Chapter 696 8. Nobunaga Is Determined to Burn
The old man Ashikaga Yoshiaki ran away!
Xiao Ping was very impressed. The Nijo Palace was built like an iron barrel, but he actually ran away. Murai Sadakatsu, the Kyoto magistrate, was really bad, but he actually let someone slip away right under his nose.
Handling civil affairs may be Murai Sadakatsu's specialty, but it is estimated that monitoring intelligence and other things are not his forte. This time, Ashikaga Yoshiaki was let go, and he will definitely be punished by Nobunaga in the future.
Since the person ran away, there is nothing to keep. I immediately went to Uncle Tsunayoshi's house to understand the details. Starting from the Battle of Anegawa, the situation in Kinai was very chaotic and could not be seen clearly.
Before he could sit down, Uncle Tsunayoshi hurriedly asked whether the Yamanouchi army would return to Luoyang to protect Luoyang's safety. Now there are both defeated soldiers in Jiangzhou making trouble and local natives rising up. The three Miyoshis are eager to try, and Oda Nobunaga is furious. The whole Luoyang seemed to be roasted on a rack, and everyone was sitting on the edge of a saddle.
Naturally, Xiao Pingtai replied that the 23,000 Awa troops had landed in Kishiwada and Sakai, and the news that they were about to sweep over made Uncle Tsunayoshi even more panicked.
Now Ashikaga Yoshiaki has also fled, Luoyang has no general, and the shogunate's regent Oda Nobunaga has just been "defeated" in Jiangzhou. Now they are so angry that they are shouting and killing at the mountain gate, bullying monks and the elderly, weak women and children. It looks like a scene before a big chaos.
"Don't worry, there will be no chaos! If there is no chaos in Gifu Dansho and Nobi, then everything will be fine!" Xiao Pingtai was so tired that he immediately pulled a cushion and sat down. He didn't treat himself as an outsider and ordered the servants to cook soup and cook.
"In the battle of Nomura Anegawa in Jiangzhou, did Gifu Dansho win or lose?" Uncle Tsunayoshi finally ended his wandering life and returned to Luoyang. He was going to spend his remaining years in Luoyang, so he was naturally nervous.
"You are in Luoyang, but there is no accurate news?"
"There are all kinds of rumors, but not long ago, Lord Imadegawa went to Mount Eizan, and what he said is somewhat credible."
"What?" Xiao Pingtai was very concerned about this.
"How should I say..."
The powerful daimyo Echizen Taishu Asakura clan, who is considered by the world to be a chicken and a dog, is like a chicken and a dog, and his fighting ability is unbelievable! 15,000 people attacked 5,000 Mikawa people, and it seemed okay at the beginning with the leadership of Mabe Naotaka. But after Mabe Naotaka died in the battle, they were attacked from the side by Sakai Tadatsugu, and the Asakura army was really defeated. As many as 1,800 people died in the battle, and many people were killed by the Matsudaira army from behind because they were in a panic.
Although the Matsudaira army was a large army of 5,000 people, it was similar to the military service system of Yamanouchi. In Matsudaira Ieyasu's team, the logistical personnel such as civilians and chores accounted for 2,500, and only half of them could be truly considered "soldiers". More than 200 people died in the battle of Anegawa, and the distressed Matsudaira Ieyasu shed tears.
The real loss was heavy, and there was no way to fight again!
Although Asai Nagamasa lost two powerful generals, Endo Kiemon no Naomasa and Anyoji Saburozaemon, Isono Tanba no Kanamemasa, with his own strength, broke out of the encirclement of the Mino Three Men under the command of Nobunaga and entered Yokoyama Castle with a few hundred soldiers under his command.
The Asai army, which had 10,000 soldiers, actually had only 600 casualties. Most of them were the small number of troops who were surrounded at the end of the battle with Endo Naomasa and Endo Naomasa, and the main force was still alive.
So after a day of fighting, Matsudaira Ieyasu suffered the most! Then there was Asakura Kagekage, who had a sea of dead people!
But the Asakura family was a big family, and even if they lost 1,800, they still had more than ten or twenty 1,800 at home. And Matsudaira Ieyasu lost 200, that means he really lost 200, and he will have to lick his wounds for at least two years to recover.
How miserable it is!
It was because the younger brother of Mikawa fought bravely, reversed the situation, and made great contributions to Nobunaga Oda's escape, so Nobunaga Oda made a memorial on his behalf. Matsudaira Ieyasu, whose ancestors were from the Tokugawa clan of the Seiwa Genji clan, was succeeded by the Tokugawa clan, so he revised the family tree and changed it to the Tokugawa clan, the branch of the Seiwa Genji clan!
It is said that the procedures are already in progress, and it will not take too long to get the confirmation of the court. As for the confirmation of the shogunate, Nobunaga is the regent of the shogunate, and he nodded and said yes.
Another great contributor to the Anegawa clan was Kinoshita Tokichiro Hideyoshi, because he fought against Isono Umamasa and bought precious time for Nobunaga to mobilize troops and complete the counter-encirclement. He was praised by Nobunaga Oda, recorded his merits before and after, changed his surname to Hashiba, and was recommended as Chikuzen no Kami!
Life really requires struggle, and hard work is rewarded in the end!
"So Gifu Danzheng and Rakuchu have a very good connection?"
"More than that! The government has sent envoys with letters twice to mediate the war between Gifu Danzheng and Eizan, hoping that Gifu Danzheng will withdraw his troops."
"Oh! How did Gifu Danzheng answer?"
"The mountain gate hides evil bandits and rebels, and the monks are in a state of decay. They must be severely punished!" Uncle Tsunayoshi said with some lingering fear.
"Did you go to negotiate?" Kobayata picked up the bowl and gulped down a large bowl of warm water.
"As a military messenger, what else can I do..."
"Then I'm afraid you have to accompany me. His Highness sent me to persuade Gifu Danzheng."
"Don't! You don't know that I was really scared when I went to Eizan that day."
After Nobunaga surrounded Enryakuji Temple on Mount Hiei, he ordered the mountain gate to hand over all the remaining soldiers of the Asai and Asakura clans, and evacuate the people of the mountain gate. On the other hand, he mobilized troops from Jiangnan, led by the loyal Mori Kecheng, to surround Ruishan from ten sides.
And Nobunaga bluntly said that if Enryakuji Temple did not accept his request, he would set fire to the mountain gate and burn the entire temple. This caused fierce opposition from his important officials, especially the second elder, Sakuma Uemon-no-no Nobumori.
You should know that almost everyone in Owari opposed Nobunaga at the beginning, and when they joined forces with Oda Nobukatsu and raised an army to attack and kill Nobunaga, Sakuma Nobumori was loyal to Nobunaga, sent troops and money, and made great contributions to Oda Nobunaga's unification of the family. So much so that the children of Owari Kiyosu sang the ballad "Advance to Shibata, retreat to Sakuma".
After such an important official clearly expressed his opposition to Nobunaga's coercion of Enryakuji Temple by force, he was severely rebuked by Nobunaga and was angrily scolded as a "drunkard"!
And Nobunaga's assistant Takei Yuan also left the table on the spot and strongly advised Oda Nobunaga. He said that he would never accept Oda Nobunaga's order to set fire to Enryakuji Temple on Mount Hiei, and he would never draft any order documents for attacking Enryakuji Temple on behalf of Oda Nobunaga.
Akechi Mitsuhide rushed back to Luoyang from Sakai and immediately surrendered to Nobunaga. He made five direct appeals to Nobunaga in one day, saying that he should not do such a thing to Enryakuji Temple. However, Oda Nobunaga ignored him and ordered his men to stop Akechi Mitsuhide directly, so that they could not even meet.
Nobunaga's mind was really firm!