In the first month of the third year of Eiroku, it was particularly cold in this snow-filled winter, and even the warm and humid Kinai was hit by a series of heavy snowfalls, and the Settsu country, which used to only fall wet and cold rain, was hit by a long-lost blizzard.

Miyoshi Changqing this winter is not pleasant, Hanoi Kunihatakeyama Takamasa is like a dog skin plaster stuck to him and can't get rid of it, if you want to hit him, hide and seek, if you don't hit him, you will jump up and down to make trouble, tossing back and forth Miyoshi family Many samurai are exhausted, this year's war is also like this, Hatakeyama Takamasa saw that the Miyoshi army was back, and without saying a word, he retreated back to Hanoi with the army.

Hatakeyama Takamasa found a beautiful reason, he had no more demands after the end of the war in Kyoto, and it was his ambition to recover the country of Hanoi, and he also rebuked Miyoshi Nagakei for the sins of Kyoto, half of Kyoto was invaded by the war, and how many Buddhist temples and ancient temples were destroyed in his hands, which was worse than the battle of Funaokama Ouchi Yoshixing, which can almost be compared with the Tuichi rebellion after the Cargill Rebellion.

Hearing such a disgusting rebuke, Miyoshi Nagakei couldn't wait to screw off Hatakeyama Takamasa's head and kick it away, if it weren't for the Miyoshi family suffering a big loss in Kyoto and only getting a little consolation prize, he would definitely launch a conquest against Hanoi at all costs, the current situation is obviously very unfavorable to the Miyoshi family, forcing him to only endure this evil breath, and the right to be Hatakeyama Takamasa This guy does not exist.

When the Miyoshi family saw the Hatakeyama army retreat and return to Hanoi, although they reprimanded Hatakeyama Takamasa for his bad behavior of fleeing without a fight, they were actually relieved that Hatakeyama Takamasa ran back without saying a word. The Miyoshi Army had just experienced the battle of Los Angeles and China all summer. There were more than 10,000 soldiers who died in Kyoto. Therefore, the number of wounded was as high as sixteen,000.

In fact, the battle damage only represents one aspect, and more importantly, the Miyoshi army was hit by a sudden rebellion, and the bad influence of the Kira family's sudden seizure of Kaga half of the country, which greatly dampened the morale of tens of thousands of soldiers of the Miyoshi family.

Munekatsu Naito led 6,000 remnants of his army back to Tamba Province to clean up his mess, mainly due to the troubles caused by Hatano Harumi, the largest force in Tamba. This change is not the first time that Hatano Harumi has acted, in the past seven years, the Hatano family has almost every year to make some noise, Naito Munekatsu has also led the army to fight with the Hatano family several times, and the reason why this time brought 10,000 Tanba national army instead of more is because of Hatano Harumi's refusal to cooperate.

At the end of September, Naito Munekatsu defeated the Hatano army in the Fifth Battle of Yagami Castle, and shot an arrow at the general Hatano Harumi to cause the arrow to fall from his horse, and the morale of the Hatano army collapsed, and Naito Munekatsu attacked and killed Hagami Castle, and forced the Hatano clan to abandon the Hagami Castle where they had lived for generations. And Hatano Harumi also died on the way to escape because of a recurrence of angry and angry arrow sores.

The new governor of the new family, Hideharu Hatano, was only twenty years old, but he was a samurai with excellent martial arts and hastily buried his father. With the help of the retainers of the spectrum dynasty, Akai Naomasa, Shikai Kyoye, Akai Yuki, and Araki Clan, he led an army to raid Yagami Castle, and drove the careless Naito Munekatsu back to Yagi Castle in one fell swoop.

After this back-and-forth military conflict, the local forces of Tanba represented by Hideji Hatano completely tore their faces with the Miyoshi family, and the fierce resistance of Hideharu Hatano was strongly supported by the people of Tanba, and many people who had in-laws with the Hatano clan united under the banner of this young man in Hagami Castle and actively resisted the tough rule of Naito Sokatsu, and for a time the army of Hagami Castle had more than 10,000 people.

After several fierce battles, Naito Sokatsu's army had dropped to less than 5,000 people, and he had no choice but to give up his plan to rush to Tanba and retreat back to Yagi Castle to pose for a long-term confrontation.

Bessho Yasuharu of Higashi-Harima was also a warrior of great martial arts, he was eight years older than Hideharu Hatano, and the Bessho family had suffered a defeat to Miyoshi Yoshiken a few years ago, and the entire Bessho clan and even all the people of Higashi-Harima were haunted by the defeat in that battle, and they had a hundred reasons to justify their defeat.

One of the most important is that he didn't expect the Miyoshi family to attack Higashi-Harima from the waterway at the same time. Before that, the Miyoshi family did not reveal any intentions against Harima, and the people of Harima were busy with infighting and did not think that they would be invaded, and they were suddenly killed by the army led by Miyoshi Yoshiken, the general of the Miyoshi Army, into Harima Country, and such a quick and decisive attack made the Harima Water Army generals Kajiwara Shigeemon did not have time to react, and Higashi Harima was suddenly suppressed by Miyoshi Yoshiken.

The unsuspecting people of the East Harima country suffered a big loss as soon as they came up, and the army was forced to breathe by the successive armies before it could be convened, and the army that each family urgently convened was only two or three tenths of the overall strength, and could only take hundreds of samurai to cage the city to defend the city, but the helpless Miyoshi Yoshiken was too cunning, and he actually promised a lot of small and medium-sized people a group of leading parties, which made a major mistake in the internal defense of the East Harima, and finally lost all the wrong moves.

This time, Bessho Yasuharu, who had just inherited the family governor, was fighting against the Miyoshi family with a heart of revenge, and quietly summoned military service before the Miyoshi family launched the Rakuchu War, and raided several traitors belonging to the Miyoshi family in Harima Province at the most intense moment of the Rakuchu War, killing them one by one and announcing that they would break away from the control of the Miyoshi family and return to the banner of the Akamatsu clan.

His statement was supported by all the people of Harima, including the powerful man of Nishi-Harima, Uno Shimono Mamoru Masahide, who was the governor of the Tatsuno Akamatsu clan and called himself the Uno clan, and was the son-in-law of the former governor of the Akamatsu clan, Akamatsu Harumasa, because at this time the Akamatsu clan was fighting against the family governor, and the former governor Akamatsu Harumasa and the current family governor Akamatsu Yoshisuke were inseparable.

As a result of the confrontation between father and son, the people of the three kingdoms of Bizen, Misaku, and Harima also chose sides with their respective positions, and the enemies must be that if you support the former family governor, I will support the current family governor, and Uno Masahide happens to have a bad relationship with the family where Besho Yasuji is located. The people of Higashi-Harima Province, where the Bessho clan is located, are die-hard supporters of the current governor Yoshisuke Akamatsu. In recent years, relations between the two sides have also reached an impasse as the competition for governor of the Akamatsu family heats up.

But since the invasion of the Miyoshi family, everything has been interrupted. Akamatsu Harumasa and Akamatsu Yoshiyu, the living treasure father and son, also felt that the powerful Miyoshi family was coveted on the side, and it was not appropriate for them to continue to make trouble because of the pressure at home, so they invited Bizen, Misaku, and Harima to discuss countermeasures against the Miyoshi family.

Not only did he get the support of these two people, but he also got the political position of a small temple in Harima Kunichu, known as one of the three families of Akamatsu, and Miki Toaki, a powerful retainer of the lineage. The strong support of Bizen guardian Daiuragami Masamune, Matsuda Motoki, and Mimasaka guardian Dainakamura Yumune was partly due to the fear that the Miyoshi family would interfere in the affairs of the Akamatsu family, but even more so because of the huge influence exerted by the Kira family behind the scenes.

Without the Kira family behind the scenes, the all-pervasive Kira ninjas and the Kira envoys who were moving everywhere were constantly intimidated and lured to forcibly pinch together this group of Akamatsu retainers who had been divided for many years, and these people who had been divided and independent for more than 20 years gathered again in Zhishio Castle, their purpose was to repel the powerful Miyoshi family.

Akamatsu Harumasa and Akamatsu Yoshisuke, the living treasure father and son, sat together again, looking at a room of faces that they hadn't seen for many years, and at the same time surprised by the strong influence of the Kira family. As the saying goes, sake is popular, wealth is moving, and no one knows how strong the military strength of the Kira family is. Even the battle on the banks of the Tettori River in the southern part of Kaga Province was not enough to frighten them, after all, there was a huge quagmire between the east and the west.

But the economic strength of the Kira family was highlighted at this moment, and the Yongle money worth 10,000 pieces of gold was placed in front of the ministers, but in the face of the Kira ninja who did not kill people invisibly, no one dared to move for half a minute, let alone rob the money, and the ghost knows if the consequence of the robbery is to wake up tomorrow and move his head.

The meeting lasted only half an hour before a resolute decision against Miyoshi was quickly passed, and Yoshisuke Akamatsu immediately decided to resolutely resist the invasion of the Miyoshi clan by Harima, Misaku, and Bizen, and stated that the Akamatsu clan had no intention of getting involved in the Rebellion, but only resisted the rude invasion of the Miyoshi family, and that the people of the three kingdoms would resolutely resist the Miyoshi family's invasion, and if there was a contradiction, the samurai of the three kingdoms would fight against it.

At the same time, he made a proposal to support Hideharu Hatano, who was fighting against the three good parties in Tanba, and Yoshisuke Akamatsu was determined to win over the powerful lord of the neighboring country and marry his own sister to Hideharu Hatano in order to strengthen the ties between the two sides, and at the same time find a strong supporter for himself in Tanba Province, which was a great idea.

Akamatsu Harumasa did not refute his son's proposal, he also felt that it was a very good thing to have a son-in-law who had most of the control of Tanba, so he quickly married under the intermediary of the Kira family's envoy, Uno Masahide felt that having a brother-in-law might be able to provide him with some unexpected help, while Bessho Yasuji slowly thought about how to strengthen the relationship with the Hatano family in the future, and this proposal was approved without hesitation in the hearts of people from all walks of life.

At first glance, the Harima Akamatsu clan seems to have the intention of taking advantage of the Kira family's matchmaking against the Miyoshi family to come back to life, but the Akamatsu family and the people of the country who went out on their own and were forcibly pulled over, but they knew very well that the Akamatsu clan was like a terminally ill old man, and many paralysis had already accumulated and it was difficult to return, and one more Hatano Hideji would only make the muddy pond even more chaotic.

If Hideharu Hatano is smart enough, he will definitely try to maintain a neutral attitude on Harima's things, instead of rushing to support which side and trapping himself in it, this change is even less likely to change the fact that the Akamatsu clan is in decline, and decay is decay that cannot be reversed with a little blessing from an external force.

At least this external force is not strong enough to ignore everything and change everything, Akamatsu Harumasa and Akamatsu Yoshisuke are not the kind of family governors with amazing talents, they can still relax and run their own small kingdom, but before that, one more premise needs to be added, that is, to defeat the invading army of the Miyoshi family......

Thinking of this, many of the Western Samurai present showed a strange smile that you know and I understand. (To be continued......)

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