Chapter 11: The Destruction of the Takeda Family
It is the general that Kuroda Vocational High School mentioned to Kuroda Yoshitaka before, the first barrier of the Takeda family in Shinano Country, and also their sect, Yoshimasa Kiso, surrendered to the Kuroda family without hesitation.
The reason why Yoshitaka Kuroda said ignorantly at that time that the Kiso family was a loyal servant of the Takeda family was because he didn't know a lot of inside information.
For example, Kuroda Vocational High School had already sent Yamamoto Takatsu to the Kiso family, as well as the Anayama family, and the Koyamada family carried out their own adjustments, and also sent him to the Sanada family to convey Sanada Masayuki's letter of persuasion.
The Kiso family was the first to go to Ryūquan Yamamoto, and the first to decide to submit to the Kuroda family, and it is really hard to say how loyal they are to the Takeda family.
At least when the Kuroda family's Yamamoto Takaquan came to the Kiso family, Kiso Yoshimasa was completely welcoming, not disgusted, which shows that he was not resistant to the Kuroda family, and he was not so loyal to the Takeda family.
Later, the Sanada family, whose territory spanned Ueno and Shinano, also expressed their submission to the Kuroda family, and at the same time, the head of the Sanada family, Sanada Nobutsuna, who did not die because of the Kuroda family, is said to personally come to Kuroda Castle in Harima Province to surrender to Kuroda Yoshitaka.
After that, the Kuroda family's army of the Ite-tomo clan in Tokaido also entered the territory of the Takeda family. At the same time, the Anayama family, which had been stationed on the border of Suruga Province, and the Koyamada family, which was located at the junction of the Takeda and Hojo families, also announced their submission to the Kuroda family at the same time.
For a while, there was a lot of rumor under the command of the Takeda family, and there were those who directly announced that they had surrendered to the Kuroda family, and there were those who clearly expressed their support for the confrontation between the Takeda family and the Kuroda family, and there were those who had unclear attitudes and ambiguous expressions.
At this time, Takeda Katsuyori showed a trace of his domineering as the head of the Takeda family, and he took the 6,000 army that the Takeda family had finally assembled, gave up the entire resistance to the south, and rushed directly towards Kuroda Toshitaka's army in the west.
After Kuroda Toshitaka's army merged with the Kiso and Sanada families, the number increased by several thousand, and more than 40,000 troops fought a major battle with Takeda Katsuyori at the junction of Kai and Shinano provinces.
In this battle, the Kai people showed an extremely heroic will to resist, and the entire battle lasted for nearly a day, and the result was that the Kai army under Takeda Katsuyori was finally defeated by the Kuroda army. The Kuroda family's army won the war with a casualty ratio of 1,000 killed and 800 self-inflicted.
At the same time, Takeda Katsuyori returned to the castle of Kusakikan with the remaining hundreds of people, and after Kuroda Toshitaka joined the men of the Imate Tomoshi clan, more than 60,000 people launched an attack on the castle.
As you can imagine, in just one day, after fierce resistance, the castle was captured by the Kuroda family, and Takeda Katsuyori and his relatives all died in the castle, and no one survived.
The rest of the relatives of the Takeda family, such as Nobukin Umino and Nobutada Katsuyama, were martyred for the Takeda family as in history, while Nobuyyoshi Yasuda, who fled to the Uesugi family in history, committed suicide directly in the Uesugi family because of the submission of the Uesugi family.
In the end, as Takeda Katsuyori imagined, the entire Takeda family was basically killed and wounded, and only Nishina Morinobu and his three sons and one daughter survived because they were in the Kuroda family.
Nishina Morinobu's daughter is only a few months old now, and Kuroda Vocational High School betrothed her to Kashimaru, the sixth son of Kuroda Vocational High School, who was born to Akoto.
The reason why Kuroda Vocational High School did this is to give the Takeda family a face, and when Kashiwamaru grows up, he will also directly inherit the name of the Takeda family in Kai Province.
After that, although the Takeda family is still a descendant of the Kiyokawa Genji, the Takeda family of Kai Country is no longer a descendant of Silla Saburo Yoshimitsu, but will be Sasaki Minryu, and it is also a branch of the Kuroda family.
As for villains like Katsushi Shibu and Nagasaka Nagakan in history, the Kuroda family did not accept their request to surrender, but secretly executed them under the orders of Kuroda's high office. In this troubled world of the Warring States, it is really not a problem to use various methods to eliminate one or two small families.
During the entire process of the demise of the Takeda family, the people of Kai Province were relatively loyal to the Takeda family, for example, the Hara, Itagaki, Yamagu, and Tsuchiya families that fought with the Takeda family until the end in history all perished along with the Takeda family.
However, the people of Shinano Province and the people of Kitaueno Province, which the Takeda family has been trying to win over in history, have shown extreme disloyalty to the Takeda family, and most of them have basically submitted to the Kuroda family.
This is also a matter of no choice, who calls the Kuroda family powerful, they must pay the corresponding price if they want to be wall grass, even if they let them send their own wives and daughters out, let the Kuroda family enjoy, they have no way, they have to do it, this is the pressure brought to them by the strong Kuroda family.
At the same time, there was another piece of news that the two people, Yunobu Musato and Keiji Goto, who were countering the rebellion in Aizu, successfully suppressed the rebellion of the entire Ashina family with their two thousand-strong teams.
To be honest, the rebellion of the Ashina family was caused by a politically deformed system created by the forces of the Date family and the Satake family, interfering with the Ashina family.
The previous surrender of Ashina Moritaka to the Kuroda family had completely violated the most basic political interests of the pro-Date family and the pro-Satake family, so there was a rebellion like the previous one.
However, the previous judgment was completely initiated by the pro-Satake family's forces, and the strength of the pro-Date family faction is actually the strong side, and the rebellious side is actually not strong in this case.
Goto Kiji was very sad when he learned of his father's death, and he very much hoped to be able to return to the territory of the Kuroda family as soon as possible, because his father's body was now in Gibu Castle in Mino Province, but Goto Kiji was a responsible person, and he knew that he had to complete this mission in order to be able to return to the territory to bury his father in style.
Goto Kiji made a bold idea, Ashina Moritaka led a small number of people to appear in front of the rebels, and attracted the rebels out of the city, and at this time, the two thousand elites of the Kuroda family launched a general attack on the rebels.