A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

On July 28, the fourth year of Yuangui, the imperial court sent a message to the world, changing Yuan Tianzheng.

The next month is called August of the first year of Tianzheng!

As for why the name was changed so quickly, the reason is also very simple. Yoshikage, the governor of Asakura Eemon, the governor of Echizen, beat the drum and the bell in Ichijo Valley to call on the wealthy families of Echizen country and the Ichimon clan to come to help defend.

Civil servants are not available! The general is not in court!

Asakura Yoshikage was only escorted by a hundred or so close attendants. He took his family and prepared to go to Asakura Kagejing. Asakura Kagekage closed the door, saying that the city walls were too thin to resist Oda Nobunaga's army here, and asked Asakura Yoshikage to go to Hiraizumi Temple, which he was close to, to seek protection from local monks and believers.

As a result, when Asakura Yoshikage arrived at Hiraizumi Temple, only thirteen or fourteen people were left out of more than a hundred people, and most of the rest fled and abandoned him. Because Hiraizumi Temple was afraid of Oda Nobunaga's power, he openly sent more than 600 people to prevent Asakura Yoshikage from entering the temple grounds. Then he served some drinks and rice balls and asked Asakura Yoshikage to take shelter elsewhere.

At this time, Asakura Yoshikage was really praying to heaven and earth, but he had a drink under the service of his concubine. News came from Sakon that Asakura Keikai had surrendered and Oda Nobunaga was about to send troops to attack.

Immediately, Asakura Yoshikage put on his formal clothes, put on a white robe, and wrote with a pen, "I will fight unyielding after repeated defeats. I will live this life without myself and no one else. The four basic emptiness!"

He committed suicide with a knife at the age of forty-one!

Soon his head was sent to Nobunaga's army. Seeing this, Asakura Kageken, who was still resisting, knew that the situation was over, so he could only lament that Kaicheng surrendered. Nobunaga defeated the Echizen country, and the troubles in the future were greatly eliminated!

Former Namiyoshi succeeded Nobunaga and changed his name to Katsurata Nagatoshi. He was awarded the title of Lord of Ichijodani Castle, appointed as the guardian of Echizen, and became Nobunaga's retainer. Tomita Nagashige was granted the title of Lord of the Echizen Prefecture, and the remaining surrenderers were rewarded accordingly.

When the news reached Luoyang, the country was naturally in uproar. The imperial court was still hesitating whether to change the Yuan Dynasty immediately. Seeing that Asakura Yoshikage was defeated and died in command, he didn't even dare to fart anymore, and immediately agreed to Oda Nobunaga's proposal to change the name.

The aftermath of this incident has not yet stopped. The lord of Ehoku Sawayama Castle, Masa Isono, originally resisted quite fiercely, but Hideyoshi Hashiba really had nothing to do with him for a while.

As a result, now that he saw Asakura Yoshikage's head, he knew that the situation was over and surrendered to Oda Nobunaga on the condition of adopting Nobunaga's son. His move knocked over the first domino. Yamamotoyama Castle Lord Seki Sasaki immediately fell, and then Hori Hidemura, Miyabe Tsugujun, Ogawa Yutada, Inakai Shosada and others fell to Hashiba one after another. Hideyoshi.

At this point, Asai Nagamasa only had the territory of Sakon Kotani left. The former governor of Jiangbei became an abandoned son trapped in an isolated city!

Not to mention organizing a large army to compete with Oda Nobunaga, now even Hashiba Hideyoshi, who Oda Nobunaga stayed in Hengshan, Jiangbei, couldn't defeat him, and he lost land one after another.

When all this news reached Yamauchi Fuzhong City, it was already August, and the chief planners at Isshiki Palace in Luoyang and Makishima finally returned to the palace.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki finally realized that there was no way for the miscreants to beat Oda Nobunaga to death, and the disappearance of the resistance forces in Jiangbei, Jiangnan, Echizen and other countries meant that Ashikaga Yoshiaki in Makishima City was deeply trapped in Oda Nobunaga. surrounded by.

Hosokawa Fujitaka also arrived at the residence, and he came alone and naked. He didn't even bring Ashikaga Yoshiaki's biological aunt or his wife, and he only had a royal letter written on white silk with him.

"The Ministry of War has come to the mansion now. It has a huge responsibility!" Xiao Pingtai just greeted him.

"Life in this world is like a boat floating on the sea. How can it be easy one day?" Hosokawa Fujitaka smiled.

No one exposed that he left his son Xiong Chiyo, who became Oda Nobunaga's son-in-law after Oda Nobunaga adopted Akechi Tamako, in Luoyang.

Although it was time to take sides, in the end all the chips were not put on the Yamauchi family. The father sided with Yamauchi, and the son naturally sided with Nobunaga because of his identity.

"Please come forward and sit down." Everyone gave way.

Hosokawa Fujitaka was an envoy to the shogunate, the former head of the royal family, and the eldest son-in-law of Yamauchi Yoshiharu. He was a standard member of the Yamauchi clan, and his ranking in the Yamauchi family was high enough anyway.

Now that he has brought Ashikaga Yoshiaki's royal teaching book, he will naturally sit on the top of the crowd!

After Mouri Terumoto's military grain entered Makishima Castle, Ashikaga Yoshiaki completely strengthened his determination to defend Makishima Castle. He gathered his trusted ministers and public servants to build more walls and gave Ashikaga Yoshiaki a great name. point.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki clearly issued a general crusade order to Oda Nobunaga of the samurai clan in the world!

Miyoshi Yoshitsugu and Matsunagahide responded immediately, and then Settsu Araki Village took advantage of the troubled waters and immediately raised troops to attack and kill Wada Weimasa, the guardian agent placed by Oda Nobunaga in Settsu, and almost captured half of Settsu.

After that, almost all the forces in the Kinei responded to Ashikaga Yoshiaki. Rokkaku Yoshiharu gathered the old party and entered the river city of Jiangnan, trying to revive the Rokkaku clan in Jiangnan.

Nobunaga entered Luoyang and took charge of Nijo, commanding the suppression of opponents in various places, and asked Masachika Town to issue an order for peace talks with Ashikaga Yoshiaki. He also expressed his willingness to enshrine Ashikaga Yoshiaki with the royal materials of Yamashiro and Settsu.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who had always been "tactful", finally hardened up and sternly rejected Oda Nobunaga's request, saying that he could not forgive Oda Nobunaga's repeated violations of gods and Buddhas and the serious crime of rebelling against the shogunate.

The biggest obstacle to the war between Yamauchi and Oda has since disappeared!

Ashikaga Yoshiaki got the honor of defeating the "rebel" Oda Nobunaga!

Of course, this is not unconditional. After some bargaining between Chief Yamauchi and Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Ashikaga Yoshiaki made a promise to the world in the form of Mingfa's royal teachings. Once Ashikaga Yoshinori marches to Luoyang, a ceremony will be held at Shirakawa Taisha Shrine to pass on Ashikaga Yoshitsho.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki guided Ashikaga Yoshiaki in handling the affairs of the shogunate as the Grand Imperial Palace until Ashikaga Yoshiaki was eighteen years old. After that, he retired to Dongshan or Nandu to rest in peace and never interfered in the affairs of the shogunate.

The existing son of Ashikaga Yoshiaki was sent to the Echigo Uesugi clan and became the adopted son of Kenshin Uesugi, the governor of Kanto. He entered into a marriage contract with the daughter of Kensho Uesugi, the former governor of Kanto.

Everything is to urge Ashikaga Yoshiaki to raise troops to Luo as soon as possible!

Kinai's miscellaneous fish seemed to have a strong momentum, but it was clear that they were defeated by Oda Nobunaga one by one. Even a giant like Asakura Yoshikage is dead. No one has 100% confidence that he can bring down Oda Nobunaga.

"Your Highness, please come to Luo as soon as possible!" Hosokawa Fujitaka lowered his head, saluted respectfully to Ashikaga Yoshinori, then closed the imperial teaching book and presented it to Ashikaga Yoshinori.

The day has finally arrived! Murakami Yoshimitsu took over the imperial teaching book from Hosokawa Fujitaka and solemnly handed it over to Ashikaga Yoshiaki.

"Please rest assured, Father, I will hunt with Gifu Tanzheng in Luozhong!"