A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Hosokawa Fujitaka will definitely be famous all over the world in the future. Let alone Japan, there are not many people in this world who can maintain a high ranking under two generations of feudal dynasty rulers.

And Hosokawa Fujitaka was able to extend the Muromachi shogunate's third-in-command leadership to the Edo shogunate's Kumamoto 542,000-koku power gate name. Although Hosokawa Tadaki also had a share in this, it has to be said that it was Hosokawa. Fujitaka has good abilities and vision.

So what is Hosokawa Fujitaka doing now? He hurriedly gathered the fire fighters in Luoyang Town, and met Feng Gongzhong who was missing along the way. He took out all the armor and weapons he had stored and armed himself with a small number of fire extinguishers. In the end, there was still a step missing and he failed to enter the imperial palace immediately.

But after all, it was dark, and although there were torches, the brightness was still average. It was Hosokawa Fujitaka who was so deceitful that he arranged more than a hundred armored men gathered along the way in the front row. They spent a lot of money to trick a group of fire fighters into holding spears as cover, while the remaining fire fighters raised flags and cheered.

When Tomonichi Iwanari came to block the attack with more than a thousand people, Fujitaka Hosokawa took advantage of the locals in Rakujing and sent more than a hundred fire fighters with long soldiers to attack in all directions. It looks like it counts.

At the same time, he personally led more than a hundred soldiers to violently attack Iwanari Youdong, and beat the newly arrived Iwanari Youdong into confusion.

"How many people do Hosokawa Fujitaka have? Where did such an army come from?"

It's no wonder that Iwanari Yudong couldn't figure it out, he got in. He really didn't expect that there are usually only two or three people patrolling the street, but the fire smoke of Ada and Aer saying hello at the intersection can suddenly gather a team of thousands of people. .

Blind spot!

As for Hosokawa Fujitaka's combination of punches, and in the crowded streets of Rakujing, the two sides could actually fight with only two to three hundred people. Iwanari Tomomichi was confused. He was not a very clever person. He was temporarily frightened and did not dare to move lightly.

As soon as Hosokawa Fujitaka saw that there was a way, he continued to harass the Iwanari army while trying to advance towards the imperial palace, trying to join Ashikaga Yoshiteru.

Now Tomomichi Iwanari quit. He was blinded by the infantry assault of hundreds of people. It doesn't mean that he is really stupid. He also knew that no matter how many people there were in the Hosokawa army, as long as they could not enter the imperial palace, Ashikaga Yoshiteru would still be a weakling with only 200 people.

The shortcomings of the Hosokawa Army appeared. There were too few people willing to fight to the death, and they lacked long-range attack methods.

However, Iwanari Tomomichi brought many bows and ashigaru, and many samurai Hōgōng also carried bows and swords. Now it's better, Yancheng's army is nailed to the road, with long soldiers outside, with bows and arrows on guard. Wherever there was a sound, he rushed to greet him without hesitation, and he did not hesitate to throw arrows.

At this time, Hosokawa Fujitaka's successors were weak and found it difficult to continue advancing.

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"Your Highness, the thieves outside the imperial palace have shot an arrow book." A member of the public came into the palace holding an arrow tied with a note.

"The sword has no eyes, and water and fire are merciless." "Deputy General" Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, who was standing aside and commanding the soldiers, read out slowly.

"Hurry and observe whether the thieves are preparing to attack the gate with fire!" Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, who reacted immediately after reading this, immediately ordered.

"Your Highness, quickly prepare a wet cloth to cover the soldiers' mouths and noses." If you want to attack quickly, you must use kerosene and gunpowder, and you must prevent smoke from invading.

After taking precautions, Yamauchi Yoshikatsu ordered twenty or thirty bow-wielding archers to go up to the roof and shoot at any time the thieves who tried to attack the gate with fire.

I have to repeat it again that Ashikaga Yoshiteru's good face is really important. Originally, the manpower of the 200-man garrison was relatively tight. But Ashikaga Yoshiki is so proud. Not only is the outer gate made solid, but the interior of the imperial palace is also unexpectedly conducive to defense.

why? Because of the pomp and circumstance, half of the imperial palace is a pond!

In order to use the summer boating pond to show his qualifications as a shogunate, the pond was dug very deep to ensure that there was enough water in the pond, and it was connected to the waterway outside Luojing, which meant that more than half of the imperial palace did not need to be defended at all. Even if the bandits come in, they have to swim across a wide pond several meters deep.

Think about it, everyone, an elite soldier armed with a sword and a spear, and wearing armor, first climbed up the ladder and climbed up the two-meter-high courtyard wall. Then he landed perfectly and was lucky enough not to twist his feet, and then he swam hundreds of meters at night with the equipment weighing at least ten or twenty kilograms, and finally attacked the waiting defenders while freezing to death.

Isn’t this just a gift?

Yamauchi Yoshikatsu only needs to send a few people to stare at the lake. As long as they are not deaf, any thieves who are not afraid of death will do this triathlon and wait for him to land and stab him to death.

Miyoshi and the Matsunaga Army naturally knew the structure of the Imperial Palace, so they didn't even think about climbing over the wall and swimming, but directly broke through the gate and pulled it down. More than 3,000 people still can't open a wooden door?

Before Matsunagadong opened his mouth, loyal Ma Zai demolished the beams of a large house on the roadside and asked more than a dozen strong soldiers to carry them with ropes, ready to knock on the door at any time.

On the one hand, the imperial palace cut down all kinds of precious flowers and trees that the general had spent a lot of money to transplant, and simply peeled off the logs and sent them to support the door bolts. On the one hand, rice bags and cloth bags were packed with mud in an attempt to completely block the door.

Even the lake stones that Ashikaga Yoshiharu cherished during his lifetime were overturned and carried behind the gate to block the gate.

Anyway, you have a good plan, and I have a wall ladder. You come and I go, not giving in to each other.

The three good soldiers outside the Imperial Palace also frantically threw fire arrows at the gate and threw pine tar torches, hoping to quickly ignite the wooden door. As long as the door burner is shaken and the beams slam into it, the door will definitely be broken.

But that wooden door just wouldn't burn. Ashikaga Yoshiki was reluctant to buy more new clothes, but he was willing to spend three months to paint this door that represented the face of the Muromachi shogunate with vermilion paint. Its fireproof performance is amazing.

Sanhao Changyi saw that this was not a problem, so he directly ordered people to bring kerosene to pour on the door. But as soon as a few thieves who were not afraid of death were carrying buckets close to the gate, they were named and reimbursed by the public on the roof.

After doing this for two or three times, no one dared to add fuel to the fire. Even if Mihao Changyi took out a twelve-liang gold medal on the spot, it would be useless. The soldiers were not stupid. They did earn money for their lives, but no one wanted to earn money for life.

Seeing that the offensive was thwarted and time was passing by little by little, he knew that this troop dispatch was extremely dangerous, and Nagatoshi no longer hid it. With a wave of his hand, a hundred iron cannons came forward, holding bamboo bundles and shooting at the elite bow-wielding Fong Gong opposite.

Although the iron cannon is not accurate, its range is indeed longer than that of the bow. Originally, the Feng Gong people on the roof didn't take the iron cannon seriously at all, but after a stray bullet took away a Feng Gong person, everyone inevitably started to shrink back.

Matsunaga took advantage of the situation and sent someone to move a barrel of gunpowder to the gate and throw it down. The iron cannon fired a volley, igniting the gunpowder.

There was a "boom"! Smoke is filling the air!

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