An elegiac song was sung repeatedly, and the sad and plaintive melody was like crying. All the people who saw and heard it were sad and shed tears. Takeda Shingen suddenly smiled: "Listen! That is the sound of Ninomaru being breached. My life is about to end!"
Takasaka Masanobu cried loudly: "My lord! Let me take one step in front of my lord and explore the road to the underworld! This body comes and goes, I cross the clear wind and the water, but the bright moon is still in the sky..."
After reciting the sentence of death, Masanobu Takasaka took out his ribs and stabbed him in the lower abdomen. In an instant, blood spilled on the spot, and the beautiful dancer fell softly. Nobubo Baba walked to the body of Masanobu Takasaka, knelt down and said quietly:
"My lord's kindness to me, Xinfang, cannot be repaid in this life. Please let me accompany my lord and continue to be my lord's loyal ministers in the underworld! Swallow the sword and give up the famous bow, just watch this breeze."
At the moment when his death song ended, Baba Nobuka committed suicide by committing seppuku with his ribs raised. Witnessing the disappearance of an outstanding samurai, Takeda Shingen lamented: "Well, with you here, I will not be alone in the end..."
…The final moment cannot be without a farewell message, so let me add one too!”
Slowly pulling out the ribs, Lai Guojun held the familiar blade in both hands and whispered: "This body and bones will return to heaven and earth, not touched by the world of mortals, and live alone..."
When Takeda Nobushige walked into the courtyard, he saw Takeda Shingen's body kneeling on the porch. He still held Lai Guojun's hands and stabbed him in the lower abdomen. His face was full of relief without a trace of regret.
A famous general who had dominated the scene for nearly thirty years disappeared.
Takeda Nobushige slowly walked to the corpse and knelt down, sighing: "Farewell, brother..."
Just three days after Takeda Shingen committed seppuku and committed suicide, Takeda Katsuyori failed at the key mountain city of Gōjo, and more than 300 of his subordinates committed suicide in the city. Takeda Nobushige announced the pacification of Kai Kingdom in the Tsuguzaki Hall, and on the same day
Tian served as the governor of the Takeda family and the guardian of Kai, and his son Nobutoyo Takeda became the successor of the governor of the Takeda family. The Takeda retainers expressed their loyalty to the father and son. And Nobutora Takeda is also on the road again after nearly thirty years.
Go to the territory of Kaiguo that he is familiar with.
In the next few days, according to the edict, Sanada Yukitaka, Takeda Nobushige, and Satake Yoshigege rewarded the many people who surrendered to Kai. There were dozens of Kai samurai families who were exterminated, most of them were Takeda Shingen.
The samurai who were raised by one hand and the above samurai families were sentenced to change of sentence, and the prisoners who persisted in resisting until the last moment were also punished in this way. Their possessions were taken away, and their families were exiled to the Mutsu Kingdom to cut mountains and cut rocks.
If you have a fault, you have merit. Oyamada Nobushige and Anayama Nobunaki who acted as the leader were rewarded. Both families were entrusted with 50,000 koku. Oyamada Nobushige was assigned to the Bando Hachihei clan and was transferred to the northern part of Shimono Province as a royal family.
The attached general, Nobu-kun Anayama, was transferred to Minami Shinano Kiso Valley as the new lord of Kiso Valley. The other subordinate generals were rewarded with special skills and a small number of additional titles based on their merits.
It was the end of May, and the eighty-thousand-thousand-strong army that had gathered outside the Tsugasaki Hall moved south to Suruga and moved closer to the main force fighting in the Owari Kingdom. At this moment, Minamoto no Yoshitoki led the troops.
The imperial family came to Qingzhou City to take command. In the past two months, in addition to attacking Takeda Shingen of Kai Kingdom, the 100,000 troops he led galloped all the way, non-stop attacking Suruga Kingdom, Enji Kingdom, Mikawa Kingdom,
With the help of the servant troops along the way, they captured Owari Province, the home base of the Oda family, at the end of April.
The Suruga sects led by Asahina Nobuyuki and Miura Yoshikage betrayed early and stabbed the Takeda family with a fatal blow in the back, which was already weak in combat power. As early as a few years ago during the Kanto Shogunate, they were transferred by Yamamoto Kansuke.
Become an internal agent. In the past few years, the Kanto General Office has seemingly stayed put and focused on dealing with the rebellions in Oshu and Kanto. In fact, secretly, it has long hollowed out the foundation of the Suruga Kingdom.
The same is true for the Ene Kingdom. Horikoshi Sadanobu, Iio Renryu, Amano Keiguki and other Ene ancestral members also became Kanto's internal agents early on. The Mikawa ancestral members need not go into details. They relied on the Kanto shoguns who were born in Mikawa.
The dominant position in the East Kingdom is enough to kill all outstanding lords in an instant. For example, Oda Nobunaga, Takeda Shingen and others have no way to gain their sincere allegiance.
This is equivalent to the fact that the Takeda family worked hard for several years to win Shun Enzo, but they only used it to make wedding clothes for Minamoto. The more efforts they put into Shun Enzo, the heavier the losses to Kai. In these years, Takeda Shingen and
It was always difficult for Oda Nobunaga to do his best in the Mikawa Kingdom, which was why Shun Yuan and others were lagging behind.
This delay caused the Takeda family to fight a tug-of-war in Mikawa Kingdom for four years. Although the Oda family was dominant, the Kai warriors were not comparable to Owari's weak soldiers, even if they were trained during the unification of the Three Kingdoms with strong tail strength.
Sending a lot of strong troops still cannot change the basic characteristics of Tokaido's relatively weak military strength.
Takeda Shingen was very confident to seize the Mikawa Kingdom, and even seize the Owari Kingdom in one go, but he wasted four years in such a good situation. It is absolutely impossible to say that there is no problem. He may notice it in three to five months.
As long as there are no internal problems, I can still feel that something is not right inside Jun Enzo. Kinoshita Hideyoshi used this to persuade Takeda Shingen. This is also the main reason why Takeda Shingen finally agreed to Oda Nobunaga's no-war agreement.
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The so-called bystanders are obsessed with understanding the authorities. When Takeda Shingen discovered that even his opponents had discovered hidden dangers within themselves, he realized that the four-nation dominance system was far more fragile than imagined. Regarding the many internal contradictions in Shun Enzo, Takeda Shingen was able to
There are not many methods that can be used. Too radical methods cannot be used. Conventional gentle methods have been used for four years, and the results are not ideal depending on the situation.
Then the only way is to use the simplest and crudest method to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys, but this chicken is not easy to find. It is not possible to just find a powerful Chinese person in the Junyuan Three System. I am worried that doing so will further stimulate the people of the Three Kingdoms to rebel first, not to mention
Suruga Kingdom is only separated from Sagami Kingdom by Mount Ashigara. If Minamoto no Yoshiki summons this monster, it would be Takeda Shingen slapping him in the mouth. He cannot do such stupid things.
Since we can't move the people in front of us, we can only move our own people. At the same time that Oda Nobunaga solved his worries and led the army to support the general on Luo, Takeda Shingen also made an astonishing decision after thinking hard for a long time.
Capture Takeda Nobushige, his younger brother who has been guarding Suruga Country for a long time and has a profound influence in Suruga Country.
From claustrophobia to attempted killing, it fully demonstrates Takeda Shingen's true thoughts. As long as Takeda Nobuhige is forced to death, even if he ultimately fails and dies. The descendants of the Takeda family can eventually inherit the family. It doesn't matter if there are too many Takeda Katsurai to be useful. Takeda
Shingen had many sons, and at worst he would have to die in exchange for the chance of one of his sons inheriting the Takeda family business. As long as Takeda Nobushige died, there would be a great chance.
It's a pity that Takeda Shingen only achieved failure in the end. Takeda Nobuyoshi is no longer the loyal younger brother he used to be. The relationship between the brothers has been estranged for more than ten years. The most valued nephew Takeda Yoshinobu was unjustly imprisoned, which indirectly led to the estrangement between the two brothers.
He came deeper and deeper, and he hesitated during the few months he was imprisoned in Zentokuji Temple, until the appearance of his father Nobutora Takeda shattered his last hesitation.
So when Takeda Shingen got his ribs back from Saeda Morimo, and learned that Takeda Nobutano was with his father Takeda Nobutora, and said something like that, he already clearly understood that his retreat was over.
, there was only a dead end in front of him. Counting on the so-called Western Army was just a fool's errand. Minamoto no Yoshiki had clearly laid out the plan in advance for him to dig into his pocket, so how could he let him escape easily.
In the Ohiro Room of Seishu Castle in Owari Province, where Oda Nobunaga was the main office during the Owari era, Ashikaga Yoshiyasu quietly listened to the discussion of the retainers. His father, Minamoto Yoshitoki, personally supervised the battle in Komakiyama Castle.
The young governor who serves is already qualified to participate in government affairs, and his progress has been rapid these days.
Honda Tokimasa said with a smile: "Takeda Shingen must have been filled with deep regrets until the moment he died! The bet that almost succeeded, turned out to be a bleak situation in which everything was lost."
Glancing at Takeda Nobushige who had just joined the Goryen clan, Kitahata Tobobo said: "You overestimate your own strength. You must know that in the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks will eventually fail. Since my Ashikaga family unified the East Kingdom, Tokaido has
The martial arts family secretly yearns for Kanto, and Takeda Shingen knows this very well, but he is always unwilling to believe that the family business he has worked so hard for many years is just a mirror."
On the surface, Takeda Nobutora seems to be unmoved by his new colleagues and his brother's evaluation. But in fact, no one can tell whether he will be unhappy. At least Takeda Nobutora, who is accompanying the imperial minister, is not very happy. His son is no longer happy.
No matter how ugly you are, you don't like to be told by others, but it's hard to argue. An old man over seventy can only sulk.
Yukitaka Sanada tried to smooth things over and said: "The deceased is gone, and the death of a person is the most important thing. You guys should discuss the situation of the East China Sea strategy!"
"The Tokaido Road is just like paper. The so-called Western Army is a piece of loose sand. The vanguard of 50,000 troops stopped at Owari State and hesitated to advance. When they saw our army approaching, they quickly retreated to Mino. If it hadn't been for Oda Nobunaga
If we arrive in time, we won’t have to continue fighting this battle, I’ll just wait and push all the way into Kyoto.”
"The current situation seems to be similar. If it had been launched a few years earlier, I might have been sitting in Kyoto as an important minister of the shogunate today!" The ministers laughed wantonly, not paying attention to the so-called Western Army at all. They had
This confidence is expressed in this way. Judging from the current performance of the Western Army, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as poor.
At the end of March, troops were mobilized to attack Luo, Hokuriku Road, Higashiyama Road, and Tokaido at the same time. In particular, Tokaido and Higashiyama Road gathered a total of 170,000 troops. It really frightened the Kai samurai who had never seen a big scene. The actual situation
However, Shun Yuan San surrendered at the last sight of the wind, and in less than a month he bulldozed the three territorial states of Tokaido. During this period, there was almost no decent fighting, and he entered the stage of clearing out the remnants.
It didn't matter that it took nearly a month for an army of 70,000 to besiege Kai. It was just that Minamoto no Yoshiki hoped to reduce casualties and took advantage of the overwhelming force of the army to crush the enemy.
This strategy was very successful in breaking down the last trace of the Takeda family's shared hatred of the enemy. They advanced all the way into Kai Country with almost zero casualties.
The whole process went smoothly, as if it was just a routine task of the Kanto Army to quell the civil strife in Togoku Ichiku. In fact, many of the preparations behind it were complicated and extensive and lasted for many years. For example, Oyamada Nobushige, one of the Bando Hachihei clan and a member of the Chichibu Party, was one of the two Takedas.
It was not that easy to win over Yamanochi. Hojo Tokichi spent nearly two years trying to make plans, and it was not until Takeda Nobushige was imprisoned that he made up his mind.
There is also another branch of the Takeda Ryozan system, Nobu-kun Anayama. This clan often has the ambition to rebel against the Takeda clan. It is true that generations of family governors have been close to Imagawa and Takeda, but it is not so easy for him to betray easily.
The cunning Nobu-kun Anayama expressed his willingness to lead the way, but he was not willing to be a cannon fodder who died before dawn.
The former can ensure the safety of himself and his family during the Ritchie, and is qualified to enjoy the speculative dividends brought by the Ritchie, while the latter is just a meaningless abandonment, and there is no scientific research interest at all in the death of his family. If
Without the factors of Takeda Nobushige being imprisoned and the influence of Kamakura's military raising during Minamoto no Yoshitsune, he would not have made the decision to make Uchitsuri Kiri easily.
I have to say that Takeda Shingen was very stupid in imprisoning and killing his legitimate son Takeda Yoshinobu. Not only did he personally destroy the heir to the family governor who had worked hard for twenty years to cultivate, but he also laid hidden dangers in the further purge. Many family members who were close to Takeda Yoshinobu
Being implicated one after another, many members of the clan who were dissatisfied with Takeda Katsuyori became dissatisfied. Among the many influences, they happened to encounter Minamoto no Yoshi and launched a large-scale invasion. The Takeda family was destroyed so easily.
It seems very simple, but behind the simplicity lies countless hard work and planning. You must know that Kai Country blocked the footsteps of Hojo Soun, Imagawa Clan, and Hojo Uzuna. It once allowed Minamoto Yoshitoki to move south to Shinano.
If it were so simple, how could it stop these heroes again and again in this dangerous and dangerous place?
The Tokaido Army had a total of 120,000 troops. In order to speed up the attack, Satake Yoshige was specially sent. He led 20,000 troops with Oyamada Nobushige as the lead and attacked Kai Kingdom from the mountains east of Mount Fuji. Before the overall situation was decided, the source
Yoshitoki personally led an army of 100,000 people into Suruga Province, joined forces with Miyabe Tsurun of Toe Province and Ogasawara Nagatoki of Mikawa Province with a total of 20,000 troops, crossed the Yahagi River and invaded Owari Province.
Entering Owari happened to be the most intense moment of the Sakamoto Battle. Oda Nobunaga had no time to escape and return to his home base. He just ordered the Western Army's 80,000 troops to support Tokaido in advance in the name of the Deputy Commander of the Western Army.
Takeda family, at first glance, it seems that 80,000 reinforcements combined with 40,000 Takeda troops can stabilize the situation even if they cannot defeat the Eastern Army. They only need to guard the pass and wait for a month or two, and Oda Nobunaga can lead an army of 150,000 to win.
When we return, the outcome will not be known yet.
But the actual situation is that Oda Nobunaga is taking it for granted. The Western Allied Forces summoned by the new emperor's decree are simply a mess. Not counting Takeda Shingen's total force of over 200,000, including 25,000 Kyushu soldiers.
, 30,000 soldiers from the Western Kingdom, 30,000 soldiers from the Shikoku Kingdom, and the rest are all troops near Kinki.
The Otomo family sent only 15,000 soldiers, with no less than 50,000 soldiers, and Ryuzoji Temple, which had an army of at least 8,000, only sent 3,000 soldiers. The Shimazu family even sent only 2,000 soldiers, and the other Kyushu people
There are only a few thousand people in total, and there are only 25,000 people in total. If compared to the Northern and Southern Dynasties era more than two hundred years ago, Ashikaga Takauji brought an army of 200,000 from Kyushu to beg for food. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties era,
The total population of Kyushu is less than two million, and the total population of Kyushu today is at least double what it was back then.
The situation in the Western Kingdom is similar. During the Onin Rebellion, the Ouchi family put in a lot of effort and acquired more than a thousand warships to transport 35,000 elite Western Army regiments. This almost changed the strength pattern of the Eastern and Western armies. Hosokawa Katsumoto was so hurt that he ran to the countryside to find allies. At one point, he was so hungry that even a guy like Asakura Toshikage, who had previously looked down upon him, was appointed as the guardian of Echizen.
On the contrary, the overlord of the Western Kingdom, the Maori family, only sent out 20,000 troops. Others, such as the Nishi Restoration Army and the Western Warrior Family such as Urakami Munekage, totaled 10,000 troops. Thinking back to the time when everything collapsed, Urakami Muramune was able to defeat the country in one fell swoop. With an army of 20,000 to help Hosokawa Takakuni, no matter how poor the Saikoku Samurai family is, they can still muster an army of 70,000 to 80,000. After all, the silver mountain buried in the mountain den is not fake. The Mori family received the mantle of the Ouchi family and inherited the niko. A year's inheritance, the combined efforts of the two families could only provide 20,000 people, which is not much better than sending it to beggars.
It has to be said that the Shikoku samurai have put in a lot of effort to control the declining overlords of the Three Kingdoms of Awa, Sanuki and Awaji, the Miyoshi clan, the veteran guardian lord of Iyo, the Kono clan, the Tosa Kuniji Ichijo clan, the Tosa Ichilord Chosogabe clan and other Shikoku samurai clans. After spending a lot of effort, Miyoshi Yoshitsugi happily led an army of 20,000 people to Luo. Anyway, the distance was close and he was well prepared. He rushed to the Kinai Formation in less than ten days. Other companies scraped together to get 10,000 people. few.
The Kinai samurai family contributed the most to the so-called Western Army. Among them, the Kinai overlord Oda family spent 60,000 troops, almost spending all their money without leaving any capital. Asakura, Asai, Wakasa Takeda, and Tango Isshiki of the northern Kinki coalition were There are more than 10,000 people, as well as Kawachi Hatakeyama, Yamato people, Harima, Tamba and other miscellaneous people from the country gathered together. The total number of people is more than 100,000.
This is also why every samurai family that occupies Kinei can become the overlord. The five Kinki Kingdoms were called the Five Kingdoms in ancient times, namely Settsu, Yamashiro, Kawachi, Izumi, and Yamato. The divisions of Kinki are more general, Omi, Tanba, Tango, Harima, and Kii can all be included, and sometimes Ise, Wakasa, Echizen, Shima, and Iga can also be included.
Even if these fifteen countries are added together, the total cost is about 4.5 million dan. But they can easily bring out hundreds of thousands of troops to help. This ability is not something that can be achieved just anywhere. The only way to do this is to The only comparable thing is probably that the Eight Kingdoms of Kanto could easily bring out hundreds of thousands of troops. Therefore, thousands of years of disputes since Taira Shomon have always revolved around Kinki and Kanto. The reason is that the vast plains and rich products of these two places can be used as The foundation of hegemony.
Oda Nobunaga thought that he could command the Western Army by occupying most of the Tokaido, plus the core area of Kinai. In fact, he was indeed working hard in this direction. Unfortunately, the Western Army was just a piece of loose sand after all, and the Shikoku samurai were still respectful and obedient. The samurai of the Western Kingdom can barely give him some face, but the people of Kyushu don't give him any face at all. Who do you think Oda Nobunaga is? You still boss us around.
Just when the Battle of Sakamoto was fierce, Oda Nobunaga ordered 80,000 allied troops to go to Tokaido to rescue the Takeda family. Shimazu returned to his hometown with his 2,000 troops without leaving any reason, and Otomo Seeing this posture, Zhen said that there was still a war at home, and returned to Kyushu with fifteen thousand troops. The Ryuzouji family walked faster, and the other Kyushu people also cheered and all went home. In the blink of an eye, the two Kyushu troops Fifteen thousand troops were nowhere to be seen, but Oda Nobunaga was busy besieging Sakamoto and searching for the emperor, but there was nothing he could do.
When he came to his senses, this Kyushu samurai couldn't even see a hair. At that moment, Yoshikawa Motoharu ran over panting and said that he wanted to go back to visit his lair. Oda Nobunaga caught him and refused to let him go.
The Maori family took the opportunity to escape, and strictly ordered the military forces of all countries not to leave without permission, and put all the noisy martial arts families under guard.
Such a fuss really made the atmosphere very unpleasant. Yoshikawa Motoharu thinks that you, Oda Nobunaga, are nothing but a nouveau riche from Tokaido. You are just a small priest family from Owari. The ancestor of our Mori family is Oe Hiromoto.
The powerful imperial family members of the Kamakura shogunate, the famous wise generals and cultural figures who served as deacons of the government offices, are beyond compare to the descendants of the small priests.
The Western Army, which had been reduced from 80,000 to more than 55,000, stopped advancing when it arrived at Owari with full of resentment and complaints. Many samurai felt that Oda Nobunaga was too domineering and untrustworthy. There were more than 50,000 people inside and outside.
They didn't want to touch the main force of the Eastern Army, so when Minamoto no Yoshiki led a mighty 120,000 troops into Owari Kingdom, the first reaction of these samurai was not to fight, but to fight desperately with their own troops.
Meinong retreated.
After retreating, the Oda family was sold out. The vast plain south of Sumamata Castle on the Nagara River fell into the hands of the Eastern Army. The Oda family's land of Ryukyo changed its surname to Minamoto. Fortunately, at this time, Oda Nobunaga finally thought of Nishi.
The army was unreliable, and he hurriedly rushed to Gifu City with his own troops to rescue him. When he saw that half of his territory had been lost, he was really heartbroken.
If resentment is useful, then there is no need for samurai. Drawing circles and curses every day can solve all worries. Oda Nobunaga is furious but there is nothing he can do about it. He cannot ask the generals of the Allied Forces to kill him in order to correct military law. The consequences of doing so are the second
The Tianxi Army completely disbanded and everyone went back to their homes to find their mothers.
But Oda Nobunaga was not willing to suffer such a defeat, so he led more than 150,000 Western Army troops to confront the Eastern Army's 120,000 troops across the Nagara River in Gifu Castle. This confrontation lasted for almost half a month.
The 10,000 troops led by Yumitsu Numata of the Hida Corps successfully captured Higashi Mino, and the main force was combined to form more than 130,000 troops. Today, the 80,000 troops who captured Kai were once again joined Owari Province, increasing the army to 2
More than 110,000 people.
However, there are not that many main forces on the front line. At the same moment when he captured Owari and faced off against Oda Nobunaga, Minamoto no Yoshitoki ordered Saito Asanobu to serve as general and lead an army of 30,000 to launch an attack on Ise Country. Currently, he has received
Intelligence feedback indicates that Ise Kingdom has been basically pacified. The reason for this is that the elite soldiers of Ise Kingdom, similar to the situation in other countries in Tokaido, were basically transferred to Kinai by Oda Nobunaga to participate in the ceremony of raising troops of the Western Army.
The inner emptiness is no match for Saito Asanobu.
