The 45,000 troops outside the Furukawa Imperial Palace and the 30,000 elites of Kira Yoshitoki faced off for half a month, and on the surface, it seemed that neither side had the intention of making a move first, just like two masters always had to stare at each other before the competition and test each other's reality with eye killing techniques, and only when the real fight began could you tell whether it was a straw bag or a strong man.

This is almost what it means to be evenly matched, it does not mean that the strength of the two sides is really as balanced as the situation shows, war is not a numbers game, it is not invincible whoever has more troops, and the war is a bloody collision of violent groups on both sides and mixed with many conspiracies and tricks, which tests the judgment of the general and the skill of governing the army, and the failure of the Kwantung coalition has actually been declared if the confrontation continues.

Yoshiaki Satake left the Furukawa Imperial Palace worriedly, he had already realized that this Furukawa Gongfang was useless, and he did not have any kind of virtue that a good samurai should have, and what made him feel even more strange was that the genealogists of the Furukawa Gongfang family did not have any intention of admonishing Ashikaga Fujimasa's words and deeds, but adopted an unsettling and silent attitude, as if a group of transparent people were watching this farce coldly.

His father, Yoshito Satake, used them many times to educate the young Yoshiaki Satake to build the Satake family into a united and loyal samurai group with the goal of the Furukawa family's retainers.

But when he saw that the family retainers of the ancient river were unmoved, he felt a little disappointed and lost in his heart, and the goal that his father envied that he had been fighting for for more than ten years collapsed, if he hadn't been a teenager and ignorant young man, I am afraid that he would have distrust and question his father's words and the judgment of the lineage samurai.

Yoshiaki Satake convened a group of retainers to hold a secret assessment meeting. With a lot of worry in his heart, he said, "Although the inheritance of the Furukawa family is good. But you also have to consider how big the risk is against the Kira family! Judging by the current situation is not very optimistic. It doesn't seem that the family's decision this time is too clever! ”

"Furukawa Gongfang is a ......" Wada Akira resisted the urge to scold the word "erector", and hurriedly changed his words to "samurai with peculiar behavior", in fact, most of the Satake genealogy generations who wanted to say in his heart also wanted to say, it was really this unreliable work that made many samurai resentful and dissatisfied.

Perhaps this alliance gathering is not a big deal for Ashikaga Fujimasa, and he has also seen a similar formation of tens of thousands of troops in the Kanto Astronomical Rebellion, as well as when the Hojo family conquered the Kanto region several times, so it seems that it is not a big deal to have some pampering and slackness, after all, the confrontation is also a good situation. There are not many samurai who can persist in confronting the Kira army in this era, and perhaps this can become a show-off talk for Ashikaga Fujimasa at a tea party in the future.

But I didn't think that this gathering was very different from the previous ones, and there was no inheritance of the adopted son, which was hidden in the hearts of all the samurai, and where would so many Kanto people gather to come to the Furukawa Imperial Palace to watch him hold tea parties and wine banquets again and again, and listen to him boast at the banquet about how he was as brave as the Japanese martial arts.

The genealogy of the Furukawa family is silent throughout the whole process, and it is not a secret at all, as long as you are not blind, you can see that there is a serious problem within the Furukawa family, and in this way, you can still settle down to play at the bottom of the sea in the sky, and keep drinking and singing night and night to live a life of drunkenness.

The expenses for his food and clothing were not the money and food of the Furukawa family, they were all the hard-earned income saved by the Kwantung people bit by bit, and he was drinking the blood of the people to satisfy his desires. Perhaps he is also looking forward to the opportunity for the Kira family to take the initiative to seek peace in exchange for a dignified step down, and then he will be able to blow himself up as the number one Kanto general who is better than Hojo Shiyasu.

Most of the Satake retainers had a bad feeling for Ashikaga Fujimasa. They didn't know that there was a Kaneji in Tosa, thousands of miles away, who was such a strange character, and that was definitely a good thing, not a bad thing, and a genius who was proficient in everything, and ranked among the best in the one hundred and eight ways to break the family business.

Just when the Kwantung Nationalist coalition army quietly stirred up internal strife, Edo Castle Ohirori held a routine military meeting, Kira Yoshitomi made the pre-battle troop arrangements and arrangements, he appointed Sanada Yutakaka, who had come from reinforcements, as a deputy general to be responsible for the overall situation, and appointed Nagano Yoshimasa as the army to handle military affairs, arrange the march and various tactics.

Then he appointed Ueizumi Hidetsuna, who was born in Ueno Kuni, as a general, and led Ueno Shichihongun, Kohata Nobutada, Wada Yeshiro, and Anaka Tadanari to form a 3,000 army as the first move, which was the first time that Kira Yoshitomi was replaced with the vanguard of the main force of the non-Kira army, which was intended to consider the militarization and combat effectiveness of the Ueno Kuniren army.

After arranging the strategy of sending troops, Kira Yoshishi summoned a samurai with a special status, that is, the current governor of the Musashi Chiba clan, Chiba Yinzong, this person is well-dressed, twenty-six or seven, and his appearance is still extraordinary, this age is the peak of the samurai, but the adopted son of a bitter and hateful person subtracts points from the overall image.

After a set of procedures for worshipping him, Kira Yoshishi found that this person was a little stereotyped and pedantic, and when he saw Kira Yoshitoki, he was nervous and even stammered and couldn't speak, and every time he listened to his speech, he had to salute respectfully every time he was a little uncomfortable, and he probably felt that this was a sign of respect for Kira Yoshitoki.

"Uenosuke doesn't have to be too formal, and relaxing can make a samurai's mind more open-minded." Kira Yoshitoki picked up the folding fan and pointed to the Morimori Kobai outside the building, and said with a smile: "Looking at the scenery can cultivate sentiments, as a samurai, you should not be bound by rituals and killing, you should always have some higher pursuits, such as participating in meditation or studying tea ceremony and songs, etc." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness, for mentioning it, I understand! I'll definitely work hard when I go back! Chiba Yinzong's serious and serious answer made him a little helpless.

This Musashi Chiba clan is a family that split from the Chiba clan a hundred years ago, and this family is the Chiba clan lineage, the ancestor Chiba Nakabu Daisuke Yinken was originally the younger brother of the clan Chiba clan governor Chiba Yinnao, and followed his brother Chiba Yinzhi to rescue the young Ashikaga Nari clan from Kamakura, and then set up the new imperial palace in Furukawa Village, which was the Shimokoku of his own country, which can be described as a reinvention of the new prince who experienced the Eternal Peace.

It is because Entong's reinvention is too heavy that the other brothers are going to die. If the kindness is too great, then the only way to kill the benefactor is to rely on this kindness. What's more, the Ashikaga Narita clan, which has a strong desire for power, can't even tolerate Uesugi Kentada, the Kanto governor. How could he tolerate Chiba Yinnao, who lent a place to himself for temporary residence, so the Chiba clan was forced to join the Uesugi clan's anti-Cheng clan alliance, and the famous Xiangtoku Rebellion broke out.

So in February of the fourth year of Xiangde (1455), without warning, the Chiba family's genealogy family Lao Yuan Echigo Shouyinfang, suddenly launched a surprise attack on Chiba Yinnao's residence, and the unprepared Chiba Yinnao, his brother Chiba Yinxian, his sister-in-law Chiba Jieyinxuan, and the old Hiroshiji Shimono Mori Ren of the pen head of the spectrum were forced to scatter and flee.

The original Yinfang was supported by the Ashikaga Nari clan, which made its prestige unprestigious, and it had the meaning of replacing it. Three months after the Kanto governor Uesugi Kentada was killed, the Ashikaga Nari clan supported the original Yinfang to kill all the samurai including Chiba Yinnao, his younger brother Chiba Yinxian, and his sister-in-law Chiba Suke Yinxuan, leaving only Chiba Yinxian's two sons-in-law, Miyin, and Ziyinhukou to escape.

Later, the original Yinfang was not worried about these two remnants, and led the army to forcibly attack the two sons of Chiba Yinxian, and his attention was attracted by the Chiba clan elected by the Maga Kangyin, so that the two brothers on behalf of the Yanliu escaped from the tiger's mouth again, and the Majia Kangyin of the Shuliu was soon killed in battle, and then the eldest son of the Maga Kangyin, Iwahashi Fuyin, was elected as the governor of the Chiba clan, and his descendants are the current Chiba clan.

A catastrophe of the Chiba clan that wiped out the clan originated from the instigation of the Ashikaga Nari clan, and the family descendants died overnight, leaving only Chiba Yinxian's two minor sons. Although the two brothers later tried to regain the lost territory of the Shimogawa Kingdom, they failed due to their lack of strength and the obstruction of the Furukawa Principality.

From the point of view of de jure inheritance. The Musashi Chiba clan is the real Chiba clan, and the Iwahashi Chiba clan, which is a branch of the Chiba clan, is not competing for the title of the family governor at all, and the only thing that reverses the relationship between the two is the absolute strength gap, the Musashi Chiba clan has neither strength nor power, and belongs to the penniless trumpet people in the Musashi country, and belongs to the typical example of lack of food and clothing.

With the name of the Bandong Baping clan's descendants, but he didn't even have the ability to resist the clan, in a sense, and Dapeng Zhenguo was once forced by the Satake clan to a family governor heir, and the strength was too weak to resist the interference of practical interests, at this time, the name gradually disappeared, and the samurai began to inherit the name without talking about blood, and any messy background can inherit the famous family.

The collapse of the Warring States period lies in this, not only the collapse of the shogunate or a few famous families and heroes, but also the collapse of the samurai tradition of more than 400 years since Genpei, the collapse of the samurai tradition and order accumulated by many generations of samurai since the Heian period, and more importantly, the hearts of the world.

After listening to the century-old humiliation history of the Chiba clan, Kira Yoshitoki sighed: "The rebellion of the Warring States is chaotic in the samurai gradually do not know the law, do not know the dignity of the humiliation, when a samurai is no longer afraid of the majesty of the superior, no longer obey the orders of the shogunate, it means that the curtain of chaos in the world is slowly opened, there are too many samurai now are good at seeing the wind and the rudder, in recent years, there are some thieves who have taken a country from the next level, many young samurai will take this kind of person as an example, it can be seen how much the world has collapsed!" ”

Chiba Yinzong said indignantly: "There are fewer and fewer loyal and brave people, and there are more and more samurai families like Yuan Yinfang who expect to eliminate the Yanliu and seize the leadership of the Chiba clan......"

"Huh! Yinzong Hall doesn't have to think too much...... Let's talk about something else. Kira Yoshishi secretly scolded me to wipe it, his sniping on Furukawa Ashikaga Fujimasa this time was to seize his position, and according to his statement, wouldn't he have to go down, of course, I'm afraid no one dares to say it.

Which pot is not opened and which pot is mentioned, the most frustrating thing for him is that he is clearly against the lower Keshang, but he himself is going to take the road of "going down the Keshang", of course, with the name of the Ashikaga family he is now using and the support of the imperial shogunate, there is no so-called problem of the lower Keshang, at most it is to enter the half-grid to change the "fake" Ashikaga into the real Ashikaga.

But in the next step, he still has to attack the Ashikaga shogun's family, or it is inevitable that he will be defeated, which makes Kira Yoshitoki feel very depressed and distressed, Ashikaga Yoshiki has a great favor to him, and he himself has sworn to be absolutely loyal to him and his descendants, and he will not dare to rebel against this person if he is given ten dares, wouldn't it be to learn from Li Shimin and let future generations take this as an example.

The power of example is endless, and when the first low-level samurai succeeds, more and more examples will emerge and more people will be willing to follow suit, and this trend will cause great harm to the stability and order of the shogunate, which is what Kira Yoshitomi fears the most, and the terrible thing that ten people dare not be afraid of.

The old-fashioned and dogmatic of the Chiba Yinzong was a great inspiration to Kira Yoshishi, he never thought that he would change from anti-gram to play under the gram himself, and secretly said in his heart: "This is very bad!" How could Yu do such a rebellious thing, wouldn't he have to completely lose his face? Yu can't make this bad example, and he can't let his reputation be seriously damaged. ”

For Kira Yoshitoki, good credit and reputation are more important than anything, as for whether a hypocrite is not considered at all, being a samurai daimyo is like being a powerful minister or a politician, naivety and naivety will only make them die faster, Minamoto Yoritomo and Ashikaga Takashi have both killed their younger brothers, and the earlier generations of pillars either broke with their relatives or fathers and sons waved knives at each other, and such a thing as Yoshiri never existed.

At first, the samurai's blood flowed with the element of violence, until the Kamakura shogunate taught that the Muromachi shogunate was gradually forming a complete political system, and Kira Yoshitoki was the closest member to the top of this system, and the channel he could rise to was actually very narrow, nothing more than those few ways to achieve his ulterior goals.

"Now that I think about it, Monk Suifeng said that Yu is Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knows it, but I'm afraid that there is still a layer of ridicule hidden in it, right?" Ji Liangyi was dripping with cold sweat on his forehead, and he didn't feel that his clothes were wet with sweat, he was really a little afraid that if he continued to make such a fuss, his genealogy retainers would forcibly support him as a general, just like the Song Taizu Chen Qiao Mutiny, if he really did this, would he be able to sleep peacefully in the future?

"It must not be like this! The family would rather wait for that big change to make a decision! (To be continued......)