Chapter Ninety-One: The Destruction of Chiba
As the so-called principle of "the Lord cannot be angry and raise a teacher, and the general cannot be discouraged and cause war" and "move in line with the benefit, stop if it is not in line with the benefit", Takeda Shingen has implemented these two points very well. His whole life has been like this, there is no profit and there will be no war at will. Up to now, after the Takeda family counted the Enoe Province and Suruga Province in their possession, the total stone height has also reached 1015,000 stone, which can be said to be the second only daimyo in the whole of Japan after the Uesugi family. In this year, Takeda Shingen enrolled his sixth son, Takeda Nobusada, into the Suruga Katsuyama family, married the daughter of the Katsuyama clan, and recognized the Katsuyama clan as his father-in-law to inherit the Katsuyama family in the future. As a member of the Takeda family, Katsuyama Nobutada's military service reached 120 cavalry, which means that he could lead 120 samurai.
It can be seen that Takeda Shingen did not fully believe in a temporary truce. He knew that the Uesugi family would not let the Hojo family last long, even for his own sake, he needed to build a strong defense line in Higashi Surukawa, so that he could be protected in the future. Taking a step back, the Hojo family was destroyed, so it was necessary to configure a lot of families, relatives, and genealogies to enter Suruga. It's better to prepare early than to be too late to configure.
Because Chao Ding did not have an instantaneous righteousness value like the Dragon Girl. He also has the heavy responsibility of destroying the Ise family with the surname Hojo, so he can only save the Satomi family's request for help, and if he can't save it, even if he can't save it.
On August 5, a total of 6,100 troops (3,500 troops of Ota Shimasa, 1,700 members of Yamamotoji Sada, 500 troops of Omori Fujiyori, and 400 members of Ogasawara Sada's team) were gathered by Ota Shimasa, Ogasawara Sada, Omori Fujiyori, and 400 Ogasawara Sadasa. The follow-up three teams of Okabe Motonobu, Asahina Taichao, and Asahina Shinoki had a total of 1,900 troops (800 Okabe Motonobu troops, 500 Asahina Tai Asahi troops, and 600 Asahina Shinji troops) also rushed to Shimotodai Castle after Ota Shishimasa and others arrived at the national capital Taijo.
On this day, Takashiro Yinji seemed to have guessed that the end of the Takashiro family had come, and he also rejected Takashiro Yinzheng's suggestion to ask for help, and directly guarded the national capital Taicheng with 650 ashigaru and seventy-two samurai loyal to the Takashiro family in the city.
Although Takashiro Yinji is already disheartened, it does not mean that Ota Shimasa, Yamamoto Temple Dingchang and others will be merciful. Just when the 1,900 troops of Okabe Motoshin and others had just arrived at Koganeshiro, Ota Shimasa and Yamamoto Temple Dingchang and others directly surrounded the national capital Taicheng on three sides and launched a fierce attack.
In this way, the tactics of 'encircling three and missing one' are indeed very useful for the military strength of the Gaocheng family, whose morale is not high in the city. Just two hours later, hundreds of Takashiro family ashigaru took the initiative to flee through the gap, and as more and more ashigaru gave up and continued to defend, even the samurai could not stop it.
Just after a large number of ashigaru escaped, Takashiro Yinyoshi was assisted by his retainer Sakamoto Shogun, and he was seppuku in Honmaru. The remaining seventy-two samurai also took the initiative to rush out of the city under the leadership of Takashiro Yinmasa and make a final assault on the Uesugi army.
Soon, after they were surrounded by a large number of Uesugi Ashigaru, the sword in their hand was ineffective, and as the Uesugi army's ashigaru with a spear stabbed one by one, the Takasagi samurai fell one after another, and finally when only Takashiro Yinmasa and the two samurai beside him were left, they did not continue to resist stubbornly. Takajo then killed himself in front of the Uesugi army, and the two samurai behind him followed suit.
In this way, Taijo, the national capital, was taken by the Uesugi family. Although he paid the price of 200 casualties under the castle, he still destroyed the Takajo family, a retainer of the Chiba family. In this way, the Chiba family is missing an arm. The shogun of Soya Castle, a branch city to the east of Kokufu Taijo, fled after learning of the loss of Kokufu Taijo, and it was very convenient for him to be taken over by the head of Yamamoto Temple.
That's not all, Ota Shimasa immediately asked Yamamoto Temple to leave 100 Ashigaru to stay in the national capital Taijo and 50 Ashigaru to stay in Soya Castle, and the next day Ota Shimasa led the army and Okabe Motonobu and other three people of 1,900 troops continued to attack the Chiba family's territory in Shitamaku. Of course, the Takajo family is the original family, as the genealogy of the Chiba family, Hara Yinzhen has Zhixing land in Funabashi Castle, Shirai Castle, Shengshi Castle, Yafu Castle, Maga Castle, Kasami Castle, etc., but it is still a question whether these Zhixing places can be kept under the onslaught of the Uesugi army.
Even when Chiba Yinfu (Umi Jiuro) learned about it, he didn't dare to put the 4,000 troops that had been assembled into a head-to-head battle with the Uesugi army.
And with the only 55,600 stone that the Chiba family has at present, it will definitely not be able to withstand the invasion of the Uesugi army, but the Chiba family has sent two teams of Takashiro Yinchen and Hara Yinei to assist the Hojo army, which gives Uesugi the biggest excuse! And the Chiba family's mistake cannot be forgiven, and even if he is cheeky enough to ask the Furukawa Gongfang Ashikaga Fuji clan, he will not agree to mediate.
Then, just three days. The Uesugi army took Funabashi Castle, Maga Castle, Shirai Castle, and Katsutadai Castle with little effort, and after defeating the 2,000 Hara family troops under Maga Castle, they won over the former retainers Saito Kiyoie, Shirai Keiyin, and Ushio Yinmichi.
At this time, Ota Shimasa and Yamamoto Temple decided to attack Chiba Honkokura Castle with a total of 4,900 troops from Ota, Ogasawara, Okabe, and Omori, while Yamamotoji Honjo led the headquarters army and Asahina Tai and Asahina Shinaki with a total of 2,500 troops to attack Hara Honkoshi Castle.
Just after the defeat of the original army, there were only 500 ashigaru and 46 samurai left in Ikushi Castle. Yuan Yinzhen finally decided to surrender Kaesong in order to save the lives of the city soldiers and retainers. However, the head of Yamamoto Temple had already received an order from the court, and these people could not stay in the original territory. He then arranged for the original family to be completely disarmed, and the samurai of the original family who did not want to join the Uesugi family were exiled to Musashi Chichibu Kanayama with the original family to work as miners.
After the opening of Shengshi City, the chain reaction was that Mifu City and Pingshan Castle both surrendered, and Yuan Yinliang and others in Mifu City were also treated the same as Yuan Yinzhen and others, and they were directly sent to Chichibu Jinshan without giving them a chance to explain.
It can be said that the efficiency of Ota Shimasa and Yamamoto Temple was still very high, and they met directly under the castle of Honsakura Castle on August 10.
However, Chiba Yinfu will not be a weak person to be slaughtered, and he directly holds the last main force of the Chiba family, the 4,000 army, under Honsakura Castle and the Uesugi army.
However, Ota Shigemasa was very 'kind' to hand over the task of the first hand to the new retainer Okabe Motonobu, the second team was Asahina Taichao and Asahina Shinji, and the third team was Ogasawara Sadazu and Omori Fujiyori.
But Okabe Motonobu and the others did not complain in the slightest, they understood that the Uesugi family still had some distrust, and they needed to take credit this time and defeat the Chiba family, an ally of the Hojo family, in exchange for trust.
Soon, Okabe Motonobu stretched his command skills to the limit, leading the way with two hundred samurai armed with naginatas, followed by four hundred spearashigaru, and two hundred archashigaru projectiles to attack the Chiba army.
And the vanguard of the Chiba family is the 400 army of the Gendai vassal Guofensheng team, because the defeat of the original family and the Takashiro family has long been spread throughout the Chiba Domain, so the morale of the Chiba army is generally not high.
As the arrows fell, more than a dozen ashigaru fell in the national detachment, and two hundred nagi samurai assaulted the national detachment, and at the moment when the two armies were about to make contact, the ashigaru of the national detachment immediately began to abandon their weapons and flee in all directions due to fear of the Uesugi army! As the pioneer general, Kuniti Katsumori was won by Okabe Mayao, the son of Okabe Motonobu, in the chaos army. The retainers of the Kunita family, such as Shirai Yinhisa, Osuka Masaki, and Ino Keihisa, were also subsequently courted.
After the first formation was defeated, the second formation of the sea Yinbao saw that he couldn't defeat the Uesugi army at all, so he withdrew directly from the battlefield with the 200 troops of his headquarters.
Like a sharp knife, Okabe Motonobu's team smashed into the Chiba army, and the follow-up Asahina Tai Dynasty and Asahina Shinji also quickly supported and cooperated with Okabe Motonobu's offensive. Soon, after the Chiba Army's Kiuchi Yinzhang and Shirai Yinji were also defeated and captured, the Chiba Army began a rout on all fronts.
After Chiba Yinfu saw such a scene near Otemon, he could only let the remaining troops disband and let them flee for their lives. And Chiba Yinfu himself committed suicide by seppuku with the help of his retainer Kazuki Morinobu after entering the city. Kausezaki Morinobu then handed over the head of Chiba Yintomi to Motonobu Okabe.
Ota Shimasa then ordered the Chiba family and the Chiba samurai who were unwilling to serve the Uesugi family to be exiled to Chichibu Kanayama as miners.
On the way to escape, he was hunted by local peasants, and on August 10, his head was handed over to Ota Shimasa.
In this way, the Chiba family of the Shimo General Sect was destroyed in less than ten days, and the Yamamuro family, the Mitani family, the Ida family, the Sakai family, and the Tojin Sakai family in the country were shocked, and they all began to be afraid, although most of them had been in contact with the envoys of the Hojo family, but after seeing the electric and flintling offensive of the Uesugi army, they couldn't help but think twice. After all, most of the country is already in the hands of the Uesugi family, and the territory of the Furukawa family is only more than 40,000 stones.
Originally, the court also thought that if the Chiba family blindly defended the city, he still needed to mobilize thousands of troops to enter the general aid Ota Shimasa and others, who knew that Ota Shimasa, Yamamoto Temple Dingchang and others would use less than 10,000 troops to destroy the Chiba family, he can only say that there are almost no capable people in the Chiba family, otherwise he would not have been captured by Ota Shisho, Yamamoto Temple Dingchang, Okabe Motoshin and others within ten days to capture the Chiba family's original according to Honsakura Castle.
The court decided to seal 5,000 stone of the national capital Taicheng and 1,000 stone of Zenggu Castle to the head of Yamamoto Temple as the place of knowledge; After Miyagi Masako was recuperated from his injuries in the stable bridge castle, he was directly sealed by the court and received the castle of Shengshi (5,900 koku), Maga Castle (2,700 koku), Hirayama Castle (2,000 koku), and Funabashi Castle (5,000 koku), totaling 15,600 koku. Of course, Miyagi's territory in Aizu will be taken over as the direct domain of the court; Okabe Motoshin was crowned with Okajo (1,500 koku) due to his outstanding achievements in the lower war; Asahina Tai Chao also stained the light of Okabe Motonobu and sealed the Lotus Pavilion (1,000 stones); Asahina Shinji added the seal of Oriental City (1,500 stones); Ogasawara Sada Sho Kasu Castle (500 stone); Omori Fuji Yorika Feng Takamatsu Castle (500 stones); After recovering from his injuries, Namba Hiroshi was transferred from 10,000 koku from Dewa Kamihara Castle to 10,000 koku from Sakura Castle and 5,000 koku from Sakura Castle. At present, the court can only divide the part of the occupied land of the lower general area first, but there are still nearly 40,000 stone of territory that still belongs to the state of sending acting officials.
When the time quietly came to August 15, the battle that decided the survival of the Hojo family and the Satomi family finally began.
On the morning of 15 August, the Izu Navy, under the leadership of Yasuhide Shimizu, sailed to the territorial waters of the Satomi family with its main force of 12 Sekibunes, 20 Chiseki ships, and 30 Kozao. And the Anfang naval forces here in the Satomi family, Okamoto Yasutai, Anzai Katsuhiro, and Okamoto Yorimoto had already assembled one Ataku ship, fifteen Seki ships, twenty-six Sengoku ships, and twenty small ships from the headquarters and sailed to Kaneda Bay after assembling in the port outside Okamoto Castle. I happened to meet the Izu Navy who came to me.
Both the Hojo family and the Satomi family showed all the belongings of their naval army, and this battle was really a decisive battle. The Hojo family could only use the victory of this battle to exchange for the support of the Kamisugi family, and all the departments of the Chiba family were annihilated by the Uesugi family, and most of the Shimosugi family fell into the hands of the Uesugi family. This is indeed bad news for the Hojo family.