Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 667 Wen Lu's Tail

Knowing that Hideyoshi was terminally ill, Hideyoshi deliberately delayed sending troops, but as the day approached, Hideyoshi's urging voice to Hideyoshi became more urgent.

First, before returning to Kanto in November, he declared that he would arrive in Tango with conscripted troops on time in the first month for preparations. However, after returning to Kanto, he excused that the Wenlu earthquake was severely damaged, and the 11-year Wenlu War made the people exhausted. Postpone the departure until the next year.

As a result, it seemed that the first month was about to pass, and news came from Kanto that Xiu's family was ill and unable to travel.The current situation is that the second Korean War has already started, and the Xiu family is still in Fengchun City, Kanto.

Along with the Xiu family, there were Toyotomi Hideyoshi headed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi who did not set off. They all delayed the southward process on the grounds that the earthquake blocked the roads and the mountains were blocked by heavy snow.

It wasn't just Hideka who was delaying, Naoe Kanetsugu, acting commander of the Second Army, also didn't come because of the instability of Shonai's leadership.

The army led by Tokugawa Hidetada, the head of the Fifth Army Corps, has arrived at Nagoya, but Tokugawa Hidetada himself is ill. He has been ill for a month, and the doctor may not see him well.

Tokugawa Ieyasu asked Hideyoshi to let Hidetada return to Suruga to recuperate, and other people were responsible for the front-line battle. After Hideyoshi agreed, the number of Tokugawa Army was reduced to 5000, and Honda Tadakatsu was appointed as the general. Terumasa Ikeda is in charge.

Hideyoshi had no choice but to temporarily appoint Kato Kiyomasa as the commander of the Northern Chosun Army, to command the Daimyo who was already in place, and together with the more than 5000 Hideo garrisoned in Hamgyong-do, and the Korean servants of the two provinces began to fight.

North Korea enlisted a total of 4 front armies, but as a result, 2 of them could not be recruited, which undoubtedly cast an indelible shadow on this battle.

In particular, most of the corps under Xiujia and Xiuzhen were formed by Kanto and Northeast daimyos. Since these daimyos were unable to apply for recruitment as scheduled, more than half of the two corps were directly short of staff in the second Korean War.

The normal operation should be to postpone the deadline for entering the DPRK and wait for Xiujia and Xiuzhen to lead the army to arrive before starting the war.

In fact, Toyotomi Hideji, Toyotomi Hidekatsu, Kobayakawa Takakage, Toyotomi Hideka, Toyotomi Hidetada, and Tokugawa Ieyasu all wrote letters to Hideyoshi to express their views on the country.

Taking Hideyoshi as an example, he expressed his apology to Hideyoshi for not being able to reach North Korea, and expressed the hope that his "good father" would give him some time, and he would definitely apply for the job as soon as he recovered.

But I don't know which muscle of Hideyoshi is wrong, or he knows that his body is getting worse day by day, and he must use his remaining authority to fight a beautiful war to establish prestige for Hideyoshi who is the general.

So he strongly rejected the above requests, and unquestionably ordered Toyotomi Hideji to go to North Korea as scheduled, and get back the Gyeongsangdo that was "stolen" by North Korea with interest.

At the same time, he wrote a letter of reprimand in an extremely severe tone, demanding that Xiujia and Xiuzhen must overcome all difficulties and lead people to North Korea.

In order to show how much Hideyoshi attaches importance to the Battle of Qingcho, and also to show how much Hideyoshi attaches to Hideyoshi and Xiuzhen, he directly sent his confidant Ishida Mitsunari to Fengchun Castle and Koriyama Castle in person, urging the two daimyos to send troops .

Hideya sent his own writer Todo Takatora to pick up Ishida Mitsunari, while he wrapped himself up like a rice dumpling and met Ishida Mitsunari during the time when Honmaru was receiving foreign envoys.

Xiujia deliberately pinched his throat and said to Ishida Mitsunari, "Ishida Zhibu came from a long way, and I am very sorry that I couldn't come out to meet you. But you can see that I really can't stand the cold wind with my appearance now." .

I don't know what's going on, I'm usually in good shape, but it's so rare that my illness is so serious, it makes my father worry, I'm really sorry. "

Seeing the Hide family's appearance, Ishida Mitsunari let go of the doubts in his heart, and comforted the Hide family, "Since Your Highness is sick, you should pay more attention to rest. I will go to Koriyama to visit the Koriyama Councilor."

Ishida Mitsunari's attitude was lower than that of other daimyos, and he was still so indifferent. Seeing that it was really inconvenient for the Xiu family to send troops at the moment, he no longer planned to talk too much with the Xiu family, and went to attack the daimyos in the northeast first.His attitude towards the Xiu family was not even hypocritical.

"Jibu, please stay." However, the Xiu family called him behind him who was about to get up and leave, "May I ask if your father has recovered?"

Mitsunari Ishida frowned slightly when Hideya asked him about Hideyoshi's health, and after thinking for a moment, he replied, "The doctor's diagnosis and treatment are proper, and there is no serious problem now."

This does not match the information received by Xiujia. Don't forget that Aone of Xiujia Xiujia has his own spies.

Since he knew that Hideyoshi was in poor health, he asked him about Hideyoshi's illness many times.Judging from the reply over there, Hideya can be sure that Hideyoshi has entered the third phase of Meishi.

It is actually very rare for Hideyoshi to develop rapidly from the initial stage to the third stage within one year.

What's more, Hideyoshi has been calm and crazy now, and some time ago he even beat Ning Ning, the Beizheng Suo who came to visit him.

But how could Ishida Mitsunari talk to Hideyoshi about something that would damage Hideyoshi's image?Answering "It's getting better" is indeed a very official answer.

Hideya didn't expect to hear the real answer from Ishida Mitsunari, and asking him was just to touch Hideyoshi's attitude.

Judging from Ishida Mitsunari's tangled expression, the situation that Mr. Taniyama sent to him is relatively accurate. Hideyoshi has indeed reached the last moment of his life.

If Hideyoshi didn't have the debuff [Insanity], with his current physical condition, even if Hideyoshi couldn't hold back, Hideyoshi would do everything he could.

But now Hideyoshi's third stage of illness will affect the brain, who knows what kind of weird operations this guy will make in the end, so Hideyoshi needs to be careful about the scale.

At least judging from Ishida Mitsunari's current attitude, although Hideyoshi complained about Hideyoshi and Xiuzhen's failure to arrive on time, he didn't show a particularly big reaction.

Then Xiujia asked him a second question, "You came from Kyoto, do you know the situation in Echigo, has the snow melted there?"

Ishida Mitsunari came from Kyoto along the Tokaido all the way to Kanto, and did not pass through Echigo.It seems that the question Hideka asked was stupid, but in fact, what Hideka wanted to ask was whether the Uesugi family in Echigo had taken action.

If the Uesugi family has already taken action, or plans to take action, then there is not much time left for the Xiu family to continue to delay.

I don't know that Mitsunari Ishida didn't understand what the Hide family meant. He was silent for a moment and then returned to the Hide family and said, "If Your Highness wants to know the weather in Echigo, you can send someone there soon. With regard to His Highness Bai's permission, daimyos are not allowed to come and go casually."

Ishida Mitsunari left, and did not get an answer from the Xiu family, so he left the Xiu family and went to the northeast.

After Ishida Mitsunari left, Hideie took off all the thick clothes wrapped around him, summoned Tsusue Sannojo with a stern expression, and ordered him to strengthen the intelligence collection work on Echigo, Suruga, and Osaka.

In the words of Hideyoshi, even Hideyoshi must report what he ate today.

Perhaps it was the four big names of Tokugawa, Uesugi, Toyoharu, and Koriyama who more or less violated Hideyoshi's orders, which made Hideyoshi unhappy. Send an order to the above four families, requesting the above four daimyos to go to Kyoto as soon as possible to attend and explain.

At this time, the first month has passed, and judging from Tsusue Sannojo's information, Uesugi Kagekatsu and Tokugawa Ieyasu seem to be ready to leave.

At the same time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had been delayed for more than a month, couldn't hold on any longer. Under the urging of Ishida Mitsunari, she mobilized 1 people under her command, and marched into the field with more than ten thousand troops composed of famous men from the Northeast. .

Right now, the 4 families have already persuaded 3, so the Xiu family naturally has no reason to continue to procrastinate.

Now staying in Fengchun City to "pray" for the Xiu family's recovery, while Tianhai, who is staying in Fengchun City to play games with the Xiu family, seems to have seen the entanglement in the Xiu family's heart, and took the initiative to ask the Xiu family why.

Xiujia confided to him that Hideyoshi was not in good health and might not last long, and at the same time told him that Hideyoshi's mental state is a bit crazy.

Hideyoshi told him that he was already feared by Hideyoshi, and he was afraid that his visit might never return.

Tianhai didn't know what Mei Shi disease was, so he said to the Xiu family, "Even if His Highness Guan Bai died of illness in the capital now, you still have to go to offer condolences immediately. If His Highness Guan Bai really has any thoughts about you, the dead person will still die." Actions can be arranged to take you away.

What's more, this time, most of the big names are recruited into the court. His Highness Guan Bai will never do such a thing of digging his own grave. I really don't understand what you are worried about? "

Tianhai didn't understand what the Xiu family was worried about. Even if Toyotomi Hideyoshi stopped talking about martial arts, would he summon the four daimyos to Kyoto to arrest and kill them?In this way, these four big names must not set off a rebellion?Other daimyos will also fish in troubled waters and eat your Toyotomi world.

Not to mention that he didn't understand, neither did Yixin Chongchuan.They all looked at Xiujia with puzzled eyes, not understanding why Toyoharu Dai Nayan, who had always been very wise in the past, couldn't see the situation clearly at this time.

They didn't know how hard Hideyoshi's salute was. Historically, Hideyoshi's brain circuit at the end of his life was not so intelligible, let alone now that he is sick, that disease will affect his brain, and the ghost knows what weird decisions he will make.

From everyone's point of view, it is impossible for Toyotomi Hideyoshi to take unfavorable actions against the above daimyos. Only the Hideo family knows that this matter is really not certain.

At this time, no one can control Hideyoshi's brain circuit. Tokugawa and Uesugi don't want to say more, maybe one day the brain circuit is not normal and it will directly kill Hideyoshi.

But what Tianhai said was true, and it wouldn't work to drag it on now.As a daimyo and his son, facing his own Guan Bai's father's repeated refusal to be recruited, he is almost showing his rebellion to the world.

Hideyoshi could have given the order to attack the Toyoharu family at a certain time, and then he would be the target of public criticism. Instead, he helped Hideyoshi divert internal conflicts and took the blame for the old tortoise.

Even if Hideyoshi does not give orders while he is alive, the Hideo family still has to go to mourn Hideyoshi after Hideyoshi's death.At that time, I'm afraid I won't be able to escape the gossip from the famous people in the world. I have endured it for so many years. Could it be that I can't bear it for the last time?

Hideka was really afraid that Hideyoshi would be unfavorable to him, but now that even Ieyasu Tokugawa is leaving, why would Hideka procrastinate and be punished by Hideyoshi?

Knowing that they couldn't drag on, Hideka could only order Fujido Takatora and Akigami Hisaka to mobilize 4 reserve teams based on the standing team, plus mobilize 6 reserve teams from the defense and reserve, and gathered more than 15000 people from Fengchun City. .

Although the Qiu Shangjiu family has just begun to reorganize and train the reserve teams in the Toyoharu family's military service account, the above-mentioned reserve teams must have not completed their training.

But the training methods are from the Xiu family, and the Xiu family can take people to North Korea to fight and train.

Before going into battle, the Xiu family sent Shi Ji to the Wuliangshou Temple under Heyue City. There is no need to find out the reason. After all, isn't it normal for women in the Warring States to go to the temple to pray for blessings when their husbands go to battle?
I want to say one more word here, ever since Tianhai brought Ji Lin to see the Xiu family, and the Xiu family let Shi Ji and Ji Lin's mother and son recognize each other, Shi Ji's heart disease was finally resolved, and now I heard that the Xiu family asked him to go to Heyue with Ji Lin City, that is a hundred willing.

Xiu's family waited in Fengchun City for 5 days and saw Toyotomi Xiuzhen coming from the northeast. The two of them set off from Fengchun City for Kyoto with their subordinates and Ishida Mitsunari.

On the way, Toyotomi Xiuzhen's face was very ugly, Xiujia asked him why, Xiuzhen told Xiujia and him bitterness, saying how she was forced by Ishida Mitsunari to call the Northeast Daimyo to send troops in the cold winter months.

The first lunar month has just come out, and the snow in the northeast has not yet melted. For the big names such as Nanbu, Qingjin, and Akita, it is very difficult to bring people to Koriyama.

In fact, none of the above three daimyos are in place yet, even if the Date family and the Gamo family are slowing down, Ishida Mitsunari still asks Xiuzhen to take someone to set off immediately under such circumstances, which makes Xiuzhen Very dissatisfied with Ishida Mitsunari.

It wasn't just Xiuzhen who was dissatisfied with Ishida Mitsunari. When Hideka hosted a banquet for Tohoku daimyos in Fengchun City, Hideka discovered that many Kanto daimyos, including Mogami Yoshimitsu, Nakagawa Hidemasa, and Iwaki Ritaka, were very dissatisfied with Ishida Mitsunari.

Even Nakamura Kazushi, who was born as Hideyoshi's retainer, gave Ishida Mitsunari a cold face.

The Xiu family took the initiative to greet them at the banquet and said, "You all came from the northeast through the wind and snow, and I am here to thank you for your dedication on behalf of the Toyotomi family."

After hearing this, Hidemasa Nakagawa cast a blank glance at Ishida Mitsunari who was sitting opposite and said, "Isn't that right, with Ishida Jibu in Koriyama, how dare we slack off."

(End of this chapter)