On October 4, Oda Nobunaga once again raised his troops to attack Luo. 40,000 troops from Owari, Mino, and Ise marched toward the territory of the Asai family without detouring from the mountain road. The Oda family was located in Minami Omi.
Shibata Katsuie, Mori Katsunari and Sakuma Nobumori also led their 18,000 troops north to join the army. The Asakura family's army had no way to arrive in time, and Asai Nagamasa did not dare to rely on his own strength of less than 20,000 people.
The troops rushed to a decisive battle and had to gather the main troops in Otani Castle, leaving the troops in Sawayama Castle, Yokoyama Castle, and Kamabusa Castle on Oda Nobunaga's march route to hold on.
However, Oda Nobunaga's attention was not on the Asai family and the Asakura family, but on solving the Miyoshi family, which was a serious enemy. Therefore, he did not order an attack on the Asai family's city, but went straight through. Afterwards, he left
Sakuma Nobumori and Mori Katsunari were stationed at Minami-Omi, and the main force continued to march westward to Kyoto. After leaving Kinoshita Hideyoshi and Akechi Mitsuhide's 4,000 men to continue to guard Kyoto, the main force of the Oda army moved further westward, and separated Ikeda Tsuneko and
Takigawa Kazumasu led 6,000 troops south to support Maple Mountain Castle. As an ally of Oda Nobunaga under the banner of Kamilakus, Matsushita Nagahide also led 10,000 troops towards the border between Yamato and Hanoi.
At the same time, Yu Qiuping had already led Changpan Bei, Ming Dybei and the cavalry company, a total of 2,800 soldiers and 4,800 auxiliary troops, to go south, aiming directly at Gaowu City, while the troops of the small wealthy families stayed in the territory to maintain law and order.
The Miyoshi family responded immediately. Miyoshi Masayasu and Miyoshi Nagaitsu immediately gathered 6,000 people from the Miyoshi family in Izumi, Hanoi, and came to the Yamato River line to hold on. Miyoshi Yoshihiro also led 9,000 Iyoko from Shikoku across the sea and came to Hanoi to support
.9,000 Awa soldiers of Miyoshi Yoshihide guarded Shikoku to guard against Choso Gabu Motochin, while Tokawa Ichimon led 9,000 Sanki soldiers to Settsu and met with the main force of the Miyoshi army led by Miyoshi Chokei. The total force reached
32,000 people. And more than 8,000 people in Anzhai Fuyang stayed in Harima behind Settsu to protect themselves from the danger behind them.
On the battlefield of Hanoi Kingdom, Ame Qiupei, Ikeda Tsuneaki, Takigawa Kazumasu and Matsunagahide faced nearly 24,000 people from the Miyoshi Army's 15,000 people, while on the Settsu battlefield, 40,000 people from Oda Nobunaga's headquarters had to face 15,000 people.
To the 32,000 people of Sanhao Family.
Oda Nobunaga took a look at the battle situation and found that Yu Qiupei's special forces failed to lure away many people for him. On the contrary, the situation on the main battlefield was even more anxious. He was very angry and ordered Yu Qiupei to launch a fierce attack to attract more Miyoshi troops to go south.
Yu Qiuping did not dare to neglect, and immediately launched a fierce attack according to Takenaka Shigeharu's plan. He asked Matsunagahide to launch a feint attack on the eastern defense line of Takaya Castle. Although Matsunagahide was not very enthusiastic, the Miyoshi family did not dare to neglect the 10,000 people there.
Miyoshi Masayasu and Miyoshi Choitsu immediately led their troops to withdraw from the Yamato River line and rushed to the east of the city to strengthen defenses.
Amakihei did not wait, but asked Takigawa Kazumasu and Ikeda Tsuneaki to continue to confront Miyoshi Yoshihiro on the north bank of the Yamato River, while he led Tokiwa Bei and Naruhei Bei to move to Sakai Town. Sakai Town is located in the Yamato River
To the south, whether he was attacking Takaya Castle or Kishiwada Castle, it was all flat and there were no obstacles from mountains or rivers. Miyoshi Yoshihiro did not dare to let the most powerful Joban Bei attack everywhere, so he had to leave 3,000 people to guard the front line of Yamato River and attack by himself.
He led the main force of 6,000 people to follow Ua Qiupei to the outskirts of Sakai Town, and confronted Ua Qiupei's main force. Although it was a confrontation, Miyoshi Yoshihiro did not dare to accept the field battle with Tokiwa Bei and Naruhei Bei - the reason was the Kyoto Battle and Shiki Hei.
The shadow that the war brought to the Miyoshi family.
In the Battle of Kyoto, even though Miyoshi Chokei himself recognized it
Due to Yu Qiuping's absolute defense, the Mihaoshi family also suffered a big loss from Yu Qiuping; but in order to regain their position, these Sanhao family samurai always boasted after dinner: "Yu Qiu Hongye is just good at defense.
, If it were an upright field battle, the Sanhao Army could easily defeat Yu Qiuping."
However, in the Shiki Battle not long after - an upright field battle, the Miyoshi family with superior strength was defeated by the sluggish Yu Qiuping with the small wealthy family and the new recruits of the Yamashiro Kingdom. Miyoshi Yoshihide was defeated
The Miyoshi family suffered thousands of losses, and were forced to cede Sakai Town and a large amount of land. This frightened the samurai of the Miyoshi family. For a while, no one dared to fight with Yuqiu.
The army faces each other head on.
Miyoshi Yoshihiro naturally did not dare to fight with his inferior force. However, he did not dare to fight, which meant that he was completely unable to limit the Yu Qiu family's maneuvers. Takenaka Shigeharu suggested that Yu Qiuping take advantage of
Miyoshi Yoshihiro did not dare to fight, so he separated Tokiwabei and Naruheibei, restraining them all the way, and heading straight to Kishiwada Castle on the other hand. However, Yu Qiupei, who was always cautious, was not willing to take the risk of dividing his troops, so he gave up.
However, Yu Qiuping did not stop there. Under the secret activities of Amano Keitoku's crows and the call of Hatakeyama Takamasa, the small wealthy families in Minamigouchi rose up in arms to resist the Miyoshi family. Originally influenced by Hatakeyama Takamasa, they had already
Refusing to join the Miyoshi family's army, now they are directly turning against each other. Miyoshi Yoshihiro, who is on fire all over the territory, cannot spare any troops to suppress it - because all the Miyoshi family's troops have been restrained by the Oda and Matsunaga coalition forces on the defense line.
Living.
Miyoshi Nagaitsu once tried to rely on old friends to sleep with Uimatsu Hisashihide - because the latter did have an ambiguous attitude in the previous two years, and he was also aloof from the Oda family. He did not support the Oda family's military operations. Instead, he acted a few months ago
Weird. Even during this military operation, Matsunagahide on the eastern front had been working hard and did not launch a decent offensive at all. In Miyoshi Nagaitsu's view, Matsunagahide was definitely not of the same mind as the Oda family, and neither was Oda Nobunaga.
Wouldn't trust Matsunaga Hide.
However, Matsunaga's attitude this time was unusually resolute. Not only did he violate basic diplomatic etiquette and samurai ethics, he directly showed the head of the envoy sent by Miyoshi Nagaitsu to the public, and also directly handed over Miyoshi Nagaitsu's secret message.
It was given to Oda Nobunaga - not Ashikaga Yoshiteru. As the leader of the shogunate, his status is at least equal to that of Oda Nobunaga. He gave the secret message to Oda Nobunaga instead of Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
It is equivalent to lowering oneself to the same level as Tokugawa Ieyasu.
After Oda Nobunaga learned of this, he immediately praised Matsunagahide. He not only awarded him two exquisite tea utensils, but also promised to seal his territory after defeating the Miyoshi family. Oda Nobunaga's move was probably to establish his reputation.
He set an example to win back people's hearts and try to win over the daimyo in Kinki area who opposed him.
However, Matsunagahide, who was courteous to Oda Nobunaga, was still working as a foreigner on the front line. This behavior made Miyoshi Choitsu and Miyoshi Masayasu completely confused. Matsunagahide was like a dormant poisonous snake, ready to spring out and bite people at any time.
One bite - I just don't know who it was.
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Seeing that the situation in Hanoi and Izumi was not optimistic, Miyoshi Nagakei had no choice but to order Tokawa Ichino to personally lead 9,000 Sanukis to cross the sea to support and suppress the rebellion of the small wealthy clans. However, the Miyoshi army faced off against the Oda army in Settsu.
The number of people plummeted to 23,000. Oda Nobunaga immediately seized the opportunity to launch a fierce attack. After a hard battle, he captured Akutagawa Mountain Castle and Takatsuki Castle on October 19, and the Miyoshi family castle that had been hanging to the north of Maple Leaf Mountain Castle was uprooted.
The Oda family, which was gaining momentum, continued to advance westward and began to attack the Miyoshi family's important strongholds - Noda Castle and Fukushima Castle, located between Arioka Castle and Ishiyama Gobo, south of the Yodogawa River. Miyoshi Nagakei himself led his troops to personally stationed in the two cities, preparing to defend them to the death.
Castle. Oda Nobunaga led the army to surround Noda Castle and Fukushima Castle from the east and south, preparing to defeat the main force of the Miyoshi family in one fell swoop.
However, when the troops under the Oda family were making random arrests in the south of Noda Castle, they unexpectedly plundered a Honganji caravan from Ishiyama Gobo. Honganji Kenyo, the head of Honganji Temple, immediately sent someone to accuse Oda Nobunaga and
Ask him to return the goods belonging to Honganji Temple. Oda Nobunaga has a bad temper, how can he suffer such a loss? In addition, he relies on having an army of 40,000 at his disposal, and does not regard Honganji Temple as those "bald donkeys" at all.
(his own words) took him seriously, so instead he sent a messenger to ask Honganji Temple to donate military expenses to the Oda family's army.
Honganji Kenru heard that Oda Nobunaga turned around to blackmail him. He was furious and immediately gathered his troops to declare war on Oda Nobunaga. Oda Nobunaga did not take Honganji Kenru seriously at all and immediately left Shibata behind.
Katsuie and Niwa Nagahide focused on Miyoshi Nagakei and went south to attack Honganji Temple. However, Honganji Temple had the support of Zaga Zhong and Nelai Zhong, and assembled thousands of iron cannons to start a duel with Oda Nobunaga. Unprepared
Although Oda Nobunaga suppressed the Honganji Temple with his numerical superiority, he himself suffered heavy losses, and Sasana Narimasa was seriously injured and almost died.
When the Oda family and the Honganji Temple came together, Amakihei immediately panicked. His own territory was in the shape of a "j", and the territory of the Honganji Temple was located in the place surrounded by the "j". Originally, he was in a "j" shape.
When Honganji and Honganji are at peace with each other because of their common enemy, the Miyoshi family, he can still deploy his troops with ease. But if Honganji and the Oda family are hostile, then Honganji can invade his territory from all directions. His territory is equivalent to
Being attacked everywhere, or from the front and back!
Ame Qiupei hurriedly sent an envoy to request Oda Nobunaga to cease the war and make amends with Honganji Temple, but was rejected by Oda Nobunaga. However, as the Tokawa Ichibun troops landed at Kishiwada Castle, Ame Qiupei had to break away from the peace.
After being contacted by Miyoshi Yoshihiro, he returned to Sakai Town to hold on.
Oda Nobunaga, who had lost face because of Honganji's attitude, did not want to end it like this, but continued to attack Honganji. Seeing this, Honganji declared Oda Nobunaga an "enemy of Buddha" and called on all the people in the world to do so.
The followers of the Ichiboku religion stood up and defeated the Oda family.
Due to war and famine, the Ichiko sect with simple doctrines was able to gain a large number of believers in Japan. Once these believers united to launch the Ichiko sect, their power was powerful enough to overthrow a daimyo. In Kaga, the original ruler was a member of the Ichiko sect.
He was expelled. And the incident that happened in Mikawa 7 years ago almost took away half of Tokugawa Ieyasu's life.
And these samurai just made the Ichijo sect believers unhappy in a country. But Oda Nobunaga directly annoyed the leader of the Iichi sect, Honganji Hianru, and was declared an enemy of the Buddha - the leader of the Ichijo sect all over the country.
The enemy is doing well. In Omi, Mino, and Owari, attacks immediately broke out, attacking the Oda family's troops and cities everywhere. On Nagashima, within the Oda family's territory, a large-scale attack broke out, almost
It blocked the connection between Ise Country and Owari Country. The troops of Oda Nobunaga, the younger brother of Oda Nobunaga and the lord of Ogie Castle in Owari Country, were defeated by the Ichizu clan rebels and committed suicide after the city was broken. Owari was in danger.
Chapter completed!