Chapter 800
Chapter 800
Chapter 800 East-West War ([-]) Suruga Decisive Battle ([-])
Sakakihara Komasa was still unwilling to go out from the bottom of his heart, but he couldn't hold back Tokugawa Hidetada's insistence.
But don't forget that Sakakibara Yasomasa personally experienced the Battle of Mikatahara in the 3rd year of Yuanji (1573). At that time, Tokugawa Ieyasu was defeated by Takeda Shingen in the wild because of his rash attack to pursue Takeda Shingen.
So even though he agreed to Tokugawa Hidetada's request to leave the city, Sakakibara Yasumasa still insisted on sending out spies as much as possible to investigate the enemies ahead, and he must not advance rashly, so as not to end in Mikatahara's disastrous defeat.
Just at this time, the situation of the Xiu family's military discussion that day finally spread to Junfu City after a few days.In the military meeting that night, Hideka firmly stated here that "Major General Tokugawa dare not go out of the city to pursue, and Sakakibara Shikibu will not go out of the city to pursue."And the reaction of the samurai and soldiers after the military discussion.
It was this information that made Sakakihara Komasa finally agree to Tokugawa Hidetada's order to send troops.
After hearing this, Tokugawa Hidetada said excitedly, "The army of Youfu is divided, and the soldiers are at odds. And our way forward has been decided. Now is a good opportunity to make a final decision and make a contribution!"
After finishing speaking, he still didn't forget to make up his sword and said, "I want to show You Fu, whether I, Tokugawa Hidetada, dare to do it!"
Even Yasumasa Sakakibara was a little excited when he heard the news, and said: "I'm afraid the Youfu has gotten carried away with the war for many years, and I will let him see if I, Yasumasa Sakakibara, will chase me out today!"
In order to defeat Hideya Tokugawa Hidetada, the entire Shunfu was emptied. The army of 3 people became monks from Shunfu, and moved slowly under the guidance of Sakakibara Yasumasa, fearing that they would be ambushed by the Hideka.
The short distance from Junfu to Maruko Castle was stunned by the Tokugawa army for a day, but when they arrived at Maruko Castle, they found that the Hide family had only 500 people stationed in the city, and the Tokugawa army attacked under the command of Sakakibara 1 hour, take it down before sunset.
Tokugawa Hidetada, who took Maruko Castle, was in a good mood, because the location of the city was very good, it was an important pass that cut off the Nishi Suruga Fujieda Plain and the Suppu Plain, and taking this city was equivalent to having a retreat for himself.
"There was news from the Yihe people. Masazu Honda finally received the news of the attack from the Ufu, and began to prepare the defense of Hamamatsu. He also recruited a group of troops to garrison Zouwahara Castle. So far, the Ufu They are still besieging Zouwangyuan City, and there are only about 2 soldiers around."
Hearing the situation reported by the vassals, Tokugawa Hidetada nodded in satisfaction and said, "It's less than we expected, and the forces of the Youfu have been exhausted. After he storms Kakegawa again, he will go to besiege Hamamatsu. There will be 1 troops around him." Everyone is a problem."
Sakakibara Yasumasa also suggested to Tokugawa Hidetada: "You can write to His Highness Matsudaira Yasumoto, who is staying behind in Mikawa, and ask him to lead 8000 Mikawa soldiers to support Yuanjiang. So far, our army has nearly 5 troops, which is better than that."
His proposal was quickly approved by Tokugawa Hidetada. After Tokugawa Hidetada wrote a letter, Sakakibara Komasa joined hands with the monogram, and the ninja sent it to Mikawa Okazaki Castle.
Tokugawa Hidetada, who rested at Maruko Castle overnight, led his troops to continue the journey, crossed the Utsu Valley and came to the Fujieda Plain to the west of Sunfu. There is a famous city called Hanakura Castle, and the Hanakura Rebellion in the history of the Imagawa family took place. Here, but at the moment the city has been abandoned.
"Shaodian, the Youfu has conquered Zouwang City late yesterday, and its main force continues to move westward to Wangkechuan!"
This is the information sent early this morning, and it is also this information that gave Tokugawa Hidetada the confidence to continue to chase after him. After all, he was afraid that if he bit too hard, he would be killed by the Xiu family.Before he had an absolute advantage in troops, he still didn't dare to fight the Xiu family.
Starting from Maruko Castle and crossing the Utsu Valley, all Tokugawa Hidetada saw was a scene of ruins.Now it is clearly August, which is the time to prepare for the autumn harvest, but the fields on both sides of the road that should have been fruitful have already been harvested, the nearby villages have been burned, and the villagers have been kidnapped and disappeared.
These are the people of Yuanjiang. They have been with the Tokugawa family for 30 years. The entire Tokugawa family has regarded them as their servants.
The army was full of grievances, and they asked Tokugawa Hidetada to fight one after another, wanting to speed up the pursuit of Fengchun's army, so as to make that "snake-skinned Youfu" look good.In the entire team, only Yasumasa Sakakihara was worried, but he couldn't find out where the problem was.
The army continued to march, and when it was not far outside Tanaka Castle, Tokugawa Hidetada received another piece of information, "There are only 3000 remnants in the city, and the guards have just over [-] healthy soldiers, and the rest are wounded."
Tokugawa Hidetada, who heard the news, began to encourage the soldiers: "The whole army is speeding up. Today, Tian Zhongcheng will be destroyed, and the Youfu will be completely blocked in Yuanjiang. Fame and fortune are in sight, and the revenge of the people in Yuanjiang will be restored immediately. Erlang Follow me to make meritorious deeds!"
Unlike Tokugawa Hidetada and others who were excited, Sakakihara Komasa frowned even more. He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't find the blind spot.
It wasn't until Tokugawa Hidetada led people to surround Tanaka Castle, and Sakakihara Komasa led people to inspect the defense of Tanaka Castle, that he finally discovered the problem.
Tanaka Castle is a flat castle built on a plain, and it is not expanded like Zentokuji Castle and Izuzuzu Castle in Suruga. Except for Honmaru, most of the main body is an earthen wall and wooden screen castle pool, and The ditches in the periphery are all earthen boroughs, neither wide nor deep.
The existence of Tanaka Castle is only because he is located beside the Tokaido for the benefit of commerce, and it has no meaning of defending at all.In other words, compared to the precipitous mountains of Maruko City, it would be more appropriate to garrison large troops in Maruko City if you want to block the Junfu's soldiers attacking from behind!
If you want to say that the Xiu family is desperate to fight Hamamatsu, it's fine, but no matter how stupid an idiot is, he knows how to take care of his back.Like the current Youfu, leading people to rush to Hamamatsu without hesitation, even if he finally gets Hamamatsu Castle, wouldn't he become a lone army surrounded?
If you regard all these as unreasonable questions, it will be even more puzzling to look at the 3000 people stationed in this Tanaka city.The Tokugawa army regarded these wounded soldiers as military merits, but no matter how they looked at them, they felt that these people were like bait!
The more he thought about it, the more wrong Sakakibara Komasa found Tokugawa Hidetada late at night and reported it, but Tokugawa Hidetada didn't take it seriously. He only thought that Sakakibara Komasa had so much fear of the Hide family that he had so many concerns.
"Shikibu should go back and rest well, and he will command the siege tomorrow."
Now Tokugawa Hidetada is extremely excited, he has even seen Hideo lying down in front of him begging for mercy.The rigidity of human thinking makes it difficult for him to understand the logic of Sakakibara Yasumasa, and in addition to the darkness of the night, he opened his mouth to signal Sakakibara Yasumasa to leave.
But in fact, Sakakibara Komasa's ominous premonition was true. In the north of Tanaka Castle, there were giggling sounds in the ruins of Hanakura Castle that had been abandoned long ago.
Only a few torches were lit throughout the ruins, and most of the mountain was still immersed in darkness.But at this moment, on this black mountain, there were a few bright lights of ignition shuttled among the crowd, handing the rice balls and a bowl of hot tea in the pot behind them to the hands of each soldier.
"Hurry up and eat, there won't be any Conch later. Everyone obeys the orders of their chief officer." A young samurai in the lead was conveying Hideka's orders to every soldier who received the rice balls.
At the same time, within the temporary curtain built on Huacang Mountain, the Xiu family, who had already put on his armor and was sitting upright, was anxiously considering the prayer beads in his hand.
Although he didn't believe this, these small actions could indeed calm his heart down a little at this time.
On his left and right are the generals who have been guarding here since yesterday. They hurriedly picked up the rice balls in their hands, while on the other side they nervously waited for orders from the Xiu family, while the Xiu family waited for news from the east and west.
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Turning the time back to before the 4th, the Xiu family suddenly summoned the generals at night to discuss a military meeting. The generals originally intended to plan an ordinary meeting to attack the city tomorrow, but the Xiu family announced at the military meeting that all formations must prepare their troops The situation, the order to break out of the camp early tomorrow morning and continue westward to Shangluo.
The Xiu family's outrageous order finally aroused the dissatisfaction of the generals.
They were puzzled by the Xiu family's order to leave a part of the army, how many people are left with the 11 people who went out?The military strength in Junfu City is comparable to his own!Even if your Xiu family hangs up again, you shouldn't be so reckless, aren't you afraid that Tokugawa Hidetada will go out of the city and stab your ass?
In fact, everyone didn't dare to refute Xiu's order openly, after all, the current team has been purified.The big names outside such as Nakagawa Hidemasa, Tagaya Hidetsuke, and Satake Yoshishige have not followed to this point. Most of the people who follow the Hide family at this moment are the Hide family's retainers.
Even Ukita's family and the Ashikaga family are inextricably linked with the Hide family. They don't understand the Hide family's orders, but they trust the Hide family's ability to command. At most, it is another retainer who complains in private. It's just an order from the Xiu family.
But before the enemy army in the city was only about 2000 people, this time it was different, there were 3 thousand enemies in Junfu City.No one would be at ease with such a big main force staring at his back.
Not to mention the Ukita Kane family and the Ashikaga family, even Tatsuya Togawa, the elder of the Hide family, couldn't resist asking the Hide family to confirm the order again.At the same time, Xiujia announced his plan to "surprise Hamamatsu" to them.
"A surprise attack on Hamamatsu?"
When they heard about this plan, everyone was at a loss. After all, this plan had never been disclosed by Hideo before, and it only existed in the private explanation between Hideo and Yoshishige Satake.
At that time and now when the plan was announced, everyone looked at Xiujia in disbelief, how dare he announce such a risky plan!
"My lord, with all due respect, this strategy may really have a miraculous effect, but the risk is indeed not small, so we should think twice before taking action. Not to mention that there are 3 enemy troops in Junfu City, how many people do we need to keep?" How about staying with them?"
It was Kamei Tomoki who spoke, and he was one of the elders in the front row. Even he couldn't help but question the order of the Xiu family directly. It can be seen that the army has begun to distrust the Xiu family.
However, Xiujia's reply to him was: "How many times do I have to say, even if we all withdraw, Major General Tokugawa will not dare to chase out! I will not leave a single soldier in Junfu Castle. Let's go to Luoyang together tomorrow."
"What!" Hearing the order not to leave anyone, the shogunate exploded, and Tatsuya Togawa asked anxiously again, "Major General Tokugawa will not, but beside him is Sakakibara Shiki, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Tokugawa." The Ministry is here!"
But Hideka firmly said: "Major General Tokugawa dare not, and Shikibu Sakakibara will not. My order has been issued, and everything will be acted according to my order. Next, we will start to arrange specific military discussions."
"Tomorrow, Matsuhachiro (Ashikashi's family) will still be the vanguard, paving the way for the whole army to attack the city. The specific situation of Maruko Castle, Tanaka Castle and other cities along the way will be explained in detail when you stay."
The Xiu family's first order was issued. Although he didn't understand the order of the Xiu family, his son Shi, who absolutely obeyed the order of the Xiu family, stood up and answered, "Yes, father."
When he returned to his seat, Hideka said, "Genjiro will act together with Major General Ashikaga tomorrow, but you are not going to attack the city, you are responsible for sweeping up the villages on both sides of the Oi River, searching for food in their villages, and coercing the obedient villagers to join us." Shangluo, you must deal with those who disobey decisively."
Nobushige Sanada's mission is very important, and he is the most trustworthy and stable general of the Hideka right now.But when they arrived, Xiu's family was still a little worried about him, and told him, "You can stay here later."
After saying that, he announced the order and called everyone to leave.Everyone felt relieved at the moment, after all, they could finally confide in each other's doubts after leaving the Xiu family, but it was still somewhat difficult to accept the order to the Xiu family in their hearts.
After everyone had left, the Hideo family and Hisawa Takato explained the main points of the two cities' siege to the Ashikaga family and several of his elders respectively.The most important point is to "break through the city as quickly as possible."
However, there is a difference between the two cities. Maruko City was required to destroy the city defense as much as possible after breaking the city, but Tanaka City was required to preserve the city defense structure as much as possible. As for the reason, Hideka still did not explain.
After a few people had left, only Hideie, Hisawa Kutora, and Nobushige Sanada remained in the shogunate.
He was about to wait for Xiujia to explain to him why he gave the desperate order to sweep up.But Xiujia's answer surprised him even more, and he only heard Xiujia order to Nobushige Sanada, "I know you have your own bottom line, and you may not be able to let go of many things, but this battle is related to the fate of the world, and you are absolutely not allowed Not the slightest mistake."
As soon as Nobushige Sanada heard Hideka's seriousness, he immediately sat upright and waited for Hideka's speech, "My lord, just give the order."
"Clean both sides of the Dajing River, be sure to do it quickly and cleanly. Any people who don't want to be taken away must be slaughtered in the village, no matter how old or young they are."
"Regardless of age?" Sanada Nobushige looked at the horse seal with the word "仁" on the back of Hideka's main formation, and confirmed it to Hideka in disbelief.
However, the answer I received was indeed Xiujia's categorical statement, "It doesn't matter whether you are young or old."
Hideka's order was against the bushido of Sanada Nobushige, but he had always been loyal to Hideya's order, so he was very entangled at the moment, but fortunately Hideya quickly explained to him.
"After scanning, you hand over those people to Fu Shijuro (Toyotomi Shigee), and he will be responsible for escorting them. As for you," Hideka paused for a moment, pointed at Nobushige Sanada and said, "You only take A total of 1 people from the Akabi and Saitama garrison 3700st clan headed to the upper reaches of the Oi River to stay. The 2nd squadron of the Ibaraki garrison was handed over to Togawa Tatsuyasu to command."
"Your Highness?"
After hearing this, Nobushige Sanada finally confirmed that Hideka really had a big plan, his eyes seemed to shine, waiting for Hideka's next order.
"This is the purpose of letting you clear the people on both sides of the Oi River before. If you have good intentions and you slip through the net, not only will the 3700 people in your department be buried with you, but even I will be defeated by you! Lin abandons his personal feelings this time and must strictly follow the order." Hideka's order this time was very formal, and even the name of Sanada Nobushige changed.
Until now, Nobushige Sanada finally realized something was wrong.Reminiscent of when the retainers were excited just now, Yingwa Jiuhu, who was the military adviser of the Xiu family and the envoy of the Privy Council, remained silent.
At first, Nobushige Sanada thought that it was Yuwa Hisutora who had self-restraint and wouldn't ask questions in front of Hideka, but now looking back at his expression, didn't he expect this?
"Yuwa Hyogo knew this trick earlier?" He finally couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart, and mentioned it to Yingwa Jiuhu.
Jiwa Jiuhuo looked at Nobushige Sanada, then glanced at Hideka, and replied to Nobushige Sanada after seeing Hideka nodding, "My lord already had a preliminary plan when I was in Sagami. Every step, The number of people staying in each city and the number of people in the final decisive battle are all calculated and verified by the two of us."
Nobushige Sanada was keenly aware of the brilliance in the words of Yuwa Jiuhuo, and he asked in surprise, "Wait a minute, the decisive battle? The enemy army in Osaka is coming so soon?"
This time it was Xiu's turn to reply to him, "I don't even know where the reinforcements in Osaka are. You all said that you have to wipe your butt clean before you can go to Luo with peace of mind. Am I just about to wipe my butt?"
(End of this chapter)
Sakakihara Komasa was still unwilling to go out from the bottom of his heart, but he couldn't hold back Tokugawa Hidetada's insistence.
But don't forget that Sakakibara Yasomasa personally experienced the Battle of Mikatahara in the 3rd year of Yuanji (1573). At that time, Tokugawa Ieyasu was defeated by Takeda Shingen in the wild because of his rash attack to pursue Takeda Shingen.
So even though he agreed to Tokugawa Hidetada's request to leave the city, Sakakibara Yasumasa still insisted on sending out spies as much as possible to investigate the enemies ahead, and he must not advance rashly, so as not to end in Mikatahara's disastrous defeat.
Just at this time, the situation of the Xiu family's military discussion that day finally spread to Junfu City after a few days.In the military meeting that night, Hideka firmly stated here that "Major General Tokugawa dare not go out of the city to pursue, and Sakakibara Shikibu will not go out of the city to pursue."And the reaction of the samurai and soldiers after the military discussion.
It was this information that made Sakakihara Komasa finally agree to Tokugawa Hidetada's order to send troops.
After hearing this, Tokugawa Hidetada said excitedly, "The army of Youfu is divided, and the soldiers are at odds. And our way forward has been decided. Now is a good opportunity to make a final decision and make a contribution!"
After finishing speaking, he still didn't forget to make up his sword and said, "I want to show You Fu, whether I, Tokugawa Hidetada, dare to do it!"
Even Yasumasa Sakakibara was a little excited when he heard the news, and said: "I'm afraid the Youfu has gotten carried away with the war for many years, and I will let him see if I, Yasumasa Sakakibara, will chase me out today!"
In order to defeat Hideya Tokugawa Hidetada, the entire Shunfu was emptied. The army of 3 people became monks from Shunfu, and moved slowly under the guidance of Sakakibara Yasumasa, fearing that they would be ambushed by the Hideka.
The short distance from Junfu to Maruko Castle was stunned by the Tokugawa army for a day, but when they arrived at Maruko Castle, they found that the Hide family had only 500 people stationed in the city, and the Tokugawa army attacked under the command of Sakakibara 1 hour, take it down before sunset.
Tokugawa Hidetada, who took Maruko Castle, was in a good mood, because the location of the city was very good, it was an important pass that cut off the Nishi Suruga Fujieda Plain and the Suppu Plain, and taking this city was equivalent to having a retreat for himself.
"There was news from the Yihe people. Masazu Honda finally received the news of the attack from the Ufu, and began to prepare the defense of Hamamatsu. He also recruited a group of troops to garrison Zouwahara Castle. So far, the Ufu They are still besieging Zouwangyuan City, and there are only about 2 soldiers around."
Hearing the situation reported by the vassals, Tokugawa Hidetada nodded in satisfaction and said, "It's less than we expected, and the forces of the Youfu have been exhausted. After he storms Kakegawa again, he will go to besiege Hamamatsu. There will be 1 troops around him." Everyone is a problem."
Sakakibara Yasumasa also suggested to Tokugawa Hidetada: "You can write to His Highness Matsudaira Yasumoto, who is staying behind in Mikawa, and ask him to lead 8000 Mikawa soldiers to support Yuanjiang. So far, our army has nearly 5 troops, which is better than that."
His proposal was quickly approved by Tokugawa Hidetada. After Tokugawa Hidetada wrote a letter, Sakakibara Komasa joined hands with the monogram, and the ninja sent it to Mikawa Okazaki Castle.
Tokugawa Hidetada, who rested at Maruko Castle overnight, led his troops to continue the journey, crossed the Utsu Valley and came to the Fujieda Plain to the west of Sunfu. There is a famous city called Hanakura Castle, and the Hanakura Rebellion in the history of the Imagawa family took place. Here, but at the moment the city has been abandoned.
"Shaodian, the Youfu has conquered Zouwang City late yesterday, and its main force continues to move westward to Wangkechuan!"
This is the information sent early this morning, and it is also this information that gave Tokugawa Hidetada the confidence to continue to chase after him. After all, he was afraid that if he bit too hard, he would be killed by the Xiu family.Before he had an absolute advantage in troops, he still didn't dare to fight the Xiu family.
Starting from Maruko Castle and crossing the Utsu Valley, all Tokugawa Hidetada saw was a scene of ruins.Now it is clearly August, which is the time to prepare for the autumn harvest, but the fields on both sides of the road that should have been fruitful have already been harvested, the nearby villages have been burned, and the villagers have been kidnapped and disappeared.
These are the people of Yuanjiang. They have been with the Tokugawa family for 30 years. The entire Tokugawa family has regarded them as their servants.
The army was full of grievances, and they asked Tokugawa Hidetada to fight one after another, wanting to speed up the pursuit of Fengchun's army, so as to make that "snake-skinned Youfu" look good.In the entire team, only Yasumasa Sakakihara was worried, but he couldn't find out where the problem was.
The army continued to march, and when it was not far outside Tanaka Castle, Tokugawa Hidetada received another piece of information, "There are only 3000 remnants in the city, and the guards have just over [-] healthy soldiers, and the rest are wounded."
Tokugawa Hidetada, who heard the news, began to encourage the soldiers: "The whole army is speeding up. Today, Tian Zhongcheng will be destroyed, and the Youfu will be completely blocked in Yuanjiang. Fame and fortune are in sight, and the revenge of the people in Yuanjiang will be restored immediately. Erlang Follow me to make meritorious deeds!"
Unlike Tokugawa Hidetada and others who were excited, Sakakihara Komasa frowned even more. He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't find the blind spot.
It wasn't until Tokugawa Hidetada led people to surround Tanaka Castle, and Sakakihara Komasa led people to inspect the defense of Tanaka Castle, that he finally discovered the problem.
Tanaka Castle is a flat castle built on a plain, and it is not expanded like Zentokuji Castle and Izuzuzu Castle in Suruga. Except for Honmaru, most of the main body is an earthen wall and wooden screen castle pool, and The ditches in the periphery are all earthen boroughs, neither wide nor deep.
The existence of Tanaka Castle is only because he is located beside the Tokaido for the benefit of commerce, and it has no meaning of defending at all.In other words, compared to the precipitous mountains of Maruko City, it would be more appropriate to garrison large troops in Maruko City if you want to block the Junfu's soldiers attacking from behind!
If you want to say that the Xiu family is desperate to fight Hamamatsu, it's fine, but no matter how stupid an idiot is, he knows how to take care of his back.Like the current Youfu, leading people to rush to Hamamatsu without hesitation, even if he finally gets Hamamatsu Castle, wouldn't he become a lone army surrounded?
If you regard all these as unreasonable questions, it will be even more puzzling to look at the 3000 people stationed in this Tanaka city.The Tokugawa army regarded these wounded soldiers as military merits, but no matter how they looked at them, they felt that these people were like bait!
The more he thought about it, the more wrong Sakakibara Komasa found Tokugawa Hidetada late at night and reported it, but Tokugawa Hidetada didn't take it seriously. He only thought that Sakakibara Komasa had so much fear of the Hide family that he had so many concerns.
"Shikibu should go back and rest well, and he will command the siege tomorrow."
Now Tokugawa Hidetada is extremely excited, he has even seen Hideo lying down in front of him begging for mercy.The rigidity of human thinking makes it difficult for him to understand the logic of Sakakibara Yasumasa, and in addition to the darkness of the night, he opened his mouth to signal Sakakibara Yasumasa to leave.
But in fact, Sakakibara Komasa's ominous premonition was true. In the north of Tanaka Castle, there were giggling sounds in the ruins of Hanakura Castle that had been abandoned long ago.
Only a few torches were lit throughout the ruins, and most of the mountain was still immersed in darkness.But at this moment, on this black mountain, there were a few bright lights of ignition shuttled among the crowd, handing the rice balls and a bowl of hot tea in the pot behind them to the hands of each soldier.
"Hurry up and eat, there won't be any Conch later. Everyone obeys the orders of their chief officer." A young samurai in the lead was conveying Hideka's orders to every soldier who received the rice balls.
At the same time, within the temporary curtain built on Huacang Mountain, the Xiu family, who had already put on his armor and was sitting upright, was anxiously considering the prayer beads in his hand.
Although he didn't believe this, these small actions could indeed calm his heart down a little at this time.
On his left and right are the generals who have been guarding here since yesterday. They hurriedly picked up the rice balls in their hands, while on the other side they nervously waited for orders from the Xiu family, while the Xiu family waited for news from the east and west.
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Turning the time back to before the 4th, the Xiu family suddenly summoned the generals at night to discuss a military meeting. The generals originally intended to plan an ordinary meeting to attack the city tomorrow, but the Xiu family announced at the military meeting that all formations must prepare their troops The situation, the order to break out of the camp early tomorrow morning and continue westward to Shangluo.
The Xiu family's outrageous order finally aroused the dissatisfaction of the generals.
They were puzzled by the Xiu family's order to leave a part of the army, how many people are left with the 11 people who went out?The military strength in Junfu City is comparable to his own!Even if your Xiu family hangs up again, you shouldn't be so reckless, aren't you afraid that Tokugawa Hidetada will go out of the city and stab your ass?
In fact, everyone didn't dare to refute Xiu's order openly, after all, the current team has been purified.The big names outside such as Nakagawa Hidemasa, Tagaya Hidetsuke, and Satake Yoshishige have not followed to this point. Most of the people who follow the Hide family at this moment are the Hide family's retainers.
Even Ukita's family and the Ashikaga family are inextricably linked with the Hide family. They don't understand the Hide family's orders, but they trust the Hide family's ability to command. At most, it is another retainer who complains in private. It's just an order from the Xiu family.
But before the enemy army in the city was only about 2000 people, this time it was different, there were 3 thousand enemies in Junfu City.No one would be at ease with such a big main force staring at his back.
Not to mention the Ukita Kane family and the Ashikaga family, even Tatsuya Togawa, the elder of the Hide family, couldn't resist asking the Hide family to confirm the order again.At the same time, Xiujia announced his plan to "surprise Hamamatsu" to them.
"A surprise attack on Hamamatsu?"
When they heard about this plan, everyone was at a loss. After all, this plan had never been disclosed by Hideo before, and it only existed in the private explanation between Hideo and Yoshishige Satake.
At that time and now when the plan was announced, everyone looked at Xiujia in disbelief, how dare he announce such a risky plan!
"My lord, with all due respect, this strategy may really have a miraculous effect, but the risk is indeed not small, so we should think twice before taking action. Not to mention that there are 3 enemy troops in Junfu City, how many people do we need to keep?" How about staying with them?"
It was Kamei Tomoki who spoke, and he was one of the elders in the front row. Even he couldn't help but question the order of the Xiu family directly. It can be seen that the army has begun to distrust the Xiu family.
However, Xiujia's reply to him was: "How many times do I have to say, even if we all withdraw, Major General Tokugawa will not dare to chase out! I will not leave a single soldier in Junfu Castle. Let's go to Luoyang together tomorrow."
"What!" Hearing the order not to leave anyone, the shogunate exploded, and Tatsuya Togawa asked anxiously again, "Major General Tokugawa will not, but beside him is Sakakibara Shiki, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Tokugawa." The Ministry is here!"
But Hideka firmly said: "Major General Tokugawa dare not, and Shikibu Sakakibara will not. My order has been issued, and everything will be acted according to my order. Next, we will start to arrange specific military discussions."
"Tomorrow, Matsuhachiro (Ashikashi's family) will still be the vanguard, paving the way for the whole army to attack the city. The specific situation of Maruko Castle, Tanaka Castle and other cities along the way will be explained in detail when you stay."
The Xiu family's first order was issued. Although he didn't understand the order of the Xiu family, his son Shi, who absolutely obeyed the order of the Xiu family, stood up and answered, "Yes, father."
When he returned to his seat, Hideka said, "Genjiro will act together with Major General Ashikaga tomorrow, but you are not going to attack the city, you are responsible for sweeping up the villages on both sides of the Oi River, searching for food in their villages, and coercing the obedient villagers to join us." Shangluo, you must deal with those who disobey decisively."
Nobushige Sanada's mission is very important, and he is the most trustworthy and stable general of the Hideka right now.But when they arrived, Xiu's family was still a little worried about him, and told him, "You can stay here later."
After saying that, he announced the order and called everyone to leave.Everyone felt relieved at the moment, after all, they could finally confide in each other's doubts after leaving the Xiu family, but it was still somewhat difficult to accept the order to the Xiu family in their hearts.
After everyone had left, the Hideo family and Hisawa Takato explained the main points of the two cities' siege to the Ashikaga family and several of his elders respectively.The most important point is to "break through the city as quickly as possible."
However, there is a difference between the two cities. Maruko City was required to destroy the city defense as much as possible after breaking the city, but Tanaka City was required to preserve the city defense structure as much as possible. As for the reason, Hideka still did not explain.
After a few people had left, only Hideie, Hisawa Kutora, and Nobushige Sanada remained in the shogunate.
He was about to wait for Xiujia to explain to him why he gave the desperate order to sweep up.But Xiujia's answer surprised him even more, and he only heard Xiujia order to Nobushige Sanada, "I know you have your own bottom line, and you may not be able to let go of many things, but this battle is related to the fate of the world, and you are absolutely not allowed Not the slightest mistake."
As soon as Nobushige Sanada heard Hideka's seriousness, he immediately sat upright and waited for Hideka's speech, "My lord, just give the order."
"Clean both sides of the Dajing River, be sure to do it quickly and cleanly. Any people who don't want to be taken away must be slaughtered in the village, no matter how old or young they are."
"Regardless of age?" Sanada Nobushige looked at the horse seal with the word "仁" on the back of Hideka's main formation, and confirmed it to Hideka in disbelief.
However, the answer I received was indeed Xiujia's categorical statement, "It doesn't matter whether you are young or old."
Hideka's order was against the bushido of Sanada Nobushige, but he had always been loyal to Hideya's order, so he was very entangled at the moment, but fortunately Hideya quickly explained to him.
"After scanning, you hand over those people to Fu Shijuro (Toyotomi Shigee), and he will be responsible for escorting them. As for you," Hideka paused for a moment, pointed at Nobushige Sanada and said, "You only take A total of 1 people from the Akabi and Saitama garrison 3700st clan headed to the upper reaches of the Oi River to stay. The 2nd squadron of the Ibaraki garrison was handed over to Togawa Tatsuyasu to command."
"Your Highness?"
After hearing this, Nobushige Sanada finally confirmed that Hideka really had a big plan, his eyes seemed to shine, waiting for Hideka's next order.
"This is the purpose of letting you clear the people on both sides of the Oi River before. If you have good intentions and you slip through the net, not only will the 3700 people in your department be buried with you, but even I will be defeated by you! Lin abandons his personal feelings this time and must strictly follow the order." Hideka's order this time was very formal, and even the name of Sanada Nobushige changed.
Until now, Nobushige Sanada finally realized something was wrong.Reminiscent of when the retainers were excited just now, Yingwa Jiuhu, who was the military adviser of the Xiu family and the envoy of the Privy Council, remained silent.
At first, Nobushige Sanada thought that it was Yuwa Hisutora who had self-restraint and wouldn't ask questions in front of Hideka, but now looking back at his expression, didn't he expect this?
"Yuwa Hyogo knew this trick earlier?" He finally couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart, and mentioned it to Yingwa Jiuhu.
Jiwa Jiuhuo looked at Nobushige Sanada, then glanced at Hideka, and replied to Nobushige Sanada after seeing Hideka nodding, "My lord already had a preliminary plan when I was in Sagami. Every step, The number of people staying in each city and the number of people in the final decisive battle are all calculated and verified by the two of us."
Nobushige Sanada was keenly aware of the brilliance in the words of Yuwa Jiuhuo, and he asked in surprise, "Wait a minute, the decisive battle? The enemy army in Osaka is coming so soon?"
This time it was Xiu's turn to reply to him, "I don't even know where the reinforcements in Osaka are. You all said that you have to wipe your butt clean before you can go to Luo with peace of mind. Am I just about to wipe my butt?"
(End of this chapter)