Chapter 262 surprise attack
However, the situation on the battlefield was always so fast that it caught people off guard. Just as Oda Nobunaga was pursuing the victory, the gate of the 19th village suddenly opened! Nearly 4oo, holding a weapon and wearing Domaru, rushed out and attacked Oda Nobunaga's flank directly. The reserve team on the flank to the left hurriedly tried to turn to resist the enemy's attack. However, because the distance was too close, they were left with very little time to adjust, and the number of enemies was twice theirs. The formation of the reserve team was thus disrupted and could only fight hastily.
"How come there are so many people?" Oda Nobunaga turned around and found that the number of Saito Army exceeded 30, and was shocked. After that, something even more shocked happened. From the south gate of the 19th Village, a group of horse samurai surrounded by a horse seal - the horse seal was the horse seal of the Saito family!
Saito Ryuki personally suppressed the formation, which boosted the morale of his subordinates. On the contrary, the Oda family reserve team, which was attacked by the flank, retreated in a mess, and eventually collapsed due to the scattered formation. The defeated soldiers fled in all directions and directly retracted to the reserve team located in the center. Seeing that something was wrong, Oda Nobunaga hurriedly gave up the offensive and commanded the troops to retreat to the rear. However, Hiroki Hiroshi immediately launched a counterattack, and encountered two attacks. Oda Nobunaga's situation was on the verge of collapse.
"The Saito Army has about 13oo soldiers in total. Hongye said there were 3oo people, and there were 6oo people here, and there were up to 4oo people in Iwam Village!" Oda Nobunaga cursed angrily, "Why did the 4oo people rush out? All the people guarding the village came out? Are Misaemon and Kwonji fighting the scarecrow? Why is this happening!"
In fact, it was because many of the auxiliary soldiers led by Saito Ryukkai this time were all on the battlefield, and it was the turn of the auxiliary soldiers to be the auxiliary soldiers. Saito Ryukkai temporarily gave them weapons and Domaru seized from Oda Shin-ei, allowing them to attack with them along with them - this gave nearly 100 more combat soldiers.
Maeda Takiya, who was located in the main formation, saw that it was not good, so she immediately led the reserve team to pick up Oda Nobunaga. Moriko-seong and Shibata Katsuya also tried to go for reinforcements, but because the battlefield space was small, the constant rain of arrows at the top of the city hindered their formation changes, and they were unable to draw the large troops to go to the right wing.
After sensing chaos in the right wing and the center, Yu Qiuping, who was on the left wing, immediately had an excuse to break off contact with the Saito family. He asked the team to transfer him back to the rescue, and the frustrated team immediately agreed to Yu Qiuping's request. So Yu Qiuping immediately led Chang Panbei to retreat to the safe team to avoid being involved in the war.
At the same time, Oda Nobunaga's situation was less optimistic. He was driven by the Oda family attacked from the north and east to Kisogawa in the south. The three established reserve teams were still covering each other and fighting and retreating. In the collapsed reserve team, more than a dozen rushes to the Kisogawa shore regardless of the situation, and ran along the river bank to the pontoon bridge in the east.
"Fanique! Come back quickly!" Lai Long, the Hinaya, cursed angrily: "The Saito family will not let you go!"
However, to his surprise, the people of the Saito family turned a blind eye to the Oda family who had run past him, and allowed them to escape to the direction of the floating bridge, crossing the bridge and returning to the tail bare. This was actually the command issued by Saito Ryuki in advance.
This situation immediately severely shook the morale of the Oda family's troops, and many Oda family ran towards Kisogawa with tentative tentative efforts. After the Saito army did not attack them, they immediately fled to the floating bridge.
Oda Nobunaga sensed the crisis of morale and immediately ordered the samurai warriors as the supervisor team to kill the samurai who escaped at the battle without showing mercy. This stopped the samurai's desire to escape to a certain extent, but Oda Nobunaga's troops were completely unable to hide their decline and continued to retreat to the southwest, and were chased by the Saito army and could not stop it.
The Maeda Takiga tried to reverse the decline of the right wing and led a reserve team of two of the 200 people to attack Saito Ryuki. Saito Ryuki's team was forced to defend and delayed the attack on Oda Nobunaga's team. Shibata Katsuya and Morikozen also gave up their attack on the 19th Jojo Village and retreated back to the main formation. Then they continued to move southward, blocking Hiroyuki Hiroyuki's pursuers and rescued Oda Nobunaga. Seeing that the offensive was blocked, Saito Ryuki stopped when he saw that he was about to go, and retreated back to the camp near the 19th Jojo Village.
However, Oda Nobunaga's 8oo direct troops had lost most of the system in the defeat, and many of them had fled. After Oda Nobunaga gathered his troops, only about 5oo people were left. About 1oo people were killed and injured on the battlefield, and the remaining 2oo people either fled back to Ohara or ran away in the wilderness during the retreat. In a short period of time, the 5oo people who lost 30% of the troops may no longer be able to recover their combat effectiveness.
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Oda Nobunaga, who withdrew his troops back to the camp, couldn't hide his anger in his heart. He was actually ruthlessly posed by the incompetent Saito Ryuki. He broke two marching stools in the main tent, and even scolded Mori Kecheng and Shibata Katsuya. Yu Qiuhei was a little grateful while the rabbit died and the fox was sad. Mori Kecheng and Shibata Katsuya were helpless in the face of the 19th village, which covered up the fact that he was passively avoiding the war.
Although it was a pity that Oda Nobunaga escaped from the battle again. But Yu Qiuhei knew that the Oda family's army was in danger at this moment. Not only did it lose its retreat, but it was in a hurry to get a grain and grass, but it also suffered a crushing defeat, and the morale of the whole army was sluggish.
The furious Nobunaga Oda did not listen to the dissuasion of the crowd. After the defeat, he not only did not retreat, but instead allowed the auxiliary soldiers to join the main army. Xiangdong advanced five miles, and then set up a camp under the nose of the 19th village, and began to gather the scattered soldiers. The Saito family's footsteps were probably because they encountered two battles a day and were a little tired, so they did not take this opportunity to attack the Oda army.
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However, the situation on the battlefield changes so quickly that people are caught off guard.
In the evening, the two positions were filled with smoke from cooking. The young men who had been fighting for a day were preparing to have a simple dinner. However, to everyone on both sides, someone suddenly shook the south bank of Kisogawa!
Oda Nobunaga hurriedly got on the horse and came to the north bank of Kiso River to look around. It was the banner of Hiroki Ikeda and Narimasa Sasa! As the reserve troops of the army, they finally arrived today! They were escorting food and transportation tools and were moving slowly on the road, but suddenly they received a report from Nobunaga Oda. Seeing that Oda Nobunaga's retreat was not guaranteed, although they had not been able to deal with it normally, they had to unite. They left all the food and transportation equipment along the way and began to march quickly. When their vanguard horseback team arrived at Kuroda Castle, they happened to see the retreat of the Oda family army.
So, the two of them immediately waited for the arrival of the subsequent troops in Kuroda City. Finally, at the beginning of the You hour, a total of 30 soldiers from the Ikeda family and the Sasa family arrived at the scene. Ikeda Hengxing and Sasa Naimasa were both young men with strong energy. Without saying a word, they led the soldiers to rush up the floating bridge!
The Saito family troops were all eating, but they didn't gather at all. Because the Oda family opposite was also eating, they relaxed their vigilance and did not expect that Cheng Yaojin would appear on the side. The Saito family troops wanted to assemble and arrange the array in a hurry, but because the stakes were too tired, they were slow to make the formation, and a quarter of an hour was not enough for them to complete the formation. Before the Saito army had assembled, Sasa Narimasa and Ikeda Hengxing had already killed the river. Since they had never considered the south side of the camp, there would be enemies coming in the direction of Kisogawa, so the defense of the south gate of the camp was very weak. The Oda army rushed into their camp in a few seconds and launched a fierce attack on the Saito army that was gathering, causing chaos in the Saito family's camp.
"It's Hengxing and Uenzo Suke!" Oda Nobunaga shouted excitedly: "Two boys! Good things!"
"Your Highness, please gather troops immediately!" said Naomasa Shizuka, who was following Oda Nobunaga, "After arranging the array, attack the chaotic enemy!"
"No need! It's too late! It's too time to form a formation! There's no formation on the opposite side anyway!" Oda Nobunaga once again threw the folding fan in his hand towards the Saito family, then grabbed the horse's belly and whipped it vigorously with a horse whip. Without waiting for the surrounding troops, he rushed out of the camp first.
"This battle! Just need courage!" Oda Nobunaga shouted, "The noble warrior, come with me!"
"I'll go!" The senior generals and Footballs around watched as the head of the family rushed out in a daze, riding alone to the thousands of troops in the place. After a while, the Mother-Yi and Ma Li immediately reacted and rode their horses to follow Oda Nobunaga. Shibata Katsuya, Moriko-seong and others also shouted at their confusing subordinates, following Oda Nobunaga to the Saito family camp in a mess. Footballs and the elders charged side by side, and the people they had never met were mixed together, and the scene was very chaotic.
Yu Qiuhei looked at Oda Nobunaga's appearance and was amused and crying. However, he would not rush out foolishly. Because it only took a few minutes for his Takabababei to assemble and arrange. When Takababei was assembled, the Oda army in the entire camp was in chaos, some were spinning around and some were panicked. Of course, most people followed Oda Nobunaga to the Saito family's camp. It seemed that it was impossible to kill Oda Nobunaga in this battle.
Where has Saito Ryuki ever seen such a wild samurai's tantrum-like fighting style? Although he was extremely free and intelligent, he was still a 15-year-old child after all, he had never seen a big scene, had insufficient experience, and lacked the ability to adapt. When he saw this situation, he immediately panicked. The nearly 1ooo main combat soldiers in the southern camp were in chaos due to the surprise attacks of Ikeda Yoshihiko and Sasa Narimasa. Oda Nobunaga on the other side had led a large army to attack the southern camp. He was very panicked
He suddenly lost the confidence to rectify the troops and hurriedly fled into the 19th Fortress with his guards. Hirohiro, who was in the southern camp, was unable to support him. Because he could not form a formation, the main force led by Oda Nobunaga easily rushed into the camp and formed a melee with the Saito army. In this situation, the number of people of the Oda family was immediately revealed, and the Saito army was defeated step by step. Yoshihiro Ikeda and Narimasa Sasa led the only two established troops in the chaos army, rushing around in the camp, and no one could stop him.
In the end, the Saito army was unable to resist and fled from the southern camp. Naoki Tomohiko, located in the northern camp, hurriedly led his army into the 19jo village, preventing Oda Nobunaga from pursuing the battle results. After covering the defeated army to escape safely, Naoki Tomohiko burned down the food and grass in the village, and immediately protected Saito Ryuki to retreat.
Chapter completed!