Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 525 Tamura Riot
The Hide family went north from Utsunomiya to Koriyama, of course not specifically to investigate the thoughts of Ogasawara's retainers.

In fact, he came to Koriyama this time to deal with the Tamura Soken Rebellion, and secondly, to supervise the organization of the Yu-Olympics Rangers.

Tamura Zongxian, formerly known as Tamura Xianji, is the son of Tamura Shixian.In the 14th year of Tensho (1586), the family governor Tamura Kiyoaki died without heirs, which eventually triggered a struggle between the Date and Soma families for the inheritance of the Tamura family.

Later, with the intervention of the Date family, Tamura Akihito gained power. According to the agreement between Masamune and Tamura Tsukisai, Tamura Meiyusai and other important ministers of the Tamura family, Tamura Soken was positioned as the child of Masamune and Ai Ji. "Nayo" (Tamura Shioki) before inheriting the Tamura family business.

During the Odawara conquest, Tamura Muneken refused to send troops because he thought he was a retainer under the Date family and saw Date Masamune's resistance to the Odawara conquest, and was eventually changed by Hideyoshi.

In history, Date Masamune brought him back to Date because he was supported by himself, but this time Date Masamune did not take him away, which made Tamura Soken unable to resist in Tamura County.

This was originally Ogasawara Hideyoshi's territory, and it should be settled by Ogasawara Hideyoshi herself.

Even if he himself is leading troops in Lubei to assist in stabilizing the territory, it can be settled after he returns to Junshan.

However, Tamura Zongxian obviously did not give him this opportunity. Seeing that Ogasawara Hidetada led the main force to the north, took the initiative to lead troops westward, and directly led people to the Masho Inaikan and Dathenkan on the east bank of the Abukuma River, he had the idea of ​​threatening the Mutsu Kaido .

Tamura Zongxian mobilized 2000 people, while the entire Ogasawara Iwadai leader Honda had only 800 people in his hands, and they were stationed in Nihonmatsu Castle, Sukagawa Castle and Shirakawa Komine Castle.

In fact, the Xiu family didn't have many people in their hands, only 800 people in the banner group and 150 people in the entourage team, which added up to less than a thousand armed people.

Facing the menacing offensive of the Tamura family, Honda temporarily organized an army of 1600 people under Koriyama Castle, bringing his own strength to 2000.

In fact, this number of people is enough to garrison Koriyama Castle, at least it is enough to confront Tamura Soken.

As long as Ogasawara Hidetada returns from Lubei, the main force of Matsusaka he brought will go south, and then meet with the troops of Gamo Chou and Nakagawa Kiyohide to sweep Tamura County.

But the Hide family didn't want the war to be delayed until Hideyoshi Ogasawara returned, so when they heard that Soken Tamura had dispatched troops, he took only the mobile troops around him and headed north. The crowd brought the strength of his troops to 3000.

Ben Duo was quite surprised by the arrival of the Xiu family, but after all, the Xiu family came to fulfill the friendship of the landlord, right?

When it was time for the military meeting on the second day, Xiujia asked him clearly, "It is reasonable to say that Tamura Muneken should have received the order about the change of the Tamura family long ago. If there is any objection, he should have come to Utsunomiya to defend. Why didn't you raise your troops to resist until now?"

In fact, there are not a few people in the Northeast whose territory was confiscated because they arrived late. Like the Osaki family, they entrusted Ishida Mitsunari to obtain 5 shi of grace.

In the end, because of Ogasawara Xiuzhen's request, the Baihe family was allowed to continue to block the white-collar area with 5000 shi and become Ogasawara Xiuzhen's retainers, but Xiaofengcheng and the others could not have it anymore.

The reason why Hideyoshi stayed in Utsunomiya for several days was to give these changed daimyos a chance to defend themselves. In fact, it was to give them a chance to bow their heads and confess. As long as you are willing to confess, Hideyoshi will still give you a piece Territorial.

The Tamura family owns the territory of 4 koku in Tamura County, which is not a small force in the Iwashiro country. Even Date Masamune did not dare to directly deal with the Tamura family. Initially, he planned to control it by means of his son as an heir.

In history, Shirakawa's foster relatives also went to Utsunomiya, but they were not forgiven by the Hide family, and were forced to change and become ronin, and finally became Date feudal vassals.

The reason why Hideyoshi forgave the Shirakawa family in this life is probably also because he saw that Hideyoshi Ogasawara was young and shallow, and wanted to leave some retainers for him to compete with the Tokugawa family.

This can be seen from the attitude of the wealthy families in Iwashiro's leadership who were named one by one by Hideyoshi but gently let go.

Of course, there is a difference between them and the Shirakawa family. Shirakawa and Tamura are nominally independent daimyos, but they are subordinate forces of Date.

And those samurai who were gently put down after being named were mostly ex-officials of Nikaido and Ashina, who were forced to surrender to the Date family after the demise of Nikaido and Ashina.

Hideyoshi's disposition has always been that the daimyo bears absolute responsibility, and gently puts a brush aside for his subordinates.

"At the beginning, I sent people to Utsunomiya to explain, but now I still say that."

Hideka understands the meaning of Honda's repeated words. At that time, Tamura Zongxian sent his uncle Tamura Yoshiaki to Utsunomiya to explain. The central idea is:

"I am a retainer of the Date family. My lord did not let me mobilize. How could I disobey my lord's order? Therefore, I am not responsible for not going to Odawara, and His Highness Kanbai's change is unreasonable.

And asked Hideyoshi to refer to other families such as Jian Tianye, and on the basis of verbal punishment, reduce the seal by 1/3 and keep it. "

Hideka wasn't there when Yoshiaki Tamura made this request, but Date Masamune was there!

Judging from the information from the attendant beside Hideyoshi, Date Masamune's face turned green after hearing it.

If according to what you said, the Nitamura family is his own retainer, that is Date Masamune deliberately ordered not to mobilize troops, subjectively refused Hideyoshi's order to ask Odawara to assemble, and even deceived Hideyoshi in Utsunomiya's evaluation afterwards.

That's a big problem!The Date family will definitely handle it in the same way as the Hojo family.

But still the same sentence, Hideyoshi has mobilized everyone for the Hojo family, and he is unwilling to spend any more for the Date family, so knowing that Tamura Yoshiaki is right, he still gives the opportunity to Date Masamune.

He looked at Masamune Date and asked, "Is there such a thing? Doctor Sakyo?"

How could Date Masamune admit it!
Date Masamune directly gave Hideyoshi a clear response, "There is absolutely no such thing! I did intervene in the succession dispute of the Tamura family, but because I am also a Mutsu samurai, I do not want the Tamura family to cause disputes in Mutsu. I have never None of Tamura's retainers have been subordinated!"

Because of Date Masamune's refusal, the Tamura family's defense was ultimately unsuccessful, and the Tamura family was still sentenced to a changed ending.

Hideka didn't know what caused the Tamura family to not accept Hideyoshi's referee as they did in history, and went north with the Date family.

According to Hideka's guess, it is very likely that Hideyoshi has dealt with this place very severely in history, and in this life, because of Ogasawara Hidetada's weak foundation, the local rich family was punished lightly.

In addition, as an independent daimyo, the Shirakawa family directly reduced the huge contrast of more than 2 Shi Zhixing, which made Tamura Zongxian move his mind. He wanted to hold on to the fact that he was a retainer of the Date family and try to preserve the leader of the Tamura family as much as possible. .

It's just a pity that he didn't know that if he guaranteed his territory, then the boss behind him would be dealt with.

Date Masamune ruthlessly abandoned the Tamura family, and it was because of the Tamura family's nonsense performance in front of Hideyoshi that they rejected Tamura Soken's request for asylum afterwards, which made the Tamura family only able to fight in Tamura County .

"Hehe." Hearing Honda's repeating of Tamura Soken's request, Hideka snorted coldly and said, "Since that's the case, there's nothing to talk about, let's start the war."

However, what surprised the Xiu family was that Ben Duo repeatedly rejected the Xiu family's clear-cut request for war, "General You, after all, Tamura County is my family's active territory. How to deal with the Tamura family, we still have to wait for my lord to come back." Shall we decide later?"

Hearing Honda's multiple replies, the Hide family looked at him in astonishment, and asked him, "Sakuzaemon, do you know what you are talking about? His Highness Kanbai has ordered the Tamura family's disposal, even if the attendant Neither His Highness nor I can change it!"

"I know," Honda continued, "but I only have 400 people in my hand, and the rest are temporary troops gathered around. It is really unbearable to fight. If the lord is lost in Koriyama, it must be blamed on me. We should wait until my lord returns. Decide."

"Besides." Ben Duo said hesitantly, "Besides, without my lord's permission, I have no right to use troops to cooperate with His Highness's actions!"

Xiujia was really annoyed when he heard this.

Indeed, as he said, Xiujia has no superior-subordinate relationship with Yuao Daimyo, Xiujia is just a coordinator relationship.

Even if the daimyo needed to coordinate, the Hide family would not have the right to command the daimyo's retainers who stayed here.

The meaning of Ben Duo is: I watched you go north, and it is already very face-saving to entertain you as a landlord. Now let me take someone to accompany you to go out to fight, please forgive me for refusing.

Honda's repeated refusals made Hideka a little bit embarrassed, he turned his head to look at Satake Commander Mashizu Satake to ask his opinion.

Perhaps Honda gave him the courage to confront Hideo directly, facing Hideo's gaze, Satake Yoshisuke replied, "My family was ordered to go north to assist in the stabilization of the Osaki, Kasai lords, and Iwashiro and Aizu guards.

Now that our team is under the control of Gamo's servants, if His Highness wants to use his own troops, do you need to notify Gamo's servants or my Highness in advance? "

Maybe it was because he was used to relying on his own status to command in Xiguo, but being rejected by two families in Koriyama City made Hideo feel unbelievable.

He looked at Honda and said again and again, "Matsuzaka's attendants only stayed with more than 2000 people this time. Do you expect him to bring this number of people to flatten the Tamura family? Are you doing nothing during this period of time as a retainer?"

Faced with Xiujia's questioning, Ben Duo just bowed his head and apologized to Xiujia, but could not take any action.

Honda's repeated resistance to Xiujia really gave Xiujia a sense of powerlessness and frustration.

This is not Hideyoshi's territory. It's not that Hideka has to go north to support, but he just doesn't want the disturbance of Tamura's family to spread to Hideyoshi's ears for a long time, which will eventually arouse Hideyoshi's displeasure.

At that moment, Xiujia even felt that Honda was not Xiuzhen Ogasawara's retainer, so he didn't care whether his lord would be punished.

Perhaps for them, it would be the best ending for Hideyoshi Ogasawara to be punished and return to Tokugawa's command.
In the end, under Hideka's repeated request, Satake Yoshisuke agreed to set up troops on the west bank of the Abukuma River early tomorrow morning, pretending to cross the river to attack, attracting the attention of the other side, and helping Hideka cross the river from the lower reaches of Tsurukobuchi to outflank the Tamura family.

The troops brought by the Xiu family were only 950 or so of their own.

The Abukuma River is the most important river in the territory of Iwashiro. Many castles were built along its banks, not only for river defense, but also because it is adjacent to the river and is a very high-quality fertile field in the northeast. People gather over time. If there are too many, a walled city is formed.

But there are many fortified cities, and it is a troublesome thing to cross the river under the eyes of others.

And Heziyuan is the most remote area in the territory of the Tamura family, crossing the river here can avoid the eyes of the Tamura family as much as possible.

Speaking of which, there are allusions to the origin of the name of He Ziyuan, and it is a name that has only appeared in the past two years.

This area and the surrounding Kimura Castle were originally the territory of Kimura Nobutsu, a retainer of Tamura Qingming.

During the battle between the Tamura family and the Hatakeyama Ashina Nikaido family in the seventh year of Tensho, he was accused of treason, and all members of the Kimura family, including women, and children were executed.

Kimura family Tsuruhime sank in the nearby Abukuma River. It is said that because of deep resentment, the body was washed here and stayed there for seven days without flowing.

And because it is located at the edge of the Tiancun family's sphere of influence, it is said that the resentful spirit of the crane did not want to leave the village leader and wanted to take revenge on the Tiancun family, so it stayed here, hence the name Heziyuan.

In fact, the castle next to Tsurukobuchi is not Kimurakan, but Kisukitakan, the site of the castle of Tamura's retainer Onikuta.

I just heard that because of He Ziyuan's matter, Onikuta's family has moved the city to Kashima Castle on the east side. This place is managed by retainers, and it should be an easier area to break through.

After the deliberations were completed, on the afternoon of June 6, the Hideka headed south from Koriyama City with his bannermen and entourage in armor and armor, deliberately exposing his own movements to the eyes of the Tamura spies.

When traveling to the Sasahara River, it suddenly turned west and went north along the Aizu Mountains. After passing Koriyama Castle, it came to Wubai River and entered Takakura Castle.

After building Takakura Castle for a day, cross the Abukuma River from Adachi County, then turn south, and rest in the forest of Gotanda until dawn to raid Kisuda Castle.

Since Xiujia's bannermen and attendants are all cavalry, the biggest advantage is the speed of travel, so Xiujia did not stop after capturing the Guisheng Tianguan, and quickly killed in the direction of Sanchun City in the southeast direction.

The Xitian Shanwang Pavilion was captured at around 7:8 that morning, and the Sanchun City’s important western branch city, Ippongsong Pavilion, was taken at 30:[-]. The Sanchun City was completely exposed to the Xiu family.

The knowledge and practice of the Tamura family is 4 shi, and the hidden knowledge and practice cannot exceed 5 shi. The mobilization of 2000 people is already the limit mobilization.

Perhaps they didn't even think that someone would go around and attack their own city, so there were only a few old and weak guards left in many branch cities along the way, and Banner's group attacked and took it down immediately.

Even in Tamura Iehonjo Miharu City, there are only 180 ashigaru on the field.Such a large three-story castle with 180 men was really difficult to guard. By around 10:[-] am, Sanchun City had been captured by the Xiu family.

The quick attack of Sanchun City was essentially to attack the Tamura family's will to resist, hoping to collapse the Tamura family's army and force Tamura Zongxian to submit.

Moreover, he also knew that his actions could not be kept secret, so he specially let someone go out to report the news, and asked him to tell Tamura Zongxian to catch him quickly.

However, the Xiu family ignored two issues. One was the dominance of Soken Tamura in the Tamura family, and his own influence over the famous names in the world.

In 1589, after the death of Dinghaishenzhen of the Tamura family, the 90-year-old Tamura Kenmori, the son of Tamura Yoshiaki, and the over [-]-year-old Tamura Kenyai (Yuesai), Tamura Zongxian became the absolute talker of the Tamura family. .

Tamura Zongxian, who received the news, felt that there were only a few hundred people in Xiu's family, and he had the idea of ​​resistance in his heart.In his opinion, if he could capture Xiujia here, he might negotiate with Xiuji with Xiujia in exchange for Andu from Tamura County.

After all, he was born in the 2nd year of Tianzheng (1574), 2 years younger than the Xiu family. He was at the young age, so how could he give up to the Xiu family so easily?

Therefore, he blocked the news and decisively brought people back to Sanchun City, intending to surround Xiu's family in Sanchun City.

(End of this chapter)