A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

The next day, it was bright and clear. The slight fighting last night did not actually affect the large group of troops, but it was finally a defeat, and the momentum of rapid progress was stopped.

Early in the morning, I saw that the plains on both sides of the Sichuan River were flat and wide. Except for the messy footprints left by the people and horses last night, there was nothing else.

It was impossible to determine how many people came last night, but judging from the trampling marks on the other side, there were always thousands or even ten thousand people.

The followers of the Yixiang Sect who wanted to come to Nishi Mikawa had already received the news and began to gather and mobilize on a large scale. Their troops holding on to Honjoji Temple must also be very strong.

Xiaoping was too helpless. He saw that the bridge was burned down and half collapsed. The bridge was broken into several sections and could not be used. The civilian ships had to be imprisoned and pontoons built before they could move on.

But it was obvious that in the nearby villages, except for a few lonely thatched houses, no one was seen, and naturally not even a small fishing boat was seen.

The only option was to find suitable bamboo and wood on the spot to tie up the drains, but even after expanding the search range, there were still no suitable materials.

There was no other way, so we temporarily borrowed more than 20 small morning boats from the Hamamatsu Navy to build two pontoon bridges. Only then did they transport the army's food and baggage across the river without leaving it behind.

At the same time, Koheita persuaded the generals to put the captured items into two customs ships and send them back to Hamamatsu for temporary storage. They will be returned after everyone returns after the war.

The bloated Xiaohe Tuo team must lose weight, otherwise it will move slower and slower, dragging down the speed of the entire army.

The crowd has been mobilized, and the road ahead will definitely not be smooth.

After a busy day like this, I finally finished sorting it out. You can continue on the road and enter Benzheng Temple.

In addition, news came from the Navy that the Oda Army had successfully gathered the remnants of Matsudaira Motoyasu and 600 reinforcements from Okudaira Sadano and others.

About five thousand troops were aimed directly at Okazaki Castle. Okubo Tadayo, the die-hard son of the Matsudaira family and the Okubo family, risked his life to persuade the people of Mikawa Country who were wavering.

Michiharu Matsudaira of the Sakurai Matsudaira clan also felt what Matsudaira Ieyasu felt before. Everyone is Matsudaira, so why should you, Sakurai Matsudaira, be the boss? After finally working together to defeat the Anxiang Matsudaira family, we have to provide another father for ourselves?

impossible! no way!

The people of Nishi Mikawa who were wearing a pair of trousers during the anti-Matsudaira Ieyasu period have fully experienced the path of being in the same boat, sharing the same bed and having different dreams, being in the same room and fighting each other, and dying together.

If it hadn't been for the discovery of the influx of foreign aid from Matsudaira Ieyasu, the people of Nishi Mikawa Country might have been torn apart.

Nowadays, everyone in the Nishi Mikawa Kingdom is convinced and reluctantly unites under the command of Matsudaira Michiharu, but there is no news of gathering forces to seek a joint war with the Yamauchi Army or the Oda Matsudaira Allied Forces. In their current state, there is a high probability that they will stick to the city separately and it will be difficult to fully integrate them.

Koheta wrote a letter and asked someone to forward it to Matsudaira Ieyasu, asking him not to worry about the miscellaneous fish from all walks of life and to try to restore Okazaki Castle first. After all, the political aura attached to Okazaki Castle itself is unmatched by other cities. As long as Okazaki is captured, it will surely be able to win over many young people who are willing to take advantage of the situation.

Now that Matsudaira Ieyasu has received backup and has begun to take action, Koheta must also speed up.

The reason is very simple. Historically, Matsudaira Ieyasu was devastated by a great chaos and was extremely poor. He had already set his sights on Benzheng Temple and wanted to wipe it out.

In the end, Honzheng Temple was restored to its original state!

How to recover? They were simply looted, completely demolished, and turned into farmland.

The level of "washing" of that person was no worse than that of Echigo. His cleanliness was praised in the history books for his clean and neat handling. Because it was so clean, Uncle Tsunada left a floor full of rotten tiles, and Matsudaira Ieyasu even moved away the tiles.

From then on, there was no such thing as Honjoji Temple in Mikawa, until Komaki Nagashou joined forces. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's army of 120,000 men came in force, and he exhausted all his troops. At the cost of restoring the Mikawa Ichikou sect temple, he got the support of Ichikou Munano's ambushes, which officially revived the Mikawa Ichikou sect.

Koheita has long regarded Honjoji as his treasure, so why would he leave him to Matsudaira Ieyasu? But you don’t have to strike first and get it early.

What happened was contrary to expectations. We set out on the road the next day. Not long after we set off, Matsushita Ao, who was the first to take the lead, came over to report that the road could not be walked.

You said he dug up the entire road, but he didn't. Instead, he just dug a ditch half a meter deep and half a meter wide every few meters up the street. At first glance, there might be hundreds, or even more.

For Yixiang Zong who can mobilize tens of thousands of people, this may be just a matter of greeting. With tens of thousands of people going into battle together, wouldn't it be a matter of minutes to dig a half-meter trench with hoes and nails?

It's not like we just have to dig trenches for these people to fight. That's really simple.

People can cross this kind of ditch in one step, but what about the animals? What about the bullock cart? It will definitely not be possible to carry the troops, food and supplies for the five thousand troops. They could only stop and the whole army slowly filled the ditch.

Of course, it is only spring now, so there is no water in the farmland, and the fields just after winter are relatively hard, not one foot deep and one foot shallow. It wouldn't be a big problem if the soldiers walked normally, but there was still the same problem, how would the carriages and horses get through?

Filling ditches is just hard work, not a big deal. However, Yiyikui was not prepared to let the Yamauchi army fill the ditch properly, so he continued to play tricks.

No large army was sent, not even able-bodied men were sent, leaving only two men to organize the weak. Instead of coming up to attack the Yamauchi army, they encouraged them to get closer to the Yamauchi army. If they encountered it, they would disperse with a blast.

The Weak Foot Soldiers are different from the Foot Soldiers and the Weak Foot Soldiers. This is what the Shimadzu family says. Those who can wear their own armor and go into battle are the Foot Soldiers. The various auxiliary personnel who have no money to buy armor but still go into battle are called Wu Foot Soldiers. Enough people.

As for the elderly, women, and children who should not even go to the battlefield, these people are called the weak.

The Legendary Battle of Kowloon and Touchuan has always commanded an army of more than 300,000 people, 90% of which are weaklings like this. That is really called coercing the people and swarming them.

But don't look at these weaklings. They don't come to fight. They just circle around you like flies. If you don't go and fight him, maybe if one or two hundred monk soldiers get mixed up in one of the weaker groups, the trouble will be big.

But if Xiao Pingtai sends people up to attack them, these people will be able to disappear in a blink of an eye, relying on their local familiarity with the geography.

Mrs. Xiaoping really can't fight and can't fight, and can't do it if she doesn't fight.

This disgusting method is really disgusting. It gives full play to the advantage of the Xiangzong clan, men, women, old and young, and sufficient human resources to harass the Yamauchi army as much as possible.