After hundreds of years of strife and continuous annexation, the chaotic Sengoku period of Japan was ended by Toyotomi Hideyoshi; this Toyotomi Hideyoshi was also a legendary figure, who rose from a pariah without a surname to one of Oda Nobunaga's most favored courtiers, defeated one competitor after another after Oda Nobunaga's death, and spent many years unifying Japan after inheriting the inheritance left by Oda Nobunaga.
However, after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the power he had established did not continue as he thought, and the reason was the contradiction between his wife Ning Ning and the birth mother of his heir Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Ning Ning was the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and because of her outstanding ability, she had the respect of the gang that followed Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the world; and Cha cha came from a noble family, her father was Asai Nagamasa (the overlord of Omi Kingdom), and she was the mother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, so she also received a lot of support.
As a result, the Toyotomi Hideyoshi clique split into two parts, one part was the military attaché faction that was gradually snubbed and suppressed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, most of the military attaché faction was a veteran-level meritorious warrior, who was naturally led by Ning Ning; and the other part was the civilian ministers who were gradually used by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, after all, in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's view, the world would be governed after the world was decided, so the civilian officials became the new favorites, and the civilian officials' idea was very simple, that is, to follow the lord and heirs, so they united under chacha, that is, the civilian official faction.
During Toyotomi Hideyoshi's lifetime, neither the military attaché faction nor the civilian faction dared to make a mistake, and at most it was only a small friction; but after toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, the military attaché faction and the civilian official faction became intolerable opponents of life and death. Tokugawa Ieyasu waited for this opportunity, he continued to win over the members of the toyotomi group's military attaché faction, and by the time Tokugawa Ieyasu and toyotomi group fell out, the strength of the two sides was almost the same. In the end, the two sides broke out in the Sekigahara area of the Mino Kingdom, a major battle that determined the fate of the country, the Sekigahara War.
Among them, the alliance army led by Tokugawa Ieyasu was called the "Eastern Army", while the toyotomi Group's troops were led by Ishida Sansei, called the "Western Army"; the strength of the two sides was also similar, the Eastern Army was almost between 70,000 and 100,000, while the Western Army was more than 80,000; the strength of the two sides was almost the same, and Ishida Sansei's ability was not weak; in short, no matter how the two sides looked at it, it would be a protracted war, but it was not expected that due to the rebellion of the Western Army general Kohayakawa Hideaki, the battle would be won and lost in one day.
Many people may be curious, is this little Hayakawa Hideaki so important? Don't underestimate him, at that time, in the Western Army, there were fifteen thousand horses brought by Hideaki Hayakawa, and the Maori Hidemoto of the Maori family at that time was only fifteen thousand people, and the largest number of Ukita Hideyoshi was seventeen thousand two hundred and twenty, that is to say, Kohayakawa Hideaki's troop strength was the third largest in the Western Army; and this Little Hayakawa Hideaki was also a famous general who had made great contributions during the Korean War.
However, due to the murder of Ryo, Hideaki Hayakawa not only did not receive a reward, but was punished by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and had part of his territory confiscated; Hayakawa Hideaki believed that Ishida Misei had lied to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, so he began to get close to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Tokugawa Ieyasu took the opportunity to woo him and intercede for him to restore his old domain. Before the Outbreak of the Battle of Sekigahara, Hideaki Hayakawa was originally prepared to join Tokugawa Ieyasu's side, but later, together with Tokugawa Ieyasu, he joined Ishida Sansei's side in order to give Ishida Sansei a fatal blow.
Of course, there is also a saying that Hideaki Hayakawa's biological father, Kinoshita Ieyasu, must have been the older brother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi Masamune Ninnin, so Kohayakawa Hideaki became toyotomi Hideyoshi's adopted son at the age of three, and because Toyotomi Hideyoshi had no heirs for a long time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's nephew Toyotomi Hideji and Ning Ning's nephew Hideaki Hayakawa (then Hidetoshi Haba) became the heirs of the Toyotomi family. However, after the birth of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's second son, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Toyotomi Hideji and Hideaki Hayakawa became a stumbling block for Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Toyotomi Hideji indulged in wine all day long, and was finally grabbed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and executed. Hideaki Hayakawa, on the other hand, escaped the fate of being executed with a low-key style, and was sent to the Western Kingdom to become the adopted son of Kohayakawa Takakei, and eventually inherited the Hayakawa family business. However, he was full of hatred for the Toyotomi clan in his heart, so when Tokugawa Ieyasu came to woo him, he did not hesitate to turn to Tokugawa Ieyasu and gave the Toyotomi clan a fatal blow during the Sekigahara War.
In short, in any case, such a war that determined the future fate of Japan, a great war of great scale and seemingly equal strength, was such a child's play, and the Toyotomi side was defeated, and the defeat was complete; in the years that followed, although the Osaka Summer Array and the Osaka Winter Front broke out, it was a unified war launched by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the Toyotomi clan could only be a passive defense until its demise...