Ten days later, the news of Ashikaga Yoshitoki's army raising troops in Kamakura reached Kyoto, and the samurai of Kinai fell into a brief state of silence, and they were horrified to find that the dragon of the Kanto region would be so terrible when he launched a rage, and the army strength of the oath in Kamakura was as high as 230,000 horsemen, more than 25,000 horsemen, and more than 15,000 iron artillery troops.

Over the years, there have been voices denouncing Ashikaga Yoshishi as a turtle with a shrunken head, but where is the character of a turtle today, and so many soldiers have been recruited with an order, far more than 100,000 or 150,000 horses as speculated by the outside world, but a full 230,000 horses, and it is no longer important whether he has ulterior motives or loyalty for many years, the important thing is that he has soldiers, money and food, and his strength makes people desperate.

On April 16, the 12th year of Eiroku (1569), the eighteenth day after the Kanto region raised its troops, in front of Ishimizu Hachimangu Shrine in Kyoto, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, two ministers of the Interior and the general of the Left Konoe, worshiped their ancestors, and gathered thousands of samurai from various walks of life from Saikoku, Kyushu, and Shikoku outside Ishishimizu Hachiman Shrine to quietly wait for the ceremony to begin.

"Look! His Royal Highness has invited the white flag holding the palace to come out! ”

"White Flag! The white flag of the Ashikaga shogun's house! I'm so excited! The samurai of the western country, Kyushu, and even Kinai cheered, the influence of the Ashikaga family in the western country was extraordinary, and the significance of the Ashikaga family's imperial white flag to the western samurai was probably equivalent to the two imperial white flags erected in Kamakura by Genyoshi.

Minamoto Yoritomo's white flag was the glory of the Kamakura samurai, and the Kamakura Legion that carried this white flag in the Shokuno Rebellion left a very deep impression on the Kinai samurai. Taro Hachiman's white flag is even more earth-shattering. The frightened Kinai samurai once had weak legs and felt invincible. Therefore, Ashikaga Yoshiaki wants to invite the Ashikaga family to fight against Kanto.

The Ashikaga family originated from Shimono Ashikaga Sho, Zhongxing in Mikawa Province, to Ashikaga Zun when raising troops relied on the samurai of the West Country and Kyushu, the Battle of Tataraha was the first battle of the Ashikaga Honshi in the defeat of Kyushu to regroup, and then from the Kyushu West Country to pull up 200,000 troops back to Kyoto, Kinai samurai all participated in the great feats.

Therefore, this flag has a very strong influence on the samurai of the western country, but its influence on the eastern country is very limited, and this time Ashikaga Yoshiaki chose to invite this white flag out. To a large extent, the influence of the two banners in the Kanto region will be weakened, so that the samurai can comfort themselves that you have me too, so that the morale and morale of the army will not fall to the bottom before the battle.

This is how it is to fight a war, discipline training is one thing, and the morale of the army is another, even the elite regiments that have been tempered for thousands of years have ups and downs in morale, not to mention what a hodgepodge of 180,000 troops from Shikoku, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Kinai, and the intrigues of the daimyo from all over the country are innumerable, and it is unreliable to expect their consciousness and loyalty and bravery, if there is no orthodox name to rule at this moment. That is, nothing can be done in a plate of loose sand.

When a group of chaotic samurai of different origins come together and form an alliance under a certain name to fight against a powerful enemy. needs a commander with a righteous name, and the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki is the most suitable and only candidate, but what this general has said and done recently does not seem to be authentic.

The rumors of killing his brother and killing his mother have caused irreparable bad effects on his image, and the abolition of the emperor in the forbidden middle made him lose a lot of popularity in the country, and the positive impact on the distant country is even more attenuated, making people feel pitiful, at this time, only the name of the general can not suppress the people of the daimyo country, but the days of the shogunate still have to live, and the source of the Kanto still has to fight, and you can't learn from the ostrich to stick your head in the sand and pretend not to see it, what should I do?

The first way that Ashikaga Yoshiaki thought of was to ask the emperor to make a decree, even if it was vetoed by Oda Nobunaga, the emperor of Kyoto could issue a decree, and the emperor of Sakamoto could also announce it in the lower house, and the emperor and the emperor's decree could not always fight, which would only weaken the emperor's authority, but fell into the treacherous trick of Genyoshi, seeing that this puppet show could not be performed, there was only one way to think about it, and the Ishishimizu Hachiman Palace would go through.

Yoshikawa Mototoe proudly glanced at the people who came from the western country, looked at the Urakami sect as if it were nothing, looked at the samurai of the Urakami family who dared to be angry and dare not speak, snorted lightly, turned sideways and whispered: "This is the shogun, that evil prince?" It looks like the white and pure hands are powerless, not quite like the legendary ...... killer"

Kobayakawa Takashi coughed and reminded, "Be careful! Brother, please be careful! ”

"Yes, yes! Be cautious...... Hey! Yoshikawa Motoharu touched his head, smiled honestly at his nephew Mori Terumoto, quickly put away his proud little tail, inadvertently looked sideways at the other side, and said, "Look at that is our old acquaintance!" ”

Kobayakawa Takakei had already noticed that there was a group of samurai staring at them with unkind faces on the opposite side, and looked carefully and whispered, "Hmm! That's the Otomo Hachiro Hall of the Otomo family! He should be presiding over the war against the Ryuzoji family on the front line, why did he come to Kyoto, did he also wade into this troubled water? ”

"Aren't we also wading into this troubled water...... "Yoshikawa Motoharu found that his voice was a little loud, and hurriedly said ha: "Today's weather is good!" Well! It's just that the water of the Kamo River is a little muddy......

Suiida Motokiyo said blankly: "Really? But I found that the water in the Kamo River is very clear! ”

Yoshikawa Motoharu was scolded by his stupid brother for a long time without holding back a word, snorting sullenly and not speaking, hoping that his nephew Mori Terugen would give him a step down, and looked up to see his good nephew holding his cheek with one hand and pondering: "Is the formation appointed by the Otomo family originally His Royal Highness Otomo Qinzhen?" In this way, the situation of this trip is really hard to say! ”

"What are you afraid of!" Yoshikawa Motoharu grinned and said, "If you can't do it, you should take a trip!" ”

Kobayakawa Takakei chuckled: "Coming to Kyoto with an army of 20,000, the cost of this trip is a bit high!" ”

The Mori family and the Otomo family have been fighting for the dominance of Kitakyushu in recent years, and this time the powerful members of the two families gathered in Kyoto at the same time, which is somewhat of a needle point against Maimang, and there are also conflicts between the Urakami family, which is fiercely contested in Bichu, and the rebel revival army that has been defeated twice, and Yamanaka Yukimori, a famous Niko family loyal minister in the western country, and others.

Mori Terumoto frowned and said, "Kono Sakyo Doctor's Palace." There is also His Royal Highness Miyoshi Jingzhao who is also here. There are a lot of strong enemies! ”

"Eh!" Kobayakawa Takakei fussed and said, "How can this be fought?" Will you be stabbed in the back by an ally? What a distressing question! ”

Motoharu Yoshikawa's baby son. Yoshikawa Motocho stood beside Mori Terumoto and whispered, "We can stab our allies too!" ”

"Then this joint battle can still be fought? Don't forget what His Royal Highness said, the one in Kanto set off the White Flag Rebellion, not the Itsukushima Battle that we fought. ”

It was precisely the movements of the Kanto region that the Mori family was talking about, and it was the topic of the greatest concern in the whole world, and even the monks in the temple were busy taking out small notebooks at this time to write down a bunch of rumors, such as the Ashikaga family temple sects such as the Kinai Gozan Daitoku Myokin. It seems that he is particularly concerned about this war, followed by the big sects in the southern capital and Beiling, including Koyasan and the Sect King Huguo Temple, are also secretly paying attention, and even placing bets in person.

It is gambling, human nature is always inclined to take risks, Ashikaga Yoshitoki hung three white flags in front of Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace, marking the complete opposition between Kyoto Ashikaga and Kanto Ashikaga, Ashikaga Yoshiaki came to Ishishimizu Hachiman Palace in a panic and had no choice but to move, the minister of Kyoto called this chaos the White Flag Rebellion, not only the nobles of Kyoto have heard of it. It is the general of the Imperial Palace of the Emperor in the forbidden country, and the five mountains of the southern capital of the North Ridge Kinai. Even the Nanban missionaries who walked around in Kinai knew very well.

After learning that the 230,000 cavalry of the Kanto region raised troops in front of the Hachiman Palace in Tsuruoka, the samurai of various countries who hurriedly went to Luo were very conflicted, and the 180,000 cavalry seemed to be far more prosperous than the Onin Rebellion of that year, but if you count carefully, you will find that 60,000 of the 180,000 cavalry are sponsored by the Oda Army, 20,000 are the Miyoshi Army, 20,000 are the Maori Army, and 15,000 are the Otomo family.

Others, such as the Ryuzoji clan, the Kono clan, the Urakami clan, and the Niko Restoration Army, had a military strength ranging from 5,000 to 7,000, but the powerful Shimazu clan in southern Kyushu only sent a mere 2,000 men, and they could only compete with soy sauce people like the Tosa Ichijo clan and the Nagamune Ibe clan, and don't ask why the Shimazu family has so few people, and they won't tell you if you ask.

Shimazu almost wrote the big words "I'll make soy sauce" on the door of his head for a long time, and his state was also languishing like sleepwalking, as if he was dozing off and seemed to be indifferent, so that Yoshikawa Motoharu, who was looking around, secretly speculated that he probably participated in night activities in Kyoto, anyway, he liked the prosperity of Kyoto, such as the women of the whale house.

No matter what others think, anyway, there are so many soldiers in the Shimazu family, don't care if he is still unhappy, giving two thousand is also considered to be a face for the general, and if he doesn't give face, a big soldier won't come, will the general dare to give a crusade order? Don't dare, the Kanto guy who is sharpening his knife Huo Huo is waiting to kill people, how dare he hit a small Satsuma Shimazu clan at this juncture.

The consequence of this is that everyone is making small calculations, and there are a lot of people who start to regret coming when they send more troops, and those who send fewer troops are worried about whether they will be squeezed to the front row by the big guys to die if they really fight, and each fights their own little ninety-nine instead throws Ashikaga Yoshiaki's stern speech aside, these days fools are a scarce breed, as long as they are more than twenty-five years old, few people believe Ashikaga Yoshiaki's set of flawed words.

It's already here.,At this time, it's probably hard to turn around and leave.,It's probably hard to be good.,After thinking about it, the little wealthy family decided to wait a little longer to see the situation.,The daimyo are thinking about how to fight this battle.,Can't a group of people go to Kyoto for a meeting.,If you don't discuss it, you'll be beaten down by a fat beat by the Banto samurai.。

At the beginning, they were willing to accept the emperor's decree to come to Beijing to protect the shogunate, isn't it because the Kanto one is too powerful, too tyrannical, and can't tolerate half a grain of sand in his eyes, just look at his actions before and after the Battle of Oshu, you can know that Oda, Maori, Miyoshi, Otomo and other daimyo should not be able to fall into the favor, and if they don't fight, they will spit out the territory that they have worked hard for generations, and they will probably be poked in the backbone to death by the retainers of the spectrum, and since then they have become synonymous with straw bags and nests, but how to fight? I don't know.

The samurai of the Western Kingdom are struggling with how to fight, and Ashikaga Yoshiaki is so hateful when he is entangled with Genyoshi, there are one or two who dare to kill the generals in these years, and there are a large number of people who dare to exile the generals, but the one who slapped the general in front of the people of the world was probably when the Kanto Ashikaga Yoshiri who dared to act recklessly.

Hatred, the first time I experienced the feeling of hatred, I used to just disgust and fear Ashikaga Yoshi, ever since he announced that he would raise troops to fight against the generals in Kyoto, the seeds of hatred have quietly taken root, in Ashikaga Yoshiaki's view. The face of the general is more important than anything else. You can exile me, kill me, but you can't insult me. Ashikaga Yoshiteru chose to insist on staying at the Nijo Imperial Palace, and the same is true for heroics.

Yuan Yishi is not authentic, in front of the people of the world, he exposed his bottom completely, scolded him for killing his brother and mother to seek the usurper, and then took out his crusade order and said that the general was not qualified to deprive him of the Miao character, but Yuan Yishi still decided to give the general a face to the crusade order before tearing his face, and declared that when his generation did not use the Miao character to use Genyi, let the son-in-law continue to use the Ashikaga Miao character.

It was a backhand slap that hit the bullseye on Ashikaga Yoshiaki's right cheek. The Ashikaga family's once-in-a-century heroes, who were given Ashikaga Yoshiki by Ashikaga Yoshiki, were deprived of the right to use the Ashikaga Miao characters, which should have been a huge blow to Genyoshitoki, and of course it was also a huge blow to the shogunate's trust, but it was a pity that people had a change of tricks to switch the courtier's surname at any time.

not only easily punctured the "clever plan" that Ashikaga Yoshiaki was proud of, but also ridiculed Ashikaga Yoshiaki for being stupid enough, and he didn't wipe off the poop in his crotch, so he learned to punish a powerful man with no merit in the name of the general, and he was not happy to be slapped by his backhand, so he had to slap his face to feel at ease. This is the first slap in the face.

If the family crest flag is deprived, it will be deprived, and it will not be allowed to use Ashikaga two to lead two. I took out the Genjia's Sasa gall to use, Ashikaga Yoshiaki probably didn't expect that there was a royal white flag in the Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace, and he definitely didn't know that Hachiman Taro's imperial white flag was also in his hands, and he must have known that Ashikaga Yoshiki had written a flag seal to Genyoshishi more than ten years ago, but he didn't expect this flag seal to become a white flag, this slap was slapped on Ashikaga Yoshiaki's face, about half of his face was swollen, this was the second slap.

Deprived the Kanto Prince, thinking that this would break his legal control over the Kanto samurai, but he didn't expect that he didn't have the title of Kwantung Shogun, and he could still be the pillar of the samurai family equivalent to the Seiyi Shogun, and he made the unforgivable mistake again, kicking Genyoshitoki out of the Ashikaga family's system, so that he could raise troops on a par with the name of the Seiji Shogun, which would lead to a fatal consequence, and from then on, the Togoku samurai would no longer listen to the words of the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki.

Even if Genyoshi were to commit suicide in defeat one day, as Ashikaga had done, his descendants would continue to raise troops in the name of the pillars of the samurai family, and the shogunate would once again be caught in a distressing cycle of rebellion, repeating what his ancestors had done more than a hundred years ago.

Of course, this is just his fantasy, and he can't declare some selfish thoughts in his mouth, except for him, probably no samurai would believe that the shogunate could defeat and kill Minamoto Yoshishi, and among the various voices coming from Kinai, there are many sympathizers for Genyoshitoki, including Hatakeyama Takamasa, Tsutsui Shunkei and other people.

"It's only 180,000 people, that's too little! Why did Takamasa Hatakeyama refuse Yu's call! Even if Yu gives him the command, he has to refuse, just because Oda Nobunaga is a deputy general? This can't work, you have to think of a way! Ashikaga Yoshiaki turned around and whispered a few words to his attendant, who hurried over to Oda Nobunaga and whispered in his ear.

Oda Nobunaga raised his eyebrows, nodded with a smile and said: "His Royal Highness Gongfang has finally grown a little, reply to His Royal Highness Gongfang don't worry about the Takaya Palace, at this moment, His Highness should have been exiled to Kii to play with the sand by Yuzo Nobu and Yasumi Zongfang, the new governor of the Hatakeyama family in Kawachi will be Hatakeyama Akitaka, this Highness Shogao is an acquaintance of His Royal Highness Gongkata, and he will persuade the people of Yamato to cooperate with the shogunate's decision as soon as possible." ”

Hatakeyama Shogao is a close confidant of Ashikaga Yoshiakihan, and the first samurai to give the word Miao after the general ascended the throne is him, Oda Nobunaga was able to smoothly reconcile the Yasumi sect and Yuzo to believe in religion, it is the reason why there is Hatakeyama Shotaka in hand, one is a red man in front of the general, and the other is a stubborn old fighter, and if you think about it, you know who to choose.

On the other hand, Hatakeyama Takamasa has been too capable of tossing over the years, and he has tried his best to fight with the Miyoshi family for 20 years, but he has not even given birth to a son-in-law, and his daughter is still so young, which makes the Hatakeyama family retainers very worried that this fighter will fight himself to death one day, and it will be a trouble for the family business to be defeated.

This is an evil deal, Oda Nobunaga needs the stability of Kinai, Yusa Nobu and Yasumi Sobo need to control the real power in the family, and the Hatakeyama retainers long for a family governor who thinks normally and behaves in a good way and can give birth to a healthy heir.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki's gushing speech finally came to an end, and finally he said in a heartfelt voice: "...... Ladies and gentlemen! Look at this Ashikaga Royal White Flag, how much glory and glory he brought us, when the Imperial White Flag was held in the Imperial White Palace, and now I will also use this Imperial White Flag to defeat Genyoshi, and the Imperial Palace will bless us! The ancestors of the Ashikaga family will bless us! Minami no Hachiman Great Bodhisattva! Bless my Ashikaga family martial arts luck for a long time! ”

The samurai of the Western Kingdom clapped his hands three times, saluted respectfully and prayed, "Nan no Hachiman Great Bodhisattva!" ”

There is no blood boiling and no loud voice, the whole process is bland like a glass of water, tasteless, although Ashikaga Yoshiaki's speech is wonderful, and the flowery clichés are thrown out as if they don't want money, and he has studied culture in a hospital for more than 20 years, which is not bad for this bit of literary brilliance, but he always consciously avoids talking about loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness at some critical moments, which makes the scene very strange. (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank the book friend for the dark and ruthless、liushuiwu、Hattori Masari、Heart floating reward,Recently, Umei's spirit is not very good.,Frequent staying up late eyes are particularly tired.,The speed of the code word plummets.,It's really powerless to break out.,It's already very difficult to work hard for 10,000 words.,So I'm sorry.。