A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

It’s really funny to say that Kiso Yoshiyasu and Kiso Yoshimasa, the father and son, were so excited when they rejected Yamauchi Yoshiharu. He has an aura that would rather be broken than broken, which makes people "admirable".

It fully embodies the demeanor of the descendants of their family, Minamoto Yoshinaka, who never bows to power and fights to the end even if he throws himself into the street. He has the firm determination and supreme courage to fight against the "evil forces" to the end. With that state, that look, that posture, the Oscar winner this year is definitely going to be your father and son.

Today, more than 6,000 troops of Yoshikatsu Yamauchi have just appeared on the border. They have not yet crossed the pass between Mount Ise and Mount Adera, and they have not even seen the shadow of Tsumago Castle, a branch city of Kiso Valley. The entire Kiso Valley was already in a state of chaos, with an unorganized and unplanned collapse in an instant.

The Yamauchi family was a giant, and the Kiso family was a small boat in the angry sea. A master with a few thousand guan and a master with 150,000 guan fighting against each other? None of the people in Kiso Valley are fools. Farewell! Goodbye! Not sending it! Three consecutive qualities!

However, the Kiso family has been a local snake in Kiso Valley Yoshiyori for so many generations, and it is not really in vain. After experiencing the initial chaos, they quickly mobilized the military and civilians to arm the Kawami Public and other national organizations on the Kiso River. 【Note 1】

On the other hand, the Kiso family also knew that they had to bow their heads at this time, and hurriedly sent envoys to Mino Naegi Castle [Note 2] and Hida Nabeyama Castle. One group asked for help from Naegi Toyama Clan Toyama Tomotada, and the other asked for help from Miki Yoshiyori of Sakuradou Miki Clan. All in all, it's just the rhetoric of a marriage that lasts for generations.

On the other hand, they did not send anyone to seek peace from Yamauchi Yoshikatsu. They still had some calculations in their hearts. Knowing that they had slapped Yamauchi Yoshikatsu in the face, Yamauchi Yoshikatsu came with a large army and would not give up easily.

Of course, Yamauchi Yoshikatsu knew that Kiso and his son would not sit still and wait for death, but the soldiers still had to walk on two legs, and it was still on the valley path. It was not easy for the army to pass through, and it was impossible to conquer the city in one day with some light riding and fast horses. We can only take care of the baggage slowly, guard against harassment, and move forward carefully.

It seems that the Kiso family's request for reinforcements has not gone smoothly. Anyway, no troops from other forces have entered the Kiso Valley at all. The Kiso family is now a grasshopper after autumn and will not live long. Even if others really have some kind of covenant with him, such as in-laws, they definitely can't control it at this time. Who is willing to do the thing of using a mantis' arm as a chariot and hitting a rock with an egg? None of the wealthy Chinese who have survived to this day are stupid fools.

In the end, the Kiso clan had to abandon Tsumago Castle and Suhara Castle built along the Kiso River Valley, and prepared to defend the main city of Fukushima Castle with all its strength. Of course, they would not leave the city to the Yamauchi family. They would take everything they could take with them before leaving, and burn everything they could not. It made Xiao Pingtai feel disgusted. He still had to deal with the ruins of the ruins before he could build a military depot for transferring food and supplies.

It's not that the Kiso family has never done this in its history. The Kiso family who was not in this plane was attacked by Takeda Nobutoyo after betraying Takeda Katsuyori. He also directly abandoned the perimeter and relied on Fukushima Castle to resist until Oda Nobutada's reinforcements arrived.

Another time was when Komaki had his hand, and the Kiso family once again rebelled against their master and sought glory. Sold Tokugawa Ieyasu, surrendered to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and sent hostages. Can Tokugawa Ieyasu be good? Definitely not. However, the troops he sent also failed at Fukushima Castle, allowing the Kiso family to survive until the day when Toyotomi Hideyoshi achieved political victory.

Firstly, this shows that Japan's bad wars are really bad, and secondly, it also shows that this method is effective. This was actually a very common situation during the Warring States Period. When he entered and exited the Kanto Campaign for the first time, Hojo Ujiyasu completely abandoned all the peripheral branch cities and concentrated his forces to defend the world-famous strong city of Odawara.

The Kiso family's military strength was much inferior to that of Yamauchi Yoshikatsu, so the Kiso father and son had no intention of splitting up their forces to stop the attack. So in the end, the Kiso family mobilized about 2,000 mixed soldiers to enter Fukushima Castle to defend it in a last-ditch effort.

The Yamauchi Army was naturally happy to see the Kiso family happily abandoning their outlying strongholds and shrinking their troops and supplies. Follow the wind and river along the river valley and cross Komano Ridge to the foot of Fukushima Castle.

Fukushima Castle, as the Kiso clan's main castle, naturally has its merits. In addition to Fukushima, Tamataki Castle, Kaminonoden Castle and Kurokawa Castle were built on the left and right. As branch castles of the main castle, the Senmura clan, the chief minister of the clan, and The Yamamura clan and the Zhichuan clan divided their troops into hundreds of troops to hold on.

At the same time, Fukushima Castle, which is built on a mountain, also relies on the water of the Kiso River, ensuring that there will never be a water shortage problem in the city. In addition, the autumn harvest has just been completed, and the food stored in the city is enough to feed the city soldiers for the first half of the year. Except for the slight lack of salt in the inland mountains, the city's preparations are quite sufficient.

Okay, according to Japan's bad war routine, leave the main force and capable troops to monitor the main city of Fukushima, and send out various detachments to pull out the branch cities attached to the hills around the main city.

Xiao Pingtai came here to take care of logistics. Although he brought more than 300 people with him, including more than fifty iron cannons alone, I'm sorry, but we, Xiao Pingtai, are not going to fight this time.

The main contributor was Hosokawa Saime, and most of the troops he led were soldiers of the Takeda family in the previous two years. You could say that Yamauchi Yoshiharu intended to consume them, or that Yamauchi Yoshikatsu wanted to make his good brothers perform meritorious service. Anyway, the task of unwrapping the turtle shell outside Fukushima Castle was left to Hosokawa Harime and his Suwa Inazuna.

But this time, Hosokawa Harugong sent over her old partner, the old samurai who accompanied Hosokawa Maimei in her first battle. We haven’t seen each other for so many years, but this old man named Song Jian Zhai is getting stronger and stronger, and he is not hunched over at all.

When he shouted at the soldiers under his command, he was still the same as when he ordered Xiao Pingtai. Tight and organized, but also rigid and stubborn.

However, having such retainers is still enviable. After all, you don't need to worry about many military affairs at all. Unlike Xiaoping who was too busy with the logistics of the 6,000-strong army, he also had to deal with the chores of more than 300 people of his own.

"It would be great if I could have a helper who was a serious samurai!" Koheita looked at the heavily guarded Fukushima Castle Group and once again lamented the sadness of having no one under his command.

[Note 1]: It is not the group of Haesuga Koroku who helped Kinoshita Tokichiro build Mogu One Night City. After the wood from Kiso Valley is cut from the mountain, it will be bundled into rafts and float downstream. In fact, after the wood floats across a section of the river It is necessary to change people to "escort" and "inspect". These rivers and rivers are all road bullies and bandits along the river, as well as ordinary Chinese along the way.

[Note 2]: Naegi Castle is called the Naegi Toyama clan, and Iwamura Castle is called the Iwamura Toyama clan. Nobunaga’s aunt later married Akiyama Nobuto, who was from the Iwamura Toyama clan. We are in the same distant mountains, but we are actually not on the same road, and there are many times when we get into trouble with each other.