In the national temple, Prince Zhendunfa was critically ill and Princess Seihide, the seventh daughter of Emperor Nara, was able to win, but it made Zhengheng feel a little relieved, where did he think that Kikutei Qingji would bring a stick to the public family to advocate that Prince Chunling marry the Date family.

Kyoto has long been full of political and horizontal spies, and the thoughts of Kikutei Hayaki and others soon fell into his ears, and what made him cry and laugh was that Asukai Masaharu was at a loss from the beginning and became the most determined advocate after the night.

Zhengheng muttered: "Isn't this a combination of public and military?" In his previous life, he knew that there had been a vigorous movement at the end of the Edo period, and in the end, there was a serious disagreement between the shogunate and the powerful feudal clans on the question of who was in charge, and finally these powerful feudal clans who actively participated in the Gongwu combined movement all participated in the shogunate movement.

None of the retainers in the conference room heard the muttering of Zhengheng, but they all knew a little about what was happening in Kyoto, and two public servants came to the residence where they lived before coming to meet him, and they kept saying that they wanted to marry Prince Haruchi.

Zheng Heng forcibly endured the doubts in his heart, and said: "Everyone has been resting long enough during this time, and the affairs of Omi Province have come to an end, but it is not a matter of Izumi, Hanoi, Kii, and Yamato Shikoku that have been left on hold?" But this matter has to come first, first, let's talk about it, how to deal with these guys? ”

The affairs of Kyoto can't be run away from there, and since the emperor has been elected, the succession to the unification is not at the mercy of these warriors, and there are a lot of guys from public families who want to curry favor with the Date family. The only thing they pay attention to is military merit, and it is blood.

Izumi, Kawachi, Kii, and Yamato-Shikoku add up to a stone height of millions of stones. It's just that now after the battle between Honganji Ichiku, Miyoshi Chokei, the shogunate army and other forces, the people have long been struggling and burying their bones everywhere.

It can be said that a large part of the 500,000 or 600,000 displaced people in Yamato were originally residents of Hosen and Hanoi, and some of them remained in Yamato.

Kii Province did not experience war, but originally Kii Province was a vast and sparsely populated country. The forces of the Saga people, the Nerai people, and the Hatakeyama Takamasa requisitioned almost all the laborers between the ages of sixteen and the fifties, and they only wanted to get food from them.

As for Yamato, needless to say, the good old ones were burned to the ground. A large number of temples were deserted, wild foxes were running wild, not to mention that since Hatakeyama Takamasa withdrew from Yamato Province, the alliance that had been united in the Yamato country to fight against a whim, immediately split. It's a mess.

Millions of stone high. It looks very bluffing, but in fact, it will take several years to restore the pre-war level of nearly 780,000 stones, and at the same time, it will take a lot of manpower and material resources to renovate the water conservancy ridges.

What is now in front of everyone is Shikoku, which has been beaten into a pot of porridge, and in the three countries of Izumi, Hanoi, and Kii, except for some local servants in the south of Kii who did not participate in the war and have a little surplus grain, all the other food is in the hands of the three major warlords.

Kiyokawa Henghide stood in front of a huge set of Kinai maps dotted with various castles, and said: "Kii Province, Hidaka, Mulou, South Mulou, North Mulou and other places are mostly under the control of the Kumano Naval Army, and they will be ignored if they do not participate in the campaign. Shigei Suzuki learned that Ishiyama Honganji had fallen. He has retreated to Kii and held on to Saga Castle. In the territory of Izumi Province. Otori-gun was abandoned in the face of Ishiyama Honganji, where our heavy troops were stationed, and Izumi-gun and Minami-gun were controlled by a group of people controlled by Okayama Gobo, with about five or six thousand people, mostly rabble, and the main men and horses were stationed in Kishiwada Castle, and Hine-gun fell into the hands of the Nerai people, and the number of Nerai people is about 4,000 people, including more than 1,000 elites, and a large number of iron cannons. ”

Zheng Heng tapped the table and said, "The rabble, don't pay attention to it, just wait for the army to arrive and sweep one of them away, and tell everyone about the situation of Tomomitsuhide and Hatakeyama Takamasa, the two of them are the focus of our next attack." ”

Date family advanced by land and water, and the total number of soldiers and horses entering was seventy or eighty thousand, and the war in Tanba Province gradually became scarce, and only one Yagami Castle was still struggling to hold on.

Izumi, Hanoi, and Yamato are the birthplaces of the Yamato civilization, and have been battled for by soldiers since ancient times, and since ancient times, the local forces in these regions have been very strong, especially since the samurai ruled the world, the wealthy people of these three regions have formed a powerful force close to Kyoto. As luck would have it, when he succeeded in defeating Honganji Kenru and seizing power in Kyoto, the local forces in the three regions suffered heavy losses in a battle that lasted for several years.

The local heroes suffered heavy losses, and now only Hatakeyama Takamasa, who represents the local forces, and Akechi Mitsuhide, who represents the remnants of the shogunate, are still struggling to support, due to the cut off of autumn food and the oppression of the Date Kamiraku army, the two armies have gone from the beginning of the brains to the current undercurrent.

Kiyokawa Tsunehide continued, "Akechi Mitsuhide controls Wakae Castle and Iimoriyama Castle, and also controls the main road to and from Shinkiyama Castle in Yamato Province, while Hatakeyama Takamasa places the main force in Takaya Castle, and the two of them have an equal number of soldiers and horses, and now they control the number of fifteen thousand men. Among them, when Hatakeyama Takamasa withdrew from Yamato Province, he robbed and burned down a large number of temples, although he pushed all these things to Matsunaga Hide, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that he did all these things, seized a lot of money and food, and was able to maintain it for a while. Akechi Mitsuhide's withdrawal from Settsu Province alone led to a sharp turn for the shogunate army, which eventually ended in the martyrdom of shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru, who was the main culprit in the defeat of the shogunate army. Although there were still 15,000 soldiers and horses under his command, there was a serious shortage of food, which caused instability in the hearts of the people, and there were signs of dedication to the Yamato country. ”

Qinghe Hengxiu paused for a moment and continued: "Speaking of Yamato, there are many factions within the country. A plate of scattered sand, under the external attack can still be united, after Hatakeyama Takamasa withdrew from the Yamato country. The Tsutsui clan governor was young and had no prestige, which made the forces of the various factions that were originally united in order to fight for power and profit, and it was precisely because of the different internal conclusions that the Yue Zhi clan controlled a large number of people and retreated to the southern mountains to become Nanda and Ichiba. At the same time, this Yue Chi clan is now falling out with Hatakeyama Takamasa. ”

The complicated situation in the territory of Yamato Province, Hatakeyama Takamasa withdrew from Yamato Province, and the territory and power he left behind naturally aroused the peeps of the surrounding wealthy people and monks. The original owner's family went home and found that someone was occupying the magpie's nest, and he didn't pick up a knife and gun to fight hard.

Zhengheng said with a smile: "Akechi Mitsuhide is afraid that he will have to enter and leave Yamato Country, but Yamato Country is also short of food after being swept away by Hatakeyama Takamasa. I'm afraid he won't stay in Yamato for a long time, at most a month, and he will have to find a new source of food before it snows in winter, otherwise I won't have to beat him. He scored and fell apart. ”

Masaga Ueno asked, "Akechi Mitsuhide is going to Ise Province?" ”

Zhengheng was stunned. He didn't expect that it would be Masagany Ueno who would finally ask this question, you must know that Masaca Ueno has always been arrogant, and now he has begun to think about the problem, which is rare, and asked with a smile: "Taro, why do you ask this question?" ”

Ueno Masacho hesitated for a moment before he said, "Akechi Mitsuhide was originally the military advisor of the shogunate general Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and it can be said that he betrayed the shogunate. Food shortages, low morale, and internal instability make it a desperate need to recuperate. The minister looked at the map, we have tens of thousands of troops stationed in Settsu Ishiyama Honganji Temple to guard the grain road, he does not dare to fight hard, at the same time, Yamashiro Province, Omi Province have our people, after he entered Yamato Province, because he could not obtain food, then there is only one road, that is, Ise Province. ”

Zhengheng thought for a while and said, "This wise Mitsuhide and Hatakeyama Takamasa are facing off in Hanoi, which is very unfavorable to our grain route, and at the same time, the five or six hundred thousand displaced people in the mountain city cannot be diverted out, and these five or six hundred thousand people living here are not safe. ”

The hearts of all the generals were in their hearts, and they all thought that Masahiro was going to attack Akechi Mitsuhide and Hatakeyama Takamasa, and they all showed their eyes, waiting for Masahiro's order, knowing that this battle may be the last big battle in recent years, and it will enter a period of farming after sweeping away Kinai.

Zhengheng picked up a wooden stick, suddenly pointed at Izumi Province, and said: "The remnants of Honganji Temple in Izumi Country are raging, it is really too disagreeable, let the sailors stationed on Awaji Island start to attack Kishiwada Castle, and at the same time stationed in Otori County, the port of Kaizhen will be renovated as an anchorage for grain ships." ”

Everyone waited for Zheng Heng's next order, but they didn't hear any orders for a long time, only an order to continue to rest, which made them very disappointed, but many people saw some other content, but they all shut up and didn't say it explicitly.

The Date Army near Kyoto seems to be silent, but in fact, there is an undercurrent. Zheng Heng met with Anguo Temple Huiqiong after the meeting, yes, this orphan of the Anyi Takeda family has been renamed Anguo Temple Huiqiong, and the name of Huiqiong is still given by Kuaikawa Shaoxi.

Anguosi Huiqiong got the order of Zhengheng, but did not put on any makeup, and took more than ten guards in the direction of Hanoi and marched along the Yodo River. It's not that he doesn't want to wear makeup, it's that he can't. Honganji has just passed, and there are still many remnants in various places, and the Date army from all walks of life will not ask you what sect you are from, looking at the bald head, either a spy or a remnant, cut off your head, and was used for military merit, not unjustly killed.

This Yodo River comes from Yamashiro Province and flows southwest through Kakuno and Ibarada two counties into the north, and then into Settsu Nishinari County.

Hanoi is four miles from east to west, and thirteen miles from north to south. The peaks and mountains embrace the southeast, the Dianhe River winds around the northwest, and the Taihe River runs through the center, which can be said to be fertile soil, simple folk customs, and conducive to crops. Anguo Temple Huiqiong had traveled to Hosen, Hanoi, and Yamato before entering Beijing to study, and Hanoi was prosperous and densely populated. Now many places have been burned to the ground, and many of the mighty castles have been looted, and there has been no human population since entering Hanoi.

It's not that Hui Qiong of Anguo Temple has never seen life and death, nor has he never seen a corpse, but seeing this situation, he still shook coldly, and didn't dare to say anything.

Anguo Temple Huiqiong walked not far, and met a patrol team holding a bellflower flag, the number was not much, only more than 30 people, the leader still had a little spirit, and the rest were all sloppy and sloppy and had no spirit at all, all of them were yellow and thin.

The white and chubby monk and more than ten elite guards, this group of patrols sounded the alarm again and again, and even some people escaped from the team, making Ankokuji Huiqiong and others look at each other, but Ankokuji Huiqiong has a heavy responsibility, and shouted loudly: "Tell your officials, just say that Dazai Daiji Date Masahiro sent a messenger to ask to see Akechi Mitsuhide." ”

The leader of the patrol responded, and did not doubt the origin of Anguoji Huiqiong, and now he can still look so white and chubby, not from the Date family, who has no worries about food and clothing, but from where can he come from, and now only the Date family in Kinai has food, and there are soldiers and food.

At this time, the camp of Wise Mitsuhide was stationed in Iimori Mountain Castle, which experienced the three good armies and always fought one by one, and the city was in a mess, many places were burned to the ground by fire, and there were still a lot of ruins left, but it could also shelter the Wise Army from the wind and rain.

In the ruined tent, when Akechi Mitsuhide and his retainers were discussing the way out, there was a rush of footsteps outside the tent, and his nephew Miyake Yaheiji appeared outside the tent and reported: "Uncle, the messenger of Date Masaki is here. ”

Akechi Mitsuhide, who had obviously lost a lot of weight, was in good spirits, but inadvertently he suddenly heard Miyake Yaheiji's report, he was stunned for a moment, and turned his head in disbelief and said, "Yaheiji, what did you say, say it again?" ”

Miyake Yaheiji spoke again and reported, "Uncle, the envoy of Date Masaki is here, are you summoned?" ”

The corners of Wise Guangxiu's mouth slowly widened, and he said, "Look, there is no endless road!" Well, I brought him to see me, I wanted to see what kind of conditions Date Mashiro could offer us to convince me to submit to him. ”

Akechi Mitsuhide can now be said to be unable to enter the heavens and the earth, and originally thought that he could stab Takamasa Hatakeyama in the back by surprise, seize Kawachi Province, and then occupy Izumi and Kii, and then enter Yamato Province, and wait for the victory and defeat of Kinai with the strength of the four countries.

The result? Wise Guangxiu whined and lamented: People are not as good as heaven. (To be continued.) )