Chapter 207: The Battle of Itsukushima
The Three Rivers Samurai Armor World! This kind of talk is purely the novel language licked out by the Tokugawa shogunate, but in that ghost place of Mikawa, the poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, and the common people are poor, and they fight every day, resulting in the more and more they fight, the poorer they are, the poorer they fight, and the more fun they have! But the tenacity of the Mikawa Barbarian is indeed very famous, Ashikaga Moryū has just received information from the side, Oda Nobunaga led the army and the Asakura Asai coalition army in Sister River, Asakura Asai coalition army of 30,000 people, Oda family army plus 3,000 Mikawa Barbarian cattle 43,000 people. What is unbelievable is that the Oda family army, which has an overwhelming advantage in strength, has 27,000 Oda troops, and it was actually beaten by 4,000 people led by the old Asai family, Isono Yuanchang, and almost killed Oda Nobunaga. What's even more astonishing is that the 3,000 Matsudaira Army, which was originally purely cannon fodder, actually defeated the 12,000-strong Asakura Army on the opposite side in one go, and launched an attack on the Asakura Asai Coalition Army, resulting in a great chaos in the coalition army, and the Oda family's army took the opportunity to attack on all fronts and defeated the Asai Asakura Coalition Army.
However, after Oda Nobunaga defeated the Asai Asakura coalition army, he had to retreat, without him, the Imagawa family sent troops, and more importantly, the whole country of Mikawa rebelled! At the behest of Ashikaga Moryu, Ishiyama Honganji listed Oda Nobunaga, who burned Mt. Hiei, as an enemy of the Buddha, and called on the followers of the Mikawa Ichijo sect to rise up and resist, and the lower-level samurai who had long been dissatisfied with their lives, as well as the middle and high-ranking samurai who had become vassals of the Oda family and could not get ahead, rose up one after another to meet the 20,000 Imagawa family army commanded by the Imagawa clan. After meeting with the generals of Mikawa, the Imagawa clan suddenly swelled to as many as 40,000 people, and actually had the power of Imagawa Yoshimoto Shangluo!
Oda Nobunaga, who returned to Gifu City, received a message that made him vomit blood again: the Takeda family's army was assembled in Minami Shinano, and there was a faint posture of sending troops to Higashimino, of course, the Oda family and the Takeda family were allies, but if Oda Nobunaga evacuated Higashimino's defenders, it would be difficult to say how Takeda Shingen would react. What's even more annoying to him is that Echigo's Nagao Masaki actually sent 8,000 troops to support the Imagawa family, which is completely out of the reach of eight poles.
However, Long-tail Masaki did not voluntarily send troops, and the expedition across several countries was very costly, especially since Long-Tail Masaki had just been planted for two years and had saved some belongings. But a letter from Ashikaga Molong made him have to send troops: You and I are relatives, and you can't turn your elbows outward, otherwise I've always been cruel to betrayers, and you don't want His Royal Highness Aya to be widowed, right? Obviously, Nagao Masaki and Oda Nobunaga hooked up and hooked up with Ashikaga Molong has already been known to Ashikaga Molong, if he doesn't send troops to help Ashikaga Molong fight, Ashikaga Molong doesn't need to beat himself, just let Yangbei continue to do things. Anyway, Aizu and Yonezawa were taken by Zhou Dingguo, and when the time comes, change their vests, join the rebels of Yangbei, and fight all the way to the bottom of Kasuga Mountain Castle.
In this way, the Imagawa clan gathered an army of almost 50,000 and launched an all-out attack on the land of Owari. At this time, Oda Nobunaga no longer had the ability to fight a decisive battle with the Imagawa clan, and Minami Omi's troops could not be transferred to Owari under any circumstances, otherwise the Asai family would not only have a resurrection, but there would definitely be the idea of a dove occupying the magpie's nest. Nishimino's troops could hardly move, Takeda Shingen's attitude was unclear, and Higashiminon's main force couldn't move, so they could only transfer Oda Nobunaga's troops to the south to meet the Owari defenders, defend the city one by one, bleed each other, and see who couldn't hold it first.
The battle lasted for nearly two months, and the Imagawa clan took half of Owari, but because it was the busy farming season, they had to retreat, leaving behind the devastated ground and Oda Nobunaga's tearless figure. And the Mikawa Province, which had forced the Imagawa clan to spit out, almost returned to the Imagawa family due to the rebellion of the Mikawa Isōmune. But Oda Nobunaga could not tolerate Owari having a half-country land in the hands of the Imagawa clan, and when the farming was over, he had to continue the tug-of-war and continue to bleed each other.
This is perfect, for Oda Nobunaga, Ashikaga Molong does not dare to relax for a moment, and he must be constantly bloodletted, otherwise this person is easy to overshoot if he is not careful, not to mention anything else, that is, the Asai family and the Asakura family are enough to last for a few years, if they are annexed by Oda Nobunaga, then the Oda family is a giant with more than 2.4 million stones, and the strength is not much inferior to the Ashikaga family. In particular, Miyoshi Chokei may not be able to stop Oda Nobunaga, if Oda Nobunaga integrates the land, not to mention anything else, there will always be four million stones, and then it will be on par with the current strength of the Ashikaga army. So seeing that Oda Nobunaga was showing signs of getting up, Ashikaga Molong had to go up and give him a stick, and then tighten the rope around Oda Nobunaga's neck a little harder.
On the other side, a big event also happened in Sanyang Road! The legendary Tao Nima, oh no, a slip of the tongue, was General Tao Qingxian who led his army to conquer the two-faced and three-sworded traitor Maori family, and suffered a crushing defeat on Itsukushima, with 25,000 and 4,000 men slamming Maori Yuan, but just when Tao Qingxian thought that he had the victory in his hands and sent troops with all his might, Maoli Yuan launched an attack on Tao Qingxian's main formation, which was empty in defense. But Tao Qingxian is known as the unparalleled general in the West, although he was caught off guard by Maori Yuan, but he still successfully blocked the attack of the Maori army, what really made Tao Qingxian's army collapse was the battle at sea, Tao Qingxian's navy was led by the Maori family, it can be said that all the pirates in the Seto Inland Sea were besieged, especially the strongest Murakami naval army in the Seto Inland Sea, which made the war situation deteriorate sharply. Tao Qingxian's army fighting on the island can see the crushing defeat of their navy, which means that even if they win, it will be difficult to withdraw, and it will collapse in an instant, no matter how hard Tao Qingxian tries, he will not be able to save the morale of the army. In desperation, he wanted to rush into the Maori army to commit suicide, but was stopped by his subordinates, but he still wanted to commit suicide when he never found the ferry.
But this time, Tao Qingxian got unexpected help, just when his armor was taken off, and the wrong people were all found, and he was about to use a knife to cut his belly, his subordinates suddenly cheered: "There is a boat!" It's coming!! ”
"Huh?" Tao Qingxian immediately jumped up, and looked at it, there was actually more than one ship, but a huge fleet composed of more than 30 large ships, Tao Qingxian, who had been in a high position for a long time and often dealt with merchants from all over the world, recognized it at a glance, these are all lucky ships! It's the Ming Fleet! "I wonder which side they're on?"
On the other side, the pirates of the Seto Inland Sea led by the Murakami Navy also approached here, at first glance, the sea is full of pirate flags, but most of the pirate ships are just closed ships, their main business is to rob the passing merchant ships, if they all count on robbing the merchant ships of other countries' maritime merchants, they would have starved to death, and how can the ships of other countries' maritime merchants be so easy to rob? The pirates' best Ataka ship is also smaller than the smallest Fukubune of the Ming Fleet in front of them. After all, pirates are pirates after all, and they can't have the strong economic strength and complete logistics base of maritime merchants, which is why Ashikaga Molong has not recruited pirates much but cooperated with Wang Zhi to build his own warships.
Just when the pirates were struggling with whether they could beat the Ming fleet, another fleet appeared in Tao Qingxian's sight: more than twenty Spanish galleons! Although this fleet and the Ming fleet are not the same country, they are obviously in the same group at this time, they and the main force of the Ming fleet form a defensive circle, and send ships to dock to meet Tao Qingxian's rout.
Tao Qingxian, who was in a desperate situation, climbed the largest ship excitedly, wanting to thank the Ming people and the Spaniards for their help, but a person who was obviously dressed as a disciple of the dojo looked at him with a smile, and the Ming people and Spaniards around him obviously respected him. Seeing this scene, a ridiculous thought appeared in Tao Qingxian's mind, and he lost his voice: "Could it be the Lord of the Kanto Governor?" ”