Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 794 East-West War (5.2) Dong Jun is hard to attack, Satake Hideo's family disagrees ([-]K)

War is such drama sometimes.

Both Nobushiro Naito and Masaki Kajiwara have violated the biggest taboo of military strategists. If they meet other people in the usual way, they will only end in defeat.

However, when Wolong met Fengchu, Kajihara Zhengjing Quantou Castle became famous in the next battle. He attacked Quantou City at night and wiped out the enemy troops who left the city. This battle must be a great victory that can be recorded in history.

You ask how many enemies were suppressed that night?

Who knows who is blind?
What?The prisoner said there were only a few thousand people?
Impossible, absolutely impossible.Kajiwara Masaki clearly felt that what he was repelling was the enemy's large army, at least 3000 people.And I, Masaki Kajihara, am a proper general.

The main force led by Xiujiaji began to reorganize the army at dawn the next day, and then crossed Hakone Doug one by one.

Originally, Sagami (formerly Odawara) on the east side of Hakone Dao belonged to the territory of the Nagatsusu Masakae. He had worked under Hideie for almost 10 years and had a very good relationship with Hideie.But now that he is in Osaka, he naturally dare not contact Xiu's family directly.

However, the remaining local retainers did not embarrass the Xiu family, did not make any gestures of resistance, cage city, and even offered to provide soldiers and rations for the Xiu family.Seeing that the opponent is doing so well, Xiujia will naturally not embarrass the opponent, leaving the two reserve teams in the 11th formation, and most of the other front teams will be deployed according to the previously agreed tasks.

Although Yamanaka Castle has been demolished and Hakone Dom has been passed through, Hideke still requires Kagawa Kei to open the road from Ashigara to Gotemba on the north side.Because the Hakone Dao mountain road is difficult to travel, the rations and armaments of 10,000+ people are not enough to march, and there are such things as 18-pound guns in the Xiujia team, it is impossible to cross the mountains and mountains.

The vanguard was still the Ashikaga family. After traveling for half a day, he finally arrived at the foot of Quantou Castle.As a vassal brought out by the Xiu family from Kibi, Suga Masatoshi has always been a candidate for the elders that the Xiu family valued.As an important minister, he naturally wanted to flatter the son of the Xiu family.

However, Masatoshi Suga, who left the camp early to meet the Ashikaga family, saw the Ashikaga family with a serious face towards him.

But no matter what, the Uji family are all sons of the Hide family, Masatoshi Suga could only say to the Uji family with a smile on his face, "Major General has worked hard all the way. (The official position of the Ashikaga family is Major General Zuo Konoe)"

"It's not like you, Lusuke, worked hard. You won both battles in two days. Father praised you full of praise in the battle." The Ashikaga family's words were mixed, but Masatoshi Suga still had a smile on his face.

Naturally, Masatoshi Suga knew that he was the original vanguard officer.Now, not to mention stealing other people's jobs, he was the first to win two battles at Mountain City and Quantou City. He defeated nearly 2000 Tokugawa soldiers, captured more than 600 heads, and captured more than 200 people. He directly said that he stole the limelight. It's strange that people can give themselves a good face.

"My lord has always put military aircraft first, and ordered me to attack because time is running out. Don't worry too much, Your Highness."

The Ashikaga family is indeed bad-tempered, but they are not fools.I also know that Masatoshi Suga is in charge of a team of generals, with 1 troops under his command, which is enough to show that the Xiu family attaches great importance to him.

At this time, Ota Keisuke, who was an old man in the army, smoothed things over and said, "Hitarisuke won two battles, so I can take a rest. Next, let's watch the battle of my Highness."

The Ashikaga family was just not complaining just now, but now that they are low-key, and there are retainers behind them to ease the atmosphere, the Ashikaga family also hurriedly got off their horses and helped Suga Masatoshi to salute, saying, "I don't mean anything else, I really feel sorry for you. Lu Jie's hard work. As a senior, you also showed me a lot of heroism. I really still have a lot to learn from you.

It’s just that my father ordered me to be the pioneer after all.”

Suga Masatoshi was helped up by the Ashikaga family, but he did not agree with the Ashikaga family to take over the siege.

Long before the departure, Hideka explained the general plan of Masatoshi Suga. As the vanguard, the Ashikaga family will move with Hideka Honjin and continue westward. Masatoshi Suga mopped up.

But the face of the Ashikaga family still has to be given, so they said to this "child", "Now that the headquarters has surrounded Izuntou Castle, it would be a bit troublesome to withdraw from the siege and re-arrange. There is Tokura Castle, which was originally built by the Hojo Clan, and it was the second line of defense against the Imagawa Clan after Xingguo Temple.

Later, many battles with Takeda and Tokugawa took place here.When Odawara joined the battle, because it was located in a remote place, the Hojo clan abandoned the defense of Higashi Suruga, so they fell without fighting.

I have found out that after the Tokugawa clan rebuilt Izuzu Castle, Tokura Castle has been reduced to a branch castle, and 200 people are stationed in the castle as a link with the Izu Legion.I have already observed that this city is the highest point on the left and right, and it happens to be the location of the Lord's main formation. How about taking it down with your Highness?

But despite the fact that there are few people stationed there, Your Highness, Honjo Mountain is more than 70 meters high, and the Kano River bends under it. It is a city that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

If it weren't for its remote location, south of Dongjun, and not on our advancing route, the Tokugawa family would certainly not abandon this city and build Quantou Castle.Your Highness needs to be more careful. "

Masatoshi Suga tried his best to persuade him, but the Ashikaga family responded easily, "Understood."

In fact, the Ashikaga family still wanted to win Izuntou Castle to prove themselves to the Hide family, but Masatoshi Suga refused to let him, so he couldn't grab it.And now that he is asked to win the city for the Xiu family's main formation, when his father sits in the city he won, he might even praise him a few words.

Therefore, he stopped worrying about leading troops and turned to the south. That night, he set up his main formation on Wumao Mountain, southwest of Hucang City, and decided to lead troops to attack the city early in the morning.

The Ashikaga family set up a main formation on Wumao Mountain, and recruited all the elders and generals of the family to hold military meetings. Since this was his first formation, Noda Homono, Shobayashi Isshin, and Ota Keisuke were actually responsible for the formation of the main formation. family old.

These three family elders actually have their own characteristics. Noda Homono is a retainer of the Ashikaga clan, but the Noda clan was no match for the Kanada and Isshiki families before. They could only serve as internal affairs officials in the Ashikaga clan. Their family did not have any inheritance of military art.

Zhuang Lin Yixin and Ota Jingzi were both from the Xiu family's entourage team, which is what the Toyoharu family called the "Kinchen officer training camp".But when Zhuang Lin Yixin was in the attendant team, Xiujia was still studying with the monk in Bizen, so there was no chance to teach his close ministers.

Moreover, Zhuang Lin Yixin soon transferred to the banner to lead the banner, and then transferred to the standing general.He started as an officer, and achieved his current status step by step with his military exploits. His understanding of military warfare is mainly based on his own conclusions.

Ota Keisuke was different, he had been with Hideka in the entourage for several years, and those years were when Hideka was "grounded" in Kyoto to assist Hideaga in managing the government.Because he usually has nothing to do, he likes to talk to his servants on paper when he has nothing to do, so he can be regarded as the one who has received the strategic education of the later generations of the Xiu family in a real sense.

Take this military meeting as an example. The entire framework was built by Keiko Ota.After the horse race patrolled Hucang City for several laps, how many people to deploy, how many rounds of offensives to prepare, and what equipment to use were clearly listed, which directly stunned the other Yeluzi warriors.

Zhuang Linyi is fine, he has been with the Xiu family for several years, and knows that the Xiu family is a data control person who likes to calculate the feasibility of the war before the war.But Noda Tomotomo, Yoda Sadasuke and others were dumbfounded. They are all old ministers of Ashikaga, and they have fought against the Hojo and Satake clans all their lives. How could this battle not be fought based on feeling?
How can you still fight like this?If it weren't for the fact that the Hojo clan was slipped back and forth by His Royal Highness Toyoharu back then, it had already been calculated outside of the battle. No wonder the entire Hojo crusade against His Royal Highness Toyoharu always took me out of time and grabbed points before the Hojo clan could react.

Since Ota Keiko is so professional, what else can everyone say.The Ashikaga family had never fought a war, and it was more of a war on paper.But he always heard from Xiujia that "professional things should be done by professional people."

Since Ota Jingzi is so professional, then naturally everything will follow his arrangement.As for Noda Tomochao, Yoda Sadasuke and others, they just expressed their opinions a little bit, using their decades of experience in fighting bad battles to check for omissions and fill in the gaps.

Tokura Castle's defenses are indeed solid, otherwise Hojo Utsuna would not have fallen here, and it would have become the front line against the Imagawa clan after the transfer of Xingguoji Castle.Even at the time of the war with Takeda Katsuyori, this castle was still the front line of the Hojo clan's defense against Takeda.In order to take this castle, the Takeda family took over Suruga and took over 2000 dead in the light battle.

But now Tokura Castle faces the same problem as the previous mountain castle, that is, the city defense is very strong, but the troops are not enough to spread the defense.Even the number of defenders in Tokura Castle today is not comparable to that of the original mountain castle.

When the Ashikaga family surrounded the city, they felt something was wrong, but when they attacked the city the next day, they found that it was already an empty city.After finally catching a few Tokugawa soldiers at the foot of the mountain, they found out after questioning that the guard of Izuntou Castle, Torii Mototada, had transferred all the defenders from the surrounding branches back to Izuntou Castle.

Tokura Castle, which was originally an important point connecting Izu, still left 30 Ashikaga to watch, but seeing the mighty Ashikaga army, these 30 people had already run away, wasting the overnight arrangement of the Ashikaga family in vain.

Yes, after last night, he had already regarded Ota Keisuke's arrangement as his own, but today he missed the day and felt that Ota's arrangement was just like that.Ota Jingzi also felt embarrassed. He didn't find anyone absconding in the city last night, so today's show was ruined.

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Due to the large number of troops, the Xiu family did not arrive at Quantou City until two days later.As Suga Masatoshi said, because the location here is really good, Hideka directly set up the headquarters in Tokura Castle on the south side.

Masatoshi Suga even praised the Ashikaga family to the Xiu family.

What is quite resembling the style of the lord back then; the military strategy is an old hand; the enemy army collapsed at the first contact, Hucang Castle fell in the first battle, and so on, all told the Xiu family.

The Ashikaga family, who was on the sidelines, was very embarrassed. Didn't he know how the city was taken?
He is also a master with a temper, he directly interrupted Masato Suga's flattery, and confessed to Xiujia that he had indeed made an arrangement, but everyone in Tokura Castle ran away, and he punched cotton.

He thought that Xiujia would scold him, but Xiujia praised his honesty with a smile on his face, and said that he already possessed the most important quality of a samurai.

This is the first time Hideo has praised the Ashikaga family since he went to war. Only then did the Ashikaga family realize that their father was completely different from the daimyo who ruled the world as they had imagined.

He originally thought that the Hide family's daimyo, who valued results and was dissatisfied with his incompetent son, was just like the reprimand he had given him when he was in Fujisawa Castle.But now he realizes that Xiujia is a person who values ​​the process and original intention more.

In fact, he was still wrong, and he still hasn't understood why Hideka got angry in Fujisawa Castle.He would not understand that the Xiu family valued the original intention more, the Xiu family just had different requirements for the heir Hachiro Teruma and other sons.

In the Xiu family's view, it was enough for the other sons to guarantee their loyalty to the clan, and it didn't matter whether they were capable or not.In the final analysis, the Ashikaga family's own mentality has not been adjusted, and he still has not put himself in the position of a separate family.

Many people in the Eastern Army thought that the Xiu family would enter Hukura Castle to remotely control the attack on Fist City. After all, there are only more than 3000 defenders in this city.In fact, the state shown by Xiujia is indeed like this. He stayed in Tokura Castle for 5 days in a row, and remotely controlled the attack on Quantou Castle at the foot of the mountain.

However, Masatoshi Suga, who had received the order from the Hideo family long ago, placed the reserve army in front of the siege, and placed the main force's standing corps in the rear, and intentionally or unintentionally withdrew troops at key points in the siege. The whole progress of the siege looked nondescript, and seeing the other generals in Tokura Castle cursed inwardly, he asked Hideo many times to replace him with Masatoshi Suga.

But at this time, Hideka issued an order for the entire army to transfer to Suruga, and as for Higashi Suruga, Suga Masari was given full responsibility.

Regarding Hideo's order, Satake Yoshishige, who received Hideo's signal, refused on the spot.He expressed sincerely to the Xiu family, "Military and national affairs, more than a hundred thousand of my followers are here, how can I easily transfer to another place if the Spring Head City is not removed?"

But Xiujia not only ignored Satake Yoshishige's suggestion, but also directly blamed him, "Izuntou City went south, and our army consumed thousands of shi in a day. Could it be that I wasted here for nothing? Besides, I am the General, I have my own arrangements for how to fight, and Chang Lushou should not interfere too much."

In fact, the following Fengchun retainer really wanted to say, "Let me try it, maybe I will take down Quantou City?"

But after seeing the Hideka's stance, the habit of obeying the Hideka's orders over the years made them dare not jump out to refute the Hideka's orders. As for Satake Yoshishige as a guest army, the proportion of the military force was not enough. Naturally, I can no longer express any opinions.

Early the next morning, the army set off from Tokura Castle, with the Ashikaga family as the vanguard, abandoned Izuntou Castle and continued westward.

Of course, Quantou City is not without siege troops. Under the leadership of Ukita Zongsheng, Yanyuan Xiuzheng, Changlu Bei, the 2nd battalion of Hitachi, the 3rd and 4th of Shimono's preparations, and the 4th of Xiazong's preparations, the total strength is more than 8000 people. He was left behind to continue the siege of Quantou City.

The army marched straight to the second stop, Xingguo Temple City, which was originally the city that Naito Nobushiro was in charge of stationing.However, because Naito Shinari led some soldiers to support Torii Motochu's raid on Xiangshan before, and then lost soldiers and generals under the castle, there are now less than 2000 people stationed in Xingguoji Castle.

It was still the siege of Xingguo Temple City, it was still Masatoshi Suga who was responsible for the siege, and it was still the end of the 3-day siege.Masatoshi Suga still didn't send the main force up, so he went to the captain of the general reserve angrily, and Masaki Kajihara, who had already defeated Nobunari Naito once, scolded his mother.

He even expressed his dissatisfaction with Xiujia's appointment of Suga Masatoshi as the No.12 general at the military meeting on the spot, but he was indeed punished by Suga Masari asking Xiujia to whip Kajiwara Masaki for disobedience to the admiral. The family really agreed.

Everyone could see that Suga Masari was not capable as a general, but in the Fengchun Army, the words of the Xiu family were authoritative, and no one dared to directly disobey the order of the Xiu family.

Seeing that the Xingguo Temple City with less than 2000 troops could not be taken down in a short time, Masatoshi Suga once again asked the Xiu family to give it to him for defense, and the request of the Xiu family to continue westward was agreed by the Xiu family.

But Yoshigetsu Satake quit again, and he directly told the Hide family, "Xingguo Temple Castle controls the main line of the Tokaido. If Xingguo Temple Castle is not captured, our army's rear will be in danger."

But the Xiu family still said, "There are tens of thousands of soldiers stationed in Xingguo Temple City, and there are only 2000 remnants in the city, so there is nothing to worry about."

The army set off again, all the way west through Zentokuji Castle in the Fujigawa Plain. This is the only castle in the entire Fujigawa Plain. However, Hideka still said that the castle was difficult to capture and was unwilling to waste time here. He planned to clear the No.11 formation Liang and Yingwa Jiuhu stayed behind and continued to be in charge of the siege of Shandesi City.

Now Yoshishige Satake quit completely, and he directly shouted at the Xiu family in the military meeting: "The Central Army of Osaka will arrive at some point, His Highness abandons one city today and keeps one army, and tomorrow abandons two cities and keeps one army. How many troops can defeat the enemy of the Western Army?"

Facing Yoshishige Satake's question, Hideka laughed and said, "Major General Tokugawa is incompetent, even if I only have 5000 soldiers in my hand, it is enough to defeat him. As long as he defeats the Tokugawa Central Army to control Suruga before it arrives, This family will be invincible!"

But this time Satake Yoshishige did not back down when faced with the Xiu family's answer, and directly said: "I have never seen the army of the Youfu, please forgive me. If your highness must leave an army to surround the city of Shande Temple, then Please leave me alone!"

Everyone didn't understand the significance of Hideka's operation. Except for Yoshishige Satake, all the people present here were members of the Toyoharu family. Even the Ashikaga family looked at the two red-necked people who were already angry, and it was not easy to smooth things over.

In the end, it was Jiwa Jiuhu who said, "Since Your Highness Satake is so worried about my lord's arrangement, then I will hand over the Shande Temple City to you." In the end, this suggestion was approved by the Xiu family.

Hideka's behavior was regarded by many as a setback to Satake Yoshishige, but Satake Yoshishige was obviously still very dissatisfied with Hideka, and even after leaving the shogunate, he still cursed all the way.

The army set off again. It has been 20 days since the departure from Fujisawa Castle, and 13 days since the adjustment at the foot of the Hakone Mountains. Only the 1st to 4th formations and the 11th formations remained with Hideka. Formation (main formation) and No.4.5 formation, with a total strength of [-] troops.

After a 1-day march, Hideie arrived at Kambara Castle, the boundary between East and West Suruga.

(End of this chapter)