Sagami country, Odawara Castle.

Odawara Castle was originally a castle built by the Sagami-wealthy Omori family, and after the Hojo clan seized the castle, after three generations of family governors made great efforts, Odawara Castle was built into the world's most difficult and invincible fortress.

In the fourth year of Eiroku, the Hojo family relied on this castle to withstand the siege of 100,000 Kwantung coalition troops.

The design of Odawara Castle is contrary to the design of Japanese castles in this era, which only besieged the castle.

At that time, this design was called the general structure, which included the castle town of Odawara in its entirety.

In Nobunaga's ambition, the design that encompasses the castle town in this way is called Hojo's special technology, and after research, it can be studied to achieve the effect of zero consumption of military food in the castle during a defensive battle.

This is, of course, nonsense.

However, after including the castle town, Odawara Castle was definitely the second largest in Japan in this era. (The first is Kyoto in name only)

In fact, Odawara Castle Town is also the largest castle town in the Kanto region.

At that time, the situation in Odawara Town was described, and it was mentioned that townspeople and craftsmen from all over the country, as well as from the western and northern countries, gathered here. Although Kamakura is within reach?

It means that it is a prosperous place, and it is better than Kamakura, the center of the samurai family.

The population of the town reached 100,000, a figure that was only comparable to that of Kyoto at the time.

In addition, the port near Odawara Town was often visited by ships from the Ming Kingdom, and there was a special place for the people of the Ming Kingdom to live in the town, which was the 'Chinatown' at that time.

Therefore, the Takeda army besieging Odawara Castle was shocked when they saw this giant city.

Just like when the Uesugi army besieged the castle.

The Takeda Army was first attacked by Naito Masatyo and Baba Nobubo, while the Hojo Army did not defend it and met it outside the city.

The two sides fought fiercely, and the Hojo army was defeated by Naito, one of the four kings of Takeda, and the two of them retreated into the city.

However, the Takeda army was helpless in the face of Odawara's fortified castle, and when it attacked the castle, it was repelled by iron cannon bows and arrows, and returned in vain.

In fact, Takeda Shingen's tactics this time were the center of flowering, although it went deep into the hinterland of the Hojo family, but several heavy garrison cities of the Hojo family in the rear of Musashi Kingdom, such as Takiyama Castle and Bowl Castle, were guarded by the Hojo clan and the Hojo clan, all of which were in the control of the Hojo family.

Therefore, if you go deep into the enemy's territory, the grain road in the rear cannot be unblocked, so you can't hold it for a long time under the city.

The Hojo Army was stationed in Izu, and the tens of thousands of troops in Suruga were also rushing back to the defense, reinforcing the castle, and preparing to attack the Takeda army under the castle inside and outside.

Therefore, from the beginning, Takeda Shingen did not plan to capture Odawara Castle.

After attacking Odawara Castle for three days, and after giving the Hojo family sufficient warning, Shingen canceled the siege of Odawara Castle on October 4 and ordered Takeda Katsuyori to lead his army to retreat.

On the way back to Kai, Takeda Shingen visited the Hachimangu Shrine in Tsuruoka, the home temple of the Kiyokawa Genji family.

As we all know, the Hachiman Damyojin is the guardian deity of the Kiyokawa Genji, and in the 6th year of Kanghei (1063 AD), the second generation of the Kawachi Genji clan moved the Hachiman Daimyo from the original worship of the Ishishimizu Hachiman Palace to the Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace.

The Minamoto Yoritomo Dynasty founded the Kamakura Shogunate, and Kamakura became the center of the samurai, and the Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine gradually replaced the Ishishimizu Hachimangu Shrine and became the place where the patron saints of the entire Kanto samurai were located, and it was also a gate dedicated to the ancestors of the Genji Martial Sect.

In the Hachiman Palace in Hegang, there are many scenery with allusions.

The white flag shrine in the Hatagamiya shrine, the white flag enshrined in it, is the flag of the Gentai clan in the Battle of Genpei (Genji raises the white flag, Taira raises the red flag).

The source of the pond, according to legend, was dug by the first general Minamoto Yorito, the main room of the Hojo Masako, in the pond there are three islands in the Minamoto family, and there are four islands in the Heike family, which represent the meaning of "birth" and "death" respectively.

The dance hall in Hachimangu Shrine is said to be the palace where Minamoto Yoshitsune's concubine Jing was forced to dance.

Jing Yuqian and Kiso Yoshinaka's concubine Ba Gozen are both beauties of the same name when Genpei was fighting.

At that time, he made great contributions for the Genji clan in the Genpei Battle and defeated the Taira clan, and the high merit of the main Minamoto Yoshitsune was pursued and killed by his brother Minamoto Yorito, and his concubine Jing Gozen was unfortunately captured and escorted to Go-Kamakura, where she was ordered to perform a dance at Hachimangu Palace.

At that time, Jing Yuqian, who was already pregnant, danced and sang the song "Snow White Yoshino Peak, the beloved man went into the forest, the figure is inconspicuous in the forest, and the two places are lovesick in the past and present", which expresses the feeling of missing her husband and the unyielding meaning of the source Yoritomi. …,

Minamoto Yoritomo was furious when he heard the song, and was finally persuaded to retire by his wife Hojo Masako, but later the son of Jing Yu's former womb was still killed by Minamoto Yorito.

And there is a large ginkgo tree planted in front of the shrine.

At the beginning, the second son of the second Kamakura general, Minamoto Yoriya, hid in the shade of a tree, and when Minamoto Yoritomo, the grandson of Minamoto Yoritomo, the third general of Kamakura, visited the shrine, he was beheaded, and Gongxiao was also executed afterwards.

Minamoto Shichao, Gongxiao died, but forced to die Gen Yoshitsune, and the Kamakura general Minamoto Yorito, the son of Jing Yumae, has also been extinct since then.

At this point, Minamoto Yorito's wife, the Hojo clan of Hojo Masako, officially took control of the Kamakura shogunate.

And Takeda Shingen personally visited the Hachiman Shrine in Tsuruoka, and prayed in front of the Great Myojin of Hachiman that the Takeda family would have a long martial luck and that his ambition to ascend to Luo would be successful.

After the visit, Takeda Shingen officially led the army back to Kai.

Along the way, Hojo Shiyasu sent the general Kenhide Matsuda to pursue him from behind.

Katsuyori Takeda and Kenhide Matsuda fought several times to cover the retreat of the Takeda army.

However, at this time, the news that the Hojo clan had returned to the Takeda Army was spread to the Hojo Army in various places.

On the orders of Hojo Shiyasu, the Hojo clan of the Koshu subdistrict garrison army and the Hojo clan of the Chichibu garrison, they led an army of 20,000 to Mizen Pass on the main road between Kai and Sagami, and set up a formation to block the Takeda army from returning to Kai.

Due to the fear that the Hojo clan was not a match for Takeda Shingen, the Hojo clan also sent the first general of the Hojo family, the Rehmannia Hachimandenu, Hojo Tsunari, and his yellow Bei to assist the second son to block the Takeda army.

On the other hand, Hojo Shiyasu, Hojo Clan's father and son had just met, and the 20,000 troops who had rushed back from Izu pursued the Takeda Army behind, preparing to attack Takeda Shingen at Mitsuna, and the clan was in Mitsuna.

In the twelfth year of Yonglu, on the sixth day of the tenth month.

Takeda Shingen's 20,000-strong army rushed to Mimasudo Pass.

Here, the Takeda Army sensed that the Hojo Army was about to make a move, and Takeda Shingen ordered Naito Masatyo, and the two generals of Asarishi Shingo to guard the baggage team, Takeda Katsuyori, and Baba Nobubo each led the reserve team to guard the left and right sides of the mountain road, and Yamaguchi Masakai led the Red Reserve Army to respond to the guerrilla army.

After making the above preparations, Takeda Shingencai Uesu Kohata family, Kohata Nobusada Kohata Akabei as the forward, and the main force began to climb over Mizen Pass.

After the main force crossed the Mizen Pass, when it was the turn of the baggage team, there were difficulties, and the baggage team of Naito Masatoyo and Asarishi Nobune trekked through the mountain road with difficulty, and due to the terrain, the army could not be deployed, and it was in a disadvantageous state that was vulnerable to attack.

And the generals of the Hojo family, led by the rehmannia Hachiman Hojo Tsunari, keenly captured this fighter.

Hojo Tsusunari was the first to lead his yellow bei and launched a fierce attack on the baggage troops of the Takeda army trapped in the mountain passes.

For a while, under the Mizen Pass, there were all the yellow equipment of the Hojo Army with the yellow flag of rotten leaves.

Hojo Tsunari broke into the Takeda Army's baggage formation, and the army of Naito Masatyo and Asari Nobune was under the offensive of Hojo Tsunashi, and they suddenly fell into a bitter battle.

And the Baba Nobubo, Takeda Katsuyori's team, which was supposed to support on both sides, was also attacked by the Hojo army led by the Hojo clan and the two clans, and they were unable to help the baggage team for a while.

Seeing that the baggage team was tight, Takeda Shingen immediately ordered Mieda Moritomo and Sone Uchisho to lead the army to support, and at the same time ordered Yamayama Masakai to lead Akabei and immediately attack the Hojo Army.

However, under the onslaught of the Hojo Army, the generals of the Takeda Army, Asari Nobune, and Urano Shigehide, who guarded the baggage team, were killed in battle under Hojo Tsunari.

Nobunaga Asari is a famous general of the Takeda family, who has just succeeded the seriously ill Ganli Nobutada, as the castle representative of Minowa Castle, and temporarily acts as the general of the Takeda Army's Nishi-Ueno Army.

Now that he himself was killed in battle, as soon as the news came out, the morale of the Takeda army was shaken.

After the death of Asarishi Nobune, the baggage team almost collapsed, and at this time, the reinforcements of Mieda Mamoru and Sone Uchisho had just arrived, and the two of them fought to the death, so it was easy to resist the onslaught of Hojo Tsunari Yellow Bei.

While the Takeda Army's baggage team was fighting hard, the Red Reserve Army of Yama Prefecture Masakai had already entered the attack position and launched a surprise attack on the Hojo Army.

At the same time, Takeda Shintoyo's team also arrived from the side and launched an offensive on the flank of the Hojo Army.

Yama Shokei divided Chibei into nine teams and arranged them in a wild goose formation to assault the Hojo Army at the foot of the mountain.

In front of Akabi of Yama Prefecture Shokei, none of the Hojo Army was his opponent, and one by one the reserves were broken by him, and finally brewed into a general rout.

The next day, when Hojo Shiyasu and Hojo Masashi led a large army to Mimasu Pass. …,

The Hojo Army was in ruins, and the mountains were littered with dead bodies.

The Takeda Army had already won a great victory and returned to Kai.

Hojo Shiyasu was under Mimasu Pass, after hearing about the war described by his two sons and Hojo Tsunari.

Hojo Shiyasu couldn't help but sigh and said, "Even if I am here in this battle, the battle situation will not change. Under the unfavorable situation, the defeat is the victory, and the letter Xuan Gong is really the first general in the world, and my family is not as good as it. ”

After that, Hojo Shiyasu comforted his two sons, cleaned up the defeated army, and returned to Odawara.

This battle of Sansusudo Pass was also the largest duel between Takeda and Hojo in history, and it was also the largest mountain battle in the Warring States.

The two families dispatched nearly 50,000 troops, with the Takeda army losing 1,000 men in this battle, while the Hojo family lost more than 3,200 people.

After the Suruga Offensive last year, Takeda Shingen attacked the Hojo family twice, both of which dealt a major blow to the Hojo family.

And this time the battle of Mimasudo Pass caused the Hojo family to suffer a crushing defeat.

And after seeing the powerful combat power of the Takeda Army, Hojo Shiyasu also thought in his heart, once he went west by himself, with his sons, would he be the opponent of Takeda Shingen and the invading Takeda Army?

And after Takeda Shingen returned to Kai, he also said to others: "Being able to defeat the clan Kanggong by luck is also something I have never hoped for in my life." ”

After saying that, Takeda Shingen felt that he had sent troops to fight again and again, his body was already very poor, and his tuberculosis was getting more and more serious, and now was the time to consider letting Katsuyori inherit the Takeda family.

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