After Yu Qiuping walked out of the castle tower, he found Tokugawa Nobuyasu and Mrs. Tsukuyama waiting outside uneasily. When he saw Yu Qiuping coming out, he immediately came up.
"Uncle...Father, Meng Lang went to war earlier and caused heavy losses to Yu Qiu Ping's army. I'm really sorry." Tokugawa Nobuyasu saw Yu Qiuping's red eyes and immediately knelt down and gave Yu Qiu Ping a big gift, "
I would like to apologize for my father."
"Sanlang, it's not your fault, it doesn't have to be like this. Your Majesty has your considerations. You are still young and don't understand that yet." Yu Qiuping tried his best to squeeze out a smile, helped Tokugawa Nobuyasu up, and patted him on the shoulder.
He patted him and said, "You are an amazing good boy, just and responsible. In the future, you must stick to your original intention and nature and keep going all the way."
You are a good boy with a kind nature. Don't become like your father.
Yu Qiuping said silently in his heart.
"Is uncle leaving?" Tokugawa Nobuyasu heard the meaning of Yu Qiuping's words and asked with some surprise, "Our Tokugawa family has not entertained uncle properly and thanked uncle for his kindness to the Tokugawa family again and again.
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What are you grateful for? Are you waiting for Tokugawa Ieyasu to take revenge?
Yu Qiuping still tried his best to smile and shook his head, "It's almost time for spring plowing. I have to rush back. How can so many people stay abroad for a long time?"
"Alright Saburo, His Highness Hongye has his own opinion, please stop it." Mrs. Tsukuyama saw that Tokugawa Nobuyasu still wanted to persuade her, so she stopped her. At the same time, she smiled at Yu Qiuping and said, "His Royal Highness Hongye returned to Maple Mountain Castle, remember
Say hello to Feng'er for me. I haven't seen her for a long time. Next time you are free, please bring her with you."
"That's natural. Feng'er also specifically asked me to say hello to you." Yu Qiuping smiled and returned the greeting. After that, he wanted to say goodbye and leave. Before leaving, he seemed to suddenly remember something and turned around again.
He leaned close to the ears of Tokugawa Nobuyasu and Mrs. Tsukuyama, and lowered his voice: "There is one more thing I need to remind you. You two should keep it in mind to get better, and don't talk nonsense."
"Of course I have a sense of propriety." Tokugawa Nobuyasu saw Yu Qiuping suddenly being so formal and nodded hurriedly.
"Because the Tokugawa family is an important ally of the Oda family, but the life experiences of Saburo and Mrs. Tsukiyama are inextricably linked to their former owners, the Imagawa family, some people in the Oda family are quite critical of this." Yu Qiuping said in a subtle way.
In an almost inaudible voice, he said coldly, "Don't get involved with the Takeda family, otherwise I can't guarantee that the Lord will do something."
"Are you talking about the Five Virtues?" Mrs. Tsukiyama frowned when she heard this, and the resentment on her face was instantly evident. As the princess of the Imagawa family, she naturally had an unforgettable resentment towards the Oda family, which had a hatred of the country and the family.
In order to consolidate their alliance with the Tokugawa family, the Oda family married Princess Oda Itsoku to Tokugawa Nobuyasu many years ago. The intertwining of family hatred and conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law made the relationship between Mrs. Tsukuyama and Princess Gotoku very bad.
, Tokugawa Nobuyasu was caught in the middle and it was very difficult for him to be a good person.
"Mother!" Tokugawa Nobuyasu whispered with some horror, fearing that Yu Qiupei, as a retainer of the Oda family, would be aware of the contradiction between Oda Gotoku and Mrs. Tsukuyama - in fact, Yu Qiupei had known about it for a long time. Not only
Through the history of the previous life, it was because Oda Gotoku wrote many times to Oda Nobunaga to accuse Mrs. Tsukiyama of bullying her. Oda Nobunaga has mentioned this matter several times at gatherings of ministers, and it seems that this is the case.
Very dissatisfied.
"It doesn't matter, I'm not an outsider, and I won't talk too much." Yu Qiuping shook his head, and patted Tokugawa Nobuyasu on the shoulder to reassure him, "I am limited by my status, so please pay more attention."
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By the time Yu Qiupei led his army back to Kinki, it was already February of the fourth year of Gengui (1573). During the more than two months he spent training his troops in Mikawa, the situation in Kinki had undergone earth-shaking changes.
The first is the Miyoshi family - after they entered the spring plowing, they once again had to withdraw because they could not delay the spring plowing. After withdrawing most of Kinki, the Miyoshi family no longer had enough farmland and grain production areas to sustain the long-term overseas expenditure of the army.
They didn't dare to delay the farm work at all. The Honganji Temple also faced a similar dilemma. They mainly relied on the common people for combat power and had to withdraw their troops when the farming was busy.
The Oda family is different. The Oda family controls the Onono Plain, the largest grain-producing area in Japan. Together with the Minami Omi, food can be continuously supplied to the troops every year. In addition, Oda Nobunaga is gradually implementing his separation of soldiers and farmers.
-Standing Army Plan, all Oda families have the ability to keep troops abroad for a long time and delay spring plowing.
Nobunaga's original plan to encircle the network was for the Miyoshi family, Honganji family, Asai family, Asakura family, Matsunaga family, Ashikaga Yoshiteru and others to raise their troops to attack Kinki, dragging down all Oda Nobunaga's troops, leaving a void
Then, Takeda Shingen sent troops to Luo, all the way to the weak back of the Oda family, thereby defeating the Oda family in one fell swoop. However, who could have expected that Takeda Shingen died unexpectedly? As soon as the Takeda army withdrew, all plans
There is no way to talk about it. Because compared to a war of attrition, these coalition forces cannot consume Oda Nobunaga, so it is meaningless to hold back Oda Nobunaga's troops here.
The Miyoshi family and the Honganji family withdrew their troops; they came fiercely, and the prestigious Takeda army was repulsed by Amakihei, and Takeda Shingen also died unfortunately; even the world-famous Akabi was destroyed by the Momiji cavalry. One after another, the bad news made the previous
The morale of the participants in Nobunaga's siege, which was in full swing, plummeted, and many small wealthy families returned to the side of the Oda family.
As the Asakura family also had to withdraw their troops due to spring plowing, the Asai family, who was unable to support themselves, was also forced to give up the Kinki-Ono passage they had controlled for many months. Food from Ono could be continuously transported to Kinki, allowing Oda Nobu
The long army regained its ability to strategically attack.
Seeing that the situation was so dangerous, the Isshiki family, the Hatano family, and other minor daimyo bastards withdrew their troops one after another, and even wrote letters to express their apologies to Oda Nobunaga. However, Matsunaga Hide, an old fox, saw that something was wrong, and immediately betrayed Ashikaga Yoshiteru and sent Oda Nobunaga to Oda Nobunaga.
Naga offered tea utensils to surrender and attacked the granary and family members of the Ashikaga Army, and tied all Ashikaga Yoshiteru's wife and children to Oda Nobunaga. For the sake of Matsunaga Hide's good performance, Oda Nobunaga once again magnanimously
Forgave him - no one understood why Oda Nobunaga had such a good temper towards Matsunaga Hide.
At the end of last year, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, who was still relying on the Nobunaga siege network organized by himself to control the situation and vaguely had the potential to revive the Ashikaga shogunate, became a loner again in just two months. And this time the Nobunaga siege network
The turning point was when Amakihei defeated Takeda Shingen in the Battle of Mikachi Town - after that, everything developed in a direction that was beneficial to the Oda family. Of course, people of this era did not know that in later middle school history exams
Here, what was the turning point of Nobunaga's first siege has become a required question in the big exam.
In March of the fourth year of Gengame (1573), the outnumbered Ashikaga Yoshiteru was defeated by the Oda army, which was more than ten times his number. He was forced to give up most of the Yamashiro country that he finally controlled and surrendered the Nijo Imperial Palace.
In embarrassment, Ashikaga Yoshiteru tried to move out the emperor to mediate. However, this time Oda Nobunaga did a great job. Not only did he reject the emperor's request, but he also later blocked all the passages around the Nijo Imperial Palace, allowing Ashikaga Yoshiteru to continue.
Send a messenger
stay home.
Due to the heavy losses of the Hongye Army in previous combat effectiveness, Oda Nobunaga did not ask them to participate in this series of joint battles, but allowed them to return to Hanoi to recuperate. As for Ua Qiupei, Oda Nobunaga asked Ua Qiupei to lead him because he had just defeated
The Red Leaf Cavalry, which was prepared and famous all over the world, came to Shancheng Kingdom to suppress the battle - in fact, it was to overwhelm the surrounding Xiaoxiao.
Yu Qiupei then entrusted his troops to Takenaka Shigeharu, who had just recovered from a serious illness. He led the guards and cavalry to the Nijo Imperial Palace to meet with the Oda family's army. By the time he arrived, the Oda army had already launched a fierce attack on the Nijo Imperial Palace.
.Due to the disparity in military strength, the flags of the Ashikaga Nibikiryo on Nijo Castle fell one after another. Finally, Ashikaga Yoshiteru and his remaining dozens of followers were surrounded in his residence.
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"Hongye, tell me, how did you kill that Chibei?" Oda Nobunaga's first words after seeing Yu Qiupei were to wave his hands very energetically, "Those mountain monkeys are arrogant.
Finally, we dealt with them well!"
"Your Majesty." Ame Qiupei walked half a body behind Oda Nobunaga, and stood with Oda Nobunaga on the wall of Honmaru, watching the progress of the siege of Ashikaga Yoshiteru's residence. I wonder if it was because of Oda Nobunaga.
With this perverse move, there was a slight drizzle in the sky. "Chibei is indeed brave, and he is no match for me in the cavalry confrontation. So, I arranged all the cavalry into two dense rows, and smashed into them like a wall, and
One life of Chibei is exchanged for another. The morale of Chibei's men could not be withstood at first, so they were killed by me."
"Pfft!" Oda Nobunaga burst out laughing when he heard this, "You kid, you can't think of it. Are you using the cavalry as infantry? Look at your infantry being arrayed like tofu cubes.
I didn't expect your cavalry to do this."
"It's really helpless, my lord. If I could win the hedging, I wouldn't make such a trick." Yu Qiuping noticed that Oda Nobunaga seemed to be in an unexpectedly good mood. Originally, in the past few years, he had been in a bad mood because of
There was a stalemate with Oda Nobunaga over various things, but Oda Nobunaga didn't seem to take it to heart at all. However, according to Ikeda Tsuneaki, Oda Nobunaga had almost been with everyone except Lin Xiuzhen and Niwa Nagahide in the past few years.
Everyone has had quarrels, no less than his own. However, since Oda Nobunaga could even accept the rebel Shibata Katsuie, he might not really take the opposition of his subordinates to heart.
"My lord is planning to negotiate peace with Gongfangdian when the war lasts." Yu Qiuping pointed to Ashikaga Yoshiteru's residence, "Isn't it a bit too much to beat Gongbangdian to such a mess? At least there should be some left for him.
Face? No matter how fierce the quarrel between the Miyoshi family and the Matsunaga family was before, they have never forced Gongfangden into such a situation. Otherwise, if we make peace in the future and we meet again, it will not look good in terms of face."
"Who told you that I would see him again?" Oda Nobunaga snorted coldly, took out the folding fan from his waist, and tapped it gently on the battlement.
"My lord, are you going to replace someone as a general?" Yu Qiuping was stunned when he heard this, "Is it the eldest son of Gongfangdian, Teruwamaru, or the younger brother of Gongfangdian, His Highness Yoshiaki?"
Ashikaga Yoshiaki has been under the control of Oda Nobunaga for a long time, and Ashikaga Teruwakamaru was kidnapped by Matsunaga Hide before. No matter who he chooses, it seems to be excusable. But Yu Qiupei knows Ashikaga Yoshiaki
As a person, historically he was the one who built Nobunaga's encirclement network, and he would definitely do evil in secret. And this Ashikaga Teruwamaru seemed not to have been born in his previous life, and Yu Qiupei knew nothing about him.
"Who told you that I would continue to keep the general?" Oda Nobunaga snorted again. This time, a murderous look flashed across his eyes.
Chapter completed!