Chapter 454
Raid on Ubingdong
Chapter 454 Raid on Ubingdong
The main purpose of Maeda Toshiya's coming here was for this matter. Since the Xiu family had agreed to come down, there was no need to follow the high-intensity journey of the Xiu family in the future.
So after Xiuzhen came back, she used the excuse that she couldn't walk anymore, and planned to rest in Hachiman Mountain City for one night, while Xiu's family continued to walk towards Meinong.
After arriving in Gifu City, Mino, Xiuzhen made some repairs and bid farewell to Xiuzhen here.
Under Hideyoshi's order, Hideya, as the vanguard of the entire Toyotomi Army, needs to go out of Owari and march eastward along the Tokaido, making a gesture of attacking the Hojo family to attract the attention of the Hojo family.
Hideyoshi had issued an order to crusade against the Hojo clan long ago, but how many troops to send and how to fight were not issued to each daimyo until the Osaka military meeting a few days ago.
In other words, the Hojo clan had no idea of Hideyoshi's plan to devote all his power to the east. In his opinion, it might just be that Hideyoshi brought a few famous names to beat him.
This is exactly the purpose of Xiujia's proposal to Xiuji.
The whole strategy can be described as interlocking. Once the Hojo family misassessed the strength of Toyotomi Fang Dongzheng, he might choose to gather his army and go east to Sagami to fight Hideka in Izu or Suruga.
However, after the Hide family arrived in Suruga, they would not continue eastward. Instead, they would turn northward, pass through Kai to Shinano, and go out to Ueno to attack the Hojo family's abdomen. On the Suruga side, Tokugawa Ieyasu would be handed over as a cover.
The Hojo clan obtained wrong information, and mistakenly believed that the two sides were equally powerful, so they planned to fight Hideo in the field.
But it was too late when Suruga and Izu could not wait to reach Hideo's house, and then sent people to investigate, only to find that there was only the Tokugawa army on the opposite side.
At this time, there are only two roads before Hojo, either the whole army goes north to meet Hideka in Ueno, but at this time the Hideka soldiers have rested, and the soldiers of the Hojo Army are exhausted after a long journey, Hideka has the confidence to defeat Hojo .
This is also the reason why the Xiu family assembled their army at the beginning of September 9st, obviously one month earlier than other daimyos.
As for Hideyoshi's original plan to directly let himself attract Hojo's main force to Ueno, it was completely driving himself to be cannon fodder.
In fact, after rumors that the Hide family planned to conquer Hojo eastward spread to Odawara, the Hojo family had already started their actions.They first renegotiated peace with Yoshizu Satake of Hitachi, and then led their troops back to the city.
Then he ordered General Inomata Kuniken to lead 3500 troops, and went north to Ueno to attack Numata Castle in Tone County, and ordered Narita's chief and Kobata Shinsada to lead 2000 troops to attack Ueno Agatsuma County.
Here it is necessary to talk about the concept of Kanto. The concept of Kanto was not gradually formed until the period of the Muromachi shogunate. At that time, the general in Kyoto set up an institution called the Kanto tutelary government. This force refers to Hakone.
We can also see from the map that the Kanto Great Plains is an area surrounded by mountains on three sides.If you want to attack the Kanto from the west and north, you can only take the Hakone Road (Tongkai Road) in Sagami and the Ubing Road (Nakasen Road) in Ueno.
It's not that there are no other small roads that can pass through today's Kanto, it's just that only these two roads can withstand the march of the large army, and the other small roads are narrow and difficult, and can only be small-scale infiltration.
Historically, when Uesugi Kenshin attacked Guanzhong, because Kawanaka Island was cut off by the Takeda Army, he could only cross the mountains from Echigo and cross the Three Kingdoms to enter Ueno. The number of soldiers who could march each time was limited, and the logistical pressure was extremely tight.
This is also the reason why Uesugi Kenshin had to rely on the strength of the Kanto heroes to launch an offensive against the Hojo clan.
After the defeat of Ikuno Mountain, Uesugi Kenshin’s control over Kanto was better than nothing, all because the Hojo family could calmly attack Ueno, and the Uesugi family’s Three Kingdoms is not only steep and difficult to walk, but also affected by heavy snow every winter.
Under the ebb and flow, Hojo and Uesugi fought in Shimoso Usui Castle in the 9th year of Eiroku (1566), and Uesugi Kenshin was defeated.
The Battle of Usui Castle was the most famous defeat of Terotora Uesugi, which broke the myth that Terotora Uesugi had no defeat.
More than half of the more than [-] troops of the Uesugi Allied Forces were lost, and after the war, the influence and status of the Uesugi family in the Kanto plummeted.
No matter in tactics or strategy, Huihu lost completely.By the tenth year of Yonglu, Uesugi Kenshin had launched eight Kanto invasions.
So far in this battle, Kenshin Uesugi's hard work of more than ten years fell short, and the Kanto Raiders were shattered. It also marked the Hojo family's final victory in the "Battle of Yuexiang".
At this moment, Hakone Dong is in the hands of the Hojo family. What they have to do is to unplug the Sanada family in Ueno before the arrival of Toyotomi's army, which is tantamount to completely sweeping Toyotomi's forces from Kanto. At that time, they only need to guard two mountains Pass, you can remain invincible.
After hearing the news that the Hideo family led 5 troops east to leave the Tokaido to join forces with Tokugawa Ieyasu to attack Izu and Sagami, the Hojo Uchi and Hojo Usagi father and son immediately ordered people to garrison various mountain cities in Izu, and Toyotomi was bound to be dragged to death in Izu area.
Due to the limitation of the number of people stationed in the mountain castle, Hojo's political father and son led the main force to garrison Odawara Castle as a backup at any time.
At the same time, it was also because of the limitation of the number of defenders that they had no extra ability to go out of the city to attack, which gave the Tokugawa army surrounded by the city a chance to confuse the Hojo clan.
Yes, when the Hide family bid farewell to Tokugawa Ieyasu, they gave the Tokugawa family the banner they had prepared in advance, with the purpose of confusing the defenders in Nirayama Castle and Yamanaka Castle.
By mid-October, Numata Castle, which had been defending for two months, fell, and all the strongholds of the Sanada family in Tone County were pulled out.
Numata Castle is the most important city of the Sanada clan in the Ueno area. His fall not only means that the Sanada clan may lose the land of Ueno, but also means that the Toyotomi clan is likely to be completely shut out of the Kanto Gate.
I can't wait!
It was impossible for Xiujia to wait for Jingsheng Uesugi and Toshiie Maeda to lead the troops from the rear, so he immediately ordered Fujido Takatora to lead Bizen Obi, Misaku Kobi, and the total number of 4000 people in the Nagamune's Xinqin team. The torii cave behind Sanada Castle went into Ueno to support Konohara Tsuna of Iwakaku Castle in Agatsuma County. At the same time, he ordered the vanguard to board the ship and lead the first team to attack Susui cave.
As mentioned earlier, the Hojo clan believed that the person opposite him was the Toyotomi Hide family, and because of the effective offensive against Yamanaka Castle and Nirayama Castle by force, they only besieged but did not attack.
Hojo Ujibun and others guarding Izu are like this, and Inomata Kunito, Narita Usaga and others who pulled out the nails of the Sanada family on the northern line are even more unpredictable. Hideya has arrived in Shinano at this moment.
In their view, the main force of the Sanada family was entrusted to Shinano, and there was absolutely no energy left to launch a counterattack against Ueno before the arrival of follow-up reinforcements.
Therefore, they only left more than a hundred people at Ubingdong as defenses. Facing the more than a thousand Izumo people led by Togawa Tatsuan, the defenders of Ubingdong had no power to resist. In the bag.
The Hide family highlighted the word "quick" in the battle. Since there are not enough defenders at Ubingdong, it means that the opponent did not expect to appear here at all, so they must break through Ueno before the Hojo family reacts and reorganizes the defense line.
Therefore, after receiving the news that Du Bingdong had been captured, Xiujia glanced at the map of Ueno, and a big plan emerged in his mind.
Then he sent an order to Nobushige Sanada next to him, "Genjiro, you hold my flag seal to find Misaku, and let him march along the Nakasendo to the stable bridge at high speed, and take Matsuida Castle and other cities along the way. If it doesn't go down, send people to surround it, and wait for the follow-up troops to come and remove it.
I sent you there to supervise the army. I asked Misaku to arrive at Stable Bridge Castle within 2 days and go down to Stable Bridge Castle within 2 days. I want the Hojo Clan to have more than [-] people in Ueno and never return to Musashi.
After taking down the stable bridge, I will order Kai and Sado Mamoru of Agatsuma County to destroy this Hojo family. "
"Hi~" Nobushige Sanada, who had received the Hideka military order, rode away with a few bannermen in great excitement.
The Xiu family immediately looked at Akashi Jingqin, and said to him, "You lead the third team, and you are responsible for following behind me and Misaku Shou. You will be responsible for all the fortresses that are difficult for us to remove for a while, and you will be responsible after pulling them out." Stationed in the western Ueno cities, guarding our food roads.
As for the main formation, they set off immediately, and headed south after leaving Ubingdao, pulling out Takata, Tomioka and other cities. The ultimate goal was to pull out Hirai, Naba and other cities before the Hojo clan reacted, and formed a line of defense to the south of Misakushu.Create conditions for Misaku Shouhui and Sado Shouhui to meet Ueno's Hojo Army. "
After that, he said to Sanada Nobuyuki and Ogasawara Hidetada who were already gathered around him at this moment, "You two don't need to fight, you just need to be responsible for transporting food from Shinano to the wild.
In addition, I would like to remind Maeda and Uesugi of their progress, and when they arrive, let them come to Ueno to join me as soon as possible.
I will be under great pressure on the Ueno and Musashi front lines. More than 7 people from the Hojo Clan are besieged in Ueno. The Hojo Clan’s political father and son have to rush out to rescue them like crazy. I estimate that although it will take less than [-] days, the Hojo Clan’s soldiers will reach Ueno. I. "
After explaining the strategic arrangement, Hidekamoto's team and Akashi's third team, temporarily stationed in Komoro Castle in the Tokugawa territory, were quickly put into operation.
Especially in the third formation of Akashi, the Iyos in the team had already been sent to Matsumoto to transport grain. At this moment, only 5000 people from Misaku and Iyobei can be used. He also needs to send someone to inform the grain transport along the Matsumoto and Shinano The various units of the Iyo Congregation regrouped.
It's just that Xiu's family couldn't wait for Mingshi Jingqin to gather. One hour after the order was issued, they led their team of 1 people to Dubingdong, and arrived at Dubingdong after a 1-day march.
As a pass on the northeast side of the Kanto, Ubingdong is still very dangerous.
The current Nakasendo Road was built in the Edo period, and it was a road opened between the Ubingzan gorge.At this time, if Hideka wanted to enter Ueno from Shinano, he could only take the old Ubingzan road.
This is also the most difficult part of the entire Zhongshan Road. The entire road is set on the North Mountain of Dubing Mountain. If you walk along the mountain, you may fall under the cliffs on both sides if you are not careful.
Affected by the mountain, the narrowest part of Ubingdao can only accommodate one person. At the foot of the cliff on the south side of the eastern end of the Ubingdao Road is the Ubing Lake. There is a Sakamoto Castle on the cliffs in Hunan, which is always under surveillance. Ubingdong.
When the Toyotomi Army appeared on the west side of Usui, he had already sounded the alarm. While sending a messenger to Inomata Kuniken, the head of the Ueno banner of the Hojo Clan stationed in Numata at the moment, he sent a message to Odawara Castle in the south to inform them that Toyoto The news of Chen's march from Dubingdong.
At the same time, he wanted to order people to garrison the formation house under the city to delay the offensive of Toyotomi's army, but when he saw that the formation house stationed at the top of the mountain on the opposite side was blown down, and there were still black soldiers swarming out behind him, The general guarding Sakamoto Castle was discouraged and chose Cage City to refuse to defend.
There is also a small city on the mountain behind Tangfeng Fansuo. It is said to be a city, but it is better than a stronghold. Its role is to provide a place for the defenders of Ubing City. This is Ubing City.
Due to the turning of Ubingdao, people inside Ubingdao cannot see the situation of Ubingdao, so they need to transmit information from Sakamoto Castle on the opposite side.
But Tangfeng Fan was defeated too quickly, and the defenders in Ubing City only knew that there was an enemy attacking from the west, and they didn't know the specific situation. Togawa Tatsuan took advantage of the situation to seize the city.
Sakamoto Castle in Nanshan is also a small town with only dozens of defenders, but it is very dangerous to build on the cliff. Tatsuan Togawa attacked several times and still could not break it. In the end, he took it with the support of Okayori. small town.
While Togawa Tatsuan was pulling out Sakamoto Castle, Osafune Sadain's actions did not stop, ordering Nagamune's disciples to continue to attack the Ubingo Pass and Matsuida Castle behind him to the east.
Ubingdong Pass is located 3.4 kilometers east of Dubingdong, with Xiaogen Mountain and Shanji Mountain in the west, and a small basin is sandwiched in the east of Dubingdong, and the endless Ueno Plain is to the west of the Pass.
The reason why the past dynasties chose this place as a customs office is because of the temporary rest of businessmen and the collection of tolls.
As I said before, the roads on Dubing Dao are very narrow, and some places can only accommodate one person. How can it be possible to collect taxes on the roads?
Collecting taxes directly in Ubing City is likely to cause obstruction of the Zhongshan Road, so the Zhongshan Road Ubingdong Pass is set at this mountain pass not far from Ubingdong Bar, and this is also the second road after Ubingdong. line of defense.
As the signal of war was getting stronger and stronger over Ueno and Shinano, there were very few merchants passing through the Nakasendo Road, and this normally and prosperous checkpoint was empty at the moment.
The ashigaru guarding the checkpoint leaned on the wooden door, breathing lazily, and there were a few ashigaru behind him complaining about this month's harvest.
The harvest here does not refer to the crop output in the field, but refers to the passing money of this Dubingdong.
"The number of people coming and going to Ubingdong in the past two months has become less and less, and there is not enough oil and water to get stuck in their hands. If this continues, the monthly money for the adults will not be enough this month. If I am kicked out of customs What can I do?"
His grievances aroused the resonance of many ashigaru around them, and when they were exchanging their hearts, suddenly from the west of the gate, two warriors carrying centipede-patterned banners symbolizing important military situations rushed towards them.
Before the people arrived, they shouted over there, "Get our horses ready, there is an urgent military situation, Feng Chen's army raided Su Bingdong!"
"Ah!" The words of the two samurai directly frightened the ashigaru who were guarding the gate at the moment. Some people were in a hurry to close the wooden door of the gate, but their companions stopped them and said, "I'm so stupid, over there!" The two adults haven't come in yet, why close the door now!"
Another ashigaru ran to the stable of the customs office, trying to get out of the horse for the two samurai adults. The samurai guarding here were also frightened by the noise, and they took the initiative to go out of the fan house to investigate the situation.
When he heard that the Toyotomi army was coming, he nervously commanded the guards at the gate to prepare for the defense.
(End of this chapter)
The main purpose of Maeda Toshiya's coming here was for this matter. Since the Xiu family had agreed to come down, there was no need to follow the high-intensity journey of the Xiu family in the future.
So after Xiuzhen came back, she used the excuse that she couldn't walk anymore, and planned to rest in Hachiman Mountain City for one night, while Xiu's family continued to walk towards Meinong.
After arriving in Gifu City, Mino, Xiuzhen made some repairs and bid farewell to Xiuzhen here.
Under Hideyoshi's order, Hideya, as the vanguard of the entire Toyotomi Army, needs to go out of Owari and march eastward along the Tokaido, making a gesture of attacking the Hojo family to attract the attention of the Hojo family.
Hideyoshi had issued an order to crusade against the Hojo clan long ago, but how many troops to send and how to fight were not issued to each daimyo until the Osaka military meeting a few days ago.
In other words, the Hojo clan had no idea of Hideyoshi's plan to devote all his power to the east. In his opinion, it might just be that Hideyoshi brought a few famous names to beat him.
This is exactly the purpose of Xiujia's proposal to Xiuji.
The whole strategy can be described as interlocking. Once the Hojo family misassessed the strength of Toyotomi Fang Dongzheng, he might choose to gather his army and go east to Sagami to fight Hideka in Izu or Suruga.
However, after the Hide family arrived in Suruga, they would not continue eastward. Instead, they would turn northward, pass through Kai to Shinano, and go out to Ueno to attack the Hojo family's abdomen. On the Suruga side, Tokugawa Ieyasu would be handed over as a cover.
The Hojo clan obtained wrong information, and mistakenly believed that the two sides were equally powerful, so they planned to fight Hideo in the field.
But it was too late when Suruga and Izu could not wait to reach Hideo's house, and then sent people to investigate, only to find that there was only the Tokugawa army on the opposite side.
At this time, there are only two roads before Hojo, either the whole army goes north to meet Hideka in Ueno, but at this time the Hideka soldiers have rested, and the soldiers of the Hojo Army are exhausted after a long journey, Hideka has the confidence to defeat Hojo .
This is also the reason why the Xiu family assembled their army at the beginning of September 9st, obviously one month earlier than other daimyos.
As for Hideyoshi's original plan to directly let himself attract Hojo's main force to Ueno, it was completely driving himself to be cannon fodder.
In fact, after rumors that the Hide family planned to conquer Hojo eastward spread to Odawara, the Hojo family had already started their actions.They first renegotiated peace with Yoshizu Satake of Hitachi, and then led their troops back to the city.
Then he ordered General Inomata Kuniken to lead 3500 troops, and went north to Ueno to attack Numata Castle in Tone County, and ordered Narita's chief and Kobata Shinsada to lead 2000 troops to attack Ueno Agatsuma County.
Here it is necessary to talk about the concept of Kanto. The concept of Kanto was not gradually formed until the period of the Muromachi shogunate. At that time, the general in Kyoto set up an institution called the Kanto tutelary government. This force refers to Hakone.
We can also see from the map that the Kanto Great Plains is an area surrounded by mountains on three sides.If you want to attack the Kanto from the west and north, you can only take the Hakone Road (Tongkai Road) in Sagami and the Ubing Road (Nakasen Road) in Ueno.
It's not that there are no other small roads that can pass through today's Kanto, it's just that only these two roads can withstand the march of the large army, and the other small roads are narrow and difficult, and can only be small-scale infiltration.
Historically, when Uesugi Kenshin attacked Guanzhong, because Kawanaka Island was cut off by the Takeda Army, he could only cross the mountains from Echigo and cross the Three Kingdoms to enter Ueno. The number of soldiers who could march each time was limited, and the logistical pressure was extremely tight.
This is also the reason why Uesugi Kenshin had to rely on the strength of the Kanto heroes to launch an offensive against the Hojo clan.
After the defeat of Ikuno Mountain, Uesugi Kenshin’s control over Kanto was better than nothing, all because the Hojo family could calmly attack Ueno, and the Uesugi family’s Three Kingdoms is not only steep and difficult to walk, but also affected by heavy snow every winter.
Under the ebb and flow, Hojo and Uesugi fought in Shimoso Usui Castle in the 9th year of Eiroku (1566), and Uesugi Kenshin was defeated.
The Battle of Usui Castle was the most famous defeat of Terotora Uesugi, which broke the myth that Terotora Uesugi had no defeat.
More than half of the more than [-] troops of the Uesugi Allied Forces were lost, and after the war, the influence and status of the Uesugi family in the Kanto plummeted.
No matter in tactics or strategy, Huihu lost completely.By the tenth year of Yonglu, Uesugi Kenshin had launched eight Kanto invasions.
So far in this battle, Kenshin Uesugi's hard work of more than ten years fell short, and the Kanto Raiders were shattered. It also marked the Hojo family's final victory in the "Battle of Yuexiang".
At this moment, Hakone Dong is in the hands of the Hojo family. What they have to do is to unplug the Sanada family in Ueno before the arrival of Toyotomi's army, which is tantamount to completely sweeping Toyotomi's forces from Kanto. At that time, they only need to guard two mountains Pass, you can remain invincible.
After hearing the news that the Hideo family led 5 troops east to leave the Tokaido to join forces with Tokugawa Ieyasu to attack Izu and Sagami, the Hojo Uchi and Hojo Usagi father and son immediately ordered people to garrison various mountain cities in Izu, and Toyotomi was bound to be dragged to death in Izu area.
Due to the limitation of the number of people stationed in the mountain castle, Hojo's political father and son led the main force to garrison Odawara Castle as a backup at any time.
At the same time, it was also because of the limitation of the number of defenders that they had no extra ability to go out of the city to attack, which gave the Tokugawa army surrounded by the city a chance to confuse the Hojo clan.
Yes, when the Hide family bid farewell to Tokugawa Ieyasu, they gave the Tokugawa family the banner they had prepared in advance, with the purpose of confusing the defenders in Nirayama Castle and Yamanaka Castle.
By mid-October, Numata Castle, which had been defending for two months, fell, and all the strongholds of the Sanada family in Tone County were pulled out.
Numata Castle is the most important city of the Sanada clan in the Ueno area. His fall not only means that the Sanada clan may lose the land of Ueno, but also means that the Toyotomi clan is likely to be completely shut out of the Kanto Gate.
I can't wait!
It was impossible for Xiujia to wait for Jingsheng Uesugi and Toshiie Maeda to lead the troops from the rear, so he immediately ordered Fujido Takatora to lead Bizen Obi, Misaku Kobi, and the total number of 4000 people in the Nagamune's Xinqin team. The torii cave behind Sanada Castle went into Ueno to support Konohara Tsuna of Iwakaku Castle in Agatsuma County. At the same time, he ordered the vanguard to board the ship and lead the first team to attack Susui cave.
As mentioned earlier, the Hojo clan believed that the person opposite him was the Toyotomi Hide family, and because of the effective offensive against Yamanaka Castle and Nirayama Castle by force, they only besieged but did not attack.
Hojo Ujibun and others guarding Izu are like this, and Inomata Kunito, Narita Usaga and others who pulled out the nails of the Sanada family on the northern line are even more unpredictable. Hideya has arrived in Shinano at this moment.
In their view, the main force of the Sanada family was entrusted to Shinano, and there was absolutely no energy left to launch a counterattack against Ueno before the arrival of follow-up reinforcements.
Therefore, they only left more than a hundred people at Ubingdong as defenses. Facing the more than a thousand Izumo people led by Togawa Tatsuan, the defenders of Ubingdong had no power to resist. In the bag.
The Hide family highlighted the word "quick" in the battle. Since there are not enough defenders at Ubingdong, it means that the opponent did not expect to appear here at all, so they must break through Ueno before the Hojo family reacts and reorganizes the defense line.
Therefore, after receiving the news that Du Bingdong had been captured, Xiujia glanced at the map of Ueno, and a big plan emerged in his mind.
Then he sent an order to Nobushige Sanada next to him, "Genjiro, you hold my flag seal to find Misaku, and let him march along the Nakasendo to the stable bridge at high speed, and take Matsuida Castle and other cities along the way. If it doesn't go down, send people to surround it, and wait for the follow-up troops to come and remove it.
I sent you there to supervise the army. I asked Misaku to arrive at Stable Bridge Castle within 2 days and go down to Stable Bridge Castle within 2 days. I want the Hojo Clan to have more than [-] people in Ueno and never return to Musashi.
After taking down the stable bridge, I will order Kai and Sado Mamoru of Agatsuma County to destroy this Hojo family. "
"Hi~" Nobushige Sanada, who had received the Hideka military order, rode away with a few bannermen in great excitement.
The Xiu family immediately looked at Akashi Jingqin, and said to him, "You lead the third team, and you are responsible for following behind me and Misaku Shou. You will be responsible for all the fortresses that are difficult for us to remove for a while, and you will be responsible after pulling them out." Stationed in the western Ueno cities, guarding our food roads.
As for the main formation, they set off immediately, and headed south after leaving Ubingdao, pulling out Takata, Tomioka and other cities. The ultimate goal was to pull out Hirai, Naba and other cities before the Hojo clan reacted, and formed a line of defense to the south of Misakushu.Create conditions for Misaku Shouhui and Sado Shouhui to meet Ueno's Hojo Army. "
After that, he said to Sanada Nobuyuki and Ogasawara Hidetada who were already gathered around him at this moment, "You two don't need to fight, you just need to be responsible for transporting food from Shinano to the wild.
In addition, I would like to remind Maeda and Uesugi of their progress, and when they arrive, let them come to Ueno to join me as soon as possible.
I will be under great pressure on the Ueno and Musashi front lines. More than 7 people from the Hojo Clan are besieged in Ueno. The Hojo Clan’s political father and son have to rush out to rescue them like crazy. I estimate that although it will take less than [-] days, the Hojo Clan’s soldiers will reach Ueno. I. "
After explaining the strategic arrangement, Hidekamoto's team and Akashi's third team, temporarily stationed in Komoro Castle in the Tokugawa territory, were quickly put into operation.
Especially in the third formation of Akashi, the Iyos in the team had already been sent to Matsumoto to transport grain. At this moment, only 5000 people from Misaku and Iyobei can be used. He also needs to send someone to inform the grain transport along the Matsumoto and Shinano The various units of the Iyo Congregation regrouped.
It's just that Xiu's family couldn't wait for Mingshi Jingqin to gather. One hour after the order was issued, they led their team of 1 people to Dubingdong, and arrived at Dubingdong after a 1-day march.
As a pass on the northeast side of the Kanto, Ubingdong is still very dangerous.
The current Nakasendo Road was built in the Edo period, and it was a road opened between the Ubingzan gorge.At this time, if Hideka wanted to enter Ueno from Shinano, he could only take the old Ubingzan road.
This is also the most difficult part of the entire Zhongshan Road. The entire road is set on the North Mountain of Dubing Mountain. If you walk along the mountain, you may fall under the cliffs on both sides if you are not careful.
Affected by the mountain, the narrowest part of Ubingdao can only accommodate one person. At the foot of the cliff on the south side of the eastern end of the Ubingdao Road is the Ubing Lake. There is a Sakamoto Castle on the cliffs in Hunan, which is always under surveillance. Ubingdong.
When the Toyotomi Army appeared on the west side of Usui, he had already sounded the alarm. While sending a messenger to Inomata Kuniken, the head of the Ueno banner of the Hojo Clan stationed in Numata at the moment, he sent a message to Odawara Castle in the south to inform them that Toyoto The news of Chen's march from Dubingdong.
At the same time, he wanted to order people to garrison the formation house under the city to delay the offensive of Toyotomi's army, but when he saw that the formation house stationed at the top of the mountain on the opposite side was blown down, and there were still black soldiers swarming out behind him, The general guarding Sakamoto Castle was discouraged and chose Cage City to refuse to defend.
There is also a small city on the mountain behind Tangfeng Fansuo. It is said to be a city, but it is better than a stronghold. Its role is to provide a place for the defenders of Ubing City. This is Ubing City.
Due to the turning of Ubingdao, people inside Ubingdao cannot see the situation of Ubingdao, so they need to transmit information from Sakamoto Castle on the opposite side.
But Tangfeng Fan was defeated too quickly, and the defenders in Ubing City only knew that there was an enemy attacking from the west, and they didn't know the specific situation. Togawa Tatsuan took advantage of the situation to seize the city.
Sakamoto Castle in Nanshan is also a small town with only dozens of defenders, but it is very dangerous to build on the cliff. Tatsuan Togawa attacked several times and still could not break it. In the end, he took it with the support of Okayori. small town.
While Togawa Tatsuan was pulling out Sakamoto Castle, Osafune Sadain's actions did not stop, ordering Nagamune's disciples to continue to attack the Ubingo Pass and Matsuida Castle behind him to the east.
Ubingdong Pass is located 3.4 kilometers east of Dubingdong, with Xiaogen Mountain and Shanji Mountain in the west, and a small basin is sandwiched in the east of Dubingdong, and the endless Ueno Plain is to the west of the Pass.
The reason why the past dynasties chose this place as a customs office is because of the temporary rest of businessmen and the collection of tolls.
As I said before, the roads on Dubing Dao are very narrow, and some places can only accommodate one person. How can it be possible to collect taxes on the roads?
Collecting taxes directly in Ubing City is likely to cause obstruction of the Zhongshan Road, so the Zhongshan Road Ubingdong Pass is set at this mountain pass not far from Ubingdong Bar, and this is also the second road after Ubingdong. line of defense.
As the signal of war was getting stronger and stronger over Ueno and Shinano, there were very few merchants passing through the Nakasendo Road, and this normally and prosperous checkpoint was empty at the moment.
The ashigaru guarding the checkpoint leaned on the wooden door, breathing lazily, and there were a few ashigaru behind him complaining about this month's harvest.
The harvest here does not refer to the crop output in the field, but refers to the passing money of this Dubingdong.
"The number of people coming and going to Ubingdong in the past two months has become less and less, and there is not enough oil and water to get stuck in their hands. If this continues, the monthly money for the adults will not be enough this month. If I am kicked out of customs What can I do?"
His grievances aroused the resonance of many ashigaru around them, and when they were exchanging their hearts, suddenly from the west of the gate, two warriors carrying centipede-patterned banners symbolizing important military situations rushed towards them.
Before the people arrived, they shouted over there, "Get our horses ready, there is an urgent military situation, Feng Chen's army raided Su Bingdong!"
"Ah!" The words of the two samurai directly frightened the ashigaru who were guarding the gate at the moment. Some people were in a hurry to close the wooden door of the gate, but their companions stopped them and said, "I'm so stupid, over there!" The two adults haven't come in yet, why close the door now!"
Another ashigaru ran to the stable of the customs office, trying to get out of the horse for the two samurai adults. The samurai guarding here were also frightened by the noise, and they took the initiative to go out of the fan house to investigate the situation.
When he heard that the Toyotomi army was coming, he nervously commanded the guards at the gate to prepare for the defense.
(End of this chapter)