Astronomical 15th year (1546), July, summer.

Last year, a sudden weather change caused great damage to all the powerful territories.

The territory of the Roche family. Even in the Hizen and Chikugo areas, which had already promoted water conservancy projects, they still suffered huge losses from typhoons, rains, and even hail, and to make matters worse, last year's winter was much colder and longer than usual.

The most lethal thing is that this weather change happened to come in the summer. It is important to know that this time is the critical moment for grains such as rice to set head. As a result, an anomaly seriously affected the growth of these grains. As a result of last year's autumn harvest, the Luo family's territory of 600,000 stones, in the end, only had an income of more than 300,000 stones, if it weren't for the fact that the Luo family still had a certain amount of grain reserves before, it is estimated that even this year's autumn harvest would not be able to last.

The Luo family, which had been deliberately guarding for a long time, was so miserable, not to mention other defenseless heroes?

Let's not talk about the strength of other regions, let's take the Chikuzen and Higo areas as examples. Although I don't know what the actual losses of the wealthy clans in the central region of the province such as the Ouchi family and the central part of Higo are, just from the news that the Luo family has come to settle in the Luo family's territory this year and has been rationed with spring ploughing, a large number of local people from all over the country have poured into these two areas, and their life is definitely much more miserable than that of the Luo family.

These lords are not like the homeless people who voluntarily joined the Luo family in the past, they all have property in the original settlement. As the saying goes, it is difficult to leave their homeland, and if they are not in a desperate predicament, they will not choose to leave the place where they have lived for a long time. Then the whole family came to join the Luo family.

As for the area a little further afield. Judging by the intelligence received. It also suffered a lot of losses. For example, the mountain castle of Kakubushiyasha and Kurama Gate in the Kyoto area were directly washed away by the flood. If you can directly wash away a city, you can imagine how big the flood was at that time.

Returning to his own territory again, since the beginning of spring this year, a large influx of immigrants has surprised Zhengliang. He hurriedly ordered the crowd to arrange the settlement of these immigrants. Since experiencing bad weather last year, the Roche family has actually entered a large-scale repair campaign. The main thing is to repair water conservancy facilities damaged in bad weather, and at the same time vigorously promote the use of water wheels as a tool. Through this bad weather, it was confirmed that the waterwheel has a lot of role in drainage. Able to shoot too much water during floods. In times of drought, waterways can be used for irrigation.

Due to the huge losses suffered, all the Haoqiang were busy repairing the damage within their own homes, so the surrounding area of the Luo family actually entered a long period of peace.

As for the powder keg area of Higo Shangyicheng, the soldiers were also calmed down because of this weather change. However, the question of the ownership of the Miyahara silver mine is still inconclusive. The Omiya family, the Nawa family, the Kikuchi family, the Aishi family, and even the Tsunemune family stationed troops near the Miyahara silver mine to prevent others from mining the silver mine in advance. It is also said that the Otomo family of Bungo also became interested in this silver mine.

Gradually becoming a force that cannot be ignored by Higo, Ichijo also took advantage of this time to firmly control the Kenshida Castle that was snatched from the Omiya family, and Honganji Shangyi was already preparing to construct his Higo "Ishiyama Castle" dream at this time. And the Omiya family is in addition to taking the opportunity to strengthen the protection of the city on the road. also used the excuse of guarding the territory for the Fei family, and directly sent troops to annex the Kai family's Chuanyue City.

The important minister of the Kai family, Zhuang Qinchang, refused to give in to the Omiya family. Before the Omiya clan rushed to Funa-goshi Castle, he set fire to Funa-goshi Castle and committed suicide by seppuku in the city. What is strange is that after the incident, everyone found out that Jia Fei's relatives and the family members of the strong Qinchang were missing.

Minami Higo area. The Sagara family, who had always had a good relationship with the Ouchi family, received an invitation from Yoshitaka Ouchi and was preparing for the dispatch of ships on a large scale. In history, the last time the Ouchi family traded with the Ming Dynasty was about to begin.

Satsuma region. Due to the gradual expansion of the retainers' group, in order to educate the retainers, the Shimazu family compiled educational norms in the form of waka to educate the retainers, and invited the former Sekihaku Konoe Minoru to give a commentary.

At the same time, as if he intended to raise his prestige due to repeated defeats at the Luo clan through war, Otomo Yoshikan was sharpening his sword and preparing to invade Uwa County, which was led by Iyu Saionji Gonghiro. The Luo family is too hard, and this time Otomo Yoshikan decided to pick a soft persimmon to pinch. But he didn't expect that he would still encounter a hard stone. Historically, his expedition ended in failure.

In fact, the Otomo family was already dissatisfied with the frequent use of troops against the Otomo family at this time. Not only the retainers, but even the soldiers below already had a feeling of war weariness. But Otomo Yoshikan is also difficult to ride a tiger at this time. Seeing that the prestige he had accumulated before had been defeated by Zhengliang several times, he had to do everything he could to keep the confidence of his retainers in him, otherwise the people's hearts would be scattered.

Jump out of the Kyushu area and look a little further away from the corner of your eye.

In the Sakai Port area, Hosokawa Harumoto, Hosokawa Clan, and Miyoshi Nagakei are still in the midst of a melee. The most miserable thing was in the Kyoto area, where a tsuchichi rebellion broke out and demanded that the shogunate issue a decree on virtue.

What is a German decree? Originally, this was a decree issued by the shogunate for the purpose of providing relief to the imperial family. The decree stipulated that the royal family could not sell or pawn the domain to a non-royal family, and that the imperial family territory that was already acquired by the non-imperial family must be returned free of charge, and the shogunate would no longer accept litigation disputes related to the loan of the imperial family. In order to consolidate their rule, the shogunate issued a number of edicts in different periods, and they were generally centered on invalidating the land transactions of the imperial family and the merchants and discharging debts, and gradually extended to the lower classes such as farmers. This time the rebellion was clearly a demand for the shogunate and the imperial court to cancel their debts. This time, under the threat of a large-scale riot, the weak shogunate was forced to finally comply with the request and issue the Tokugawa Decree.

Owari area. Oda Nobunaga, the son of the Warring States Period, finally entered into submission and embarked on the road to his unification of Owari. As for Oda Nobunaga's father, Oda Rookie, he had just defeated Matsudaira Hirotada, who was trying to retake Ansho Castle, and took advantage of the situation to press on Okazaki Castle.

Of course, the Kanto region is the most popular area at this time.

In August of last year, Imagawa Yoshimoto, a neighbor to the west, invaded the Hojo family's territory from Sho under Surugawa. Hojo Shiyasu led his troops to meet the attack. The two sides played against Fox Bridge, Imai County, Suruga Province. The Imagawa army was also mixed with Takeda's Ryonoshi banner. Kai's Takeda Shingen sent reinforcements to help his sister-in-law, Yoshimoto. During this period, there was only one member of the Hojo family's alliance, and that was the Furukawa Kung Ashikaga Haruhura. He married Shi Kang's sister.

In this battle, the Hojo family was defeated, and the land east of the Fuji River was recovered by Imagawa Yoshimoto.

In September of the same year, Uesugi Kenmasa joined forces with Uesugi Toyosa and sent about 60,000 troops from the Kanto countries to attack Hojo Shiyasu and besiege Kawagoe Castle. Immediately afterwards, the Ashikaga Haruki, an ally of the Furukawa Duke, also severed ties with the Hojo clan Yasu, and sent troops to assist the Ryosugi army in attacking Kawagoe Castle.

Just when the Hojo family was facing enemies on all sides, Takeda Shingen appeared. At this time, the Takeda Army in the Suwa region and the powerful Murakami Yoshikiyo of Kita-Shinano were in a bitter battle. In order to transfer back the soldiers under the command of the Hojo family, Takeda Shingen mediated between the Hojo family and the Imagawa family. The Hojo family was at peace with the Takeda family, while the Imagawa family was given the Suruga domain east of the Fuji River below the Surugawa River. After receiving the benefits, the Imagawa family withdrew from the army.

Thus, the threat of the West was removed. Kawagoe Castle in the north was still surrounded by the two Uesugi clans, trying to wait for Kawagoe Castle to run off its military rations. Under the mediation of Takeda Shingen, the harmonious relationship between the two Uesugi clans was established, and it was believed that the clan would surely die, and victory was in sight. In the cage city for half a year, the Hojo side in the city has shown a tired color.

In the middle of the night on April 20, the 15th year of astronomy, things took a sudden turn. Shiyasu led 8,000 soldiers to suddenly attack Kashiwahara's Uesugi main camp at night. At the same time, the 3,000 Hojo Army in the castle, pretending to be tired, went out of the city under the leadership of Hojo Tsunari to attack the city. The unprepared Ryosugi Army, with more than 80,000 people, was completely defeated by the Hojo Army, which totaled more than 10,000 inside and outside the city.

Uesugi Asadashi was killed on the spot, and Uesugi Kenmasa took refuge in Echigo's Nagao Keitora through Ueno Hirai Castle. Furukawa Gongfang Ashikaga Haru clan worked hard to escape back to the local office, Shimoso Furukawa. Ota Shimasa fled into Musashimatsuyama Castle, and the important retainers of the Uesugi clan in Yamauchi, Oishi Dinghisa of Takiyama Castle and Fujita Kunibo of Tenjinyama Castle subdued and settled in Kushi. The country of Musashi was completely included in the territory of the Hojo clan.

The Battle of Koese, which was the meaning of the three major surprise attacks in the history of the Warring States period, still happened as scheduled, and the result did not change at all. (To be continued......)