Chapter 390: The Great Collapse of Imagawa

Imagawa Yoshimoto's death was like a twelve-level typhoon, when Oda Nobunaga carried Imagawa Yoshimoto's head to show off his martial arts, the remnants of the Imagawa family samurai in the battlefield chose to use their own ways to kill the lord, Yamada Shinemon had successfully escaped, and when he learned the news that the lord was killed, he only returned to the battlefield and rushed to Oda Nobunaga's main camp and died heroically.

After the death of Matsui Munenobu, all his people spilled blood on the battlefield, and the battle dead included most of the essence of the Imagawa family, Imagawa Yoshimoto's uncle Kamohara Clan, brother-in-law Asai Masatoshi, nephew Higano Tadada, Suruga flag head Miura Yoshiyoshi, military director Yoshida Yoshiyoshi, banner director Anhara Motomasa, diplomatic director Ichinomiya Sono, rear banner leader Katsuyama Nagaga, gun director Izu Motori, left reserve general Okashi Nagadai, pioneer general Asahina Hide, former reserve general Fujieda Aki, Katsuyama Motokiyo, Ejiri kinyo, Matsui Munobu, Kuno Motomune, Ii Naomori, Yubi Zhengxin and so on.

In this war, the Oda army won a total of 3,000 heads, and there were more than 60 people in the Imagawa family with a surname, each of these people was a powerful samurai at the level of a city lord, and there were more than 1,000 Imagawa samurai who could be counted.

The name of Oda Nobunaga in this surprise attack brought him to the forefront of history, allowing him to rank among the first-rate military generals, and the Oda family gained not only a victory or 3,000 heads, but the head of Tokaido's first Yutori and Suruga lord Imagawa Yoshimoto, and his death heralded the irrepressible decline of the Imagawa family, and the Tokaido dominance system that the Imagawa family had painstakingly managed for generations would also face collapse.

Oda Nobunaga lived up to expectations. After the battle of Barrel Sasama is over, take advantage of the victory and pursue. Taking advantage of the spread of news of Imagawa Yoshimoto's death in Barrel Sayama, a full-scale attack was launched on the territory of Owari. Soon the army attacked the castle, and Kira Yoshiyasu, who had already been frightened by the news of his father-in-law's death, hastily withdrew to Tojo Castle under the escort of the retainers of the Bandai family.

However, Kondo Keiharu, the lord of the castle, was killed in battle, and Shigehara Castle surrendered on the spot when he saw the Oda army killed, and the Tsushima naval army Hattori Tomosada, who assisted in blocking the sea route, also returned to his lair, but left Okabe Motonobu, who had finally held Narumi Castle, in place, and after learning the news of the death of his lord Imagawa Yoshimoto, this brave general not only did not have a nervous breakdown. On the contrary, the courage of blood qi broke out, and the Oda army was beaten several times and three times.

No matter how many waves of samurai came from the Oda family to persuade them to surrender, they all bombed away, perhaps moved by Okabe Motonobu Yongwu Tadayoshi, of course, it is more likely that he was unwilling to waste time on this fortified city, Oda Nobunaga gave him a reason that he could not refuse, in exchange for the demand for the surrender of Narumi Castle in exchange for the return of the head of Imagawa Yoshito.

In the end, Okabe Motonobu respectfully held the head of Imagawa Yoshimoto, and withdrew from Narumi Castle safely with hundreds of remnants of a hundred battles. and beheaded the head of the remaining city general Mizuno Nobukin before slowly retreating to Sunfu City.

Yoshimoto Imagawa's saber. The origin of this sword is quite tortuous, and it is a gift from Takeda Shintora to Takeda Shintora when Takeda Shintora went to Luo, and then after the end of the Hanakura Rebellion, when Imagawa Yoshimoto became Takeda Nobuta's son-in-law, he was transferred to Imagawa Yoshimoto by Takeda Shintora.

The three masters of this knife did not end well, the first master Miyoshi Sozo held this knife for a long time, looking at this knife is called "Sosan", you can know that the time in his hands has some thoughts, Miyoshi Sozo also broke with Miyoshi Nagasei shortly after, and was finally killed by Miyoshi Nagakei in the Battle of Eguchi.

The second master, Takeda Shintora, was only in his hands for less than two or three years, and was exiled to Suruga by his sister-in-law Takeda Harunobu soon after.

As for the third master, Imagawa Yoshimoto also cherished this famous knife after getting it, and it didn't take long to name this knife "Yoshimoto Left Script", so he fell into a miserable situation in a different place between the barrels, and the bizarre life of this knife is really weird, and no one can not be worried.

It's just that Oda Nobunaga is a person who believes in fate, and he doesn't care about this kind of god-like chatter at all, not only does he not care about this kind of proverb and the like, but he also likes this Sosanzuo script very much, and soon engraved a line on this Yoshimoto left text "On the 19th day of the seventh month of the first year of Eiroku, Yoshimoto asked to capture and engrave the sword held by Oda Owari Nobunaga", claiming that Owari Mamoru may be to satisfy his vanity.

When Oda Nobunaga opened the victory and pursued the victory, a group of terrified samurai at the other end of the battlefield were desperately fleeing, Imagawa Yoshimoto's right-hand man Matsudaira Motoyasu with the remnants of more than 1,000 ashigaru, fled from Odaka Castle in a panic on the night of Imagawa Yoshimoto's death, fortunately it was late at that time, and the Oda family stared at the fleeing Imagawa army to let them escape smoothly, even so he still didn't dare to carry more things, and even threw down the baggage and pack horses that had worked so hard to transport to Odaka Castle, The arduous trek back to Mikawa along the edge of the battlefield.

Matsudaira Motoyasu was panicked in his heart, obviously the Oda family's army had not yet caught up, but he had already scared his face, maybe he was too young to lack experience and too little, in short, he was worried that his "Imagawa Yoshimoto's son-in-law" would become the focus of the Oda family, he didn't have a big brand like Kira Yoshiyasu, and he didn't have a younger brother who was Megatron to support him, in case this Oda Nobunaga couldn't remember that there was a playmate of "Takechiyo on the bank of the Shonai River" in the past, wouldn't he have died unjustly.

In the past, there was a big tree in the Imagawa family, and he finally landed a big tree to enjoy the shade, and several years of painstaking drilling camp also broke the reputation in the system of the Imagawa family, as long as he continued to maintain this rhythm, there was no problem with mixing with the old family of the spectrum and even the flag head of the Mikawa country, but Imagawa Yoshimoto's death barrel narrowly became another situation, the Imagawa family is finished and not saved, why shouldn't he himself be finished and not saved?

The more I thought about it, the more scared I was, the more I was afraid, the more I thought about it, and finally thought that Matsudaira Motoyasu was a bit of a bull, and ran all the way to hide in the Bodhi Temple of his ancestors for generations outside Okazaki City.

At the moment of life and death, the presiding officer of the Big Tree Temple, ascending to the heavenly room, suddenly appeared, pointed at Matsudaira Motoyasu and shouted: "Since you know that this is the Bodhi Temple dedicated to your ancestors, why don't you want to glorify your ancestors, but when you encounter a strong enemy, you only care about the troubles of breaking the moment, but you don't think about the continuation of the ancestral inheritance passed on to you by your ancestors, what face do you have to go to Huangquan Hirazaka to meet your ancestors like this?" It is important to know that everyone longs to leave the filthy land, but how many people really have the determination and perseverance to go to the Pure Land? ”

Inspired by the praise of the heavenly room, Matsudaira Motoyasu gave up the foolish idea of suicide and rushed back to Okazaki Castle with more than 1,000 elites on the same day, at this time the Imagawa defenders in Okazaki Castle had already retreated to Suruga, and he gave it to him for nothing, and that night he ordered his retainers to make a new flag seal, with the words "disgusted with the filthy land, and happy for the pure land". (To be continued......)

PS: I discussed it with you today, and when it comes to Oda Nobunaga's hanging, and Imagawa Yoshimoto's death is too outrageous, in the end, I am not familiar with the military strategy of sitting in Junfu for more than 20 years, and I don't have to worry about everything in the past, and when Taiyuan Xuezhai dies, I will cause a big leak, don't say how normal a summer storm is, he didn't take it into account, just say that if he didn't go out of the city, he relied on the 5000 main formation to guard the city and wait for victory, Oda Nobunaga didn't have any tricks at all.