Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 783 Chacha blockaded and suppressed Kinki, Beizheng Office failed to escape with people

Ieyasu Tokugawa has actually been trying to contact the Hideo family. After learning that Hidekashi killed Hideji's family, and Chacha dispatched Ono Nagaji to capture the generals of the Western Army outrageously, Ieyasu Tokugawa already had the idea of ​​jumping ship.

At first, he sent his attendant Abe Nobumori to try to contact him when he was in the alliance with Hideka, it was Ii Tadamasa who was sent into Hideka's formation, but it turned out that he was left in Ezo and was not brought back to Honshu.

Abe Nobumori had no choice but to find Toyotomi Xiuzhen who was still mobilizing in Koriyama at that time, and asked him to help mediate and contact Xiujia.

From Abe Nobumori's point of view, although Toyotomi Hidetada bears Toyotomi's surname, in the final analysis, the blood of the Tokugawa family is always in the blood. Is it impossible not to help with this?
But the reality slapped him in the face like this. Toyotomi Xiuzhen did accept his letter, but asked him to go back and tell Tokugawa Ieyasu that he would prove himself on the battlefield.

Xiuzhen later forwarded this letter to Hideo, in which Tokugawa Ieyasu talked about the past relationship between himself and Hideo, from the Nobunaga era to the Hideyoshi era, he was also suspected by Hideyoshi.

In the end, Tokugawa Ieyasu directly stated that as long as the Tokugawa clan's ability is guaranteed, the Tokugawa clan is willing to let Junyuan San let Hideka go to Luo, and promises not to participate in the power struggle between him and Osaka.

Still the same sentence, the Tokugawa family has too much wealth, the risk is too great, and his promise is not enough to win the trust of the Hideka.

Tokugawa Ieyasu naturally knew this. After receiving the report from Abe Nobumori, he realized that even he had become the target of Xiujia.

However, unlike Toyotomi Hidekatsu clamoring to expel the Hide family from the Toyotomi genealogy and list it as an enemy to be defeated by the court, Tokugawa Ieyasu chose to write another personal letter, which was brought by the Hide family's son-in-law Matsudaira Tadaki personally. The letter came to Xiujia and handed the letter to Xiujia.

Looking at the "son-in-law-to-be" who came to Hide's family under the protection of Matsudaira Kiyoshi, who was crying, Hide's family knew very well that this was Tokugawa Ieyasu trying to trick him.

I asked Matsudaira Tadaki to deliver a letter to him. Including Toyotomi Hidetada, who had always had a good relationship with the Hide family, and Ii Tadomasa who stayed in Ezo, Tokugawa Ieyasu had three sons sent to the Hide family.

The Hideo family can imagine that the current Tokugawa Ieyasu must be making a big fuss about this matter, showing the world how humble his Tokugawa family is, and sending three sons to His Highness Toyoharu one after another. hit me?

Or how to say it is an old turtle, the political rank is high, and he directly plays Yangmou with the Xiu family.

Since you Tokugawa Ieyasu want to talk about politics with my Hideka, I will have a good talk with you about politics.

Hideka said in front of Teruchu Matsudaira that he did not want to go to war with the Tokugawa family, but the deaths of adults such as Gifu and Sakuma were too appalling, and someone had to pay for it.

Xiujia also said that just as he and the daimyo under his command did not want to overthrow the Toyotomi family, he has always been the most loyal retainer of the Toyotomi family, but what happened recently did affect the emotions of the daimyo, and they feared that they would become the next generation. One Sakuma and Hori Hideji.

Hideka finally said that he was honored to receive the letter from Tokugawa Ieyasu, and hoped that Tokugawa Ieyasu, as the old writer of the family, could handle these matters well, including but not limited to putting the rebellious minister Toyotomi Hidekatsu and Ohno Nagaji in prison for trial and so on.

Although Tokugawa Ieyasu is known as the old writer of the family, if he has the ability to imprison Toyotomi Hidekatsu and Ohno Nagaji in Osaka Castle, there is no need for him to jump ship.

The current parallel universe is different from the history. In history, Tokugawa Ieyasu was the most famous person in the world, and he had already made preparations for Hideyoshi's death.

In the year and a half after Hideyoshi's death, he tried every means to contact the famous names in the world, and even the Seven Hands Group in Osaka Castle had an affair with the Tokugawa family.

But in this world now, Tokugawa Ieyasu is not the most dazzling existence. Even if everyone makes a bid, they still give it to the leader.
He originally had the opportunity to take advantage of the power vacuum after Xiuci left to take in the forces of the Nobi faction, but all of this was messed up by the riots in Hachiman Castle by Nagaji Ohno.

Xiujia did not respond to a suggestion that it remain neutral in exchange for the right of way.Hideo even read out the letter that Tokugawa Ieyasu sent to him in front of the daimyos, to show that even Tokugawa Ieyasu was afraid of his own front, and to boost morale.

On the other side, when Tokugawa Ieyasu received the second reply, he knew that Xiujia was not going to let him go at this time, so he naturally had to prepare for the worst.

The first thing is to meet Chacha and get the position of general from her.

To be honest, whether it is Toyotomi Hidekatsu or Ishida Mitsunari, Tokugawa Ieyasu can't believe in their abilities. If he wants to solve Hideka's "50" army, Tokugawa Ieyasu believes that he must do it himself.

Chacha was obviously also frightened by Hideo's "50" army, and agreed to Tokugawa Ieyasu's suggestion without saying a word, and designated Ishida Mitsunari and Ohno Nagaji as lieutenants, and took back Ishida Mitsunari who was behind him.

But obviously, Ishida Mitsunari's operation in Okayama Castle was beyond Tokugawa Ieyasu's expectations, but this matter is reasonable in Chacha's view.

Not only the nails of the Okayama domain must be pulled out, but even the Tsutsui family of the Yamato country, the Kobayakawa family of the Ki country, the Hachisuka family of the Awa country, and the Hosokawa family of the Tango country should also be pulled out at the beginning of the war.

Hachisuka's house is going to be pulled out, because you thought that the information from the north said that Hachisuka's housekeeping led 3000 Toyotomi banners directly to the Hideya side, and they would go to Luo with Hideka, which made Awa's Hachisuka The He family was directly labeled rebellious by Osaka.

Needless to say, Yamato's Tsutsui family has such a close relationship with the Hide family, and his position is so important. Even though he only owns Nan Yamato's territory, Osaka is still worried.

But here Kobayakawa Hideaki and Hosokawa Tadake are two special existences.

The Hosokawa family owns Tango and Tamba's combined territory of 21 koku. Hosokawa Tadakeshi proved his "loyalty" during the previous riots in Hachimanyama Castle.

And Kobayakawa Hideaki is because he is a blood relative of the Toyotomi family. Although he bears the name of Kobayakawa, one of the two Maori rivers, in the current conquest of the Maori family, as a Kinki daimyo, he has responded to the call of Osaka. Assigned to Mitsunari Ishida, who used Kobayakawa's influence in Bingo to infiltrate the Mori family.

In other words, Kobayakawa Hideaki and Hosokawa Tadakashi used their performances to "prove" to Osaka that they were not members of the Toyoharu faction.

Therefore, in order to demonstrate their political value and prove their absolute loyalty to the Toyotomi family, Chacha took back Ishida Mitsunari, joined forces with Kita Hosokawa and Minami Kobayakawa to encircle the Tsutsui family in Yamato, and vowed to pull out this nail.

As if to prove his loyal minister, Hosokawa Tadake even sent his wife and his son Zhonglong's wife (Hideka's younger sister) to Osaka as hostages.

Of course, Chacha and Osaka did not forget the Hide family's four counties in Yamashiro and a family foundation in two counties of Omi. These two people can still gather more than 6000 troops, which is a small force in Kinki.

The reason why the Xiu family delayed going south for a while after getting the news that the spring started was to make time for themselves to operate various places, including the fall of the mountain city.

Long before Hideka's Fukushima military meeting held high the banner of "Fengtian Jingnan", Hideka had already sent a letter to Okakari in Yamashiro, asking him to lead people to control the two cities of Yodojo and Fushimi, and to find a way Send the emperor and ministers to Yamato, and then board a ship from Iga and Ise to Kanto.

Xiujia intends to learn from Ashikaga Yoshimitsu back then and control the emperor's orthodoxy in his own hands.As for the raid on Diancheng, it was naturally to rescue Ning Ning who appeared in confinement in the city, as well as Kinoshita Kasada and others.

However, there must be at least thousands of entourages and guards of honor for the emperor and Luo Zhonggong, and it is impossible for Okagatoshi to keep secrets.

The current situation is too special, and Osaka naturally also stared at the emperor's side, and Okano Toshiuchi came out of Ningning with the cooperation of the ninja.

However, the enemy-occupied areas of Yamashiro and Yamato are really difficult to cross, so he can only take Ning Ning through the secret road of the Xiu family, and together with a family foundation, from Wakasa Matsu to Etaka Asano Nagamasa Office.

In fact, Hideka's original arrangement was to send the Emperor and Beizhengsuo from Tango to Etchu, but Hosokawa Tadakashi's defection made Hideka's road helplessly collapse.

This also became the main reason why the Xiu family severely punished the Hosokawa family afterwards.One must know that Tadataka Hosokawa is the brother-in-law of the Hide family, even if there was such a relationship, the Hosokawa family was still severely punished after the war.

Okagari did his best to coordinate, and he even wanted to send the emperor and the minister back this way.

But first of all, his words were not as important as the Xiu family, and the emperor was unwilling to abandon his guard of honor and escape from Kyoto like a bereaved dog.

Secondly, it is really difficult to transfer so many people. In the end, Okakari could only send away Ning Ning, Yi Yi Jia Ji, and Konoe Qianjiu, Yi Yi Nei Ji, and Sanjo Kohiro, etc. who were close to the Xiu family. .

For the sake of safety, Shimizu Shin also suggested that Okagari divide the teams on both sides into two routes. Gongqing's family walked across Wakasa Street and entered Wakasa, and Ning Ning and Yi Jiaji walked across Lake Biwa by water, and then crossed Wakasa Street into Wakasa.

From the above arrangements, it can be seen that the two hope that Ningning and Yijiaji can arrive at Wakasa more quickly, and it is best to send them away before they can react.

Ningning and Yiyi Jiaji traveled northward under the escort of loyal retainers and ninjas. At first, everything went smoothly. Ningning also had many people who cared about their image and were willing to wear the coarse clothes of farmers.

But even with a disguise, the unique noble temperament of the two of them really couldn't be disguised.Meeting ordinary people must be a little skeptical, but it was a coincidence that I met Dagu Jiji who led people to Shangluo on the north shore of Pipa Lake.

If others can't recognize Ning Ning, can Otani Jiji still not recognize him?

When the army led by Otani Yoshitsugu passed by this team, he felt unusual.

Although they knelt on both sides of the road like other civilians and waited for Otani's army to pass, the "mother and son" were surrounded by more than a dozen young and strong men, although they were dressed as ronin, drug dealers, and ape opera masters Dressed up, but they faintly guarded the mother and child in the center.

"Stop!" Otani Kichitsu called to stop the army. He was already in the late stage of leprosy, and Otani Kichitsu, who was physically weak, could only sit on a chair carried by 8 people and move forward.

He looked at the mother and son kneeling on the side of the road and ordered: "Raise your head."

But there was no response to his order, and he only saw a few ronin kneeling by the side of the road, exchanging glances there.

"Why, do you ronin and pharmacist know each other?"

"My lord, we don't know each other." The leading ronin replied.

"Then what did you see him doing just now?"

"My lord, the little people don't know who you are telling to look up."

"Since I didn't name names, I naturally ask all of you to raise your heads!"

After Otani Yoshinori's voice fell, the "key suspects" kneeling on the side of the road and the people eating melons on the side of the road slowly raised their heads, only the "mother and son" still lowered their heads.

Seeing this, Dagu Jiji, who was sitting on the top, pointed at them with the military equipment in his hand and asked, "Why don't you raise your heads?"

Hearing the lord's anger, the retainers who were guarding at the side stepped forward to teach the mother and son a lesson, and said cursingly, "Bastard, didn't you bastards hear my lord's words?"

But before he got close, he was blocked by a strong ronin next to the mother and son. The ronin quickly drew his sword, and quickly finished the samurai before the samurai could react.

The sudden death of the samurai caused riots among the people on both sides of the road, as well as the panic of Otani's army. For a while, there were panic shouts and shouts of "there are assassins, escort".

The ronin who had just taken the lead in killing people pulled out the saber from his waist and ordered to the other companions: "Go quickly, I will stay and kill the queen!"

On the other side, Dagu Jiji, who was sitting on top of him, stabilized his figure after a moment of panic and ordered to his subordinates, "Catch them all!"

Following Otani Yoshitsumi's order, both sides meditated on both sides of the road.The main task of Fengchun's team is to escort Ningning and the young master to leave, so after leaving behind, there are still some people who abandon their companions to escort them to evacuate quickly.

Otani Kichitsu naturally saw it clearly when he was condescending, and he immediately added an order, "Hurry up and capture the mother and child!"

Ning Ning has been pampered and pampered for so many years, even if she is no longer wearing Da'ao and brocade clothes, how can you let her run with her legs apart, how can she run better than a professional samurai soldier? captured.

Ningning hugged the young Yijiaji in his arms, and fell down one by one along with the guards beside him indifferently.

This unusual behavior naturally attracted the attention of the leader of Otani's side. He was keenly aware that this pair of "mother and son must not be ordinary people." The person sent it to Otani Jiji.

Ning Ning, who was put in front of Otani Kichitsu, simply stopped pretending, raised her noble head and proudly said to Otani Kichitsu, "Kinosuke, is this how you treat me?"

Dagu Jijichu felt that the voice was a bit familiar, so he took a closer look to see if it was Ning Ning of the Beizheng Institute!He was so frightened that he almost rolled off the board.

Otani Yoshitsugu has not been to Osaka for a long time since his leprosy, and has been recuperating in his own territory.After the Keicho Rebellion, he was moved to Settsu, but when Hideji was in power, he didn't like the name of leprosy, so he was driven back to Tsuruga.

Otani Yoshitsugu didn't know what happened, all he knew was that the world was in a mess again.He himself also received orders from Lai in Osaka to mobilize his troops to follow Ishida Mitsunari to crusade against Maori.

In fact, he was originally attached to Toyotomi Hidekatsu, after all, Tsuruga is the territory of Echizen.But Xiu Sheng didn't like the name of leprosy either, on the contrary, Ishida Mitsunari had a good relationship with him, so he was assigned to Ishida Mitsunari's command.

Who would have thought that when he went to Luo with a large army, he actually caught Ningning and Yiyi Jiaji who were about to flee by Lake Piwa!
(End of this chapter)