Smuggling Daming

Ashikaga Yoshiki escaped from Kyoto at a high price, and immediately began to actively prepare for the battle after meeting with the Tayama clan, and the Hatano clan in the west of Kyoto also joined forces with Ashikaga Yoshiki, and now the three parties are ready. When the weather turns warmer in the spring of next year, it will attack Kyoto from the south and west.

Speaking of which, although Wa is an island country, surrounded by seas and affected by warm currents, the winter is higher than that of North Korea at the same latitude. However, the cold winter in the seventh year of Zhengde also affected Wa. The people in the land fled to the deep mountains. These people were very sad in winter. Now that the winter is several times colder than in previous years, these fugitives were frozen to death in large numbers in the deep mountains.

It was also affected by this severe cold that Ashikaga Yoshiki and Hosokawa Takakuni wanted to kill each other immediately, but because the weather was too cold, they had to hide in the city to avoid the cold.But even when avoiding the cold, Ashikaga Yoshiki and Hosokawa Takakuni were not idle. Among them, Ashikaga Yoshiki received Zhou Shige's funding through Ashikaga Kakki and was stepping up training soldiers, while Hosokawa Takakuni and Ashikaga Yoshiharu, who was previously abolished as a general, secretly colluded to make Ashikaga Yoshiharu, one of Ashikaga Yoshiharu's sons, a general, and at the same time abolished Ashikaga Yoshiaki's general.

This is the second time Ashikaga has been abolished as a general. Although he was mentally prepared when he escaped from Kyoto, when the news came, Ashikaga was still filled with grief and indignation, let alone now He is no longer the puppet general he was back then, but a powerful general with tens of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands.So he couldn't swallow this breath no matter what.

It was also this kind of anger of Ashikaga Yoshiki that finally made him make a decision, that is, to send the [-] troops he had just trained to take the lead in attacking the small army in a dry and cold weather with a bright moon hanging high Xingui Mountain City controlled by the Chuan Clan.In Ashikaga's view, this attack on the Hosokawa clan was firstly to vent his anger, and secondly, it was also for training. After all, the army in his hands cannot become an elite soldier only by training.Only after going through the baptism of war, can his [-] troops confront the Hosokawa clan head-on.

I have to say that Ashikaga Yoshiki was very lucky. In the severe cold weather in the seventh year of Masanori, no one expected that someone would brave the severe cold to send troops. Naturally, the defenders of Shigiyama Castle were no exception. In the end, Ashikaga Yoshiki The 1000-strong army succeeded in a sneak attack.The [-] defenders of Shigiyama Castle were completely unprepared and the city gate was breached. As a result, half of the [-] people were killed, and the remaining half surrendered to the army of Ashikaga Yoshiki. Shigiyama Castle also fell into Ashikaga Yoshiki In his hands, this is also the first time he has a piece of land that is completely his own.

Ashikaga Yoshiki was almost unlucky in the first half of his life, and he was an unlucky guy who was abolished twice in succession as a general.Even in the history of Japan, it is very rare.But it may be that his bad luck was gone in the first half of his life, so after he sent troops.The god of luck has always favored him very much. After he was very lucky to take down Xingui Mountain City, a heavy snowfall suddenly fell in the country of Wa. After three days of continuous snowfall, the snow on the ground was enough to bury the house. Not only the road was blocked, Even many people were frozen to death in the heavy snow.

It is also the arrival of this heavy snow.The news that Xinguishan City was captured was temporarily blocked, when Hosokawa Takakuni learned of the news.Ashikaga Yoshiki has completely controlled the situation in Shibukiyama Castle, and has developed here as his base camp, and it is also because of this heavy snow that the roads from Kyoto to the outside world cannot be reached. In the mountain city, there is no way to send troops.

However, although Takakuni Hosokawa was unable to send troops for the time being, his anger towards Yoshiki Ashikaga slowly turned into a kind of hatred in his heart. It doesn't matter if he can't send troops for the time being. They are all secretly dealing with Ashikaga Yoshiki, so these people have become the targets of Hosokawa Takakuni to vent his anger. As a result, people in Kyoto are killing people almost every day, and everyone in the city is in danger. After going down, he persuaded Hosokawa Takakuni to stop this indiscriminate killing.

Time passed day by day, and the weather in Wa country was already susceptible to the influence of ocean currents. Not long after the Chinese New Year, when Daming and North Korea were still covered in ice, the weather in Wa country was getting warmer day by day, and it even fell in winter. The ice and snow have also begun to melt, but at night, they will still be frozen hard, but this is also a good thing, because after the road surface is frozen hard, it is more convenient for others to travel.

However, after the weather got warmer, Ashikaga Yoshiki and Hosokawa Takakuni, who had been resting for a winter, could finally have a hearty fight. City, Tenglong Temple City, and Duowen Mountain City, these three cities just formed a character shape to surround Xingui Mountain City, and the distance is not far away, so when the weather gets warmer, the guards in these three cities will receive According to Hosokawa Takakuni's order, attack Shigiyama Castle with all the troops in the city.

In the end, the three cities sent a total of 4000 troops. Although it was less than the [-]-strong army of Ashikaga Yoshiki, they were all the elite of the Hosokawa clan. In addition, this time Hosokawa Kokuni did not intend to wipe out Ashikaga Yoshiki in one fell swoop. , but to send this army to test the strength of the opponent. If Ashikaga Yoshiki is very strong, then this army will retreat immediately, and then he will mobilize all the troops to fight Ashikaga Yoshiki to the death.

Ashikaga also knew that Hosokawa was tempting him this time, and he also knew that Tianshan and Hatano would not help him this time, because they also wanted to see their own strength with their own eyes. If his strength is too poor, then he will still be treated as a puppet by Tianshan and Hatano in the end. This is something he does not want to see anyway, so he must seize the opportunity this time so that everyone can see him as Ashikaga. strength.

Ashikaga Kazuki, who was far away in Hirado Castle, also knew the importance of this battle. It is even no exaggeration to say that this was a battle for their Ashikaga clan to re-establish the authority of the general. If there is an attack, then their Ashikaga family can regain the recognition of daimyo from all over the world.

Knowing the importance of this battle to the family, Ashikaga Kazuki finally rushed to Shigui Mountain City to help out. He also had a group of brave Japanese under his command. Also proficient, the bravery of these people should have some effect on the battlefield.

On February [-]nd of the eighth year of Zhengde, it was the day when the dragon raised its head in Daming. Farmers were all preparing for spring plowing. Old people took dustpans with ashes in them, scattered them from the door to the kitchen, and then turned them around the water tank. One circle, it is said that this is a money-inducing dragon, which can guarantee a lot of money in this year, and on this day, every household cooks some delicious food, such as pancakes, twisted dumplings, etc. The customs of different places are different, and the diet Nature is also different.

However, what the lively Ming people didn’t know was that on this day, a tragic war broke out in the Wa Kingdom. Ashikaga Yoshisai raised an army of [-] troops and fought against the Hosokawa clan’s [-] troops outside the city of Shigiyama. This is a chance for them to endure humiliation and finally win a chance to rise again, so they will not give up no matter what.

After many years of fighting in the Wa Kingdom, the country’s supplies are extremely depleted. Even a daimyo of one party does not have many troops to mobilize. At about 2 people, this time in order to deal with the Ashikaga clan, the Hosokawa clan unexpectedly dispatched one-fifth of its troops. Originally, Hosokawa Takako wanted to mobilize more troops, but now the road is difficult and it is very difficult to mobilize the army , In addition, other cities also need army defense, so in the end they can only give up.

The two sides were already mortal enemies, and there was no possibility of reconciliation at all. Therefore, after the armies of both sides rushed to the small plain where the battle was fought, the generals of each other immediately ordered their troops to attack. Two armies slammed into each other fiercely, stirring up bloody waves.

Hosokawa Takakuni thought beforehand that he had overestimated Ashikaga Yoshisuke enough. In his opinion, the opponent had organized an army of [-] troops in a short period of time. He couldn't compare with the real elite soldiers of hundreds of battles, so he felt that the [-] troops he sent were enough to bring Ashikaga Yoshiki back to his original form. As long as there was no Ashikaga Yoshiki's signboard, then Tayama Nao Hatano would not fight him to the death After a few games at most, everyone can't take advantage of it, and they are worried that others will take advantage of it, so they can only make peace in the end.

However, Hosokawa Takakuni underestimated Ashikaga's determination and his efforts to get rid of his puppet status. He has already trained outstanding talents like Hatano Hideko in his hands with the strength he has accumulated over the years. General, even when he escaped from the capital, even if he watched his most beloved sons and daughters being killed, he would bring these outstanding subordinates out of the capital. In the end, these people became the backbone of his army. With these people as the backbone, coupled with the extremely harsh training, and the weapons and equipment provided by Zhou Shige, the army in the hands of Ashikaga Yoshiki is not as vulnerable as Hosokawa Takakuni thinks.

Hosokawa Takakuni's contempt for Ashikaga Yoshiki also spread to his generals. For example, it was a son of Hosokawa Takakuni who led the army this time. This proud young man, like his father, firmly believed that he The [-] elite soldiers in his hands have completely become an army that can crush Ashikaga Yoshiki. As a result, when the war started, he discovered that Ashikaga Yoshiki's army was far stronger than he thought. Even at the beginning of the war, his side had already exposed several Point of defeat. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)