Chapter 778

The Changing Situation

Chapter 778 The Changing Situation

The Xiu family prepared early for the upcoming war, and began to offer bargaining chips to daimyo to mobilize these daimyos to join their camp.

But the plan couldn't keep up with the plan at all. Shortly after many daimyos finished negotiating terms in Ezo, Hideka received the latest information from Honshu Island.

For example, Hidemoto Mori, when the Xiu family approached him, they negotiated with him on the condition of attacking Mori and Gifu, and promised him to inherit the status of the governor of the Mori family.

Maori Xiuyuan is very clear that since the Xiu family wants to attack the Maori family, it must deal with the Maori family and reduce the seal. The final condition of the negotiation is to ensure that the Maori family's Aki, Shufang Ryogoku and part of Bingo's territory are not less than 50 shi Andu.

But when Xiu's family landed on Honshu Island with their daimyos, they learned from Nannan Yinxin that only half a year had passed, and the world had undergone earth-shaking changes.

In April of the 8th year of Keicho (1603), after the Hide family left the army of the Gifu family in Ezo, they ordered the entire Ezo Governor's Mansion to be mobilized.

领内和人、朝鲜人、明人以户位单位,每10户出2丁,直接编练成军,得兵2万1500人。另抽调女真户每2户抽1丁为射手、重甲兵丁,得兵5400人。虾夷部落由总督府筑前从部落中直接募兵得兵1万3600人。

These soldiers Hideka planned to leave 1.5 Japanese soldiers stationed in various cities, plus 2000 people from the Gifu family (deducting war damage) and contracted more than 1.7 people to guard against the southern invasion of Ezo.

The remaining 6000 people were divided into 4 reserve teams (Hakodate, Hidaka, Ishikari, and Danzhen), plus 2 reserve teams of the Immortal Army, and the Jurchen soldiers were organized into the Ezo Corps, with a total number of 1.5.

As for the 1 tribesmen, 3 people will be left to garrison Matsumae and Ishikari to guard against the Ezo tribesmen in the mountains, and the remaining 3600 people will be taken away by the Xiu family.That is to say, after more than ten years of development, Ezo has been able to provide the Xiu family with 1 combatable soldiers.

If you add the military power of the major names in Ezo, the total force has reached more than 8 people. It is impossible for so many people to be sent back to the island at once. It takes 1 day to go back and forth, and it takes more than 2 months to transport so many people.

Of course, the troops can be transferred slowly, but the daimyos returned to Honshu Island by boat first.As soon as he landed, Mutsu daimyo Nambu Yinshin had been waiting on the shore for a long time.

As soon as she saw Xiu's arrival, she immediately went forward and informed Xiu's of the latest situation here.

"You mean His Highness Kitanosho stabbed His Highness Gifu in the back? Claiming that His Highness Gifu is a traitor? Has the Uesugi family not fallen yet?"

"His Highness Gifu spent more than two months besieging Uozu Castle, and finally took Uozu Castle, but encountered Hokuriku snow and had to delay until the beginning of spring before marching towards Echigo."

"Isn't he Gifu's younger brother!" Shocked, Hideka quickly came up with the answer based on this part of the information: "Gifu is going to end."

"Of course, if Gifu leads troops back to Osaka like this, there may still be a glimmer of life."

"Your Highness may not know that you allowed Mogami Deha Shouhui to recuperate from his illness, but he mobilized thousands of troops from Mogami to participate in the offensive against the Uesugi family village, and was defeated by the Uesugi family!"

Hideka couldn't deny Mogami Yoshimitsu's choice and the result, he could only say that he asked for it.But now that Xiuci has changed from an advantageous situation to a disadvantageous situation, Xiujia's strategic goal has to change.

When they were in Ezo, the Hide family thought that the Uesugi family would not last long, so they set the goal of "Respecting the King and Conquering Rebellion", aiming at defeating Hideji and his subordinate forces.

Then, taking advantage of the kung fu of fishing in troubled waters, they even discussed Tokugawa and Osaka.

But now that Xiu Ci is so hip-stretching, she is about to be destroyed, and it is too late to continue to hold high the banner.

Moreover, the current enemy has changed from Xiuji to Osaka. After all, they are still the head of the Xiu family. There are really few banners that the Xiu family can play. They can't always play "G#M is innocent, Z#F is justified" Banner.

The Xiu family scratched their heads, and finally planned to launch a war against the enemy with the slogan of "protect the country, punish traitors, and eliminate corrupt officials".

In fact, this banner is very false, because the banner of the Qing Dynasty does not have too deep cultural soil in Japan, but the matter has come to this point, and we can only continue to bite the bullet.

On the condition of promising the Nanbu family to get Qingjin, let Nanbu Yinxin stick to the Nanbu skills and monitor the back of the Date family, the Hide family continued to march south with other daimyos.Along the way, Aomori daimyo Oysaki Yoshihiro, Dewa daimyo Karatsu Nobuobu, Anto Miki and others accompanied them all the way until they arrived at Furukawa Castle in the territory of Osaki.

This is the territory of the Gamo family, and Hideyuki Gamo, the patriarch of the Gamo family, is just 21 years old this year.Although he married the daughter of the Tokugawa family, the Hide family still planned to meet him.

In this conquest of Ezo, the Hide family originally intended to conscript the Gamo family's military power, but instead of Tokugawa Ieyasu's letter, he asked the Gamo family to be exempted on the grounds that they had no heirs.

At that time, the relationship between the Hide family and the Tokugawa family was not bad, so he was given this face, and Hideyuki Kamo was not recruited.This has reduced the time of 4 years of "exchange and probation".

In order to welcome the Hideo family and the big names, Hideyuki Kamo really saved face and set up a big scene to entertain everyone.

At the banquet, Gamo Hideyuki, who had not personally participated in the battle, looked at the more than ten thousand troops brought by the Hide family, as well as the hundreds of thousands of daimyo, and curiously asked the Hide family, "Is it really worthwhile for the Youfu to return from Ezo's victory this time?" Congratulations. Is the Youfu planning to go to Luo to receive the reward this time?"

"Yes or no." The Xiu family looked at Gamo Hideyuki with a smile on their faces, and said to the Gamo family's retainers accompanying them, "There are traitors in the court, and the world left by His Highness Guan Bai has been in chaos for a few years. I I wish to send righteous teachers to make peace!"

Xiujia was very calm when he spoke, but it was so deafening when the words entered Kamo Hideyuki's ears.Looking around at the daimyos at the banquet again, they didn't seem to have any reaction to what Xiujia said just now. Hideyuki Gamo knew that the Xiujia might have already negotiated with them on this matter.

"Are you joking?" The person who spoke was Gamo Xiangcheng, the elder of the Gamo family. He was the elder of Gamo Xiangan after he was changed because of the disturbance of the Gamo family's retainers.

This person has a good relationship with Tokugawa Ieyasu. When he married Zhen Ji, he was the one who picked him up from the Tokugawa family.

Xiu's eyes turned bright, and he asked him, "Do you think I'm joking?"

"May I ask who is the traitor that Youfu is talking about?" The one who spoke was Machino Shigeru, who is currently the head of the Gamo family and one of the elders.

But unlike Gamo Kosei, he has a good relationship with the Xiu family.But even if they have a good relationship with the Xiu family, they dare not take sides on such a big issue.

"Whoever is the chief culprit who caused the chaos in the world will naturally be punished."

Cheng Da, Pusheng Township: "But I heard that His Highness Gifu has been trapped under Kasugayama Castle, and he has no choice but to return to Gifu with his headquarters. However, the road behind has been cut off by His Highness Beizhizhuang. Is it too late to go to King Luoqin at the Right Mansion? .”

"Is that so? But I heard that there are still evils in Gifu. Mogami in Ideha and Mori in the West Country have not settled down yet, and even Gifu himself is planning to resist the lawlessness. As long as the world is not stable, it is necessary to share the worries of the lord. This is what I should do as 'Ruo Nian Ji'."

In fact, Xiujia originally planned to use the presence of so many big names at the banquet to force Kamo Hideyuki to express his opinion, but after only a few words of probing, Xiujia felt that this idea was unrealistic.

In fact, he originally wanted to directly point out that Tokugawa, Mori and other daimyos were all rebellious, but later found that he had no real basis for this.In other words, the current status of the Xiu family is not real.

He could only temporarily let go of the idea of ​​inviting Kamo Hideyuki to join, and instead changed his rhetoric, inviting him to participate in the offensive against Mogami.

"It's a fact that the Mogami family has been rebellious, but it's far more than a thousand miles away from Osaka? How can you work hard to mobilize the crowd. As Ruonian, you have the privilege of handling the Mogami family's worries for the master.

I intend to focus on the 5 families of Date, Gamo, Nanbu, Andong, and Qingjin. Afterwards, I will contact the Nakamura families of Ogigi and Nagai counties to join the crusade together, and I will also be in charge of the Hajimoto family. The total strength of the party is about 2.

Mogami, Xiaojia also.We led one hundred thousand soldiers to the Northern Expedition to Yezo, and now that we are victorious and returning to the court, it is just a matter of lifting a finger to deal with a top family along with us.

Today, in front of so many famous people, I specially invite His Highness to attend the meeting. I wonder if His Highness intends to share the worries of the Toyotomi family and make contributions to the Toyotomi family? "

The privilege of "Ruo Nian Ji" in the Xiu family's mouth to dispose of the highest family is actually changing the concept secretly. The Xiu family Ruo Nian Ji is equivalent to the "Samurai Master" under the rule of the Toyotomi family, managing the world's martial arts for the young master.

But this is only the commander in name, and it is the five big brothers' review organization that has the legal right to manage the daimyo.During the many reviews before, the reason why the five big guys brought Xiujia and Xiuci to become the seven big guys was just because of their status.

But if it is really time to get serious, Hideka's behavior is not even as legal as Hideji's crusade against Uesugi's family.

But on this occasion, the Xiu family's status is the most honorable, and there is no one who is particularly hostile to the Xiu family. Naturally, they will not point out the loopholes in the Xiu family's words. Naturally, the Xiu family will follow what they say.

If the Hide family's words had a provocative tone before, and the words were too big for the Gamo family to answer.

Now that the Hide family has expressed that they want the Gamo family to send troops to participate in the crusade against Uesugi, as the elder of the family, Gamo Gocheng received a confirmation signal from the eyes of the lord Gamo Hideyuki, and immediately said, "My Kamo family should do my part in this matter. Later on, within one month, I, the Gamo family, will mobilize 1 troops to follow Your Highness."

"That's very good. Your Highness and I are waiting for the attendants to arrive at Fukushima Castle."

After the formalities, Xiujia and the daimyo stayed overnight and continued on the road. The Gamo family did not notice a problem. If the Xiujia really wanted to attack the Mogami family, the two daimyos, Qingzu Weixin and Anton Miki, should not follow the Xiujia Going south together, at this moment they should reorganize the army in their own territory, and wait for the arrival of the reinforcements from the Nanfang family to launch an offensive against the Supreme Army of Xiongsheng County.

In addition, there is another strange point, that is, as a daimyo, he goes south to receive the reward first, but why is there a steady stream of troops behind him, from the southern leader all the way to the south?
And in the team, there are even samurai with costumes and faces that Kamo Hideyuki has never seen before.

Is Xiujia really going to take action against Mogami?
You can do it, or you can't do it.But since he agreed to Gamo Hideyuki, it is natural to play a play for him, and by the way, he can also force Mogami Yoshimitsu to express his opinion.

Masamune Date was not kept in Lifu by the Xiu family, this is an old fox, and the Xiu family was not at ease staying behind him.

But when the Xiu family arrived at Fukushima City, they found that Xiuzhen had been waiting here for a long time. Except for Xiuzhen, even Takahu, the old family member of the Xiu family who stayed behind in Kanto, had already been waiting here.

As soon as they saw Todo Takatora, Hideka asked him: "What's going on, Sado. Didn't I ask you to mobilize soldiers in Kanto? What are you doing here now?"

"Your Highness! Good news! Great news!" When Fujido Takatora saw Hideo, he came to Hideo almost dancing, and said excitedly to Hideo, "Gifu Palace Kyuzuryugawa was defeated and captured, and he was captured by Osaka not long ago. On the one hand, cut at the original place of six rivers."

"!!" Hearing the news, the Xiu family froze for a moment, and the word "Chuan" formed between his brows.He didn't understand how this was good news for him?The card for raising the flag is gone!
Of course, on the bright side, in front of so many big names, the Xiu family still had to squeeze out a wry smile and said, "Really? The Neifu is really quick, and the chaos in Gifu was quelled so quickly. Now the world is in peace, it really is a blessing." Good thing!"

"Your Highness." Fujido Gaohu leaned in front of the Xiu family, and said softly to the Xiu family, "I don't mean this good thing. The Zuo Mansion was beheaded, and it was supervised by Beizhizhuang Councilor, and the Zuo Mansion's seven sons were taken into account. Kill them all!"

"!!"

The turning point came too fast, after Hideo was shocked for a moment, his eyes twirled rapidly in their sockets, he didn't understand what Tokugawa Ieyasu was doing, how could he make such a stupid operation when he was about to lock himself up.

Originally, according to Tokugawa Ieyasu's quick handling of Toyotomi Hideji's performance, Hideo's return was still a beat late.Even if Mogami Yoshimitsu can be dealt with in the end and takes credit in name, there will still be nothing good in the end.

Osaka can take advantage of this change in Gifu to transfer his confidant daimyo to the Xiu family, and lock the Xiu family from all directions.Afterwards, it was very difficult for the Xiu family to re-enter Guanshangluo.

But who knows, there is another village where the willows are dark and the flowers are bright.The Osaka side really gave the Xiu family a godly assist.

Just imagine, a Toyotomi family who can kill even his own vassals, and even exterminate the whole family, what will those outsiders think?

You even killed your relatives, who were already indifferent to your heirs, at will, so what are we foreigners in your eyes?
Foreign feudal vassals will also be afraid of Osaka, afraid of being dealt with for any reason.At this time, the famous Japanese people are like a nervous person. As long as someone provokes their nerves, someone will jump out continuously!
"Whose idea is this? The five big brothers have passed the deliberation?"

"I don't know, but I heard that His Highness Tokugawa was the only one in Kinki at that time, and His Royal Highness Uesugi was still in Echigo to reorganize the territory. His Highness Asano fled from Hachiman Mountain Castle, and the Mori family has long since fled back to their abilities."

After Toyotomi Xiuzhen finished explaining, Fujido Takatora added from the side, "Sakuma Kaga Mori and Hori Noto's attendants were killed in Hachimanyama Castle! Tokugawa was also in the castle at that time!"

At this moment, Xiujia, although he has tried his best to complete the expression management, the smile on his face is still beating uncontrollably.

He was worried that he would not have an excuse to lead troops to Luo, and he was even more worried that he would not have the opportunity to weaken Tokugawa, but the opportunity was just given to him.

Then there was an extremely exaggerated scene, the Xiu family was laughing but not laughing, crying instead of crying, "Zuo Mansion~ Zuo Mansion! Why did you die for no reason! And my nephews You guys, how innocent you are~!"

(End of this chapter)