Chapter 209: Pattern (II)
No one knows that the history at this moment has become unrecognizable because of the strong birth of Zhengheng, and even Zhengheng, who has always relied on God's vision, has to re-examine Shengyiqiqi, and people in this era are full of confusion about the future, and can only rely on their own ideas to brand the future with their own ideas.
Masahiro, who hurriedly bid farewell to Hongzhong Takaho, didn't know that Inaba and Tajima, the rulers of the two countries in the northeast of Misasaka Province, Yamana Yutoyo, looked at neighboring Misaku, and wanted to take advantage of the emptiness inside Misasaka Province to tear off a piece of meat.
Yamana Yutoyo is a descendant of Yamana Sozen, who upturned the country upside down in the Onin Rebellion, and after the Onin Rebellion, the power of the Yamana clan declined greatly, and only Inaba and Tajima were left to rule, and the family also did not know the unity of sincerity, but fought for the position of family governor. The two branches of the Yamana clan ruled Inaba and Tajima respectively, and the two countries continued to fight in order to unify the Yamana clan, and the Niko clan took advantage of the situation and pressed step by step, and Yamana Yutoyo appeared in Ikuno in the 11th year of Tenmon (1542), and gradually became stronger by managing the silver mountain, and in one fell swoop won the Inaba guardian Yamana Seitsu clan, which was already five years ago. After five years in business, Yutoyo Yamana thinks that he has full fledgling and the time has come to expand his territory again.
When Niko Haruhisa gathered tens of thousands of troops in Misaku, such a large-scale movement of soldiers and horses, how not to attract the attention of Yamana Yutoyo, after suddenly hearing the news of Niko Haruhisa's defeat, Yamana Yutoyo knew that it was time to meddle in Misaku, rather than letting the Date family enter Misasakaku, it was better to let the Yamana clan, one of the four positions of the Muromachi shogunate, occupy the above board.
But it's more than the Date family. Politics and balances are different. Yamana Yutoyo said that it is said that the two countries of Inaba and Tajima are unified. The prestige has soared, but the internal is not monolithic, because the two countries have been antagonistic for decades, the internal relations are complicated, and it is obviously impossible to send troops to the United States to do such a major event.
When Yamana Yutoyo finally persuaded the retainers, it was suddenly rumored that Date Jun had entered the Misaku country strongly, which made his calculation fall through. How not to make him anxious. A little progress has just been made, opinions have been agreed, and what is in sight has become someone else's bag.
Date Masaki successively defeated the strongmen Mori Motoshi and Niko Haruma in the two ways of yin and yang, obviously not an easy person, and when the power of Mimasaka was in a vacuum, he was still able to delusionally seize Misakoku, relying on the geographical advantages of Asahikawa and Myoki Mountain to block the Date army from Bizen Province.
It is impossible to advance or retreat, of course it is impossible to advance the army, and the United States has become the bag of Date Zhengheng, and now the country is full of the imposing Date army, and now it will be bloody to touch it. It is advisable for the unwise. But it is also impossible to withdraw the troops, once this order is given. It immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the retainers, and greatly detrimental to the prestige of Yamana Yutoyo.
Now the hearts of the people in this mountain castle are fluctuating, and the four major families of the Gakiya clan, the Tayutsuro clan, the Otagaki clan, and the Yagi clan are hindering each other, and they are still able to stay in the country, and if they really want to send troops, they will have different intentions if they are tied together, and they have promised a lot of benefits, and finally reached the opinion of sending troops. How willing these unruly local powerful factions are, once they make a noise, it is also an extremely troublesome matter.
Yamana Yutoyo has always taken advantage of the contradictions of the four families, and the way of uniting one to suppress the other has gradually given the Tajima family an advantage, and finally defeated Yamana Seitsu to obtain the dominance of Inaba and Tajima, and the result of the strong is that the four families have gradually shown signs of unity from the original hostile relationship.
One family is not the opponent of Yamana Yutoyo, but the combination of the four will be a huge force, enough to subvert Yamana Yutoyo's status.
In the study room in the northwest corner of this corner of Yama Castle, a plum plant has already budded and is ready to be released, and Yamana Yutoyo is dressed in a purple dress, neatly arranged, but he looks like a character from Kyoto, he sits at the table, holding a book and looking at it intently. The coals in the house were not burning strongly, but Yamana Yutoyo's forehead was covered with fine and dense sweat.
Yamana Yutoyo obviously didn't read the contents of the book, and was still thinking about the information that had just been passed on from the secret agent, and in just a few days, the United States was the country, and even the Kusakari clan, which was guarding the border pass, had surrendered, so there was no need to think about sending troops to the United States, I was afraid that it would turn from defense to attack.
Without a report, Mikami Yutoyo walked into Yamana Yutoyo's study and whispered to Yamana Yutoyo the news he had just gotten: "The four of them, Kakiya Susei, Tayuno Yoshi, Otagaki Terunobu, and Yagi Toyonobu, met in Tsuru Castle, and then the soldiers of the four families made a noise and were coming to this corner of the mountain castle. ”
Yamana Yufeng's face suddenly sank, and his originally relaxed face was suddenly cloudy, and he snorted unhappily: "What do they want to do, even Tian Jiezhuang is righteousness has to be reversed?!" "The lord of Hecheng is Tian Jiezhuang is righteousness, and in the secret meeting of Hecheng, outsiders must be Tian Jiezhuang is the leader of righteousness.
The corners of Mikami Fengfan's mouth turned up slightly, Tian Jiezhuang is righteousness has always played the role of a loyal minister and a good general for personal gain, all the ministers can see it clearly, only Yamana Yufeng is in the dark, and now once it is exposed, Yamana Yufeng is obviously very dissatisfied, this is his opportunity to take the position.
Mikami Toyofan did not refute either, and continued: "The domestic situation in Misaku is gradually stabilizing, Date Zhengheng is not easy to deal with, and the subordinates watch his actions, hit Maori, and reject Nizi, it is not he who provoked the war, but the hand of Maori and Nizi who moved first, if you insist on attacking now, I am afraid that it will backfire, and please think twice before acting." ”
How did Yamana Yutoyo not know how powerful Date Mashiro was, the more he knew Date Masaki's experience, the more he trembled at this young daimyo, the meaning of the military attack on the country that day was the idea of not knowing that Date Masaki was powerful, and now it can be said that it is difficult to ride a tiger, he sighed and said: "How do I not know, it's just that the four are aggressive, how to deal with the best policy?" ”
Mikami Toyofan was happy when he saw that Yamana Yutoyo was asking for a plan, and he pretended to be contemplative, and said the countermeasures that he had already thought of: "It is rumored that Date Masahiro will let the tiger return to the mountain, and once Niko Haruhisa returns, there will inevitably be a dragon and tiger fight, this is a great opportunity for the lord, why not take the opportunity to attack the Boqi country, first, to seize a large area of land to expand your strength, and second, to declare your authority to the people of Inaba country, once both Tajima and Inaba are completely surrendered, where will the lord still act by looking at the faces of the four families." ”
On December 17, 1553, the 22nd year of Astronomy, the four families of Yamana Yutoyokai and Gakiya Yoshinoshi, Tayuso Yoshiri, Otagaki Terunobu, and Yagi Toyonobu gathered 8,500 troops from Sumiyama Castle and marched towards Inaba Province.
Because of the protection of the country of Inhata, the younger brother of Yamana Yu Toyo heard that his eldest brother was coming, and immediately beat drums and gathered in the castle of Tenjin Mountain, which did not attract the gathering of the people of the country of Inhata, but let one person show his true form. It has been five years since the death of Yamana Seitsu, and his important retainers, Takeda Takayoshi and Takanobu father and son, support his sister-in-law Toyoshi Yamana.
After the death of Takeda Takayoshi, Takeda Takanobu, who was only twenty-four years old, had already contacted many powerful people with the support of Nizi Haruhisa, but he never thought that Nizi Haruhisa was defeated, and Takeda Takashin was obviously unwilling to surrender willingly, and since then he has been under the four heavenly kings of Yamana.
With the financial support of Niko Haruhisa, Takeda Takanobu now controls one-third of the land of Inaba Province and is gradually moving towards a situation of lower Keshang, which of course caused the dissatisfaction of Yamana Toyoshi, who continued to ask his brother for help, and did everything possible to weaken Takeda Takanobu's power.
Faced with this situation, Takeda Takashin was obviously not ready to completely rebel, and he was unwilling to give up the rights he had gained, so he was anxious and at a loss. In addition, now that Nizi Qing has been defeated for a long time, even if he regains his freedom, it is difficult to protect himself, and he has no spare strength to back him up.
Now, Yamana Yutoyo is coming to Tottori Castle in a mighty way, and if you don't make up your mind, I'm afraid that when you arrive, it will be the day when the castle will be destroyed. The young Takeda Takanobu was unwilling to be left behind, and knew that it would be difficult for him to resist the front and back attacks of Yamana Yutoyo and Yamana Toyodai brothers on his own, and the original backer Naiko Haruhisa could not protect himself, so he thought about it and finally sent his younger brother Takeda Masaburo to ask for help from Date Masahiro, the new lord of Misakuko.
Takeda Matasaburo took the secret letter and hurried to Misakuni, but he still didn't rush to Takada Castle before Yamana Yutoyo. Yamana Yutoyo went to Tottori Castle one step ahead of him, originally he was quite dissatisfied with Takeda Takashin, the anti-bone boy, because he had Nizi Haruhisa as a backer, he could only turn a blind eye, and now he wanted to turn his face with Nizi Haruhisa, so he intended to take Takeda Takashin first. The four families of Gakiya Susei, Tayutsu Yoshi, Ota Gaki Terunobu, and Yagi Toyonobu were also reluctant to go to the Boqi country, and it was just right to take Takeda Takanobu to open the knife, and once it snowed heavily in winter, the army would immediately be disbanded.
On the morning of December 19, 1553, Takeda Takanobu took the lead in learning that Yamana Toyosada had led a thousand horsemen from Tenjin Castle and ambushed 200 samurai armed with bows and arrows near the border between Eum-gun and Takakusa-gun. In the morning mist, Yamana Toyoshi was hit suddenly, and he didn't have time to figure out the truth of the matter, so he retreated towards the Tenjin Mountain Castle in a panic. If it weren't for Takeda Takatsu's anxious soldiers and horses from Yamana Yutoyo, I am afraid that he would attack Tenjin Mountain Castle in one fell swoop, so that Yamana Toyoshi could no longer gather enough soldiers and horses in the short term, so that Takeda Takanobu won a short respite, and also won Tottori Castle a long-term cage city preparation time.
When Yamana Yutoyo basically completed the siege of Tottori Castle, Takeda Matazaburo finally arrived at Takada Castle, and at this moment Takada Castle was in a state of anxiety, and a meeting on Bizen and Mimasakaku was in full swing. (To be continued......)
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