Chapter 472: The Battle of Norata

Asakura Yoshikage saw that his alliance initiative was completely ineffective and did not convene, and he thought of the rebellion of the countrymen in Takashima County, perhaps because the strength of the Asakura family had already penetrated into the hearts of the samurai in Kinai, and the envoy of Asakura Yoshikage moved many samurai of Takashima County in a few words, except for the Takashima Seven Heads in the county who were always ambiguous, there were quite a few people from all walks of life who listened to the bewitchment of the Asakura family.

Seeing that there was a bit of turmoil and instability in Takashima County, Asakura Yoshikei wrote to his brother-in-law Asai Nagamasa, encouraging him to take this opportunity to launch an invasion of the Rokkaku family.

This request happened to be in the arms of Asai Nagamasa, he had long been eyeing the fat of the Hexagonal family for a long time, especially last year, the straw bag of Hexagonal Yixian was rare and did not coward, in the Luozhong battle, the three good Yixian fought in the dark mountains and rivers changed color, and finally he lost more than 8,000 people and took in a few family elders, which can be described as a great injury.

But when it came to only one symbolic four people as a reward for encouragement, and 5,000 Guan Wen Yongle money as compensation for the loyal and brave dead samurai, the people of the Rokkaku family tree had already been angry with the behavior of the strong prince, but they couldn't get angry at the shogunate government, so only Rokkaku Yoshiken, the unlucky family governor, would be shot.

At the time of the turmoil and chaos in the Rokkaku family, Asai Nagamasa had the idea of taking advantage of your illness to kill you, so he hit it off with the Asakura family and immediately convened the people of the Asai family to discuss the dispatch of troops. But before sending troops, he received information from the Miyoshi family.

Miyoshi Changqing is the initiator of the Triple Alliance and the de facto leader of the alliance. He also expressed his support for his son-in-law Asai Nagamasa to send troops to defeat the Rokkaku family as soon as possible. The support he gave was to send 5,000 troops across the Yodo River to camp in the eastern part of Yamashiro Province, pretending to threaten the left flank of the Rokkaku family, attracting the main force of Rokkaku Yoshiken to not completely turn to the real pressure of the Asai family in the north, and at the same time, Miyoshi Nagakei appointed Matsunaga Hide to burn a fire for his son-in-law's strategy, and this fire was the strategy.

At the beginning of the fifth month of the third year of Eiroku, with the assistance of Matsunaga Hide, he easily returned to Takanose Hidetaka, the lord of Hitian Castle in Aichi County, and his father, Takanose Yorida, was honored by the Rokkaku clan and died heroically, but he did not receive the reward he deserved. Therefore, Hidetaka Takanose has always been dissatisfied with the Rokkaku family.

This dissatisfaction gradually fermented over time, especially when he saw that several old friends and colleagues were either promoted or delegated heavy responsibilities, and it was easy to persuade him to rebel after a few tweaks in the middle of Matsunaga Hide's envoy, and he never thought about whether he could get the reward he needed after the rebellion, many times people are impulsive and blind, and Takano Hidetaka is an impulsive and blind samurai.

He announced that the rebellion against the water and defected to the Asai family, which caused a huge impact, and Rokkaku Yoshiken was angry when he received the news, and he felt that the Rokkaku family was also very good for this, although he did not know how to add the seal, but it was located on the east side of Lake Biwa, and the land was fertile and abundant, which was a good place that many samurai in Omi Koga County could not look forward to.

What's more, Feitian City bears the heavy responsibility of guarding the Guanyin Temple City. It can be said that as long as the governor of the Rokkaku family is not sober, he will never move their clan, and in the eyes of Rokkaku Yoshixian, Takano Se Hidetaka is the most unlikely to have problems. Compared with a few difficult genealogies in his family, the family elder is definitely synonymous with harmlessness to humans and animals.

But such a "good baby" suddenly bared his teeth to himself, and even did not hesitate to take refuge in the Asai family, which became more and more disobedient, which made Rokkaku Yoshiken feel very angry and humiliated, and felt that all the sincere treatment in the past few decades had been fed to the dogs, so he led 15,000 troops to attack Hita Castle without saying a word, and at the same time passed the information to Yamamoto Tokiyuki, who was sitting in Sakamoto, hoping that he would see more than 5,000 nails of the Miyoshi army on the border of Yamashiro country.

Takano Se Hidetaka called for help to the Asai family while holding on to the cage city, but Asai Nagamasa did not make the choice to go out immediately, but gathered troops to stand by in Kotani Castle, and he also took into account the two extremes of the siege in the Warring States Period, either a few days to break the city or a long-term attack without overcoming, worried that he would find that Hita Castle was breached before he arrived at the place, so it was better to wait and see the situation before making adjustments, and by the way, it could also consume the sharp energy of the Rokkaku family.

The action of the Rokkaku family was very fast, Rokkaku Yoshiken led 15,000 troops to quickly surround Hita Castle, Hita Castle in Aichi County was too close to Kannonji Castle in Gamo County, and the Rokkaku Army only took one day to come to the outside of Hita Castle to besiege it, Rokkaku Yoshiken first symbolically sent a messenger to persuade him to surrender, and the persuasion did not achieve a large-scale siege.

However, his siege was still very ingenious, and it can be seen that Rokkaku Yoshiken was a thoughtful governor, and he knew very well that the current form of the Rokkaku family did not allow him to trap Hida Castle on the periphery for a long time, so he ordered the local levy and general service to build a dam around Hita Castle, and introduce the water of the Aichi River and Uso River on the north and south sides of Hita Castle into the embankment, intending to use water to attack the rebellious Takase Hidetaka who trapped the Rokkaku family.

Aichi-gun is also known as Aichi-gun, and one of the characters often appears in different writing methods, such as Kaga, and the Kamogawa River on the east side of Kyoto Castle can be called both Kamogawa and Kamogawa, so Aichi-gun is also called Aichi-gun, and the same is true for Aichikawa and Aichigawa.

His strategy did achieve extraordinary results, the Aichi River and the Uso River happened to surround Hida Castle between the two rivers, and the two rivers had ready-made embankments to use, and it only took 10,000 pu to reluctantly build a high embankment in just one month, and digging the dam on the basis of this embankment and launching a water attack immediately caused a devastating blow to Hitian Castle.

Most of Hita Castle was soaked in the pond, and only Nimaru and above barely escaped the invasion of the flood by virtue of the height of the castle when they were built, and in the face of such huge losses, Takano Se Hidetaka had been cornered, and the more he was so, the more unwilling he was to surrender and admit defeat, because he knew that surrendering at this moment was only a dead end.

His persistence proved to be useful, as June was the rainiest season, when a huge storm swept through Kinai, causing rivers in the Omi region to swell. Heavy downpours for more than ten days caused flooding on the Aichi and Uso rivers. The already impenetrable embankment was quickly washed out of the breach. In turn, the hexagonal army outside the embankment was drowned into a soup chicken.

Hexagonal Yoshixian was almost angry to death, thinking that the agency would succeed after all the calculations, and specially used a set of water attacks to easily clean up the rebellion of Feitian City, but forgot that it was the most important thing of the way, and the flood broke through the newly built and not strong embankment, and rushed into the plain to cause flooding, and the Dazhai of the Hexagonal Army was flooded to the point that many grains and grasses were scrapped.

The failure of the water attack resulted in a lot of losses, and now it is no longer possible to besiege the city. Rokkaku Yoshiken had no choice but to make the decision to retreat, but at this time, Asai Nagamasa personally led 11,000 troops out of Minami Omi, and appeared strongly in front of the Rokkaku Army in a posture of fighting to the death.

Hexagon Yoshiken knew very well that most of the battles in this occasion could not be avoided, but at the moment, the morale of the army was not in order, and how to fight was still a problem, so he had to order the retainers of the family to quickly reinforce the 5,000 troops, these 5,000 people were 5,000 recruits trained by the Hexagon Yoshixian, and the first appearance was a little uneasy about the war.

With the addition of these 5,000 fresh troops, the Rokkaku's army swelled to 20,000 men, and regardless of the loss of morale, food, and grass, at least they still had a certain advantage in numbers, so the two sides faced off near Aichi-gun, until the end of June, when the clouds and rain stopped, revealing clear weather. When the waters receded and the dikes were repaired, the generals on both sides realized that the war was about to begin.

Rokkaku Yoshiken led an army of 20,000 men and stationed on the south bank of the Uso River south of Hida Castle. He also sent Gamo Dingxiu and Nagahara Shigetsu as the vanguard generals to lead 5,000 troops to set up a formation in Norada Township, and behind them entered Fuji Kenmori, Ikeda Keio, Narazaki Iki Mamoru and Tanaka Jibu to fortify the second formation in the second formation.

The Asai army led the formation of 5,000 people on the north bank of the Uso River with Hida Castle as the rear of Hida Castle, and the general Asai Nagamasa led 6,000 people led by Misaku Akazo Seitsuna, Imamura Clan, Anyoji Hide, and Uesaka Punishment Department to be stationed outside Hida Castle as Gojin.

After a few days of restlessness, the young and vigorous Asai Nagamasa decided to launch an attack, and ordered Isono to lead 5,000 troops to cross the Uso River, and the vanguard general of the Roxagonal Army, Gamo Dinghide, decisively seized the precious opportunity of the half-crossing attack to launch a surprise attack, and the 5,000 troops quickly attacked the Asai army that was crossing the river, and the department of the 1000 Uchizasuke was the first to collapse after stubbornly holding on for a while.

At this time, Asai Nagamasa had already opened the signs that the army was about to suffer defeat, and immediately ordered the camp to force Uzeng Chuan to forcibly reverse the situation before the defeat, I have to say that the blood and courage possessed by this young family governor are not at all comparable to his weak father, and the young man dares to think and dare to do the slightest scruple about which is more cost-effective, a small defeat or a defeat of the whole army, that is, I want to attack with you on a hard horse.

The Hexagon Army took this opportunity to play a series of victories, even the Asai family, known as the "No. 1 General of Jiangzhou", Isono Yuanchang had no way, although no one could say how strong Nakajo Tokihide of the Kira family was, but the samurai of the Asai family always thought that the local samurai Isono Yuanchang was definitely the first person to deserve, and Nakajo Tokihide was a native of Mikawa Samurai after all.

At this time, the 5,000 pioneers who crossed the river were chaotic into a pot of porridge, and the ancient trick of half-crossing and attacking naturally would not be lost in this battle, even the strong samurai could not change the overall bad situation, the formation of the Asai army had been torn apart at all, and Isono was forced to retreat after trying his best to defeat the siege of several hexagonal armies with a thousand troops.

Rokkaku Yoshiken didn't expect that he would run into good luck, the young and vigorous Asai Nagamasa dared to force the Uso River in front of him, and Gamo Dingxiu also lived up to expectations and seized this opportunity to bite the first line of the Asai Army to chase and fight, and the formation of the Asai Army on the south bank of the Uso River was completely unable to spread, and even the most powerful samurai were only passively beaten.

In the Lianzhao Temple in the southeast of Yerada Township, Matsunaga Xiu, who was mostly a monk of Youfang, shook his head and sighed, he really had nothing to say about this nominal brother-in-law, and it was simply unreasonable to force the Uzeng River to cross with inferior troops, and what surprised him even more was that the people of the country under the Asai family were willing to listen to the order of this crazy family governor to cross the river even though they were only obeying the nominal Asai family, and they really didn't know what kind of force made these people willing to be so obedient.

He would never have understood that sometimes, the charisma of the governor could change all suffering, which was irrational and illogical. Just like in the Genpei era, just a sentence and a banner could make the samurai die for their allegiance. As a self-proclaimed resourceful and insightful strategist. He couldn't understand where this samurai plot came from, which probably had a lot to do with his merchant background rather than his orthodox samurai background.

The vanguard led by Gamo Dingxiu and Nagahara Shigexing fell into the front line of Uso River, and the real sword and real gun and Isono Yuanchang, Dingno Wakasa Mamoru, and Baibai Uchizasuke did a desperate fight, behind the vanguard of the Asai Army was the turbulent Uso River, and there was no way to retreat, and the first general of the Asai family, Isono Yuanchang, roared, and led dozens of samurai who were not afraid of death to rush into the gun forest of the Hexagonal Army, as if a brave and fierce angry lion killed through the military strength of the Hexagonal Army back and forth, and it was really unhindered to retreat unharmed.

But his personal bravery could not change the overall situation of the battle. Although the Roxagonal family does not have a brave and invincible general, but has infinite patience and the wear and tear of crowd tactics, as long as he is still a human being, he will always be exhausted at the moment, Gamo Dingxiu is to consume Isono Yuanchang, the Asai general, this veteran who has been in the army for more than 30 years can be sure that as long as the banner of Isono Yuanchang falls, it will be the beginning of the total collapse of the Asai army.

Just when the first battle was like a puddle of mud and retreated to the narrow area on the south bank of the Uso River to fight the trapped beasts, the Hexagon Army didn't even notice that on the south bank of the Uso River, Asai Nagamasa had already forcibly crossed the river with 6,000 main formations of the Asai Army.

Shinto Kenmori, Keio Ikeda, Kimori Narazaki, Dr. Hakube Tanaka, and others who were in the second formation should serve as the two wings. From the flanks to protect the vanguard of the fierce battle, but at the same moment they chose to push their forces to the bank of the river. These samurai only have killing people and grabbing heads in their eyes, and whenever they win a big victory, they always want to get more decapitation military merits, and where will they pay attention to whether there are other movements on the flanks.

Just because of such an amateur mistake but did not give the Hexagon Army's main formation a timely warning, the Rokkaku Yoshixian's main formation also unconsciously moved to a position closer to the river bank at this time, a huge crisis has quietly been forced towards the Rokkaku family, when the Sansheng tortoiseshell flower rhombus flag that symbolizes the Asai Army's main formation is reflected in the eyes of Rokkaku Yoshixian, all anger and regret are too late.

Asai Nagamasa led 6,000 honjin to launch a decisive assault, 6,000 can be called an elite army with 10,000 mixed with the army of mounted samurai, foot samurai, ashigaru, and miscellaneous soldiers, and 5,000 of them are still new recruits in the first battle.

10,000 troops inexplicably collapsed 5,000, and the remaining 5,000 were also confused and fled by the collapsed army, and there was no substantial contact in the normal raid war, and the army did not even die a few miscellaneous soldiers, and Rokkaku Yoshiken once again paid a heavy price for his inferior military strategy.

The appointment of the incompetent Second Formation who did not understand the flank protection of the Honken, the amateurism of ignoring the intelligence of the Asai Army in the upper reaches of the riverbank to force the Uso River, and the low-level mistake of leaving 5,000 recruits in the Honjin, combined to create an astonishing example of winning more with less, and also made him lose the Kannonji Castle in a daze, and he was almost in tears.

The bloody battle of Gamo Dingxiu and Nagahara Shigexing swallowed the bitter fruit of defeat with the bitter pain of the heroic Rokkaku Army samurai, and slowly retreated to the Kannonji Castle with a panicked second formation, and the big victory of Asai Nagamasa unexpectedly did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but watched the retreat of this heroic army with respect, not to mention that this resentful army was about to vent, and the fierce pursuit only increased casualties but increased variables, and his clever actions were once again unanimously appreciated by the Asai retainers.

Rokkaku Yoshiken maintained his glorious record of both draws and defeats, and this joint battle once again confirmed that his past actions were still shameful defeats, and this time he stepped on his almost exhausted prestige and rose, but it was a hairy boy who was only sixteen years old and fledgling Asai Nagamasa, if the prestige of Rokkaku Yoshiken was compared to a credit card, then his prestige at this time had already been overdrawn to the end and completely wiped out.

A battle of Norada defeated the Hexagonal Army killed a total of 940 people, of which nearly eighty percent died in the fierce battle of the first formation, and the Asai Army also killed more than 700 people and all from the losses of the first formation, although this loss is nothing compared to the heavy price of the Luozhong battle, but the Luozhong Hexagonal family was not defeated, and the battle on this occasion was a mess.

The defeat of the war always requires a person to take responsibility, this responsibility cannot be the genealogy of the Hexagon family, then only let the Hexagon Yixian reluctantly bear it, this defeat made the only governor of the Hexagonal Yixian lose his majesty, but the Hexagon Yixian did not feel that he was very fishy.

In every war since he became the governor of the family ten years ago, he has tried his best to bring greater benefits to the Rokkakus, but each time the results have not been so satisfactory, it is a great shame that he is either equal or defeated, and it is not a secret stupidity but an authentic stupidity that makes him more like a stupid waste than his great father.

Rokkaku Yoshiken could not accept this stigma, and on the third day after the defeat of the war, he completely escaped into the empty door, hiding in the small temple of Guanyin Temple City under his name of Baguan Zhai Chengzhen, and this mess at home was irresponsibly thrown into the hands of his young and ignorant son Rokkaku Yoshiji.

Rokkaku Yoshiji, who was also born in the 14th year of Astronomy and was the same age as Asai Nagamasa, could only face the angry questioning of the retainers of the spectrum in panic, and at that moment he seemed to see a tragic fate beckoning to him. (To be continued......)