Siege of Takamatsu
| Siege of Takamatsu | |||||||
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| Part of the Sengoku period | |||||||
Edo period portrait of Takamatsu submerged in water | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Forces of Oda Nobunaga | Forces of Mōri Terumoto | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Hashiba Hideyoshi Ukita Tadaie Hachisuka Koroku Kuroda Kanbei Horio Yoshiharu Asano Nagamasa Konishi Yukinaga Kato Kiyomasa Ishida Mitsunari Otani Yoshitsugu |
Castle Garrison : Shimizu Muneharu Nanba Denbe Suechika Saemon Mori Reinforcement : Kikkawa Motoharu Kobayakawa Takakage Ankokuji Ekei | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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20,000 Oda troops 10,000 Ukita troops total: 30,000 men |
castle garrison: 5,000 men Mori reinforcement: 40,000 men total: 45,000 men | ||||||
In the 1582 siege of Takamatsu (備中高松城の戦い, Bitchū Takamatsu-jō no tatakai), Toyotomi Hideyoshi laid siege to Takamatsu Castle, which was controlled by the Mōri clan. He diverted a nearby river with dikes to surround and flood the castle. He also constructed towers on barges from which his gunmen could keep up a constant rate of fire and be unhindered themselves by the flooding.