Battle of Ichinotani
The whole families of Genji cornered Heike clan that was an old enemy.
This story is an event in the competition between two clans battle.
Yoshitsune got a duty to hunt down and kill Heike clan with Yoritomo who was a year, the older brother who became 25 years old.
On March 20, 1184
Yoshitsune helped Noriyori Minamoto which was half brother and was going to drive Heike family.
Noriyori was given 56000 soldiers then, but Yoshitsune had only the mounting a horse soldier of 70 horse men.
However, Noriyori was forced to an unexpected hard fight.
Heike family gave the rear perfect protection in the cliff of one valley.
The battle of Ichinotani were fierce battles.
The fight that began at the daybreak was prolonged very much while an arrow flew in the battlefield, and a hand-to-hand fight by the mounting a horse was developed.
A voice broke out in such a case from the cliff of the rear.
Yoshitsune ran down a cliff on a horse how.
It was steep so that it was thought that it was absolutely impossible to march on in a cliff.
In fact, Yoshitsune asked local people in this way beforehand.
"Which a deer saw being below this cliff"
Yoshitsune encouraged the army of 70 horse men without flinching from the situation that he fell down if they failed in the operation of the horse even once and died.
The result was a great success!
Heike clan that had the back that they thought to be safe stolen was restless and ran away rushingly to the sea.
A large army of Noriyori launched an all-out attack there and won.
In this way, an action was light, and Yoshitsune was good at a surprise attack.
He seemed to have much tactics that he put a counter in than he joined the main force of the battle front.
★WarGames Japan history of no. 10 "Genpei gassen-juei rebellion — ' fs04gm★
★Platz "Swordsman of Japan' figure★
