Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Rebellion of the Lotus Terrace (19)
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Without investigation, there is no right to speak, Taizu's words are vividly heard, and he also heard it when he was in Zhengheng's political class in his previous life, and his later social experience also told him that this sentence is completely correct and true. Although Zhengheng got a lot of information when he was in Heshou City, it was relatively detailed. According to Kanda Akian and Doi Gaiki, it seems that the information he obtained is so ridiculous and a complete joke that the people of the Kurashiki area did not support the Shingon sect of the Imperial Family as he originally knew, and it is assumed that it was the people who supported the temple to lead the fall of the Kurashiki area, rather than the unilateral action of the temple. If it weren't for a heavy downpour of rain, if a crowd of thugs could have been restrained in the Kurashiki area, if a crowd of thugs had crossed the Shomori River and crossed into Bizen Province. Now, even if he gets the three counties of Toyu, Ushiya, and Kojima, it will be the three counties that are dilapidated and miserable, and when the time comes, he can only beat his chest secretly, and he can't clearly say his mistakes among the retainers, otherwise the prestige that he has built up with great difficulty will be damaged.
Of course, Masahiro can't listen to the reports of Kanda Akian and Doi Gaiki one-sidedly, and if the two of them didn't go directly to visit the head of Kanryuji Temple and Kanshoin Temple, they want to make up nonsense in order to get rid of their crimes, and it will be a terrible thing to make him do something that is not conducive to the interests of the Date family. When he heard the report of the two, he did not explicitly agree, but just said that he knew, and asked people to take them down to rest, they really need to sleep well. When they were in Achigo, they didn't get a good night's sleep, nor did they have a good meal. Masahiro once again dispatched his intelligence organization, the Kusama people led by the Kusama Shibei, using various costumes to investigate the affairs of the three counties of Toyu, Kushiya, and Kojima, and the characters are ready-made, the fleeing monks, the people who have lost their homes, and so on.
The two counties of Toyu and Kazuya are not very far from Takamatsu Castle, even if it is the farthest Hasudaiji Temple in Kojima County, it is only more than 100 miles away from Takamatsu Castle, and of course, the Kusama people do not need to go to Kojima-gun to find out the news. As long as you investigate in Azhi Township, the information you get one after another makes Zhengheng's heart cool down more and more. Taizu's wise words are true, he is still guilty of empiricism, and from the beginning he decided that the Kurashiki area and the Shingon sect are the same thing, and the consequence of the formation is a series of events, if he can investigate deeply, the Kurashiki area has already fallen into the hands of the Date family, and more than 2,000 men, women, and children will not become rioters and become victims of this incident, and can only be exiled to Bizen Province and cannot return to their homeland. Now even if you know it is a mistake. Zheng Heng could only go all the way to the dark, although he was wrong at the beginning. But the result was not too far off, and even more benefits were obtained, and there was always a god in the dark who blessed the Date family and the political balance.
Now that they know that the hearts of the people of Tsuyu and Uraya are not in the body of the Shingon Sect Imperial Sect, of course, it is impossible to say nonsense that their hearts are in the body of the Date family, for the people, their vital interests are what they really want, and clinging to the strong is the true idea of every people, if the Date family can enter the three counties of Tsuyu, Uraya and Kojima strongly. Being able to practice the same virtue as other regions will not win their hearts, but it will also calm their restless hearts. Shoheng finally made up his mind to abandon the original plan to use Koyama Castle, Kameyama Castle, Nagara Castle, and Kanzan Castle as the periphery, and Takamatsu Seven Castles, Hihata Castle, and Fukawa Castle as the inner periphery to contain the mob that broke out in the Shingon Sect Imperial Faction, and revised the plan. Then a new order was given. He was stationed in the three counties of Toyu, Ushiya, and Kojima, and took advantage of the evil deeds of the fleeing monks to complain about a series of incidents caused by the Shingon sect, and to control the important castles of the three counties of Toyu, Ushiya, and Kojima, and to ban the territories that did not belong to the temple. Two days. Zhengheng personally led more than 300 people to stay in Fuchuan Castle, sitting on the banks of the Ashimori River and the Sasase River, and intercepted a group of thugs who stayed in Toyama Castle on the east bank of the two rivers.
Fuchuan Castle is located on the east bank of the Ashimori River, the west bank of the Sasase River, ten miles away from Toyama Castle in a straight line, if the weather is good, you can see the general situation of Toyama Castle from Fukukawa Castle, of course, Toyama Castle can see the situation of Fuchuan Castle more really, who made Fuchuan Castle a flat castle built on the plain, Toyama Castle is a mountain castle that is not high, there is Chausu Mountain near the middle, but the middle part of the real direct view is all plains, of course, due to the sudden change of Toyama Castle, the fields near Fuchuan Castle are waterlogged after heavy rain, But it was not the general disaster relief near Takamatsu Castle, and the arrival of Masahiro made Fujii Kusaku, the lord of Fuchuan City, exactly the same as Ishikawa Hisataka's idea at the beginning, and finally there was no need to be afraid, and it was not surprising that the three hundred elites of the Date family were not surprised, but as long as Masahiro was present, it was a powerful deterrent to those who had heard of him.
The 300 Date family soldiers were stationed in Fukawa Castle with Masahiro, and at the same time, the Hihata Rokuro Guard of Hibahara Castle, Takashi Sekiguchi Takashina led 300 Takamatsu Ishikawa family Ashigaru to enter Kamo Castle in the middle of the Ashimori River, and a team of patrol posts began to be stationed along the Ashimori River on the east side of the Meiwei, patrolling the Ashimori River day and night, and at the same time, the Date troops of Koyama Castle, Nagara Yama Castle, and Kameyama Castle entered the Kurashiki area one after another, and moved quickly towards the set goal of the Date family.
In three days, no one thought that it would be so smooth, although it was learned that the people of the Kurashiki area were not in the body of the Shingon sect of the Imperial Family, but what really surprised Masahiro and others was that it only took three days, not only all the castles of the two counties of Toyu and Uzaya fell into the hands of the Date family, but even Kojima County was no exception, when the flag of the Date family fluttered to that castle, that castle took the initiative to open the city gate and was willing to surrender, yes, almost no castle resisted to the end, it was almost nothing, not absolutely nothing, Something unpleasant also happened in the space of three days.
Kojima, also known as Kibikojima, was originally an island located in the Seto Inland Sea, and according to the earliest historical records of the Wa Province, it is one of the six small islands that continued to grow after the birth of the first land of the Wa Province, Ohachishima. The sea area between the northern side of Kojima and Honshu is called the Cave Sea, and in the past, it was used as a major transportation route between the east and west of the Seto Inland Sea, but due to the long-term siltation of the three major rivers that flow into the Cave Sea, the Yoshii River, the Asahikawa River, and the Takara River, some of the sea areas were able to walk directly on them at low tide during the Genpei War in the 12th century. By the middle of the 16th century, Kojima-gun had been completely connected to the territory of Bizen Province, and was separated from the original Bizen Province by a harbor.
The connection between Kojima-gun and Honshu is not very strong, and the sea often competes with the land for land, and after heavy rains, the harbor on the east and west coasts is even larger, and the land area is much smaller, but it will soon reced, and this change will not be completely connected until the large-scale dry expansion project in the Edo period, and the entire area north of Kojima will become land, leaving only the eastern part of the cave sea to become a Kojima Bay. The original island under Matsushima Castle is now called a castle on a low hill, and the name of the island is called an unpleasant event inside and outside Matsushima Castle.
In fact, there was no large-scale conflict in Matsushima Castle, when the young and vigorous Matsushima Yajiro crossed Mt. Eda two or three miles away from Matsushima Castle, he had already been discovered by the people in Matsushima Castle, if the people of other castles could say that they had a bad relationship with the Shingon Sect Imperial Faction, the defender of Matsushima Castle could not say such a thing even if he was blind, because his guard was the Noguchi Shinjiro, the ronin leader of the Panshoin Temple, and his appearance in Matsushima Castle was exactly what the presiding officer of the Shingon Temple meant. Although the Date family has always maintained restraint, who can guarantee that the Date family will not take the opportunity to steal benefits, Masahiro didn't know the situation in the Kurashiki area at first, and he really didn't know it himself.
Noguchi Shinjiro's first step in guarding the castle is to send his companions to observe the movements from Takamatsu Castle at various intersections in front of him, and the news of Masahiro's arrival in Takamatsu Castle is no longer a secret, and Masahiro has no covert actions, so almost everyone knows where Masahiro has gone, of course, no one knows what he will do, but everyone clearly understands that such a big thing happened in the three counties of Duyu, Kushiya, and Kojima, and Masahiro's arrival in Takamatsu Castle must have something to do with this matter. Shinjiro Noguchi knew that Masahiro would not give up lightly, and Date Jun must be accumulating strength to achieve ulterior attempts.
There was no large-scale conflict in Matsushima Castle, but a small-scale conflict did occur, and Noguchi Shinjiro knew that Matsushima Castle might be able to block the temporary attack of this force, but it was impossible to cage the city for a long time with the morale of the city alone, so he chose to fight in the field instead of refusing to defend the city, because he clearly understood that there was only a dead end to resist the city and defend it, and the Date army had reinforcements, and his reinforcements were still defending the east bank of the river and whether he could return or not. The field party has a glimmer of life, wins in the field, and then makes a clear gesture, let the Date family come forward with a high-status person to persuade him to surrender, or directly let Date Zhengheng come forward, and reluctantly agree after refusing.
Shimojiro Noguchi's idea was wonderful, but the result was tragic. When he was making a field battle, Atsutaro Kiyokawa and Yajiro Matsushima met two miles outside Matsushima Castle, and at the same time came the Hibata Rokubei of Hibata Castle and the Kakuro Shichiro Saemon Captain of Kanyama Castle. When they heard that Matsushima Castle had sent troops to fight in the field, they were really startled, and when the two armies met, they were frightened and changed objects.