March 5 of the first year of Koji (1555), Kyoto, the wind and the sun are beautiful.

Kyoto was originally a castle town ruled by the emperor and shogun, but in the Onin War 80 years ago, nearly 200,000 troops gathered in Kyoto to fight, and fought for nearly 11 years, and Kyoto was razed to the ground after 11 years of war. The Onin Rebellion caused the shogunate to lose the world, the whole country entered the Warring States period, the shogun was displaced, and the imperial court in Kyoto was so poor that he was able to survive in the troubled times. In particular, Miyoshi Chokei occupied Kinai, and after years of wars with the shogunate and the governors, Kyoto, which had finally recovered a little, fell into a depression again.

Miyoshi Nagayi would rather stay in the flowery town than go to the dirty and smelly Kyoto, which was in a depression, but as the seat of the imperial court, it still had some appeal among the people, which was why the imperial court was able to sustain itself.

In the event of an earthquake, flash flood, or riot, refugees will always flow in the direction of Kyoto, and year after year, a large number of rats gather around Kyoto in a few filthy, smelly wooden houses full of criminals and Hanako.

Don't think that these rat-like criminals and Hanako are easy to bully, they have formed large and small organizations with geography and origin as the core, and once something happens, these organizations will unite and mobilize tens of thousands of people, so that anyone who dares to provoke them can't eat and walk around.

This is also the reason why there are so many people near Kyoto, but not many people are willing to recruit them for their own use, and the shogunate has always been the target of their launch, and Miyoshi Nagakei would rather transfer troops from Awa Province when he entered Kinai.

The imperial family and the ministers who refused to leave in Kyoto still relied on. The only role is to sell officials and mediate the war between the two daimyos. The former still has some utility. For example, the political balance of the Date family still donated some money to get the official position of Bizheng Shaobi.

The latter can only be replaced by the word hehe. It was a time of war and strife in the Warring States Period, a cruel and bloody world, and if the authority of the imperial court could really mediate the battle of the daimyo, it would not fall back to the end of the last breath.

Miyoshi Changqing asked Miyoshi Changyi to come to ask for the will of the imperial court, of course, there was no good intention, you must know that Date Masahiro had just won the official position of the imperial court, and he got the official position of Bizheng Shaobi, and the Miyoshi family came to negotiate peace with the will of the imperial court. What attitude can the Date family have?

If you comply, it is just the right time to give Miyoshi Changqing a chance to recuperate. Although he was still able to recruit an army of 20,000 or 30,000 people, Kinai was still not very calm, and if too many troops were sent out, the territory would be uneasy.

If he didn't comply, he just exposed Date Mashiro's seemingly loyal and traitorous appearance, and generously asked the imperial court to charge Date Mashiro with the crime of going to the court, and openly mobilized all the heroes from all walks of life to form a political encirclement to kill Date Mashiro.

Of course, Miyoshi Nagayi will not come to Beijing alone, unlike Date Masaki's enemies, who can only hide in Tibet like rats. Miyoshi Chokei's enemies can appear on the streets of Kyoto in a grand manner, as an important figure under Miyoshi Chokei. If he only went to Jingjing, he was afraid that he would be immediately attacked by unknown people, and he would not know how to die.

A guard of 300 people protected Miyoshi Changyi to go to Beijing together, and the people near Kyoto in addition to being difficult to deal with, but also loved to watch the excitement, and saw Miyoshi Changyi leading 300 fierce guards to Beijing not only did not scatter and flee, but surrounded and pointed around.

Miyoshi rode on his horse in high spirits, frowned, covered his nose with a handkerchief, and looked at the streets as dirty as ever, especially the slums made up of low-rise shantytowns, which were almost as dirty as the garbage heaps.

The stench was everywhere, the narrow streets were full of beggars, and even the corpses that I didn't know if they were frozen to death or starved to death, just as Miyoshi Nagayi looked at the lively people around the street with disdain, and there was a discordant scene in the middle of the street.

A group of fifteen people walked over solemnly with broken steps, all wearing hats, black raincoats, and holding a spear in their hands to block Miyoshi Changyi and his party.

"It's the samurai of the Akutagawa family!" "They're coming for revenge, let's go quickly, don't get involved!" Many hurried away, but a few men who clearly looked like samurai or ronin stayed on the sidelines, watching a duel to the death.

A leader walked out of the ronin, he took off his hat, took off his coat, his white turban was already tied, his face was painted with several inks, his expression was hideous, he held a spear in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Today, I, Ikeda Kanbei, am to report the kindness of the lord Akutagawa Katsucho, please get out of the way." ”

Everyone stared closely at the ronin who called himself Ikeda Kanbei in front of the queue, but everyone just stood there quietly, no one came out to speak, and the huge street was silently pin dropping, and only Ikeda Kanbei could be heard shouting: "We are only here to take revenge, and we only want a person's life!" We don't want to hurt the innocent for the rest, and the three good ones are long! ”

Miyoshi Changyi didn't reply, Akasawa Changqing had already stepped forward and said, "I don't know if you dare to fight alone with me?" ”

Ikeda Kanbei tightened his not very skilled spear, hooked a small tiger tooth knife in his left hand, didn't look at Akasawa Nagaki, and said coldly: "Where did the wild dogs come from, barking here?!" ”

"Arrogant guy, let's talk about it after my Chize Changqing first, ah!" Akasawa Nagaqing shouted this and rushed out of the ranks, and the long knife in his hand swept out wildly.

"Rush!" A spear blocked the attack of the long knife.

"Megalomaniacal guy!" Akasawa Changqing missed a blow and deceived himself to advance again.

With a "grunt", Akasawa Nagakiyo's knife only attacked halfway, and Ikeda Kanbei, who was bullied on the neck, cut the veins with a tiger tooth knife, stagnated halfway, deviated from his body, crooked, fell to the ground, and a pool of blood splattered out.

"Father!" Seeing that his father had been killed, Koshiro Akasawa shouted and rushed forward, but before he could draw his sword, he was stabbed through the chest by Ikeda Kanbei, and he fell to the ground spitting blood, dead to death.

Miyoshi Changyi, who was riding on a horse, had already seen that the scene had already begun in time and space, but he knew that if he left now, he would inevitably be ridiculed as cowardly, and he would be scared away by more than a dozen bandits with the three hundred guards.

Miyoshi Changyi shouted loudly: "Front team, kill me!" Saying that, he ordered the front team of 100 people to pull out their knives and rush forward to kill the clowns who were blocking the way, what they never expected was that Akutagawa Yu, who was still menacing just now, was dumb and shouted, "The wind is tight!" "I ran away.

Seeing the remnants of Akutagawa fleeing like a clown, Miyoshi Changyi couldn't help but be furious, and scolded: "If it's really a damn rat, you will only hide in Tibet and run around, and I have to stomp your legs and hang them at the Kamogawa Road crossing to catch up with me." ”

Miyoshi Nagayi is not a reckless person, but he stubbornly believes that even if there is an ambush, it will be difficult to stop the killing of the Three Hundred Guards, not to mention that he wants to see how many rats there are in Kyoto, and the worst result is that he escapes Kyoto on horseback.

Ikeda Kanbei listened to the sound of the Miyoshi army galloping behind him, and instructed to slow down slowly, Miyoshi Nagaitsu thought that the other party had given up and was about to catch up, and at this time, Ikeda Kanbei began to raise his left hand and ordered: "Shoot!" ”

The ambushed soldiers in the shanties along the surrounding streets lit the fireropes, and twenty-five iron cannons fired in unison, spraying projectiles and smoke. In the roar of the iron cannon, the bravest Miyoshi army who rushed to the front was knocked to the ground, rolling on the ground and screaming loudly.

These iron cannons were obviously much better than those bought and sold in the market, and at a distance of sixty paces, the iron cannons were so lethal that they could easily break through their armor. "Shoot!" The iron artillerymen in the back row had already handed the iron cannon in their hands to their comrades in the front row, and they took the iron cannon that their comrades in the front row had just fired, took out the fixed paper cartridge ammunition in the oil bag, and quickly loaded it.

Another row of iron cannons spewed out a large amount of fire smoke, and the screams were heard again.

The continuous gunfire on both sides of the street was lined up one after another, and the advantage of fixed cartridge ammunition made the two teams of iron artillery reload and fire extremely fast. After a few rounds of firing, the streets were covered in thick white smoke, and Ikeda ordered a ceasefire to wait for the smoke to clear up and see what was going on.

The two rows of iron artillery just cooled the smoking iron cannon in their hands, and after a few rounds of firing, the iron cannons in each person's hands were already hot and had to be cooled. Otherwise, under the high temperature in the gun, the gunpowder poured in will burn immediately, and there is a danger of exploding.

When the smoke cleared, Ikeda Kanbei and the others saw hundreds of Miyoshi Army soldiers standing in front of the corpses in a daze, all of them with their mouths wide open, as if they did not expect such a thing to happen in Kyoto today, and in the blink of an eye, one or two hundred of their companions were injured and fell to the ground.

The reason for the current results of the battle was a coincidence, the streets of Kyoto were narrow, and it was only after most of the rush that the shooting began, and most of the iron bullets of the iron cannon were hit in the middle part, and the first time it was a dull Miyoshi Nagaitsu, and he could not give the order normally.

Fighting on their own, the wrath of iron cannons. Looking at the terrible scene in front of them, no matter how brave the Miyoshi army was, they were also terrified, they shouted hoarsely, turned around and ran back, throwing away their armor and all the weapons in their hands, just trying to run faster.

Seeing them shouting and fleeing, Ikeda Kanbei was also very surprised, he never expected that the iron cannon drawn from the army by the lord would be so sharp and so fast, he could only mutter, "That's amazing! (To be continued......)