Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 148

Hideyoshi was a little surprised by Tokugawa Ieyasu's sudden surrender. This old friend who had been fighting with him for many years was not such a master who gave in so easily.

Until he saw Tokugawa Ieyasu Doge seated in front of him, Hideyoshi suddenly felt the pleasure of achieving his goal and getting married.

"Foreign Minister Tokugawa consulted with Ieyasu and paid homage to His Royal Highness Hashiba Quanda Nayan. The guilty minister listened to the slander and did not obey His Highness's discipline. The minister is guilty."

Tokugawa Ieyasu's obedience is very good. When he was obedient to Hideyoshi, he used the attributive "foreign minister" to himself, indicating that he did not intend to become Hideyoshi's retainer, at least not yet.

Then I called myself and Hideyoshi with official titles, indicating that we are all officials of the imperial court. As Quan Da Nayan, you do have the power to manage my council.

At the same time, he limited his problem to listening to slander and disobedience to Quan Da Nayan's discipline, downplaying the contradiction between raising troops and confronting Hideyoshi, and limiting the problem to the official system.

The whole conversation was very short, but the meaning was very profound. As the subordinate daimyo of the Oda family, Tokugawa Ieyasu did not mention the fact that he and Nobuo rebelled against each other at all.

If Hanbei Takenaka was here at this moment, he would definitely be able to find out the loopholes in Ieyasu's words, and Hideyoshi and Hidecho with the highest political level sitting here, only Hidecho felt the strength of his self-proclaimed "foreign minister", and he was a little wrinkled frown.

As far as Hideyoshi is concerned, Ieyasu is the number one daimyo in Tokaido. If he surrenders to himself, it means that he has thoroughly evaluated the Kinki area, and there are only a few ants still jumping in the west of Kanto.

Not to mention that Ieyasu owns a territory of 140 million shi. Before that, there was no instance in the history of the Warring States Period where so many overlords had praised themselves and chose to surrender to others. The political influence of this can be seen.

"Oh, I said why a magpie was calling in Cheongju City this morning. It turns out that Lord Tokugawa is coming!" Hideyoshi seemed to be very pleased with Tokugawa Ieyasu's arrival. He lifts up.

Hideyoshi helped Ieyasu up, but said in a stern tone, "Tokugawa Councilor, you came just in time. I was about to bring an army of [-] to Sanhe to arrest you, hahahaha."

Hearing this, Ieyasu said to Hideyoshi with a solemn expression, "This is really the case. It seems that I, Tokugawa Ieyasu, was really lucky to save my life."

"So in the future, we must serve the public wholeheartedly. Councilor Tokugawa, this time we will do a small punishment and hand over your Sanhe."

"Yes, the foreign minister took the order, but the foreign minister has a request. Please, Mr. Quan Da Nayan, give your weaving feathers to the minister." Originally, the surrender interview was a process. Who would have thought that Tokugawa Ieyasu would be here at this moment This requirement was not included in the previous agreement.

"My lord?" Tadashi Sakai, who accompanied him, reminded him with a dignified expression. Tokugawa Ieyasu gave him a cold look, and continued to say to Hideyoshi, "Please give me your weaving feather, Mr. Quan Da Nayan."

"Sanhedian, how can you make such a rude request like that?" In the evaluation room in Qingzhou, a voice suddenly sounded, and it was Masanori Fukushima who was sitting on the outside speaking.

Hideyoshi, who was sitting on the imperial steps, was also a little surprised. Tokugawa dared to make a request at this moment, so he said to him, "This is Zhiyu, which represents my authority. Are you sure you want it?"

"From now on, the Tokugawa family will serve Your Highness with the courtesy of a minister. If there are any people in the world who disobey His Highness, I, Tokugawa Ieyasu, will take the place of Your Highness to fight against them, and I will protect the world of the Hashiba family to the death. Give it to the minister."

Tokugawa Ieyasu was betting that Hashiba Hideyoshi would not make trouble in the hall. In fact, Ieyasu won the bet. After Hideyoshi looked a little unhappy at the beginning, he quickly adjusted his posture and said with a dry smile, "Hahaha, this is me. My good brother-in-law, hahaha."

After finishing speaking, he walked down again, took off his weaving feather, and put it on for Ieyasu himself to show his respect for Ieyasu.

On July 12, the 1584th year of Tensho ([-]), with the surrender of Ieyasu Tokugawa, the war that affected the whole of Japan finally came to an end, and Hashiba Hideyoshi took another step forward to the throne called "Tianxiaren" .

After the surrender ceremony, Hashiba Hideyoshi did not let Ieyasu leave immediately, but left him in Cheongju to recount the past. After all, the fate of the two began with the Cheongju Alliance 20 years ago.

At that time, Ieyasu was a supporting role, and the monkey was an ant; 20 years later, the monkey was the protagonist, and Ieyasu was still a supporting role.

On the twelfth day of the seventh month, a group of troops with banners and flags waving outside Qingzhou City was crossing the Riguang River from Naguye City to the border of Qingzhou.

The first 500 horse-riding warriors, each full of energy, held high their long spears with black holsters, uniformly dressed in blue Serena Nanban armor, and wore iron pockets with blue feathers and sword blade logos on their heads. The horses here are all tall horses taller than 1.35 meters, with a 1.6-meter long bow hanging on the horses, and full quiveres on both sides of the horse's belly. They are the banner warriors of the Xiu family.

After the flag team, there were 12 flag-bearers holding high the Hashiba family's Sawajiri and Uki Hideo's sword and sword patterns. Hideo followed closely, riding on a 1.4-meter-tall white horse. There are 12 senior retainers represented by Oka Toshikatsu and Ukita Kanke.

Behind all the retainers, there is a foot lightly holding up the gold standing gourd and horse seal bestowed by Hideyoshi, which means that this is the arrival of the Bizen hero Hideka Hashiba in person, followed by 24 flag bearers holding Hideyoshi's banner and family crest.

After the flag-holders, there are 150 attendants of the Xiu family, and 10 reserve teams, including Qinglong Bei for the first team and Suzaku Bei for the second team, totaling 15000 people. From the perspective of mental outlook, they are different from the ordinary daimyo army present strong soldiers.

Commanding this army was the Ukita Hide family who raided Tokugawa Mikawa's territory half a month ago, captured Okazaki Castle, cut off Tokugawa Ieyasu's retreat, and forced him to surrender.

Hideyoshi was chatting with Ieyasu in the side hall at this time, and Ishida Mitsunari came to report, "Major General Hashiba Hideka has arrived, and the army has reached the outside of the city."

"Oh? Arrived so soon? Saji, please settle these meritorious soldiers for me." After getting [-]% of the reply, he said to Tokugawa Ieyasu, "How about it, will your Highness come to see it with me? The 'Xi Guo Qiang Jun' that almost embarrasses you?"

"Then it's disrespectful." Tokugawa Ieyasu said with a smile. In fact, as far as his actual thoughts are concerned, how could he really want to see Ukita Hideyoshi's house? But now that he has surrendered to Hideyoshi, he can only bear the face I endured it.

The Xiu family dismounted from their horses in Qingzhou City and waited for Hideyoshi's instructions. The 500 people in the banner were divided into two sides under Qingzhou City.

The Yuyu battle was really big, and many warriors clinging to the city walls of Qingzhou and the scull tower were watching the army that forced Tokugawa to surrender.

Not long after, Hideyoshi took Tokugawa Ieyasu's hand and walked out of the city, pointed at the army and said, "How about it, Your Highness, this is my son's army."

Xiujia knelt down to salute Hideyoshi very cooperatively and said, "Major General Hideyoshi Yuchai sees His Highness Yuchai Quanda Nayan, and wishes His Highness good luck and martial fortune."

With Xiujia taking the lead, Ukita Jun, who had already told him to make contact before, knelt down one by one and said, "I wish your Highness good luck and long-lasting martial luck."

Hideyoshi's rainbow fart was really timely. Hideyoshi was very happy to see this scene, and laughed non-stop on it.

And Tokugawa Ieyasu who was on the side, after the initial shock, quickly said with a smile, "It's really a strong army in the world. I have already experienced it on the battlefield. Quan Da Nayan strengthened the army from this, and the world is terrible." Certainly."

Hideyoshi was on the top of the city, beckoning to the Hide family outside the city, "Hachiro, leave the army to Sakichi to arrange, hurry up and follow me to the city, I have a lot to say to you."

"Yes, my lord father." The Hide family received the order, handed over the general command to the Ukita Kan family, and took Oka Toshi and others to the city to explain to Hideyoshi Sanqin.

Along the way in Qingzhou, there were constant samurai casting strange glances at Xiu's family, as if they wanted to see carefully whether this young man known as the unparalleled in the Western Kingdom was so amazing.

When the Hide family came to the evaluation room in Honmaru, the evaluation room was already full of Hideyoshi's subordinate daimyos. From the perspective of the entry level, at least a daimyo with more than 2.5 koku was eligible to enter the hall.

Among the retainers who came here with the Xiu family at this moment, only Oka Lisheng and Ukita Kan's family have the qualifications to sit in the hall, but they can only sit in the outermost periphery of the hall as accompanying ministers, and the Xiu family himself enters introverted alone. Hideyoshi saluted and said, "Thanks to my lord father, my son, Major General Hashiba Hideka, has successfully appraised Mikawa, and I'm here to report back to my lord father."

Hideyoshi was still in a very happy mood at the moment, and motioned for Hideo to sit at the second place on the left after he got up, the seat had already been vacated for Hideo in advance, and the one next to Hideo was his previous opponent Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Judging from this seating position, Hideyoshi arranged Tokugawa Ieyasu as the first on the left hand, and Hashiba Hideji as the first on the right hand. Obviously, he gave Tokugawa Ieyasu a very high courtesy and arranged him as No. .1, Hashiba Hidecho and Hideka have to make way for him.

Seeing Hideyoshi sitting down, Hideyoshi said happily, "Our great hero is back. Without him, Your Highness Tokugawa, you will drift away."

"Yes, I really want to thank Major General Yuchai here, thank you Major General Yuchai for letting me know my way back." As he spoke, he looked at Xiujia with a smile on his face, and Xiujia looked at Jiayasu's smile that was blunt, and his heart went straight. Chilling, I always feel that Ieyasu is demonstrating to himself again.

Hideyoshi looked at the fairly harmonious meeting, and said with a smile, "Then, Hachiro, please tell me the whole process of your surprise attack on Mikawa, starting from the time you received the order. Shuichi, you are in charge of recording."

Hideyoshi talked about Hideyoshi, Hasegawa Hideichi, a famous calligrapher at that time, and many orders in the Nobunaga era were written by him.

In fact, Hideyoshi had already listened to Hashiba Hidecho's statement before, but at this moment the master is here, and more importantly, through Hideyo's narration in front of such a daimyo, to achieve the purpose of declaring his authority.

Hearing Hideyoshi's order, Hideyoshi sat slightly sideways in Hideyoshi's direction, saluted him and said, "Then I will speak."

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Before Hideyoshi received Hideyoshi's order, Hideyoshi never thought that he would participate in the "Battle of Komaki Nagakute". After all, he had just been hinted at by Hideyoshi and Hidecho brothers with a white face and a red face in the last month when the war started. again.

For Hideka, the so-called guarding the West Country is nothing more than spending time in Okayama and waiting for Nobi's battle to end.

After all, the Mori family was led by Kobayakawa Takakage as early as Jianyue, and expressed their submission to Hideyoshi. The militant faction Yoshikawa Motoharu retired. Neither Mori Terumoto nor Yoshikawa Motonaga had the same prestige in the Mori family as Kobayakawa Takakage. At this moment, the collegial panel of the Mori family's retainers is Kobayakawa Takakage's voice, and Kobayakawa Takakage is originally a resolute monkey supporter.

于此同时，四国的长宗我部元亲刚刚被揍过，正在四国舔舐伤口，短时间内不会进犯，西国可以说是一片平和（九州手太短，目前管不到。）
Just when Xiujia thought that he could eat hot pot and sing songs, and finally he could take a rest for a year to let the army in the collar rest for a while, it came from the front line of Nobuo that Oda Nobuo broke through the Mino line of defense, and the soldiers Adjacent to Gifu Castle, the news of the corruption in East Mino.

Although Maori was very peaceful in history, it was because Hideyoshi had always occupied the initiative on the battlefield. Now that the battle has just started, the situation is not good for Hideyoshi, and Hideyoshi is beginning to worry about Maori's attitude.

So he ordered the temporary assembly of the three reserve teams of Bichu Takamatsu, Heqi, and Jinshan, plus nearly 8000 people standing in the city of Bichu Takamatsu as a reserve.

Unexpectedly, the Mori family didn't wait until the grasshoppers in Shikoku jumped first. Maybe it was Nagamune's relatives who also received the news that Hideyoshi was unfavorable in the Noobi battle, and took the lead in leading 1.3 people to attack Awa, vowing to eradicate Awa. The stronghold of resistance, Naruto Castle of the Miyoshi family.

The Nagato family's attack on Naruto was very fast. It took 10 days to get the news from the Hide family and capture Naruto. The Miyoshi family's envoy for help even arrived in Okayama just 5 days before Naruto castle was destroyed. Take it, and the Miyoshi family who once dominated the Seto Inland Sea perished.

Facing the tense situation in the Four Kingdoms, the Xiu family intends to gather more troops to attack Changzong Gabu Yuanqin, but Yuanqin seems to be able to avoid the Xiu family, after capturing Naruto, he diverts to attack Iyo.

The Hideka was only ordered to defend their skills, but not to attack the four countries. Hideyoshi, who had been reprimanded by Hideyoshi before, could only watch Changzong's family eat meat, and he couldn't even drink soup.

At this time, Otani Yoshitsugu took Hideyoshi's order and came to Okayama by boat from Osaka to meet with Hideyoshi.

"My lord, I invite Major General Yu Chai to gather troops in Gangshan and go to Sanhe to join the battle."

Otani Yoshitsugu's order was very brief, and did not even mention the requirements for the soldiers to be brought, so Hideka confirmed to Otani Yoshitsugu, "How many troops can my father ask me to organize? How is the situation in Nobi?"

Since he didn't know the news of Ikeda Hengxing's defeat, Otani Yoshitsugu said happily, "The situation at Noo is good. Mino Mamoru has basically assessed Ise. Before I came, Setsumori had already broken into Mino and joined Hachisuka. His Highness and the lord have surrounded the Tokugawa and Oda households, and victory is not far away."

"So I don't need to organize a lot of troops when I go this time?" Hideyoshi felt from Otani Yoshitsugu's message that Hideyoshi asked himself to go more and let himself be plated with gold, and by the way, he expressed his monkey's attitude to himself. Ability, without my Xiujia, he can still win.

"That's right, that's right."

After getting the confirmation from Otani Yoshitsugu, Xiujia didn't even bother to bring the standing equipment. Anyway, it was a trip to Sanhe, so it would be inconvenient to bring too many people.

So Hideo called Oka Toshikatsu, Togawa Hidean, and Hanafo Masayuki, and prepared to recruit 3500 military servicemen from the Central and Misaku clans to Mikawa. He only led 500 bannermen and 150 attendants as his team. .

This was the original arrangement of the Xiu family, who knew that the changes could not keep up with the plan. On the 5th day after the order of the Xiu family, the aristocratic clan in Mizusa was still mobilizing. News of the loss of thousands of people.

When Xiujia heard the news, he was shocked at first. He didn't expect that Hengxing Ikeda would still be killed by the script without the Okazaki surprise attack in history.

Immediately, Hideo keenly realized that this was his opportunity. At this moment, Hideyoshi must have lost the spearhead of the attack. The two armies must have fallen into a confrontation in Owari. Hideyoshi's award.

Xiujia, who has just done what he said, issued a mobilization order to the territory. Since the civilians who were preparing for the Chinese and American works had already mobilized, the main force of the mobilization this time hit the territory directly under the Central Government.

Hideka directly mobilized 3 Class A reserve teams, including Kamichi Left and Right, Mino, Oku, Akasaka, and Kurashiki, plus the standing Qingryu, Suzaku, and Firearms. Class B reserve.

Hideka left Hanabang Masako in Beichu, commanding 4500 people from Hekibei, Beichu Takamatsu Bei, and Tsuyama Beichu to prepare for any eventuality. On the Shikoku side, Togawa Hideyasu and Todo Takatora led Xuanwu Bei and Sanuki Takamatsu Bei Guard the four countries.

By the end of April, the reserve team for the battle in Sanhe was composed. In addition to the above 4 reserve teams, there were also two D-type reserve teams composed of wealthy families from the four countries responsible for the logistics of the entire army.

On April 4, Hideka led 30 people to officially march out of Okayama, and went to Osaka first. After Osaka, they discussed the next marching strategy according to the situation on the front line.

Of course, Hideka had learned from the previous lesson this time, and informed Hideyoshi of the size of his army and the route of the march early on, and only set off from Okayama after getting Hideyoshi's permission.

(End of this chapter)