In the fourth year of Kei Chang (1599), Maeda Takiya died of illness, and the "five five old fives" left by Toyotomi Hideyoshi quickly collapsed. According to traditional sayings, the seven arbitrary factions of the Toyotomi family ( Fukushima Masashi , Kato Kiyoshima, Kato Kazuaki , Kuroda Nagamasa , Hosokawa Tadao , Ikeda Hiromasa , Asano Yukinaga , ) immediately planned to assassinate the "5-persisting " Ishida Mizunaga at the funeral of the Maeda family.
However, Ishida Mitsunari was on the ground and went to the ground to seek asylum from Tokugawa Ieyasu , and saved his life at the cost of resigning and living in seclusion. However, the hatred of the seven warriors against Mizunashi Ishida was not resolved. They all joined Tokugawa Ieyasu as the general's Eastern Army during the Battle of Sekihara . Strangely, six of the seven warriors appeared on the Sekigahara battlefield, only Kato Kiyomasa did not come. What's going on?
Toyotomi Hideyoshi can freely allocate two types of Japanese territory: the first is Oda Nobunaga the territory controlled by that time; the second is the territory that Daming of the Warring States Period was forced to hand over, such as Junyuan Sanjia Nobuya, Kyushu Seven Kingdoms, Shiguo Three Kingdoms, Muro Politics and Aizu, etc. . These Japanese territories that can be distributed freely are either directly under the jurisdiction of Toyotomi Hideyoshi or granted to the Toyotomi family’s confidant Daname, such as the seven generals.
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In the fifth year of Keizao (1600), Tokugawa Ieyasu, in the name of the Toyotomi family, called on the daimyo in Japan to gather together to attack and attack him, Keikaku, Uesugi, who did not surrender to him. Because Uesugi Keikaku's main territory, Aizu, is located in the northeast of Honshu Island, Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered all the major names to lead their troops to Kanto to gather. The seven warriors had long been disgusted with Uesugi Keika, a good relationship with Mitsunai Ishida, so they naturally actively sent troops.
in the eastern part of Honshu Island, Fukushima Masashi, Ikeda Shizumasa and Asano Yukinaga arrived in Kanto almost the first time, and in the western part of Honshu Island, Honkawa Tadaki arrived soon. Although Iyu is on Shikoku Island, she is close to Honshu Island, so Kato Kamin arrives in Kanto is not slow either. Although Kuroda Nagamasa was on Kyushu Island, his understanding of the situation was clearer than the other six people, and he arrived in Kanto in time.
Interestingly, Kato Kiyomasa, the farthest from Kanto, acted the slowest, and seemed not very concerned about the conquest of Uesugi Keika. Two months after Tokugawa Ieyasu announced the attack on Uesugi Keikaku, Mitsunari Ishida officially launched an army and formed the Western Army with Maori Hiromoto as the general. After the establishment of the Western Army, the road to Guanzhong was immediately blocked by the major names in western Japan, and Kiyoshi Kato could not go to Kanto.
After learning that the Western Army was formed, Tokugawa Ieyasu formed the major names that had arrived in Kanto into the Eastern Army ( Koyama Evaluation ), including Fukushima Masashi, Kato Kazuaki, Kuroda Nagamasa, Hosokawa Tadyuki, Ikeda Hiromasa, and Asano Yukinaga. After the formation of the Eastern Army, the main force immediately attacked Kinki to the west. After some game, the main force of the Eastern Army and the main force of the Western Army finally met in Guanyuan, and the battle of Guanyuan broke out.
Because Kiyomasa Kato did not arrive in Kanto in time, he did not participate in the "Koyama Assessment", and naturally his army did not become the main force of the Eastern Army in the Battle of Sekihara. When the Battle of Sekigahara broke out, Kiyomasa Kato, who was staying in , Higoku, , attacked the Western Army controlled area of Kyushu Island (mainly the territory of Governor Konishi) and did not participate in the Battle of Sekigahara.
