Chapter 497: The Rebellion of the West Three Rivers
The Void Monk trembled all over. He looked back and saw Layman Guo Xin holding two shining small swords. The sharp blades showed a dim reflection under the light. The Void Monk's legs gave way and he fell to the ground and exclaimed: "You...
...Guo Xin...you actually left and came back again! What did you want to do when you broke in?"
Layman Guo Xin had a sneer at the corner of his mouth. He walked slowly to the side of the Monk of Nothingness and bent down to him and said, "Because someone is paying for Master's life, and the reward he paid is too great for me to refuse.
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"What kind of reward! I... I'm willing to give you double the reward! As long as you let me go!" The Void Monk tried to get up in panic, but he was old and frail and lost 70% to 80% of his ability due to this frightening thing.
Under the pressure of layman Guoxin, he couldn't even stand up.
Layman Guoxin gently placed the small sword across the neck of the monk, and said: "The reward he gave is all the property in the master's name. The gold and silver left behind by the master, this small courtyard and several properties in Kyoto are all
It's mine, Master must know who this person is!"
"It's my rebellious grandson! It must be him! I didn't expect that I, in my foolish life, would have raised such an ignorant white-eyed wolf! I really hate it!" The Void Monk beat his chest and cried to the heavens and the earth.
Cursing his grandson, he glanced at the expressions and movements of Master Guoxin from the corner of his eye.
"Okay! Guo Xin won't delay Master's departure. Farewell!" Layman Guo Xin gently swiped his hands to interweave the two swords to create a gorgeous blood line. The next moment, his head full of shock rose into the sky.
, the hot blood sprayed from the corpse cavity splashed on the golden copper coins, witnessing a terrifying story of betrayal.
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The heat in Mikawa Country is becoming more and more unbearable in the summer. Even if you stand against the Mikawa Bay and welcome the sea breeze, you can't relieve the scorching heat here. Matsudaira Ieyasu rode a tall horse produced by Luo and commanded a force of five thousand to besiege Saijo Castle. From Okehazama
Three full years have passed since the First World War. In the past three years, he has been working diligently to expand the territory of Sanhe Kingdom. He has never given up his pursuit of power and land. He is a man with ambition and ambition.
The former son-in-law of the Imagawa family has long since transformed into a famous overlord of Mikawa. Only his slightly immature face reveals his true age. At a young age, he can independently conquer a large territory and dominate most of Mikawa Country. No matter what,
It seems that they are all outstanding talents. If you don't count the monster-like figure of Kira Yoshitoki, Matsudaira Ieyasu can definitely be regarded as a heroic figure in the Warring States Period.
As early as the conclusion of the Seisu Alliance last year, it was established that Matsudaira Ieyasu's control over Mikawa was stable. In recent years, his expansion has also been striving to implement the original strategic goal of dominating Mikawa. Saijo Castle in front of him is the last target of Mikawa Kingdom, and he commands
Five thousand soldiers from all over the Mikawa Kingdom, all under the banner of Mitsuha Aoi, will attack the territory of the Kira family whether they like it or not.
Ishikawa Boki Morisu, who was in charge of the old Okazaki Jodai family lineage, was in a good mood. Since the raid at the beginning of the first year of the first lunar month successfully captured several branch towns of the Kira family in Natsuda County, in less than half a year, the Matsudaira family was
They marched all the way and swept across Etian County, Bihai County, and Hatou County. With their superior strength and excellent command, they defeated the Kira Army led by Kira Yoshian several times.
Counting the Higashi Mikawa counties that had been basically captured before, the Matsudaira family can be regarded as the veritable lords of the Mikawa Kingdom. Such rapid expansion allowed Matsudaira Ieyasu to accumulate high prestige in just three years. He originally had the right to speak.
Several powerful family elders were dismissed one after another, completely establishing his position as the undisputed voice in Sanhe Kingdom.
At this time, five thousand Matsudaira troops were surrounding Saijo Castle in preparation for a general attack. Ishikawa Tsumugi was looking at the dark siege force and said: "Saijo Castle is worthy of being a fortified castle rebuilt by Yamamoto Sado Mamoru, even though it is located next to the Yahagi River.
We still have a solid defense that can’t go down the mountain castle! But why isn’t that Kiraden willing to open the city and surrender?”
"I have no plans to do anything to the Kira family. At any rate, we are still considered relatives of Yuo Yu. We are all Mikawa samurai. If there is any problem, why can't we sit down and discuss it?" Matsudaira Ieyasu rubbed his head in distress and said:
"Although there are some conflicts between Ieyasu and Kira-don, those are things of the past. Don't worry about it. As long as Kira-dono is willing to submit to our family, our family is willing to give him the royal privilege... he will be treated like a member of the family!"
Ishikawa Sumasa hesitated and said: "Maybe it's because of the mayor of Echigo!"
"The mayor of Echigo?" Matsudaira Ieyasu frowned.
The young Naito parent said enthusiastically: "I heard that Kai is a very powerful person and has a great reputation in Kanto! Even a powerful samurai like Takeda Daisen was defeated. He is indeed a role model for my Mikawa samurai.
ah!"
Seeing the young samurai in the retainer group expressing their approval, Matsudaira Ieyasu's brows almost knitted into a knot. The acting minister Sakai Arakuzu Masachika noticed this and said calmly: "The prince of the town has abandoned Mikawa.
Echigo, strictly speaking, you should not be considered a samurai of Mikawa."
The head of the Nishino Ishikawa family, Ishikawa Hinata Mamori, echoed continuously: "That's right! The Mikawa Kira family should be the Kira-den in Saijo City, and the Lord of the Town has long been the Ashikaga family of Kyoto, so he can no longer be counted among us.
Samurai of Mikawa.”
To say that the most taboo topic for the Mikawa Matsudaira family genealogy is that during the Echigo Echigo era of Kiragi, Matsudaira Ieyasu himself has not discussed any topics during the Kiragi era for ten years. His genealogy
The retainers group also adhered to the concept of family governor and never mentioned how glorious Kiragi was, even in the Imagawa family.
Refusing to discuss and never mentioning it means a gesture of resistance. He is eager to approach Kira Yoshiyasu and is even willing to stick his hot face on his cold buttocks. This further shows that Matsudaira Ieyasu's governing strategy has always revolved around the theme of Mikawa's pacification, and he may even do so.
Thinking about how to lift up Kira Yi'an to seek more benefits.
The young samurai didn't notice the undercurrent in these words at all. He rubbed his head stupidly and ran to the front of the formation to continue watching. When Sakai Tadanobu, who had retreated to the second line, said with a smile, "Actually, this Saijo Castle is...
It is the castle where the Lord of the Town used to live, and the place where we are standing is the territory of the Ashikaga family. What we do will definitely arouse the strong dissatisfaction of the Lord of the Town!"
"This..." Ishikawa Ienari said cautiously: "Should we send an envoy to Echigo..."
Ishikawa Sumasa coughed and said: "Actually, this is the case. My lord deeply feels that Mikawa has suffered from wars for many years. As a result, we Mikawa samurai are poor and distressed, so my lord and Daishuji set up troops to conquer and eliminate the rebellious Mikawa people.
The most important thing is to restore the order of the Three Rivers Country to normal as soon as possible. To make some sacrifices for this is also a last resort. I believe that the mayor can understand our difficulties."
"You're right, you're so right!" Several family members responded enthusiastically, gradually excluding Sakai Tadashi from the circle. The old man was so angry that he secretly cursed these arrogant people for actually treating him like this.
The elder of the family was so disrespectful. He angrily rode his horse to the back and became sulky.
The Tokugawa retainers watched the progress of the siege talking and laughing. The attack on Saijo Castle had lasted for more than two months. The siege of more than sixty days had already forced the thousand defenders in the city to the edge of the cliff. Since Tominaga Tadayuan
Since his accidental death, all the wars presided over by Kira Yoshian have achieved a glorious record of consecutive defeats. No matter whether it is Nobusada Ohuchi or Yaomoto Yamaoka, Masanobu Takahashi, Masahide Ehara and others' personal support, they still cannot change the continuous military encounters.
The embarrassing plight of failure.
Ohuchi Nobusada has sent envoys several times to reprimand Matsudaira Ieyasu for his shameless invasion. Unfortunately, his method can only be used against gentlemen who abide by the laws of the shogunate, but cannot effectively target the ruthless samurai daimyo. Matsudaira Ieyasu simply ignores you.
Protested and reprimanded. He insisted on encroaching on Kira's territory little by little according to his own strategy.
Seeing that this guy was unreliable, Ohuchi Nobusada sent someone to contact Oda Nobunaga, who was in charge of Owari, and asked him to provide justice. After all, this is an ally of the Kira family and it should be okay to provide justice. Oda Nobunaga did immediately
In response, he was willing to act as the arbiter for both parties, but as soon as the envoy of the Oda family persuaded the two families to make peace, the Matsudaira family found a reason to continue fighting.
Even a territorial dispute between two villages must be interfered with under the guise of a banner. Just imagine that in the countryside of that era, not to mention the conflicts of interest between the villages, even the village could still produce ugly people. You can imagine
Knowing how angry he was at Nobuzada Ohuchi for doing this, the two sides started fighting ping-pong-pong, and this fight resulted in a series of tragic defeats.
Mikawa Kira's army has hardly mobilized troops in the past ten years. Since joining the Imagawa family, it has been treated as a noble family with special treatment. During the Okezama Battle, Tojo Kira's Kira Yi'an also symbolically sent three melons and two dates to shout.
Suddenly, Okochi Nobusada of Saijo Castle had no intention of sending troops. At first glance, this was really cool, but in fact, it further weakened the military strength of the Mikawa Kira family.
Ten years without fighting means that a strong army will become a weakling. What's more, the defenders of Saijo Castle are not a strong army at all. As the most powerful elite in Nishi Mikawa, Saijo Bei followed the governor to Kyoto twelve years ago.
Subsequently, all outstanding samurai and ashigaru seedlings were sent to Omi for training. Several years of blood transfusions completely destroyed the samurai ecosystem of Mikawa Province and even the Kira family.
No matter whether it is Tojo or Saijo, the Mikawa Kira family has no more than one hand that can be called a good soldier. The only ones who can be considered good are Tominaga Tadogen of Tojo and Yamaoka Yaomoto of Saijo. One of these two died and the other was old.
He is also unable to shoulder the important task of commanding an army, and as the general, Kira Yoshiyasu is indeed very capable. From the beginning, he failed with random command, and later he still suffered failure by pretending to be deaf and dumb. This made him, the governor of the Mikawa Kira family,
It is equal to the yellow banner star.
If this defeat is followed by three defeats, even if the confident warriors fall into hesitation and confusion, and the brave soldiers are shaken and confused, as an army, no matter what you lose, there is nothing worse than losing morale and confidence.
The Mikawa Kira family encountered this embarrassing situation.
The huge autonomy granted to Saijo Castle by Kira Yoshitsune included a series of administrative laws and regulations. There was not even a resident official, but Nobusada Ohuchi was given the privilege of direct participation. In a sense, it was a change of direction and recognition of Nishi Mikawa as this group of people.
In the autonomous territory controlled by the Dai Retainers, the more they are given, the less Kira Yoshishi cares about them. After all, the cup of tea in Saijo City should have been cold long ago after twelve years away from home. The so-called monarch-subject relationship cannot be maintained.
It's just a relationship that has existed for many years and an everlasting interest.
Ohuchi Nobusada wrote several times and sent them to Echigo Kasugayama Castle. Unfortunately, Kira Yoshitoki had already gone south to Kanto, and the people who stayed at Kasugayama Castle did not dare to do so and forwarded the letters to Kira Yoshitoki. But as time passed,
The rapid expansion of Musashi University made the military affairs faced by Kira Yoshiki more and more complicated. He didn't pay much attention to the letter asking for help that was a month late.
In Kiragi Toki's view, it was acceptable to lose an insignificant battle, so he sent a messenger to ask Oda Nobunaga to urge Matsudaira Ieyasu to withdraw his troops immediately, and stated that as long as he withdraws his troops, he will not be held accountable, and then the second letter and the third
The letters asking for help gradually got worse. From the first letter asking for help, I lost one game, to the next two, three, and four. The more I lost, the more I lost. In the end, most of Sanhe was lost.
However, it was only half a month ago that all this gradually became clear. Ohuchi Nobusada's request for help was still being sent from Mikawa to Echigo to Ueno and then forwarded to the moving Kira Army main camp. It is unclear where the main camp is moving and what.
When I saw the latest request for help, I didn’t know how Yoshitoki Kira could bypass all the obstacles to help them. They had only one thing in their hearts. I am Yoshitoki Kira’s family retainer, and I have defeated the battle.
Kiragi has to take care of me.
Driven by this kind of thinking, from Kira Yi'an to Ohuchi Nobuzada, they did not react too much psychologically to the continuous failures. In their view, as long as they were prepared to ask for help, the protective umbrella above would definitely use a tricky one.
The angle falls in front of them to defeat the shameful Matsudaira Ieyasu and protect their interests.
They naively thought that Kiragi did not send anyone to monitor Saijo Castle. In fact, it was their trust and support for this group of hereditary generations. They could enjoy the food and sea salt income of Nishi Mikawa and live a life similar to that of Kiragi in Mikawa Kingdom.
In those days, they had neither thought of betrayal nor intended to betray. Why would they do such an act of betrayal, which would cost them both reputation and profits, while leaning against a big tree to enjoy the shade? Sometimes this kind of thinking is more dangerous than betraying an official.
It was not until two months after the siege that no emergency rescue was received from Kira Yoshitoshi that Kira Yoshihiro and Ohuchi Nobusada realized in despair that they were terribly wrong. Kira Yoshitoshi transferred almost all the main forces to the Kanto operation and could not spare any extra force for rescue.
The old territories separated by several countries didn't even know whether Kira Yoshitoshi was in Kawagoe Castle, Edo Castle, or had already arrived at Odawara Castle.
The record envoys sent by Kira Yoshitoki kept contacting the Oda family, hoping that he would urge Matsudaira Ieyasu to withdraw from Nishi Mikawa as soon as possible. However, the attitude of the Oda family became more and more ambiguous, choosing and playing word games of overt and overt, and Matsudaira Ieyasu's offensive became more and more difficult.
The stronger he became, he almost broke the Otemon several times, scaring the samurai of the Mikawa Kira family into a cold sweat.
In the evaluation room of Saijo Castle, Kira Yoshian said worriedly: "At this time of life and death, would you please tell us what we should do?"
Jukai Shinzaemon Yaozuna said with a bitter face: "Do we really want to surrender? I am really unwilling to do so!"
"How can we surrender a samurai family from Kyoto! We and the Mikawa samurai must not bow to them!" Yamaoka Yaomoto's sonorous speech blocked this last possibility. The Matsudaira family was a member of the Kamo clan in Kyoto.
The deeds of Seishatachu sent to suppress Ichiku of Natsuda County are also widely circulated in Mikawa Kingdom, but gradually disappeared with the rise of Matsudaira Ieyasu, but some facts will always be buried in the hearts of Mikawa samurai and will not change.
Ohuchi Nobuzada is much older than he was twelve years ago. With his gray hair and rich face, it is difficult to tell that he is the elegant Mikawa Bunka man back then. At this time, his eyelids were swollen and he said in a hoarse voice: "Compared to
The Matsudaira clan, which has been under the Mikawa Kingdom for less than a hundred years, and I, the Kira clan, and my family members are more qualified to be called Mikawa samurai! If we had not made a wrong step in the Southern Dynasties, how could we have allowed the Hosokawa clan and Isshiki to
The fight for the protection of the Three Rivers was bloody!"
Kira Yi'an listened carefully to the group of family members discussing the origin of the Matsudaira family. He realized that the evaluation meeting seemed to be a bit topic-oriented, and he hurriedly said: "You guys can't come up with anything effective."
Is there any way? Seeing that the aggressive Matsudaira Army is about to come knocking on our door!"
The retainers of Saijo Castle looked at each other one by one. The superior life of more than ten years has gradually made them fatter and wider. Just like the samurai of Mikawa are no longer strong, their elite soldiers are no longer strong. The life of having no worries about food and clothing has made them have a weak sense of worry.
, in terms of strategy, you can live a comfortable life without having to worry about it at all. Just like the five senses are degenerated, the less you use them, the slower your brain becomes.
This evaluation meeting unexpectedly started with Kira Yoshihiro's question and ended with Kira Yoshitoki's question. The members of Saijo Castle did not answer his question because they themselves did not know how to respond, and because
Kira Yoshian was not the actual owner of Saijo Castle, and the family members throughout the generations had always been somewhat resistant to this "Yellow Banner Star".
A group of samurai in Saijo Castle spent the best opportunity to escape in tangle. When the Otemon of Saijo Castle was breached, it was too late to escape. Nobuzada Ohuchi asked Kira Yoshian to take his family and children.
He immediately retreated to the territory of Owari Province, and then took the opportunity to go to Echigo and defect to Kiragi, a leader of the clan.
Yoshiaki Kira was also thinking about the safety of his uncle Yoshiaki Kira and his great-uncle Yoshitomi Kira. He repeatedly asked them to follow him and leave Saijo Castle as soon as possible, but was rejected by the stubborn old man Yoshitomi Kira. The filial Yoshiaki Kira also said
I didn’t plan to leave Saijo Castle, so this delay wasted the most precious time to escape. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!