After Zhou Zhong waited until the Ming Dynasty agreed to annex North Korea and saw that the people and businessmen in the Ming Dynasty began to be attracted to North Korea, the big stone hanging in his heart was finally put down. Then he immediately ordered the governor's palace to be relocated from Weihaiwei.

After moving back to Shuangyu Port, his mission to Weihai has been completed. As for the war in Japan, he no longer needs to worry about it.

Originally, a war should have broken out between the Ashikaga clan and the Hosokawa clan in the Japanese country, but they did not expect that the big earthquake in the spring caused heavy losses to them. For this reason, they had to rest for a while. Now that summer has passed,

The leaves on the trees had begun to turn yellow, and the Ashikaga clan and the Hosokawa clan, who had been impatient for a long time, finally broke out in a war.

This war was first started by the long-dormant Ashikaga Yoshisai. He joined forces with Tayama Naojun and launched an attack from the south towards Kyoto. The Hatano clan in the west also launched a large army, but he

His troops are relatively weak, so he is not the main attack this time, but only needs to contain the Hosokawa clan's troops.

At the very beginning of the war, Ashikaga Yoshisai and Tayama Naojun led an organized army of 20,000 troops to Iimori Castle. Iimori Castle was an important fortress for the Hosokawa clan to guard the Tayama clan. The entire city was built very solidly.

, there are five thousand people stationed in the city all year round

Army, it’s just that during the last battle with Ashikaga Yoshisai, 1,500 people were transferred away from Iimori Castle. The result was a complete defeat. Not many of the transferred soldiers came back. Now there are less than 4,000 people left to defend the city.

, it can be said that it is a good time to attack it.

Ashikaga Yoshisai and Tayama Naojun did not waste this opportunity. Their coalition forces initially made a gesture of attacking another stronghold of the Hosokawa clan, namely Tenryuji Castle. This caused the defenders in Iimori Castle to relax their vigilance.

But in an autumn breeze

On that night, two thousand elite members of the Ashikaga and Tayama clans took advantage of the darkness to climb to the cliff next to Iimori Castle, and then slid into the city on ropes. Although many people fell to death, in the end there were still

One thousand and one hundred people successfully entered Iimori Castle.

After this team of less than two thousand people entered Iimori Castle, they unexpectedly took control of the gates of Iimori Castle, and then opened the gates to welcome the coalition forces of the Ashikaga and Tayama clans. As a result, the thousands of troops of the Hosokawa clan in the city were dreaming.

I didn't expect that the enemy would actually

would suddenly appear in Iimori Castle. In the end, except for a few loyalists of the Hosokawa family who died in the battle, most of them chose to surrender. After all, the Japanese country in this era did not have much bushido spirit, and it was not a shame to surrender to the victor.

thing.

The fall of Iimori Castle was a huge blow to the Hosokawa clan. The reason why the Hosokawa clan was able to suppress Tayama Naojun before was all because the Hosokawa clan controlled four castles, namely Iimori Castle.

, Xingui Mountain City, Tenglong Temple City and Duowen Mountain City, these four cities are very close to each other, guarding the Tianshan clan's external transportation arteries. The four cities are close to each other.

They are interdependent, and a large number of troops are stationed in each city. As long as there is any change in the Tayama clan, the armies of these four cities will be dispatched. Therefore, although Tayama Naojun was also a hero who supported Ashikaga Yoshisai to regain the position of shogun, in the end

However, he was still driven out of Kyoto. The main reason was that the threats from these four cities forced him to obey the Hosokawa clan's orders.

It is precisely because of the importance of the four castles that when Ashikaga Yoshikai first established his power, he was the first to attack Nobuki Yamashiro, which had the weakest military strength. As a result, he was very lucky and captured Nobuki in one fell swoop.

Mountain City, and the subsequent heavy snow blocked the reinforcements from the other three cities, which allowed him to break the alliance of the four cities in one fell swoop and gnaw away a piece of this fortress group.

Shinkiyama Castle is the weakest defensive link among the four cities. Because this fortress was built the latest and has the smallest garrison in the entire fortress, the loss of Shinkiyama Castle will have an impact on the Hosokawa clan's control of the Tayama clan.

It is not very big. At least if the Tayama clan wants to send troops to Kyoto, it will definitely not be able to avoid the attack of the Hosokawa clan.

But now the Hosokawa clan has lost even Iimori Castle, and half of the four cities that controlled the Tayama clan have been lost at once. These four chain-like war fortresses have actually lost their function. Even if the Tayama clan and the Ashikaga clan are willing, they can

Capturing the remaining Tengryuji Castle and Tamonzan Castle in the shortest possible time, and then directing their troops towards Kyoto, this was a disaster for the Hosokawa clan.

It is precisely because of this that the Hosokawa clan immediately sent a large army to reinforce Tengryuji Castle and Tamonyama Castle after learning about the loss of Iimori Castle. As a result, when the Hosokawa clan's army arrived, they happened to encounter the Ashikaga clan and Tayama.

clan's army

The two cities were being besieged, which made Takakuni Hosokawa, who personally led the troops, very angry. He commanded the army to attack from both sides with the Hosokawa clan's army in the city. Only then did he defeat the armies of the Ashikaga clan and the Tayama clan and save the only remaining city.

Two cities.

Each of the four war fortresses occupied one corner of the diamond, with the Ashikaga clan and the Hosokawa clan each occupying half. So in the ensuing war, the two sides launched an arduous battle in the diamond-shaped area surrounded by the four fortresses. Either the Ashikaga clan sneak attacks and

The Hosokawa clan's fortress, or the Hosokawa clan secretly attacked the Ashikaga clan's castle,

Although both sides had occupied each other's fortress several times, the other side soon recaptured another fortress. As a result, in this endless war, the four cities changed hands several times in the hands of the Hosokawa clan and the Ashikaga clan, but because

There was not much difference in strength between the two sides, and in the end they always occupied two cities.

The tug-of-war between the Ashikaga clan and the Hosokawa clan is exactly what Shuzhong wants to see the most, because in this tug-of-war, the strength of the Hosokawa clan and the Ashikaga clan is slowly depleted, and the number of casualties

There are more and more, although both of them know that if they continue to fight like this, it will not be beneficial to each other, and it may even allow local celebrities like the Ouchi clan to take advantage of the situation.

But I know that both the Ashikaga and Hosokawa clans have reached the point where they will fight to the death. Even if the superiors like Ashikaga Yoshisai and Hosokawa Takakuni want to stop the war, the people below will definitely not agree.

After all, both sides are already fighting, and it is absolutely impossible to give up until there is a winner.

When Zhou Zhong left Weihaiwei, it was the time when the fighting between the Ashikaga clan and the Hosokawa clan was at its most intense. Both sides had mobilized all their forces and had no reservations. According to Zhou Zhong's estimation, even if one side could win in the future,

I'm afraid it will also be a tragic victory, and I will no longer be able to control it.

The power of the shogunate, and the rising daimyo in various parts of the Japanese country will definitely not let this opportunity pass. After all, they have been coveting the power of the shogunate for a long time. Ouchi Yoshihiro is one of their representatives. Only then will the Japanese country

The real Warring States Period has truly arrived.

Thinking of the endless wars fought by the Japanese all over the country in the future, Zhou Chong couldn't help but feel proud, because it was his intervention that brought the revolution of the Warring States Period of Japan to an early stage. In addition, when the internal chaos of Japan really broke out, he could take advantage of it.

Whether Japan will be destroyed or not will be decided later. However, he must build a port on the east coast of Japan's Honshu Island, because only through the eastward ocean current there can we reach America from Asia.

When Zhou Chong returned to Shuangyu Port, it was already late autumn. Jinxuan and Lingyun had already given birth to two sons for him. Although the two sons were only two days apart, Jinxuan's son was the eldest son.

Lingyun's son can only be the second son, which makes Lingyun very upset.

She was unhappy because she knew the true identity of her husband, and also knew that the current Emperor wanted to adopt Zhou Zhong's eldest son as the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty. However, it was only two days apart, and her son had missed the throne. This made her unhappy.

How not to be sad?

Xie Lingyun was unhappy for a long time because of her son's affairs, which made Zhou Zhong very helpless. He could only accompany her to relax every day. As a result, it took a long time for Xie Lingyun to recover from the regret.

In fact, Zhou Chong was not too happy about the fact that his son would inherit the throne of Zhengde. If possible, he did not want his son to inherit the throne at all. After all, he knew that the emperor's position was not that easy to fill.

If you were a good emperor, you would be very tired. If you were a mediocre emperor, you would not only harm the people of the Ming Dynasty, but if someone succeeds in their rebellion, they may not even be able to save their lives.

It is precisely because he clearly knows the dangers of the emperor's profession that Zhou Chong does not really want his son to sit in that position. In addition, he is so young now. If Zhengde passes the throne to his son, he will not die yet.

Then he will be his son's minister, and I will bow to his son when I see him. This is really unacceptable to Zhou Chong.

It's a pity that Zhou Chong's worries don't exist at all for Jin Xuan. She has been excited about her son's ability to inherit the throne in the future. Strangely enough, Jin Xuan has an indifferent temperament and is not interested in fame and wealth.

Don't pay attention to it, even

She doesn't fully support Zhou Zhong's becoming an official. After all, in her opinion, her father has been an official for half his life, but his family is worried about it, so she hopes that her husband can live a peaceful life with her.

Enough.

But Jinxuan's indifferent temperament is only aimed at Zhou Zhong. As a mother, she has another mentality towards her son, that is, she hopes that her son will become a dragon. And now her son can really become a dragon, so this gives Jinxuan

is very excited,

She held her son in her arms every day for fear that her precious son would be hurt. Even her eldest daughter Xia Xia and her husband Zhou Zhong didn't have time to pay attention to it. This made Zhou Zhong very resentful, so he had to play with his daughter every day as a fatherly love.

Compensate for the daughter’s lack of maternal love.
Chapter completed!