Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 853 Disintegration
Seeing that the two of Hirado clan had made a decision, Teruma Ikeda sighed slightly in his heart, and stated his conditions with a look of embarrassment on his face.

Songpanjiamu and Yicang led people were taken aback for a moment, and then they looked at each other, Songpanjiamu gritted his teeth secretly and said: "Uncle, please rest assured, as long as uncle calls Tian Chuan and others for the reason of discussing the collapse of the curtain Come here to discuss the matter, and then control the situation with my [-] elite soldiers. Afterwards, I will present Ikeda Fan with [-] large fire guns, [-] rounds of gunpowder, and [-] spears! Fifty pairs of armor!

The little nephew can now make a written statement! "

In order to save their lives and their future glory and wealth, the Songpan family also spent a lot of money.

Over the past year, in accordance with the instructions of the cabinet, the Zheng family fleet has successively sent three batches of ordnance to Kyushu Island. Among these three batches of ordnance, a total of 1000 and two hundred guns were sent.

When Jiro Matsupan was alive, he shot [-] shots, and the Hirado clan got [-] shots. If it was damaged, the Hirado clan’s iron artillery team had about [-] shots left, and this time the Matsupan family was willing to spend nearly [-]% of them at once. It was given to Ikeda Fan, which surprised Ikeda Teruma who knew the background of Hirado Fan's family.

"There is no need to establish written documents, you and I are family friends, how can I not believe you!
Let's proceed according to Jiamu-kun's plan just now. At noon tomorrow, I will send someone to invite Tian Chuan and others to come to the banquet. It is estimated that Tian Chuan and the others will not take any action tonight. , the two of you still have to go back to your residence to rest!

Tomorrow morning, I will arrange the manpower to start the decoration, Jiamu-jun, don't worry! "

Ikeda Teruma's words relieved Songpan Jiamu's heart, and then he and Yicang led someone to leave and returned to the residence secretly. Tianchuan Yuhuang and others did not expect someone to inform, and they had not yet It was fully prepared, so although Matsupan Jiro arranged for dozens of samurai to strengthen their defenses, the night was safe and sound.

At about six o'clock the next morning, Tianchuan Yuhuang and others who were discussing when to take down Songpanjiamu suddenly received a message from Ikeda Fan, saying that Ikeda Huizheng invited several people to his residence at noon to discuss the next steps There is no doubt about his action plan. After a brief discussion, Yuhuang Tianchuan, Takahiro Maeya and others each took a few samurai on a bullock cart to the Ikeda clan's army camp several miles away. Take people to go together.

It has been 20 days since the assassination of Matsupan Jiro. Due to the lack of sufficient prestige of the Matsupan family, the seat of the leader of the alliance still belongs to the Hirado clan in name, but in fact most of the other daimyos tend to be taken over by the older Ikeda Teruma this post.

Although Tianchuan Yuhuang had a high prestige in the Hirado Domain, his status was only a retainer after all, and the abolition of the establishment he planned had to obtain the support of Ikeda Huizheng, so when he heard that the helm of the Ikeda clan called Afterwards, Tianchuan Yuhuang and others, who had already prepared how to reach an understanding with the other party, went happily, but what they never expected was that what awaited them was an unsolvable deadlock.

Tianchuan Yuhuang and others who arrived at Ikeda Huimasa's residence did not see the Lord. When they were taken to the house to wait, the samurai brought by each of them had been disarmed by the Ikeda clan's elite. Several trusted samurai suddenly rushed into the room holding long knives, and a moment later, the unsuspecting Tagawa Yuhuang, Maeya Takahiro, and several other Hirado domain retainers were beheaded to death.

Immediately afterwards, Songpan Jiamu and Yonekura led a thousand elite warriors borrowed from the Ikeda Clan to cleanse the cronies of Tianchuan Yuhuang and others indiscriminately. In just half a day, the Hirado Clan had two hundred soldiers. More than one person was executed, including many mid-level generals with strong abilities. This internal strife greatly reduced the strength of the Hirado Domain.

Songpan Jiamu then appointed Yonekura Dairen as the chief retainer of the Hirado Domain, and arranged for his own guard to take over the sharpest iron artillery team, and asked the entire army to gather and swear allegiance to him.

When the news of the internal strife in the Hirado domain spread, other daimyos were shocked, but they also had different thoughts.

First, Yamauchi, the great name of the Yamauchi clan, also took his [-] samurai back to the territory on the grounds that there were troubles in the territory. After a few days, the Fujido family also found an excuse to bring the troops back, and then left. It was the Matsuura clan. In just ten days, only the Hirado clan, Ikeda clan, and Ito clan were left with the coalition troops who stayed in Mojiko to defend the shogunate. The number was less than [-].

These foreign daimyos suddenly returned to the territory in order to rush back to grab money, food and land.

They saw that under the current situation, neither the Hirado clan nor the Ikeda clan who had a good relationship with it would dare to leave Moji Port, otherwise the shogunate army would cross the Kanmon Strait and make a comeback.

Before Matsupan Jiro was still alive, he still had a certain deterrent and binding force on them, but now the power of Hirado has been reduced a lot after the internal strife, and the Matsupan family has no prestige, so Yamauchi Qu also waited for others to feel that it was time to go back Share the fruits of victory.

The coalition forces captured many captives after defeating the shogunate army several times. In order to maintain the loyalty of their own team, Matsupan Jiro and Ikeda Teruma did not merge these captives into their own command, but generously distributed them to several other daimyos. This made Yamauchi Quya and the others' strength increase a lot in a short period of time.

In order to gain the allegiance of these captives, Yamauchi Quya and others decided to lead the team home and distribute the fields and wives owned by the family genealogical daimyos on Kyushu Island who were first defeated to the samurai.

It is also a field, but there are also Ueda and Shimoda. Of course, whoever snatches a good thing first will be the one. As long as you are strong enough, you will not dare to turn your back on Hirado and Ikeda. The shogunate army on the other side has never The idea of ​​landing on Kyushu Island was broken.

It is precisely because of the selfish behavior of these foreign daimyos that the Fallen Alliance, which was established less than a year ago, is already on the verge of disintegration.

Facing the status quo, Ikeda Teruma has nothing to do.

Shannei Quye and others have indeed pinpointed his fatal spot. Now these 8000 people dare not move at all, even if they move, they dare not go back and fight with Shannei Quye and others. The trusted retainers returned to the southwest with some people.

I'm afraid I don't even have soup to drink when I go back late. I worked so hard to win so many territories, so I can't afford these people who don't contribute much, right?
The news of discord within the coalition forces spread to the other side somehow, and it didn't take long for the shogunate army to launch a military operation.

They first used tens of thousands of farmers to pretend to be troops, and made a big splash at the narrowest part of the Guanmen Strait, making a gesture of preparing to forcibly land from here, but in fact they secretly mobilized the main force and a large number of ships to the vicinity of Xiaguan.

(End of this chapter)