Regarding Mori Katsunaga and Sanada Yukimura, who was the first soldier of the Toyotomi family and the Tokugawa family in the decisive battle in the battle of Osaka, Liu 18 did not plan to delve into it.

He just needs to know that these two people were definitely brave and resourceful generals at that time.

Sanada Yukimura's fame may be due to having a good father, Sanada Masayuki.

Although the army led by Mori Katsunaga is outstanding, it is not worthy of Tokugawa Ieyasu's last comment: Sanada Yukimura is the first soldier in the world......

In real historical documents, the Battle of Osaka is the last glory of the Toyotomi family.

Among the ronin samurai who entered Osaka Castle, Mori Katsunaga was a retainer of the Toyotomi family.

This extraordinary status gave Mori Katsunaga a high status among the five people of Osaka Castle.

However, Mori Katsunaga was cautious and always remained modest, fighting silently until the last moment, like other generals.

Mori Katsunaga's status as a genealogy retainer is because his father is Mori Katsunobu, and his duty is to serve Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and finally become a retainer of Pudai.

Mori Katsunobu was an ordinary military general under the Great Demon King Oda Nobunaga at first, and then he was sent to Hideyoshi, who was still called Kinoshita Toyoshiro, as an entourage.

At that time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's status was still relatively low, just a low-level military general, and finally after Toyotomi Hideyoshi won the world, Mori Katsunobu was valued as Toyotomi Hideyoshi's poor retainer.

The status of the Mori family rose to the top, and finally won the 140,000 koku territory of Bunzen Kokura, and then the adult Mori Katsunaga was rewarded with 40,000 koku in Bunzen.

However, in the Battle of Sekigahara, where the Tokugawa and Toyotomi forces faced off, the Mori family chose to side with Ishida Mitsunari's eastern army in order to repay Toyotomi Hideyoshi's kindness.

It's a pity that in the Battle of Sekigahara, the Eastern Army was defeated!

After the defeat, the Maori father and son suffered a tragic thirteen-year exile to Kato Masaaki's territory.

At this point, the name Mori Katsunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's retainer Mori family were unknown......

Historically, the day that Mori Katsu became famous in the world was the same day that Sanada Yukimura became the last military commander!

On that day, five people from Toyotomi's side stood out for their bravery and skill!

But in the end, there are only two people who are the most famous and admired and worshiped by many people in later generations!

One is Sanada Yukimura and the other is Mori Katsunaga!

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On that day, the morning of May 7, 1615 in history!

In the Sengoku period, the Toyotomi family and the Tokugawa family were the last battle to determine the ownership of the world.

The largest number of participants and the largest field battle will be fought in the south of Osaka Castle, where the defense is weakest.

There is a huge disparity between the offensive and defensive forces:

To the north of the battlefield is the Toyotomi army led by the Five People!

Of these, there were only 4,000 people in the Mori Katsunaga Division, and 3,500 in the Sanada Yukimura Division......

Together with the Toyotomi garrison of the rest of the generals' retainers, the total strength of the Osaka Castle side was only 40,000!

On the southern side of Osaka, the siege of Tokugawa was a coalition of many daimyos, with a total strength of more than 120,000 people!

A threefold difference in the allocation of troops!

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Liu Shibai quietly closed his eyes, recalling the brilliant achievements of this Maori Katsunaga......

The decisive battle for Osaka Castle began at noon on May 7, 1615!

The Tokugawa vanguard banner, the son of Honda Tadakatsu, the two thousand banners led by the Honda Tadashi Dynasty, took the lead in attacking the position garrisoned by Mori Katsunaga on the Toyotomi side!

Maori Katsunaga immediately led 3,500 banners to fight blatantly!

As soon as the battle began, Osaka Castle was inferior in armament and was seriously short of muskets and ammunition, so Mori Katsunaga ordered to evade and not return fire for the time being.

Mori Katsunaga ordered the front of the army to quietly retreat and make a detour to both sides.

He concentrated the small iron artillery team on both sides to form a glaive formation, luring the troops of the Honda Tadashi Dynasty to blindly rush into a small area of encirclement......

Subsequently, a counterattack was launched......

Mori Katsunaga and other Honda loyal army troops, when they advanced to 100 meters, ordered the whole army to fire a salvo of iron artillery, and the Honda army was directly overturned by more than 100 people, and the Mori army won the first battle and greatly boosted its morale.

Immediately afterwards, Mori Katsunaga gave an order, personally led his cavalry, drew his sword and rushed into the Honda Tadashi Dynasty's main formation.

This wave of Maori troops suddenly attacked, and they killed the enemy army with a fast fight, and the formation was in chaos.

Seeing this, the famous general Honda Tadaasa had to personally mount his horse to meet the battle, holding the famous Japanese gun "Dragonfly Cut" of his father Honda Tadakatsu, and rushed towards Mori Katsunaga with a roar.

Honda Tadasato, the youngest son of Honda Tadakatsu, who was once called "the first warrior in the world" by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, also inherited his father's bravery!

Unfortunately, in the confrontation between the two armies, only one of them was face-to-face, and Honda Tadashi was beheaded by Mori Katsunaga's army and begged for the head......

It can be seen that Maori Katsunaga is very strategic and brave with the Maori army he leads.

The war has taken a small turnaround!

With the defeat and collapse of the Honda Tadashi Dynasty, the army of Akita Miki and Asano Nagashige, totaling 2,000 men, was also defeated by the army led by Mori Katsunaga.

Mori Katsunaga led 3,500 men and defeated the headquarters of three generals, a total of 4,000 men......

In other aspects, the Osaka Army also launched a siege on the extremely powerful Ogasawara Army in the Tokugawa Army at this time, but it was difficult to break through!

However, Mori Katsunaga's unique vision allowed him to discover the fighter!

Because there was an inconspicuous flaw in Ogasawara's army, Mori Katsunaga secretly ordered an iron artillery of his team to quietly detour to the weak point on the left side of Ogasawara's army, and came to fire a fatal volley......

"Boom!"

The general of the Ogasawara team, when he raised his gun to fight, he was shelled by black guns!

After the death of the general, the Ogasawara army undoubtedly fell into chaos......

Ogasawara Hidemasa died that night after suffering six serious wounds, and Ogasawara's army was completely defeated due to the loss of his general.

Mori Katsunaga's army defeated four teams of famous generals in a row, and their morale was like a rainbow!

Subsequently, the murderous Mori Katsunaga Department attacked again and defeated the Hoshina Masamitsu team.

On the fifth occasion, Mori Katsunaga led his headquarters with 3,500 banners to defeat the Tokugawa army, which was arrayed in layers to fight, with a total of nearly 20,000, and his own damage - less than 500!

At this time, Mori Katsunaga's undefeated record made Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was standing in the main camp to watch the battle, and other important ministers and bigwigs dumbfounded and couldn't believe it!

Subsequently, Tokugawa Ieyasu angrily assigned, and the armies of other daimyo launched layers of blocking and besieging Mori Katsunaga Division!

However, the defeat still cannot be stopped!

The generals of the Tokugawa army, such as Yasukatsu Sakakihara, Tadamasa Senseki, and Tadatsune Suwa, were also defeated by the decisive assault of the army of Mori Katsunaga's army......

The Tokugawa army was astonishingly defeated all the way, spreading like a contagious disease......

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There's one more chapter in a row!

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