Chapter 1379 People’s livelihood is suffering under the chaos
Sakai Tadakatsu and Mouri Hidemoto met their opponents and met with good talents, and they both seized on each other's weaknesses.
Matsudaira Shinsada's divine soldiers descended from the sky and burned all the food and grass of the Daimyo coalition forces with a burst of fire.
Shimazu Tadaro's surprise troops stood out, like a tiger descending from the mountain, and crashed into Sakai Tadakatsu's headquarters.
Both sides preyed on each other's weaknesses.
The result was that the entire battlefield was in complete chaos.
The Daimyo coalition knew that without food and grass, they would all be hungry soon. Therefore, they could only fight tooth and nail, hoping to completely defeat the shogunate army in the shortest possible time.
The shogunate army did not know the situation of their commander, so they were all panic-stricken and desperately retreated, trying to escape from danger.
The two sides fought together in the plains of Gangshan. In the end, the generals could not find their soldiers, and the soldiers could not find their generals.
Anyway, as long as you see someone with different clothes and armor, just kill them.
This melee lasted for a whole day and night. In the end, both sides were so exhausted that they no longer had the strength to even move, so it came to an end.
The shogunate's army rushed eastward in a hurry, retreating hundreds of miles before it finally stabilized.
The Daimyo coalition had no choice. The reality before them was that they had to find food as soon as possible.
Otherwise, there will be trouble if so many people are hungry.
"It's too late to give him to me. I want to eat his flesh alive."
Standing in front of the granary reduced to ashes, Mouri Hidemoto was furious.
Seeing that Nobusada Matsudaira was caught, he issued the most vicious punishment order.
According to the original plan, after Matsudaira Shinsada burned the food and fodder of the Daimyo coalition, the shogunate army would take advantage of the chaos of the Daimyo coalition to attack in an all-out manner.
In this way, although Matsudaira Nobusada is behind enemy lines, he is still safe.
However, the shogunate's army suffered heavy losses and had to retreat eastward. Trapped behind enemy lines, Matsudaira Nosada was besieged by an enemy force ten times his own.
The troops he brought were quickly wiped out, and just when he was about to commit suicide, he was captured by the charging enemies.
Knowing that he was bound to die, Nobusada Matsudaira went crazy.
"You rebels and have violated your oath of allegiance will definitely be punished by God. When the general's troops come back to kill you, that will be the day you die."
Shimazu Mitsuhisa stepped forward, turned the handle of the knife over, and hit him hard in the mouth.
Matsudaira Nobusada let out a scream, and all the teeth in his mouth were knocked out.
He was dragged to a distant place, stripped of his clothes, wrapped in a fishing net, and began to undergo Lingchi torture.
The allied forces of the Daimyo hated him and did not want him to die happily. They executed him for three days and three nights and cut him into pieces.
On the other side, Sakai Tadakatsu finally stabilized himself. He collected his defeated troops and almost had a caesarean section on the spot to apologize.
Of the more than 200,000 shogunate troops, only less than 80,000 escaped.
More than half of the troops and horses were lost in this battle.
This was definitely a serious blow to the shogunate's vitality.
Not only that, Date Masamune died in battle, Date Hidemune broke a leg, and Honda Masamune fell into a coma.
He didn't even know how to explain it to Tokugawa Iemitsu?
However, the overall situation is actually equal for both parties.
The shogunate's army was severely damaged and needed to recover urgently. The Daimyo coalition's food and fodder were cut off, so it also took a long time to prepare.
The battlefield fell silent for a moment.
However, at the local level, the people of Japan began to experience brutal plunder and oppression.
Edo.
The people from the shogunate stormed into a shop with great ferocity.
"There is a war on the front line and we need soldiers. Men of suitable age in your shop must apply."
The shopkeeper was startled and begged quickly.
"Sir, there are only so many people in our store. If you want to join the army, there will be no way to run the store."
"Baga! Do you want to disobey the shogunate's order?"
With the bright knife on his neck, the shop owner was trembling with fear and despair.
I could only watch as the three clerks were robbed by the shogunate.
Looking back at his store, he already had a premonition of its bankruptcy.
At the same time, in the vast rural areas controlled by the Tokugawa shogunate, the situation became even worse.
Countless people had their doors broken into, and any male in the family who was over thirteen years old was forcibly taken away.
The women's wails and cries cannot buy any mercy.
The biggest impact of the lack of labor is that the vast farmland is left unattended and begins to become increasingly desolate.
But the Tokugawa shogunate no longer cared about this.
If they cannot win on the battlefield, the only way out for the shogunate is to perish.
Tokugawa Iemitsu had no choice but to fish from the lake and reorganize the army.
Not only that, he sent someone to contact the Xia Kingdom and spent five million taels of silver to purchase weapons again.
The Daimyo Alliance's side wasn't much better.
When there is no food, we can only ask for it from innocent people.
Within each vassal state, people's homes felt as if robbers had broken into their homes.
All the food in the rice vats was taken away, and anyone who dared to resist was killed on the spot.
Anyone who could not hand over the food would be caught and hung on a tree at the entrance of the village, where they would be exposed to the elements and die.
Through this method, it took the Daimyo Allied Forces three full months to finally raise more than one million kilograms of grain and have the capital to restart the war.
The consequences are that countless people will go bankrupt as a result.
I don’t know how many people starved to death in the fields and countryside.
The people, whose families were ruined and their families were destroyed, had strong anger stored in their hearts.
Maybe all it takes is a chance for these angers to burst out.
In areas near Shimabara, many people simply chose to flee.
They fled into Shimabara's territory one after another, looking for a chance to survive.
Shimabara followed the orders of Amakusa Tokisada and gave proper accommodation to the people who came.
For a time, Shimabara became a holy place that everyone on Kyushu Island yearned for.
The wave of escapes triggered by this became even more violent.
The various lords quickly noticed the anomaly and started arresting them one after another.
However, there were too many people fleeing, and many people still ran into Shimabara's territory.
All the famous people were furious and came to ask for help.
Amakusa Tokisada was not polite, treated her harshly, and refused to let him go.
In the end, the matter reached Xia State, and Xia State still needed to make a referee.
"Birds move with the weather, and cattle and sheep live in pursuit of water and grass. This is nature. When people have no way of survival in one place, they will naturally seek survival in other places. This is the spontaneous choice of the people, and it is against the law to block it.
Tiandao. I also hope that all the great names can relax their minds and refrain from doing evil to the end."
Shen Tingyang naturally sided with Amakusa Tokisada and beat the various daimyo back.
The various lords had no choice but to hold grudges. At the same time, they secretly increased their vigilance and tried their best to prevent the people from escaping.
Under the tragic war, changes are quietly taking place.
Japan's national power began to decline drastically, and it was not far from the limit of collapse.