Regarding the university history professor who flipped over on the B station, Ben Ghost has written several articles. But some of the professor's mistakes are really outrageous and are mistakes that no player in the glory game will make, such as "Oda Nobunaga destroys Maori Keigen". The professor had a hard time understanding that Oda Nobunaga had not eliminated Mori Keigen. So why didn't Oda Nobunaga eliminate Maori Keikin?
During the Sengoku period of Japan, a top Sengoku tyrant appeared in the Chinese region of western Honshu Island (a Japanese place name unrelated to China), the "First Wise General of the Western Kingdom" Maori Motoyasu. Under the rule of the Maori Yuan, the Maori family developed from a small national Hao clan to the daimyō of the first warring states in western Japan. The Maori family's sphere of influence at its peak covered almost the entire sixteen kingdoms of China.
In addition to the Chinese region, the Maori clan's forces even entered Kyushu and Shikoku Island, and other daimyōs in the Chinese region were also vassals of the Maori clan, and only the Uki clan of Bizen barely maintained their independence. It can be said that the Maori family in its heyday was already a Great Name of the Sengoku Who had the conditions to become the core of Japan's reunification, but for various reasons, the Maori family did not have the ambition to unify Japan.
In the later years of the Maori yuan, Oda Nobunaga became the core of Japanese unification, and the Maori family began to decline. In the second year of the Yuan Gui (1571), Maori Yuan died of illness, and his grandson Maori Huiyuan succeeded to the throne. Maori Washimoto was only eighteen years old when he succeeded to the throne, and the real power of the Maori family was in the hands of Motoharu Yoshikawa and Takaaki Hayakawa, two sons of Maori Motoyasu, and the supremacy of the Maori family in China was gradually shaken.
In the fifth year of Tenshō (1577), Oda Nobunaga formed the Yamayo-michi Regiment headed by Hideyoshi Hashiba (Toyotomi Hideyoshi) and was tasked with fighting Mori Keigen. Although the contest between Maori Keiki and Toyotomi Hideyoshi cannot be said to be repeated battles and defeats, it is also a victory and a lot of defeat. The power and territory of the Maori family was reduced to less than seven kingdoms by the Yamayo-do Legion, and Oda Nobunaga's main army had not yet arrived!
In the 10th year of Tenshō (1582), Toyotomi Hideyoshi led an army of 30,000 men to attack Takamatsu Castle, a strategic stronghold of the Maori family in Bichu, and staged the famous "flooded Takamatsu". If Takamatsu Castle falls, the Maori family will most likely lose bichu and beihou, and the hometown of AnYiguo will also be exposed to the Oda family. Therefore, Maori Huiyuan, Yoshikawa Motoharu, and Kohayakawa Takakei personally led tens of thousands of main troops to rescue Takamatsu Castle.
However, in front of the artificial lake formed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's water attack method, the Maori army could neither rescue Takamatsu Castle nor directly engage Toyotomi Hideyoshi, so they had to confront Toyotomi Hideyoshi on the mountain. At the same time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi continued to attack the Maori family's logistics supply by various means. According to the documents left by Maori Huiyuan, the Maori army was on the verge of collapse after a long period of attrition.
At this time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi asked Oda Nobunaga to personally lead the Oda family's main army to support. Toyotomi Hideyoshi had two ideas in this move: the first was to eliminate the possibility of "high merit is difficult to reward"; the second was to drag the on-the-verge collapse of Maori Huiyuan into a strategic decisive battle with the Oda Army, thus eliminating the Maori family in one fell swoop. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's first thought was difficult to say, but Oda Nobunaga agreed with the second.
Oda Nobunaga ordered the main force of the Oda army in to assemble, and he himself went to Kyoto to see the emperor. Oda Nobunaga prepared to make peace with the main force of the assembled Oda Army after meeting the Emperor, and then personally led a large army to support Toyotomi Hideyoshi. If Oda Nobunaga's main force arrives at Takamatsu Castle, the demise of the Maori family is a matter of time, and the fate of Mori Keiki will not be much better than that of Takeda Katsurai.
But what most people did not expect was that Oda Nobunaga, who had met the Emperor, suddenly encountered the rebellion of Mitsuhide Ofe Mitsuhide at Honnō-ji Temple in Kyoto, which is known as the "Honnoji Change". After receiving the news of the Honnoji Rebellion, Toyotomi Hideyoshi immediately led his army back to to fight against Mitsuhide. In desperate circumstances, Maori Keigen took Hayakawa Takaaki's advice and refused to pursue Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army.
After Toyotomi Hideyoshi became the core of Japanese unification, Maori Keigen voluntarily submitted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, not only retaining the remaining territory, but also finally ranking as one of the "Five Elders" of the Toyotomi regime. It can be said that the "Honnoji Change" saved Maori Huiyuan, and Oda Nobunaga did not eliminate Maori Huiyuan completely by accident.