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Ch.02.04
The end
Details regarding the first invasion from Japan are hazy, with our only sources being heavily biased and written in Alyska only in the seventeenth century to bring legitimacy to the Ori shogunate in its war against the Tokugawa.
What is known for certain is that Yoshimochi met with a delegation from Alyska which asked him to intervene and defeat the Ronin warlords which they claimed were plaguing the area. Initially the shogun dismissed them out of hand, but later became dedicated to launching an invasion of Alysla, raising an army and arriving in Alyska in 1422 sometime in the summer.
His reasons for suddenly changing his mind remain totally unknown, with some records suggesting that he wished to send many of the displaced peasants in Japan to Alyska to ease overpopulation, but even these sources admit that they do not just know for certain. But its causes are far from disputable.
The shoguns forces took little immediate action in 1422, instead wintering in one of the southern settlements and sending out messengers to nearby settlements demanding they swear loyalty to the emperor and the shogun, marking any who refused to do so for attacks in the spring of 1423.
When the winter ended the invasion force made rapid progress, and stormed through the region with relative ease. The records that we do have show that by the winter the entire country had yielded to the Japanese forces, with all the Ronin defeated, killed, and driven off. The region was then divided by the lords controlling the invasion and new rulers installed.
Obviously this series of events is highly unlikely, and a more likely theory explaining what truly happened will follow, though this is a highly conjectural theory only.
Details regarding the first invasion from Japan are hazy, with our only sources being heavily biased and written in Alyska only in the seventeenth century to bring legitimacy to the Ori shogunate in its war against the Tokugawa.
What is known for certain is that Yoshimochi met with a delegation from Alyska which asked him to intervene and defeat the Ronin warlords which they claimed were plaguing the area. Initially the shogun dismissed them out of hand, but later became dedicated to launching an invasion of Alysla, raising an army and arriving in Alyska in 1422 sometime in the summer.
His reasons for suddenly changing his mind remain totally unknown, with some records suggesting that he wished to send many of the displaced peasants in Japan to Alyska to ease overpopulation, but even these sources admit that they do not just know for certain. But its causes are far from disputable.
The shoguns forces took little immediate action in 1422, instead wintering in one of the southern settlements and sending out messengers to nearby settlements demanding they swear loyalty to the emperor and the shogun, marking any who refused to do so for attacks in the spring of 1423.
When the winter ended the invasion force made rapid progress, and stormed through the region with relative ease. The records that we do have show that by the winter the entire country had yielded to the Japanese forces, with all the Ronin defeated, killed, and driven off. The region was then divided by the lords controlling the invasion and new rulers installed.
Obviously this series of events is highly unlikely, and a more likely theory explaining what truly happened will follow, though this is a highly conjectural theory only.
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