Chapter 263 Afterword
In the third year of Eiroku's reign, Imagawa Yoshimoto marched westward to Shangluo, and was ambushed by the Asai and Oda coalition forces in Okezama. He was killed on the spot. The accompanying important officials, including his own family members, were killed and injured in total. Hundreds of famous warriors and thousands of elites were killed and injured. The entire Imagawa family The essence was almost lost overnight.

Since the Ii family had already had connections with the Asai family, they immediately carried out a large-scale retracement of the Tokaido route. Ii Naomori led his army directly into Sunfu Castle, and personally killed Yoshimoto's son Imagawa Ujima, occupied Sunpu Castle, and declared his ownership of it. At Asai's house.

At the same time, the Matsudaira family of the Mikawa country captured Okazaki Castle, declared independence, changed their surname to Tokugawa, and immediately formed an alliance with the Oda family and surrendered to the Asai family.

Afterwards, the Asai and Oda coalition continued to advance eastward, capturing the entire Tokaido in five days, and faced off with the Hojo family's army who arrived at Nirayama Castle on the border. After a few days, they both stopped and made peace.

So far, in addition to part of the land annexed by the Oda family and the Tokugawa family, the Asai family has occupied a total of more than 40 koku of the Imagawa family's land, and has jumped to more than 120 million koku of land, becoming the most powerful name in the entire Nippon.

At the same time, the Uesugi family and the Takeda family launched the fourth battle of Kawanakajima. The Uesugi family governor Uesugi Teruhora used the Sinian tactics that had never been seen before and defeated the Takeda army. From the military advisor Yamamoto Kansuke and the general Takeda Nobunaga. Many important generals were killed in the battle, and the Takeda family's vitality was severely damaged and they were forced to make peace.

The next month, the Asai family and the Uesugi family entered into a marriage alliance, and the entire Nippon family realized that the famous "Echigo no Dragon" was actually a Hime warrior.

During this war, the head of the Rokkaku family tried to lend a road to the Miyoshi family, but was strongly opposed by the family's important officials, which eventually turned into a bloody conflict. The family's important officials, Goto, Shindo, Ikeda, Nagata, Mikami, etc., rebelled and brought in the Asai family. In the army, the name of Rokkaku Yoshiji fled on horseback, but was killed by Kinki farmers in a "hunting of laggards", which was known as the "Kanyinji Riot" in history.

The Nagashima Castle family planned to take advantage of the situation, but were ambushed by the Asai family and members of Enryakuji Temple on Mount Hiei. After a few days, the city was destroyed and people were killed.

In the following year, after many wars, the Miyoshi family was defeated and had to withdraw from Kinki. At the same time, the Tsutsui family, which had suffered heavy losses due to the Miyoshi family's many years of attack, bowed their heads to the Asai family.

In May, the Asai family successfully arrived in Luo, and the emperor and the general took the initiative to go three miles out of the city to greet them.

A few days later, General Ashikaga Yoshiki felt that he was not capable enough, so he wrote to the Emperor to give way to Asai Nagamasa. The Emperor agreed and allowed him to continue serving as a daimyo.

In the same month, with the support of the Asai family, Ashikaga Yoshiteru built Nijo Castle in the west of Kyoto and declared war on the Miyoshi family for past humiliation.

In June, the Uesugi family and the Asakura family joined forces to destroy the Kaga and Echizen Ichiku clan.

A few days later, the Cathay East Sea Fleet arrived at Jiezhen, announcing that the Cathay Empire and Nippon had resumed trade, and the world was shocked.

In July, because of his merits and virtues, Nagamasa Asai took office as Guanbai and took charge of the political affairs of Nippon. He also issued a "general peace order" to all the daimyo of Nippon. Without Guanbai's permission, no daimyo was allowed to engage in private fights. Otherwise, it will lead to a joint crusade from the Asai family and many coalition forces.

Nippon was peaceful and the three islands were unified. Many famous names, led by Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Takeda Shingen, etc., began to march north and east to crusade against barbarian pirates and began to occupy more vast land outside Nippon.

(End of this chapter)

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