Even if these Mikawa soldiers are trained, they are no worse than the Kuroda family, they are usually trained, and they are professional soldiers who have long been separated from the peasants and soldiers. The Tokugawa family learned this from the Oda family, and the Oda family learned from the Kuroda family.

"Lord Kaiyu, Lord Honda Tadakatsu of the main family, was courted by the Kuroda Itetomo clan." A herald came to report to Tokugawa Ieyasu.

"What? You said Yahachiro was taken? When Tokugawa Ieyasu heard the news, he fell directly from the marching horse. And not only that, Tokugawa Ieyasu also spurted out a mouthful of old blood.

To be honest, although Tokugawa Ieyasu no longer has much hope of defeating the Kuroda family, there is still a trace of hope in his heart, and now because of the death of Honda Tadakatsu, he knows that his plan has completely failed, how can he not be depressed?

You must know that Honda Tadakatsu is a general he has always relied on very much, and he is indeed a martial arts superman, no matter where and who he fights, Honda Tadakatsu is an invincible existence, as long as there is him, it is impossible for the Tokugawa family to lose the war.

Now that Honda Tadakatsu's death has hit him too hard, even if he can still use the castle to fight against the Kuroda family in the future, he has really lost confidence.

But Tokugawa Ieyasu, since his name is a turtle, his patience is very strong, even if he knows that there is no chance of winning, he wants to try, and at this time he has already begun to think about how to deal with the Kuroda family.

Maybe it would be a good choice to submit directly to the Kuroda family, but at this time he didn't know that the North Uesugi family had already surrendered to the Kuroda family, and if he knew the news, it was likely that he would choose to submit directly now.

After all, being able to keep the Tokugawa family means that he still has hope in the future, and he can wait for an illusory opportunity, but if the Tokugawa family is destroyed by the Kuroda family, then all hope will be gone.

He was able to endure the killing of his eldest son and wife by order of Oda Nobunaga, and he was able to wait for more than ten years for the opportunity to stay in this Mikawa country, hasn't he always been patient? Should I be patient this time?

This time, the battle of the Kuroda family did not go well, and even if there were fierce generals such as the Imate Tomoji clan who fought in front and killed many of the Tokugawa family's generals, it was difficult to shake the spirit of the Samurai of Mikawa Province.

In this case, the Kuroda family army has been fighting with the Tokugawa family for two hours before finally achieving the final victory, and the Tokugawa family's 10,000 army ended up dead or wounded 3 or 4,000 people, which is a high battle loss ratio.

You must know that in this era, it is possible to face the possibility of the collapse of the entire army with only less than 10% casualties, and the collapse of the Tokugawa army's army did not occur until the loss of nearly 40% is already a very remarkable achievement.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was escorted by more than 2,000 elites, and quickly retreated, and naturally there were loyal subordinates to Tokugawa Ieyasu as the palace army, and at the same time he completely handed over his back road to Torii Tadahiro, who guarded Ushida Castle.

Torii Tadahiro himself is also a fierce general of the Tokugawa family, and his brother Torii Mototada fought for the Tokugawa family and Ichijo in the battle of the Tokugawa family, and died in that battle.

In other words, Torii Tadahiro's brother indirectly died at the hands of the Kuroda family, so Tokugawa Ieyasu was very relieved to hand over the back road to him. After all, he has an enmity with the Kuroda family, and only when he has a grudge against the Kuroda family can he engage in a fierce battle with them.

The Kuroda family's pursuers pursued the Tokugawa family's army, and when they arrived at Ushida Castle, they found that the gates were closed and the entire Tokaido road had been cut off.

However, what even the Iate Tomoshi didn't expect was that Tadahiro Torii of Ushida Castle would directly open the gate and surrender to the Kuroda family. This also means that Tokugawa Ieyasu originally had high hopes and was able to block the Kuroda family for a period of time, but it was completely given to the Kuroda family, which Tokugawa Ieyasu could not have imagined at all.

Although Tadahiro Torii is a fierce general, and he looks a little reckless on the surface, he is actually not stupid at all in his heart, and the reason why he did this is to protect his family.

Don't look at his brother for Tokugawa Ieyasu to die, but he can't do this, he is now the only adult figure in the family, and he must plan more for his family. In this case, submission to the Kuroda family is obviously his only option.

And this time Tokugawa Ieyasu easily handed over such an important, but very dangerous task to himself, to be honest, he was a little unhappy in his heart, why did he know that there were not many men in the bird's house, and let himself come to the aftermath? If he dies, even if he can resist the attack of the Kuroda family, even if the bird family can gain a lot of merits, but who will inherit all this? Could it be those half-grown children who haven't grown up yet?

It was based on this consideration that he did not hesitate to surrender directly to the Kuroda family, and directly handed over the back road of the Tokugawa family to the Kuroda family, so that the army of the Kuroda family could continue to pursue closely behind the Tokugawa family, until the foot of Yashiki Castle.

When he saw that the Kuroda family came to Yashiki Castle at such a fast speed, Matsudaira Kiyomune, as a guard, was also nervous, he didn't expect the Kuroda family's speed of action to be so fast, but when he learned that it was Torii Tadahiro, who was the former Ushida Castle guard, who directly surrendered to the Kuroda family, he knew how serious the matter was.

But even so, he is confident that he will be able to withstand the Kuroda family's attack for a while. He now has a thousand men under his command, and although this thousand men and horses are not the elite of the Tokugawa family, at least the number is placed here, and it can be used to defend the city.

Yasaki Castle was built very firmly as a barrier to the castle, and although it was only a flat castle, the entire castle was built very closely to facilitate external defense.

There weren't many places between Honmaru and Ninomaru that would be conducive to the invasion, and the military facilities were tightly structured and were completely a fort for defense.

In addition, a lot of small turrets were built densely in the city of Kinzaki Castle to strengthen the defense system of the entire city.