On August 27, 1563, Ono Town Yukiwa Yubu Yubu won a great victory in ambushing Ryuzoji Temple on an unnamed hill and won a complete victory. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Ryuzoji family who dared to resist were all beheaded by Toji Michiyuki, and the rest were all disarmed and surrendered, and Toji Michiyuki easily took Saga Castle.

Ryuzoji Takanobu has never been able to subdue the Hizen people, and even Saga Prefecture, which has always been a base area, is full of countless disgruntled forces. There were 500 defenders of Saga Castle, and except for more than 30 relatives of Ryuzoji Temple who were killed, none of the rest resisted.

In that year, the Ryuzoji family and colluded with the governor of the Ouchi clan, Ouchi Yoshitaka, to force the death of the first governor of the Shao Er family, Shao Er Ziyuan, in a vain attempt to replace him. However, many retainers loyal to the Shaoji clan led by Baba Yorishu and Kamidai Shengli staged a coup d'état, killing more than 100 members of the Ryuzoji family, and today they were killed again more than 30 people, almost all of them were killed, and only the Ryuzoji Takanobu who will return to Saga Castle was spared.

Except for the Ryuzoji clan who resisted slightly, all the other samurai chose to surrender.

Toji Michiyuki ordered the massacre, and did not refuse their obedience, but accepted their surrender, ordered them to turn to the Toji family, and swore allegiance to himself, if there was any dissent, there would be no forgiveness.

With the help of the samurai of Saga Castle and the local tyrants, Toji Michiyuki's takeover in Saga Castle was very smooth, and the smooth process made Toji Michixue a little sideways.

Toji Michiyuki stood on Saga Castle and looked at it from afar. Some soldiers wielded their swords desperately to the cries of women and children, and two soldiers fought for the head of a samurai, flames burning next to the headless corpse. When the women escaped from the fire, the soldiers rushed over with cheers and pulled them into the nearby bushes to commit violence, and even two or three soldiers attacked a woman.

Toji Michiyuki closed his eyes and thought to himself that even the Great Friendly Army, which had strict military discipline, would inevitably commit such a cruel and inhumane act after capturing the city. Although he stepped forward to stop it, he was also more than capable in this state of bloody madness. What's more, the headquarters led by Toji Michiyuki only numbered 3,000, most of which were left to Ono Zhenyuki and Yubu Yubu to arrange fishing wild floats, and the remaining eighty or ninety percent of the men and horses were all from Chikugo and Higo countries. People.

Toji Michiyuki silently recited Amitabha, he followed Otomo Yoshizhen because of the defeat and the family's belief problems to become a monk and enter the Taoist number "Lin Boxuan Daoxue", so it was commonly known as Toji Daoxue.

On the way, Ryuzoji Takanobu learned the news of the fall of Saga Castle from the fleeing mountain people, and this news had a huge impact on the remaining thousand Ryuzoji army, and the whole army collapsed in an instant.

Ryuzoji Takanobu looked at the fleeing Ryuzoji army, and he wanted to stop it. But seeing the dangerous gaze in the eyes of some people made him stop moving, and Nabeshima Naoshige and the others protected Ryuzoji Takanobu and deterred people with bad intentions.

Ryuzoji Takanobu, who lost the protection of the army and was expelled from Saga Castle, has no place to stay in the Chikuhi area. Because Ryuzoji Takanobu offended almost all the people of the country in order to dominate the Hizen country, Puchi Kansheng, who had blessed Ryuzoji Takanobu, was able to inform Toji Michiyuki of the arrival before the war that it was already benevolent and righteous, and it was impossible to fight against the threat of death and annihilation.

Naoshige Nabeshima looked at Ryuzoji Takanobu and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, now that the morale of the army is weakened and Saga Castle is lost, where do we go now?" He recovered from his despair and began to think about their future.

Ryuzoji Takanobu's face tightened, he really couldn't make up his mind, Bai Wu Xiankan, Cheng Song Shinkatsu and the others were silent and speechless, there was no good place to go, Yuancheng Temple Shinyin raised his head and said: "Why don't you go to the Chikugo Puchi family." ”

There is a tradition that the Ryuzoji family defected to the Kamachi family after Chiku, and the Ryuzoji family fled to the blessing of Kamachi Jiansheng before the defeat turned into victory, and Ryuzoji Takanobu himself also received the kindness of Puchi Jiansheng.

"No!"

Nakashima Naoshige shook his head and said, "If we lose the domestic battle in Hizen, there will be no problem for the Chikugo Kamaike family to protect us." But now that we have been expelled from Hizen Country by the Otomo family, the head of the Kamaike family, the Kamaike family has informed us that we have done our best to protect our lives. Instead of turning against Puchi Jiansheng at that time, it is better to turn his head elsewhere. ”

Hearing Naoshige's words, everyone felt reasonable. Defected to the Puchi family after the two times, Puchi Jiansheng accepted it all, which is not without the reason for the death of the lips and teeth, the current situation is very different, I am afraid that going to the Puchi family to defect will have the possibility of turning against each other, forgive it is unwise.

Ryuzoji Takanobu asked, "Then where do you think we should go?" ”

Naoshige Nabeshima thought for a moment and said, "For example, the strongest person today is the Date Temple, which rules one-third of the world, and the lord once signed a letter to nominally submit to the Date family, and now it is time to go to serve the Date Temple. ”

Defecting to Date Politics? Ryuzoji Temple was moved in confidence, and this is a good place to go. The Ryuzoji family has a tradition of being a powerful force on the island of Honshu, and the Ryuzoji family also colluded with Ouchi Yoshitaka, Ryuzoji Takanobu colluded with Ouchi Yoshinaga in his early years, and later went to Okayama Castle to meet Date Masahiro in person, and it was because Date Masahiro had the strength to balance the Otomo family.

The idle chess of the past has a miraculous effect today. Over the years, with the success of Date Zhengheng Shangluo, Ryuzoji Takanobu was respectful on the surface, and continued to send envoys and gifts every year. I thought I could use it one day, but I didn't expect it to be used today. It's just that Ryuzoji Takanobu still has some concerns, you must know that Date Masaki's reputation is not very good.

As mentioned earlier, Date had three families, the first of which was the samurai, and in order to maintain a large samurai class, he had to constantly nationalize the land that was scattered everywhere and distribute it to his retainers. In this way, whenever the Date family raided a land, they would first uproot the lords of their own region, and then distribute the land to the large number of retainers.

Naoshige Nabeshima didn't know about Ryuzoji Takanobu's concerns, but he still said: "Now that we have no fixed place to live, instead of hiding in the mountains to survive, it is better to join the Naida Hall and wait for the Date army to invade Kyushu before building the family business." ”

Ryuzoji Takanobu knew that he no longer had any capital to bargain, and defecting to Date had become the last straw for him to save his life, he pondered for a moment and responded: "Okay! Let's go! ”