Chapter 34: The Surprise Attack on Shimada Castle

After that, according to information from Yamauchi Kazutoyo and Arima Toyoshi, over the next three days, Hideho joined forces with the forces of Kakegawa, Yokosuka, and the pro-Hideyoshi clan to confiscate the territories of the local wealthy clans in the name of punishing the Kaga Jaws clan, which greatly damaged the interests of the pro-Tokugawa clans led by the Nakata clan of Toe Nagajo-gun and the Omori clan of Suruga Ayudo-gun, and forced them to take action to change the situation.

Two days after the Kagawa Conference, Hideho ordered Yamauchi Kazutoyo and the newly annexed Totoe clan to send troops to destroy the powerful Elephantshima clan of Hazaira Prefecture on the banks of the Oi River, and capture Sagara Castle as a bridgehead to interfere with Suruga.

Knowing that the land route connecting Enoe and Suruga was blocked, Nakata Tokimasa, the head of the Nakata clan, could not sit idly by, and on the one hand, he sent messengers to ask for help from Suruga Omori, and on the other hand, he tried to incite Higashi-Enoe to fight against Hideho. However, both of these schemes were unsuccessful, and on the very day of the fall of Elephant Island, the Arima Feng clan and the wealthy clan surrounded the Nakata clan's chief Uegun, and all the messengers sent out were caught, and these letters became an excellent excuse for Hideho to meddle in the affairs of Suruga. As for inciting a fool, it's even more foolish, as early as two days ago, those pro-Tokugawa wealthy clans were Hideho Zhengfa, and the rest were either neutral or pro-Hideyoshi, how could they work for him, and even the retainers he sent to incite a puppet were captured by the local wealthy clan and handed over to the Arima Feng clan.

Seeing that his plan was completely bankrupt, Nakata Tokimasa had no choice but to defend the city, but Hideho didn't even give him the opportunity to defend the city, and on the day of the siege, he ordered a forcible siege of the city, and the battle lasted only two hours, and the city was breached, and Nakata Toshimasa committed suicide, in order to sound the alarm for the Yuanjiang wealthy family, more than 500 people in Nakata Castle were all slaughtered. On the second day of the incident, more than 20 wealthy families in Yuanjiang, including the Iyi family in Iyiya, submitted affidavits to Yamauchi and sent hostages, and so far, the rebellion of the people of Yuanjiang has basically been quelled.

In fact, after Ieyasu retreated to Kanto, he secretly appointed Kaga Tadasumi, Nakata Toshimasa, and Osamu Omori as the three banner leaders of Junenzo. Now that the Kaga Tasa clan, the head of the Higashi-En-e-, the Nakata clan, the head of the Higashi-To-River and the Higashi-Mikawa flaghead, have all been subdued, Hideho's next target is naturally the Nishi-Suruga flag-head Omori clan.

Among the three banner heads, the most domineering is the Omori Governor, only more than 10,000 stone of knowledge and action, but did not put the Suruga chief acting officer Nakamura Kazushi in his eyes, when the Nakamura family transferred to Sunfu Castle, it was he who led some of the wealthy clans of Suruga and Higashienjiang to intercept the Nakamura clan's honor guard in the Hanazawa area, and coerced the Nakamura Ichi, who had not yet entered the country, to sign the "Junshu Zhufado", and gained great autonomy, and then often relied on the behind-the-scenes support of the Tokugawa family to wantonly incite a fight against the new daimyo. Nakamura's clan could only swallow his anger and let him form a faction in Suruga Province, and even in his own fiefdom, many areas have been included in the sphere of influence of the people of Suruga Province, as if they had formed a situation of confrontation with themselves.

On the twelfth day of the first month of the fifth year of Bunroku, the day after the fall of Nakata Castle, Osamu Omori issued a ****** to the wealthy clans of the entire Suruga, asking them to lead their internal forces to defend the Oi River in order to prevent the Hideho coalition from crossing the river. To this end, he ordered Iwamoto and the Shibukawa family to advance to the left bank of the Oi River and stationed in the Makinono Plateau area, while he himself set up the main camp at Shimada Castle in the area of Shiheihara on the right bank.

It may have been that Hidebo's previous hardline attitude played a role, and many wealthy clans in Nishi-Suruga ignored the summons of the Omori family, and some even sent people to Kakegawa Castle to surrender to Hideho. Therefore, when Omori was ready, he found that the army he had gathered was less than 30% of the number of people who had besieged the village in those years, and there were only more than 1,800 people.

At the same time, Hidebo gathered nearly 5,000 troops, mainly from the Yamauchi family, and set up a main camp at Sagara Castle southeast of Makinono, waiting for the opportunity to cross the river.

On the 15th day of the first month, the first shot of the battle was fired by a coalition of the Arima Feng clan and the wealthy clans of the Enoe clan, and with the high morale of the Nakata clan, an army of 3,000 men conquered the Makinono garrison in less than an hour. As the commander of the castle, the wealthy clan of Suruga, Iwamoto Michimori, was captured, and Shibu Yoriyuki led twelve horsemen to flee back to Shimada Castle, and this battle completely drove the forces of the Omori clan back to Suruga.

Seeing that the situation was unfavorable to him, Omori Osacho coerced the Nakamura Kazushi of Sunpu Castle to intervene, and on the evening of the 16th, the Nakamura family's elder Kokura Masanori and more than a dozen samurai arrived at Sagara Castle to meet Hideho via Shimada Castle Shun Oigawa.

The reason why Nakamura is willing to mediate is that there are many threats from Osamu Omori, but the most important thing is to consider his own interests. Just imagine, if the Suruga wealthy clan led by the Omori family is bulldozed by Hideho, then it will definitely anger Tokugawa Ieyasu, who is behind the scenes, which is not what Nakamura wants to see; On the contrary, if he kept the only remaining banner for Ieyasu, not only would Osamu Osamu follow him with all his heart afterwards, but even Tokugawa Ieyasu would praise him.

In fact, the official history of the Nakamura Kazushi can be described as a smooth progress. He became Hideyoshi's retainer before Honnoji, and with Hideyoshi's success, his fiefdom grew, especially after the Odawara conquest, where he was rewarded with 145,000 koku from Sunpu Castle and became Hideyoshi's chief governor in Suruga. But what makes people angry is that although he died before Sekigahara, before he died, he instructed his son-in-law to join the Eastern Army. Therefore, after the war, the Nakamura clan received the seal of 175,000 koku of Boqi rice seeds.

Probably knowing Okura Masano's intentions, Hideho recruited him into the palace. After Ogura sat down, Hideho asked Xiao to serve him a coffee table, pointed to the steaming teacup and said, "Ogura-sama has lived in Suruga for a long time, so he must have never tasted this Tenshu specialty Jingu tea, right?" ”

Xiao Cang picked up the teacup, took a sip, and nodded to Xiubao: "The Golden Valley Tea in Yuanzhou is very famous, and today I am blessed by His Royal Highness, and I am fortunate to be able to taste it." Hideho smiled and continued: "This is indeed my credit, if it weren't for me, I'm afraid the origin of this Jingu tea would still be in the hands of the Nakata family." ”

Seeing that Ogura Masaneng didn't understand what he meant, Hideho continued: "I heard that the Ukishimabara and the kite path in Junzhou are very magnificent, and I want to follow the example of the westward mage of the past to enjoy the rare scenery of the eastern country, I wonder if there is a chance?" ”

Hearing this, Ogura Masaneng hurriedly replied: "As long as His Highness wants to see it, how can there be no chance, but... This floating island was originally the domain of the Ashiwashi family, and the thin path of the kite has been owned by the Omori family for generations, and as long as His Highness is willing to make peace with these two families, he guarantees that they will personally come to greet His Highness to enjoy the beautiful scenery......"

"Do I need their permission to see this?!" Hideho abruptly interrupted Kokura's words, Huo Di stood up, walked quickly to him, and said sharply: "Lord Ogura, I have made up my mind that I will definitely exterminate the Omori clan, if you can listen to my arrangement, you can save your life, if not, you are ready to die for them." Ogura was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, trembling and bowing at Hidebo's feet, and replied tremblingly: "The humble duty is only to come to mediate on the orders of my lord, and there is absolutely no intention to disobey His Highness. ”

Xiu Bao nodded coldly, shouted outside the door, "Left, I'll leave the rest to you" and went back to his room to rest.

Half an hour later, Makanoshi Ogura returned to Shimada Castle listlessly with his guards. When he arrived at the castle, he found that the gate was closed, so Ogura shouted to the samurai guarding him, "I am the old man of the Nakamura family, Makano Ogura, who has just returned from Sagara Castle, hurry up and open the gate and let me go in." Seeing that it was the envoy sent to Hideho to mediate, the samurai of the castle ordered the city gate to be opened, and asked excitedly, "Dare to ask His Highness Ogura, what is the result of the mediation?" ”

Ogura Masano said as he entered the door: "Naturally, it was a success, and His Royal Highness is still very reasonable." The person who opened the door listened lightly, patted his chest and said, "Great, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief... Yes! ”

Before he could finish hearing the word "qi", he fell under the sword of an accompanying samurai. Before the samurai in the castle could see it, they were killed one by one by more than a dozen samurai around Kokura, feeling that the situation was not right, the samurai in the castle hurriedly went down to the castle to check what was going on, only to find out that it was a sneak attack by the enemy.

The samurai who took the lead was Nasu Zikishi, and these more than ten people were also the most powerful horses around Hidebo, and this time they were also determined to die to steal the city, and they were bound to buy time for the rear troops.

How could the peasants in the hands of these wealthy clans be their opponents, the corpses kept piling up at the city gates, but as time passed, these people gradually lost their physical strength, and two of them were already being taken by the enemy peasants.

At this moment, a fire suddenly lit up on the bank of the river, one point, two points, one row, two rows, and countless torches were lit in an instant, and the shouts that resounded in the sky continued to come to Shimada Castle, Nasu Ziyoshi saw this scene and excitedly encouraged his subordinates: "Everyone hold on, the island lord himself led the troops to help!" ”