Chapter 1014: The Battle of Cage City
At the beginning of June of the third year of Yongroku, just as the army of Luo Shinliang continued to besiege Kakegawa Castle. Imagawa Ieokabe Motonobu rushed from Suruga Province to Suwahara Castle on the eastern border of Enoe Province, and learned that Kakegawa Castle had been surrounded, so he stopped at Suwawara Castle and began to gather the wealthy clans of the two regions of Higashi Enoe and Nishi-Suruga, and when the assembly was completed, they would rush to Kakegawa Castle to help.
After receiving the military report from the personnel of the Intelligence Pavilion, Luo Shi Xinliang immediately ordered the generals to dismantle the military fortress and reassemble it and evacuate from the city of Kakegawa. There was a large army outside the city of Kakegawa, and the siege was no longer necessary. And at present, the vast majority of the thousands of troops under his command are miscellaneous armies, and they can't be compared with the standing army of the Luo family in the Kyushu region, and it is okay to besiege the under-armed city with a numerical advantage, once it fights with the main force of the Imagawa family, it may really be defeated, and Luo Shinra does not want to lose the many advantages he has established before.
Before evacuating, Roche Nobuya approached Takahashi Shaoyun (Yamamoto Kansuke was in charge of fully integrating the territory he had previously occupied in the rear at this time) to discuss: "The Imagawa family sent a general despite the fire under Sunfu Castle, and the people's hearts must be different. Why don't you spread rumors that the Imagawa clan's true faction, Okabe Motonobu, wants to imprison Asahina Taino, and clean up the Central African descendants and wealthy clans in Mikawa and Yuanjiang to stabilize their rule? ”
"This plan is very good, let the ministers arrange it." Takahashi Shaoyun replied when he heard this, but he didn't leave, and looked at Luo Shishiliang hesitantly: "After the rumors are released, won't Okabe Motoshin beware of those wealthy families?" And the wealthy who were going to support our side? ”
"It is for him to be on guard, otherwise those who waver will not be able to make a real choice." Roche Xinliang said.
Takahashi Shaoyun bowed respectfully and took the order.
Luo Xinliang called Imagawa to bury zero. After some consultation with him. Let him go to Kakegawa Castle for a trip. Imagawa burial zero stands under the castle. The defenders recognized Imagawa's burial and quickly informed Asahina Taino.
"Lord Taineng, don't come unharmed?" Imagawa Burial Zero saw Taineng come to the castle and said with a smile.
"Your Excellency, just say what you have." Asahina Tai Neng looked at Imagawa and said coldly. Although Imagawa Burial Zero is the second son of the former family governor Imagawa Yoshimoto, but this is a special period, and he will never call the other party "young master" at the head of the castle.
"I didn't say anything, just asked Taino-sama to help deliver a letter to Hikogoro. Adult, please pick it up. At the signal of Imagawa Burial, the samurai beside him immediately shot arrows into the city.
"Lord Taineng received the letter from home and said goodbye, before leaving, please be careful that Lord Taineng is framed by traitors." After Imagawa finished speaking, he left with his men.
Asahina took the book and opened it. I've seen both sides of it, but there is only one sentence on it: "Thank you for your help." "This is a letter to the family governor of the Imagawa clan at this time!
"Hit the mark!"
Asahinai Taineng immediately knew that he had been tricked, and the yellow mud fell off his crotch, and he couldn't say clearly. If the lord Akira is not worried, it is difficult for the Imagawa Hikogoro clan to say what he will do. No matter how it is handled, the Imagawa family will be shaken from top to bottom.
"Young master, are we just giving up?" On the way back. Bai Wuxian asked as he followed Roche Shinraoma.
"Hehe, if it's Lord Taineng in Kakegawa City. We may have to besiege until next year before we can take Kakegawa Castle. If the general is replaced by Okabe Motonobu, we will be able to enter Kakegawa Castle before the autumn harvest this year. Roche Xinliang laughed on the horse.
"Why?" Hyakkutake Kenkan doesn't understand, isn't there more people in the Imagawa family after Okabe Motonobu came? And Okabe Motonobu is the fierce general of the Imagawa family!
"Because Motonobu Okabe doesn't have the patience to defend the castle." Roche Xinliang said. Previously, when Yamamoto Kansuke went to the rear, he had analyzed to him in detail that with the current combat strength of the army under his command, he could neither move against the castle with many garrisons in the high wall, nor could he fight the Imagawa family in the field, and the only advantage was to use the materials prepared secretly before to hold on to a city, and then lure the other party to attack.
And on the Imagawa family's side, due to the fact that many retainers in the previous Kamiraku were killed in battle, the Imagawa family was able to lead the troops to fight at this time was nothing more than Asahina Taino and Okabe Motonobu and others, and Asahina Taino would definitely be implicated because of the previous conversation between Imagawa Burial and Zen Burial and his castle head, then, in this case, this crusade against Imagawa Burial Zero will be dominated by the Okabe Motoshin family who remained. If he can really crusade against Imagawa Burial Zero, Okabe Motoshin will be in a position under one person, so Okabe Motoshin's mentality at this time can be imagined, after learning that Imagawa Burial Zero's army is retreating, he will definitely take advantage of the victory to pursue, and he will definitely not guard Kakegawa Castle.
So, before the arrival of Okabe Motonobu, Roshi Shinra retreated to the royal castle in the west with his main camp according to the previous strategy of the military advisor Yamamoto Kansuke, and made an appearance of holding the royal castle. And in various parts of Enoe Province, at this time, with the arrival of Okabe Motonobu, rumors began to circulate that the Imagawa family's Taishu An had purged Mikawa and Toe Hao, and this was further confirmed by the subsequent delivery of Asahina Taino to Sunfu Castle.
Okabe Motonobu also noticed signs of instability in the army, so he ordered the wealthy clans of the Eastern Enjiang Province to disband their forces and return home to prepare for the autumn harvest, and not to gather their forces again, even to limit the defenders in their respective castles. And he himself led the Suruga lineage and the Yuanjiang lineage to follow the route of the Luo clan's Xinliang's retreat, all the way to the outside of the throne city, and began to set up a formation under the city.
"There are 5,000 people, and the staffing is confused. After the death of Yoshimoto, the Imagawa family was completely ruined. Roche Nobuya said as he looked at the Imagawa family's barracks with his home-produced clairvoyance. According to the formation of the other side, Okabe Motonobu's main formation is in the center, and the rest of the troops are on both sides, forming a half-moon shape to defend the main formation in the middle.
On Roche Nobuya's own side, because the walls of the royal city were not too high, but due to the geographical environment, even if Okabe Motoshin attacked the city, he could only attack from the east, so he arranged two lines of defense on the east wall.
The first line of defense was a team of 1,800 men, of which the strongest Takahashi Shaoyun was in the middle, on either side were Hyakkutake Kenkane and Narimatsu Nobukatsu, and Shimazuo Kin and Maeda Toshiie were also among them.
The second line of defense is 1,000 people led by Roche Nobuna and Imagawa Fuji, and the remaining hundreds of men are responsible for defending the remaining three walls (although the opponent is very far around the eastern wall to attack the remaining three walls, but in order to prevent accidents, Roche Nobuya still made arrangements), a total of more than 3,000 people.
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