Chapter 455: The Eastern Army and the Western Army Fight Again
Miyamoto Musashi died tragically under the wildness of Aobai.
In fact, Miyamoto Musashi has not yet reached his peak, and it will take ten years in history to reach the peak of swordsmanship, and another ten years to create the "Book of Five Wheels" to reach the peak of theory.
If it is really ten years later, it is really difficult to say who will win and who will lose.
However, Aobai was only the first martial artist of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there were several people in the Ming Dynasty who were more powerful than Aobai.
In the battle of Songshan in later generations, when Hong Chengchou's army was dispersed, only Cao Bianjiao led his family to charge to the death towards Huang Taiji.
At that time, the two yellow flag guards, including Ao Bai, couldn't stop Cao Bianjiao, and almost injured Huang Taiji.
At least Cao Bianjiao's martial arts and breakthrough ability are above Aobai.
The "late Ming Dynasty Lu Bu" Wang Fuchen in the back is also stronger than Aobai and Azig.
Counting forward, Liu Wei and Yu Dayou, who are at the peak, are also above Aobai.
In addition, at this time, Wang Hongyu's second brother, Zhang Shenwu after awakening, defeated no one in Houjin, including Houjin's Aobai and Azig.
It's just that Miyamoto Musashi is dead at this time, and he has no chance to improve his martial arts and create the "Book of Five Wheels".
"Whoa!" Ao Bai roared like a beast.
"Woohoo." Under the influence of Aobai, the samurai of the Wa Kingdom turned into beasts and kept screaming.
They were impressed by the wildness of the strong, and at this time, either because of fear or because of assimilation, they also learned to become beasts.
Fan Wencheng knew that Jiannu domesticated the savage Jurchens, and only the human race that had not fully evolved would have such a phenomenon, and he said proudly: "The one who controls the beasts, the Great Khan and the Four Beylor Emperor Taiji!"
The prestige of the Houjin increased again, and the Wadao admired the barbarism and the strong, and all worshiped the Houjin.
The Tokugawa shogunate, however, was infamous for killing the sword saint Miyamoto Musashi.
In the future, Date Masamune secretly bought many people, and was ready to stand on his own feet as soon as the shogunate was defeated.
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Miyamoto Musashi wrote to the Tokugawa shogunate, but not only did not succeed in dissuasion, but was brutally killed by Gojin's deputy envoy.
The news spread quickly.
The Mori family of the Choshu Domain knew that their last hope of dissuading the war was dashed, and the Tokugawa would inevitably raise a large army to attack Shimazu in Kyushu. And it will definitely pass through the territory of the Maori family, and the Maori family's soldiers and horses will definitely be used as forward cannon fodder.
The Mori family had been suppressed by the Tokugawa shogunate, and they had long planned to fall down.
Mori Motomasa, the founder of the Mori family, rose to prominence in the western part of Honshu Island during the Warring States period of the Wa Kingdom.
Originally, the Mori family was just a countryman, but under the leadership of the Mori Motosho, the Mori family destroyed the Ouchi family and the Niko family one after another, and became the most powerful overlord in the west.
In the most critical battle of Sekigahara during the Warring States period of the Wa Kingdom, Mori Terumoto, the grandson of Mori Motosa, did not have the ability of Mori Motosa, and as the second strongest person in the world after Tokugawa Ieyasu, he could not control the rat trap and behaved like a clown.
Because of the swaying behavior of tens of thousands of troops of the Maori family, the western army such as Ishida Mitsunari, Otani Yoshitsugu, and Shimasaku was isolated and helpless, and they were defeated in half a day.
The Tokugawa family succeeded in dominating the Wajima situation.
Where can Tokugawa keep the second strongest Maori family.
Due to the defeat of the Battle of Sekigahara, Mori Terumoto lost the territory that his ancestors had managed for many years, and was deprived of 80 percent of his territory and grain production, leaving only 370,000 koku, making him a small and medium-sized daimyo.
Due to the drastic reduction of the territory, the Choshu Domain re-measured the land, and even included the miscellaneous taxes and small things outside the annual supply, such as the tree and the salt pan, into the village height, so as to increase the stone height, and at the same time realize the monopoly system of national products to supplement the financial shortage.
Mori Hidemoto worked hard, and his family and retainers ate, lived and farmed together, so that the retainers could fill their stomachs, and they were treated better than the retainers of the wealthy and large clans in the Kanto region, so that they could have strength during training.
Ten days later, as expected.
The Tokugawa shogunate threatened the Mori family in Choshu with the Ori clan with the Ori clan and made the Mori clan the vanguard of the crusade against the Shimazu clan.
Mori Hidemoto asked Yan Siqi to borrow countless amounts of silver and offered it to the shogunate as a ransom to save the family of the Choshu Domain. Hostages, letters
Yu Yan Siqi and declared his allegiance to him, and in order to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Choshu Domain pretended to be the vanguard of the Tokugawa Shogunate's attack on the Satsuma Domain.
Mori Hidemoto planned to defect on the verge of battle, so that Yan Siqi and Shimazu Iehisa were fully prepared to cooperate with the fall of the Choshu Domain at any time.
There are many islands in the western part of the country, and many desperate ronins have become pirates in order to survive, so the pirate black ship came and threatened the countryside, and in order to defend their hometown, the Choshu Domain formed an extraordinary self-defense force, named the Wonder Soldiers.
The Odd Soldiers subverted the previous common sense that only samurai could fight, recruiting people with lofty ideals from people of different identities, and those who participated in the battle were all lower-level samurai, or the second son of the farmer's third son.
These people were considered a burden at the time, and they were mostly young people who were in a strict hierarchy and could not see their future. Fortunately, these young people have gradually grown up after various trials and tribulations, and eventually become the driving force behind the development of society.
They were active around the islands, fighting pirates for a living, and the loot became their only source of income, and they were sometimes hired by others. Most of the young team members, let alone fighting, had never even held a knife before.
Mori Hidemoto had known about this spontaneous civilian army for a long time, and later became a legitimate self-defense force with the support of the Mori family, leaving a few retainers to cooperate with the Odd Soldiers to protect their homeland.
The Choshu Domain is located in a mountainous area, surrounded by large and small feudal clans, in order to ensure the safety of the villages and villages are built fortress-like buildings against the mountains, how many strong feudal clans have come to plunder, in front of the fortress of the Choshu Domain, all of them have returned with feathers, and the prestige of the Choshu Domain is out.
After the Maori family entered Kyushu, they rushed directly to Nagasaki, but instead exterminated all the Dutch people who remained here, and directly turned against the curtain.
Shimadzu and Mori officially collapsed.
Hold high the three banners of peace talks with the Ming Dynasty, revenge for the sword saint Miyamoto Musashi, and justice for the Toyotomi family and the Western Army. And with the Chinese Yan Siqi as the leader, he wanted to welcome the Ming army to jointly overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.
Tokugawa Iemitsu was also ruthless, and directly attacked the Choshu domain with a large army and occupied Hiroshima. I want to take advantage of the opportunity of the Maori family to go to Kyushu and pull out the roots of the Maori Choshu.
Hiroshima was rich under the Mori family, but the terrain was relatively flat, and unlike the Choshu Domain, where it was easy to build forts, it could only be organized to resist the attacks of the Tokugawa shogunate's retainers.
From time to time, fighting took place in the townships. The Kanto Domain was a descendant of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and almost invaded Kansai.
Kansai was poor but the people were fierce, and when they put down their hoes, they became warriors, and men, women, and children organized themselves against the invading eastern feudal armies, and the western feudal clans were forced to fight back against the attacks of the eastern feudal armies.
The civil war began in earnest, and at first the Kansai feudal clan entered the war in self-defense, but the eastern feudal army attacked, and the western feudal army was forced to resist and fight back.
The curtain has officially begun.