As soon as Oda Nobunaga said this, everyone was shocked.
Everyone looked at Oda Nobunaga in stunned silence, recalling the sentence they just heard, and confirming whether they had heard a certain grammar or word wrong - and finally found out that they had not.
This idiot wants to burn Kyoto? Burn this thousand-year-old capital?
Although Kyoto has been destroyed by war many times in history, no one has ever tried to gain an advantage in battle through systematic arson.
Before everyone could react to how to scold Oda Nobunaga, Taiyuan Xuezai had already spoken first. He first played the rosary and recited a few lines of Buddhist scriptures for Oda Nobunaga to enlighten the gods and Buddhas, and then used the education of his elders
The junior's tone was persuasive:
"Oda Saburo, these ancient temples and shrines are thousand-year-old cultural relics. They are the places where the souls of gods and Buddhas all over the sky return. How can we touch them lightly? I am afraid that I will offend the power of God and destroy the merits. Moreover, Kyoto has a large population. If it is burned down by fire,
How many lives will be harmed? It’s really a sin... It can’t be done, it can’t be done.”
"What do you mean by Master Yi Xuezhai?" Oda Nobunaga snorted coldly and looked at Taiyuan Xuezhai with his nostrils raised.
Taiyuan Xuezhai took his time and said with a smile: "This Kyoto is blessed with all things and stretches for thousands of years. It is a big city with a population of more than 100,000. There are quite a lot of people eating every day. But
In the urban area of Kyoto, we don't produce much grain ourselves. Most of the grain is transported from the surrounding Omi and Yamato. At the moment, these two countries are in our hands. And Kyoto and the surrounding areas transport grain in the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest.
, and three of them are under our control."
"Go north to Katanda, go to Wakasa and Echizen. Wakasa and Echizen are both our territories. Go east out of Yamashina and go to Omi, which is also our territory. Go south to Makishima, which is where our army's main formation is..."
"Isn't there another way to go to the west? Settsu and Tanba in the west are both areas belonging to the Northern Army. You can go to Tanba by walking through Katsuryuji Temple, and you can go to Settsu by walking through Yamazaki." Oda Nobunaga choked and said, "Photograph
Tsu is also a large granary and a distribution center for grain transshipment in the Seto Inland Sea..."
"Wait a minute." Takeda Harunobu suddenly raised his head, interrupting everyone's conversation, and then looked at Taiyuan Xue Zhai with a sudden realization: "Master Xue Zhai's 'bad move' that day..."
"It's just for the 'center strategy' at this time." Taiyuan Xuezhai and Takeda Harunobu played a riddle, and everyone else in the tent was confused.
"During the battle a few days ago, Master Xue Zhai would rather let us leave the worried Yuanjiao Temple alone, and let us go southwest to occupy the East Temple and Suilin Temple, just for this plan." Takeda Harunobu was convinced.
He couldn't help but admire, then stood up and tapped hard on the southwest of the hanging map of Kyoto:
"With control of Toji Temple and Suirin Temple, we can control the official road from Settsu to Yamazaki and then to Kyoto at any time. Cut off this official road, and then block all surrounding official roads to Kyoto. Kyoto wants to transport
To get food in, the only way is to take the mountain road from Tanba to Shoryu-ji Temple. That mountain road is rugged and difficult to travel, and it is already the limit to transport the food and grass supplied to the Northern Army, let alone the hundreds of thousands of people in Kyoto."
"Then why don't you go northwest immediately and cut off the road to Shengryuji Temple?" After hearing this, Hojo Tsunari suddenly felt that a fighter was coming. He ignored the feud with the Imagawa family and waved his fist and said solemnly: "One
Block all the food routes of the Northern Army with your tone!"
"If all the food and grass in Kyoto is really cut off, the Northern Army will inevitably burn everything, and even incite the people of Kyoto to become enemies with us, which will cause a lot of trouble. But if only one mouth is left, the food and grass brought in by the Northern Army can meet their needs, but
If they cannot meet the needs of the people, the hungry people in Kyoto will definitely target the Northern troops from other places, and riots and riots over food will be just around the corner." Taiyuan Xue Zhai hid the rosary in his sleeves and said with a smile: "
Compared with the inferior strategy of storming Kyoto, this middle strategy of jumping out of Kyoto can completely destroy the enemy's army without using any troops."
The daimyo in the tent swallowed their saliva one after another, and were frightened by this plan to cut off food, which was even more cruel than Oda Nobunaga's plan.
"Teacher, didn't you just say that Oda Saburo's strategy is bad for merit?" After hearing this, Imagawa Yoshimoto hurriedly sat cross-legged and meditated and began to chant the Buddha's name. He was afraid that if he spoke slowly, Taiyuan Xuezhai's poisonous plan of killing a thousand swords would kill the Buddha.
He was so angry that he was half dead, "A monk is compassionate, so you are good...aren't you afraid of being thundered down by the Buddha?"
"At least the Buddhist temples don't need to be burned down, and the Buddhas will be happy. As for all living beings, they will die sooner or later. How can the Buddha care? If he really cared, so many people would die miserably every day in this troubled world? Besides, if he really wanted to kill someone,
, those were also the samurai of the Northern Army suppressing the common people who were snatching food, and they were not killed by me for my master." Taiyuan Xuezhai laughed twice, and patted Imagawa Yoshimoto lightly on the back, "When the time comes, I will kill you for my master.
I will recite sutras for them to be saved and to be reborn in bliss."
On May 3, the 14th year of Tenmon (1546), the Hexagonal Army transferred back from Chisekiin, together with the Wakasa Takeda Army, left the frontal battlefield southward. They quietly crossed the river at the lower reaches of the Kamogawa River and easily occupied the area from Settsu to Kyoto.
The official road - during the tug of war for more than a month, no one paid attention to this official road far away from the main battlefield. The Southern Army immediately set up roadblocks to block the official road, stopping all merchants, messengers and pedestrians coming and going.
After the Northern Army first learned of the news, they did not raise alarm. After all, the Miyoshi family also had a certain number of defenders in Settsu, and they were not afraid of harassment by the Southern Army. If the Southern Army really wanted to give up attacking Kyoto, they would march westward.
If so, the Northern Army could go directly south from Kyoto and capture Makishima Castle, the residence of Harumoto Hosokawa.
But the battle situation immediately began to develop in an unexpected direction.
Shortly after the Confederate Army blocked the official road in the direction of Settsu, the Yamato official road to the south of Kyoto, the Omi official road to the east, and the Wakasa official road to the north were completely blocked one after another, and all communication was cut off.
There is also the supply of grain and grass in Kyoto. Kyoto has a large population and has never been self-sufficient in grain and grass since ancient times, let alone now after years of war.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The people of Kyoto soon discovered that the grain merchants who used to come and go to the market in Kyoto were missing, and they immediately fell into panic.
, began to hoard food one after another. The grain stocks of various rice shops also quickly bottomed out. On May 10, the 14th year of Tianwen (1546), not a single grain of rice could be purchased in the entire Kyoto market.
The Northern Army also tried to reopen the official road from Settsu to Kyoto, but to advance in that direction, it had to pass under the eyes of the Kashun coalition forces in Toji Temple and Suirin Temple. Only by suppressing these two armies first could they
It is possible to reach along the official road. The problem is that the strength of the Northern Army is not as good as that of the Southern Army. After they made the move to march to the southwest, the Southern Army immediately launched a full-line attack, forcing the main force of the Northern Army to return to defense. In the end, the Northern Army was able to use
There were only a handful of attacking troops, and there was no way to defeat the Hexagon Army and Wakasa Takeda Army who had already built fortifications on the official road for less than half a month.
Fortunately, Kyoto still retains the last channel to communicate with the outside world - the road heading west to Tanba. Miyoshi Nagakei urgently arranged for the Hatano family in Tanba to transport grain to Kyoto, while leaving the Miyoshi family in Settsu to stay behind and store the grain in Settsu.
Then transport it north to Damba. There are two difficult mountain roads to travel, and the transportation efficiency is difficult to guarantee. If the Northern Army does not conduct military operations, these transported grains can cover all military food expenses. But once the South
The army took the initiative to provoke the battle, forcing the soldiers of the Northern Army to continuously consume their physical strength and increase their food intake - which would then bring food costs that would exceed the supply capacity.
Taiyuan Xuezhai also obviously discovered this. After noticing that the Northern Army had ceased its activities and did not take the initiative to open up communication lines, but instead began to defend, he judged that the Northern Army wanted to use this to reduce food and grass consumption. So under his instruction,
, various units of the Confederate Army began to harass each other in turn, not to achieve a big breakthrough, but to make the soldiers of the Northern Army tired to cope with it every day. Sitting still every day, they could still use gruel for food. But if the soldiers were all
Wearing armor and going into battle, it's unreasonable not to have some food, right? If we withhold food at this time, we have to wait for a mutiny.
What’s even more terrifying is that no matter how frugal they were, by June of the 14th year of Tianwen (1546), the food reserves in the homes of the people in Kyoto were on the verge of being exhausted, and a large-scale wave of fleeing from famine began. However, the turbulent wave of fleeing from famine
However, they were blocked by all the checkpoints set up by the Confederate Army. If any civilians tried to escape by force, they would be shot back indiscriminately - soldiers from other places would not give the people of Kyoto a good look. In desperation, the civilians tried to bribe the soldiers.
——But this was also explicitly prohibited by the high-level officials of the Confederate Army. The soldiers took money, but few of them really dared to let the people go. Only occasionally, when they were on duty, would they let a few people go from the trail.
The desperate people began to try to escape over the mountains and on wild roads. However, once they encountered the Confederate horse patrols and ninja teams, they would rob them of their luggage and then drive them back to Kyoto. After several days of struggle,
The vast majority of the fleeing people had to leave the checkpoint in despair, and all rushed to the Tamba-Kyoto official road, which was still open normally. However, this narrow and rugged official road shouldered the task of supplying the Northern Army with food and grass, and there was no redundancy at all.
The traffic volume was allocated to the fleeing people. Therefore, the Northern Army also made the same choice - closing the official road to the people, only allowing the food transport team to come in, and not allowing the people to go out.
These hungry people watched cart after cart of food being transported into Kyoto under their noses for the soldiers from other places to eat, while they could only wait to starve to death beside the closed official road. No matter how docile they were,
Cowardly ordinary people will also burst out with terrible energy when they reach this point.
First, some people tried to pick up the food scattered on the ground, regardless of being whipped and driven away. Then, theft of food began to occur frequently. In the end, it directly evolved into the common people attacking the transportation team and the guarding Northern Army soldiers, just to snatch a bite of life.
of food...
Without wasting a single soldier, the Northern Army was almost forced into a desperate situation.
