Pillars of the Wu family

Anyuan Zhongyin is still quite self-aware, he is very clear that he does not have the ability of his uncle Taiyuan Xuezhai, and the rewards he relies on are so unfair in the eyes of other genealogy retainers, so he went to the general in the midst of huge criticism The location inevitably has to bear a heavy psychological burden. This Satsuma Pass is close to the sea and is also known as a dangerous mountain pass that is comparable to those not known to those who do not know it.

As a local aboriginal samurai, An Yuan Zhongyin can still tell where it is more powerful to meet the Takeda Army. Look, setting up the main camp here is a plan to lure the Takeda army into Suruga country and attack them hard, but in fact this is the last line of defense for Suruga.

An Yuan Zhongyin's idea is still in accordance with the old routine, that is, to show each other a head-to-head battle. The Imagawa family relies on the favorable location and the morale of the guardians of the land is higher. Beat you back, even if you can't beat the Takeda Army, you can always rely on Satsuta Pass to guard against death, and if you continue to consume it, Takeda Shingen will be exhausted and retreat one day.

But he didn't understand a truth. The war was far from as simple as he imagined. With the continuous progress of the samurai society, the new tactical system is gradually enriched. Marching and fighting is no longer judged by individual martial prowess, but by considering military strategy, tactics, and the skills of the imperial servants.

Anbara Tadayoshi's main force guarded Sato Pass, and Kokura Uchisuke Sukihisa and Okabe Chubei Naoki were responsible for the defense of Hachimanping in the northern part of Sato Pass.It's just that he who indulges in pleasure can't stand a group of men in the army living together in a stinky barracks.He chose to set up his main formation in the Qingjian Temple not far from Satu Pass.

Mr. Imagawa himself is extremely bad at military strategy.In addition to the [-] troops led by Anyuan Zhongyin, this time he also moved his own [-] main formations to Kiyomi Temple. It doesn't work if you don't take it out now.

When discussing with his confidants, Imagawa really said: "Takeda's army is [-], and our family has [-]. From the perspective of military strength, our army seems to be more than Takeda's army! Even if we can't beat Takeda The army will definitely be able to keep them out of the Suruga country! I hope that Mamoru Anfang will not disappoint the expectations of our family. Guard this pass for my Imagawa family."

In front of this kind of family governor who lacks military common sense, it seems a bit nonsense to expect him to boost morale before the battle. At that time, Mrs. Imagawa was still immersed in a wonderful sleep and did not wake up. This pampered nobleman slept in an unfamiliar room last night and did not sleep well. Now he needs to sleep for a while as a beauty sleep. .

Takeda Shingen personally led the army out of the battle, but Anhara Chuyin was very frightened. He quickly ordered the generals of the formation to be vigilant and guard against death. Don't be careless and mess up the formation. In his eyes, even if there were [-] troops on the opposite side, there was no intention of adjusting at all, so he ordered Baba Minbu Shosuke Nobuharu, Naito Xiuliang Changfeng, Akiyama Hoki Shouxinyou, and Saneda Kanjie Yuzaemon Wei Shouyou to take the lead array.Go straight to Satuo Pass and attack.

The first round of the battle between the two sides started with the blind shooting of the iron cannons, and the rumbling of the iron cannons was rumbling non-stop.The four seemingly unconnected vanguards actually echoed each other from a distance, and each round of salvos aimed at the concentrated fire of the Jinchuan army's vanguard. Although the effect was not very good, it could be regarded as a consolation that was better than nothing.

An Yuan Zhongyin didn't have such a high-end, western style and high-grade iron cannon tactics, he just let the iron cannons of each reserve team gather together to shoot out the lead bullets, as if it was not shooting with iron cannons but just using this thing Make a sound to boost the morale of one's own side, and the end of an iron cannon shooting with a symbolic meaning far greater than the actual effect means that the real battle will begin.

The samurai on both sides lined up neatly and confronted each other in three gun teams. The slow attacking rhythm lasted for a whole morning. This kind of attrition battle with no fancy and little loss was very boring. The offensive of the two sides has slowed down, and it seems that they are preparing to retreat and have lunch before continuing to fight.

But at this time, a very strange thing happened. The four generals in the Imagawa Army, Nobuki Sena, Nobuki Asahina, Yoshikage Miura, and Utsumoto Katsuyama suddenly broke away from the retreat sequence without authorization and began to retreat in great strides. Behind these four people followed by the seventeen generals who commanded the army and also retreated quickly. The Takeda family who was retreating suddenly turned around and came back again, which shocked Anyuan Zhongyin.

An Yuan Zhongyin ordered the front line to withstand the attack of the Wutian army, and hurriedly sent an order: "Quickly inform the generals to stop retreating! The Wutian army has come back again!"

But his order seems to have been thrown into the water without any reply at all. These four generals led the rest of the dozen or so generals to gather more than 8000 troops and retreated back with a sullen head, hardly explaining that they were going to eat or not. Stopping to make corresponding adjustments, this made An Yuan Zhongyin begin to doubt their motives.

"Where are they going to retreat? Why do you listen to the general's orders? See if their posture is to lure the enemy deep and then attack from left to right, or some strange tactic? But why has the general never heard them mention this contingency strategy?" , if they continue to retreat like this, they will exit Satuo Pass!"

An Yuan Zhongyin was sweating profusely. Originally, the 7000 troops resisted the Takeda army's [-] troops and suffered a lot. Let these people take away the [-] troops and count on this How long the [-] people can stay is still a serious problem. He suddenly felt that it seemed that he was putting himself in a bad position to compete for the general. He did not have enough prestige to support the next general, which was asking for trouble.

The envoys sent out did not bring any accurate recovery as soon as they came back. Seeing that these people were really going to withdraw from Satsuta Pass, An Yuan Zhongyin finally realized that he was being fooled, and said angrily: "The general said that their actions are weird. Look The direction of their retreat seems to be going to the lord! Could it be that they are going for the lord? These traitors! I, Zhongyin, will never let you go!"

The warriors of the Imagawa Army panicked.An Yuan Anfang Shou Zhongyin also had no intention of continuing to fight.Immediately ordered the entire army to retreat to protect the main formation of Kiyomiji Temple and protect Imagawa Shima. The retreat of the Imagawa army seemed to be completely expected by the Takeda army. Takeda Shingen ordered the four formations to continue to bite the tail of the Imagawa army as the vanguard chase.

After running and chasing, he chased all the way to the outside of Junfu City. Only then did Imagawa Shizhen, who had just settled his position, learn that there were 21 people including Nobuki Sena, Asahina Shinoki, Miura Yoshikage, and Katsuyama Ujimoto. All the family members of Youlipu defected to the support of the Takeda family. This betrayal also sent [-] elite troops to the Takeda army. It can be said to be a great gift to the Takeda army.

Imagawa really heard the news and almost fainted. In the evening, there was a rumor among townspeople walking on the street that the four generals of the Takeda Army had appeared in Uhachihara near Sunpu Castle.This news caused the Imagawa family to be shaken up and down, and the Imagawa clan hurriedly held a military meeting to discuss countermeasures.

At the same time, another bad news came from Yuanjiang. Matsudaira Ieyasu of Mikawa seemed to smell some blood, so he took advantage of the time when the Takeda army invaded and immediately gathered [-] troops, gathered in Yoshida, Mikawa country. On the border of Yuanjiang, it seems that Jinchuan's family's illness seems to be taking advantage of him to kill him.

Another bad news also came from the country of Enjiang. It was seen that Fucheng was guarding Lianlong in front of Banhorikoshi Rokuro, the lord of Hikoma Castle (Yima Castle), Iio Toyozen, the lord of Inuju Castle, Amano Palace Emon Keigan, and Sasamine. The lord of the city, Anyun Amano, defended the tiger scene, and a large number of people from Yuanjiang, such as the Jingyi clan who was killed by the family governor, rebelled. It seems that this should also be one of Takeda Shingen's strategies.

The Ima Chuan family was so panicked that they couldn't even speak, one can imagine how chaotic the family members of this generation were.If he hadn't invited his old and frail grandmother, Toshikini Imagawa, to occupy the place, even this symbolic military meeting would not have been able to be successfully held.Even so, the genealogy retainers are still fried into a pot of porridge.

Okabe Mino Mori Masatsuna of the Juwa faction said: "Mikawa turned against Tone, and now Suruga has fallen into the invasion of the Takeda Army. We can rely on Hojo Sagami Temple to face the Kira Army's invasion. It seems that we have already There is no choice of retreat, and the only solution for now is to seek peace from Takeda Daizenden in exchange for a decent status! Thinking about it, the in-law relationship between my Suruga Imagawa clan and Kai Takeda clan should not lead to my death."

Masazumi Yubi Dehamori is clearly a fighting faction, he objected fiercely: "I have never heard that my home was invaded by bandits, not only did I not raise my sword and gun, but I took the initiative to ask for peace from the bandits. Embarrassment also has helplessness, but it’s not that my Imagawa family has no chance of winning. As long as we endure the temporary difficulties, we will take the initiative to send a letter of help to the besieged town government. Presumably the town government will give some for the sake of the same family Preferential treatment, let Hojo Sagami's reinforcements enter Suruga to fight."

This is a kind of idealist's words, so that it fits the real appetite of Mr. Imagawa, so he immediately agreed to agree with Yubi Masamurai's opinion, which made some samurai of the peace faction feel very disappointed. The samurai were sent out of Junfu and thrown into the arms of the Takeda army outside the city, and the samurai who still stood firm in the city also faced tremendous psychological pressure.

The next morning, as soon as it was light, the Ubahara Umi Takeda Army's main formation had expanded from the original 6000 to more than 1. The extra [-] people were naturally the true friendship of the Imagawa Clan. Dedication, the many warriors of the Takeda Army were so excited that they almost stayed up all night. No one thought that the Imagawa family would be such a strong man.

It's just that it collapsed into this appearance with a light touch. This action is not even a warm-up exercise for the Takeda army. The fierce battle of Kawanakajima is enough to end this small battle. Eighteen streets, In just a few days, a small-scale and low-intensity joint battle swallowed half of Suruga, which was even faster than Kira's army's actions in Musashi Kingdom.

The cost of expansion is too low, making the Takeda army unstoppable to develop greater ambitions. Swallowing Suruga, swallowing Enjiang, and then waiting for an opportunity to invade Mikawa, can easily complete a breakout, and then completely get rid of the strong control of the Kira family on Kai. , This idea is not only thought of by Takeda's retainers, but Takeda Shingen himself also has a bit of ambition to dominate Tokaido.

Takeda Shingen didn't intend to give Imagawa more time to think about his life choices. He ordered Takeda Nobushige to lead an army of 7000 troops to attack the [-] defenders of Tadano Anbo, and after the ugly battle at Sato Pass The verification is enough for the Takeda Army to have a full understanding of the level of the Imagawa Army. Sending [-] elites of Takeda Nobushige to deal with the [-] panic-stricken defenders is a very cautious countermeasure. Under normal circumstances, sending thousands of national troops Even the Suruga prefects in the city can deal with them.

Nobushige Takeda didn't mind pulling his own son out to practice at this time. The five thousand troops started to attack for the first time, and only after the battle broke down the uninspiring Anyuan army. The weakness of the Imagawa army's fighting will was greatly revealed. Contrary to everyone's expectations, there were signs of retreat in varying degrees almost at the moment of the battle. From the beginning to the end, there was not a single warrior who took the initiative to fight.Seeing that the situation was not good, the peasants and soldiers immediately turned around and rushed back to Junfu City.

And the Assassin's Shunfu castle town is also in chaos. The samurai ashigaru who are about to flee back to the castle are crowded together with the townspeople who are about to flee. The samurai and ashigaru want to escape in and take refuge while the townspeople are fleeing outwards. Both sides are crowded and unwilling. Letting the other party make the entire Junfu City chaotic is completely unbelievable. The ministers, monks and cultural people who have been boarding in Junfu City all year round hide in their houses and pretend that they do not exist. The beautifully dressed young women dare not go out. The social order is on the verge of collapse.

Last night, Yubi Masaru, who was the elder of the genealogy family, hastily suggested: "My lord! Takeda Shingen's army is about to enter the city, so it's not suitable to stay here for a long time! Your lord, please move immediately to other cities. Junfu City absolutely cannot stay any longer!"

Mr. Imagawa really fully understood the magnitude of the danger he encountered, and he could no longer have any thoughts of fighting to the death or committing seppuku. Desperately, he suddenly thought of his wise and mighty father who died tragically, and his two good brother-in-laws. Yoshiyasu Kira and Yoshinobu Takeda were killed by the thieves, and they thought of the two hateful faces of Matsudaira Ieyasu and Takeda Shingen. If they caught themselves, how would they humiliate them.

At this critical moment, the Imagawa Clan finally showed some of the ability of the family governor, and suddenly remembered that his adopted brother Asahina Yasutomo was the only reliable ancestral minister. It is really a very close family relationship with the Imagawa family, and it is completely okay to even be called Miyuo.

Jun Yuansan fell into chaos at the same time, pushing the Imagawa family to a dead end and pushing the Imagawa family to the cliff. Thinking of his destiny to become the governor of the country, the Imagawa family hurriedly said: "Retreating to Kakegawa Castle, only Asahina prepares for it." Zhongshou is the general we can rely on!" (To be continued...)