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On the afternoon of June 9, the 11th year of Tianwen (1542), Xisanhe.
As the ninjas in Okazaki Castle continued to transmit information, the samurai and ashigaru of the Imagawa Army also learned the whole story - the retainers of the Higashi Matsudaira clan were dissatisfied with Matsudaira Hirotada's dependence on the Imagawa family and launched a mutiny to seize him.
Matsudaira Hirotada later turned to the side of the Oda family. The Oda family promised to release more than a thousand captured Matsudaira clan soldiers and unify the Matsudaira clan with Takechiyo Matsudaira as the family governor.
The food route was cut off, and the Imagawa army could no longer hold on to the camp on the banks of the Yahagi River. In addition, since the Higashi Matsudaira clan had betrayed, the Imagawa family had no reason to confront the Oda family in Nishi Mikawa. So, the Imagawa family
The army burned down their camp between the Yahagi River and the Oto River, crossed the Oto River and withdrew eastward.
"Destroy all the bridges." After the last batch of troops crossed the Oto River, Imagawa Yoshimoto ordered Asahina Yasuno who was behind the scenes. At this time, the Oda family's troops were still blocked by the fire at the Imagawa family camp.
After half a while, they couldn't make it. Watching the bridges collapse into the river one after another under the work of the auxiliary soldiers, splashing water as high as a person, Imagawa Yoshimoto continued to order the troops to retreat.
It didn't take long for the pursuers of the Oda family to appear again - they began to re-build a pontoon bridge on the west bank of the Oto River, and the vanguard troops even waded directly across the river in several shoals to pursue the Imagawa army.
Plan to let Imagawa troops leave.
"Maruji Yankin, the flag of the Owari Shibata family." Imagawa Yoshimoto looked at the flag of the vanguard unit and knew that the leader was Shibata Katsuie, Owari's brave general who had become famous in recent years.
"Bei Zhongshou, please form a formation here to block the vanguard." Imagawa Yoshimoto understood that the retreating ones would definitely not be able to outrun the pursuing ones. Only by leaving behind layers of cover and blocking could the army successfully evacuate.
"Leave it to me." Asahina Taino raised his fists and saluted, leading Asahina to react and fight.
"Main army, approach the official road to the north and evacuate via the official road." Imagawa Yoshimoto pulled out his folding fan and pointed at the official road on the south side of the Oto River. "Don't go through the wasteland anymore. There are too many fields, hills and shrubs, and they will be destroyed.
To catch up."
"Sena Bei, Sekiguchi Bei, Ogasawara Bei, block the bridge to the north, cover the north side of the official road, and prevent the enemy troops near Okazaki Castle from going south."
"An Yuanbei, leave the pipeline to the south, form an arrow formation, and be responsible for supporting Asahinabei's retreat later."
"Bei Matsui, Bei Osawa, guard the rear of the team, be careful not to be attacked by rangers."
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After crossing the river in formation, Shibata Bei immediately bit the rear of the Imagawa army, but was firmly blocked by Asahina Bei. Although Shibata Bei was also the leader of the Oda family army, Asahina Bei was also a strong fighter in the Imagawa army, and for a while
Unable to break through, Asahinabi was pinned to the river by the superior force.
After Shibata Bei, Oda Nobumitsu's Shouyama Sect and Oda Nobuhiro's Anxiang Sect also came across the river. Unlike Oda Nobuhiro, whose martial name was mediocre, Oda Nobuhitsu's younger brother Oda Nobumitsu was the most brave general in the Oda family.
He took the lead and fought tenaciously on the front line, making great achievements over the decades. While Oda Nobuhiro's Anxiang soldiers were still lining up, Oda Nobuhiro had already led his men to circle to the south, trying to outflank Asahinabe.
side rear.
Upon seeing this, Asai Masatoshi's Anyonbei immediately responded with arrows, barely blocking Oda Nobumitsu's charge. Upon seeing this, Imagawa Yoshimoto immediately waved the flag, signaling Asahina Yasuno to lead the army to retreat. Asahina Yasuno then rode forward.
, launched a round of counterattacks and forced Shibata Bei back several steps, and immediately led his troops to turn around and evacuate. Shibata Bei pursued, and Matsui Bei and Osawa Bei on the official road hurriedly took action to cover.
After Asahina Bei retreated to the official road, he re-established a defensive line and alternately covered Anyuan Bei as he retreated. Sena Bei, Sekiguchi Bei and Ogasawara Bei also gave up guarding several crossings and quickly retreated to the river with the main army. That is,
Taking advantage of this period of time, Oda Nobuhide's main army began to cross the river from the built pontoon bridge, followed by Sakuma Bei, Yamaguchi Bei, and Kondo Bei who were all ready to go. Imagawa Yoshimoto then urged the troops to quickly move toward the river.
retreated from the southeast, but the vanguard of the Oda Army still clung to the rear troops and refused to let the Imagawa Army leave, forcing Imagawa Yoshimoto to gradually deploy his troops to cover, further slowing down the progress of the retreat.
Before nightfall on June 9, the 11th year of Tenmon (1542), the Imagawa army only withdrew less than 10 miles, and even Okazaki Castle could still clearly appear in the field of vision. This allowed the Oda family's rear team to free up their hands.
Later, they carried out large-scale arrests near Okazaki Castle, plundered countless villages and towns, and robbed strong men, women and children to accompany the army. After nightfall, the looted towns and cities were ablaze with blazing fires, which were particularly conspicuous under the dark night sky.
After nightfall, the Imagawa family's camp was also brightly lit, and it seemed that they were preparing to retreat overnight. Groups of soldiers held torches and disappeared into the night, heading southeast along the official road. However, the traffic volume and traffic at night
After all, the speed is limited. Until dawn on June 10, the eleventh year of Tenmon (1542), the troops withdrawn by the Imagawa family were still limited.
In order to evacuate as much as possible and get rid of the pursuit of the Oda family, the Imagawa army chose to have the auxiliary soldiers and combat soldiers evacuate separately to maximize the use of road traffic. The 1,000 banner soldiers of the Imagawa family surrounded the horse seal stickers of Imagawa Yoshimoto
They retreated along the path on the south bank of the Oto River, while the Imagawa family's more than 6,000 auxiliary soldiers and the remaining combat soldiers fled quickly on the official road.
The reaction of the Oda family was also very fierce - they didn't even glance at the Imagawa family's auxiliary troops who were evacuating along the official road, and the whole division went straight to Imagawa Yoshimoto's horse seal. The two armies advanced one after another, and finally
, at Shodozaka on the south bank of the Oto River, the Imagawa army finally stopped retreating, and seemed to plan to form a block again to buy time for the main force to retreat.
At noon and early noon on June 10, the 11th year of Tenmon (1542), Oda Nobuhide set up his main formation on Mount Ryumi, while the Imagawa army set up their formation in Miai Town, 6 miles southeast of Mount Ryumi. Just as the two armies faced off
To the northeast of the battlefield, the Oto River flows from southeast to northwest. On the other side of the Oto River, Osawa Moto's shields are still blocking the rebels in Miki Castle.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Oda Nobuhide placed more than 6,000 auxiliary troops in the main formation on Ryumi Mountain, and more than 3,000 of his own soldiers were ready to go out: Oda Nobuhide's 200 horse troops,
700 Flag Book; Oda Nobumitsu's 650 Soldiers, Oda Nobuhiro's 500 Soldiers, Sakuma Morishige's 500 Soldiers, Shibata Katsuie's 350 Soldiers, Takigawa Kazumasu's 170 Soldiers, Yamaguchi Nobutsugu's 400 Soldiers
and Kondo Keiharu's 200 soldiers, a total of 3670 soldiers.
In the main formation set up by Imagawa Yoshimoto in Miai Town, the number of people was much smaller. There were only 200 horse warriors, 400 banners of Zhenxibei and 400 banners of Anyuanbei, totaling about 1,000 soldiers.
However, no one in the Imagawa family panicked. Because up to now, every step of the two armies' actions had been planned by Imagawa Yoshimoto.
"Finally, we have lured those Owari guys out." In the main formation, Akai Heigao, who had been tricked by Owari's children before, was gearing up to get revenge. "Draw us to the hinterland of Mikawa, see if we can't Give him a good fucking slap."
"Your Highness, do you think the Oda family really believed His Highness Matsudaira's false surrender?" Himura Hiroyuki was more thoughtful than Akai Kuroko, and was always worried about the start of the plan. "Although Lord Abe, Lord Okubo and others have already The acting is very realistic, but it will inevitably reveal flaws."
"I definitely don't believe it all. Otherwise, why would we leave the Mizuno family and the Sakurai Matsudaira family in Okazaki Castle to keep an eye on His Highness Matsudaira? Otherwise, why not send people into Okazaki Castle? We originally wanted His Highness Matsudaira to raise troops to help us raid the Weaver City. The Tian army's retreat is probably gone now." Imagawa Yoshimoto shook his head matter-of-factly, "But that's not important. Whether the Oda family believes it or not, their troops have already chased into the hinterland of Mikawa, giving us and them a It’s a chance for a field battle. It’s not good for us to delay it. A quick victory is a better choice.”
"And this Xiaodouzaka is the battlefield I have chosen."
One mile southeast of Ryumi Mountain where the Oda family set up their formation, there is a dense mountain forest, which is called the Tanada Forest by the locals of Mikawa. At this moment, a total of 710 soldiers of the Toyoe Army led by Asahina Yakino are ambushing in the Tanada Forest. Including Asahina Bei, Ogasawara Bei and Sekiguchi Bei. They used the cover of trees and rolling mountains to hide inside and secretly observed the movements of the Oda army.
One mile southeast of Tanada Forest, there is another small village - Quanju Town. In Quanju Town, there are also 570 soldiers of the Zhongyue Zong led by Miura Ujimitsu, including Miura Bei, Sena Bei and Amano. Bei and Matsui Bei, they hide in residents' houses and barns.
One mile southeast of Senju Town is the Minamigaoka Shrine. The shrine houses 590 warriors from the Saito Ezo clan. The leader is the Iio nori company, which consists of Iibei, Osawabei, Iiobei and Horikoshibei. .They hid behind the shrine wall to avoid the detection of the Oda family.
On Koh-Noor Mountain, half a mile south of Minamigaoka Shrine, 300 soldiers of Yoshiaki Kira of the Mikawa clan and 100 soldiers of Yasunari Makino were stationed. They also did not raise any flags, but hid on the slopes of the back mountain.
These nearly 2,000 soldiers were withdrawn with torches last night. After they left the sight of the Oda family, they turned north and ambush in dangerous places around Shodozaka. These ambush places together constitute An ambush arc was created. If the Oda family wanted to pursue Imagawa Yoshimoto's horse seal, they would have to pass through the path between Oto River and this ambush arc: Take Ryuumi Mountain - Shiratori Shrine - Onishi Town - —Miho Town Line.
Once the Oda family reaches Onishi Town, they are completely in an ambush circle. As long as the Imagawa family's ambushes from all over the place swarm up, they can surround the Oda family by the river and force them into the dilemma of forming with their backs to the water. Even if the Oda family wants to It is not possible to cross the Oto River and retreat eastward - facing Onishi Town across the Oto River is Ohira Town, the castle town of Miki Castle. Osawa Motoin's defense force seems to have been besieging Miki Castle in the past few days, but in fact it has been Under the instructions of Imagawa Yoshimoto, a large number of fortifications were built on the east bank of the Oto River to prevent the Oda army from crossing eastward and escaping.
In the entire Oto River basin near Miki Castle, there are only two bridges that can allow large armies to pass quickly. One is the North Bridge in the lower reaches of the northern section, far away from the battlefield. The other is the South Bridge next to Miai Town, which is occupied by Imagawa.
Controlled by the family. In other words, the Oda army could not get a good ferry.
This is the complete plan of Imagawa Yoshimoto - to let the Higashi Matsudaira clan fake a surrender and lure the Oda family across the Yahagi River to pursue him. Then use the red bird horse seal as bait, which seems to divide the troops and retreat, but in fact it is to lure the Oda family into the Imagawa family's setup.
