Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 17 The Death of Warring States Warriors (22)
Hashiba's army's attack on Tanba was like a shot in the arm of Oda's army, and Hidena's progress was very smooth. In May 1579, he captured Komuro Castle on the ice, Ashida Kunizumi was seriously injured and captured, and then surrendered to Hidena.

In July, the lord of the mountain wall on the ice, Zuli Jizhu, was captured, and the whole city died in battle.The Akai family led only the Honjo Kuroi Castle, and Nakaji Hideyoshi hardly encountered any resistance in Taki County. He turned to attack Fukuchiyama Castle in Amada County and Ayabe Castle in Helu County. Go to Ice County to cooperate with Hashiba Hidecho to surround Heijing City.

Due to the heavy losses of the Akai family in the attack a year ago, they were almost captured by the Akechi Army. If it were not for the assistance of Yamana and Ogino Army, the Akai family would have been attacked and destroyed long ago. This is also the reason why the attack on Tanba went so smoothly.

It can also be seen from the Tanba Raiders that the war potential of a big country is much higher than that of a small country. What is the point of the Akai family even if they repel the wise army several times?The Akechi Army, backed by Oda, has a steady stream of supplementary troops, and the Akai family, which has won only one miserably, is already on the verge of extinction.

Because of Akai's resistance to the Oda Army several times, Nobunaga issued an order not to stay in Heijing Castle, which also meant that the people in the city could not escape the end of death.

Due to the disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, the Oda Army launched a fierce offensive on the first day, and after a week of cage battles, Heijing Castle fell.Hashiba's young general Wakisaka Yasuji took the head of Akai Naomasa, and tore off his beloved mink fur decoration on his own feet as decorations.

Hachiro had heard about Akai Naomasa's abilities in his previous life. In the Glorious Game, he was a rare military general in the Western Kingdom who had three attributes of control, force, and intelligence over 75 in the middle and late Warring States period.

How Hachiro hopes to get his surrender and work for himself in future wars.However, out of fear of Nobunaga's moodiness, Hachiro finally did not make an operation to change his fate. As a bystander, he watched Hashiba's Tanba support battle indifferently.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, Akechi Mitsuhide ignored Nobunaga's order and accepted the remaining Akai retainers to serve.It's just because Hashiba and Akechi have a good relationship, Hideyoshi didn't say anything, pretended not to see it and ignored it.

At this time, the time has come to August of the seventh year of Tianzheng
Hashiba Hideyoshi, who had completed Tanba's support, was ordered by Nobunaga to quickly quell the Miki Castle rebellion, so he brought all his corps to Miki Castle.

On the front line of Miki City, the total strength of the Hashiba Army of 1 people put great pressure on the city. At this time, due to the lack of water and food in the city for several months, the defenders of the city had endured to the limit, and finally under the intermediary of Takenaka Banbing Changzhi committed suicide as a condition to save the lives of the whole city, and the Yuchai army began to enter the city.

Hachiro followed Hashiba Hideyoshi into the city. Because Ukido fell to the Oda side earlier than in history, the grain transportation channel through Bizen was cut off. Miki Castle and Arioka Castle ran out of grain earlier than in history. Therefore, Miki Castle was opened half a year earlier than in history, and Hachiro believes that the opening of Okaka Castle should not be long.

Just when Hachiro was thinking wildly on the horse, he saw a samurai carrying the banner of Hashiba on the side of the road sneaking along with Hideyoshi's team while Hashiba's army was saluting to Hideyoshi.Suddenly he climbed onto the roof of a formation and looked at Hideyoshi with hatred.Only then did Hachiro recall that in history, a samurai named Kumegoro assassinated Hideyoshi in the Bessho family after Kaesong.

"Father, be careful," Hachiro said behind Hideyoshi.

Since he is not an adult, Hachiro does not have a samurai sword, and Hachiro on the horse only has a wooden sword given by Hideyoshi for playing. Seeing the person jumping from the roof, Hachiro was so anxious that he directly urged the horse to rush up. Inertly, he pressed the katana in his hand against the assassin's body, knocking him to the ground.

At this time, the warriors of the Yuchai army who were standing by the side came back to their senses and rushed forward to take him down.

"Who are you and why did you assassinate me?" Hideyoshi said solemnly.

"Under Kumegoro, I assassinated you for nothing but the favor of the Bessuo family for five generations."

"Very good, deal with him." Hideyoshi didn't get angry because of this little episode of this person, and calmly dealt with the assassin, as if it was a very common thing.

"Father, can you hand him over to me? After all, he is my prisoner." Hachiro asked Hideyoshi for instructions after seeing this man's loyalty, with a little love for talent.

"I leave it to you." Hideyoshi waved Kumegoro to Hachiro as if dismissing a trivial matter, and Hachiro then asked Akikami Hisashi to take him away.

But Hideyoshi's mood was not as calm as he expressed, and he finally ordered Bessho Changzhi and his wife and their four children, Changzhi's uncle Yoshichi and his wife, Changzhi's younger brother Tomoyuki and his wife to be disposed of.In addition, Changzhi's other younger brother, Zhiding, was killed in the raid when Hideyoshi just led the army to attack the city, so the Bessuo family was declared dead.

Hideyoshi's move was beyond everyone's surprise, so that Takenaka Hanbei, who led the peace talks, was so anxious that he fell ill directly at Hideyoshi's main camp.Hachiro knew that the historical Hanbei died in 1579, and Hachiro really wanted to save the Hashiba family's think tank.

There is a saying that when Banbei was still alive, the monkey was very optimistic and a very rational monarch, but the only person who could persuade the monkey after Banbei's death was his younger brother Xiuchang. Hashiba Hidecho died of illness in 1590, and Hideyoshi completely became a runaway wild horse. He was no longer restrained, and his actions became more and more outrageous. After that, he forced Sen Rikyu to cut seppuku, conquered Korea, ordered Toyotomi Hideji to die, and other irrational behaviors. They also appeared one by one.

Of course, Hachiro knew that Hanbei was seriously ill at this time in history, and he also hoped that he could save the life of this wise general, but after a doctor's diagnosis, Hanbei's disease was tuberculosis, which is called tuberculosis in later generations .Although tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, it is a bacterial disease, but it cannot be treated with penicillin as written in many film and television works and literary novels.

Penicillin can indeed cure 95% of bacterial diseases effectively, but Mycobacterium tuberculosis belongs to that 5%.Tuberculosis It was not until 1943 that Professor Selman A. Waxman of Rutgers University in the United States isolated streptomycin from Streptomyces bacterium that human beings had the ability to deal with this horrible disease that has ravaged human life for thousands of years. Specific drugs.

Streptomyces is a fungus hidden in the sand. It was difficult to find this fungus in the era without microscopes. In addition, Hachiro has not studied medicine systematically. Even if he made a microscope with homemade glass, he would not be able to distinguish it. It was found that the fungus in the soil was Streptomyces, and if the extraction was wrong, it would be a big trouble.This is why Hachiro is helpless at the moment.

We must know that in history, the number of students led by Waxman reached 50 at the most, and they divided the labor to screen more than 1 strains. In 1940, he isolated his first antibiotic, actinomycin, but unfortunately it was too toxic to be of much value. In 1942, Waksman isolated a second antibiotic, streptothricin.Streptomycin is highly resistant to many types of bacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but is also too toxic for humans.It was not until 1943 that they actually isolated Streptomyces from soil.

Historically, it took four years for so many scientists to work together to isolate a group of Streptomyces bacteria that can be safely used by humans. Hachiro didn't think that with his two-knife medical skills, this experiment could be completed in the 4th century with such crude equipment. You can pay attention to raising your awareness of protection at ordinary times to avoid being infected.But having said that, if streptomycin's effective inhibitory effect on various infectious diseases such as plague, cholera, and typhoid fever can be discovered in advance, then a large part of medieval humans should be able to survive.

The next morning, Hideyoshi, who was still in the castle, received news of the death of Hanbei Takenaka from Hideyoshi Honjin Hirai Village.Since Hanbei died of tuberculosis, there is no drama in film and television works where the monarch and his ministers weep each other in real history.Banbingwei's body was hastily sparked and brought back to Bodhi Mountain City for burial.But Hanbei did leave a letter to Hideyoshi to persuade him.

Hideyoshi was so sad that he handed the letter to Hachiro. Hachiro unfolded the letter and read:
As a general, you should be the first to lead the soldiers, predict the enemy first, and control well. This is a general of ten men;

Prohibited by orders and sympathetic to subordinates, he is a general of a hundred people;

Knowing the details and striving for self-improvement, this is the general of a thousand people;

Strict self-discipline and lenient treatment of others, this is the general of all people;

Selecting talents and appointing talents, being open-minded, so that everyone can make the best use of their talents, this is a general of 10 people;
Love the people like a son, work hard to govern, and the world will be peaceful, this is the general of all people in the world.

I hope His Highness listens to it and believes it, so as to become a hegemony.

———Takenaka Hanbei Shigeharu

It is said that he sighed before his death: "He exhausted all his life for Youfu and Hideyoshi and died."Unfortunately, both Hideyoshi and Youfu are superior people, and there is no way to do this.If he was not good at strategy by nature, You Fu and Hideyoshi would definitely give him five or six thousand soldiers so that he could make great achievements.However, it is precisely because he is a bit smart and good at strategy that he was dubbed a military division, and he can't even command a single soldier.Therefore, people who are stupider than him have become daimyo one after another, but he always follows behind his master, like a watchdog... Life can't be like this, now, this place is the place to die. '

But even so, Banbingwei still dragged his sick body to write this letter as he was about to die as his last advice to the monkey, reminding him that he wants to calm the world, and that this kind of situation of accepting surrender and then changing the genocide must not happen again up.At this point in the letter, Hideyoshi was already crying in the seat of honor.He kept beating and shouting Hanbei's name, after all, Hanbei Yu Hideyoshi is not only a monarch and minister, but also a master and apprentice.Infected by Hideyoshi, Hachiro and all the generals in the palace also cried along with everyone who had been taught or favored by Hanbei.

One day, a pillar of Hashiba's family fell down, and the next moment, when another pillar of Toyotomi's family fell down, will there be a new pillar of Toyotomi's family that has grown up?Could this pillar be Hachiro?

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As a digression, Wen Siquan is springing up today, and decided to make two changes. In addition, I will collect information on Hideyoshi's handling of his retainers during the process of fighting for the world.For example, I remember that Fukushima Masorori was once sealed in Iyo, and was finally sealed in Cheongju 24 stone. If someone has information with a timetable in their hands, please contact me. This will provide a lot of convenience for my cooperation.thanks

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