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Chapter 32: Ieyasu Raises the Army

Late at night on April 16, Maeda's vanguard arrived at Kaga Oyukizuka Castle, and the central army marched towards Sandaoyama Castle. The generals stationed in Oyukizuka Castle convened an army discussion to discuss how to meet with the Nomachi headquarters. However, they decided not to rush to Kanazawa Castle, but to rush directly to Komachi, the main cast of the Tanba family, and took advantage of the enemy's lack of preparation, which caused the Niba army to surrender without fighting. The generals were divided into seven armies, from front to back, Yamazaki Nagatoto, Takayama, Eiyaki Tomota Naoki, and the Imperial Army Head Lian Ryu. When the Imperial Army Head Lian Ryu led his troops out of the Oligund and marched towards Yamayoshi, they encountered the ambush of the Niba family. It turned out that when Niba was launched, he did not send all the main forces to Kanazawa, but Eguchi Masaki led two thousand troops to ambush outside Komachi Castle to deal with the possible sneak attack by the Maeda army.

The ambush general Saburo Eguchi Masayoshi raided the Nagari Long Army. It was raining heavily in the middle of the night, and the iron cannon was useless. The two armies fought each other with their hands and blades. The battle took place in the area of ​​Asai Nagasambahata under Komatsu's leadership, so it was later called the "Battle of Asai Nagasambata".

When they learned that the two armies were in conflict, the garrison troops of Komatsu Castle gradually arrived and fought a tough battle with the Naga Ryu army. During the two armies, the Tanba retainer Matsumura Sunzaro, Zaga Ministry of War, and many people below the Teraoka Kanzaemon were killed, while the Maeda army included Naga Ryu's retainer Kobayashi Heizuki, Okiki Saemon, Nagakunobu, Kashima Road Rokuzaemon, Hachida Misuke, Suzuki Musuke, Horiuchi Keihiro, Yanaya Gushi, Iwata Shinsuke and nine others and more soldiers were killed.

Nagari Ryu insisted hard. When Maeda's army, who had arrived at Yamane Bridge in advance, returned immediately after hearing the news. In addition, Matsuhei Katsudai's troops came to help, the Nishiba army began to retreat. Matsusaka's general, the Matsusaka army, advocated pursuing the Nishiba army, and stopped for Yamasaki Nagato, who was still scared. This battle ended in the past 500 losses of the Tian army and more than 600 casualties and injured, and no victory was decided. After the war, Maitada Takamasaki received a report and was very angry. He repeatedly scolded Yamasaki Nagato for delaying the fighter's plane and ordered him to lead the vanguard to attack Komatsu.

On April 17, Maeda Tatsumatsu captured the northern gate of the Tanba clan, Matsuren Castle, and cut off Niba Nagato's retreat. The next morning, the Maeda army crossed the river and rushed straight to Kanazawa, while Niba Nagato moved its own formation to the Tento Inn north of Xichuan, and formed a triangular force with Maeda army and Kanazawa Castle.

When he learned that the battle of Asai Shige did not delay the Maeda army and he had not captured Kanazawa, Nagaki Nishiki fell into trouble. At this moment, the head of the Lord and the Sect family, Motohide Tani, once again advised Nagaki Nishi, saying that the Danwu family had done their best. Even if surrender was not a shame, even if Tokugawa Ieyasu wins, he would not be punished for his own behavior, so he begged Nagaki Nishiki to surrender.

At this time, Maeda Tamasaki was also eager to go south to assist Ogasawara Takayoshi, so he sent his retainers to the main formation of Tanya to persuade him to surrender, and informed the Tanya family that Niba Nagamasa's Gun Castle had been captured by Oda Hideo. After this news, Niba Nagamasaki finally stopped insisting. After accepting Maeda Tamasaki's suggestion, he handed over the military power to go to Kanazawa Castle to be cautious, while the other retainers followed Maeda's army to Gunkashi Komaki to recruit surrender.

On April 20, Maeda Tamasaki arrived at Komatsu Castle. At this time, Yamasaki Nagato had already attacked Ninomamaru, but after receiving the military order from Maeda Tamasaki, he stopped attacking and turned to Kaichiro. Masaki Eguchi Masaki was the mastermind. After learning that Nagashiro surrendered, he immediately opened the castle and handed over the military power to accompany Ninomasaki Nagashi. Since then, the victory of Tamasaki's previous "Kaga-Eebimaki Battle" ended. Before Maeda Tamasaki had time to celebrate the victory, he quickly led the main force of 20,000 and Ninoma surrendered troops to set off south to support Ottoyama Castle, which had been attacked by the Maori army for ten days.

Compared with the wars in Hokuriku and Kyushu, the situation in Kanto was much more stable. Since the Uesugi family adopted the strategy of concentrating their troops on Wakamatsu Castle, Hideo did not encounter much obstacles on the way to march. To be honest, when passing through Oshira Kyono, the old minister of the Ashira Kyono, was ambushed by Nagaki Kiyono, the old minister of the Ashira Kyono, when he passed through Oshira Kyono. This old minister of the Ashira Kyono became an official in Uesugi Keika after his main family was destroyed, so he won the old leader of Iwasaki Iwasaki Castle. Iwasaki Castle was located on the northern foot of Mount Shirakawa, which was the only way for Hideopo to march into Aizu. Out of the so-called samurai honor, Nagaki Kiyono did not obey Uesugi Keika's call and insisted on staying in Iwasaki Castle to fight for time for Uesugi and Tokugawa.

This sneak attack was a success. More than 200 military forces killed the 600 soldiers who were traveling by Fukushima's retainer Osaki, and once again showed the style of Ashina samurai. However, in the face of Hideo's huge strength, this success did not play any role. With the addition of other retainers of the Fukushima clan, Kiyono Nagafan was finally defeated and fled. At noon that day, the Ashina survivor led fire on the Tenshou Pavilion in Iwasaki Castle, and more than fifty people, including wives and concubines, were killed together. After Iwasaki, Hideo's army finally arrived at the banks of Aga River and crossed the river. Wakamatsu Castle was close to him.

At this moment, another army crossed Nakagawa and quickly marched along Mito Street towards Iwakishi's Jushi Hei Castle. This huge army of 75,000 people set out from Edo two days ago, forcing Rionegawa to force Satake Yoshinori to open his territory. After reaching Mito Street directly through Mito Street, he obtained some food and grass supplies, and then set off across Nakagawa to march towards Muroo Kingdom.

On the banks of Nakagawa, the Tokugawa family's golden fan horse seal fluttered in the wind. The fan at the top of the horse seal had seven golden fan bones, a red sun was painted on the surface, and the underside was made of leather and silver-painted silver wind banners. After the Damashiro seal, the flag-man warrior held the twelve white flags and followed closely. Tokugawa Ieyasu was riding at the forefront of the team, with a white flag behind him, with eight big words "Disgusted from the filthy land, and looking for the pure land" written on it, dancing lightly with the warm spring breeze.

Because he was traveling by water, the Tokugawa family received the siege order much faster than the Hideo who was in the inland. In order not to miss the opportunity to fight, Tokugawa Ieyasu began to rectify his military equipment after returning to his ability. Therefore, as soon as the siege order arrived, he immediately raised his troops north to support Uesugi Keika.

According to Tokugawa Ieyasu's idea, in order to be unexpected, it was necessary to choose a different route of march than Hideo. Therefore, he walked through Mito Street to reach Hiraki Castle, then went west along Iwaki Street and entered Aizu Len. He went straight from behind Nimoto Matsu to Jueyo Lake, and finally arrived at Wakamatsu in the west of the lake and raided Hideo's attacking army from the side.

Simply put, from Edo to Wakamatsu, Hideo took the oblique side of a right triangle, while the Tokugawa Army took the two right angle sides. The journey it took was naturally much longer and took longer. This required the Uesugi Army, which was the end point, to resist Hideo's attack until Tokugawa Ieyasu's arrival.
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