A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

The Yamauchi family was repairing military equipment and regulating the military affairs, looking peaceful and peaceful. The Takeda family will not be idle. Every day in the Warring States Period is a day of fighting.

Takeda Harunobu looked around. Yamauchi Yoshiji, an old man, had not yet given up the ball. There was no point in confronting him head-on. Suruga had already swallowed him. The Hojo clan was his son-in-law. There were only two soft persimmons left to pinch in his eyes.

One is Takanashi Masayori and his son from Kaijin Castle, but Takanashi Masayori has an eldest nephew, Uesugi Terutora, who is difficult to deal with. The other one is Nagano Yamasa, the lord of Nishi Ueno Minawa Castle who has never been very famous. Takeda Harunobu now believes that this old man is at most a self-defeating thief, and he can be caught easily.

Of course, he needs to see for himself whether this is the case.

Now that Takeda Harunobu has determined the goal, he is not ambiguous. He immediately takes Takeda Taro Yoshinobu as the leader and leads Iitomi Toramasa, Naito Masayo, Baba Nobuharu (Oh my god, Ishiminbu Keimasa finally succeeded in changing his name!), There are five thousand people living in Changqing.

His own team of 13,000 men is a gathering of elites, including the offensive bomb Masanoda Yukitsuna who shined in the small prefecture strategy, and the escaped bomb Masanobu Masanobu who switched sides when Kuzuo stayed behind.

As well as Nobushige Takeda, Shiro Suwa Katsuyori, Noburen Takeda, Noburyu Ichijoemon, Izu Morinobu-kun Anayayama, Saburo Iitomibei Masakei, Akiyama Hakushou Nobumo, Oyamada Bitaka Mori Nobumo, and Yamamoto Taitō. Haruyuki, Saeda Kanzaki, Moritomomo, Hoshina Danmasa Masatoshi, and so on.

When Nagano Yamasa heard that Takeda's army of eighteen thousand people was sweeping in, he summoned the generals of Nishi Ueno to Minawa Chojunji Temple. With Nagano Yamasa, Nagano Yamori and his son as the banner leaders, and twelve sons-in-law as the backbone, they formed Nishi Ueno. The general defense organization of "Hinoki Fan One Heart".

On the one hand, he sought reinforcements from Sugi Teruhu on Mount Echigo Kasuga, and on the other hand, local samurai known as the "Nishi Ueno 16 Guns" gathered under the command of the veteran general and his father-in-law, Nagano Yamasa.

The original commander of the Uesugi clan, headed by the famous "Sword Master" Lord of Dahu Castle Ueizumi Ise Mori Hidetsuna, the Uesugi Clan's Maai Banners responded solemnly and gathered their own armies to support Nagano Yamasa. Ueno 320 Castle Chief The defense system operates.

However, within two days, Takeda's vanguard, Takeda Yoshinobu's team, crossed the Suibing Pass, entered the Pingjiri Pass, and faced the assembled 8,000 Nagano troops.

Don't think that the Nagano people are weaklings. Nagano Yasumasa's brother-in-law Nobada Nobada and his son-in-law Kobata Nobusada commanded four hundred cavalry of the Kunine-Ohata party to drive the left wing of the Takeda army fiercely. The lord of Anaka Castle (son-in-law) Anaka Tadamasa and the lord of Wada Castle (son-in-law) Wada Yeshige led the capable hill infantry to continuously attack the right wing of the Takeda army with short strings.

Nagano Yamamasano commanded the Minawa people, with Nagano Yamori as the spearhead, and the outstanding martial arts Hidetsuna Uizumi and Kamara Yukishige (son-in-law) as the two flanks, advancing hand in hand, and fighting against the Takeda army vigorously.

The Nobuharu tribe of the Takeda Army Racecourse fiercely attacked the Kamiizumi Dahu people, and the two sides even started a cavalry fight in front of the formation. Even so, it was difficult for the Takeda Army to break through Nagano Yimasa's defense line.

The two sides fought for three days at Pasejiriguchi, and the Takeda army was unable to move forward until Takeda Harunobu's troops arrived.

The 8,000 Nagano troops were unable to resist the 18,000 armored troops, so they retreated slowly under the command of Nagano Yamasa.

The vigorous fighting of the Nagano people bought precious time for the people of Nishi Ueno to clear the country. Almost all the people and materials in Nishi Ueno were evacuated into the walled city. Nagano Yasumasa's strategic goal of not giving Takeda Harunobu a grain of rice or a penny was fully achieved.

The Takeda Army had to arrest people randomly when they went out. Otherwise, they would be mobilized two or three times a year. The wife and children would be working hard at home plowing the fields, and the farm work would be delayed. If they did not suck blood from others, they would not be able to replenish their own blood loss.

But it’s a headache if you can’t grab anything.

You said that every village has a stockade, which also stores a certain amount of food, but the stockades are filled with local farmers who cling to their own food. As soon as the Takeda army passed by, everyone was destroyed. They must have resisted to the death, and their morale was extremely high.

It is naturally not difficult for the Takeda Army to attack such a village, but for a hundred shi of food, sometimes a dozen or twenty people, or even more, must die, which is not cost-effective for Takeda Harunobu.

In the end, Takeda Harunobu decided to capture the thief first and capture the king, and conquer Minawa. Then Nishi Ueno would definitely spread the word, and food and money would be at his fingertips.

Matsuida Castle, Anzhong Castle, and Wada Castle along the way were all left alone, leaving only a small number of troops to monitor, while the army gathered at Minawa Castle. As long as Army A's thunder strikes, everything will be easy after the city is broken.

When they got to the bottom of the city, Takeda Harunobu realized that he was wrong. The thief Nagano was building the city to look like a tortoise shell. As a fortified city on rolling hills, the special shape of a city with separate walls made it impossible for the 18,000 Takeda Army to completely encircle the entire city, nor to launch a large-scale attack to take advantage of its military strength.

But now that we're here, there's nothing more to say. We can't just go back without success. Takeda Harunobu was still prepared to go up there and try to explore the reality in the city.

Moreover, Takeda Harunobu is not a reckless man. Sanada Yutsuna once served as a guest general of Nagano Yamasa and has several acquaintances. He was ordered to try to contact the warriors in the city. If there was anyone willing to communicate inside, he would be sure to secure it and seal it.

In addition, Takeda Harunobu also immediately attracted the gold diggers. Since Minawa Castle was built on a hill with a height of only a few dozen meters and there were no steep mountains, Takeda Harunobu naturally hoped to dig directly through the tunnel and suddenly enter. Inside the city.

In conjunction with this, there was also a frontal attack by selecting capable men, mobilizing the Nagano Army, and using the superior strength of the Takeda Army to launch a fierce wheel battle against Minawa Castle, a multi-pronged approach.

As a result, after two days of fighting, the Nagano army was weakened from the left to the right, and increasingly showed weakness and decline. The Takeda army was fighting more and more smoothly, feeling that victory was just around the corner.

That night, the Nagano army sent people out of the city through the secret door and attacked the Takeda army at night. Takeda Harunobu smiled contemptuously. He had already taken precautions and kept all the battalions stationary, leaving only one elite mobile soldier to face the enemy.

They fought like this for three more days. This night, the Nagano army's night attack became more and more ineffective. It was noisy for half the night, and the sky was slightly bright. Then they stopped and retreated to the city in dejection.

When Takeda Harunobu saw that it was already dawn, he expected that there would be no more ambush, so he immediately sent a thousand people to follow the Nagano army's assault team, trying to follow them into the city while taking advantage of the chaos.

And arranged for the second and third teams to be ready to follow up at any time, trying to break the city in one fell swoop.

But when the Takeda Army followed the Nagano Army to Minawa Castle and Takaduri Castle (Bieguo), things suddenly changed. Countless Nagano Army soldiers holding iron cannons and longbows appeared on the cities on both sides.

At the same time, the false screen on the city was violently knocked down, and a large number of logs swept down from both sides of the hills. The Takeda army was smashed and screamed like a wolf.

Hundreds of iron cannons and long bows fired at the same time, and the valley between the hills suddenly became a hell on earth. The Nagano army, which originally pretended to be in retreat, turned back and rushed into the formation, and countless Nagano troops also poured out of the secret door.

The Takeda army was defeated!