Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 67 With the fireworks of Honnoji Temple, the collapse of the Oda family

Akechi Mitsuhide led his troops into Kyoto and met the Oda army who was guarding the garrison at Tambakou in the south of Kyoto.The samurai guarding here wondered why the Kikyo pattern from Tamba appeared in Kyoto?
The samurai wondered why the daimyo who was in the Western Kingdom led a group to pass through Kyoto to the Eastern Kingdom. Was there a wartime in the Eastern Kingdom?Although these were not something that a little local samurai could blame, he still stopped Akechi Mitsuhide as usual and asked.

"Is it the army of Mitsuhide-sama Yuren from Tamba? But do you want to lead troops to the East to help out?"

It was already early morning when Mitsuhide arrived in Kyoto, and after a while the sky would be bright white. At this moment, it was no longer applicable to pass through Kyoto and enter Kyoto in the name of barracks repairing.

He simply said: "I am Yu Ren Guangxiu, can His Highness Tokugawa be in Kyoto?"

"Sankawa Temple went to Sakai yesterday, but was not in the capital." The samurai shook his head and said.
Things are in trouble. Tokugawa Ieyasu is not in the capital as an excuse for raising troops. What excuse should I use to enter Beijing?
Fortunately, Xiuman Akechi opened his mouth and said, "His Royal Highness Awakening is about to fight Maori, and today I come to Kyoto in the name of General Zuo Konwei, and accept the inspection of His Royal Highness Youfu. Please open the gate quickly and let me wait, otherwise I will make a mistake. Shi Chen, Your Highness is going to kill someone!"

After saying that, his eyes glared fiercely at the samurai guarding the gate. The samurai was taken by Oda Nobunaga by Akechi Hideman. Regardless of the truth of the incident in Akechi Hideman's mouth, he immediately said to Ashikaru behind him, "Open the door, Open the door, and let the gentlemen in."

With the failure of the last line of defense in front of Kyoto, this major treason case could no longer be organized.

Akechi Mitsuhide's army was walking on the streets of Kyoto with torches at night. Although there were as many as 1.3 people, the entire team was unusually quiet like the ordinary Japanese army.The only sound of marching footsteps and the sound of horses accompanies the advance of the army.

But he said that at the singing party yesterday, Nobunaga preached his deeds passionately, and he couldn't help drinking a glass of wine when his love was strong.After the song meeting was over, I went back to Honnoji Temple and went to bed early.

However, the sharpness that he had cultivated over the years made Nobunaga wake up from his sleep with a neigh, staring his eyes wide, trying to use his five senses to listen to the sounds outside and outside.

It's getting close, it's getting close, it's the neighing of horses, it's the sound of friction, it's the movement of thousands of people marching.

Suddenly, Kyoto, which was relatively quiet just now, was as noisy as boiling water. The army of the Akechi clan shouted and rushed towards Honneng Temple, where Nobunaga was located, and a rain of flaming arrows was already shot into the temple.

Oda Nobunaga sat up from the room and called to his valet Mori Ranmaru, "What's the matter. Did Akita Seirosuke betray?"

Akita Josuke is a castle set up in Japan during the crusade against the Ainu people of Dewa.

When Oda Nobunaga was in the Yuanfu, Nobunaga sought this position for Nobunaga. After that, although Nobunaga has been promoted to the General of Sakino, Nobunaga used to call his eldest son Akita Josuke or Qiqimaru.

Until this time, Nobunaga had not expected that it was Akechi Mitsuhide who rebelled. In his knowledge, the only people who could attack Honnoji Temple near Kyoto at this moment were Oda Nobutada, who stayed at Myokakuji Temple, and his 3000-strong banner. team.

Soon, Mori Ranmaru came back after confirming the situation outside and said, "The flag outside is a bellflower pattern, and there are bellflower patterns all over the mountains and plains."

"The Kibu Kikyo pattern is irrelevant at this time, no matter who it is, we must repel them." After saying that, Nobunaga, who was only wearing a robe, picked up a bunch of heavy vine bows and prepared to go out to fight, until Mori Ranmaru took one. Put a robe on him.

At this time, the wise army had already invaded Honnoji Temple, and fought hand-to-hand with Oda Nobunaga's entourage in the courtyard and on the corridor, although Nobunaga's entourage was born in the children of samurai, skilled in bowing and horses, and strong in tactics.

But at the moment, they were only wearing samurai uniforms and holding samurai swords. They were facing a wise army several times more than themselves, wearing armor and helmets, with spears, iron cannons and bows and arrows in their hands. After all, they were still outnumbered.

Akechi Mitsuhide was a gentleman who let go of the merchants, monks and tea guests who were staying at Honnoji Temple, and asked the soldiers to attack only those who held weapons.

Oda Nobunaga came to the front hall and calmly shot the bow and arrow in his hand behind the attendant. Seeing his own decline, he finally decided to go all out to try to persuade him.

I saw a samurai wearing a white coat holding a samurai sword and coming to the entrance of the wall, shouting to the wise army in the courtyard, "I am Oda Nobunaga, please let your lord Yu Ren Mitsuhide come to see me!"

Unfortunately, it was not as he wished. In the end, only bows and arrows responded to Nobunaga. Although his attendants tried their best to block Nobunaga with their bodies, Nobunaga himself was still shot with an arrow.

Seeing that the situation was irreversible, Nobunaga walked back with a wry smile and shaking his head.

After letting his accompanying female relatives go, Nobunaga ordered Mori Ranmaru to prevent fire and buy time for himself to cut his belly.

When Akechi Mitsuhide arrived here, all he saw was a burning house, the whole house was in flames, but Nobunaga's life and death could not be seen.

Long before the wise army launched the offensive, Okuhira Zhensheng, who lived on the side of Honneng Temple, saw that there was quite a lot of movement in Honneng Temple. When he climbed the eaves, he saw that the streets were full of bellflower-patterned flags.

The Kikyo pattern was originally the flag of Qing and Genji. Many samurai from Qing and Genji would use this banner, but at this moment, the only one who could lead so many troops to Kyoto could be Akechi Mitsuhide, the great name of Danba on the Kyoto side.

Feeling bad, Okuhira Zhensheng climbed out of the outer wall and came to the Myojue Temple on the north side of Kyoto to report to Shinchu.

Nobuyada had long seen the crimson red that reflected the entire sky on the other side of the imperial city, but at this time Nobuyada didn't think about the bad, he just thought that there were townspeople walking into the water, and the matter would naturally be decided by Murai Zhensheng and his Jingdong. The garrison is in charge.This also made him miss the best opportunity to rescue Nobunaga.

Of course, even if Oda Nobunaga, who had only 3000 people, really went to rescue Nobunaga ahead of time, he would not be able to rescue Nobunaga, and would instead be on his own.

Many UP masters and marketing accounts like to use unofficial history as a supplement when introducing the change of Honneng Temple, and because Akechi Mitsuhide did not attack Myojue Temple at the same time when he attacked Honneng Temple, they thought that the change of Honneng Temple was Mitsuhide's impulsive move.

This point of view is precisely an unprofessional point of view brought back by the history of the Warring States Period of Japan when they came to China with a group of unprofessional returnees like Feng Wei.

But it is a pity that this view has been circulating on the Internet and among the people for the next ten years.It is regarded as the official history to interpret the change of Honnoji Temple.

In fact, Waseda University has already made a conclusion about the change of Honnoji Temple. I have explained many evidences in the previous chapter, which can all prove that this is definitely a coup d'etat carefully arranged by Akechi Mitsuhide.

In fact, if we have a map of Kyoto in the Warring States Period, we will find that Honneng Temple is located on the south side of the Imperial City of Kyoto, while Myojue Temple is located in the north of the Imperial City. These two temples are not at all what the marketing account said, but their proximity.

The Oda family enforces a strict curfew control in Kyoto. The wise army entering Beijing from the Tanba entrance on the south side needs to go through at least 4 square gates to reach Myojue Temple, while Honneng Temple only needs to go through 1 square.

Akechi Mitsuhide is very clear that the purpose of this battle is to kill Nobunaga, and only after Nobunaga's death, he may have a chance of survival.

Of course, when he attacked Honneng Temple and caused chaos, he sent troops to Myojue Temple, and finally fought on the side of Nijo Castle with the troops that Nobuyada came to rescue at Honneng Temple.

Many marketing accounts claiming in-depth interpretation did not even consult historical documents and papers, but directly carried the opinions of those two idiots ten years ago, and published them in their own videos.

In their video, Oda Nobunaga became a man who knew that his military strength was not as good as Mitsuhide Akechi, but still chose to go to support Nobunaga. After hearing that Nobunaga died, despite the persuasion of his retainers to retreat to Azuchi, he chose to lead 1000 people to stick to Nijo Castle. fool.

In fact, even they themselves can't justify this view, why Oda Nobunaga did not choose to accept the opinion of his retainers and retreat to Azuchi. He can only use stupid loyalty and stubbornness to describe the heir chosen by Oda Nobunaga.

I even thought it was an insult to the two of Oda Nobunaga.

同时我也注意到此时营销号说信忠只有1000人固守二条城，但是前文却说信忠是带领3000人进入京都的，那么请问另外2000人去哪儿了？难道织田家旗本众这么拉胯吗？居然会闻战先散2/3？

Certainly not possible.

In fact, Japanese scholars have long argued that after Okohira Zhensheng reported to Nobunaga, Nobunaga was greatly surprised, but quickly mobilized a team to rescue Nobunaga.

But later, according to the records of "Achieving Military Records", a team of wise army met Oda Nobunaga who came to support near Nijo Castle, and the two armies fought.

The battle outside Nijo Castle eventually attracted more wise army support.

And it was impossible for Nobunada, who had not heard the news of Nobunaga's death until this moment, to retreat completely. He had no choice but to retreat to Erjo Castle and stick to it. There were only more than 1000 people who followed him into the city.

So we think that the 2000 banners of the Oda family should be the second army under the command of Nobuzhong's retainers, to buy time for Nobuzhong to smoothly retreat to Nijo, but unfortunately, these loyal and brave people were all wiped out.

Oda Nobunada, who fled to Nijo Imperial Palace, released the female family members in the city and Prince Seihito, who was staying at Nijo Castle, out of the city, and ordered all the warriors around to come to Kyoto King Qin.

It's a pity that he only has 1000 people, and Akechi Mitsuhide, on the advice of Akechi Hideman, sent people to climb the eaves of the surrounding Gongqing's house around Nijo Castle, and bombarded Nijo Castle directly with iron cannons.

When the Ashikaga family was in power, in order to ensure the safety of Nijo Castle, it was not allowed to have super high buildings around, and at this time, the surrounding ministers did not have the money to build high-rise buildings.

However, with Nobunaga occupying Kyoto, I lived in Azuchi Castle all year round, and even when I came to Kyoto, I stayed at Honnoji Temple.Therefore, the construction of residential buildings around Nijo Castle is no longer restricted.

At the same time, with the peace of the world under the rule of Nobunaga, the life of the ministers improved, and the ministers who had no entertainment activities also had the money to start building high-rise buildings.

It can be said that it is precisely the accumulation of these trivial things that are usually insignificant, which eventually led to the defeat of Oda Nobunaga and Nobuzhong and their sons in Kyoto.

As the wise army broke through the periphery of Nijo Castle, Nobuyada realized that it was difficult for him to support him, and he instructed Maeda Gen to send his son Sanmage to Gifu (Nobuzhong's fief was Mino), and then he was defeated and committed suicide.

Like the Honnoji Temple, Mitsuhide ordered the sergeant to do nothing to the monk Qiu, so that Maeda Genyi was able to take the three masters out of Beijing to escape smoothly.

It can be said that the success of the Benneng Temple change and the smooth escape of the three masters were precisely caused by the repeated carelessness of the two leaders.Oda Nobunaga thought that he was in Guinea, and there were 3000 banners led by his son to guard the congregation. Safety should not be a problem, so he only brought 300 attendants to the Honneng Temple.

But he forgot, or Nobunaga never thought that his actions had turned against Akechi Mitsuhide, so that the day before the change of Honnoji Temple, he was still talking about his royal way at the tea party.

When Oda Nobutada knew that the wise army surrounded the Honnoji Temple with 1.3 people, he led 3000 people to support it. No problem at all.

The problem was that the Oda family did not understand the changes around Nijo Castle. As the masters of Kyoto, the Oda army did not know that there were already many tall buildings around Nijo that were higher than the outer Maru. Nijo Castle, which has a geographical advantage, has lost its advantage.

If Oda Nobunaga knew the situation around Nijo Castle in advance, I think with his years of experience in commanding troops, Duan Ran would not choose to lead troops to stick to Nijo Castle.

Perhaps it wasn't until Nobudada Toncheng discovered the problem, but it was too late.It was impossible to retreat from Nijo Castle.

It can be said that the failure of the Oda family is a lack of intelligence from beginning to end. Even if they have a strong intelligence in the process, it will not lead to the death of the two generations of the Oda family and the collapse of the Oda family.

The failure of Akechi Mitsuhide was doomed from the moment he let go of businessmen and monks.Not only did he let go Maeda Xuanyi, who was with the three masters, but also exposed his atrocities to the world prematurely.

If you want to do something wrong, you must be decisive and ruthless. If Mitsuhide Akechi was ruthless and blocked the news and used the information gap to control the Oda family in Kyoto, the probability of losing the battle of Tianwangshan would be much less.
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Digression: Hee hee hee, I am a good author!Mingming was drunk for dinner, and I said in advance that I would not change it at night, but after I woke up a little, I came to give you a liver article.

And this chapter is still a big chapter of 4000 words~ It can be considered carefully, not just to fool people with 2000 words.

The creation of the slightly drunk state has a unique flavor~ If there are any typos, please point out (maybe more than usual).If you have different opinions, please discuss! 88~I'm going to sleep~
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