Chapter 157 The same era
"I was born at the end of the Warring States Period. The world will eventually be unified again. China has been in chaos for too long. Without the leadership of a wise monarch, the people of the world will not be able to escape the war disaster..."
"Naomasa Ii cannot kill me, so he can only choose other methods. I am entrusted by Lord Yodono to protect the young lord from escaping, so naturally I will not fight him to the death."
"So the one who died in the secret room was still your Kagemusha?" Takagi Kiyoshi asked again.
Sanada Yukimura looked at Masayasu Miyoshi, who had his head lowered next to him: "What Kagemusha is, it's just Masahira Miyoshi. He actually doesn't have to die. Hey, it's all because of my fault as the lord."
Miyoshi Masayasu raised his head and said: "Why should my lord blame himself? That is his responsibility."
Sanada Yukimura seemed to talk a lot today: "Takagi Kiyohide was also present at the time."
"My father is also here?" Takagi Qingxiu frowned.
"What are the Twelve Tokugawa generals? That's just a rumor. As the leader of the four Tokugawa kings, Ii Naomasa has only passed twenty moves under my hands. What do you think of your father? At that time, he was so handsome You were forced into a desperate situation in just four moves by me. It was only thanks to Naomasa Ii that you risked your life to save your father. If not..."
Takagi Kiyohide vaguely remembered that his father was mentally depressed for a period of time after the Battle of Osaka. Now that he was mentioned, there was indeed a reason.
"Ha... so comfortable... I haven't said so many words in so many years..." Sanada Yukimura let out a sigh of relief as he looked at the beams of the main hall.
"The juniors have one last question..."
"speak..."
"Did the Shimazu family join the Toyotomi clan?"
The hot breath exhaled by Sanada Yukimura can be clearly seen: "We are all in the same era..."
"Huh..." Takagi Kiyoshi nodded: "In this case, you can rest in peace..."
It wasn't until the man behind him cut off Takagi Kiyoshi's head that Sanada Yukimura finally woke up. It turned out that he was a person of that era. After all, people of that era had tasks to do at that time... .
"Take his head and act according to Marquis Dingwu's plan..."
Miyoshi Masayasu took a step forward, put Takagi Seiji's head in a box, and followed Sanada Yukimura out of the main hall.
...
After awakening, Sanada Yukimura finally showed off the skills of the last hero in the late Warring States period. Using Takagi Seiji's head and Chen Cao's blitz plan, he captured the entire Higo Domain at the end of January and renovated Kumamoto. Castle, and planned to use the tall and solid Kumamoto Castle as Toyotomi Hideyori's foothold. After all, he himself could not live in Satsuma Domain forever.
In mid-February of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Sanada Yukimura recruited 50,000 troops, with Chen Cao's Ming army as backup, and captured Bungo Kingdom in fifteen days...
On March 19th, the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Sanada Yukimura's army invaded Hizen Kingdom. The army was unstoppable and the battle was grand. Kyushu was shaken. Chikuzen and Chikugo sent people to Kumamoto Castle to sue for peace. So far, only Hizen Kingdom was left in Kyushu. One place.
It was not until Bunzen Kingdom was conquered that the Edo shogunate guards Kurata Heimasa and Ueyama Heiji, who had been watching at Bozuo Village, realized the seriousness of the matter. When they were about to go to Edo in person to apologize, they were monitored by the watermen who had been monitoring them for a long time. The officers and soldiers of the division were killed in the residence, and no one was spared.
...
At the end of March, the rumors that something had happened in Kyushu were finally confirmed in the main hall of Edo Castle with the arrival of a messenger from Hizen Country.
"boom..."
An antique vase has been broken and is worth a fortune...
The father and son of Tokugawa Hidetada and Tokugawa Iemitsu, the protagonists of Dual Tongji, are sitting on the main throne in the main hall. The old Hidetada has a cold look on his face, and his aura is exactly the same as that of the Battle of Sekigahara...
This is a murderous aura...
Hidetada's appearance means that the seriousness of the matter is no longer something that Iemitsu can resolve by himself.
The messenger knelt down at the door of the main hall, and there were no less than a hundred close retainers of the Tokugawa family in the hall.
Looking at the trembling messenger, Hidetada asked: "I want to ask you, is it true that only Hizen Kingdom is left in Kyushu?"
The messenger bowed again: "Reporting to Mr. Taikaku, the rebels are attacking fiercely. If it weren't for the fact that they have started fighting since the beginning of winter, our Hizen country must have been in a desperate situation now. After Mr. Takagi's head was passed to our domain, my family Your Excellency is shocked. Lord Takagi of Higo Province who can best restrain Satsuma Domain is dead. Then..."
"That's enough..." Tokugawa Hidetada let out a long breath: "Is there any accurate information about Toyotomi Hideyori himself?"
"According to reports from scouts, the leader of the troops is General Yukimura Sanada..."
Everyone in the palace was frightened. Who was Sanada Yukimura? The fierce general who almost killed Tokugawa Ieyasu.
"Can you see clearly?" Tokugawa Iemitsu said.
"Don't dare to talk nonsense, I have the Sanada family's crest and flag as proof..."
Inside the baggage opened by the attendant, there was indeed a six-striped Qian family emblem flag. At this point, the news of Toyotomi Hideyori's return was true.
"That boy is still alive after all..." Xiuzhong muttered.
"You said there are still a large number of Ming troops helping them?" Iemitsu frowned.
"There were many people from the Ming Dynasty, and it was with the help of the Ming Dynasty people that Toyotomi Hideyori captured the Satsuma Domain, thus causing the Satsuma Domain to surrender."
Although Ishikawa Sukazu is not as wise as his father Ishikawa Sumasa, he is naturally outstanding in taking over the position of the Tokugawa family's patriarch: "Taikou, Lord, the Satsuma Domain was originally wavering, and now Toyotomi Hide With the help of the people of the Ming Dynasty, Lai has captured almost the entire territory of Kyushu. At this time, we should summon the troops from all over the world to jointly resist the rebels."
The people in the palace sang in unison. At this time, a messenger arrived and knelt down at the door: "Your Excellency, General, we are staying on Hachijo Island of Shima Province to deliver a message. The whereabouts of the Ukita Hide family and his family who were exiled on Hachijo Island are unknown."
"What?"
Everyone in the palace was shocked. If the return of Sanada Yukimura and Toyotomi Hideyori was a small rock that stirred up waves, then the disappearance of the Ukita Hide family was a huge boulder.
He was one of the commanders of the Western Army in the Battle of Sekigahara, and he presided over it together with Terumoto Mori.
"How is that possible?" Xiuzhong could no longer hold back his temper at this moment and cursed: "Those idiots in Zhimo Country are disgusting, disgusting..."
No one dared to speak at the moment, because their Lord Hidetada did not have a very good temper, not to mention that some of them had worked as lobbyists for the life and death of the Ukita Hide family.
And now that the Ukita Hide family has disappeared, it is very likely that they went to Kyushu. In this way, Toyotomi Hideyori will have another absolute helper around him.
Ishikawa Sukiwa immediately said: "Taiko, my lord, the first priority now is to stabilize the Maori family."
These words are just the words to wake up the dreamer. Mori Terumoto is still alive now, which is a signal. Moreover, the Mori family took great care of Toyotomi Hideyoshi at that time, and they were also loyal to the Toyotomi family. Except for the Shimadzu family, Apart from the Ukita Hide family who begged for mercy the most, the others were the Mori family.
"Although Terumoto is not the governor of the family now, the vassal administration of both Zhou and Nagato countries still comes from Terumoto's residence." Ishikawa Sugawara frowned to calm down: "Previously, our defense against the Mori clan was no less than that against the Satsuma clan. Now there is After such a major event, the Maori family is likely to waver. In this regard, the first step is to stabilize them. When our army moves south in a large scale, let the Maori family make a choice. This time, they can only have one Chance."
Hidetada and Iemitsu nodded almost at the same time. Before Naomasa Ii passed away, he commented that Ishikawa Sugazu inherited most of his father's ingenuity, but now he is indeed performing beyond his normal capabilities.
"The Shimazu family deserves to die. The hostage must not be kept. Let him apologize for his father's crime and send his head to Satsuma Domain." Hidetada said solemnly.
"Taikou, my lord," Ishikawa Sugazu, who was now their Chita Hoshi, said, "After the first step is completed, there is still a second step, which is to monitor all the daimyo vassals close to the Toyotomi family, especially the Ukita clan. The Bizen Kingdom, as well as the Toyotomi family’s vassals and vassals, and finally, the Maeda family must also be monitored, as the Toshi family was Hideyoshi’s right-hand man at the time.”
"The third step is to cut off the support of the Toyotomi clan. The people of the Ming Dynasty got involved because they wanted money at most. It is said that there is chaos in their country now. They must have done this because someone in the Ming Dynasty has bewitched their emperor and ministers. I thought that I should send one person as an envoy to bribe the officials of the Ming Dynasty with a lot of money, and then give the emperor of the Ming Dynasty my Japanese concubine and various antiques. At this point, I asked them to withdraw their troops. The officials of the Ming Dynasty were greedy. , as long as they receive the benefits, they will definitely get things done. Here, as long as they don't have the help of the Ming Kingdom, Toyotomi Hideyori, even if they use the land of Kyushu to resist our army, they will not be afraid;
As long as my army goes south, there will be another battle for Osaka. Kumamoto Castle is not as strong as Osaka Castle back then. Taikaku, lord, can this kind of behavior be effective? "
Ishikawa Sugawa's words once again awakened the two of them. Hidetada was very satisfied, so he stood up and said sternly under the attention of everyone: "Immediately send an order to all the feudal lords to come to Edo for an audience immediately. In addition, according to the Ishikawa family elders' Act on your will and mobilize the troops from all the vassal states to come to Edo to assemble and stand by."
"yes..."
"Hizen Kuni can't defend Hizen for long, so we have to give up. You go back and tell Hiraiwa Chimori to retain your strength. If it doesn't work, withdraw by sea."
The messenger nodded to Ishikawa and then withdrew.
It wasn't until the people in the palace had almost dispersed that Ishikawa Sugazu, who had not moved, bowed to Hideuchi and Iemitsu: "Master Taikaku, this time Toyotomi Hideyori came with great momentum and wanted to To suppress it, one of the two adults must personally take command and go out to fight, after all, the opponent is not an ordinary person."
Xiuzhong thought it made sense, and Iemitsu immediately said: "Father, let the child go this time."
Hidetada shook his head, his eyes very firm: "You don't know how powerful Sanada Yukimura is. This man led seventeen of his retainers to kill the guard circle of Ii Naomasa and others until they were in front of your grandfather. Your grandfather almost fell into his trap. In your hands, you must not underestimate it. I will personally go on this Western Expedition, and you can just sit in Edo."
How could Iemitsu dare to disobey his father, so he bowed and said, "My child obeys my orders."
