Pillars of the Wu family

On July [-]th of the first year of Yonglu, on this hot summer day, Yoshimoto Imagawa led an army of [-] on his journey to Shangluo. Tian Xinxiu, an upstart in Owari, had no choice but to die in depression after being beaten by him. His son of the big fool in Owari was even an unworthy descendant, so he was worthy of commanding Owari Ichigo just by being so stupid?Imakawa Yoshimoto sighed, the world is really chaotic and people's hearts are not old.

If you want to say that he is proud, you only need to look at his expression to tell. When he is free, he hums music and gestures to Minamoto Yoritomo's demeanor when he went to Los Angeles. He feels that he is inferior to that distant ancestor, but in terms of self-confidence and morale, he is nothing Not half a cent, how proud are the warriors of the Imagawa family, the name of the Suruga lord represents great charm, perhaps in the near future their lord will become the new leader, and take charge of the world on behalf of His Royal Highness.

Dressed in light blue, the big armor with the image of Moonlight Bodhisattva engraved on the front of the breastplate is a high-grade imitation of the moon armor, and the eight dragons and five pockets on the head are also imitations of the eight dragon armor of General Ashikaga's family. Armor is neither available nor convenient to wear. The greater significance of ancient armor is to show the glory of the ancestors.

Wearing a red brocade feather weave, wearing Zong Sanzuo characters on the waist and hips, and riding a green gown with tassels and golden saddles, he flaunts his power and boasts of the centuries-old prestige of the Imagawa family. It doesn't matter that he would be so proud, he really deserves the reputation of the overlord of Tōkaidō.

Now Takeda and Hojo are suppressed by Echigo and cannot hold their heads up. The news from Echigo shows that Kira Yoshitoki has no plans to go south within this year. The people of Shunyuanjiang and Sanhe are full of ambition and ready to exert their strength. At this time, it will be difficult to wait for the Kira family to clean up the enemies behind them.

Yoshimoto Imagawa's decision to go to Luo was very simple.The so-called Shangluo's entry into the capital is false, only the capture of Owari is true. I can't remember how long ago he coveted the richness of Owari country. Perhaps it was Oda Nobuhide, an illegal upstart who left a deep impression on him. A group of local tyrants has risen to become the overlord of Owari in more than ten years, leading an army of [-] to show off everywhere.In the first Battle of Shodozaka, the Imagawa family suffered a lot. Even with the wealth of Suruga, it is hard to compare with the wealth of Owari.

Since capturing Mikawa nine years ago, he has been thinking day and night about destroying the city and taking over Owari. In recent years, his attacks have indeed achieved certain results. People from across the border have changed their flags and joined the Imagawa family.Relying on the strong strength of the Imagawa family, bit by bit the vitality of Owari has also achieved initial results.

However, Master Taiyuan Xuezhai's sudden death disrupted the arrangement, and the invasion that was supposed to be launched two years ago has been delayed until today. Now is also a good time to go to Luo, and strive to sweep Owari with the fastest speed , and strive to complete the initial annexation of Owari before the autumn harvest, and at least take the next four counties if it is lower.Taking the two main sources of income in Atsuta Town and Tsushima into his hands, and having seen the means of the Kira family in Kyoto, Yoshimoto Imagawa also paid more attention to the accumulation of economic strength.

This time he used his [-] troops to attack Owari, and promulgated many laws and regulations before dispatching troops. First of all, it is forbidden to make noise, and it is strictly forbidden to arrest people and hunt indiscriminately.After all the arrangements were made, it was already July [-]th when a [-]-strong army marched from Junfu to Okazaki Castle. Came to the Three Rivers border. [

The banner samurai Tou Jiuneng rode loyally and reported loudly: "My lord, the road ahead is Tagua Castle! There is no sign of the Oda Army's activities nearby, please let me know!"

"Ban Nei! It's thanks to you to guard the formation for the family well. Leave the errands to the retainers to do!"

Imagawa Yoshimoto's caring and hard-working words made Kuno Shitada very excited. He is the son of Kuno Hanuchi, the lord of Suruga Ejiri Castle, and his mother is Imagawa Yoshimoto's elder sister.At a young age, he replaced his father Kuno Munehiro as Ejiri Castle Lord, and as one of Imagawa Yoshimoto's trustworthy Goyuo, this time he served as the front guard of the front line to protect Imagawa Yoshimoto's safety.

In the evening, when he entered the main line of the Imagawa Army and entered Owari Takuku Castle, he convened a military meeting that night. Yoshimoto Imagawa stared at the familiar combat map and laughed and said, "This Oda Masanobu is so smart. Knowing how to divide and build fortifications to isolate the connection between Narumi Castle, Dataka Castle, and Kukaku Castle, and then nibble Narumi Castle a little bit, and then seize Dataka Castle and Kutaku Castle in one fell swoop. The strategy is very good! It doesn’t seem like a big fool can come up with it .”

Imagawa Yoshimoto's uncle Kambara City Lord, Kamahara Palace Shosuke Shizheng said: "Perhaps it is the strategy planned by his genealogy generation family. The Oda family still has some veterans from the Azuzaka war period. It seems that there is Shibata Katsuie and Lin Xiuzhen, this strategy must be the work of these two people!"

Oda Nobunaga built five forts, Tangia, Zenzhaoji, Nakajima, Marugen, and Jiujin near Narumi Castle of Yamaguchi after the Battle of Village Muzhai. Sakuma Daishige, Oda Genbo Yoshinhei, Iio Omi Shusadamune, Iio Nobumune, Mizuno Taketo Tadamitsu, Sakuma Nobumori, and Ogawa Kazuhide each led hundreds of soldiers from the headquarters to guard the five forts, among which Tanga Village , Zenzhaojizhai, and Nakajimazhai were responsible for surrounding the pioneer Okabe Motonobu in Narumi Castle, making it impossible for the Imagawa family to advance or retreat.

Yuhimi Shou Zhengxin praised: "It's a good plan. If my Imagawa army detours to the north and then turns to Cheongju, it will not only be very difficult to march and turn, but it will be very detrimental to the army's supplies. If it goes west, it will have to face the Oda family. For a group of fortified cities, it will take time and effort to attack the city and pull out the fortresses, and it may take until the autumn harvest. At that time, our army will not be able to attack for a long time, and the soldiers will return without fighting. The crisis of this attack will naturally be resolved! What a strategy!"

Asahina Shinoki reminded: "If we ignore Wuzhai and attack forward, the rear supply is really worrying, so we must be careful that the Oda family resorted to a strategy similar to the Battle of Village Muzhai, and raided our army across the sea through Sanhe Bay. Dagao City and Tagua City were lost, and there was no room for us to retreat! This strategy is to "force" us to settle down and fight against him. This shows that the planner who set up this strategist is terrifyingly thoughtful, my lord You have to guard against it!"

Asahina Shinoki's reminder convinced the Imagawa retainers that although they looked down on the Owari upstart Oda family, they couldn't underestimate their strategies.No one in this world is more stupid than anyone else. If the Oda family adopts the tactics of surprise attacking villages and wooden villages to attack Dagao City, and then lands in Tagua City to take the opportunity to cut off the supply and retreat of Imakawa, it will really be like a place of death.

"Do you think they can hold on for two months?" Imakawa Yoshimoto smiled noncommittally, and many officials also laughed out loud, and after a while he said: "But Mamoru Suruga is right. Hold on first. Slowly attack from the rear, and within a few days, all five disturbing cities must be eradicated!"

In Qingzhou City, which is tens of kilometers away from Tagua City, he is worried about the large-scale attack of Jinchuan Yoshimoto. This large-scale invasion of Jinchuan Yoshimoto is completely beyond his expectations. It is reasonable to remove all the influence of the Imagawa family in Owari, and then work hard to reach peace with the Imagawa family.But he didn't want this move to attract a large-scale attack from the Jinchuan army. He thought it was a mistake in his strategy, and he should not be so careless in constantly reviewing his aggressiveness.

In the spring of this year, he swaggered to Kyoto with 50 elites. On the way, he was sniped by unidentified iron gunners. The iron guns of this era were very poor in power and sight, and a shot at a distance of [-] meters not only failed Even if the lead doesn't fly that far, it doesn't know where it falls.After the samurai of the Oda family captured and killed this person, they found out that it was Saito Yoshiryu's confidant samurai who did it, and the annoyance in his heart was beyond words.

After a lot of hard work, I finally met the general Ashikaga Yoshiki, and offered gifts and money in the hope of finding a decent official position in the court and a job as a guardian of Owari. It is a pity that the shogun could not see him like this The local tyrant of Owari glanced coldly at the narration of Shiba Yoshigin's fault from the country samurai crown spring, and expressed how he conformed to the meaning of the Chinese people by replacing Shiba as the guardian of Owari.

It is conceivable what he can get, two thousand Yongle money was spent, only to call back one of the five Xiazheng Shaozhong, and then he was going to send him away.But Oda Nobunaga was not willing to leave just like that, he lingered for a few days, endured the anger in his chest, and proposed that he intended to attack Mino, and when he hoped to get the support of the shogunate, he was ridiculed by the shogunate officials, saying that he was a countryman The local tyrant dared to brag about the merits of heaven to win Ojo and beat Mino. He was so shameless that he drove him back to Ojo with a few words.

Oda Nobunaga, who was greatly humiliated, no longer believed in the so-called famous family. It was not his fault that he was from the Kibe clan. His father called himself the Fujiwara clan, and he called himself the Taira clan. Is it the trend of the world?Why are you still taunting him so coldly and meanly? [

After being humiliated in the shogunate, he returned home and faced Imagawa Yoshimoto's massive attack.This vicious pressure in his heart made him feel unprecedentedly angry, and there were only a few roads to choose before him: the first one was to donate all of his family's foundation and completely surrender to the Imagawa family in exchange for a chance to make a living, but his It's hard to say whether the face is as attractive as the Kira family.It can't be said that he was put under house arrest in Junfu, and the family was ruined and Owari became the dinner of the Imagawa family.

The second is to abandon Wuzhai to express the absolute enemy's intention to the Imagawa family, and then hide in Qingzhou City to survive, hoping for one in ten thousand good luck, so that Imakawa Yoshimoto suddenly has a cramp in his head and brings an army of [-] to go home Go for the autumn harvest, but if this happens, the reputation he has accumulated so hard will be destroyed. For example, Oda Nobukiyo of Inuyama Castle will definitely jump out to challenge him as the governor of the family. At that time, the Imagawa family will have no way out for him if they raise an army to kill him. elected.

The third one is to stick to the city walls and hold on until the autumn harvest, waiting for the Jinchuan army to retreat by itself, but he himself is not confident about whether he can last that long. The army guarding the five city walls is only nearly 2000 people, and the average There are only a few hundred people assigned to a city, but what they are facing is the attack of the [-] troops of the Imagawa family. If there is a problem with one link, they will lose everything.

The last one is also the most dangerous one. Strictly order Wuzhai to defend the city, and take all the troops to the rear to attack the Jinchuan army. As long as they break through for a while, there may be a chance to come back. Since the loss of troops in the Battle of Azumazaka, more than half of the elite divisions of Owari Kingdom have been lost, and the remaining essence has withered in the subsequent process of Owari unification. The total force he can use is less than 5000. , half of them are scattered in the north of Owari to guard the North Gate of Cheongju, and the Wuzhai in the south.

"Should I fight for luck, or stick to it?" Oda Nobunaga walked around anxiously, not knowing how to make a decision.

After Imagawa Yoshimoto made a decision, the Imagawa family genealogy generation vassals quickly came up with a detailed and appropriate attack plan, and issued orders to Narumi Castle Dai Okabe Motonobu and Odakajo Dai Uden Changzhao to stick to the fortress And when the main force attacked Wuzhai, they cooperated with the surprise attack on Wuzhai to ensure that the city was captured as soon as possible. Matsudaira Motoyasu was assigned the task of delivering troops and food to Dataka Castle. Jinzhai, and was responsible for quickly establishing a direct access to Dagao City.

Perhaps Imakawa Yoshimoto felt that the victory was within his grasp, so he sent several troops scattered everywhere to monitor the movement of the Oda Army, and he took 5000 troops to guard the city of Tagua and not move into the mountains. His choice was indeed right, 2000 [-] people beat the defenders who had less than [-] people and were scattered in the Wucheng Walled City as easily as pinching mud.

After Matsudaira Motoyasu successfully completed the task of transporting food, he led an army of 1000 or [-] troops to attack Marugen Village in three directions at the same time. In a small village, there were only Sakuma Morishaga and [-] guards, facing four times the size of the army. The strong enemy on our side barely resisted the Otemon attack, but exposed the flank wall and the Otemon gate, and finally persisted for two hours. Unfortunately, the entire army was wiped out. At the same time, Asahina Taichao, who had a large army, also captured Jiujin Fortress, guards Oda Genbo Yoshinhei and Iio Jomune both died in battle.

At the same time, Suruga's navy also launched an attack on Kanie Castle in Owari Herishi County, taking no precautions to seize this Kanie Castle adjacent to Ise Bay. The sea outlet ensures the safety of the flanks and at the same time forms an effective deterrent to Tsushima.

Two or three successive bad news continued to hit the confidence of the important officials of the Oda family. In the evening of the same day, Sakuma Shengshige sent an envoy to ask for help. Mori Kasei and Ikeda Hengxing are determined to fight to the death to live up to the name of the samurai. Niwa Nagahide, Murai Sadakatsu and others insist on guarding the cage city.

Some of the vassals took the lead in the battle, and some made the surrender. No matter which suggestion they took, the Imagawa family, which is known as the [-] army, could not make up their minds. The quarrel did not end until late at night. Many samurai withdrew for various reasons. Oda Nobunaga looked at them calmly, and sighed: "It's all gone! When the martial arts are exhausted, the mirror of wisdom will also be dusted!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote, Monthly ticket, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m to read.)

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