Japan's Warring States period, really called the "Battle of Ten Thousand Villages", that fight is called a fierce, aside from the scale, the frequency of war alone, I am afraid that the ancient Chinese Spring and Autumn Warring States period is not comparable; in such a high-intensity battle, there are still some talented fierce generals emerged, now let's take stock of the "Five Tiger Generals" of Japan's period.
TOP, 5 Muneshige Tachibana
Tachibana Muneshige is known as "the peerless in the Western Kingdom", Tachibana Muneshige was huge in infancy, and from an early age, he showed outstanding talent in fighting, and it is said that he could defeat adult men in his twenties at the age of six; when he was twelve, he went to the battlefield, holding a large long knife and returning to the enemy line of a thousand people.
Because of his excellent performance, he became the adopted son and son-in-law of the "Tachibana God" Tachibana Michiyuki, and his wife was the famous Tachibana Chiyo, and became the heir of the Tachibana family. On October 3, 1586, Tachibana Muneyoshi was recognized by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who gave him the feeling of "One of Kyushu" and was evaluated as "the first in the west of Gangyong Town, the first in the west of Tatsuyoshi Town", when Tachibana Muneyoshi was only 19 years old.
After that, Tachibana Muneshige followed Toyonari Hideyoshi all the way to the south on the northern war, and once after the war, Toyotomi Hideyoshi praised in front of the daimyo in front of the assembly, "Higashi Honda Tadatsu is the unparalleled general in the world, and Tachibana Tachibana is the unparalleled general in the world, and the famous general of the east and west is the same as the east and west.".
After Toyonari Hideyoshi unified Japan, he attacked Korea with a national army, and in the face of the powerful Ming dynasty army, the Japanese army repeatedly lost battles, and the legend of Tachibana Muneshige ended; under the strong attack of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese army withdrew from Korea, and Tachibana Muneshige was among them. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, after several battles, Tachibana Muneyoshi finally chose to be loyal to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and was praised by Tokugawa Iemitsu as a "true samurai" for his bravery in battle.
TOP, 4 Honda Tadatsu
Honda Tadakatsu began serving Tokugawa Ieyasu when he was ten years old, and Tadakatsu was known for his bravery and invincibility, and every time he went out, he frightened his enemies. The enemy smelled the appearance of the antler pocket, the dragonfly cut, and the bell and the horse seal.
Honda Tadatsu was unharmed in fifty-seven battles, so some call him the incarnation of the "Great Bodhisattva hachiman". He has been praised many times by the world's famous generals. Later, he thought that his physical strength was declining, and cut off the handle of his love gun dragonfly cut off by a foot, but it made the gun more spacious.
Oda Nobunaga praised him as "The Zhang Fei of Japan" after the Battle of Hisakawa and "a warrior with both flowers and substances" after the Takeda Conquest. Toyotomi Hideyoshi praised him as "Japan's first warrior of ancient and modern independence", and also said that "the East Country is unparalleled Honda Tadatsu, and the West Country is unparalleled Tachibana Muneshige".
In 1603, the lord Gong Ieyasu was inaugurated as the Great General of Zhengyi, officially dominating the world, Zhongsheng demanded to return to Sangming for retirement on the grounds of eye disease and physical uneasiness, and after six years, he officially lived in seclusion, ceding the position of governor of the house to the concubine Hondo Zhongzheng, and leaving the fifty thousand stones of Most Hi to the second male Hondo Chung dynasty. After living in seclusion, he loved wood carving, but he died of illness due to complications caused by a bacterial infection caused by a cut by a carving knife.
TOP, 3 Tachibana Road Snow
Tachibana Michiyuki is a legendary Japanese fierce general, it is rumored that when Michiyuki was young, on a day in the middle of summer heat, he encountered a thunderstorm while taking a cool nap under a tree, and there was a thunder that hit Daoxue, Andiyuki subconsciously pulled up his love knife "Chidori" and slashed, and his foot was injured because of this, but Daoxue's bravery on the battlefield plus this great difficulty of not dying was gradually named the embodiment of Thor.
And even if the foot is injured, the leg strength is not worse than that of the able-bodied, and the subsequent battles still have the record of fighting on horseback with a saddle, and in the later years, six soldiers were responsible for lifting the public opinion, sitting on the public opinion to motivate the soldiers to fight for the first line. Love Knife Chidori was renamed "Rachel".
Although Tachibana Michiyuki was disabled in the lower part of his body, he often sat on the battlefield and wielded a famous sword of about 6 feet, "Rachel", repeatedly entering and leaving the enemy line to pursue and kill the enemy, and Tachibana Muneshige, who was good at swordsmanship, and the family general such as Ono Jinyuki also often performed this sword technique, and commanded this long sword into the team to be used in the Higo Ichigo and Korean battles.
Tachibana Michiyuki and Takahashi Shoyun are known as "Otomo Shuangbi". The legal names lin boxuan and Daoxue, formerly known as Huci Pro Shou, Pro Lian, Jian Lian, officially known as Ji Yi Shou, Bo Qi Shou, Dan Hou Shou. Later generations of people used Wu Yong to refer to Daoxue as the god of war in Kyushu, the embodiment of the god of thunder, the god of martial arts, the ghost of Doyuki, and the soul of Otomo.
TOP, 2 Yukimura Sanada
Sanada Yukimura, whose original name was Sanada Nobuharu, was the second son of Sanada Masayuki, who was known for his strategy and strategy, and was a hostage at a young age in the Uesugi and Toyotomi families. He followed his father to the First Battle of Ueda, the Battle of Odawara, the Battle of Korea, the Battle of Aizu, the Second Battle of Ueda, and the Battle of Sekigahara and was exiled to Mount Kudo with Masayuki Sanada.
In 1614, Sanada Yukimura learned that Tokugawa Ieyasu had declared war on Toyotomi Hideyoshi and entered Osaka Castle at the invitation of the Toyotomi family. Based on osaka castle's weakness, the construction of the Sanada Maru in the south of the castle dealt an excellent blow to the Tokugawa army. In the end, he was killed in the battle of Osaka Natsumi, and Sanada Yukimura was known as the "first strong soldier in Japan" for his bravery and good fighting.
In the short seven months of the Battle of Osaka, Sanada Yukimura shrouded Osaka Castle like a dazzling star, creating one military miracle after another. Sanada Yukimura realized his dream and lost his life.
The command and adaptability he showed in the war was indeed unparalleled in the world, and Japan's first strong soldier was not a false name. But he was only a soldier after all. No matter how heroic the battle, the final result cannot be changed. Death in battle is the fate of soldiers.
TOP, 1 Uesugi Kenshin
Uesugi Kenshin was the younger son of Nagao Nagao, the younger son of Theo, known as Chiyo the Tiger, and was called Nagao Keinehu when he reached adulthood. Because he inherited the surname of "Uesugi" of the Kanto governor, and was successively given the name of the Kanto governor Uesugi Kensei and the general Ashikaga Yoshiaki, he was also known as Uesugi Masahide and Uesugi Keihu.
In December 1548, Uesugi Kenshin succeeded as the adopted son of Nagao Haruka to the post of governor and guardian. In 1552, Uesugi Kenshin began his march into the Kanto region, and the following year the first Battle of Kawanakajima against the Takeda clan broke out. In 1555, Takeda Shingen invaded KawanakaJima for the second time, and the two confronted each other for more than 150 days.
In 1557, takeda's army advanced into Tochio Castle, and the Third Battle of Kawanakajima broke out, but to no avail. In the same year, Uesugi Kensei, the kanto governor, transferred the kanto management position, the department map, and the shigeho to Uesugi Kenshin. In 1561, the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima with the Takeda clan broke out. In 1572, Takeda Shingen suddenly fell ill and died on his way to Beijing.
Before his death, he asked Katsurai to reconcile with Uesugi Kenshin and thought that he would rely on it. In 1577, Uesugi Kenshin pacified the last strongholds in Echizen and swept away all but Nanao Castle. In the first month of 1578, Uesugi Kenshin issued a general mobilization order for the Kanto Expedition. However, he died after a cerebral hemorrhage caused by drinking too much alcohol before the expedition.
Uesugi Kenshin was called the "God of War" and "Echigo Dragon" by the Japanese at that time and later generations because of his bravery in battle and the use of soldiers like a god, and the only people who could fight against it at that time were Takeda Shingen and Oda Nobunaga, but unfortunately neither Takeda Shingen nor Uesugi Kenshin really fought with Oda Nobunaga.