Sakai Tadakatsu and Mouri Hidemoto met their opponents and good talents, and they all caught each other's weaknesses.
Matsudaira Shinsada's divine soldiers descended from the sky and burned all the food and grass of the Daimyo coalition forces with a burst of fire.
Shimazu Tadaro's surprise troops stood out, like a tiger descending from the mountain, and crashed into Sakai Tadakatsu's headquarters.
Both sides preyed on each other's weaknesses.
The result was that the entire battlefield was in complete chaos.
The Daimyo coalition knew that food and grass were cut off, and they would all be hungry in a short time. Therefore, we can only fight hard, hoping to completely defeat the shogunate army in the shortest possible time.
The shogunate army did not know the situation of their commander. They were all panic-stricken and desperately retreated, trying to escape from danger.
The two sides fought hard in the plains of Okayama. In the end, there would be no soldiers and no generals.
Anyway, as long as you see someone with different clothes and armor, just kill them.
This melee lasted for a whole day and a whole night. In the end, both parties were so exhausted that they no longer had the strength to move, so they called it a day.
The shogunate's army rushed eastward in a hurry, retreating hundreds of miles before it finally stabilized.
The Daimyo coalition had no choice. The reality before them was that they had to find food as soon as possible.
Otherwise, there will be trouble if so many people are hungry.
"It's too late to give him to me. I want to eat his flesh alive."
Standing in front of the granary that was reduced to ashes, Mouri Xiuyuan was furious.
Seeing that Nobusada Matsudaira was caught, he issued the most vicious punishment order.
According to the original plan, after Matsudaira Nobusada burned the food and fodder of the Daiming coalition, the shogunate army would take advantage of the chaos of the Daiming coalition to attack in an all-out manner.
In this way, although Matsudaira Nobusada is behind enemy lines, he is still safe.
However, the shogunate army suffered heavy losses and had to retreat eastward. Trapped behind enemy lines, Matsudaira Nobusada was besieged by an enemy force ten times his own.
The troops he brought were quickly wiped out, and just when he was about to commit suicide, he was captured by the charging enemies.
Knowing that he was bound to die, Nobusada Matsudaira went crazy.
"You rebels and have violated your oath of allegiance will definitely be punished by God. When the general's troops come back to kill you, that will be the day you die."
Shimazu Mitsuhisa stepped forward, turned the handle of the knife upside down, and hit him hard in the mouth.
Matsudaira Nobusada let out a scream, and all the teeth in his mouth were knocked out.
He was dragged to a distance, stripped naked, wrapped in a fishing net, and began to undergo Lingchi torture.
The Daimyo coalition hated him and didn't want him to die happily. The execution lasted three days and three nights, and he was cut into pieces.
On the other side, Sakai Tadakatsu finally stabilized. He gathered up the defeated troops and almost had a disembowelment on the spot to apologize.
Of the more than 200,000 shogunate troops, only less than 80,000 escaped.
More than half of the troops and horses were lost in this battle.
This is definitely a serious blow to the shogunate's vitality.
Not only that, Yonda Masamune died in battle, Yonda Hidezon broke a leg, and Honda Masamune fell into a coma.
He didn't even know how to explain it to Tokugawa Iemitsu?
However, the overall situation is actually equal for both parties.
The shogunate's army was badly damaged and in urgent need of recovery. As for the Daimyo Allied Forces, the food and grass are cut off, and it will also take a long time to prepare.
The battlefield fell silent for a moment.
But at the local level, the people of Japan began to encounter brutal plunder and oppression.
Edo.
The people from the shogunate stormed into a shop with great ferocity.
"There is a war going on at the front, and soldiers are needed. Men of suitable age in your shop must apply."
The shopkeeper was startled and begged quickly.
"Sir, there are only so many people in our store. If you want to join the army, there will be no way to run it."
"Baga! Do you want to disobey the shogunate's order?"
With the bright knife on his neck, the shop owner was trembling with fear and despair.
I could only watch as the three clerks were snatched away by the shogunate.
Looking back at his store, he already had a premonition of its bankruptcy.
At the same time, in the vast rural areas controlled by the Tokugawa shogunate, the situation became even worse.
Countless people had their doors broken into, and any male in the family who was over thirteen years old was forcibly taken away.
The women's wails and cries cannot buy any mercy.
The biggest impact of the lack of labor is that the vast farmland is left unattended and begins to become increasingly desolate.
But the Tokugawa shogunate no longer cared about this.
If they can't win on the battlefield, the only way out for the shogunate is to perish.
Tokugawa Iemitsu could only fish out the best and reorganize the army.
Not only that, he sent someone to contact Xia Guo and spent five million taels of silver to purchase weapons again.
The Daimyo coalition's side wasn't much better.
Without food, we can only ask for it from innocent people.
Within each vassal state, people's homes felt as if robbers had broken into their homes.
All the grain in the rice vats was taken away, and anyone who dared to resist was killed on the spot.
Anyone who cannot hand over the food will be caught and hung on a tree at the entrance of the village, where they will be exposed to the wind and sun until they die.
Through this method, it took the Daimyo Allied Forces three full months to finally raise more than one million kilograms of grain and have the capital to restart the war.
The consequence is that countless people go bankrupt as a result.
I don’t know how many people starved to death in the fields and countryside.
The people, whose families were ruined and their families were destroyed, had strong anger stored in their hearts.
Maybe all it takes is a chance for those rages to burst out.
Near Shimabara, many people simply chose to flee.
They fled into Shimabara's territory one after another, looking for a chance to survive.
Shimabara's side followed the orders of Amakusa Tokisada and gave proper accommodation to the people who came.
For a time, Shimabara became a holy place that everyone on Kyushu Island yearned for.
The resulting wave of escapes became even more intense.
The various lords quickly noticed the anomaly and started arresting them one after another.
But there were too many people fleeing, and many people still ran into Shimabara's territory.
All the famous people were furious and came to ask for help.
Amakusa Tokisada was not polite, treated her harshly, and refused to let him go.
In the end, the matter came to Xia Guo, and Xia Guo still needed to make a referee.
"Birds move with the weather, and cattle and sheep live in pursuit of water and grass. This is nature. When people have no way of survival in one place, they will naturally seek survival in other places. This is the spontaneous choice of the people. To block it is against the law. God's way. I also hope that all the great names can relax their minds and refrain from doing evil to the end."
Shen Tingyang naturally sided with Amakusa Tokisada and beat the various daimyo back.
The famous families had no choice but to hold grudges. At the same time, they secretly strengthened their vigilance and tried their best to prevent people from fleeing.
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Under the tragic war, changes are quietly taking place.
Japan's national power began to decline violently, and it was not far from the limit of collapse.
