Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 768 Xiuci attacked Yujin City again, and the monks drove Fukushima with power

Both Toyotomi Hideji and Toyotomi Hidekatsu are Hideyoshi's adopted sons, but there are differences in their life experiences.

In the early years, Hideyoshi could not give birth to a son, so Hideyoshi was ordered to attack Omi for Nobunaga. In order to adjust Omi's rich family, he adopted his nephew Toyotomi Hideji to Miyabe Jijun as his adopted son (proton).

After Hideyoshi arrived in Harima, in order to stabilize the rear of Shikoku, he adopted Toyotomi Hideji to Miyoshi Yasunaga as a show.Although Xiuci was indeed raised by Ning Ning when he was young, his samurai education was completed in various famous schools.

It wasn't until after the Nooo battle that Hideyoshi changed his character from Miyoshi to Hashiba's.

That is to say, Toyotomi Hideji has never seen Hideyoshi selling face in order to survive and strengthen himself. He was just passively sent to various famous families to be raised as a proton.

By the time Hideyoshi was recalled, Hideyoshi was already in full swing.The appearance of Hideyoshi that he wants to imitate is that Hideyoshi who is a man of the world, that Hideyoshi who is rebellious, arrogant, manipulating all the famous people in the palm of his hand and dare not resist.

But you, Xiuci, are not yet a man of the world!

Let's talk about Xiusheng again. Logically speaking, he should have a good relationship with Xiuji, but Xiusheng grew up in Ningning Kindergarten and Kuroda Nagamasa in the same year.

Although his father changed his name to Miyoshi along with his elder brother, he didn't go to Miyoshi's house with Hideji as a hostage!
Born in the 12th year of Yonglu (1569), Toyotomi Hidekatsu, the Toyotomi family in his childhood memory was already a force that could control one side.

Because the eldest son was inherited by Hideyoshi to another family since he was a child, Hideyoshi only regarded his parents as heirs.This also allowed him to develop a rebellious character, he didn't care about anything, so much so that he dared to complain about Hideyoshi's rewards after the Kyushu War.

The eternal childhood friendship in this world is the most precious. Although Xiuci and Xiusheng are brothers, they don't have the friendship of the same age.The relationship between the two was not reacquainted until nearly 10 years after Xiuci returned to the home.

Xiuji's one-sided understanding of power made him use wrong pressure on his subordinates.In his mind, Xiu Sheng is his younger brother, and he is just playing a play with him, so he must be able to understand himself.

However, the act of making the daimyo hara-kiri is actually very offensive to the person concerned. An ordinary daimyo will be dissatisfied with you after the rest of his life, let alone Xiusheng's disobedient character.

"It's okay for you to deal with others, but I'm your own brother. You dare to attack your own brother, and you are no less cruel than your uncle back then."

This was after this incident, when Xiuci went to Xiusheng alone to explain the cause of the incident, Xiusheng preemptively questioned Xiuci.

He is a person who attaches great importance to family affection. Hideyoshi is paralyzed towards his relatives. You Xiuci actually took your own brother under the knife. This is really unacceptable to Hideyoshi.

Hidetoshi is actually a person who is unwilling to bow his head, which can be seen from his resolute refusal to give in to Hideyoshi's temptations in history.

He originally wanted to appease his younger brother after the incident, but his younger brother turned his face off first. How can our noble Lord Zuofu and the people of the world in the future get down?
Hideji, who was originally apologetic and smiling, immediately became serious when he heard his younger brother's questioning, "I'm thinking today because you are my younger brother, I spared your life, Echizen. Don't know what to do !"

Xiuji called Xiusheng "Echizen" which is an extremely unfamiliar title.This can be seen from the fact that Xiuci only called him that when he was reprimanded, and otherwise called him Xiaoji.

"What? So I have to thank you, Mr. Zuofu? By the way, let my parents know that I have such a good elder brother to take care of me, and I almost died."

"." Xiuci was suddenly choked by Xiusheng's answer, and his whole face was covered with red blood. After a long time, he reprimanded him, "Go back to your territory, even without you and me I can also take down the Uesugi family, and I can still become a man of the world!"

Before Xiusheng knew about Xiuci's plan to become a man of the world, as Xiuci's younger brother, after Xiuci became a man of the world, he would naturally become the closest pro-vassal, which is why he was willing to get involved in the matter of Xiuci .

But now that he has broken up with Xiuci, he will naturally not stay here to work for his brother.

Even at this moment, he has some complaints about his brothers in his heart: "Sun Qi, Sun Qi. You can even call your own brother around like this, how can the people in the world obey you?"

Xiusheng has the confidence not to be against Xiuci. After all, the descendants of the Toyotomi family are withered. Before Xiuci wants to become the world's people, he must fight against the Xiu family.

In Xiusheng's mind, the only ones Xiuci could trust were their brothers.At that time, in order to deal with Xiujia, can he really turn against himself because of what happened today?
In November of the 6th year of Qingcho (1601), it was only a little more than a month since Hideji raised troops in Osaka, and daimyo had already withdrawn from Hideji's camp.

Although this daimyo was Xiuji's younger brother, who was "permitted" by Xiuci to return to the territory, it undoubtedly cast a shadow over the Uesugi crusade.

When I heard that Xiusheng was going to leave, Xiuci's old family, Shirakawa Sesaka, once came forward to stop him and said, "Echizen Councilor can't leave, you are the lord's younger brother, if you don't even support him, there will inevitably be people in the camp." Gossip!"

But Xiu Sheng made up his mind to leave at this moment, he expected that even if he left, you Xiuci would not do anything to him.Besides, you told yourself to "scroll" back to your skills yesterday.

"Brother made me go, and I am following my brother's order!" After saying that, he pushed away the veteran Bai Jiang Chengding, and called the team to continue their journey.

Before Hideyoshi's death, Xiusheng received 20 shi from Echizen Kita Village, and then Chacha raised it to 30 shi by transfer of orders. According to the requirements of military service accounts, 12000 troops were required to accompany the army to the northern expedition of Uesugi.

Even with the standard of half-soldier and half-civilian, the number of soldiers is more than 6000.The move of so many people withdrawing from Yujin City must have been a big movement, which attracted the attention of many famous people around.

Xiuci didn't expect that he just said an angry word yesterday, and his brother was so unsupportive of him, so he really took people back.

Facing the persuasion of his family old Qianye Jingding and others, he still refused to give in because of face, and immediately said, "Let's go if he wants to. If you don't want the opportunity of military exploits, you can't blame me. Let him see if he doesn't." Without him, I can put down the Uesugi Rebellion."

After finishing speaking, he ignored the matter of Toyotomi Hidekatsu leading the troops to withdraw, and concentrated on discussing with his retainers how to attack Uojin City.

The elder Bai Jiang Chengding is mature and prudent. He knows that Xiu Sheng's departure will have a great impact on morale, and he must find a way to digest the impact as much as possible.

He quickly recruited a few samurai from the Gifu Clan, and asked them to talk to the big names, "Just say that the Echizen Councilor was ordered by the Gifu Zuofu to have other tasks."

At the same time, he recruited his own retainers, and without doing anything today, he went to various camps to spread the news that the Zuofu sent his own brothers to carry out secret missions, in order to calm the morale of the army.

Naturally, Bai Jiang Chengding's actions could not be concealed from Xiuci's eyes. Although he was a little bit grumpy about his behavior without reporting himself, he didn't accuse him of anything.

He is very aware of his temper. If Bai Jiang Chengding really came to ask him for instructions at that time, he might continue to refuse out of face.

After Bai Jiang Chengding's operation, the restless hearts of the soldiers outside Yujin City calmed down a little, and Xiuci and his retainers did not discuss any particularly brilliant suggestions.

Because Uozu Castle was built on the coast, it is a flat castle with sea water as a wall.This kind of city is impossible no matter if you want to attack it with water and sea water. If you dig a tunnel, the water quality will be too soft, which will cause the tunnel to collapse and the risk of seawater backflow.

In history, Katsushiba Shibata took advantage of the opportunity of peace talks to let his nephew lead people into the city.At the same time, Songcang Castle, which was not far away from the fire attack, attracted the attention of the defenders in Yujin City, and took the opportunity to attack the city from inside and outside.

With the lessons learned from last time, Sansheng Nakajo, who is in charge of guarding Uojin Castle this time, will definitely not be fooled again.Moreover, due to the influence of Hideyoshi's "One Domain, One Country, One Castle Order", Matsukura Castle has long since been abandoned. Even if Hideji wanted to repeat the battle of Uozu Castle, he would have nothing to target.

"Since we can't take this city by outsmarting, then we will switch to a strong attack. Send the big names to attack hard in turn, and let the various formations of the Gifu Domain follow behind to supervise the battle."

This is Xiuci's final decision. He has already boasted in front of everyone that he wants to take Yujin City before the spring, so naturally he can't break his promise.

It's just that his method was to force the daimyos to attack the city with all their strength, and to take down Uozu Castle for Hideji on the condition of sacrificing their own vitality.

That is to say, the daimyos are all afraid of Hideji now, so they didn't show any clear resistance.But Hidetoshi's doing this is undoubtedly very disappointing. He is not Hideyoshi himself after all.

As I said before, the daimyos are actually very confused about why the Uesugi family was attacked this time.It's obviously a quarrel between you, Hideji, and the Uesugi family, but you have to bring so many famous names to fight with you.

It wasn't everyone's intention to grind foreign labor before. If the city of Yujin is so broken, there will be plenty of opportunities for free military exploits, and people will sign up enthusiastically.

Isn't it that Uojin City is as tough as a hard bone, but now you put a knife on someone's neck and force him to beat him, even Hideyoshi would not make such a decision.

But there is no way, more than 2 Gifu soldiers are standing behind and watching, and the daimyo have to act for Hideji.Even if you put an iron cannon on the sky and listen to the sound, you can still do business for "Baby Xiuci".

Of course, there are indeed famous names who have sieged the city, such as Masanori Fukushima.He was punished twice before, but now his knowledge and practice are only a little over 7. According to the military service account, 1400 people need to be mobilized to fight this time, of which only half of the soldiers are needed.

But this time he brought a full 1000 soldiers, and in today's siege, he took the initiative to ask Ying to be in charge of the Dongcheng offensive, which is the place where Toyotomi Hidekatsu fell into the sand yesterday.

Not to mention that he was much more organized in fighting than Xiusheng. Although the number was not a fraction of Xiusheng's, the layout of the offensive echelon and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers were much stronger than Xiusheng's Echizen crowd.

The Hyuga soldiers led by Hidekatsu were formerly Kato Kiyomasa's army in the Korean War.Sui Xiu's family fought the Jurchens and the Ming army together in Hamgyong Road, and their combat effectiveness is definitely at the forefront in Japan.

Especially after fighting the Ming army and Jurchen, we know the role of iron cannons on the battlefield, and the penetration rate of Hyuga's iron cannons is very high.

There are 1000 iron cannons in this 300-man army, which are divided into two batches and fired alternately, covering the vanguard to hit the city gate.

Hundreds of civilians hid behind the bamboo beams, and when they suppressed the place with their own iron cannons, they threw their soil bags from the north into the bore, filling up the water bore that hindered their siege as much as possible.

After paying the price of dozens of people killed in battle and more than a hundred injured, the gate of the city was finally breached, and they entered the city with the first battle, strangling together with the Uesugi family defenders.

The Uesugi family wanted to repeat the same trick, and once again cut off the rear reinforcements by smashing the oil tank in front of the city gate passage and igniting it.

At first, the Fukushima army faced the fire attack of the Uesugi family, and there was indeed a fault in their own offensive.But the civilian husband quickly brought the earth bag, spread the sand on the oil road and extinguished the fire, and then the follow-up reinforcements continued to catch up.

"Good job! That's it! Izumo (Maeno Kagesada), we will lead people to follow!" Seeing the breakthrough at the East Gate, Hideji couldn't help but praise a few words, and planned to let his retainer Maeno Kagesada lead the way. People support Masanori Fukushima.

However, the occupation of Dongcheng changed suddenly, and a group of Uesugi soldiers suddenly protruded from another city gate, wearing monk scarves and holding naginata.

They held Uesugi Sasa high, although there were only dozens of people, they showed the momentum of hundreds of people.

The 3-meter naginata danced in their hands as lightly as their own arms. After a few strokes of "swipe, swipe, swipe", a soldier fell under his knife.

In addition to the naginata, there are also people who fight with a golden stick (a blunt iron weapon, some of which have spikes similar to a mace). People broke out in a cold sweat.

This is an elite monk soldier unit!
They dispersed the soldiers of the Niwa family who were blocking the gate of the city, and then turned to Fukushima's regular formation. Naturally, Fukushima saw them, and quickly ordered his retainers to stop them.

But his reaction was still slow, or in other words, the Niwa family's army collapsed too quickly. When Fukushima found out, the enemy had already come within 50 steps.

Ordinary ashigaru have no strength against the elite monks, and the discipline of the monks is much stronger than that of the samurai, and the samurai has no good way to face the monks in the team.

Although Masayoshi Fukushima tried his best to stabilize the front line, because there was no time to arrange the formation, the flank of the Fukushima army was instantly defeated by the monks, and Masaru Fukushima was also pulled aside.

This team of monks and soldiers did not go after the Fukushima family's rout, but turned to the city gate where Fukushima Zhengzheng attacked, and cooperated with the long-range defenders on both sides of the tiger's mouth to kill the Fukushima sergeants who were still attacking the city.

Seeing that their back route was cut off, some soldiers quickly jumped into the water hole, trying to swim to the shore on their side as much as possible, but most of them were driven into the water by the naginata and big sticks of the monk soldiers.

As for those who were unwilling to enter the water, they all fell to the ground in pain at this moment. The monks did not cut off their heads, because they did not need to use their heads to repay their merits.

But in the current medical environment, it is impossible to revive a person who has been pierced through the stomach by a naginata or smashed into the head by a big stick.

(End of this chapter)