The guard fleet at the Battle of the Mae Station arrived in Sakai City one day early and took over Sakai City's defense as last time. In view of the current tension in Japan, the commander of the Oriental War Zone, Zhu Jue, also personally led the direct fleet of the war zone to Osaka Bay to prevent the Japanese from getting angry.

When Zhao Hao stepped onto the Sakai City Pier again, the gray-haired Tokugawa Ieyasu pounced on him and knelt in front of him and started crying.

"Woooo, I finally saw Master Father again. My son thought he would never be able to meet his father in this life."

That sincere admiration really makes the listener change his color!

Zhao Hao also patted his back with some emotion and said softly: "Don't cry, don't cry, dad miss you very much. Look at why your hair is so white?"

When I was acquainted with my father eight years ago, Ieyasu was only 37 years old, not even a single piece of white hair, and the hair volume was quite considerable. Now I am only 45 years old, but I am already half white and so sparse that it is almost impossible to cover my scalp.

Sure enough, men's aging always starts from scratch.

"Woooo, my kids have been living too hard these years..." Ieyasu burst into tears again, as if he wanted to vent all his worries and grievances over the years.

"Oh, indeed." Zhao Hao nodded in understanding. The rapid change in the Warring States Period in Japan over the years was completely beyond his expectations.

In April of the seventh year of Wanli, after signing the "Permanent Treaty of Coherence" with the Jiangnan Group, Oda Nobunaga focused all his attention on the Unified Island.

At that time, Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin successively died, and Honganji Masaru also withdrew from the battle for hegemony. No one in Japan could challenge the Oda Army's troops.

In the summer of that year, as Hatano Hideji was also beheaded after surrendering to Nobunaga, the so-called Nobunaga encirclement completely disappeared.

Soon, Nobunaga's army defeated the Uesugi army, ate Nobunaga and Kaga, and even attacked the Viet-Central. At the same time, the Ukita Nao family, who was in front of the pre-Mari army, surrendered to Nobunaga, and the battle between the Oda army and the Maori army was completely reversed.

In the following three years, Nobunaga entered its heyday, and captured everything and occupied the entire Japanese hinterland. Nobunaga's army was invincible. At this time, everyone believed that Nobunaga's pace of unifying Japan was already unstoppable.

Nobunaga himself also thought so, and he was arrogant when he was proud. Not only did he act frivolously, but he also humiliated his subordinates arbitrarily. In the end, he hooked up the devil in Akechi Mitsuhide's heart. As a result, in the summer of the tenth year of Wanli, the Honnoji Incident came as scheduled.

Why did Mitsuhide, who was Nobunaga's most capable subordinate, suddenly rebel? Later Japanese historians have always had different opinions. Some people say that it was because Nobunaga refused to be a general and was about to force the emperor to abdicate and became the legitimate lord of the world. Therefore, the royal family tempted Mitsuhide to kill the master with the position of the great general of the throne.

Some people say that it was because Nobunaga had already made a long-term plan after he had won the world... He was planning to enfeoff the Japanese natives to his clan, allowing retainers like Mitsuhide to expedition to the Ming and North Korea to obtain fiefs. Of course, Mitsuhide could not accept this, so he decided to take the initiative first.

Some people also said that it was because Nobunaga was too lazy and only brought more than 100 people to Mitsuhide's territory. His neck was stretched in front of him, and Mitsuhide couldn't help but slash him and replaced it with the temptation.

And Nobunaga slapped him in the butt at the banquet, and Mitsuhide's head heated up and grilled his lord...

However, no one has enough evidence to convince the public, and it is still a unsolved case.

But this did not affect the famous saying of Mitsuhide on the night of June 1st:

"Advance, the enemy is in Honnoji!"

Then he led a large army to kill the lord and Nobunaga's eldest son, the Oda family's Inspector Nobuta.

As both generations of Oda family heads died in the fire at Honnoji Temple, Japanese history was completely rewritten...

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After the Honnoji Incident, Akichi Mitsuhide blocked the news of Nobunaga's death and occupied Antu Castle without bloodshed. The court then sent an envoy to worship him and expressed his full support to him.

But because Mitsuhide betrayed the Lord, Daming from all over the country recruited him, and instead he wore mourning for Nobunaga... Oda's retainer even vowed to take his head and avenge the Lord's Communiqué!

Among them, Hideyoshi Hashiba responded the most quickly. At that time, the monkey was ordered to attack the western border, but was lucky enough to learn about Nobunaga's death earlier than anyone else. People have to believe that there is really luck in this world...

Originally, the two of them were Nobunaga's right-hand man. Although Monkey was slightly inferior to Mitsuhide in everything, they were always his strongest competitors.

So after the Honnoji Incident, Akichi Mitsuhide's first thing he had to deal with was Hideyoshi. On the night he made his lord into a barbecue, Mitsuhide wrote a confidential document and sent a secret envoy to the Maori army, asking them not to surrender. After he stabilized the situation in Antu Castle, he immediately rushed to attack Hideyoshi with the Maori army.

Unexpectedly, the secret envoy did not understand the situation on the front line and accidentally entered Hideyoshi's camp and was arrested.

At around 10 o'clock on the night of June 3, Hideyoshi learned about the Honnoji Incident from the secret letter he found!

At that time, Mitsuhide was still rushing to Antu Castle and was trying his best to block Nobunaga's death.

Hideyoshi took advantage of this precious time difference to conceal the bad news and immediately made peace with the Maori army. At that time, the Maori army had already had a bad situation and was worried that Oda Nobunaga would bring reinforcements to the monkey, so he had sent an envoy to ask for peace with the monkey. So the two sides hit it off and immediately stopped the army.

On the 6th, Hideyoshi was able to lead his troops to the east and raise the banner of revenge for his lord!

On his way to march, other Oda retainers received news one after another. Either they lost their opinions or were blinded by hatred. When the dragons were in the lead, Hideyoshi became a leader for granted.

Oda retainers led their troops to join Hideyoshi's house, and his troops quickly expanded to 40,000. On the thirteenth day after Yu Nobunaga's death, Mitsuhide, who had only 13,000 soldiers and horses, took the opportunity to control the Kyoto area.

After only three days of being a general, Mitsuhide was defeated and died, and ended up making wedding clothes for the monkey...

After the Battle of Tianwangshan, Hideyoshi gained the support of most of Oda's old ministers for his rebellion and became the leader of the Oda retainer group. He also made Nobuta's infant son the governor of the family and cleverly grasped the Oda regime.

Hideyoshi spent more than a year to roughly pacify the forces within the Oda family against him.

Afterwards, he continued the unification cause of Nobunaga's unfinished work, and in the 13th year of Wanli, he carried out four countries to conquer the Nagatomoto clan. In the same year, he took office as Guanbai and was given the surname "Toyotomi" by the emperor. Finally, he completed the ultimate evolution from Kinoshita Fujiro to Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

This year, he took office as the "Chief of Taizheng" again, and the pace of unifying Japan was already unstoppable!

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Compared with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu is so miserable.

Before the Honnoji Incident, Ieyasu went to Kyoto to attend the banquet of Nobunaga Onisaka... Mitsuhide was spanked at that banquet.

After the banquet, Nobunaga told Ieyasu Ou Doudou not to rush to set off, and to visit the great scenery of Kinagan before going back. I have said before that Ieyasu has no ambition to compete with Nobunaga at all.

In fact, after recognizing Zhao Hao as his father, his mind became more and more active, wanting to see if he could struggle with his fatherly love. Unexpectedly, Zhao Hao turned around and never returned, and even the coast guard fleet that had been cruising in the Seto Inland Sea for many years disappeared.

That's because Zhao Hao had to concentrate his troops to fight Spain and prevent the Spanish fleet from entering the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, so he had to shrink in the waters of Japan and transfer the troops to the south of the Taiwan Strait as much as possible.

After recapturing the South China Ocean, Zhao Hao sent a powerful volunteer fleet to expedition to Europe under the banner of helping Sebastian restore the country, and took over the sphere of influence of Portugal. So in recent years, the main forces of the coast guard forces have been in the South China Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, so how can they care about Japan?

Although the Oriental War Zone was later established, its troops were still short of strength. And he had to cruise the seas of the original Danluo and Taiwan's two major security areas, so Zhu Jue had to make a choice.

The waters on the east side of Japan undoubtedly became abandoned, and even the Takashima Police Station, which originally guarded the Toyogo waterway, was reorganized, let alone the Seto Inland Sea.

This made Ieyasu feel that he had become an abandoned child, so he completely lost his thoughts of achieving great achievements. In order to show his absolute obedience and trust in Nobunaga, he did not bring the guards when he came, but only brought a few trusted retainers to the banquet.

After the banquet, he followed Nobunaga's instructions and visited Gyeonggi for a long time. One was to relax, and the other was to find a place where you could see Mount Fuji and build a garden to enjoy your old age.

Who would have thought that the lord would be grilled in just a show?

After learning about Nobunaga's death, Ieyasu was panicked in Sakai City. Now he is Zhao Hao's son, so naturally he no longer has to perform the dangerous "Goddess Iga Crossing". Under the arrangement of Chirijiu, he took a boat back to Sanhe from Sakai Port.

After returning to the territory, Ieyasumoto wanted to attack Mitsuhide in the name of revenge for Nobunaga. However, he was not lucky and was taken first by Hideyoshi. On his way to the west, he received a letter from Hideyoshi, telling him that the traitor had been taken and asked him to withdraw his troops immediately. Ieyasu had to return to Sanhe with a disappointment.

As soon as Nobunaga died, Japan, which was about to be unified, was in chaos again. Daimai, who was beaten down by Nobunaga, raised troops one after another, and even Ieyasu's mind became alive.

However, he was not a member of the Oda retainer group, so he could only stay out of the matter when Hideyoshi and the others competed for control of the Oda family. However, he didn't watch it, so he took the opportunity to annex the Takeda family territory and became a great name with a strength of one million stones.

At the same time, he used his good relationship with Sakai City to vigorously develop industry and commerce within his territory and enhance his own economic strength.

This made Ieyasu feel that he was doing it again. In the 12th year of Wanli, Nobunaga's second son Nobuo broke with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu maintained an alliance with Nobuo, and in the name of protecting Nobunaga's son, he fought Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

As a result, Nobuo surrendered quickly in the face of Hideyoshi's overwhelming strength, which put Ieyasu in the dilemma of fighting against a strong enemy alone. In order to protect himself, Ieyasu could only give Hideyoshi's second-year-old Hideyoshi's second-year-old Hideyoshi as a hostage, but still maintained a relationship with Hideyoshi's disobedience. As Nobunaga's younger brother, Ieyasu could surrender Nobunaga, but it was really difficult to bow to the feet that had carried straw sandals to Nobunaga in the past.
Chapter completed!