Tamba Country is located in the eastern part of Shanxi, adjacent to Kyoto in the southeast. Although it is huge, most of its territory is occupied by the Tamba Mountains, especially the complex and dense mountainous areas in the northeast of Tamba Country, which makes the population very sparse. Large-scale land suitable for farming only exists in
Taki-gun Yagami Castle and Kuwada-gun Inai Castle are nearby, both of which are in the southern part of Tamba Country. Therefore, it has a huge territory, but its stone height is only about 260,000 koku. However, this is considered high in the mountainous mountains.
The richest.
At present, the area controlled by Akechi Mitsuhide is only near Ryuzan Castle in the southeasternmost part of Kuwada County in the east of Tanba Kingdom. Akechi Mitsuhide's previous strategy for Tamba was to follow the line of Ryozan Castle, Inai Castle, Yagami Castle, Kuroi Castle, and close to Tanba Kingdom.
Conquer all the fertile areas on the southern border of the country. As for the barren mountainous areas in the north, there is no need to get involved for the time being.
The controllers of Tanba Kingdom are many wealthy families headed by the Hatano family, including the Akai family, the Tenui family, etc., and the total number of soldiers they have is only more than 8,000.
The northeastern part of Tanba Country is Wakasa Country, the poorest country in Japan after Hida. The current lord is Niwa Nagahide. However, Niwa Nagahide is focused on the uprising of Azuchi Castle and has no time to carry out the strategy of Yamato.
To the northwest and west of Tamba Country are the Isshiki Family and the Yamana Clan respectively. As allies of Nobunaga's second siege, they have the possibility of supporting Tamba Country.
The Yamana family was once one of the most powerful families during the Muromachi shogunate period. As a fourth-level family, the Yamana family once controlled 11 of Japan's 66 imperial kingdoms, so it was called the "Sixth House" by people at the time.
, whose strength is evident. Later, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who was quite afraid of him, induced civil strife in the Yamano family, triggering the Meitoku Rebellion, and took the opportunity to confiscate the Yamano family's territory, and the Yamano family began to decline. To this day,
Only two small kingdoms, Inaba Kingdom and Tajima Kingdom, were left in the former "sixth hall", which together only amounted to more than 200,000 koku. However, the centipede was not dead, and coupled with Ikuno Ginzan's financial resources, the Yamano family still
Being able to piece together an army of 15,000 people should not be underestimated.
The Isshiki family is not as glorious as the ancestors of the Yamano family, but it is still a local snake that has been entrenched in Tango country for many years. However, in the remote and remote area of ​​Tango, it can only mobilize less than 4,000 people, and its combat effectiveness is quite worrying. Although Isshiki's family has Yunao Inatomi.
There are some iron cannon celebrities, but the overall strength is obviously not as good as the Yamano family and the Hatano family.
Yu Qiupei now has a total of 9,000 people of Tokiwa Bei and Naruhei Bei. Akechi Mitsuhide's command also has about 10,000 people. Even if the Yamano family and the Isshiki family Kongoku came to help, they would not have much advantage in terms of strength and quality.
There is a huge difference. Therefore, in the Tanba suppression plan formulated by the Yuqiu family and the Akechi family, the first goal is to seek a decisive battle with the main force of the enemy. If they are forced to be trapped in the mountains of Danba, grinding one mountain after another.
In the past, it would have been a big challenge for the Mingzhi family and the Yuqiu family to provide logistics.
In order to achieve this goal, Amano Keide designed a trap.
On March 1, the fifth year of Tianzheng (1577), the Yu Qiu family announced that Yu Qiuping's illness was no longer harmful. The Oda army actively launched a general attack on Tanba Kingdom. Daojing City, located 35 miles northwest of Longshan City, naturally bore the brunt. Red leaves
The Akechi Army and the Akechi Army quickly surrounded Inai Castle, which was garrisoned by Tenui Gyoye, and the reinforcements of the Hatano family also arrived outside the city under the leadership of Akai Naomasa. However, Akai Naomasa did not dare to fight with the 7,000 people on hand.
The nearly 20,000 troops of the Oda family were the entire Hatano army. He could only stay far outside the city, hoping that the 1,000 people from Tenui's teachings could stay in the city for a while longer and support the Isshiki family and the Yamana family.
The reinforcements have arrived at the Hatano family and have issued a request for help.
Akai Naomasa believes that Yamana Yutoyo and Isshiki Yoshimichi understand the truth behind the death of lips and teeth. It is not that the Oda family has not attacked Tanba before, but they were all defeated by the "Red Oni" Akai Naomasa and the "Ao Oni" who are known as the "Tamba Twin Oni"
The Renjing Jiaye teamed up to repel them, and the Yamano family and the Isshiki family only provided some food and grass support.
But this time is different. If there is no support this time, the Hatano family will be doomed.
Akai Naomasa's eyes focused on the high-flying maple bird flag in the Oda Army camp. Every samurai here understood the heavy meaning represented by that flag. Even the three good brothers and the famous Takeda Shingen
However, none of the famous generals in the world can get any advantage from him. The Red Leaf Army he trained single-handedly has been almost undefeated in Japan for more than ten years. It is the nightmare of all hostile daimyo. And then the Oda family behind the Maple Bird Flag
, and in less than twenty years, it has grown from a small name in Owari to the behemoth it is today, as if unification of the world is just around the corner.
A few days ago, the Miyoshi-Maori coalition defeated the Oda army in Settsu; Matsunagahide and Araki Murashige rebelled; Uakihei himself was stabbed and seriously injured...A series of news encouraged these anti-Oda forces, as if Kinki would return again
It was a time of chaos and separatism. However, the Oda Army quickly demonstrated its strong strength three months later. Not only did it stop Araki Murashige and Matsunaga Hide from attacking Yamashiro Kingdom, it was even accumulating strength to prepare for the rebellion, as if
A big defeat wouldn't be enough to break his bones.
The great victory of the Miyoshi-Maori coalition came at the price of Miyoshi Yoshihide's life. All along, Miyoshi Yoshihide had been traveling around for Nobunaga's siege, contacting various daimyo. His death made
The Miyoshi family lost its mainstay in the darkness. The ninjas of the Miyoshi family operating everywhere were quickly suppressed by the ninjas of the Oda force. Even the territory of Harima Kingdom was infiltrated by the ninjas of the Oda family.
Nao Akai attended the funeral of Miyoshi Yoshihide as a representative of the Hatano family. He still remembers that after a big victory, the three brothers Miyoshi Nagakei, Anzai Fuyasu and Tokawa Ichimune all had gloomy faces.
.If their sadness can be explained by the loss of their brothers, Kobayakawa Takakage and other members of the Mori family are also frowning.
"Simply injuring the enemy by one thousand and losing eight hundred to oneself in this way is not enough to defeat the Oda family. Even injuring the enemy by one thousand and losing five hundred to oneself is not enough." Miyoshi Changqing whispered to the envoys of the famous families with a solemn expression.
Said, "We can't use up the Oda family. They control Onono Ise and Kinki. They have terrible financial resources and can support them to recover from major defeats again and again. And what about us? Let's not say we were defeated once.
, even if you continue to win like this, you will collapse in the end. To be honest, after this battle, the Miyoshi family has no food at all. The food and grass for this battle were transported thousands of miles from Honganji Temple to support. I am afraid it will be here.
After next year's autumn harvest, Sanhao Family will be able to take action again."
Miyoshi Nagakei's words are like a shadow, lingering in Akai Naomasa's mind. He has to say that Miyoshi Nagakei is right. What Nobunaga needs now is a hearty victory, and it is best to
It is the kind that can directly kill Oda Nobunaga and break the backbone of the Oda family. Even if it cannot kill Oda Nobunaga, it is still possible to kill important officials of the Oda family.
Thinking of this, Akai Naomasa once again stared at the Oda family's army outside Inai Castle. There were two Oda Shigeomis at the level of army commanders, Akihira Ameki and Akechi Mitsuhide. But what could he do with only the 7,000 men in his hands?
"When will the reinforcements from His Highness Yamana and His Highness Isshiki arrive?" Akai Naomasa heard familiar footsteps coming from the side. That was his long-time friend Adachi Kisuke, a wealthy man from Hōgami County in Tamba Country.
clan, he is responsible for communicating with the Yamano family and the Isshiki family in this battle.
"His Royal Highness Isshiki will arrive the day after tomorrow, and His Highness Yamana the day after tomorrow." Adachi Mojisuke whispered excitedly, "This time it came so fast. Almost as soon as our request for help was sent out, their people started to gather."
"I guess everyone has listened to what Miyoshi said about repairs. If we don't unite to inflict heavy damage on the Oda family now, all of us will be slowly wasted to death. The Oda family is not the Hosokawa family, the Ouchi family, or even the Ouchi family back then.
It’s not the Miyoshi family, it’s the Ashikaga family, it’s the Minamoto family...” Akai Naomasa laughed twice and put his hand on his forehead helplessly, “When the army arrives, we will find a way to fight the Oda army decisively.”
"Decisive battle?" Adachi Mojisuke asked in a low voice with some surprise, "Your Highness, are you serious? How can we people fight against Yuqiu Hongye? How can we fight if we can't even get Takeda Daisen and Miyoshi Repair?
?It would be nice to be able to rescue Daojing City from the siege, right?"
"What we want now is not to maintain the status quo. We can't afford it. The snowball will only get bigger and bigger." Naomasa Akai clenched his fist hard and knocked hard on his breastplate. "We have to find a way to help Weaver."
The Tian family will have a battle in the Kuligalu Canyon that will turn him from prosperity to decline."
"Is it just us?" Adachi Motosuke swallowed and whispered worriedly.
"It's up to us."
On March 3, 2,000 troops from Isshiki Yoshitsune arrived at the Hatano Army camp northwest of Inai Castle. On March 4, 7,000 troops from Yamana Yutoyo also arrived as promised, and the number of Sanin Allied Forces outside the city reached 16,000. But even
In this way, plus the 1,000 people from Renjing's teachings in the city, their number is still not as large as that of the Oda army.
However, on the evening of March 4, the arrival of a ninja changed the situation.
"You said Yu Qiupei is actually dead?" During the evaluation meeting, before Ninja could finish his words, Yamana Yutaka couldn't help but interrupt.
"Everything is based on His Highness Renjing's inference. We are not sure." The ninja of the Renjing family repeated the judgment of Renjing's teachings. "The Oda army has been besieging the city for many days but has refused to attack it. However, Yuqiu Hongye also did not
He has never shown up. In recent days, looking down from the city, you can even see that the Red Leaf Army is packing up their supplies and seems to be retreating."
"Your Highness Renjing means..." Akai Naomasa thought for a moment and seemed to understand Renjing's plan, "Yuqiu Hongye died of poison a long time ago, but the Yuqiu family was afraid that the news of his death would spread to shake the morale of the army in order to cover up the public.
, is not conducive to the current stability of the Oda family, so they pretended not to be dead and launched a large-scale siege of the city as a bluff? Now that the Oda army has stabilized on all fronts, they plan to withdraw their troops and go back for burial?"
"Yes, His Highness Akai Mingjian, that's what His Highness Renjing said." The ninja immediately nodded in agreement.
"I think so too." Isshiki Yoshitsune said from the side, "Miyoshi Xiu said that the assassin used poison that has no cure. Logically speaking, he should have died from the poison long ago. How could Yuqiu Hongye last for so long, and then
Can it still be cured?"
"It makes sense." Yamana Yutaka nodded. In the current San'in Allied Forces, he is the nominal commander because of his highest status. After all, Akai Naomasa is just a retainer of the Hatano family, commanding two great names, Yamana Yutaka and Isshiki Rindo.
No. However, after all, Akai Naomasa is a well-known general, and he is playing at home, so the actual command will rely heavily on him.
"In that case..." Akai Naozheng thought of this, his eyes flashed, "We can't let this good opportunity pass by."
"As soon as the Hongye Army withdraws, we will take Mitsuhide Akechi's life." bdshare();
Chapter completed!