March 30, the twelfth year of Tianwen (1543), at four o'clock, southwest of Kyoto.
At this time, Masakasu Miyoshi had joined Masayasu Miyoshi's troops to pursue Naito Bei, who had taken away the food. It seemed that due to his haste, a lot of food was knocked out and scattered on the road, clearly marking Naito Bei's escape route - all Miyoshi had to do was chase him along the way.
"We're almost there, we're catching up. They can't run fast with the food!" Masai Miyoshi watched the smoke and dust in front of him getting closer and closer, and saw the back of the food transport team faintly appearing at the corner of the street, and kept urging them to move. The troops moved forward: "Chase, we can't let them transport a grain of food out of Kyoto!"
However, after Miyoshi led his troops to chase him through the street corner, everyone was stunned - Naitobe was seen throwing poles, carts, and grain carts all over the ground, but the people had already fled, and there were even grains all over the ground. The streets were blocked.
"What's going on?" Miyoshi was completely confused. "Do they want food?"
After thinking for a moment, Mayor Miyoshi seemed to finally realize Miyoshi Changqing’s plan, and hurriedly shouted:
"Burn the food as a warning! Then hurry up and support His Highness the Ministry of War!"
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At the same time, beside the Kamogawa Shijo Bridge, Kizawa Nagamasa was commanding the Kizawa family's troops and the Hosokawa family's defenders to quickly cross the river and move westward, hoping to cooperate with Miyoshi to intercept Naito Bei. But at this moment, there were messengers coming from the rear in a hurry.
"Your Highness, this is bad!" The messenger seemed to be afraid of shaking the morale of the army. He dismounted and came to Kizawa Nagamasa's side and whispered: "The Imagawa family's delegation attacked Awada Shrine!"
"What?" Kizawa Nagamasa was shocked and was so angry that he almost spat out a mouthful of blood: "Didn't the intelligence say that there are only about twenty of them? How could the two hundred elite flags not be defended?"
"It was not completely lost, but the Imagawa family broke into the shrine through the courtyard wall and took control of the courtyard where the hostages were imprisoned. They failed to lead a breakout and were surrounded by us in the courtyard. But we threw a rat weapon and were afraid of being hurt. All the dignitaries do not dare to attack rashly. They are currently in a confrontation. Please give instructions from Your Highness!" the messenger said, leaning deeply.
"Mom, what the hell." Kizawa Nagamasa frowned, and after struggling for a moment, he cursed loudly: "Then set fire to them and force them out!"
"Your Highness?" The messenger turned pale with fright when he heard this, "You want to burn Awada Shrine..."
"Shao, don't worry about it." Kizawa Nagamasa waved his hand and turned the horse's head to continue heading west. "Don't delay me. I still have to command the troops to intercept Miyoshi Changqing. If he runs away transporting food, , then how...how..."
what's up?
Kizawa Nagamasa stared at the opposite side of the Kamogawa River in stunned silence - Miyoshi Nagakei was leading 1,000 Naito Bei soldiers to fight towards him.
Where are Naito Bei's auxiliaries? What about the food they transported? Where have they all gone? They didn't care about the food, but came to kill me?
Where's Mr. Miyoshi? Shouldn't he be asked to pursue Sanhao Changqing? What about others? Where did the food go?
At this moment, Kizawa Nagamasa crossed Naito Bei's battle line and saw behind them - thick smoke rising far southwest of Kyoto - which seemed to be burning food.
But it was too late for Kisawa Nagamasa to think clearly about what happened, because Miyoshi Nagakei had already led his soldiers to kill them in front of them - and the Kisawa army who was crossing the bridge had not even spread out their battle formation. After a brief contact, the Kizawa army was severely defeated by Miyoshi Chokei. They fled along the west bank of the Kamogawa River, and many people were driven down the river.
"You bastard, are you crazy?" Kizawa Nagamasa was furious. He reined in his horse and shouted at the Kyoto garrison of the Hosokawa family who followed him on the Shijo Bridge: "Miyoshi Nagakei is rebelling! They openly robbed food and set fire to the capital, and also sent troops to attack friendly forces! All generals, listen to the order and follow me to defeat the traitors of the Hosokawa family!"
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he heard a loud roar from behind.
"Kizawa Nagamasa rebelled! He openly placed the public and the Prime Minister under house arrest in Kyoto, and cut off the food routes of friendly forces! The Hosokawa army obeyed the order and followed me to attack the traitors of the Hosokawa family!"
Kizawa Nagamasa looked back and saw that the person behind the queue was Hosokawa Harumoto himself.
When the samurai and ashigaru of the Hosokawa family saw that the governor had regained his freedom, who would listen to Kizawa Nagamasa? They rushed back to Hosokawa Harumoto's horse and passed by
At the beginning, they launched a fierce attack on Kizawa Nagamasa's headquarters.
"Mother, why were you released? What are you doing with Matsumoto and Hatamoto?" As soon as Kizawa Nagamasa saw Hosokawa Harumoto appeared on the battlefield, he immediately realized that he was doomed in Kyoto. At present, he and his lord are at odds, but his own military strength in Kyoto is limited and cannot stop the two-sided attack of Naito Bei and Hosokawa's army. More and more Kizawa military units collapsed under the attack, and it seemed that they could no longer support themselves.
"Retreat!" Kizawa Nagamasa did not hesitate. He immediately took the bannermen on horseback and fled, abandoning the army and absconding. "Retreat to Settsu! We still have tens of thousands of troops there. What are we afraid of?"
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Kizawa Nagamasa flew all the way to the west, escaping very quickly. Naito Bei and the Hosokawa Army were unable to catch up in a hurry, and soon met up with Miyoshi Masakasa, who led the Fenggong and Miyoshi division troops. When Masato Miyoshi saw the disgraced Nagamasa Kizawa fleeing, he was so frightened that he wanted to dismount and plead guilty.
"What on earth is going on? Why did you let Miyoshi Nagaki come over?" Kizawa Nagazhi immediately stepped forward, leaned next to Miyoshi's horse, picked up his collar and wanted to curse: "What are you doing? "
"That Miyoshi Changqing is crazy. He asked his auxiliary soldiers to bring food to lure the enemy, and led his soldiers to take a detour to the east. I didn't notice it either!" Miyoshi Chief Minister Miyoshi was also turned around by Miyoshi Changqing, and his face It turned red and white, "but all the food and grass had been set on fire, and the Sanhao family still couldn't transport a drop of food to the front line."
"But now that we have fallen out with the leader, we can only take the next road until it is dark." Kizawa Nagamasa straightened his expression. Although he was a little irritable, it seemed that everything was still under control, "With the original plan There are some mistakes, but it’s not a big problem. First go to Setjin to wipe out the main army of the Sanhao family, and then return to Shangluo to force the commander to submit."
However, before Kizawa Nagamasa and Miyoshi Masagasa led their troops to retreat, they saw another small group of knights chasing after them, led by none other than the shogunate Ashikaga Yoshiharu.
"The traitors Kizawa and Miyoshi. If you commit the following offenses, the general and court officials will be placed under house arrest. Your crimes are unpardonable! You guys, follow me to punish the thieves!"
As soon as Ashikaga Yoshiharu gave the order, the shogunate ministers under Miyoshi's command rushed to the general's horse, turned around and attacked Miyoshi. The few close associates of Prime Minister Miyoshi were no match for Feng Gongguo, who had the overwhelming numbers. They had no time to open up their formation in this narrow street, and were instantly defeated in the melee. Kizawa Nagamasa and Miyoshi Masagasa had no choice but to lead the mounted samurai to flee again, heading west.
At this moment, the sound of a sharp arrow piercing the air suddenly sounded in the nearby street. Mayor Miyoshi was trembling with fright. He lost control of the horse's rein and staggered the horse a big step to the right. , as a result, the sharp arrow shot through the horse's head happened to be pierced. After the war horse neighed, Miyoshi was thrown off the horse.
"Unlucky." Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was chasing after the Imagawa family's envoy, wanted to shoot Kizawa Nagamasa to death with an arrow when he sat down, but he didn't expect to be blocked by the Miyoshi Nagamasa by mistake. arrow.
"Your Highness!" Miyoshi's bodyguards saw the family governor's fall and hurriedly came to the rescue, but the Imagawa family's envoys had already shot out of the thorns. These guards were outnumbered and no match for the highly skilled Imagawa family, and they were quickly defeated - but Kizawa Nagamasa didn't even look at Miyoshi, and walked away with his own people.
When Miyoshi, who was dizzy from the fall, came to his senses, a knife was already placed on his neck: "Miyoshi Echigo Mamoru, please don't make any more fearless resistance."
Chief Miyoshi took a closer look and found that the blade of the katana was clearly engraved with the word "left". After looking at it for a while, I recognized the familiar shape of the knife - it was Zong Sanzuo's character.
"Is the person coming... Takeda... Harunobu?" Masakazu Miyoshi asked the person in front of him with some uncertainty.
"Huh?" Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was mistaken for Takeda Harunobu, was a little puzzled, "How can you see it?"
"Haha, do you know why this Zongsan left hand is called 'Zongsan'?" "Although Political Chief Miyoshi has been reduced to a prisoner, he still has the momentum he deserves, "Because that is exactly the title of my Political Chief Miyoshi! This sword is exactly my favorite sword that I gave to Sakyo Takeda back then! "
"I see." Imagawa Yoshimoto also reacted, and then explained: "It's just that I am not Takeda Harunobu. This sword was made in the sixth year of Tianwen (1537).
It was given to the Imagawa family as a dowry by His Highness Takeda Sakyou. "
"What? Ha?" Miyoshi immediately became furious when he heard this time, as if he was even more angry than he was being captured alive. "Oh my god (1536) I just gave him my beloved sword, and he actually died in less than a year." Did you give it to someone else? This is a precious sword. Are those Kaisan monkeys of the Takeda family so ignorant? This is a famous sword forged by Zaemon Saburo, a famous swordsmith in Chizen during the Southern and Northern Dynasties!"
"I have also heard about this, so I have always treasured it." Imagawa Yoshimoto, who loves Sosanzo's writing very much, smiled and expressed relief.
"The maintenance is pretty good." Miyoshi seemed to have forgotten the fact that he was defeated, and looked at the smooth blade of Zou Sanzuo with great interest, "If you are serious, it turns out that Suruga's cultural people understand These."
