The cause of the incident dates back to five days ago, on April 18, the tenth year of Tianzheng (1582), on a small island next to Yinqi Island.
A year ago, a group of foreigners suddenly came to the island. Just from their clothes and behavior, it can be seen that their identities must be extraordinary. Although the islanders are isolated from the world, they have seen many people who have escaped to the island.
The samurai on the island were therefore not surprised - but they didn't know that this group of people who came to the island to hide was none other than Ashikaga Yoshinori, the 16th generation general of the Ashikaga Shogunate who conquered the barbarians.
Not long after this group of people arrived on the island, another group of people also arrived. Their methods were very secretive, but they were accidentally discovered by the islanders who were familiar with the terrain - they also did this kind of thing.
Not surprisingly, the ninjas who were chasing the samurai must have come. However, unexpectedly, an old man who led this group of people to the island actually visited the samurai in trouble alone and was very friendly after the exchange.
The land left, and no bloody conflict broke out after that, which surprised the islanders who were originally prepared to hide in the mountains-could it be that the people who came to the island were not the ninjas who were chasing them, but the ninjas of these people in distress?
The curiosity did not last long, and the islanders quickly returned to their normal lives. The foreigners, like most of the warriors who wandered here, did not hinder the lives of the original people on the island.
The place settled down. Just a year after the islanders gradually forgot about the group of foreigners, something strange happened again. Another small boat approached the island in the evening, and only four or five people got off the island.
Logically speaking, this is not a big deal, but an islander who witnessed a large number of ninjas landing a year ago confirmed that the old man who got off the ship this time was the same old man who led the team last year.
The old man visited the foreigners as he did last year. Early the next morning, the islanders found that the huts where the foreigners lived were empty, and the boats that the foreigners had brought had also been sailed away.
Yesterday, April 21st, the tenth year of Tensho (1582), Ashikaga Yoshinori landed in Izumo Country, a territory of the Mori family, and sent letters to all Japan, demanding the attack on Oda Nobunaga.
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April 24, the tenth year of Tianzheng (1582), Maple Leaf Mountain City in Hanoi.
Yesterday, Yu Qiupei spent a whole day trying to confirm whether Ashikaga Yoshinishi was crazy or the Mori family was crazy. With the Maori family's ruined eight kingdoms and 60,000 soldiers, they had unified the world and could easily mobilize fifty
The Oda family with thousands of troops... looks like something that normal people can do. It is estimated that under the multi-faceted encirclement and suppression by the Oda family's army, the Maori family will be razed to the ground in less than three months.
Today, Yu Qiupei finally understood the truth from the intelligence sent back from the Military Intelligence Division - it was Ashikaga Yoshinishi who was crazy. It is said that on the day Ashikaga Yoshinishi arrived in Izumo Country and distributed the proclamation, Mori Terumoto had already sent someone to try to persuade the general.
He quickly ran back to the island and hid, but Ashikaga Yoshinishi refused to listen. And today, it seems that Kobayakawa Takakage will personally go to Izumo Country to persuade Ashikaga Yoshinishi to go. If he really can't be persuaded, Ashikaga Yoshinishi is not even ruled out.
Nishi was tied up and sent to the Oda family. At the same time, the Mori family had sent more than a dozen envoys to the Oda family, stating that they had no ill intentions and no rebellious intentions. They had no communication with Ashikaga Yoshini beforehand and had no intention of communicating with the Oda family afterwards.
As enemies, I hope the Oda family will not anger the Mori family.
However, Oda Nobunaga doesn't care whether the Mori family is sincere or not, and whether Ashikaga Yoshinishi's return is a misunderstanding. If he catches such an opportunity, don't even think about it. He will definitely take the opportunity to take advantage of the largest existing family in Japan.
The other daimyo, the Mouri family, cut off a piece of flesh. Ame Akihei's Nankai Province Army, Hashiba Hideyoshi's Sanyo Army, and Akechi Mitsuhide's Sanin Army all received orders from the general mobilization of the entire army, allowing them to send troops to eliminate the Mori family.
, cooperating with Ikeda Tsuneaki, Sawaki Yoshiyuki, Mori Kotaka, Miyoshi Yoshihiro and others - Yu Qiupei estimated that Ikeda Tsuneaki and the others are eager to have a battle to fight, so that they can gain some military exploits. Before Ikeda
Hengxing was so sad because he failed to catch up with the battle to pacify the world.
They are almost out of water. However, with the overwhelming strength and combat strength of the three legions, there is not much suspense in this must-win battle.
Ame Qiupei originally just complained that there would be wars after the world was peaceful, but he soon stopped complaining - because he found that not only Ashikaga Yoshinishi was crazy, but Oda Nobunaga was also crazy.
This time the transfer order was not only issued to the three major armies adjacent to the Mori family, Oda Nobuo and Oda Nobuo's two close clans on Kyushu Island, but also to the Nagasogabe family, Otomo family, Tachibana family, Takahashi family, Shima family
The Tsu family, the Ryuzoji family and many other outsiders were also asked to raise troops and gather in Bunzen. It would be okay if only the daimyos of Kyushu were mobilized. After all, it is understandable that they would attack the Mori family's retreat from the Nagato area.
.However, in addition to the accident at Saikaido, Shibata Katsuie's Hokurikudo Army and Tokugawa Ieyasu's Tokaido Army also received orders to send troops. Tokugawa Ieyasu was even still in Kyoto, and had to ask Sakai Tadashi to assemble the troops.
Further east, Oda Nobutada, Takigawa Kazumasu, and Uesugi Kagekatsu, who had just been transferred to Kanto and Mutsu Deha, were also ordered to send troops to the west. They also had to command the Hojo family, Satake family and other surrendered families.
Kanto daimyo. Not only that, but many daimyo such as the Date family, the Mogami family in the northeast, and the Nanbu family further north were also issued recruitment orders, requiring them to lead their troops to Luo within two months to participate in the attack on the Mori family.
crusade.
After Uakiuhei finished counting the heads, he was surprised to find that all the daimyo in Japan had received orders to conquer the Maori family. Oda Nobunaga asked all the lords and descendants of the Oda family to mobilize at least 70% of their troops, and at least 50% of the troops outside.
All the daimyo must personally lead the troops and gather them in Kansai to conquer the Maori family. Counting Oda Nobunaga's astonishing directly-administered territory, the total number of troops mobilized may reach an unprecedented number of more than 500,000...
This is almost the same as the Odawara Conquest, the Sekigahara Battle and the Battle of Osaka combined with the largest number of mobilizations in the history of the Warring States Period in Yu Qiupei's previous life...Are you crazy? Do you want to drown the Mori family directly with one spit of spit?
However, after thinking about the Odawara conquest, Amakihei felt that he seemed to have sensed the deep meaning of Oda Nobunaga. Just like Toyotomi Hideyoshi in his previous life called on the world's great names to besiege Odawara Castle, Oda Nobunaga also mobilized all the world's great names to attack.
Maori family, this may be an act to establish authority in the world. He wants to swear an oath to all the daimyo in the world. Even if he is not the shogun of the samurai family, Oda Nobunaga can mobilize the daimyo in the world. And if anyone dares not to do so at this time
Obeying Oda Nobunaga would also give Oda Nobunaga an excuse to change it.
If you understand it this way, Oda Nobunaga is not crazy. It’s just that the number of people mobilized is really too many... and the labor expedition from all over the country to bring all the famous people to Kansai consumes immeasurable manpower and material resources.
.If it is just to establish prestige, there seems to be no difference in cutting the number of people mobilized in half.
At the same time, Yu Qiuping thought of a terrible historical event - the Choshu Conquest. In the past history, in order to establish its authority before internal and external troubles, the Edo shogunate mobilized all the famous names in the world to besiege the Choshu Domain.
The family tried to re-show the majesty of the head of the samurai family, but it ended hastily after the war went wrong, and his reputation was completely ruined. In this way, Oda Nobunaga mobilized all the famous names in the world to attack the Maori family. If anything goes wrong, dozens of Oda family members will be killed.
The prestige that I had built up over the years was destroyed in one fell swoop.
Thinking of this, Yu Qiuping suddenly became nervous and was extra cautious when preparing for the expedition. Before leaving, he also made a special trip to visit Takenaka Shigeharu. Takenaka Shigeharu had been seriously ill in the past few months, and now he had few waking hours every day.
He had completely lost the strength to get out of bed and walk around, and his daily life could only be maintained by Takenaka Hansuke's support. What surprised Takenaka Hansuke was that Takenaka Shigeharu had not been notified in advance that Yu Qiupei was coming, but when Yu Qiupei arrived,
At this time, Takenaka Shigeharu's spirit unexpectedly improved, allowing him to barely have a conversation with Yu Qiuping.
"Have you heard about the Mori family and Ashikaga Yoshinishi?" Yu Qiupei asked Takezuki.
Naka Shigeharu confirmed that he knew that after Takenaka Shigeharu could not read by himself, he had the habit of letting Takenaka Hansuke read newspapers to him. "Even if Kobayakawa Takakage forcefully detained Ashikaga Yoshinishi and sent him to Kyoto, the Oda family still did not
I want to stop and make up my mind to destroy the Maori family. The peace in the world that finally comes will have to be postponed for a while."
"I have felt before that peace will not come so easily." Takenaka Shigeharu twitched the corner of his mouth, looked at the apologetic Yu Qiuping, and said slowly in a weak tone, "Your Highness still needs to be more careful."
"What are you being careful about?" Yu Qiuping looked at Takenaka Shigeharu in confusion, "Are you saying that you need to pay more attention to this battle, because if it fails, the reputation of the Oda family may be ruined?"
"No." Takenaka Shigeharu seemed to want to shake his head, but his sick body felt very reluctant to do this simple action. In the end, he just shook his head slightly, "I want to say that Oda-den will conquer the world.
The daimyo gathered in the Western Kingdom, I'm afraid they don't care about the Mori family."
Takenaka Shigeharu's words were like thunder on the ground, which instantly woke up Yu Qiupei, and after a moment of astonishment, he understood what Takenaka Shigeharu wanted to express. Think of the operation that Oda Nobunaga had already secretly carried out to transport grain and grass to various parts of Kyushu——
Could it be that Oda Nobunaga wanted to use the excuse of conquering the Maori family to deceive the troops of the Daimyo from their bases and come to Kinki and Saigoku, unfamiliar places, and then not allow them to return after conquering the Maori family?
Division, directly arrange for them to cross the sea by boat to attack North Korea?
Wouldn't it be such a crazy move?
Yu Qiuping was about to refute, but he immediately realized that Oda Nobunaga was such a lunatic.
If you think about it carefully, there is indeed some truth to this behavior. If Oda Nobunaga directly announced that he would conquer North Korea and recruit troops from all over the country, he would definitely encounter huge opposition. But if the troops have been gathered in the Western Kingdom, then
He would face much less resistance if he wanted to promote the westward expedition of the troops living in foreign lands. Those daimyo probably would not dare to openly oppose Oda Nobunaga on the territory of the Oda family and surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Oda troops.
Right? Even if you don't want to, you will be pushed to North Korea by Oda Nobunaga. Originally, Yu Qiupei had been worried that if the direct descendants of the Oda family went to North Korea on a large scale, something would happen in Japan.
——For example, will the opposing daimyo who stayed in Japan take the opportunity to start an uprising? Now this hidden danger has been eliminated by Oda Nobunaga. The daimyo and main forces of each family have been gathered in the territory of the Oda family, and Qianli Zhizhi
If the foreign base is separated, there will be no trouble no matter what.
Yu Qiuping's face gradually became solemn, and he slowly lowered his head. Takenaka Shigeharu understood that Yu Qiuping had understood what he wanted to say.
"I'm leaving. I want to ask my lord clearly." Yu Qiuping stood up after pondering for a long time, straightened his clothes, and whispered very firmly.
"Peace in the world is still far away, Your Highness." Takenaka Shigeharu coughed a few times and looked at Yu Qiuping with complicated eyes.
"If there is no peace in the world, will you persist until the day you see peace?" Yu Qiuping also looked back at Takenaka Shigeharu, looking at his body that was so weak that it seemed like it would fall apart at any time.
"I'm afraid I won't be able to wait any longer." Takenaka Shigeharu coughed a few more times, and for the first time his eyes showed the helplessness of being unable to do what he wanted. "I'm afraid I can't hold on with this body..."
"At least wait until I return from my expedition to the Western Kingdom. At least Japan will be at peace by then. I will never get involved in overseas affairs, and I will do my best to stop the lord. I thought I could delay it until the lord himself
Give up the idea. Now it seems that I have to stop all this immediately." After Yu Qiuping, who was about to leave, saw Takenaka Shigeharu's eyes, he knelt down again in confusion and held Takenaka Shigeharu tightly with both hands.
Chapter completed!