Mori Hidemoto saw Tokugawa divide his family with his own eyes, and now he has smashed his home into a scorched earth.

He knew that there was no room for reconciliation between Mori and Tokugawa.

"Please Yan Siqi contact the Marquis of Daming Dingyuan, my Maori family officially invites Daming to participate in the war!"

Of course, the Shimazu family is the same, when the Shimazu family defected on the treasure island, the Shimazu family voted for Wang Hongyu of the Ming Dynasty, and took out the identity of a descendant of China, and he was already the dog of the Ming Dynasty.

The Maori family and Shimazu invited Wang Hongyu together.

Not to mention Yan Siqi.

Wang Hongyu replied that troops had been sent to prepare, and all kinds of materials would support the three that had fallen to the curtain, and that the Ming Dynasty would not only continue to blockade the Tsushima Strait and prevent the return of the 100,000 enemy troops occupying South Goryeo, but would also increase troops to attack Shikoku Island from the south.

Yan Siqi, Shimazu, and Maori knew that there was a Ming shot, so they didn't have to be afraid of the Tokugawa shogunate.

They continued to mobilize all the daimyo in Kansai to fall under the shogunate, and the Tokugawa family did the same, mobilizing all the daimyo who were still in the shogunate to join the war.

All the forces of Kansai have been involved in the war.

No daimyo is left alone, and he is one of the initiators of the War of the Downfall, and it is his responsibility to support the other daimyos.

At this time, the large and small foreign domains of Kyushu Island had already fought to Hiroshima under the leadership of the Satsuma domain, and the daimyo of the outer domain of Shikoku Island had defeated the overseas Chinese Nitta domain of the Pudai domain, and they had also begun a full-scale counterattack against the Kanto clan and the Pudai domain, and the entire Kansai daimyo had all participated in the war.

Even the very small Musato clan also participated in the war, but the Musato clan belonged to the Pudai domain, and at this time it had been wiped out by the Kanto Wai domain, and only a few dozen people fled to the Kanto Daimyo.

By the time the foreign feudal clan of Kyushu Island reached Hiroshima, Hiroshima had been looted and burned countless times by the eastern feudal clan and the Pudai domain, and the buildings of Hiroshima had been reduced to ashes.

Taking advantage of the Maori family's support for Hiroshima, the two Kanto daimyo who had been beaten away by the Choshu clan before led their troops back to the Choshu Domain, this time they no longer abide by the war principles of the Wa Kingdom, and set fire to what they saw, and when Mori Hidemoto brought his troops back, the Choshu Domain was already in flames.

Even their cash cows, as soon as they blossomed and bore fruit, they could not eat them and set them on fire, and the trees were counted as village heights in the Choshu Domain. At this time, the Choshu Domain suffered heavy losses, but fortunately, the shogunate army could not attack the village, and the residence and fortress were still there.

The Choshu clan is angry now, and these guys are coming to implement the three-light policy in the entire Kansai.

Now they are indeed burning, killing, and robbing all of them, and it turns out that the Japanese people have had such a tradition for a long time.

Mori Hidemoto was ruthless, and ordered the cavalry to stop the more than 5,000 soldiers of the Kwantung clan in front of the shogunate army at all costs, and then took out 20 furlong cannons from the cave that had not been used, this time they did not bring shells, and used the river pebbles on the river beach as scatter bombs to completely wipe out the 5,000 shogunate troops.

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However, it is said that the Echigo Takada Domain, which was a member of the Tokugawa family, and a total of 5,000 people from the Pudai Domain, which had only 150,000 koku, escaped 20 miles from the Choshu Domain and found a sheltered mountain pass to camp.

These guys were very afraid of the Changzhou Domain, and they ran 70 miles in one breath, and after eating and cooking rice, they fell asleep like dead pigs.

After the cavalry of the Choshu domain approached, they sent men to follow them on foot, and then held on a mile to the east of the shogunate army. At midnight, Mori Hidemoto led a large army to arrive, and Mori Hidemoto asked his retainers to prepare a large amount of firewood and grass and beat it into bundles.

After resting for an hour, the Furlong cannon was set up and prepared to fire from the east, west, and south, with a cliff several feet high to the north. It is indeed a good place to force the wind, and it is also the place where they are buried.

Mori Hidemoto ordered to dig up the terrain of the steps for downward firing, fix the gun, plug it with paper after charging, and then wrap the gravel in a cloth bag and stuff it into the barrel to prevent it from slipping out.

First of all, 20 furlong cannons were used to fire at the tent, and then the firewood and grass were burned and rolled down the col, and I don't know how many shogunate soldiers were killed in the first round, and soon many soldiers who lost their armor ran out and wanted to escape outside the col.

It was clearly visible in the light of the fire, and due to its close proximity, the Furlong cannon was suitable for firing at the opposite hillside, while the bird guns and bows and arrows were head-on

Shooting downward, most of the shogunate soldiers died from the front and rear shots, and a few who slipped through the net climbed halfway up the slope and were smashed to the bottom of the ditch by rolling stones.

In less than an hour, all 5,000 retainers of the clan and the retainers of the Pudai clan died, and only a dozen people from the Choshu domain were stabbed by the shogunate soldiers who pretended to be dead when they were cleaning up the battlefield, or because of carelessness.

In this battle, the Changzhou Domain captured a large number of weapons, armor, money and food, not much. Mori Hidemoto ordered the corpses of the shogunate army to be pulled down by carts in the Hirakawa area, ten miles away, and built into a mountain of corpses, and written in white cloth: Those who invade Kansai will die!

The first battle of the Choshu Domain played a prestige, which greatly boosted the morale of the Kansai Outer Domain, and the morale of the Kanto Shogunate's pro-domain and Pudai Domain plummeted.

The war turned from a passive attack at the beginning to a stalemate, giving the Kansai foreign domain a chance to breathe, and the Kansai foreign domain also had the determination to continue fighting.

At first, only the Maori family was desperate, and most of the foreign feudal clans kept retreating in order to preserve their strength, only hoping that the other foreign feudal clans would fight against the shogunate army, and even some small feudal clans had the intention of surrendering, and the western army would not be destroyed for the time being after the first battle of the Choshu domain.

Mori Hidemoto asked his retainers never to reveal the history of the battle, so as to maintain the morale of the Western army, knowing that this war was a protracted war and the process would be quite difficult.

After the fighting spirit of the Western Army was raised, the situation of the battle also changed, and the Western Army finally repelled the attack of the Eastern Army with the unity of the Western Army. But if Da Ming didn't intervene and Yan Siqi didn't work hard, the Western Army would have no hope of counterattacking and winning, because the disparity in strength was too great.

After that, the shogunate did a lot of work and promised incentives, and the morale of the eastern army slowly recovered, and after two months of reorganization, it was killed.

The far-sighted people of the western foreign domains also lobbied around, and the major daimyo also began to sum up the gains and losses of the previous stage of the war, and they realized that the defeat of the shogunate army was only temporary, and the Kanto daimyo did not go far, but rested, summarized, and prepared for war, believing that the next attack would be more fierce and the battle would be more brutal.

The Great War of the Japanese Kingdom had just begun. The first stage of the battle was of course the attack of the eastern army of the Tokugawa shogunate, and the defense of the western army led by Yan Siqi, Shimazu, and Mori.

Yan Siqi convened the Satsuma Domain and the Choshu Domain to discuss, and several people agreed:

Tokugawa Iemitsu was going to go out in person, and the west itself was bitterly cold, and if the war had been fought in the west, it would affect the grain production in the west, and it would be more and more difficult to fight, so it would have to be fought and fought in Sekigahara.

Yan Siqi personally came forward to organize the western foreign domains to resist the attack of the eastern powerful domains, and asked the Satsuma domain and the Changzhou domain to take the lead in the united front work, deciding that they must make concerted efforts to unify their thinking, and only by fighting out can there be a way out.