Chapter 130: The Tide of Kanto (Second Update)
For the people of Kinai, this year's summer has been extraordinarily long, and the stories that happened in just a few months are better than any monogatari, and I don't know how many ministers and cultural people have been inspired by it to write an epic story that can be sung and cried in the future, and it is rumored that the ape musicians on the streets are compiling their own jokes, which tell the story of the famous young general Kira Kamizaburo who fought bloodily for the shogunate in the deep grass valley and killed the enemy general Oni Juhe on a horse.
Ji Liang Yishi was really crying and laughing when he heard the news at first glance, his virtual age is only ten years old, you let him ride a horse, carry a big gun and ride to kill that perverted man of Shihe Yicun? It's not much easier than letting him pick the stars in the sky, he can't organize the people's yearning for legendary stories, the real history is always very different from the legends, such as Shihe Yicun became a heinous murderer, and the Miyoshi family is a demon army from hell or something, it's completely out of reality.
In addition, the water battle that broke out on the Kamogawa River next to Kyoto, the legend of the thunder god going down to punish the Miyoshi family was passed down to the gods, and the Kamo Upper and Lower Shrines, Gion Shrines, and Fushimi Inari Shrines near Kyoto all claimed to be divine manifestations, of course, there were shrines involved, and the temples could not let go of the opportunity.
Public opinion in Kyoto suddenly became very happy, all kinds of gossip and legends flew around, and the ministers tried to get first-hand real information with their connections, such as Yamashina Yanji went to Sakamoto Castle as a guest in order to write his diary, like his own reporter, he had to find out the real situation of the two battles, in short, because of these several joint battles that broke out around Kyoto, for the civilians of Kinai to add fresh stories after tea and dinner.
As the long summer has come to an end, the news of the Kanto Astronomical Rebellion has also come in the past few months because of a series of joint battles between Rakuchu and China, and in early September, when has returned to calm, the news of the Kanto Astronomical Rebellion has also flown into Kinai like wings.
Since the beginning of this year, after the Furukawa Gongfang recaptured the lost Furukawa Imperial Palace, Harusuke Hitada held the Kanto Gongfang succession ceremony for his nephew Ashikaga Fujimasa at the Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace in Kamakura, and invited the leaders of the Kanto Hachiya and various countries to watch the ceremony.
When the people of the Kanto region began to return to their respective territories one after another to manage the newly occupied land, the Hojo family unexpectedly sent troops at the critical time of spring sowing, and the Hojo family experienced a full half year of hardship and endurance, and began to exert their strength in early March this year, first uniting Imagawa and Takeda to launch a counteroffensive against the Kanto region, and Hojo Shiyasu personally took command and led an army of 12,000 to launch an attack in Minami Musashi.
In the field battle, he successfully defeated the counterattack of the Ota family, and recaptured Edo Castle that had been lost for half a year in one fell swoop, and at the same time his allies Imagawa and the Takeda family were also invited to enter the Kanto region, Taiyuan Yukisai led 8,000 troops out of Hedong, and entered the Kanto region through Izu and Sagami, Takeda Harunobu led the 5,000 army out of the Eight Princes into the Kanto, and the two armies attacked in Nakamusashi and North Musashi one after another, and captured several cities one after another.
In the face of such an urgent situation, the people of the Kwantung region after surviving the spring sowing, decisively sounded the conch of assembly, and a huge torrent surged everywhere in the land of the eight countries of the Kanto, and within a month they once again swarmed to form the Kwantung coalition army, Ota, Satomi, Satake, Chiba, Masato Valley, and other southern Musashi, Kami, Shimo, and Hitachi Kuniku once again formed a coalition to start a tug-of-war against Edo Castle, and the Kobow Gongfang Ashikaga Tsukijun also made a lot of fun to avenge his father Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who was killed in battle.
They fought dozens of battles in a row from April 3 to August, and although Hojo Shiyasu had a strong support of 12,000 troops in Goshibei, the influx of 50,000 troops from the Minami Musashi area still put a lot of pressure on him, especially several of the Hojo family's sworn enemies who contributed a lot to the battle against Hojo, and the wrestling between the two sides caused casualties to each other, but this large-scale confrontation tug-of-war was never fruitful.
Kitamusashi Narita Nagatai sent a request to the Kanto governor Uesugi Kenmasa, and the Nishi-Ueno Kunito went out to the Kanto region again, this time the command was represented by Nagao Kenkei, the head of the Shirai Nagao family, and the actual command was handed over to Nagano Yoshimasa, and Uesugi Kenmasa continued to be his bare-bones commander.
The Higashi-Kamino people also came out with the Furukawa Gongfang under the leadership of Yura Nari Shigeru, and the Musashi people Tanamida Masahiro, Ueda Asano and other former Uesugi family relics revived, and Fujita Yasukuni, Oishi Tsunashu and other people who were plugged by the Hojo clan with their stepsons also immediately kicked out their adopted sons and swarmed, and the people of the North Musashi Country, the brother of Narita Nagayasu, the lord of Ninja Castle, and the Musashi Province also swarmed when he rode the Oda family, the lord of Nishiki Castle.
Furukawa Gongkata was close to the important minister Kido Harumi and his clan, and Hanyu, who belonged to the Uesugi family, and the lord of Sao Castle, Kido Mimi, began to attack Kitamusashi, and his sons Kido Tadato, Hirota Naoshi, joined the army, and Hirota Naoshi was also the son-in-law of Nagao, the head of the Ashikaga Nagao family, and the Shimono Kuni, Yuki, Koyama, and other Shimono Kuniku worked together to attack Kita Musashi at the same time, and even the Utsunomiya family, which was engaged in civil strife in the inheritance, and the enemy Nasu family also sent troops out.
At the moment when the Kanto Princes and the Kanto Governors were resolutely opposing Hojo, many samurai who were originally contradictory and did not belong to each other also joined forces to attack the Hojo family, and for a time Musashi poured into hundreds of thousands of troops, and the Kwantung coalition army could be encountered anywhere, which gave Takeda and Imagawa a headache.
Takeda Harunobu's 5,000 Koshu army fought five tough battles in a row, killing a total of more than 1,000 Kwantung people, although they achieved impressive results, but also because of the indiscriminate hunting and bad people hunting caused a collective rebellion in the local villages, they resisted the Takeda family's unrestrained three-light policy, and caused a riot, and then was surrounded by the Kwantung coalition forces near the Tama River to fight a joint battle, although in Taiyuan Xuezhai was able to retreat, but the 5,000 Koshu army lost more than 1,300 people in the battle.
Although he was able to get compensation from the indiscriminate catches, Hitokari and the heavy remuneration of the Hojo clan, Takeda Harunobu still began to seriously consider his retreat, and in July Shinano Province reported that Murakami Yoshikiyo had joined forces to fight in Koji Prefecture and regained lost territory in Lianke Castle, and the Shinano people were shaken, and Ogasawara recaptured Fukashi Castle with the support of Murakami Yoshikiyo for a long time, and the Takeda family had to terminate this Kanto trip and retreat back to Kai.
The Takeda family is clearly here to fight the autumn wind, and after a few long victories, he found himself in the middle of a public target and retreated decisively, this truth Hojo Shiyasu understands, he has no reason to hinder the retreat of the Takeda army, and it is not easy for allies to go deep into unfamiliar areas to coordinate operations, and it is harsh to ask for more.
Taiyuan Xuesai is a general who is good at commanding troops, he led the 8,000 Imagawa army all the way to conquer several castles in Nakamusashi, and through the Hojo family's retainers successfully transferred a few rebellious people, did not fight any hard battles, completely relied on steady and steady foothold in Nakamusashi, and in early June he received the successful evacuation of Takeda Harunobu who was trapped in the Tama River, and only lost more than 1,000 people in three months, which was much better than Takeda Harunobu who was angry.
But the good times did not last long, in early June, Taiyuan Yukisai received an order from Imagawa Yoshimoto and began to slowly withdraw his troops, because of the repeated conflicts on the border of Mikawa country, since a year ago in Mikawa suffered a big loss, Oda Nobuhide has been thinking about how to find the field, so he took advantage of the opportunity of the Imagawa family to look westward, successively transferred a few people close to Owari, and recaptured several castles.
Immediately after the poor search Owari Hachigun, a 3,000-strong army was pulled up to attack the border of Mikawa, and it seemed that there was a plan to recapture Ansho Castle, Okabe Motonobu asked Imagawa Yoshimoto of Suruga for help, and Imagawa Yoshimoto urgently ordered Asahina Taino to lead Suruga, and Enoe's 5,000 troops rushed to Ansho Castle to sit down, and asked the Kira family to cooperate with the Mikawa coalition army, and fought several small battles in June before the autumn harvest.
Imagawa Yoshimoto had to recall Taiyuan Yuizai to sit in Suruga, and the Hojo family fell into a dangerous situation of fighting alone, but fortunately, Hojo Shiyasu still seized the opportunity to break the main force of the Satomi family, forcing Satomi Yoshiyao to take the initiative to retreat, and then Hojo Tsusunari once again swept Chiba, Masato Valley, Oda and many other people, and the Satake family also saw the opportunity to gradually retreat, only the Ota family held on to the south Musashi and resisted stubbornly, and the south Musashi was initially stable.
In September, the Kanto people and Hojo successively slowed down their offensive and began to work on the autumn harvest, because most of the territory of Musashi Province fell and the power of the Hojo family declined, and the tide of recovery formed after the rise of the declining wealthy clans made it very difficult for the Hojo clan to deal with it.
It's just that it's much more difficult than before, because both the Furukawa Gongfang Masaku and the Kogong Gongkata are actively connecting up to resist the Hojo clanyasu, and if there is no victory of the level of the Kawagoe Night War, it will be difficult to turn the situation back.
Kanto spent most of the year in turmoil, and the situation in was not much better, and in early September, the news that the Miyoshi family once again gathered a large army to go out of Kyoto flew throughout like wings, and public opinion in Kyoto came to an abrupt end, and no one expected that Miyoshi Chokei would insist on going out of battle, and the prisoner exchange would go out of Kyoto before it began, what kind of trouble is this?
Miyoshi Chokei's mobilization order was like a stone thrown into a lake, which immediately stirred up the turbulent waves of, and the people who were originally stirring up the wind and rain died down, and even the shogunate who was building the Nijo Imperial Palace in Kyoto was also a little restless, Ashikaga Yoshito was waiting for the news that the Miyoshi family was in chaos, and Miyoshi Nagakei was also waiting patiently for the news of the Ashikaga family's chaos after throwing in a stone, and both sides were waiting for the moment they were looking forward to.
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