Chapter 444: "Pit to death" Maori
The Ouchi family's strategy in Izumo failed, and Yoshitaka Ouchi returned in a fiasco.
From the information transmitted back by the detective, this time Yoshitaka Ouchi was really a fiasco. Although Masarashi remembers, Yoshitaka Ouchi's strategy against Izumo this time will end in failure. But when he was in this era and learned in detail about the defeat of Yoshitaka Ouchi, Masaya had to marvel at the extent of Yoshitaka Ouchi's fiasco this time.
Since the Ouchi family's several attacks on the Nizi family in April this year ended in failure, the Nizi army has been fighting more and more, and the more they fight, the stronger they become. Under the account of Ouchi Yoshitaka, many wealthy families who came to the wind secretly accepted the buy-off of Niko Haruhisa (of course, some of them were instructed by Niko Haruhisa to pretend to join the camp of the Ouchi family), Santoya, Misawa, and Motojo took men and horses and went to Mt. Tsukiyama Tomita Castle, Yoshikawa Kokei raised the flag in Ogurayama to block the back road of the Ouchi army, and the Hema Party under Niko continued to fight guerrilla warfare to cut off the long and fragile grain route of the Ouchi army.
On May 7, Ouchi Yoshitaka withdrew his tent from Kyorogiyama, and the Ouchi army began to collapse. At this time, Tao Longfang, who felt a little guilty, took the initiative to ask the lord Yoshitaka to take a safer sea route, while he led his subordinates to resist the fierce pursuit of the Nizi army, and organized a brigade to retreat from Iwami to defend Nagato. Yoshitaka Ouchi burst into tears, and at the critical moment, my Gorou was reliable, but what I didn't expect was that the tragedy of the Ouchi family happened on the sea.
When Yoshitaka Ouchi takes a boat, he must bring his adopted son Harumi with him. He loved this child, but before the two of them had gone far on the boat, they met many Ouchi generals who warmly asked to take the boat. Everyone has to run for their lives. And Ouchi Haruhi is a loyal person. There was no phenomenon of Xu Chu slashing people with a knife. Soon, countless Ouchi soldiers were attached to the ship like ants, that is, overloading, overloading is capsizing.
Harumi's boat capsized, and Yoshitaka on the other boat wept, because Harumi was in a hurry and was wearing armor, but he sank into the sea like a rice dumpling, and he couldn't even find his bones. I know the way of the road early. Let Haruchi and Takabo go overland together, maybe they can pick up a life, or maybe this is life.
After learning the news of the death of Haruchi Ouchi, Masara couldn't help but sigh. After all, Ouchi Haruhi is also one of the few generals in Ouchi's family who has a good relationship with Masaka. I didn't expect it to be gone. Or maybe it's fate.
The death of Haruchi Ouchi is just a sigh for Masahiro. But for Yoshitaka Ouchi, the blow was a big one.
Ouchi Haruchi's biological father is a Ichi Fuyu in Tosa Nakamura, and his mother is the sister of Yoshitaka Ouchi, the side room of Bodong. When he was three years old, he passed to Yoshitaka Ouchi, who had no son. became the adopted heir of Yoshitaka Ouchi. Due to its both civil and military skills, the cultivation of elegant music such as waka and orchestra is also more prominent. And because he is a descendant of a famous family, Ouchi Yoshitaka loves him very much, and even sees him as another male lord of the Ouchi family in the future. It can be said that Ouchi Haroji is a spiritual sustenance of Yoshitaka Ouchi. Now, the spiritual sustenance has collapsed.
Now it will be interesting to see if Yoshitaka Ouchi is really in a rapid downturn, as history says. If it is really the same as history, then the Luo family will seize this time to take the opportunity to rise, at least to grow into a powerful daimyo who does not dare to interfere with its policy strategy casually. Now even if Ouchi Yoshitaka is defeated, the Ouchi family is still a powerful daimyo whose comprehensive national strength is several times greater than that of the Luo family.
Ouchi Yoshitaka is defeated, and the impact is far-reaching.
In addition to the Roche family, the first is the Otomo family. Although the appearance of the Luo family led to the appearance of the battle at the end of last year that did not appear in the original history, with the death of Haruchi Ouchi, the next grievances between the Ouchi family and the Otomo family are still unavoidable.
The second is the Nizi family. According to historical development, after defeating the Ouchi family in this battle, the Niko family regained its previous prestige, and Niko Haruhisa also took the opportunity to re-enter Iwami and occupy Iwami Ginzan, receiving important financial support. Later, in the name of ineffective warfare and impure stance, he exiled a large number of Izumo Kuni, reduced the fiefdoms of the Misawa and Santoya clans, monopolized the trade of iron sand in the southern part of the country, strengthened the power of the clan, and successfully moved towards the unification of the power of the daimyo, and was building the heyday of the Niko family.
The last of all is the Maori family. Taking advantage of the fact that Ouchi and Nizi had no time to take care of it, Mori Yuan implemented a plan in Anyu that could effectively govern the people of the country and expand the power of the Mori family.
The term "Futagawa" refers to the two wealthy families of Yoshikawa in the north of Yasui and Kobayakawa in the south of Yasui, both of which were important in Anyu: the Yoshikawa family was located at the junction of Yasui and Iwami, while the Kobayakawa family controlled the Seto Inland Sea traffic and had a well-trained team of sailors. What's worse is that these two families are not weak in Anyun, let them listen to the discussions of daimyo like Ouchi and Nizi, and what about the Maori family, which onion are you, who didn't know who was the bottom of the road before? However, at this time, some disputes and dilemmas between the two families provided an opportunity for Maori Yuan to infiltrate.
First of all, there was the internal strife of the Yoshikawa family, and according to the development of history, Yoshikawa Kokei, who was soon the governor of the family, reused a retainer named Oshio Uemon Captain in order to strengthen his own power, which aroused the resentment of the Yoshikawa clan. In particular, Yoshikawa Kokei's uncle, Yoshikawa Nobuyo, has a lot of power and prestige in the clan, and is extremely dissatisfied with his nephew Kokei's behavior of reusing people with foreign surnames. Yoshikawa Jingyo finally couldn't bear it anymore and sent assassins to kill the big salt, and then Jingshi and the rest of Yoshikawa's important ministers collated with him, and simply welcomed Maori Yuan directly to take over the Yoshikawa family. As a result, the governor of the Zhengpai family, Yoshikawa Xingjing, and his son Senfa were tied up by the clansmen and retainers and sent to the Fukagawa Pavilion and "secluded". Subsequently, Mori Moto, who sent Shosuke Jiro (this is the grandson of your old governor) to the Yoshikawa family and inherited the family name, at this time, Mori Jiro inherited the Mori family character "Yuan" and changed his name to Yoshikawa Motoharu, completing the integration of the Yoshikawa family with the Mori family.
Yoshikawa Xingjing has the most difficult ending, how can it end well? In September of the 19th year of Astronomy (1550), Motogen instructed Yoshikawa Motoharu, Kumagai Nobunao and Amano to surround the Fukagawa Pavilion on the grounds that the Xingjing father and son were "unstable". The Anyu Yoshikawa family is actually extinct.
In addition, the Kobayakawa family is easier to get. At that time, the Kobayakawa River of Aki was divided into two families, Takehara Kobayakawa and Numata Kobayakaigawa. The first thing Moto got was the Takehara family, the head of the family, Kobayakawa Kokagei who participated in the Battle of Koriyama Castle, who died in the 11th year of Tenmon (1541) and left no descendants. At this time, Yoshitaka Ouchi personally went into battle and said to the Takehara Kobayakawa family, give up the position of the governor to my Tokujumaru! The Takehara family was so frightened that they were urinating, and Mori Takakei had no suspense and entered the Takehara Kobayakawa family as the governor.
This time, during the Battle of Tsukiyama Tomita Castle, the governor of the Numata Kobayakawa family, who was fighting with the Ouchi army, was chased and killed by the Nizi army, and his son Kobayakawa Shigethei was blind and weak, and a group of people in the family, led by Nami Takako, also clamored to belong to the Mori family. Kobayakawa Shihei had no choice but to welcome Maori Takashi in and become his own adopted son. As soon as Longjing entered, he colluded with Nami Takako, and gradually purged and killed the retainers loyal to Fanping.
Later, in the same year that Yoshikawa Xingjing was killed, Moto's old trick was repeated, saying that Kobayakawa Shihei colluded with the Niko family, but he still left this blind man alive, just forced him to live in seclusion and become a monk, and then Moto's third son Takakei, with the full support of Ouchi Yoshitaka, married Fanhei's sister as his wife, and took over the Numata Kobayakawa family, since then Takehara and Numata are all unified in the hands of Takakei, and the name of Kobayakawa Takakei is officially spread in the world.
Of course, Masarashi would not allow such a potentially powerful enemy to develop smoothly, so when he participated in Yoshitaka Ouchi's Izumo Raiders, Masarashi had already taken the opportunity to get acquainted with Yoshikawa Kokei and Kobayakawa Shohei.
When he left halfway, he sent some people to the two of them. And a month ago, when he had a premonition that Yoshitaka Ouchi was about to be defeated, he transmitted the latest order to these people who were secretly following Yoshikawa Kokei and Kobayakawa Shohei. There is only one purpose, which is to allow them to survive the pursuit of the Nizi family, and then serve as a messenger between Masara and them, and assist them in fighting against the Maori family.
And the latest news from the battlefield also confirmed the correctness of Masayo's arrangement, and Kobayakawa Shohei, who was killed by the Niko family during the escape, returned to the territory safely this time. In this way, the Maori family's plan to completely seize the Kobayakawa family will be hindered. And Yoshikawa Xingjing, Masara also wrote a letter to him, which had given him enough warnings that if he was a smart person, he would not be wiped out in the end.
In addition to these two people, Zhengliang also sent someone into Anyi a month ago to make some arrangements in advance, the purpose is to take advantage of this opportunity to bury nails in advance. If the Roche family does not match the Maori family, these nails will be hidden forever.
Of course, now Masahiro is most concerned about the life and death of the Maori family. In history, Mao Liyuan, who ran away to Anyun, was father and son, and the situation was also very dangerous. Because the Nizi Army knew these two fathers and sons, they were enthusiastic about chasing and killing, and they screamed. In Iwami Oezaka, Maori Moto's father and son were really tired, and when they saw that they were about to be caught up by the Nizi army, the father and son almost hugged their heads and cried. According to historical development, it was time for Watanabe Tong and others to make sacrifices to buy time for Yuan and his son to escape.
But now that Watanabe has defected to Masayo, will Maori Moto's father and son be "pitted" to death by Masayo?
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