him to think about it and give a reply, with no resentment or anger between his words.
Onodera Keido felt that he had figured out the veins of Mogami Yoshimitsu, so he drank a lot of wine at the banquet that night and did not go to bed until the third watch in the middle of the night, and when the attendant of Onodera Keido pushed open the door the next morning, he saw Onodera Keido die in the bedroom with a hideous and painful face, and then the Mogami family medical officer who came to investigate the result was that he died of excessive drinking.
Of course, this reason could not be accepted by the Hachimoto samurai of the Onodera family, who had always believed that the tragic death of Onodera Keido must have been the ghost of Mogami Yoshimitsu, and combined with his precedent of assassinating the rebels and the generations of the Date family, there was reason to believe that the sudden death of Onodera Keimichi in good health was problematic.
How could Mogami Yoshimitsu admit that he poisoned Onodera Jingdao, and this is the conclusion given, believe it or not, when the banners of the Onodera family planned to raid Salmon Castle, the samurai of the Mogami family had quietly cremated Onodera Jingdao who was being inspected, and when the Onodera retainers found out that the situation was wrong, they only received the ashes of a clay pot.
In the afternoon of the same day, the 500 banners of the Onodera clan raided Salmon Castle under the leadership of the elder of the Spectrum family, and were all trapped by Naito Masari, who had been on guard, into the small urn set up in the city.
As a result, the Onodera clan fell into a total recession, and the hasty successor Onodera Hidemichi was only the cousin of Onodera Jingdao, neither enough prestige and strength nor the preparation and consciousness as the family governor, in the face of the mysterious death of the family governor and the tragic loss of the genealogy and the elite banner, Onodera Hidedo could not find more ways than anger and hesitation.
The Onodera army, whose morale plummeted, was not Naito's opponent at all, and he was defeated again and again until he retreated to Yokote Castle and resisted stubbornly, and the cage city was forced to open the city gate by the rebels in the city in less than three months, and Onodera Hidemichi took the retainers and hundreds of remnants to retreat to the Honmaru castle tower, trying to use this remnant as a final resistance.
The battle was not fought very hard but bloody, the Onodera clan for more than ten generations still accumulated a lot of loyal and brave samurai, they held the Honmaru fierce battle for a day and a night, until the battle to the last moment of the seriously wounded Onodera Hidemichi committed suicide by seppuku, the remnants of the Onodera clan set fire to the castle tower and martyred the main family, and the Senhoku Onodera clan was removed.
Mogami Yoshimitsu stopped here with four years of Hago Raiders, and there is still a long way to go before he submits the Ando clan, and such a fast pace of the strategy is still because of the strong support of Ashikaga Yoshitoki behind him, and it is very difficult to replace Mogami Yoshimitsu with the little territory in front of the feather like annexing the Onodera clan, and if you count the interference of the allies of the Onodera clan, it may take twenty or thirty years to succeed.
The efficiency of relying on partial divisions to attack the feather is not high, if the degree of chaos is concerned, maybe the Kanto samurai is better than the Yuao people, but when it comes to the degree of stubbornness, it may be slightly better than the Yuao Daimyo, this is not a place where there is chaos at the two ends of the three days in Kinai, and it is not a superlord who often appears in the western country, and the northeastern daimyo of the two countries may have a time when the walls are grassy, but they still stubbornly adhere to their habits and concepts more often than they have changed for hundreds of years.
The xenophobia is very strong, and the degree of xenophobia is so strong that a large number of relatives of the Ashikaga family have gone down to Oshu, and the Michinoku country has not been able to completely change the situation of the scattered sand of the Hatsu family, which has part of the influence of the southern and northern dynasties and the northern and northern dynasties to Oshu, and more of it is still the ruling system that has not changed since the Heian period.
The further north you go, the less so-called the village system becomes, and most of the domains still stubbornly maintain manor-like social relations such as landlords and shokans, and this manor system gradually collapsed as early as the late Kamakura period, and a large number of peasants in the Muromachi and Sengoku periods were given autonomy under the leadership of some enlightened landlords, thus starting a part of the Warring States Rebellion.
However, the situation in remote places such as Ha Ao is completely different, and the samurai in many places seem to live in the Heian period, and probably the biggest difference from the Heian period is the collapse of a feudal system, and geographical influences began to frequently interfere with blood dominance, which is also a major manifestation of the Warring States period.
For example, during the period when the Date clan was strong, they went to the Osaki clan, the Kasai clan, the Watari clan, the Murata clan, the Kokubun clan, the Ishikawa clan, the Stay-behind clan, and the Iwaki clan, among which there were those who failed to inherit and those who succeeded in inheritance, but one thing is that the samurai families except for the left-behind clan were not from the Date clan, including the Mutsu Ishikawa clan from the Yamato Genji clan, the Kokubun clan and the Watari clan from the Bando Taira clan, as well as the indigenous origin of Iwaki Kunizo, and the Murata clan and other wealthy samurai of unknown origin.
Since the beginning of this Warring States period, a new atmosphere of Japanese samurai society has gradually emerged, that is, the role of blood kinship is not valued, and the samurai of different families with different bloodlines have been passed in a mess, and many famous clans that are still retained in the Edo period have been inherited by some chaotic clans, and even the bloodline is gone.
It's also a matter to worship other people's ancestors in the name of someone else's family, but it's really uneducated and not afraid of embarrassment, just like a turtle carrying the name of the Shirada clan, a tributary of the Tokugawa clan, a tributary of the Nitta clan, and the priest is not his ancestor's Hachiman Taro Genyoshi family at all, and he is not a descendant of the Kawachi Genji at all, and even the fake ancestor Tokugawa Yoshiki does not dare to change the word "righteousness" of the Kawachi Genji descendant after becoming a general, which shows how empty his experience is.
It can be seen that the collapse of a collar system established by blood, how serious the destruction of the order of the samurai is, the samurai generally do not pay attention to the sense of honor of the family and one emphasizes the preservation of the family name, anyway, they themselves are not the descendants of the family, and they do not have to worry about whether the family style can be preserved in the future.
Ashikaga Yoshitoki's military campaign against Oshu had several purposes, to seize territory to establish absolute dominance over the two countries, and to break the stereotypes of geopolitical interference in bloodlines, he absolutely could not allow these messy samurai families to succeed his family in the future, so the behavior of changing the name of the wild child who changed the Miao character can also inherit the name of the famous family must be strictly prohibited, and to change this unhealthy atmosphere, it is necessary to start with Kanto and Yuao. (To be continued......)
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