When he was triumphantly patrolling Yoshida Koriyama Castle, which was all under his control, news came that Mouri Terumoto and Du Fei had reached a reconciliation.
Suddenly he became terrified! This was beyond his expectation! He originally thought that Maori Huiyuan would not come back for at least a month from his trip, and that he would be defeated by Du Fei, who had a strong army and was famous for his reputation.
!Even if you win by luck, your vitality will be severely damaged. It would be good if 30% of the troops who stopped ten times come back.
In anticipation of this, he carried the seriously ill Kobayakawa Takakage and four thousand of his own troops to Yoshida Koriyama Castle, and when Mouri Terumoto asked him to help defend the city, he took advantage of the situation.
He planned to use a month to establish a foothold here, stock up on military rations, and prepare for his fall out with Mouri Terumoto.
Unexpectedly, Terumoto Mori disappointed him so much that he only had an armed march in the four countries and then came back with a depressed head, completely disrupting his plan.
While asking where the ninja Mouri Terumoto's army had arrived, he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to put the remaining retainers into the dungeon.
At this time, Kobayakawa Shubao knew in his heart that Mouri Terumoto had a large army of more than ten thousand people! If he had a small force and fought with him head-on, he would only be dead!
But if he did nothing here, he would still die! His survival instinct made him quickly come up with a plan: use a trick to frame Mouri Terumoto into the city, and then take advantage of the army before it completely entered the city.
Lock it up outside the city, and let the emperor come to order the princes!
Because Kobayakawa Shubao blocked the news well, Mori Terumoto, who gradually approached Yoshida Koriyama Castle without warning, knew about it.
When he arrived at the city gate, he saw the honor guard who came to greet him, but strangely, none of the familiar faces appeared.
While he was wondering, he suddenly saw Hideo Kobayakawa running out of the city in a panic, and said to Terumoto Mori: "Brother, please come here quickly. Father is back! He seems to be seriously ill, and all the ministers are inside!"
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As soon as Mouri Terumoto heard this, he ran towards the city without thinking, but at this moment, a thin figure suddenly stood in front of them. When everyone took a closer look, it turned out to be Kobayakawa Hideaki!
I saw that Kobayakawa Hideaki at this time did not show any of his usual cowardice, but had a serious look on his face!
"Brother! Don't make the same mistake again and again!" He said word for word: "You have failed, so you should honestly ask His Highness for forgiveness!"
At this time, everyone was confused! Only Yoshikawa Keike reacted faster. He rushed in front of Mouri Terumoto in a few steps and blocked Mouri Terumoto behind him!
Seeing that the situation was not good, Kobayakawa Shubao quickly turned around and ran towards the city! He shouted loudly: "Close the city gate!"
The city gate was slowly closing. Just when there was a gap left, Xiong Guli snatched a soldier's spear away with his eyes and hands quickly, and stuck it in the only gap left in the city gate!
The spear broke with a click! But giving the soldiers behind him time, several big men stuck their spears and weapons in the gap of the city gate.
"You traitor!" Maori Terumoto also understood at this time. He ordered the soldiers to form a combat formation while commanding everyone to desperately open the city gate!
I saw Toshio Kumagai's strong and powerful arms clinging to the gap in the city gate, desperately trying to push him open bit by bit.
Several burly soldiers also rushed forward to help, and finally, the city gate was opened!
Kobayakawa Hideaki, who had just escaped back to the city, hurriedly ordered the soldiers to shoot! But the soldiers looked at him blankly and did not take action.
He looked back and was stunned: he saw a wave of soldiers rushing in! Crowding the open space in the city.
"This! -" Kobayakawa Hideaki never dreamed that every move he made was actually seen by his seemingly weak and innocent younger brother Kobayakawa Hideaki. At this time, he was already like a mad dog. In order to save his life, he took several
A trusted guard hurriedly ran into the dungeon, took the captured important officials of the Maori family as hostages, and forced the approaching Maori Terumoto generals to retreat!
But this move obviously has no effect. If you coerce Mouri Terumoto himself, maybe everyone will give you some face, but just holding these old guys in your hands really won't create much of a deterrent force.
Those veterans kept shouting: "Leave me alone! Lord! Kill this traitor quickly!"
At this time, all the troops of Kobayakawa Hidehiko's confidants in the city had been disarmed. Mouri Terumoto pushed aside the guards and said to Kobayakawa Hidehiro: "You'd better surrender quickly! Resistance is fruitless! You have nothing to do.
You will get it! Don’t worry, I care about you and we are brothers after all, I will not kill you, you leave the territory of the Maori family! I believe everyone here doesn’t want to see you again!”
Hideba Kobayakawa's hands suddenly softened! The weapon in his hand suddenly fell to the ground!
He covered his face with his hands and rushed out of the city with a depressed head.
"I really didn't expect this kind of thing to happen." Mouri Terumoto shook his head and said, "Hey, is it my administration?"
"Your Highness! Please don't talk nonsense!" Hiraga Motoxiang said seriously: "People are panicking now. If you say such unsatisfactory words again, it is very likely that there will be an out-of-control chaos!"
Yoshikawa Keike looked at Kobayakawa Shubao who was running out of the city in a panic, and felt very emotional in his heart: Such things can happen between good brothers. It seems that the temptation of power is really too great!
An idea popped into his mind: Will the Guang family and I do this or that to them in the future?
Then he couldn't help but look at Hiroie Yoshikawa next to him. Coincidentally, Hiroie Yoshikawa was also looking at him! They looked at each other and smiled, feeling very embarrassed.
Mouri Terumoto seemed to be greatly shocked after this incident, and he immediately fell ill.
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Kinoshita Tokichiro smiled coldly after hearing the results of the battle between Du Fei and Mouri Terumoto in the Four Kingdoms. He had already dismissed the difficult Moori family in the past.
Jilu Castle, as his former main city, now seemed out of date, so he decisively moved the main city to Azuchi Castle.
However, he soon moved out again, because here he had nightmares night after night, dreaming that Oda Nobunaga was standing in front of him covered in blood, pointing a knife at him.
He hired a monk to perform the ritual for him, but it had no effect at all, making him suspicious and extremely anxious all day long.
Then an eminent monk said to him: "Donor, you have committed so many crimes, and those lonely ghosts are still haunting you. Only by settling in a Buddhist Feng Shui holy place can you avert danger!"
So he and Du Fei asked for the Ishiyama Honganji Temple with excellent feng shui, renovated the dilapidated city, and renamed it "Osaka".
During this period, after repeated negotiations with the ministers in Kyoto, Tokichiro was awarded the title of "Taikou Minister" by the emperor, and his official position reached Guanbai. At this time, the Kinoshita family was prosperous and had begun to take on the appearance of the world's hegemon.
At this time, Kinoshita Tokichiro has begun a new round of war preparations. His army is growing day by day with the continuous expansion of his territory. He already has more than 40,000 well-equipped soldiers! He sets his sights on Tokugawa, who has always been at odds with him.
Ieyasu! He began to publicly declare that if the Tokugawa family did not cooperate with him, they would become his next target!
After learning that Kinoshita Tokichiro was gearing up with his father-in-law, Du Fei, who had just been lucky enough to scare away Mouri Terumoto, immediately had a long face. He didn't expect that Tokichiro would be so arrogant!
So he quickly wrote a letter, and in the letter he scolded Tokichiro unceremoniously! Du Fei was not a stingy person. In a city as big as Ishiyama Honganji Temple, Tokichiro said that Du Fei would not hesitate.
So I gave it to him as a gift. But Tokugawa Ieyasu is still his relative and his father-in-law, Lao Taishan. Isn't it just a slap in the face in disguise? Although he understood that Tokichiro was already prosperous at this time.