Takeda Shingen's intervention revived the internal conflicts in the Kinki Allied Forces.
The Kamiji group has never been monolithic, not to mention the secret rivalry between the two sides in Kanto and Kinki, but there are many conflicts within the Kinki Kamiji.
The Akechi-Hosokawa family fought guerrillas at the front to take advantage of their military exploits. The weak Yuigahama family used the third child of the Yuigahama family to secretly sell favors to the eldest and second child. The Ryo Maeda family acted as the main force to suppress the weak Nizi family.
It's not that Yiyin didn't know these things, but he couldn't change it. His fingers were all different, his tongue and teeth were fighting. How could there be a truly smooth bowl of water in the world?
What is dynamic balance? In the final analysis, it is just messing around, talking here and there, everyone gets by, and it is better not to break up and break up.
When Takeda Shingen entered the situation, the first thing he did was to help Nizi Yukimori build momentum, seize the things that Yoshigan had promised Nizi's family, and put the Mori family on the grill.
No matter whether the peacemaking with Mori or the split was true or false, whether it was fabricated by others or taken by Takeda Shingen himself, the result is the same.
As a saint, Yiyin always talks about the Tianxian, and he cannot get rich by breaking his promise, especially the promise he made to his own divine descendants.
Since Takeda Shingen has raised his banner clearly and occupied the moral high ground, whoever speaks for the Mori family and suppresses the Nizi family is seeking death.
As long as there is no ecological niche for the Maori family in the future political environment of the world, it will only be a matter of time before the Maori family is completely annihilated.
Nizi Xingsheng is not good at all, and her talents are mediocre in all aspects, but there is one good thing about her: she is stubborn.
Only a guy like Nizi Yukimori, who accepts death, will not play political compromise. If he says he will kill the entire Maori family, he must kill the entire Maori family.
This is what Takeda Shingen values most about Nizi Yukimori. He comes out to hang out and does what he says.
Takeda Shingen himself is a strategist who talks nonsense, and talks like farts. But he is this kind of person, but he doesn't like this kind of people.
It is a virtue to keep your word. If you cannot do it yourself but hope others can do it, this is called double standards.
Takeda Shingen stepped on the high ground politically, gave blood to the Nizi family economically, and used the Nizi family's traditional advantages in the West to gather people to defeat Mori. This was the most cost-effective way of revenge.
Takeda's behavior of supporting Niko may not have been intentionally aimed at Ryo Maeda, but objectively it resulted in Ryo Maeda being unable to suppress Niko and arbitrary military merit rewards for reinforcements.
In the future, Nishikuni Nishi and Takeda Togoku formed a tradition of political alliances, which would inevitably suppress Ryo Maeda in the middle of the island nation, and Ryo Maeda would definitely not be happy with it.
This mess is the real reason why Yoshigan complained about Takeda Shingen's random actions.
Why are you, a samurai from Kanto, meddling in the affairs of the Western Kingdom of Kinki? Why are you doing such dirty things in Kansai just to kill the Mori family?
Takeda Shingen, you don’t have enough faith in my character, Yoshigoshi Shiba!
From the moment that Kosaka Masanobu's body was desecrated, everyone from Kobayakawa Takakage to the watchdog of Mori's ancestral home was sentenced to death in Yoshinobu's heart.
Ichijo Hideyoshi always judged people very accurately.
It was because she knew Yoshigan's character that she used Kuroda Takataka to suppress Kobayakawa Takakage, causing the Mori family to make political mistakes that they thought were small but were actually too big to bear.
It was impossible for Yoshigan to let go of the Mori family. This matter was not only a promise of revenge for Nizi Katsuhisa, but also an emotional matter for Kosaka Masanobu to sleep with him and accompany his daughter to grow up every day for ten years.
Spare the Mori family? Is Yoshigan worthy of the little conscience he has left? Is he worthy of the daughter of Takeda Yoshinobu?
For the sake of their own conscience and the relationship between father and daughter, the Maori family must die no matter what.
But the powerful Maori family had no choice but to take the blame with tears and follow Ichijo Hideyoshi all the way to the dark side.
No matter how good Ichijo Hideyoshi was in life, at least she rarely misjudged people in her life. She was also really accurate in her judgment of Yoshigashi Shiba, which was why she came up with a conspiracy that left the Mori family with no way out.
After complaining a few words about Takeda Shingen without any pain, Yoshigami could only acquiesce to her behavior and watched Takeda Niko form a substantial alliance against the Mori family.
The death of Kosaka Masanobu seemed ordinary, but it strengthened the sisterly relationship between Uesugi Yoshikage and Takeda Yoshinobu, and established the divine alliance between Takeda Nizi and Takeda Niko.
With the fate of the Mori family, the huge power void that was hollowed out by the Western Overlord must be filled by other forces, and the future of Shiba's world has also changed as a result.
It's just that at this point in time, few people feel the huge impact of this incident, and everyone's attention is still focused on the upcoming decisive battle between Sputnik and Ichijo.
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"You want me to quit Toba Rikyu?!"
Yoshigan rubbed his temples, looked at the excited Uesugi Yoshikage in front of him, and sighed.
"Speak softer and be more stable. You are already a mature Ji warrior. Don't make a fuss when something happens."
Uesugi Yoshikage clenched her fists. She didn't expect that Yoshigage called her to have a private meeting and actually asked her to withdraw from the palace. She sat up straight and said.
"Toba Rikyu is the station I requested from Otani Yoshitsugi. It is the core stronghold on the front line.
Once exiting the palace, a legion can cross the Xiaozhi Bridge and control the Kamogawa River.
With our army suppressed south of Kyoto, we will be unable to stop Ichijo Hideyoshi from going to Luo!"
Yoshikage Uesugi was so excited because Yoshigami's request was too unbelievable.
The intersection of Katsura River and Kamogawa River forms a Y shape, and the main body of Kyoto is in the v above the Y shape.
Toba is actually stuck at the junction of the upper and lower parts of this Y-shape, and is divided into upper and lower toba on both sides of the Kamogawa River.
Once you abandon the lower bird feather and leave the palace, let another legion control the twig bridge between the upper and lower bird feathers.
One legion can march straight in without worrying about being blocked by enemy troops on the east bank of the Kamogawa River and blocking the logistics line in the city of Kyoto.
The urban area of Kyoto, dominated by Nijo Castle, is actually on the west bank of the Kamogawa River. It is not that an army cannot go north, but more because it is afraid of being cut off by the defense system of Toba Fushimi on the east bank.
Because the terrain of the Kyoto Basin consists of mountains in the north and rivers in the south, if the security of the logistics line cannot be guaranteed and the army marches directly into Kyoto, it will be equivalent to being surrounded on three sides, trapped in the isolated city, and waiting for death.
This is also the fundamental reason why Ichijo Hideyoshi was reluctant to go north after taking Yodo Castle, and instead kept trying.
Toba Fushimi is the defense line that controls the water transportation network in southern Kyoto. If Toba Fushimi is not captured, how can Ichijo Hideyoshi dare to go north with peace of mind?
War is not a game. An army composed of people is actually very fragile. The most important thing is to ensure that everyone has food and water every day.
When Uesugi Yoshikage studied the topography of Kyoto, he immediately realized the importance of Toba Palace, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to stay here and strive to win the first victory.
But now, the first battle was a mixed bag, leaving Uesugi Yoshikage face to face with Takeda Yoshinobu.
At this time, Yoshikage asked Uesugi Yoshikage to withdraw from Toba Palace. How could Uesugi Yoshikage not be excited?
With this retreat, where will she put her face? She shouldn't make people laugh to death when she goes out.
Yoshigage sighed helplessly, pointed at the map and whispered to Uesugi Yoshikage.
"Although we claimed that a legion set up a trap to ambush your army, we achieved some disgraceful victories and caused us some negligible losses.
But in fact, this defeat made Toba Fushimi's defense passive and useless.
On the main battlefield of the ambush, we lost 876 Hime warriors, all of whom were elites from the Uesugi Takeda family.
The Uesugi-Takeda family has no shortage of people, but for the time being they can't assemble an elite team of a thousand people for you, traveling all the way from Kanto to Kyoto.
On other battlefields, Otani Yoshitsugi was forced to take the initiative in order to aid you who were besieged, and was pushed away by a legion of some strongholds.
There is also the Hosokawa Army of Katsuryuji Castle. Their original tight defensive posture was loosened in order to rescue your sisters, and they suffered heavy losses.
The current battlefield situation is that Tominomori and Senryo Pine on the southern front are both under the control of a regiment, and Hideyoshi has crossed Yokoojinuma, directly threatening both sides of the Uji River and even Fushimi Castle.
As for the northern front, the Hosokawa Army at Katsuryuji Castle was severely damaged and was no longer able to threaten the enemy's flank in the west. Its role as a nail was almost exhausted.
Between the Katsura River and the Kamogawa River is a flat stretch of water. A legion can mobilize its troops arbitrarily without worrying about the rear, find our weak points in the long Kamogawa River, and break through at any time.
Further north, the vanguard of a legion had passed Kamitoba and reached Toji Temple.
In other words, we have fallen into a passive situation in terms of terrain, being completely suppressed and passively defending on the southern front. We can only wait for Ichijo Hideyoshi to complete the deployment of troops and calmly choose the direction of active attack.
Such passive defense makes people feel very bad."
Uesugi Yoshikage pursed his lips and was depressed. The deteriorating battlefield situation was entirely caused by her greed for success. In the face of the facts, she could only bow her head and admit her mistake, showing her weakness.
"But you just announced me as the general and ordered Otani Yoshitsugi and all the armies to listen to my deployment, but now you want me to withdraw from the Toba Palace.
Don't say I don't agree, how will outsiders think of me? If I lose again... I will become a big enemy of the Wu family who does not know the art of war, and it will be difficult for me to stand up again."
Yiyin said calmly.
"Then don't lose, just win.
As long as you win the battle, whatever you do is right. There are so many reasons in the world. A little noise, a little weirdness will disappear without a trace after the war.
You are mentally worried about gains and losses, and you care too much about what others think. It is nothing more than a fear of losing.
I say all this not to blame you for the consequences of your defeat, but to tell you that if we do not retreat, we will leave the initiative on the battlefield to Ichijo Hideyoshi.
I don't like being passive, I never have been.
We want to take the initiative, so we must step back and leave room for Ichijo Hideyoshi to make things difficult."
Yoshikage Uesugi calmed down and thought.
"Because you don't want to wait passively for Ichijo Hideyoshi to choose the direction of attack, so you take the initiative to give her a huge temptation to lead her to follow up?"
Yiyin nodded.
"right.
The composition of a legion is too complicated. In fact, the princes of the Western Kingdom do not want to suffer too many casualties. No matter which direction is chosen in the end, the casualties will not be small.
At this time, if there is an excellent breakthrough point that can break into the enemy's defense line and reduce their own losses, they will definitely ask Ichijo Hideyoshi to fight.
And Ichijo Hideyoshi's current political weakness makes it impossible for her to refuse everyone's entreaties.
More importantly, I'm in Fushimi Castle.
Ichijo Hideyoshi came here in the name of Raku, but he was actually eager to fight me decisively. When these islanders are at a strategic disadvantage, they always have unrealistic fantasies and decisive battle thinking.
You and I have traveled through time, and you should know what I'm talking about.
So as long as we exit Toba Rikyu, she will definitely cross the river and seek a decisive battle with me.
But once her main force crosses the river, what happens next is out of her control.
After Toba Palace is Fushimi Castle. To the north of Fushimi Castle is Inari Taisha Shrine and to the south is Mikanomiya Shrine. If you want to attack Fushimi Castle, you must pull out the nails on these two flanks.
In this way, a new space is opened, a new battlefield is chosen by us, and the initiative is returned to our hands.
We are taking big steps backward today in order to take big steps forward tomorrow, do you understand now?"
Uesugi Yoshikage looked at Yoshigage and hummed.
"I understand, I understand, but your words of striding sound a bit familiar."