The Takenaka clan is a stream of the Kiyowa Genji Toki clan. The Takenaka Shigeshige clan, the grandfather of Takenaka Hanbei Shigeharu, was a well-known figure at the time. Shigemoto, the son of the Shigemoto clan, was a subordinate of Saito Michizo, who conquered Iwate Castle and moved into residence. He also built a city on Bodhi Mountain in the same country and obtained sixty territories. There are indications that Shigemoto may succeed him as the governor of the Takenaka family. In 1556, Saito Michizo was killed by his adopted son Yoshiryu. After the death of Michiyoshi, Shigemoto led an army to attack the castle of Kiwara in 1558. Since then, Shigemoto has called himself Yuanjiang Shou. He moved out of the city of Bodhi Mountain to protect and consolidate, and died two years later. Takenaka Shigeharu (1544-1579), commonly known as Takenaka Hanbei, also known as Shigehu. He was a Japanese warrior of the Sengoku period, and a genius military division known as the "Toyotomi Two Guards" along with Kuroda officer Wei Takao.
Her father was Shigemoto Takenaka, lord of The Bodhi Mountain Castle in Mino Province, and his mother was the daughter of Sugiyama Hisaemon. Shi ZaiZhuzhong's half-soldier guard has been reading military books since childhood, and his appearance is handsome. At the age of nineteen, after inheriting the family governor, in order to persuade the faint-hearted Mino lord Saito Ryuko, he outwitted Saito Honjo Inabayama with a mere seventeen people, and then returned the castle to Saito Ryuko in its original condition, shaking Japan in one fell swoop. After Saito died in Oda, Takenaka was invited by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to become a vassal of Oda Nobunaga, and personally led the iron artillery team to break the combined forces of Asai and Asakura twice during the Battle of Kanazaki and the Battle of Sister River. Later, he and Kuroda's officers and men, Sasuke Shiba Hideyoshi, in a series of battles to attack the most powerful name in the Western Kingdom, Mori Keigen, but fell ill in front of the Hiraiyama army in Miki Castle, Banma Kingdom, leaving a regret after the death sentence "Death on the battlefield is the true color of the samurai".
As a genius with a reputation as Kuroda Takashi, Takenaka Shigeharu was undoubtedly a general who fell prematurely in the chaotic world of the Warring States. However, it was with the full assistance of Takeaka Kuroda's two major divisions that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's hegemony of unifying Japan was finally realized.
Fledgling
In the fourth year of Nagarjuna, Oda Nobunaga attacked Inabayama Castle, and in the Battle of Takenaka Hanbei New Ghana, in which he first fought, he skillfully used the ten-sided ambush formation recorded in the military book to make Nobunaga almost only spared himself, and from then on, "Imagō ming" and "Now Nan" were used
The name "Wood" resounded throughout the Owari Oda family. In order to take Mino, Oda Nobunaga sent Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro to successfully build a castle in Sumamata, for which Ando Mori felt that the situation was not good, but at that time, saito Ryuko, the governor of the Saito family, was still singing night and night, unaware that the threat was approaching. Therefore, Ando Shou, who was a major vassal of the Saito family, spoke bluntly, but unexpectedly, LongXing not only could not listen to the rumors, but also imprisoned Shou in the northern city, and Hanbei asked Longxing to rescue his father-in-law Inabayama Castle, but he only received Longxing's humiliation. After a while, Ando Mori returned to Iwamura Castle, and Hanbei immediately came to meet him and came up with a surprising plan--- capture Inabayama Castle.
In February of the seventh year of Yonglu, seeing Longxing's stubbornness, Hanbei decided to advise Longxing with his actions, he let his younger brother Kusaku who was a hostage in Inabayama Castle pretend to be ill, and then sent people to send weapons and centaurs into Inabayama Castle in batches under the guise of sending medicine and medicine in the name of visiting relatives, and in the middle of the night, the city suddenly sounded alarm bells, and the half-guards created a large army of sixteen people to make a big mistake in the city, killing the city general Saito Hidamori, Saito Ryuyuki also disguised himself as a woman in the chaos and fled to Yai County, and his father-in-law Ando Shou also immediately supported him. Send your army into the city and hold it firmly.
Knowing that indoyama Castle had changed hands, Nobunaga, who had been coveting Mino for a long time, immediately sent someone to ask Hanbei to join the Oda family, promising him Mino Half-Kingdom, but Hanbei refused. Later, Takenaka Hanbei returned Inabayama Castle to Saito Ryuko, declaring that he had carried out this operation for the sake of entering Ryuko's revival, and then went into seclusion in Omi Ibukiyama, where he was once hired by assorté of Asai Nagamasa, lord of Omi Otani Castle, and was granted a fief of Kusano Sanzenkan in Higashi Asai County.
Fame
This storm caused Nobunaga's general Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro to be interested in this man who had taken Inabayama Castle but abandoned Inabayama Castle, and in the face of Hideyoshi's three gifts, Hanbei felt his sincerity and left Oda Nobunaga after the destruction of the Saito family. Under the strategy of Niwa Nagahide, Ando Mori and the other Mino trio successively threw themselves into the Oda family, Oda Nobunaga gained control of Nishi Mino's trio and the Oda family attacked Higashi Mino, so that Inabayama Castle was completely surrounded by Oda, Saito Ryuyuki was eventually defeated, Inabayama Castle fell, and the Oda family completely pacified Mino.
In the first year of the Motokame, Oda Nobunaga sent troops to Echizen to attack the Asakura clan, when the Oda army overwhelmingly postponed the battle and pushed the battle straight to Ichijo Valley Castle, and because the rear station troops could not be connected, the Oda army had a problem of insufficient food, so Takenaka Hanbei was sent by Nobunaga to the rear to carry out dispatch work in a timely manner to command the station troops to send food to the front.
Unexpectedly, Asai Nagamasa, who was sitting on the Northern Omi River behind him, announced that he had broken the alliance with the Asakura family for many years and sent troops to attack Oda Nobunaga with the Asakura clan, causing Nobunaga to flee back to Kyoto in a hurry, and it was The Battle That also ordered the descendants to retreat, and Hideyoshi Hashiba and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who held the post of the imperial army, also made a big splash, and after examination, it was also confirmed that Mitsuhide was also acting as a temple army at that time, and although the Takenaka Hanbei who commanded the food and clothing troops supported Andahi Hideyoshi and contributed to it, However, the Hanbei were actually still subordinate to Nobunaga's direct subordinate units. According to the "Toyokan", Takenaka Hanbei once used the foreign guns transported by the supply troops in the war to use three sections to repel Asai Nagamasa, but this matter is not recorded in the Martial Arts Night Talk and Nobunaga's Records, and the book of Fengkan was written by Takenaka Shigemon, the son of Hanbei, so the authenticity is quite difficult to verify.
Empress Kanesaki
In April 1570, in order to show the world that he was the true ruler of Japan, Oda Nobunaga marched north to join Tokugawa Ieyasu of Mikawa and attacked Echizen's Asakura Yoshikei (the Asai family and the Asakura family were originally family friends) without the consent of his ally Asai family. The Oda army was about to reach Ichijoya Castle, destroy the Asakura clan, and annex the Echizen Kingdom. On the evening of April 27, a secret envoy suddenly came to Nobunaga Honjin and presented a gift from Nobunaga's sister, Ichihime. The gift was a small bag of beans, and both ends of the pockets were tightly tied with silk thread, which was difficult to untie. Nobunaga received this gift and pondered for a long time, when the monkey (Hideyoshi Hashiba) suddenly reacted: "We have now been so in a bag of beans, sandwiched by two breads, Asai has betrayed!" ”
At the moment, the situation was extremely dangerous, Nobunaga immediately ordered a retreat, and when arranging the generals of the temple, the world knew that this was a suicide mission, and no one dared to respond, and suddenly Hideyoshi stepped forward and proposed himself to serve as the death temple army! Nobunaga immediately decided to leave Hideyoshi behind to hold on to Kanazaki. When Hideyoshi prostrated his head to bid farewell to Nobunaga, Hideyoshi's loyal and supreme personality, regardless of personal gain or loss, touched everyone present, and Nobunaga, who was known as the Sixth Day Demon King at the time, also shed rare tears. Nobunaga only shed tears once when his teacher Masahide Hirade committed suicide to persuade him of his irregular behavior.
Military genius
All the courtiers, including Shibata Katsuya, Sakuma Katsumasa, and Niwa Nagahide, came to bid farewell to Hideyoshi one by one, and seeing that his army was too weak, they left behind samurai with outstanding martial arts, and Tokugawa Ieyasu left dozens of the most precious fire ropes. After the army, Fujiyoshiro (Toyotomi Hideyoshi) ordered the whole army to put a triangular white paper on the forehead or helmet, meaning the living undead, and then hung a large flag high, with the words "Nam no Amitabha Buddha", and held the loyalty to death and entered Kanenosaki! Kanenosaki is located on the cape, a fenced deer, and the asakura Asai coalition forces pursue the throat of the only land route of Nobunaga's brigade, and the other route is to take a boat to chase from Lake Biwa by water. The Asakura Asai coalition chose to attack the fortress.
At the beginning of the battle, Hideyoshi ordered the rifle team to hide in the deer and shoot to force back the small enemy troops acting as sharp soldiers, but did not attack, and soon the sun set, the surrounding area darkened, and Kanenosaki entered the night defense battle. Hideyoshi received a report from the spies: The headquarters of the Asakura Asai Coalition Army has arrived at Muya Ridge, with a strength of 30,000 troops, but the flag has already camped, and the forward troops of the Asakura Asai Coalition Army's 2,000 troops have been pressed against Shikatsu, hideyoshi immediately ordered the bonfires to be lit throughout the city, planted flags in the city, and led the troops to quietly withdraw from the city. Ambushed in the woods outside the city. Echizen's "pre-emptive warrior" Maoya Nanchiemon planned to rush to the second day to attack the castle in the evening, and late at night, Maoyabu entered the woods, when Hideyoshi suddenly appeared on both sides of it. First a burst of muskets, then a surprise attack of the long-handled team, the grassy samurai under Beesuka who were accustomed to night fighting exerted great lethality, and as soon as the muskets rang out, the smoke was swirling and shouting and killing, and the Maoyabu people were suddenly panicked, and they were defeated and fled. When they arrived in the open area, they set up camp again, and the spies returned, and the lights inside the deer were bright, and the Hideyoshi Department was on guard all night. Maoya decided to stay still until dawn, when Hideyoshi's troops were tired and drowsy, attacking again. However, after a small victory, Hideyoshi immediately gathered his forces and fled seven or eight miles straight through Kanenosaki Castle. At dawn, Maoya finally found that Kanenosaki had become an empty castle. Hideyoshi was eventually able to retire.
Looking at this classic battle, which was talked about by posterity, we can see that Hideyoshi's military techniques were superb: he held firm to a small group of spy attacks; when the vanguard of the enemy's two thousand troops (at that time, Hideyoshi's troops were 500 in total), he took the initiative to attack and wait for work; after the ambush was successful, he completely abandoned his position and quickly fled. This is the cloud in Sun Tzu's Art of War: soldiers, devious ways. Can see what can not be seen, use and see not use, close and far away, far and close; attack it unprepared, surprise it. However, Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro (Toyotomi Hideyoshi's name) was a grass dweller, illiterate, not to mention the clouds such as the Book of Soldiers, and his predecessor did not have a unique battle experience as a real battle, but in this battle, the mystery of the soldier saint was used so vividly, it was really incomprehensible, and turning to Hideyoshi's military division Takekaka Shigeru, everything can be explained.
Afterwards, in June of the same year, the enraged Nobunaga joined forces with Tokugawa Ieyasu to ignite the fire of revenge to attack Omi, and Takenaka Hanbei successfully took the border between Omi and Mino, and Asai Nagamasa was built on Mount Matsuo that could be used to monitor the dispatch of the Oda army, and the soldiers bloodlessly surrendered the lord higuchi Saburo Bingwei, allowing the Oda army to easily march into the kita-Omi, thus receiving a golden sentence of fifty gold medals, armor, saddles, and swords from Nobunaga. Later, in the Battle of Sister River, the leader of the Half Guard captured Nagabitsu, and the younger brother of the Half Guard, Hisasaku, who also served as Nobunaga's Close Study, fought and made a contribution when Theashi Iwai Army vanguard Isono Gensaga attacked Nobunaga Honjin.
After Hideyoshi took Yokoyama Castle of the Asai family, Takenaka Hanbei entered Yokoyama Castle as a force to assist Hashiba Hideyoshi in a protracted battle, and as Nobunaga's direct subordinate, he took on the post of military superintendent to supervise Haba Hideyoshi, who was outside the army, and retained the name of a wise general in the battle. In the second year of Motokame and Hashiba Hideyoshi's brother Hideyoshi rebelled against Asahi and Inoue's courtiers, and the following year Hideyoshi was attacked by Asai Hisashi 1,000 troops for several days when he was attacked by Asai Hisashi 1,000 troops, and then he and Haba Hideyoshi who led reinforcements back to the castle repelled Asa\Inui Hisashi, and also used his connections with the Asai family to assist Hideyoshi in repeatedly plotting against asahi and ini family warriors. At that time, Hideyoshi's brother Hidenaga and his old friend Bee Suga Masakatsu both performed the ceremony when they saw Hanbei, especially Hidenaga, who was originally only a son of a peasant, and after starting to serve as Hideyoshi's deputy, Hideyoshi asked the military master Takeaka Hanbei to be responsible for Hidenaga's education work so that he could become familiar with his samurai career as soon as possible, and Hanbei began to teach Hideo the skills of leading the soldiers to fight in the middle of the actual battle of defending the Sumamata Castle: such as retreating and retreating, observing the enemy situation, giving orders, taking care of the soldiers, exercising strategies, and so on.
Later, when the half-guard was terminally ill, he stood up and said to Hideo, "We must pay attention to protecting ourselves, and the ultimate purpose of the art of war is here." Later, when hidenaga led the army and the Kyushu Shimashima Tsuyae force in the war, they fought steadily and meticulously, so that the Kyushu Hayato, who were good at attacking in the gap and luring the enemy to encircle, encountered a copper wall and an iron wall.
In the first year of Tenshō, after the death of Takeda Shingen, the Oda family lifted the guard on the east side, enough to give it a go. Oda Nobunaga then launched a general attack on Asai Imoto's Otani Castle, and it was during the battle that Hemibei ordered Hideyoshi to join Niwa Nagahide in the task of rescuing Asahi, the sister of Nobunaga and the wife of Asahi Nagamasa. After The fall of Otani, Hashiba Hideyoshi was rewarded with the 120,000 stones of the three districts of Kita-Omi, the old land of Asai, and Hanbei was officially transferred to Hideyoshi's consignment at this time, receiving 1,500 stones of Chiyuki Yulu, and when Hashiba Hideyoshi decided to build another Nagahama Castle, he and Bee Suga Masakatsu planned the construction of the castle, leaving the Japanese song of "Junが代も わが世も共に 長hama の真沙のかずのつき屋(や)や)らでで" after the completion of Nagahama Castle.
In the fifth year of Tenshō, Hashiba Hideyoshi was appointed commander of the attack on the maori clan in China, taking the lead in attacking Harima, and Takenaka Hanbei was appointed as the first force to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses into Himeji Castle along with Kuroda's officers and men. Kuroda's officers and men went out to lobby the Various Noble Clans to create an atmosphere of falling towards the Oda family, while the Half Guards were holding on to Himeji Castle and causing the Maori clan's tentative attacks to fail one after another. Together, they launched an offensive against the lord of Sōtsu Castle, Akamatsu Masahiro, who had surrendered to the Uchihae Uchihata clan, and first led his troops into Mt. Takakura to attack Fukuhara Castle, an important branch of Uchizuki Castle, because the lord of Fukuhara Castle was fukumatsu Masahiro, who was the sister of the lord of the previous month, Akamatsu Masahiro, and the lobbying of Kuroda's officers and soldiers was ineffective. However, Fukuharasuke, who was still stationed at Takakura Mountain in the joint forces of Takeaka and Kuroda, was killed and killed by Kuroda's vassal Shinjiro Takemori during the retreat.
After Hashiba Hideyoshi personally led the main army into Harima, under the strategizing of Takenaka Hanbei, while taking a frontal attack on Fukuhara Castle, he then sent Bee-Suga Masakatsu to lead three hundred horsemen to cut off the army of Fan Zhong, the brother of Fukusaka, to cut off fukuhara Castle's foreign aid, and to declare his surrender to another important branch of the previous moon city, Rishijin Castle, and the surrender of Toshijin Castle and the advance of Beesuka Masakatsu forced Fukuhara Fan Zhong of Kamizaka to retreat to the foothills of The Great Fukusaka. Under the cage of Hideyoshi's army, he was shot by a team of foreign guns led by Takenaka Hanbei. After the defeat and death of Fan Zhong in Fukuhara, Fukuhara, who was trapped in Fukuhara Castle, set fire to the city in despair and committed suicide with more than fifty members of the clan at Fukuji Temple in Kaohsiung Mountain.
In the sixth year of Tenshō, Takenaka Hanbei said that he had surrendered bizen Hachimanyama Castle, which originally belonged to the Uki clan, and was praised by Oda Nobunaga for giving him 100 taels of silver. The originally subjugated Miki Castle, because his family believed in putting pressure on the clan ministers, and raised a banner, at that time, Takenaka Hanbei and Kuroda officers and soldiers as the main staff officers all joined the army, and Takenaka Hanbei also offered a killing strategy to surround Miki Castle and cut off water and food, and did not attack at all, so that Miki Castle automatically fell. One day, hanbei saw the Kuroda officers and soldiers given by Hideyoshi "Brother Oath Paper". The half-guard saw this and said, "Your temple and Hideyoshi hall are the lord and subordinate, not brothers." Please forget about the oath paper. He tore the oath paper and threw it into the brazier, admonishing Kuroda officers and soldiers, who had always maintained a high-minded and clever attitude. At the same time, Araki Murashige, who was rapidly ascending to the Oda family to take on the task of attacking the Settsu area, also rebelled in Arioka Castle, causing the Hashiba army that surrounded Miki Castle to be cut off.
For this reason, Kuroda officers and soldiers used to enter Araki Castle as Catholics with the intention of personally entering Arikaga castle to persuade Araki Murashige, but after the persuasion failed, they were imprisoned by Araki Murashige, and soon after Kuroda's disappearance was rumored to be his surrender to Araki Murashige. When word of this reached Oda Nobunaga's ears, Oda Nobunaga ordered Hideyoshi to kill Kuroda's officers and soldiers, who had been sent to the Oda family as a hostage, and his sister-in-law Matsushimaru (Kuroda Nagamasa). Under the protection of Takenaka Hanbei, who had trusted his personality during a period of working with Kuroda's officers and soldiers, Hanbei secretly crossed Matsushimaru from Nagahama Castle to Chencang and brought him back to Iwate Bodhi Mountain Castle to protect him in the name of returning to his hometown to recuperate from illness.
Untimely death
In the seventh year of Tenshō, after Kazuyoshi Takikawa and Ikeda Tsuneyoshi captured Arioka Castle, Kuroda officers and soldiers were rescued.
Half-guard reveals that Matsushimaru is not dead, and returns to the battlefield with Kuroda officers and soldiers. While Hideyoshi was leading his army to continue to besiege Misaki Castle under the rule of Hatsunori, Hanbei also fell into the army due to tuberculosis, and Hideyoshi urged Hanbei to return to Kyoto or Arima Onsen to recuperate, but Hanbei, who felt desperate, said: "Dying on the battlefield is the true color of the samurai." He refused Hideyoshi's advice and advised Hideyoshi, who was wary of Kuroda officers and soldiers who were good at using the strategy: "Poison can also be a good medicine for curing diseases," and advised him to reuse Kuroda officers and soldiers. On June 13, Jidai Tomo, who had made great contributions to Hideyoshi's career in the first half of his life, died young at the age of thirty-six at the age of thirty-six.