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Thus, on 28 June [[1575]], Takeda Katsuyori ordered the Takeda army to attack the Oda and Tokugawa positions, which were now strengthened by the inclusion of wooden palisades (virtual proof Nobunaga and Ieyasu had counted on Katsuyori's aggressiveness getting the better of him). For hours, the mêlée raged, and in the end, nearly 16,000 men were dead, of whom 10,000 were Takeda. Many of the renowned Takeda Generals - Baba, Yamagata, Naito, Hara - were slain, and in the end, Katsuyori was forced to flee north towards [[Shinano Province|Shinano]].  

Thus, on 28 June [[1575]], Takeda Katsuyori ordered the Takeda army to attack the Oda and Tokugawa positions, which were now strengthened by the inclusion of wooden palisades (virtual proof Nobunaga and Ieyasu had counted on Katsuyori's aggressiveness getting the better of him). For hours, the mêlée raged, and in the end, nearly 16,000 men were dead, of whom 10,000 were Takeda. Many of the renowned Takeda Generals - Baba, Yamagata, Naito, Hara - were slain, and in the end, Katsuyori was forced to flee north towards [[Shinano Province|Shinano]].  

It is perhaps both surprising and a testament to Katsuyori's sheer tenacity that the Takeda Clan limped on for another seven years. Incredibly, Katsuyori continued to trouble the Tokugawa, and fought off and on with the Hojo clan. He was clearly less then popular by now with the people of [[Kai province|Kai]], for his disastrous defeat in 1575 had forced him to make heavy drafts; he also allowed his father's cleverly designed system of government to run off course. Perhaps the final straw was his decision in [[1581]] to move the Takeda capital from Kofu to near Nirayama. The new castle was almost a monument to the extent to which the Takeda had fallen, for Shingen had never bothered with a castle of his own – [[Tsutsuijigasaki]] had been a fortified mansion. In the end, however, time ran out on a clan whose spirit had been broken at Nagashino. In 1581 Taketenjin fell to the Tokugawa, and the following year Katsuyori was unable to quell a rebellion by his vassal [[Kiso Yoshimasa]] of Shinano. A few months later, a combined army of Oda, Tokugawa, and Hojo troops invaded Kai and Shinano. The majority of Katsuyori's troops abandoned him outright and the son of Shingen met his end at his own hand in the shadow of the Temmokuzan with his son Nobukatsu while his last few retainers, three Tsuchiya brothers, held the enemy at bay.  

It is perhaps both surprising and a testament to Katsuyori's sheer tenacity that the Takeda Clan limped on for another seven years. Incredibly, Katsuyori continued to trouble the Tokugawa, and fought off and on with the Hojo clan. He was clearly less then popular by now with the people of [[Kai province|Kai]], for his disastrous defeat in 1575 had forced him to make heavy drafts; he also allowed his father's cleverly designed system of government to run off course. Perhaps the final straw was his decision in [[1581]] to move the Takeda capital from Kofu to near Nirayama. The new castle was almost a monument to the extent to which the Takeda had fallen, for Shingen had never bothered with a castle of his own – [[Tsutsuijigasaki]] had been a fortified mansion. In the end, however, time ran out on a clan whose spirit had been broken at Nagashino. In 1581 Taketenjin fell to the Tokugawa, a strategic and moral blow to the Takeda.  That winter, Katsuyori's retainer, [[Kiso Yoshimasa]] of Fukushima in Shinano, discontented at material demands related to the building of Nirayama, rebelled.  Katsuyori immediatly raised an army, heedless of bad weather, and marched against Fukushima in what developed into a pointless fiasco that crushed whatever morale his clan had left. A few months later, a combined army of Oda, Tokugawa, and Hojo troops invaded Kai and Shinano. The majority of Katsuyori's troops abandoned him outright, including such Takeda stalwarts as Oyamada Nobushige and Anayama Nobukimi, and the son of Shingen met his end at his own hand in the shadow of the [[Temmokuzan]] with his son [[Takeda Nobukatsu|Nobukatsu]] while his last few retainers, three Tsuchiya brothers, held the enemy at bay. The Takeda domain thus fell to the Oda and Tokugawa.