Chapter One Thousand Five Hundred and Ninety Buried Together
Yoshino.
After receiving the news that Ashikaga Yoshimochi was coming with troops, Komatsu Reiko returned here again.
At Eizan Temple, Komatsu Reiko prepared a grand welcome ceremony for Ashikaga Yoshimichi to express his welcome to his arrival.
Ashikaga Yoshimochi is also a proud and arrogant person. If it were not for the food in Komatsu Reiko's hands, he would not bow to her so easily.
Now that he saw how much Reiko Komatsu paid attention to him, Ashikaga Yoshimochi felt a lot better. When he saw Reiko Komatsu, who was wearing a bright red armor and came to greet him in person, he suddenly felt good about Reiko Komatsu, and even had a crush on him.
An urge to hold it in my arms and play with it.
Don't be in a hurry. Don't wait until you find out where Komatsu Reiko's food is hidden. After you get the food, you can capture Komatsu Reiko. Shouldn't you just let him have the final say on what he wants to do?
Komatsu Reiko and Ashikaga Yoshimochi exchanged a few pleasantries and then walked straight towards Eizan Temple. Not long ago, the two sides were still fighting to the death, and now there are indeed not many topics to talk about when they meet.
Arriving at Eizanji Temple, as soon as he sat down at Ashikaga Yoshimichi, he couldn't wait to ask for food from Komatsu Reiko.
However, Komatsu Reiko temporarily postponed the matter to Akito on the grounds of being grateful to Ashikaga Yoshimochi for coming to help.
That night, after the banquet was over.
Hosokawa Noriyuki came to Komatsu Reiko very worriedly and said, "Master, Ashikaga Yoshimochi is so undisguised, I'm afraid he won't be thinking about food for a day or two."
"Of course I know that." Komatsu Reiko sat down and then chuckled, "Now food is the foundation for my survival. If there is no food, will the other generals listen to me? Can you, Hosokawa, listen to me?"
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Hosokawa Mochiyuki immediately knelt on the ground and said loudly, "Hosokawa will follow his master to the death and never leave without any regrets!"
Komatsu Reiko chuckled, "If you say you can do it, then I believe it. But can you guarantee that the other members of the Hosokawa family have the same idea as you?"
"Master, if anyone in the Hosokawa family is unwilling to follow my master, my subordinates will immediately chop off their heads and will not tolerate it! The Kikuren proves it!" Hosokawa Mochiyuki held up the family master's sword in his hand and made an oath.
With a smile on his face, Reiko Komatsu quickly helped Hosokawa Mochiyuki up with his own hands, nodded and said, "Okay, if Mr. Hosokawa can be absolutely loyal to me, then I will be relieved."
Hosokawa Noriyuki reminded again, "Master, Ashikaga Yoshinori is coming with an army, and I'm afraid he has a bad plan. Master, you must be careful."
Komatsu Reiko was very happy Hosokawa
He surrendered and didn't mind revealing some of his inner plans to him.
"Don't worry, I know his purpose very well. He just wants to ask me for a batch of grain first. It would be best if he could find the place where I store the grain. When the time comes, he will probably fall out with me at the first opportunity.
Even if he doesn't find any food, after he changes his tone, he will use force to force me to hand over the food."
Seeing that his master knew everything, Hosokawa Noriyuki stopped reminding him. Instead, he sighed, "The threat of the Ming Dynasty is right in front of us. This Ashikaga Yoshinori still wants to fight with us. He is really short-sighted."
"Haha, after all, there are only a few people with far-sightedness in this world. There is nothing surprising about this." Komatsu Reiko said calmly.
Hosokawa Mochiyuki paused and asked the doubts in his heart, "Since the master knows that Ashikaga Yoshimochi has evil intentions, why did he let him come to Yoshino?"
No matter how you look at it, Hosokawa Mokiyuki feels that letting Ashikaga Yoshimochi come to Yoshino safely is a big failure. Even if he wants to give him food, it is enough to send someone to send some. This can also avoid Ashikaga. Yoshitoshi's threat, after all, Kyoto is not close to Yoshino either.
But now Ashikaga Yoshimochi's army is close at hand. If he is determined, he can even catch Komatsu Reiko by surprise.
Unlike Hosokawa Mochiyuki's worries, Komatsu Reiko looked confident of winning.
"Now the Ming army is looking for our main force everywhere. If they can't be found, they won't give up. Ashikaga Yoshinori's strength is pretty good. With his help, I will be even more confident. Defeat the Ming Dynasty and even drive them out of Japan!"
Hosokawa Mochizuki felt excited after hearing this. The Japanese country has become what it is now, all because of the Ming Dynasty's deliberate instigation. The mountains and rivers are broken, and the bones are everywhere. If the Ming army can really be driven out, then I really got angry.
After Ashikaga Yoshimochi begged for several days, Komatsu Reiko had to temporarily give him some food to appease him first.
This amount of food was enough to barely sustain Ashikaga Yoshinori for five days, which was far from what he wanted. Ashikaga Yoshinori was naturally dissatisfied with this, and even became more and more rude to Komatsu Reiko in his words.
But before the conflict between him and Komatsu Reiko actually broke out, the Ming army was heading towards Yoshino.
The news forced both sides to put aside their grudges for the time being and work together to deal with the Ming army.
"I will die! I braved the enemy and advanced lightly, so I was ambushed by the Japanese."
Han Du and Zhu Biao sat opposite each other, their faces looking ugly.
From Tang Ding's report, Han Du clearly learned that in the battle of Yoshino, Tang Ding originally progressed very smoothly. With the advantage of firearms, he pushed all the way. Although the Japanese soldiers were dozens of times more than the Ming army, they could not resist it at all. Look, the defeated Japanese soldiers who were beaten were no different from the Japanese soldiers they encountered in the past. Facing the city in front of you, or the city without even a city wall, isn't this the same as a beautiful woman without any clothes on? There was no room for resistance at all. Tang Ding didn't think much and directly ordered the army to continue charging in.
The scene that made Tang Ding regret the most came when the Ming army rushed into the city after chasing the Japanese soldiers, and suddenly countless fires ignited around the city.
Countless houses in Yoshino were all made of wood. After being ignited, the fire quickly burned with the help of strong winds.
The entire Yoshino Castle, with more than 100,000 houses, was like firewood piled together. The flames soaring into the sky soon completely enveloped the entire city. In addition to the two thousand guards around Tang Ding, there were more than 20,000 other people. Only the few thousand people who rushed behind turned around and rushed out in time, while the other more than 20,000 Ming troops were all perished in the sea of flames.
Han Du could see Tang Ding's despair at that time from every line of the words.
Zhu Biao's eyes turned red when he saw it. He lost more than 20,000 soldiers in the first battle. This was the biggest loss since Zhu Biao came to the throne.
Moreover, from the report, Tang Ding clearly saw that it was not only the Ming army soldiers who were buried in the sea of fire, but also three to four hundred thousand Japanese soldiers who were buried in the sea of fire. It was precisely because of these Japanese soldiers that Tang Ding was able to
He never expected that the Japanese would choose a fire attack that would destroy both jade and stone. He never imagined that these Japanese would be so cruel to their own people. In order to defeat him, they not only destroyed a city, but also buried hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers with him.
"So cruel, so cruel!" Zhu Biao sighed and his voice could not help but tremble. He felt sad for the loss of the Ming army, but also frightened by the cruelty of the Japanese.
After a long time, Zhu Biao recovered, raised his eyes to look at Han Du, and asked, "Do you think such a handwriting could be the work of Komatsu Reiko?"
Han Du glanced at Zhu Biao and didn't know how to answer him. In Han Du's impression, although Komatsu Lingzi was extremely intelligent, he did not have such a vicious character. But if it wasn't her
She is now the leader of the Southern Dynasty, who else could she be?
Zhu Biao finally calmed down and issued an order, "Send an order for Tang Ding to retreat to Jeolla Province for the time being to rest and recuperate. The destruction of the Japanese will be postponed for the time being. In addition, another 50,000 troops will be sent to the commander of Tang Ding. I don't believe it.
The Japanese country can still offer another city and hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers in exchange for me!"
Not only did Tang Ding not be held accountable for his crimes, Zhu Biao also dispatched 50,000 troops to him again. This shows that Zhu Biao was no stranger to battle formations and knew that this battle was not Tang Ding's fault. In other words, Tang Ding was
This battle can be considered a victory for Ding. After all, it only cost more than 20,000 people to completely destroy the capital city of the Southern Dynasties of the Japanese Kingdom, plus hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers.
Where can there be undead in a war? Even when Handu swept across the grassland, he lost 70,000 to 80,000 people before and after due to his huge artillery advantage. Even if some of them were soldiers and horses of the three guards of Wuliangha, Ming Ming
The army's losses were also considerable.
Time returns to the battlefield of the Battle of Yoshino.
When Tang Ding saw the huge fire, he knew that the Ming army still in the city was doomed. When all the Ming army soldiers were frightened and lost their minds, Tang Ding really ordered a retreat, and even evacuated the Japanese country as if running for his life.
It's not that Komatsu Reiko doesn't want to keep Tang Ding here completely. She knows that Tang Ding is Han Du's good friend. If Tang Ding can be killed here, Han Du will definitely feel extremely sad.
But she couldn't do it.
She had no way of arranging Japanese soldiers to intercept Tang Ding in advance. If that were the case, her ambush would definitely be discovered on Tang Ding's way to Yoshino, which would make her plan in Yoshino fail.
And when Yoshino Castle was ignited, the fire blocked the Japanese soldiers' pursuit, and they could only watch Tang Ding escape in embarrassment.
"Master, Master!" Hosokawa Mokiyuki didn't even know that Komatsu Reiko had a plan to burn Yoshino.
When he saw Yoshino Castle on fire, he immediately felt something bad.
You must know that this battle is the first battle fought by Ashikaga Yoshimochi. Of course, Ashikaga Yoshimochi does not want to waste his strength in vain, but when Komatsu Reiko uses food as bait, Ashikaga Yoshimochi can only fight obediently for the sake of food.
. But I am afraid that even Ashikaga Yoshitomichi just thought that Komatsu Reiko was just trying to weaken his strength, and he would not have thought that Komatsu Reiko would actually bury him and the Ming army.
Ashikaga Yoshitomi, who had hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers, and himself were burned to death by Komatsu Reiko.