Pillars of the Wu family

In November of the 11th year of Tianwen, Oda Nobunaga suddenly reached an agreement not to fight with Takeda Shingen, who was at war. The two sides agreed to divide their respective ownership boundaries according to the prior sphere of influence. The west of the castle belongs to the Oda family, and the east of Okazaki Castle belongs to the Takeda family. This also means that the Mikawa War that has ravaged the East Kaido for several years has finally come to an end.

Just a few days after the Takeda Army’s massive retreat, Ashikaga Yoshiaki went to Gifu Castle in person with lightning speed, and had a good talk with Oda Nobunaga here. The two sides agreed on the goal of supporting the general to return to the army Shangluo, the development of all these events is so fast that people feel dizzy. The smart people soon realized that this series of strange actions of the Oda family seemed to be premeditated.

The attitude of the Gyeonggi side to this is ambiguous. The Miyoshi family has already been torn apart. The Miyoshi trio and Matsunaga Hide accused each other of killing Ashikaga Yoshiki. The farce will never end. Playing the role of fanning the flames is a joy, and there is no such thing as the head of the family and the family leader of the genealogy family. It is even more strange that the hearts of such a wonderful family are not scattered.

Soon Miyoshi Yasunaga couldn't laugh anymore, because he found that his allies were unfortunately useless. One and a half of the three brothers in Shikoku were not enterprising, especially the two brothers of Awa Sanuki seemed to be very concerned about the turmoil in Kinai Not interested at all, the two brothers Miyoshi Changzhi and Shihe Cunbao didn't care about Awa Sanuki's taboos, and felt that they were all born to a mother, so there was no need to divide them so finely.

The two brothers would play eagle hunting and drink wine together when they had nothing to do, and occasionally went to the countryside to bully men and women together, so happy that they didn't know their last names.Anzhai Nobuyasu and his young brother Anzhai Kiyoyasu were full of revenge for killing their father and had to avenge it.He hated Matsunaga Hideo, the Miyoshi trio who had the motive of killing his father.

He didn't seem to have much good looks towards Miyoshi Yasunaga, the ineffective genealogist.The two brothers also felt that it would be too difficult for them to take revenge, so they made up their minds to carry on with the Awaji Navy and continue their previous business. Originally, [-]% of the tax collected would be handed over to Miyoshi’s family. If you find any reason to say that the ship is seriously damaged and needs to be repaired, you will deduct [-]% of the tax for your own use.

Miyoshi yelled at the two brothers as jerks, and vowed to find a chance to teach the two brothers a lesson, but unfortunately he could only wave his flag and shout.The [-] troops in his hand are already the sum of the troops he can mobilize. This is Yu Ze left behind by his adoptive father, Miyoshi Changqing. According to this mess, Yu Ze will disappear one day sooner or later, and then he will have nothing. .

Miyoshi Yasunaga was anxious to go to Shikoku to educate Miyoshi and the three brothers. The biggest support in his faction was the support of the three families of Shikoku. A sudden problem with the rear allies made Miyoshi Yasunaga who was sitting in the front suddenly lose his confidence and was not in a hurry to run back. On the contrary, there is a problem. The power of the Miyoshi family in Kinai has been vacated for a long time.

At this juncture, I heard that Ashikaga Yoshiaki was supported by Oda Nobunaga, a native of the Tokaido, and the attitude of the Miyoshi family was unprecedentedly unified.That is to be very disdainful and question whether there is a hole in the head of His Royal Highness, and not to hug the thigh of the [-] army.He also threatened to deal with the Guandong Gongfang, which has an army of [-], but he went to the Tokaido to join the big fool Oda Nobunaga in Owari.

No one takes Oda Nobunaga's Shangluo declaration seriously. The rhetoric of crusade against Miyoshi and rebuilding the shogunate is simply old-fashioned. Similar words have been shouted since Harumoto Hosokawa in the 18th year of Tianwen, and it has been more than 20 years since he shouted Well, Harumoto Hosokawa has been able to die for many years now, and from time to time a friend would jump out and shout like a convulsion. Miyoshi's family has long been not rare for this.

The Miyoshi family, who underestimated the enemy, never expected that Oda Nobunaga had already married Asai Nagamasa before this, and married his concubine Lin Ji to Asai Nagamasa as his successor, and then the two parties reached an agreement on a secret military alliance , Taking advantage of the season when there is almost no snowfall in the winter in Kinai, they suddenly crossed Sekigahara and entered Omi.

Oda Nobunaga's choice greatly exceeded people's expectations. He launched a surprise attack in late November, which was never expected. At the foot of Guanyin Temple, Liujiao Yizhi was so scared that he almost couldn't hold his breath, and the speed of his advance was simply appalling.

At this time, the Liujiao family happened to be at a low ebb, and the turmoil in the Guanyin Temple caused a catastrophe that nearly drove the father and son of the Liujiao family away. What's more, the Liujiao vassals moved the deposed son of Liujiao Yixiu, Liujiao Yixiu, back. Guanyin Temple City disgusted Liujiao Chengzhen, and his father Liujiao Dinglai was the temporary family governor of the Zhendai family.

As a result, Liujiao Dingyai found that he was very talented as a house governor, so he simply kicked out the real nephew Rokkaku Yoshimitsu. Fortunately, Liujiao Dingyai was not as ruthless as Ashikaga Takashi, and he would not be mad at his nephew. So, The lineage of Liujiao Yizhi, which is equivalent to the direct line, has become an insurmountable threshold in front of Liujiao Chengzhen and Liujiao Yizhi.

The decline of the Liujiao family is not good, not even one fifth of what it was ten years ago. Compared with the heyday of the Liujiao family 20 years ago, it is even worse. Facing the army of Oda Nobunaga In the surprise attack, none of the descendants of the generation of genealogy chose to lead troops to help Guanyin Temple City. The desperate Liujiao father and son made a decisive plan to run away. They secretly opened the city gate in the middle of the night and led more than [-] members of the headquarters to flee the city and went straight to their ancestors. The blessed land of peek-a-boo victory is in the poor mountain valley of Koka County.

So the lucky Oda Nobunaga won without a fight so easily, and used such outrageous means to obtain the control of Minami Omi. On the spot, the nose of Asai Nagamasa who rushed to help was crooked. After decades of hard work, the long-dreamed-of South Omi country just changed hands like this. It was like holding down Nagamasa Asai's face and slapping him hard. After forming an alliance for less than half a month, he found that half of his face was about to be swollen. .

The complaints and grievances of the Asai family are in the ears of Oda Nobunaga, not even the buzzing of flies. It is impossible to spit out the fat that I ate to the Asai family with a few complaints. It has nothing to do with Asai Nagamasa not being able to win after struggling for so long, anyway, he only needs to know that his army will arrive.Minami Omi should just change his face and become a direct collar of the Oda family.

Oda Nobunaga was happy to accept a large piece of land, and then a big incident happened.The prosperity of Omi far exceeds that of the relatively remote Mino country.Farmers and soldiers from all over Noooshiki who had never seen the market were immediately dazzled. In just one day, there were hundreds of random arrests and hunting, which caused huge damage to the castle town of Guanyin Temple.

Now things are getting serious, Kannonji Castle is a well-known big city in the country after all, and the samurai of the Oda family Ashigaru treats a famous cultural city so rudely, it is comparable to the Miyoshi family who ravaged Kyoto. Sarcasm and sarcasm, it probably means that Yoshiaki Ashikaga escaped from the tiger's mouth and went into the wolf's den.In short, Oda Nobunaga and Miyoshi are mostly the same thing.

Now Oda Nobunaga is not going to do it anymore. He said that he finally got to Kinai, so he didn’t want to just visit and leave. With Minami Omi’s territory as a backing, he can take root and not leave, so he can’t tolerate being assigned a samurai. Ashigaru is messing around in Kinai. After all, moving to Kinai must get the support of the aborigines. If there is no local people, it will be a difficult life.

So Oda Nobunaga immediately issued a harsh government order, called "One Money Killing Order", which is also from a famous allusion in the Northern Song Dynasty "One Money Kills Officials". money.The rope is broken according to the wood, and the water drips through the stone.It is also very appropriate to use at this moment. It is strictly forbidden for soldiers to launch random hunting and arrests without giving permission for random arrests, and it is not allowed to rape and rob women.

Not only should we strictly prohibit random arrests and human hunting, but we must also actively return the stolen money and release the captured townspeople. At the same time, we must actively compensate women who have suffered physical and mental trauma. The self-renewal actions had a certain effect, and soon people discovered that although Oda Nobunaga was domineering and ruthless, his credit to the lower class people was still very good.

On the second day after capturing Guanyin Temple City, just after dealing with the bad effects of random arrests and human hunting, the Oda Army launched a large-scale attack on land and water and entered the capital city. At this time, there were only more than [-] defenders in the capital city. As for the general Zangshan Castle and Nakao Castle, they were captured by Nakajo Tohide of Sakamoto Castle, and Fushimi Mountain Castle was burned as revenge for the continuous resistance of the Miyoshi family.

The two forces intervened in the vicinity of Kyoto at the same time, but Miyoshi Yoshitsugu was very frightened. He thought it was the joint attack of the two allies. Tian Nobunaga probably meant that he could not continue to be the governor of the family.

In particular, the Oda Army invaded Kyoto in a grand manner, chasing the 500 defenders out of most of Kyoto, chasing them all the way to the Katsura River and driving the Miyoshi Army who was waiting to cross the river into the river, and the 500 troops boarded the boat smoothly Only [-] people crossed the river, and the remaining [-] people all went down the river to feed the Kappa.

Miyoshi and the trio hurried back from Yamato to help out, only to find that the Oda army on the opposite side had swelled to [-] troops, and quickly turned around and fled towards Sakai-cho, angry Miyoshi Yoshitsugu scolded the three old bastards It's unreliable, and now he knows that he can't handle Oda Nobunaga and Nakajo Tokihide. That evening, he was very cowardly and retreated to Settsu with his army without fighting. The city went to the city, and Oda Nobunaga took down the Yamashiro country almost without fighting.

This time, not only Asai Nagamasa was crying alone, but Nakajo Tokihide, who was hiding in the front line of Sakamoto's remote control command, also began to feel sour, thinking of how hard their family's master went to Ashikaga Yoshitoshi, in order to lay down a Kyoto and Miyoshi's family. Fighting two shocking battles in a row, it took a lot of effort to initially stabilize the situation in Kyoto, and single-handedly contributed to the rejuvenation of Hongzhi in the shogunate.

Later, in order to stabilize the foundation of the shogunate, Nakajo Tokihide also led the army to fight in the Luozhong battle in Kyoto. The advantage gained on the battlefield was all buried by Ashikaga Yoshiki, and Ashikaga Yoshiki and Ashikaga were further mixed. Cracks appeared in the close relationship during Yishi, and there was no intention of sending troops to rescue the turmoil in Kyoto during the Yonglu period.

For Tokihide Nakajo, this Kyoto city is really difficult to fight and defend. It is a very embarrassing and painful thing for the Miyoshi family. The success of Shangluo is directly related to whether he controls Kyoto, so Miyoshi Changqing It took nearly 20 years to win the capital with tens of thousands of people dying, and it was handed over to Oda Nobunaga before it was warmed up in his hands for a few years. The feeling in the heart of the Miyoshi family is simply "wonderful ".

Immediately afterwards, the Oda family marched forward and swept the Settsu country as if they were possessed by a god or Buddha. The only Settsu countryman who could be called a resistance, Ikeda Katsumasa, defended the cage for three days. In the end, the overwhelming military superiority of the Oda army Go down to Kaesong and surrender.The people of Setjin played the best trick of changing the king's flag on the top of the city.Abandoning the Miyoshi family alone and becoming a role model for the Oda family.

The Kinki soldiers who were most proud of the Miyoshi trio almost disappeared.Miyoshi Masayasu, the leader of the Settsu group, almost became a bare-bones commander, Miyoshi Changyi became a pure bare-handed commander, Iwanari Yutsutsu was a little better, and less than a thousand troops followed. Thousands of troops, from besieging the Nijo Imperial Palace a few months ago and killing the general, rampaging and domineering in Kyoto, have transformed into the embarrassing appearance in front of them, and they are almost becoming the laughing stock of Kinai.

Miyoshi Yoshitsugu was a little better, and half of the Yuze left to him by his adoptive father was gone.There are still 5000 people who are willing to follow him back to Shikoku, so under the trick of fate, the two forces retreated to Shikoku Island together to survive. Unfortunately, the one who was also shot while lying down was Yasunaga, the third son of the Pudai family, who was busy appeasing a few teenagers Don't be impatient, young people, when you look up and find that your lair has been taken away, the hatred in your heart will almost strangle the three good people who have failed to succeed but failed.

But helplessly, his old man has also become a bare-handed commander. The number of horses and people in his hand is less than 300 people. At most, he can compete with Miyoshi Changyi with the same treatment. In desperation, the old man decided I stay in Awa country and don't care about world affairs. I can't beat and mess with Guo Zong, but I can pretend not to see it.Out of sight, out of mind, do whatever you want.

A big defeat at Miyoshi's house caused a great deal of panic in the country, and the two or three big cats and kittens in Hequan country were not enough to scare them, so they surrendered.Hatakeyama Takamasa also captured Takaya Castle without saying a word, saying that he supported Ashikaga Yoshiaki Shangluo, and the implication was that Nanhanoi, you can't hit me.

Matsunaga Hideo of Yamato Kingdom surrendered very cleverly. Not only did he send his son Matsunaga Matsuri to Kyoto as a hostage, but he also gave Oda Nobunaga the famous tea vessel 99 hair eggplants as a gift. The second step means to give him the permission to defend Yamato One Country, and he can attack any country in this country, and all of them will be counted as Matsunaga's family.

In just one month, the Owari storm set off a turbulent wave in Kinai, and the Miyoshi family fled in embarrassment without any effort. Hanoi, Settsu, Yamato, and Izumi swept past all the way, and people from all over the country Everything fell in anticipation of the wind, as if it was snowballing, it continued to expand and get bigger and bigger, so huge that his opponent felt hopeless.

Hatano Hideji of Tanba surrendered, and Kiigunone came to express that it was meaningless. The Tango Isshiki family was not prepared to resist. Coupled with the support of Wakasa Takeda, Omi Asai, and Echizen Asakura, it seemed that the entire Kinai was attacking and defending in an instant. The change of position became a one-sided support for the general Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and the only Nakajo Tokihide who could be called an obstacle, quickly returned to the army and withdrew to Sakamoto Castle to garrison and stand by.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki didn't expect things to go so smoothly. He thought that the people of Kinai would resolutely resist. Even if he was confident and optimistic, he would need to waste a few months to conquer various places, especially the hard-to-crack Miyoshi family. That was the overlord of Kinai back then, Ashikaga Yoshitoki also used their helpless behemoth to make him believe that the Miyoshi family would flee without a fight, which can probably be compared to the absurdity of the Arabian Nights.

Sometimes happiness comes so quickly. There are such a group of heavenly favored children in the world. They are the darlings of gods and Buddhas. They can always meet a rare opportunity in a hundred years. Every step of their actions seems to be favored by heaven. Collective decline, the Liujiao family experienced a glorious heyday and gradually declined and continued to disintegrate. The situation of the Miyoshi family is also in the process of continuous disintegration. Hatakeyama Takamasa was beaten by Miyoshi Changqing before his death. Returning to normal energy, the rest of the Hatano family is just a corner.

Returning to Kyoto after a few months is another scene. Ashikaga Yoshiaki swarmed in front of tens of thousands of tigers and came to the devastated Nijo Imperial Palace. Repair the nearby burnt temples, after all, the imperial palace cannot be surrounded by a circle of dilapidated buildings, that would be a bit out of place.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki is very happy, the situation is far beyond his expectations, sweeping Kinai further establishes that he is the true master of Genji, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki is just a clown, the world will eventually return to his control Among them, before that, he needs to teach Nakajo Tokihide a lesson from Sakamoto Joran.

In the temporary imperial palace in the Nijo Imperial Palace, Ashikaga Yoshiaki said: "I am determined to attack Sakamoto, I don't know what you think!"

"His Royal Highness has finally made up his mind. We should expel them as soon as possible. It is unreasonable to want to occupy the territory of Kinai even though it is a Kanto samurai!" The disadvantage of entering the Ashikaga family in Kanto is that in the turmoil in Kinai in the past 20 years, ten out of ten people have been involved with his family. Only by expelling this family can the peace of Kinai be ensured.

Asakura Yoshikage glanced at Oda Nobunaga, and said: "I believe that several armies marching at the same time can take down Sakamoto in one fell swoop. I believe Oda Kami Sosuke thinks so too?"

"His Royal Highness intends to attack Sakamoto? It's not the right time." Oda Nobunaga pondered: "The top priority should be for His Royal Highness to become a general, and then discuss the decision to attack Sakamoto!" (To be continued...)