A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Xiao Pingtai spent an unbearable winter month in random thoughts, thinking about how many roads there were in Donghai Street every day. How wide is the road? How many soldiers can be passed at one time? Will long-distance marches cause road damage and cause the team to become disjointed?

Before I could finish my messy thoughts, I considered whether to go to Naruhida and other cities in advance to bribe some farmers. If something really happened, let them come over and report to him as soon as possible, or would nothing happen and everything be safe?

He also thought about how if the timeline ended and Imagawa Yoshimoto really died after riding a dragon on his face, he would take the opportunity to rush into Mikawa Toga and eat him to his heart's content. Or pick two agents in Mikawa to stir up trouble and mess up the boundaries, so that Yamauchi Yoshiharu can take care of these rookies in the future.

I spent three months of winter in such a muddle-headed way that I no longer even thought about making money. After all, the Okehazama surprise attack, one of the three major surprise attacks of the Warring States Period, was about to happen in front of his eyes. It was so close that he couldn't believe it.

Spring has not yet begun. Asahina Suruga Morutaitomo, the lord of Kakegawa Castle who was left behind in the Toe area, came to Ejiri with a document monogrammed by Imagawa Yoshimoto. At the same time, he sent three thousand taels of gold and asked Koheita to launch a general call for service. It must be done after the spring plowing. The bridges on the Tenryu River and the streets of Ejiri were all prepared to the extent that they could pass an army of 40,000 to 50,000 people.

The melting of snow after the cold winter will certainly lead to a shortage of agricultural water. But it would also bring about a huge spring break, damaging roads and bridges along the coast. Nowadays, almost all streets are ordinary dirt roads. The so-called rammed earth roads only exist on paper.

Flooding has caused great damage to these dirt roads. Many sections of the roads have become silted up. Repairing the roads every year is a chore. Now that a wealthy man like Imagawa Yoshimoto has taken the initiative to pay for it, it would be best for him to be the one taking advantage of him.

Koheita didn't dare to neglect Imagawa Yoshimoto's paperwork when he saw it. After all, he was a top boss and he was just a small jodai. Imagawa Yoshimoto was so furious that he had to take off three layers of his skin, so he immediately asked people to carry the gold back to the mountain to ask for instructions, and began to mobilize the elite soldiers in the area.

A few days later, Yamauchi Yoshiuchi came to Ejiri with hundreds of ashigaru warriors assigned to him by his father Yamauchi Yoshiharu, with Chief Konishiharazaemon as the deputy general. Xiao Pingtai nodded. Surprisingly, none of them were mobilized military personnel, all of them were on standby. Although Yamauchi Yoshiharu didn't pay much attention to cultivating this young son in the past, he was indeed his biological son, so he spent a lot of money on it.

At the same time, Koheita also received an order from Yamauchi Yoshiharu to launch a large-scale road construction campaign in Ejiri, so he could only forcefully request the mobilization of 3,000 territorial residents when spring plowing was still busy. For the time being, Give up farm work and start preparing roads.

In addition, Imagawa Yoshimoto will certainly not waste time in the preparation stage before going to Luo this year. Brothers Okabe Motonobu and Okabe Masatsuna were assigned to Mikawa, and cooperated with Yoshida Castle Lord Udono Nagateru to start a small-scale tentative attack on Peaceful Castle Ori Tian Xinguang. And they pulled out the branch towns near Anxiang Castle one by one to ensure that the flanks of the road to Owari were not threatened.

Then there are the unconvinced Chinese wealthy families who drive Nishi Mikawa, especially the three most thorny families, Honda, Ishikawa and Sakai. Let these cheap cannon fodder continue to enter the territory of Owari Kingdom south of Atsuta to attack the villages and towns of the Oda clan, creating a cover for the army. At the same time, he consumed the insufficient strength of the Owari Nanbu Oda clan to bleed Oda Nobunaga, causing his head to hurt for a few more days.

As for Narumi Castle Yamaguchi's stepfather and son, who were completely willing to work for Imagawa Yoshimoto last year, they had been abandoned by Imagawa Yoshimoto a long time ago, and they didn't care about their lives. So Yamaguchi taught the stepfather and his son to be simply attacked and killed by Oda Nobunaga after running out of ammunition and reinforcements. At this moment, Nobunaga is relying on him, and the person guarding Narumi is Sakuma Daishige, the elder of the Oda clan, who was a well-known Kaido general in Nobhide's era.

At the same time, there are more than 400 defenders in the city, and it will be absolutely impossible to capture it for a while. Oda Nobunaga plans to use Narumi as a fulcrum city to resist Suruga's invasion. As long as Narumi defends for three to five days and blocks Imagawa Yoshimoto's army, Oda Nobunaga will have time to fully mobilize the Owari people. , make a desperate fight.

At this point, the two sides continued to test and engage in small-scale battles. Everyone could see that a fierce confrontation was right in front of them. The messenger holding Suruga's gold secretly kept walking among the lord samurai of Owari, doing his best to bribe and divide them. After all, loyalty and love are negotiable in front of gold.

Finally, the spring plowing of Kaidou ended with the sound of rumbling war drums. Flags were flying inside and outside Suruga Fuchu Castle. A huge army of more than 25,000 soldiers surrounded "Kaido Ichi no Yumori", "Giant of the East China Sea" and "unparalleled famous generals in ancient and modern times". ", "The most powerful elder of the Genji", Imagawa Yoshimoto under various glorious titles.

The Imagawa clan will finally challenge the entire world from a humble tributary of the Genji clan, and challenge the supreme throne of the world's warriors. The accumulation of more than two hundred years and the efforts of ten generations of the Imagawa family finally flourished in Imagawa Yoshimoto.

At this moment, almost everyone firmly believed that with such a huge military force, they would sweep away all the thieves. Perhaps at the end of the year, in the imperial palace in Kyoto, sitting next to His Highness Kōkata, the one who issued orders to the whole world was the Minamoto courtier Imagawa Harubu Daisuke Yoshimoto.

Joined by Takeda Yoshinobu from Kai, each team from Imagawa set off one by one. Yamauchi Yoshitsune was supplemented by his uncle Tsunade's standing ashigaru and Matsushita Masaru's fellow citizens. He gathered more than 2,000 troops and followed his father-in-law Imagawa Yoshimoto's main force, and went there with great enthusiasm. Sanhe went.

Xiao Pingtai then gave Uncle Tsunliang many warnings before leaving, saying that he must preserve his own body, hide if possible, retreat if possible, and be careful in everything.

But the effect doesn't seem to be very good. The Imagawa army, which now has more than 30,000 people, has a majestic momentum that can crush everything. Being in such a huge army, we have to be afraid even if ghosts and gods come. How can there be any danger?

What could Koheita do? He could only watch the Imagawa army that took three days to pass through Ejiri Castle. When they arrive at Yoshida Castle and join Higashi Mikawa's samurai group, the entire army will swell to more than 40,000.

There is another news. Because Imagawa Yoshimoto believed that this battle would be won, the seventeen-year-old Imagawa clan's first battle was arranged for this battle of Kamikawa. Suruga's stay was left to Imagawa Yoshimoto's. His mother Shouguini, who is as shrewd and capable as any man, and his confidant Lao Okabe Oyatsuna.

The men of the Imagawa family, including the sons-in-law, all mobilized collectively to participate in the journey to Luo.