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Chapter 449 Changes in Jujie

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    Ishida Mitsunari's reply calmed Hideyori's restless heart a little.  However, at the end of August, Hideyori's main wife, Ieyasu's granddaughter Chihime, gave birth to her eldest son. With Hideho's consent, Tokugawa Ieyasu was able to enter Osaka to visit Chihime. During this period, he once again persuaded Hideyori, which made Hideyori hesitate again.  Soon, Hideyori named his legitimate son Tsurumatsu. This was originally the nickname given by Hideyoshi for his and Yodohime's first child. Unfortunately, he died at the age of two, and Hideyori was born two years later.  Hideyori did this, firstly, to express his grief for his brother and to tell the world that he valued love and righteousness; on the other hand, he used Hideyoshi's nickname to arouse the sympathy and respect of Toyotomi's old ministers and daimyo from all over the world for the Toyotomi clan.  It can be seen that Hideyori has already developed ambitions.  In the next two months, Hideyori frequently contacted Ukita Hideie, Fukushima Masanori, Gun Muneho, Hayami Morihisa and other big names, intending to start trouble while Hideho went to Naina to reward the garrison.  In the "seven bureaus, nine bureaus, and twelve bureaus" system established by Hideho in the sixth year of Keicho, the Ukita Hideke family held the third position as the Tochaji marshal, and the Katagiri Kagemoto occupied the fifth seat as the Hoirei marshal, and their status was relatively high.  High, but after more than ten years of development, the power of the Seventh Division has gradually shrunk, and its functions have changed from a decision-making body to a consulting body, almost becoming a dispensable existence.  Therefore, vacancies often appeared in the Seventh Division. Although Katagiri Kagemoto and others insisted on maintaining the authority of the Seventh Division, the situation was over and it was difficult to improve in the end. Especially the death of Kato Kiyomasa, the chief military officer of the Seventh Division, was extremely serious.  Greatly weakened the prestige of the Seventh Division.  Up to now, the famous name in the world is "I only know the Nine Cao, but I don't know the Seven Divisions".  Regarding this serious situation, Ukita Hideie and Katagiri Shigen were furious, but Fukushima Masanori, who had just become the judge of the Armed Guards Division, hesitated: he was now the nominal head of the Seven Divisions, sitting on  With 450,000 intellectuals from China and the United States, Hideho has given him enough face, so why should he get involved?  Moreover, Hideho was quite devoted to Hideyori, so when he started to cause trouble, it was actually because of his unnamed teacher.  Therefore, at first he mainly focused on admonishing, but later when he saw that the situation was not right, he dealt with it passively. Although he did not betray Hideyori and others, he would never risk his family name.  All this seemed to be carried out in secret, but it was discovered by the prisoner Cao Yu, Hidemasa Asai, the lord of the Boqihekou domain, and his subordinates, and they immediately informed Hideho.  Although Hideho was a little surprised, he believed that this was an opportunity to eradicate the opposition forces, so he took advantage of his plan and pretended to lead the Daimyo Daimyo and his 20,000 direct troops to Minna for drills and rewards. In fact, after leaving the Kanmon Strait, the First Division continued westward, and he  He led most of the troops northward and landed in Nagato Province, the Todo Takatora fiefdom, and stationed himself on the west side of Hiroshima Domain.  On the ninth day of September in the 21st year of Keicho (1616), Hideyori ignored Katagiri Kagemoto's persuasion and worshiped Hideyoshi at Toyokuni Shrine in Osaka.  Because Japan designated the ninth day of September as the "Chrysanthemum Festival", this incident was called the "Chrysanthemum Festival Incident" by later generations.  According to the agreement, Ukita Hideie, Matsuura Hidehito, Gun Muneho and other Hideyoshi's old ministers revolted one after another. Ukita Hideie was the main force in this attack. He attacked Fukushima Takayoshi in the east, intending to open up the channel with Osaka Domain, and then march eastward to Kyoto and sweep away the Fukushima Takayoshi.  Qing Kinki, and then negotiated with Hideho to divide Japan from east to west. The worst thing was that Kinki was included in the pocket and became a force outside the independent shogunate; Ito Nagami, the lord of the Echizen Daishoji lord, Matsuura Hidehito, the lord of the Matsuno lord, and Muneho, the lord of the Komatsu lord  He was responsible for holding back the Hokuriku Maeda and Asano Domains to buy time for Hideyori and Ukita; Hayami Morihisa, the lord of Shinano Azumi Domain, was responsible for holding back Koshinetsu's military strength. Although Ishida Mitsunari and Masuda Nagamori opposed raising troops, they were willing to  Kanto and Kyushu cooperated, stepped up their propaganda offensive, and delayed the speed of the daimyo's support to Kinki. Even if they failed in the future, the two of them could deal with it as neutrals.  At first, things went smoothly. Hideyori sent troops eastward to seize Yodo Castle, aiming directly at Kyoto; Ukita Hideie attacked eastward along the Sanyo Road, taking advantage of Fukushima Takayoshi's absence, and even defeated Noguchi, Takasago and their home city of Miki Castle, and pushed into Harima.  , Akashi Castle at the junction of Settsu and Settsu; the other military forces also made progress. For a time, the war broke out again from Shinano in the east to Bizen in the west, and it looked like the chaos of the Warring States Period was reappearing.  But it didn't last long. On September 13th, Hideyori gathered 5,000 troops to attack Sakai Port, which was nestled between Izumi and Settsu. However, Sakai's leader Chufuji Nobuyou blocked him outside the city and called the new palace.  The navy's Nanban large cannon bombarded the Osaka army indiscriminately, causing heavy losses and a hasty retreat. Immediately, Nakato Nobuyoshi joined forces with the Kii shogunate army to counterattack Izumi. By the 15th, the entire territory of Izumi was suppressed; the Osaka army that intended to attack Kyoto was also defeated.  Under the counterattack of the Kawachi shogunate army, they abandoned Yodo Castle and returned to Settsu.  On the same day, outside Akashi Castle, the Ukita Army fought fiercely with the Fukushima Army led by Miki Masataka, the elder of the Fukushima Takayoshi family, but failed to successfully capture the city; what was even worse was the news that an army of 40,000 people was coming from the west.  He broke into his country, swept across Bizen, and attacked Himeji Castle.  At a loss of ground, Ukita Hideie decided to attack Akashi Castle with all his strength, and first entered Settsu to join Hideyori.  As for other battlefields, they were successively replaced by local forces.The reputation calmed down: Nasu Shikichi, the lord of the Echizen Fukui Domain, led the Echizen Asano, Asharai and other domains to form the Echizen Allied Forces, and joined the Kanazawa Domain Lord Maeda Toshimasa from the north and south to attack the Kaga San Francisco Domain.  On September 12, Daishoji Castle was captured. Ito Nagami fled in disguise and was captured by the coalition forces and taken to Koriyama. On September 14, Komatsu Castle was captured, and Gun Sombo died in battle. On September 16, Songrem Castle was captured.  , Matsuura Hidehihara committed seppuku.  As for the former leader of the Seven Hands Group, Morihisa Hayami, the lord of Shinano Azumi Domain, after raising his troops, he went out to harass Echigo, Echichu, and Hida. However, he was soon defeated by the Shin-Etsu Allied Forces composed of Toshitaka Ikeda, Masayuki Sanada, Tadayoshi Ogasawara, and Hideharu Hori.  After the siege, the initial plan to contain Maeda's army from the east could not be realized. After learning that the Kaga Sanhan was pacified, he was forced to surrender at Kaicheng on September 18th.  The "Hokuriku Riots" that affected the six countries lasted only ten days and were put down without using any soldiers of the shogunate. The great names of the world once again felt the pressure and strength of the shogunate.  On the same day, Ukita Hideie, with the cooperation of Osaka Army Mano Yorihiro and Nomura Yukinari, captured Akashi Castle, and 25,000 people finally entered Settsu Country.  But in just half a day, the shogunate army, which merged the Shima Kiyoi and Kyogoku Takaji domains, invaded Settsu with the momentum of conquering Himeji Castle, and encountered the Ukita and Toyotomi coalition forces in the Tarumizu area.  The two sides set up their positions, 50,000 people versus 25,000 people, and the war was about to break out.  At this time, Ukita Hideie learned that the reason why the force was easily defeated was because Masanori Fukushima in the west opened a defensive line to show neutrality, which dampened the momentum of the Osaka army.  The fierce battle lasted from the early morning to the evening of the 19th. The southern wing general Mano Yorihiro was killed in the battle, and the defense line was on the verge of collapse. Ukita Hideie was also unable to sustain the fierce attack of Goto Motoji and Shima Kiyosaki.  After Ming Jin withdrew his troops, everyone learned that the shogunate army had defeated Osaka's outer defense line and stationed troops on the south and east sides of Osaka. The eight thousand troops Hideyori promised to reinforce were recalled to the defense when they marched to Amagasaki Castle, and they had no time to take care of it.  So they discussed withdrawing their troops eastward to Osaka overnight, but they were noticed by the shogunate army and pursued them all the way, but were defeated.  By the early morning of the 20th, Nomura Yukinari was killed in battle, and Ukita Hideie himself was captured in Hanakuma Castle Town. The remnants of the allied forces who fled into the city marched into the city without blood at noon. The battle ended. The nearly 30,000 allied forces were wiped out, and foreign aid from Osaka was cut off.
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