Prime Minister Bizen

Honda Masazumi could have left an excellent example of the cage city battle in the world military history, but because Hideka possessed weapons that surpassed the Japanese Warring States version, this battle would seem somewhat anticlimactic.

Of course, there is also a problem with the Xiu family. The Fengchun army was deceived by Honda Masazumi at first, and after the siege, they thought that the city was guarded by the cage city. After the city was broken, Noomaru still relied on the terrain to defend.

Togawa Tatsuya didn't realize that something was wrong until he saw that someone started climbing up his Ninomaru castle wall.

"Did someone from us hit the Ninomaru Castle?" Togawa Tatsuya was a little confused when he saw this situation, but he soon discovered that many people on the opposite side didn't even have feet on them, and even if they did, they only wore frontal clothes. Obviously, the one-faced buttocks with one-sided buttocks can't be the army of the Xiu family.

Moreover, the flags on their backs are of all kinds, and it is absolutely impossible for each team of the Xiu family to have a uniform style.

"No, this is someone from the Tokugawa Army fleeing back to the city!" Togawa Tatsuya quickly realized that the situation had changed, but what made him even more incomprehensible was why the Tokugawa Army guarding Ninomaru was fighting and killing those climbing up the castle. deserters.

"Could it be that the Tokugawa army is fighting among themselves?" Togawa Tatsuya thought so.

The more he thought about it, the more possible he immediately informed Xiujia of this situation, but Xiujia didn't think so.

Why is the Tokugawa army infighting at this time?Even if there is internal strife, there is no reason to turn around and take the Xiu family to attack the city. If you have an opinion, just surrender.

Therefore, in Hideka's view, it is more likely that Honda Masazumi blocked the retreat route of the defeated Tokugawa army and refused to let them enter the city, which attracted some Tokugawa soldiers who had no fighting spirit to climb the Ninomaru city wall in an attempt to enter the city.

Having figured this out, Hideka immediately said to Honda, who had just changed his name, "Zuohei, it's time for you to appear on the stage, take someone up to reveal your identity and shout out, saying that Hideka treats prisoners preferentially." .He would not give them a way out, but I, Toyotomi Hideo, will! Let them put down their weapons and surrender to us in an orderly manner, and we will take them out of the city and resettle them!"

The action on Hideo's side went smoothly. Although some people did not want to surrender, they were quickly captured by the Fengchun Army, which was jointly attacked by the Tokugawa Army who wanted to surrender.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Honda tried to shoot those who put down their weapons, and even tried to open the gate of Ninomaru and lead them back for a while, to prove that he was with the soldiers of Sannomaru.

But it was useless. His previous behavior of ordering people to close the city and refuse to accept the fugitives not only hit the morale of the defenders in Sannomaru, but also hit the morale of the defenders in Ninomaru. At this moment, who would take the initiative to go out of the city to complete the What about his orders?

Everyone is deeply afraid that they will not come back!
Of course, some people applied in the end, and these were the most loyal soldiers of his Honda family and the Tokugawa family. The backlash did have an effect, gathering a group of soldiers whose morale had collapsed.

But Ninomaru's opening of the city also caused those who were originally put to death to lose their fighting spirit, and more people wanted to swarm into the city.

Togawa Tatsuan saw the opportunity to organize the dead to follow and attack the city. These soldiers who left their backs to the Toyoharu Army were like sheep. They didn't have the courage to turn around and fight again. Instead, they blocked the gate of the city and caused Ninomaru Castle The case where the door is closed.

Honda Zhengchun watched very anxiously, he used rolling stones, wood, hot water, etc. Of course, the target was not the Fengchun army, those people were still far away from the city gate, and the ones who were injured were the Germans who fought for them before. Sichuan army died.

Togawa Tatsuan turned pale with fright at seeing Honda's pure ruthlessness, and Zheng strengthened his determination to fish in troubled waters.But it is a pity that Honda Masazumi's strategy took effect. Under the attack of Rolling Stone and Eki, the Tokugawa army who wanted to escape back to the inner city had a gap. closed again.

The soldiers who had not yet entered the city began to pray to Honda Masazumi, hoping to open the city gate again, but after Honda Masazumi refused indifferently, they turned to insulting him.

Looking at the samurai and ashigaru who were swearing at him at the bottom of the city, many of them were his comrades in arms before today, for example, Tozawa Takakatsu, a samurai from Xishanzhuang in the north of the city, pointed at Honda Masamune under the city gate. scold.

However, Honda is pure soft and hard, and coupled with the arrival of Honda on the side of the Toyoharu Army, it finally made the Sannomaru Tokugawa Army surrender to the Toyoharu family.

Even in their eyes, Xiujia was far more pure and kind than Honda who recruited them.

Of course, there are also some farmers and soldiers who are unwilling to surrender. It's not that they love and loyal to the Tokugawa family, but because they hate the Hide family even more.

After the battle was over, when the Hide family counted the prisoners, they found out that among the 2 defenders, more than 3000 strong men were conscripted from Toyotomi Shige's family and carried to the Suruga people in Kakegawa.

Their hometown was trampled and destroyed by Fengchun soldiers, their wives and daughters were ruined by them, their food was robbed, and they were dragged here. Naturally, they hated Xiu's family.

Even in the battle of defending the city, they did not have enough protection on their bodies, and they had all kinds of weapons in their hands. Their fighting power was even fiercer than that of the Hamamatsu defenders.

On the other hand, with the fall of Sannomaru, the old city of Hikima Castle became an enclave, and the person in charge of the city defense here was Matsudaira Kiyomune, the defender of Kakegawa Castle.

This person is the governor of the Takeya Matsudaira family, and has a somewhat estranged relationship with Tokugawa Ieyasu's ancestor, but this does not prevent him from becoming one of the important retainers in the Tokugawa family.He is a veteran minister who has followed the left and right since Tokugawa Ieyasu turned his back on the Imagawa family in the 5th year of Yongroku (1562).

At the time of the Nooo battle, he was incorporated into the second formation (not the second formation) and followed the main attack of the first general, which is enough to see Tokugawa Ieyasu's trust in him.

And precisely because his surname was Songping, his status was so special that everyone else could surrender but he couldn't.It was precisely because Honda recognized this fact that he was assigned to be in charge of the defense of the old city.In this way, even if the old city becomes an isolated city, he will not surrender.

Seeing the fall of Sannomaru, Matsudaira Kiyomune, who was in the pure and closed city of Honda, did exactly that.

Facing Honda's pure decision, he didn't curse him like everyone else, but calmly accepted the reality and laid out the defense line calmly.After all, after the fall of Sannomaru, the old city not only had to face the Satake army outside the city, but also faced the offensive of the Toyoharu army in Sannomaru.

In the ensuing battle, the Ninomaru of Hamamatsu Castle echoed the old city of Hikima, and performed quite well, but with the fall of Sannomaru, Hideka was able to move the artillery forward.

These cannons may not be able to collapse the base of the city wall against the Sannomaru of the stone wall, but facing the Yima Castle with only the earthen wall, several rounds of shelling caused the collapse of the city walls on the east and south sides.

The collapsed earthwork poured into the water bore in the east. Not only was there a slope to help the attackers attack the city, but it also filled in the partially blocked water bore for the Fengchun army's attack.

Facing the siege from many sides, the old city of Yima, which had been fighting hard for a day, was declared to have fallen at noon on the second day, and Hamamatsu Castle became a completely isolated city.

Correspondingly, Hamamatsu Castle Ninomaru, with Honda Masazumi sitting in command, is still calm.

Maybe closing the city and refusing other people to enter the city before did affect morale, but people are such creatures. When they calm down a little when they are temporarily safe, they will not care about the lives of those outside.

In addition, there is such a ruthless person as Honda Masazumi in charge, he is very prestigious in the Tokugawa family, and the restlessness in the city was quickly suppressed.

With the fall of the old city, the Xiu family temporarily moved the siege base from the Guansu station outside the city to the old city Honmaru.

Seeing that another round of offensive was driven off, Hideka put down the binoculars in his hand, and ordered to Takatora Fujido, "Go and transport the artillery to the old city, and directly bombard Ninomaru and Honomaru, I want to see Let's see if it's Honda Uenosuke's hard head, or my cannon."

These cannons were very heavy, and it would take a long time to pull them into the city even with horses. Coupled with the preliminary preparations for the installation of the cannons, the sky was already dark after the cannons were erected.

Fujido Takatora asked Xiujia to fight again tomorrow, but Xiujia, who was in the old city with artillery and himself, rejected his proposal, saying directly, "Light up all the torches for me, and order the whole army to attack the city overnight. All the fire arrows are counted." Say hello to the city."

It's not that the Hideka didn't think of using fire arrows to ignite the buildings in the city before, but Masakazu Honda had thought of this a long time ago. The roofs of all the buildings in the city were coated with wet mud to prevent them from being ignited by the fire arrows.

But the situation is different. The buildings in the city will be damaged under the bombardment of the artillery. He could just use wet mud to smear the roof. Can the buildings and objects in the house be smeared?

As long as a little combustible material on the ground is ignited by the fire arrow, it is enough to cause a big fire in the city. By then, Hamamatsu Castle will not be far from breaking the city.

The luck in summer is both good and bad. The good thing is that there are indeed some ruins ignited by fire arrows, but there are still a lot of Tokugawa soldiers in the city. The fire at night is easy to be found, and the fire is quickly extinguished. This means that luck is not good. good reason.

But the good luck of the Tokugawa army came to an end as the sky cleared up. Togawa Tatsuya's troops who had not participated in the night battle and had a rest overnight were replaced again.

They had already recharged their batteries, while the defenders in the city were exhausted after fighting for a day and a night.

Their exhausted bodies caused their mental strength to drop sharply. Although the excitement of the war allowed them to temporarily revive their spirits to deal with Togawa Tatsuan's offensive, no one was able to distract themselves from the situation behind.

The fire started from an ordinary samurai house, because the fire arrow ignited the straw, and finally ignited the wood. When the fire was found, the fire was already very strong, and finally caused riots in the city.

While some people went to fight the fire, there was also a rekindled fire on the other side. Because the fire here was very close to the old city, Fujido Gao Huyan quickly ordered people to throw explosives over there, which finally caused an explosion.

The explosion of the gunpowder caused the collapse of part of the Ninomaru city wall, and some soldiers of Toyoharu originally climbed up the castle on the west side of the old minister and near the Ninomaru.Seeing the collapse of the city wall immediately caused the whole army to howl, and the soldiers rushed into the gap excitedly.

Perhaps it was influenced by Honda Masazumi's abandonment of Sannomaru's soldiers before, but this time, with a loophole in Ninomaru, many defenders suddenly became panic-stricken.

It was clear that Feng Chun's army hadn't gotten close yet, so they abandoned their position and ran towards Honmaru, who hadn't closed yet.

This time, even Honda Masazumi was not spared. He was boosting morale in Ninomaru when the castle was broken. He was surrounded by Toyoharu family warriors swarming into the castle in the northeast corner of the castle, with only a few loyal samurai retainers around him.

They desperately wanted to fight for the chance of Honda Masazumi's escape, but after two people died in battle, Honda Masakazu still had no choice but to surrender.

Following Honda Masazumi's surrender, the soldiers in Hamamatsu Castle were leaderless, and even the samurai who had fled into Honmaru had no confidence to resist Hideka's offensive, and they all chose to surrender later that day.

After 3 days of siege, Hamamatsu Castle finally fell within the agreed date.

Seeing Honda Masakazu who was bound and escorted to him, Hideka just wanted to sneer, who would have thought that Honda Masamune preemptively said to Hideo, "Toyotomi Hachiro, you bastard! , You obviously agreed to my request to surrender, but you still attacked me. It’s a shame that I was blind and wanted to persuade Okazaki Castle to surrender for you.”

The Xiu family was also laughed at by him. After thinking about it for the past few days, everyone in the Eastern Army figured out why the Xiu family took the initiative to attack the city. He himself became a victim.

Even without Hideo opening his mouth, Hideo's retainers took the initiative to confront Honda Masazumi and asked, "Since you surrendered, why didn't you open the castle early? Okazaki's persuasion to surrender can also be done slowly after Hamamatsu opens the castle."

"In the next family, the family member Ji has become an important samurai family member. In Okazaki, you must be cautious about opening the city. I have reported this matter to your master."

"Sophistry!" His voice fell, and someone retorted, "If Okazaki did not surrender, wouldn't you still confirm your attitude of surrendering to your family by sending this letter? Wouldn't Daisuke Okubo give it to you? Is the family forgiving?"

Honda Masayoshi quibbled: "My family has an old relationship with Okubo's family. Even if I really surrender, I think Daisuke Jibu will not hurt my family too much."

"Since this is the case, you have no reason to reject Kaesong. Why did you say you were taking care of your family just now?"

After hearing this, Honda Masaru retorted, "Did you listen carefully? I just said that I was in Okazaki with the family of important samurai in the castle. I surrendered, and he, Daisuke Jibu, might forgive my family in consideration of the friendship between the two families. , so what about the others?"

Don't even mention it, under Honda Zhengchun's sophistry, it seems that there is some truth, as if he is really a victim of being deceived by the Xiu family.

In the end, it was Todo Takatora who took the initiative to ask Honta Masato, "Saobei, is there any old relationship between your family and Okubo's family?"

In fact, when he persuaded him to surrender the day before yesterday, Honda Masazumi heard about the existence of Honda Masazumi, but he was too far away that day to see it clearly.

The two brothers met face to face today, but it has been 8 years since the last time they met.

"Left soldier?"

Zuobei is not the original general name of Honda. He was called Kurahashi Chogoro when he was in Yuanfu, which just corresponds to Honda Yahachiro.

Although the name has been changed, Honda Zhengchun will never forget that long face, and he is undoubtedly his uncle.

"The Honda and the Okubo family were both Tokugawa retainers in the past, but they were responsible for different aspects. When Okubo Tadayo-sama was alive, he was a powerful soldier in the army, and my father was a close minister of the inner court.

Today's Okubo Jibu Daisuke is a famous minister of internal affairs, and has been in charge of the affairs of Suruga, Shinano and other places.As far as I know, Uenosuke has been serving as the head of Dongyuan Jiang Banner since his father died. "

Although Honda Masazumi's words did not kill him, there was indeed a hint in the words that he denied Honda Masazumi's meaning that he was acquainted with Okubo Tadao, and the angry Honda Masazumi cursed at his righteous brother.

What "forgot the kindness of the inner government to the Ben family" and "the bereaved dog who betrayed the family", these expressions do not look like the person who wrote the beautiful Wenzao Chang Zanxiu's family a few days ago.

The Xiu family was already very upset by Honda Zhengchun, and had already decided to take him into action, but he took the first step to counter-general the army, making the Xiu family feel bad and just beheading him, so that everyone in the world would say that he was originally Duo Zhengchun was right, the Xiu family killed him out of guilt.

The Xiu family needs a justifiable excuse, but fortunately, this excuse is given to the Xiu family by the Honda family, and the Xiu family will not give you a chance to justify sophistry when you order someone to drag him down and behead him for public display.

Masazumi Honda's death announced the complete fall of the Suruga and Ene countries of the Tokugawa family. It has only been more than two months since the Hide family raised troops from Toyochun Castle, and the speed is astounding.

Of course Hideo himself is not satisfied with this speed, he wants to break into the Nobi Plain as soon as possible, otherwise he will really suffer if he is blocked by Tokugawa Ieyasu in Mikawa.