Kanie Castle

...The following year, when the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute reached a stalemate, Hideyoshi used him in a strategy to secure a bridgehead on the southern coast of Owari. Kanie Castle, halfway between Oda Nobukatsu's base Nagashima Castle and Kiyosu Castle and a place with a long history of ties to Kazumasu, was seized by a surprise gun attack from the sea and a counterattack from within, but the castle was surrendered by a fierce attack by Ieyasu's army, which the "Rojin Zatsuwa" (Various Talks of the Elderly) describes as "the greatest victory of Toshogu Shrine's history." Hideyoshi banished Kazumasu's eldest son, but gave him 3,000 koku and his second son 12,000 koku as per the previous agreement. ...

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…翌年，小牧･長久手の戦で膠着状態になったとき，尾張南岸に橋頭堡を確保する作戦から秀吉に用いられた。織田信雄の本拠長島城と清須城の中間にあり，一益旧縁の地である蟹江城を海上からの鉄砲奇襲作戦と内応策で奪い取ったが，《老人雑話》が〈蟹江の軍は東照宮一世の勝事なり〉と表現するような家康軍の猛攻によって開城した。秀吉は一益の長子は追放したが，先約に従って一益に3000石を，次子に1万2000石を与えた。…

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