Warring States Eagle

In November of the first year of Hongzhi, the eastern part of the Chikuzen country, the entire territory of the Bungzen country, and the Bungo country (the main location of the riots was the territory of Yuandayoujia in the northeast, and a small number of riots occurred in other areas), with temples and shrines as the main force The riots in the past were actually caused by the joint mistakes of Mao Liyuan and Luo Shizhengliang.

Why do you say that?

As far as the Luo family is concerned, although Masaragi arranged for the military adviser Akabane Shinnosuke to be fully responsible for dealing with the instability in the territory before he went to the Battle of Itsukushima.However, at this time, most of the forces of the intelligence cabinet were transferred to Southern Kyushu and the West Country (especially the Itsukushima area) for monitoring and deployment tasks, resulting in a very limited number of people in the intelligence cabinet responsible for monitoring the situation in the Luo family's territory. .So even if there were changes in the areas of Chikuzen, Buzen, and Bungo at the same time, Akabane Shinnosuke failed to react in time.This eventually led to the riot.

As for Mori Moto, his original plan was to use this riot to contain the Luo family, so that when the Luo family went out on Tsushima Island and Bungo Sasaki's house, they had no time to take into account his relationship with Tao Longfang. The decisive battle on Itsuku Island.As a result, because the Luo family completely blocked the surrounding waters of Kitakyushu, he lost contact with the spy lurking in the territory of the Luo family in Kitakyushu. In addition, it would take a proper preparation time to instigate a riot, so until Itsukushima At the end of the First World War, the Luo family's army invaded the Nagato, Shuo, Aki, and Bingo countries on a large scale, and the riots in Kitakyushu broke out.There is a huge difference in time.

Although the riot this time could not cooperate with the Mori family's first battle in Itsukushima, it had somehow affected the Luo family's strategy for the four countries of Nagato, Shuo, Aki, and Bingo.At this time, following the Luo family's large-scale mobilization of troops, they went to the West Country area.The Maori family lurking in the territory of the Luo family also realized that the Luo family had been involved in the dispute between the Maori family and the Ouchi family.And the riot at this time did add a lot of trouble to the Luo family.While they were worried about the situation of the Maori family.I am also grateful for this riot.

However, compared with the detailed work of the Mori family, Zhengliang has a different view in his heart at this time.

This time the riot mainly took place in the newly occupied territories of the Luo family, and areas such as the Hizen country, the Higo country, the Chikugo country, and the western part of the Chikuzen country have been managed by the Luo family for a long time. There were no riots at all in the time zone.And these areas without riots are currently the largest food and material production areas of the Luo family, so the riots this time will at best bring certain losses to the Luo family's territory.It can't affect the foundation of Luo's family at all.

In addition, due to the fact that the main local big and small wealthy families in the area where the riots occurred were either destroyed by the Luo family at the time of the initial attack, or the Luo family moved to other more stable areas of the Luo family after the war to settle down. Therefore, the main participants in this riot were only local temples and shrines and some ignorant believers.Its overall strength is really average (after all, the power of temples such as Yixiangzong in Kyushu is also limited, and it cannot be compared with its power in the base camps of Kinki, Ise, and Hokuriku).For the pacification of these rioting forces, there is no need to dispatch the Luo family's standing equipment at all, and only need to mobilize some farmers and soldiers to go out.This is why Zhengliang assured his children to participate in this counter-insurgency operation.

So after the riot broke out, Masaragi ordered Akabane Nobunosuke not to care about those rioting forces, but instead to concentrate his efforts to thoroughly uncover the details that instigated the riot.Get rid of them completely.

At the same time, Masara ordered the Sixth Standing Ashgaru Division, which was attacking the Saeki family in Bungo country, to retreat to the border of the territory.While guarding the border of the territory, send troops to enter the riot area to counter the rebellion.In the areas where riots occurred, the local cabinet should also unite with the heads of villages and towns to organize local citizens to guard their own territories.

In the end, Masaragi ordered the immediate recruitment of 500 temporary agricultural and military forces, each with no less than [-] people, in the western regions of Chikuzen, Chikugo, and Hizen, where there were no riots. Under the leadership of the college students, they immediately rushed to the places where the riots occurred to counter the rebellion.

Although Zhengliang's series of orders were an immediate response to the riot, they also had many flaws.

First of all, only one standing squadron participated in the counter-insurgency. Due to its weak force and limited number of people, it was difficult to solve a large-scale riot in a short period of time.

Secondly, ordering the local people to protect themselves under the leadership of the Luo family's retainers, although the purpose of protecting the safety of the people has been achieved to a certain extent, but if the rioting army is too large, it will also affect some small and weak people. The village did a lot of damage.Therefore, it is inevitable that some innocent citizens will be killed or injured in this riot.

In the end, because the Luo family implemented the policy of hunting with swords, not only did the local people have no real weapons for defense, but even the counter-insurgency farmers and soldiers organized in various places had to wait for the Luo family to distribute weapons before they could officially set off for the trip. counterinsurgency.In addition, these counter-insurgency forces are at a certain distance from the riot area, and they come and go again and again, which leads to a lot of delay in the counter-insurgency period.When the local people lack weapons for self-defense (they can only use indigenous weapons such as bamboo spears), and the counter-insurgency army fails to arrive quickly, it will inevitably further increase the various losses in the place where the riot occurred.

Of course, the so-called loss comes with gain.Such a strategy is also beneficial.

First of all, the local people who had riots deeply realized the dangers of these temples and shrines, and at the same time realized the benefits brought to them by the laws of the Luo family.Therefore, after the riots, the residents of these areas will more quickly integrate into the management system of the Luo family.

Secondly, after this riot, the Luo family must be able to completely wipe out the secret operations of each family and the influence of local temples and shrines. After completely wiping out other forces in these areas, these areas will soon be like the Hizen Kingdom. , Chikugo country in general.Become an absolutely reliable backup base for the Luo family.

Finally, take advantage of this riot to train the Luo family's reserve force and the main force of the next generation (mainly the students of Luo's Academy) retainers, such as Zheng Liang's own children.However, as the years passed, Zheng Liang felt that he was becoming more and more cold-blooded.Of course, Zhengliang hopes that all the citizens will be safe, but now that the incident has happened, it is necessary to minimize its harm and at the same time obtain greater benefits from it.After all, not everything will be perfect. When necessary, as a family supervisor, you must know how to make decisions and make choices.The strategy for the West Country is the top priority of the Luo family's overall interests, and it must not be restrained by it. Therefore, after the riots, he can only sacrifice some innocent citizens in exchange for greater benefits. .

Of course, with the occurrence of the riots, it was also announced that Zheng Liang's previous policy of appeasement of temples and shrines had failed.

At the beginning, in order to control the newly occupied area faster, the main force of the Luo family's army was quickly withdrawn from the local area, ready to intervene in the battle of Itsukushima at any time. Masara did not immediately attack the local temple and shrine forces as before. Instead, they ignore them.At the same time, it also began to vigorously promote the temples and shrines of the Luo family and the churches of the Nanman people in these areas (two years ago, the first church in the history of the Wa country was officially completed near Hakata Port in the Chikuzen country).According to Zhengliang's own plan, he adopted Xu Tu's gradual approach to gradually let the Luo family's own temples, shrines and churches replace the local temples and shrines that were not under the jurisdiction of the Luo family.

It turned out to be good now, Zhengliang didn't take the initiative to provoke these temples and shrines, but they first turned around and caused trouble for Zhengliang.In fact, what Zheng Liang didn't know was that in the eyes of these local temple and shrine forces, the Luo family would always be enemies. Under the instigation, they naturally act decisively first.

Zheng Liang was naturally very angry about this.After this incident, Zheng Liang finally understood.Since the laws of the Luo family inherently seriously threatened the core interests of these temples and shrines, there would be no so-called honeymoon period or peace period between the two, and some would only be bloody wars.It can be said that from the moment the law of the Luo family was established, the Luo family had great grievances with these bald monks.

Of course, in essence, the root of the grievances between the two is interests.From another point of view, it was because the power of the Luo family had grown too fast.

After all, even disintegrating the power of these local temples and shrines will take a lot of time.It was like a battle. Judging from the comparison of the strengths of the two sides, it could have ended quickly, but it ended up going on for a long time. In fact, the main time during this period was spent on the march.

Even the rise of Oda Nobunaga in history was able to develop rapidly because of the accumulation of his family's business in Owari for several generations.However, the Luo family developed from scratch from a small village temporarily formed by refugees, and after only a dozen years of development, it has already established many powerful and powerful territories that could not be established by generations.Judging from the entire historical scroll, it is already very fast.It is precisely because the forces are expanding too fast that they cannot slowly disintegrate these native temple and shrine forces, which lead to conflicts with these forces because of their respective interests.

Of course, no matter what, after this lesson, Zheng Liang no longer intends to use Xu Tu's slow-moving method to disintegrate the forces of these temples and shrines. He is going to insist on using the method of bloody cleansing.Of course, in order to prevent the local nobles and temples and shrines from uniting to resist the Luo family in the ongoing West Country strategy, Masaragi decided to eliminate and control the local powerful clans before attacking the temples and shrines.

However, what Zhengliang didn't know was that Mao Liyuan, who was in Anyi country at this time, had already made up the idea of ​​these temple shrine forces. (To be continued..)