Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 838: Battle between East and West (35) Battle of Sekigahara (2)

Hideie's original plan was very clear, which was to divide the advantage of the troops into three parts, and give priority to the Nangongshan position and the main force of the Western Army coming out of Ogaki Castle. Toyotomi Teruie's troops were just to contain and keep Tokugawa in check. Ieyasu's main force was to prevent him from escaping.

However, what Hideie didn't expect was that the Ryuzoji family dared to attack Nabeshima Naoshige's Eastern Army when the situation was in a weak situation, and Tokugawa Ieyasu actually directly blocked the Toyotomi Teruie family in the Nakasendo Valley. among.

(Hideie didn’t know that this was Kyogoku Takatsuki’s own idea)
Hideie was still showing off his strategy to Kobayakawa Hideaki, but in the blink of an eye, a samurai came to report, "Young Master Sado was attacked, and the westward offensive was blocked. Someone from Sado asked how long it would take to capture the Nangong Mountain position."

Xiujia didn't give the samurai an answer, because the width of the Zhongshan Road is so narrow, no matter how many people are added to him, it won't help.The same is true for the Nangongshan battlefield. The operation of attacking the mountain is not enough with a large number of people, and the battlefield investment ratio is so large.

"What do you say on the Ise Street side?" Hideie glanced at the fierce battle at the foot of the mountain and turned to the others and asked.

Immediately, an attendant came forward and replied, "Servant Mori and servant Nakagawa sent news earlier, saying that they will definitely be able to arrive at the battlefield from Ise today."

"Go and push the progress again. Tell them that if they are late, they will not earn any merit."

"Hachiro and Sado have Saitama Bei and Saitama Guarding 1st Division. They are all elites of our clan. There is no need to worry about field battles. However, in this narrow space, the advantages of the army are not enough to be fully utilized."

Hideie analyzed the situation ahead and turned to the attendant behind him and said, "Go and call Tachihara Nobuhisa and ask him to lead the Ezo heavy armor troops forward to break the formation."

"Wait a minute" Xiujia ordered, and an attendant turned around to leave, but was stopped by Xiujia again.

Hideie pointed to Kira Morichika and then to his own, the inverted golden gourd horse seal that Hideyoshi had given him, and said, "Go in person and give my horse seal to Hachiro and tell him that he must insert this horse seal in his peach match today." On the mountain.”

Kira Mori personally took the order and left, followed by other attendants holding a gilt inverted gourd and horse seal for him.

Many soldiers on the battlefield couldn't see through the situation, but Xiujia's gilded horse seal paid special attention to it. With the west-slanting sunlight shining on the horse seal, it reflected a dazzling light like the sun shining on the hearts of the soldiers. .

"This is the lord who went out in person!" I don't know who said it. The morale of the soldiers was improved again.

The Ashikaga family also saw Ma In's movement. He didn't know the Hide family's arrangements. He just felt that his performance was so boring that his father didn't want to stay in Okayama to watch his performance.

Although he has grown a lot with Xiujia during this period, his inner temper cannot be changed all at once.

He finally had a chance to perform, but was ignored by his father because he didn't perform well enough. Naturally, he wanted to vent his anger on the Kobayakawa family and the Ryuzouji family who were unwilling to surrender.

"Your progress is not going well. Youfu has gone elsewhere to watch the battle. You are still not working hard to kill the enemy!"

As soon as the slogan of the Ashikaga clan sounded, everyone around them felt ashamed, and even the movements of their hands became much fiercer. With just half a stick of incense, Matsuno Motoshige and others were killed and beheaded. There were more than a thousand of them, and more than 2000 people were captured.

As for the Longzaosi family, they were a bit unlucky, they shouted "Feng Tianjing is difficult, righteousness lies in the Eastern Army." But the person you beat is a general of the Eastern Army.

Several people have been killed. You want to say it was a misunderstanding. How can you explain it clearly?

In this case, we can only make mistakes and deal with the Ryuzouji family as rebels of the Eastern Army.

It was just a pain for Ryuzoji Nobushu and others, who had been hacking for a long time. Not only Naoshima Naoshima and Tachibana Munemo came to beat him, but in the end they saw Chibi led by Sanada Nobushige surrounding them.

Just as he was about to ask the reason for the misunderstanding, he was killed by an iron cannon ball flying from nowhere.

With the jewels of the Ryuzoji family in front, other famous names such as Terasawa Hirotaka, Arima Harunobu, Goto Ienobu, Ito Nagamasu, etc. did not dare to make the slightest move, and were taken into custody by Tachibana Muneshige, Nabeshima Naoshige and others.

The Ashikaga family and Sanada Nobushige led their respective armies to surround Ogaki Castle. At this moment, there were 4000 Shimazu soldiers led by Shimazu Toyohisa and 1500 Otani Yoshitsugi in Ogaki Castle.

They witnessed with their own eyes the surrender of the Kyushu Corps to the Hide family after their resistance failed. Otani Yoshitsugi had already made plans to live or die with the city, and immediately ordered the entire city to be on alert.

But not long after his order was issued, someone announced, "My lord, Shimazu Toyohisa has opened the city gate, and the Eastern Army has entered the city!"

"What!" Otani Yoshitsugi's eyes widened and he couldn't believe the news. "His brother is at the inner palace, how dare he!"

But the fact is the fact. Shimazu Toyohisa opened the city gate and let in the Ashikaga family and others.

The Kyushu daimyo Soyora Norifu, who cooperated with the defense of the city, directly worked with Shimazu Toyohisa to open the gate on the south side and put Sanada Nobushige into the city.

Looking at Otani Yoshitsugi pouring into Ogaki Castle from all directions, he still doesn't understand that this is not Shimazu Toyohisa's impromptu decision at all, but the result of Shimazu Yoshihiro's long-standing communication with Hideyoshi.

"Lord, surrender!" Seeing that the momentum was not right, the family elder Yuasa Takasada suggested to him, "Young master has done a great job in escorting Beizheng. My Otani family will definitely receive preferential treatment if we surrender at this time."

"Yes, Ji Zhisuke has already escorted the Beizheng Office out, so my Otani family name can definitely be preserved."

Yuasa Takasada's original intention was to persuade Otani Yoshitsugi to surrender and save himself, but Otani Yoshitsugi took one look at his own body and said, "I can rest assured that I can use this body to repay Guan Bai's kindness."

After Otani Yoshitsugi finished speaking, he looked at Yuasa Takasada who had been accompanying him and said, "It's just a shame for you guys. There is obviously a better way out but I have to die here for my false morality."

"I am originally a humble person, but my lord discovered me when I was young, taught me reading and knowledge, and found a teacher for me to teach me the art of war. This life of my fifth assistant belongs to you, lord. If there were no lord, I would still be Just a small businessman.

Since the lord has already thought of killing himself, I will go down and make arrangements. Although the Ninomaru cannot be guarded, I will definitely guard the main pill as strictly as possible. "

The history of the Warring States Period has such attractive and charming moments. Even when there is no chance of winning, there are still people who bloom the most brilliant moments of their lives in the name of their ideals and loyalty.

There are very few records of Yuasa Takasada in history, and only his performance in Sekigahara is recorded. He may never have imagined that this moment would be the most famous moment in his life. "Gosuke." Otani Yoshitsugi's body was actually in failing condition. Leprosy had made him extremely tired, and even his voice had become deformed.

But he still choked and said, "I leave everything to you, let us have a good fight in Ogaki City!"

Yuasa Takasada received the order from Yoshitsugi Otani, turned around and left after instructing others to take care of the lord. There was not much time left for her. He needed to arrange the defense line of Honmaru before the enemy attacked Honmaru.

Fortunately, Otani Yoshitsugi is the defender of Ogaki Castle, and Honmaru has always been controlled by the Otani army himself.Although there were some armed forces from other daimyo in the castle, after a little separation and driving, Ogaki Castle Honmaru became a fortress.

Shimazu Toyohisa and the Ashikaga family obviously did not expect that Otani Yoshitsugi would choose to defend the castle under such circumstances.

Shimazu Toyohisa came outside Honmaru and wanted to persuade Otani Yoshitsugi to open the city, but he was forced to retreat by Yuasa Takasada, who knew Otani Yoshitsugi's will to die.

"Daisuke, the Central Affairs Bureau. It seems that you have not completely taken over Ogaki Castle. The Otani Punishment Department will not give you credit at all." Seeing Shimazu Toyohisa's defeat, the Ashikaga family mocked inappropriately, "You were asking my father back then. I guarantee that I can present the city of Ogaki Castle. It is also because of this that my father promised you that Satsuma and Osumi will be safe. Now that Ogaki Castle has not been taken, you can watch the reward."

The Ashikaga family hesitated to speak, but Shimazu Toyohisa felt helpless because what he said was true.

At this time, Shimadzu's vassal Ise Zhencheng said, "This is not better, it will let the right government see the fighting power of my Shimadzu family. I also invite His Royal Highness Kanto to be a witness. Whether this Ogaki Castle is If the city cannot be opened peacefully, it will definitely be completely handed over to the Youfu."

He is the elder of the Shimazu family. Shimazu Yoshihiro stayed here specifically to help Shimazu Toyohisa, his nephew, control the situation. He has the same right to speak as Shimazu Toyohisa.

As his words fell, his eyes met with Shimazu Toyohisa's, and the two quickly understood what the other meant.

"Then please stay here for a while, so that the warriors of the Toyoharu family can see the bravery of our Shimazu family soldiers!" Toyohisa Shimazu promised to take the city before sunset.

The Ashikaga clan was happy to see other daimyo doing thankless tasks like siege, so they voluntarily gave up the task of siegeing Ogaki Castle, but they were unwilling to let him stay here.

In fact, he has more important things to accomplish for the Ashikaga family, which is to end things here earlier and return to his father.

Rather than wasting time here watching the Shimazu family's efforts to attack the city, he would rather perform in front of his father.Besides, the Kobayakawa family and the Ryuzouji family have just dealt with it, and there are some important prisoners who can be brought to see the Hide family so that their father can see how they are doing.

After saying that, he said to Shimazu Toyohisa, "This testimony is unnecessary. I have to go to my father's side to join the battle. I will leave my subordinate Lao Mino behind, and I will let him tell you anything."

Ota Keizi is a young general. He is gearing up to achieve great achievements, and he doesn't want to be left here like this.

However, his lord gave the order without giving him any possibility to argue, so he had no choice but to comply with the matter.

Shimazu retainers were quite critical of the Ashikaga family's failure to stay in person.

You raised the issue, and now we are going to solve it. But you said you don't care, so why did you raise that issue just now?

The most dissatisfying thing is that we took the initiative to invite you to watch the game, but you actually said that you don't have time and don't want to watch, this is too shameful!
oh!Ashikaga two hooks, then there's nothing wrong.Adults, go ahead and do your work, leave this to the younger ones.

When the Ashikaga family was targeting Ogaki Castle, the situation on the main battlefield on the Western Front changed drastically due to the arrival of the heavy armored troops led by Nobuhisa Tachihara.

In the past, the cotton armor on the heavy armored soldiers was all white armor. As a result, many people's armor was stained with blood after the Battle of Asahinagawa, but the blood stains could not be washed away.

But now these bloodstains of different shapes are stained on the armor, and most of some armors are even covered in bloodstains, which look more like medals won by the owner of this armor.

The heavy armored soldiers did not have long-range weapons such as iron cannons and bows. They only had one throwing spear and three throwing axes. After throwing away these things, they could only kill the enemy with heavy axes or big sticks.

Between the valley roads of Nakayama Road, soldiers from the eastern and western armies had long been huddled together, and there was indeed no extra gap for Tachihara Nobuhisa to enter.

And now that Xiujia's horse seal is here, asking the soldiers who were on the front line to withdraw is equivalent to asking the horse seal to retreat. In a battlefield of this level, the horse seal represents the location of the monarch. It is fatal for the horse seal to retreat. matter.

Toudo Takatora glanced at the battlefield and then turned to look at Mobeishan on his left side and said to Toyotomi Teruie, "Young Master, why don't you leave this frontal battlefield to Gentaibei, we will protect the master's horse seal." Go directly to Taobei Mountain to set up the formation!"

"What should I do with Saitama Bei?" The Toyotomi Teru family hesitated. Several of his subordinates were in Saitama Bei. The purpose of arranging them in was to let them kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds, but he didn't expect that now Sent to the meat grinder.

"Young Master, a general must not be merciful. We will retreat as many steps as we can. If we cannot retreat, let them cooperate with Gentaibei and the others to continue fighting against the Western Army!"

In fact, Todo Takatora has always felt that the Toyotomi Teru family's character is a bit weak and not suitable for being a daimyo. In contrast, the Ashikaga family is decisive.

But such a benevolent lord may be more suitable for the world after Taiping in the future. In addition, as the uncle of the Hui family, he has been by his side to educate him all these years, and his feelings for him have long since surpassed the original monarch and minister. This is him The reason why she has always been by Hui's side.

Although he couldn't bear it, Toyotomi Teruie accepted Toudo Takatora's suggestion, "Okay, then just follow what my uncle said."

After saying that, he turned to look at Nobuhisa Tachihara and said, "Then it's all Gentaibei's fault. I will directly entrust Saitama Bei and Musashi Guard 2 to you. I wish you can break the formation as soon as possible."

As the auxiliary peak of Nangong Mountain, Topei Mountain is not even half as high as Nangong Mountain. In addition, it is relatively bare and is not suitable for an ambush at all. Therefore, Yoshikawa Hiroyuki has never set up an ambush here before, not even here. Deploy military force.

For Toyotomi Teruie, it should be an easy task to capture the empty defense of Mobeishan, but his opportunity to attack was unlucky and he ran into Kuroda Nagamasa who was rushing to support Yoshikawa Hiroie.

Another encounter is about to begin.

(End of this chapter)