As more and more Takeda troops emerged from the valley mouth behind Shin-hushu, Asahina Taisho's heart gradually became cold. His plan had completely failed and he could no longer stop Takeda troops.
As the cold wind blew, his mind calmed down a little. Looking around the battlefield, Takasaka Masatonomi had already driven straight to Kawara Castle and almost disappeared from his sight. And further west, smoke seemed to be rising, and it was probably because Okabe Motonomiya and the suspect soldiers of the Takeda family. Near the east official road, Yama Prefecture Masatoki had already taken the Red Cavalry and scattered thousands of troops of the Imakawa family, and now he has tried to turn around to encircle his rear.
"If we don't retreat, the whole army will fall here..." Asahitachi quickly weighed the situation, but his eyes were a little confused because of the embarrassment of the situation: "But if we retreat now... the thousands of auxiliary soldiers who have been dispersed probably won't have the chance to gather them... Under the pursuit of Takeda Akabe, I don't know how many of the three thousand soldiers I have been able to go back for more than ten miles... I have to explain all the food, grass and supplies he transported..."
"There is no time to hesitate..." Asahina Taisai recalled the teachings of Imakawa Yoshimoto in the past, and his eyes suddenly became sharp and firm, "I have to make a choice! Those who can't give up nothing can do nothing."
"Send the order! Abandon the auxiliary troops! Retreat immediately!" Chaobinata shouted at the flag bearer on his horse.
"Brother! What did you say?" Asahinataehyung was shocked when he heard this, and rushed towards Asahinatae, and grabbed the reins of Asahinatae, pulled his elder brother's horse ninety degrees, staring at Asahinatae's eyes face to face: "Brother, are you crazy? Are you going to leave so many brothers behind? Is this what the Wu family does? Those are all from our Imakawa family!"
"Matsuchiyo, I don't have time to talk nonsense to you, we can no longer control them." Asahita shook his hand angrily, trying to push Cainaita Taehyung's hand away. However, Asahita Taehyung held his reins tightly and refused to let go. Seeing this, the flag bearer on the side did not immediately give a order to retreat, but instead turned his hesitant eyes to Cainaita Taehyung.
"Didn't you hear the order?" Asahi Nai Taichao saw the hesitant eyes of the flag bearer, and his heart was in a hurry and roared loudly: "Order to retreat!" The flag bearer was so scared that he was half-deadly afraid of the fierce look of Asahi Nai Taichao, and he hurriedly set up the flag.
After roaring at the flag bearer, Chao Naitaki turned around coldly again and looked at Chao Naitaki Taehyung. The latter was still stubbornly grasping his horse reins, his eyes full of anger and dissatisfaction. However, Chao Naitaki shook his head slightly when he saw this, and then sternly said: "Asak Naitaki Taehyung obeys the order! Lead the cavalry to cover the army to evacuate!"
After saying the order, he coldly spread out the hand towards Binataehyung, took the reins in his hand, and began to command the troops to retreat from Fuji Palace.
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However, it is not easy to retreat.
Because Takeda Army was one of the daimyos with the largest proportion of cavalry among all the Japanese army during the Warring States Period. All the samurai who fought the war understood how much cavalry played.
The loosely formed infantry is already a scarecrow on the ground for the cavalry running at high speed. The infantry fleeing with their backs to the cavalry is no different from the lambs slaughtered. The cavalry can easily catch up with the escaped infantry with high horse speed. They just need to use a saber to face the back or head behind their backs. The huge impact force brought by the horse speed is enough to kill directly. This is why, in ancient wars, most casualties occurred during the pursuit.
In order to avoid the cavalry from causing huge reductions in the retreating infantry during the retreat, either relying on the cover of a sufficient number of our own cavalry, or relying on the well-trained alternate retreat cover between the infantry - neither of which Imakawa's family has.
Among the 7,000 soldiers brought by Takeda Shingen this time, there were more than 2,000 horse-riding samurai warriors. Among the 3,000 soldiers left in the Imakawa family, there were only less than 500 cavalry left. When Takeda Shingen noticed the Imakawa army's intention to retreat, he immediately ordered all 1,500 cavalrymen at hand to launch a tail-chasing pursuit from the back and right sides.
Asahina Taehyung's clever wife was hard to cook without rice. He only had more than 400 cavalry in his hand and could not resist the pursuit of 1,500 cavalry no matter what. He had considered concentrating his troops to defeat one of them first, but the Kakai cavalry was not the weaker one of the Oda family cavalry, but the most powerful cavalry team in Japan. If it was a head-on battle, he would not know whether the Imakawa family cavalry could resist three hedges.
In order to cover the right and back sides of the troops, he had to divide his already stretched forces into two halves, constantly pulling and dealing with the Takeda family's cavalry to prevent them from rushing into the formation. However, the huge gap in number and strength still made the Imakawa family's cavalry unfortunately defeated. More and more Takeda army knights rushed into the Imakawa family's infantry formation and harassed them, leaving a few corpses before leaving.
The troops of the Imakawa family were exhausted by the harassment of the Takeda family knights. The speed of the march was almost the same as walking, and their morale fell to the bottom. Every time the Takeda family knights rushed over, the Imakawa family had to stop and form a formation to force them back. Changing the formation back and forth would take a lot of time. If you don't line up, those cavalry like wolves and tigers would rush in and kill. Under such constant harassment, the Imakawa family's speed was getting slower and slower, and they were almost caught up by the Takeda family infantry who followed him.
Asahi Natada saw everything, but had no choice. In this case, if the infantry wanted to escape, they had to leave some people behind - in fact, they were going to die with their own strength. However, due to the huge gap in strength between the two sides, Asahi Natadada might have to leave two-thirds of the people behind to block the pace of the Takeda family's progress. He was able to decisively abandon the auxiliary soldiers from peasants, but when he let him abandon these Imakawa family's Wu family, he could not make up his mind no matter what.
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Asahi Naita Tora soon paid the price for his hesitation.
When Ao Naita Taehyung's cavalry team was attracted to the right and backside, the Akaga team, located on the left of Imakawa's family, suddenly stopped chasing the escaped Imakawa's auxiliary soldiers, set up their formation on the official road, and then roared towards the left wing of Imakawa's family. The sound of horse hooves and the rising smoke were approaching quickly, so fast that the time when Ao Naita Taehyung had almost no response.
Now that things have come to this point, in fact, even if he is given time to react, he can't do anything.
Before the Akagawa family rushed into the left wing of the Imakawa family, Akagawa family was caught off guard, Akagawa family closed his eyes in despair. After a moment, screams, slashes, and wails came into his ears. He suddenly opened his eyes again, and saw that the left wing of the Imakawa family, which had not yet completed the steering and array, had been ruthlessly broken by the Akagawa family. The low morale foot resisted a few times and then fled to the south in a mess. The chaos on the left wing further affected the right wing and the defender, and no matter how Akagawa family adjusted, it would be useless.
Things. Seeing that the situation was out of control, the important officials of the Imakawa family, saw that the situation was no longer possible, they directly led their troops to escape from the formation and retreated to a safe place. As the entire Takeda family's army charged, the Imakawa army, which had reached its limit, finally collapsed in the pursuit. The young men abandoned the weapons in their hands, took off their armor, and fled to the southwest desperately. The heads of the family and the samurai in each family led their servants to abandon the army and fled, looking for a gap without any guard to escape in a panic.
The cavalry of the Takeda family harvested their lives and cut down the unarmed deserters to the ground like they were cutting wheat. Asahina Tai Ao felt his heart was bleeding, his eyes were red, but he was powerless. He recalled Asahina Tai Hyun's cavalry, gave up the battle situation and the last main force of the Imakawa family, and rode his horse to escape from the battlefield.
Asahi Nai Taisho, Asahi Nai Taihyung and others ran all the way, with fewer and fewer people following around, almost less than 200 people. Looking back, there were fleeing Imakawa Army and corpses lying on both sides of the official road. The Takeda family's army was sweeping over like a flood, urging Asahi Nai Taisho to stop at all.
However, when they finally escaped to the city of Puyuan, they found that the Akano military flag of the Imakawa clan and the Imakawa clan, which originally belonged to the Imakawa clan, were nowhere to be found. Instead, they were the military flags of Takeda Riki and Takasaka Masatoshi, who were flying high in the Takeda clan.
Asabinata gritted his teeth, whipped the horse whip hard, sat down and suffered pain, and ran around Puyuan Castle in a mad manner, carrying him quickly passed through the already-descending Puyuan Castle. He didn't even dare to look up and look at Puyuan Castle more, and ran straight to the Jun Mansion on the west side.
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During the battle of Fujimiya, the main force of the Imakawa family was almost destroyed during the pursuit battle. In the end, only more than 800 people fled back to Jun Mansion alive, and the rest were either killed in battle or captured. Before the main force of the Takeda family was withdrawn from the city, they found that the Imakawa family had abandoned the city and left. The city was occupied by Masatoshi Takasaka, and their retreat was cut off. The Motoshi Okabe tried to retake the city of Puhara, but was entangled by Naito Masatotsuto who came later. When the main force of the Takeda family gradually arrived, the desperate Okabe Motoshi had to lead his troops to surrender.
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On the morning of April 27, Suruga Kunitsushimachi was west of the castle in Shimocho.
The Mama Imakawa, who has always been dressed in a gorgeous and neat manner, is now wearing a ill-fitting Maruhari, waiting for the arrival of follow-up personnel immediately. His guards are packing up all the important copy and seals in the Tensou Pavilion, and Asahina Taisho is also collecting all the fighting powers near Junfu Castle. Soon, he will meet with him in the west of Junfu Castle and escape to Tomeng Kagawa Castle, the main city of the Asahina family.
Junfu Castle can no longer defend at this moment. Even though Junfu Castle is one of the most majestic cities in Tokaido, the Imakawa army, which had no morale, was not even satisfied with 2,000 people, how could it stop the momentum Takeda army?
At six o'clock in the morning, the army led by Asahina Taisho, Imakawa Shima and his servants were in the west of the castle, and they were about to abandon the city and flee. However, a stubborn figure suddenly rode away from the escaped team and ran straight towards the west gate of Junfu Castle.
Chapter completed!