Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 592
If you want to say who is the happiest among the many Ichikui facing the outbreak of Ou, it must be Hideka.

The moment the Xiu family moved to Kanto, they made up their minds to take advantage of troubled waters and make the entire Kanto and Ouyu their own back garden.

The total knowledge of the 10 countries in the Kanto region exceeds 350 million shi, plus the 280 million of the two countries of Ouyu, the total amount of knowledge and practice exceeds 600 million shi, which is enough to establish the foundation of the world.

It was also for this reason that Xiujia worked so hard during the Ouyu battle, and continued to support his agent to gain military merits in the Oyu judging crowd.

Today, with the efforts of Date Masamune, Toyotomi Hideji and others, Osaki Kasai Kazuki has been gradually suppressed, and now only a few thousand people are squeezed into a small area headed by Sanuma Castle.

Seeing that Osaki Kasai Ichikui was about to be wiped out, Hideka agreed to allow Date Masamune another 20 days to thoroughly evaluate Ichikui.

At the same time, Toyotomi Hideji went north first, and with the cooperation of Satake Yoshinobu and Nambu Nobunao, he suppressed the Hega Barinuki Rebellion.

To say that this is related to the He Jiguan Rebellion, we have to refer to the previous Osaki Kasai Ichikui.

Osaki clan, Kasai clan, Kashiwazan clan of Ishizawa county and other former ministers and peasants who were dissatisfied with the prefecture and other declining daimyos, after the withdrawal of the Oshu official army, formed an uprising in various places in October, and attacked Kimura Yoshikiyo and other Hideyoshi dispatched generals.

At this time, the lords of the two counties of Hega County and Hikanuki County, who were changed because they did not go to Odawara, Hega Yoshitada, Hiroshiki Hirochu and others also launched uprisings in the two counties, echoing Kasai Osaki Kazuki.

On October 10 (or October 23), the rebel forces raided the Hega family's former residence city, Futako Castle (now Futako Town, Kitakami Town, Iwate Prefecture), Asano Nagamasa Daikan Goto Hanshichi, and regained the Hega family. old territory.

With this momentum, more than 2 people surrounded Totanizaki Castle.The 2 Ichikui were active soldiers until not long ago, and they are more effective than the native Ichikui.

In contrast, Shigekichi Asano, the deputy governor of Totanizaki Castle, had only about 100 to 150 soldiers. However, since the castle was located in a natural and dangerous place, it was difficult to lose the castle.

As mentioned earlier, Japanese historical circles often use Yikui to define the riots caused during the Ouwa Shiki period, because the main force of the riots here is mostly the low-level people and samurai retainers.

As for the rebellion of Shoga and Hikanori, the definition of "chaos" is because it was a war organized from top to bottom by the two daimyos and retainers of Hega and Hikanori to oppose the Toyotomi family's rule of Ou.

After the outbreak of the Hega Jiguan Rebellion, Hideyoshi sent a letter to Mitohe Castle by sea, asking Nambu Nobunao to suppress the two families.

Nambu Nobunao, who controlled the North Austrian territory, assembled an army in Bulaifang Castle (later Morioka Castle), and took about 500 horses to Totanizaki Castle for rescue. On November 11, he launched an attack on the rebellious forces surrounding the castle. The siege was lifted, and the Southern Army temporarily entered Totanizaki.

However, due to the approaching snow season, the most difficult part of Ou in winter is logistical support. After judging that it would be difficult to support the castle after snowfall, they had to temporarily abandon the castle and take Asano Shigekichi and others to retreat to Minohe Castle in the Southern Ujii Castle.

As a result, the former lords of the Enokan clan, including Totanizaki Castle, also fell into the hands of the rebel forces, and all the county representatives and officials sent by the Toyotomi regime to Ou were expelled by the army of the old lords.

Historically, Hideyoshi divided Ouhashi into a three-step process. First, Uesugi Kagekatsu and surrounding daimyos were responsible for handling the Ichikui of Senbei, and finally, Gamo Ujigo and Date Masamune were responsible for Osaki Kasai Ichikui.

However, due to the "Secret Letter Incident" that caused distrust between Date and the Kasai family, Date Masamune had to go to Los Angeles to defend himself, which eventually slowed down the progress of the East Road. It was not until January 1591 that the attack on Osaki Kasai officially began.

The delay in the progress of the East Route Army and the rebellion of the Jiuhuzheng in Xianbei made it possible to postpone the assessment of the Hega Jiguan Rebellion until June.

Although this battle is not very famous in history, the movement is not small at all.

At Shirakawa mouth, there are 3 soldiers led by Toyotomi Hidetsu as general general; at Senbeikou, there are Uesugi Kagekatsu and Otani Yoshitsugu; at Tsugaru, there are Maeda Toshiie and Maeda Toshinaga; at Somakou, there are Ishida Mitsunari and Satake Yoshishige , Utsunomiya Kunizun; Date Masamune, Mogami Yoshimitsu, Onodera Yoshimichi, Tozawa Mitsumori, Akita Miki, Tsugaru Yuishin and others.

Oshu Zaishi set up an army to attack Ou, joined Gamo's township and Asano Nagamasa, and encircled and suppressed Yoshitada Hega, Hiroshiba Hikanori and others from the west, south, and north.

Hideyoshi's battle in this life is definitely not as grand as Hideyoshi's plan in history.

Xiujia has always felt that after Hideyoshi's war with Kyushu in history, he was too obsessed with absolute military suppression. Why did he need to use 10 troops to deal with the Xiaohe Hebaiguan Rebellion?
While Hideka ordered Oura Nobuobu and Nambu Nobunao to suppress Kuhuo Zhengshi as soon as possible, they made a move for Toyotomi Hideji to lead Satake Yoshinobu to attack Hega County northward.

At the same time, Uesugi Jingsheng was ordered to go to Yokoteguchi to directly attack Nishiwaga County, and Ogasawara Hidetada was ordered to lead Mogami Yoshimitsu, Anto Miki and other Dewa daimyos to go to Senbeiguchi to Dabulai Fangcheng, instead of because of the suppression. Those in the south who could not be reached due to turmoil in the territory were suppressed from north to south.

The total strength of the three-way army is about 5, which is enough to complete the battle.The suppression work of the Hehe and Yiguan families, as for the subsequent settlement of the rogue bandits, can be completely handed over to the local daimyo.

As for Gamo's Township, after being imposed on by the Xiu family for a while, the Xiu family asked him to take Utsunomiya Kunizun and other families to go north from Luqian Guoqixian County to launch a raid on Guanyi County on the coast of Luzhong.

When the time came to April 4, Date Masamune finally completed the suppression of Sanuma Castle. There were more than 2 people in the castle, including the guards, and were forced to accept Hideka's opening conditions.

So far, the Ichikui forces that have been raging in Ouyu for more than half a year have been completely wiped out, and only the Hehe Bariguan Rebellion and the Jiuhu Rebellion in Luzhong and Lubei are still in trouble.

With this battle, Hideya will join Ichikui's old Osaki ministers such as Ichikuri Harutaka, Shigama Takahide, Nanjo Takanobu, and the Kasai family Kashiwazan Akiyoshi, Akihisa, and Akihisa's father and son, in the name of the most exiled Ezo.

The above-mentioned people are all rare generals in the Mutsu area, such as Shigama Takahide and Nanjo Takanobu, who were originally the servants of the Osaki family, and they were able to repel Date Masamune's offensive head-on.

As for the three members of Kasai's family, they are the father and younger brother of Kashiwa Ikkui's leader Baishan Mingzong in Danzawa and Esashi County Ichikui respectively. As the bandit leader, Baishan Mingzong cannot be forgiven.

As for the others, Toyotomi Hideji didn't think they were going to kill them all, but in the end the Hide family stepped forward to keep one, and the reason was naturally to let them go to Ezo to fend for themselves.

Of course, the practical reason is that Hideka needs these people to enrich the samurai class in the Ezo area.

The main war soldiers in Ezo used to be ordinary people in the Xiu family's territory. Because they went early, they were all granted the status of samurai, but in the end they were still mud legs.

The only serious samurai were the upper classes, and those from the Oysterzaki family.There is a gap in Hideka's samurai hierarchy in the Ezo area, and these people are urgently needed to enrich.

So far, the main work of Ouha Shiki has been completed, defeating more than 4 people from the Yikui Congregation in the four countries of Aizu, Iwashiro, Dewa, and Rikuzen respectively.

In addition to being pardoned by the Xiu family when Iwashiro went out, more than 5000 prisoners were exiled. In order to let the local people remember this punishment, all the links of pumping, tying ropes, and escorting were carried out under the watchful eyes of the public.

Most of the group of people whose bones were broken, did not dare to show the slightest presumptuousness in front of the army. If someone wanted to make trouble, they would be tied up and sent away.

Now that the weather has begun to spring, the snow in Ezo should have begun to melt. It is the time for spring plowing in Ezo. The manpower of more than 5000 people was sent to Ezo, which can just fill in the imbalance of the local and ethnic population.

It is worth noting that Date's branch, Date, actually led 600 members of the Date family, and 450 people under Yoshimichi Onodera's command were exiled to Ezo Island by the Hide family.

The Hide family had nothing to say about Yoshimichi Onodera. As a daimyo, under the attack of a group of people, he chose to open the city to negotiate peace. This incident has not caused any trouble in history, but it does not mean that the Hide family will not catch him.

The Xiu family directly accused him of being a collaborator and exiled more than 300 members of his family. Some retainers chose to go with him, and the total number reached 450.

Hideka had been telling Ogasawara Hidetada and Toyotomi Hideji before that Ou was famous and that the Yikui people couldn't figure it out, but Date Masamune's evidence was concealed by Hideka himself.

At the beginning, Toyotomi Hideji uttered wild words at the gate of Azuma because of the Hide family's speculation, but afterwards, he couldn't find any evidence of the Date family on the surface, which made Hideji feel bad, and complained to the Hide family many times. The information of the responsible show family is incorrect.

And the fact that Onodera Yoshimichi was arrested finally recovered the face he lost on Date Masamune.

In addition to Onodera Yoshimichi, Uesugi Jingkatsu, Mogami Yoshimitsu and Ando Miki all reported that many famous names in Yuli County took advantage of Senbei Naoichi's kung fu to attack each other and violated the no-matter order.

The Xiu family was worried that everyone in Ezo had gone, and exiled six families including the Takizawa family and Yajima family in Yuli County to Ezo Island. This is more than a thousand people.

Therefore, before the peace of the Hega Bariguan Rebellion, the number of people exiled by the Xiu family to Ezo had already reached 8000 people. When the Hega Bariguan Rebellion is assessed, the total number may be close to 9000.

However, none of the Xiu family could see it with their own eyes.

When the situation was good, and even Lu Bei's Nambu Nobunao quelled the Sanhu Rebellion, and led people south to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Hega and Enokan family, a piece of news broke the entire Toyotomi regime and the power structure of the entire Japan.

At that time, Hideka Honjin had moved north to Kasai Sanuma Castle to oversee matters such as sword hunting and ground inspection.

As always, I heard the notification from below, and there was another person from Osaka.

Hideyoshi has long been accustomed to coming from Osaka, and the Date family and the Satake family's matter can't be hidden at all. Hideyoshi has sent people to notify the Hide family many times to let Satake Yoshinobu and Date Masamune go to Los Angeles to defend themselves.

They were all begged by the Xiu family to allow a period of time to let things go sloppy due to the urgent battle situation on the front line. At the same time, the Xiu family expressed to the envoy many times that they believed in the loyalty of the two families to the Toyotomi family.

Later, as time came to mid-May, Hideyoshi’s request to evaluate Ou in the second half of the year was getting closer and closer. Hideyoshi also sent two times to inquire about the progress of Ou Shiji and the date of the class teacher. Hideyoshi gave 5 Months must complete assessment responses.

Today (at the end of May), when Xiujia once again heard that there was an envoy coming from the south, Xiujia even became a little impatient. How can you be so urging, Hideyoshi? You said that you will be able to do it in June, and you have been urging me. It's useless.

Hideka was a little unwilling to meet the envoy, so he asked Asano Nagamasa to greet him, and went fishing in Naganuma outside Sanuma Castle.

Naganuma is a slightly unfamiliar lake in the northern part of Rikuzen, because its underground has abundant geothermal resources, and even the hot springs that can be seen everywhere around Naganuma in later generations mostly use the hot water at the low level of Naganuma.

It's hard to imagine that there is such a lake in the Northland. The surface of the lake is like spring all the year round, and the bottom of the lake is even warmer, like boiled eggs in water.

Is Xiujia just fishing here?No, Hideka is here to summon Iwaki Ritaka, Soma Yoshin, and Tozawa Masayasu. Hideka intends to talk to them about his distribution of Ou Shizui in the future, and to find out what they say about the transfer.

However, the fish of the Xiu family were fishing vigorously, when they heard an exclamation from outside, "My lord! Something is wrong, my lord! Something is wrong!"

"Your lord, my momentum is good." Xiujia couldn't help muttering, "Stop yelling, the fish are scared away by you."

Turning around, he saw Shigehiro Hojo, who Hideka left behind in Sanuma Castle, his face was full of anxiety, he almost fell off his horse, and crawled up to Hideka, saying, "My lord, The urgent report from Luozhong was urgently sent by the cavaliers without resting their horses. Attendant Asano told you to go back immediately."

The words "Luozhong" and "urgent report" could not make the Xiu family's situation worse, but after hearing the attitude of Asano Nagamasa and the non-stop attitude of the letter messenger, the Xiu family couldn't help frowning .

At this time, a fish bit the hook, but Xiujia's pull rod directly tore off the fishing line. All kinds of unusual things made Xiujia a little uneasy.

Hideka irritatedly handed the fishing rod to the horse farm manager at the side, turned around and walked up to Shigeko Hojo and said, "Come on, what made you lose your composure."

Shigeko Hojo breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the three daimyos on the left and right, and still felt that it was not appropriate to say this publicly, so he stood up and whispered a few words in Hideka's ear.

Hideka who heard the news instantly became nervous, panic appeared in his eyes, he didn't care about the fact that his master had invited three daimyos to accompany him today, he just left the three of them messed up in the wind, turned over and rode Shigehiro Hojo The war horses that came over quickly headed for Sanuma Castle.

Satomi Yikang, who was accompanying Xiu's family, and Bachang Shishi, looked at Xiu's family in a hurry, and felt a little messy for a while, not knowing what to do.

As the backbone here, the horse farm real job who has followed the Hide family for the longest time took the initiative to ask Shigeko Hojo about the situation.

Shigeko Hojo kept silent about this, but asked a few people to say, "I think it's better to send the three Highnesses back to Sanuma Castle as soon as possible, and then prepare to go south with the lord. The lord will return from Sanuma soon." Yan paid and went to Luo."

Hojo Shigeru couldn't answer here because there were three other daimyos present, but this matter couldn't be hidden at all. When they returned to Sanuma Castle, some gossip had already spread in Toyotomi's main camp.

The pillar of the Toyotomi family - the lords of Mino, Owari, and Ise, the younger brother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the Toyotomi inner minister Hidecho is dead!

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