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Three Rivers Butterfly Chapter 388 Imagawa Shangluo

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    On July 12, the first year of Eiroku, on this unbearably hot day in midsummer, Imagawa Yoshimoto led an army of 25,000 people on his journey to Shangluo. In his eyes, Owari Kingdom was as easy as picking out things from a bag, weaving and weaving.  Tian Nobuhide, an upstart Owari, was beaten by him and had no power to fight back and had to die in depression. His son, the idiot of Owari, was even more of an unworthy descendant. How could he be so stupid as to be worthy of leading the Owari country?  Imagawa Yoshimoto sighed, the world is really in chaos and people's minds are not ancient.  If you want to say that he is proud, you can tell by looking at his expression. He hums music and depicts Minamoto Yoritomo's demeanor when he went to Luo. He feels that he is still worse than that distant ancestor, but in terms of confidence and morale, he is not at all.  It's not half bad. The samurai of the Imagawa family are so proud. The name of Suruga Lord represents great charm. Perhaps in the near future, their lord will become the new leader and rule the world on behalf of His Highness.  Wearing a light blue armor with an image of Moonlight Bodhisattva engraved on the front of the breastplate, this is a high-end imitation of the moon armor. The eight dragons and five pieces of armor on the head are also imitations of the eight dragons armor of the Ashikaga shogun family. The authentic armor is available  It is neither affordable nor convenient to wear. The greater significance of ancient clothes and armor is to show the glory of ancestors.  Wearing a red brocade formation haori, wearing a three-legged letter on the waist, and riding a saddle with tassels and gold carvings, Qing Cong flaunted the Imagawa family's centuries-old prestige, looking around with the utmost arrogance of a hegemon, nothing more than that.  No wonder he would be so proud, he indeed deserves the reputation of being the overlord of Tokaido.  Now Takeda and Hojo are suppressed by Echigo and cannot hold their heads up. News from Echigo shows that Kiragi has no plans to go south within this year. This is a golden opportunity. It also coincides with the Imagawa family reorganizing government affairs and establishing the Separation of Nations Act.  During the strong period when the people of Shunyuanjiang and Mikawa were confident and ready to exert their strength, it would be difficult to wait for the Kira family to deal with the enemies behind them.  Imagawa Yoshimoto¡¯s decision to go to Luo was very simple.  The so-called "Joining Luo and going to the capital" was a lie, only the capture of Owari was true. He couldn't remember how long ago he had coveted the wealth of Owari country. Perhaps Oda Nobuhide, an illegal upstart, left a deep impression on him.  A countryman who looked like a local tycoon actually rose to become the overlord of Owari in more than ten years, leading an army of 15,000 people to show off his power everywhere.  The Imagawa family suffered a heavy loss during the first battle of Azukizaka. Even Suruga's wealth would probably be difficult to match Owari's wealth. To say that he was unmoved would definitely be a lie.  Ever since he captured Mikawa nine years ago, what he has been thinking about day and night is destroying the city and seizing Owari. In recent years, his attacks have indeed achieved certain results. Owari including the lord of Narumi Castle Yamaguchi Ketsugu  The people on the border changed their banners and joined the Imagawa family.  With the strong strength of the Imagawa family, it has gradually eroded Owari's vitality and has begun to bear fruit.  However, the sudden death of Master Taiyuan Xuezai disrupted the arrangement, and the invasion operation that was supposed to be launched two years ago has been delayed until today. Now is a good time to go to Luo, and strive to sweep Owari as quickly as possible, and strive for  Complete the preliminary annexation of Owari before the autumn harvest, and at a lower level, at least the lower four counties must be captured.  With the two main financial sources of Atsuta Town and Tsushima in hand, and having seen the Kira family's methods in Kyoto, Imagawa Yoshimoto also became more focused on the accumulation of economic strength.  This time, he mobilized 25,000 troops to attack Owari, and promulgated many laws and regulations before sending out troops. First of all, it was forbidden to make noise, and it was strictly forbidden to hunt people indiscriminately. He also ordered the Oi sweeping department to be responsible for the transportation of the small load-carrying team.  After everything was arranged, they marched out from Sunfu. The march of the 25,000-strong army was boring and boring. It was already July 16th when the procrastinating queue set off from Sunfu and arrived at Okazaki Castle, and it would be two days later.  Arrive at the Three Rivers border.  Kunoji Tadashi, the leader of the flag warriors, came on horseback and reported loudly: "My lord, right in front of you is Takake Castle! There are no signs of Oda army activities nearby. Please let me know!"  This formation deserves your share of the credit. Leave the errands to the retainers!" Imagawa Yoshimoto's words of concern and hard work made Kunoji Tadashi excited. He is the legitimate son of Kuno Hanuchi Sohira, the lord of Suruga Ejiri Castle, and his mother is  The eldest concubine sister of Imagawa Yoshimoto.  At a young age, he replaced his father, Kuno Sohira, as the Lord of Ejiri Castle. As one of the most trusted lords trusted by Imagawa Yoshimoto, he served as the front guard of the main formation this time to guard the safety of Imagawa Yoshimoto.  In the evening of the same day, they entered the Imagawa Army's main formation and entered the Owari Castle. A military meeting was convened that night. Imagawa Yoshimoto stared at the familiar battle map and laughed: "This Oda Danzheng is a smart man.  He actually knew how to build a separate walled city to cut off the communication between Minghai City and Dagao City and Daguai City, and then gradually eroded Minghai City and then captured Dagao City and Daguai City. This strategy is very good!  " Imagawa Yoshimoto's uncle, the lord of Kamahara Castle, and the young assistant in the Kamahara Palace, Ushimasa, said: "Maybe it is the strategy planned by his family elders. The Oda family still has some veterans from the Shozuzaka War, and it seems that there is Shibata.  Singer and Lin Xiuzhen, this strategy must be the work of these two people!¡±  Oda Nobunaga built five castles near Narumi Castle, Zenshoji Castle, Nakajima Castle, Marune Castle, and Washitsu Castle near Yamaguchi Nobunaga's Narumi Castle after the Battle of Murakusa.  The generals Sakuma Dai Morishige, Oda Gento Yoshinpei, Iio Omi Morisada, Iio Nobumune, Mizuno Daito Tadamitsu, Sakuma Nobumori, and Onikawa Kazuhide each led hundreds of soldiers to guard five castles, among which Tange  The village, Zenshoji Village, and Nakashima Village were responsible for besieging Okabe Motobu, the pioneer in Narumi Castle, making the Imagawa family unable to advance or retreat.  Yuhime Sakumomori Masanobu praised: "What a good plan. If our Imagawa army detours to the north and then turns to Qingzhou, it will not only be very difficult to move and turn, but also very detrimental to the supply of the army. If we advance westward, we will have to face the obstacles laid down by the Oda family."  The time and effort required to attack the city and fortress may not be until the autumn harvest. By then, if our army cannot attack for a long time, the soldiers will retreat without fighting, and the crisis of this attack will be naturally resolved! "  Asahina Nobuyuki reminded: "If we ignore the five villages and attack forward, the supply at the rear will be really worrying. We must also be careful that the Oda family uses a strategy similar to the Battle of Demuramu Village. A cross-sea raid through Mikawa Bay once our army's back line is  Dagao City and Tagua City have been captured, and we have almost no room to retreat! This strategy is to force us to settle down and fight him in the siege. This shows that the strategist is very thoughtful and terrible. The lord must not fail to do so.  Be on guard!" Asahina Nobuyuki's reminder impressed the Imagawa retainers. Although they looked down on the Owari upstart Oda family, they could not underestimate their strategies.  No one in this world is more stupid than anyone else. What if the Oda family adopts a surprise attack on the village to attack Odaka Castle, and then lands on the castle and takes the opportunity to attack the castle, thereby cutting off Imagawa's supply and retreat, then there will really be no place to die.  .  "Do you think they can hold on for two months?" Imagawa Yoshimoto smiled noncommittally, and many ministers also laughed loudly. After a while, he said again: "But Suruga Mamoru is right. Stay stable first.  If we continue to attack slowly from the rear, all five disturbing castles must be eradicated within a few days!" Qingzhou City, dozens of kilometers away from Daqiao City, was worried about Imagawa Yoshimoto's massive attack.  Imagawa Yoshimoto's large-scale invasion was completely beyond his expectation. According to his plan, it was only right to use the siege of five villages to eradicate all the Imagawa family's influence in Owari, and then work hard to reach peace with the Imagawa family.  However, he did not expect that this move would lead to a large-scale attack by the Imagawa army. He thought this was a strategic mistake on his part, and he constantly reviewed his aggressiveness and should not have been so careless.  This spring, he swaggered to Kyoto with 500 elite troops. On the way, he was sniped by an unidentified iron cannon. The power and sight of iron cannons in this era were simply very poor. A shot fired fifty meters away not only failed to hit anyone.  Even if the lead bullet didn't fly that far, I don't know where it landed.  After the Oda family's samurai captured and killed this man, they found out that it was Saito Yoshiryu's confidant samurai who did it, and their anger was palpable.  After going through all kinds of hardships, he finally met the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and offered him gifts and money in the hope of seeking a decent official position in the court and the position of guardian of Owari. Unfortunately, the shogun didn't like him.  The Owari tycoon glanced coldly at this country samurai crown spring describing the faults of Shiba Yoshigage, and expressed how he complied with the wishes of the people by taking the place of Shiba as the guardian of Owari.  You can imagine what he can get. After spending two thousand Yongle coins, he only brought back one of the five subordinates, Zheng Shaozhong, and then planned to send him away.  But Oda Nobunaga was not willing to leave just like that. After lingering for a few days, he endured the anger in his chest and proposed that he intended to attack Mino. When he hoped to get the support of the shogunate, he was ridiculed by the shogunate ministers, saying that he was a country man.  The local tycoon dared to boast about his great achievements in winning Owari and defeating Mino. He was so shameless and lawless that he drove him back to Owari in just a few words.  Oda Nobunaga, who was greatly humiliated, no longer believed in the so-called famous families. It was not his fault that he was a member of the Jibe clan. His father called himself the Fujiwara clan, and he called himself the Taira clan. They were all trying to cater to the shogunate and the entire family.  Is it the trend of the world?  Why are you still mocking him so coldly and meanly?  After being humiliated in the shogunate, he returned home and faced a massive attack by Imagawa Yoshimoto.  This bad breath in his heart made him feel angrier than ever before. There were only a few options before him: the first was to donate all his family's property to completely subjugate the Imagawa family in exchange for a chance to live quietly, but his  It's hard to say whether his face is as attractive as the Kira family's.  It is said that he was put under house arrest by Sunfu, and his family was ruined and he became the meal of the Imagawa family.  Article 2: Abandoning Wuzhai and expressing his intention to have no rivals to the Imagawa family, and then hiding in Qingzhou City to survive, hoping for a one-ten-thousandth chance of good fortune. Suddenly, Imagawa Yoshimoto had a headache, and brought 25,000 troops with him.  Go home to harvest in the autumn, but if he does this, the prestige he has worked so hard to accumulate will be destroyed in one day. People like Oda Nobukiyo of Inuyama Castle will definitely jump out and challenge him as the family governor. By then, the Imagawa family will have no way out if the army comes to kill them.  It was chosen for him.  No. ?According to the conditions, he gritted his teeth and held on to the city wall until the autumn harvest, waiting for the Imagawa army to retreat on his own, but he was very unsure whether he could hold on for that long. There were only nearly 2,000 troops guarding the five walled cities, and  Evenly distributed, there are only a few hundred people in each stronghold, but they are facing the attack of the Imagawa family's 25,000 troops. If there is a problem in one link, everything will be lost.  The last one is also the most dangerous one. Strictly order Wuzhai to defend the city. He will lead all the troops to the rear to attack the Imagawa army. As long as they defeat them for a while, there may be a chance of comeback. However, since his father fought in the Battle of Kanakou,  Since the defeat of the generals in the Battle of Shodozaka, most of the elite divisions of Owari Province have been lost, and the remaining essence has withered in disgrace during the subsequent unification of Owari. The total number of troops he can use is less than 5,000.  people, half of whom are scattered among the five villages in the north of Owari, guarding the north gate of Qingzhou, and in the south.  ¡°Should I fight for my life and fight for luck, or should I persevere and fight for luck?¡± Oda Nobunaga walked around anxiously, not knowing how to make a decision.  After Imagawa Yoshimoto made his decision, the Imagawa Family Genealogy Retainer Regiment quickly came up with a detailed and appropriate attack plan, and issued orders to Narumi Castle Daiokabe Motonobu and Odaka Castle Dai Uden Nagateru to hold on to the wall.  And when the main force attacked the Wuzhai, they properly cooperated with the raid on the Wuzhai to ensure that the city was captured as soon as possible. Matsudaira Motoyasu was assigned the task of transporting troops and supplies to Odaka Castle.  Jinzhai, and was responsible for quickly establishing a direct access to Dagao City.  Perhaps Imagawa Yoshimoto felt that victory was in hand, so he sent several troops to various places to monitor the movements of the Oda Army. He took five thousand troops to guard Takake Castle and entered the mountain without moving. His choice was indeed right, twenty thousand  It was as easy as squeezing mud to defeat the five thousand men who were less than two thousand and the defenders who were scattered in the five cities.  After Matsudaira Motoyasu successfully completed the task of transporting food, he led an army of 1,200 troops to launch an attack on Marukane Stronghold from three directions at the same time. In the small stronghold, there were only Sakuma Morishige and 300 guards, facing four times the number of guards.  The strong enemy on our side barely resisted Otemon's attack, but exposed the flanking wall and Katsutate Gate. In the end, the entire army was unfortunately wiped out after holding on for two hours. At the same time, Asahina Taitomo, who had a large army, also captured Washizu Castle.  Guardsmen Oda Gento Yun Nobuhei and Iio Sadamune both died in battle.  At the same time, Suruga's navy also launched another attack on Kanie Castle in Owari Haixi County, and captured the Kanie Castle adjacent to Ise Bay without any defense. This was the first step of Yoshimoto Imagawa's plan to seize Owari.  The seaport ensures the safety of the flanks and forms an effective deterrent to Tsushima.  Two or three consecutive bad news continued to undermine the confidence of the Oda family ministers. In the evening of the same day, Sakuma Morishige sent an envoy to ask for help. The Oda family genealogy group could no longer bear to stand up and ask for a military meeting. At the meeting, Shibata Katsuie,  Mori Katsunari and Ikeda Tsuneki were determined to fight to the death to live up to their reputation as samurai. Niwa Nagahide, Murai Sadakatsu and others insisted on holding on to the cage city. Hayashi Xiuzhen and Arao Zenji suggested surrendering to the Imagawa family first in order to slow down the plan.  Some of the retainers advocated war and some advocated surrender. No matter which suggestion they held, the Imagawa family could not make up their mind in the face of the so-called 40,000-strong army. The quarrel did not end until late at night. Many samurai left the meeting for various reasons. Oda  Nobunaga looked at them calmly and sighed: "It's all gone! When the martial arts is exhausted, the mirror of wisdom will also be covered with dust!" (To be continued. 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