A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Okuhira Sadatsuna came back from the Minami Ise battlefield. Kodaira had nothing to do for the time being, so he sat with him under the long eaves by the city gate and started talking.

Anyway, what he sent was only Minami Ise's battle report. It would have been the same a quarter earlier and a quarter later. Could Okouchi Castle have disappeared out of thin air, and could the Kitahata family have risen again?

When the Yamauchi family attacked Suwa, Oda Nobunaga and his close friend Ashikaga Yoshiaki applied for royal education to attack the Kitahata clan. Ashikaga Yoshiaki was a little hesitant about this matter. After all, the Kitahata clan belonged to the old faction that supported the shogunate. He didn't want Oda Nobunaga to kill Kitahata Tomato's father and son.

At this time, Mitsuhide Akechi, who was very useful in front of both Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Oda Nobunaga, used only one sentence to ask Ashikaga Yoshiaki to issue the imperial teaching.

"Although I respect the shogunate, I don't respect the big tree!"

Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who has a very active mind, thought, yes! When Ashikaga Yoshie was here, I didn't see you, Kitahata Tomomi, rising up to attack him. When I went to Luo to Kyoto to take the throne, I didn't see you, Kitahata Tomita, sending troops to help me.

This was exactly when Ashikaga Yoshiaki was working hard to restore the shogunate's momentum in Luoyang. Of course, it was basically impossible for the shogunate's momentum to be restored to that of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. However, it should not be a big problem to return to the period of Ashikaga Yoshiteru. The most important symbol is the policy of guarding and appointing, through extensive appointment of emerging samurai forces as guardians of divided countries, nominally becoming the common master of the world.

And you, Kitahata Tomoko, neither sent troops to help me nor went to the capital to congratulate me!

What a thief!

Oda Nobunaga, hurry up and beat him down!

So when the Oda clan gathered the military forces of Owari, Mino, Kitaise and Mikawa, Oda Nobunaga attacked the rebels who did not respect the shogunate in the name of Ashikaga Yoshiaki!

Not only was he famous, but he also gave the Kitahata family a beating.

As the special envoy of the shogunate, Akechi Mitsuhide, who had both the identity of Oda Nobunaga and the powerful force, carried the Amaterasu flag of Ashikaga Yoshiaki and went to Minami Ise with Oda Nobunaga to fight.

When the Yamauchi army surrounded Uehara Castle, the Oda army also surrounded the Okouchi castles. Because previously, the three most powerful families in Northern Ise, Seki, Kobe, and Nagano, had all surrendered to the Oda clan. This time the Oda army invaded Minami Ise, and the leading party was everywhere.

However, Kobe Nobutaka is his son, and Nagano Nobuya (Oda Shinbao) is his younger brother. They are both our own people, so they can be used without any worries. Coupled with the blessing of Nobunaga's fierce general Takigawa Kazumasu, the branch cities around Okouchi Castle were quickly eradicated one by one.

Including Togi Castle, Muzukou Castle, Yatai Castle, and Iwauchi Castle successively surrendered or fell. Asaka Castle, directly north of Okouchi Castle, became the last barrier of Okouchi Castle, and the two sides launched a fierce attack and defense here.

Kitahata and his son, as well as their elder Toriya O Mitsei, commanded an army of 11,000 people to defend the castle. Omiya Irimichi and his son Omiya Oyanojo Kageren led a thousand troops to occupy the castle and put up a desperate resistance.

As a branch city of Okouchi Castle, Asaka Castle's defense level is even comparable to that of Okouchi Castle. The city is roughly divided into Nanguo and Beiguo. Nanguo is a platform-shaped land with a height of 25 meters from east to west by 30 meters from north to south, and a height of 12 meters. Beiguo is a platform-shaped land of 70 meters by 70 meters. The distance between the two walls is about 250 meters. The southern part of the castle was called Hakumi Castle, and the northern part was called Shiinoki Castle.

Shiinoki Castle is larger in scale and relatively new. It is composed of a moat and an earthen rampart. There are many walls and oars in the city, and the structure is complex. It is the main castle of Asaka Castle. Shiinoki Castle is centered on two long and narrow terraces, and a moat was built to surround the space between and on both sides of the terraces. Two vertical walls were built on the west lower slope of the north.

Compared to Shikinaki Castle, Shirakomi Castle is located at a higher location and can see Okouchi Castle. The platform of Baimi City is a trapezoidal base of 45 meters by 60 meters. The upper part is a flat oval of 20 meters by 35 meters. There are small terraces at the four corners.

The east, north and west walls of Baimi Castle were built along the ridge, and there were small castle oars. There were two moats under the ridges in the north and west. On the top of Mt. Masakata, there were rocket towers and towers. Konghori and Langyantai.

Such a strong and well-defended town made Oda Nobunaga suffer. At that time, Kinoshita Hideyoshi, who was the vanguard of the entire army, commanded the soldiers to storm the city gate. Omiya Kageren, who was standing on the city, personally fired his bow and shot Kinoshita Hideyoshi. Due to Omiya Kage's infinite strength, he actually broke the long bow string, and the bow and arrow originally aimed at Kinoshita Hideyoshi's head hit his thigh.

When Kinoshita Hideyoshi fell, the Oda army retreated in an uproar, and Oda Nobunaga, who commanded more than 40,000 troops, went into battle personally. Commanding the people of the four countries, while blocking the reinforcements of Kitahata and his son, they attacked fiercely from all sides.

The most common bad thing happened. Seeing that there was no hope of guarding the city, Saburo Zaemon Takizhi opened the city gate to welcome the attacking Ikeda Heike into the city. Asaka City was destroyed, and Omiya and his son fought hard and died unyieldingly.

All the branches of Okouchi Castle were lost, and the Kitahata Army was finally forced to retreat into the main castle of Okouchi, with only 7,000 soldiers scattered.

Something that made Kitahata and his son even more angry also happened. Kitahata's brother Muzo Gumasa, the lord of Taji (qi) castle, Kitahata Palace Shaosuke, all surrendered to Oda Nobunaga.

Outside the city were more than 40,000 enemy troops, while inside the city were only 7,000 men who came out in panic.

Which one is strong and which one is weak is self-evident!

Although the fighting in Okouchi Castle is still going on for the time being, both Oda Nobunaga outside the city and Kitahata Gojio inside the city actually know that Okouchi Castle cannot be defended for long.

At this time Akechi Mitsuhide jumped out. He was willing to be a peacemaker and help the Oda family and Kitahata family make peace. Oda Nobunaga had been on the expedition for a month, and the peasants and soldiers began to think about the land at home and were reluctant to fight with all their strength, so they agreed to Mitsuhide Akechi's request and talked while fighting.

Kitahata Tomokyo somehow believed in Akechi Mitsuhide, and actually agreed to give his daughter Kitahata Chiyo to the Oda family as a hostage. This put Oda Nobunaga in trouble. As the eldest son, Oda Nobutada could not marry Chiyo and become the son-in-law of the Kitahata family.

The eldest son of the concubine, Oda Nobumasanori, had married the daughter of Nobunaga's uncle, Oda Nobuhiro, and inherited the official positions of Koto Castle and Ohsumi. Oda Chashinmaru was given to Yamauchi and became his son-in-law and adopted son.

As for his younger brother Xinbao, his son Sanchimaru has already passed away, leaving only an infant son Oda Shiro who is only two years old.

For a while, Nobunaga was in trouble. He was given his daughter instead, but he didn't have a son or brother to give her to.

In the end, it was Niwa Nagahide who reminded him that he also had a 22-year-old younger brother, Oda Gengo Nagamasu, who could support him.

Nobunaga seemed a little reluctant. He had the impression that this younger brother, who was thirteen years younger than himself, was really useless. Not only was he a bit "weak", but his talents were not worthy of praise. It was a bit difficult for him to adopt the Kitahata family. .

But without a spare son or younger brother, Nobunaga still had no choice but to choose Oda Nagamasu. Then the unprepared Oda Nagamasu was suddenly recruited from Gifu Castle. As the adopted son-in-law of Kitahata Gong's son-in-law, he married Chiyo Kitahata and changed his name to Kitahata Nobugi and took over Okouchi Castle.

The Minami Ise Kitahata clan, except for Kitahata Okinari, the third son of Kitada Gokyo, and his retainer Yukitoshi Kurada, were strongly dissatisfied and sent 2,000 troops to the Kiriyama Imperial Palace to defend the city, they were all pacified in one fell swoop.

Even the Nine Demon Marines in Hakichi Castle in Shima Province expressed their surrender to Oda Nobunaga.