Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 782
The matter of adopting Asahimaru to the Yuki family was decided, and Yuki Haruto also kindly asked Hidejia to be his black hat relative and become Asahimaru's Jewish father.Under the witness of many daimyos, Asahi Maru officially changed its name to Yuki Chaojia.

Interestingly, Yuuki Qingchao’s common name is Shichiro, his adoptive father Yuki Masakatsu Motofu’s common name is Rokuro, and his adopted son Yuki Asakatsu Motofu’s common name is Hachiro. The title of Jiulang, who ranks the ninth in the world.

After the end of the Yuanfu ceremony, Asahimaru could no longer wear the gentian five seven paulownia pattern haori that symbolizes the Toyoharu family, but changed to a haori pattern embroidered with the three-headed right-handed pattern of the Yuki family pattern.

Moreover, as the young master of the Yuki family, he also has the right to participate in the military discussions organized by the Xiu family, but his status is different. He can't sit beside the Xiu family and listen as in the past, but sit next to Yuki Qingchao. .

The knowledge and behavior of the Yuki family is considered rare in the entire Kanto, so the first military meeting after Yuki Chaojia Yuanfu, the position of the Yuki family was very low, the Hideka didn't know if this would affect the child's heart , but this is the process he must go through in his growth.

In addition to Yuki Asaka's Genfu, Hideka performed the Genfu ceremony for his eldest son Hachiro on the same day.His black hat is Ikeda Huizheng, and his full name after Yuanfu is Toyotomi Hachiro Huijia.

Many people present expressed their incomprehension to the Hideo family making Teruma Ikeda their black hat relative. After all, the Ikeda family is only a daimyo in the early 20 shi. more than ten times.

The Toyotomi Teru family is the legitimate son of the Toyoharu family. In the future, they will inherit the land of 300 million stones, and they may even become the lord of the world. Even if they don’t look for big names like Tokugawa and Uesugi to be black hat relatives, they should still find the Hide family. My good brother Xiuzhen is in charge, right?

In fact, this was intentional by the Xiu family. Firstly, the Xiu family did not want Xiuzhen to occupy too high a political status within the Houfengchen system, and secondly, it was to prepare for the layout of the next war.

In the Xiu family's plan from the very beginning, the Xiu family planned to divide the army into three groups and go to Luoluo.The North Route Army has Toyotomi Xiuzhen and Toyotomi politicians, but this is not enough.

As mentioned above, from a general perspective, both of them are the bait for the Xiu family to kill the Uesugi family. The real killer move will be a surprise soldier who has been deeply involved in Echigo.And the general of this surprise army will be the Xiu family's son Hui Jia.

In order to allow his son, who has never been in battle, to win an impressive record, Hideka has already planned to let Fujido Takatora and Ikeda Teruma be assistant generals.

Takatora Fujido understands it very well. He is a general with both civil and military skills. His performance in the Eizo Conquest and the Odawara Conquest have all been recognized by Hideo. In addition, he has outstanding governance skills and a keen sense of politics. , can make strategic adjustment decisions for Xiujia at critical times.

As for Terumasa Ikeda, it is naturally because he is a Shinano daimyo. No matter whether the Hui family goes out of the Zhongshan Road to Mino, or goes north to Echigo through Shinano, or goes south from Shinano to Kai at a critical time, he is needed as a Shinano daimyo. support.

When Ikeda Teruma was losing power in the Hide family, he had taken the initiative to distance himself from the Hide family. It was not until Hideyoshi's death that the Keicho rebellion subdued both sides, and then he moved closer to the Hide family again.

How to put it, the Xiu family still somewhat distrusted such an ally.After all, if Ikeda Teruma can transfer to Hideiya once, there will be a possibility of cutting the seat a second time.

But the geographical location of the Ikeda family is indeed too important. When the Hokuriku and Tokai props are enemies, the Ikeda family must become an unswerving ally of the Toyoharu family, whether it is to break the formation or prevent the Nakasendo from being breached.

And making Ikeda Teruma the rightful son and heir of the Hideo family is undoubtedly the best way for the Hidea family to completely tie the Ikeda family to their chariot.

This is not the black hat kiss of any bastard, but the black hat kiss of Hachiro, the first son of the Fengchun family!

At the same time, only in this way can the Xiu family safely hand over their son-in-law to Teruma Ikeda safely, and let him help break the formation together.

This Nakasendo Legion will be led by Toyotomi Teru's family, and Fujido Takatora will lead the 1.5 members of Toyoharu's family to accompany him, plus Ikeda, Yuki, Utsunomiya, Nanbu and other daimyos will go out of Nakasendo together.

In order to keep it secret, when Xiujia mentioned them at the military meeting, he only said that they were responsible for encircling and suppressing the Sanada family in Ueno, and then went straight out of Zhongshan Road to Mino.

Hideka did not disclose the plan of Kitakami Echigo to pinch Uesugi to the public, but wrote it in a kit and handed it to Todo Takatora, and asked him to open it after entering Shinano, and act according to the requirements of the kit.

They would not even participate in the raid on the Sanada family. The Hide family had sent Nobushige Sanada to contact them many times before, but Nobuyuki Sanada might have been influenced by her wife Inaki, and he neither expressed his support nor his opposition.

Minowon Castle of the Sanada family is located in the confidant of Shinano. Although it will not completely threaten the rear of the Zhongsendo Corps, if they really want to make trouble in the back, the food road of the Zhongsendo Corps may really be affected.

So this nail must also be pulled out.

It's just that it's not those daimyos who are responsible for the crusade against the Sanada family, but the 7500 legion led by Tachihara Hisakuna.Regardless of the small number of people, it is more than enough to surround and strangle the Sanada family with only 10 shi.

Even the Hideo family didn't intend to dispose of the Sanada family before the decisive battle was over. When the frontal battlefield was decided, even if they didn't surrender, they had no choice.

So far, the formation of the three-way army has been completed.

The head of the North Army regiment will be Hidesada Toyotomi, vice-command Yasuke Toyotomi, attached to Masamune Date, Yoshimitsu Mogami, Miki Ando, ​​Yoshihiro Osakizaki, Katsunari Mizuno and other daimyos, with a total strength of more than 3 troops.They will launch an offensive against Echigo from the north in two routes, cooperate with the central army to take Kasugayama Castle, and then go out of Etsuchu, join forces with Asano, Sakuma and other daimyos into Yamashiro, Omi to threaten Osaka.

The generals of the Central Army will be Toyotomi Teruma, Todo Takatora, Ikeda Teruma, Yuuki Haruma, Yuki Asaka, Nanbu Yinxin, Soma Yoshin and Iwaki Ritaka.

There are many other daimyo's armies attached to this legion. Toyoharu's team led by Todo Takatora has 1.8 people.

其中战斗部队为1个常备番队（琦玉备），4个守备番队6000人和6个预备番队，其中2个为关东番队，3个为虾夷番队。

In addition, the Xiu family also gave them a battalion of artillery. Since they were walking on the Zhongshan Road, all they carried were 6-pound small gold cannons. There were 12 in total. The total number of soldiers is about 800.

Because the Xiu family's son-in-law was in command, in order to increase his honor guard, the Xiu family selected 3 squadrons of 92 people from the attendant team, and 3 brigades from the Banner Congregation with a total of about 400 people to accompany him.

There are about 2 other daimyo troops in Calais, with a total force of more than 4.This is already the limit of the troops that Nakasendo can bear. Of course, before the suppression of Minowa Castle of the Sanada family, the 7500 people led by Tachihara Kuzuna were also included in the Nakasendo Army Corps, making the total number of the Nakasendo Army Corps close to 5 people.

The real main force is on Hideya's side, including 5.2 Kanto soldiers, 1.3 Ezo soldiers, 1.2 led by Satake Yoshishige, 4500 led by Nakagawa Hidemasa, and 5600 led by Kamo Hideyuki. Maori Xiuyuan led 1600 people.

In addition, there are 2200 members of Takeda Hidenobu’s department, 3800 members of the Ashikaga family’s department, and 1300 members of the Ukita’s family’s department who have not yet participated in the military council, plus Tagaya Sanjing, Oda Ujiji, and Utsunomiya. With the participation of small daimyos such as Hidetsuna and Hidetsuna Sano, the total strength of the South Route Army was nearly 10.

The total of the three ways is 20!real number!

It is said to be 50!
In order to deal with this decisive battle, the Xiu family spared the last strong men in Kanto, and even the strong women were organized into military training, and distributed weapons to guard the city when necessary.

The entire Kanto has nearly 2 standing, banner, and artillery teams of various types, 2.8 garrison corps, and more than 5.8 reserve teams.

Do you feel that the number of people is not right? There is still a difference of about 2 people. These people have already been mobilized, or stationed at Stable Bridge, Fengchun, or Utsunomiya and Mito to deter Xiaoxiao.Or assist in stationing Iwashiro-Koriyama, Aizuwakamatsu, Iwashiro Fukushima and other cities.

Many people in history paid attention to the results of the half-day battle of Sekigahara, but they didn't know the various layouts that Tokugawa Ieyasu had to make in order to win.

Among them, he ordered the ninjas under his command to go to Kinki to infiltrate and destroy, hoping that when the war enters the tug-of-war, when the war enters the tug-of-war, it can destabilize the rear.

As a time traveler, Xiujia knew these secrets, so he was naturally afraid of the Iga people under Tokugawa's command.Although there are already two intelligence agencies guarding the Xiu family from inside and outside, it is still necessary to leave some troops behind.

Hideyuki Gamo was specially brought with him by the Xiu family. After thinking about it, Xiu Jia felt that the Gamo family would not be at ease whether they stayed in the territory or handed over to the other two legions, so they decided to bring him into the formation together.

Of course, in order to prevent Hideaki Kobayakawa from backstabbing the Western Army in history, Hideka decided to keep Hideyuki Gamo by his side at all times, and at the same time put his own legions on his left and right wings as guards.

Now the entire Kanto has become a large military camp. The camp is connected from Sagami country to Ueno, and there are military camps under each city.

The banner of the Xiu family's crusade against the outside world had already been raised in Fukushima Castle, and the goal of crusade against the treacherous imperial court had been made clear.

Although it has not been clearly announced who the traitor is referring to, Osaka knows to some extent who the Xiu family is going to beat.

The Baocha faction headed by Ono Changji was the most vocal, and directly clamored to expel the Hide family from the Toyotomi family's Miao descendants, accusing them of rebellion and the enemy of the court, and the whole world will punish them!
In order to deal with the Hideo's attack, even Ishida Mitsu, who was supervising the battle in the backup, rushed back.On the way back, he did a very outrageous thing, that is, he tried to snatch the defense of Okayama Castle.

But now the entire Okayama Castle has been replaced by Xiu's family, even Masako, who has retired, has moved to Okayama.

Before Okayama Castle changed its flag, we welcome you Ishida Mitsunari to enter the city on behalf of Osaka, but you want to bring troops into the city, sorry, Okayama can only refuse.

Ishida Mitsunari didn't think about taking Okayama before, but he agreed with Tokugawa Ieyasu's suggestion, that is, there are too many enemies now, so don't overly stimulate Hideka before dealing with the "rebels" such as Mori and Asano.

Moreover, Okayama also welcomed Osaka's conquest of Maori. Although it rejected the request to send troops to support Ishida Mitsunari just like refusing to help Hideji against Uesugi, the military rations and military supplies that should be given were all given.

For Ishida Mitsunari, as long as he has a relatively stable retreat when he is crusading against Maori, he will be fine.

But who would have thought that the Hide family would raise troops directly in Mutsu, so the position of the Okayama family would be very embarrassing.

Who doesn't know that the current Jialao Huafang Masanari was born in the Hideka family, Miura Hidemori is the half-brother of the Hideka family, and this Okayama domain has completely changed its surname to "Toyoharu" after that reshuffle.

But as he had done in the past, the plan was beautiful, but the behavior turned out to be embarrassing.After being refused to enter the city again, he tried to use the Toyotomi Ninja Army to create chaos, and then entered the city in the name of assisting defense.

But the current Okayama Castle is not the Hiragi Castle built on the west bank of Asahikawa, opposite Okayama in history, but a mountain castle built on the mountain of Okayama!
Even if the ninja army created chaos in the city, it would be very difficult for Toyotomi Banner at the foot of the mountain to directly enter the city.

Ishida Mitsunari did take the opportunity to enter the main structure under the Okayama Castle, and even entered the outermost outer Maru.But when he wanted to climb up the mountain again, he was blocked by the Sannomaru defenders who were completely blocked.

"Ishida Osamu led troops into the city, do you have my lord's warrant?" Guarding Sannomaru is Misaku's young general Hidekan Shinmen, who is the leader of the 2nd team of the Okayama Domain Gohonban, and has 320 warriors under his command. The tool is a beautiful samurai.

His grandfather is Xinmen Zongguan who was the first captain of the Meizuo preparations from the Xiu family, and his father is Xinmen Zhengguan, who is now the lord of Meizuo Samsung City and owns 1.35 shi. The new Fengchun school with strong roots.

Of course, Ishida Mitsunari did not have a warrant. He and Toyotomi Hidehisa were not familiar with each other at all, so he could only reply: "There is no warrant, but I saw the disturbance in the city and worried about His Highness Guanbai's heir, so I sent someone into the city to protect him."

Xinmen Hidekan naturally knew that Ishida Mitsunari was here to attack, but the superficial politeness was still sufficient: "Since there is no warrant, please leave the city, and Xiaoxiao in the city has its own samurai to take care of it!"

Seeing that there is no hope of stealing the city, Ishida Sancheng plans to storm Okayama Castle.He directly tried to command Toyotomi Banner into the city in the name of "thieves in Okayama City are making trouble, protecting the ancestor's heir (Hidehisa)".

Ishida Mikato was thinking about taking advantage of the Okayama clan's lack of response and the lack of time to mobilize the skill of Hashimoto Ashgaru in the castle town, and using Toyotomi Hamoto's military advantage to steal the city,

But I didn't expect to be repelled by the 6 small gold cannons erected at the top of the Okayama feudal city.Although there is no flowering ammunition in this era, the pressure of solid shells on Ishida Mitsunari is still huge.

In addition, those who defended Sannomaru by Shinmen Hideki were all from the children of samurai, which is not comparable to the ordinary Banana Ashigaru.Everyone can handle a heavy rattan bow with more than 8 stones. Even without the help of iron cannons, the armor-piercing arrows shot by these heavy rattan bows still call and take away the samurai of Toyotomi Banner one by one like a god of death.

Ishida Mitsunari did not discuss this operation with other banner generals before, and he brought soldiers from his own team, plus soldiers mobilized by his own ability.

But what happened in Okayama Castle was so lively. When Kato Koyasu and others realized something was wrong and rushed over, they were all stunned by Ishida Mitsunari's operation.

Kato Koyasu immediately scolded and stopped him, "Jibu, what are you doing!"

He obviously didn't accept Ishida Mitsunari's reasons, but due to his status as the general, he could only say bitterly: "Go back to Osaka and sue him." Then he took his own team to watch.

Of course, the generals who were all deceived by Ishida Mitsunari's "lie" such as Shinjo Naorai and others.In other words, they accepted the real reason behind the lie and joined the siege.

Of course there are big names who didn't participate
However, it is a pity that the construction expenditure of the very Hideo family in Okayama pays attention to defense, so that more than 2 Banners have failed to break through the defense of Sannomaru for 3 consecutive days. You must know that there are only 2 dissatisfied members in Okayama City at this moment. Even if the number of maids, servants, and foot wives are included in the Gobenban, there are no more than 3500 people.

By the third day, Hanabou Masayuki, who lived in seclusion in his hometown, had already brought a total of 1.2 troops mobilized by Bizen and Misaku to the Handa Mountain Castle on the north side.

Now that this situation has come, either launch a decisive battle in Okayama first and strangle the Okayama Fan, or they can only retreat angrily, watching the Okayama and Maori families unite.

Of course, Ishida Mitsunari is not without gains. Toyama Castle on the west side of Okayama has been used as a material reserve since the Hideka era. In this matter, there are only 500 gohon fans in the castle. Ishida Mitsunari will get more than enough military supplies to equip them. An army of ten thousand people.

Ishida Mitsunari was unwilling to retreat, but he received most of the letters asking him to save Shangluo, whose vitality was lower than that of the Xiu family, so he could only temporarily give up the siege of Okayama Castle, and retreated to Harima with a large army.

(End of this chapter)