Battle of Itsukushima: In 1553, when Masayoshi asked Maori for help, Maori Yuan thought the time was ripe, and the Maori army captured Ginzan Castle in Sato, and then occupied the entire Anyi. After capturing Itsukushima, Tao Qingxian defeated the Maori army in The Siege and approached Itsukushima. A decisive battle between the two sides is inevitable. The Tao army was strong at 25,000, while the Maori army was only 4,000. Tao Qingxian believed that he had the advantage of a water army, so he chose Miyajima, a tourist resort today, as a battlefield. At that time, the number of soldiers and horses that Yuan could mobilize was only four thousand, and if there was a frontal conflict with the enemy, there was no doubt that they would be defeated. Maori Yuan adopted a surprise attack strategy, disguised as the Great Inner Army, and all the personnel abandoned the ship after landing, and ushered in this historic decisive battle.
Maori Moto ordered a general attack, and the unsuspecting Tao army was attacked by the Maori army and fled to the coast, and then attacked by Kohayakawa Takakei, and many soldiers fell into the sea because the ship sank. At the end of the battle, more than 4,700 soldiers, including Tao Qingxian, were killed, and the Maori army won a great victory. In 1557, Maorimoto sent Hayakawa Takakei to attack Numa Castle, and soon the castle was conquered. The governor of the house, Yoshinori Ouchi, left Yamaguchi Castle and went to the house of Ōtomo Kyushu. Maori Yuan sang triumphant songs all the way and took over the rest of the Ouchi Domain, and in order to prevent Ouchi Yoshinori from escaping, Maori Yuan besieged the city while the water army blockaded it. After that, a general attack was launched, and Ouchi Yoshinaga committed suicide and the Ouchi family perished.
The Maori army overthrew the Ouchi family, which had been oppressing it for many years, and began to march eastward to attack the Nizi family, another major force. Maori Yuan did not choose to be tough, but began to plot to win over the four major families of the Yitian family branch. In 1559, the Maori army of 12,000 men attacked The castle of Onyu, the home of Higashi-Iwami Nishiko. Faced with a large army of Maori Yuan, Niko Haruhisa led his army to seek a decisive battle. However, in December of that year, Yoshihisa Yoshihisa died, and the heir apparent, Yoshihisa Yoshihisa, reached a peace agreement with the Mori family. In 1562, the castle was trusted by Mori Motoyoshi, and Iwami Ginzan was owned by the Mori family. In 1566, at the age of 70, the Maori family became ill with overwork, and the Maori family had to suspend its movements. During the long siege, Māori Takamoto also died suddenly at the age of forty-one. In November 1566, the Yoshihisa brothers went out of the city to surrender, but the war did not stop with the demise of the Nizi family.
In 1568, Yoshikawa Motoharu, Kohayakawa Takakei led an army of 25,000 to conquer an army. After that, the Ōtomo army tore up the agreement and attacked the Maori family territory, and the Maori army of 50,000 people went to besiege TachibanaYama Castle. At the age of 72, Maoriyuan did not go on the expedition, and in 1569 his health improved slightly, and he once again went to the battlefield. In May of the same year, Tachibana Castle was captured by Maori troops.
In 1570, at the age of 74, Maori Yuan was unable to fight, and Maori Huiyuan led an army of 26,000 to attack the Nizi Revival Army, which was vulnerable. After that, Maoriyuan's condition deteriorated rapidly, and shortly before his death, Maoriyuan continued to command the war, and he sent Maori water troops to attack the Nizi water army, and in 1571 the Nizi Revival Army failed to surrender. He eventually died of illness in Yamashiro, Yoshida-gun, on June 14, 1571, probably from esophageal cancer, at the age of 74. After the death of Maori Yuan, Yoshikawa Motoharu and Kohayakawa Takaaki kept the maori yuan's will and fully supported maori Keimoto.
Character analysis: Maori Yuan successfully ruled the largest force in the west of Japan from the Anyi Kingdom, and finally ruled the largest force in the west of Japan, with the national stone height of more than 1.2 million stones, known as the "first wise general of the Western Kingdom." He was also one of the fastest-expanding daimyōs of the Sengoku period, with great success in his ability to govern and his keen political judgment. Maori Moto was grieving over the death of Mori Takamoto and washed his face with tears all day long, which also affected Motomoto's condition, and if he lived for a few more years, It would not be easy for Hideyoshi to unify the west. As a first-class wise general of the Warring States, Maori Yuan drove his excellent strategy and tactics to adhere to thorough realism in the chaotic world of the Warring States. Worthy of being the first wise general of Japan's Western Kingdom. During that period, many outstanding intellectual talents also emerged: Takenaka Hanbei, Kuroda Officers and Soldiers, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Matsunaga Hideyoshi...