Blossom on the other side (45): The Battle of Minatogawa, two emperors in one day south of Beijing
On Google Maps, the starting and ending points of Mount Yoshino in Kyoto and Nara are counted, and it takes about two hours to drive to it. Such a distance, even if it is a heavily armed infantry in ancient times, the rapid march can also reach the sunset. The Yoshino Southern Dynasty of Go-Daigo and the Northern Dynasty of Kyoto, which was supported by the Ashikaga clan, were so close that they could be said to be so close. The two sides of the confrontation are close to each other, the tiger is looking at each other, but no one can swallow anyone, and the confrontation between the two emperors in southern Beijing lasts for more than fifty years in one day, which is also very rare.
Distance from Kyoto to Yoshino on Google Maps
On Ashikaga's side, the shogunate was officially created in Kyoto, and everything was in ruins, and the various mountain forces within it needed to be leveled one by one, and the urgent affairs were one after another, but for the time being, they could not take care of the empty shell court in mt. Yoshino. Moreover, the Ashikaga clan knew that after the death of Namgi Masanari, the greatest threat to the shogunate was not Go-Daigo of Yoshino, but Yoshisada Nitta of Hokuriku and Kitahata Ofa of Mutsu.
In February of the third year of Jianwu (1336), Yoshino's Southern Dynasty changed its name to Yuan Yanyuan, and the Northern Dynasty continued to use the Jianwu era name.
After the Battle of Minagawa, go-daigo, who was besieged by the shogunate at Mt. Hiei, was helpless to make peace with the Ashikaga Clan, and Nitta Yoshisada, who was fighting on the front line, was shocked when he learned the news. If the Kenmu court reached a peace agreement with the Ashikaga shogunate, the Nitta clan would bear the stigma of the enemy and would henceforth become the imperial back of go-daigo. With tears in his eyes, Sadaguchi of nitta's clan pleaded bitterly to Go-Daigo, who had no choice but to surrender the throne to Prince Henra, and then entrusted it to Nitta Yoshisada, ordering him to support Hirokaze and go to Echizen to establish another Hokuriku Dynasty.
On October 10, Nitta Yoshisada led the Ichigo clan out of Mt. Hiei for Hokuriku Tsuruga, accompanied by Hengliang's half-brother Prince Shōryō, as well as Yoshisuke Wakaya and Sadami Horiguchi of the Nitta clan.
At this time, Echizen was guarded by the Ashikaga clan's Spokaka Sutra, and upon hearing of Nitta Yoshisada's attack, Spo sent heavy troops to guard the checkpoint between Omi and Echizen, blocking the way of the Nitta Army. Nitta Yoshisada arrived in Omi-Shiozu and found that the road ahead was blocked, so he had to detour around the two lofty mountains of Tochigi Ridge and Kiya Ridge.
Since ancient times, examples of leading armies over the graben have emerged, most notably Hannibal's crossing of the Alps to attack Rome. Usually, this kind of military risk-taking often entails enormous losses, which can only be accomplished by the determined and tenacious commanders.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Northern Continent was as difficult as the Shu Road, climbing mountains and mountains, and falling off cliffs if you were not careful. It was late winter, covered with snow, muddy, and there were no villages on the mountain road all day, so the soldiers could only camp on the top of the mountain, hug each other for warmth, and even burn bows and arrows as a bonfire. Along the way, there were many hungry and cold, and the people and horses froze and starved to death, countless of them.
Coupled with the repeated guerrilla persuasion of the wild samurai under the banner of Spockao, the Nitta army was either killed or surrendered, and the highly morale of the king's army was soon defeated into a remnant army. Fortunately, after three days of marching, Nitta Yoshisada finally arrived in Hokuriku Tsuruga and was welcomed by Kibi Clanji of The Kibi Shrine. Nitta Yoshisada, along with the two princes Hengliang and Zunliang, entered Kanazaki Castle and finally had a respite.
Kanazaki, occupied by Nitta, is a mountain castle located northeast of Tsuruga, backed by steep mountains overlooking Tsuruga Tsu, and is a strategic location. Echizen, the guardian of Spockao, knew about it and sent troops to besiege him. Nitta Yoshisada sent his eldest son, Yoshiaki, to Echigo, and his younger brother Yoshisuke Wakaya to seek foreign aid from Mount Kashiyama, but returned fruitlessly.
Ruins of Kanazaki Castle
20,000 people from Spockao province surrounded Kanasaki. Nitta Yoshisada feasted on the two princes, Hengliang and Zunliang, to show that they were not afraid. The breeze is gentle, the water waves are not happy, Nitta Yoshisada and Yoshisuke Wakiya are each holding musical instruments to play music, and the pipes and bamboo are mixed with the shouts of killing outside the city, which is very pleasant. While sailing, a water fish jumped into the boat, and Fujiwara-born Gongqing Dongyuan Shisei gave a speech on the old story of the King of Wu (there was a similar scene of white fish jumping into the boat at that time), cutting the fish flesh into sashimi and offering it to the heavens. The crowd was frightened and uneasy, and with hope, they survived the winter of the first year of Yanyuan with such difficulty.
In the first month of the second year of Yanyuan (1337), the situation became more and more critical. Kanazaki's foreign aid was cut off, the grain and grass dried up, and he could only go to the sea every day to hunt a small amount of seafood, and then slaughtered warhorses to supplement them. When the snow had melted and the roads were clear, Nitta Yoshisada could not see the imperial army assisted by King Qin, but saw the 20,000 troops sent by the Kyoto shogunate to support The Spockao Sutra. Tens of thousands of people outside the city jumped and danced, eating and drinking, but the city was a miserable decadent and demoralized. Nitta Yoshisada, who had always been scrappy, was helpless and fell into a desperate situation.
Nitta led a small number of elites, and together with his younger brother Yoshisuke Wakaya and Gongqing Dongin Shishi, broke through and fled to Kakuyama Castle. Yoshihito's concubine, Yoshiaki Nitta, and two crown princes, Hengliang and Zunliang, were left in the isolated city of Kanazaki.
After Minatogawa, once again, Nitta Yoshisada abandoned his fire companions and comrades-in-arms who fought side by side...
The gold and silver demon pupils of Royatar in the Silver Ying Biography symbolize two ways of thinking, the bright light of reason and the emotional impulse of the black min. Being able to support one's thinking with reason most of the time is an incredible talent, but intuitive choices at key moments often lead to heavier bitter consequences.
Nitta Yoshisada, as a hero of the times, has extraordinary talents, and he will not be unaware of the serious consequences of abandoning his friends twice, but he is still dominated by impulsive emotions like Royatar. Does this show that man is distinguished from animals by his weak side...
In March, Kanazaki fell to the castle, and Prince Zunra and Yoshiaki Nitta committed suicide. Prince Hirokayoshi and Kibi Miyaji, who had been made crown prince by Go-Daigo, escaped from the back gate of the castle and crossed the sea to hide in a cave, where they were later discovered by the shogunate and sent to Kyoto, where they were poisoned by the shogunate a year later.
Nitta Yoshisada lay dormant in Kashiyama Castle for half a year, during which he recruited comrades from the old party and gathered three thousand men and horses. At this time, the monks and local tycoons in the Kaga area joined the Southern Dynasty camp and attacked the shogunate's side. Nitta Yoshisada sent Yoshisuke Wakaya to rally Kaga's rebel army and march directly at Echizen Fuchu Castle in Spogoroi's Honjin. The Southern Korean forces in the Hokuriku area once again gained the upper hand.
In February of the following year, Nitta Yoshisada and Spokō Tooko fought a major battle in Fuchu, and the shogunate was defeated and retreated to Ashaba County. At this point, except for the seven castle walls of Azuba, Echizen changed hands almost all of the territory. Nitta Yoshisada gathered the Miyakata forces that supported the Southern Dynasty and besieged the Seven Castles of Ashiba with all his might. During the siege, he heard the news that the Hokuhata Lords had erected the Wind Forest Volcano Banner and swept across the Kanto Continent again, just as the Wolf of the Wind had conquered Kamakura.
When the Ashikaga clan fled to Kyushu, the Hokuhata clan took office and supported Prince Yoshira to Mutsu, where he defeated the Oshu governor of the shogunate at the Sagami Katasekawa. In May of the first year of The First Year of The GreatEr Age of The Great, Innomoto reached Mutsu castle and captured the small castle of Soma Mitsuyoshi, and in June reached Taga Castle.
When hokuhata moved the honjin of the Okuwa Shogunate to Reiyama Castle, he received false news from Kyoto that the Ashikaga brothers had been defeated and killed, so he boldly sent troops from all sides to fight against the samurai forces that supported the shogunate.
At the end of the first year of The Reign of Yanyuan (1336), the Hokusaka clan received an edict from the imperial court to transfer troops, but he was entangled in the war with Soma and Satake and could not immediately send troops to Shangluo. It was not until July of the following year that the Shōgun eliminated Yoshitoshi Satake of Tokiriku that he gathered his men and horses and prepared for the Western Expedition.
In August of the second year of the Southern Dynasty and the fourth year of the Northern Dynasty (1337), the Northern Emperor and Prince Yiliang left Lingshan Castle. On September 19, they crossed the Shirakawa Pass, on November 6 they captured Koyama Castle, on December 13 the stormy Kitahata army defeated Ashikaga Yoshitsune, the sister-in-law of the Ashikaga clan, on the 16th, they defeated the shogunate army again in Musashi Eibara, and on the 23rd they occupied Kamakura, severely damaging the Kwantung Samuku forces.
On the second day of the first month of the third year of the Southern Dynasty and the fifth year of the Northern Dynasty (1338), the Hokuba Clan set out from Kamakura and reached Owari on the 28th, where they met at Mino and Prince Muneyoshi and Hojo. Hojo Shiyuki was the son of Hojo Takashi, the last ruler of the Kamakura shogunate, and was defeated by the Ashikaga Clan during the Rebellion of the Chu dynasty, and now Higashiyama has joined forces with the Forces of the Southern Dynasty to jointly deal with the Great Demon King Ashikaga Shogunate.
Due to the rather severe situation in the southern dynasty around Gyeonggi, the Hokuba clan had no time to consolidate the base areas of Mutsu and Kwantung, and even the logistical support could not be complete, so they could only advance with the whole army and plunder on the spot, because the grain was in the enemy. Legend has it that wherever the Northern Hata army went, it was like a group of wolves crossing the border, and the grass and trees did not exist, but only red flames and white bones remained.
The Hokuhata shogunate fought a difficult blow at the Battle of Mino Aonohara, and the shogunate suffered heavy casualties. The losses of the Kitabata army were also not small, and the original plan was to go north to meet Nitta Yoshisada, but was blocked by Gao Shitai and failed to achieve his wishes, so he turned south and entered Ise. Break through the isso around Ise and make a detour into Yamato. It is also said that the Hokuhata clan, who was from the public side, hated Nitta Yoshisada, who was a samurai, and deliberately defaulted.
On 21 February, the Kita hata army, which had marched all the way from Mutsu to Yamato, occupied Nara, and the wolf of the wind, who had won every battle, was finally exhausted, and was surrounded and suppressed by the high divisions of the Makukata and Momoi Naotsuki in the battles around Narasaka, Todaiji, Praruosaka, and Sanjo, and lost one after another.
On March 8, the Hokuhata clan was defeated in the Battle of Settsu Tennoji Temple. Then he led the remnants of the army to line up at Oyama Hachiman, and then fought against the shogunate and won. Seeing the difficult situation, Prince Yoshira left the Hokuba army and fled to Yoshino.
In May, The Hokusaka clan encountered the shogunate's famous shogun Takashi Nao, and was caught in a fight and could not escape. On May 22, Hokuha, who was trying to retreat to Yoshino, died in the Battle of Abe Field at the age of twenty-one.
The Wind Forest Volcanic Array Flag that had been held high all the way from Mutsu fell, falling like rain and trampling into mud.
The world has always ended like this, and suddenly the color changes in the eyes of the world.
A week before his death in battle, the Hokusaka emperor, who was expected to die, presented a seven-point exhortation to Emperor Go-Daigo summarizing the reasons for the failure of the Jianwu New Deal and making a series of suggestions for the military and political aspects of the Southern Dynasty.
The first article of the article is to prepare local administration and build a stronghold. The second article is to exempt the nations from taxes and rest with the people. Article 3: Prudent appointment of court officials. The fourth article carefully considers the indiscriminate rewards for courtier monks. Article 5: Suspension of travel and feasting. Article 6: Strict laws. The seventh rule excludes adulterers and stays away from villains.
Each of the passages pointed directly to the confusion of the New Deal, clearly indicating the cause and effect of the court losing the trust of the samurai and the support of the people. But it was too late, and Yoshino Nanchao was terminally ill and could not be saved.
Kitahata was killed in battle, and the remnants retreated to Mount Oyama, surrounded by shogunates. The anxious Emperor Go-Daigo personally wrote an edict and begged Nitta Yoshisada for help. Nitta received a letter from Daisuke, declaring: "Since the ancient source of the Hei takeshi, he has been a royal family, and has not heard of the hand edict." Now I am proud, and I am not effective in this time! "The imperial court regarded the warriors as guinea pigs, and never wrote a letter from the emperor himself, and now the river and the sea are deeply gracious, and the only way to sell death is to repay the royal family."
However, Nitta Yoshisada could not let go of the Same Wave Takashi, who was like a falling water dog, so he left three thousand people to continue the siege of the city, and let his younger brother Yoshisuke Wakiya bring 20,000 horses to rescue Oyama. Not long after hearing that The ManZan had fallen, he simply called the house back to continue the death of the Spogao Sutra.
Previously, Nitta Yoshisada was advised to abandon Echizen and lead his troops south to join the Hokuhata Clan and jointly attack Kyoto. Because of the loss of face in Kanazaki, Nitta did not want to let go of the Spocko Sutra and did not adopt this advice. Nitta Yoshisada and Kitaha, as the military doubles of the Southern Dynasty, had the opportunity to sweep Gyeonggi and completely reverse the direction of the torrent of history. As a result, because of these subtle reasons, the two were like shooting stars passing by, both walking with their backs to each other, annihilated at the end of the endless sky.
On July 2, the Xintian army gathered at Dengming Temple, with a total strength of more than 30,000 troops divided into seven teams, and attacked the seven fortresses under The Siege of Sibo. The disciples of The Hiraizumi-ji Temple, who were stationed in Fujishima Castle, resisted to the death and were eager to succeed. Nitta Yoshisada, who was sitting at dengming temple, heard that the battle situation was unfavorable and personally led more than fifty horsemen to supervise the battle.
Hearing of Fujishima's danger, the three hundred mounted samurai on Theo's side set out for reinforcements from Kuromaru Castle, only to meet Nitta's men and horses on the narrow road. At this time, it was dark at dusk, and the two sides suddenly encountered the enemy, did not dare to slacken off, and took out their bows and arrows to shoot at each other.
Nakano Munemasa, a soldier in the Nitta team, said to Nitta, "The crossbow of a thousand guns is not for the weasel." "Advise Nitta Yoshisada not to put himself in danger and run away." Nitta probably remembered Minagawa's Nanki and Kanazaki's Hirayoshi, and replied, "Abandoning the crowd alone is not my intention." "As a result, the horse was hit five times in a row and fell into the mud. Nitta struggled to get up, but was shot in the face by an arrow from Spaugh's archer. He did not expect to be spared, so he killed himself, Chinese New Year's Eve eight years old.
After Nitta's death, the Hokuriku Dynasty he had built with his own hands vanished, and the Echizen guardian of the Ashikaga shogunate, Spoko Kei, defeated Yoshisuke Wakiya and firmly controlled the Hokuriku kingdoms. It is said that Nitta Yoshisada carried with him the famous swords Onichi and OniMaru, and after Yoshisada's death, two famous swords fell into the hands of Spocko Kei. Spo asked Ashikaga to reward him with his sword, but Ashikaga flatly refused. During the period of this disturbance, the disgruntled Spokorgyo-kei turned to Ashikaga Naoto to confront the Ashikaga Clan, which is another afterthought.
The famous knife ghost cut, that is, the famous knife cut by Watanabe, a minister of the Genrai Hikari family, who cut off the arm of the Ibaraki boy at the Luocheng Gate
After the two empires of Kitahata Xianjia and Nitta Yoshisada were both killed in battle, the surviving Yoshino Southern Dynasty was like the nest of the dry well, the old sun window Liao, the autumn water was too few people, the cold and clear light, and a willow bent over.
I have also seen the Jinling Jade Hall warblers crying dawn, Qinhuai Water Pavilion flowers blooming early, who knows easy ice dissipation. Watching him rise up the Zhu Lou, watching him entertain guests, watching him collapse the building. This mossy pile of green tiles also slept in the wind and rain, and watched the rise and fall of fifty years full.
(End of Section 46)
The Other Side of the Blossom (47): Guan Ying disturbed, the bastard war of the power tour