Chapter 754 2. Subdue the Jinei and Be Called a General

After Yamanouchi Yoshiyasu was appointed as the governor of Gifu Castle and conquered Mino Province, the Yamanouchi army continued to march towards Luoyang.

Hashiba Hideyoshi, the lord of Yokoyama Castle in Jiangbei, and Mori Yoshinari, the lord of Usayama Castle in Jiangnan, who were deployed by Oda Nobunaga in Omi, were in a precarious situation at this moment.

Although Hashiba Hideyoshi fled all the way back to Kiyosu from the Shitarahara battlefield, he started his career in Sumomatari and led Yokoyama. His biggest connection with the Owari Samurai Group was his wife Ningning, who was from the Owari Samurai Group.

He did not have much strength in Owari, and Kiyosu was in a precarious situation at that time. Hashiba Hideyoshi, who had finally made a name for himself, gave up Kiyosu and went straight to Yokoyama in Jiangbei.

Due to the military position of Yokoyama Castle as a key transportation pass, he could fight for Jiangbei if he advanced, and if he retreated, he only needed to surrender the city to achieve great success.

Of course, not everything goes smoothly. After the Yamanouchi army entered Owari, the Jiangbei tyrants also learned about the defeat and death of Oda Nobunaga. The Jiangbei tyrants, who were originally submissive to the Oda family, suddenly rebelled against the Oda family, and in just two days, they raised more than 3,000 troops to attack Yokoyama.

Fortunately, Hashiba Hideyoshi's younger brother Hashiba Hidenaga, who stayed in Yokoyama, was wise and strategic, and held on without collapse, buying time for his brother to return to the city.

Hashiba Hideyoshi immediately sent Takenaka Hanbei Shigeharu to "offer" the entire Jiangbei to the Yamanouchi family, and claimed to guard Yokoyama, the passage to Kyoto for His Highness Shimotaro.

Naturally, no one would expose his excuse. Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who had entered Gifu, gladly accepted his surrender and immediately sent troops into Jiangbei. The Jiangbei tyrants were just chickens and dogs, and thousands of mobs of troops were vulnerable to the Yamanouchi army.

Such "traitors" who were in Kyogoku turned against Kyogoku and joined Asai, turned against Asai and joined Oda, and turned against Oda again after hearing the news from Oda. Naturally, Ashikaga Yoshiaki would not look favorably upon them, and would capture and sentence them to death. Only Asai Nagamasa, the lord of Kodani Castle in Jiangbei, secured 10,000 kan of Kodani Castle in Jiangbei for his "merit" in initiating the banner of rebellion, and was still called the guardian of Jiangbei to stabilize the area.

Asai Nagamasa rushed to Yokoyama and met with Ashikaga Yoshiaki, saying that he was willing to drive him and would never forget the grace of rebirth.

Such words were naturally just for Ashikaga Yoshiaki's ears. Hashiba Hideyoshi and Asai Nagamasa were deployed in Jiangbei at the same time, so they were not prepared to let any one of them dominate.

In order to protect Jiangbei, Ashikaga Yoshiaki's close entourage, Matsushita Toramatsu, who grew up with him, inherited the family of Matsushita Clan of Totomi Touda Temple. In the name of Matsushita Yoshimasa (Ii Naomasa), he and his adoptive father Matsushita Ichisao were transferred from Totomi to Sawayama Castle in Omi with 10,000 kan.

The reason why the army was stranded in Jiangbei was naturally because Jiangnan Mori Yoshinari was under siege by many forces such as Kinai Sanmonyama Master, Rokkaku clan remnants, Biwako Kawabe and others.

A dead Mori Yoshinari and a masterless Jiangnan were the best results for Ashikaga Yoshiaki.

Mori Yoshinari, who only gathered more than a thousand men and horses, fought hard under the strong attack of six or seven thousand Ikki people, but unfortunately there was no help on all sides. The news of Nobunaga's defeat and death spread to Jiangnan, and the locals rose up.

Defeat and death!

The result is beyond doubt!

When the news of Mori Yoshinari's defeat and death reached Yokoyama, Ashikaga Yoshiaki was ready to set off. Perhaps this news stimulated Ashikaga Yoshiaki in Mashima. The current general finally rose up and summoned the mountain gate officials, as well as the forces of the Tanba Hatano clan, to attack the mountain castle guardian Harada Naomasa.

Harada Naomasa quickly retreated to Luoyang, and the Kyoto Magistrate Murai Sadakatsu had few soldiers. Those magistrates bribed by Nobunaga had already disappeared without a trace, let alone coming to add strength, and it was good enough that they did not help Ashikaga Yoshiaki attack Kyoto.

When the news of Mori Kasei's death was confirmed, the two discussed that if Nobunaga was still alive, he would at least consider loyalty. Now that Nobunaga is dead, he should surrender to Ashikaga Yoshiaki with Luoyang as a bargaining chip!

A complete Luoyang is always better than a broken Luoyang!

The surrender of these two people was allowed by Ashikaga Yoshiaki, of course, it was an unconditional surrender, and they themselves only had some capital because they occupied Luoyang, and they were not powerful people with military towns and troops.

Sparing him from death and sending him back to Owari is the greatest privilege!

On the sixth day of the first month of the second year of Tensho, Ashikaga Yoshiaki entered Luoyang and the general announced his decision. Ashikaga Yoshiaki was honored as the Grand Palace to "guide" the shogunate.

Although most of the forces in Kinai were against Oda, they were still divided into different levels. Yamato Tsutsui Junkei respected Nobunaga as the master. Regardless of the reason, he was treated as an accomplice of the thief, and all his territory was confiscated. Kawabe Ieyoshi led 5,000 soldiers to the place to cut off the enemy.

Echizen Katsurata Nagatsushi and other generals were warriors that Nobunaga relied on to protect him. They were all considered traitors, and Murakami Yoshimitsu led 3,000 people and supervised the generals in Jiangbei to attack.

The three Miyoshis were extremely evil. They first killed Hatakeyama Akitaka, and Hatakeyama Takamasa, who was fighting with them, died in the battle. In addition to the previous crime of killing the shogun, the crime was unavoidable.

After Ashikaga Yoshiaki left Hosokawa Saejo in Luoyang, he led his troops to attack urgently. Kawachi guardian Miyoshi Yoshitsugu responded immediately, and Izumi upper guardian Hosokawa Fujitaka also went out to fight. However, Yamato Matsunaga Hisahide had an ambiguous attitude.

Awa guardian Shinohara Nagashina was quite practical. After the Yamanouchi and Kuki navy entered Osaka Bay, he took the initiative to withdraw his troops and retreat to Awa.

There is no doubt that the Miyoshi trio fought against the 70,000 shogunate expeditionary army at Izumi Homonji, but the army of only 20,000 was destroyed in just half an hour.

Iwanari Tomomichi was killed on the spot, and Miyoshi Masayasu and others were also attacked by local people in the subsequent capture. Ashikaga Yoshiaki sentenced them to "bamboo sawing" to comfort the spirits of his father Yamanouchi Yoshikatsu and the former shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru.

Another murderer, Matsunaga, was in panic all day long. Finally, under the leadership of his father Matsunaga Hide, he went to the Ashikaga Yoshisho formation. Although Ashikaga Yoshiaki hated this person very much, he was eventually sentenced to confiscate the 20,000 guan from Mount Tamon and be exiled to Mount Koya.

After this weakening of the Matsunaga clan, only the two counties of Yamato and more than 10,000 kan remained. Matsunaga was helpless and finally agreed.

There is only one hard bone left in the entire Kinai that is inconvenient to deal with - Ishiyama Honganji Temple.

On the one hand, Ashikaga Yoshiaki led more than 70,000 troops into Settsu to suppress the people of Settsu. On the other hand, he also requested to meet with Akira Shoji.

Before there was any debate in the Honganji Temple, the Nanman merchant ships invited by the Yamauchi clan in Osaka Bay and the two gunboats owned by the Yamauchi clan fired fiercely in the air.

Hundreds of cannons fired, and the ground shook. Even the appearance of the Buddha would surely collapse under the cannon fire, let alone the ordinary monks in Shishan City.

The Yuanzhengsi father and his son who followed Shanuchi's army to Luo entered Shishan City and made it sound like the Master had come out of the city to see him.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki had a great time chatting with Kenyosho, and even held tea parties and renge parties for three consecutive days. Then a breaking news was made public. The daughter of the former shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru would be married to the legitimate son of Lord Xianru!