In the long course of history, there are always some people who have extraordinary abilities and can often exert their talents in certain places and times, but because of bad luck. Always doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, so they all end badly. The previously mentioned Ishida Sansei is an example, and there are many worse than his fate. One of the most famous examples is Sanada Yukimura, known as the first soldier of the Sengoku period.
Yukimi Sanada
Although he is very talented, because of his family relationship, he always changes the main family frequently. As a result, his fate also went up and down. He was very good at using soldiers and had good martial arts, but the enemies he met were very powerful, and he was famous for Tokugawa Ieyasu. So that led to his failure. Let's take a look at his story.
Sanada Yukimura was born in the late Sengoku period of Japan, in the territory of Kai Province. At that time, the head of the Kai Kingdom was Takeda Shingen. Sanada's father was Sanada Masayuki, and his family was relatively small, a subordinate of the Takeda family. Sanada Yukimura's milk name is Benmaru, many Japanese children's milk names, especially boys, have a pill character, I don't know if Japanese people like to eat balls. Sanada father and son lived under the shade of the Takeda family, and when Benmaru grew up, he asked for Motofu (a Japanese coming-of-age ceremony that still preserves this custom) Benmaru after Motofu officially used the daimyo, which took the two characters of Takeda Shingen's younger brother Takeda Nobuhiro. So Sanada Yukimura's real name was Sanada Nobuyoshi, and he later changed his name to Sanada Yukimura because of a military novel. Luck is the general word for his family, such as his father's name is Sanada Masayuki
The brother is called Sanada Nobuyuki and so on. Village is taken from his sister's name with the village character. For convenience, I will call him Yukimura, and I hope you will understand.
Although the Sanada family is safe to rely on the Takeda family, there is no feast in the world. With the death of Takeda Shingen, the Takeda family began to decline, and although Takeda Katsurai still had some abilities, clever people such as Sanada Masayuki felt that the Takeda family was unreliable. Although his family was small, he did not want to give the Takeda family a funeral. So Sanada Masayuki began to look for other patrons.
Because the family is small, he first looks at the shirt family. Hopefully, the shirt family can help themselves protect themselves. But the lord of the shirt family, Jing Sheng, did not want to help his family without benefits. Sanada Masayuki was very clever, so he sent his youngest son, Yukimura, as a hostage without waiting for anyone to speak.
Sanada Yukimura understood his father's move and agreed. Went to the shirt house as a hostage,
Kamikasa Keikatsu attached great importance to Yukimura and appointed him to a relatively high official position. If life goes on like this, perhaps Yukimura's life will be relatively stable. However, for some reason, his father, Sanada Masayuki, sent a letter to ask Yukimura to return to Sanada Castle, Sanada's territory.
Not long ago, his father and brothers repelled Tokugawa Ieyasu's army here. Father Sanada Masayuki hopes that his son can come back to help him, and Kami Kazukatsu is very generous to let Yukimura go back, thinking that it will not be long before he will return to see Yukimura come back, who knows that this will not be returned. It turned out that Sanada Masayuki had found a better patron, that is, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had just taken power in the Oda family after Nobunaga's death.
Masayuki Sanada met with various large families in the chaotic world, or married or sent hostages or fought wars. Painstakingly preserve this strength of its own. He knew toyotomi Hideyoshi's big tree shade shade. However, he did not turn to the past, and he also left a hand for his second son, Sanada Nobuyuki, to marry the daughter of honda tadakatsu, the tokugawa clan general. After Yukimura and his father defected to the Toyotomi family, Toyotomi Hideyoshi also liked the young man, so he also gave him the surname Toyotomi Nobuyoshi. (There are many examples of the matter of giving a surname, both China and Japan, the most famous of which is Zheng Chenggong, who has the title of Grandfather of the State, his original surname is Zheng, because his father Zheng Zhilong was a heavy courtier of Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the son was given the surname Zhu by his father Gui.) ）
The first half of Sanada Yukimura's life was calm, and there was nothing particularly brilliant about it. It is nothing more than being a hostage from one house to being a hostage in another. His best and most impressive in history were his two famous battles, the Battle of Sekigahara and the Battle of Osaka Castle.
Prior to this, he also joined his father with Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the conquest of the small pastoral castle of the Hojo clan. In this battle, Sanada Yukimura showed the temperament of a samurai. The good performance of the left and right rushes on the battlefield was appreciated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. But I don't know what reason it is as if the Sanada family itself has a spell, he relied on who fell, before following the Takeda family, the result of the Takeda family fell lonely, and then also followed the Ueshi family, although the Ueto family did not fall, but also struggled to support, and finally returned to the Toyotomi family. He wanted to follow the Oda family, but Oda Nobunaga died at Honnō-ji Temple.
Now bad luck has come to the Toyotomi family. Toyotomi Hideyoshi fell ill and died because of a failed expedition to Korea. After his death, the aftermath was not handled well, resulting in internal divisions, with The Western Army formed by The Bunsen led by Ishida Sansei, while the military generals Kato, Fukushima, and others formed the Eastern Army with Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was spying on the power of the Toyotomi family. The two armies engaged in a confrontation at Sekigahara. At this time, the warlord Daimyo of japan began to take sides, and Sanada Masayuki was faced with this choice. In the end, he strengthened his confidence and supported the Western Army with his son Yukimura, and let Sanada Nobuyuki, who had another son, become the son-in-law of Tokugawa Army General Honda Tadatsukatsu, go to the Eastern Army. In this way, no matter who wins, the existence of the Sanada family can be guaranteed.
Masayuki Sanada is a good chess player, and if he is put into the 21st century, he should be very suitable for venture capital work. Sanada Masayuki and Sanada Yukimura are actually more inclined to the Toyotomi family, otherwise he would have only been able to wait and see like other daimyo, but they were very hardworking. Sanada Yukimura and his father Masayuki discussed that if they brought their troops to the front, there would be no use except to serve as cannon fodder, and there would not be enough people for the Tokugawa army to drink a pot. So they decided to station a small number of troops on the other side's reinforcement route to prevent the Tokugawa Army from sending reinforcements. Originally, it was also a matter of gambling luck, but it turned out that the unlucky egg was really encountered, and the second generation of the Tokugawa family, Tokugawa Hidetada, came with people and horses. The Sanada father and son were very good at using soldiers, and they pestered Tokugawa Hidetada with very few people.
Hidetada has a good temperament and is loyal and honest, but his ability is very different from his father Tokugawa Ieyasu. It is easy for him to defend the country and the mountains. Sanada Yukimura encountered such a living treasure on the first large battlefield. Very happy, took him to practice. Tokugawa Hidetada led a large Tokugawa army, and the large army was inferior to the Western Army in terms of strength if the Tokugawa Army did not participate in the battle, which was also the best gift that Sanada Yukimura and his son gave to the Western Army. But the Western Army really can't lift the hemp rope skewer tofu. Just when the forces of several sides were greater than each other, Tokugawa Ieyasu rebelled against his own men and horses, resulting in a major defeat. The Sanada family also fell into bad luck. Ishida Sansei escaped and was captured and killed, and Sanada Yukimura and his father Sanada Masayuki were also captured by the Tokugawa Army. Niseki Washu tsunade was angry because they were scolded by their father for pestering them to prevent them from participating in the Sekigahara War. Advocate killing them.
Tokugawa Ieyasu can kill without special care or not. At this time, Sanada Masayuki's second son, Sanada Nobuyuki (who changed his name to Nobuyuki to show his break with his father), asked the lord to forgive them. Tokugawa Ieyasu then forgave them, but in order to punish them and to discipline them, he stripped the Sanada family of their fiefdoms. Left their father and son behind.
Sanada Yukimura and his father were exiled to a remote place, and their daily lives were taken care of by their second brother, Sanada Nobuyuki. Ordinary people will recognize it, but their father and son still feel dissatisfied. Discussions about how to rise up are still being discussed in the penal colonies. But Sanada Masayuki did not wait for the day of liberation and died. Sanada Yukimura was even angrier, and he vowed to take the head of the Tokugawa father and son to pay homage to him. So he took the opportunity to escape. After escaping, Yukimura runs to the Toyotomi family, where the head of the house is nominally Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the ruler is his mother Toyotomi Hideyoshi's favorite concubine, Lady Yodo. The Tokugawa army was preparing to attack Osaka Castle. The first war was the Battle of Osaka Winter. Due to the weather, the lack of troops of the Tokugawa army and the lack of supplies, Sanada Yukimura provoked the Tokugawa army with very few people. Tokugawa Ieyasu did not dare to fight. It retreated.
After Sanada Yukimura joined the Toyotomi family, he prepared a lot of horses and organized a cavalry team wearing red armor called the Akabetsu. The Akabi team has appeared several times in the history of the Warring States of Japan, once the Takeda family's Takeda Akabei team, the Takeda family's cavalry has always been powerful, and Sanada Yukimura has learned a lot. The third to learn the Akabi was the Akabi of Naomasa Izumi of the Tokugawa Army. Sanada Yukimura began training after organizing the people, but because of the time reason, he did not have the opportunity to train enough. This leaves a hidden danger for the future.
Sanada Yukimura also built a small castle outside Osaka Castle day and night as his base camp called Sanada Maru, and he wanted to stop the Attack of the Tokugawa Army on the first line of defense. Soon summer arrived, and with the arrival of the sweltering heat, there was also the arrival of a lone star, that is, the Tokugawa 100,000 troops that had been prepared for a long time. In the history of the Japanese Sengoku period, there were not many battles that could organize tens of thousands of people, and this Battle of Osaka can be regarded as the most. Tokugawa Ieyasu was determined to take Osaka Castle to end the Sengoku rebellion. But what he didn't expect was that the first army he jumped into was the pesky Sanada Army.
Sanada Yukimura has few people, but each one is one to ten. It caused a lot of trouble to the Tokugawa Army, but in the end it was a small number of people. Sanada Yukimura felt that he would have to kill Tokugawa Ieyasu if he wanted to fight to the death, and led a red reserve of less than 3,000 troops to raid the Tokugawa army from the flank and rush straight to Tokugawa Ieyasu's base camp.
Tokugawa Ieyasu was particularly nervous, and the scene of Takeda Akabei's team losing his armor and losing his armor in the Battle of Mikatahara was still lingering in his mind. And now it is such a red reserve team coming straight at themselves,
The leader is also Sanada Yukimura, who hates himself to the bone. Dressed in crimson armor and riding a red horse, Sanada Yukimura burned like flames and charged left and right in the Tokugawa army. This scene is very similar to Zhao Zilong in white and white armor in the Three Kingdoms period, and the first seven in and seven out of Nagasaka Slope.
It is no wonder that the "Peerless Great Snake" series of games produced by Japan's Glory Company will make Zhao Yun and Sanada Yukimura call brothers. However, even though Sanada Yukimura was strong, it was difficult to resist the 100,000-strong army, and when he finally fought and retreated to the place of Anju Shrine, a generation of heroes Sanada Yukimura unfortunately died on the battlefield. Sanada's death also sounded the death knell for the Toyotomi family. Finally, from the beginning of the Onin Rebellion to the end of the Battle of Osaka, this nearly century of chaos ended.
Although Sanada Yukimura is dead, the Japanese respect him. And because of his brothers, the Sanada family is still active in history. The common people love the warrior Sanada Yukimura and hate the black-bellied Tokugawa family.
Therefore, the story of Sanada Yukimura was widely sung, and the name of Yukimura was also active in history instead of its real name. This is the story of the Japanese tragic hero Sanada Yukimura.