Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 66 The Premonition of Honneng Temple
When the Xiu family was trapped under the Matsuyama Castle, in the distant Kyoto, a major event occurred that caused a sensation in the world - the change of Honneng Temple.

In fact, the cause and effect of the change of Honnoji Temple have already been planted. Let’s not talk about how harsh Nobunaga usually treats his subordinates. If he is not careful, he will be beaten, scolded and trampled. Sheng was also deprived of all the collars for a trivial matter and exiled.

The conflict between Nobunaga and Akechi Mitsuhide has actually been planted long ago. As we said earlier, when Akechi Mitsuhide attacked the Tamba Hatano family, in order to speed up the attack, his mother took the hostage in exchange for the surrender of the Hatano family.

Akechi Mitsuhide, the general general of Tamba, of course has the right to deal with domestic affairs in Tamba, but Nobunaga unexpectedly killed Hatano and his son in Azuchi, which increased the difficulty of Akechi Mitsuhide's evaluation of Tamba by N times, so that he had to go to the nearest Let the monkey lead the army to support.

However, in the post-war report, Nobunaga did not feel that Tanba's slow progress was due to his own problems, and blamed it on Akechi Mitsuhide's incompetence.

Even so, Mitsuhide, who still had trust in the Oda army, accepted Nobunaga's rebuke, and even when Nobunaga was embarrassed to apologize to Akechi Mitsuhide because of his mother, he was still thinking of a way to find a way for Nobunaga to go down. (Introduced in Chapter 20 of Volume [-]).

However, Akechi Mitsuhide once again received the wrong Nobunaga's brainwave, and said the two words "Nursing Mother", which is the opposite of Nobunaga's scale.For ordinary people, the wet nurse is not necessarily important, but for Nobunaga, who lacked maternal love since childhood, the wet nurse is equivalent to Nobunaga's mother.

The moment when Mitsuhide said that it was not the mother but the nursing mother who died, it only made Nobunaga even more disgusted with Mitsuhide.

The Hide family still remembers that when they were waiting for Nobunaga's summons in the front hall of Azuchi, they saw Mitsuhide, whose head was covered in blood, and was helped by Akechi Hideman. The vicious look he gave Nobunaga was probably also the Hide family. The beginning of real disgust for Nobunaga.

I don't even understand that Guangxiu may die. I'm thinking about your nobility everywhere. What kind of madness are you making?Maybe it was until that moment that the seeds of this master being inhuman and being a real devil were planted in his heart.

Akechi Mitsuhide, who used to be the commander of the Maori Expedition Corps with Hideyoshi at the same time, also completely lost the trust of Nobunaga after that incident. Nobunaga handed over the expedition power to Hideyoshi and Yukita. home assistance.

Hidemitsu, who lost his position as the commander of the army, was even reduced to the point where he cooperated with Murai Zhensheng, whose territory was less than 6 stones, to stabilize Kyoto, and was completely reduced to the status of a third-rate general of the Oda family.

In April, due to the confrontation between the Hide family and Yoshikawa Yuanchun in Boqi, Hideyoshi, who had only 4 troops on the front line of Takamatsu, had to face 2 Maori families. The helpless monkey had to ask Nobunaga for reinforcements as in history.

At the same time, I wrote a letter to Nobunaga wishing Nobunaga to assemble a large army to fight Maori. The purpose of this letter is not only to alleviate his guilt, but the most important thing is to want Nobunaga to report the victory of the Sanyin Luxiu family. , and proposed that Nobunaga personally lead the army and attack Maori and complete the proposal.

Nobunaga, who received the letter, appointed Mitsuhide Akechi, Tadashi Hosokawa, Hengxing Ikeda and others as pioneers, preparing for the battle in advance.

Coincidentally, Nobunaga Kayama, who had done a lot in Takeda's war of annihilation, happened to meet Nobunaga in Luobai with Ieyasu Tokugawa at this time.

Akechi Mitsuhide, who was originally designated as the receptionist, was fired the day before Tokugawa Ieyasu and the two were about to arrive in Azuchi, and asked to return to Tamba to prepare for battle.

You must know that since you have been selected as the host to receive the Tokugawa family, an important ally of the Oda family, it is impossible to ask you to go back to the army alone. received this command.

It should be known that Ieyasu Tokugawa and Nobuyam Kayama came to Azuchi on May 14, and visited Azuchi, Kyoto, Sakai and other places under the warm reception of Hasegawa Shuichi.Akechi Mitsuhide was dismissed on the 17th and left for Danbo on the [-]th.

Not long after Mitsuhide arrived in Danbo, the Nobunaga's little surname, Nagamori Ranmaru, sent an order from Nobunaga to Akechi Mitsuhide.

The rhetoric of the military order was so severe that it did not allow Akechi Mitsuhide to question it at all. He blocked Mitsuhide with 35 stones in Izumo and Iwami, but asked Akechi Mitsuhide to hand over the fiefs of Danbo and Itamoto, but allowed him to temporarily command this part. The army went to conquer the Maori.

This was an order that had never happened before Nobunaga. Take the monkey as an example. The monkey held the 20 stone of the North Omi River until Nobunaga's death. It was only after Echizen and Kaga were completely captured that Owari's territory was recovered.

Nobunaga's order is somewhat inconsistent with the logic of the Warring States period. Generally speaking, it is a direct draw from the bottom of the pot, and only gives Akechi Mitsuhide a chance to attack the gross profit.

At that time, Akechi Mitsuhide did not know that the Hide family had forced Yoshikawa Yuanchun to retreat twice and attacked Matsuyama in the south.In Mitsuhide's cognition, the Maori family is still the giant that spans 8 countries.

Therefore, this order was also regarded by Mitsuhide as a dead end designed by Nobunaga for him.

Perhaps it was also at that time that the resentment in Guangxiu's heart completely sprouted.

Mitsuhide lived in the version from May 5th to 25th, and even went to Nishifang next to Honneng Temple to drink with the village, and euphemistically asked about the water depth around Honneng Temple. It was already clear that he wanted to attack Nobunaga.

On May 5th of the tenth year of Tensho, Nobunaga, who departed from Azuchi, came to Kyoto, stayed at Honnoji Temple, and issued an ultimatum to Akechi Mitsuhide, who had not set out yet. We don't know the content of the ultimatum, but it should be Dissatisfied with knowing that Mitsuhide hasn't sent troops yet.

On June 6, the tenth year of Tensho, under the supervision of Nobunaga Ma Huizhong Li Shi Nagakura, Akechi Mitsuhide finally led 1 people from Tamba Kameyama Castle to the battle.

Tamba Kameyama Castle is close to Kyoto, but it is not suitable as the starting point for the expedition to San'in. This undoubtedly lengthens the supply distance of the army. From the fact that Mitsuhide chose to gather his troops in Kameyama Castle, Mitsuhide's treason plan was not a whim.

Ming Mongxiu, who came out of Kameyama Castle, brought his own banner to the public, and killed Nobunaga's supervisor, Li Shi Changkang, in front of everyone during the renovation period after the entire army passed through Guichuan.

Mitsuhide's actions obviously frightened his subordinates, but Mitsuhide quickly stabilized the situation, declared Nobunaga's crime to the generals, and told them all that Nobunaga had deprived them of their lands in Danbo and Itamoto.

Hearing such shocking news, the generals did not believe it at first, until Mitsuhide presented the military order written by Nobunaga himself, and they believed that Nobunaga sent them to a dead end.

The indignant generals, under the agitation of Akechi Hideman, Akechi Mitsugu, Fujita Administrator and others, the originally swaying Tamba noble family also decided to join the team of crusade against Nobunaga.

But before going out to battle, the Danbo family asked: "The soldiers are all afraid of the Youfu. If you tell them that we are going to crusade the Youfu this time, I am afraid that they will immediately be scattered. What should we do?"

"You can falsely pass on the official order, but this time, it is a secret order to attack the rebel Tokugawa family, and the soldiers should obey the order."
Knowing that Xiuman's suggestion was very constructive and finally approved by the generals, the generals issued this order separately to their own reserves, and the soldiers at the bottom really believed it.

On the evening of June 6st, when Mitsuhide was reorganizing his army in Katsura, Nobunaga was hosting a banquet at Honneng Temple, accompanied by his eldest son Nobuyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

During the banquet, Nobunaga drank very happily, and went off the stage to tell about his entrepreneurial experience since he was in his prime, and his tactics (I think Nobunaga was a little bragging about this).

The whole did not disperse until the early morning of the 2nd, and Nobuyada also returned to Miaojue Temple to rest.The bustling scene just dissipated, but everyone in Kyoto did not know that the danger was approaching.

On the night of June 6 in the tenth year of Tensho, Mitsuhide Akechi shouted out his famous saying that went down in history at Tambakou in Kyoto.

"Attack! The enemy is at Honneng Temple!"

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My idea of ​​writing a novel is similar to a biography, and I have deleted a lot of repetitive dialogues that have no effect on the plot, so some readers may think that I copied and pasted it.

I solemnly promise here that I type every word, and what I write is my understanding of Japanese history over the years.

After referring to a number of arguments and reading several papers, my understanding of the Warring States Period in Japan is definitely not comparable to that of Baidu Encyclopedia. I cannot say that there are no mistakes.

But in many big things, if the opponent is Baidu Encyclopedia, I have the confidence to say 4 words: "I shall prevail."

(End of this chapter)