Osaka summer campaign

Osaka Summer Campaign: The End of the Warring States Period Unrest

Cause: The bells ringing in Fangguang Temple.

Lin Luoshan, a Confucian official of Tokugawa Ieyasu shogunate, commented on Zhong Ming in Fangguang Temple, thinking that Tokugawa Ieyasu had a curse, and Tokugawa Ieyasu took the opportunity to force Toyotomi Hideyori to obey, which intensified the contradiction between the two sides.

16 15, the Tokugawa Army and Toyotomi Army fought the last life-and-death battle in Osaka, which was the Osaka Summer War. During the Warring States Period in Japan, music has been played since Ren Ying's rebellion in 1467, which has been disturbing for more than a hundred years. Generation after generation of heroes and heroines appeared in turn, and finally the deer died at the hands of Tokugawa Ieyasu. The battle of Osaka in summer was the end of Japan's Warring States period.

The seeds of this war were planted long after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death. In the post-Toyotomi Hideyoshi system left by his death, Tokugawa Ieyasu almost monopolized the power, and the power center gradually shifted, so a big war was inevitable. But when it comes to the direct fuse of this war, the ignited Mars is actually a somewhat ethereal literary prison.

In the 19th year of Evergreen (16 14), the reconstruction of Fangguang Temple in Toyotomi Hideyori was completed. Unexpectedly, the bell ringing in the big Buddha hall in the temple got him into big trouble. The inscription of Fengle, the monarch and minister of Ankang, presided over by nanzenji, split the word Konka, cursed the disintegration of Tokugawa Ieyasu and was fermented by Confucian officials of the Tokugawa Ieyasu shogunate.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, no matter how Toyotomi Hideyori argued, insisted on getting rid of the author of the inscription. Of course, this is not the main purpose of Konka. He mainly wanted to force Toyotomi Hideyori to agree to move out of Osaka, or to leave Toyotomi's ceremonial shallow well in Edo for a long time, so as to achieve the purpose of Toyotomi's submission. Toyotomi Hideyori didn't want to be a fish on the chopping block, so once the contradiction between the two sides was punctured, it was out of control.

Xiulai listed Tokugawa Ieyasu's sins and failed to seek help from other celebrities, but he recruited ronin extensively to fight in the war. Tokugawa Ieyasu left Nijo Castle in 1 1 and led an army to Osaka, where the Osaka Winter Campaign broke out. Tokugawa Ieyasu's 200,000 troops surrounded Osaka Castle, and the two sides started a tug-of-war.

In order to spend the long winter, the Tokugawa army gathered strength and planned to hold peace talks. On the other hand, Toyotomi agreed to peace talks because the Tianshouge shelling incident shocked the firepower of the Tokugawa Army. Unexpectedly, after the peace talks, Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered the trench to be buried and destroyed some city walls. When the Toyotomi family woke up, it was difficult to recover. Osaka Castle has become a bare city, and its fortifications can't be compared with before.

In April of the following year, when the weather turned warmer, Tokugawa Ieyasu saw that he had the upper hand, hoping that Xiulai would surrender voluntarily and stop the unnecessary fighting. But Toyotomi Hideyori was more active in preparing for the war, which made Tokugawa Ieyasu furious and decided to send troops to Osaka. By the end of April, the Tokugawa Army and its generals, with a population of about 1.5 million, were mostly ministers of Kibaki and agreed to attack in early May.

Compared with the determination and deliberation of the Tokugawa Army, Toyotomi has strategic differences. The Toyotomi family has always been a civilian in power, and the military commander's proposal is dismissive and cannot be violated. In the past, civil servants tended to fight in Cage City, but under the pressure of military commanders Sanada Yukimura and Goto Matabi, they had to divide some troops to guard Komatsu Mountain and Amano Temple near Osaka.

However, the divided forces are only tens of thousands of people, which can neither guard the defense nor delay the enemy. On the contrary, break the army that is beneficial to Kant one by one. At the same time, Tokugawa Ieyasu mobilized more than 30,000 people to Kunfenling, and the marching route of Tokugawa Army was consistent with Goto Matabi's idea. Sanada Yukimura, Goto Matabi and others decided to meet at Fujii Temple, cross the national boundary ridge and occupy the small Songshan Mountain, thus occupying the geographical position. However, people are not as good as nature, and the plan was established.

Goto Matabee led thousands of people to set out, but after arriving at Fujii Temple, there was no real heavenly army, so he had to continue marching, but the heavenly army still disappeared, which made Goto's army panic and feared that the real heavenly army would betray. After all, if they can't wait for the real heavenly army, their situation is tantamount to feeding wolves. And why is the real Tian Jun so late? It was because of a heavy fog at night that Tian Jun really got lost.

Helpless, in the early morning of May 6, Goto army had to go to war in the face of ten times its own enemy. Even if Goto Matabee had a good plan, he caught Xiao Songshan, raided first, and alternated forwards. Unfortunately, the number gap is too big, and the reinforcements have not arrived. Goto Matabi died in battle. At noon, the true celestial army finally arrived, and the generals of the Tokugawa army were frightened by it. The true celestial army retreated after repelling a wave of attacks, and the Tokugawa army did not pursue it.

The next day, Sanada Yukimura took the lead and rushed into the flag army composed mostly of young warriors, but he didn't find Tokugawa Ieyasu. He was seriously injured several times. Finally, he was beheaded by the enemy at the Anju Shrine. After Sanada Yukimura's death, the Toyotomi army was like a spent force, demoralized and unable to resist any more. Osaka Castle was breached, and Toyotomi Hideyori and his mother were forced to commit suicide. At this point, Japan was finally unified.

After Tokugawa Ieyasu unified the world, in order to maintain long-term stability, many laws were enacted. After the Osaka Summer War, Tokugawa Ieyasu summoned your names and promulgated the Military Law, aiming at restraining the power of your names and putting forward many restrictions on the construction of castles, new towns, marriage and party formation.

In order to change the name of the vassal, the name of the vassal also had to participate in hajj regularly, share military service, undertake projects and so on. This series of institutional norms strengthened the Tokugawa shogunate's control over famous soldiers and stabilized the Tokugawa shogunate's ruling order over Japan as a whole.

Consequence: Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Tokugawa era.

At the end of the Warring States period, Japan entered the Tokugawa shogunate era.

Conclusion: The Battle of Osaka in summer was the last battle in Tokugawa Ieyasu's journey to unify the world, and then the Tokugawa shogunate promulgated the "Samurai Law" and other laws, which laid the social stability in the Japanese Edo era for more than 200 years.