Volume 7 Jiangnan Green Looking Maple Red Chapter 982 Reverse Comeback
"I understand." It took Kobayakawa Takakage some time to digest the huge amount of information given by Amakihei, but he still understood the route disputes within the Oda family and Oda Nobunaga's shocking plan, "Then the treatment
Your Highness, you and I are negotiating here because you want to end the battle between the Mori family and the Oda family as quickly as possible, so that General Oda loses his excuse to gather the world's great names to Kansai?"
"That's it. What do you think of His Highness Kobayakawa?" Yu Qiuping saw that Kobayakawa Takaki's attitude seemed to be relatively mild, so he asked with great anticipation.
"Haha... I hope His Highness the Governor knows that this is not something that the Mori family can solve." Kobayakawa Takakage heard this and smiled bitterly. After taking a big sip of tea, he smiled bitterly again, "If you want the Mori family to surrender immediately,
The Maori family is really what they want. We are not ignorant of current affairs, nor do we know that in this corner of Kansai, it is difficult for us to compete with the symbol of the hegemon who dominates Kinki. When my father was alive, he left a family motto that the Maori family should not compete with the world.
We don’t have any lofty ambitions, we just want to keep the land that my father worked hard to open up.”
"It's just... can the Maori family really surrender now if they want?" Kobayakawa Takakage put down the tea, looked meaningfully at Yu Qiupei, and asked the latter for confirmation, "It must be General Oda who wants to drive us all away.
After the Maori family surrendered, they had always kept their peace and had no intentions or actions to become enemies of the Oda family, but they encountered unreasonable disasters. We had no knowledge of the Ashikaga pseudo-shogunate, and we immediately sent him to Kyoto afterwards, so why should we use this as an excuse to target the Maori family?
Are we declaring war? His Highness Jibu must also know what Admiral Oda You is thinking."
"My lord just wants to find a reason to start a war with the Maori family. I don't shy away from this." Yu Qiuping nodded and admitted this frankly.
"In that case, what's the point of our Maori family surrendering? We originally surrendered, but General Oda didn't allow us to surrender and continued to attack us. Even if we sent envoys many times to show our respect, there was nothing we could do." Kobayakawa Takakage.
He narrowed his eyes and looked directly into Yu Qiuping's eyes, "The person His Highness Jibu really should persuade is General Oda You, to persuade him to accept the surrender of the Maori family."
"But His Highness Kobayakawa also knows that the master just wants to deliberately make excuses, so how can he accept it?"
"Then in this case, what can the Maori family do? There is no need to accuse others. Even if we are willing to carve out several more countries, even if we are willing to let the family governor retire, even if my brother and I are willing to commit seppuku, General Oda U
You still won’t give up.”
"There's nothing wrong with that." Yu Qiuping admitted it calmly again.
"So there is absolutely nothing we can do, Your Highness Jibu." Kobayakawa Takakage's face also looked a little gloomy.
"Actually, there is a way, but..." Yu Qiuping shook his head this time, which stunned Kobayakawa Takakage, who was originally a little frustrated, "His Royal Highness, it's okay."
"My method is for the Maori family to declare unconditional surrender before the full-scale fighting breaks out." Yu Qiupei said each word slowly to ensure that Kobayakawa Takakage could hear his words clearly.
"Unconditional surrender..." Kobayakawa Takakage murmured and repeated Yu Qiupei's words, and then asked, "What does His Highness Jibu mean by this?"
"Please give an order to His Highness Kobayakawa that the whole Maori family should give up resistance, and all ministries should surrender to the Oda family Kaicheng without any guarantee conditions, and let the Oda family handle it." Yu Qiuping whispered in as gentle and gentle a tone as possible,
He lowered his eyes and did not look at Kobayakawa Takakage, "
If this is the case, the various Oda clan tribes that have surrounded the Maori clan from all directions can quickly take over all the Maori clan's cities that do not resist and capture all the Maori clan's troops. The war will be over within five days. By then, the lord will have no chance to continue.
An excuse to recruit the world’s army.”
"His Royal Highness Kobayakawa's self-cultivation is really beyond my imagination." Yu Qiuping raised his head and saw that Kobayakawa Takakage did not have an attack, but still maintained his gentle expression, "I am not angry even after saying this."
"His Royal Highness Jibu also knows that these words will make people angry." Kobayakawa Takakage looked at Yu Qiupei with a smile, "What is the difference between this and the destruction of the Mori family?"
"To be honest, it is impossible to save the Maori family in the current situation. Whether it is attacked by the world's army or surrendered, there is essentially no difference. All I can stop is the Lord's conquest of North Korea."
"Since there is no difference to the Maori family no matter what, why should I provide help to His Highness Jibu?" Kobayakawa Takakage shook his head repeatedly with a smile, "Resist to the end, the Maori family can still leave a martial name in the history of history. If
If you take off your armor and surrender without firing an arrow, won't you become the laughingstock of the world?"
"But if the Maori family resists to the end, not only will the casualties be greater, but the lord's conquest of North Korea will also be unable to be stopped. When the war begins against North Korea, Kansai will become the front line. All the soldiers of the world will pass through Kansai, and there will be endless arrests and plunders.
Looting is unbearable for the people under the rule of the Maori family, right? In addition, the expedition to Korea was very hasty. If the food and grass were insufficient, the people must be recruited from Kyushu and Kansai. In this way, how could the people under the rule of the Maori family
Isn't it going to be hell on earth?" Yu Qiuping slowly put his hands on the table and said sincerely to Kobayakawa Takakage, "Your Highness may want to say that it is the Oda family that caused all this, but that is the fact. Once conquered
When the dynasty starts, the Maori family's old territory next to the front line will be doomed. Whether it is the common people or the military family..."
If you were to say these words to a hard-hearted, profit-seeking samurai, you might get a response of just scorn and disdain. However, Yu Qiuping knew that Kobayakawa Takakage was not such a person. In a sense, he and his way of dealing with things
It was closer. As expected, after listening to Yu Qiuping's words, Kobayakawa Takakage fell into deep thought for a long time, and did not even reply when the hot tea in the cup became slightly cold.
"I never expected that His Highness Jibu would persuade me like this." After Kobayakawa Takakage ended the long silence, he laughed twice, "I had heard before that His Highness Jibu was actually involved in the civil war of the Imagawa family when he was young.
In order to save the people in the enemy's city, he rescued the siege and finally led to a huge defeat. Seeing it today, maybe the rumors back then were true. In the heart of His Highness, the people of the world are treated like insignificant people by countless high-ranking people. There is a heavy burden.
Hefty."
"Did His Highness Kobayakawa agree?" Yu Qiuping couldn't help but his eyes lit up after hearing Kobayakawa Takakage's words.
"After all, I am not a benevolent person like His Highness Jibu. Naturally, I cannot do this. The matter is so big that this decision cannot be approved and approved by the family. And if you act like this, the Maori family will really become a legacy for the ages.
Even the samurai from top to bottom of the Maori family would not agree. No matter what, the Maori family will fight until the last moment." Kobayakawa Takakage shook his head, but added another sentence, "But I have other methods.
Maybe I can lend a helping hand to your Royal Highness."
"I didn't expect your rhetoric to be really touching." Ikeda Hengxing, who had been drinking in silence for a long time, saw that the conversation had progressed to this point.
After that, he finally couldn't help but laugh out loud and interrupted the conversation between the two of them, "No, it turns out there are really other bad and good people?"
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On May 8, the tenth year of Tensho (1582), Kobayakawa Takakage, who had left the Maori army's main formation the night before, suddenly appeared in the Ikeda family's army formation and announced that he had run away to the Oda family. Afterwards, Kobayakawa Takakage personally came to the front of Tokura Castle.
, persuaded the castle soldiers to surrender unconditionally. Nakajima Motoyuki could not accept Kobayakawa Takakage's betrayal, and committed seppuku on the spot. Many samurai in Tokura Castle also left with him, and the remaining castle soldiers had no choice but to surrender. Ikeda's army set fire to Tokura Castle.
Kura Castle, and then escorted the prisoners back to the Oda Army's main formation outside Bitchu Takamatsu Castle. Oda Nobunaga also responded quickly and immediately asked Kobayakawa Takakage to come to Kyoto to see him and reveal the details of the Mori family.
out.
The news of Kobayakawa Takakage's escape caused an uproar in the entire Maori family and even the entire Kansai. No one could have imagined that one of the two Maori rivers, which had been loyal to the Maori family for decades, would suddenly surrender to the enemy. Under the huge impact, many Shanyang
The wealthy families of the Tao were shaken. Upon seeing this, the Oda army on all fronts began to mobilize and attack. Suddenly, the Maori family had the momentum to fall down the tree and scatter the hozens. There was only one exception, and that was in Sanin.
Yoshikawa Motoharu was facing a confrontation with the () Road. After learning the news that his younger brother had surrendered to the enemy, Yoshikawa Motoharu suddenly led the entire army to attack, catching Akechi Mitsuhide off guard. The Sanin () Road Army was instantly defeated and fled back to Tottori in embarrassment.
.And Yoshikawa Motoharu then led the troops originally stationed at San'in () Road to quickly go south and went straight to Bichu Takamatsu Castle, trying to take over the command of Kobayakawa Takakage to confront the main force of the Oda family.
On May 9, the tenth year of Tensho (1582), in the Oda military camp below Takamatsu Castle in Bitchu.
"Although it's not quite the same as you imagined, the effect is almost the same." Ikeda Hengxing lowered his voice to Yu Qiupei who came to have lunch, "Kobayakawa Takakage's resignation is simply the last straw that overwhelms the Mori family.
, it is said that many wealthy families on all fronts are ready to surrender. In less than ten days and a half, the Maori family will be pacified, and the daimyo who came from all over the country can return home."
"That's right." Yu Qiuping replied while drinking miso.
"I just didn't expect that Kobayakawa Takakage would actually do this." Thinking of this, Ikeda Hengxing couldn't help but smack his tongue, "Half a lifetime of honor... I don't want it anymore."
"He wanted to preserve the reputation of the Maori family, and also wanted to prevent the people under the Maori family from suffering due to the imperial conquest, so he chose to sacrifice the feathers he had cherished for half his life. In this way, the imperial conquest could be avoided, and the Maori family would not
He was ridiculed for not resisting. All the infamy will be borne by him alone. The Maori family will only be regretted by historians for raising a white-eyed wolf in future generations." Yu Qiuping put down the tableware and praised in a low voice with great respect, "
He is truly an amazing samurai. The fact that the Maori family has such a sect is truly a tribute to the virtues accumulated by our ancestors."
"By the way, Lord, how did you explain it?" Yu Qiuping came back to his senses and looked at Ikeda Hengxing, and confirmed very vigilantly, "The secret will not be revealed."
"As long as your previous whereabouts have not been exposed, the secret will definitely not be revealed. Anyway, I told the lord that I was going to negotiate with the people who defended the city. They said they wanted to ask for instructions from Kobayakawa Takakage, but the envoy who came back turned out to be Kobayakawa Takakage who had run away.
How could I have imagined it?" Ikeda Hengxing had a rogue expression and said with a smile, "I reported it immediately when it happened. It has nothing to do with me, and it has nothing to do with you."