Prime Minister Bizen

On January 5, the fifth year of Keicho's reign, Hideie officially launched the offensive against Osaka. After only three days of fighting, Chacha in the city couldn't bear it anymore.

She released Horio Yoshiharu again and asked him to go to peace talks with Hideya outside the city again.

Ishida Mitsunari found it difficult to accept such a result. In his opinion, Hideie had lost his reputation for justice by attacking Osaka, and must have lost people's hearts at this moment.Osaka Castle was built by him himself, and he knew his level of consideration.Since he failed to capture Ninomaru after three consecutive days of fighting, Ishida Mitsunari is confident that he can hold on for more than half a year.

Ishida Mitsunari once again wanted to find Chacha Theory. This time, he no longer adhered to formalities. Instead, he led Shima Kiyoshi and others directly into the Okumoto Maru, pushing away Ohno Nagaharu's obstruction, but couldn't find him. To Chacha.

Finally, I didn't know which maid told me that Chacha had been living in the courtyard of Taoyuan recently.

This made Ishida Mitsunari feel unusual. The lord Shuri was obviously here, so why did the lady go to live in the annex in the garden?
As a result, Ishida Mitsunari happened to see Chacha, who was surrounded by the maids and hid in a hurry because Ishida Mitsunari came to him, and the child who was held in the arms of the maids.

Ishida Mitsunari led the samurai to catch up and was stunned for a moment when he saw this scene.

Before Mitsunari and the samurai could ask questions, Chacha took the first step and said that this was the child of her brother-in-law Kyogoku Takatsuki's family.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that the child was just born less than a month ago, and Chacha's body is covered with traces of pregnancy and childbirth.

Considering that Chacha had been listening to politics behind closed doors for the past six months and never showed up, many people had already become suspicious of the child.

"Madam." Ishida Mitsunari is such a smart person, he has understood everything from clues.

He dedicated his life to the Toyotomi family. Even in the most difficult times, he never abandoned Chacha and Xiuri, and always made suggestions to maintain Xiuri's authority.

But Hideyoshi has been dead for 7 years!What's going on with your child, Chacha?

At this moment, Ishida Mitsunari finally felt cold-hearted. He was working hard to protect the rights of the Toyotomi clan in the front, but Chacha, who was hiding behind, not only refused to help him or put himself in his shoes, but also caused such a scandal.

It was at this time that Ono Nagaharu brought the Toyotomi family's samurai to come to "rescue". Ishida Mitsunari looked at Ohno Nagaharu sadly and asked, "So, repair, you already knew all this, right?"

"Why is this happening? Why is this happening?" He asked Chacha feebly, but these questions were more like questioning himself.

Ishida Mitsunari left in despair after breaking Chacha's scandal. The Toyotomi family's Hatamoto did not dare to stop him at all. Later that day, Ishida Mitsunari left a farewell poem in Osaka Castle and committed suicide in front of Toyokuni Shrine.

As his pick-up partner, Shima Kiyosaki also chose to commit seppuku next to him after making mistakes for Ishida Mitsunari.

The death of a generation of chief ministers together can be regarded as a good story.

It was a pity that Ishida Mitsunari could not live in peace after his death. His head was taken away from Osaka by Horio Yoshiharu, and his head was used to express the sincerity of opening the city to Hideie.

Hideie was surprised by Ishida Mitsunari's death.

Although when the Hide family designated him as a traitor, Ishida Sansei had to die, or even be pushed to the source of the Rokujo River to be executed, but at this moment he felt a little bit of compassion for the man who dedicated his life to the Toyotomi family. .

"Please restrain the bodies of Shojibe and Sakon."

After inspecting the head, Hideie asked someone to take back [-]% of the head, and then said to Horio Yoshiharu who came to surrender, "We are just here to appease the enemy, and have no intention of defeating the superior. Now that we have surrendered, We have already surrendered, so naturally we will withdraw from the siege immediately.

It's just that the world has been in chaos for a long time, and many of the central government officials have been disabled. As the lord, Ruonian Ji, and the one who personally gave the imperial edict to Gaotaiyuan, I need to go to the city to take charge of affairs.After the top five are re-elected, they will naturally return to power. "

Horio Yoshiharu did not resist, but said that this was a natural thing. However, after returning, he said that Chacha allowed the Hide family to enter the city, but only one of the Hide family was allowed to enter the city with a small number of attendants.

"My lord, absolutely not!"

"Zuofu, this trip is dangerous!"

After understanding Chacha's condition, the Hide family had not yet expressed their opinions, but many daimyo in the Hide family shogunate had clearly expressed their opposition.

Some people even pointed at Horio Yoshiharu and said that he was the second traitor after Ishida Mitsunari.

The excitement of the daimyo is understandable. They have been fighting with Xiujia with his head above his waistband for so long, and the cake is about to be divided. If something happens to the leading brother, won't his hard work all the way be in vain?

And Xiujia also knows very well that he can affect the whole body now, and he must not put himself in danger just for the so-called "loyalty".

But he spoke very artistically, and I heard him say to Horio Yoshiharu, "I can only bring my own attendants in, but although Osaka Castle is open, there are still many traitors in the city that have not been eliminated. It requires sergeants to come in and screen at all levels to ensure that the lord In the future, our safety will not be threatened by someone like Ishida Niomi again."

Just when Horio Yoshiharu wanted to raise his hands to refuse, Hideie directly said, "The soldiers he leads are selected by the Ashikaga clan, the Koriyama Toyotomi clan, the Koshu Takeda clan, the Shinshu Yuki clan, and the Soshu Nakagawa clan. Our Toyoharu clan will never participate."

Xiujia's words are full of words, but everyone knows that the above three families are inextricably linked to Xiujia. Doesn't Xiujia letting them control Osaka mean that Xiujia controls Osaka?

After Hideie finished speaking, he didn't even give Horio Yoshiharu a chance to think. He turned directly to Toyotomi Hidesada and said, "Koriyama, Osaka will be handed over to you when the time comes. You will be the leader of Osaka, maintain public security, review and arrest traitors. is that OK?"

Toyotomi Hidesada didn't hesitate at all and directly agreed to Hideya's appointment. "There is absolutely no problem. Please feel free to enter the city, brother."

Xiujia's mission for Xiujia in Osaka is to maintain public security and arrest traitors, but Xiuzhen's response to Xiujia is to ensure that Xiujia can enter the city with peace of mind.

It sounds like the answer is wrong, but it is the most important attitude at the moment.

Before Horio Yoshiharu even agreed, Hideie had already made the operation and said to Horio Yoshiharu, "So, Attendant Horio, when can we enter the city? Let Koriyama Palace take control of the city defense first."

"Well, this." Horio Yoshiharu didn't know what to do at this moment, so he could only say, "I still need to report this to Yododen."

But the situation has reached this level, Xiujia will only take care of the superficial attitude, how can he easily let go of the fish that comes to his mouth?

"In that case, please let Junshan Palace and other great names accompany you back to recover your life."

Hideie's answer was unquestionable, and was given to Horio Yoshiharu like an order from a superior to a minister.What’s interesting is that Horio Yoshiharu didn’t resist at all and just left with Toyotomi Hidesada.

Sannomaru in Osaka has been captured by Hideie, and the city only controls the territory of Ninomaru and within.

When the defenders saw Horio Yoshiharu leading his men back, Osaka Ninomaru opened the city and prepared to let them in. However, Toyotomi Hidesada's retainers and their men took advantage of this opportunity to seize the city directly, and the battle began again in Osaka Castle.

It's just that this time the defenders' fighting will was obviously not as strong as before. After a slight resistance, Toyotomi Hidesada was put into Ninomaru.

Seeing the fall of Ninomaru, Kato Yoshiaki and other generals who took over the defense of Osaka Castle yelled at Horio Yoshiharu and Hideie in the Honmaru.On one side, he scolded Horio Yoshiharu for betraying his lord, while on the other he scolded Hideie for breaking his promise and attacking the city during the peace talks.

The conscience of heaven and earth, the Xiu family did not benefit from Xiu Zhen's victory over the city, and he didn't know how Xiu Zhen understood his words.When he heard the shouts of killing coming from the city, he was surprised and asked outside what happened.

Until Xiuzhen captured the city, Xiujia was both excited and worried. He was excited that Osaka City would finally be trampled by him, but he was also worried that his reputation would become very bad after this incident.History and ordinary people will not examine whether Xiuzhen did this on his own initiative. As long as Xiujia, the general, hangs here and is the biggest vested interest in the future, Xiujia will not be able to escape the fate of taking the blame.

Now that the matter has come to this, Xiujia simply broke the pot and said to his son Huijia beside him, "The whole army is going to protect Koriyama and seize the city. Remember, you must personally participate in seizing the city and be the first to enter the city." His name!"

Toyotomi Teruie nodded solemnly and turned around to leave to make arrangements, while Hideie added another sweetener to the matter in order for the battle to go smoothly.

Just listen to Hideya saying to the daimyo sitting on the left and right, "Your highnesses, please go down and arrange it together. Pass on my words. The first warrior to enter the city will be given the land of ten thousand stones regardless of his origin."

Cannons are only useful in peripheral sieges. In fact, only the 18-pounder can threaten the city wall of Osaka. The 12-pounder can't even blow open Osaka's three stone screens sandwiched with rammed earth.

But once you enter the city and start fighting in the streets, such powerful weapons are useless, and it is time to rely on the skills of each samurai.

But at this time, the Eastern Army, as the siege party, must have spent a lot of money.Not to mention the low-level warriors, even the mid-level and high-level warriors went out in person, just to win the first opportunity to enter the city, and maybe they could win a big fortune.

When everyone is tempted by the reward of the Land of Ten Thousand Stones, who will care about which city they are attacking now?

In order to seize the city, there were even samurai who went forward without even bringing their ashigaru to personally pull out the Gosachi-pattern military flag floating at the top of Honmaru Castle.

No city could not be captured under such an offensive, not to mention that the morale of the defenders had already been discouraged the moment Ishida Mitsunari committed suicide.

There are only more than 5000 people in the Seven Hands Group who are still holding on, but even this Seven Hands Group still has loopholes. Don't forget that the father-in-law of the Hide family is Ito Nagami.

If he was still fighting for the Toyotomi family before, with Chacha's series of tricks and the Eastern Army's invasion of Ninomaru, the morale of the army began to weaken, and Ito Nagami also had to think about himself.

He opened the Sakura Gate and let the besieging troops enter the city. An army composed almost of pure samurai directly attacked the Honmaru from Nishi Maru.

Just because Hideie had something to say before Honmaru, the daimyo Nakagawa Hidemasa who was in charge of Sakuramon's attack did not enter the city. Instead, he cooperated with the army besieging Oteguchi to open Oteguchi and then entered the city with the Toyotomi Teru family.

Also because of the attack from Sakura Gate, the army went directly to the peach garden in the back garden of Osaka Castle, and entered Okumoto Maru directly from here.

The surrounding maids and warriors tried their best to stop him, but the red-eyed Eastern Army warriors were chopped down to the ground one by one.

"Madam, let's go quickly!" Ono Nagaharu held a samurai sword and clashed with the spear of a samurai who entered the honmaru. He said to Chacha with some difficulty, "There is still gunpowder under the castle tower. I will wait for you to delay!"

This time Chacha did not have as much time as historically to arrange firewood and gunpowder. She had no time to light the castle tower of Osaka Castle before she was captured by the swarming samurai.

In a panic, the maid holding her newborn child was hit by a bow and arrow shot from a distance. Chacha, like a conditioned reflex, let go of Xiuli's hand and tried to catch the escaped child.

This scene was naturally seen by those who were interested, and they immediately reported it to Huijia, the general in charge of the siege, and Xiujia, who was stationed at the rear.

The first thing the Hui family did after entering the city was to order people to take control of the gunpowder depot and pour water on the gunpowder to prevent anyone who was determined to die together from dying together.

The Hide family waited until the city was quiet before entering the castle. The Hide family immediately led the daimyo to the Toyotomi Palace in Honmaru, where the statue of Hideyoshi Toyokuni Daimyojin is enshrined.

Xiaxia led the daimyo to kneel down respectfully to Hideyoshi and presented him with the Emperor's posthumous imperial edict: "Father, the child is unfilial. If only the child had a stronger heart, he would not have caused chaos in the world and the destruction of brothers and brothers. The Toyotomi family killed each other by blood.

Now I present the emperor's posthumous edict to you as Taizheng Minister, expressing my determination to firmly safeguard the Toyotomi family. I also hope that my father's spirit in heaven can protect me and my descendants. "

Xiujia's monologue was spoken in a low voice, but it could be clearly heard by all the nobles in the palace.

So much so that daimyo like Nakagawa Hidemasa, who knew the Hide family's struggles and difficulties over the years and followed the Hide family in raising troops from the Northeast, could not help crying.

After worshiping Hideyoshi, Hideyoshi just opened the ceremony in front of the Hideyoshi statue and asked people to bring Chacha and Xiuli, along with the child whom Chacha was very fond of.

Xiuli is already 10 years old, and he is obviously sensible.However, he suffered the military disaster much earlier than in history. At this moment, he was hiding behind his mother with some fear, sticking out his little head and looking fearfully at Xiujia who was sitting in the main seat.

"Why are you sitting there?" He pulled his mother's sleeve and asked tremblingly.

After Xiujia saw Xiuli, he immediately stood up and gave up his seat, and tried to hold Xiuli's hand and sit on the main seat.

At this moment, Chacha still maintained her arrogant expression. She refused Xiujia to snatch Xiuli from her hands and insisted on taking Xiuli to sit on it.

Xiujia did not dare to stop Xiuli, who was still the nominal lord, and stepped aside to make way for a passage. However, when Chacha was about to step forward, he called out to him, "Wait a minute, that is the throne. Only the lord, Houjian and Madam can sit on it. In your arms, I don’t know what the origin of this baby is, how can he be promoted to the royal rank? Otherwise, give him to me and let me deal with it properly."

After Xiujia finished speaking, she was about to take the child from Chacha's hands, but she never thought that this would touch Chacha's keen nerves. She would even let go of Xiuli's hand to hug the child.

In fact, when Chacha entered the palace, many people had already noticed the child in Chacha's arms and looked at Xiujia with horror on their faces.

They were all surprised as to whose child Chacha could hold.Now I am even more shocked to see Chacha willing to let go of Xiuli and protect her child.

"Isn't my lord the lifeblood of Yodo Palace?"

Chacha seemed to have discovered her own problem, and was about to reach out to hold Xiuli, but Xiuli was suddenly taken away by Xiujia, who has quick eyes and quick hands.

"Pick up pills~" Chacha called out Xiuli's nickname in horror, and Xiuli also leaned towards Chacha, reaching out to ask for a hug from her mother.

But this action was quickly corrected by Xiujia. Xiujia held Xiuli in his arms and said softly, "Shimaru~ Do you still remember me? I am your brother. How about playing with my brother?"

Shimaru resisted Hideya's intimacy and tried desperately to break free, even leaving scratches on Hideya's face with his little claws.

But from the beginning to the end, Chacha did not let go of the child in her arms, and made a move to take Xiuli from Xiujia's arms, which aroused the suspicion of the daimyo.

Xiuli was already grabbing Xiujia's hair, trying to break away from Xiujia's arms, but Xiujia endured the pain and walked back to the throne and sat down.

Seeing this, Xiuzhen hurriedly took the lead and said, "I have met my lord and congratulate you on your good health and the prosperity of the Toyotomi clan."

With Xiuzhen taking the lead, the other daimyo naturally saluted the two people sitting on the throne, but they didn't know whether they were saluting Xiujia or the struggling puppet in Xiujia's arms.

Xiuli couldn't break free and could only cry in Xiujia's arms. In contrast, Xiujia laughed boldly there.

In this situation, those who don’t know the whole story will think that Xiuli is the Han Emperor, and Xiujia is the "Dong Zhuo" who brought the emperor to the throne, bullying the orphans and widowed mothers. This is a complete story of a bad guy getting enlightened. ah.

Not consistent with core values.