Not a moment later, Noragada.
Compared with the prosperity of Isono Bei, Amemori Bei is in a much more embarrassing situation. What they are facing is Kamao Bei, who is the most powerful among the Minami Omi wealthy clan. And the ashigaru of Amemori Bei and Agumi Bei are both
Participated in the previous feint attack on the front position of the Rokkaku family, which cost a lot of losses, and the morale of the troops was relatively low. Even though Amemori Kiyosada and Aguan Sadazaki resisted vigorously, they were still defeated by Kamoubei. The central front
The last two groups of reserve troops fought against each other, and each army won one group. Kamao Bei pushed the battle line towards the Asai Army, while Isono Bei pushed the battle line to the southwest. For a time, Kamao Bei and Isono Bei's flanks were facing each other.
After being exposed, both sides had the opportunity to attack the other side's auxiliary troops. However, both sides were caught off guard, and no one could seize the opportunity. Aguan Zhengzheng hurriedly brought people up to cover, and Pu Shengxianxiu also organized
A horizontal defense.
"As expected." Asai Nagamasa smiled proudly, "It's just as I expected." He waved his hand, "Notify Akao Bei and Kaibei Bei on the right wing to immediately launch an encirclement and attack on the left wing of the Hexagon Army that has separated from the main force! Akao Bei
For a frontal attack, Kaibei hides behind Akaobi. When the battle begins, he turns to the flanks and outflanks Rokkaku Yoshiji. However, don’t move too fast, and don’t immediately deploy your troops to face Rokkaku Yoshiji!”
After the messenger's report, Akao Bei and Kaibei Bei immediately began to move towards Rokkaku Yoshiharu. Rokkaku Yoshiharu was still a half-year-old child. He was pampered by his father since he was a child and lived in the adulation of everyone. How had he ever seen such a big scene?
Because the Asai family pursued them too quickly, the Rokkaku army failed to unite as planned. Rokkaku Yoshiharu's team left the main force too far, and now had to face the attack of 3,000 people from the Asai family.
Several subordinates around Rokkaku Yoshiharu hurriedly commanded the troops to start defense, and at the same time sent messengers to the main formation to ask for help. Rokkaku Yoshiharu is still the nominal governor of the family, but there must be no mistakes! And these teams under Rokkaku Yoshiharu's command
, most of them are new soldiers and the sons of pampered important ministers. The activities they sent to seize advantageous terrain in advance were also done badly. They were just building a camp behind Wenluchuan without thinking about where the battle would start. Wait until the battle is over.
When an outbreak occurred far away from their camp, they had to leave the camp and rush to the main battlefield, where they were threatened by the Asai family's heavy troops.
"Lord Yoshida! Why did you send half of your troops to defend? There are a full 1,500 people on the opposite side!" Rokkaku Yoshiji cherished his life very much. When he saw that the general did not pull all the troops to the front line of defense, he immediately became anxious.
He had to jump to his feet and say, "Are you trying to harm me?"
"How dare you, Your Highness!" The elderly general knew the young master's fiery temper, and hurriedly waved his hand: "It's just that the opponent may attack from the flanks, so we must prepare a reserve team first!"
"No! Then what should I do if this place collapses? Pull everyone up to defend!" Rokkaku Yoshiharu reluctantly wanted to give the order to the ordering soldiers. The general wanted to persuade him, but Rokkaku Yoshiji dismissed him.
He opened his eyes and cursed back: "You old guy! How dare you hinder me? Wait until I get back and see what I do with you!"
"Your Highness! Death is not enough for me to apologize, but Your Highness, please don't neglect the reserve team!" The general kowtowed and urged, "At least leave some people behind!"
Several surrounding generals, until General Yoshida's words made sense, also tried to persuade him. Rokkaku Yoshiharu, who was deeply offended, became furious and scolded these generals, but he still stayed after being forced by everyone.
There were 500 people.
Akao Bei has experienced hundreds of battles, so naturally he cannot be matched by the new recruits of the Rokkaku family. As soon as the two sides fought, Akao Bei gained the advantage. There were actually two or three mounted samurai from the Rokkaku family who were killed by Akao Bei as soon as they entered the battle because they were too forward.
The ashigaru were stabbed down. The ashigaru of the Rokkaku family almost only defended but did not attack. People kept falling, but no one was willing to catch up. The battle line had to keep retreating to maintain integrity. Akao Bei's horse-riding samurai shouted
Fighting fiercely, he took the lead in charging into the formation, opening a gap for the ashigaru behind him. Rokkaku Yoshiji simply had more people and barely resisted Akao Bei's attack.
And Kaibei Bei also immediately appeared from behind Akao Bei, moving towards the southwest, trying to outflank Rokkaku Yoshiji, directly cut off their connection with the main formation, and make dumplings of Rokkaku Yoshiji's troops.
When Rokkaku Yoshiken saw this, he was shocked. He would never allow his beloved son to make any mistakes. He hurriedly sent 2,000 direct-administered troops from his own formation to support him. He also asked the Kamao family to suspend the offensive, and Kenhide Kamao temporarily took over the Kamou family.
Kamao Sadahide led a 1,000-man meeting and 2,000 reinforcements from his own formation, and immediately went to rescue Rokkaku Yoshiharu.
Simply speaking, Kaibei's movements were very slow and he had not formed a formation until now, and reinforcements from the Rokkaku family were about to arrive.
"Your Highness, more than a thousand of the Asai family's troops have moved! The horse seals have also moved!" Ishikawa Goemon was standing on a big tree next to the main formation, looking at the Asai family's movements, "
It seems that he is also heading towards the young master!"
"Good guy, you want to directly eat the left wing of our army!" Rokkaku Yixian praised, "Xianzheng, you do have some courage!"
When the reinforcements of the Rokkaku Army approached Rokkaku Yoshiji's headquarters, they were surprised to find that Kaibei, who was originally going to outflank Rokkaku Yoshiji, did not turn his back to them, but spread out his team facing them.
"What does this mean!" Kamao Sadahide was stunned for a moment, "Why are you deploying your troops towards us instead of towards the young master!"
Before he finished speaking, he heard shouts of killing coming from the right. The Rokkaku reinforcements turned their heads to look, only to see Asai Nagamasa's own horse seal not coming towards Rokkaku Yoshiharu, but rushing towards their reinforcements.
More than 1,700 people came roaring in, with Naomi Endo, the immediate subordinate of Asai Nagamasa and the most powerful general in the family, standing on the left and right.
"I fell into the trap, I'm going to attack your reinforcements!" Asai Nagamasa drew out the katana from the scabbard and shouted: "Send the order, I, Endo, Kaibei, attack the enemy's reinforcements.
!”
The Rokkaku family reinforcements who originally planned to raid Kaibei never expected that their flanks would be exposed to the front of the Asai family troops. They hurriedly adjusted their formation and tried to evacuate to the side and rear, but they were bitten by Asai Nagamasa and his men.
Endo Naotsune's troops are the two elite members of the wealthy Asai family who are as famous as Isono Umasa's troops. The Asai main family's first reserve unit is also a leader in the army. Although the Rokkaku family's reinforcements are also elite soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles,
However, they were suddenly attacked by Kaibeibei and the Asai family's surprise reserve team. They were in a state of embarrassment for a while. They paid a lot of casualties before they stabilized their position, but they were already beaten back a lot. Asai Nagamasa personally visited the front line and was greatly encouraged.
In addition to the fighting spirit of the ashigaru, even Amomori Bei, Aguan Bei, Isono Bei and Ohnoki Bei who were on the front battlefield were extremely excited and shouted for a fierce battle.
Kenhide Kamao originally wanted to attack Asai Nagamasa's raiding force, but was entangled by Kiyosada Umori and was unable to get a chance. Yoshihide Rokkaku did not dare to discharge all the reserves of the formation so easily.
Otherwise he will lose control of the battle situation.
"The flag reserves of the Asai branch family, the Hyakubai family, the Mitamura family and others have not yet appeared, so all reserves cannot be deployed." Rokkaku Yoshiken took a deep breath, Asai Nagamasa's ferocity and grasp of the fighter planes far exceeded
He imagined that if he was really allowed to lead his men back to Xiaogu City to hold on, there was no telling whether they would be able to capture it.
"Fortunately, an ambush has been laid for this battle. The Asai family has no chance of winning!" Rokkaku Yoshiken glanced at the sun in the sky. The time has reached the last quarter. His ambush should arrive on the battlefield immediately. "Asai Nagamasa is brave and good at fighting.
, must be dealt with here, and he cannot be allowed to escape back to Omi and stick to it!" Rokkaku Yoshiken made up his mind.
Just when Asai Nagamasa was defeating the Rokkaku reinforcements steadily and was about to tear the Rokkaku family's battle line into two ends, a messenger from the main formation suddenly rode over.
"Your Highness!" The messenger shouted regardless of etiquette: "Master Yuqiu, please quickly shrink your troops and stop attacking. Please go back in person!"
"Why? You can cut off the Rokkaku family right now!" Asai Nagamasa asked loudly.
"Your Highness..." The ordering soldier was afraid of disturbing the morale of the army, so he approached Asai Nagamasa and whispered: "There is an ambush at Rokkaku's house!"
"What's going on!" As soon as Asai Nagamasa returned to the formation, he saw Yu Qiuping supporting the bodyguard of Ryochi Asai who was in a miserable state with two arrows stuck in his body. He had just ordered Kaibei to prepare and Endo to prepare.
He Yibi slowly retreated, keeping the formation intact. The Rokkaku family, who were suddenly relieved of pressure, let out a sigh of relief.
"Your Highness..." The guard endured the great pain and tried hard to say: "When we were crossing the Uso River and preparing to come for reinforcements, four to five thousand hexagonal troops suddenly came out from the direction of Mount Aragami. Looking at the flag, it was Yamaoka Ketaka.
.Only half of us completed crossing the river, and the other half were caught off guard on the other side of the river and hurriedly adjusted their formation to meet the enemy. However, there were too many enemies and we were defeated. Lord Baibai was killed and Lord Mitamura died of his injuries. Lord Asai was gathering his troops and relied on
The Edogawa fought and retreated, moving closer to Noragada. The Hexagon Army followed closely and also headed straight for Noragada."
The pupils of the surrounding Asai family ashigaru suddenly shrank, and they looked to the north in disbelief. Someone could already be seen faintly on the other side of the Edogawa River. If the hexagonal army reached the battlefield, the entire Asai family's formation would be behind them.
will be completely exposed, and the army will collapse accordingly.
The victory that was about to be won just now turned into the risk of the collapse of the entire army in an instant. Asai's army seemed to have fallen from the peak to the bottom, and its morale plummeted.
"I'll go." Yu Qiuping stepped forward and volunteered, "Give me your remaining two direct reserve units, and I'll stop the Hexagonal Army!"
"Ryochi-sama probably has no remaining strength. Brother, can you hold on with only so many people?" Asai Nagamasa asked worriedly.
"Leave it to me. When it comes to offense and field battles, I'm definitely not as good as you, Nagamasa." Yu Qiuping smiled and clenched his fists, pointing to himself with his thumb, "But when it comes to defense, I'm very professional!"
"Then please leave it to my brother!" Asai Nagamasa bowed, "Brother, please be careful!"
"It's you who should be careful, Nagamasa!" Yu Qiupei got on his horse and took Matsushita Qingran, Sanada Masayuki, Honda Nabenosuke and Maeda Toshiie to prepare to lead the troops at the second and third positions of the Asai family. "Your
The troops have suddenly been reduced so much. We have to withstand the main force of the Rokkajia family! After I finish deploying the position, I will take back some of the more than a thousand auxiliary troops for you!"
"Don't worry, as long as I, Yu Qiuping, are here, your rear will be safe and sound!" After saying that, he tucked his horse under his belly and left the position.
Yu Qiuping's self-confidence infected the generals of the Asai family, and the originally sluggish morale suddenly cheered up.
"Don't worry, brother, not only will I defend it," Asai Nagamasa shouted with great enthusiasm, "Even if these people are missing, I can still defeat Rokkaku!"
They didn't know that Yu Qiuping, who was riding away, didn't know what to do.
Chapter completed!