Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 330 Kyushu crusade ([-])

After listening to Changshu Zhengjia's narration, Xiujia was actually a little tangled.After all, the design of Okayama Castle was proposed by Maeda Genichi, and he probably got Hideyoshi's opinion.

If this is the case, it is very likely that Hideyoshi left this loophole on his own initiative.

Hideka's letting go of this is like turning his soft belly to Hideyoshi, which can show him that he is not defensive to him to show his loyalty, and it can also be regarded as Hideka's initiative to release kindness to Hideyoshi to ease the relationship between the two.

But now that this question was brought up by You Changshu Zhengjia, Xiujia couldn't figure it out. After all, he was also sent by Hideyoshi.

It's fine if he doesn't mention it. Now that the window paper is pierced, Xiujia still doesn't make a statement. On the contrary, there will be a feeling of posturing. Not only can Hideyoshi not be relieved, but it will make him more suspicious of Xiujia.

"Then Master Changshu thinks whether we should set up a pill here?" Xiujia threw this question back again.

Changshu Zhengjia heard it, what the hell is this?You are the lord of Bizen, and Okayama is your city, why did you ask me the other way around.

But since Xiujia asked himself, of course he had to give a professional opinion, "I believe that setting up a pill is a choice with great benefits and no harm. On the contrary, not setting up a curved wheel is utterly dangerous."

"Since that's the case, let's set it up like this. Let's settle down like this. The reconstruction of Shishan Castle has basically been completed. Let the family members move there in a few days. Your lord will be here to serve as the fortress of Okayama."

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In fact, as early as the beginning of March, after Hashiba Hideji's defeat in the battle, Hideyoshi asked the Emperor Masakimachi to order the Shimadzu family to be declared as the enemy of the court through the minister Kikutei Haruki.A few days later, the emperor agreed to play.

In May, the Kyushu Expedition officially began. The following is the distribution of troops:
Hideyoshi Front Army (strength 140,000)

Terumoto Mori and Motocho Yoshikawa from the first team

The second team Mori Yoshinari, Takahashi Genchu, Shiroi Chaobo

Team [-]
The fourth division Kato Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori, Inaba people (Miyabe Tsutsuru, Kinoshita Shigetake, Gakiya Misari)
The fifth squad Gamo's village, Oda Nobuo

Team Six, Niwa Nagashige, Ikoma Kisho

Captain Tanigawa Shuichi, Aoyama Tadamoto, Kimura Shigetsu, Ota Kazukichi

Hidemasa Hori and Yoshiaki Murakami of the Eighth Division

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Brothers Hashiba Hideji and Hashiba Hidekatsu from the Ninth Division

Juban Maeda Toshiie

The eleventh team Tadake Hosokawa, Muneken Okamoto
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Xiuchang Front Army ([-] troops)
Kotaka Kuroda
Takakage Kobayakawa
Terumasa Ikeda, Weizhong Hayashi, Sadamichi Inaba of the third team

Fourth division Toyotomi Hideie

Hidecho Toyotomi

Fifth Division Asano Nagamasa, Sakuma Morita, Niwa Nagashige

Don't Move Mizoguchi Hidekatsu, Mori Tadamasa, Otomo Yoshitomo, Wakisaka Yasuji, Kato Yoshiaki, Kuki Yoshitaka

Owari, Mikawa Ryogoku, and the Tokugawa family were not on the list of recruits, including Hachisuka Kesei, Oda Sanho, Tsutsui Joji, and Nakagawa Hidekiyo were ordered to guard the country and not act rashly, as His Highness Tokugawa's back-up against Hojo.

The North Kyushu Front Army led by Hideyoshi took the Sanyo Avenue, crossed the sea from Shimonoseki through the Maori territory, and entered Chikuzen, Kyushu.

The Southern Kyushu Front Army led by Hidecho crossed the sea from Hiroshima and Iyo, and landed after Otomo led Bunghou, and was responsible for the strategy of Bungzen, Hyuga, and Osumi.

At the same time, because Hideunaga's front army assembled first, it also needs to undertake the task of attracting the firepower of the Shimadzu family.

It's just that due to the problems on Hideka's side, it has been delayed and failed to arrive in Kyushu as scheduled. Hidecho's front army has always been defended mainly by Kuroda Takataka.

The delay of the Xiu family's action also triggered a chain reaction. The Maoli family who had agreed to do it together had already crossed the sea to launch an invasion war against Kyushu as originally scheduled.

At the same time that the Xiu family left Okayama, the Mori family had already begun to invade the Buzen country Akizuki, and the progress was rapid.

23000 Maori troops boarded the ship from Xiaguan, and with the help of the Murakami Navy, they crossed the Xiaguan Strait, which is only more than 500 meters wide.

There are only 300 defenders of Moji Castle in Fengqian. The meaning of their existence is to report to the Shimadzu family so that the Shimadzu family can prepare for it.

In just one morning, the Mori family brought over 1 troops under the noses of the defenders of Moji Castle, and Motocho Yoshikawa was the vanguard.

Motocho Yoshikawa quickly formed a team under the Guosi Castle. With just one drumbeat, the flag on the Moji Castle turned into a three-character pattern, and all the defenders in the city were wiped out.

After capturing Kokura Castle, Motocho Yoshikawa mobilized his troops quickly and led 3000 people to surround Kokura Castle, a key point in Kitakyushu, at sunset that day.

In this matter, the guard in the city was named Takahashi Yuanzhong, the second son of Qiuyue Zhongshi, and also the adopted son of Takahashi Jianzhong.Do you think this Miao character is very familiar?
Because Takahashi Kenzhong was originally a descendant of the Otomo family, and he also had a son named Takahashi Zhenzhong, who was the famous Takahashi Shaoyun in later generations, but Takahashi Shaoyun's son was Tachibana Soshige.

From a legal point of view, the two people who divide the power of the two sides are the relationship between uncle and nephew.

Takahashi Genchu ​​was a child born in 1571, and his ability was mediocre. Facing the overwhelming Maori family, he chose to surrender very obediently.

In fact, the Takahashi family is quite familiar with the Maori family. In the 4th year of Yonglu (1561), the Otomo army was defeated in the Moji battle, and the Otomo family had just appeared weak against the Maori family.

In July of the 5th year of Yonglu (1562), Takahashi Jianzhong accepted the lure of Maori and turned to Mao.

One is because he was outraged that his elder brother Jianxiang was killed by Zong Lin, or it is said that Jianxiang's wife was forcibly taken away by Zong Lin.

Of course, these are all the result of artistic processing in later generations. The real situation is that Jianzhong requested to own Xiangchunyue Castle in Buzen, but this city was held by the Maori retainer Sugi Renxu. Appreciation of seeds may make Shan Lianxu turn to Otomo", so he refused.

However, after all, the Takahashi clan was a descendant of the Otomo clan and was very influential in the Buzen country. In order to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, they finally agreed to use the six counties of Chikuzen as bait to persuade them to surrender.

You must know that at that time, the Maori family still owned the Chikuzen One Country + Bungo Small Half Country in Kyushu. The Chikuzen Kingdom had a total of 15 counties, totaling 30 shi, and only the North 6 counties were as high as 15 shi. Some Fengqian collars, this is equivalent to directly establishing a medium-sized daimyo.

The number of knowledge and actions is about 5 times higher than the original territory of the Takahashi family. This is a reward that can be given only if you express your sincerity.

Faced with such a temptation, let alone Otomo Yizhen hate him for taking his wife, even if there is no Takahashi Jianzhong, he will take the initiative to send his wife there so that he can find an excuse to turn to the Maori family.

After obtaining the promise from the Maori family, Takahashi Jianzhong induced Akizuki Zhongshi and Ryuzoji Takanobu to rebel against the Otomo clan. Zhong raised his troops in the first ten days of April in the 10th year of Yonglu (1567), and Longxin raised his troops from June to July. Bing, together with Maori's Lingmune Xiang Shizhen, Chikushi Weimen, Chikushi Zhaomen (Yayama Echigo Sadaji Terumen Huimen, the adopted son of Yumon's grandfather Tsukishi Xiumen), Harada Longzhong, and his own father and son echoed, All parties formed an alliance against Otomo.

As the agent established by the Maori family in Kyushu, Takahashi Jianzhong was indeed arrogant for several years, but in July of the 10th year of Yonglu (1567), Zong Lin used Huci Jianlian (later Tachibana Doxue) and others as commanders , dispatched crusade troops to attack Fengqian and Chikuzen.

The attention of the Maori family was all on Nizi’s family in the West Country (Yanaka Yukimori, Nizi Yoshihisa’s vassal, invaded the Izumo country at that time), and the Maori family had to withdraw from Kyushu. The governor of the Qiao family was taken away.

Dayou Yizhen released him in consideration of the friendship of the same clan. After he returned to the Maori family, the Maori family still let him have Bungzen Kokura Castle, and the Maori family was also kind to him.

As a result, this guy suddenly broke out again before he died.

In the 7th year of Tensho (1579), Takahashi Jianzhong Yingqiuyue Zhongshi's second son Yuanzhong was adopted as his adopted son, and suddenly betrayed the Mori family and launched an attack on Minoshima Castle in the Bungzen Kingdom.

Sugishige, who killed Mori, captured Xiangchunyue City guarded by Oyo Fang Senshou Jianyuan, and directly turned into Gaddafi to beat the two strongest names in Kitakyushu.

Then he made his adopted son Yuanzhong the lord of Xiangchunyue City, and then surrendered Nagano Shigekatsu of Mayuecheng, and let Akizuki Zhongshi's younger brother Zhongxin inherit Nagano's rule over Kitakyushu. He died of illness in Kokura Castle on April 4 of the same year .

But I will look at the last glory of Takahashi Jianzhong, no matter how you look at it, there is a feeling of making a wedding dress for Akizuki, so people often say that Akizuki used the name of Takahashi Kanzhong to support Shimadzu. The invasion launched by Maori and Otomo.

In any case, Takahashi Genchu ​​is considered a 25-year-old boy for the Mori family. He even killed Sugi Shigeyoshi, the retainer of the Mori family who was stationed in Fengqian, and drove the last stronghold of the Mori family out of Kyushu. The Mori family should treat him I hate it so much.

But the Mori family is the Mori family, and Mori Terumoto gave great tolerance to Takahashi Yuanzhong's surrender, and accepted his surrender at the foot of Ogura Castle.

With the surrender of the Takahashi family, many cities in the western and central parts of Fengzen, Matsuyama Castle, Takahashi Mountain Castle, Mayake Castle, Shoko Mountain Castle, and Youth Mountain City changed their hilltops overnight.

Most of the cities of Qijiu, Kyoto, and Nakatsu in the 8 counties of Fengzen changed from the Shimadzu side to the Toyotomi side. Rock City became the front line of the war.

However, the Mori family may have learned that the Bungo side Toyotomi Hidecho's army had not yet entered the battle, and did not make any further moves after the capture of Kokura Castle.

At the same time, Yoshihisa Shimadzu received the news that the Maori family crossed the sea to attack Kitakyushu, sent 12000 troops from Satsuma, and received 4 troops from Higo, Hizen, Chikuzen, Chikugo and other countries along the way, leaving 8500 people to be sent by his younger brother. Toyohisa Shimadzu monitored Tachibana Zongshige as the general, and the rest arrived at Kokura Castle to confront the Mori family.

At the same time, the Toyotomi Hidecho front army in Bungo earlier, after receiving the news that the Maori family had entered Kyushu, under the leadership of Toyotomi Hidecho, also began to attack Bungzen.

Wherever the army went, Yamada Castle, Hirotsu Castle, Asahi Castle, Tokie Castle, and Miyagi in Buzen were all hopeful and surrendered, but only the castles of Jinggu Castle, Komiyagi Castle, and Urutsu Castle still resisted stubbornly.

But in front of the absolute advantage of Toyotomi's army, these two small cities are like two small boats in the ocean. On October 10, when Hideka arrived in Bungo, news of the fall of Komiyagi came from the front.

However, along with the good news from Buzen by Toyotomi Hidecho, there was also the defeat of Banjogawa from Bungo Saeki Castle.

As mentioned earlier, Toyotomi Hidecho needs to shoulder the task of attracting the main force of the enemy army and mobilize the main force of the Shimadzu family to the Hyuga side. In this way, it is difficult for the Shimadzu army to take into account the Kyushu mountain region in the middle of Kyushu. Defense is convenient for Toyotomi Hideyoshi's advancement.

But before Xiang Hinata attacked, Xiuchang had to clean his ass first.It just so happened that Mori Terumoto launched an attack on Fengzen, and Hidecho prepared to attack Fengzen.

While launching an attack on Fengqian, Toyotomi Hideaga ordered the extra-special action team in the establishment to be based on the Otomo family, stationed in Saeki Castle, and block the offensive of the Shimadzu family.

Because of Hashiba Hidecho's defeat in Kitagawa last time, the Shimadzu family regained the advantage over the Otomo family, and started to attack Bungo from Hinata.

In this matter, all the territory south of the Bungo country's Banjiang River has been seized by the Shimadzu family, and Saeki Castle has become the front line against the Shimadzu family's invasion.

But Saeki Castle is after all at the mouth of the Bansho River and the Katada River, and the Bansho River flows down from the depths of the Kyushu mountains, stretching for hundreds of miles, and it is impossible for Saeki Castle to defend everywhere.

The defenders in the city were not like in the history of Tojigawa's defeat. Some people foolishly rushed out of the city to fight in the field, and were ambushed and defeated.

It turned out that Yoshihiro Shimadzu finally changed his mind after besieging Saeki unsuccessfully for three months, and rushed in from another location. After a month of exploration, he found a mountain path directly connected to Zhichuan, a tributary of Banzai River.

He asked Shimadzu to lead a team of 3000 people along the mountain road to detour the upper reaches of the Fanjiang River, cross the river in a shallow place, and launch an attack from the side and rear of Saeki Castle like a magic soldier descending from the sky.

The defenders in Saeki Castle would never have thought that there would be enemies coming from behind them. They had been defending Saeki for several months, and the demoralized Ouyou army broke their nerve when they saw the Shimadzu army coming from behind the Bansho River. Saiki Castle was captured by Yoshihiro Shimadzu.

The loss of Saiki Castle was so bizarre that there was no sign, so that even the notice of breaking the city was not sent out.

It wasn't until the Shimadzu Army arrived at Kamiura Castle on the peninsula between Saiki and Tsukumi three days later that Otomo learned that Saiki Castle had been lost.

However, there were only 150 defenders in Shangpu City, and the news was lost as soon as it was sent out of the city.

Shimadzu Yoshihiro is worthy of being the military god of Shimadzu. He is very good at seizing the opportunity. After capturing Kamiura, he quickly turned to Tsukumi Castle without giving Otomo's time to arrange.

When the Hide family landed in the inner city of Bungo Prefecture, they sent news of the fall of Tsukumi and other castles and the siege of Usuki Castle together with the defeat of Banjogawa.

The situation in Bungo is at stake!
(End of this chapter)