A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Faced with the attack from two sides and the fierce shogunate's conquest army, the Otomo clan, whose rule was essentially only deeply rooted in Bungo country, was naturally panicked.

For example, the Bunzen Utsunomiya clan, the Higo Aso clan, the Higo Utsuchi clan, including the Higo Kikuchi clan that the shogunate claimed to restore, and the Akizuki clan that had no hesitation in selling Otomo to become independent, etc., one by one, They are all just people from a big country. It is not unusual for you to vote for you and for him to vote for him.

Otomo Zonglin was also unlucky. When the shogunate launched a crusade, the loyal and brave generals in his family died one after another, and they were not killed in battle.

Most of them died of illness!

For example, among the three elders of Bungo, Kansuki Usuki and Kanri Yoshihiro, the Yamauchi family had a fierce conflict with Oda Nobunaga in Shitarahara, and these two, who were Otomo Sorin's right-hand men, died of illness one after another. Slightly longer life.

Therefore, in history, the Shimazu family succeeded as soon as they exerted their efforts, because the talents of the Otomo family were withering badly, and he himself also engaged in a wave of self-sacrifice for Christianity. All the retainers believed in the Buddha. How could the family governor come to do this?

In the end, the only ones who stepped forward to take the leading role were the already lame Tachibana Michyuki and the junior Takahashi Shoun. These two were not unwise people. They believe that the shogunate is determined to pacify Kyushu, and that the shogunate is now so powerful that it is almost impossible to successfully resist.

For the current plan, we can only try to hold on to a few famous cities and towns for two months. The shogunate's army numbered 120,000, and their daily consumption was astronomical. If they could afford it, they could sell themselves at a good price if they surrendered at this time.

Important retainers including the Taboku clan, the Tenmanda clan, the Yoshihiro clan, the Shiga clan, and the Totsugi clan eventually favored this proposal, and the Otomo clan immediately moved to the main castle, as well as Usuki, Oka and other castles.

As a member of the Otomo family who owns several cannons, although he believes that it is impossible to be hostile to the shogunate army in a field battle, he still understands the strategy of fortifying the city and using cannons. In addition, it was a local battle. Although the troops were small and the generals were few, the morale was still strong when they won.

But no matter how high the morale is, she can't hold back Hosokawa Harimei of the shogunate's main team!

Hosokawa Saimei, who had already been granted the title of Settsu Ikoku 55,000 gu, came with the Awaji sailors of Awaji Kingdom Anzai Kiyoyasu and the Miyoshi sailors of Kawachi Kingdom Lord Miyoshi Yoshitsugu, as well as the support of the East Kingdom. The navy, especially led by Motoharu Kobayashi, was directly under the shogunate of Omura Masuji and Shimizu Yoshizuna Saer.

There are 200 artillery pieces to attack a Longzao Temple. Naturally, it cannot be too small to attack a big friend of yours!

As the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, Hosokawa Saime, who carried more than 300 large and small artillery pieces, adhered to the will of Shogun Ashikaga Yoshihide, either not to fight, or to give him a beautiful one if he wanted to fight. Anyway, we can't drag out a protracted war, otherwise there will be many obstacles to the overall strategy of wiping out Kyushu.

Therefore, without saying a word, Hosokawa Saime immediately sent out the most elite troops, starting with Murakami Yoshimitsu and Ogasawara Nagamasa, the backbone of the shogunate public, first surrounded the mansion on three sides, and then unloaded the naval guns.

The first-term graduates of the Yamauchi Marine Training Institute and the Yamauchi Infantry Training Institute happened to take the attack on the house as their graduation internship. Since the best four will be promoted to Ashikaga Yoshihide's close members, they are simply the best in the world. Guangming Dao, these young people really fight like wolves and tigers, and they are extremely hardworking.

In addition to the troops surrounding other branch cities, there were 35,000 people who directly attacked the inner city, and there were only 8,000 people in the city. Although they did not capture them in one battle, they still showed the power of the shogunate.

Probably because of the emphasis and love for cannons inherited from Koheita, Hosokawa Saime let these student soldiers try their best to operate within the feasible range. As a result, the inner city was smashed into briquettes.

Some students even proposed the idea of ​​a mortar!

It would be too wasteful to hit the city wall directly. It would be better to find a way to project the cannonball directly into the city. With the current level of ashigaru, if the cannon falls on the head, they will definitely run away.

After giving these young people "play" for three days, Hosokawa Saime ordered a general attack after receiving that another group of Western troops had basically surrendered Beihi and were besieging Oka Castle and were preparing to join them.

The Otomo army, which was tortured by the shogunate army, quickly collapsed under the general attack. Otomo Sorin and his son Otomo Yoshitoshi had huge differences on the issue of castle defense, while Tachibana Michyuki and Takahashi Shoun were in other branch cities. There is not even an important minister in the city who can act as a peacemaker.

Come on! An old drama from the Warring States Period!

Father and son kill each other!

Otomo Yitong sold his biological father to Kaesong!

The condition is to inherit the Otomo family, as well as Bungo one country and Bunzen half country security. Ashikaga Yoshihide agreed, but the condition was that Otomo Yoshitomi would join the Kikuchi clan and the Otomo family would be cut off.

Dayou's main city was opened, but the branch city was still holding on. Hearing the news, Gao Qiao Shaoyun rode out of the city alone and died. After Tachibana Michyuki heard that Otomo Yoshito had attacked and killed his father and surrendered to the shogunate, he offered all his knowledge and went to guard the tomb of Otomo Sorin.

Who knows what the intentions are.

In short, after Otomo's defeat, the Shimazu clan in Minami Kyushu is still entangled with the Kanfu clan and the Ito clan. The three of them combined do not have as many people as the Otomo clan. Hosokawa Saime directly went south with a letter, demanding that they completely surrender to the shogunate and collectively accept the shogunate's inspection.

Yitong and Gan were scared, saying that this was the place where they were being inspected, and the shogunate's army of more than 100,000 troops arrived overnight, what kind of good looks could they give them? All of them were transferred to Hizen and Hihou. I am a slave to others, but I am fish and meat, and I don’t even dare to fart.

Shimazu was so hard-boned that he actually plundered more than 9,000 people, preparing for a life-and-death showdown with the 35,000 Hosokawa Saime who had taken the lead in the shogunate army.

Shimazu Yoshihiro used himself as bait and used the fishing method of ambush.

With only two thousand soldiers, they rushed towards the shogunate army, then pretended to be defeated and retreated, attracting the shogunate army to pursue them. Then there was a blast from the trumpet, and several groups of men and horses came out from all directions to annihilate the shogunate's first attack.

No one on the side of the shogunate army saw his plan. The two thousand Shimazu army came to attack. It was believed that some diehard hardliners wanted to raid the shogunate army and kill Hosokawa Saime. After beheading, the shogunate army would naturally follow suit. collapse.

So the first-term students in the shogunate army recalled the training code and the key points of Dansho's battle that Ashikaga Yoshihide told them. Shimazu Yoshihiro rushes over, so just rush in and treat him to a franc machine.

Are five guns enough?

Fifteen will do!

If not, fifty is fine, it’s negotiable!

Shimazu Yoshihiro was lucky enough not to be killed. More than 300 of his Satsuma Hayato disciples were directly killed by the intensive artillery and iron cannon fire, not counting injuries. Why did 2,000 people rush in screaming? , just running back crying like a ghost.

Not many people died, and their spirits were shattered.