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Three Rivers Butterfly Chapter 295 The War in the Western Kingdom

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    The Kira family insists on implementing relevant policies. As long as a farmer comes to Echigo, he will be given twenty pieces of land for farming. If a family has more than five people, each additional person will be given five pieces of land. The cattle and horses for farming will be provided by the Kira family.  Lending, the cattle will be registered based on their age and health, and more will be owned by them after five years. The policy of exempting one-year segment payment, three-year housing payment, and providing housing is also being implemented intensively.  This policy still caused a strong response after being disseminated by Hattori Ninja's propaganda network. Within half a year, 50,000 people gradually moved in. Even so, there was still a large shortage of farmers in Echigo. Just counting the land owned by the Kira family and Nagao family.  Half a million farmers are needed for farming, but now there are only 200,000. We can only give higher treatment to force farmers to work harder.  Twenty people doing the work of fifty will definitely be very tiring. Men, women, old and young all go into battle, and it is not uncommon for them to sleep directly on the ground with straw mats, mosquito nets and mugwort. They work from dawn to midnight.  There are many farmers in the country, and you can often see three- or four-year-old children carrying small burdens and following their older brothers to collect firewood. Kira Yoshitoki has nothing to do about this.  In the Middle Ages, the old farmers in Japan were no worse than Chinese farmers in terms of resilience. They paid 60% of the grain as annual tribute, and at the same time they had to pay various taxes such as family money, house farewell money, military service, and general service. In the event of a disaster,  When the New Year comes, it is common to abandon the elderly without food and drown babies. In terms of poverty and harshness, life is no worse than in China.  Among the two of them, there were about half of the three new grains of potatoes, corn, and pumpkin, and the other half of the rice, and the other half of the rice were planted. This kind of is helpless.  Except for low-level samurai, town residents, and farmers, the new grains were their staple food.  Senior samurai, monks and the like still eat rice as their staple food.  Of course, they usually drink pumpkin porridge, eat corn rice, stewed quail with potatoes, etc., but they rarely eat meat and eat it secretly.  The main consumer is the field meal promoted by Kira Yoshitsune to the entire army. Pumpkin, corn, and potato are paired with pickled radish roots. Chicken soup and fish soup can supplement most of the nutrients needed. It is more delicious than dry, cold and hard rice dumplings.  Much.  Therefore, it is loved by soldiers who are marching and fighting.  Before winter, the excavation of river ponds gradually stopped. Under the command of Li Ding, tens of thousands of farmers gathered around a dozen swamps of different sizes. They first dug out the inlets and outlets of the swamps to keep running water flowing out, and then built dikes.  To build polders, Yoshitoki Kira spent nearly 100,000 guan on various construction projects in Echigo this year. The amount of investment was astonishing.  At the same time, another interesting thing happened in Shinano Kozhin County. Yukitaka Sanada may have become addicted to stealing from the city. This time, he repeated his old trick and targeted Susuki Castle in Yasuda Keimoto's Susuki Castle to instigate rebellion.  The Shinano samurai opened the city gate and sneaked into the city.  As a result, they were attacked head-on by the Yasuda army who had been prepared for a long time.  Facing the fierce attack by the soldiers led by Yasuda Keimoto, Sanada Yukitaka immediately realized that the news had been leaked and the sneak attack had failed.  However, the Sanada Army's numerical superiority made him hesitate to retreat, because more than 500 Sanada Army members had been suppressing Yasuda Keimoto's team, and the outer bend was completely occupied. He was confident that he could defeat the enemy within half an hour.  This hesitation almost caused the Sanada army to fall into trouble. Not long after, a secret sentry lurking outside the city issued a warning. Two unknown numbers of troops appeared outside the city. Sanada Yukitaka was so frightened that he was covered in white hair and sweat, and he couldn't care less about the rush to seize the city.  retreat.  As soon as they escaped from Susuki Castle, Sanada's army unfortunately encountered a fierce pursuit by the support troops of Kakizaki Keie and Yoshie Keizi. Sanada Yukitaka made a prompt decision and left a team of ashigaru to fight to the death, while he led  The team fled eastward quickly along the Chikuma River.  The samurai of the Dango Army were loyal ministers who had served the Sanada family for many years. In order to buy more time for the Sanada Army to retreat, they held on to the pursuing troops of Kakizaki Keiie and Yoshie Keizi and rushed to the front of Yoshie's team.  was blocked, and at the same time, the Kakizaki team, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, was blocked behind them.  This blockage meant he missed a valuable pursuit. Kakizaki Kage's angrily yelled and cursed, but it was of no avail. If he went around at this time, it would definitely arouse Yoshie Kage's dissatisfaction, but his military power, which was eager to gain success, was slightly inferior to the fastest combat power.  After a while, being held back for a quarter of an hour by the fifty-man team obviously meant that they could not catch up. Finally, the two of them discussed it and decided to give up the pursuit and return to the army to rest.  In this night attack, the Yasuda Army only lost a few dozen people, and it still had a certain advantage in the scene. Then it was almost beaten by reinforcements without knowing it. The Sanada Army lost more than 100 people after the break.  The Sanada family suffered a big loss this time.  Echigo quickly received the battle report from Yasuda Keimoto and others, and soon issued new orders. In the next few months, the old Kakizaki Keie of the Kashiro clan served as the flag leader, and Hattori ambushed in Shinano.  With the cooperation of ninjas, they eliminated the Takeda family's spies who were hiding in Northern Shinano and were inciting rebellion one by one. The traitors were treated in the same manner as Kira Yoshitoshi's execution method, and they were hanged directly outside the city as a warning to others.  Nearly a hundred warriors were hanged in various cities.Outside the castle town, the brutal executions and stern warnings made the people of Shinano fear the Hattori ninja. At the same time, they used the corpses of these public executions as bait, and soon caught the samurai who came to collect the corpses of their companions regardless of the danger.  The Hattori ninjas showed their talents, using various interrogation methods to pry open the mouths of these samurai, and then followed the clues to catch a line, which also involved several hidden big fish.  During this massive purge, more than 200 wealthy people and local servants were executed, and their land was confiscated, equivalent to a thousand machibu. The scope of the executions was concentrated among the people in Gengji County, Nianke County, and Xiaozhen County.  Lord, it is worth mentioning that the nationals in Minai County and Takai County, where the Kawanakajima area is located, were not implicated. This result made Kira Yoshitoki extremely satisfied.  The Great Purge severely shocked the people of Shinano with evil intentions, especially those wealthy families and local servants who had just attached themselves to the Kira family. Many people still harbored extravagant hopes for the Takeda family, hoping that Yukitaka Sanada would be able to  They led the Takeda Army to fight back again, and this time the Kira family told them with an iron fist that "this is a delusion." Only obedience can be forgiven, and those with evil intentions can only be hanged.  The Kira family's legal system was very strict in dealing with such a wealthy family who did not know how to advance or retreat. They hanged the first offender, changed their behavior, and assigned family members to the Echigo samurai as punishment. Although this method was not as good as Takeda Harunobu's frequent massacres.  The ruthless and ruthless man who swept away the residents of the city and devalued his efforts.  But it also deeply touched the hearts of countless Shinano samurai.  Kira and Takeda are both difficult to deal with.  The problem is that the Takeda family is weak and the Kira family is strong, and the situation is relatively clear. Many people in the country are beginning to figure out what to do with the Kira family as a pledge of honor.  After this change in Shinano's situation, the people who believed in the Takeda family's unification of Shinano were gradually shaken. Takeda Nobushige and Sanada Yukitaka, who were in charge of Xiaozhen County, had to spend more effort to appease the people in the county. They were unable to do so in the short term.  Suppressed Echigo's infiltration of Shinano.  Not long after winter started, a series of news came from Kyoto. The first was the outbreak of the Itsukushima battle to determine the dominance of the Western Kingdom, and Tao Qingxian, the actual leader of the Ouchi family, the Western Kingdom's hegemon.  At the beginning of the year, he formed an alliance with another overlord of the Western Kingdom, Izumo Nizi Haruhisa, to join forces to destroy the Mori family.  At this time, Nizi's family coincided with the changes in the New Palace Party. Nizi Qingjiu was busy eradicating the military leaders of Nizi Kunjiu and Nizi Chengji, who had always been arrogant and domineering and despised the authority of the family governor. Not only was their military strength severely weakened, but they also had to spend a lot of money.  He wanted to annex the territory belonging to the New Palace Party and appease the foreigners who belonged to the Nizi family.  Seeing that his allies were so incompetent, and at this moment, he happened to receive the news that Gen Mori had begun to build Miyao Castle on Itsukushima. This was a thorn in the side of the Ouchi family and Tao Qingxian. Itsukushima Shrine was a famous tourist destination in the West.  At tourist attractions, who among the traveling merchants would not go there to burn a stick of incense and worship the gods and Buddhas?  This is also an important source of financial income for the Ouchi family.  How could Maoliyuan be allowed to be taken over by this old boy?  So Tao Qingxian decided not to wait for the cooperation of his allies and personally led an army of 27,000 across the sea to attack the Maori army on Itsukushima. ? Strictly speaking.  Tao Qingxian's choice was also good. The 27,000 Ouchi troops deployed this time were enough to crush the 5,000 defenders of Mori Motonari. Itsukushima is a small island surrounded by water. As long as the army besieges the island,  The Maori Army became a battle of annihilation in which the enemy was trapped in a jar.  He is not wrong to think so. The basis of the Ouchi family's dominance is the Ouchi navy. This powerful navy with seven hundred large and small ships maintains the Ouchi family's hegemony and dominance in the Western Kingdom and Kyushu, and with them  The Maori navy and the Kobayakawa navy that faced each other only had about a hundred ships in total, and more than half of them were Kobayashi ships. There were more than a dozen Kansai ships. Anzha ships were Miyoshi's unique technology and had never been seen before.  Such a huge advantage in military strength and navy was what gave Tao Qingxian the confidence to act stubbornly and insistently. No matter how much he was persuaded by Hironaka Takabao, another important minister of the Ouchi family, it was of no avail. Compared with the strategy of encircling Yoshida Gunyama Castle to call for reinforcements, Tao Qingxian  They prefer to fight a war of annihilation, annihilating all the enemy's main forces, and the Maori family will collapse without a fight.  The result was far beyond his expectation. From the moment he stepped into Itsukushima to attack Miyao Castle, it had not been smooth sailing. The defenders of Miyao Castle were Kinohi Naoyuki and Tsuboi Motomasa, who were originally affiliated with the Ouchi family. These two people were neither  The die-hard Ouchi family is not loyal to the Maori family, but they have unexpectedly strong resistance.  Miyao Castle happens to be built on one of the few cliffs on the island. The only access is a rugged steep slope. The attack angle is not good, the road is unusual, and the attack surface is narrow, which cannot fully exert the effect of a large army siege. By this time, Tao Qingxian  He also began to regret his recklessness, but now that the matter has come to this, as the actual person in power of the Ouchi family, can he bow his head and admit his mistake like Hironaka Takabao?  Absolutely impossible!  Even if you know you have made a mistake, you must never bow your head.  When Tao Qingxian gritted his teeth and planned to go all the way to the dark side, Mao Liyuan was also waiting anxiously.However, since the Daning Temple Incident happened four years ago, he has been keenly aware that things are about to change in the Western Kingdom. For this reason, he has worked hard to plan this war in order to lure Tao Qingxian into taking the bait.  The moment the war began, his strategic purpose had been basically achieved.  What is left to consider is how to encircle and annihilate the Ouchi Army, which is several times larger than our own. Motonari Mouri's strategy is to recruit the Mishima navy of the Murakami family to jointly attack the Ouchi Army. The Battle of Itsukushima begins on September 21.  From that day on, Nomi Munekatsu, who served as a liaison with the Mishima navy, went to ask for help with a letter of request for help from Motonari Mori.  Regarding the request of the Maori family, the Mishima navy behaved differently. Innoshima Murakami family governor Murakami Yoshimitsu first agreed. His wife is the daughter of Nomi Sokatsu, and it is natural for him to help his old father-in-law. Come to the island  The attitude of the Murakami family governor Toshiyasu when he came to Shima was very ambiguous. The family had already taken refuge with the Kono family, and he himself became the son-in-law and adopted son of Kono Nobita, so he had long been separated from the other families.  The last and largest Noshima Murakami family is the chief of the Mishima navy. The family superintendent is Murakami Yamato Mori Takeyoshi.  His official position is not something that a local daimyo claims to be.  Because Murakami Buyoshi¡¯s status is extraordinary.  The Mishima navy was the most powerful and had always been respectful to the shogunate.  Therefore, in order to commend Murakami Takeyoshi for his "loyalty" over the years, Ashikaga Yoshiteru got him the official position of Yamato in the imperial court. As for the money to buy the official position, of course the shogunate could not pay it. Murakami Takeyoshi made a very honorable contribution of five dollars.  Bai Guan chats to express his gratitude.  Murakami Takeyoshi was not willing to help the Maori family at first. What does Ouchi and Maori have to fight to death and have anything to do with him? The talk of being dead and dying is purely a lie. In the past, everyone was very harmonious under the rule of the Ouchi family.  Why should we help you when Ouchi and Maori are shopping?  When Nomi Sokatsu saw that this move was not working, he quickly called his lord for support. This back and forth was delayed until September 28, the seventh day of the Ouchi Army's attack on Itsukushima.  Mouri made some calculations and wrote another letter, talking about the "Tao Qingxian Itsukuo" established by Tao Qingxian on Itsukushima half a year after the Daningji Incident, which prohibited unknown ships from docking and the imposition of "police guards" on unknown ships.  "Materials" regulations, the Mishima navy has not been doing well in recent years because of this regulation.  In Motonari's letter, he mentioned: "If the Yamato guardian abide by the neutrality and our Mouri family is defeated, our Motonari will definitely die in Itsukushima, and the Mouri family will also perish soon. By then, there will be no more Western Kingdom."  The rival Ouchi family will enact more stringent legal restrictions and even force the Murakami navy to surrender. If the Yamato guardian does not comply, he will surely encounter the crisis that our family is facing today If the Yamato guardian is my Maori family  Let's work together to counterattack the Ouchi Navy. I swear to the gods and Buddhas to protect the privileges of the Murakami Navy in Seto!" Motonari Mori's judgment was very accurate, and Murakami Bukichi was successfully persuaded to come to the island.  When Kang saw the Zong family dispatching, he hurriedly followed suit. In the blink of an eye, the Three Islands Navy gathered more than 300 large and small ships, and the Maori side's navy reached more than 500 ships. They quietly gave up the navy's disadvantage.  Pulling back, the balance of victory is tilting little by little in the direction of the Maori family.  The end of every month is called an "evil day". In the Ming Dynasty, it was called a "bad day". Everything was unfavorable on the night of the evil day. The night before, Tao Qingxian had also received a letter of surrender from Gui Yuancheng. This self-proclaimed Western Kingdom  Tao Qingxian, an unparalleled general, had no idea about "Huang Gai's fake surrender". He was overjoyed when he saw the letter of surrender and agreed to accept the surrender on October 1st.  They were waiting for something to happen. That night, the moon was dark, the wind was high, and the storm swept across Itsukushima. When he woke up the next morning, Tao Qingxian was full of hope and waited for Gui Yuancheng's surrender troops to arrive. Suddenly, there was a sudden sudden change in the camp.  There was a chaotic cry of killing, and a group of Maori troops came from behind Hongye Valley to attack the Ouchi army, putting the unsuspecting Ouchi army into a difficult situation.  At the same time, the Maori navy and the Mishima navy raided the Ouchi navy, which was also unprepared. The crowded Ouchi navy was unable to exert its numerical advantage and was overwhelmed by the Mishima navy, which was proficient in sea plunder.  Can't lift his head.  Seeing that the situation was good, Murakami Bukichi immediately used his magic weapon to bake the fire arrow. Suddenly, a raging fire continued to burn on the sea. The Ouchi navy was killed and was defeated. It only lasted for an hour. This maritime hegemon that had shocked the Western Kingdom for more than two hundred years was over.  disappear.  The naval army won a complete victory and cut off the Ouchi army's only chance to escape. The original intention was to catch Mouri Moto, the turtle in the urn, but he never thought that he would become the sad prey. A desperate raid defeated the Ouchi army completely.  Unable to fight back, after a whole day of fierce fighting, Tao Qingxian led the remaining troops to retreat to the seaside.  However, he would never have thought that the Ouchi navy docked at Omotopo would turn into burnt ruins overnight. Looking at the ships moving on the sea, they could not be anything other than the "up" flag. Occasionally, he could also see the Maori family.  The three-star flag is written in one word, but there is still a ship of his Ouchi family.  Tao Qingxian has realized that he has fallen into a trap carefully laid by the enemy.However, he did not give up hope, and insisted on leading the remaining troops to continue to flee into the mountains and forests deep in Itsukushima. Every time he was chased by Maori, the loyal samurai of the Ouchi family would be willing to break off and escape again and again. Tao Qingxian  Suddenly, I found that there were only a dozen or so people left around me.  He fled for four days. During these days, Tao Qingxian risked his life to escape to Dajiangpu, but there was still no ship. At this time, Tao Qingxian was completely desperate.  In front of an unknown forest, he wrote his farewell words: "What regrets and regrets go back to the original source, destiny is destined to be here." From this, a generation of heroic Mao Liyuan finally completed the triple jump in his life, and made great strides from a small wealthy family to the grave.  Entering the class of the Warring States Daimyo, the Ouchi family fell into irresistible decline. This represented the end of an old era, and seemed to indicate that the warring states would usher in the last and craziest era.  It seemed that he had sensed a change somewhere, or was shocked to learn that in the Battle of Itsukushima, the powerful Ouchi Army of the Western Kingdom was defeated by the Mori family, annihilating more than 8,000 people and capturing more than 18,000 people.  In the imperial court, the old and sick emperor announced that he would change the Yuan Dynasty due to repeated wars and frequent disasters.  The new year's name was decided on October 23rd. The name of the Yuan Dynasty was Hongzhi. It came from the "Book of Northern Qi" and only inherited Baoming and Zhihongzhi. It was the same as the Hongzhi era name of the Ming Dynasty. From then on, the remaining month of 1555 was  It is called the first year of Hongzhi.  During this year, the Miyoshi family, which frequently entered Harima and Tamba for the first time, suddenly stopped expanding into the Kinai. A few months before the outbreak of the Itsukushima war, they turned their attention to the foundation of the Shikoku home base. The reason was the emergence of Sanuki domestic  This is the third time in recent years that instability has occurred.  Before that, Tokawa Ichino had been responsible for the war of the Sanuki people. However, with the death of Tokawa Ichin five years ago, the Miyoshi family's control over Sanuki gradually weakened. In the past few years, Sanuki had repeatedly  The problems that arose could not be effectively solved, and the main force of the Mihaoshi family happened to be trapped in the territory and could not return to help, so they spent five years in comfort.  Now that the situation in Kinei is stable, Higashi-Harima has basically surrendered, and Tamba Kingdom has been completely sorted out, Miyoshi Yoshihide was ordered to return to Shikoku to pacify the people of Sanuki Kingdom, from annexation to digestion, and then to accumulate strength to wait for the next annexation. This is the rhythm of the Miyoshi family.  It is also the rhythm of most Warring States daimyo.  The Awaji Navy, which suffered heavy losses, also initially completed its reconstruction work at the end of the year. Compared with the Awaji Navy three years ago, the quality of the soldiers of this new army has dropped significantly. In recent years, in order to improve the quality, sense of belonging, and  With a sense of honor and loyalty, Anzhai Fuyayasu led the newly formed Awaji navy to attack various pirates.  In the past, it was nothing for these pirates to wander around Seto. The Awaji Navy always turned a blind eye. Everyone knows that when the water is clear, there will be no fish. However, three years ago, they lost a nerve-wracking battle.  Bone Qiantian, in order to regain his strength, he targeted them again, including Tosa Navy, Kumano Navy and other key targets.  With excellent equipment and preliminary mastery of roasted jade, he successfully caught the two naval forces off guard, sunk more than half of them, and severely damaged dozens of large and small ships, and captured dozens of ships.  Setouchi was shocked, and Anzai Fuyasu used this glorious victory to announce the return of the Awaji navy to the world.  With the power of this great victory, the Awaji Navy successively wiped out several difficult naval forces, forcing several small naval forces in Kii to surrender. At the same time, they stabilized the pressure on the Iyo Kono family, ensured the smooth navigation of the Sanuki-Utatsu Port, and dominated half of East Seto.  .  With this series of achievements, Fuyasu Anzhai was greatly praised by Miyoshi Nagakei, who transferred him to Sakai Town to guard Osaka Bay. His status in the Miyoshi family, which had declined slightly in recent years, was restored.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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