Mori Motoyasu (16 April 1497 – 6 July 1571) was a Japanese daimyō of Japan during the Sengoku period, the second son of Mori Hiromoto of the Angeku people, whose young name was Matsuju Maru and also known as Shosuke Jiro. Originally surnamed Dajiang, the family lineage is based on the ancestors of Ōe Hiromoto's four male Maori Jiguang. The home pattern is a three-star pattern of words.
After the early death of his eldest brother Mori Yukimoto and his nephew Mori Yukimaru, he took over the position of governor of the family under his leadership of the Anyi Maori clan from a small local force, and in the west of China there were the father and son of Ouchi Yoshiyuki and Ōuchi Yoshitaka, who were entrenched in Zhoufang, Nagato, and Ōuchi Yoshitaka, and in the north there were the grandfathers of the wolf Lying Izumo and The Elder Nichi Nagahisa, and the nichi Haruhisa grandson. However, thanks to the efforts of the Nishi Ōuchi clan, the Northern Expedition Nishi clan, and the Southern Expedition to Ōtomo clan, the territory of power eventually developed into the power of 10 sub-states, including the Ōtomo clan of Theotomo clan, which ruled China, Bigo, Anyi, Zhoufang, Nagato, Iwami, Izumo, and Boqi, as well as the forces of the Ōtomo clan in Kitakyushu, and the territory of Ishigami was close to 1.2 million stones, becoming one of the most powerful forces in western Japan. He was known for his divisive tactics, and later generations called him "Plotter", "Seek God", "Wise General", "Western/China's First Wise General/Top Strategist". The Naoko Ukita, who had been with Izumo's ninja for a long time, was known as the "Three Great Generals of China".
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On March 14, 1497 (6th year of The Ming Dynasty), Moto was born in Suzumi Castle (Fukuhara Castle, Oe Maori Ichimon Fukuhara Toshijo Castle, who was also the maternal grandfather of Mori Motoyasu), and his young name was Matsuju maru, and the stone stele of the birth of Motohara is preserved in the local area today.
In 1500 (9 Akyō), his father Hiromoto decided to abdicate the throne to Kogen, a son of a shogun, due to his involvement in a dispute between the Ouchi clan and the shogunate, and Matsushimaru and Hiromoto moved to Tajibi Sakai Castle.
In 1506 (Eigen 3), his father Hiromoto died of liver cancer alcohol poisoning, and Matsuju Maru (元就) grew up losing both of his parents. Later, Matsujumaru's castle was occupied by his courtier Inoue Motomori, so Matsujumaru was jokingly called "Beggar Wakado". Matsushimaru was raised by his adoptive mother, Sugi Daisuke (Hiromoto's step-in).
In 1511 (8th year of Yongzheng), Yuanfu was named Yuanyi.
In 1516 (the 13th year of Yongzheng), the eldest brother Kogen died of liver cancer alcoholism, and was inaugurated by Kogen's young eldest son, Yukimaru Yukimaru. The nearby Anyi Takeda clan saw the chaos of the Maori clan and began to invade the Maori territory, and Takeda Motoharu led a large army to attack arita castle of the Yoshikawa clan. The Yoshikawa clan asked the Maori clan for help, and Moto sent troops to save Arita Castle in place of his nephew Yukimatsu Maru, which was Motoyasu's first battle. He used a ruse to lure the Takeda pioneer Kumagaya Motonobu into pursuit and fell into the ambush circle of the Maori clan, Kumagaya Motonaga's entire army was destroyed, and later the general Takeda Motoharu wanted to support the Kumagaya team, and the two armies broke out in a scuffle near the city, and finally takeda Motoharu, the commander of the Takeda Army, was shot by an arrow from a Maori archer and killed by an arrow.[1] [1] (Battle of Aritanaka Izuku), which was later known as the Battle of the Western Barrel Pan. The Anyi Takeda clan then declined.
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Maori family pattern
In 1523 (Ōnaga 3), Moto supported Nizi to attack the Ōuchi clan of the Ōnai clan (Zoda Fangshin), which supported the Ouchi clan, for the Battle of Gyeongsan Castle, Moto used a trick to lure the enemy to kaesei Kurata Naobu kaesong and then capture Gyeongsan Castle, so the prestige was greatly enhanced, but also made the Ninko clan feel threatened, Mori Yukimaru died of illness at the age of 9 years old after this battle, and finally the courtiers elected Moto as the heir of the Mori family. Opposed to his succession, including three elders, Hirohide Saka, Hiroshi Katsura, and Katsura Watanabe, at the instigation of the Niko clan, they were instructed by one of his nishiko clans, Toyohisa, and his retainer, Tomii Hidetsune, to rebel, and elected Moto's younger brother Mototsune to replace him. However, with the assistance of Fu Shichido Hirōryō, Moto obtained the Imperial Letter of the Ashikaga Shogunate of Kyoto, and the Shogun's family recognized Moto as the heir of the Maori family, eliminating the rebel forces. Yuan's eldest son, Long yuan, was born.
In 1540 (9th year of astronomy), Ryoko Haruhisa led an army of 30,000 to invade Yamashiro castle in Yoshida-gun, attacking the Mori clan in two ways. The vanguard was taken by the Nishiko clan's elite shingu faction, niko Kunihisa entered Anyi after being prepared for the general, and Morimoto asked his in-laws, The Shinodo clan, and the Forces of the Shinto clan and the Fukase clan intercepted the Shingu party with a stone-throwing tactic near the Kamikawa River, and Niko Kunihisa was defeated. Niko Haruhisa later personally led the Nishiko army into Angi via Ishimi, and was joined by the Yoshikawa clan, an old alliance of the Maori clan, and laid down the main line in Kazekoshiyama near Yoshida-gun. Maori Yuan recruited all the lords of the territory plus the original 3,000 soldiers to prepare for the battle of Cage Castle, and asked for help from the Ouchi clan and the nearby Anyi people. Based on their inferiority, the Maori army adopted guerrilla warfare to reduce casualties, and the Takehara Kohayakawa clan and the Ouchi clan Sugi Takashi troops stationed on Toshima also resisted jointly with the Maori clan, and Nizishi also transferred the honjin to Glaucoma-san. The fighting lasted from the beginning of August to the end of November, they finally waited for the reinforcements of the Ouchi clan, and with the support of 10,000 soldiers led by Tao Longfang, the Maori clan and the Ouchi clan troops successfully raided the Nizi Honjin and killed Takao Hisatomo, the Niko clan was in a critical situation, and the original opposition to the Nichi Haruhisa's army [8] did not hesitate to sacrifice his life to cover Haruhisa's retreat, and was killed by the Maori clan Nakahara Zenzoemon. The attacks of Maori and Ouchi succeeded in forcing the demoralized Nizi army to retreat, and the Maori family established the power of the Anyi Kingdom. In the same year, the Maori army took advantage of the situation to retake the castle of Ginzan castle in Sato, which had been captured by the Nizi army, and the Takeda clan governor Takeda Nobuyoshi fled to Izumo Province, and a group of Takeda Nobushige committed suicide by cutting off their stomachs, and the Anyi Takeda clan was completely destroyed. After the war, Moto organized the Kawauchi police under the Anyi Takeda clan and later became the basis of the Maori Water Army.
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In 1543 (Astronomical Year 12), he jointly attacked Tsukiyama Tomita Castle (the first Battle of Tsukiyama Tomita Castle), but the ani kuni Yoshikawa clan governor Yoshikawa Kokei, Izumo Kunizu Mizawa clan, Mikōya clan and other defections, due to the length of the Ōuchi army front, the rear road was once blocked by the Nizi army, the Maori clan minister Watanabe Toshitō disguised as a stand-in for Motohito, and after a desperate battle with the Atsuki kuni Yoshikawa Masahito, Moto returned safely to Yamashiro castle in Yoshida Prefecture. The following year, Morimoto sent Kodama Tsuneyoshi and Fukuhara Sadatoshi to support the Bungo Kuni Sanyoshi clan, but the reinforcements were defeated by the Niko army (Buno Beng).
Moto, who had long been subordinate to the Ouchi clan and had also contributed to the Ouchi clan, was trusted by Ouchi Yoshitaka, who adopted the daughter of Theo Ōuchi clan's old retainer, Naito Koto, as an adopted daughter and promised to Motori Takamoto, the eldest son of Motoyasu who had been a hostage in Yamaguchi, in order to strengthen the relationship between Ouchi and Maori.
In 1546 (15th year of astronomy), Shomuro Myōjo died of illness. At the time of the military discussion, Maori Yuan announced his abdication and seclusion and let the family governor be inherited by Long Yuan, but the relinquishment of the position of house governor was only formal, and the real power was still in the hands of Yuan. First, as the eldest son, Long Yuan must shoulder the responsibilities of the Maori family in the future, so that he can contact the government affairs early; second, I am afraid that Yuan intends to retreat behind the scenes and secretly use a plan to take advantage of the opportunity to unify the AnYi country.
In 1547 (16th year of astronomy), Moto tried to control the Yoshikawa clan, who was born in shomuro Myōjo, and he took advantage of the discord of the Yoshikawa clan's vassals at the time to co-opt Yoshikawa Kokei's uncle and Myōjo's brother Yoshikawa Nobuyoshi, to help Yoshikawa's favorite vassal, Ōshi Ōshi, the right guard of the gatekeeper, and conspired with Yoshikawa Yoshikawa and Moriwaki to force Yoshikawa Kokei to live in seclusion, and to make the second son, Motoharu, succeed the Yoshikawa clan as the adopted son of the Yoshikawa clan, and send the Keikei to the Maori domain for seclusion and surveillance.
In 1548 (17th year of astronomy), the second son, Motoharu, and his wife Shinjo Bureau (daughter of Kumagai Nobunaga) gave birth to his concubine Tsuru shou maru (later Yoshikawa Motonaga). Moto, along with his three sons, the eldest son, Mori Takamoto, the second Yoshikawa Motoharu, and the third son, Hayakawa Takakei, went to the YamaguchiKan to meet Yoshitaka Ouchi and decided on the marriage between Takamoto and Myōshou, the daughter of Naito's son.
In 1549 (18th year of astronomy), Yoshitaka Ouchi recognized Myoshou as an adopted daughter and married her eldest son, Takamoto, for Ozaki Bureau.
In 1550 (19th year of astronomy), three years later, in order to avoid future troubles, he sent his subordinates Kumagai Nobunaga and Amano Tono to kill Yoshikawa Kokei and his son Chiyoshi Yoshikawa. In addition, Moto also intervened in the issue of the heir of the Kohakawa clan of the Atsuki clan, when the Kohayakawa clan was divided into the Takehara Kohakawa clan and the Numata Ko hayakawa clan, and the takehara Ko hayakawa clan governor Koharu died of illness and died of illness, and Moto first sent his third son Tokushimaru Maru to Takehara to inherit the Takehara Kohayakawa clan, with the support of takehara clan lords such as Teshima Keehiro and Isokane Keitō. The governor of the Numata Hayakawa clan, Masahira Kohayakawa, was killed at the Battle of Tomita Castle in Tsukiyama, when Kohayakawa Masahira's eldest son, Ogayakawa, was blind and unfit to succeed him as governor, and Moto planned to have Takaaki marry Masahira's daughter and inherit the Numata family, unifying the two families. To this end, Moto repeated the old tricks to win over the Numata clan courtiers, such as Nami Munakata, Starling Hirohei, Pear Yu Xuanping, kunisei Keiki clan, but some of the Ko hayakawa clan vassals opposed, with the assistance of the pro-Maori Numata clan, the opposition Tasaka Quankei, Dokura Akira, and Konmu Nagahira were killed, the Hayakawa clan fell under the control of the Maori clan, and Kohayakawa Shigehira retreated to the Dojo governor Tokushimaru, and the two Kohayakawa clans were reunited. Through these two events, the Maori clan controlled the Yoshikawa clan and the Kohayakawa clan, establishing the Maori two-river system, the Yoshikawa clan was adjacent to the Izumo Kingdom and the Iwami Kingdom, and the Kohayakawa clan held the water army and was located in the southeast of the Anyi Kingdom, and the direct integration of the two families into Maori undoubtedly greatly enhanced the strength of the Maori clan. Through marriage diplomacy, military assistance, and succession, Maori gradually extended his Maori power to the entire Anyi Kingdom, and even accepted orders from the Ouchi clan to enter the neighboring Bigo Kingdom and attack the pro-Niko clan's Bigo clan members, such as Eda Takaren and Sugi Riki.
In 1550 (Astronomical Year 19), Māori Moto eliminated the Aeyi Inoue clan headed by the courtier Inoue Motokazu, and only a few Inoue clan members were spared because they were either related to the Māori clan or as a confidant of Motohito, after which the Māori clan shrouded them issued an oath of loyalty to Māori Moto. Through this purge, the Maori Yuan strengthened the centripetal force of the courtiers on the main family, and from then on the Maori clan was officially transformed into the Daimyo of the Warring States.
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In 1551 (20th year of astronomy), Ouchi Yoshitaka was overthrown by his courtier Tao Haruhiken (the change of Daning Temple), Ouchi Yoshitaka and his concubine Kametomaru were killed, Tao Qingxian did not want to bear the crime of rebellion, so he passed over to the Toyogo kingdom Daitomo clan to the Ouchi clan, and changed his name to Ouchi Yoshinaga to inherit the Ouchi clan as a puppet. Maori Yuan had always been unquestionable about Tao Qingxian's rebellious actions, and after Yoshitaka's death, Yuan preemptively attacked the Toga castle of the Hiraga clan and the Ōuchi clan's Makiyama Castle, and Moto sent troops to support hiraga Hiroshi of the Hiraga clan to regain the position of governor of the Hiraga clan, which had been assigned by Ōuchi Yoshitaka and from the Kohayakawa clan, and Hiraga Takaho committed suicide in desperation. However, the Maori clan still did not publicly break with Tao Qingxian, and the Iwami Kuni Yoshimi clan governor and Ōuchi Yoshiyuki's son-in-law Yoshimi Masayoshi first announced his crusade against Tao Qingxian and contacted Yuan to work together. Yoshimi Masarai's strength disparity with Tao Qingxian's strength was huge, and he was soon defeated and surrendered. However, at this time, the Maori clan openly broke off diplomatic relations with Tao Qingxian and continued to attack the western part of an yiguo, which was originally controlled by the Ouchi clan.
In view of the gap in the mobilization of the two armies, the Maori army can only gather up to 4,000 troops, while the Tao army can gather 30,000 troops. If Mao Liyuan chose to fight Tao Qingxian head-on, it could be said that there was no chance of victory. Mao Liyuan decided to use a strategy against Tao Qingxian. First of all, Mao Liyuan forged a letter and deliberately leaked it to Tao Qingxian, which involved Maori's contact with Tao Qingxian's powerful minister Jiang Liangfangrong, and jiang Liangfangrong agreed to serve as an internal response. Tao Qingxian was not afraid of deception, and immediately hunted down and killed Jiang Liangfangrong. At the same time, in order to avoid being attacked by the Nizi clan during the decisive battle with the Ouchi clan, Maori Yuan once again used the strategy of forging letters, and also deliberately leaked the letters to the Nizi clan governor Nizi Haruhisa, who pretended to have secret relations with Niko Kunihisa, who was also the uncle and father-in-law of Niko Haruhisa, the leader of the elite shingu party, so that Haruhisa doubted the loyalty of the Shingu Party, and as a result, Haruhisa summoned the Shingu party to Tsukiyama Tomita Castle to see him, and successfully booby-trapped and killed most of the core members of the Shingu Party, including Kunihisa and his sons Makoto, Keihisa, and Nichihisa. Makoto counts. Makoto's fourth son, Who fled to Tofuku-ji Temple in Kyoto under the protection of his nursing mother, was Noneko Katsuhisa, a neoniko who was later supported by Yamanaka Yukimori. In 1554, after two elaborate counter-plots, Moto succeeded in weakening the Ouchi and Nishi clans.
In order to prepare for the war, Maoriyuan still needed to do more preparatory work, he believed that tao Qingxian must be lured to the decisive battle of Itsukushima in the south of AnYiguo, taking advantage of the terrain there that was not conducive to the activities of large troops, and destroying the Tao army in one fell swoop, so he first built Miyao Castle on Itsukushima Island, assigned Naoyuki Hefei and Shinri Miyauchi Touchi to lead a small number of soldiers to station, and then sent spies into the Ōuchi clan to spread rumors, claiming that Maoriyuan was afraid of Tao Qingxian attacking Miyao Castle, so that Tao Qingxian believed it to be true. In order to strengthen the effect of the plan, Yuan instructed Katsura Motosumi, the lord of Sakurao Castle, who was his vassal and on the other side of Itsukushima, to write a letter to Tao Qingxian in the name of revenge for his father, and was willing to serve as the internal assistant of Tao's army and cooperate with him in attacking Itsukushima Yunyun. After these few events, Yuan succeeded in convincing Tao Qingxian that conquering Miyao Castle would eliminate the Maori clan.
In 1554 (23rd year of astronomy), Tao Qingxian sent the pioneer Miyagawa Futagun to attack the Maori clan with three thousand troops, and the two sides fought at Mount Orishiki Hata, which was the Battle of Origami Hata. Miyagawa's forces merged with the anti-Maori forces of the Anyi kingdom, and the whole army increased to 7,000 people, but it was surrounded by four fathers and sons from three sides, Maori Motogen, Yoshikawa Motoharu, and Kohayakawa Takakei, and Miyagawa Washikawa was defeated and killed, and the Anyi kuni who supported the Ouchi clan, Renno Takashi, was surrendered by the Yuan, and the Anyi kingdom completely fell into the hands of the Maori clan.
In 1555 (astronomical 24), Tao Qingxian decided to personally conquer Itsukushima despite the opposition of his retainers Hironaka Takahata and others, and Hironaka Takahata and others advocated that the Maori clan should be attacked by land. Tao Haruhito received assistance from the Yashiro Island Naval Army, and the whole army crossed the sea in 500 ships to attack Itsukushima Miyao Castle. It was at this time that Maori Moto succeeded in winning over the three Murakami sailors of the Seto Inland Sea pirates, and it is said that when Māorimoto asked for help from murakami water troops, he only asked Murakami water troops to lend ships for a day to carry Maori soldiers to Itsukushima. The main forces of the two sides fought at Itsukushima (The Battle of Itsukushima), maori Motohito, Takamoto and Motoharu landed on Itsukushima in a storm, and took advantage of the night to cross the tail of the game to raid the Tao army stationed in Tanooka under the hillside, on the other hand, Hayakawa Takakei and Kodama Tsuyoshi led the Maori water army and Murakami water army to surround itic island opposite the sea, and destroyed the Yashiro Island water army of the Ouchi clan, Miura Fangqing, etc. The Tao army on land was chaotic by the Maori army at night and collapsed. Takashi Hironaka and his son Takasuke tried unsuccessfully to organize soldiers to resist, and both were killed. In the end, maori yuan, with only 4,000 soldiers, defeated Tao Qingxian, who was 5 times larger than himself and claimed to have an army of 20,000, and Tao Qingxian himself fled all the way to Dayuanpu, where the Tao army landed, and he saw that the sea was full of Maori water troops, and he realized that there was no way to escape and committed suicide. After this battle, the Maori clan stepped up its attack on the Territory of the Ouchi clan and established hegemony across the two countries of Zhou Defense and Anyi.
In 1555 (the first year of Koji), in order to capture Iwami Ginzan in Iwami Province, Niko Haruhisa took advantage of the chaos caused by the Ōuchi family's rebellion over Tao Haruhito's lord, and attacked Iwami Ginzan in one fell swoop in conjunction with the Ōgasawara Nagao of the Hao clan.
In 1556 (Hiroji 2), Moto, who also coveted Ishimi Ginzan, also reached out to Iwami and plotted against the Nikogayama Mori castle keeper Shiga Naganobu, personally leading troops to attack Kamedani Castle, the stronghold guarding Ginzan. At that time, The Niko Haruhisa, who was preparing his troops, quickly turned around, sent 25,000 troops to rescue Kamedani Castle, and engaged in a fierce battle with the 7,000 soldiers and horses of the Mori army detachment Ofo Takashi, a Maori army after hundreds of casualties, the Shindo Takashi family was defeated, and the defeated army affected the troops of Mori Motoyasu and Yoshikawa Motoharu, and was chased and defeated by Niko Haruhisa.
In 1557 (3rd year of Koji), an army was sent to attack the Ouchi clan (Defense Commander Jingluo), defeating or surrendering the Ouchi clan's people one after another, such as Sugi Longtai, Yudo Longkang, Yamazaki Komori, Eira Kenshin, etc., besieging Nagato and Yamashiro, the old Naito Takashi of the Ouchi clan, on the condition that the Maori clan promised to save the life of Ouchi Yoshinaga, after the surrender of Kaesong, but the Maori clan still forced Yoshinaga to commit suicide, and the Ouchi clan declared its demise.
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Although the Maori clan controlled most of the old territory of the Ouchi clan in China, the Maori army repeatedly launched an offensive against the Nizi family in order to capture Iwami Ginzan, and in 1556 was defeated by Nizi Haruhisa (Shinohara Collapse), and in 1559 The Maori Yuan attacked again, although taking Onyo Castle, which was guarded by Ogasawara Nagao, but unable to take Yamabuki Castle, the Maori army was severely damaged by the raid of the Yamabuki castle keeper Motomitsu Tsunemitsu, and the Maori army was defeated and returned (the Battle of Shirusaka). Later, Maorimoto pretended to agree to give up the management of Ishimi Ginzan in order to make Honjo Tokimitsu surrender, but the Honjo clan was immediately killed by the Maori clan, and the Silver Mountain fell into the hands of the Maori clan. The death of Motoki Tsunemitsu caused many of the Iwami and Izumo clans of the Maori clan to be transferred to the Nichiko clan, such as Takahata Fukuya, Mizawa Yoshiki, and Mikōya Hisasuke.
In December 1561 (Eiro 3), Niko Haruhisa died of illness and was succeeded by Niko Yoshihisa. There was chaos in the Nizi clan, and the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki intervened, although Motoyasu had no intention of coordinating reconciliation with the shogunate, but in order to save face, Moto decided to make peace with the Nizi clan, known in history as Yunyi peace.
In 1562 (the 4th year of Yonglu), the Maori clan abandoned the treaty of peace with the Nizi family, and the front line commander of the Nizi army, Tsunemitsu Motomitsu, was persuaded to surrender by the Maori Yuan. The following year, troops were sent to attack the White Deer Castle of the Nizi Army, and after the Maori army captured the White Deer Castle, it basically surrounded the City of Tomita on Tsukiyama, and for the Nizi clan, the fall of the White Deer Castle was equivalent to the fact that the City of Tomita on the Moon Mountain had no barrier, and a large number of people were forced to surrender to the Maori clan. Later, he made sufficient preparations for the attack on Tsukiyama Tomita Castle.
In 1563 (the 5th year of Yonglu), the eldest son, Maori Takamoto, died suddenly and suddenly after meeting with the local people and Zhi Chengchun in the Bigo Kingdom, causing many blows to Yuan, and it was rumored that Longyuan was poisoned and assassinated, and Yuan ordered Chi Makoto and Takamoto's confidant Akagawa Motoho to commit suicide as a sign of responsibility.
In 1565 (Eiroku 8), the Maori army began to encircle Tsukiyama Tomita Castle, and the first siege was repelled by the Nizi army. In September of the same year, a second siege was carried out, during which rumors were successfully spread about the old Uyama Hisatsu of the Uniko clan and the Mori clan, and Yoshihisa believed the rumor and beheaded Yukiyama, who was in charge of handling the food of the soldiers. After a long siege of the Maori army, the city began to lack food, the city began to replace rice with porridge, and soldiers surrendered one after another. In November, Niko Yoshihisa surrendered to the Maori army and transferred his two younger brothers to AnYiguo for more than two decades. By that time, the Maori clan had become the daimyō who controlled the Eight Kingdoms.
The Niko clan was still not officially destroyed, and some of the nichi clan's remnants still tried to resist, Yamanaka Yukimori elected Neko Makoto's son Neko Katsuhisa, who had been ordained in Kyoto, to try to restore the power of the Nizi clan, and the Otomo clan was also preparing to compete in Kyushu for the territories of Toyomaru and Chikugo Kingdom, which originally belonged to the Ouchi clan, and Ōuchi Yoshihiro, the nephew of the Otomo clan who had been exiled for many years, was aided by the Otomo clan in an attempt to restore the Ouchi clan, launching a surprise attack on Yamaguchi, and Maori was caught in a dilemma. In order to enter the gateway to Kitakyushu, Toyomae Munji Castle, the Mori clan repeatedly fought against the Ōtomo clan, and allied with the Akizuki clan of the ancient mountain castle, and plotted against the Tachibana Yama castle lord Tachibana Kanzai and takahashi Kanshine, the lord of The Ōtomo Clan, and after weighing the gains and losses, Māori Moto decided to reconcile with the Ōtomo army and withdraw his troops back to China to pacify the remnants of the Ouchi and Nishi clans. Maori relinquished Kyushu's territory and ceded Monji Castle, which Ōtomo Muneyoshi had been unable to capture, and eventually the Maori army defeated Ōuchi Keihiro, who had been aided by the Ōtomo clan, who had invaded The Siege. Although several castles in Izumo Were captured by the Nizi army, the Maori army successfully defended the dangerous Tsukiyama Tomita Castle.
In 1570 (the first year of the Motokame), Maori Huiyuan led his troops to defeat the Nizi army at the Battle of Bubu Mountain, completely expelling the Nizi army from the cloud.
In Moto's later years, he began to contact with the active forces in Gyeonggi, and after the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki broke with Oda Nobunaga, he drew Maori Moto to participate in nobunaga's siege, but Moto refused Yoshiaki, and Moto maintained good relations with Nobunaga, and after Moto's death, Oda Nobunaga sent emissaries to mourn him.
In his later years, Moto entered the body and began to weaken, and once sought treatment from Ashikaga Yoshiaki Kosei Michizo, and successfully recovered. He died of illness in Yamashiro, Yoshida-gun, on June 14, 1571, probably due to aging or esophageal cancer.
According to the statistics of various documents, the number of joint battles in his lifetime exceeded 200 times, which was quite rare in the Warring States period. (Of course, there are also theories that compressed the number of his joint battles to 48, of which 45 were won, and the winning rate was still the highest), and there were many surprises, classic battles include: the Battle of Ida Nakate, in which takeda Motobu, who was known as Imago Xiangyu, and the Battle of Yamashiro in Yoshida County, the Cage Castle Army was only more than a thousand, and the reinforcements of Yoshitaka Ōuchi successfully repelled tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of Niko Haruhisa, and the Battle of Itsukushima, borrowing murakami Bukit's water army to destroy The Tao Long House 20,000 and beheading 3,000, Known as the Chinese Barrel Sachet (in fact, it should be the Barrel Sachie Battle known as "Honshu Itsukushima").
In his lifetime, there were countless strange plots, and in the early years, there was even a Ming Dynasty person Zhu Liangfan in Japan, who once looked at the face of Yuan, praised Yuan, saying that this person had the appearance of Tang Zong and Song Zu, which should not be underestimated. The defeats of Motoyasu are also very few, the Japanese statistics are only 5, and whether it is 5/48, or 5/200, this is quite small in the Japanese Sengoku defeat rate. There is no doubt that Maori Moto was Japan's first victorious general, and even Takeda Shingen or Uesugi Kenshin could not compare with it. Uesugi Kenshin 38 wins, 23 wins, 4 defeats and 11 draws, Takeda Shingen 54 wins, 37 wins, 8 defeats and 9 draws, the overall real quality can not be compared with the Yuan.