After Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, due to the failure to attack North Korea and other remaining issues, such as the issue of heirs, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's two sons died and chose to train his nephew and adopted son Toyotomi Hideyuki to become heirs. However, the third son, Hideyoshi, was born, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi turned to raise his own son and finally killed the full-fledged Toyotomi Hideyuki. When he died, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was young and unable to handle government affairs, which led to Japan's re-entry turmoil.

Mitsunari Ishida, the important minister of the Toyota regime, has always been dissatisfied with Toyotokawa Ieyasu. In order to repay Toyotoko Hideyoshi, he promoted himself as the regent of Toyotoko Hideyoshi. At the same time, he was unwilling to accept his power being taken away by Toyotokawa Ieyasu and decided to raise an army to resist Toyotokawa Ieyasu.

The second year after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, the Maeda Takaya, who was second only to Tokugawa Ieyasu and Mori Hiromoto, died. The balance of power was broken and the Toyotomi regime was officially split.

Two factions were formed, headed by Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsu, while Maori Hiromoto chose to join Ishida Mitsu's camp. At the same time, with a force of 25,000, it was the largest force in the Western Army and was elected as the general of the Western Army.

Tokugawa Ieyasu led the eastern princes with 30,000 troops and became the general of the Eastern Army. Both sides used more than 100,000 troops to fight in Sekihara in the Mino area. This was the largest civil war in Japanese history.

During the Sekihara joint battle, Hideaki Kobayashi, who had 15,000 troops in the Western Army, turned against him. Hideaki Mori's cousin Hideaki Mori had already reached an agreement with Tokugawa Ieyashi to remain neutral and remain unmoved when the battle was most urgent. Hiroeyashi Yoshikawa, the retainer of Hiroeyashi Yoshikawa, informed Tokugawa Ieyashi. In addition, due to Hideaki Kobayashi's defeat, the situation on the battlefield worsened. Naobo Akasa, Yutaki Ogawa, Mototaki Kuraki, and Yasuka Sushiji all turned against him, which eventually led to the defeat of the Western Army, and the Eastern Army led by Ieyashi Tokugawa won the victory and established hegemony.

Compared with Ekiyoshi Ankori, Mitsunari Ishida and Governor Konishi were arrested one after another. They first paraded in Kyoto half a month after the war, and then beheaded in Kyoto Rikahara. As the general of the Western Army, Muri Hiromoto ended much better.

The reason why he was able to save his life was mainly because he ran away in the Battle of Sekigahara. Although he was defeated, he still had a certain strength. Tokugawa Ieyasu did not have the ability to kill him.

After all, the Eastern Army was essentially an alliance, with only more than 30,000 soldiers and horses directly under it, and other forces of the Toyotomi regime needed to be dealt with. At that time, the Toyotomi regime could use more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and Tokugawa Ieyasu's primary goal was still the Toyotomi regime.

In addition, Maori Hiromoto surrendered and expressed his loyalty, Tokugawa Ieyasu did not fight to the end, and reduced the Anyi under the Choshu vassal. After the five countries of Ishimi, Izumo, Oki and the three western counties of the Boqi Kingdom, only allowed Maori Hiromoto to retain Nagato and Zhou Fang to defend the two countries, which is the current territory of the Choshu vassal.

If there was no Western Army in the Battle of Sekigahara that year, and the two-five-children like Mori and Hirokashi Yoshikawa, the failure of the East Army rather than the Western Army, then the current shogun should be Muri Hideyu, not his Tokugawa Iehime.

Therefore, I was extremely shocked that the Maori Hide was killed and the Nagashu family was destroyed.

Even after the Battle of Sekihara, the strength of the Maori family had been weakened, but the lean camel was larger than a horse and still retained an army of more than 20,000 people. As a result, under the attack of the Ming army and the Korean coalition, he could not resist it for even a day. Hagi Castle, as a vassal hall, was captured and Maori Shui was killed.

Therefore, Tokugawa Iemitsu has a strong sense of crisis.

Previously, several vassals of Changshu, Fukuoka and Saga started war with North Korea. He had always been watching the tiger fight, hoping to weaken the strength of the vassals such as Changshu, Fukuoka and Saga, so as not to affect the authority of the shogunate. At the same time, this was also a critical period for him to carry out political reforms.

Last year, his father, the second-generation shogun, Hinata Tokugawa, passed away, and the binary politics was lifted. He took power himself and carried out drastic reforms, establishing the system of Laozhong, who would send to the old school, and pursue, and pay the responsibilities and powers in a standardized manner. The political system of the shogunate was completely established, and the current general of the shogunate was designated as the highest authority.

In addition, at the beginning of this year, a national lockdown order was issued, prohibiting ships from ferrying ships other than ships with books. In addition, Japanese who have been stranded abroad for more than 5 years were prohibited from returning to China.

All of this is being carried out gradually. When all measures are completed, the power of the Tokugawa shogunate will be greatly improved, and its status will also go from being the leader of the princes and becoming the de facto ruler of Japan.

He did not want to participate in the Korean war too early, which led to variables in this reform. Even if he wanted to participate, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was so strong that he rashly conquered North Korea and failed. After his death, this supreme authority was brought to their Tokugawa family.

And he also believed that with the strength of the Koreans, it would not pose too much threat. It would be wonderful to wait until the Koreans and the Choshu clan and the Fukuoka clan fight almost the same, and the shogunate sent troops to defeat the Korean army and pick the fruits of victory.

Even a hint of ambition emerged in his heart. Why couldn't he do it when Toyotomi Hideyoshi was able to easily conquer most of North Korea?

Toyotomi Hideyoshi took less than two months to seize seven of the eight North Korean paths. If the Ming army had not entered North Korea to participate in the war, North Korea would have become Japan's territory.

But Tokugawa Iehiko was facing different situations. He also knew about the situation in Liaodong, the Jianzhou Jurchen rebellion, captured the entire Liaodong, and even once attacked the Ming Dynasty's Gyeonggi area, and at the same time cut off the Ming Dynasty's land route to North Korea.

This means that if we can seize the opportunity and eliminate the Korean army that has captured Kyushu in one fell swoop, we can take advantage of the situation to kill the Korean mainland. The Ming Dynasty could not help North Korea on land except for reinforcements from sea, and it was not even certain whether the Ming Dynasty would send troops. After all, the Later Jin Dynasty was eyeing it.

Tokugawa Iemitsu even thought that he could unite with the Later Jin that betrayed the Ming Dynasty and jointly plan for the Ming Dynasty.

But now, with the participation of the Ming Dynasty in the war, the Changzhou vassal state was instantly destroyed, and he also realized the reality.

The Ming Dynasty is still the same Ming Dynasty.

Now, he no longer has the idea of ​​getting involved in North Korea. The most important thing at this stage is how to defeat the invading Ming coalition and regain the Changshu vassal state, otherwise the authority of the Tokugawa shogunate would be questioned.

The news that the Choshu vassal was destroyed and the Mori Hide died was soon learned by others in the shogunate.

Not long after, under the convening of Tokugawa Iemitsu, Hiromasa Itakami, Matsuhira Nobutsu, Tada Abe Tada Abe Shigeji, Shiroji Miura, Shiroji Abe, Masamoto Horita, Shiroji Ota, and other senior officials came to see Iroku Tokugawa Iemitsu and discussed solutions to the matter.

Tokugawa Ie-Kiang sent troops to fight back the invading enemy and recaptured the Changshu vassal, which was unanimously agreed by everyone.

But the candidates for the battle have been controversial, which is a great contribution. Almost everyone wants to get it. So except for some who are too old or who feel that they lack prestige, the rest of the people volunteered to lead their troops to the war.

Therefore, there were some differences in the shogunate around the candidates for the expedition, but fortunately, Tokugawa Iemitsu was skilled and completed the matter through some operations.

The final decision was made to be the general of Matsuhira Nobunaga, Shigemasa Itakura, Masaji Miura and Zisom Oda as deputy generals.

Matsuhira Nobutsu, Miura Masaji and Oda Zisom, together led the main army to the Changshu clan to repel the Ming coalition forces that captured the Changshu clan.

These three people are old ministers of the Tokugawa family. They either serve the Tokugawa family from their parents or ancestors, so Tokugawa Iemitsu has a lot of trust in it.

This time, in order to deal with Kong Youde, they will dispatch an extremely large army. Matsuhira Nobuzuki will personally lead 20,000 troops directly under the shogunate, Ishimiguo, Beichi and other shogunate garrisons of 20,000, and they will all be dispatched by him. Miura Masaji and Oda Shizo are responsible for assisting Matsuhira Nobuzuki's command.

In addition, there are the army of the three families of the Mito Tokugawa family, the Mito Tokugawa family's nine thousand army, led by the vassal lord Tokugawa Raiya, that is, the eleventh uncle of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the Ozawa Tokugawa family's 12 thousand army, led by the vassal lord Tokugawa Yoshinaga, the nihito Tokugawa Iemitsu, the nihito Tokugawa Iemitsu, and the 11 thousand army of the Kii Tokugawa family, the vassal lord Tokugawa Raiyo and the 10 uncle of Tokugawa Iemitsu.

Furthermore, some local daimyo troops sent more troops, including the Tosa vassal 8,000, the Izumo vassal 6,000, the Hiroshima vassal 10,000, the Fukuyama vassal 7,000, the Okayama vassal 9,000, and some small vassals, such as the Toyooka vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal vassal va

In addition, there were the naval forces of the vassals such as Kii, Satsuma, Kumamoto, and the navy directly under the shogunate to deal with the Ming army and the Korean fleet.

More than 20 Daming families of all sizes, plus the troops of the Shogunate and the Imperial family, this time, in order to deal with the Ming Dynasty coalition, the Tokugawa Shogunate mobilized a total of more than 130,000 troops.

On the other hand, Shigemasa Italam was arranged to go to Kyushu Island to organize the troops of Satsuma, Himeqian, Himehou and other vassals to repel the North Korean army entering Kyushu Island, and the troops would reach 60,000.

Tokugawa Iemitsu spent a lot of money in land warfare, but he was still a little worried about naval warfare. After all, Japan is not like the Ming Dynasty, and has so many resources to cast artillery. According to the news from the Changshu clan, the Ming Dynasty had a large number of warships and artillery, and they had no advantage in naval warfare.

After some consideration, the Tokugawa shogunate sent a letter to Batavia and contacted their business partner, the Dutch, hoping that they could lead the fleet north to assist in the war, saying that they could consider severing trade with the Portuguese and only allowing the Dutch to trade in Japan.

Many people feel that such a move is a bit of a big deal. It is reasonable to use 60,000 people to deal with almost 40,000 Korean troops on Kyushu Island, but in the Changzhou clan, is it necessary to deploy 130,000 troops to deal with just 20,000 to 30,000 enemy troops?
Chapter completed!