In the seventh year of Shaoming, on the ninth day of June, Namba Kyo (Osaka)
Blood dyed the water-covered land red, and the flag symbolizing the left minister and the Fujiwara family on the hill next to the Nishinomiya fell to the ground.
At noon, when the red sun was shining brightly, the main force of the Japanese army after being raided had been completely defeated.
Looking around, there were corpses of prostrate soldiers and generals wearing Japanese costumes all over the ground. Painful groans and fireworks were still floating around.
Ozo Harumi held a short sword and walked up to the left minister Fujiwara Minori on the hill.
Fujiwara Minori looked at Ozo Harumi in panic, and wanted to say something, but was suddenly covered by the samurai behind him.
Harumi Ozo approached Fujiwara Minori step by step, with resentment and unwillingness shining in her eyes.
"Mr. Zuofu, have you seen it? This world must be protected by warriors after all. It cannot be that useless ministers sing a few Japanese songs to make this country last forever.
We are all sinners, please go to hell with me! "
After saying that, Ozo Harumi shouted loudly, and stabbed the knife into the heart of Fujiwara Minori, the left minister who was struggling.
Subsequently, the Taihei Tianqing meritorious serviceman who had defeated Fujiwara Juntomo and became a famous general pointed the Maotai Sword at his chest.
"Sir, please don't do this!" A warrior wearing bamboo armor rushed to Ozo Harumi and shouted with tears streaming down his face.
"My son wants to say that we can surrender to the Yan people, right?" Ozo Harumi asked with a smile, not as if he was about to commit suicide.
A look of hope flashed across the young warrior's face, and he nodded fiercely, "The imperial court treated the warriors harshly, leading to today's defeat. We have already fought bloody battles, and we can be forgiven for surrendering because we are unable to do anything."
"Hahahaha!" Ozo Harumi laughed a few times, and then said to his son:
"My son, don't feel embarrassed. You can completely ask for surrender from the Yan people, because we, the great Tibetan family, are the descendants of Lord Azhi. We are Han people by nature, and we are of Han family lineage.
The Japanese court suppressed the warriors, which led to the disaster of overthrow, but this is an opportunity for my great collector. The emperor of Zhou wants to own this place, and the cooperation of the descendants of us who pioneered it is indispensable. "
But as he spoke, Ozo Harumi's voice lowered, "I am old and have received great favor from the emperor. I thought that something unbearable would happen after I came here, so I stopped watching. My son is in his prime, let's return to his ancestor's identity. !”
After saying this, the descendant of the Han people who crossed the sea and whose descendants returned to the mainland to worship their ancestors more than a thousand years later, the ancestor of the surnames Harada and Takahashi in Japan, calmly killed himself with a sword.
After his son and generals collected his body, they wrote five Chinese characters "Liu family son of the Han family" on a white cloth dipped in blood, and waited for the opportunity to seek refuge in a high place.
With the suicide of Ōzo Harumi, the Japanese army on the Nishinomiya side completely collapsed, and they could not run far at all. After almost all the infantry were defeated, it was completely overthinking to escape under the pursuit of the cavalry.
On June 11, just after the Japanese army in Nishinomiya was defeated, the Japanese army on Taozhong Mountain also faced a disaster.
The main force remaining here is the imperial guards of the Emperor's Heian Palace, more than a thousand people, and the defeated army of two to three thousand.
Even a barely famous general like Ozo Harumi could not turn the tide, and they certainly could not stop the Yan army's attack.
After fighting for less than half an hour, the entire Japanese army at Mount Hozuka collapsed. The sixth grandson Wang Jingji and his son, the father and son of Minamoto Jingji and Minamoto Manchu in history, were both killed, and the entire four thousand Japanese army was wiped out.
At almost the same time, Wang Jing and Li Hanqiong were in the northwest of Kobe, leading an army to storm Ono Yoshigu who was trapped here.
Ono Yoshiko led more than 10,000 Japanese troops to defend the city wall and resist desperately. On the third day of fierce fighting, Li Hanqiong personally led the soldiers to break into the city. The Japanese troops were defeated and more than 3,000 people were killed.
Ono Yoshiko relied on his familiarity with geography and led more than a thousand defeated troops to retreat to Osaka. As a result, he was very unlucky to run into the cavalry team sent by Li Hanqiong to follow the main force of the Japanese army.
On an unknown beach, Ono Yoshigu and others were completely defeated by seven hundred Tuyuhun cavalry, and his head became the trophy of a bald Tuyuhun man. This would at least earn this strong man the title of Viscount. Bit.
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The three cities of Namba Kyo (Osaka), Heijō Kyo (Nara), and Heian Kyo (Kyoto) are very close to each other, and were even connected together in later generations.
Therefore, Tachibana Enho, who was trapped in Namba Kyo, had the advantage of home court and was familiar with the geographical environment, made a very bold and wise decision.
Before Murong Nobunaga's army encircled Namba Kyo, he led more than 2,000 elite troops to break out of Mori no Miya and ran directly to Heijo Kyo.
For Murong Nobunaga, the advantage was that Namba Kyo (Osaka) fell without a fight, but the disadvantage was that Heijo Kyo (Nara) was a strong city and was not comparable to Namba Kyo (Osaka).
Moreover, Tachibana Enho ran to Heijōkyo (Nara). There is a high probability that Emperor Murakami will not stay in Heijōkyō, which is easier to attack, and will definitely return to Heijōkyō.
It's not that Murong Nobunaga didn't expect to go to Heianjing to control the Japanese emperor first, but he was unfamiliar with the place, had few manpower, and didn't understand the language, so he couldn't attack Huanglong directly like he did in the Central Plains.
But now that this is the case, Murong Nobunaga is not in a hurry. After all, the main force of the Japanese army has been eliminated, so it may as well wait.
After the Japanese who dare to resist jump out, give them a harsh blow.
As a result, Murong Nobunaga immediately stationed his army in Namba Kyo, and officially changed its name to Osaka based on the name of Namba Kyo that the people here gave.
Saka means slope, which is suitable to describe Namba Kyo, which is high in the northeast and low in the southwest, with a slope shape from the inland to the ocean.
After establishing a foothold in Osaka, Murong Nobunaga immediately began to seize the people of Osaka, build the Osaka port, and sent the edict back to Kyushu and North Korea, ordering Zhao Pu, Zhao Yanjin and others who were left behind to quickly send personnel and materials to Osaka.
At this time, the household registrations of the Tuyuhun, Zhuqiang, Dangxiang, Khitan, and Han ethnic groups allocated by Zhang Zhao had basically entered North Korea.
After receiving the news of Murong Nobunaga's great victory in Osaka, Zhao Pu immediately reported it to Cao Yuanzhong, who was worried about his grandson's foundation and stayed in Seoul.
Well, this good grandfather of Murong Nobunaga, good father-in-law and good cousin of Zhang Shengren has a big head. It can be said that he has been tested in previous rebellions and can take the blame no matter how big it is.
So Cao Yuanzhong made the decision, and Zhao Kuangyin once again recruited 3,000 people from the various tribes who came to Korea, plus some remaining sailors from Henghai Town, a total of 5,000 people. He immediately set out for Osaka with 50,000 shi of grain and 100 ships.
Before Zhao Kuangyin set off, Cao Yuanzhong quickly got up and took a fast boat to Dengzhou. He asked Lu King Qian Hongchu to send another fifty ships from the land of Wuyue, carrying 30,000 shi of grain and various logistical equipment to Osaka.
It can be said that Cao Yuanzhong went all out for his favorite grandson, without even considering avoiding suspicion.
At the same time, Zhao Yanjin ordered Jinghai Zhenlang General Yao Yanhong in Dazaifu to immediately lead 4,000 Jinghai Zhenyu troops and 20,000 shi of grain, and immediately set off for Osaka.
And now that the plan to stop things statically has been decided, Murong Nobunaga began to operate Osaka and neighboring Kobe, Wakayama and Awaji Island with peace of mind.
On June 23rd, after the repairs were completed, and the soldiers and horses had basically adapted to the Japanese soil and water, Murong Nobunaga ordered Wang Jing to lead 15,000 infantry and cavalry to attack Ping An Jing.
The result was just as Murong Nobunaga expected, the Japanese had long ago abandoned Ping An Jing. When Wang Jing's troops arrived, a fire broke out in Ping An Jing before they even started to attack the city.
The Japanese themselves set fire to the palaces of Heianjing, and the fire then spread to residential areas. The flames filled the sky and burned for more than ten days. Most of the city of Heiankyo, which the Japanese had worked so hard to build, was burned to the ground.
Murong Xin grew up to be resentful. He knew that this was because the Japanese were unwilling to leave Ping An Jing to him, and they were also expressing their determination to resist to the death.
Afterwards, Pingcheng-kyo, which was built earlier and was more difficult to capture, was the place for the final decisive battle.
On June 27, when the fire in Heianjing was still burning, Wang Jing followed Murong Nobunaga's instructions and led his army to attack Pingchengjing.
This is of course tentative. If we really want to launch a large-scale attack, we will definitely have to press the entire army.
Therefore, what Wang Jing wanted to achieve was to make the Japanese people tense their nerves as much as possible and mobilize all their strength.
Sure enough, in the face of Wang Jing's arrival of more than ten thousand cavalry, he quickly took up the post of General Tachibana Enho, mobilized thousands of elite soldiers from the two capitals, and recruited a large number of followers and so-called righteous men. Emperor Murakami also Giving them greater power and higher status than before.
Wang Jing saw that Heicheng Kyo was vast and he could not encircle it, so he began to seize Kofukuji Temple on the mountain northeast of Heicheng Kyo as the commanding heights, and by the way test whether this was a pain point for Heicheng Kyo's defense.
The result came out as soon as I tried it.
Kofukuji Temple was the cultural center of Japan during the Nara period. At its peak, it was said that there were tens of thousands of monks and soldiers, and the Imperial family also relied on it.
A very important reason why Emperor Kanmu moved to Heian-kyo was to get rid of the constraints of large temples such as Kofukuji and Todaiji.
However, even though Kofukuji Temple was weakened during the Heian period, it was still one of the largest temples in Japan.
Wang Jing's test not only tested the key geographical location of Xingfukuji Temple, which was a suitable place to break Heijingjing, but also tested the attitude of Japanese Buddhism.
Sure enough, unbelievers can still be saved, but heretics must die. Japanese Buddhism is very wary of the Liufa Sect that comes to steal their jobs.
Wang Jing led his army to attack Xingfu Temple. As a result, all the monks and soldiers from the Japanese temples came to the rescue. Tachibana Yuanbo also sent thousands of warriors to the base of the city wall to support.
Wang Jing used five of his forces to attack for several days, but he really couldn't get in, so he simply chose to retreat temporarily.
At this time, the entire Japanese nation was extremely excited, and they immediately regarded Tachibana Yuanbao as their savior, and they were even more confident when they issued King Qin's orders to all the counties.
July 20th, more than a month after the Battle of Osaka.
The five countries of Hokuriku are Echizen, Echigo, Kaga, Etchu, and Noto.
The Three Kingdoms of Mino, Shinano and Hida on Higashiyama Road.
The three countries of Owari, Mikawa and Enji in Tokaido, a total of 11 national government armies.
That is to say, the long marchers of the prefectures and counties in the Central Plains, led by the national guards and police envoys of various countries, entered Pingchengjing from several directions such as Lake Bipa.
With their arrival, including the levied servants and martyrs of Heijo Kyouho, the number of troops under Tachibana Enho's command swelled to 50,000.
It seems that the flags are flying in the air, and it seems that heroes from all over the Japanese country are here. Except for the Kanto samurai from Ueno, Shimono, Musashi, Josou and other places who suffered heavy losses in the battle of Osaka and not many of them came, all the heroes from the world are here.
Driven by this fanatical atmosphere, many ministers urged Tachibana Yuanbao to send troops to fight the Yan invaders who occupied Osaka.
But only Tachibana Enho knew that there seemed to be 50,000 people here, and together with the young and strong farmers in Sanjing, they could even pull out 100,000 people.
But this kind of ragtag group of people who could not even hold an iron sword individually could not fight a battle at all, let alone defeat the Yan invaders.
Moreover, Tachibana Enbo knows his own ability. He can command tens of millions of people, but if he really wants to command an army of 58,000, his ability is not enough.
Moreover, these national government troops from various countries were brought by national guards from various countries. Many of them are much higher than Tachibana Yuanbao in terms of status and blood. He simply cannot command them. In this case, he takes the initiative to do so. A decisive battle with Yan Thief would undoubtedly lead to death.
Under internal and external pressure, Tachibana Enho decided to go to Heijo Palace to meet Emperor Murakami.
He was even prepared to persuade Emperor Murakami to abandon Heijo-kyo and retreat to Kanto where Kai, Musashi and other countries were located, and rely on Kanto warriors to deal with the Yan thieves.
However, Tachibana Enho's idea was good, but after entering the Heijo Kyoto Palace, he did not see Emperor Murakami at Nishouden. Instead, he met Emperor Murakami's mother, Empress Atsuko, directly at Shoningden.
Although Emperor Murakami is not a wise master, although he has basically never held any power, as a man and a monarch in the era of cold weapons, Emperor Murakami still knows something about the equipment gap than Atsuko.
At least through Tachibana Yuanbao's description, he knew that the cloth-covered iron armor and fine iron horizontal swords equipped by the Yan army were not something that the current Japanese armor, short armor, and Maotai swords could compete with.
But Wenzi didn't know this. She was not interested in weapons or armor. In her mind, if the Yan invaders were better equipped, the gap would not be so big that they were in the sky and on the ground.
On the contrary, Ju Yuanbao holds all the military power in the world. He doesn't think about suppressing thieves and just says he has few soldiers. What is he trying to do?
The intuition of being good at political struggle broke out at this moment. The Queen Mother Wenzi did not listen to Tachibana Yuanbao's explanation at all, claiming that the food stored in the capital was only enough for two months, and the righteous men from all over the world had also gathered, and the Yan invaders must be dealt with as soon as possible.
In her opinion, there are only about 20,000 Yan thieves in Osaka. Even if there is a gap in equipment, don't we have a geographical advantage?
And the last time the Yan thieves came to attack Pingchengjing, they retreated in embarrassment, and they weren't that strong!
Now, can you still lose when four of you fight against one in front of your home?
Tachibana Enho was both angry and desperate. How long had it been, the big shots above were still acting condescending, regardless of the actual situation.
They couldn't defeat them in the first place, but now that the trade wind is blowing, the Yan thieves can continue to receive assistance from the Central Plains. Choosing to fight them head on is simply asking for death.
It's a pity that he is just a young samurai who grew up in the fifth rank of the country's guardian, and it seems that Emperor Murakami, who gave him the rank and trust of the general of the army, was once again imprisoned in the palace.
As for Tachibana Yuanbo's only possibility of dealing with the Yan thieves, which was to retreat to Kanto and plan for the future, he could not say it at all.
On the fifth day of August, Heicheng Jing once again received a group of more than 3,000 martyrs. They were the Haima Party operating east of Osaka.
He means leasing, and the Hema Party was originally an armed horse-trafficking group composed of wealthy people from various countries east of Osaka.
Later, it evolved into a gang like Huaishang Nianzi in China. It has been somewhat declining in recent years, but I didn't expect that it still has thousands of people.
These Li Ma party members are tough in temperament, move quickly, and all have war horses. They are good at fighting in small groups and can be regarded as a very good supplement to the light cavalry.
The arrival of the Lima Party further stimulated the Empress Dowager Wenzi and the ministers' desire to go to war.
Pingchengjing had a large population, and with the addition of 60,000 to 70,000 foreign warriors, food, clothing, and shelter had to be supplied by the big shots in Pingchengjing.
Seeing that the money and food were being consumed like a landslide, and fearing that too many of these warriors would gather together, it would be detrimental to them, so everyone in the Japanese court kept urging Tachibana Yuanbao to go to war and fight against the Yan thieves.
Seeing that Emperor Murakami refused to issue an edict, Atsuko and other ministers pushed out the former Emperor Suzaku Hierophant, who was no longer clear-headed, and asked him to come to the altar to worship the general, with the intention of forcing Tachibana Enho to fight.
On August 17, Tachibana Enho, who really could not bear the accusations from above and below, had no choice but to accept the order of Emperor Suzaku.
In a fit of anger, he sent out 3,000 Pingcheng Palace Imperial Guards and noble warriors, 45,000 national government troops from various countries, 10,000 Buddhist monk soldiers from the Three Capitals, 9,000 righteous men from various countries, and more than 4,000 members of the former evil parties such as the Li Ma Party. Seventy-two or three thousand people left Pingjo-kyo and headed west toward Osaka, Namba-kyo.
The only distance between Heijo-kyo-Nara and Namba-kyo-osaka is Mount Kongo, a remnant of the Katsuragi Mountains, which is not very wide. It is only a dozen or twenty miles in total.
If you want to attack the Yan army in Namba Kyo-Osaka from Heicheng Kyonara, there are only two options to choose from.
One is to go northwest from Saidaiji Temple towards Heian-kyo, and then go down Namba-kyo along the Yodo River.
But Ju Yuanbao did not dare to take this road, because in the past few months, Murong Nobunaga had ordered his navy to sail the stern ship into the lake.
The navy of the Japanese country was reimbursed by Ono Yoshiko early. If they went down the lake, they would die.
So Tachibana Enho had no choice but to go out of Rajomon (the prototype of Rashomon) and cross Mount Kumgang directly to the Mori no Miya in Osaka.
When Tachibana Enho broke out of Osaka Castle, it was from here that he ran back to Heijo-kyo, and the main checkpoint on Mount Kumgang, Myojin San Pass, was still in the hands of the Japanese army.
The plan has been decided, Tachibana Enho is still very fast, he also underestimated himself, in fact, he still has the ability to command an army of tens of thousands.
On August 22nd, the vanguard of the Japanese army appeared north of Osaka Mori-no-gu Shrine. Within a day, the main force of the army began to arrive at Mount Kumgang to form formations one after another.
Of course, Murong Nobunaga deliberately let the Japanese come over. He originally wanted to use all their elites and catch all those who could fight. Naturally, he would not defend Mount Kumgang.
However, Murong Nobunaga was still prepared to survive them. After the Japanese army arrived north of Mori no Miya, the Yan army remained stationary and did not go out to fight in the city at all. It also looked like it was going to defend the city.
This made Tachibana Enho anxious. His combat power was not as good as his opponent's. If he still had to attack a fortified city like Mori no Miya, he might as well just commit suicide.
So Tachibana Yuanbao had no choice but to choose to take action. More than 70,000 Japanese troops also stood still at the foot of Mount Kumgang. It seemed that they came all the way to confront the Yan army.
As soon as the two sides started to show up, the show went on for almost ten days, during which it rained for two days, and the air was hot and humid.
This made the Japanese army miserable. They were exposed to the rain in the wild, and the number of sick people increased day by day, while the Yan army was repairing in Osaka Castle.
At the same time, the news from Pingcheng Gongqing urging the war to go out was conveyed to the military camp one after another.
At this time, seeing that the fire was coming, Murong Nobunaga personally led an army of 23,000 people and came out of the Forest Palace to form a majestic formation and prepare for a decisive battle.
Ju Yuanbao was overjoyed. He was afraid that the Yan army would retreat again, so he ordered the army to rush forward before his formation was completed.
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In the seventh year of Shaoming Dynasty, AD 952, on the first day of September, the sun was rising and the weather was clear.
The Japanese army took the lead and attacked the Yan army's central formation with elite troops. The two sides fought for about half an hour. Due to the absolute gap in equipment and training, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties.
On both wings, the white-robed and silver-saddled Shoyoshiro also easily defeated thousands of Japanese cavalry composed of horse thieves from the Seima Party.
In an instant, the Chinese army took advantage of the momentum to push back, and the two wings of cavalry attacked. Within an hour, the left and right wings and the Chinese army of more than 70,000 Japanese troops collapsed one after another.
The so-called decisive battle has become a stress-free push.
At the foot of Mount Kumgang, the army was defeated like a mountain. They trampled on each other and killed and wounded countless people. The Japanese army hurriedly fled into Mount Kumgang and retreated towards Pyeongseong Kyung. The Yan army pursued them one after another and gave them no chance to breathe.
From Mori no Miya to Heijo Kyo, in just twenty or thirty miles, the ground was covered with zombies, and Japanese soldiers were killed everywhere.
On the fifth day of September, Murong Nobunaga led his army to the gate of Pingcheng Gyeongra Castle and once again defeated the remaining 30,000 Japanese troops who had finally gathered together.
The Japanese general Ju Yuanbao died in the battle, and Nayan Dajiang, the supervisor of the army, was waiting to commit suicide by swallowing gold at any time. Dozens of national guards, state intermediaries, police envoys, and pursuit envoys from various countries were killed in battle, and soldiers were killed and injured.
While defeating this final defeated army, Murong Xinchang ordered Wang Jing to take another detour to attack Xingfu Temple.
This time without the protection of the monk soldiers, Xingfu Temple was finally captured. Wang Jing ordered his eldest son Wang Tingyi, and the generals Helian Hailong and Yuan Yanchao led two thousand elite cavalry to break into the city from here.
Then he ran wildly for several miles in the city, rushed to Luocheng Gate, killed the scattered Japanese defenders at the gate, opened the gate and let the army enter the city.
Pingchengjing fell.
(End of chapter)
