Battle of Anegawa
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| Campaigns of Oda Nobunaga |
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| Okehazama - Azukizaka - Chōkōji - Kanagasaki - Anegawa - Ishiyama Hongan-ji - Mount Hiei - Nagashima - Mikata ga Hara - Hikida - Odani - Ichijō ga dani - Itami - Nagashino - Mitsuji - Kizugawaguchi - Shikizan - Tedorigawa - Hijiyama - Temmokuzan - Uzu - Honnōji |
| Campaigns of Tokugawa Ieyasu |
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| Anegawa - Futamata - Mikata ga Hara - Yoshida - Nagashino - Temmokuzan - Komaki - Nagakute - Sekigahara |
The 1570 battle of Anegawa (姉川の戦い) came as a reaction to the sieges of the castles of Odani and Yokoyama. Oda Nobunaga, along with Tokugawa Ieyasu, laid siege to these two fortresses of the Asai and Asakura families.
As warriors sallied forth from the castles, the battle turned into a melee fought in the middle of the shallow river. For a time, Nobunaga's forces fought the Asai, while the Tokugawa warriors fought the Asakura a short distance upstream.
After the Tokugawa forces finished off the Asakura, they then turned and hit the Asai right flank. Inaba Ittetsu, who had been held in reserve, then came forward and hit the Asai left flank. Many of the besiegers of Yokoyama even left their task to aid in the battle. The Asai and Asakura forces were soon defeated.
It is perhaps interesting to note that Nobunaga made use of 500 arquebusiers in this battle. He was famous for his strategic use of firearms, but would find himself on the opposite end of skilled arquebus tactics in his siege of Ishiyama Honganji that year.
Reference
- Turnbull, Stephen (1998). 'The Samurai Sourcebook'. London: Cassell & Co.
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