Ashikaga Yoshiki laughed three times, and then rushed into the battle with a sword in his hand, the dazzling sword light flickered and exuded the chill of death, strolling between the sword light and sword shadows, the flesh and blood flew sideways and shattered, even if the hands slashed horizontally, it was like that leisurely strolling in their own garden, with a little confidence and dashing killing, the Miyoshi Army samurai lost their armor and lost their armor and suffered countless casualties.

General Jianhao is worthy of being a heroic figure taught by two generations of sword saints, Taidao even waved his hands and feet to kill people invisibly, and he was young and strong, and his strength far exceeded that of the old and decrepit sword saint Shangquan Hidetsuna, swinging a knife and slashing seven or eight samurai in a row still breathed smoothly without showing a trace of fatigue, and his superb swordsmanship and invincible power were not trivial, and for a time no one could control the invincible shogun.

"His Royal Highness Gongfang's swordsmanship has reached its peak, and it is more than enough to be the ancestor of the founding sect, but it's a pity that ......"

Kamiizumi Hidetsuna sat under the porch and panted slowly, sighing that the years were not as brave and strong as ten years ago, and that the Hojo Army, which he could still kill in the Takayama Battle for ten years, was defeated and retreated, but ten years later he was reduced to slashing and killing dozens of people and was tired of retreating to rest.

Keishouin quietly watched his son fight and couldn't see the joy and sorrow, the rosary in his hand kept slowly turning all the time, the life of the fifty-five-year-old woman this year was full of drama, the first half of her life was a collection of thousands of favors in one of the princesses of the Konoe family, married to Ashikaga Yoshiharu has been spent in exile, and finally survived until his son grew up to become a general, and her husband died in a hurry.

Then there was a sharp turn all the way to a good life, and the revitalization of the shogunate once restored her vision of a better life in the future, and after a few years, the good life caused conflicts. Her son, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, had a conflict with another Ashikaga Yoshitoki, whom she and her husband valued. The shogunate will go to Echigo and find his own way out. After more than ten years of estrangement, she could barely maintain the balance of the shogunate, and by this time she had realized that the shogunate was abnormal.

It's a pity that Ashikaga Yoshiteru has grown up, and she is no longer the child who obeyed her more than ten years ago, and she doesn't need her mother's care when her wings are hard and she learns to go out to forage for food, she can only watch her son corrupt the good situation in front of her again and again, and let the authority of the shogunate decline and then embark on an evil path that will never recover, all of which she has already vaguely expected.

The dead of Keishouin held a rosary. Finally, he couldn't hold back his tears and wept in a low voice: "Child! You've only woken up to this day, but it's too late! It's too late......"

Ashikaga Yoshiki slashed another sword, and several samurai around him were overjoyed to see this, and pounced without saying a word, but they didn't prevent Ashikaga Yoshiki from hiding the sword at his waist from suddenly unsheathed, and a move swept a thousand sabers like a match, and only one slash swept the stunned samurai in half, and the sword couldn't bear the fierce strength and discounted it again.

Miyoshi didn't know that this person was Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and when he saw him wielding a knife and killing people like chopping melons and vegetables, he couldn't help but feel a sense of fear and cowardice in his heart. The influx of three good sergeants was already small in number, and the formation was not in order, and several generals were in decline. The public risked their lives to protect the left and right wings to provide him with an excellent opportunity to perform his swordsmanship.

General Jianhao's extraordinary performance can only be suppressed for a while, but he can't help the Miyoshi soldiers to be overwhelming, Ashikaga Yoshiki can't stop the enemy from all directions even if he has three heads and six arms, and General Jianhao slashed a few famous knives to kill dozens of samurai, but still can't stop the fierce attack of the surging Miyoshi sergeant, taking advantage of the moment when the sword in his hand was cut off again, several samurai suddenly roared and put on a collision posture to launch a joint assault on him.

This time it almost took his life, the four people were fan-shaped surrounded from the top, middle and bottom three ways at the same time, but Ashikaga Yoshiteru couldn't react because of the frequent vicious fights, and he couldn't withdraw from the range of the joint attack at the first time, and hurriedly raised his hand to block the two knives but couldn't block the remaining two knives, Yagyu Soyan and Hayashi Sasuke and others were surrounded by the enemy and were powerless to rescue, and Kamizumi Hidetsuna only had time to shout: "Your Royal Highness be careful!" ”

A quick shout instantly disrupted the tacit cooperation of the samurai of the Miyoshi Army, and the four of them were stunned for a moment, only to find that the fierce enemy in front of them turned out to be the shogunate Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and it was inevitable that his heart was shaken and his heart was fearful.

This stunned god gave Ashikaga Yoshiki the opportunity to fight back, and the sword slashed and slashed the four people with a fierce swing, but he still didn't prevent one of them from desperately counterattacking, and slashed Ashikaga Yoshiki's shoulder with a knife, which was the first and only trauma he received since he was a child, and the general's injury inevitably shook the morale of the army, and the more the public fought, the less the army was discouraged, and gradually gave up resistance and retreated back to the palace to do the final counterattack.

At this time, the offensive outside the palace became more and more urgent, seeing that the sun was about to set and the hour was not enough, in a hurry, Matsunaga lined up more than ten large and small military drums, and erected dozens of large flags in the front, ordering the small surname to personally go into battle to beat the drums to help, more than ten young and strong samurai beat the military drum rumbling and vibrating, urging the army to be faster and faster.

The gate of the palace was finally knocked open by the force, and the continuous influx of Miyoshi troops became more and more, and the excited Ashigaru yelled and screamed into the palace, but a group of black-clothed ninjas jumped out of the corner of the woods, and they threw a net to cover the gap in the door, and then several ninjas threw out a fire oil clay pot filled with sulfur and rosin mixture, and a fire fold was thrown out, and in a blink of an eye, the front of the door fell into a sea of fire, and the samurai who were bound in the rope were powerless to break free, and they screamed and wailed in the flames and burned into a pile of charcoal.

At the same time, dozens of ninjas performed stunt assassination techniques, Shenzhun thousand darts such as rainstorm pear blossoms, small sword against sword and other non-mainstream weapons all appeared, as well as the chain flying sickle used by Hattori Homoto, throwing a scythe to hook the samurai's neck and then forcibly drag it back, usually the samurai will be cut by the scythe halfway through the throat and die.

Hattori Baocho suddenly appeared with two hundred ninjas to turn the tide of the war, and at this time, Ashikaga Yoshiteru's big armor was already covered in blood, and he was sitting on the corridor in embarrassment to do bandaging, and the little attendant knelt beside him in distress and carefully smeared the knife wound powder on it, and the strong sword hero general did not show a weak expression from beginning to end.

The gorgeous armor was taken off and thrown aside, and it didn't make much sense to wear armor again after fighting to this point. Besides, this kind of large armor lacks protection, and it is not very useful to keep it. Several maids came over with wooden basins filled with warm water and towels. Wipe the sweat and stains from the shogun's body, and the shogun must maintain a flawless image at all times and in all places.

It's not that Ashikaga Yoshiteru likes hypocrisy, but out of Shogun Genji's instinct to maintain his majesty, he meticulously adheres to his beliefs even before he dies, which is the so-called stubbornness of the famous family.

Hattori Chief Guard knelt down and bowed his head on the ground, and said expressionlessly: "Hattori Iwami Mori Chief Guards meet His Royal Highness the General, and respectfully ask His Royal Highness the General to evacuate the palace as soon as possible, so that when he recovers, he will be able to recover in the future." ”

Seeing that his demeanor was not so respectful. Ashikaga Yoshiteru didn't think it was angry, but smiled lightly and said, "Iwami Mamoru is the monomi of the Yoshitoki family, right?" Yu remembers seeing it once before, hard work Ishimi Mamoru risked his life to come here to see Yu for the last time, I like this Nijo Imperial House very much, so you don't have to leave! ”

"Your Royal Highness, Iwami is here to save you! Why are you reluctant to go? Hidetsuna Kamiizumi was a little anxious, and the hopeful shogunate ministers were also hit hard.

Ashikaga Yoshiki didn't care, and still said lightly: "Go? Where to go? A group of remnants of soldiers in the palace were defeated, how did the old and weak women and children go? The gates on both sides are closed, and they are surrounded by heavy circles. ”

Mibuchi Fujiei knelt down with a puff. begged bitterly: "If you forcibly break through, the Sanhao Army will not dare to stop it to the death!" Please go with His Royal Highness! It's okay to leave it to us here! ”

"No need. Yu has already made up his mind to die here, with the bustling Kyoto as the seat, and the blue sky and white clouds as the house, it is not in vain to live this life! Ashikaga Yoshiki looked at the sunset intently, and laughed: "Look, gentlemen! It's a good sunset, it's a good time to die! ”

"Your Highness! You can't die! Woo woo woo ...... "The ministers knelt on the ground and beat their chests and cried, crying bitterly while cursing their incompetence to kill the general, several old ministers simply rolled their eyes and cried and fainted, and the maids hiding in the corner also wept, and the little surnames were in tears, and the scene was very bleak and tragic.

Jinshi Qingshe suddenly stood up and knelt down on the open ground, and said regretfully: "It's all the incompetence of the subordinates, and they can't see the ambitions of the wolf son of the Miyoshi Army, so they brought back the news that they intended to withdraw from the army, and they learned that the Miyoshi Army was just perfunctory and coaxed the subordinates, so that the sergeant was unprepared to meet the fierce battle, and the crimes of the subordinates could not be atoned, and I implore His Royal Highness to grant seppuku!" ”

"...... of the Harukato Palace" Ashikaga Yoshiki looked at the resolute posture of the Jinshi Haruha, and sighed: "Yu understands, it's better to take a step first in the Harisha Hall......

"Father! You...... You! The little attendant covered his mouth and looked at him in astonishment, but when he saw that Jinshi Qingshe just glanced at him, he pulled out his ribs and stabbed him in the abdomen with a loud roar, and said with a red face: "Your Majesty...... Go first...... For His Royal Highness...... Go to Huangquan and talk about the way! ”

"Father!" The little attendant shouted and fainted on the spot, the maids hurriedly took the little attendant to the palace to rest, and the public hurriedly found a few reed mats to cover the body of the Jinshi Qingshe, the road ahead is difficult and unpredictable, and the samurai have no extra sympathy to take care of a dead samurai, it is a good treatment to be able to cover the noodles with the reed mat, and they themselves don't know whether they will enjoy the treatment of the reed mat after death.

Hattori Baochang watched the tragedy in the palace with a cold eye, and said calmly: "One step late, I delayed a little time to rescue the palace and the two princesses just now, since His Royal Highness the general is not leaving, then please let the family members withdraw from the palace first!" ”

Ashikaga Yoshiki breathed a sigh of relief and said with a little gratitude, "It turns out that Kenko and the children have already escaped?" That's fine! Then ask Iwami Mamoru to rescue Yu's mother and Mrs. Jinshi in the side room! ”

"The poor nun is not ready to leave...... Keishouin shook his head and said, "Let the little attendant escape by himself!" ”

"Mother, ......" Ashikaga Yoshiki just wanted to persuade a few words, when he saw the maid hurriedly running over and whispering a few words, his face turned pale and sighed: "The little attendant's stomach seems to have some abnormal reactions, and I'm afraid I won't be able to escape smoothly...... Is it really Heaven that wants to destroy my Ashikaga family? ”

Hidetsuna Kamiizumi pleaded, "His Royal Highness! Please still ......"

Ashikaga Yoshiki interrupted with a wave of his hand and said bitterly: "Needless to say, Yu is also a failed general who escapes." It's better to stay here and die a heroic death...... Isemoru can go! You are not a retainer of the shogunate and should not stay here. The mission you performed has been accomplished. This is Yu's order, let's go quickly! ”

The sword saint Kamizumi Hidetsuna hesitated for a moment, and when he saw that he was resolute, he had to sigh and said: "In the age of old age, I am fortunate to be able to teach His Royal Highness Gongfang's swordsmanship in the shogunate, and I am always grateful for the grace of receiving the salary. ”

Hidetsuna Kamizumi knelt on the ground and bowed three times. With the worship of the gods and Buddha's five bodies to the ground, Yagyu Soyan, Okuyama Suga Sai, Shioka Kazuha, Kikita Keikakane, Hayazaki Shisuke, Komagawa Kuniyoshi and other sword heroes also bowed down three times, and then got up and bowed and dragged the remnants of the body slowly retreated, in a secret point guarded by ninjas There is a secret passage leading to the outside of the city, this secret passage is the secret door left by the Ina Tadashi family, one of the castle building commissioners, when Ashikaga Yoshinori undertook the task of building the Nijo Imperial Palace.

Ashikaga Yoshiki stared at the motionless ninja and asked strangely, "Why hasn't Iwami Moriden left yet?" ”

"My lord had long anticipated the changes in Kyoto, and had given him a secret decree to act cheaply." Hattori's eyes flickered, and he whispered, "I dare to ask His Royal Highness the Shogun to transfer the sacred relics of the shogunate's heirs......

"Bold!" Mibuchi Fujiying took the case and scolded angrily: "What kind of lord has what kind of retainers. Ashikaga sits on the eastern kingdom but is still not satisfied, and wants to seize the heirs of my shogunate. I, Fuji Ying, have reason to doubt whether your lord is involved in this conspiracy to usurp the throne! ”

Hattori Chief didn't pay attention to Mibuchi Fujiei at all, and said respectfully: "Does His Royal Highness the General know why the Miyoshi Army stopped attacking at this time?" ”

The ministers suddenly realized that the military drum outside the palace suddenly stopped, and a group of ninja soldiers from the Kanto Ashikaga family set fire to the palace and threw some hidden weapons to kill the rebels in the palace, but it did not block the attack outside the palace. ”

Hattori said: "Before noon, Nakajo Tokihide led 6,000 troops out of Yamashiro Province, and at the moment when the Nijo Imperial Palace was under attack, launched an attack on the shogun Yamajo Castle on Mt. Guabu, and the governor of the Miyoshi family, Miyoshi Yoshitsuji, urgently ordered the 3,000 Miyoshi army of Kyoto Aikoji Temple to go outside the castle to rescue Shogun Yamajo, and at the same time, the 3,000 members of Jishoji Temple, under the leadership of the Akechi Hinata Moriden, raided the Miyoshi army outside the Imperial Palace, and the Miyoshi Sanko were caught off guard and were busy cleaning up the fire in the backyard at this time. ”

The main force of the Miyoshi trio was divided into two groups, the Matsunaga army of Matsunaga and Naito Munekatsu who was full of resentment to attack the city, and the No. 3 trio army who sat behind and waved the flag and shouted to enjoy its success, the latter was obviously more powerful by the former, and Ashikaga Yoshiaki temporarily changed his hexagram to support the Miyoshi trio because of their strong forces.

It's good to hide behind and enjoy it, but the consequence of this is that the Miyoshi trio will hand over their backs to the enemy defenselessly, and Akechi Mitsuhide will act as such a sharp knife to stab into the back of the Miyoshi trio, which can be called the elite 3,000 heroes The combat effectiveness of the proud Awa people does not let the proud Awa people do this, this is the essence of Ashikaga Yoshiteru's hard work to maintain in the financially constrained years, and it is easy to deal with the Miyoshi army composed of the slightly inferior people of Settsu and Yamashiro countries.

Since Akechi Mitsuhide received the secret order, he quickly exerted his efforts to secretly win over all the guards in the Cizhao Temple, and with his many years of reputation and the love of the soldiers, he gradually isolated several heads who did not obey the order, and obtained the actual command of the 3,000 troops, and got the military power to strengthen the army for more than two months and waited for the opportunity, and finally survived to the moment when the Miyoshi Army attacked in a big way, so after getting the information of the Hattori security chief in the afternoon of the same day, the army went straight to the back of the Miyoshi Army.

With the intelligence support of the Hattori ninja, the angle of the fatal stab of these 3,000 strange soldiers is tricky and ruthless, and there are more than 800 horseback warriors in the 3,000 army, all of whom are brave men with spears and fresh clothes and angry horses.

The subordinates of the two divisions of the Miyoshi Army who hurriedly responded to the battle, the first reaction of the enemy attack was to find their own military strength, so they turned a blind eye to the opposing friendly forces that were close at hand and under their noses.

Then caught up with more than 2,300 ashilight troops quickly expanded the gap to kill through, the iron artillery team and the archery team escorted on the left and right flanks to shoot the Miyoshi army on both sides, for a time the defenseless Miyoshi army could not even swing the position, was turned back to the horse samurai turned back to raid, guns and bayonets cut all the way like chopping melons and vegetables to kill the blood flowed into a river, for a while the sound of killing shook the sky, smoke and dust everywhere, crying ghosts and wolves howled endlessly, several formations of troops near the Miyoshi army did not know the situation, thinking that the Kanto Ashikaga army raided, and suddenly followed in a mess.

The more than 100 iron artillery teams carefully cultivated by Akechi Mitsuhide are all sharpshooters of this era, as long as the weather conditions allow, there are almost no bullets in fifteen rooms, and more than 30 rounds of salvos in just two quarters of an hour have killed and injured more than 1,500 Miyoshi troops on both sides, and the brilliant achievements make every samurai feel jaw-dropping, even Akechi Mitsuhide did not expect this effect.

Eat a trench and grow a wisdom, the Kyoto commotion to the shogunate to the public to teach a vivid lesson, the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, the elite momentum is the king, since then the wise Mitsuhide is determined to train a strong army that can be pulled out to fight, the hard years of the most proud is precisely these more than 800 horseback samurai, in the support and help given by Sakamoto Castle, these 800 cavalry training is impressive, not let the Miyoshi Nagakei royal horse crowd.

The strong and elite mounted samurai faced the ordinary ashigaru without formation and geographical support, and it was really as difficult as destroying the withering and decaying, where the cavalry passed there was no leaf, the swords and spears were held high like a sickle to harvest rows of helpless lives, and the corpses were strewn all over the field and the blood flowed into the river, like a strong whirlwind, blowing into the ignorant enemy camp, and the red-eyed horseback samurai dragged a blood-colored path straight through, leaving behind a corpse with a body and a tumbling wailing remnant.

A large battalion of 2,000 people was killed by 800 cavalry through two back and forth, Miyoshi Changyi's important minister Miyoshi Changde was beheaded here, and it was the son-in-law of Wise Guangxiu who took his life, Wise Zuo Ma Jiexiu, the general died and the morale of the three armies collapsed, and more than 1,000 remnants of the soldiers all lost their armor and fled in embarrassment, and several other formations of troops were rushed by the defeated soldiers, and the good end of the formation was also chaotic.

The situation of the other large battalion was similar, the army of no less than six or seven hundred people died in the iron artillery team, and the morale had already been chaotic under the sniping of the iron artillery, and was lightly charged by the two thousand feet led by Akechi Mitsuhide, and the army was suddenly defeated like a mountain, the banner was reversed, and the tide retreated sharply, and in the blink of an eye, it retreated all the way to the west without even opening up the posture of resistance.

The general of the unified army, Sanhao Changsheng, happens to be the genealogy of Sanhao Changyi, it is the brother of the Sanhao Changde who was cut by the wise show, this gentleman still does not know the news that the Sanhao Changde was killed, and the first reaction to see the defeat is to kill the defeated pawn to restrain the three armies, but the general trend has gone and cannot be reversed by manpower, and a defeated soldier can not kill a thousand defeated soldiers.

Miyoshi Nagatsu saw the 7788 of the army fleeing, the army collapsed and the morale was completely gone, so he knew that he had broken into a catastrophe, so he had to tear off the banner and take off the big armor of the main general, pretending to be an ordinary horse warrior riding a war horse, and under the escort of the horse and the crowd, he fled all the way to the west with the defeated army, and the morale of the three armies fell sharply when the two formations were defeated, and the morale of the Akechi Mitsuhide Department was greatly boosted under the victory, and swept the Miyoshi army that came to obstruct it in one go, and the frightened Ashikaga Yoshiaki hurriedly invited the three of Miyoshi to discuss the method, and Matsunaga and Naito Munekatsu also called the past to discuss the matter, this palace attack will naturally slow down the pace indefinitely.

Hattori Baochang said: "The so-called rigid can not be long, the Hyuga Guardian took advantage of the morale of the several defeated soldiers to kill is indeed majestic, but this period of military momentum can not last long, Matsunaga Xiu's mind will soon find that the Hyuga Guardian is not strong enough, as long as the two thousand elites of the Miyoshi Army are sent to hold it, the attack of the Imperial Palace will be over soon." ”

Ashikaga Yoshiteru muttered, "Meaningless battle? ”

Hattori Baochang shook his head: "That's not the case, without the disturbance of the sight of the wise Hinata Shouden, it will be difficult for the shogunate samurai who are willing to escape to get out, this is using their lives to delay time, and if you hesitate for a while, the soldiers of the Miyoshi Army will be killed, and it will be too late to regret it!" (To be continued......)