In mid-March of the twelfth year of Yonglu (1569), the stormy sky over Japan was once again shrouded in dark clouds of war.
At the beginning of this year, in order to unify Kitakyushu, the overlord of Kyushu Island, Otomo Sorin, launched an attack on the Ryuzoji family, which had been colluding with the Mori family, and surrounded Saka Castle. Ryuzoji Takanobu himself was unable to resist, so he could only ask Motonari for help.
Reinforcements. Moto Moto, who has been working on the Kyushu strategy in recent days, is well aware of the magnitude of the matter and dare not neglect it. He personally leads an army of 40,000 to Kitakyushu for reinforcements. Among the two Moto rivers, Motoharu Yoshikawa, Takakage Kobayakawa, Sadatoshi Fukuhara, and Nobunao Kumagai.
, Yoshimi Masayori and other important ministers all joined the army, which can be said to be the strongest lineup of the Maori family. After the Maori army landed in Chikuzen, they immediately surrounded Otomo's Tachibanayama Castle.
When Otomo Sorin saw the whole army coming from Mourigen, he also gathered troops again in his territory. The Maori family and the Otomo family are both daimyo with a total stone height of more than 1.1 million koku, but the Otomo family has the advantage of fighting in the local area, and it is more convenient to mobilize troops.
Counting the forces of the Aso family and other alliances and vassals, the total number of Otomo forces is close to 50,000. Otomo Sorin relied on his superior force to force Ryuzoji Takanobu to negotiate peace with him, and then turned to Chikuzen, intending to fight the main force of the Mori family.
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At the same time, there is no peace on Shikoku Island. Miyoshi Nagakei has gathered a large number of troops in Sanuki Country and Awa Country, and it is obvious that he is going to make a big move. The Miyoshi family is currently fighting with the Akamatsu family, the Oda family and the Nagasogabe family.
The war started. The Ikeda rebels in the Settsu Kingdom had been completely suppressed at the beginning of the year, and now the troops of the Settsu Kingdom were turning to the Harima area. And the Choso Gabe Motochichi also had no way to deal with the main force of the Miyoshi family. Before the spring plowing, they
They had already returned to Tosa in despair. However, the main troops of the Uchimiyoshi family in Kishiwada Castle and Takaya Castle were also very active after the spring plowing, and they were constantly in friction with the Yuqiu family's garrison.
Whether it is the Akamatsu family of Harima Kingdom, the Chosougabe family of Tosa Kingdom, or Amakihei of Kawachi Izumi, there is a lot of panic at the moment, fearing that the Miyoshi family's army on Shikoku Island will come directly to them. For this reason, Amakihei specially
Request reinforcements from Oda Nobunaga. After a winter of repairs, the Oda family has restored its ability to fight. Shibata Katsuie, Sakuma Nobumori and Moriko Chengdu in Minamiomia have assembled troops and are ready to reinforce Yu Qiupei at any time.
.And Oda Nobunaga himself is also in Owari, and Mino has begun to recruit militiamen in advance. If the entire Miyoshi family really comes, Oda Nobunaga will also come to Kyoto again to have another showdown with Miyoshi Nagakei.
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Time passed slowly in the tense atmosphere day by day, and no one of the forces involved dared to take it lightly. On May 1st, Anzai Fuyasu's navy arrived at the ports of Sanuki and Awa Kingdom, and a large number of Miyoshi troops
Start boarding the ship. After Ame Qiupei learned the news from Shosaku of the Military Intelligence Department, he immediately realized that something was wrong and hurriedly sent a request for help to Oda Nobunaga. The Akamatsu family of Harima Kingdom was already under the control of Miyoshi of Settsu Kingdom.
The troops were breathless from the fight, and they were also on tenterhooks at this moment. However, Motochichi Chosogabu finally let go of his worries - the Miyoshi family's boarding the ship meant that the target was no longer his Tosa.
However, to everyone's surprise, after boarding the ship, the Miyoshi family's army headed straight to the west and landed in Iyo Country at the northwest end of Shikoku Island. The wealthy families of Iyo Country were caught off guard and before they had time to react, Lusen
The city has been surrounded by the Miyoshi family's army. Miyoshi Yoshihide claims that the current governor of the Kono family, Kono Michizanao, relied on conspiracy to seize the position of governor and placed the former governor Kono Nobunobu under house arrest. The Miyoshi family's trip was because they received
Kono Tsunade's secret letter requesting assistance from the Miyoshi family came in order to support Kono Tonnobu's restoration. Although Kono Tonnobu immediately refuted the rumor, saying that he had never written such a letter, he voluntarily gave up the position of governor of the family to Kono Tonkinao.
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But ignored it.
There are many wealthy families in Iyo Country on Shikoku Island. The Kono family is only a minister in name and does not have such strong control over local affairs. The reason why Iyo Country can be established on Shikoku Island alongside the Miyoshi family and Chosogabe family is because they
There are powerful backers behind it - the Maori family and the Otomo family.
However, the main forces of the Mori family and the Otomo family were all facing each other in Kyushu at this moment, and those who stayed in the territory were unable to support Iyo. The family governor of the Kono family, Kono Michinao, hurriedly sent people to mediate between the Maori family and the Otomo family, trying to get the two families to return to their divisions.
Rescue himself. The Mouri family immediately agreed, but the Otomo family refused. Motomo discovered that something was fishy and immediately sent his ninjas to investigate, only to find that the Miyoshi family seemed to have secretly formed an alliance with the Otomo family. Otherwise, Otomo family
The family has no reason to let the Sanhao family attack their allies.
The Maori family was under pressure and had no choice but to seek a quick victory so that they could go back to rescue the Kono family and keep the Maori family's fulcrum on Shikoku Island. However, the Maori family itself was slightly smaller in number than the Otomo family, and it was an away game, so taking the initiative to attack was particularly important.
It was difficult. The two armies fought a bloody battle at Tatarahama, and the Mori family ended in defeat.
However, the methods of the Miyoshi family and the Otomo family are one after another. A large part of the territory currently occupied by the Mori family is the land of the Ouchi family and Nizi family in the past. And the Ouchi Teruhiro of the Ouchi family
, is currently in exile at the home of the Ouchi family. As early as last year, when Ashikaga Yoshie was still alive, the Otomo family had already contacted the Miyoshi family and applied to the imperial court and the shogunate for a letter of approval for Ouchi Teruhiro to succeed the Ouchi family governor.
Seeing that the time was ripe, the Ouchi family funded Ouchi Teruhiro's troops, horses, money and food, allowing him to return to Zhou Fangguo and call on the remnants of the Ouchi family to revolt. Soon after, this army captured Gao, the capital of Zhou Fangguo.
Rei Castle. At the same time, the Miyoshi family also funded the Nizi family's Yamanaka Yukimori to lead a group of Nizi's retainers to attack all over the Izumo country within the Mori family's territory, and began to besiege Tsukiyama Tomita Castle.
What Motonori didn't expect even more was the next move of the Miyoshi family. After putting down the Miyoshi family troops that landed, the Awaji navy of Fuyoshi Azaya did not return to Awaji country, but continued westward to Kyushu Island and China.
The Kanmon Strait between them attacked the Maori family's transport fleet. The Maori family's naval commander Ichikawa Keiyoshi was caught off guard and was captured by Azaya Fuyayasu's fleet.
Seeing that the situation was beyond control, the helpless Maori Yuan had no choice but to order the withdrawal. Before leaving, he lit up all the lights in the camp. The Otomo family thought it was a fraud and did not dare to pursue, allowing the Maori family to successfully escape under the cover of the navy.
Withdrawal. However, under the attack of the Miyoshi Navy and the Otomo Navy, it was already very difficult for the Maori Navy to cover the evacuation of the troops, and they had to abandon a large amount of baggage. When the Maori family withdrew to China, they were unable to support them because of the loss of too much baggage.
Iyo country.
After receiving the news that the Miyoshi family's army was advancing westward, Oda Nobunaga also made a prompt decision and led the army assembled in the Ono area south to invade Ise. As early as two years ago, Takigawa Kazumasushi had already attacked Ise several times.
, surrendered the Kobe clan, Nagano clan and other northern Ise wealthy families. The Kobe clan and the Nagano clan even had to welcome Oda Nobunaga's son Oda Nobutaka and Oda Nobunaga's younger brother Oda Shinbago as their heirs. And now,
Oda Nobunaga's military front was aimed directly at Central Ise and Minami Ise. Ise Province Secretary Kitahata Tomomikaku showed no weakness and personally sat in Okouchi Castle to prepare to resist Oda Nobunaga's attack.
Kawachi Izumi, which was about to become the center of the Kinki storm, was calm due to the respective strategies of the Oda family and the Miyoshi family. Yu Qiupei breathed a sigh of relief. His new system had just been established, and if it was about to be baptized by a military disaster, I'm afraid
The odds are stacked against the odds. Now the Miyoshi family is marching westward to Iyo Country, and they won't be able to pacify it within a few months, which gives him enough transition time.
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On May 22, on the outskirts of Wakae City, Yu Qiu Shang was practicing wrestling with Naoe Seigenmaru and Ii Komatsu. Although Hatakeyama Takamasa was an old-fashioned man, he did not put Yu Qiu Yu under almost house arrest like the businessmen of Sakai Town, but gave him
This gave Yu Qiu Shang a lot of free space. If Yu Qiu Shang was willing to go out to practice martial arts, Hatakeyama Takamasa would send more than a dozen people to follow him, and even allowed the Yu Qiu family to send people to visit Yu Qiu Shang.
Yu Qiupei and Imagawa Kaede couldn't leave because of their busy official duties, so they entrusted Ii Naotora to take two children who usually played with Yu Qiu Shang to go see him. Naoyama Nobuhiro didn't know where he got it from.
After hearing the news, he immediately came to Yu Qiuping and told Yu Qiuping that he was willing to take on the task of guarding the group. Yu Qiuping couldn't resist him, so he sent him away.
At this moment, Nobumi Aneyama was following Ii Naotora in a very restrained manner, trying hard to come up with some topics. However, Ii Naotora was not as serious and cold as before. Looking at her three children, a faint expression appeared on her face.
Nobuhiro Aesama couldn't help but feel a little lost in thought.
"Young master, you are still so persistent." Ii Naotora couldn't help but sigh as he watched Yu Qiu Shang being knocked down time and time again by Toromatsu and Naoe Seigenmaru who were a few years younger than him, but still tenaciously continued training:
"A child like this will definitely be successful in the future."
"Yes, it's not easy for him, young master." Nobuyuki Anayama sighed helplessly, "If he hadn't lost that hand, he would be even more amazing than he is now."
"Master Anesama, this is not necessarily the case." Naotora Ii shook her head when she heard this and said, "If it were not for the disability, the young master may not be able to develop such perseverance as he is today." She said, while implying.
He looked deeply at Jingyi Husong, "Just like Husong, if he hadn't been without a father since he was a child, he wouldn't have become sensible so quickly."
Ii Naotora's words made Nobuyuki Anayama suddenly stunned, and he swallowed nervously.
Is this a hint for him to confess? Or is it just an unintentional remark?
Just when Aeshan Xinshi was feeling uneasy, the dozen guards who were responsible for monitoring Yu Qiu Shang came over and whispered: "Master Aeshan, it's almost time. Please take those two young masters back. Otherwise, we
It’s also difficult to do.”
"I know, I won't cause any trouble to you."
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After Nobuyuki Aneyama and Naotora Ii left with their two children, Yu Qiushang still did not want to go back, but wanted to continue training in the suburbs for a while. For this reason, he also asked a man named Hatakeyama Takamasa to be his
Sparring. These guards are not worried about what a disabled child can do. As long as the Yuqiu family is gone, he can make as much noise as he likes. This little surname is not Husong, Chengyuanwan and Yuqiu Shang.
As a grown-up child, it was natural that he would not be too gentle or harsh when dealing with him, and within a few seconds, Yu Qiu Shang was beaten to a disgrace.
"Master Yuqiu, why are you doing this? Why do you have to practice wrestling?" The young man snorted with disdain, "No matter how hard a one-armed person practices, he can't compare to a normal person."
"Wherever you fall, you have to get up." Yu Qiu Shang struggled to get up from the ground, casually patted the dust on his clothes, and took up his stance again, "I once lost all my dignity because of falling.
, I will get it back through my own efforts."
"It's useless. It doesn't matter how long you practice." The young man smiled contemptuously, "But if you need a spanking, I'd be happy to accompany you."
"What if I say it works?"
A strange voice suddenly sounded from the woods nearby.
Chapter completed!