A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

In the tea room of the Ejiri Castle Residence Hall in Yuanzhou, Yamauchi's face was stained, his hair was disheveled, and the gorgeous Tang-style armor specially customized for him was in pieces. The gold flower haori made of the finest Koshu silk has disappeared, and the bag decorated with gold foil is nowhere to be found.

And Yamauchi Yiqin was making a fuss about tea and rice. His appearance and momentum made him want to swallow the whole bowl. He didn't have the slightest bit of self-cultivation and manners of a descendant of Shiwankan Genji, a famous family, but the little boy next to him Nishihara Zaemon, Uncle Tsuna, and Matsushita are all like this.

An hour ago, more than a thousand members of the Yamauchi Army, who were like beggars and refugees, fled to Ejiri Castle in panic. Koheta knew that the timeline finally ended, and the most powerful powerful daimyo Imagawa Jibu Daisuke Yoshimoto was defeated, but he still did not deviate from the trajectory of history.

After settling down the crumbling army, which was suffering from hunger and cold, several generals were all invited to the residence by Xiao Pingtai. It turned out that they had not had a meal for almost two days.

Konishiharazaemon Hatamoto has the highest status and broad knowledge. It’s not like the Yamauchi family has never been defeated before, and it’s not his first time on the run, so after eating a big bowl of hot chazuke rice, he calmed down.

The others also slowly came out of their panic. Except for Yamauchi's sworn relatives who were still dazed in the first formation, several other veterans looked at Mrs. Xiaoping with worried faces.

But no one spoke. Yamauchi Yoshichiro was the general and the young master. No matter what he said, he should speak, and others would supplement it.

"Young Master, how is Daisuke Imagawa's administration?" This is the key among the keys. If Yoshitsune is not dead, then the Imagawa family will be just a big defeat, with two or three thousand people dead. For a powerful force like him, It’s not a stretch, it’s just a matter of coming back next year.

"I found a few stray warriors from my team on the road. My father-in-law has been captured by the Oda army." Yamauchi Yoshiki said a result that Xiaoping had expected too early.

"The Chief of Staff really died in the battle?" Xiao Pingtai looked at several lieutenants and forces.

"We were attacked in the Okazaki area two days ago. We defeated a group of native people who had swarmed up and saved several Hatamotos from Suruga. Four days ago, it rained heavily in the afternoon. The Suruga Administrative Department was unexpectedly attacked by Sosuke Owarigami. There is no doubt that he will be killed." Matsushita nodded, indicating that he was right.

"Where are those Suruga flags? Did they all be brought back to Ejiri?" Koheita hurriedly confirmed.

"I went to Takua and joined Okabe Sakyojin (Okabe Masatsuna)." On Takua's behalf, Okabe Masatsuna still had 1,500 people stationed in the city. Due to sufficient food and strict military management, they did not collapse immediately.

"What about Imagawa Hikoro (Imagawa clan)?"

"My sworn brother was in Otaka at that time, and he was the first to receive the news that his father-in-law had died in battle. Asahina Suruga Mamoru (Asahina Taitomo), the force-minded brother, quickly left the battlefield and rushed back to Suruga to stabilize the overall situation. So Suruga Toge's elite five The sworn brother of the Hundred Guards went first. Unexpectedly, the people's hearts were unpredictable. The five hundred people collapsed without a fight. Before they reached Mikawa Taraka Castle, there were only about two hundred riders left. They ran into Sosuke Owari, who had withdrawn his troops and returned to the division. They fought hard. , encountered no provocation, and were killed together." Yamauchi Yoshikin looked sad.

"What! Imagawa Hikoro was also killed in the battle!" Kodaira was horrified and shocked. Historically, this man lived to be seventy-seven, with children around his knees, and finally the Kao family survived into the Meiji era with a thousand stone shogunate. Now, by coincidence, they both died at the hands of Oda Nobunaga. Imagawa and his son died together in one day!

"What about Takeda Taro?" There is another important person who also needs to ask.

"It seems that I heard from the defeated soldiers on the road that my brother-in-law was guerrillas outside Furuto. There happened to be dozens of navy warships outside Atsuta. Most of my brother-in-law and Takeda Hatamoto left by boat. They should have arrived in Suruga by now. "Yoshichi Yamauchi said a staggering coincidence.

Takeda Harunobu and Honganji Ming were brothers-in-law. It happened that dozens of warships ordered by Hattori Yumo of the Navy Loacha Party were guerrilla outside Atsuta Port, and they happened to pick up Takeda Taro Yoshinobu to escape! What a coincidence!

As for the rest, there isn’t much to say. Imagawa Yoshimoto’s helmet was carried around the battlefield by the Oda army. First, a collective mutiny and collapse of the 16,000-strong Roshi mercenary army turned around and attacked the Imagawa Army, seizing money, food, and weapons.

As a result, the 5,000-strong army of Okazaki Castle and the 4,000-strong army of Yoshida Castle all disappeared overnight, and those attached to each city and village also fled. Then came the 8,000 people from Sanhe and the 4,000 people from Xisanhe. As soon as they heard that Yiyuan was dead, they immediately dispersed and went back to their homes. Uden Nagasho of Higashi Mikawa fought and retreated, and fled to Yoshida.

Once these 24,000 men were dispersed, and the two sons-in-law's 5,000 men were thrown away, the current Sichuan army would only have three melons and two dates.

The people in the Mikawa area of ​​Owari immediately showed their "Warring States nature", and the native people emerged in droves. All the laggards were hunted in every village and town along the roads, mountains and forests. Crazy attacks on lone samurai and miscellaneous soldiers were the reason why the Yamauchi sworn relatives who took the overland route lost hundreds of people.

The reason why they were able to come back intact was because they kept running for their lives along the way and constantly discarded rice rations and various property along the way, attracting mobs to rob them along the way. Even so, the loss is still considerable and heartbreaking.

Yamauchi Yoshiuchi's gold-leaf helmet was also lost to a group of hundreds of broken soldiers in order to break out of the ambush. Everyone ran across three rivers day and night for two days and one night before finally escaping and returning to Ejiri territory.

As for the movements of the Imagawa clan's generals who were stranded on the front line, they did not know. They only knew that the lord of Gaotianjin Castle, Okabe Motonobu, entered Narumi Castle to cover the retreat of the remaining Imagawa troops. His brother, Okabe Masatsuna, was at the gate. As his backup and support.

Uden Nagateru should have fled back to Nishi Mikawa with Suganuma Sadei, and they seem to be closing the city to defend, and the same seems to be true for Okuhira Sadano. No news is known about the families in Dongsanhe.

After listening to the accounts of several people, Koheita immediately shouted out the door, "Yoshiro, Meigoro!"

Ogasawara, Shiro Nagamasa, and Kanai Meigoro immediately came in from the outside. Ogasawara wrote everything that happened here into a written statement, and then handed it to them respectively.

"If you change horses, don't change people. If the horse runs away and dies, you will go on foot. You must give it to the lord and Zuo Ma's head day and night."

"Yoshiro, you are familiar with Kyoto. I will arrange a fast boat to take you to Ise tonight. You must deliver it personally."

"Meigoro, two days! Two days at most, His Highness will see this letter! Take three horses and leave now. With my name tag, you can commandeer all the horses from the master's family along the way. Just for speed."

The two of them took the petition without asking the reason, walked out of the library, and set off immediately.

"Young Master, from now on, you will be renamed Imagawa Suruga Moriyoshichi, and your father will be Imagawa Jibe Daisuke!"