March 30, the twelfth year of Tianwen (1543), at four o'clock, southwest of Kyoto.
At this time, Masakayoshi Miyoshi had joined Masayasu Miyoshi's troops, chasing Naito Bei who had stolen the food. It seemed that because he was running in a hurry, a lot of food was bumped out and scattered on the road, clearly marking Naito Bei's escape.
Route——Masaichi Miyoshi just needs to follow it all the way.
"We're almost there, we're catching up. They can't run fast with the food!" Masai Miyoshi watched the smoke and dust in front of him getting closer and closer, and saw the back of the food transport team faintly appearing at the corner of the street, and kept urging them.
The troops moved forward: "Chase, we can't let them transport a grain of grain out of Kyoto!"
However, after Miyoshi led his troops to chase him through the street corner, everyone was stunned - Naitobe was seen throwing poles, carts, and grain carts all over the ground, but the people had already fled, and there were even grains all over the ground.
The streets were blocked.
"What is going on?" Mayor Miyoshi was completely confused. "Do they want no more food?"
After thinking for a moment, Mayor Miyoshi seemed to finally understand Miyoshi Changqing's plan, and hurriedly shouted:
"Burn the food as a warning! Then rush to support His Highness the Ministry of War!"
At the same time, beside the Kamogawa Shijo Bridge, Kizawa Nagamasa was commanding the troops of the Kizawa family and the defenders of the Hosokawa family to quickly cross the river and move westward, hoping to cooperate with Masamagasa Miyoshi to intercept Naito Bei. But at this moment,
From behind, there were messengers coming in a hurry on horseback.
"Your Highness, it's bad!" The messenger seemed to be afraid of shaking the morale of the army. He dismounted and came to Kizawa Nagamasa's side and whispered: "The Imagawa family's delegation attacked Awada Shrine!"
"What?" Kizawa Nagamasa was shocked and was so angry that he almost spat out a mouthful of blood: "Didn't the intelligence say there were only about twenty of them? How could the two hundred elites not be able to hold the banner?"
"It was not completely lost, but the Imagawa family broke into the shrine through the courtyard wall and took control of the courtyard where the hostages were imprisoned. They failed to lead a breakout and were surrounded by us in the courtyard. But we threw a rat weapon and were afraid of being hurt.
All the dignitaries do not dare to attack rashly. We are currently in a confrontation. Please give instructions from Your Highness!" the messenger said, leaning deeply.
"Mom, what the hell." Kizawa Nagamasa frowned, and after struggling for a moment, he cursed loudly: "Then set fire to them and force them out!"
"Your Highness?" The messenger turned pale with fright when he heard this, "You want to burn Awada Shrine..."
"Shao, don't worry about it." Kizawa Nagamasa waved his hand and turned the horse's head to continue heading west. "Don't delay me. I still have to command the troops to intercept Miyoshi Changqing. If he runs away transporting food,
, then how...how..."
what's up?
Kizawa Nagamasa stared at the opposite side of the Kamogawa River in stunned silence - Miyoshi Nagakei was leading 1,000 Naitobe soldiers to fight towards him.
Where are Naito Bei's auxiliary troops? Where are the grains they transported? Where did they go? They ignored the grains and instead came to kill me?
Where is that fellow, Mr. Miyoshi? Wasn't he asked to follow Miyoshi Changqing? Where are the others? Where did the food go?
Just then, Kizawa Nagamasa crossed Naito Bei's battle line and saw behind them - thick smoke rising far southwest of Kyoto - which looked like they were burning food.
But it was too late for Kisawa Nagamasa to think clearly about what happened, because Miyoshi Nagakei had already led his soldiers to kill them in front of them - and the Kisawa army who was crossing the bridge had not even deployed their battle formation.
After a brief contact, the Kizawa army was severely defeated by Miyoshi Chokei. They fled along the west bank of the Kamogawa River, and many people were driven down the river.
"You bastard, are you crazy?" Kizawa Nagamasa was furious. He reined in his horse and shouted at the Kyoto garrison of the Hosokawa family who followed him on the Shijo Bridge: "Miyoshi Nagakei is rebelling!
They openly robbed food and set fire to the capital, and also sent troops to attack friendly forces! All generals will obey the order and follow me to defeat the traitors of the Hosokawa family!"
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he heard a loud roar from behind.
"Kizawa Nagamasa rebelled! He openly placed the public and the Prime Minister under house arrest in Kyoto, and cut off the food routes of friendly forces! The Hosokawa army obeyed the order and followed me to attack the traitors of the Hosokawa family!"
Kizawa Nagamasa looked back and saw that the person behind the queue was Hosokawa Harumoto himself.
When the samurai and ashigaru of the Hosokawa family saw that the governor had regained his freedom, who would listen to Kizawa Nagamasa? They rushed back to Hosokawa Harumoto's horse, turned around, and launched an attack on Kizawa Nagamasa's subordinates.
onslaught.
"Damn, why were you released? What are those Matsumoto guys doing with Hatamoto?" As soon as Kizawa Nagamasa saw Hosokawa Harumoto appeared on the battlefield, he immediately realized that he was doomed in Kyoto. Now he
He and his lord were already at odds with each other, but his own military strength in Kyoto was limited and could not withstand the two-sided attack of Naito Bei and Hosokawa's army. More and more Kizawa's military forces collapsed under the attack, and it seemed that they could no longer hold up.
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"Withdraw!" Kizawa Nagamasa did not hesitate. He immediately led the bannermen on horseback and fled, abandoned the army and fled, "Retreat to Settsu! We still have tens of thousands of troops there, what are we afraid of?"
Kizawa Nagamasa flew all the way to the west, escaping very quickly. Neither Naito Bei nor Hosokawa's army could catch up in a hurry, and soon he met up with Miyoshi Masakasa, who led the Fenggong and Miyoshi division troops.
When Miyoshi saw the disgraced Kizawa Nagamasa fleeing, he was so frightened that he wanted to dismount and plead guilty.
"What on earth is going on? Why did you let Miyoshi Nagaki come over?" Kisawa Nagazhi immediately stepped forward, leaned next to Miyoshi's horse, picked up his collar and wanted to curse: "What are you doing?
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"That Miyoshi Changqing was crazy. He asked his auxiliary soldiers to bring food to lure the enemy, and he led his soldiers to take a detour to the east. I didn't notice it either!" Miyoshi Changqing, the political leader, was also turned around by Miyoshi Changqing.
It flashed red and white, "but all the food and grass had been set on fire, and the Sanhao family still couldn't transport a drop of food to the front line."
"But now that we have fallen out with the leader, we can only take the next road until it is dark." Kizawa Nagamasa straightened his expression, although he was a little irritable, but it seemed that everything was still under control, "With the original plan
There are some mistakes, but it's not a big problem. Let's go to Setjin to wipe out the main army of the Sanhao family first, and then return to Shangluo to force the commander to submit."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, before Kizawa Nagamasa and Miyoshi Masako led their troops to retreat, they saw another small group of knights chasing after them. The leader was none other than someone else.
It was Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiharu.
"The traitor Kizawa, Sanhao, the following offenders, the general and court officials will be placed under house arrest. The crime is unpardonable! You guys, follow me to fight against the thief!"
As soon as Ashikaga Yoshiharu gave the order, the shogunate ministers under Miyoshi's command rushed to the shogun's horse, turned around and attacked Miyoshi. Miyoshi's few cronies were outnumbered.
Feng Gong's opponents had no time to draw up their formation in this narrow street, and were instantly defeated in the melee. Kisawa Nagamasa and Miyoshi Masako had no choice but to lead the mounted samurai to flee again, heading west.
At this moment, the sound of a sharp arrow piercing the air suddenly sounded in the nearby street. Mayor Miyoshi was trembling with fright. He lost control of the horse's reins and staggered the horse a big step to the right.
, as a result, the sharp arrow shot through the horse's head happened to be pierced. After the war horse neighed, Miyoshi was thrown off the horse.
"Unlucky." Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was chasing after the Imagawa family's envoy on horseback, wanted to shoot Kizawa Nagamasa to death with an arrow when he sat down on his horse, but he didn't expect to be blocked by the Miyoshi Nagamasa by mistake.
arrow.
"Your Highness!" When the bodyguards of Masamagata Miyoshi saw the governor's fall, they hurriedly came to the rescue, but the Imagawa family's envoys had already shot out from the thorns. These guards were outnumbered, and how could they belong to the Imagawa family, who were highly skilled in martial arts?
The opponent was quickly defeated - but Kizawa Nagamasa didn't even look at Masaka Miyoshi and walked away with his people.
When Miyoshi, who was dizzy from the fall, came to his senses, a knife was already placed on his neck: "Miyoshi Echigo Mamoru, please don't make any more fearless resistance."
Chief Miyoshi took a closer look and found that the katana blade was clearly engraved with the inscription "left". After looking at it for a moment, he recognized the familiar shape of the sword - it was the inscription Sosan Zuo.
"Is the person coming... Takeda... Harunobu?" Masaki Miyoshi asked the person in front of him with some uncertainty.
"Huh?" Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was mistaken for Takeda Harunobu, was a little puzzled, "How can you see it?"
"Haha, do you know why this Zongsanzuo's character is called 'Zongsan'?" Although Miyoshi has become a prisoner, he still has the momentum he deserves, "Because that is exactly the title of my Miyoshi!
This sword is exactly my favorite sword that I gave to Sakyo Takeda back then!"
"I see." Imagawa Yoshimoto also reacted, and then explained: "It's just that I am not Takeda Harunobu. This sword was given to the Imagawa family as a dowry in the sixth year of Tenmon (1537) by His Highness Takeda Sakyo."
"What? Ha?" After hearing this point in time, Masato Miyoshi became furious, as if he was even more angry than he was being captured alive. "I gave him my beloved sword just after I was in the fifth year of Tianwen (1536), and he didn't even give it to him for a year.
Are you giving it to someone else when you arrive? This is a precious sword. Are those Kaisan monkeys of the Takeda family so ignorant? This is a famous sword forged by Zaemon Saburo, a famous swordsmith in Chizen during the Southern and Northern Dynasties!"
"I have also heard about this, so I have always treasured it." Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was very fond of Sosanzo's writing, smiled and expressed relief.
"The maintenance is pretty good." Miyoshi seemed to have forgotten the fact that he was defeated, and looked at the smooth blade of Zou Sanzuo with great interest, "If you are serious, it turns out that a cultured person in Suruga understands
