The Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely rebellious

Chapter 449: Tokugawa Ieyasu was stunned

Tokugawa Ieyasu didn't know that Wanli had ordered Qi Jiguang and Mori Terumoto to dig a huge pit in Mino Province waiting for him.

He didn't even know how the battle between Mori Terumoto and Toyotomi Hideyoshi went.

This guy even thought that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was targeting his messenger and killing him, so Mori Terumoto couldn't receive his letter.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi did this because he was obviously afraid that his main force would go to reinforce Mori Terumoto.

Naturally, he had to quickly advance his main force to Kyoto and Osaka.

As for competing for the position of the new emperor of Japan, he definitely thought about it.

He ordered the main force to advance quickly to Kyoto and Osaka, in fact, he also intended to seize territory.

At this moment, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's main force was fighting with Mori Terumoto and had no time to take care of him, so he naturally wanted to seize more territory.

As for Mori Terumoto scolding him for taking advantage of the opportunity to seize territory, so what?
He would have no choice but to seize these territories. After seizing them, he would become the most powerful force in Japan.

By then, Mori Terumoto and other princes will not be able to defeat him, and he will be the new emperor of Japan.

What's wrong with Mori Terumoto scolding him now?
If he stops fighting for territory just because Mori Terumoto scolded him, then he has a problem with his brain.

Most heroes are shameless. If you want to be shameless, don’t be a hero.

He took the opportunity to grab territory.

What's the matter?

Of course, no matter how hard we fight for territory, we must first deal with Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

While he was fighting for territory, he also had to help Mori Terumoto.

Because this guy Mori Terumoto is too unreliable.

Originally, this guy's top priority was to preserve his strength, and he would not fight if he could avoid it.

This time, no one knew what went wrong with Mori Terumoto, he rushed all the way to the Kyoto-Osaka line.

Perhaps, Toyotomi Hideyoshi also thought that Mori Terumoto would not send troops, so he did not arrange many troops to defend the west.

This should be the fundamental reason why Mori Terumoto was able to make such a crazy charge.

However, things would be different if Toyotomi Hideyoshi transferred his main force back.

At this moment, Toyotomi Hideyoshi seemed to still have more than 100,000 troops.

If Mori Terumoto felt that the losses would be too great if he continued fighting and did not want to fight anymore, and surrendered to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, that would be a big trouble.

The number of people under his command was not as large as Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Maeda Toshiie combined.

At that time, it is possible that Toyotomi Hideyoshi would take this opportunity to turn the tables.

Therefore, he sent his main force to rush to Kyoto and Osaka, while the rest of his troops pressed towards the Toyotomi clan's territory.

The result can be imagined.

The Tokugawa clan's main force of nearly 100,000 troops fought a decisive battle with the Mori clan's army of more than 100,000 troops in the Sekigahara area of ​​Mino Province.

The Mori clan won a great victory and the main force of the Tokugawa clan was completely wiped out!
Of course, this is just the news released by Mori Terumoto, and it is not true.

The main force of the Tokugawa clan rushed into the ambush circle of hundreds of thousands of Ming troops and was surrounded and not a single one escaped!
However, the Sekigahara area was blocked by Mori Terumoto, and the other Japanese lords did not know that it was the Ming army that took action.

Tokugawa Ieyasu didn't even realize how powerful it was.

Did he have a decisive battle with Mori Terumoto at Sekigahara?
How is this going?

He doesn't know at all!

What decisive battle?

He did not order his men to go to war with Mori Terumoto. He ordered his main force to help Mori Terumoto defeat Toyotomi Hideyoshi!
How did this turn into a decisive battle between his main force and Mori Terumoto in the Sekigahara area?

Tokugawa Ieyasu is really incomprehensible.

How could this be so absurd?

In fact, there are many absurd things in history.

For example, many absurd things happened when Toyotomi Hideyoshi first led his army to invade the vassal state of Korea.

The Japanese army advanced more than 800 miles in just 19 days and captured the capital of the vassal state of Korea.

Who could believe such an absurd thing before it happened?

It’s not that the vassal state of Korea is without any soldiers. The total number of their troops is even greater than that of the invading Japanese troops.

Moreover, there are at least twenty or thirty checkpoints between Busan and the capital of the vassal state of Joseon.

Not to mention the city, if the garrison at any checkpoint had put up a fight, they could have held off the pirates for more than ten days. But the truth was that no one put up a fight. Not only did the traitors from Korea, a vassal state, not only did they not put up a fight, they even led the pirates towards the capital!
If such absurd things could happen, it would not be surprising at all that the main force of the Tokugawa clan was inexplicably defeated or even annihilated.

Because Mori Terumoto was a traitor in Japan, and this guy was leading the Ming army.

At this moment, Tokugawa Ieyasu was just like the then vassal king of Korea, Lee Sun, he was confused and had no idea what was going on.

His main force was gone inexplicably!
Immediately afterwards, Mori Terumoto began to charge forward madly like a madman!

This guy advanced madly towards Tokugawa Ieyasu's territory, forty or fifty miles a day.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was stunned.

He didn't even have the strength to resist.

Because apart from the main force sent to support Mori Terumoto and the detachment sent to attack Echigo Province, he sent almost all of the remaining 20,000 to 30,000 troops to seize territory.

He almost took over all the more than ten countries to the east of the Toyotomi clan.

If his original territory is added, the territory under his control will cover more than twenty countries.

In other words, he had to garrison more than 20 countries with 20,000 to 30,000 troops, and each country had only about a thousand troops, and each city had at most a few hundred people guarding it!

How could he possibly withstand Mori Terumoto's crazy charge?
Even if there was a kerosene canister it wouldn't be of much use at this moment.

Could he expect his few hundred men to withstand the siege of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Maori people?
Unless he has an endless supply of kerosene, he can burn a wall of fire under the walls of every city.

The problem is, he doesn't have that much kerosene cans.

The ten thousand kerosene cans he bought from the Kapitan were almost used up.

The Kapitan even said that he would find a way to get him another batch of kerosene and even bombs.

Who knew that the Kapitan was nowhere to be seen at this moment.

Tokugawa Ieyasu had no choice but to quickly transfer the detachment that was attacking Echigo Province back to Edo Castle for defense, and wrote letters to Date Masamune and Gamo Ujisato for help.

Date Masamune and Gamo Ujisato ignored him at all!

These two guys were deceived by Mori Terumoto into thinking that Tokugawa Ieyasu was too ambitious and ignored his allies, only caring about grabbing territory.

They probably all felt that this kind of person was not worth helping, or perhaps it was best to just watch the show and not get involved.

What does the battle between Mori Terumoto and Tokugawa Ieyasu have to do with them?
From the perspective of competing for the throne of the new emperor, they also hoped that Mori Terumoto and Tokugawa Ieyasu would fight to the death.

Are they still going to help?

That's a joke!
You can't help with this kind of thing, otherwise all your men will be in trouble.

I have to say that their judgment was correct.

If they sent troops to support Tokugawa Ieyasu, no matter how many they sent, they would definitely suffer.

There are hundreds of thousands of Ming troops following the Maori army!

Qi Jiguang also hoped that they would send all their men to support him.

As a result, Date Masamune and Gamo Ujisato were essentially useless, and their only opponents were Maeda Toshiie and the half-crippled Uesugi Kagekatsu.

Unfortunately, these two guys did not send troops to reinforce Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was helpless without reinforcements. All he had left were the 30,000 to 40,000 troops that were sent to attack Echigo Province, and they were simply unable to compete with the main army of the Mori clan.

He could only write a letter to Mori Terumoto to ask for peace, hoping that Mori Terumoto would spare him for the sake of their former ally.

At this moment, he didn't want to fight for territory anymore. He could give all the Toyotomi clan's territory to Mori Terumoto. He only wanted to keep his original territory.

As a result, there was naturally no news.

Mori Terumoto was just like before, even detaining his messenger, as if he had never received the letter at all.

At this time, Tokugawa Ieyasu also understood that this guy had not failed to receive the letter he had written to Mori Terumoto, but was deliberately creating the illusion that he had not received it!

He had no choice but to withdraw all his troops and prepare to defend Edo Castle to the death.

Mori Terumoto advanced madly all the way and reached the outskirts of Edo Castle, where he surrounded Tokugawa Ieyasu.

What will this guy do next?

The other princes of Japan began to communicate secretly through letters.

Date Masamune, Gamo Ujisato, Maeda Toshiie, and even Uesugi Kagekatsu were all ready to unite to resist Mori Terumoto.

Because this guy was so powerful, the two great Japanese heroes, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, were defeated by him.

If they don't unite to fight this guy, they will be defeated one by one.

(End of this chapter)