Emperor Go-Toba, which occurred in the third year of the shogunate, took advantage of a dispute within the shogunate over the issue of the shogun's successor and launched the Shogunate Rebellion, and the Utsunomiya family went out with the shogunate army. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Utsunomiya Yoritsuna, the son of the head of the Utsunomiya family, performed very well in the Battle of Ujibashi. After the war, based on his exploits, the shogunate granted the Utsunomiya family the post of Iyo Guardian, and Utsunomiya Yoritsuna became the first Iyo Guardian of the Utsunomiya family.

Since then, the position of Iyo's guardian has been held by the Utsunomiya clan. In the second year of Gentoku (1330), Toyozen's Utsunomiya Toyobo was appointed as the guardian of Iyo, and the following year he came to Iyo, and received the tablet of the great god of Utsunomiya from the Futarasan Shrine in Shimono, and then established the Joganji Temple, the Bodhi Temple of the Utsunomiya family, in Iyo, and the Iyo Utsunomiya family has been formed since then.

The current head of Utsunomiya, Utsunomiya Toyotsuna, is the last head of the Iyo Utsunomiya family. At this time, the Utsunomiya family was centered on Ozu Castle, and as mentioned before, the land of 70,000 koku, which ruled the three counties of Iyo, Kita, and Ukika, was a powerful force in Iyo Province.

But for the already weakened Utsunomiya family, the Iyo country is not a pure land. The Saionji Temple in the southwest, under the leadership of the first generation of British lord Saionji Gonghiro, slowly expanded its strength and became the strongest force in Iyo Province. The Kono family in the east is the traditional overlord of Iyo Province, and the Utsunomiya family has always been eyeing the Utsunomiya family. And in the case of the two powers, there was also a problem within the Iyo Utsunomiya family, and the Higashitada Utsunomiya family broke away from the main family and took refuge in Saionji.

This also directly led to the reason for the greater discord between the Utsunomiya family and the Saionji family outside of the land. During the Astronomical years, Utsunomiya Toyotsuna implemented a policy of uniting the Ichijo, Otomo, and Kono clans to confront the Nishienji family. Utsunomiya Toyotsuna's daughter even married the Shimanto Ichijo Kaneji of Tosa to strengthen the alliance between them.

But what the Utsunomiya family didn't know was that because the Kono family and the Saionji family had reached some kind of tacit understanding, the Utsunomiya family would be used as a buffer for both sides. Although both sides knew that they wanted to unify Iyo Province, they also knew that between the two, neither could swallow the other, and if they forcibly launched a large-scale war, they would only lose both families, and then Iyo Province would probably be taken advantage of by other forces. Whether it is the Miyoshi family, the Ichijo family, or the Changzong family, this is not allowed to happen to the people of their Iyo country.

If the Utsunomiya family is lost as a barrier between the Kono family and the Saionji family, there will inevitably be a conflict between the two sides, which will not benefit anyone. So the two families tolerated it very tacitly, and the Utsunomiya family continued to exist in the Iyo area. Even if they can continue to survive, you can imagine that the life of the Utsunomiya family is not easy, because both families will inevitably take it as the first target of weakening.

The reason why the Utsunomiya family was thinking about robbing while the Kuroda family had sent tens of thousands of troops before, except for the fact that Utsunomiya Toyotsuna was hot-headed and wanted to get more land, there was no intention of revenge for being bullied by the Kono family over the years.

It's a pity that the Kono family of the Kuroda family can't beat it, and when it comes to Utsunomiya, it's still sharp, and the Utsunomiya family can't be reversed, and it can be regarded as a lot of education. At least this is something that Utsunomiya Toyotsuna's father didn't teach him, and now the Kono family, instead of his father, gave him a vivid lesson and told him that it is not easy to take advantage of small advantages.

If it weren't for the appearance of the Kuroda family, the Kono family, which has been declining this year, would have received the acquiescence of the Maori family because of the intermediary of the Murakami family who came to the island. And after the Mori family promised to support the Kono family, they officially launched a crusade against the Utsunomiya family. And in this battle, the Saionji family also took the opportunity to attack the Utsunomiya family.

It was during this battle that Ozu Castle was surrounded by the Maori army that was a reinforcement for the Kono family, and the Iyo Utsunomiya family also ushered in its end.

Under the joint attack of the three families, Utsunomiya Toyotsuna announced the opening of the castle in desperation, and gave up the position of the lord of the continent to his son-in-law, that is, Naoyuki Ohno, the fourth brother of Naomasa Ohno. Naoyuki Ohno switched to the Saionji family, and Utsunomiya Toyotsuna himself became a captive of the Maori family, and was escorted to Beihou by the Maori army, and died in a foreign land.

Now the Utsunomiya family can't wait for the Maori family to attack, because it's the Kuroda family who is coming. Under the condition of having an absolute numerical advantage and an intelligence blockade, Mamoru Ando divided his troops to capture everywhere, and the Utsunomiya family's Utsunomiya Ukigo County territory fell within half a day.

Later, Iyo-gun was also attacked by the Kuroda family, because of the efforts of the Kuroda family, the news could not be spread at all, and at this time, the Utsunomiya family did not know any news. And when the Utsunomiya family knew that the Kuroda family had entered their territory, they couldn't believe the news at all.

"Isn't the Kuroda family still confronting the Kono family in Shini County? How did you enter the territory of your family, and it's only been a long time since Iyo-gun fell. ”

Utsunomiya Toyotsuna was so angry that he even smashed his favorite Kuroda yaki, which was a precious item bought for twenty kan, although this tea bowl was only worth fifteen kan in Sakai Town.

"Lord, do you want to gather people?" His son-in-law, Naoyuki Ohno, his most trusted retainer, said.

"Assemble, immediately, immediately gather all the horses, and also, bring all the young people in the territory to Dazhou City, and we will fight in Cage City." Utsunomiya Toyotsuna shouted loudly.

When the Kuroda family's army came to Otsu Castle in Kita County, counting the people coerced by the Utsunomiya family, nearly 4,000 people gathered in the city. It's just that there are less than a thousand of them, including peasant soldiers, and the rest are just ordinary people.

Ando Mamoru saw the Utsunomiya family, retreated in Ozu Castle to prepare to be a turtle, and ordered the Kono family's army to also come to converge, and after adding the Kono family's 3,000 people, the Kuroda family's Ando Mamoru reached 14,000 people.

At this moment, the number of Kuroda vocational high school troops who had just besieged Katsurui City was almost equal.

The joint naval army of the Kuroda family is surrounded by the island group in the future, and the naval army of the island has no chance of winning in the face of the water army of the two villages.

After all, the island water army is also a lineage of Murakami's family, and the reason why the two murakami were dissatisfied with the island water army before was because the island was sometimes too lonely, and all the benefits wanted to be eaten by one person, so after it appeared, Mao Li Yuan deliberately used the island water army to check and balance the two murakami measures.

Now that the Tsushima Navy is at the end of their rope, the two murakami have only executed the family members who stayed behind on the island, as well as his loyal men, and the others have stayed.