Chapter 82: The Situation at the End of Winter (Second Update)
An unpleasant winter, which spread from Kyoto to the whole of and everyone fell into a strange mind, Mitsuki is different from Ouchi Yoshiko a few decades ago, he has a naval army that dominates Osaka Bay, the Shikoku people across the sea, and even more ambitions than Ouchi Yoshiko, whether it is the Hosokawa family or the Hatakeyama family, they will become puppets in his hands.
The people in Kinai don't know if Miyoshi Nagakei will exile this general like the previous governors, and then re-establish a new general, at least there is a precedent to follow, Ashikaga Yoshinori in Hirashima was taken out by Hosokawa Harumoto more than ten years ago to set up a Sakai Gongfang, although it was abandoned because Hosokawa Harumoto and Ashikaga Yoshiharu were reconciled, but this person is still in the hands of the Miyoshi family, with this time bomb, it has to make the ministers of Kyoto and the important ministers of the shogunate feel worried.
The Minister of the Interior, Konoe Harushiro, went to Omi Sakamoto to visit his uncle Ashikaga Yoshiharu, and brought the intention of the imperial court, which hoped that the shogunate would send someone to contact Mitsuki to see if they could reach a harmony first, at least not for the time being, and everyone would have a peaceful New Year, of course, it would be better if a long-term harmony could be reached, and Konoe Haruhi was trying to try this possibility.
Before he arrived, he had reached a tacit agreement with Ashikaga Yoshito, the shogunate's minister, so coming here was completely a formality, what else can you think about the great imperial palace being recuperating? Of course, it was agreed that everything was acceptable, and even the flower monogram of the Great Imperial Palace was handed over to Konoe Haruko's aunt Keigotai for safekeeping, which means that I am going to recuperate now, and you decide these things yourself.
So before the New Year's Day, the shogunate formed a mission with great efficiency, led by the shogunate's diplomatic master Odate Harumitsu, who adhered to the network of interpersonal relationships accumulated from his father Odate Tsuneko, and for more than 30 years he worked diligently for the shogunate to do diplomatic work, it can be said that he has connections all over, and when he goes out to buy vegetables, he can meet ten or eight people who say hello, and he is definitely one of the best envoys of the shogunate.
However, they soon became disappointed, and Mitsuki was very polite to the embassy composed of Konoe Haruhi of the Imperial Court and Odate Harumitsu of the Shogunate, and it was a good reception of wine and food, good singing and dancing performances, and talking about ancient and modern customs, in short, he did not talk about the main topic, and he was not interested in talking about harmony at all.
In the end, it was Konoe Haruhi who couldn't help but raise the issue of harmony, but Mitsuki's younger brother Miyoshi Yoshiken put forward very harsh conditions, asking the shogunate to recognize the management of the Hosokawa clan, recognize the management of Miyoshi Nagakei and hold the corresponding replacement ceremony, Miyoshi Nagakei, Miyoshi Yoshiken, Tokawa Ichiku, and Ataku Fuyasu asked to serve as the imperial companion, and the public and the shogunate's financial power must be assigned to Mitsuki, and Miyoshi Nagakei's son-in-law Miyoshi Sunjiro made a marriage contract with the daughter who married Ashikaga Yoshiharu.
It is said that as soon as these words were thrown, they immediately became cold, and it was a stalemate for a quarter of an hour before Konoe Haruki hurriedly ended after embarrassingly throwing down two sentences, and when Ashikaga Yoshito received such harsh conditions of harmony, he immediately became furious, scolded Mitsuki as a thief in rebellion, ordered the samurai of the world to crusade against him, and vowed to expel Mitsuki and revitalize the shogunate.
Then the negotiations collapsed, and with the secret spread of these harsh conditions, the new shogunate's vow to "expel Mitsuki and revitalize the shogunate" also became a new topic in Kyoto, Mitsuki didn't seem to care about the little general's temper in Jishoji Temple outside Kyoto, he was proud at this time, the Miyoshi family turned from a local tyrant to the leader of the hegemony, and he single-handedly completed the great cause that the Miyoshi family had dared not imagine for generations, how could he not be proud?
He took Matsunaga Hide's suggestion and gradually slowed down the pace of the Shikoku headquarters' invasion of Iyo, gradually shrinking the power within Shikoku, and prepared for a suitable opportunity next year to officially move his residence to Kyoto as a means of establishing his authority over, and the entire Miyoshi family was busy with this goal.
This winter in was very unpleasant, but the people of the Kanto region were also very happy, and it was obvious that the people of the Kanto region had fully learned the lessons of the defeat of the night battle of Kawagoe, and this time they learned very smartly, and as the leader of the people of the southern Musashi country, and also the most staunch anti-Hojo Shishimasa, the opinions put forward by Ota Shimasa were fully respected, and the head of the Kwantung people coalition army no longer had the stupid man of Uesugi Kenmasa pointing fingers, and the overall strategy was carried out in an orderly manner.
Speaking of the Kanto leader Uesugi Kenmasa who can't support the wall in the mud, he originally planned to be the leader of the Kwantung Coalition this time, but unfortunately the Kwantung people have nothing to say about this waste wood leader, and now he is a disaster star that everyone hides, and the night battle of Kawagoe was beaten like that, and he directly killed the Ogiya Uesugi family and completely lost the Musashi country, and the Kwantung people almost lost their pants.
The next year, he was killed by Takeda Harunobu in Odaithara, and the blood flowed like a river, leaving behind more than 3,000 corpses of Nishiueno and running back to Hirai Castle.
Although Uesugi Kenmasa jumped up and down to contact him everywhere, neither the Nishiueno nor the Musashi people did not bird him much, and those people who were originally not in charge of the Kanto region now ignored him, and even Uesugi Kenmasa's relatives, the Tokiro Satake clan, ignored him, and Uesugi Kenmasa, who had turned around and did not get any benefits, had to stop fighting.
The coalition forces of Imagawa and Takeda only appeared in Kanto in late autumn and disappeared, saying only that they came to Kanto simply to cheer for the Sagami Hojo family, and the Kwantung coalition laughed at that time, aren't the three of you bullish? Why are they all wilted now?
Compared with the hiding and hiding of the side of the first Xiangjun, the momentum of the Kwantung coalition army can be called powerful, since the beginning of the autumn, the Kwantung people have gathered more and more, and unconsciously reached 115,000 troops gathered in Musashi country, the consequences of the army pressing the border are terrible, especially after the Kwantung people learned a lesson, it is more difficult to deal with, and soon about 50,000 Kwantung coalition troops in the north surrounded the Kawagoe Castle that once made them suffer a big loss.
After holding on to the fortified castle of the Hojo family for more than a month, it finally ended at the end of November that it could not bear the siege of the army and declared it lost, and the nearly sixty-year-old Jodai Daido Temple Shengchang personally piled up firewood and set fire to the castle tower, the lord of Kawagoe Castle, and the Daidoji clan shared the castle guard 35 people who killed themselves during the period, and his son Daidoji Shigetsu broke away on the eve of the castle break, and fled back to Odawara Castle overnight under the escort of die-hard samurai.
Unfavorable news came one after another, Edo Castle was attacked by Ota, Satomi, Chiba, Satake, Oda, Yuuki, etc., and the army composed of the people of the southern Kanto country, and Edo Castle was finally breached, and Toyama Tsunade was not as good as his hometown Governor Dadao Temple Shengchang, he abandoned the city and fled very spinelessly, and before leaving, he also ordered his brother Toyama Yasumitsu to set fire to this famous Kanto castle built by Ota Michigan, and then fled back to Odawara Castle with his relatives.
With the fall of Kawagoe Castle in the north of Musashi Province and Edo Castle in the south, it is equivalent to the opening of the gate of the entire Musashi Kingdom, and the entire Musashi Kingdom is exposed to the eyes of the people of the Kanto Kingdom.
Then the first snow fell in the Kanto region, the war stalled, the Kanto people disbanded their forces and returned to their territories, this time the Kanto coalition army invaded the Hojo side and gained a lot of benefits, the grain of the autumn harvest, the population of Musashi were all they needed, the Kanto earthquake just ended, a large number of peasants abandoned the land and fled in various places, which brought great difficulties to the entire Kanto, but this war gave them an excuse to plunder the population.
The Hojo family also tried to take advantage of the wind and snow to attack, but Minami Musashi's Ota Shimasa and Nishiueno's Nagano Yemasa coincidentally took precautions, so the Hojo family only captured a few branch cities in the winter The counterattack of the labor division can be said to be more than worth the loss, and the Kwantung people also targeted the wealthy clans who resisted the army in the stubborn cage city, and the population in the territory of these wealthy clans was robbed clean, and it can be said that the losses were heavy.
Although the Kwantung Coalition made a windfall, it was all far from the end of the war, and the heavy snow in winter only put an end to this Kanto chaos, and both the Kwantung Coalition and the Hojo side understood that the coming year would be the main event.
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