Chapter 791
Chapter 791
While the soldiers were repairing in Sagami, a military discussion about Shangluo was going on in Fujisawa Castle.
Since the Hide family put the main force of the Toyoharu family in the main army of the South Road when they were formed twice in Fukushima and Toyoharu, the other daimyos who accompanied them to the south were Hideyuki Gamo, Yoshishige Satake, Hidemasa Nakagawa, Kane Ukita and Ashikaga Yoshishi and other daimyo.
None of these big names dared to express different opinions on the Xiu family's administration, so the arrangement of the army was very smooth.
However, the competition for the position of the pioneer general is still fierce. The 13-year-old Ashikaga family, under the encouragement of the elders, said on the spot that the Ashikaga mobilized 10 people in 5000 shi in Sagami, and the mobilization ratio was 1 people out of 500 shi. Absolute extreme mobilization.
In addition, the Ashikaga family also stated that they used the name and money of the Ashikaga family to mobilize more than 800 ronin warriors from surrounding countries. The total strength of the Ashikaga family exceeded 6000. It is more than enough to open the way and build a stronghold.
From the arrangements of the Ashikaga family, it can be seen that this child is really hardworking and desperately wants to show himself in front of the Xiu family.
Now that everyone has worked so hard, Xiujia naturally entrusted him with the mission of being a vanguard general.
So the array is sorted as follows:
The first battle: 6000 soldiers from the Ashikaga family Sagami Ashikaga;
The second team: Sanada Nobushige Ueno Chibei (Standing), Saitama Defense 1st Division, Ibaraki Reserve 2nd Division 5200 people
The third formation: Togawa Tatsuan's Changlu Bing garrison 1st division, Hitachi's 1st and 2nd divisions 4500 people;
The fourth team: 1000 members of Ukita’s house including Toyotomi Shigee, Ukita’s family, and Kamei Tomoko, and 5800 soldiers from Musashibi (standby), Ezo Hidakabe, and Ezo Tribal Soldiers;
Fifth formation: Satake Yoshishige Aizu Satake soldiers 9300 people;
Sixth Formation: Nakagawa Hidemasa has 4600 soldiers from the Nakagawa clan, 700 soldiers from Sankei Tagaya, and 5300 soldiers from the Oda clan;
In the seventh formation, there were 1600 people in Qiushang Jiujia Rigao, 1000 people in Matsumae, 800 people in Ishikari, and 3850 barbarians from the Eastern Ezo tribe.A total of 7250 people;
The eighth formation (main formation): 300 cavalry from Toyotomi Hideiya's near-side entourage, 1600 cavalry from the banner group, 2 from the 1600nd Gohonban, 1 from the 1500st Edo Garrison, 1500 from Shimono Bei (Standby), Shimono 1 people in the 1600st garrison, 1500 people in the Ibaraki standby (standby), 8100 people in total
The Eighth Formation (main formation) Other affiliations: Tachihara Hisakuna, Tachihara Nobuhisa, etc. Ezo Jurchen Yu 1200 cavalry, Ezo heavy armor 2100 people, firearms 4th Battalion 2000 people, 800 people directly under the Iron Artillery Brigade, the first under the General Reserve , 3000 people in the second round, a total of 9100 people.
In the Ninth Formation, there are 3000 Longevity Army of Osafune Tsunaonao Ezo Governor-General’s Mansion, 1300 brave soldiers, 2360 barbarians from the Western Ezo tribe, and a total of 6660 people;
第十阵（辎重）香川景则、香西资淳、长船定行武藏守备第1、2番，上总守备第1番，武藏预备第3、4番，茨城预备第1、3番，茨城守备第1、2番合计 13500人；
No.11阵（辎重）土居清良、颕娃久虎琦玉守备第3番，琦玉预备3、4番，上总预备1、2番，下野预备1、2番，总计11000人。
No.12阵（后诘）菅正利、延原秀正、宇喜多宗胜、常陆备（常备）、上总备（常备）、上总守备第2番、下总守备第1、2藩、常陆守备第2番、下总预备第3、4番，下野预备第3、4藩，总兵力17000人。
Outsider: Takeda Hidenobu Kai Takeda has 2800 people.
In summary, the total strength of the South Route Army is 11.
The vanguard was served by the Ashikaga family soldiers, but Hideka was afraid that his troops would be insufficient, so he additionally arranged Ueno Akabi and fierce general Sanada Nobushige in the second formation to support at any time.
The third and fourth formations are mainly used as support for the first two formations, and the fifth and sixth formations are the names of foreign domains, ranking them after the vanguard and before the main formation.
In this way, they can make full use of their strength, and the Xiu family's main formation is behind them, so they can calmly monitor them.
Xiujia's main formation only has 9100 people from the eighth formation on the table. As for the [eighth formation (main formation) other affiliation] on the top of the formation, it only exists in the formation in Xiujia's own mind. It doesn't jump off the page.
These troops are all the treasures of the Xiu family, and they are to be used at critical moments.
The eighth and ninth formations are the main reserve teams on the battlefield. So far, the main combat force has a total of 6.6 people. From the 11th formation, most of them are garrison and reserve corps, responsible for the transportation and care of the luggage, and are the general reserve team.
Among them, the 12th formation has the most troops, and the Xiu family has arranged two standing guards and multiple defensive presences. It is the strongest in appearance among the formations.
The reason why they are listed in the back formation is that they are responsible for supporting the Xiu family's rear formation, and secondly, they can directly use the No.12 formation as a ranger to form an army alone at special times.
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In July of the 8th year of Qingcho (1603), the army that had been stationed in Kamakura for many days was reorganized, and the vanguard general was handed over to the Ashikaga family.
The No.12 Ranger Team was used by Hideo as a suspicious soldier at the beginning of its development, and its unit was directly arranged by Hideo to go out of the Hakone Cave formation to confuse the main force of Tokugawa in Izumizu Castle by the Kakita River in the east of the Suruga River. , And sent troops to garrison the mountain castle on the west side of Hakone Dao.
The Ashikaga Corps, which is actually in charge of the Vanguard Corps Road, will head south to the detoured Gotemba area.
The real development of the Gotemba area will go to the Meiji area, especially the Jiugao River and Aisawa River Gorge areas that are connected to Sagami.
At present, it is still a place with high mountains, dense forests and inaccessible people. Tokaido Street still communicates with Sagami and Suruga through Hakone Dao.
But after going through the later development, people discovered that the altitude of Gotemba is a bit higher, but this path is much gentler than Hakone, and there are no steep canyons on both sides of the road, and it is more time for large-scale troops to travel.
So much so that in the Meiji period when building roads through mountains was still underdeveloped, this road passing through the foot of Mount Fuji gradually replaced the Hakone Mountain Road that needed to climb mountains and became the main road connecting movement and west Japan.
The Xiu family has a force of 11 people, and there are also heavy equipment such as artillery, horses, and luggage. It is very unrealistic to go over the mountains and mountains in Hakone. This is why the Xiu family let the Ashikaga family The plan to climb over the mountain and enter Suruga.
As mentioned above, this road now only exists in the mouths of herbal pickers and mountain people.But there are many Fumo members in the Xiujia Ninja Army, and they have figured out this path long ago.
This time going to Luo, the Hide family naturally sent guides to the Ashikaga formation. All the Ashikaga family needs to do is to clear the way for the army, cut down trees, build bridges, and open up a road that is enough for the trains to travel.
At the same time, Hideka dispatched Nakagawa Hidemasa's sixth team to cooperate with Akikami Hisa's troops from Sagami along Manazuru Street all the way south, and launched a strategy against Izu along the coastline.
In order to cooperate with them, the Edo navy, the Sagami navy, and the Sobosui army led by the Nakagawa family will all join them, and will be responsible for the raid on the coast of Izu, and gradually attack the troops led by the Tokugawa family. The river army chose the opportunity to fight.
The Hide family's gathering of 20 troops (imaginary number) in Sagami naturally cannot escape the detection of the Tokugawa family. So many soldiers Chen Bing in the east of the Suruga River undoubtedly put great pressure on the Tokugawa family.
Since Tokugawa Ieyasu withdrew from Sagami, he began to build the Higashi Suruga line of defense, successively built Kambara Castle, Xingguo Temple Castle, and newly built Shirao Mountain Castle, Matsuoka Castle, Binai Castle, Izumito Castle and other cities.
The purpose is to rely on the long and narrow Suruga line to gradually consume the vitality of the Toyoharu family and delay the pace of the Hide family's going to Luo.
In fact, the construction of many of these castles violated the "Order of Abandoned Castles" issued by Hideyoshi.But Tokugawa Ieyasu is an old writer, and Hideji and Chacha turned a blind eye, letting him build a copper wall and an iron wall in Higashi Suruga.
In order to deal with Hideka, Tokugawa Hidetada stationed at the forefront of Izumito Castle is Torii Motochu, a strong general of the Tokugawa family.
Just as in history, Tokugawa Ieyasu sent him to garrison the famous city of Fushimi to hold back the pace of the Western Army's eastward advance.Tokugawa Ieyasu once again handed over the frontline and most arduous tasks to his hands this time.
Torii Mototada naturally knows that it is idiotic to rely on the 4000 people in his own hands to become the leader of the Toyoharu family. Shangluo's pace is a dream, but in his plan, he only needs to be able to hold the Xiu family for one month. You're done.
In order to cope with the arrival of the Xiu family, on the basis of the original Quantou City, he built additional soil on the northeast and southeast sides to build two out-maru, and temporarily increased the number of wooden scull towers in the city.
Tokugawa Hidetada had basically given up on the lonely Izu in order to deal with Hideka's mighty army, but the elder Yasumasa Sakakibara said that "Izu may become an important area to counterattack the Toyoharu family or block its military supplies."
At the insistence of Sakakibara Yasumasa, Tokugawa Hidetada sent 2000 people, Matsudaira Yasushige and Ishikawa Tadaka, to garrison Shimoda Castle in southern Izu.
Nirayama Castle, the main city of Izu in the central plain of Izu, has been abandoned because it is not conducive to defense and concealment. It exists only as a support city for Torii Motochu. There are 1200 people led by Toda Tunji stationed in the city.
At the beginning of the war, the progress was very slow, and Hideka's main camp was still stationed in Fujisawa Castle.One is to wait for the soldiers from the north to go south one after another to replenish, and the other is to cover for the Ashikaga family to open up the Gotemba road.
Hideka is actually very anxious, because he has already received news that the three cities of Okayama Castle, Fushimi Castle, and Otsu Castle are surrounded. Every time Hideka wastes a day here, those samurai who sacrificed their lives for Hideka's great cause will be made They lost a little confidence.
But war is so cruel. In order to achieve the best results, trade-offs must often be made.
The person in charge of the siege of Yamanaka Castle was General Houjie, the captain of the 1st Battalion of the Shimoso Garrison, Mase Yongki. He was a samurai from Bizen. The army was promoted to the captain of the garrison.
The defense only has 200 iron cannons for a team, but it is enough to face a small mountain city.This Tokugawa city, which is far ahead of the line of defense, is the front line of defending the Hideka.
Mountain Castle is actually not a small town, but there are only 1000 defenders in the city, which is already the limit that Torii Motochu can mobilize.
You must know that in the previous Hojo crusade, the Hojo clan could station a full 4000 people in the mountain castle, and the old man Matsuda Yasunaga was in charge.
In order to pull out the castle and allow Toyotomi's army to enter Sagami smoothly, the Yamanaka Castle Attack Corps was formed with a total of 68000 people!Among them, the general in charge is Toyotomi Hideji.
It was also because of the reputation of the mountain castle outside, and the fact that the guard Naito Nobuhiro deployed suspicious soldiers, making Hideka think that there were 3000 people stationed in the city, Hideka gave up learning Toyotomi Hideji's routine of storming the mountain castle.
Although Toyotomi Hideji did not hesitate to lose his troops in the battle, Yamanaka Castle fell in one day, but the battle damaged the daimyo Ichiyanagi and he was reprimanded by Hideyoshi.
Xiujia knew that there were still many cruel battles ahead, so he didn't want to lose too much troops and morale in a small frontline town, so he came up with a plan to attack.
However, after the sit-in battle entered the fifth day, Torii Motochu may have felt that Yamanaka Castle was too far away from Izuntou Castle, so he chose to transfer 5 people from here to Fangquantou Castle.
This number is very strange, and Xiujia is keenly aware of the problems in the number.
Because if it is really meaningless to withdraw troops to defend 300 people, it is very likely that Torii Mototada asked Naito Nobuhiro to withdraw troops, but Naito Nobuhiro was unwilling, and finally only withdrew 300 people.
After sending people to investigate Yamanaka Castle again and confirming that there were only 700 people in the city, the Hide family had no time to notify the Ashikaga family who were originally scheduled to be the vanguard, so they could only order Masatoshi Suga to change from a feint attack to a main attack, and strive to go down Yamanaka Castle as soon as possible.
Xiang's mountain castle is different from the previous period of the Hojo family. During the Hojo family period, the city was just an earthen city. Although there were three main city walls and two extra prominent city walls, Nishimaru and Kitamaru, they were still defeated by the Toyotomi army with sufficient troops. Forcibly break through the city from all directions.
As a feint before, Suga Masari only sent a defense team up to play with them.
Now that the Xiu family has issued an order to storm the mountain castle, Masatoshi Suga re-deploys 2 divisions below the total garrison as the main offensive and cooperates with the other 2 reserve teams with a total of more than 6500 people to launch a storm against the mountain castle with only 700 people garrisoned.
As mentioned earlier, the mountain castle is not a small city. At the beginning of the battle of Odawara in history, 4000 defenders could be stationed in this castle.Now the size of the city has not changed, and the number of defenders has been reduced to 700, which is not enough to deploy all areas.
So Naito Shinhiro had to abandon Nishimaru and Kitamaru, and put all his troops on Sannomaru and Suga Masatoshi.
Now that iron cannons have become extremely popular, each of Xiu's garrison team has 1 iron cannons, and the reserve team has 200 iron cannons. Four divisions can make up 100 iron cannons.
On the other hand, there are only 700 people in the city, and it is considered an elite division that can make up 100 iron cannons.
So many iron cannons formed a circle around the Sannomaru Castle in the mountains, and under the cover of bamboo beams and wooden tunnels, they attacked every inch of the city with firepower.
In addition, bow hunting was heavily trained in Toyoharu's house. The members of the reserve team may not have mandatory requirements, but the defense team was organized according to the direct-administered reserve team when Hideo Kichibi was in the past. Longbow training was a key subject every ten days.
Thousands of longbows were stringed at the same time, and with the order of their chief, they poured flaming arrow feathers into the city at the same time.
Under the cover of his own long-range firepower, Naito Shinhiro was eager to use Zhangzibori outside the city to block the enemy, and the plan to use iron cannons, bows and arrows in the city to kill was even more impossible to implement.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Accompanied by the sound of the striker holding the log hitting the city gate every time, it was as if the knocking of the god of death resounded on the top of the city in the mountain.
Accompanied by "crack~ bang!" Sannomaru's crown wooden gate was hit directly, and the samurai in the vanguard shouted loudly with a spear in his hand, "Entry No. 1 is Izumi Sakai, 2rd Battalion, 1st Battalion, [-]nd Squad, Kamizou Garrison All my colleagues have followed me into the city to make contributions!"
"Hey~ho!" The members of the garrison team who had been unable to restrain themselves at the gate of the city for a long time shouted in response, and under the leadership of their superior warriors, armed with spears and golden sticks, they rushed into the city to fight with the Tokugawa defenders in the city.
Yamanaka Castle had been guarded for one day before, but now facing the offensive of Toyoharu's family, the city was broken in half a day. More than 1 defenders in the city were killed in battle, and more than 500 people under the guard Naito Nobuhiro were captured.
Don't look at this person with Naito's Miao characters on his head, and think he is a small shrimp from the Tokugawa family. His father Naito Nobushiro is the bastard son of Matsudaira Hirotada and the half-brother of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Naito Nobuhiro was from Tokugawa Ieyasu's valet .
If it weren't for such an identity, Torii Mototada would not be so polite to him. After Naito Shinhiro refuted repeated requests to withdraw troops, Torii Mototada would not dare to be angry.
In fact, Naito Nobuhiro has the ability.It is enough to see that he is a thoughtful person by arranging suspicious soldiers with straw men and common people to confuse the Xiu family.
But even if his strategy is successful, these 1000 people will become a lone army, and will be eaten by Masatoshi Suga's 12th formation in the end.Therefore, Torii Motochu's request to withdraw his troops is completely reasonable.
Since the Hide family put the main force of the Toyoharu family in the main army of the South Road when they were formed twice in Fukushima and Toyoharu, the other daimyos who accompanied them to the south were Hideyuki Gamo, Yoshishige Satake, Hidemasa Nakagawa, Kane Ukita and Ashikaga Yoshishi and other daimyo.
None of these big names dared to express different opinions on the Xiu family's administration, so the arrangement of the army was very smooth.
However, the competition for the position of the pioneer general is still fierce. The 13-year-old Ashikaga family, under the encouragement of the elders, said on the spot that the Ashikaga mobilized 10 people in 5000 shi in Sagami, and the mobilization ratio was 1 people out of 500 shi. Absolute extreme mobilization.
In addition, the Ashikaga family also stated that they used the name and money of the Ashikaga family to mobilize more than 800 ronin warriors from surrounding countries. The total strength of the Ashikaga family exceeded 6000. It is more than enough to open the way and build a stronghold.
From the arrangements of the Ashikaga family, it can be seen that this child is really hardworking and desperately wants to show himself in front of the Xiu family.
Now that everyone has worked so hard, Xiujia naturally entrusted him with the mission of being a vanguard general.
So the array is sorted as follows:
The first battle: 6000 soldiers from the Ashikaga family Sagami Ashikaga;
The second team: Sanada Nobushige Ueno Chibei (Standing), Saitama Defense 1st Division, Ibaraki Reserve 2nd Division 5200 people
The third formation: Togawa Tatsuan's Changlu Bing garrison 1st division, Hitachi's 1st and 2nd divisions 4500 people;
The fourth team: 1000 members of Ukita’s house including Toyotomi Shigee, Ukita’s family, and Kamei Tomoko, and 5800 soldiers from Musashibi (standby), Ezo Hidakabe, and Ezo Tribal Soldiers;
Fifth formation: Satake Yoshishige Aizu Satake soldiers 9300 people;
Sixth Formation: Nakagawa Hidemasa has 4600 soldiers from the Nakagawa clan, 700 soldiers from Sankei Tagaya, and 5300 soldiers from the Oda clan;
In the seventh formation, there were 1600 people in Qiushang Jiujia Rigao, 1000 people in Matsumae, 800 people in Ishikari, and 3850 barbarians from the Eastern Ezo tribe.A total of 7250 people;
The eighth formation (main formation): 300 cavalry from Toyotomi Hideiya's near-side entourage, 1600 cavalry from the banner group, 2 from the 1600nd Gohonban, 1 from the 1500st Edo Garrison, 1500 from Shimono Bei (Standby), Shimono 1 people in the 1600st garrison, 1500 people in the Ibaraki standby (standby), 8100 people in total
The Eighth Formation (main formation) Other affiliations: Tachihara Hisakuna, Tachihara Nobuhisa, etc. Ezo Jurchen Yu 1200 cavalry, Ezo heavy armor 2100 people, firearms 4th Battalion 2000 people, 800 people directly under the Iron Artillery Brigade, the first under the General Reserve , 3000 people in the second round, a total of 9100 people.
In the Ninth Formation, there are 3000 Longevity Army of Osafune Tsunaonao Ezo Governor-General’s Mansion, 1300 brave soldiers, 2360 barbarians from the Western Ezo tribe, and a total of 6660 people;
第十阵（辎重）香川景则、香西资淳、长船定行武藏守备第1、2番，上总守备第1番，武藏预备第3、4番，茨城预备第1、3番，茨城守备第1、2番合计 13500人；
No.11阵（辎重）土居清良、颕娃久虎琦玉守备第3番，琦玉预备3、4番，上总预备1、2番，下野预备1、2番，总计11000人。
No.12阵（后诘）菅正利、延原秀正、宇喜多宗胜、常陆备（常备）、上总备（常备）、上总守备第2番、下总守备第1、2藩、常陆守备第2番、下总预备第3、4番，下野预备第3、4藩，总兵力17000人。
Outsider: Takeda Hidenobu Kai Takeda has 2800 people.
In summary, the total strength of the South Route Army is 11.
The vanguard was served by the Ashikaga family soldiers, but Hideka was afraid that his troops would be insufficient, so he additionally arranged Ueno Akabi and fierce general Sanada Nobushige in the second formation to support at any time.
The third and fourth formations are mainly used as support for the first two formations, and the fifth and sixth formations are the names of foreign domains, ranking them after the vanguard and before the main formation.
In this way, they can make full use of their strength, and the Xiu family's main formation is behind them, so they can calmly monitor them.
Xiujia's main formation only has 9100 people from the eighth formation on the table. As for the [eighth formation (main formation) other affiliation] on the top of the formation, it only exists in the formation in Xiujia's own mind. It doesn't jump off the page.
These troops are all the treasures of the Xiu family, and they are to be used at critical moments.
The eighth and ninth formations are the main reserve teams on the battlefield. So far, the main combat force has a total of 6.6 people. From the 11th formation, most of them are garrison and reserve corps, responsible for the transportation and care of the luggage, and are the general reserve team.
Among them, the 12th formation has the most troops, and the Xiu family has arranged two standing guards and multiple defensive presences. It is the strongest in appearance among the formations.
The reason why they are listed in the back formation is that they are responsible for supporting the Xiu family's rear formation, and secondly, they can directly use the No.12 formation as a ranger to form an army alone at special times.
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In July of the 8th year of Qingcho (1603), the army that had been stationed in Kamakura for many days was reorganized, and the vanguard general was handed over to the Ashikaga family.
The No.12 Ranger Team was used by Hideo as a suspicious soldier at the beginning of its development, and its unit was directly arranged by Hideo to go out of the Hakone Cave formation to confuse the main force of Tokugawa in Izumizu Castle by the Kakita River in the east of the Suruga River. , And sent troops to garrison the mountain castle on the west side of Hakone Dao.
The Ashikaga Corps, which is actually in charge of the Vanguard Corps Road, will head south to the detoured Gotemba area.
The real development of the Gotemba area will go to the Meiji area, especially the Jiugao River and Aisawa River Gorge areas that are connected to Sagami.
At present, it is still a place with high mountains, dense forests and inaccessible people. Tokaido Street still communicates with Sagami and Suruga through Hakone Dao.
But after going through the later development, people discovered that the altitude of Gotemba is a bit higher, but this path is much gentler than Hakone, and there are no steep canyons on both sides of the road, and it is more time for large-scale troops to travel.
So much so that in the Meiji period when building roads through mountains was still underdeveloped, this road passing through the foot of Mount Fuji gradually replaced the Hakone Mountain Road that needed to climb mountains and became the main road connecting movement and west Japan.
The Xiu family has a force of 11 people, and there are also heavy equipment such as artillery, horses, and luggage. It is very unrealistic to go over the mountains and mountains in Hakone. This is why the Xiu family let the Ashikaga family The plan to climb over the mountain and enter Suruga.
As mentioned above, this road now only exists in the mouths of herbal pickers and mountain people.But there are many Fumo members in the Xiujia Ninja Army, and they have figured out this path long ago.
This time going to Luo, the Hide family naturally sent guides to the Ashikaga formation. All the Ashikaga family needs to do is to clear the way for the army, cut down trees, build bridges, and open up a road that is enough for the trains to travel.
At the same time, Hideka dispatched Nakagawa Hidemasa's sixth team to cooperate with Akikami Hisa's troops from Sagami along Manazuru Street all the way south, and launched a strategy against Izu along the coastline.
In order to cooperate with them, the Edo navy, the Sagami navy, and the Sobosui army led by the Nakagawa family will all join them, and will be responsible for the raid on the coast of Izu, and gradually attack the troops led by the Tokugawa family. The river army chose the opportunity to fight.
The Hide family's gathering of 20 troops (imaginary number) in Sagami naturally cannot escape the detection of the Tokugawa family. So many soldiers Chen Bing in the east of the Suruga River undoubtedly put great pressure on the Tokugawa family.
Since Tokugawa Ieyasu withdrew from Sagami, he began to build the Higashi Suruga line of defense, successively built Kambara Castle, Xingguo Temple Castle, and newly built Shirao Mountain Castle, Matsuoka Castle, Binai Castle, Izumito Castle and other cities.
The purpose is to rely on the long and narrow Suruga line to gradually consume the vitality of the Toyoharu family and delay the pace of the Hide family's going to Luo.
In fact, the construction of many of these castles violated the "Order of Abandoned Castles" issued by Hideyoshi.But Tokugawa Ieyasu is an old writer, and Hideji and Chacha turned a blind eye, letting him build a copper wall and an iron wall in Higashi Suruga.
In order to deal with Hideka, Tokugawa Hidetada stationed at the forefront of Izumito Castle is Torii Motochu, a strong general of the Tokugawa family.
Just as in history, Tokugawa Ieyasu sent him to garrison the famous city of Fushimi to hold back the pace of the Western Army's eastward advance.Tokugawa Ieyasu once again handed over the frontline and most arduous tasks to his hands this time.
Torii Mototada naturally knows that it is idiotic to rely on the 4000 people in his own hands to become the leader of the Toyoharu family. Shangluo's pace is a dream, but in his plan, he only needs to be able to hold the Xiu family for one month. You're done.
In order to cope with the arrival of the Xiu family, on the basis of the original Quantou City, he built additional soil on the northeast and southeast sides to build two out-maru, and temporarily increased the number of wooden scull towers in the city.
Tokugawa Hidetada had basically given up on the lonely Izu in order to deal with Hideka's mighty army, but the elder Yasumasa Sakakibara said that "Izu may become an important area to counterattack the Toyoharu family or block its military supplies."
At the insistence of Sakakibara Yasumasa, Tokugawa Hidetada sent 2000 people, Matsudaira Yasushige and Ishikawa Tadaka, to garrison Shimoda Castle in southern Izu.
Nirayama Castle, the main city of Izu in the central plain of Izu, has been abandoned because it is not conducive to defense and concealment. It exists only as a support city for Torii Motochu. There are 1200 people led by Toda Tunji stationed in the city.
At the beginning of the war, the progress was very slow, and Hideka's main camp was still stationed in Fujisawa Castle.One is to wait for the soldiers from the north to go south one after another to replenish, and the other is to cover for the Ashikaga family to open up the Gotemba road.
Hideka is actually very anxious, because he has already received news that the three cities of Okayama Castle, Fushimi Castle, and Otsu Castle are surrounded. Every time Hideka wastes a day here, those samurai who sacrificed their lives for Hideka's great cause will be made They lost a little confidence.
But war is so cruel. In order to achieve the best results, trade-offs must often be made.
The person in charge of the siege of Yamanaka Castle was General Houjie, the captain of the 1st Battalion of the Shimoso Garrison, Mase Yongki. He was a samurai from Bizen. The army was promoted to the captain of the garrison.
The defense only has 200 iron cannons for a team, but it is enough to face a small mountain city.This Tokugawa city, which is far ahead of the line of defense, is the front line of defending the Hideka.
Mountain Castle is actually not a small town, but there are only 1000 defenders in the city, which is already the limit that Torii Motochu can mobilize.
You must know that in the previous Hojo crusade, the Hojo clan could station a full 4000 people in the mountain castle, and the old man Matsuda Yasunaga was in charge.
In order to pull out the castle and allow Toyotomi's army to enter Sagami smoothly, the Yamanaka Castle Attack Corps was formed with a total of 68000 people!Among them, the general in charge is Toyotomi Hideji.
It was also because of the reputation of the mountain castle outside, and the fact that the guard Naito Nobuhiro deployed suspicious soldiers, making Hideka think that there were 3000 people stationed in the city, Hideka gave up learning Toyotomi Hideji's routine of storming the mountain castle.
Although Toyotomi Hideji did not hesitate to lose his troops in the battle, Yamanaka Castle fell in one day, but the battle damaged the daimyo Ichiyanagi and he was reprimanded by Hideyoshi.
Xiujia knew that there were still many cruel battles ahead, so he didn't want to lose too much troops and morale in a small frontline town, so he came up with a plan to attack.
However, after the sit-in battle entered the fifth day, Torii Motochu may have felt that Yamanaka Castle was too far away from Izuntou Castle, so he chose to transfer 5 people from here to Fangquantou Castle.
This number is very strange, and Xiujia is keenly aware of the problems in the number.
Because if it is really meaningless to withdraw troops to defend 300 people, it is very likely that Torii Mototada asked Naito Nobuhiro to withdraw troops, but Naito Nobuhiro was unwilling, and finally only withdrew 300 people.
After sending people to investigate Yamanaka Castle again and confirming that there were only 700 people in the city, the Hide family had no time to notify the Ashikaga family who were originally scheduled to be the vanguard, so they could only order Masatoshi Suga to change from a feint attack to a main attack, and strive to go down Yamanaka Castle as soon as possible.
Xiang's mountain castle is different from the previous period of the Hojo family. During the Hojo family period, the city was just an earthen city. Although there were three main city walls and two extra prominent city walls, Nishimaru and Kitamaru, they were still defeated by the Toyotomi army with sufficient troops. Forcibly break through the city from all directions.
As a feint before, Suga Masari only sent a defense team up to play with them.
Now that the Xiu family has issued an order to storm the mountain castle, Masatoshi Suga re-deploys 2 divisions below the total garrison as the main offensive and cooperates with the other 2 reserve teams with a total of more than 6500 people to launch a storm against the mountain castle with only 700 people garrisoned.
As mentioned earlier, the mountain castle is not a small city. At the beginning of the battle of Odawara in history, 4000 defenders could be stationed in this castle.Now the size of the city has not changed, and the number of defenders has been reduced to 700, which is not enough to deploy all areas.
So Naito Shinhiro had to abandon Nishimaru and Kitamaru, and put all his troops on Sannomaru and Suga Masatoshi.
Now that iron cannons have become extremely popular, each of Xiu's garrison team has 1 iron cannons, and the reserve team has 200 iron cannons. Four divisions can make up 100 iron cannons.
On the other hand, there are only 700 people in the city, and it is considered an elite division that can make up 100 iron cannons.
So many iron cannons formed a circle around the Sannomaru Castle in the mountains, and under the cover of bamboo beams and wooden tunnels, they attacked every inch of the city with firepower.
In addition, bow hunting was heavily trained in Toyoharu's house. The members of the reserve team may not have mandatory requirements, but the defense team was organized according to the direct-administered reserve team when Hideo Kichibi was in the past. Longbow training was a key subject every ten days.
Thousands of longbows were stringed at the same time, and with the order of their chief, they poured flaming arrow feathers into the city at the same time.
Under the cover of his own long-range firepower, Naito Shinhiro was eager to use Zhangzibori outside the city to block the enemy, and the plan to use iron cannons, bows and arrows in the city to kill was even more impossible to implement.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Accompanied by the sound of the striker holding the log hitting the city gate every time, it was as if the knocking of the god of death resounded on the top of the city in the mountain.
Accompanied by "crack~ bang!" Sannomaru's crown wooden gate was hit directly, and the samurai in the vanguard shouted loudly with a spear in his hand, "Entry No. 1 is Izumi Sakai, 2rd Battalion, 1st Battalion, [-]nd Squad, Kamizou Garrison All my colleagues have followed me into the city to make contributions!"
"Hey~ho!" The members of the garrison team who had been unable to restrain themselves at the gate of the city for a long time shouted in response, and under the leadership of their superior warriors, armed with spears and golden sticks, they rushed into the city to fight with the Tokugawa defenders in the city.
Yamanaka Castle had been guarded for one day before, but now facing the offensive of Toyoharu's family, the city was broken in half a day. More than 1 defenders in the city were killed in battle, and more than 500 people under the guard Naito Nobuhiro were captured.
Don't look at this person with Naito's Miao characters on his head, and think he is a small shrimp from the Tokugawa family. His father Naito Nobushiro is the bastard son of Matsudaira Hirotada and the half-brother of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Naito Nobuhiro was from Tokugawa Ieyasu's valet .
If it weren't for such an identity, Torii Mototada would not be so polite to him. After Naito Shinhiro refuted repeated requests to withdraw troops, Torii Mototada would not dare to be angry.
In fact, Naito Nobuhiro has the ability.It is enough to see that he is a thoughtful person by arranging suspicious soldiers with straw men and common people to confuse the Xiu family.
But even if his strategy is successful, these 1000 people will become a lone army, and will be eaten by Masatoshi Suga's 12th formation in the end.Therefore, Torii Motochu's request to withdraw his troops is completely reasonable.