Chapter 595 1. Oda Nagayoshi Emerges
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, asked Ashikaga Yoshiaki to issue the royal teachings in just one sentence.
"Although I respect the shogunate, I don't respect the big tree!"
Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who has a very quick 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, returning to the period of Ashikaga Yoshiteru should not be a big problem. 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 Shiinoki 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 coming and going for the time being, both Oda Nobunaga outside the city and Kitahata Gujiao 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 the Kitabatake family make peace. Oda Nobunaga had been on the expedition for a month, and the farmers and soldiers began to think about their land at home and were not willing to fight hard, so they agreed to Akechi Mitsuhide's request and talked while fighting.
Kitabatake Gukyou didn't know why he believed Akechi Mitsuhide and actually agreed to give his daughter Kitabatake Chiyo as a hostage to the Oda family. This made Oda Nobunaga difficult. As the eldest son, Oda Nobutada could not marry Chiyo to the Kitabatake family as a son-in-law.
The eldest son, Oda Nobumasa, had already married the daughter of Nobunaga's uncle Oda Nobuhiro and inherited the official position of Furuto Castle and Osumi-no-kami. Oda Chasumaru was given to Yamauchi and became the son-in-law of Yamauchi's chief accountant.
As for his younger brother Nobuko, his son Sanchimaru had already been adopted, leaving only a two-year-old son Oda Shiro who was still in his infancy.
For a moment, Nobunaga was in a dilemma. Others offered their daughters to him, but he had no sons or brothers to give away.
In the end, it was Niwa Nagahide who reminded him that he still had a 22-year-old brother, Oda Gengo Nagayoshi, who could give away his daughters.
Nobunaga seemed reluctant. In his impression, this brother who was 13 years younger than him was really useless. Not only was he a little "weak", but he also had no talent to praise. It was difficult for him to be adopted by the Kitabatake family.
However, in the absence of extra sons and brothers, Nobunaga had no choice but to choose Oda Nagayoshi. Then, Oda Nagayoshi, who was unprepared, was suddenly summoned from Gifu Castle. As the successor of Kitada Tomori's adopted son-in-law, he married Kitabatake Chiyo and changed his name to Kitabatake Nobutoshi and entered Okawachi Castle.
Except for Kitabatake Yoshinari, the third son of Kitada Tomori, and his retainer Kurada Yukitoshi, who were strongly dissatisfied and raised 2,000 troops to defend the Kiriyama Palace, the Kitabatake clan of Minami Ise was pacified in one go.
Even the Kuki navy in Hachira Castle in Shima Province expressed their surrender to Oda Nobunaga.