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Chapter 164 Three Rivers Surprise Attack ([-]) Jing Yichibei

天正12年（1584年）6月29日，下午5时20分左右，沓掛城下。

In the Tokugawa Army, which was arrayed to the south, Tadashi Sakai and Naomasa Ii were still discussing the fact that the Ukita Army, which was arrayed to the north with the back of the castle, finally completed its array.

The Xiu family sat in the city of Tagua and did not go out to battle. He appointed Suzaku's backup captain Gao Shan Shizong as the team leader, and handed over all front-line command to him.

As the flags of the Hideo clan fluttered above the city, Takayama clan under the city immediately ordered that the whole army march forward slowly, gradually approaching the Tokugawa army's line.

Tadashi Sakai still wanted to retreat a little and wait for follow-up support, but seeing that the Ukita Army on the opposite side did not give him this opportunity at all, and the army had already begun to overwhelm him. Once he chose to retreat at this time, it would be tantamount to exposing his back to the opponent , once the opponent comes over, the consequences will be disastrous.

Sakai Tadashi and Ii Naomasa looked at each other, and Sakai Tadashi said, "At this time, there is no way to retreat, and the only way is to fight. I will lead the Yuanjiang people as the central army, and you will lead the Red Army as the left wing to launch a surprise attack on the enemy." , as long as the reinforcements arrive, the family will still have a chance to win."

After all, he commanded Osuga Kotaka, Matsushita Notsuna and other Toe people to attack the Ukita army, while Ii Naomasa brought the generals of the Akabe people to the left wing of the army, and prepared to launch an attack on the Akasaka people on the right wing of Hideka. attack.

"My lord, Chibei on the opposite side has been transferred to the right wing." Yuki Shimizu said, pointing to the Tokugawa army under the city.

At this moment, Xiujia was standing with him on the turret of the tower, looking at the battle situation below the city. Xiujia held a brass telescope and watched the battle situation in the distance. Of course, he also saw what Shimizu Yukiya said.

Hideka’s arrangement before the war was to bet the main force of the military on its left wing, and only Akasaka was used to stabilize the situation on the right wing. Hideka was a little worried. This was only compiled by the natives of Akasaka and Erdao counties. Whether the reserve team can hold on to the impact of the red reserve team with a considerable number of people.

The battle line first spread out in the middle, and Takayama Shizong commanded the Iron Cannon Team to fire a volley within 50 meters. Suzaku Bi's front row of 500 people lined up in three rows and rushed out from the gap of the Iron Cannon Team, holding long guns towards the opposite team. The Yuanjiang crowd charged.

After that, there were 1000 members of the reserve team, holding longbows, bowing bows and setting arrows, and under the command of their respective battalion generals, they shot arrows at the Tokugawa army.

In order to deal with the Ukita Army's three-way army from the left, middle and right, Tadashi Sakai could only separate out a total of 600 people from the middle road Tone Futamata Castle Lord Okubo Tadayo and his subordinate Narui Masaichi, trying to hold back the upper road right backup who was surrounded by the right wing , He led 1200 people to confront Suzaku Bei in the middle. From this arrangement, it can be seen that he pinned all his hopes of victory on Akabi Ii on the left.

Judging from the situation, the Xiu family has an absolute advantage.To be honest, judging from the Xiu family's battles for so many years, this is the only time the Xiu family surrounded the enemy with their absolute superiority.

It can be said that as long as the right-wing front remains intact, Xiujia has absolute confidence in guaranteeing victory in this battle.

But things tend to come as soon as they are more afraid. The first sudden change on the battlefield occurred 15 minutes after the start of the battle. Even the left wing had an absolute superiority in numbers and defeated the Okubo army. The Akasaka defense line on the right wing appeared to be loose.

Naomasa Ii took the lead and rushed into the formation of Akasaka Bei with the Konobu knights. Although there were only 320 knights, it felt like a thousand troops.

Perhaps because of the lack of experience in the battlefield, Akasaka Bei's ability to deal with the situation is particularly insufficient. The bamboo spears that Hideka had prepared for them to deal with the charge had not been inserted into the ground to deal with the impact. Trembling, nothing like the rest of the reserves are well-trained.

In fact, we can’t blame them. Since the formation of Akasaka Bei, although they have been dragged into the battlefield by Hideka many times, they have always been used as a reserve team. The reward for the battle of Sanuki was also assigned by Hideya to Kamemaru Castle to go around and attack Changzong. My family.

It's a pity that the battle situation changed too quickly. The woodpecker unit didn't arrive on the battlefield on time to play its role, and the battle was over. It can be said that Akasaka Bei was completely patrolling in the Sanuki armed forces.

Naomasa Ii rushed into Akasaka Bei's formation with the Akabe knights, and followed up with brisk steps in an attempt to expand the results of the battle. Akasaka Bei's formation changed from an 8-row line to a U-shape, allowing Kusakaku Castle to go up The show family watched the explosion of anger.

"This Nakayama Nobumasa, I'm going to dismiss him after the war!" Hideka said angrily, "Let Kenjiro lead the Higashi Sanuki people to support the right flank, and bring the Iron Pao Battalion originally assigned to the left flank together, quickly Moving over, we must not allow the Tokugawa army to penetrate our army column first and encircle our army instead."

The Xiu family stood on the oar platform and shouted orders to the attendants waiting at the bottom of the city.

Soon one of the attendants, Fanshi, received an order to ride down the city on the horse that had been waiting for a long time, and galloped towards the left wing.

And Xiujiayou said cursingly on the scull platform, "Some generals have no reputation for knowledge and action, but have no ability to lead troops. Now that the times have changed, they are still commanding the new army with the same way of commanding farmers and soldiers in the past. Mess up."

"Your Highness, look, Akasaka Bei has stabilized the situation?" Shimizu Yuki also comforted.

"He held his ground. If Gao Shan Clan hadn't urgently transferred the Tie Pao Battalion to the right to support him, Jing Yichi would have pierced his line long ago."

Hideka’s tone of voice was very angry. The reason was very simple. In this decisive battle that determined his own destiny, Akasaka Bei’s performance undoubtedly changed his initial deployment. .

You must know that Hideka's time is very precious. Now that the sun is about to set, there are still more than 4000 Suruga people following behind. Once the Suruga people rush to Kukake and the sun goes down again, they will fall into a field battle. .

Once the war drags on until dawn, even Tokugawa Ieyasu, who is far away on the Otagawa River, will be able to rush to Kukuke to launch a siege on him, and by then he will really be defeated.

History will remember that there is no problem with Hideka's strategy and tactics, but does the problem lie with Akasaka Beige under the leadership of Nobumasa Nakayama?
No, history will not record such an unknown villain. As far as history is concerned, there is nothing that can be talked about more than the defeat of Major General Hashiba Hideo, who is unparalleled in the West, by the Tokugawa Senator.

Xiujia really didn't want to take the blame for Zhongshan Xinzheng.

Whether the Xiu family is willing or not, the situation is out of his control at this time, and he can only tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall.

Fortunately, Takayama Ujimune and Hideo handled it well, and Ii Akabi's offensive against Akasaka Bei was delayed. With the support of Iemitsu Samukawa, the entire front began to gradually push back.

Naomasa Ii knew that if this situation continued, the situation would be unfavorable to him. He hastily ordered the remaining 280 knights to withdraw from the front line, reorganize behind Chibi, and attempted to lead this mobile unit to attack the Ukita Army's flanks. side rush.

It is a pity that the plan was perfect, but there were some problems in the implementation of the plan. The Okubo Army, which had been supporting the right wing, finally retreated after an hour of fighting due to the pressure of the upper right backup. At this time, the Okubo Army had killed more than 1 people. , Naruse Yoshimasa's father died in battle one after another, and the Naruse family's army was defeated first.

Many people may not know these two names, but everyone may know the name of Naruse Masanari.

Naruse Masachiko is the son of Naruse Shoichi, who served as one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's small surnames when he was young. The battle of Komaki Nagakute in history was his first battle.

Zhengcheng, who was only 17 years old, bravely entered the enemy's line and took off the enemy's head.While Ieyasu was inspecting the retrieved head, the advance troops came under heavy enemy attack.

Seeing the retreat of the troops, Zheng Cheng, regardless of the persuasion of others, entered the enemy line again to retrieve the enemy's head.After this battle, Zhengcheng was awarded 500 stones by Ieyasu for his achievements.

天正13年（1585年）、德川氏将因根来寺为秀吉所灭、四散而来的50名僧兵交由正成统率，年仅17岁就成为一军之将。这支洋枪队就是后来称为根来组的百人部队（百人组）的原型，而正成也以17岁创下家康部下最年轻就担任一军之将的纪录。

The battle of Odawara in the 18th year of Tensho (1590) also made great achievements.After Ieyasu was transferred to Kanto, he was granted the 4000 koku territory of the Katsushika County Kurihara Clan of the General Kingdom, and was granted the title of 3.4 koku daimyo after Sekihara.

In his later years, Ieyasu transferred him to the Owari Mikawa family, making him the elder of the nine men Tokugawa Yoshinao, and transferred 5 shi of Inuyama Castle until the end of the shogunate when the feudal clan was abolished and the county was established.

This time Ieyasu supported Oda Nobuo, the eldest son Naruse Masanari joined the battle with the second son Yoshimasa, the eldest son Masanari joined Ieyasu as always, broke into the formation of Mori Kasunari and Ikeda Hengxing, beheaded 7 heads, and got Ieyasu commendation.

As the father, Naruse Masaichi took his second son, Naruse Yoshimasa, and led the militia with 120 people to join the battle. They were assigned to the command of Okubo Tadashi, and were eventually incorporated into Sakai Tadashi's Toe Congregation.

Now that both of them have died in battle, Naruse Masamari may return to the territory earlier than in history, inherit the family business and lead the army to fight alone.

However, it was said that the defeat of the Narase family caused the already fragile front of the right wing to collapse instantly. Kamido right reserve captain Tomohiko Nishio immediately seized the opportunity and commanded a battalion to continue chasing the retreating Okubo army, and personally led the two battalions to Sakai on the right. Zhongji's Chinese army attacked.

Tadashi Sakai in the middle had only about 800 people, but at this moment he had to face the attack of 3500 people on both sides. He had no choice but to gradually cover the retreat of the army.

It happened that Naomasa Ii personally led the troops to detour to the Ukita Army. This military order was not quickly conveyed to the ears of Naomasa Ii, and Tadashi Sakai had already retreated with the central army, completely encircling the red army in charge of the left-wing attack.

Clan Takayama commanded Nishio Tomohiko to lead the right side of the upper road to continue to attack Sakai Chuji, while he himself led the Iron Cannon Battalion and Suzaku Bei to surround the Red Army from the rear, so that the U-shape was sealed, and 1000 Red Army soldiers on foot and foot Qingbei was locked inside, and Jingyi Naomasa was saved from the fate of being surrounded because he led the cavalry around the back.

To say that the main force of the Red Army organized by Ieyasu Tokugawa is still composed of Konobu soldiers, but it is filled with 1/3 of the three samurai Junyuan. Among them, Naomasa Ii has the largest number of territorial soldiers, so it is called It is called Jingyi Chibei.

Tokugawa Ieyasu originally planned to expand the army while studying on this basis, but most of Junyuan and the three were not familiar with horse warfare, so he placed them all in the infantry, while the cavalry led by Ii Naomasa was all led by Konobu. Knight served.

Naomasa Ii, who was outside the encirclement, finally realized the danger of the Red Army, but it was too late at this time. His old Kondo Hideyong persuaded, "Now the situation is impossible, we should retreat first and then regroup the army before making plans. .”

At this time, someone from the Red Army who was surrounded shouted again: "The general wants to abandon us and go away?"

Naomasa Ii still couldn't bear to leave them behind. Regardless of Kondo Hideyong's dissuasion, he insisted on leading the knights back, trying to break through a gap and rescue the Red Army.

But at this time, the command of the right wing had been taken back by Takayama Clan, and Ii Naomasa chose to turn his back on Suzaku Bei's rear. Takayama Clan looked at it, and there was such a good thing?

Immediately ordered the teams of the two factions outside the encirclement to turn around, insert bamboo spears on the ground to offset the charge of the cavalry, and at the same time ordered each team to form a spear formation, ready to stab the cavalry.

At this time, on the side of Jing Yi Naomasa, the horse speed of the cavalry has been raised, and Jing Yi Naomasa, who was rushing to the front, thought it was not good when he saw the bamboo spear array inserted in front of the formation on the opposite side, but at this moment he wanted to slow down the cavalry. It was even more difficult, and there was no way but to forcibly lead the cavalry to turn to the right.

The ability of the Gaoshan clan is strong because of its flexible command ability. He interspersed two musketeers in the middle of the spear array, and opened fire one by one when the cavalry rushed to 60 steps. Although the number of muskets was insufficient and the firepower was not intensive, they still Let Jingyi Naomasa's horse-riding samurai fall several people down.

Naomasa Ii regrouped on the periphery of the encirclement, and Naomasa Ii, who had been held back once, tried to charge again. This time, even the writer's old Mumata Shoukatsu refused. You are left as a man, and now the situation is unstoppable, do you want the Jingyi family's family business to be wiped out?"

Naomasa Ii said with a complicated mood, "I want to be famous for the rigorous military management, so the lord handed over the Red Army to me to command, and now because of my problem, the Red Army is in danger, what face do I have to go to see the lord alone? "

"Furthermore, since the beginning of my own command of the army, countless warriors have been beheaded by me for abandoning the army. Do I have to abandon the army now? Will the lord behead me because of this?"

"At this point in the battle, I have no way out. Only by protecting my will can I survive from death."

At this time, Naomasa Ii was already determined to die. Seeing that his lord was so decisive, Mumata Shoukatsu and Kondo Hideyo could only succumbed and said, "From the moment the boss entrusted the lord to us, we will be with you." The life of the lord is bound together, if the lord wants to charge, we will definitely follow."

If you want to talk about the tragic fate of the Ii family, you can write a whole chapter. His grandfather, Ii Naohira, watched his three sons helplessly.

The 82-year-old Jing Yi Naohei had no choice but to come out again to succeed the family governor. In the end, after his old age and death, Jing Yi Naotora acted as the agent of Jing Yi's family affairs as the aunt of Jing Yi and his wife.

It can be said that the Jingyi family fell into a trough completely. Later, because of the tenacity of the retainers and the management ability of Jingyi Naotora, the family name was finally guaranteed. A request from Ii Naohira's great-grandfather, Ii Naohira, before his death.

Naomasa Ii looked at the gray-haired old Mumata Shoukatsu, the three chief ministers were moved to tears, and after tidying up their clothes, it seemed that they were about to bid farewell to the world at the next moment.

After reorganizing the cavalry team, the cavalry team finally took Ii Naomasa as the arrow and rushed towards the right side surrounding the Chibei team, the area under Akasaka Bei's charge.

"Come on~ Let them see the bravery of Tokugawa Koro!"

(End of this chapter)