Pillars of the Wu family

Asakura Keiki's anger was both unexpected and reasonable, but it is impossible for Asakura Yoshikage to give his uncle back this justice, not to mention his hard-promoted Asakura Jingjing is reluctant to kill, even if he is willing I also have to ask those thousands of people in the wild whether they agree or not. In the eyes of Ohno and many genealogists and namesakes, Chao Cang Jingjing is responsible but not guilty, because the death of Chao Cang Jinglong is punishable. Even killing Asakura Kageko is fatuous.

As a family governor, his view is different from that of Asakura Keiji as his father. In his opinion, Asakura Keiyu is a special case of death due to words. According to the testimonies of the people with the same name and the family members of the genealogy generation, we can know that, Chao Cang Jingjing didn't say any particularly blatant and harsh words at the time, but deliberately stimulated Chao Cang Jinglong's nerves in some words and sentences in the military meeting. Subjectively, there should be no temptation or force Chao Cang Jinglong The possibility of suicide, which means that this is an accidental event with an extremely low probability of occurrence.

So Asakura Yoshike felt that Asakura Jingjing was responsible but not a major responsibility, but he didn't dare to discuss this with his angry uncle, so he could only use some vague and random promises to put his uncle Asakura Jingjing first. To appease him, implying that he should not cause troubles at this time to affect the unity of the family, and said that he would deal with Zhao Cang Jingjing and give their family an explanation.

Asakura Keiji also knew that his excessive demands were unlikely to be passed. Now that he has seen through the thoughts of this elder nephew, he has seized part of the power from Tsuruga and established the authority of the family governor. This time, the chief general appointed It can be said that Yoshikage Asakura was responsible for it, and Yoshikage Asakura was responsible for half of the death of his son, Jinglong Asakura.

After sending away his uncle Asakura Kageki, Asakura Yoshikage went to the front line to personally appease the rioting crowd of the same name.Trying to bring this farce to an end.At this time, the Asakura army camp in Ono County was in chaos.The impact of Chao Cang Jinglong's death is still slowly fermenting, and his corpse gradually rots and stinks in the high summer heat.

However, the Dunhe people resolutely refused to allow the burial, and strongly demanded that the retainers should seek justice for the dead. Let the angry Tsuruga gradually calm down, these samurai can still tell whether they dare not make trouble in front of the house governor.

When Yoshikage Asakura came to the camp, he quickly held a pre-battle assessment meeting. From the content he learned from many sources, he realized that the real problem was far more difficult than he imagined. He thought it was just a temporary conflict that would soon dissipate.But when he came to the front line, he realized that the development of the situation would be so serious. He could only stand up and emphasize again and again that the death of Chao Cang Jinglong was a huge human tragedy, and expressed the grief of the dead and the living. He quickly cremated Asakura Keiyu, and collected the ashes and sent them to Tsuruga to hand over to his father Asakura Keiji.

All these actions can be called quick, and it was done neatly in just one morning. The person has been cremated, so there is no reason for the Tsuruga people to continue to make trouble. They can only dare to be dumb and have nowhere to vent their anger. The matter has been perfectly resolved, but secretly the antagonism between the two insiders has become more and more serious.

Asakura Yoshikage also knew it was unfair.But he can't be cruel to Asakura Jingjing who he promoted, and after thinking about it, he feels that he still needs to appease the grievances of the Dunhe people.So he ordered Asakura Keiji's second son, Asakura Jingheng, to serve as the new Tsuruga County Secretary, and ordered him to rush to Ono County's camp to appease the restless Tsuruga people.

Asakura Jingjing, who was promoted by himself, had to be beaten to warn him that his misconduct violated his bottom line, so when Asakura Yoshike announced that he would personally serve as the general of the crusade army, he easily sent Asakura Jingjing The chief general was erased and continued to serve as the general of the Ono people. This is equivalent to not punishing Asakura Jingjing at all, because he was the military leader of the Ono people before he became the general. Various speculations about genealogy.

It took a few days to hold a meeting to sum up the experience and lessons, at least to solve the internal unity problem smoothly, and then gather up people's hearts and go out to fight against Yi Yikui in Ono County, but found that Shimoma Laizhao and Chaosheng Temple Jiaofang had already been waiting for the battle, and the three in the county Wan Yu has always guarded all the passages in Ono County strictly, and put on a posture of strictly guarding against the Asakura family and resolutely not letting the Asakura family enter.

This made Yoshikage Asakura very embarrassed. This was the first time he came down to serve as the general as the governor of the family. This first good start must be more brilliant than the capture of Yoshizaki Gobo. Not planning to cooperate with Asakura Yoshikage's actions, especially Echizen Ichikui, who has the support behind the Kira family, has become more and more tough.

The Nanbukuro Nanazan family in Ono County has always reacted very fiercely. They gathered in the newly built village of Gangshan Castle in the upper reaches of Kuzuryu River to block the main route of the Asakura Army. By the time they followed Jiutoulongchuan to Ono County, this new city had already garrisoned a total of four thousand troops, which made the Chaocang army even more embarrassed.

Asakura Kagetaka suggested to abandon this easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack mountain city, and go directly upstream into the hinterland of Ono County to attack the old enemy Ninomiya Sakin of Haishan Castle. Ichikui caused a huge blow, Asakura Yoshikage thought it made sense and accepted his proposal.

This Ninomiya Sakon is a hereditary name. The Ninomiya clan was originally appointed by the Shiba clan as the Higashi guardian family of Echizen. During the Onin Rebellion, in order to fight against the Asakura Toshikage sent by the shogunate, they joined forces with another Aishi guardian Dai Kai. Fighting against Asakura's family, but their level is really not good, and they have been repaired by Asakura Minjing in various ways.

In a combined battle, they couldn't beat the wolf-like Asakura brothers, and they were no match for Toshikage Asakura's strategy. As a result, the Echizen Nishi guardian Dai Kai family who was pitted before the Onin Rebellion was over fell, and the East The guardian Dai Ninomiya was forced to join Kaga Isago Ichikui, and became a powerful official of Honganji Temple where Renru sat down, and then served as the vanguard against Asakura.

For nearly 100 years now, the Ninomiya family has always been a resolute anti-Asakura faction. It can be said that this family has implemented anti-Asakura as a concept throughout their lives. Takashi’s proposal to attack this family also values ​​this point. After all, Ninomiya’s defection to Ichikui is a well-known story in Hokuriku and even Kinai. It can bring substantial benefits to the Asakura family and can also meet Asakura Yoshikage’s reputation needs.

The Asakura army bypassed the Nanbukuro Qishan family in the village of Okayama Castle.Relying on the convenience of the waterway, it goes straight to the most important Haishan City in the plains of the county.Under the personal supervision of Asakura Yoshikage, the Asakura Army's offensive was fierce.Yi Yi, who broke through Xiaozhai all the way, threw away his helmet and armor, and soon came to the foot of Haishan City and surrounded the Pingcheng, which was guarded by 1000 and [-] people.

Although the name is Haishan City, it seems to be built on the top of a mountain, but it is actually an authentic Pingcheng. Several tributaries of Jiutoulongchuan flow through the plains, and the location of this Haishan City is very good, without any natural shelter around. Not to mention the mountains and hills, after several generations of development, several forests have also been developed into castle towns.

What's even better is that the defense of Haishan City can be described as inferior. This kind of construction method that is completely unfavorable for military operations reflects the insanity of the Ergong family's family governor. No wonder he was beaten by the Asakura family.Of course, it also reflects to a certain extent that Echizen has always been more at ease with this hinterland, so he has not strengthened the city defense of Haishan City.

The terrain is flat and unobstructed, which means that the field of vision is wide. The poor city defense and the large castle town provide a strong offensive environment for the Asakura army. The Asakura army immediately cheered up and launched wave after wave of attacks. Said that he could withstand the main force of the Asakura army, and strive for favorable time and space for Kaga's consistent march.

In the end, after resisting for two days, he felt that something was wrong. He found that the defense of Haishan City seemed to be paper. Cang Shibing was either shot and killed by the rain of arrows, or he was hacked and killed by the defenders in the city.But this can't stop the increasingly fanatical Asakura Army.

It's no problem for one or two to block ten or eight, but it's a bit difficult for a hundred or so, let alone nearly a thousand people rushing in at once.Gradually, the samurai of the Ninomiya family found it more and more difficult to kill the enemy, and their companions were killed and injured more and more. On the first day of the battle, more than 200 defenders in the city were killed and injured, and they were beaten without any chance of fighting back. force.

This is not the worst result, especially the fact that the Otemon gate was breached by the Asakura army in the evening of the second day. He almost fainted from the fright. In desperation, he wrote a letter to Ichigoku Ichikui that night to ask for reinforcements. Early in the morning of the third day A total of [-] troops from Kono Castle, the Lord of Longmen Temple, and Tiger Zhang Castle rushed to the rescue, but they were quickly repulsed by the Chaocang army who had been prepared.

Shimoma Laizhao also found that 5000 people, who have always been one-sided, were still too large to deal with the [-] elites of the Asakura Army, so he ordered Chaosheng Temple Jiaofang to lead the [-] troops in Ono County to attack the Asakura Army. A fierce joint battle broke out near the Zhenna River, a tributary of Toryu River, and the Asakura Army took advantage of the powerful terrain to launch a surprise attack on Ichikui.

The Tsuruga crowd and the Ono crowd attacked the Ichigo Ichikui army from the north and the south. Choshoji Gyoyoshi Kinki ordered the current Kono Castle lord, Wakabayashi Kozaburo, son of the late Wakabayashi Nagamon guard, and Rymonji Castle lord Miyake Quanshoucheng to provide emergency reinforcements. The two wings, always the main force of the Yikui army were inevitably drawn to the two wings, making the army in this formation temporarily empty.

The cunning Asakura Kagetaka saw the right moment and immediately advised the team to launch a surprise attack. Asakura Yoshikage refused the proposal without hesitation on the grounds that he was worried that his safety would be harmed. Although the military strategy was poor and pitiful, he still knew The reason why the son of a daughter can't sit down, Kelong Asakura had no choice but to say that the Zuyu people would serve as the raid army, and only then did he get the permission of Yoshikage Asakura's surprise attack.

The foot feathers have a total of only [-] troops, and they are very weak in the face of the [-]-strong army. They are completely unable to defeat or even annihilate Echizen with all the troops. Cang Jinglong still exerted his excellent commanding power, and forced a gap in Echizen's [-] main formations, which made Chaoshoji Jiaofang had to order the two wings to shrink the army to return to the main formation.

This close will lead to a big event. Tsuruga and Ohno, who were already in the upper hand, quickly bit Echizen's tail, which made the normal retreat gradually turn into a disorderly retreat. There was wavering, and the absolute gap in the quality of the army exposed Echizen's biggest weakness. Chaoshoji Jiaofang led the team to retreat without saying a word.

The actual loss in this Battle of Managawa was not great. The Asakura army killed more than [-] people, and Echizen Ichiki lost nearly a thousand people. The generals of both sides were not injured at all. The attempt to the west of Ono County was completely cut off. On the second day after the end of the battle, Ninomiya Sakon packed up his army and fled to the east of Ono County with his family.Honmaru in Haishan City was completely wiped out.It was announced that Echizen Ichikui's dominated area west of Kuzuryu River was completely divided into two parts.

Afterwards, the [-]-strong Kaga Ichikui Army, which was in emergency reinforcements, also became redundant.Asakura Yoshikage took advantage of the situation to capture Ono Castle, Xushan Castle, Oyama Castle, and Chausu Mountain Castle, and swept away all the forces in the western part of Ono County. Qili Laizhou and Shimoma Lai Zhaoyi felt that they were not sure about reckless fighting. Boundaries are kept.

After experiencing a series of glorious victories, Asakura Yoshikage's self-confidence has been significantly improved. He feels that it is not too troublesome to fight a joint battle. Heeding the strategic advice of veterans can lead to a string of victories.For example, at the critical moment in the battle of Managawa, he listened to the suggestion of raiding Chaosheng Temple Jiaofang's main formation, which became an important turning point in changing the direction of the battlefield.

Faced with Kaga's embarrassing coping strategy that has always gathered a large army but can only hold back, Asakura Yoshikage's inner pride is beyond words, and he keeps showing off to his retainers that the Asakura family is getting stronger and stronger in his hands, and that they have successfully eliminated the troubled ones. Echizen Kingdom has wiped out more than half of the past hundred years, and the remaining Ono County remnants and the divided and encircled Ashiba County remnants are not a problem at all.

Just as he was immersed in the joy of victory, he suddenly received an astonishing piece of news that Yamamoto Tokiyuki led an army of [-] into Tsuruga County with lightning speed, easily defeating the unsuspecting [-] The Tsuruga crowd burned down the latest customs office in Tsuruga County.Then he let go of some harsh words before withdrawing from Tsuruga County.

The Tsuruga crowd was shaken again, and this time it wasn't just the sudden jump of the new Tsuruga County Secretary Asakura Kageko.Some family members and people of the family who were close to Tsuruga County couldn’t help asking for retreat. Asakura Jingjing took the opportunity to express that he was capable of stabilizing the situation for the Asakura family, and asked the lord to return to Ichijogu Castle to deal with military and state affairs with peace of mind. .

Asakura Yoshikage thought it made sense, he was dying of pain after spending half a day in the wilderness of Ono County on a hot day, so he simply handed over several cities in Shintoku, Ono County to Ono people as city lords, and left Ono, Azuba and some of the Pudai retainers continued to maintain a confrontational situation, and returned to Ichijo Valley Castle with the rest of the army. As for the issue of Echizen’s always-unyiling collegiality, it was completely left to the Pudai retainers to deal with.

As the messenger of the two parties, an old acquaintance of the Asakura family, and also the uncle of Kanbai Konoe's predecessor, served as the gate trace of Shingon sect Daikakuji Temple "Tsu Shitennoji Temple". The famous singer and cultural figure Daikakuji Yoshitoshi visited At the age of 57, this eminent monk looks like a middle-aged man in his early forties. At the age of 36, he became the top monk and received the top treatment announced by the third queen.

Daijueji Yoshitoshi did not send the message in a hurry like ordinary messengers, but held a small tea party with Asakura Yoshikage, chatted about Buddhism and talked about recent rumors in Kyoto, and learned from him that the Kira Army The huge moves in these short months, the capture of the half-county of Asai County and the half-county of Ika County, and the battle of Jianyake defeated Asai Nagamasa to gain an absolute dominant position in Omi Middle School.

A tea party lasted for two hours before it ended, followed by another grand dinner, and it was not until the next morning that Yoshitoshi Dajueji talked about the business: "Sado Yamamoto said that the justice of the town government hates being threatened. Whether it was the Miyoshi family or the Takeda family who were defeated by Lord Zhenfu, the names of the Asai family and the Asakura family were added to the list of failures this time.

I hope that the two families will correct their mentality and not try to challenge the bottom line of the town government. This time, they just burned down the customs office to teach the Asakura family a lesson. Next time, the Asakura family will lose Tsuruga County forever. Don't break your word, I believe that Asakura Jinwudian is a smart person, and he should know the consequences of offending the Kira family. "

Asakura Yoshike had just won a battle, and at the moment when his confidence was bursting, how could he bear the threat of Hong Guoguo, and immediately flew into a rage: "Kira Yoshiki is really deceiving people! This is* * Nakedly humiliate my Asakura family! I, Asakura Yoshikage, must be with him..."

Asakura Jinglian coughed quickly: "My lord, what I mean is that my Asakura family is very dissatisfied with the arrogance of the Kira family! It is too much for the town government to make such a statement! My Asakura family is the Echizen guardian of the shogunate, in Tsuruga County Setting up a checkpoint is an act allowed by the shogunate. How could the Kira family invade our Tsuruga county so arbitrarily, and even killed and wounded hundreds of soldiers of my Asakura family. My Asakura family will report the brutal behavior of the Kira family The shogunate, please request His Royal Highness' judgment."

"This..." Daijueji Yoshitoshi smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "The poor monk thinks that it is better not to report to the shogunate for a ruling. Sado Mamoru told the poor monk that the town government has decided to clear all the idlers on the Hokuriku Road. The water army will conduct a comprehensive cleanup, and the focus of this operation will be on the various water army thieves near Wakasa Bay, aiming to completely eliminate the bad behavior of various water army exploiting merchants in Hokuriku..."

"This is humiliation, this is Hongguoguo's humiliation!" Yoshikage Asakura still tried his best to maintain his famous demeanor, but his black face revealed his anger at the moment. The reason for his anger is very simple, that is, This shows that I am not only capable of threatening the safety of Tsuruga County with harsh words, but also capable of capturing Tsuruga Port, the economic lifeline of the Asakura family. (To be continued..)