At the beginning of April, Matsunaga Shu led the Izumi army and the Hatakeyama people of Kawachi, a total of more than 8,000 people, to attack Kawachi, aiming directly at Takaya Castle, but they ran head-on into the precautionary Yasumi clan and the hired Nerai people, a total of 15,000 people, and the two sides fought fiercely in Ikuno west of Wakae Castle for several days.

At the moment when the situation was at a stalemate, Yusa's religion, which had been uncertain, suddenly came out of Wakae Castle and attacked on the flank of the Matsunaga army.

The morale of the Hanoi people was high, and Yasumi Zongfang took advantage of the situation to propose the "lord autonomy" of the Hanoi country, and advocated that the people of the various counties form an alliance with each other to fight against the Miyoshi clan in the name of the lord of the Hanoi country, and then gradually complete the ultimate dream of the Warring States Daimyo.

I have to say that his ideas are very bold and very radical, and this is probably what it means to draw cakes to satisfy hunger, but it's a pity that none of the people of Hanoi who have experienced the era of Kizawa Nagamasa, Yusa Chokyo and then to the Anmi clan are good stubble, and many of them are guys who have personally experienced the exile of several generations of Hatakeyama family governors.

An Jian's methods can't coax them, but instead exposes his ambitions, You Zuo's religion is the first to be dissatisfied, this Hanoi country guardian has always been their You Zuo clan's hereditary position, An Jian Zongfang is just a fortunate minister's favored minister, taking the opportunity of his father's death from a genealogy family to become a Hanoi country guardian generation, in his eyes is just a shallow foundation of the clown, but he doesn't want to dare to watch the power of Hanoi. It's really tolerable and intolerable.

So You Zuo began to connect with the people of Hanoi. bluntly said that An Jian's move seriously undermined the unity and tacit understanding of the people of Hanoi. And mentioned how everyone withstood the attack of the Miyoshi family when the family governor was there, although the life was not very good under the family governor's match, but everyone didn't have to be bullied by the Hosokawa family anymore.

The people of Hanoi thought about it carefully, and they all expressed their regret for participating in the action of Anmi Zongfang's exile of Hatakeyama Takamasa, to talk about Hatakeyama Takamasa, the family governor, there is actually no bad deeds, at most it can be regarded as a strange thing with abnormal brain circuits, and his speech and behavior are not the same as ordinary samurai, but this family governor is definitely a solid-eyed guy. It won't be like this Anjian Zongfang, who is full of fancy brains and intestines, and has come up with a "lord autonomy" plan with evil intentions to deceive everyone.

Gradually, the voices of dissatisfaction appeared in Hanoi one after another, and it intensified under the instigation of people with intentions, An Jian Zongfang was still intoxicated with the joy of victory, and it was too late to find out that the situation was not good, and it was too late to persuade and intercede everywhere to redeem the alienation of the people of Hanoi against him.

It doesn't matter what the hell the people of Hanoi do, as a mercenary. After the battle, he took away the reward and went home without stopping, and the hearts of the people who had been gathered in Hanoi turned into a plate of scattered sand. The fifteen-thousand-strong army collapsed in the blink of an eye.

Miyoshi Changqing's trial has achieved initial results, not only to test the depth of the people of Hanoi, but also to dig out the appeal of the Anmi sect, Hanoi's 25,000 military service in his hands can bring up to 12,000 people, these troops are in the hands of the Anmi sect, but I am afraid that they will not be able to exert seventy percent of their strength, if it is not for the assistance of the three thousand people from the side and the sudden attack of the religion, the Anmi sect will not be able to defeat the inferior force of the permanent show, which shows that this person's military strategy level can only command two or three thousand people at most.

On May 15th, the Miyoshi army, which had been recuperating for a long time, officially went into battle, and Miyoshi Chokei personally served as the general general, leading a total of more than 28,000 people from Settsu, Izumi, Hanoi, Tamba and Higashi-Harima to attack Hanoi Takaya Castle.

I'm afraid that no one thought that the situation of equal strength would suddenly be fundamentally reversed, as the sworn enemy of the Miyoshi family, the Hanoi country that had been in the seventh or eighth year of Miyoshi Changqing was subjugated like this, and the problem in the future was easy to solve, and the Zongfang was forced to flee to the Yamato country, and the Miyoshi army drove straight into the castle.

At this point, it seems that this farce is about to come to an end here, but he does not want things to make waves again, Hatakeyama Takamasa may be shocked by the strong military strength of the Miyoshi family, and immediately stop the Miyoshi army's attempt to continue attacking Hanoi, and at the same time recall the Yasumi Munebo, who fled to Yamato, to officially recognize the legitimacy and validity of his guardian substitute service, and at the same time make adjustments to the military deployment of Iimoriyama Castle, and urgently contact the people of Hanoi to distance himself from the Miyoshi family.

Hatakeyama Takamasa's series of dispositions greatly angered Miyoshi Changqing's nerves, he would never have thought that this guy would actually use the means of unloading and killing the donkey to himself, his 28,000 sons Lang Xingshi mobilized the crowd to fight not to let Hatakeyama Takamasa play the trick of going up the house and drawing ladders, Miyoshi Nagakei felt that his dignity was insulted, and he was angry and ordered the whole army to attack Takaya Castle.

Anmi Sobo eagerly raised 15,000 troops in Yamato to rush to the rescue of Hanoi Province, but ran head-on into the 13,000 special forces led by Naito Munekatsu to block it, and the two sides started a fierce battle near the Neya River.

Hatakeyama Takamasa led several thousand Kawachi troops to defend the castle at Takaya Castle, and called on the people of Kawachi, Kii, and Yamato to resist the brutal invasion of the Miyoshi army, and at the same time sent a letter of help to the shogunate and Rokkaku Yoshiken, and the war situation in Kawachi immediately reached a stalemate, and Miyoshi Nagakei was worried that the Yamato people were taking the back road from the flank, so he immediately ordered Matsunaga Shu to be ordered to be stationed at Shinguiyama Castle between Kawachi and Yamato to defend the attack on the side of Yasumi Sobo.

Rokkaku Yoshiken was busy planning an attack on Sakamoto at this time, and he didn't plan to ignore Hatakeyama Takamasa's request for help for the time being, because he had more important things to do.

On May 3, 500 Ashigaru members of the Rokkaku family suddenly broke into Otsu Port. It was stated that a fugitive who had crossed the border and fled was being apprehended. Their demands were immediately rejected by Isshiki in rhetoric. The brutal Hexagonal Army unexpectedly forced its way into Otsu Port despite the obstruction, triggering a full-scale operation by the Sakamoto garrison.

Usayama Castle Jodai Okawachi Kunitsuna led 2,000 troops to surround the Hexagonal Army, and the Hexagonal Army did not dare to move, and then the 5,000 troops of the Hexagonal Army who arrived hurried under the leadership of Hirai Dingwu, and Hideaki Jianbe, who was trapped in the large and heavy army, immediately raised the courage to provoke, and repeatedly insulted the Kira family and even the Kira Yoshitoki and the Tiger Imperial Terrace, so that Okochi Kunitsuna could not bear it anymore and ordered the strangulation of this fang and the five hundred lang party.

Once he started, he couldn't stop it anymore, and Masayuki Matsui saw that the situation was not good, and immediately contacted Nakajo Tokihide to attack the whole army. Nakajo Tokihide issued an emergency mobilization order from Sakamoto Castle, ordering Katata Castle to act on behalf of Suganuma Dingnao, Shimizuyama Castle to quickly dispatch troops on behalf of Isshiki Naotakaka, Odate Harutada to rush to Shimizuyama Town to Shoutakashima County, Yanagisawa Motomasa to guard Katada Castle, Matsui Masayuki to sit in Sakamoto Castle to take care of Honto, Ninagawa Kincho and his attendants hurriedly rushed to Kyoto to report the emergency military situation to Ashikaga Yoshiki.

In just two hours, 16,000 troops rushed from all directions, and Yodogawa Mitsunaga led the Kira naval army to blockade the Uji River, and directly drove the ship to the hinterland of the Awata Prefecture to directly threaten the Rokkaku family. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Rokkaku family immediately went out with their whole army, and 25,000 troops poured to the east bank of the Uji River to wait. The two sides confronted each other like this.

This burlesque was performed for more than ten days, and the shogunate's envoy Mibuchi Fuji Hidecai was late, and as soon as he came, he reprimanded the Kira family for fanning the soldiers and killing 500 soldiers of the Rokkaku family, and the reprimand of the head and face covered the whole person of Okochi Kunitsuna's training, and Matsui Masayuki saw that the situation was not good, and he still could not get understanding after explaining it again and again.

Mibuchi Fujiei held Ashikaga Yoshiteru's imperial book and demanded that both sides immediately strike the army, and the Kira family compensated the Rokkaku family for a total of 5,000 kanbun of war losses, and returned the remains of the war dead and ended the farce. Please let your Highnesses calm your anger and cross this pass first. ”

Okochi Kunitsuna said angrily: "Yamato Shouden is wrong, can't you see that this time it was the Rokkaku family who provoked first?" On the other side of the river, there were 25,000 troops gathered in anticipation, how could they retreat because of a letter from the Imperial Palace? Even if I retreat this time, I will still find another reason to knock on the door next time, and when the time comes, will my Kira family keep it or not? If we keep it, we will kill people, and if we don't keep it, we will hand over the inheritance that the Lord has entrusted to us to take care of, so how can we endure it? Tell me if this is the reason! ”

"That's right! That's the reason, people are good and are bullied, our Kira family is guarding the land of the two counties safely and steadily, and there are disasters from the sky, if the Gongfang Palace is bent on restraining us, it will be unfair! If our lord is angry, that hexagonal king will suffer! The words of Isshiki Zhigao, half soft and half hard, made Mibuchi Fujiei not very happy.

In the eyes of the people of Kinai and even the shogunate, it has become a thing of the past for Kira Yoshishi to go away, and now the turmoil in Kinai has the posture of reviving the army, and the shogunate is now in urgent need of the Rokkaku family, an ally, to assist the guard, if Kira Yoshitoki is in Kinai, why should the shogunate come to do such a pickled thing, and Rokkaku Yoshiken does not dare to covet the two counties.

In the final analysis, it's nothing more than a meaning.,Kira Yoshishi is already yesterday's yellow flower.,Don't care how many people he killed in Kanto.,How many powerful daimyo he defeated.,For the samurai who are far away in Kinai, it's similar to watching Noh dramas.,Praise Ashikaga Kamizaburo is the world's first hero.,And then what should I do and continue to do what.,I won't be able to eat and sleep because of the defeat of the Takeda family on Kawanaka Island.,I won't worry about whose family the Kanto belongs to.,The proud Kinai samurai have always thought that they are the center of the world., The big names in remote places are not necessarily more influential than a wealthy family at the doorstep.

Although Mibuchi Fujiei is a little bit in the Kira camp, he is still a little unhappy when he hears this, and he said that you Kira retainers can't lead troops into Kyoto to protect His Royal Highness, so that it is more difficult to call you to do something than to ascend to the sky.

Compared to the Kira family, who was not very obedient and only guaranteed protection in the event of an attack on Kyoto, Rokkaku Yoshiken, who had a great say in the 25,000-strong army, was more important to the shogunate, so what about blatant favoritism? Let Kira Yoshitoki come over! As long as he is willing to return to Kyoto, let alone change his ways, he will kick Rokkaku Yoshiken away. The shogunate would not have any problems.

Mibuchi Fujiying said with a calm face: "What your highnesses said is not right. This world is the world of the shogunate. It is the world of His Royal Highness, no matter who we are loyal to, it is the samurai of His Royal Highness, and it is the duty of the samurai to obey the orders of the shogunate, as long as you obey the orders of the shogunate, the Hexagonal Army will naturally retreat, and if they do not retreat, His Royal Highness will make a decision, in short, it will not let you suffer. ”

Nakajo Tokihide never expected the shogunate to be so indifferent and ruthless, and his clenched fists were released and clenched. The green tendons on his forehead continued to erupt with anger, and he endured the raging anger in his chest, and asked in a cold tone: "The implication of Yamato Mamoru is that no matter whether the Rokkaku family retreats or not, we must respect the laws of the shogunate, right?" ”

"It can be understood that way...... I'm not afraid that you will know that the first time His Royal Highness drafted the Imperial Decree was to ask you to withdraw all your troops, return the victims, pay reparations and promise not to cause any trouble, and not to kill the Rokkaku samurai, or the active efforts of several of our shoguns to change the Imperial Decree to the current state. A few of you want to know the grace! Mibuchi Fujiei glanced coldly at Nakajo Tokihide and the others.

"I see! I understand it in the next...... Yamato Mamoru encountered a cold on the way to the mission, and after arriving in Otsu, he became unwell and could not afford to be sick. The reading of the edict of the Imperial Book has been postponed for the time being, and someone is coming! Carefully help Yamato Mamoru to rest first, recuperate and then please inform His Royal Highness of his decision! Nakajo Tokihide deliberately read the word "careful" in a special way, and the samurai guarding the guards poured in to surround Mibuchi Fujiei and gently push it out.

"Wait! What are you going to do! Let me go! I am the angel of the shogunate, how can you do this to me! You're disobeying, Nakajo Dehamori! You're disobeying......"

The room returned to silence and tranquility, everyone silently watched Miabuchi Fuji Ying being forced away, only silently watching Mibuchi Fuji Ying being taken away, the autocratic Central Plains Dynasty still has a sentence "General in the army, the monarch's order is not subject to", although this sentence was not popular in the Muromachi era, but the chaotic life can not be heard is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the samurai's loyalty to the lord must have a premise, the lord can not be disorderly, can not reward and punish injustice, can not listen to bias, in short, closely follow a fair, unfair is not to accumulate prestige, no prestige how to dominate?

In the feudal samurai era, adhering to the idea of imperial grace and dedication to the public after hundreds of years of wind and rain baptism, has long been immersed in the blood of the samurai's bone marrow, there is no reward for the prince, the original royal family gathered to follow Emperor Go-Daigo to overthrow the shogunate, it is because of the injustice of the shogunate's rewards and punishments gradually lost popularity, not because of what respect for the emperor or loyalty to the monarch patriotism, otherwise there would not be the fact that the Ashikaga clan finally betrayed Emperor Go-Daigo to establish the shogunate.

Ashikaga Yoshiteru did this to break with Kira Yoshiro when he was persecuting him, and Matsui Masayuki sighed: "Such a decision to favor the Rokkaku family is bound to anger the lord, and what good is it for the shogunate to anger the lord?" Your Highness, why bother! ”

Okochi Kunitsuna sneered: "His Royal Highness probably thinks that he can deal with the Miyoshi family!" I heard that Yamashiro Province gathered five or six thousand ronins from various countries, and the shogunate has incorporated all of them into the public and become an independent army, and now the shogunate has 8,000 troops and feels that they don't need our protection much. ”

With the help and support of Kira Yoshitoki over the years, the shogunate has become more and more powerful with money and food, and the harmony of the repeated foreign mediation wars has made Ashikaga Yoshiteru and even the entire shogunate fall into unprecedented self-confidence, coupled with the stability and honesty of the Miyoshi family, and the continuous victories of Kira Yoshitoki on the eastern side, giving the shogunate an illusion that it is about to be revived, not to mention that Ashikaga Yoshiki feels optimistic, even the most pessimistic samurai feel that the shogunate will have a better space for development.

Suganuma was well aware of the source of this unhealthy trend in Kinai, and sarcastically said, "There is no need for the best, who wants to go to Kyoto to pick up their stinky feet!" When we are willing to suffer the bird's anger, one by one with eyes on the top of our heads to look down on our samurai in Mikawa, look at their arrogant appearance, as if they are the strongest army today, if this mentality encounters the military strength of the Miyoshi repair doctor, I am afraid that if we hold on to it for a while, it will be over! ”

"Maybe the shogunate can be revived, or maybe it can't be revived......" Nakajo Tokihide nodded noncommittally, then took a deep breath and said slowly: "This has nothing to do with us, the Kira retainers, the Lord ordered us to hold the foundation of the two Omi counties, and allow us to act cheaply in a critical moment, today is a critical moment, you all unite to defeat the Hexagonal Army, let them taste the power of my Kira Army, and let the people of Kinai know that my Kira family is not so easy to mess with!" There is a labor service department Iwami to guard the temple! ”

Hattori Baocho didn't know when he appeared in the crowd, and said calmly: "Don't worry. Our chief will do his best to ensure the smooth implementation of the counterattack plan! ”

On the evening of May 16. It was the sultry season of early summer, and a storm had just swept through half of the country. The rain and clouds reveal a bright and clear night sky, the bright moon hangs high in the sky like a jade plate, the moonlight is bright and soft like a slow flowing wave, and the sparkling silver moon shadow can be clearly seen on the lakeside as a little silver shine sprinkles over the tranquil Lake Biwa.

The frosty moonlight spreads over the earth, the clear stream bubbles through the river, and on this silent night, a group of uninvited guests are welcomed on the Kozu River, and hundreds of large and small boats suddenly appear at the mouth of the Kozu River. The nearby villagers and fishermen were stunned by the Hattori ninja with drugs early, and all the commanding heights and hidden points within a few hundred meters around were emptied, and the Kira army landed easily.

The process of landing was slow and quiet, no neighing and no hurling and forced dragging, 15,000 people were quiet as if they did not exist, only heavy footsteps came slowly on the entire river bank, Nakajo Tokihide was the last samurai to disembark, he led an army to guard the mouth of the river to prevent a possible surprise attack, but at the moment it seems that the strength of the Roxagonal family is really overestimated.

Then in the bright moonlight, you can faintly see that the Hexagonal Army camp stationed on the mountain still has a faint light reflected in the night sky. After checking the soldiers twice to make sure that there was no shortage, Nakajo Hidemasa grinned and said, "This hexagonal army is really stupid. With this military strategic literacy, you dare to confront my Kira family? If the lord comes up with the means of Kawanaka Island to deal with the Rokkaku family, I am afraid that none of the 25,000 people will want to escape. ”

"It's a pity that we can't wipe them all out, it's a pity!" Kaneda Yamada said with a bitter face: "There is no merit in winning the battle, and there is no merit in losing...... Phew! Look at my mouth! But wouldn't it be a loss if our soldiers folded in this formation? ”

"Stupid! When the captives are captured, not everything will come! Don't think nonsense for a while, in case something goes wrong, be careful of military law! ”

This is the first time that the Omi Kira Army has led a large-scale night raid battle, and Kira Yoshitoki did not leave the strategist-powerful Honda Tokimasa among the samurai who stayed in Omi, and Nakajo Tokihide alone worked on the formulation of the military strategy, to what extent even Nakajo Tokihide, the strategist, was not very clear, and he could only do his best and obey the destiny of heaven.

Nakajo Tokihide took out a book and read it carefully in the light of the torches: "There are two kinds of fighting against the enemy at night, one is to be prepared for the enemy, and at this time we must make more use of the light of fire and drums, so as to disturb the enemy's hearing and hearing, so that he does not know what strategy to take to guard against our army!" The second is that the enemy is defenseless, so he can take the opportunity to set fire to the camp in four dimensions, and the enemy will collapse himself! ”

Looking back at the 15,000 troops with the banner closed, the people and horses slowly approached the mountain guard camp of the Hexagonal Army, and sighed: "The Lord can leave a few generals to let me open my mouth, if I am far from being able to talk about wisdom!" ”

In the middle of the night, the night was cold and the moon hung in the sky, the cool night breeze blew slightly rustling in the dense forest, the guards of the hexagonal army in the mountain camp took a nap with a plain gun and leaning on the railing, the overall slackness of the hexagonal army was greatly unexpected, those newly recruited soldiers still had the freshness of going out to fight in the early days, and they were tired of life in the wild for more than ten days with the wind and food, and the old soldiers did not know where to rest, as if they knew that the Kira family did not dare to do anything with them.

As they expected, it was true, Kira and Rokkaku belonged to the same shogunate camp, and they had fought side by side on several occasions, although those cooperation was not very pleasant...... The Rokkaku family always has a blind optimism, always feeling that the Kira family does not dare to do anything to them, and the shogun on the top of his head will never allow you to act recklessly, don't forget that your family was just a wolf dog raised by the shogunate, and even the territory was "charity" by the Rokkaku family.

Yes, there are many samurai in the Rokkaku family who feel that the Kira family owes them a favor, and feel that the two counties of Shiga and Takashima are the places given to them by the Rokkaku family, just like Sun Quan "increased" Jingzhou to Liu Bei to gain a foothold, and after Liu Bei made a fortune, he always thought about Jingzhou and always thought about recovering that piece of land.

The recruit was asleep in a daze, and suddenly felt a light flashing in front of him, rubbed his eyes and carefully watched the fire rain in the sky fall on his face, just as a stray arrow fell on his chest, and the strong inertia pierced his armor, and the flames jumped up from the recruit's body, and he died without even screaming.

The rockets that paved the place set the camp on fire in an instant, and the three gates of the camp were knocked into the open with a steady stream of troops, and the bows and arrows in the front kept being thrown, but after a while, the thirty rockets wrapped in oilcloth were used up, and at this time, the camp of the Hexagon Army was already on fire and in chaos.

Rokkaku Yoshiken was woken up in his sleep, and before he could figure out what was going on, he was put on big armor by the little surnames, and when he rushed out of the camp, he saw fires everywhere, shouts of killing came from all directions, and the defeated soldiers who were scurrying immediately understood: "The Kira army is attacking at night!" He dared to attack his house at night! Didn't the shogunate already convey the Gokyo book today? Why do you dare to attack your house at night! Could it be that there is something wrong with Yamato Mamoru Mibuchi? That's impossible! Kyoto is so close to Sakamoto, and there is absolutely no danger in coming by boat, so I don't know what went wrong! ”

The fourteen-year-old Rokkaku Yoshiji had just been subdued, but the first time he saw such a big scene was a defeat, he hugged his angry father and said nervously: "Father! Let's get out of here! It's too dangerous here! ”

In fact, Rokkaku Yoshiken's strategy is not bad, he has been working hard to manage the foundation of the Rokkaku family all these years, and two years ago he formed an alliance with Saito Yoshiryu, the lord of Mino Country, and his sister-in-law Rokkaku Yoshiharu has already made a marriage with Saito Yoshiryu's daughter, and he feels that he is no worse than his father at home and abroad.

In fact, it is not easy to maintain the hegemony of the Rokkaku family in Jinai, and in recent years, Asai Hisasa's attitude has gradually changed, and in the past two years, he has fought several times in the Battle of Taiwei Mountain and the Battle of Jitou Mountain, and there are no winners and losers against each other, so he adopted the daughter of Hirai Dingwu and formed a relationship with that Asai Kenmasa to stabilize the alliance between the two sides.

Rokkaku Yoshiken knew very well that the disadvantage of his family was that the people of the country were powerful, and his father's method was to unite the people of the country to expand outward, and to gain benefits and increase his prestige through victory after victory, so as to appease the increasingly restless people, and he was also trying to do it in this direction.

Helplessly, his military strategy level is indeed a little poor, and his grasp of the vision and timing of the occupation is completely unqualified, from the battle of Fukakusa to the battle of Katsurakawa, he passed by twice with the glory of merit, and the resentment and envy and jealousy can be imagined, he is angry that his vision is too poor, and he is unwilling to share his share of the credit in the end, jealous that he can lay such outstanding achievements at a young age, and even more covets the two counties of feng shui treasures left behind after he left. (To be continued......)