< h1 class="ql-align-justify" > strange personnel from both sides of the Sekigahara showdown</h1>
The Battle of Sekigahara, which claimed to determine the fate of the world, was not a decisive battle between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa families, and its composition was somewhat strange, with a large number of Toyotomi clans such as Kato Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori, Kuroda Nagamasa, Hosokawa Tadao, Asano Yukinaga, Yamauchi Kazutoshi, Tanaka Yoshimasa, and Nakamura Kazuyasu all joining the Eastern Army led by Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Distribution of eastern and western armies
However, the main forces of the Western Army, the Maori family, the Shimazu family, and even the Nagamasa I family who played soy sauce, were all local daimyōs who had been beaten down by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and even the two former Taiko Yoshiko of Ukita hideya and Kohayakawa Hideaki would also make Toyotomi Hideyoshi's position unstable once they won the first merit, it can be said that the Western Army is a dangerous union for the Toyotomi clan, and the Eastern Army is a group of old men with familiar faces.
It is precisely because of the existence of this relationship that the Western Army, which holds high the banner of Toyotomi, has met the master of Gao Leng, and the Toyotomi clan said, "You let you fight, it has nothing to do with me."
Although from the standpoint of the Western Army, there are two meanings: the first day is toyotomi's world, and the second Tokugawa Ieyasu has broken the oath he made to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, violating the rules of the Toyotomi regime and needing to be purged.
However, from the standpoint of the Eastern Army, there are actually two meanings: the first day is still the world of Toyotomi, and the second Ishida Sansei has the intention of rebellion and needs to be suppressed.
We can see that this is actually a time when the world's daimyo took the side of Ishida Mitsunori or Tokugawa Ieyasu, behind Tokugawa Ieyasu was a knowledge of up to 2 million stones (more than one-tenth of all of Japan), and Ishida Mitsunari relied on only the prestige of the Toyotomi regime, when the orphans and widows in Osaka Castle chose to stay out of the matter, all his capital was just to take the examples of Maeda Toshinaga and Uesugi Keisatsu everywhere, and if you did not cooperate with me, you would have two ways, or submit like Maeda Toshinaga and be changed to a reduced seal Or like Uesugi Keisatsu, if he does not accept being requisitioned, he will change his seal and change the seal, and the two roads will be the same way, and if you want to keep your vested interests, you must stand under my banner.
It was under such an operation that he gained the support of the only two remaining of the five elders, and Both Mori Keigen and Ukita Hideya joined the Western Army. However, the victory that cannot be won on the battlefield cannot be put on the negotiating table, and we can describe the current situation in a few words, and the support that cannot be won by strength will not last long with words.
Excluding the 8,000 mixed troops of the protagonist Ishida Sansei, the 2,000 men of the trio of Akaza Naoho, Mototsune Uzumaki, and Yutada Ogawa, the 4,000 men who were cobbled together by Governor Konishi who had been squeezed out of the Korean battlefield, and the 6,600 men of Nagamasa Ibu Who had been caught in civil strife, the main force on the Sekigahara battlefield was True Love, and the Ukita Hideya, who had made full efforts, attacked and paddled, retreated from Shimazu Yoshihiro, who was in the western army, and the Maori family, who neither opposed the water nor attacked.
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > true love is Hideyoshi Ukita</h1>
Then let's take a look at the battlefield performance of these western army bigwigs, and first give a thumbs up to ukita Hideka, the nominal commander of the imperial conquest, who has no military merit and prestige, and second, has no lineage support, and the ascension to the throne is based on the promotion of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. When the powerful courtiers who were skilled in preparing for the throne supported the Ukita family in order to compete with the Hideya family for power, this power-sharing farce even turned into a sword-to-sword killing game in the Osaka Hideya's mansion, and the good villains had also been on the Korean battlefield, and the Hidega were not ambiguous, and it was a greeting to carry the knife by himself.
What chilled him was not the immediate resignation, but the indifference of the next door, the Tokugawa family's mansion was next door, but no one stood up to support the authority of the Ukita Hideya family, but instead took in the troublesome family and supported his courtiers. It was precisely because of this civil unrest that the Hideyasha lost 140,000 stones of knowledge, which also reduced the number of troops he could mobilize by 40%, and these vassals who had escaped from the domain later appeared on the battlefield of Sekigahara, but not in the Western Army but under the banner of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the gap between inside and outside was not a simple 40% gap.
After this, the Ukita Hideya, who knew that there was no way back, naturally sold a lot in the Battle of Sekigahara, and his more than 17,000 reserve soldiers were the main force of the Western Army, killing the most enemies, and even once had the upper hand, which was one of the few points in the rapidly defeated Western Army.
Its first battle was to attack Torii Mototada to guard Fushimi Castle. After the fall of Fushimi Castle, hideya adopted a strategy of dividing forces and combining attacks to continue the march toward Mino in the east, with Hideya entering Mino via Omi, while Akashi Quandō led the main force into Mino via Ise, and the whole army entered Ogaki Castle in late August. On September 14, at the Battle of Hangsegawa, an outpost of the Battle of Sekigahara, Akashi Quanden led 800 elite soldiers to participate in the battle and won a lot.
On the main battlefield of Sekigahara the following day, the Ukita Army was located between the Otani Army and the Konishi Army, and the decisive battle began with the clash between the Ukita Army and the Fukushima Army. Throughout the morning, the battle situation of the Ukita and Fukushima armies showed a scorched situation of advancing and retreating. Fukushima was the vanguard of the Eastern Army, and the enemy of the Fukushima Army was the Ukita Army, the backbone of the Western Army. More than seventeen thousand Ukita's army failed to take advantage of the more than 6,000 Fukushima army, and this superior force had not only been on the Korean battlefield, but also had a good performance in the sekigahara order, and obviously would not be an incompetent division.
As the old saying goes, the three armies can seize the breath, and the general can seize the heart. The Okayama Prefectural Collection of Ancient Texts collects the correspondence between togashi Higomori of the Eastern Army and Akashi Quandō of Uki dozai during the previous family riots, shortly before the Battle of Sekigahara. Akashi lamented in his letter that the Western Army, which had an absolute superiority in manpower, had nibbled on Fushimi Castle, which had been fighting alone for nearly half a month, and lamented in his letter that the Eastern Army was "full of talent" and "unexpectedly strong". The pessimism of Akashi Quandō on the eve of the decisive battle, as the head of the Uki clan, was also a reflection of the psychology of the whole army, and it was also because of this that the soldiers had no morale and the generals had no confidence. Even more frightening is that the last straw that crushes the camel will soon drift from its back.
<h1 class= "ql-align-justify" > Yoshihiro Shimazu who exploded for an hour and charged all day</h1>
Although the Hideya family worked and contributed, but it was not easy to hold back the unsatisfactory team, Shimazu Yoshihiro was deeply affected by the after-effects of the Shonai rebellion initiated by the Ijiin family, not to mention that the Ijiin family was the link between the Shimazu family and Ishida Sansei. Moreover, the Shimazu family was originally a dualistic politics between Shimazu Ryubo (Shimazu Yoshihisa) and the governor Shimazu Yoshihiro, and with this civil unrest, Shimazu Yoshihiro's influence in his ability was greatly reduced, and he barely managed to put together about 1500 troops to participate in the war, but he planned to join which side, and later Japanese historians said that it was the Eastern Army, but because he wanted to enter Fushimi Castle, he was rejected by the eastern army commander Torii Mototada, and joined the Western Army in anger, but considering that this statement came from the period of the Tokugawa Edo shogunate, there was a suspicion of beautifying the Shimazu family So Yoshihiro Shimazu's idea is not clear.
On the battlefield, Satsuma's troops were thin and not taken seriously, and Shimazu Yoshihiro's suggestion to attack the Eastern Army camp at night was also ignored by Ishida Mitsunari, which also caused the dissatisfaction of the Kyushu tycoon, so there was an action on the day of the decisive battle. However, although Shimazu Yoshihiro said that Shimazu had his own Shimazu's advance and retreat, when he faced the desperate situation of the siege on ten sides, he still sacrificed the tactic of abandoning the car and forcibly breaking through from the front. The so-called shedding refers to the retreat on the way, ambushing a team of snipers at a certain distance to intercept the enemy's main general, and then using long guns to attack after the sniper is completed. Use this time to retreat. The ambushed troops had little chance of surviving. Relying on this tactic, Shimazu Yoshihiro not only managed to escape but even approached Tokugawa Ieyasu's home front for a time, and wounded Naomasa I, Matsudaira Tadayoshi and other Eastern generals.
It was the performance of the late explosion that justified the strong Kyushu army that had been paddling in the early stages, so that although Tokugawa Ieyasu once wanted to settle accounts with the Shimazu family after the Battle of Sekigahara, because the opponent did not contribute much in the Battle of Sekigahara, the strength of the troops in the skill was sufficient, and considering the combat strength of the Shimazu family on the sekigahara battlefield, Tokugawa Ieyasu finally gave up the idea that it might fall into a long war and provoke a second rebellion of the foreign daimyo.
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > Hideaki Hayakawa, who regurgitated the water early</h1>
If Yoshihiro Shimazu still has the final explosion, then Hideaki Hayakawa threw himself to the bottom of his reputation early on, as a powerful faction in the Western Army, his movement of 15,000 people affected the development of the battlefield situation, we look at The relationship network of Hideaki Kohayakawa, as toyotomi Hideyoshi's former adopted son, he was the second heir to the Toyotomi regime before Hideyoshi was born, and this relationship had an important relationship to Hideaki's later decision. For Hideaki, for his part, after winning a rare victory in the late Korean battlefield at Ulsan, he was not rewarded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi for killing Liang, but was punished by recalling and confiscating his territory, and he also believed that Ishida Sansei played an important role in this.
As for his subsequent ability to change the 150,000 stones of Kitanoku Castle, and finally restore the old domain in 1599, it was all the strength of Tokugawa Ieyasu, so it was obvious that while confiscating his own territory, he helped himself to return to the domain, which was more important than the paper. Moreover, if the Western Army won the victory of Hideaki as a major general, he would fall into an embarrassing situation, unlike the Ukita Hideya family, who was not related to the Toyotomi family, Hideaki was once the second successor second only to Hidetsuji, and after winning the great merit of Sekigahara, Hideyoshi and Ishida Sansei should take this first-class name that was second only to the five elders before the war, and even the decision of the imperial court would be synchronized with the name of his Toyotomi family.
Perhaps it was from Hideji's case that is is Ishida's determination to become Hideyoshi's threat, or perhaps it was Asano Yukinaga and Kuroda Nagamasa's self-proclaimed "according to the will of the Northern Masamune" that made him side with the arbitrary faction within the Toyotomi system, or perhaps he wanted to watch things against each other and reap the benefits, in short, even if Ishida Sansei promised him that he could serve as a Sekibai until Hideyoshi was 15 years old, and gave the conditions of a million-stone fief, it did not stop Hideaki Kohayakawa from playing the Japanese version of infernal affairs at both ends.
When the superiority of the Eastern Army became more and more obvious, the urging from Tokugawa Ieyasu finally made Hideaki turn against the enemy and swing his sword at the Western Army, and his target Otani Yoshiji was the emissary who brought The Conditions of GuanBai and Million Stones, and finally because the gap in strength was too large, Otani Yoshiji committed suicide in defeat, and under the influence of Hideaki, the Western Army's Yasuji and Ogawa Yutada turned against each other, and the morale of the Western Army, which lacked the support of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, quickly collapsed, and the defeat became an irreversible result.
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > Maori Huiyuan, the general of the Western Army</h1>
As for why the Western Army lacked a main general, it was because of the hesitation of the Maori clique. At that time, the nominal general of the Western Army was 1.2 million stones second only to Tokugawa Ieyasu's Maori Huiyuan, while the Maori family behind him was even stronger, with the Habsburg marriage politics in Europe and the stepson politics of the Maori family in Japan.
At that time, among the Western Army were the Maori Huiyuan who had their own family at that time, and the Hiroshi Yoshikawa family who inherited the San'in Yoshikawa family. Because the Hiroshi Yoshikawa and Kato Kiyomasa and other arbitrary factions had close ties since the beginning of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Kyushu Expedition, and Ishida Sansei was the least able to deal with Kato Kiyomasa, under the influence of this relationship, the Yoshikawa Hiroyasu family had favored Tokugawa Ieyasu, whom he regarded as the second heavenly temple since the beginning of the conquest.
As a manifestation of Maori Yuan's politics on the two rivers, for the sake of the lord family's Antai, the Yoshikawa Hiroshi family, under the guidance of Kuroda Nagamasa, clarified to Ieyasu through Ieyasu's important ministers Honda Tadakatsu and Ie Masamune that Maori Keimoto had nothing to do with the Western Army, and was arranged by Ankokuji Keijo, and under the joint signs of Ie Masamune, Honda Tadanori, Fukushima Masanori, and Kuroda Nagamasa, they privately concluded an agreement with Ieyasu that the Maori family would not participate in the battle" in exchange for the 1.2 million stone domain of the Maori family.
Specific to the Sekigahara battlefield, the Hiroga family prevented the action of the main maori huiyuan force by volunteering to be the vanguard of the Maori group. At the foot of the northern foot of Mount Nangong, 3,000 men of the Hiroshi Yoshikawa family were at the front, while 15,000 men of Mori Hidemoto were stationed on the hill behind. The eastern side between the two of them was defended by 1,800 men of Ankokuji Huiqiong. During the decisive battle, Ankokuji Keicho constantly urged Maori Hidemoto to go down the mountain to fight, but Maori Hidemoto wanted to attack the East Army to cross Yoshikawa Hiroya, and Mori Keigen saw that there was no war on the front line and naturally would not come out of Osaka, they could have chosen to force a breakthrough, but obviously the agreement between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Yoshikawa Hiroyasu played a certain role, in other words, the Yoshikawa Hiroshi family successfully achieved the role of blocking the Maori army in Nangong Mountain and Osaka Castle.
However, it is ironic that when the battle on the outskirts was over, the general of the Western Army in Osaka Castle, Maori Huiyuan, also became the target of the battle, and in the final liquidation, the former Chinese million stones, the Tuoguo Zai, also became the ordinary daimyo of the 370,000 stones of ZhouFang and Nagato, and this vendetta did not count until two hundred and fifty years.
Later, with a 370,000-stone gross profit, the Iwakuni domain was known as the Yoshida clan, and it was not until the end of the shogunate that it was regarded as an independent daimyō
<h1 class="ql-align-justify" > the outbreak of the Battle of Sekigahara was due to the congenital deformity of the Toyotomi regime</h1>
We can find that compared to the same goals in the Eastern Army, if it is not because of discord with Ishida Sansei, such as Kato Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori, Kuroda Nagamasa, etc., or the Tokugawa family's genealogy is to help the turtle fight for the world, the Western Army can be regarded as having its own calculations, compared to the Konishi Governor, Ishida Mitsunari, Ukita Hideya, Otani Yoshiki, etc., many other main forces, including Shimazu Yoshihiro, Kohayakawa Hideaki, Andi Keigen Mori, are secretly leaving a way back for themselves.
The essence of this is the lack of toyotomi's clan of courtiers, because without the protection of the toyotomi, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had to clear his own obstacles for the succession of his young son Hideyoshi, after all, there was no generational allegiance and favor to kill the young lord, so Hideji died, so Kato Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori and other generals were restrained by civilian officials led by Ishida Sansei, and the civil-military confrontation was the initial catalyst for the Battle of Sekigahara.
In addition, the establishment of the Toyotomi regime has exacerbated its deformed development, Toyotomi Hideyoshi inherited the legacy of the original people Oda Nobunaga, and his subsequent conquests of Kanto, China, Kyushu, Shikoku, Oshu, and Hashu were more based on the deterrence of force, and the local daimyo often retained the original territory and army as long as they submitted, which was also the root cause of the strength of the local forces under the Toyotomi regime.
This fragile stability was maintained under toyotomi Hideyoshi's strong personal prestige, but this maintenance was based on toyotomi Hideyoshi's relinquishment of some of his power, the five old systems. If Toyotomi Hideyoshi died 15 years later, 20 years later, like Tokugawa Ieyasu who ceded the shogunate to Tokugawa Hidetada early, and could complete the transition of power with Hideyoshi in advance of the growing up, then the fragile Toyotomi regime would have enough time to make up for the shortcomings hidden in it, but he did not have this opportunity, the 6-year-old Toyotomi Hideyoshi was completely unable to face this chaos, as long as the sudden situation of power imbalance such as the death of Maeda Toshiyasu, it would make the strong stronger, and eventually divide and encroach on other weak forces. For example, the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu followed this trajectory, which was the root cause of the Battle of Sekigahara.
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