(At noon on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month of the third year of Keichō, Hidehomei Fujido Takatora led Komiyayama Harukatsu Ogasawara Takayoshi and 300 family attendants disguised by the overlord to escort more than ten carts into gifts for Hideyori and Yodohime to pretend to be the main force of the family, starting from Koriyama Castle and marching along the streets of Nara to the Hirano Pass near Osaka's Sozo Kubori; At the same time, Hidebo himself secretly went to Iwamuro Castle by boat to join Nasu Shikiyoshi, who had been stationed in Kii Province beforehand, and then, under the cover of several merchant ships, led 300 gunneru, 200 iron guns, and three large barrels to the Hakurabuchi Suisho on the east bank of the Kizu River with Shohisa Awamizu

A moment earlier, Horino Yukisumi was ordered by Hideho to return to Osaka first, informing Maeda Toshicho and Osamu Ohno that Hideho had left the city, and hinting that the two Hideho did not carry too many soldiers on this trip, and could intercept and kill them halfway without waiting for them to arrive at Sannomaru's jade stoma

Originally, Maeda Ono agreed with this proposal, and was ready to send Aoki Isshige's 800 Imperial Horse Houses to ambush at the northern foot of Shinoyama in Kobashi Village, five miles south of Hirano Pass (that is, the location of the "Sanada Maru" of the Osaka Winter Formation in history), to ambush Hideho's team, but at this time, Maeda Toshicho received a letter from Yokoyama Nagato, saying that the 300 troops were besieged by Shinjo Naoyori in Sawagami north of Takatsuki, and Maeda Toshinaga must personally go to Fang Ken to let them go

Maeda Toshinaga immediately told Osamu Ohno about this, and he temporarily took the post of chief general, while he himself led twelve horses to Takatsuki, and once the "misunderstanding" was explained, he immediately returned to Osaka with 300 elites to reinforce the Ono army

Sure enough, Osamu Ohno did not readily agree to Maeda Toshinaga, but on the grounds of "taking care of the safety of the major general", he sent the general of the Nakajima clan to Tsunoma Mori and 500 Imperial Horses to "accompany the left and right"

Considering the lack of troops, Osamu Ohno temporarily divided Yamazaki Iemori's 500 troops into two groups, of which 300 were handed over to the Nakajima clan, plus the 500 men previously arranged, the total number of troops stationed at the south gate reached 800; The remaining 200 men were transferred to the area around Kyobashi, the northern entrance of Osaka, under the command of Yamazaki Iemori - the only way for the 300 elite of the Maeda family to enter the city, and the reason why Osamu Ohno placed such a small number of troops was because he believed that the Maeda army and the Ehara army would enter the city together, and by that time, there would be a thousand men stationed here, absolutely invulnerable

Due to the receipt of the tip that Hideho had changed to Hirano Exit, the defense of the east of Osaka was naturally much weaker, and at first, Osamu Ohno only planned to arrange for Tsuda Nobunari's 300 troops to be stationed in the vast area of Higashi Sannomaru from Aoyaguchi in the north to Tamasa in the south, but this was opposed by Maeda Toshimasa

As the younger brother of Maeda Toshinaga, his head is smarter than that of his elder brother: "Tsuda Nagato Mamoru is a cunning and treacherous man, and if he hands over all the heavy shops to him, he is likely to commit a despicable act of treachery and disobedience."

As mentioned above, the ship to the west of the structure is an insignificant place and the number of troops is insufficient, and there are two of the seven hands of the group stationed (one each of the Namba Bridge in the shipyard), Osamu Ohno only transferred 200 Mima Yard to Ono Osafu, and asked him to patrol back and forth along the west side of the nine bridges, and as soon as there was a situation, he reported to Sannomaru that the nine bridges mentioned here are not the name of a bridge, but the general name of the nine bridges on the west side of Osaka Sokuta, the southernmost point is the Eeldani Bridge, and the northernmost point is the present bridge, which is nearly fourteen miles apart, but only 200 people guarded it, Osamu Ohno is not a fool, and finally transferred another hundred people from Osamu Ohno's personal guard, so that the number of soldiers at each bridge barely reached thirty

The structure around the city on three sides is that Aoki Ichishige personally led 300 imperial horses to guard it

The so-called Soku, which is the castle town of Osaka, is an area other than Sannomaru, which is a gathering place for civilian merchants, with a wide area and flat terrain, and it is difficult to hold on unless a heavy army is arranged, but Hideyoshi ordered people to dig a deep trench around it, and lead the water of the Yodo River Yamato River to irrigate it, which slightly changed the disadvantage of Sannomaru The aforementioned Kuhashi is the western passage leading from the boat yard to the Sotsumaru; As for the east side, Moriguchi Yamato Mitsuhashi separates Sannomaru from the swamp, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and with the Tsuda Army and the three hundred Goma Tsugashi taking care of the defense, there is no need for Aoki Ichishige to worry about it; Therefore, the most important thing is that there are four bridges leading to the south of the Uemachi Highlands, which is where Aoki's heavy army is located, and eighty percent of the 300 sergeants are deployed along these four bridges, one is to defend, but to be responsible for receiving the army sent to ambush Hideho in the field

Sannomaru tightly surrounds Ninomaru.,But it's also by water on one side.,Surrounded by Sogaku on three sides.,This is where the daimyo Yashiki is located.,It should have been emulated Sogaku to divert water to irrigate the hori.,Unfortunately, Hideyoshi died suddenly.,This plan was also temporarily shelved.,Only more than 20 meters wide empty hori were left around.,But this is enough to make people sigh.,I think that the Hojo clan's Odawara Castle was just about eight meters of shoji Hori, but the troops were really tight.,In order to meet the defense of Ninomaru and Sannomaru., Osamu Ohno only assigned 20 samurai patrols at the beginning of the five bridges leading from Sannomaru to Ninomaru - Oteguchi Gokurakubashi Bridge, Kyoto Bridge Gate, Aoya Exit and Tamastomy Mouth, and as for the defense of the bridge passes, except for Tsuda Gun, which was in charge of the east side and Yamazaki in the north, the rest of the bridges were abandoned, and the tiger mouth at the end of the bridge was guarded instead

The remaining 500 Imperial Horse Valleys and Osamu Ohno's 100 personal guards were left behind in the inner city, that is, Ninomaru and Honmaru, which are surrounded by water, and the terrain here is like a "hui", the outermost "mouth" character is Ninomaru, and the inner "mouth" character is Honmaru and the Nishinomaru connected to it

In addition to the three gates of Aoya Tamazo Kyobashi, Ninomaru only has the Otemon Gate (Sakuramon) Gokurakumon Gate to defend, which is relatively much easier, and because it is an inner city, the defense facilities are also available, not to mention the tiger's mouth, there are many oars and heavy box oars, and there is a "Senkan Oar" that has never been lost when Ishiyama Honganji Temple was said to be located at Otemon Gate

It is said that the Oda army could not capture Ishiyama Castle for a long time, so there was a rumor in the army that "even if you use a thousand kans as a reward, you must also try to contribute to this city", this double-storey turret is named after this, of course, this is just a digression, in short, for the defense of Ninomaru, Osamu Ohno is still very confident, of course, this credit can not be cheap to others, he specially arranged the third brother Ono Ochiyin here, led three hundred troops to garrison

As for Honmaru, Osamu Ohno led Horino Koji and 200 troops to sit in the town, although it is also surrounded by water on all sides, but because of its own narrow area and mainly living quarters, it is not a good defense, and the Maruma De south of Otemon is already the strongest line of defense, which shows the weakness of Honmaru's defense Speaking of this, it is necessary to mention the famous "Osaka Formation" in history, the Tokugawa army did not even attack the structure during the Winter Formation (100,000 vs. 200,000), and the Toyotomi clan was destroyed in only two days during the Summer Formation, why? It was Tokugawa Ieyasu who deceived Yodohime and Hideyori and ordered all the hori and water trenches to be filled in except for Uchiho, that is, the trench that surrounded Honmaru, so that even if there were 80,000 troops (150,000 shogunate troops), what could they do? The so-called self-destruction of the Great Wall was the direct cause of the demise of the Toyotomi family

Of course, the current Osaka Castle is still impregnable, but Osamu Ohno ignores several facts: first, the number of troops in his hands is not tens of thousands, but only thousands; Second, the two Seven Imperial Stables in the Dockyard would not necessarily remain as neutral as he imagined; Third, he is only a retainer, and there is no guarantee that the Seven Hands who are loyal to Hideyori will completely obey him, and even if the leader of the group is willing, the low-level samurai may not be willing to die for him; Fourth, of course, it is also a necessary and fatal one, but the army of more than 3,000 people has to spread the net in all directions, so how can there be good fruit to eat if the troops are so scattered?

However, Osamu Ohno has his own thoughts: eight hundred against three hundred, the ambush will definitely be successful, and once the ambush is successful, these deployments will be redundant, so that all the problems above are not a problem, it really can't be done, and there is the mediation of the five commissioners and the five elders, with Maeda Toshicho here, if he wants to die together, what is he afraid of? And Maeda Toshicho is the son-in-law of the Maeda Toshi, that is absolutely impossible to die, he can't die, will I Osamu Ohno still be fine?

In short, "the ambush will definitely be successful, and even if it fails, it will not die", this life-saving straw was grabbed by Osamu Ohno, but as everyone knows, things are not as simple as he thinks (to be continued

PS: This chapter can exhaust me, everyone doesn't know, I racked my brains to find a map of Osaka in the Toyotomi period! Most of the maps on the Internet now are in the Edo period, that is, after the Battle of Osaka, and Osaka at that time was only a quarter of the size of the castle built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. But the specific place name has to be explored by yourself.,There may be some mistakes.,But overall it's still okay.,By the way.,There are some errors in the Osaka position map on the Japanese wiki.,Especially the structure of Sannomaru and the fact that there is a difference between the structure and the fact that there is no Minomaru in Osaka in the Edo period.,So everyone can understand the shrinkage of the area.

Okay, that's all there is to say, don't say that this chapter of Shui Ai is the most hard-working chapter of the bear boy, the deployment of troops, the names of relevant places, and related facilities are all to be checked for a long time, everyone give me some encouragement, votes