At four o'clock in the morning, 1,000 Asai family eagle, under the leadership of Asai Nagamasa, launched a fierce attack on the positions of the Oda army.
Because the official road is narrow, at most 500 soldiers can be launched to attack at one time. Therefore, the 800 soldiers of Sakai Masasaki were enough to guard the official road tightly, not to mention that these 800 soldiers were all elite soldiers directly under Oda Nobunaga.
However, Masasa Sakai was just unsure. He didn't do anything else, just because the eagle prepared the momentum of looking at death.
"Tell the archers and iron gunners to shoot immediately!" After seeing Eagle Between the range, Masasa Sakai immediately ordered the ranged soldiers to start attacking. He wanted to rely on the powerful firepower of the Oda army to force Eagle Between to stop and shoot against them, thus dragging the battle into a protracted battle. However, he was surprised to find that none of Eagle Between standing in the front row were archers and iron gunners, but all infantrymen.
They rushed towards the Oda family's front without any scruples. Even though the dense feather arrows and projectiles caused huge losses to the first row of infantry, they did not stop at all. The infantry in the back row quickly filled the front and did not intend to fight back at any long-range attack, but instead hit them.
"Are you going to go straight to hand-to-hand combat?" Sakai Masasaki looked at the battle in disbelief and looked in a direction he did not expect, "Oh my god."
Sakai Masasaki hurriedly ordered the archers and the iron gunner to retreat, but was still caught off guard. After seeing the changes in the Oda family's formation, the infantrymen of the Eagle immediately launched a charge and rushed forward before the Oda family resumed the front line. Sakai Kusato, who was standing on the front line, was caught off guard. Many of the Eagle soldiers rushed into the Oda family's formation along the way of the archers' retreat, and rushed to kill around the Oda army, causing considerable chaos.
"Follow me!" Sakai Kusaki immediately called on several Oda samurai around to lead the troops forward, trying to maintain the front. However, the samurai prepared by the eagle were also brave and cooperated with each other. In just two or three rounds, nearly half of the samurai surrounding Sakai Kusaki had been killed and killed.
At this time, the Oda army on the front line also fought fiercely with the Eagle Bell. These Oda Nobunaga's direct troops were originally very powerful, but they were difficult to resist when facing Eagle Bell. Eagle Bell itself is well-trained, and everyone uses a samurai sword as a weapon. In the chaos, it is far better than the various spears and swords of the Oda family troops. Moreover, since Eagle Bell was established ten years ago, it has experienced countless large and large battles and has long been a powerful brigade with many battles. The cooperation between its companions is far beyond that of the Oda family soldiers.
What's even more terrifying is that the morale of the Eagle is also high and terrifying. He leaned on the flag with his back "whether righteousness comes, life and death follow each other", and the family governor stood on the front line and led the charge personally. Everyone was not afraid of death, and was fierce and decisive in his sword, without any intention of defense.
On the other hand, the morale of the Oda Army was relatively low. They were suddenly betrayed by their allies, trapped outside the country, and their backs were retreated. At present, they were also abandoned sons who were arranged on the Eastern Front to buy time for the main force. How can they stop the eagle's preparation as one rises and the other goes down?
Seeing the front line showing signs of complete collapse, Sakai Kusato was also a little impatient. When he was panicked, his sword technique became chaotic. He was not careful and was stabbed into his lower abdomen by the Asai family samurai in front of him. He waved the sword in a daze, but was knocked away by another Asai family samurai. Sakai Kusato instinctively tried to hold the samurai sword inserted into his lower abdomen with his hands in full screen, but the Asai family samurai just twisted the samurai sword coldly, and blood immediately gushed out of the wound. Sakai Kusato vomited blood clots, his hands were bleeding, and he was slashed hard and fell down weakly.
Seeing the command of the front line, the Oda family's samurai retreated one after another. Sakai Masasaki saw his son die and he had not even reacted. It was obvious that the war had only been less than a quarter of an hour, why did the front line collapse? The child who was still joking in his ears just now, the child he raised since childhood, and the child who planned to let him inherit the family business disappeared in a flash?
Masasa Sakai lost his mind in an instant and actually led the reserve team behind the formation to directly press forward, trying to kill Eagle Bei back directly. However, he encountered a head-on attack from the powerful Eagle Bei. Eagle Bei had just occupied several commanding heights in the Oda family's position and occupied all the land. Asai Nagamasa was condescending, and at a glance he could see a broken place on the right side of the Sakai Masasa's front, and immediately threw hundreds of war soldiers into the attack on the gap. The right wing of Masasa Sakai's troops
Cut the assault troops of Eagle, they lost contact with Masasuna Sakai, and were forced toward Lake Biwa under the attack of Eagle. They were in a mess and fell into the mudflats. They were already unable to adjust their formation. They were finally defeated by a wave of defeated soldiers and fled westward. More than a dozen skilled and brave Oda's feet took off their armor and jumped directly into Lake Biwa, wanting to swim and escape. The feet in front of the right retreated and had no choice but to abandon their weapons and surrender.
After defeating the enemy's right wing, Eagle Bell immediately began to sweep Sakai Masasu's front from south to north. Morikazu, standing in the highland behind the Sakai Masasu's formation, clearly saw Sakai Masasu's current dilemma and sent four or five envoys to make Sakai Masasu retreat and reorganize. However, Sakai Masasu seemed to have red eyes and refused to retreat.
However, Nagamasa Asai would not give Masasa Sakai any chance. After the first team broke through the front line, the other 500-man reserve team immediately entered the battlefield and besieged Masasa Sakai from the right rear. Morikecheng saw that something was wrong, so he had to leave his position and lead 1,200 troops from his subordinates to advance east to support him. However, before he arrived, Masasa Sakai had been taken into turmoil in the chaos, and the flag was also seized by the Asai family. The Masasa Sakai's troops, who had lost command, completely collapsed and fled to the west, and instead disrupted Morikecheng's formation.
The eagle bar trained by Yu Qiuping's modern training method is also far faster than the ancient army in terms of formation change. They quickly left the battle, lined up and restored the system on the original Masasuke Sakai's position, and rushed towards Mori Kecheng again in the form of a phalanx charge. Mori Kecheng's troops had just been attacked by the defeated army, and before they had time to adjust the formation, the eagle bar had already hit him. Even though Mori Kecheng led the troops to fight hard, he still couldn't stop the eagle bar, who was ready to die, and the troops began to retreat step by step.
His situation was even more difficult than the ones Sakai Masasaki just now - because he had left his position in order to rescue Sakai Masasaki. At this moment, if he wanted to retreat, he had to go over from his position. The trenches, horse-resistance and fences he had set up before to resist the attack of the Asai family, all of them became stumbling blocks that hindered his army's retreat.
The rear team retreated slowly, but the defeated troops on the front line had already been suppressed. Morikecheng's reserve team and the remaining troops of Sakai Masasaka's troops were in chaos to the east of Morikecheng's position, and they suffered serious tramplings and were defeated by the Eagle Bei in one fell swoop. The defeated soldiers who were panicked fell into the trench in large numbers, trampled to death by the people behind them, or were pushed and killed by the refusal. The fences that fell to the ground further exacerbated the chaos of the situation.
The Oda family originally wanted to rely on the narrow official road to delay the attack of the Asai family, but now they were in trouble. Due to the narrow terrain, the defeated troops could only escape to their friendly positions. Not only would they be hindered by the friendly fortifications, but they would also give the attacking party a chance to cover up the attacking side. After the defeated army rushed through the defensive position, the original fortifications were also trampled on the ground and nothing left. The Eagle Preparation could attack smoothly.
Behind Morikazu are several weak positions such as Hiroki Ikeda, Hideyoshi Kinoshita, Naomasa Koko. According to Oda Nobunaga's plan, Masasa Sakai and Morikazu could block the Asai family for a long time. It was not their turn to fight before lunch. Therefore, these subsequent positions were not ready for battle at all, so they had to deal with the huge number of defeated troops and the Asai army came from behind.
Ikeda Yoshihide, Kinshita Hideyoshi, Naomasa Koka and others were unable to resist and were defeated one after another by the eagle. New defeated soldiers were constantly added to the defeated soldiers, and the establishment became more and more chaotic and uncontrollable. The surrendered Oda army had almost blocked the official road.
"People who surrender, put down their weapons and go to both sides of the official road by themselves!" Asai Nagamasa, who was rushing on the front line, was also covered in blood and kept shouting loudly, "We don't have time to capture you!"
Under the continuous impact of Nagamasa Asai, the Oda family, which was set up in the Kuigata-Kashiji line, was broken one after another, and the defeated soldiers were reeling from the defeated soldiers, and the situation could no longer be curbed. Asai Nagamasa's White Eagle Horse Seal pointed out, the Oda family's troops were invincible. And the 11th round of Ninoha Nagahide had long seen the tragic tragedy on the front line, and the injunctions sent one by one to inform Oda Nobunaga about the situation here.
"His Highness Sakai has been killed. His Highness Mori, Lord Kinoshita, His Highness Ikeda, and His Highness Koko are all missing. As of now, all the first five formations have been lost under the attack of Asai Nagamasa."
"The sixth formation collapsed! Lord Tsuda was killed!"
"The seventh formation cannot resist and has collapsed! His Highness Nagano is seriously injured and his whereabouts are unknown!"
"The Eighth Formation Lord Okamoto is working hard to fight the enemy, but if there are no reinforcements, it will not be able to stop Asai Nagamasa!"
"The eighth formation has retreated. Lord Mizuno of the ninth formation sent someone to request a retreat, and ask the lord to order!"
"The ninth formation collapsed, Lord Mizuno was killed! Lord Mizuno had abandoned his army and fled, and he deployed a group of dragons without a leader, and was in chaos!"
"The tenth round of war is broken, and Asai Nagamasa is unstoppable! Please make a decision early, and it is probably impossible to ensure that you are here!"
Oda Nobunaga was unexpectedly at the situation on the eastern front, and he never expected that Asai Nagamasa was so brave and suddenly became in a hurry. In front of him, the Asakura family had just started fighting with the Tokugawa family not long ago. It was still more than an hour before being introduced to the ambush area by Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was fighting and retreating, but it was definitely too late. He hurriedly ordered the ambush troops to leave the position and return to the main formation to support the main formation. The ambush plan was cancelled, and Tokugawa Ieyasu stood firm on the spot to block the Asakura family's pursuers. At the same time, he urgently ordered the lifting of Yu Qiuping's confinement order to lead Takababa to guard the main formation immediately.
At four o'clock in the first hour, the eleventh troop guarded by Niba Nagahide was also broken by Asai Nagamasa. The eleventh troop formed by the 5,000 soldiers of the Oda family were all broken by Asai Nagamasa within two hours, and the entire army collapsed. After two hours, the number of attacks against the crowd and defeated the eleventh troop in a row. Such a feat is quite rare in the entire history.
Chapter completed!