When the autumn wind was strong, three Japanese troops led by the Imakawa family, Takeda family and Uesugi family successfully met in the Omi area. Dozens of Japanese princes gathered, with a total force of more than 100,000!

But when they "go to Luo", the Japanese Emperor was gone - it turned out that Jiang Yifan had already taken away the Emperor Zhengmachi before the arrival of the princes.

Speaking of this Masato-Chun Emperor, it is really pitiful. He inherited the throne of Emperor Nara last year after the death of Noh's father. However, because the royal family was so poor that they didn't even have money for the throne ceremony, until now, Masato-Chun Emperor has not officially ascended the throne.

After Jiang Yifan arrived in Kyoto, he took out the money to help the royal family, which moved Emperor Zhengqin Town to tears. After that, Jiang Yifan said to him: "Mr. Zhenhai wants to invite the king to Jiezhen and his party, but I don't know what the country has to do with his ideas?"

As soon as this statement came out, the officials and ministers in Kyoto were frightened and said, "How can that be done! How can the emperor leave the palace and how can he leave Kyoto!"

Jiang Yifan smiled and said to Zhengqin Town, "Don't worry about them, just follow me. When I arrive in Jie Town, I will be a king of the country. You can eat delicious food and drink spicy food, live in a beautiful house and marry a beautiful woman, why should you suffer from poverty here? You don't even have a decent house."

It turned out that Masato Town was so poor that it was leaking on rainy days. During his father's death, Emperor Nara was so embarrassed that he had to secretly sell calligraphy and paintings to make a living. At this time, he heard that Li Yan was going to support him, and he couldn't help but be moved. But looking at the ministers outside the curtain, he still said, "This... I'm afraid that Yu Li is not in line..."

Jiang Yifan laughed loudly: "Go to the rituals and laws! The rituals and laws were established by my Zhou Gong of the Heavenly Dynasty. They have been renamed from generation to generation. The Supreme Master (Confucius) has been changed once, Zhu Zi of the Song Dynasty has changed once, and Wang Wencheng Gong (Wang Yangming) has changed again. Now the power of etiquette is in the hands of the Duke of Zhenhai. Since it is an invitation issued by Duke of Zhenhai, how can it be incompatible with etiquette?"

When the Kyoto ministers wanted to say something, Jiang Yifan waved his hand and said, "Go to the side! Don't get involved here!" Then he walked into the curtain, scaring the ministers and the ministers and exclaimed. Jiang Yifan didn't care about them, so he took the hand of Zhengqin Town and said, "Let's go, I will take the king to Jiezhen to have fun. Life is full of joy, so how can I care about so many etiquette systems?"

He actually took Emperor Matsu away like this!

Even though the Kyoto ministers were panicked, they had no way to deal with it.

When the news came out, all the old nobles were panicked, and the emperor was not favored by them. At this time, the emperor was taken away, and they felt that Japan's foundation had moved, "This is a major disaster for the country!"

Shortly after Jiang Yifan left, Oda Nobunaga arrived. A few days later, the Japanese princes rushed over. Imakawa Yoshimoto heard that the Emperor was taken to Jiezhen and said angrily: "They are kidnapping! Killing!"

In fact, Masatocho himself wanted to go to Jiezhen, but his political affairs were not important. As Japan's last belief, the nobles all stubbornly believed that the emperor should not act rashly, so the Japanese princes added another bad reputation to Li Yanzhi: kidnap the emperor!

After the army of Takeda and Uesugi family arrived, an "anti-King-Director" alliance led by Ashikaga Yoshihiro was formed. Correspondingly, the Jie Town immediately established the "King-Benefiting and Protecting the Country" alliance, with Ashikaga Yoshiaki as his mind, Masato-Chun-Chun as his spiritual leader, and hundreds of thousands of farmers outside of Jie Town as his combat power. It clearly proposed to abolish the privileges of the nobles and reduce taxes to the "Ten Taxes One" and even "Fifteen Taxes One" advocated by the Mencius of the Sage! Those low-level samurai who had no land or only a small amount of land were attracted and became the main force of the "King-Benefiting Army". Although this group of King-Benefiting Army had a large number, they did not form a hierarchical organization and were very scattered.

The one-size-fits-all tax reduction proposal of the "Yoda Order" not only shakes the foundation of the Japanese aristocratic rule, but also greatly damages the interests of the great monks. Ishiyama Honanji repeatedly sent envoys to Jie Town, hoping that Li Yanzhi could keep some land for the temple, but he refused every time he received a reply! After being rejected for the fifth time, Honanji Masaru finally couldn't bear it anymore and made a sound of fighting against Jie Town. Honanji Masaru even personally led monk soldiers into the Kyoto Division. Since then, the four giants of "Anti-Ai-King King" have been formed.

A small number of the nobles in Kyoto who turned to Li Yanzhi had left the emperor, but most of them were still in Kyoto, looking forward to the princes coming to Beijing to serve the king and support the "orthodox".

But what they did not expect was that the arrival of the four armies would be a disaster for them!

The so-called "the army and horses should move, food and grass should go first." The total number of troops from the four routes reached more than 100,000, and more than 100,000 people had to eat and drink, but the military rations they brought were not large enough.

In general, Honanji Temple is close to Ishiyama, with abundant temple production and sufficient military rations savings, followed by Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshi, and Imakawa Yoshimoto's journey is the least food-deficient. When the troops arrived in Kinki, they were already poor and deserted. Their only hope was to provide on-site supplies in the Kinki area.

The first one to arrive was Oda Nobunaga. When he rushed into Kyoto, he refused to do anything else. He first controlled all the nearby rice shops, and then listed a charge to execute them and swallowed all the grain and rice. After Imakawa Yoshimoto entered, he verbally established a relationship with the ministers, but at the same time instructed his subordinates to blackmail these people and would not give up until the last grain was squeezed out!

The Kyoto ministers complained and suddenly remembered the benefits of Li Yanzhi. Jiang Yifan did not infringe on Li Yanzhi's order when he arrived in Kyoto. Instead, he gave them gifts. How could he be as barbaric as these princes of his country?

Three days after Imakawa Yoshimoto arrived in Kyoto, all the rice and grain in the market had been plundered, and he expanded the search scope to nearby castles.

The hungry soldiers were very destructive when they found food. Every time the soldiers found a bull of grain, they would destroy at least two bulls. However, at most half of the bulls were left in the hands of the military reserve officer. Imakawa Yoshimoto, Oda Nobunaga and others were like a vampire who searched all the food from the three kingdoms of Tambu and Yama Castle. They only raised less than twenty days of military rations, but they caused tens of thousands of hungry people. Many people heard that the Jie Town could receive food, so they rushed towards Jie Town.

However, it is not allowed to surrender to the enemy! The people are robbed and have no way to survive. Anyone who surrenders to the enemy will be executed!

Who knows how many people Imakawa Yoshimoto and Oda Nobunaga killed in the name of patriotism? In short, when Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin arrived, the corpses were already accumulated in the way, and Lake Biwa was stained with blood.

There were only a few people in the three countries of Danbo, Bomo and Shancheng. There were only a few families - estimated that only a few thousand people hid and survived with a little ration stored by privately stored food. Most of the other people either starved to death in the local area, were killed when they defected to Jiezhen, or starved to death on the way to Jiezhen. Only a small number of people finally arrived at Jiezhen. Wherever they received rations and weapons, they became the new blood of the "King Army" and were arranged to be on the periphery of Jiezhen. And Danbo, Bomo and Shancheng became a country without a man.

There is no natural danger in Jie Town, but after Li Yanzhi occupied it, he had already set up sixteen strongholds outside this commercial town. The sixteen strongholds were distributed in a fan shape, protecting the three directions of Jie Town (the remaining direction is facing the sea), forming a triple line of defense.

These strongholds are empty, each of which can accommodate one to twenty thousand people. Large grain ships docked in Jie Town, and cheap grain from Nanyang area were transported ashore continuously, and then transported from Jie Town to various strongholds. As long as the stronghold is guarded, the Wangjun inside can get food for ten days. The grain can only be digested internally. Once there is an outflow, even if there is only one dou, Jie Town will immediately cut off the supply of food and a grain of rice will not be transported again. The people in each stronghold can only rush forward and cannot retreat, because retreating will be regarded as "the enemy's front drive", and the strongholds behind them will take them as enemies to shoot them!

Every ten days, Jie Town will transport rations that are enough to supply 10,000 people to fill their stomachs. How many of the 16 strongholds are there? Li Yanzhi himself couldn't take a look, but according to Wu Ping's estimate, the number of men, women, young and old in any stronghold will exceed 15,000. How should we distribute it if there are more people and less food?

Li Yanzhi ignored this. As long as the crowd gathered, a social organization would naturally form inside, and there would be strong people to rule the inside. Li Yanzhi only asked Wu Ping to strictly monitor the situation of more than 50 leaders of the sixteen strongholds, and he ignored other things, such as how the food is distributed in the stronghold, how the personnel are trained, and how the stronghold plans to defend.

The sixteen strongholds outside the Jie Town are not paradise, but compared to the looted land in other places in Kinki, there is at least vitality here, so people are constantly attracted to them and become the source of recruits in the sixteen strongholds.

Because there were too many people coming, in the end, the Wangwang Army had to open up two more temporary strongholds.

The food transported from the rear is limited, but the hungry people are constantly flowing in. The era of hunger will naturally allow humans to return to the rule of the jungle law. Some of the overcrowded strongholds began to "disappear in the elderly, weak in sick in the sick in the sick in the sick in the future" - the stronghold's function is to resist foreign enemies. The elderly, weak in the sick in the sick in the future and the disabled in the future have no combat effectiveness and no qualification to survive. The leaders of the stronghold decided to eliminate these people in order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the stronghold.

After hearing this situation, Zhenhai Gongxin couldn't bear it and sent people to patrol the strongholds, but the matter was finally left alone.

"In fact, we can solve this problem." Yang Yu said.

"How to solve it?" Li Yanzhi sighed: "Those who can do such things are the backbone of the eighteen strongholds. If you want to move them, you will be afraid of the mouse!"

"Actually, there is no need to touch them." Yang Yu said: "As long as we increase the supply of food, our food is enough, and it will be transported here in a steady stream."

This harvest in Nanyang has overflowed enough food for millions of people a year. The transportation capacity of large grain ships has solved the traditional high consumption disadvantages of relying on manpower and animal power for transportation. Therefore, the military food reserves in Jiezhen and the new granaries of the Four Kingdoms are quite sufficient.

However, Yang Yu's proposal was only exchanged for Li Yanzhi's cold and cold words: "Scholar!"

Autumn, the five elements belong to metal, which is the season of slaughtering!

The "King Army" finally launched a full-scale attack, and 120,000 people rushed over like wolfs and tigers. The dream generals used their various strategies and military tactics. The two new strongholds on the outermost side were broken overnight because they were invaded by spies. The ones who carried out the counter-espionage strategy were Oda Nobunaga and Mori Motozu. Another stronghold was joined by Kenshin Uesugi and Nobunaga Takeda and forcibly attacked by force.

"I am really worthy of being our Japanese military god and wise general!"

"With their leadership, we will surely win the final victory soon!"

The soldiers who served the King’s Army praised each other and were all full of confidence!

However, Jiezhen became alert. When the generals asked whether to send reinforcements, Li Yanzhi thought it was not necessary.

"Victory and defeat are common in military affairs. We must believe in the power of the Japanese people!" he said.

Wu Ping also agreed with Li Yanzhi's decision: "These two new strongholds are optional. Now we have just lost the outermost one. The fifteen strongholds combined, the defense line is basically complete."

"But do we just ignore the battle outside and let them die?" asked the generals.

"Of course not." Li Yan said bluntly, "It is also necessary to support the Japanese people."

Under Zhou Wenbao's escort, the Japanese Emperor and General Ashikaga Yoshiaki personally came to the front to reward the army. There were fifteen strongholds left. The soldiers and civilians saw the nobles coming to the battlefield, and their morale was greatly boosted. Everyone shouted and fought to the death!

"Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor! We will definitely defend the stronghold!"

Not every stronghold has a Maori Moto and Oda Nobunaga's invasion, and the joint attack between Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin failed to easily continue their glory again.

As expected by Li Yanzhi, with the inspiration of the Emperor and the General, the army of supporters withstood the second wave of attacks with a strong morale in the King's Army!

At least, I have to withstand it for two days!

Two days pass in the blink of an eye, but two days are enough to make many things change drastically!

A news came, and a news that all the kings and soldiers were frightened: the kings and soldiers were killed by all the prisoners of the three strongholds that had been broken!

The first offensive and defensive battle between Jie Town, which lost three strongholds, only five days went on. The number of people on both sides died in chaos. Only more than 5,000 people died in the three strongholds. The Uesugi and Takeda team lost more than 500 soldiers respectively. After the three strongholds were captured, Saito Dosan asked how to deal with prisoners with a population of up to 40,000.

After the battle, Asai Nagamasa suggested: "It's better to use them as the front drive."

However, this suggestion was unanimously opposed by daimyos such as Imakawa Yoshimoto, Takeda Shingen and others!

Taking these 40,000 people as the driving force means supporting them!

Unlike Li Yanzhi, the military rations of the various units of the King's Rescue Army were obviously insufficient. Among them, the number of Imakawa Yimoto's troops was less than 30,000, and the amount of grain was only 15 days. If he was asked to raise these 40,000 people, his military rations would only be enough for five or six days. Imakawa Yimoto could not do such a thing. Even if he did it, the Maori Toshizu, who was temporarily under his command, would not do it! Imakawa Yimoto, neither Takeda Shingen nor Uesugi Kenshin. Honrenji Temple had the most military rations, but he refused to express this kind of compassion.

"These people are not strong in combat!" said Imakawa Yoshimoto: "It's useless to keep them!"

So, have they been let go? Of course not.

If they are released, these people will surrender to the enemy again. Isn’t the people who have formed these sixteen strongholds the people who surrendered from all over the country?

"Let's keep it closed first."

This was the decision of the four giants at the end of the first wave of attacks. Two days later, due to the interception of the offensive, the King of Residents was slightly weak. Even the God of War felt that the deadlock would not be resolved within one or two days. At this time, the 40,000 people had been hungry for two days and two nights!

"Give us a bite of food, give us a bite of food..."

"It's okay to give me a drink."

In the fence, all the insects, rats, grass roots and barks have been eaten up. The dry weather has caused tens of thousands of people to chapple their lips. They stretched out their hands from the fence and waved out to beg for begging. Many irritable people are already trying to collide!

"This won't work! In another day, these prisoners will be rioted!" Imakawa Yoshimoto looked at Honanji Ekima: "It's better for the Master of Dafa to take out some food and show his compassion."

Honanji Temple said to the Buddha's name: "Namo Amitabha..." but did not respond to Imakawa Yoshimoto's proposal.

"Since the Master of Dafa is unwilling to express his compassion..." Kenshino Uesugi said, "What should you do if you guys say?"

Takeda Shingen said angrily: "This group of people is originally a treason thief, and it is not worth mercy to die! It also happened to use their heads to establish my power, so that all treason people will know how to be afraid!"

No one spoke, but half an hour later, the butcher's knife and the big pit were ready.

That night, Maorimoto tricked more than 5,000 prisoners into a ruined village filled with firewood on all sides, blocked the entrance and exit, and then set off a fire!

The dying cry of the prisoners was heard in the Liaotian fire, but no one could rush out. Five thousand people were burned to death inside. The stinking of corpses drifted into the stronghold of the Wang Army with the strong wind, causing many women to vomit!

But this night, there were more than five thousand dead souls.

Takeda Shingen's horse hooves, Uesugi Kenshin's butcher's knife, Oda Nobunaga asked Tamashita Hideyoshi to dig, Imakawa Yoshimoto's bow arrow, and Honanji Oshiro's huge rocks, ended the lives of more than 30,000 people.

Although hundreds of thousands of people have starved to death on most of the islands in the province in the past two months, and the execution of hundreds or dozens of people in the royal army has been carried out thousands of times each time, this is the first time that a massacre that killed tens of thousands of people at one time has occurred!

When the news came out, there were wailing sadness from the fifteen strongholds of the king-up army. Who dared to say that the next one was not the one who died?

Li Yanzhi was angry and issued a proclamation to accuse the King of Rescue for losing all his conscience! Emperor Zhengqin Town also went to the outside of Jiezhen to cry for sacrifice, chanting scriptures for the 40,000 dead Wangjun, praying that they would become Buddhas as soon as possible. However, such comfort could not heal more than 100,000 pains and worries.

The atrocities of the King's Army did scare many people, but the farmers who lost their land and homeland had no way out. Faced with the butcher knife of death, the only thing they could do was to fight the beasts!

"After this time, the remaining thirteen strongholds will surely be united!" Jiang Yifan said to Wu Ping privately: "In this way, the Japanese army will probably be destroyed forever."

Wu Ping disagreed: "The thirteen strongholds of the king-up army have not been trained and their weapons are average. They cannot fight these Japanese princes. Even if there are the fortifications left by us, they can only withstand the opponent's attack at most."

"Then do you think the final victory is still the Japanese army?"

"It should be." Wu Ping said: "But if the Japanese army wants to move forward, they must pay a huge price!"

Maori Yuanju, known as the "Warring States General", looked at the fifteen strongholds ahead and felt that each stronghold was dying!
To be continued...