Chapter 582: I want to knock on the door of heaven
A water battle broke an undefeated myth, proving that the so-called invincible god general Oda Nobunaga is nothing more than that, and the samurai who were still afraid of the undefeated strong man were in a commotion, thinking that the samurai who swept through Kinai in the past two or three months was a big parallel import, but it was lucky to puncture the paper tiger of the Rokkaku, and copied the previous trick all the way, and scared the Miyoshi family back to Shikoku, based on this conjecture, it aroused the ambition of many Kinai samurai.
The first to rebel against the Oda family is the former Mino country lord Saito Ryuko, this monarch since the defeat of Inabayama Castle, fled to Nagashima Castle for refuge and then came to Kinai to rely on the Miyoshi Yoshiji to be a guest general, life is not good or bad, and he will eat together, as the lord of the dead country, he always wants to return to his hometown one day to regain the foundation, so this person has been engaged in the great cause of anti-Oda all these years, and actively encouraged the Miyoshi family to be enemies with the Oda family, but it was unsuccessful.
Last year, the Oda family suddenly supported the general to march west to Kamiluo, and the majesty of the thousands of troops swept all the way, and the Miyoshi family, which fell into civil strife, also became the main victims in this ebb tide, and the Miyoshi trio and Miyoshi Yoshitsugu escaped one after another, Matsunaga Shu surrendered to the family, and Saito Ryuxing, a guest general who did not love his grandmother and uncle, stayed in Sakai Town and continued to lie dormant and wait.
This really made him wait for the opportunity to come, and Oda Nobunaga, who was so happy, did not choose to forbear for a while to stabilize the foundation of Kinai, but quickly united with Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Nijo Harura, who were also very happy, to participate in the coup d'état of the deposed emperor and purge the courtiers.
Oda Nobunaga attacked Sakamoto with the Kinouchi army, and even took advantage of the excitement of the Oda naval army defending the coastline to enter the inland river to attack Sakamoto Port, which was equivalent to emptying the long coastline of the entire Osaka Bay. It was against this backdrop that the first landing forces of the Miyoshi Army quietly landed on the land of Settsu Province by boat. This return to Settsu was carried out with great caution. For fear that he would accidentally attract a situation where he would lose everything, he only brought in 500 troops as the vanguard to enter Settsu Province, and it was Saito Ryuko who was responsible for receiving it.
It wasn't until the end of the Battle of Lake Biwa that Saito Ryuko received the second batch of 500 troops, and learned that none of the Oda Naval Army had been wiped out from the general of the Oda Naval Army, including the general Kuki Yoshitaka, and no one survived, so he excitedly wrote a letter overnight to Miyoshi Yoshitsugu, who was waiting in Awa Province, and persuaded him to immediately lead the army back to help him enter the Great Cause of the Inner Staff, and the next morning. Saito Ryuko raised the anti-flag and led an army of 1,200 to attack the territory of Settsu Province's pro-Oda.
The Settsu Rebellion was completely unexpected by Oda Nobunaga, and what was worse was that the Miyoshi Trio and Miyoshi Yoshitsugu made a comeback, although they only brought back 7,000 troops from Shikoku, but the convergence of these 7,000 troops with Saito Ryukosho was a huge military force that could influence the belonging of Settsu Province.
With the inspiration of the old ministry for many years, as well as the influence of the Miyoshi family's main brand of family governors, there are not a few people in Settsu who have rebelled, and Ikeda Katsumasa has once again cut back and forth at the instigation of the old Araki Murashige of the Ikedai family, and the samurai family of Itami who has switched back and forth with subordinate forces has announced his surrender one step earlier. Ashikaga Yoshiaki's appointment of Settsu guardian Wada Yumasa was expelled from Settsu Province in less than half a month. Settsu changed hands again.
Then the rebellion is naturally nested in the Koga Mountains to be the king of the mountain Rokkaku Chengzhen, Rokkaku Yoshiji father and son, the winter products are not abundant, the poor ravine in the Koga Mountains is even poorer, eat bran to survive the whole winter, finally look forward to the opportunity of course to insert a pole, of course, with the strength of the five hundred troops of the Rokkaku family, it is also shouting slogans to get a mouthful.
Tsutsui Shunkei, who has always been hostile to Matsunaga Hide, is also rebelling, and the privilege that Oda Nobunaga promised to Matsunaga Hide is that Yamato Ichikuni will cut it at will, and it is strange that the Tsutsui family and the Nandu Rokuzong and Kofukuji Temple behind it can agree, and suddenly announced that they want to recover the lost territory, so they launched an attack on some of the territories held by Matsunaga Hide.
Last year, when the Kanto Shogunate learned of the situation in Kinai, he asked Honta, who was true to Hatakeyama Takamasa, to write a long letter to him, persuading him to go to the camp of the Kanto Princes to avenge Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and by the way, attached was a 30,000 Kanbun Nagagarku money deposit ticket issued by the money house, which could be withdrawn at any time in Sakai Town, or exchanged for equivalent armaments, grain, grass and weapons and other necessities.
I don't know if I was moved by his righteousness and strictness, or simply looking at the face of money, Hatakeyama Takamasa readily agreed, and in less than half a month, he pulled up the people of Kawachi and Kiine, and 20,000 troops gathered to make a rebellion.
The rear set off a long rebellion, forcing Oda Nobunaga's Sakamoto strategy to be stillborn, so the overlord was very unjustly abandoned his allies Asai Nagamasa and Asakura Yoshikei, and led the army to the west to launch a new round of military pressure on the rebellion of Setzu and Kawachi, and the siege of Sakamoto Castle was naturally lifted.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who was sitting in Kyoto, was anxious to go straight to the fire, and one letter after another urged Oda Nobunaga to quickly return to the army to attack Sakamoto Castle, he already knew that the emperor of Masakincho did not plan to take refuge in a distant country, as long as he captured Sakamoto and snatched back the emperor and then took back the court declaration, Ashikaga Yoshitoki was still a murderer and thief in the world.
It's a pity that Oda Nobunaga didn't dump him at all, an empty shell general didn't understand the two ways of military and politics at all, and when he was thinking about fighting Sakamoto to crusade against Ashikaga Yoshi, Sakamoto was so good at beating him, how could he eat a defeat, just because of this defeat, Kinai was on fire everywhere, how depressed he was in his heart Who knows, on the second day of Oda Nobunaga's westward march, Asakura Yoshikei and Asai Nagamasa came to Kyoto in person to cry and complain, Oda Nobunaga deceived his allies and abandoned friendly forces, and asked His Royal Highness to make decisions for them.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki patiently understood the situation and found that the cause of this incident was the outbreak of rebellion in Settsu, Kawachi, and Yamato, and Oda Nobunaga was worried that there would be difficulties in the rear, so he moved westward, leaving only a password to pass to the Asai and Asakura coalition forces in the northern route march, and then withdrew all the troops in Minami Omi.
Oda Nobunaga's sudden decision can flash these two, when the Oda army retreated, they were still storming Takashima County, and when they received this order, Nakajo Tokihide came over with an army of 20,000 angrily, if it wasn't for the quick reaction, he would have to give this small life to Takashima County.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki patiently listened to their cries, probably knew what was going on, but he didn't even have a big head soldier in his hand, and the wise Mitsuhide almost killed him by defecting to Oda Nobunaga, but he, an empty general, still had to maintain the reputation and legitimacy of the deputy general, and some reluctant words of consolation were not arrogant or discouraged, and finally the moment of victory Yunyun sent them back.
As the shogun was repeatedly ignored by the deputy general, and was assigned to the daimyo to sue the palace, Ashikaga Yoshiaki's mood was very bad, if it weren't for the Kanto Ashikaga Yoshitoki eyeing people hard to sleep, he would definitely teach this arrogant guy a good lesson, the reason is that the good situation in Kinai suddenly twisted and turned, and the hidden danger was pressed down by a few words when the wind was smooth, and now there is an irreparable crack against the wind.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki's mood was very bad, he found that since he left Kofukuji Ichiyoin, it seemed that everything was wrong, and any evil thing could get on him, and gradually the folklore also called this shogunate official Ashikaga Shogunate, and thought that the evil was called Ashikaga Yoshikyo who was killed by the head of the evil king, and the folk rumors were full of malice.
Annoyed that bad luck is often unlucky, and the good and good Kinai is stirred up and leaking rain everywhere, but he doesn't want him to step on his brother's corpse to become a general, and blindly resents others for not giving him the opportunity to display his talents, so that he can create an ideal perfect shogunate system, and when he turns to resentment Ashikaga Yoshi, without him, there will be no Sakamoto's fiasco, and he will not have the current troubles, and the angle of anger can be called tricky.
Oda Nobunaga, who was in Settsu to quell the turmoil, suddenly returned to Kyoto in a hurry, and he brought very bad news, there was a huge movement in Hida Province and Shinano Province adjacent to his old nest Gifu, and there were also military movements in the direction of Kaga Province and Echichu in Hokuriku Province, and the Hatakeyama family also set off turmoil at this time, and the puppet family governor Hatakeyama Yoshitsuna was killed in Nagahei.
Noto Hatakeyama Yoshitsuna lost power in the ninth year of Yongroku, and the chief family of the Noto Hatakeyama family, the old Onjing family, was expelled in the Hongji Rebellion, and the power of the family was held by the other six families of the seven, and the leaders of these six families were the two of Chang Xulian and Yu Zuo Xuguang, and the two of them were righteous brothers, and Yu Zuo Xuguang married Chang Xulian's sister as his wife, the meaning of the eldest brother and brother-in-law.
But the relationship between the two is very bad, because Chang Xulian is a staunch anti-Kanto Gongfang, and Yu Zuo Xuguang advocates pro-Kanto Gongfang, the contradiction between the two is extremely intense, and led to a month ago, You Zuo Xuguang caused the assassination of his uncle Chang Xulian, this incident made the unstable Noto Hatakeyama family experience another chaos, Chang Lianlian's sister-in-law Chang Lianlong tried to fight back, but was outnumbered and had to abandon the city and flee, this escape fled to the Oda family to seek refuge.
According to the rumors of merchants who have been walking the Ha-Oku route for many years, the major ports of Ha-Oku were under martial law almost at the same time, and the castle towns in various places invariably imposed curfews, and the military service recruitment documents issued in various places were posted in the alleys of the villages.
None of this is important, at least it's not a problem compared to the next piece of news, Ashikaga Yoshitoki announced in a high-profile manner that Fengzheng Qincho would go to the Imperial Court to proclaim, raise the soldiers of the Eastern Kingdom to enter Beijing and knock on the gate of heaven! (To be continued......)