Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 825 Ieyasu's Troubles

It can be said that since Hideo entered the thick tail, the war situation that concerns the world has entered the second stage, and it has officially reached the climax.

If it was still a local war before then, with the arrival of Tokugawa Ieyasu with the Saikuni Daimyo, the East-West War has officially reached the most critical moment of decisive battle.

Tokugawa Ieyasu took 4000 banners with him when he went to Luo. These people followed him from Enjiang to Okayama, and returned to Osaka after surrendering Mori.

Tokugawa Ieyasu originally planned to put Mori Hideo in Okayama and they would be in charge of the strategy of Okayama, but the situation in the East Country was so corrupt that he had to send people to send 2.5 people under Mori Terumoto and Maeda Toshiie More than 5 daimyo from Kyushu, led by them, brought them to Osaka together.

Maeda Toshinaga sent the most troops, with 50 Shangluo out of 1.8 shi. After all, he was the main force against Mori Terumoto before, so naturally he must do his best to mobilize.

Previously accompanying the crusade against Maori also included Ryuzoji politicians, Naoshima Naoshige, Shimadzu Yoshihiro, Tachibana Munemo, Kato Kiyomasa, Harada Tomasu, Otomo Yoshitomo, Kuroda Nagamasa and other daimyo, of which Shimadzu Yoshihiro sent 8000 troops, Kato Kiyomasa mobilized 7200 people, Tachibana Muneshige and Harada Tosou a total of 6000 people, Nabeshima Naoshige 3000 people, Ryuzoji politicians 3600 people, Otomo Yoshitomo and other daimyo each brought more than a thousand troops, totaling 8000 people people.

Facing the crusade against the Hide family, several people here were reluctant, such as Yoshihiro Shimadzu, Naoshige Nabeshima, Muneshige Tachibana, and others. Even Kiyomasa Kato had some objections to this.

In the final analysis, they suffered from the previous crusade against Maori.They were ordered to recruit soldiers to crusade against Maori. As a result, half of the maori became allies, and Youfu became a new enemy.

Being in the enemy's military camp, they felt compelled to do so, even if their hearts were toward the Xiu family, how could they retreat just by saying retreat?

As for Kato Kiyomasa, he is absolutely loyal to the Toyotomi family.He did not participate in Toyotomi Hideji's crusade against Uesugi, which he strongly disagreed with.

But he participated in the crusade against Maori, because it was Akimyo from Osaka.

Similarly, he also participated in the crusade against the Xiu family. Although he has a good relationship with the Xiu family, Osaka has clearly pointed out the Xiu family as a traitor.

Although he was very shameless for Toyotomi Hidekatsu's act of killing his brother and family, his loyalty to Toyotomi's family drove him to participate in this war that affected Japan.

As for the other little daimyos, they came here with the aim that everyone participated and I also wanted to fish in troubled waters to earn knowledge.

And the daimyos like Fukushima Masanori and Kuroda Nagamasa who followed Toyotomi Hideji to crusade against Uesugi had already led their headquarters to fall under Tokugawa Ieyasu's knees, and they led 2800 and 1100 people respectively.

On Toyotomi's side, there are 1.2 San'in Three Kingdoms daimyos, 4200 Tango Hosokawa clans, and 2.3 Tanba and Harima daimyos.

On the Shikoku side, Tosa Nagamune's followers mobilized 1500 people to Shangluo, plus the Toyotomi daimyos from Iyo, Tosa, Sanuki, Awaji and other places that were mobilized by Tokugawa Ieyasu long ago to encircle Okayama Castle , The total strength of the Shikoku daimyo is 8700.

The reason there are only so few is because the northern part of Iyo is owned by the Hide family, and Awa is ruled by Hachisuka's housekeeping. Both of these areas have clearly stated their refusal to obey Osaka's arrangement.

As for Kinki, Osaka conducted a second mobilization for the Tibetan areas of Omi, Yamato, Ise, Iga, Yamashiro, Settsu, Hanoi, Kii, and Izumi.

The Kinokuni daimyo Kobayakawa Hideaki was taken by Tokugawa Ieyasu to attack Okayama before, and this time he was asked to search for another round of soldiers in Wakayama. However, 15 people were mobilized from the 5500 koku territory, almost That's 360 people per ten thousand shi.

In fact, during the previous crusade against Uesugi, in addition to the Hokuriku daimyo, the main forces brought by Toyotomi Hideji were Omi Toyotomi daimyo and Hiroji conscription.

Many people here have fought with Toyotomi Hideji for more than a year, but in the end they did not make any achievements, and in the end they kept the label of a criminal minister to see the aftermath.

Although Hideji was defeated early and their lives were spared, they were taken to Okayama by Tokugawa Ieyasu before they had time to rest, or to besiege Otsu and Fushimi Castle.Then because the Eastern Kingdom fell too quickly, he was pulled to the thick tail again.

They are actually very tired, and they naturally know about these Tokugawa Ieyasu, but now that the country is in crisis, Tokugawa Ieyasu has nothing to do.

Looking at the roster of daimyo in his hand, excluding Echizen, Wakasa, and Kita Omi who were led by Toyotomi Hidekatsu to attack Kanazawa, Tokugawa Ieyasu now has all the troops he can mobilize, with a total strength of more than 18 people.

However, after removing the 1 people in Mori Terumoto's headquarters who guarded Okayama, and the 2 people who ensured the safety of Osaka and surrounded Fushimi, only 15 people he could actually bring to Noo.

This person is not enough to give him the confidence to defeat this hot man.Even after counting the 5-odd and 6 people from Nobuo, he still felt a little inadequate.

Not to mention that several of them had rumors that they had a close relationship with Fengchun's family.

"Is the Tsutsui family still unwilling to make a statement?" Tokugawa Ieyasu rubbed his temples with some annoyance, and asked Masuda Nagamori beside him.

"I sent people to Yagi Castle again. His Highness Tsutsui said that he had sent troops to support the government to attack the Youfu. But I have verified that it was only 400 people from Fukuzumi Castle. His Tsutsui family had 27 shi Leader, no matter what, we must mobilize 1 people."

Tokugawa Ieyasu frowned, obviously dissatisfied with the result.

Hideaki Kobayakawa, who is also a daimyo in Kinki, had already mobilized his army at his own request, but he, Tsutsui Sadaji, remained silent.

If his Tsutsui family can join him, he will have 16 troops to call.On the other hand, if he was still so ambiguous, he still needed to keep the troops corresponding to him as a defense, and the troops he brought to Meinong would be even less.

At this moment, the news of Ishida Mitsunari's rash attack has not yet been sent back to Osaka. In Tokugawa Ieyasu's final plan, if he can bring 22 people against Hideka's 12 people, the chances of winning this battle will be much greater.

In the final analysis, the daimyos are just a group of guys who follow the wind and see the rudder. Seeing such a strong force on their side, even those who have a good relationship with the Xiu family in the past, they will not take the lead to express their dissatisfaction.

"In any case, the Tsutsui family must win over." Tokugawa Ieyasu seemed to have made up his mind and said: "Promise him that after the war, he will reward him with Yamato One Kingdom."

Masuda Nagamori thought that his ears had misheard, and confirmed to Tokugawa Ieyasu again and again: "Is Yamato a country? Then Kinki Kami has 46 stone collars? Besides, didn't you promise Kobayakawa to serve Yamato?"

Yes.

If it is said that with the surrender of the Maori family before, the morale of the Western Army was high, and the daimyo participated enthusiastically.

Now, with the news of the fall of Tōkaidō, some daimyos have retreated.Say a thousand words and ten thousand, but the opposite is a hot man!

Therefore, in Osaka in the past few days, Tokugawa Ieyasu used Chacha as a backer, and the most he did was to write bad checks.This check has been drawn too much, so it is inevitable that there will be repetitions.

These things can't be solved now, as long as the Xiu family can be brought down, no matter how bad it is, the territory of Eizo can be used as a reward.

Tokugawa Ieyasu has been bored enough these days, his son is still in the hands of You Fu, he really doesn't want to worry about writing checks anymore "Promise to go out first, the rewards thrown out these days Is there still less promise?"

At this moment, he has reached the edge of the cliff, and the Hide family's previous attitude made it clear that they wanted to kill your Tokugawa family and be buried with the Toyotomi regime.

This is why he only brought 4000 banners to Shangluo, but left more than 4 troops behind.

He originally thought that with his sons Hidetada and Sakakibara Yasomasa as the hosts, and with so many fortified castles standing firm, he would be able to delay until he could deal with the enemies in the west, and then with the power of a great victory, he would advance eastward to wipe out the rebellion with the power of the Western Kingdom daimyo.

In the end, his son really gave him a big gift. In just over two months, all the three kingdoms of Tokaido had been lost.Adding the three kingdoms of Jia, Dou, and Xin, my hometown has been lost!
But it was precisely because of this that Chacha seemed to trust herself even more, and entrusted herself with the full authority to crusade against the Xiu family.

But the current Toyotomi's house is a broken ship, leaking everywhere.Even the daimyos who gathered in Osaka at this moment had conflicts with each other before. In the past few days, I have been thinking about reconciling conflicts and arranging military formations.

To be honest, Tokugawa Ieyasu was not willing to fight Hideka.After all, Tokugawa Ieyasu is not as good as Hideka in terms of tactics, and he is better at political strategies outside the battlefield.

After Masuda Changsheng left, he asked his ninja Hattori Hanzo, "What happened to the Tohoku incident?"

Hattori Hanzo replied: "I have already sent people to contact Mr. Honda in Koriyama and the attendants of Satake in Aizu, and have conveyed my lord's intentions to them. They will cooperate with Mr. Nakamura to stay in Yonezawa. Take action to disrupt the retreat of the Western Army. The latest news is that Mr. Hikomataemon (Nakamura Kazuei) who stayed behind by Nakamura-sama has launched an attack on the Mogami family."

This is also the aspect Tokugawa Ieyasu is most familiar with. Long before he went west to Okayama, he had already started to arrange and send people to contact the Tohoku daimyo, and anyone who wanted to vote for the Western Army would offer a lot of rewards.

For example, Nakamura Ieyasu himself had an easier time in Osaka. He asked him to inform the retainers in his territory and let them wait until the Hide family left to start things in the Northeast. After the incident was completed, Tokugawa Ieyasu promised to give him the land of Sendai.

As for Satake Yoshinobu, he contacted through Ishida Mitsunari after he had a conflict with the Hide family. At that time, Satake Yoshinaka had already left the mountain again, seized his son's authority, and followed the Hide family to Luo with the Satake family's military power.

Yoshinobu Satake was already at odds with the Hide family, and with Ishida Mitsunari and Tokugawa Ieyasu promising him the ability to return to Ibaraki, Kanto, and to receive a reward from Hitachi Ichikuni, he was naturally willing to join it.

As for the Honda Lord he mentioned in the end, he refers to the Honda multiple times under Toyotomi Hideyoshi's command.

与历史上在文禄5年7月16日（1596年8月9日）死于蛰居中不同的是，出生自享禄2年（1529年）他如今已经是一个76岁的老人了。

As early as when he was 65 years old, he gave up the position of family governor to his son Honda Chengshige, and he lived in seclusion in Sukagawa Castle, where Honda was entrusted.

In this East-West war, Honda Cheng joined Feng Chen Xiuzhen to go to Luo. He was left in Koriyama because of his old age, and managed the country's political affairs as a family elder.

It has been 20 years since the father and son were handed over to Toyotomi Xiuzhen, and there has been no mistake in these years.Although there are some frictions among the Tokugawa faction, Shinano faction, and Xincan faction in the Koriyama feudal system, they have always lived in peace.

Also in this situation, a reclusive old man did not attract too many people's attention.

However, he originally came from the Tokugawa family many times after all, and he has been the head of the family for many years, and has a lot of prestige in the Koriyama family.

Since the patriarch is not in the territory, the retainers of the Shinano faction and the Xincan faction mostly follow the opportunity of the patriarch to go to Luo to make contributions, so don't underestimate the political influence of this member of the old family.

It may not be expected to really do something big, but it is still possible to mess up the interior of the Koriyama family, and even lead a group of people to join forces with Satake Yoshinobu, Nakamura Kazuei and others to make troubles in the Northeast.

In order to let this old minister do it, Tokugawa Ieyasu promised the security of 8 shi in Iwaki and Pingcheng!This is not a small reward for a vassal.

Tokugawa Ieyasu listened, nodded, shook his head again and said, "It's not enough, it's not enough, it's going to turn upside down the Northeast, let there be a rift between Satake and Youfu, let Mogami, Date and that kid (Toyotomi Xiuzhen) had to go back to defend the territory. As long as these wings of the Youfu are broken, our chances of winning will be much greater."

"Yes, this subordinate will go and arrange it." Hattori Hanzo retreated into the shadows following Tokugawa Ieyasu's order.

Tokugawa Ieyasu looked up to the sky and sighed after the people left, "Sado, Sado (Honta Masanobu), since you left, I am really tired."

Tokugawa Ieyasu really broke his heart for the Toyotomi family.At least now, he really looks like a veteran minister who is exhausted, just like Liu Beituo's lonely Zhuge Liang.

How could the world know the pain in his heart, he wanted to change jobs to the other side, but the other side didn't want it.All of this was forced by the right mansion on the opposite side.

Moreover, his real purpose is to step on the corpse of Youfu to become the new No. [-] daimyo in the world, and use his authority to unify the world's daimyos and win battles, become a powerful minister with power over the world, and further evacuate the Toyotomi family.

Before all this has been realized, he can only pretend to be a loyal minister, thinking hard day and night.

But there are some things that will not come to fruition without his exhaustion.

Just as he was about to set off with the 15 people who had been rectified, he was called back to the city by Chacha.

After all, what Tokugawa Ieyasu is holding now is the foundation of the Toyotomi family, and Chacha is not at ease if so many people hand it over to him.

Although she knew very well in her heart that Maeda Toshiie was already lying down in old age, and he was about to cross the gate of hell with half a foot. Among the veterans left by Hideyoshi, only Tokugawa Ieyasu could rely on him, but he was still worried.

Firstly, he was afraid that so many people would be buried in the hands of the Xiu family by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and secondly, he was afraid that Tokugawa Ieyasu would control so many people and become the second right mansion.

Under the bewitching of the close ministers around him, he finally decided to bring Tokugawa Ieyasu and several important names back to the city. She wanted to directly intervene in the arrangement of the army formation and share Tokugawa Ieyasu's rights to prevent accidents.

(End of this chapter)