Chapter Ninety-Six: Ruined Kyoto

After Yang Zhen received the order, she naturally did it herself, in order not to embarrass the Yang family. He kept kicking westward, and he didn't see much resistance along the way.

Naturally, there are horses on the islands of Japan.

But the horses are quite small.

Most of the war horses of the Ming Dynasty are also Mongolian horses, and there is no way to compare them with some war horses in the West. But in the eyes of Japan, it is a first-class war horse.

Not to mention five thousand cavalry.

The other 5,000 cavalry means 5,000 horses.

If you don't need to cross the sea, with Yang Hong's influence, Yang Zhen wants to be able to do it on three horses. But when he crossed the sea, he needed more, but even so, Yang Zhen brought more than a thousand horses.

As a result, it rolled in and frightened Japanese people everywhere.

Everywhere they went, they surrendered.

This is also the reason why Wang Ying sent Yang Zhen.

Because only the cavalry can advance and retreat freely in such a situation.

If you send foot soldiers, it is like advancing too deep, and it is easy to be caught, and if you want to withdraw when the time comes, it will not be easy to do. But the cavalry, if the Japanese army wants to catch the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, it will take hundreds of years to train.

Even in the Battle of Wanli Korea, the elite of a hundred battles who had experienced the training of the Warring States Period in Japan did not have a very good way to deal with the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention this era.

The news from Yang Zhen immediately inspired the hearts of the people in Qingzhou City.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa was overjoyed and immediately moved westward, into the Omi area, near Lake Biwa. The expression is the meaning of the counterattack on Kyoto.

Now, the news quickly spread to Kyoto.

Hosokawa Katsumoto is now a fifty-year-old man.

He was walking through the streets of Kyoto with dozens of guards at the moment, and some came in a hurry, whispered in Hosokawa Katsumoto's ear, and told him about the situation.

Hosokawa Katsumoto's color remained unchanged, and he said, "Got it, report to the general, and convene the major names in the council hall to discuss." ”

"Hey." The samurai spoke loudly, and then slowly retreated. Then he ran away in small steps.

Hosokawa Katsumoto's speed remains the same, and he still walks through the streets of Kyoto. He murmured softly: "The country is broken by mountains and rivers, and the city is deep in spring and grass. ”

The reason why Hosokawa Katsumoto thought of these two poems of Du Gongbu. It's really because what Hosokawa Katsumoto saw in front of him was such a scene.

Kyoto Castle is the main battlefield of both sides, and the battlefield is from the inside of Kyoto to the outside of Kyoto. More are the casualties of the people.

One of the leading lines of this battle was that Ashikaga Yoshimasa turned to support Hatakeyama Yoshisa, and Hatakeyama Masaga knew that he was in danger in Kyoshi, and his decision at that time was to take the samurai around him and set fire to his house.

That fire burned several streets in Kyoto, and then Hosokawa Katsumoto wanted to control Ashikaga Yoshimasa, and Ashikaga Yoshimasa withdrew from Kyoto, and he also fought all the way.

Only then is there the situation we are in.

The bustling streets were empty and empty, only wild dogs.

Even in the streets, there are starving bones.

The reason why Hosokawa Katsumoto knew that they were starving to death is very simple, there are quite a lot of logistical materials to support the operation of hundreds of thousands of troops.

Later in the war, there was a shortage of food and grass for both armies.

The coaches of both sides unanimously ordered the collection of grain and grass on the spot.

The so-called local collection of grain and grass is actually synonymous with looting.

As a result, the prosperity of Kyoto was burned, and not too many people died on both sides. But how many people died as a result of this, is an unknown number.

Hosokawa Katsumoto had a faint sense of pain in his heart.

Hosokawa Katsumoto is also a few generations of elders in Japan, and when he was Ashikaga Yoshimasa's father, he was already a heavy minister, and he experienced Ashikaga Yoshimasa's elder brother, Ashikaga Yoshimasa to this day.

Most of the time, Hosokawa Katsumoto was in Kyoto to assist the general.

Kyoto is almost Hosokawa Katsumoto's second home.

Evolving into this situation is something that Hosokawa Katsumoto does not want to see.

Truth be told, is Hosokawa really loyal to Ashikaga Yoshiki? You must know that Hosokawa Katsumoto is also Ashikaga Yoshimasa's teacher.

It was Ashikaga Yoshimasa himself who tied this old minister to Ashikaga Yoshimi.

Then Ashikaga Yoshimasa made a decisive move, preferring to ask for troops from the Ming Dynasty rather than ease relations with Hosokawa Katsumoto.

This made Hosokawa Katsumoto even more sad.

But the feelings of politicians are inherently superfluous.

Hosokawa Katsumoto could only make the worst option, which was to replace the shogun.

But Hosokawa Katsumoto knew that there were many hidden dangers.

The biggest hidden danger is the relationship between Hosokawa Katsumoto and Ashikaga Yoshishi.

Speaking of which, Ashikaga Yoshimi seems to be more capable than Ashikaga Yoshimasa, at least shrewd and capable, and dares to take responsibility. But the more capable Ashikaga Yoshimi is, the more Hosokawa Katsumoto discovers the crisis of the Hosokawa family's future.

The Hosokawa family was already strong enough. Controlling the ten kingdoms of the world, but now with the Hosokawa family as the depose, it will be divided into a larger piece on top of the inheritance of the Yamana, Spo, and other families.

At that time, the Hosokawa family occupied more than a dozen countries and twenty countries, and it was certainly the overlord of the world. But it has also reached the position of public criticism. Even Ashikaga Yoshishi, who he single-handedly supported, may be trying to deal with the Hosokawa family.

This is actually not what Hosokawa Katsumoto wants to see.

Speaking of which, Hosokawa Katsumoto is now standing at the corner of the times, but he himself does not feel it, many people are in history, but they can't feel the rotation of history.

Hosokawa Katsumoto didn't know that the so-called Warring States period was coming, and the Ashikaga shogunate had entered the countdown, and everything he thought was within the framework of the Ashikaga shogunate.

What the Hosokawa family did was so-called, the framework of the Ashikaga shogunate could no longer be accommodated, and as for the overthrow of the Ashikaga shogunate and the establishment of the Hosokawa shogunate, it was something that Hosokawa Katsumoto had never thought about.

Now he heard the news of the cavalry marching westward, which made Hosokawa Katsumoto even more worried. sighed infinitely, and blurted out the sentence just now.

It's just that Japan has always been one and the same.

Hosokawa Katsumoto was only sentimental for a moment, and his gaze became gloomy, like the sky before a storm. Hosokawa Katsumoto pulled out of this melancholy and became a bigwig who has been in the Japanese political arena for decades.

Then he strode towards the shogunate.

The future situation can only be dealt with in the future, and if you don't want to drive out the Ming army now, the Hosokawa family will have no future.

By the time Hosokawa arrived, outside the council hall, there were clogs, and everyone was kneeling on the smooth wooden floor wearing white socks.

Even the newly established shogun Ashikaga Yoshishi is on the throne.

Hosokawa Katsumoto went to the office, got off the knife, ascended the hall, saluted and said: "The old minister is late to ask the general for forgiveness." ”

Ashikaga Yoshishi hurriedly said, "Teacher, please get up." This is a matter that needs to be done by the teacher. Now that the Ming army is coming, how should we deal with it? ”

The reason why Hosokawa Katsumoto came late for a while was not to put up a show, but to stabilize people's hearts.

He is the backbone of the Western Army, and he doesn't care so much that people don't fear the Ming Army. After all, what wars Zhu Qizhen has fought since he ascended the throne, although Japan is a remote place, he has also heard of it.

Hosokawa Katsumoto said: "Please rest assured that although Japan is small, it cannot be humiliated, even if there are two invasions by the Yuankou, it has its own God's blessing, and it is the same now." ”

"God bless Japan."

"When negotiating with the Ming army, you should also salute first and then soldier. It would be great if you could surrender without a fight. If there is a war, the old minister is willing to be the commander. Crusade. ”

Hosokawa Katsumoto shouted slogans very loudly, but in the end, he was not willing to fight the Ming army. It's not that Hosokawa Katsumoto thinks that he can't defeat the current Ming army.

With Hosokawa Katsumoto's eyes and ears, how many men and horses in the Ming army could not be hidden from him.

But it's easy to win, but how to end it?

The battle between Annan and Daming, Annan was not without victory, but what was the result?

Hosokawa Katsumoto can also see from the number of troops sent by the Ming army that the Ming army did not have the heart to destroy Japan, so there is something to talk about.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa can give to the Ming Dynasty, and Ashikaga Yoshimasa can also give.

Although this is not very good, when a small country faces a large country, sometimes it can only be like this.

However, in order not to affect the glorious image of Ashikaga Yoshimi and Hosokawa Katsumoto, these negotiations were carried out in secret. It is only contained in the "rites", and as for how to surrender the soldiers without a fight, outsiders do not need to know.