"Finally we've caught up!" Isono Yuanmao, who was the vanguard, shouted excitedly, "Master Yumori! Let's attack now! Cooperate with the city's defenders inside and outside to catch them off guard!"
"Don't be anxious! Wait a minute!" Contrary to Isono Umasa's expectations, the always reckless Amemori Kiyosada asked to stop at this moment, "Let's take a look at the reality of the Rokkaku family and how many people are here."
After a while, the Rokkaku family stopped attacking the city and began to withdraw towards the bridge over the Edogawa River in the southwest. Apparently they were afraid of being attacked by the Asai Army and the castle defenders from inside and outside. The place between the Edogawa River and Hida Castle was very narrow. It is good for the deployment of troops, but very disadvantageous for the Rokkaku family.
After the last few Rokkaku Ashigaru evacuated, the castle town of Hidden Castle was set on fire, and the thick smoke rising from the raging fire could be clearly seen within a ten-mile radius.
The Rokkaku Ashigaru family began to retreat southwest along the bridge over the Eto River, leaving Hieda Castle. Rokkaku Yoshiken's Hatamotoma Huizhu were left behind to prevent possible pursuit by the Asai Army. The entire Rokkaku family was together. There are more than 800 cavalry. Except for the two hundred lords of the family, the rest are samurai or senior generals. They are not an organized cavalry team, but are mixed with the ashigaru to lead the two armies in field battles. Ashigaru Charge. It is very rare to completely separate the cavalry and infantry like Amakihei.
As for the Asai family, there were only more than 400 cavalry. Except for the family governor's 100 horse warriors, they were all samurai. Therefore, facing the rear-end action of the 260 horse warriors, the Asai army did not do well. method. Under the order of Asai Nagamasa, the troops crossed the Edogawa River from another bridge. The Asai Army and the Hexagon Army moved slowly in parallel to the Noarada Plain to the west in one direction from the north to the south.
"The number of people in the Rokkaku family is wrong!" Isono Danmasa looked at it for a while and immediately noticed something was wrong. "They don't have as many people as us now. There are extra people! Could it be an ambush somewhere?"
"It's very possible that they left separately during the retreat." Yumori Kiyosada glanced at the Rokkaku family opposite, "But the 2,000 people from our rear team haven't arrived yet!"
"But the opponent's forces are scattered. There are only eleven thousand people around Rokkaku Yoshiken's horse seal. Isn't this the opportunity we are looking for to join forces? We took advantage of the opponent's retreat and went their separate ways without gathering their forces, so we took the opportunity to attack! "Isono Umasa suddenly thought of this plan, and immediately sent a messenger to ask Asai Nagamasa for a fight.
A moment later, Asai Nagamasa, who received the report from Isono Umasa, ordered the entire army to move closer to the Hexagon Army and prepare to engage in battle.
At 5:00 noon, the distance between the two armies gradually approached and they arrived at the battlefield of Norada. Norada is a plain semi-surrounded by the Bunroku River. The Bunroku River flows from the southeast to the northwest into Lake Biwa, and turned a right angle near Noarada. Then it headed northeast and then turned northwest again at a right angle after more than 400 meters, restoring its original direction. And to the east of this zigzag river is the Norada Plain.
The Rokkaku family formed a formation in the southwest, and the Asai family formed a formation in the northeast. In order to avoid the embarrassment of a last-ditch battle, the Rokkaku family took the initiative to move the formation forward. However, Yoshiharu Rokkaku, who had been waiting on the northwest bank of the Bunroku River in advance, saw that the battlefield was still some distance away from him. I had no choice but to leave the pre-built camp, and immediately led my troops to hoist the flag, cross the river on the wooden bridge, and move towards the main battlefield. On the battlefield, the Hexagon Army had about 11,500 people, and the Asai Army had about 11,000 people.
At this time, at the top of Hiden City, Hidetaka Takanoze looked at the two armies on the verge of breaking out in Noryota to the west, and asked nervously: "Master Amano, are we really not going out to help? We have..."
"No need." Amano Keitoku, who was left behind to coordinate the work, shook his head, "The Rokkaku family's troops are scattered, and the location is not in their hands. We don't need to take action. Please tell your men to light a fire and cook, so that the subordinates can eat."
At 6:00 noon, the Asai family completed their formation. However, the Rokkaku family had difficulty mobilizing due to their backing to Wenrukawa, so they were not able to complete the formation.
"Changzheng, hurry up and take advantage of the opportunity to attack!" Yu Qiuping advised, "They failed to complete the formation, they will definitely be able to attack in one go."
"No, I want to defeat the Rokkaku family in an upright manner. Let's wait until they have formed their formation before taking action!" Asai Nagamasa shouted disdainfully.
"You are imitating Song Xianggong!" Yu Qiuping suddenly couldn't laugh or cry, "Are you really going to wait for others to complete the formation! What's the benefit?"
"In order to boost the decline of the Asai family! For morale," Asai Nagamasa raised his hand in high spirits, "In the past ten years, the Asai family has never been the opponent of the Rokkaku family, and every head-on battle ended in defeat. Occasionally,
The victories are all attributed to lucky sneak attacks. This makes us as a whole in Kitaomi feel disheartened and we always feel inferior to the Rokkaku family."
"Today, I will be here, with equal numbers, after the two armies line up, I will defeat the Rokkaku family in an upright manner. Let everyone in Kitaomi watch, our Asai family is stronger than the Rokkaku family! Even if we lose, we
The Asai family dared to fight head-on and displayed the prestige of the Asai family!" Asai Nagamasa jumped on his horse excitedly and shouted loudly: "Although I have never been on the battlefield before, and although we have always lost to the Rokkaku family, in this battle, I firmly believe
Our Asai family will definitely win! Win with dignity!"
"Send someone to urge the Rokkaku family to quickly form an array! We can't wait any longer!" Asai Nagamasa shouted. Then, two or three messengers ran to the Rokkaku army's formation, shouting and urging the other party to form an array.
"Samurai of the Rokkaku family, hurry up and form your formation! We, the Asai family, will wait until you have finished your formation and then we will fight with you!"
"Hey! Hey! Roar!" The Asai family ashigaru responded to their coach's arrogance with roars. No one proposed an early raid, but looked forward to the arrival of the grand battle that would determine which of the two families was the overlord of Omi.
"Death is imminent, and I still think about the majestic formation." Rokkaku Yoshiken looked at the arrogant messengers in front of him and the Asai army a few hundred meters away, whose morale was high because of the commander's behavior, and sneered. "Uphold justice and light.
Those who are good can never win the world. If you want to win, you must use dark and despicable means."
"The moment the castle town was ignited, my two ambush troops were already dispatched and headed straight for Norata." Rokkaku Yoshiken got on his horse, pointed forward, and said viciously: "You are already a group of dead people!"
At seven quarters past noon, the Rokkaku clan's formation was completed, and the decisive battle of the Battle of Norada officially began.
The Rokkaku family's 4,000-man main force was set up not far from the shore at a right angle to the Bunroku River flowing to the southeast. The reserve forces of Goto Kentoyo and Kamao Sadahide each had more than 2,500 people, and they each pressed forward toward the northeast.
Make space to avoid the embarrassment of forming an array with your back to the water. Rokkaku Yoshiharu's 2,000 men were located in the southeast of the river bank after the Wenlu River turned to the northeast, and erected two or three hundred meters northwest of the Rokkaku family's main team.
of horse prints.
The Asai family formed a formation in the northeast of the Rokkaku family. Asai Nagamasa's main formation with 3,000 people was about 500 meters away from Rokkaku Yoshihide's main formation. The two sides could already see each other from a distance. The Asai family's first formation was Iso
Isono Masabu and Amamori Kiyosada. Isono Masabe is in the east, and Amamori Kiyosada is in the west. Isono Masabe has 1,200 people against Goto Kentoyo with 2,500 people, and Amamori Kiyotebu has more than 1,400 people against Kamao Sadahide's 2,500 people. Because
Goto Kentoyo and Kamao Sadahide had a large number of troops, and Asai Nagamasa was worried that the front line would not be able to support it, so he left 700 men of Onoki Shigetoshi east of Isono Umasa to support Isono Umasa.
Behind the two teams of Masaru and Amamori Kiyosada, and in front of the main formation, there were left 700 people of Endo Naotsuke and 800 people of Aguki Sadage as the second formation.
The 1,500 men of Akao Kiyozuna and the 1,500 men of Kaiboku Tsunauchi stayed on the right wing of the Asai family to face Rokkaku Yoshiharu.
As the war drums of the two armies sounded one after another, the first formations of the Hexagon Army and the Asai Army began to attack. Isono Bei and Aguan Bei faced Goto Bei, and Amamori Bei and Ohnoki Bei faced Kamo Bei. The two armies were Ashigaru.
They fought each other, because the frontal battlefield was not wide and the troops could not be fully deployed, so the Rokkaku family's numerical advantage could not be used.
Kisuke is an ashigaru head of Isono Bei. At the moment, he is fighting on the front line. He was born after the Asai Ryomasa era. As long as he can remember, the Asai family has been beaten by the Rokkaku family. The family members often
When talking about Minami Omi's two relatives, they are all envious. Because Minami Omi has won many battles, every time he went out to the expedition, the Ashigaru who accompanied the team had the opportunity to carry out random arrests in the Asai family's territory and robbed a lot of money.
Go back. The Ashigaru members of the Asai family in Kitaomia have to flee in embarrassment on the battlefield every time, and their hometown will also be plundered by the Hexagon Army. My mother always blames my father for this, saying why he moved to Sawa Mountain if he was in good health.
When you come to the city, you might as well live comfortably at Rokkaku's house.
Of Kisuke's two older brothers, one was killed while fighting the Rokkaku Army, and the other was hacked to death while defending his farmland from being plundered by the Rokkaku family. From then on, my mother no longer complained, but every time she ate
Sometimes, there are always two more empty dishes and chopsticks on the table. Families like this can be found everywhere on the front lines of the Asai family and the Rokkaku family. And those ashigaru who are just dawdling around, they just follow the military service and just shoot or shoot.
Unlike the Ashigaru who robbed when they won and ran away when they lost, Kisuke had always been eager to fight with Isono-sama and recover the blood debt of his two brothers from the Rokkaku family.
Although, no matter which daimyo ruled, their peasants were digging in the soil and being exploited, and they never cared about the struggle for hegemony. But from the bottom of his heart, Yoshisuke hoped that the Asai family could defeat the Rokkaku family, and did not want to kill two of his own.
The Rokkaku family with an older brother rules Omi.
However, ever since the governor of his hometown sued for peace with the Rokkaku family in humiliation, Jisuke has never found such an opportunity again. The Asai family had to collect more food and give it to the greedy Rokkaku family. The samurai of the Rokkaku family usually pass by Sawa Mountain Castle.
, and always went to the castle town to do mischief unceremoniously, but the Asai family had no choice but to be obedient and flatter them in every possible way. Jisuke had had enough of this frustrating life.
Finally, the day came for him to make his mark. It was said that the heroic young master of the Asai family inherited the position of governor and declared war on the Rokkaku family! Kisuke was so excited that he started making preparations without telling his parents without waiting for the recruitment order.
Bamboo hemp armor and spear. When Sawayama Castle was surrounded by the Rokkaku family, Kisuke also stood at the top of the city to resist and killed two enemies. His outstanding performance was recorded by the military commander, and he was promoted to ashigaru before the pursuit began.
He led several friends from Nishimachi, the castle town, and followed Isono-sama to fight.
Finally, in Noragada, they caught up with the Rokkaku family - and the number of people on the other side didn't seem to be as large as theirs! Although Kisuke didn't know why this happened, he knew that his chance to recover his blood debt had come! He made the people of Kitaomi feel proud.
The opportunity has come! The opportunity has come for him to become a samurai in one fell swoop, allowing his two brothers to rest in peace, and making his parents happy!
"Kill those Southern guys!" Kisuke shouted and stabbed the spear in his hand, but it was blocked by the ashigaru opposite Rokkaku's house. But it didn't matter, Kisuke could stab the whole Isono a second time, a third time...
On Goto Bei's front line, there were countless angry ashigaru like Kisuke. They chanted and continued to attack, imagining the Rokkaku family's ashigaru in front of them as their enemies. Goto Bei on the opposite side obviously did not expect such high spirits.
Their fighting spirit was temporarily suppressed by Isono Bei, who had fewer people than them.
Kisuke seized the opportunity, flicked the barrel of the gun, slapped away the spear of the ashigaru opposite him, and stabbed forward with all his strength. The spear pierced the waist and abdomen of the ashigaru opposite, piercing the bamboo armor. The ashigaru spat out a mouthful.
Blood wailed twice and fell down unwillingly.
"Brother Kisuke, kill someone!" "Well done!" A few Ashigaru people in the rear who couldn't squeeze into the front line shouted excitedly. Kisuke became even more excited, waving the spear in his hand and stabbing continuously,
Under the leadership of the horse-riding samurai, several Hexagonal Ashigaru forces in front of them were forced to retreat. The entire Gotobei battle line was shaken by Ionobei's fierce attack. At this time, Ohnokibei also tried to attack Gotobei.
After preparing the formation, Goto Bei, who had sufficient numbers, hurriedly freed up his men to defend northeast.
The archers of both armies hid behind the formation and kept firing to cover the friendly troops attacking from the front.
The auxiliary soldiers of the two armies hid behind the soldiers, dragging the injured ashigaru back to the back of the formation from time to time to bandage and rescue them. They also transported the arrows and spears in the formation to the front line for archers to use and foot.
Replace them easily.
Chapter completed!