Hideyoshi Hashiba (Hideyoshi Toyotomi) Is Oda Nobunaga I was on an expedition to the Chugoku region under the control of Mr. Mori. The battle was approaching the middle stage, and it happened when Takamatsu Castle, which was governed by Muneharu Shimizu, was being attacked by water in the battle of Takamatsu Castle in Bichu.
1582 (Tensho 10) Honnoji Incident is.
When Hideyoshi heard the news that his lord, Nobunaga Oda, was defeated by his colleague Akechi Mitsuhide, he immediately tied Mori and Wamu to the castle owner, Muneharu Shimizu . After seeing the seppuku, I went back to Himeji to avenge Akechi Mitsuhide.
Hideyoshi hid the fact of Nobunaga's death so that Mr. Mouri would not know that he had lost his backing due to Nobunaga's death. It is said that Mohri learned of Nobunaga's news the day after Hideyoshi retired.
From the Honnoji Incident to the Battle of Yamazaki
From the outbreak of Honnoji, if the battle of Yamazaki is chronologically ...
June 2, 1582 Honnoji Incident
3rd Hideyoshi's army captures the messenger sent from Akechi to Mouri and learns about the Honnoji Incident
4th Ankokuji Ekei's mediation, the establishment of peace with Mori
5th, Muneharu Shimizu of Takamatsu Castle is seppuku
6th
7th The Mouri side knows Nobunaga's news from Saika Ikki of Kii
13th Battle of Yamazaki
It is a flow like that.
Although Mouri knew the news of Nobunaga's death the day after Hideyoshi's withdrawal, he thinks that he could have dropped Hideyoshi's army if he pursued him immediately, but that was not done and the battle of Yamazaki on the 13th. Is being done.
So why didn't the Mori clan decide to pursue it? ??
There, Kobayakawa Takakage , who has the ability to become the Five Elders of Toyotomi and has a good political bargaining ability. It seems that there was an answer that was only given in.
Mori Motonari's will
The basic strategy of the Mori family is the late Mori Motonari In the will of, instead of expanding the territory aiming at unification of the world, territorial relief I was doing it. The former priest, who was made up of the people of Aki Ichikoku, had no reliable vassals for a long time, and even if he became a lord of 1.2 million stones, it could not be said to be a solid system.
So, Kikkawa and Kobayakawa He sent his son as an adopted child and ruled the territory in the direction of protecting the territory at that time with the tripolar system of Mouri and Ryokawa. The adopted child of the Kikkawa family and the pursuit group Kikkawa Motoharu Takakage Kobayakawa Is said to have persuaded him by citing the will of his great father, Mori Motonari.
[Mori never aims at the world and manages the country with faith]
That is the will of Motonari, and Hideyoshi's pursuit followed it and persuaded the pursuit group after Motoharu that he should not move.
Also, the timing of the Honnoji Incident was glaring at Takamatsu Castle's water attack . So, peace negotiations are already underway and the final stage is Was in. I also argue that once you have made peace, you should not be a Mori clan by violating the belief that you disobey it.
Hideyoshi's expedition to China had already invaded Btsuchu, flattening more than half of Mouri's territory, and had reached the point where the family was in danger of survival. The fact that Oda Nobunaga died means that the Oda army will no longer attack Mouri, and there is no reason for the Mouri army to pursue the withdrawing Hideyoshi army, and peace negotiations can proceed further in an advantageous manner.
In fact, Bicchu / Mimasaka / Hoki was signed under the conditions of peace to attack Takamatsu Castle. In the discussion on the division of the participating countries, the division was finally limited to Mimasaka, and Btsuchu and Hoki were only in some areas. Mori's favorable conditions settled Did.
Hideyoshi, who avoided the pursuit of Mr. Mouri, defeated Mitsuhide and began to follow the path to unification of the world, and in 1591 he settled the whole country and unified the world.
In the process of Hideyoshi's unification of the world, the Mori clan under his control was Shikoku expedition / Kyushu conquest . Participated in Takakage Kobayakawa Is Chikuzen / Chikugo 370,000 stones Mori Terumoto and Takakage Kobayakawa Was entrusted to the elder of the Toyotomi administration and was heavily used.
It is said that this personnel affair is a form of gratitude to Mr. Mouri for not pursuing in the Takamatsu Castle Kazumi negotiations.
Otomo Sorin Army in Kyushu
If Hideyoshi were to be pursued, the entire Mouri army would have to be gathered east of the territory.
In that case, the invasion of Sorin Otomo from western Kyushu is expected.
Even if you hit Hideyoshi of the whole army, there is no guarantee that you will win, and if you lose, [ Take the enemy of Nobunaga, the lord . Hideyoshi, who is trying to fight with the cause of "Ru", is recognized as a rebel and is in danger of the destruction of the Mori clan.
Also, helping his rebel, Akechi Mitsuhide, is an unlikely choice for the Mori clan. That is why I persuaded that it would be better for Mori to take action after the results were obtained, instead of pursuing Hideyoshi.
If Hideyoshi wins, he will have sold his favor, so the future of the Mori family will be safe, and even if he loses, Nobunaga and Hideyoshi will disappear, so it is also possible to regain Btsutyuu, Mimasaka, and Hoki who were attacked by the Oda family. But he told me it wasn't too late.
Land and sea routes could not be used
When Hideyoshi's army withdrew from Takamatsu Castle, he broke the water in the moat he had stored, creating a huge stream of water with the Mouri army, which prevented him from advancing the army. In addition, the sea route was extended to a part of the Murakami Suigun, and it was not possible to pursue smoothly from the sea.
There was a way to bypass the mountains, but it wasn't possible given the waste of time and the fatigue of the soldiers.
In addition, Hideyoshi had deployed 10,000 Ukita Hideie troops in the unlikely event of a pursuit, and even if he was pursuing, he would have failed.
At the Mori clan, there were many opinions from the pursuit brother, Motoharu Kikkawa, and Takakage Kobayakawa said, [ Here, I will sell my favor to Hideyoshi and try to recover the land I lost and solidify the inside. … ] I reluctantly persuaded the pursuit group after Motoharu.
In this way, Hideyoshi won the Battle of Yamazaki and was able to seize the opportunity to take over the world.
Hideyoshi later felt gracious to Takakage, and Mori Terumoto and Takakage Kobayakawa Will be in line with Toyotomi Five Elders.
By not pursuing the Mori clan, he survived the turbulent world safely, and at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, he became a male clan and achieved the Meiji Restoration.
What if Mouri is pursuing?
If the Mouri army had pursued, Hideyoshi Hashiba would not be able to defeat Akechi Mitsuhide, and Katsuie Shibata or Ieyasu Tokugawa might have won the mourning battle of Nobunaga.
If Katsuie had won, he would have had Nobunaga's third son, Nobutaka, and was aiming to rebuild the Oda administration. Also, if Ieyasu Tokugawa had won, the Tokugawa administration might have been established early.
In that case, the Mori clan would not have prospered under the Toyotomi administration, and the Choshu clan at the end of the Edo period might not have been active.
Furthermore, if the Oda administration had been established, the center of politics would have been placed in Kyoto, and even if the Tokugawa administration was established, the shogunate would not be placed in Edo, and the vicinity of Hamamatsu became the center of Japan. It may have been.
I think it is one of the pleasures of history to enjoy with such delusions, so please delusion a lot.