On the twelfth day of July in the first year of Eiroku, on this hot day in the middle of summer, Imagawa Yoshimoto led an army of 25,000 to embark on his journey to Shangluo, in his eyes, Owari Province was as easy as digging for things, Oda Nobuhide, an Owari nouveau riche who was beaten by him and had no power to fight back, had to die depressed, and his son of Owari Big Fool was even more unscrupulous, and he was worthy of leading Owari Ichikoku even more stupidly? Imagawa Yoshimoto sighed, it is really chaotic in the world, and people's hearts are not ancient.

If you want to say that he is proud, just look at his expression, and if he has nothing to do, he hums the music and compares the demeanor of Minamoto Yoritomo when he was in Shangluo, he feels that he is worse than that distant ancestor, but if it is not half a point in terms of self-confidence and morale, how proud and proud the samurai of the Imagawa family are, the name of the Suruga Hero represents great charm, and perhaps in the near future their lord will become the new ruler and rule the world on behalf of His Royal Highness.

Dressed in light blue, the large armor carved with the image of the moonlight Bodhisattva in front of the breastplate, which is a high-grade imitation of the moon armor, wearing the eight dragons five pockets on the head is also an imitation of the eight dragon armor of the Ashikaga shogun's family, the real armor is neither available nor convenient to wear, the greater significance of the old armor is to show the glory of the ancestors.

Wearing a red brocade array of feathers, waist and crotch Peizong Sanzuo characters, riding on the tassel gold saddle of the green skull, showing off his martial arts boasting of the prestige of the Imagawa family for hundreds of years, with the overwhelming arrogance of the overlord between Gu Pan, it is nothing more than that he will be so proud, he is indeed worthy of the reputation of the overlord of Tokaido.

Now that Takeda and Hojo have been suppressed by Echigo, they can't hold their heads up, and the news from Echigo shows that Kira Yoshishi was not prepared to go south during the year, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It also coincided with the strong period when the Imagawa family rectified government affairs and established the law of division of the country, straightening out the strong period when the people of the Yuanjiang and Mikawa countries were full of ambition and preparing to exert their strength, and it was not easy to wait for the Kira family to clean up the enemies behind them at this time.

Imagawa Yoshimoto's decision on Kamiraku's mind is very simple, the so-called Kamiraku into Beijing is fake, only the capture of Owari is true, I can't remember how long ago he coveted the richness of Owari Province for a long time, maybe it was Oda Nobuhide, the illegal nouveau riche who left too deep an impression on him, a local tyrant-like people actually rose to become the overlord of Owari in more than ten years, with an army of 15,000 everywhere to show off his might, and also in the first Kodozaka Battle made the Imagawa family suffer a loss, even with Suruga's wealth, it is difficult to withstand the wealth of Owari. To say that one is not tempted is absolutely false.

Since the capture of Mikawa nine years ago. In recent years, his attack has indeed achieved certain results, including the lord of Narumi Castle, Yamaguchi Kyotsugu, and the people of the Owari border country have changed banners to serve the Imagawa family, relying on the strong strength of the Imagawa family to eat away at the vitality of Owari little by little.

However, Master Taiyuan Xuezhai suddenly passed away and disrupted the arrangement. The invasion, which should have been launched two years ago, has been delayed until today. Now is also a good time to go to Luo. Strive to sweep Owari as quickly as possible, strive to complete the initial annexation of Owari before the autumn harvest, and at least capture the lower four prefectures even lower. With Atsuta Town and Tsushima in his hands, and having seen the Kira family's methods in Kyoto, Imagawa Yoshimoto also paid more attention to the accumulation of economic power.

This time, he did his best to attack Owari with 25,000 troops, and promulgated many legal entries before sending out his troops, first of all, prohibiting noisy noise, strictly prohibiting indiscriminate hunting and hunting, and ordered the Oi Sweep Department to be responsible for the transportation of small packers, and after everything was arranged, it was a boring thing to march from Junfu, and it was a boring thing for the 25,000-strong army to march around, and it was already July 16 for the procrastination to arrive at Okazaki Castle from Sunfu, and it was two days before they arrived at the border of Mikawa.

The head of the flag warrior Hisanoshi came on a horse, and reported loudly: "My lord, ahead is the castle!" There is no sign of Oda Army activity in the vicinity, so please let it be announced! ”

"Half a year! Defend the formation for your own family and you can't do your part, and leave the errands to the retainers to do! ”

Imagawa Yoshimoto's words of concern made the Kuno clan excited, he was the son of the lord of Suruga Ejiri Castle, and his mother was the eldest sister of Imagawa Yoshimoto, and at a young age, he replaced his father Kuno Soheng as the lord of Ejiri Castle, as one of the trusted Miyuo of Imagawa Yoshimoto, this time he served as the front guard of Imagawa Yoshimoto's safety.

In the evening of the same day, he entered the main camp of the Imagawa army and entered the Owari Castle and convened a military meeting on the same night, and Imagawa Yoshimoto stared at this familiar battle map, and laughed: "This Oda Dan is so loyal that he is a smart man, and he actually knows how to divide the construction of the castle to isolate the communication between Narumi Castle and Dagao Castle and Hung Castle, and only then cannibalize Narumi Castle little by little, and then capture Dagao Castle and Danghang Castle in one fell swoop, the strategy is very good!" It's not like a big fool can come up with it. ”

Imagawa Yoshimoto's uncle, the lord of Kambara, the young master of the Kambara Palace, said: "Maybe it's the strategy of his genealogy family, but the Oda family still has some old ministers from the time of the Kodozaka War, and it seems that there is a Shibata Katsuya and Lin Xiuzhen, presumably this strategy is the handiwork of these two!" ”

As early as after the end of the battle of Muraki, Oda Nobunaga built five castles near Narumi Castle where Yamaguchi Kyotsugu kyotsu, such as Tange, Zenshoji, Nakajima, Marune, and Washizu, and sent the generals Sakuma University Morishige, Oda Genbo Yun Nobuhei, Iio Omi Moritune, Iio Nobumune, Mizuno Obito Tadamitsu, Sakuma Nobumori, and Ogawa Kazuhide each led hundreds of soldiers from their headquarters to defend five castles, among which Tange, Zenshoji, and Nakajima were responsible for surrounding the vanguard Okabe Motoshin in Narumi Castle, so that the Imagawa family could not advance or retreat.

Yubi Misaku Shoumasanobu exclaimed: "What a plan, if my Imagawa army detours to the north and then turns to Cheongzhou, not only will it be very difficult to turn and it will be very unfavorable to the supply of the army, but if it advances to the west, it will have to face the castle group set by the Oda family, and it will take time and effort to attack the city, and maybe it will depend on the autumn harvest, and at that time, our army will not be able to attack the corporal for a long time, and the soldier will definitely retreat without a fight, and the crisis of the attack will be naturally resolved!" What a strategy! ”

Asahina Shinji reminded: "If we ignore the five and attack forward, the rear supply is really worrying, and we must be careful that the Oda family uses a similar strategy to the battle of Muraki, and raid our army's rear road across the sea through Mikawa Bay, once the big high castle and the hanging castle are lost, we will have little room to retreat!" This strategy is to force us to settle down and fight a siege war with him, which shows the terrible thoughtfulness of the person who set up this strategy. The lord must not be guarded against! ”

Asahina Shinji's reminder made the Imagawa family retainers deeply convinced, although they looked down on the Oda family, the Owari nouveau riche, but they couldn't underestimate their strategy, no one in this world was more stupid than anyone else, in case the Oda family adopted a surprise attack on the Muraki style tactics to attack Odaka Castle, and then landed to take the opportunity to hang the castle to cut off the supply and retreat of the Imagawa side, it really seemed that there was no place to be buried.

"Do you think they can hold on for two months?" Imagawa Yoshimoto smiled noncommittally, and many of his ministers also laughed loudly, and after a while he said: "But Suruga Mamoru is right, first stabilize the rear and then attack slowly, and within a few days all these five disturbing castles must be uprooted!" ”

In Cheongju City, which is dozens of kilometers away from the city. But he was worried about Imagawa Yoshimoto's big attack. This Imagawa Yoshimoto's large-scale invasion was completely unexpected, and according to his plan, he used the siege of the five pillars to uproot all the Imagawa family's forces in Owari, and then tried to reach peace with the Imagawa family, but he didn't want this move to attract a large-scale attack by the Imagawa army. He thought it was a mistake on his own strategy. Constantly reviewing one's own radicalism should not be so careless.

This spring, he swaggered to Kyoto with 500 elites. On the way, he was sniped by an unknown iron gunner, but the power and crosshair of the iron cannon in this era were very poor, and a shot fifty meters away not only did not hit anyone, but even the lead bullet did not fly so far, and he did not know where it fell. After the samurai of the Oda family captured and killed this person, they found out that it was Saito Yoshiryu's henchman samurai, and the annoyance in his heart was overflowing.

After a lot of hard work, he finally met the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and offered gifts and money in the hope of seeking a decent official position in the imperial court and the service of Owari Guardian, but it was a pity that this shogun saw him as an Owari tyrant, and coldly glanced at the narration of Spo Yoshigin's mistakes from the country samurai crown spring, and expressed how much he was in line with the meaning of the countrymen to replace Spo as Owari Guardian.

It is conceivable what he can get, two thousand Guan Yongle money smashed out only to recall one and five under the bullet Zheng Shaozhong and then planned to send him away, but Oda Nobunaga where is willing to leave, wandering for a few days and enduring the anger in his chest and proposing that he intends to attack Mino, hoping to get the support of the shogunate, he was even more ridiculed by the shogunate ministers, saying that he was a local tyrant in the countryside who dared to boast of the merits of the sky to win the end of the war against Mino, it was simply shameless and lawless, and he was driven back to Obari in a few words.

Oda Nobunaga, who was greatly humiliated, no longer believed in the so-called famous family, and it was not his fault that he was a member of the Tabobe clan, and his father called himself the Fujiwara clan, and he called himself the Taira clan, wasn't it all in an effort to cater to the shogunate and the trend of the whole world? Why do you want to ridicule him so coldly and meanly?

After returning home after being humiliated in the shogunate and facing the large-scale attack of Imagawa Yoshimoto, this evil breath pressed on his heart made him feel unprecedented anger, and there were only a few paths in front of him: the first one, donate all his family inheritance to completely surrender the Imagawa family, in exchange for the opportunity to steal a living, but it is difficult to say whether his face is as popular as the Kira family, and it is impossible to say that he will not get the death of Sunfu's house arrest, so the family is ruined and Owari has become the meal on the plate of the Imagawa family.

The second one, abandon Wuqi to the Imagawa family to express that he has no intention of fighting the enemy, and then hide in Qingzhou City to survive and steal, expecting a ten-thousandth of the heavenly fortune to make Imagawa Yoshimoto suddenly have a head cramp, with an army of 25,000 to go home for the autumn harvest, but in this way, the prestige he has painstakingly accumulated will be ruined, such as Inuyama Castle's Oda Nobukiyo will definitely jump out to challenge him as the governor, and then the Imagawa family will mention the army to kill him, and there will be no way out for him to choose.

Third, stick to the fortress and grit his teeth until the autumn harvest and wait for the Imagawa army to retreat by itself, but he himself is very unconfident whether he can hold on for so long, the army guarding the five castles is only nearly 2,000 people, and the average distribution of a castle is only a few hundred, but the face is the attack of the 25,000 troops of the Imagawa family, in case there is a problem in one ring, it will be a loss.

The last and most dangerous one, strictly ordered the five to defend the city, and he took all the troops around the rear to attack the Imagawa army, as long as they broke through a while, there may be a chance to turn the tables, but since his father lost his troops in the Battle of Kana Pass and the Battle of Kodosaka, most of the elite divisions in Owari Province have been broken, and the remaining little essence has withered in the subsequent process of Owari unification, and the total number of troops he can use is less than 5,000 people, half of which are scattered in the north of Owari to guard the northern gate of Kiyoshu, and among the five pillars in the south.

"Is it to fight for luck, or to stick to luck?" Oda Nobunaga walked around anxiously, not knowing how to make a decision.

After Imagawa Yoshimoto made a decision, the Imagawa genealogy retainers quickly came up with a set of detailed and appropriate attack plans, and gave orders to Narumi Castle Daiokabe Motoshin and Daitaka Castle Daiucan Nagashi to hold the castle and at the stall of the main attack on Goto, properly cooperate with the raid on Goto, and ensure that the castle was captured as soon as possible, Matsudaira Motoyasu was assigned the task of transporting military rations to Otaka Castle, and Asahinatai led 3,000 vanguard meritorious Marone and Washizu Tsu, and was responsible for quickly establishing a direct passage to Dataka Castle.

Perhaps Imagawa Yoshimoto felt that victory was in his hands, so he sent several armies scattered everywhere to monitor the movements of the Oda army, and he took 5,000 honjin to guard the castle and enter the mountain without moving, his choice was indeed right, 25,000 men to fight the defenders who were less than 2,000 and scattered in the five castles was as easy as pinching mud.

When Matsudaira Motoyasu successfully completed the task of transporting grain, he led 1,200 troops to attack Marone in three directions at the same time, a small castle with only Sakuma Moritge and 300 guards, in the face of four times his own strong enemy barely resisted the attack of Otemon, but the flank wall and the gate were exposed, and finally insisted on two hours unfortunately the whole army was annihilated, at the same time, the Asahinai Tai Dynasty, which had a large army, also captured Washizu Castle, and the defenders Oda Genbo Yoshinobu and Iio Seizun were both killed.

At the same time, Suruga's naval forces also launched another attack on Kanie Castle in Kaisai-gun, Owari to capture the castle adjacent to Ise Bay without warning, which was the first step in Imagawa Yoshimoto's plan to seize the mouth of Owari to ensure the safety of the flanks and at the same time form an effective deterrent to Tsushima.

In the evening of the same day, Sakuma sent a messenger to ask for help, and the Oda family genealogy retainers could no longer resist standing up and asking for a military meeting, at which Shibata Katsuie, Mori Kasei, and Ikeda Tsuneko were determined to fight to the death to live up to the name of the samurai, Niwa Nagahide, Murai Sadakatsu and others insisted on holding the cage castle, and Hayashi Hidesada and Arao Yoshiji suggested that the Imagawa family should be surrendered first in order to slow down the map.

Some of the retainers fought and some surrendered, no matter what kind of suggestion they held, the Imagawa family, who was known as an army of 40,000, could not make up their minds, and the quarrel did not end until late at night, and many samurai withdrew for various reasons, Oda Nobunaga looked at them calmly and sighed: "It's all gone!" When the martial arts are exhausted, the mirror of wisdom will also be covered with dust! (To be continued......)

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