Takenaka Hanbei Chinese name: Takenaka Shigeharu
Date of birth: 1544-1579
Major Achievements: Outsmarting Inaba Yamashiro, a genius military division known as the "Toyotomi Two Guards" together with Kuroda's officers and soldiers Wei Takashi.
In 1567, Takenaka Hanbei caused chaos in the city with sixteen people creating the illusion of a large army attacking, and captured Inabayama Castle. Nobunaga's general, Hashiba Hideyoshi, was interested in this man who had taken Inabayama Castle but abandoned Itayama Castle, and in the face of Hideyoshi's three gifts, Hanbei agreed to assist Hideyoshi. After that, Saito Ryuyuki was eventually defeated, Inabayama Castle fell, and the Oda family completely pacified Mino. All this was a half-guard scheme, and since then the half-guard has become famous in one fell swoop.
In the fifth year of Tenshō, Hashiba Hideyoshi was appointed commander of the attack on the Maori clan, taking the lead in attacking Harima, and Takenaka Hanbei was appointed as the first force and Kuroda officers and soldiers to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses into Himeji Castle. After Hashiba Hideyoshi personally led the main army into Harima, under the strategizing of The Takenaka Hanbei, The Takenaka Hanbei said that it belonged to the Uki clan, which was a completely earth-shattering reversal for the Oda Army, and the originally subjugated Miki Castle Because of the pressure exerted by the family's belief in the Ichijo clan, he raised a counter-banner, and the Takenaka Hanbei offered to surround Miki Castle and cut off the water, and Miki Castle automatically fell.
Kuroda officers and soldiers in the past with Araki Mura Shigeru to enter Aroka Castle to persuade Araki Murashige, after the persuasion failed, he was imprisoned by Araki Murashige, and soon after Kuroda Officers and Soldiers' disappearance was rumored that he surrendered araki Murashige, Oda Nobunaga ordered Hideyoshi to kill Kuroda Officers and Soldiers Matsushimaru (Kuroda Nagamasa). Takenaka Hanbei protected Kuroda Nagamasa under the pretext of recuperating from illness. His illness worsened and he died young at the age of thirty-six. He exhausted the last bit of his life for Hideyoshi and died of illness in the army.
Character evaluation: Takeaka half-guard is to abide by the way of the people, indifferent to fame and fortune, not only intelligent and strategic, but also gentle temperament, no ambition, half-guard is relatively traditional, good at deployment, breaking the line, training troops, siege. A genius with the same name as Kuroda's officers and soldiers. Without the early planning of Takenaka Hanbei, there would be no powerful Hideyoshi in the future. The death of Hanbei was also a huge loss to Hideyoshi. He was also one of toyotomi Hideyoshi's most important vassals in the eventual unification of Japan.