In the Maori Army, Kobayakawa Takakage's main formation.
Kobayakawa Takakage looked up at the sky. It was already past noon, and the sun was falling down, reaching the end of the day.
Ahead, dust billows and there are bursts of killing sounds.
Kobayakawa Takakage suddenly felt his heart pounding, and subconsciously touched his forehead, his hands were sweating coldly, and he felt uneasy.
In the distance, a warrior Hime was leading a joint charge of cavalry and infantry, beating the Maori family's vanguard formation to pieces.
The small queues that were originally tight were smashed into waves of people and fled in all directions, leaving them in a state of panic.
Kobayakawa Takakage couldn't sit still anymore, stood up from the horse and asked.
"Who is the warrior Ji who leads the troops into the battle?"
The people on the left and right looked at each other in disbelief, and Warrior Ji bowed.
"I don't know."
"Go and find out!"
"Hi!"
The Ji warrior ran out of the formation, rode down the mountain and jumped to the front line, shouting.
"Commanders ahead, please leave your name!"
Just when Kosaka Masanobu was about to attract attention, he was overjoyed when he saw the enemy army's attention focusing on him.
She has only three to four hundred warriors at her side, and her armor is incomplete. Although she is brave, her physical strength and equipment cannot last long.
At this moment, she saw someone jumping out to ask questions. She had just dismissed another group of soldiers and shouted.
"I am Kosaka Masanobu of the Takeda family! The little girl from the West is despicable and shameless! She only knows how to defeat the weak with the crowd! How dare you challenge her with just one ride!"
As soon as this statement came out, he immediately attracted the attention of countless junior warriors from the Maori family. Several people left the team and rode out to kill Kosaka Masanobu.
Although Kosaka Masanobu has been raising children these years, his martial arts skills have not declined. He practices diligently every day and eats enough. At the age of forty, his body is even stronger than before, and he is not afraid of single combat.
"Kanto barbarians, don't be arrogant! Teshima Ronosuke is here to ask for advice!"
"Gui Wu Zuo Niang came to ask for advice!"
"The Demonic Prime Minister of Utsumi comes to ask for advice!"
These Maori junior warriors were eager for merit and went straight to kill Kosaka Masanobu, as if they did not care about bullying the minority and humiliating the reputation of a knight.
However, Kosaka Masanobu was overjoyed. He abandoned his comrades on both sides and ran out of the queue to kill the three of them.
The other party did not expect that she would rush out so quickly. In the blink of an eye, the two horses crossed each other, and one of them was stabbed off the horse.
The other man gritted his teeth and stepped forward, but was hit in the head by Kosaka Masanobu's spear and fell to the ground.
There was another person who bullied him from behind. Kosaka Masanobu seemed to have eyes behind his back, thrust his spear from his armpit, turned around and turned back with his carbine in one go, accurately stabbing his opponent in the throat.
In the blink of an eye, the three Hime warriors fell off their horses and died. The Takeda crowd cheered and the Maori army fell silent.
Yokoyama Keiyoshi, who was supervising the battle in front of the Maori formation, cursed loudly.
"These three idiots! Destroy my morale!"
She was the elder of Kobayakawa Shubao. She led an army of three thousand as the vanguard, but she was blocked by hundreds of exhausted and poorly equipped Takeda warriors.
At this moment, the morale of the army was frustrated and the position was loose. Her face was burning and she suddenly became furious.
"Blow the magic conch, beat the drum, and the whole army will surround her! I don't believe she can change the world!"
But Kosaka Masanobu would not give her this chance and had already launched the attack first.
Kosaka Masanobu knew that his troops were at a disadvantage because they had no armor. The two armies would definitely be at a disadvantage in a confrontation and could not fight forcefully.
She had just dashed left and right, all targeting the opponent's weak points, taking advantage of the huge military formation's inability to react in time, and gaining some small advantages.
However, the huge gap in the number of people between the two sides made Kosaka Masanobu dare not stop at all.
Once the opponent realizes that he is stalling for time, he only needs to surround himself with thousands of troops, and the large army will fill the gap in the encirclement and pursue Takeda Yoshinobu and the others.
Thinking that Takeda Yoshinobu has not gone far, Kosaka Masanobu will have to drag the enemy here even if he dies.
She observed the opponent's command flags and had already seen clearly where the leader of the army in front of her was. At this moment, seeing that the enemy's morale was frustrated, she immediately returned to her own formation, beating her horse and shouting.
"Hime! For the future of the Takeda family, please die here with me!
Chibei! Attack!"
"Attack! Attack!"
With Kosaka Masanobu taking the lead, hundreds of warriors followed her into the enemy formation.
Some of them were on horseback and some were on foot. Their formations were out of sync, but they regarded death as if they were home, and their morale was as high as a rainbow.
As soon as Yokoyama Keiyoshi gave the order and the formation showed a flaw, Kosaka Masanobu seized the opportunity, rushed into the formation, disrupted the formation, and charged straight at her. She was immediately shocked.
"Where are the bows and arrows! Where are the iron cannons! Shoot them to death!"
Ji Ji warrior on the side shouted urgently.
"No, they have already rushed into our queue, and they will accidentally injure one of our own!"
Hengshan Jingyi's face became increasingly ugly, and he waved his hands desperately.
"Trash, they are all trash! Come forward with a spear, hold them against them, and drive them out!"
Yokoyama Keiyoshi said it lightly, but the Hime Samurai and Ashigaru in the front couldn't be as calm and calm as she said.
Kosaka Masanobu rushed to the front, with the knights on horseback on both sides desperately clinging to her sides, using his body to help her block attacks from both sides.
The cavalry team used Kosaka Masanobu as arrows to form a dense arrow formation, plunged into the enemy formation in one breath, and tore open the gap.
The foot warriors behind formed a spear formation and ran and sprinted, further widening the gap created by the cavalry.
Although the group of warriors were unarmored, they relied on their strong martial arts and skillful cooperation to defeat Kobayakawa Hidehiko's vanguard, and they were getting closer and closer to the vanguard general Yokoyama Keiyoshi.
Hengshan Jingyi was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, but he did not dare to retreat at this time.
Behind her was the formation flag. The seven or eight reserve teams under her command had lost their morale due to the failure of the previous cavalry attack.
If she retreated rashly at this moment and moved the flag backward, it would probably cause the formation to collapse. If someone took the opportunity to cover up and retreat, the consequences would be disastrous and she would have to commit suicide.
Yokoyama Keiyoshi gritted his teeth and refused to retreat, and Kosaka Masanobu couldn't get it.
I saw Kosaka Masanobu rushing left and right, constantly approaching Yokoyama Keiyi's formation flag and rushing towards him.
One horse can equal a thousand, and it is unstoppable. Killing the general and seizing the flag is exactly what she wants.
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Kobayakawa Takakage looked into the distance from the height of the main formation, frowning.
Suddenly, Samurai Yuki walked into the curtain, bowed, and whispered in her ear.
Kobayakawa Takakage frowned even more and muttered in a low voice.
"Why is she here...please come in."
"Hi."
After Princess Ji left for a while, he saw a person walking around the curtain and approaching Kobayakawa Takakage. The person who came was none other than Kuroda Takaka.
The two greeted each other, and Kobayakawa Takakage asked.
"Master Kuroda, why are you here? I remember that according to Guan Bai's arrangement, you should be with your troops and follow Guan Bai's actions."
Faced with Kobayakawa Takakage's question, Kuroda Takataka did not rush to answer, but looked into the distance and smiled.
"It seems that His Highness Kobayakawa is in trouble here. Guan Bai ordered me to come and ask His Highness Kobayakawa if he needs reinforcements?
I heard that Tachibana Muneshige-sama is already eager to try and implore Guan Bai to cross the river to aid the Maori family."
Kobayakawa Takakage twitched the corner of his mouth and said.
"Please tell Guan Bai that everything is under the control of the Maori family and there is no need to send reinforcements."
This time, the Mori family mobilized more than 30,000 Mori, Kobayakawa, and Yoshikawa troops to wait for work and clean up a group of tired remnants of the army crossing the river.
If we still need reinforcements, we will probably be laughed to death by the other legion families after the war.
Speaking of Tachibana Muneshige, Kobayakawa Takakage felt a headache. This guy treated Ichijo Hideyoshi really hard.
To be continued...