When the Miyoshi Allied Forces arrived near Sakamoto Castle, they discovered that the Oda Allied Forces had already set up a large formation under Sakamoto Castle and were waiting for their arrival.
In the breeze, the high-spirited Oda Army, the calm Tokugawa Army, and the advanced-equipped Du Fei Army had flags fluttering gently behind them. The large number of Miyoshi Allied Forces looked a little frightened.
"It would be great if we could defeat them one by one," Miyoshi Changqing murmured as he looked at these three powerful enemies.
"Miyoshi-dono! I don't believe in this evil!" Hatano Hideharu suddenly spurred his horse from the crowd and took a few steps forward: "We, the soldiers of the Hatano family, will not fight unless they fight. We will win every battle! Let us be the vanguard!"
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"Okay~! Well done!" Miyoshi Nagakei was about to say a few words to boost morale, but he didn't expect Hatano Hideharu to make such a brave move. He repeatedly praised: "The Hatano family is really full of heroes! We really appreciate it.
I admire you!"
"I'm going too! We can't let the Hatano family take away all the limelight! Mitsui family samurai! Although we have a small number of soldiers, we are all men who refuse to admit defeat, right?" The Mitsui family, a small power in Shejin Elementary School, also followed the Hatano family.
Home moves forward.
"This is a real man! A real warrior!" Miyoshi Changqing hurriedly encouraged: "Think about you! The more we cower, the more arrogant the enemy will be! The less likely we are to win! Since we
Now that we are here, we should win the war! The thought of fear and luck until now will only make us tied up and let others slaughter us! Think about it! Our own destiny is in our own hands! The Oda Alliance Army
What’s so great about it? Are they different from humans? They can bleed the same way! Defeat them! Drive them back to their hometown completely!”
"Hey! Hey! Roar!"
"Hey! Hey! Roar!"
The morale of the Three Good Allied Forces has improved, and the eyes of the soldiers are full of enthusiasm and fighting spirit! They are completely different from the confused ones before!
Oda Nobunaga saw his opponent shouting, and a disdainful smile suddenly appeared on his face: "Who is going to fight the Hatanos in the first battle?"
"I'm going!" Tokugawa Ieyasu knew that the outcome of this battle was directly related to the division of territory after the war. In order to gain more say, he, who had been serving as a rear guard or a cover, was determined to show his face today.
"Oh? It's rare that Ieyasu will play forward this time, haha." Oda Nobunaga teased: "Be careful, the Hatanos are not as fragile as you think. Don't cry when you lose, haha!"
Tokugawa Ieyasu snorted: "It's our Mikawa samurai's turn to put on a good show for you this time!"
Tokugawa Ieyasu did not boost morale like the Hatano family because he knew that his army was not needed at all.
The temperament of a commander can directly affect an army. Under the command of a calm commander, the soldiers will become calm and orderly.
The Tokugawa Army is such a silent, tenacious and highly orderly army. Even if they face huge dangers and troubles, they will not panic. This is inseparable from Tokugawa Ieyasu's long-term and rigorous training.
They were like giant turtles carrying heavy and extremely strong shells, slowly but resolutely approaching each other.
The Hatano family's army showed a different character.
The coach Hatano Hideharu is a man who is usually silent, but gets excited when he gets to the battlefield. His radical and flamboyant fighting style directly affects all the soldiers of the Hatano family. They all excitedly shake the swords in their hands.
They are like a group of uncivilized savages, very different from the calm and measured style of the Tokugawa family.
At this moment, a gunshot suddenly rang out in the main formation of the Oda coalition! The slow march of the Tokugawa Army suddenly accelerated! In the blink of an eye, they were in front of the Hatano Army!
Those silent Mikawa warriors of the Tokugawa family all rushed to the front. They were the most elite troops of the Tokugawa family, and their weapons were different from those of ordinary ashigaru. They all held double swords, and they fought fiercely.
As they charged forward, they saw their shining swords flying up and down, cutting down the soldiers of the Hatano family's former army who were noisy like monkeys without mercy to the ground!
After a brief period of panic, the soldiers of the Hatano family roared back and attacked! The Hatano family's ashigaru armed with spears all took the lead bravely. Although the pioneer Mikawa samurai of the Tokugawa family were all highly skilled in swordsmanship and killed many people,
However, they could not withstand the relentless charge of Hatano soldiers one after another. Some Mikawa samurai had just cut down several Hatano soldiers and before they could pull out their swords from the bones, they were stabbed by the enemy's spears one after another.
die.
Those Mikawa samurai also valued the reputation of the samurai more than their lives, and they all fought to the death. At this time, the Tokugawa family's squadron joined the battle group in time, and the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed subtly.
This was Tokugawa Ieyasu's fighting method. He understood that the Mikawa samurai armed with double swords needed a lot of space to unleash their powerful attack power. If they were charged together with ordinary ashigaru from the beginning, not only would they not be able to exert their full power,
Their special effects may injure their own people.
So he came up with the idea of letting a small number of Mikawa samurai take the lead to attack the enemy or contain the enemy's strength and then quickly send the rear ashigaru to intervene. This can often achieve better results. In the case of Takeda
In the desperate battle of the cavalry, he summarized many such practical tactics.
As expected, the soldiers of the Hatano family couldn't stand it any longer. At this time, the Mikawa samurai had boldly charged into their depth, and the Tokugawa family's follow-up ashigaru troops had surrounded the soldiers of the Hatano family without saying a word.
"The front army is in trouble! The middle army and the rear army! Fight with me!" Hatano Hideji fiercely waved the cross gun in his hand and rushed over with all his remaining military strength!
When Miyoshi Nagakei of the main formation saw this, he knew that if he faced off against the Oda coalition forces one by one, his side would suffer a lot, because in terms of individual combat quality, the enemy was far superior to his side. So he began to fight with
The other daimyo discussed: Why not simply charge with the whole army! Success or failure will be a gamble!
"Honganji family! You are responsible for using monk soldiers to attack the enemy's left flank!"
"The rest of you, go around to the rear of the enemy! You must pay attention to the unified pace of the attack! Never rush forward! Listen to my red fireworks signal!"
After finishing the arrangement, Miyoshi Nagakei looked at the Hatano family's military formation, and saw that there were fewer and fewer soldiers wearing Hatano family's orange military uniforms on the battlefield. It seemed that they could no longer support it!
"Shichijo Kanaka! You lead our Izumi Cavalry to blitz the Tokugawa Army from the flank! Be sure to rescue the Hatano Army before the decisive battle!" Miyoshi Nagakei really couldn't bear to see the powerful Hatano Army being annihilated like this.
Determined to take a hand.
He then said to his iron artillery team: "Look at the movements of Oda's main formation! As soon as you see them sending troops to support, fire a volley!"
I saw Kanajō Kanaka leading a large group of cavalry on tall, long-haired horses and quickly rushed into the encirclement of the Tokugawa Army, tearing a hole in the Tokugawa Army's formation.
The hard-fought Hatano army quickly followed him and retreated. Unexpectedly, Oda Nobunaga did not send troops to encircle and suppress them again, but instead issued an order for the Tokugawa army to retreat.
"Why don't you support them? We're going to chop off one of their arms soon," Du Fei asked in confusion.
Oda Nobunaga's eyes never left the telescope: "In a battle of this scale, looking at the entire army is the key. It was just a warm-up. The enemy's main formation began to stir. It seems that there is going to be some big move.
! Pass my order! Pay attention to the defense of the flanks and rear!"
"You mean, their main formation is moving? They want to outflank us?" Du Fei said without hesitation: "Then let me lead the troops to intercept the raiding troops halfway! You and His Highness Tokugawa stick to our formation! How about that?
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"Intercept the outflanking enemy? But we don't know the location of the enemy's outflank. If we are not accurate, it will greatly delay the fighter! Are you sure?" Oda Nobunaga, who has always dared to take risks, also became cautious at this time: "
Have you guessed the direction of the enemy's attack?"
"I'm already sure that it must be the left wing! Because attacking from the right wing makes no sense at all! Changzhang Army! Huotong Army! Follow me!" Du Fei led his troops and horses quickly around to the left wing.
Du Fei saw a bamboo forest on the left wing of the formation, so he ordered all his troops to hide inside.
Sure enough, after a while, a large group of more than 8,000 monks and soldiers from Honganji Temple came quietly. Just as they were about to attack the Oda main formation, there was a huge chaos behind them!
I saw arrows and lead shot out from the nearby bamboo forest, and the rear of the Honganji army was in chaos!
Honganji, who personally led the army, was experienced in many battles after all. He immediately organized Honganji's iron artillery army to fight back in the bamboo forest. The firepower from both sides was relatively fierce. There were flashes of fire between the bamboo forest and Honganji's military formation.
The monk soldiers in the temple were shot and fell to the ground, and soldiers continued to fall in the bamboo forest.
"I didn't expect it! The Honganji Army had such strong firepower! Where did these monks get so many iron cannons?" Du Fei's general Kahi Munun's left arm was also injured by the intensive firepower of the Honganji Army, and he groaned in pain.
He grinned and complained to Du Fei.
"It looks like these monks are very rich." Du Fei was secretly glad that he had hidden his troops in the bamboo forest. If he had a head-on confrontation with troops with such fierce firepower, he didn't know how many people would be injured or killed.
"This is no way to shoot at each other! It seems like the opponent has more medicine than we do! We will run out of medicine before long! There don't seem to be many bows and arrows left! What should we do?" Oda Shikatsu anxiously asked Du
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It was a miscalculation. It would have been better if I had brought more iron cannons. Du Fei regretted a little. In order to ensure the defense of the homeland, he left most of his fire command troops to defend the city in the Shikoku territory. He originally thought that one-third of the fire command troops would be there.