History of Asia

Sengoku period, Kyushu region's three countries

1582 In the center, there was an incident in which Nobunaga Oda was struck by Akechi Mitsuhide due to the Honnoji Incident.

At that time, in the Kyushu region, Shimazu, Otomo, Ryuzoji His daimyo family was working hard to take the hegemony of Kyushu. Shimazu and Mr. Otomo first collided with these three daimyo families. was.

Yoshihisa Shimazu VS Sorin Otomo-Battle of Mimigawa

Mr. Ito of Hyuga Province, who lost in the battle with Mr. Shimazu, escaped to Mr. Otomo.

With the escape of Mr. Ito, the people of Hyuga province obeyed Shimazu one after another. Mr. Shimazu, who has steadily expanded his power in Hyuga, has finally become the home of Mr. Otomo [ Bungo . ] And extended to the border of the Hyuga region.

Sorin Otomo who felt the danger of Shimadzu's momentum Will start marching near the Hinata border.

30,000 troops were dispatched to subdue the people who descended to Shimazu, and the northern part of Hyuga became under the umbrella of Otomo, and stability came near the border between Hyuga and Bungo.

Sorin, who has been comfortable with consecutive wins, plans to invade Hyuga further.

The cause here is the former Daimyo of Hinata, who is hiding [ Yoshisuke Ito . 】 Regain the territory and support the Ito family's reconstruction It was to do.

This was just a tatemae, and Sorin's true intention was to create a Christian country in Hyuga. Sorin was [ Christianity by this time ] Became an avid believer.

Originally, the Kitakyushu region was a region where the power of temples and shrines was strong, so the conversion to Christianity in the Otomo territory did not go well, and I had a hard time. Therefore, God's country concept that robbed Hyuga and gathered Christians and missionaries. I was planning.

The Otomo vassals strongly opposed only the reason, but Sorin Otomo does not listen. In this way, Sorin Otomo himself, as general general, 40,000 troops head south to Hinata.

In response to this news, Mr. Shimazu will also meet.

Since Mr. Otomo, the largest in Kitakyushu, is moving southward, Mr. Shimazu positions this battle as a battle for the survival of his house and convenes as many troops as possible from all over the country.

The Otomo army that entered the Hinata went south while defeating the small lords of the Shimazu clan, and was a dangerous important base for Shimazu if dropped [ Takashiro . ] Is surrounded. Shimazu Iehisa was defending here, but his soldiers were only 3,000. However, [ Yamada Arinobu ] Is struggling, and the Otomo army cannot drop the castle.

When the Shimazu clan struggled to enter the endurance battle, the main body of the Shimazu army arrived and became entangled with both armies. However, due to the difference in strategy between the general general and the military commanders, a split of friends occurred in the Otomo army.

Opinions of the cautious group and the total attack group collided, and the attack group charged the Shimazu army without hearing the opinion of the military officer. In addition, Sorin Otomo refused to repeatedly request his vassals to join the ranks, and spent days praying to Jesus at the shrine built behind him, and the battlefield was blunting his subordinates. ..

In this way, the Otomo army's mass attack began, but the Otomo army who decided to prepare for it was really strong at the beginning, the front line unit of the Shimazu army collapsed, and the leading military commander also suffered great damage. However, it goes too deep and becomes the target of the Shimazu army's gun. When the simultaneous counterattack begins, Iehisa Shimazu of Takashiro will also hit from the castle.

The Otomo army, which began to be attacked from multiple directions, is no longer in a situation where it can fight properly, and many military commanders are killed. The Otomo army had to retreat across the river and the Mimi River was flooded, so it took time to cross over and was overtaken by the Shimazu army, and the Otomo army was severely damaged.

This damage caused a tail and caused the decline of Mr. Otomo himself.

A series of battles that changed the power map of Kyushu Battle of Mimigawa It is called.

The forces of Kitakyushu, such as Mr. Akizuki, who had no choice but to obey Mr. Otomo, resigned after hearing the great defeat of the Otomo family in the Mimi River. Mr. Ryuzoji, who had been reconciled with Mr. Otomo, will resume the invasion of Otomo territory after seeing the weakening of the Otomo family. As a result of the Shimazu army's further occupation of Hinata, the power map of Kyushu has changed significantly.

Mr. Shimazu's great leap forward

The fact that Mr. Otomo, who was the largest force in Kitakyushu, lost to Mr. Shimazu in the Battle of Mimigawa had a great impact on the forces in various parts of Kyushu. In particular, Sagara and Aso who were under the control of Mr. Otomo and received support. Inevitably, Mr. Shimazu's point will turn.

Shimazu, who won the battle with Otomo, immediately invaded Sagara . let's start doing ....

In the war situation, Mr. Sagara also struggled, but the difference in national power was obvious, and in the two-year battle, Mr. Sagara surrendered and Shimazu's power expanded to Higo.

The next opponent to defeat is Aso in central Higo. was. He wasn't a big daimyo, but he was a great general [ Kai Soun . ] There was a military commander who was both courageous and equipped.

Therefore, Mr. Shimazu orders Mr. Sagara to subdue Mr. Aso, but Sagara Yoshihi and Kai Soun Is a ally However, if I couldn't change my stomach on my back, I would reluctantly confront Mr. Aso's Kai Soun.

Sagara Yoshihi on the battlefield Waited for a match against Kai Soun by setting up a team in a disadvantageous place.

At first, Kai Soun thought it was a trap, but when he realized that Sagara Yoshihi was about to choose his own death, he lamented his fate.

In the end, Sagara's army was destroyed by Soun, and Sagara Yoshihi was destroyed. Mr. Sagara will continue to be under the control of Mr. Shimazu due to his death in the war and diplomatic efforts, but Mr. Sagara's defeated Kai Soun will die two years later.

With the death of Aso's innkeeper Kai Soun and the death of his head and his successor, Aso will decline and be destroyed by the invasion of Shimazu. In this way, Mr. Shimazu, who controlled half of Higo Province, grew into a force that controlled the southern half of Kyushu.

Ryuzoji Takanobu's Heaven and Hell

In Kitakyushu, when Mr. Otomo weakened, Mr. Ryuzoji started to move to Otomo territory to expand his power. Chikuzen / Chikugo I will invade and defeat the Otomo forces and make them obedient. In addition, Western Hizen (Nagasaki Prefecture) When he ruled, the northern part of Higo was also put into power and a large power was built in the northern part of Kyushu.

In this way, Ryuzoji Takanobu was called the Taisho of Goshu Nishima, and Mr. Ryuzoji reached its heyday. However, Mr. Ryuzoji in the northern part of Higo , Mr. Shimazu in the South The tension between the two families will increase as they grow in power and are adjacent to each other.

Ryuzoji Takanobu begins to play geisha every day, probably because of his unprecedented breakthrough.

Moreover, Takanobu at this time was outrageous and brutal . Began to stand out, killing all the clans and vassals, and mercilessly purging those in the house who opposed him. He also seems to have executed a young child sent to a hostage.

Ryuzoji Takanobu seems to have had a rough place from the beginning, but the famous general [ Naoshige Nabeshima ] Was calm and merciful, and the Ryuzoji family was successfully operated in a way that compensated for Takanobu's weaknesses. However, at the time of the heyday, Naoshige was transferred and kept away without hearing the advice of Naoshige Naoshige.

On the other hand, by giving the fear of not knowing what would happen if he disobeyed Mr. Ryuzoji, it seems that there was a certain effect of promoting the surrender of the enemy and suppressing the rebellion. The degree of brutality was already over.

* This is the story of the Meiji Restoration, but it is the story of the Saga domain, the founder of the domain [Nabeshima Naoshige].

The human heart is separated from Don Don, and finally Chikugo [ Gamaike Zhenren ] Has caused a rebellion.

Mr. Kamoike was indebted to Takanobu when he was just succeeding the Ryuzoji family, and when he was rebelled by his subordinates and lost his place, he hid him and helped him return. However, Takanobu did not forgive Mr. Kamoike who caused the rebellion, and when he invited him to make peace and killed him, he acted to kill Mr. Kamoike's clan and his fellow countrymen.

Due to this incident, Arima , who was now a vassal, Rebels.

Ryuzoji Takanobu orders his son, the politician, to subdue Arima, but the politician's wife was Arima's princess. Therefore, the politician took an unyielding attitude, but his father, Takanobu, who happened in that situation, led the army himself and set out to subdue Arima.

Arima's head, Harunobu, will meet with 3,000 soldiers, but the Ryuzoji army will be 30,000 to 50,000. Therefore, Harunobu asked Mr. Shimazu for reinforcements. Mr. Shimazu received a request for reinforcements, but there were many opinions that it is better not to send reinforcements because he is confronting Mr. Otomo and Mr. Ryuzoji in various parts of Kyushu and he is not familiar with the geography of the Shimabara Peninsula. That's right.

Still, Yoshihisa Shimazu said, [ It is against Hitoshi to kill someone who has left his life by relying on our family. The battle is not determined by the number of soldiers ] And decide the reinforcement.

In this way, Shimazu Iehisa who is a good warrior We sent 3,000 soldiers to the ship and boarded a ship to the Shimabara Peninsula to rescue Mr. Arima. Ryuzoji Takanobu, who heard the information on the reinforcements, was wary, but when he found out that there were not many Shimazu troops, he started marching as it was.

The Shimazu army that landed joins the Arima army and prepares the soldiers to die, literally forming a backwater camp. Even if you protect it with a castle, you can only be surrounded and you can not expect any further reinforcements, so I decided to fight against Mr. Ryuzoji in a strategy of hitting from here and inviting the enemy to the advantageous terrain and aiming at the enemy's main team.

The crucifixion unit was executed by crucifixing a young child, and the unit of the Akaboshi family who separated from the Ryuzoji family will serve as the unit. Shimazu Iehisa leads the gun corps and ambushes the enemy at the march of the Ryuzoji army Fishing field It takes to prepare for.

At first, the Ryuzoji army divided its troops into several units and proceeded cautiously, but when they learned that there were a small number of enemies, they led their own troops to attack the enemy's castle at once.

As it is, it will enter into battle with the leading forces of both armies, but the Shimazu army's unit will soon be defeated, and the Ryuzoji army will enter into pursuit.

However, this is the Shimazu army's specialty tactic [ Fishing Nobushi ] So, the main force of the Ryuzoji army is drawn to Okitanawate, which is a narrow ridge of rice fields.

The leading unit of the Ryuzoji army, which is pursuing the Shimazu army, entered Okitanawate and pursued the Shimazu army as it was, but here the Shimazu Iehisa's gun corps started strafing all at once.

The Ryuzoji army tried to retreat due to a sudden ambush, but it could not go down because the soldiers of allies rushed in one after another from behind. At the same time, if you try to go through the road with a large army, traffic jams will naturally occur and the formation will be elongated.

Ryuzoji Takanobu, whose march does not go as expected due to traffic jams, begins to get frustrated and urges him to move fast with a messenger. Takanobu, who was famous for his brutality, was angry, and when he heard it, the soldiers hurriedly started moving forward. As the soldiers on the front line were pushed out one after another as they rushed in from behind and marched, they became the target of a perfect gun and were in a miserable state.

In such a situation, the Arima army started bombarding the Ryuzoji army. The Ryuzoji army was confused, and then the Shimazu army avalanche toward the main camp. The Ryuzoji army, which is confused and has no coordination in a narrow formation, is divided one after another and becomes devastated.

In this battle, Ryuzoji Shitenno Hyakutake Tomokane and Enjoji Nobuyoshi The main military commanders such as are also killed one after another. In the midst of great turmoil, Ryuzoji Takanobu was also defeated by the Shimazu soldiers. Among the Sengoku daimyo, it was Yoshimoto Imagawa and Takanobu Ryuzoji who were defeated by enemy soldiers during the battle. It is said that it is about.

Nobutsune Eriguchi, one of the four heavenly kings of Ryuzoji, heard the news of Takanobu's death and set out for Iehisa Shimazu, but he was defeated by the guards just by injuring him.

On the other hand, Ryuzoji family warrior Naoshige Nabeshima He managed to escape from the battlefield and survive because he was acting in a different unit than his main unit.

The damage to the Ryuzoji army, in which most of the main military commanders, including the owner, died in the war was so great that the forces of each region were separated from Mr. Ryuzoji, coupled with the fact that they had already lost their human heart.

Mr. Ryuzoji, who took control of Mr. Otomo and became the largest daimyo in Kitakyushu, quickly declined in this battle.

On the other hand, Mr. Shimazu, who defeated both Otomo and Ryuzoji, will become the number one force in Kyushu in both name and reality, and will move toward the unification of the Kyushu region. However, in the center, Oda Nobunaga after the Honnoji Incident. Toyotomi Hideyoshi who became the successor Began to emerge as the next world-renowned man, and set his next goal in Kyushu.

Hidenaga Toyotomi will become the general general and head for the conquest of Kyushu, but I would like to write about the battle between Mr. Shimazu and Mr. Toyotomi on another occasion.