Japanese Sengoku character 14 Andong Ai Season

The above article takes you to understand the fox of Hashu Mogami Yoshimitsu, this article introduces you to the Hiyama Andō system of Hanzhou, of which Andong Aiji, known as the Big Dipper, is the most dazzling.

The Andō clan was originally a wealthy clan in the Tsugaru region (northern Hashu), but was invaded by the powerful southern clan in the local area and fled, and since then it has been divided into two groups: the Hiyama clan of Hashu (originally living in Ezo) and the Minato clan of Ezo (originally living in Tozakiminato), and the two families do not give in to each other, and divide and rule. The protagonist of this article, Aiji Ando, first named Taro, was born in Akita Castle, Hiyama in the eighth year of astronomy (1539), and is the eldest son of Shunji Andong.

In the twenty-third year of astronomy (1554), his father Shunji died of illness, and Ai Ji took over as the seventh family governor. At that time, the Andō clan fought against Tozawa, Asari, and the Nanbu clan to keep the rich counties of Hino and Antlers. After Aiji took the throne, he actively reorganized the town of Joshita, took advantage of maritime trade to develop commerce, established a trading base with ships from the north at the mouth of the Yoneyo River, and exported a large amount of minerals and agricultural products produced on the Yoneyo River to Kyoto and Kansai, building a close trade network and intelligence network, which not only brought economic benefits to the family, but also obtained first-hand intelligence information. At the same time, Aiji used water transportation to sign a business alliance with the northern daimyos such as Echigo Uesugi Kenshin, Noto Tayama clan, and Echizen Asakura Yoshikei to carry out a strategy of distant and close attacks. As a result, Tozaki Minato is the largest port city in northern Japan, together with Echizen Mikuni Minato, Kaga Benyoshimi, Noto Jijimaminato, Iwase Echichu, and Echigo Imamachi Impo Tsugaru 13.

While actively treating internally, externally it is also preparing to guard against strong enemies in the south. In the first year of Eilu (1558), Ai Ji carried out an attack on Hirai, and Asari Katsurai, the brother of Asari Noryu of the Inner Hao clan, disobeyed his brother's right to inherit, so he was wooed by Aiji and became an opportunity to invade Binai, which has abundant wood resources and is an important source of Akita cedar, and the Asari clan also dominates the mines. Ai Ji has successively gathered a large number of anti-southern forces in order to fight against the southern family in the future. In August of the fourth year of Eiroku (1562), Aichi led 1,500 men to attack Hirai under the guidance of Katsurai, and under Andong's fierce attack, Noryu committed suicide at Nagaoka Castle, and his brother Asari Katsurai submitted to Aiji and was appointed as the vicar of Binet, and most of the area of Binai was owned by the Andon family, and the gold and silver mines were also obtained by Aiji.

In terms of diplomacy, Ai Ji chose to join forces with Mogami Yoshimitsu to use the power of Mogami to contain the surrounding hostile forces in order to fight for the north and southern families, and Mogami Yoshimitsu also needed the Andō family to divert the attention of these hostile forces to reduce the burden of the Mogami family. The two heroes of Yushu hit it off to form a league.

In the eighth year of Yonglu, the sharp decline in grain production in the farmlands of Northern Austria led to civil unrest, and Ai Ji decided to send troops abroad at this time, firstly, to relieve the pressure on the population, and secondly, to seize the grain of the southern family. After successfully suppressing the Shitobashi Battle due to food problems, he joined forces with the Asari clan of Hinai and the Kasei clan of Ah Nin to send an army of 5,000 troops across the Curvayama Pass to invade Lujiao County, and attacked with two fronts, the north and south. Nanfang Qingzheng heard the battle report and hurriedly transferred people to help, at that time Shiniao Valley City and Changling City had fallen successively, and the city in the valley was also surrounded by shallow victories, Andong Aiji's main army surrounded Changniu City, but at this time a heavy snow could not attack, plus there was still to prepare for the next spring plowing, so Aiji withdrew.

In the spring of the following year, Aiji transferred to Hokkaido, Oyazaki Jihiro (Andong Branch) raised 6,000 troops to attack Nagau Castle again, and the lord of the city, Yuyoshi, and his uncle Minami Yakuro sent troops to defeat the enemy and fight for death, and Andong Aiji besieged Nagaku Castle, but Nanbu Harumasa had already prepared and mobilized the important ministers of the tribe to raise troops to rescue, and Aiji retired. In October of the same year, he attacked Lujiao County again and invaded the city in the valley, and then because he could not take it for a long time, Anton Aiji attacked Changniu City, and Changniu City could not respond, and was completely annihilated by Andong Army, the city was captured, and Ai Ji successfully occupied the entire territory of Lujiao County.

In March of the eleventh year of Eiroku (1568), the angry Harumasa took Minami Nobunao as the general general, led Ishikawa Takanobu and Nagayu Tomoyoshi to help turn over the mountain, and the general Kunohe Masashi entered Mita Castle through the Horo Border Road, and jointly attacked the Antler County from the north and south, due to the new occupation of the Antong County in front of the Andong family, there are still many forces in the county that originally belonged to the Southern Family, when it echoed the recovery action of the Southern Army, it immediately caused the Andong family's domination in the antlers to collapse, and the soldiers in the lead successively defected to the Southern Army, and the Antlers County returned to the hands of the Southern Clan, After that, the two faced off for a long time on the front line of Binet and Antlers.

In the 12th year of Eiroku (1569), in order to ease the pressure brought by the southern clan, Aichi married the Tsugaru Namoka clan, and Aichi married his ten-year-old daughter to the Nanaoka clan under the mediation of the Ezo lord Oyozaki Jihiro, and formed a marriage alliance with the Tsugaru Namoka clan, which was friendly to the southern family, which undoubtedly buried many variables behind the south and indirectly contained the southern family.

Aiti also had an accurate grasp of the general situation of the world because of the intelligence network of water transport trade, and immediately after receiving the latest information from the central area, he used an eagle as a gift to interact with Oda Nobunaga, who was the most imposing at the time, and Nobunaga sent a tai sword as a gift to Aichi in return, strengthening the relationship between the two sides. In the seventh year of Tensho (1579), Hiyama, the envoy of Aichi, went to Luo Jin to meet Oda Nobunaga three times with Maeda Satsuma, the envoy of Senkita Kamioura Onodera Keido and Maeda Satsuma, the envoy of Senkita Kitauratozawa Moriyasu. In the eighth year of Tensho (1580), Oda Nobunaga asked the emperor to make Aizi a servant of the five superiors, and asked his second son Minori Andō to marry Nobunaga's niece, Hosokawa Nobuyoshi's daughter. At the time of the change of Honnoji Temple, Aiji was also the first Ou daimyo to receive news of Nobunaga's death from Kaima, and after weighing it, Aiji decided to associate with Hideyoshi Hashiba, and received a cordial response from Hideyoshi, which shows Aiji's vicious eyes outside the military strategy.

Under the leadership of Aiji, the Andō family spread throughout Nishi-Tsugaru, Hinai, Hiyama, Dai-aren, Ko-Aren, Koto, Kokashima, Minato, Toshima, Akaozu, and Hagawa to build the largest territory of the Andō family, and Anton Aiji was hailed as a figure like the Big Dipper in the sky.

Due to the economic blockade of the Andō family on water transportation, the Tozawa clan's financial resources were greatly hit, and in the face of the invasion of the Andong army, Tozawa Moriyasu led 1,200 troops from Arakawa Castle, the two armies faced off at Karamatsuno , Tozawa Moriyasu let the retainers enter Fujizuku and defended the army to carry out guerrilla attacks in the east of the Andong army, Moriyasu himself faced the Andong army head-on, after three days of white blade battle, the Andong army retreated, losing 300 men, while the Tozawa army only lost a hundred people, less than half of the Andong army, and the fierce general Jiacheng Shigemori was also killed in the battle. And Anton Aiji died of illness on the way to withdraw after the defeat at the age of forty-nine.

Facing the invasion of the southern family that was stronger than itself, the small forces around it fought hard to survive under constant oppression, grew the family's power, actively developed agriculture, commerce and mining to make the territory prosperous, and gradually closed the gap with the old enemy south. He is the master of the family's Chinese martial arts and excellent calm and fortitude.