A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

The two men and horses looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes.

Who are the people who still dare to operate in Luojing under the current circumstances? Hosokawa's army is working hard to create a fire separation zone and try to reach the vicinity of the Imperial Palace.

More than a thousand people from Iwanari Tomomichi dispersed and started arson and looting. Miyoshi Masayasu's troops also turned into rebels. Miyoshi Choitsu and Matsunaga Tomichi had about 2,000 soldiers who had not dispersed yet. They were working hard to seal the area. Block Ashikaga Yoshiki.

Of course, the ordinary townspeople who were swept away by the fire were either burned to death, or ran out of the capital with their packages, and Luo Jing was so big that there was no complete commotion yet.

Obviously, although the fire swept through many places in Luojing, the light was extremely dazzling, but it only helped the miscellaneous soldiers who suffered from night blindness to know the way.

The forty or fifty miscellaneous soldiers in front of Yamauchi Yoshikatsu were obviously recruited from the Settsu Kingdom. For more than half of the past few decades, they had been fighting with the Miyoshi clan, and there was no loyalty to the Miyoshi clan. Now that they entered Luojing, they naturally tried their best to break away from the group and come out to rob.

Hearing the obvious Kinai voice just now, Yamauchi Yoshikatsu felt like he was facing a formidable enemy. On the battlefield, twenty samurai warriors could easily rub down two hundred soldiers, but now they were in the streets.

The Ashigaru soldiers lined up their spears and pushed them into the street. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu didn't have a long range, so he really couldn't do anything with these soldiers.

Just as he was thinking about how to face these three good thieves, Yamauchi Yoshikatsu was also spotted on the opposite side.

"Daanji Temple and our Kawauchi Village have taken a fancy to it! Brothers over there should go elsewhere. There are hundreds of us here." [Note 1]

This group of rebels obviously regarded Yamauchi Yoshikatsu's group of more than 20 people as rioters who were out to rob, and they threatened Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, who was much smaller than them, to go away and not disturb them from robbing the temple.

If you were an ordinary person, your secret would be exposed once you have a conversation, but it happened to be someone from the Yamauchi family. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu began to work for Ashikaga Yoshiteru at the age of twelve and lived in Kyoto for ten years. He speaks Kinai dialect very well, and other people are often in Kyoto, so they know the Kyoto dialect to some extent.

"No! We also have forty or fifty people in Mijiu Village. We will share half of the meeting, so we can't come in vain!" There is no sense of disobedience in speaking the dialect of Shancheng Country.

Both sides falsely reported half the number of people, and Yamauchi Yoshikatsu seemed unwilling to give in.

The head village in Kinai has a good habit of not taking action when encountering problems. They compete with each other if they can, compete with all their strength, and only force a fight when the negotiation breaks down. Over the past 100 years, the villagers have raised armies when they were dissatisfied, but they did not take action. They took to the streets to protest, surrounded government offices, shrines, and temples, and followed the path of non-violent resistance on the streets.

If you don't promise me, I'll set fire to it. I owe you a few rents, but it's nothing. How valuable are your official halls, temples, and shrines? Tax free! Be virtuous! good for everyone!

Therefore, the rebels who had preconceptions that Yamauchi Yoshikatsu was taking the opportunity to make a fortune heard that Yamauchi Yoshikatsu wanted to divide the looting proceeds equally, and became even more convinced that Yamauchi Yoshikatsu was the village chief of a certain village in Yamauchi Country who led people to rob.

The leaders of the rebels gathered together and concluded that Da'an Temple was so big that it probably had a wealth of several thousand guan or more. Money usually weighs four kilograms. Forty or fifty of them carried two to three thousand kilograms against the sky. If there was too much money, they could not carry it away.

"Okay, let's go in and take it according to our abilities. Whoever gets it gets it!"

"Okay, but we have to burn the bonds first to make it easier for the brothers across the street!" Yamauchi Yoshikatsu couldn't really enter the temple to steal the money. He just wanted to run away with this group of people.

When the rebels heard this, it was no wonder that Yamauchi Yoshikatsu was determined to share the spoils. It turned out that he owed money to Daan Temple. I secretly cursed myself as a poor guy, but actually I was very happy. If they rushed in first, they would definitely grab the silver first and then the copper coins.

"Idiot, go ahead and burn your bonds!" The head of the main village despised Yamauchi Yoshikatsu for being so brainless. He was afraid of repaying the debts after taking the money.

"Okay, let's go to the temple first, and we must leave half of it for our brothers." I scolded you for being stupid, but you still said it beautifully.

After that, the forty or fifty people rushed towards Daan Temple without looking back. The main village in Kinai formed a deep friendship with Katsura during the first visit of Jiaji, and they have been quite fond of each other for decades. Now that the division of the spoils is confirmed, the bad things like internal strife will not happen.

Here, Yamauchi Yoshikatsu and his gang breathed a sigh of relief. How important it is to master a dialect! It can save lives and save people when necessary!

Seeing the group of rebels leaving, they were already some distance away. Everyone ran away, not daring to stay for a moment. I just wanted to leave Kyoto as soon as possible and reach Shirakawa, and I succeeded.

At this time, Luojing was already shaking with cries and cries, especially the people in the area between Shangjing and Xiajing. They no longer dared to stay at home, and the fire became more and more intense. We must escape from Kyoto in order to have a way to survive.

Yamauchi Yisheng rushed to Baihe Avenue, and more and more people fled for their lives along the way. The roads were completely congested, and as the temperature continued to rise, thick smoke and ash filled the air.

Almost all the elderly, women, and children were miserable. There were so many people there that it became difficult to breathe.

Coupled with the unguided evacuation and the fear of nowhere to escape, the difficulty of moving forward is exacerbated. People kept falling to the ground and then never getting up again.

The layout of Kyoto is not entirely square. The streets are crowded, narrow, and crooked. There are also various debris blocking the road, and some areas are even completely blocked and impassable.

When he was at his wits' end, the flow of people rushed back towards Yamauchi Yoshikatsu in the opposite direction. Yamauchi Yoshikatsu was carrying Teru Wakamaru on his back and almost lost his footing and was knocked down.

Looking from a distance, there are actually hundreds of Sanhao troops killing people and clearing roads.

Everyone inside the mountain was horrified. Could it be that they had been discovered? Been recognized? Did the Miyoshi trio and Matsunagamichi send troops to hunt them down?

"Calm down! Calm down! Don't panic!" Even though Yamauchi Yoshikatsu was very nervous, he quickly calmed everyone down.

Everyone randomly found a house on the roadside. The ajar door had obviously been violently broken open. The house was in a mess and had been ravaged by rebels. However, there was no body in the house. It seemed that either the owner of the house had escaped in advance, or he had been kidnapped and sold into a living room.

"Let's see if we can break through the courtyard wall, avoid the thieves, and leave through another street."

The attendants looked for a water tank in the house and washed and moistened the cotton cloth covering their mouths and noses. While quietly exploring the structure of the house, they could see if they could escape.

[Note 1]: There is a so-called total village system in Kinnei, which is a remnant of the feudal village system of the old era. They farmed in peacetime, but during the war the village chief ordered all the men in the village to assemble and go out to rob. Yes, the main thing is to go out and rob, fighting is not the main content. At the same time, these head villages are also one of the main forces in the moral government, tax resistance and Yikui.