Chapter 576: Sweeping through Jinai
In November of the 11th year of Astronomy, Oda Nobunaga suddenly reached a non-war agreement with Takeda Shingen, who was at war, and the two sides agreed to divide their respective boundaries according to the previous sphere of influence, and the dividing line between the two sides was centered on Okazaki Castle, with the west of Okazaki Castle going to the Oda family, and the east of Okazaki Castle going to the Takeda family, which also meant that the Mikawa War, which had been raging on Tokaido for several years, had finally come to an end.
Just a few days after the Takeda army retreated, Ashikaga Yoshiaki went to Gifu Castle with lightning speed, where he had a good conversation with Oda Nobunaga, and the two sides agreed on the goal of supporting the shogun to return to his division in Kamiraku.
The attitude of the Gyeonggi side towards this is ambiguous, the Miyoshi family has already torn their faces and broken their heads, the farce of the three people of Miyoshi and Matsunaga Shu accusing each other of killing Ashikaga Yoshiki will never end, Miyoshi Yasunaga and Miyoshi Yoshitsugu play the role of fanning the flames in it, and there is no one in charge of the family and the old man of the spectrum family should be, and it is even more strange that such a strange family is not scattered.
Soon Miyoshi Yasunaga couldn't laugh, because he found that his allies were unfortunately very wasteful, and one and a half of the three brothers of Shikoku were unenterprising, especially the two brothers of Awa Sanki seemed to be completely uninterested in the turmoil in Kinai, and the two brothers Miyoshi Nagaji and Jukawa Kurbo didn't care about Awa Sanki's division at all, and felt that they were all children born to a mother, so there was no need to divide them so finely.
The two brothers play eagle hunting together, drink wine, and occasionally go to the countryside together to bully men and women, and they don't know what their surname is. Nobuyasu Ataku and his younger brother Kiyoyasu Ataku were full of revenge for killing their father, and they had to refrain from revenge. He hated the Miyoshi trio and Matsunaga Shu who had a motive to kill his father.
Sanhao Kangchang, the inactive lineage family elder, doesn't seem to have much of a good face. The two brothers also felt that it was too difficult for them to take revenge, so they made up their minds to continue to do the previous business with the Awaji Navy, and eighty percent of the tax collected was originally to be transferred to the Miyoshi family, but now they don't need to give so much when they see this situation, and they just find a reason to say that the ship is seriously damaged and needs to be repaired, so they will deduct thirty percent of the tax for their own use.
Miyoshi scolded the two brothers as bastards angrily, and vowed to find an opportunity to teach the two brothers a hard lesson, but unfortunately he could only wave the flag and shout by himself. The 10,000 troops in his hand are already the sum of the military strength he can mobilize, and this is still Yu Ze left by his adoptive father Miyoshi Changqing, according to this mess, sooner or later Yu Ze will be dispersed, then he will have nothing.
Miyoshi Yasunaga was in a hurry to go to Shikoku to educate the three brothers of Miyoshi, and the biggest reliance in his faction was the support of the three families of Shikoku, and the sudden problems of the rear allies made Miyoshi Yasunaga, who was sitting in the front, suddenly lose his confidence, and he was not in a hurry to run back, but there was a problem, and the power of the Miyoshi family in Kinai was vacated a lot.
At this juncture, I heard that Ashikaga Yoshiaki was supported by a Tokaido turtle Oda Nobunaga to establish Joraku, and the attitude of the Miyoshi family was unprecedentedly unified. That is, he was very disdainful and questioned whether there was a hole in the head of His Royal Highness the Princess, and he didn't hold the thighs of the 60,000 army. He also threatened to deal with the Kanto Princess, who had an army of 100,000, but he ran to Tokaido to defect to Oda Nobunaga, the big fool of Owari, not because he had a hole in his head, but because he had a disease in his head.
No one takes Oda Nobunaga's Shangluo Declaration in their eyes at all, what kind of rhetoric such as crusading against Miyoshi and rebuilding the shogunate is simply old-fashioned, similar words began to shout from Hosokawa Harumoto in the eighteenth year of astronomy, and it has been more than 20 years since he shouted, Hosokawa Harumoto has been able to die for many years now, and from time to time friends will jump out and shout like a convulsion, and the Miyoshi family has long been not uncommon.
The Miyoshi family, who underestimated the enemy, did not expect that Oda Nobunaga had already married Asai Nagamasa before this, and married his sister Hayashi Hiyashi to Asai Nagamasa as a stepfamily, and then the two sides reached an agreement on a secret military alliance, taking advantage of the fact that there was almost no snow in the winter in Kinai, and suddenly crossed Sekigahara and entered Omi Province.
Oda Nobunaga's choice was greatly unexpected, in a surprise attack in late November, which he had never expected, he himself led an army of 40,000 to cover up, and in only one and a half days from Gifu Castle to Kannonji Castle, the frightened Rokkaku Yoshiharu almost couldn't even hold his urine, and the speed of the march was simply appalling.
At this time, the hexagonal family happened to be out of the low tide period, and the turmoil in the Guanyin Temple caused a monstrous disaster to drive away the father and son of the hexagonal family, and even more absolutely the hexagonal retainers deposed the son of the real hexagonal Yimi, the son of the hexagonal Yixiu, moved back to the Guanyin Temple City disgusting hexagonal Chengzhen, and his father Hexagonal Dinglai was the temporary acting governor of the Array family.
As a result, Rokkaku Dinglai found that he was very talented as a family governor, so he simply kicked out the real nephew Rokkaku Yoshimi, but fortunately, Rokkaku Dinglai was not as ruthless as Ashikaga Zun, and he was not so mad that he blacked out his nephew, so the Rokkaku Yoshimi, which was equivalent to Yanliu, became an insurmountable threshold in front of Rokkaku Chengzhen and Rokkaku Yoshiji.
In the face of the raid of Oda Nobunaga's army, there was no genealogy of the retainers who chose to lead the troops to help the Guanyin Temple City, and the desperate Rokkaku father and son immediately made a decision to run away, and secretly opened the city gate in the middle of the night to lead more than 500 people in the headquarters to abandon the city and flee, and went straight to the blessed land where their ancestors repeatedly hid and triumphed, and drilled into the poor ravine of Koga County.
So the lucky Oda Nobunaga won so easily without a fight, and used such outrageous means to gain control of Minami Omi, and on the spot he distorted the nose of Asai Nagamasa, who came to the rescue, and the three generations of their ancestors and grandchildren worked hard for decades, and the coveted Minami Omi country changed hands so much, it was like holding down Asai Nagamasa's face and slapping him fiercely, only to form an alliance for less than half a month before finding that half of his face was going to be swollen.
The little complaints and complaints of the Asai family are in Oda Nobunaga's ears, and they don't even count as flies buzzing, and it is impossible for the fat he eats to spit out to the Asai family with a few complaints, and it has nothing to do with him if he can't take it down after fighting for so long, anyway, he just needs to know that his army will arrive. This Minami Omi should be changed to the direct collar of the Oda family.
Oda Nobunaga was happy to receive a large piece of land, and then caused a big thing. Omi's prosperity far exceeds that of the relatively remote Mino. The peasants and soldiers who had never seen the market in various parts of Noo were immediately dazzled, and in just one day, there were hundreds of indiscriminate arrests and human hunting, causing great damage to the castle town of Kannonji Temple.
Now things can be a big trouble, Kannonji Castle is also a famous city in the sea, the samurai of the Oda family Ashigaru treated a famous cultural city so rudely, it is comparable to the Miyoshi family that ravaged Kyoto, and there are some yin and yang weird sarcasm and sarcasm in Kinai, probably saying that Ashikaga Yoshiaki got out of the tiger's mouth and entered the wolf's den. In short, Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi are all the way.
Now Oda Nobunaga didn't do it, and his heart said that he finally hit Kinai but he didn't just visit and leave, and he could take root and stay without leaving with Minami Omi's territory as a backing, so he especially couldn't tolerate the samurai Ashigaru messing around in Kinai, after all, moving to Kinai always had to get the support of the aborigines, and it would be a bad time if there was no place to look forward to.
So Oda Nobunaga immediately issued a strict decree, called "one money chopping order", which is also from the Northern Song Dynasty a famous allusion "one money beheading officials", the so-called Xu officials guard self-stealing one money a day, a thousand days and thousands of dollars. The rope is broken according to the wood, and the water drops are worn by the stone. It is strictly forbidden for soldiers to hunt and arrest people at will without the permission of the order, and it is not allowed to rape and plunder women.
Not only should we strictly prohibit indiscriminate fishing and hunting, but we should also actively return the stolen money and release the captured townspeople, and at the same time actively compensate women who have suffered physical and mental trauma, in short, we must actively restore the precarious reputation in Kinai through various means, and the action of reforming itself has a certain effect, and it was soon discovered that although Oda Nobunaga was domineering and ruthless, his credit to the lower classes was still very good.
On the second day of the capture of Kannonji Castle, just after dealing with the bad effects of indiscriminate hunting and human hunting, the Oda army marched into Kyoto Castle on land and water, and the defenders in Kyoto Castle at this time were only more than 3,000 people, and as for the shogun Kurama Castle and Nakao Castle, they were captured by Nakajo Tokihide of Sakamoto Castle, and burned Fushimi Yama Castle as revenge for the continuous resistance of the Miyoshi family.
The two forces intervened near Kyoto at the same time, which scared Miyoshi Yoshitsugu a lot, he thought that this was a joint attack of the two allies, one Ashikaga Yoshitoki made Miyoshi Nagashi sad at night, and another Oda Nobunaga probably meant that he could not continue to be the governor of the family.
In particular, the Oda army entered Kyoto in a grand manner, chasing the 3,000 defenders out of most of Kyoto, until the Katsura River Kawahara drove the Miyoshi army that was about to cross the river into the river, and only 500 of the 3,000 troops crossed the river by boat, and the remaining 2,500 people all went down to the river to feed the kappa.
Miyoshi and the three of them also hurried back from Yamato to help at this time, and found that the Oda army on the opposite side had swelled to 60,000 troops, and quickly turned around and fled in the direction of Sakai Town, and the angry Miyoshi Yoshitsugu scolded these three old bastards for being unreliable, and now he also knows that he can't get Oda Nobunaga and Nakajo Tokihide, and that evening he was very cowardly and retreated to Settsu with his army without fighting, and Katsuryuji Castle went to the castle with this person, and Oda Nobunaga once again took Yamashiro Country almost without moving his troops.
This is not only Asai Nagamasa alone with tears in his eyes, but also Nakajo Tokihide, who is hiding in Sakamoto's remote command of the front line, also began to feel sour, thinking about how hard it was when the lord of their family was Ashikaga Yoshi, in order to fight two shocking battles in a row between Kyoto and the Miyoshi family, it took a lot of effort to initially stabilize the situation in Kyoto, and single-handedly contributed to the shogunate's Hongji Zhongxing.
Later, in order to stabilize the foundation of the shogunate, Nakajo Tokihide also led the army to fight the Battle of Rakuchu in Kyoto, and the little advantage obtained on the battlefield was all buried by Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and the close relationship between Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Ashikaga Yoshitoki that was further stirred up was cracked, and the Kyoto riots in the Eiroku period did not mean to send troops to rescue.
For Nakajo Tokihide, this Kyoto city is really difficult to fight and difficult to defend, it is not a very embarrassing and painful thing for the Miyoshi family, the success of Shangluo is directly related to whether to control Kyoto, so Miyoshi Changqing is dedicated to competing with Kyoto City, and it took nearly 20 years to die tens of thousands of people to take Kyoto, and it was handed over to Oda Nobunaga before it was hot in his hands for a few years, and the taste in the heart of the Miyoshi family was simply "wonderful".
Immediately after that, the Oda family swept through the Setzu Province as if possessed by gods and Buddhas, and the only Setzu countryman who could be called resistant, Ikeda Katsumasa, held on to the castle for three days, and finally surrendered under the overwhelming military superiority of the Oda army. The people of Settsu played the trick that they were best at, changing the flag of the king at the head of the castle. Abandoned the Miyoshi family and became the appearance of the Oda family.
The soldiers, whom the Miyoshi trio were most proud of, almost dissipated. Miyoshi Masaysu of the leader of the Settsu clan almost became the commander of the light pole, Miyoshi Nagayi became the commander of the pure light pole, Iwanari Yudo was slightly better and followed by less than a thousand troops, and the three of Miyoshi did not have 3,000 troops together, from the siege of the Nijo Imperial Palace a few months ago to kill the general, and the rampant and domineering transformation of Kyoto into the embarrassing appearance in front of him, he was about to become the laughing stock of Kinai.
Miyoshi Yoshitsuki was slightly better, and half of the little remnants left to him by his adoptive father were gone. There are also 5,000 people who are willing to follow him back to Shikoku, so under the trick of fate, these two forces returned to Shikoku Island together to survive, and unfortunately lying down and also shot is the third good Kangchang of the spectrum family, he is busy appeasing a few adolescent young people not to be impatient, as soon as he looked up and found that his nest was ended, the hatred in his heart was almost strangled.
But helplessly, his old man has also become the commander of the light pole, and there are not three hundred people in his hands, and at most he can fight with the same treatment of Sanhao Changyi, and in desperation, the old man decided to shrink in the Awa country and not ask about the world, I can't beat and can't provoke the country, and I can still pretend not to see. Out of sight, out of mind, out of mind, whatever you want.
There was a big rout on the side of the Miyoshi family, and the two or three big cats and kittens in Quanguo were not enough to scare the wind and descended, and Hanoi Guoyu Zuo believed in religion without saying a word, and opened Ruojiang City to surrender. Hatakeyama Takamasa also captured Takaya Castle without saying a word, saying that he supported Ashikaga Yoshiaki Kamiraku, and the implication was that you can't beat my idea in Nanhanoi.
Yamato country's Matsunaga show is very clever submission, not only sent his sister-in-law Matsunaga to Kyoto as a hostage, but also gave the famous tea vessel ninety-nine eggplants to Oda Nobunaga as a gift, and then Oda Nobunaga also reciprocated the favor to Yamato country cut the second, which means to give him Yamato a country security blocking permission, this country is whatever he raids, and all of them are counted as Matsunaga's family.
In just one month, the storm of Owari set off a storm in Kinai, and without much effort, the Miyoshi family abandoned their family and fled in embarrassment, Hanoi, Settsu, Yamato, and Izumi swept all the way, and the people of all over the country were all looking forward to the wind, as if it was snowballing, it was constantly expanding and rolling bigger, so large that his opponent felt desperate.
Tanba's Hatano Hideji surrendered, Kii Kune came to say that it was meaningless, the Tango Isshiki family was not ready to resist, coupled with the support of the Wakasa Takeda clan, the Omi Asai clan, and the Echizen Asakura clan, it seems that the entire Kinai was attacked and defended in an instant, and became a one-sided support for the general Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and the only thing that can be called an obstacle Nakajo Tokihide quickly returned to Sakamoto Castle and was stationed on standby.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki didn't expect things to go so smoothly, and thought that the people of Kinai would resolutely resist, even if he was very confident and optimistic, he would need to waste a few months to attack various places, especially the difficult bone Miyoshi family, which was the overlord of the country back then, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki also took their helpless behemoths to make him believe that the Miyoshi family would flee without a fight, which can probably be compared to the absurdity of the Arabian Nights.
Sometimes happiness comes so quickly, there is such a group of heavenly pride in the world, they are the darlings of the gods and Buddhas, they can always encounter a good opportunity that is not encountered in a hundred years, their every action seems to be favored by God, the collective decline of the people of the country in the country, the Rokkaku family has experienced the glory of the heyday and gradually decayed and continues to disintegrate, the situation of the Miyoshi family is similar and is also constantly disintegrating, Hatakeyama Takamasa was beaten by Miyoshi Nagakei before his death, and he has not returned to normal strength until now, and the rest of the Hatano clan is just a corner of peace.
Returning to Kyoto after a few months was a different scene, Ashikaga Yoshiaki flocked to the devastated Nijo Imperial Palace after tens of thousands of tiger bens, and the first edict ordered the rebuilding of the burned Nijo Imperial Palace complex, and by the way, the nearby burned temple was repaired, after all, the Imperial Palace could not be surrounded by a circle of dilapidated buildings, that would be too bad.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki was very happy, the situation was far better than he expected, and swept Kinai to further establish himself as the true master of Genji, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki was just a clown, and the world would eventually return to his control, and before that he needed to teach Sakamoto Castle a good lesson to Nakajo Tokihide.
In the temporary palace in the Nijo Imperial Palace, Ashikaga Yoshiaki said: "Yu is determined to crusade against Sakamoto, I don't know what the monarchs think!" ”
"His Royal Highness has finally made up his mind, we should expel them as soon as possible, obviously the Kwantung samurai still want to occupy the territory of Kinai, it's really unreasonable!" Asai Nagamasa's interest was very high, and he gushed about the disadvantages of Sakamoto's fall into the Kanto Ashikaga family, and the turmoil in Kinai in the past 20 years was most likely involved with his family, and only by expelling this family could the peace of Kinai be ensured.
Asakura Yoshikei glanced at Oda Nobunaga and said, "Your Majesty thinks that several armies marching at the same time can take Sakamoto in one fell swoop, and I believe Oda Kamisuke thinks the same way, right?" ”
"His Royal Highness intends to crusade against Sakamoto? Not the right time. Oda Nobunaga muttered, "The top priority should be that His Royal Highness the Princesses become a general, and then discuss the decision to crusade against Sakamoto!" (To be continued......)