Here is a brief video on the Battle of Okehazama by two people. The video is about 14 minutes long and it just does enough to explain the viewer the basics. The two gentlemen points out the numbers of both Oda and Imagawa armies as well as the forts and castles. Also the two mentions the rain and the way Nobunaga attacked. To this day and to the end of time, the debate will continue if Nobunaga's attack on Yoshimoto was a simple frontal one or surprise attack. I have stated many times and back it up with my own military experience that Nobunaga used some form of a surprise attack. The two explained explained the viewer that Yoshimoto did not use any guns during the battle. Here is a simple answer to that question, due to the heavy rain, the guns were useless and were stuck in the mud.
To end the video, the two mentioned the result of the battle created Nobunaga's rise to power, the decline of the Imagawa, Matsudaira Motoyasu's (Tokugawa Ieyasu) independence as well as freeing some of the families in the Totomi area such as the Ii.
Nobunaga no tame!
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