A tour of Japan's Warring States Period
Chapter 194 37. Nobunaga takes a detour to Azukizaka
Saji Nobukata (Nobunaga's brother-in-law), who accompanied Yamaguchi's stepfather and son to defect to Imagawa, also began to feint at the request of Zen Master Taiyuan. The various military forces on the Chita Peninsula were frequently mobilized, temporarily allowing Yamaguchi Kotsugi of Narumi Castle to strengthen his determination to defend the city.
The situation in the entire Minami-Owari area suddenly became blurred, and almost all of Chita County's territory temporarily shifted to Imagawa's side. But at this moment, it is Oda Nobunaga of Oda side who is maintaining the offensive in Chita County. Imagawa side seems to be just trying to show off his tactics.
Unlike Nobunaga's aggressive frontal attack, Zen Master Taiyuan Xuezai gathered an army of 8,000 people and rushed to Okazaki Castle in just two days. He then rode around to judge Nobunaga's next move. But he also stopped his march and did not pretend to go to rescue Narumi City immediately.
The masters on both sides are fighting each other, and the others are just pawns. Now, the two of them are still in the testing stage of crossing the border with their troops and patrolling the river with their vehicles. They both hold the main force in their hands and remain motionless, waiting for their opponents to make the first move.
Nobunaga saw that Zen Master Taiyuan Xuezhai on the other side did not lead the army to advance quickly to help the crumbling Narumi town. While he continued to explore the fighter planes, he was not idle at all. More than 5,000 people from Owari gathered under his command one after another to listen to his orders.
At this moment, the conflict between the Oda side and Imagawa side seemed to be about to break out, but Nobunaga actually gave up the idea of encircling the point for reinforcements, and no longer struggled with Narumi Castle. With a false shot, he left Sakuma University with 500 people. After besieging Narumi in various nearby cities, the entire army actually retreated.
This greatly exceeded the expectations and judgments of all parties on the battlefield. Therefore, Zen Master Taiyuan temporarily no longer wanted to send a scattered team to harass Owari, but stationed in Okazaki. He also sent capable generals Asahina Taino and Asahina Taitomo and his son to command the Sakai, Ishikawa, Honda, Okubo and other Mikawa people in the Higashi Mikawa area, a total of 2,200 people as vanguards to explore the Yabiki River.
Although the method of responding to all changes by remaining unchanged is conservative, it is better than insurance. As long as the army is in hand, Taiyuan Xuezhai Zen Master will be in an invincible position. And it can coordinate all parties at any time and make centralized arrangements. To be honest, Narumi City is very important, and Zen Master Taiyuan Xuezhai wants it very much, but he doesn't care whether Yamaguchi's stepfather and son die. If he dies, he will die. It will save him trouble and make it easier for him to take over the territory.
On this side, Nobunaga came with such a magical dragon's tail, he actually reached Higashi Mikawa Kariya Castle in one day and night. The lord of the castle, Mizuno Shingen, had become the Oda clan's flag-bearer in Mikawa as early as the Oda Nobhide era. Now he had already received Nobunaga's notification, gathered five hundred people, and the two armies converged. Then the Oda army rested for a night in Kariya Castle to recharge their batteries.
The next day, Nobunaga's subordinates suddenly appeared at the foot of Anxiang Castle. There were only two or three kittens in the city. Even Shirodai Okabe Mayuki, appointed by Imagawa Yoshimoto, had already led his soldiers to Okazaki to join Taiyuan Xuezai Zen Master.
Therefore, facing the six thousand Oda troops and the internal support of Mizuno Tadashige, the younger brother of Mizuno Nobumoto in the city, Anxiang City, the leading town in Higashi Mikawa, fell in one fell swoop. In this way, Oda Nobunaga's actions were completely exposed, and the blind man also saw it. Nobunaga wanted to cut off the retreat of Zen Master Taiyuan Xuezhai in a roundabout way.
Anxiang Castle is to the west of Okazaki. With Anxiang Castle as the starting point, as long as Oda Nobunaga sends out an army to block the East China Sea Street, Okazaki will be in a dilemma. The more than 8,000 Imagawa army cannot be supported by just Okazaki Castle. If people eat horses and chew them, it won't be long before the Imagawa army will run out of food. As for the army that has been deprived of food, the consequences are self-evident.
Oda Nobunaga's appetite is really not small. If the eight thousand Sanga clan and Suruga clan were eaten by Nobunaga at once. Good guy! Imagawa Yoshimoto is determined to destroy the country soon, half of his army will be cut in half, and even the gods will not be able to save him.
Not to mention Imagawa Yoshimoto, eight thousand people were wiped out, it would be the same for anyone. Not to mention 8,000 elite soldiers, there are 8,000 strong men. There are only 10 million people in Japan, which is almost one thousand of the total population of the country. This is still a local conflict between local sub-states. The number of strong men in each of his sub-states may only be thirty or forty thousand, and this is not just playing house.
As soon as Taiyuan Zen Master received the news that Anping had been lost, more than 6,000 people from Oda had entered the streets of Donghai. The old monk immediately reacted and abandoned Okazaki Castle and all its branch cities on the spot. He notified Asahina and his son at the border, and quickly retreated from the Yabiki River in an orderly manner, ready to be defeated by the imperial army and then the entire army at any time.
In pursuit and pursuit, the two armies raced against time. Finally, in the afternoon of that day, the two armies suddenly encountered each other at Mikawa Shozuzaka.
The entire terrain of Adzuki Zaka is not fragmented. The entire battlefield is on a gentle slope, with low in the west and high in the east. However, the key point of the battlefield is that there is a small hillside on the side of Adzuki. Whoever can seize this commanding height will win the battlefield. initiative.
And this place, Shodozaka, hahahahaha, everyone must be familiar with it. The Seven Spears of Shodozaka, where there were seven brave and incompetent samurai under Oda Nobhide, led the Oda army to defeat first and then victory, which added a strong touch to Oda Nobhide's martial arts.
Although Zen Master Taiyuan Xue Zhai was the one who withdrew slightly hastily, because he led his troops to retreat from the streets of Okazaki Avenue, they marched faster and actually occupied a slightly higher place to the east of Shodouzaka to halt their troops. As Nobunaga spent a lot of time attacking Anxiang Castle, he arrived at the battlefield a little later and was unfortunately in a position to attack from the west.
But this did not prevent Nobunaga from patrolling the battlefield with high spirits at the moment. Without looking further, he, who had a very keen sense of smell on the battlefield, also discovered the hillside on Azuki Saka.
Coincidentally, the main formation of the Imagawa Army and the Oda Army waved their flags. Oda's Maeda and Mori troops went out to attack the hillside, and Imagawa's Okabe and Udono troops also shouted in unison and began to charge towards the nameless hillside.
Taking advantage of the geography, the Imagawa army took the lead in ascending the slope, and the Imagawa Eryinliang and Red Bird patterns were erected one after another. Okabe Makoto had just lost Peace City and was furious. Now I finally found an opportunity to compete head-on with the Oda Army and regain the lost ground. After occupying the top of the mountain, they immediately placed wooden posts and bamboo bundles, and then a row of bow ashigaru began to draw their bows and fire arrows to prevent the Oda army from climbing.
When Mori Katsunari and Maeda Toshiie saw that the Imagawa Army had the upper hand and could not tolerate the failure of the mission, they asked for additional reinforcements to join the team attacking the hillside, and began to attack the Imagawa Army from two fronts.
When Zen Master Taiyuan saw that the mountain robbery was successful, he felt relieved. The Imagawa Army also recovered from the tension of the sudden retreat, and all the troops got into position, showing the majestic demeanor of a powerful seaman.
Last week's results were caught off guard and unexpected. I wasn't prepared, so I'll update it three times.
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