Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 135 Hideyoshi's Military Discussion
Xiuchang's words are thought-provoking, and Xiujia has been thinking about the meaning.

What is Xiuchang trying to persuade himself?Don't you want to continue to make meritorious service?
But I have struggled for so long, isn't my purpose to severely injure the Tokugawa family in the battle of Komaki Nagakute, and prepare for the possible Sekigahara break in the future?

If I don't participate in the Battle of Komaki Nagakute at this moment, I am afraid that the Hashiba Army will still end in a disastrous defeat. In the end, Tokugawa Ieyasu will still be transferred to Kanto as in history, with a huge territory of 256 million shi, the Battle of Sekigahara It will become a national war again.

What is the purpose of my hard work until now?
As far as the current situation is concerned, facing the siege network organized by Tokugawa Ieyasu, Hideyoshi will never attack the Hide family. Even before the world is at peace, the Hide family can be said to be as stable as Mount Tai, but what about after the world is at peace?
Hideka's vassal state is the four countries of Bizen, Bichu, Misaku, and Sanuki plus the three counties of Harima Inaba, with a total of 4 shi. The actual stone height is about 76 shi, and the trade income is 88.2 kan. It is already the strength of 12 million stone daimyo.

When the trade with Ming Dynasty starts next year, Xiujia's trade income will double and gradually expand to 30 guan. This is the strength of the 200 million stone daimyo.

And Hashiba Hideyoshi's base is in Settsu-Osaka, which is only 4-5 days away from Okayama and Sanuki, and the two counties of Ako Sayo are in the hands of Hideyoshi, so Hideyoshi can be said to have no danger to defend.

Entering Harima from Ako is the vast Harima Plain with no danger to defend.It can even be said that once Hideyoshi has a second heart, the flames of war will reach the Settsu border within 3 days, and Hideyoshi can only rely on Rokko Mountain for defense.

As Hidecho said, the word "loyalty" does not lie in what you do, but in what Hideyoshi feels.

On the other hand, from Xiuchang's words, Xiujia smelled something different.From Hideonaga's words, Hideo knew that Hideyoshi had begun to pay attention to himself, and expressed his fear of owning such a huge territory.

Ask yourself, if Hideo was in Hideyoshi's position, he would never allow a behemoth of more than 40 koku to exist in the West Country.

For Hideyoshi, the purpose of Ukiya's existence is to keep an eye on Mori and Nagamune of the West Country.

It can even be said that the purpose of the existence of the Uki family is to slow down the pace of Mori and other daimyos of the Western Kingdom from marching into Kinai, and to delay the time for Hashiba Hideyoshi to organize an army to resist. If the purpose is achieved, all sacrifices for this are acceptable.

To put it bluntly, it is the role of the watchdog, but the watchdog must have the strength to be worthy of the watchdog, and if it exceeds it, it may devour the master.

For Hideyoshi, 80 koku is the limit he can accept. More than 80 koku means that there are two huge monsters in the Western Kingdom. Danger.

For Hideya, it may be the best way out to raise his arms now and fight against his mother; joining forces with Tokugawa to attack Hashiba Hideyoshi on both sides.

This dangerous idea was quickly dismissed by Xiujia, because Xiujia knew that this decision would have no way out for Yu Xijia.

Not to mention that the Xiu family has already hated the Changzong of the Four Kingdoms, once he leaves Yuchai and is in Tosa, the Yuan relatives who are determined to unify the Four Kingdoms will definitely renew their arms and attack the Xiu family.

Hideyoshi will never underestimate Hideyoshi's political wisdom. Once Hideyoshi chooses to leave the rebellion, Hideyoshi must let go of the current guard against the Maori family of Nagamune, and unite with them to eliminate Hideyoshi and fight Tokugawa.

In other words, this seemingly best choice ended up benefiting Tokugawa for no reason, and he himself became a victim. No matter how you look at it, it is not worthwhile.

Xiuchang must have thought of this situation, and he also thought that Xiujia was a smart person, so he had such a frank meeting with Xiujia, and he believed that Xiujia would make a wise decision.

In fact, there is no second choice. After Xiuchang told Xiujia about the monkey's attitude, Xiujia had only one way to go.

In this way, Hideka, who was full of worries, spent a difficult night in Hidecho's mansion, and reported to Hideyoshi again the next day along with Hidecho.

The meeting on the second day happened to be held in Hideyoshi for the first meeting against the Tokugawa campaign, presided over by Kuroda Kanbei, Gamo Ujigo, Hachisuka Masakatsu, Hashiba Hidecho and other close daimyos attended the meeting, and Ishida Mitsunari as the general manager from the sidelines discipline.

The meeting was held at the southern house that was first completed in Mihonmaru. This is the location of the future Omogoden and Toyokuni Shrine. There were not many participants, but Hideie seemed very cautious and did not express a single opinion from the beginning to the end.

"Oh~ everyone is here, I'm sorry to let you participate in the meeting at this place. Wait for a long time, you also know that people tend to be lethargic when they get older." The monkey entered the venue last, and he opened first as usual. Take your seat after a joke, and the meeting officially begins.

"This meeting should have been held at the beginning of the year, but Hachiro was busy with Sanuki's offensive, so he didn't arrive in Osaka until February. Xiaoichiro and Xiaoliu have been waiting for more than a month."

Hideyoshi's first words made Hideyoshi's back hurt. After all, he did not get Hideyoshi's permission to launch an offensive against Sanuki. Everyone here knows more or less that Hideyoshi proposed at this meeting, There is a hint of diverting the conflict between the Xiu family and other retainers.

When Xiujia heard Hideyoshi mentioning Sanuki, he could only come out and apologize to Hideyoshi and the other daimyos, "I'm really sorry, it's my problem, and I kept you daimyos waiting for a long time."

Hideyoshi sat at the head, looked at Hideka's statement, and continued to say, "Hachiro did a good job. Xiaozhu told me this morning that you beheaded and captured enemy troops at level 4000 in the Battle of Sanuki. Is there such a thing?" It hurt countless enemies, it really hurt Changzong's family and eased the pressure on the family on the western front, Hachiro did a good job."

"Thanks for the compliment, these are what I should do." Xiujia's reply was extremely humble, without the slightest pride in defeating the overlords of the four countries and liberating the pressure all the way.

Not only was the Xiu family's humble attitude not in line with the expected performance after a big victory, even Hideyoshi was extremely calm and did not announce any rewards to the Xiu family, and the atmosphere in the hall was filled with a strange feeling.

Hideyoshi signaled Hideo to go back, and asked Kuroda Kanbei to read out the re-planned strategic plan.

Kanbei Kuroda stood up from his seat, walked to the map in the hall with a cane, and said to the daimyo in the hall, "I am very grateful to Major General Hashiba for his contribution in Sanuki. The family can additionally mobilize troops from Harima, Inaba and other countries to participate in this mission." Come on the offensive against Tokugawa."

"The main family is expected to launch an offensive against the Oda Nobuo Temple after the fall. The Hokuriku countries will recruit 200 troops per 250 koku, the Kinai countries will have 150 people per [-] koku, and the Western Kingdom will recruit [-] troops per [-] koku."

"My plan is this. Major General Hashiba will be in charge of the west route. Your Highness only needs to return to Okayama, and make sure Mori and Nagamune don't make them do anything out of the ordinary."

Hideyoshi interrupted the statement of the officers and soldiers here, and said to Hideka, "Hachiro, now you have sent 1 people to Osaka to build the city. Do you have enough troops in the territory to organize and defend?"

Hearing Hideyoshi named his name, Hideyoshi rushed out of the queue, counting the numbers in his heart and said to Hideyoshi, "My family should still be able to mobilize about 1 people. I will go back and study how to set up an army to strictly guard the West Country for my father." portal."

Hideyoshi nodded in satisfaction after hearing Hideka's answer, and said, "Well, I'll temporarily transfer the three daimyos of Hoki to your command, so that's enough 3 people for you. When Zongwo's troops attack, they can handle it with ease."

"Hi, thank you, Father, for your understanding."

"Well, Officer and Guard, you can continue."

"On the south side of Osaka, there is still Kii who has not surrendered. The root crowd is ready to move, and has repeatedly entered Izumi to attack our border city. My idea is to stick to Kishiwada Castle, block the root crowd and go north. Wait until Tokugawa is flattened, and then come again deal with them."

Here, Hideyoshi interjected again and said, "The group of bugs in Nelaizhong, Mr. Nobunaga went to the mountains for three crusades. It was really time-consuming and labor-intensive. Let them jump around for a while now. I will clean up after I have flattened Beibata and Tokugawa. them."

The Kitabata in Hideyoshi's mouth is Oda Nobuo. Oda Nobuo was once adopted by Nobunaga to the Kitabata family to inherit Minami Ise. After the change of Honnoji Temple, he changed back to Oda's original surname. Hideyoshi calls him Kitabata Miao at this moment, which is actually a bit of irony.

Hideyoshi's words were actually not funny, but he took the lead in laughing, and the retainers present could only laugh apologetically.

"I am going to hand over the commander-in-chief in this area to His Highness Gamo, and lead Yamato, Izumi, and Iga soldiers with 1.8 soldiers to guard Izumi and Yamato."

Gamo's Township accepted Kuroda Kanbei's plan and assured Hideyoshi that he would watch over the actions of Gen Laizhong after Hideyoshi left, so that Hideyoshi would have absolutely no worries.

After talking about the two sided armies, the whole meeting finally reached its climax, and Hideyoshi's East Route Army will be discussed.

The Eastern Route Army will be divided into two routes. Firstly, the Southern Route Army will be led by His Royal Highness Hashiba Mino (Hashiba Hidecho) with 2 members of the Northern Army Corps to attack the southern part of Ise from Yamato. After sweeping Ise, we will wait at the end. Zhang Hui.

Affiliated names are as follows:

4400 people from Maeda Toshiya in the first round;
7000 people in the second battle Sasa Naruma;
In the third team, 3200 people were Hasegawa Shuichi and Hosokawa Tadake;
3000 people from Gongbu Jirun and Shanming Fengguo in the fourth formation;
The fifth team Hashiba Hidenaga's team is recruited according to the standard of 350 people per 1 stone, a total of 8400 people;
The sixth team has 1450 people from Sakuma Masakatsu and Tokunaga Shouchang;
The six formations have a total of 3 people, claiming that a 7450 army attacked Ise.

Hashiba Hideaga heard the arrangement and stepped forward to accept the order.

Everyone was surprised that Hidecho Hashiba, who was only a partial army, mobilized nearly 4 troops, so how many people need to be mobilized to join the battle as Hideyoshi's team?

The answer will be revealed soon

In the first round, there were 6000 people including Shigetsu Kimura, Koyasu Kato, Hiroshi Hineno, Ken Yamada and others;
6200 people including Nakagawa Hidekiyo, Kinoshita Toshihisa, Ogawa Yutaka and others in the second team;
In the third team, 4500 people including Takabata Housekeeping, Hachiya Lailong, Kanemori Nagakin and others;
3000 people in the fourth round of Niwa Nagahide;
In the sixth team, 4000 people including Maeno Nagayasu, Ikoma Kisama, Kuroda Kanbei and others

The seventh team has 7000 people from Hachisuka Masakatsu, Hori Hidemasa, and Miyoshi Hideji;
The eighth formation is Hideyoshi's main formation

Including 4850 members of the cavalry team and the iron artillery team in the front team, 4000 people in the banner of the central army, 2000 in the banner of the left and right army, and 2500 in the rear army including Ishida Mitsunari and Katagiri Kamoto.

The ninth formation consisted of 3100 people including Asano Nagamasa, Fukushima Masanori, Kato Kiyomasa and others.

秀吉方面军势合计5万2150人，号称8万大军在美浓汇合池田恒兴1万6000人后从丹羽郡对尾张发动进攻。

Unlike in history, Hashiba Hidecho has been transferred to Echizen 54 koku by Hideyoshi, and he is also able to take charge of the offensive along the way.

As early as Jianyue's time, Hidecho replaced Hideyoshi in commanding the battle of Jianyake's staying behind. It can even be said that the first half of the battle of Jianyake was fought by Hashiba Hidecho, so no one would doubt Hidecho's commanding ability .

Roughly calculated, for this battle, Hideyoshi has assembled a total of more than 14 troops. The momentum is so great that it is rare in the world.

Seeing the surprised expressions of the generals who were doing it, Hideyoshi felt very satisfied. This is what he wanted.

At this moment, they are like themselves when they were just members of Mr. Nobunaga and ordinary Ashgaru, and they heard that Yoshimoto Imakawa led 2 people to attack Owari in Cheongju Castle.

The reason why Hideyoshi wanted to mobilize such a huge army was to deter his opponents. He clearly used the momentum of a lion to fight a rabbit to eat Oda Nobuo, and warned Tokugawa Ieyasu so that he would not dare to make any moves.

In Hideyoshi's perception, Nobunaga is the only daimyo who dares to launch an attack on such an army. Tokugawa Ieyasu may have been scared enough to pee his pants before leaving Hamamatsu.

After Kuroda Kanbei introduced the formation, Hideyoshi took over the conversation and continued, "This is just my preliminary plan. The civilians who built the city in Osaka will gradually return to the autumn harvest at the end of August. After the autumn harvest, they will gather their troops and come to Osaka. join the battle."

"I told you in advance because you are all generals in charge of one side. After you go back, you have to prepare in advance, make plans in advance, and hand over to me a copy of your own marching plan and strategic plan, but the actions of your own family must be strictly kept secret. It must not be revealed to outsiders.”

They are all Hideyoshi's confidantes, and they are all grasshoppers on the same rope as Hideyoshi. Of course, Hideyoshi is very relieved of them. The reason why I remind you to keep it secret here is actually because I am worried that the Iga ninjas of the Tokugawa family will infiltrate them. For fear of losing information.

And the daimyo who was sitting also understood what Hideyoshi meant, and promised him that he would strictly keep the secret.

"Everyone, I, Hideyoshi, have the honor to command such a battle of 10 people. It is my honor. I hope you can join me in creating a peaceful and prosperous world, please."

In fact, this meeting is very simple, just a rehearsal of the Tokugawa crusade at the end of the year.

For Hideyoshi, this is the first time that Hideyoshi has not chosen to bring Hideyoshi to fight on an important battlefield.

Perhaps for Hideyoshi, he really couldn't see the possibility of another failure for himself, and he also hoped to use this victory to beat Hideyoshi, so that he could understand that he couldn't win a battle without leaving Hideyoshi.

In fact, Hideyoshi at this moment did seem to have seen the fruits of victory in advance, and even began to prepare for the post-war celebration.

After the formal meeting ended, Hideyoshi even began to tentatively ask about the transfer of Kamo's hometown to Enjiang and Hachisuka Masakatsu's transfer to Mikawa, without any vigilance against war.

Perhaps this was the case with the Komaki Nagakute battle in history, but the consecutive victories in this time and space with the help of Hideyoshi magnified Hideyoshi's complacency and made him arrogant.

Perhaps, the outcome of Komaki Nagakute's battle had already been determined at this moment.

(End of this chapter)