There was not much time left for Nagao Kagetora to think and sigh. Thousands of Ashura were charging towards him like wolves and tigers. The one in front was the Edo people led by Toyama Tsunakage. This one was the dead one.
The unlucky guy who married his legitimate son Yuan Shan Yasukage, finally raised a son who grew up and prepared to accept the position of family governor, but ended up dying under the butcher's knife of the Long Tail Legion. How could he not hate such a huge hatred!
"Where is Naganobu Saito? Give me back my man's life!" Toyama Tsunakage shouted and rushed over at the lead.
The bow and arrow ashigaru wearing light armor stepped out, laying down a neat arrow formation in front of the spear formation of the ashigaru with spears and shields. Behind them were rows of neat black-armored ashigaru. They might be holding long spears,
Or they stand still with their battle axes in hand, and the formation of nine thousand warriors gathers into a black wall.
The bravery of the Echigo samurai was famous far and wide. In the battle between Nagao Hara and Nagao Hikake, he successfully killed Uesugi Gosada with more than 500 riders, spreading the reputation of the Echigo samurai throughout Kanto. Nagao Hikake and Hojo Soun were in the same camp that time.
Cooperating with each other, the relationship between the two parties has now turned into a life-or-death enemy.
With less than fifty seconds left to engage in battle, the Hojo Army wearing cyan armor suddenly slowed down in neat steps. The experienced veterans were adjusting their breathing rhythms, as if the living cyan waves were slowing down at this moment.
The surging speed, a small pause can pull the scattered tide back into a neat wave, and the next moment it will accelerate again and charge again.
Yamayoshi Toyomori, who served as the archery general, shouted loudly: "There are still forty-five rooms left, load the arrows immediately!"
A thousand archers silently pulled out cast iron arrows and put them on their thumbs. They held the heavy rattan bow with their left hand and lowered it naturally. They held the arrow feathers with their right hand and took a deep breath. The next moment, a thousand people simultaneously raised their big bows and clasped the bow strings with all their strength.
Tightened, a thousand large bows made a "boom boom" groan. The silent archery team followed the beat of the military drum and counted silently.
"Five, four, three, two, one... shoot the arrow! Quick, quick, quick! Load the arrow now! Load the arrow!" More than a dozen warriors urged loudly, and arrows came out one after another, and the bows and arrows seemed to be fired.
The machine was full of power. After shooting an arrow, it immediately drew out the arrow and shot another. In just one minute, seven or eight arrows flew out, and the violent rain of arrows followed a beautiful trajectory and fell into the enemy's formation.
The powerful storm of arrows seriously disrupted the charging rhythm of the Hojo Army. The samurai in the front row were hit hard at the first moment. In just one minute, more than 30 samurai died, and hundreds of ashigaru soldiers died.
His life was taken away by the rain of arrows, but fortunately, the time left for the archery team was only a short minute.
When the last arrow came out of their hands, several archery generals shouted at the same time. All the archers and ashigaru immediately turned around and retreated into the formation without any hesitation.
The gun and shield troops quickly filled the gap. This level of formation could not scare the long-tailed army. Whether the soldiers were well-trained or not would depend on their performance in battle.
The Nagao family's spear and shield ashigaru are obviously not afraid of the Hojo army. Saito, who was standing at the front, curled his lips disdainfully at Nobu and ordered: "Everyone, listen to the order. Get up the gun array and block the enemy in front!"
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The ashigaru in the first row set up heavy rifles, and a short spear protruded from the gap between the shields. Behind them, each ashigaru stretched out three spears in front, and inserted the handles of the spears into the holes dug in advance.
If there is a good earthen pit, press the earthen pit with your right foot against the handle of the gun. The five-meter-four long Sanjian gun only needs to be placed on the shoulders of the ashigaru in the front row, and it can easily reach the front of the formation with its length.
"What kind of weird tactic is this!" Toyama Tsunakage had never seen the Swiss Spear Formation, but he still instinctively sensed something was wrong and hurriedly shouted: "Everyone, be careful of the Long Tail Army's trick! Slow down, and slow down!"
The charging rhythm of the Edo people was broken by Toyama Tsunakage's voice. The front team and the rear team who braked suddenly squeezed together and almost fell into a ball. Fortunately, they were still more than thirty meters away from the formation, allowing the long-tailed army to
The ashigaru had no chance to take advantage of it for a while. After this commotion, the momentum became a joke. Once the morale dropped, they would be too cautious before engaging in battle.
It has to be said that Toyama Tsunakage's military strategy is very average. He can detect that there is a problem with the formation of the Long Tail Legion, but he is unable to deal with this problem. He shouts revenge at the top of his voice and waits until the samurai are liberated from their fanaticism.
, morale also dropped from full to half or even lower.
"Don't panic, don't be chaotic, don't act rashly! You must stick to the formation!" Toyama Tsunakage directed the Edo people to draw up the formation and advance slowly. At this time, the long-tail army's archery team began to exert force, and the bowstrings were buzzing.
The sound of jumping could even be heard by the Hojo Army. The shouts of killing broke out at the moment of the battle, and the cries covered the voices of the generals on both sides. What was at this stage was the command level of the generals facing the enemy.
Immediately behind the Edo clan were the Matsuyama clan, the Hatagata clan, the Koji clan, the Tamana clan, and the main force of the Miura clan. The right wing of the Hojo family was the Furukawa clan led by Harusuke Adena from the Shimosu province, and the Kanto Hachiya kata clan.
One of them was the Chiba people, and on the left was the North Musashi people led by Narita Choyasu. In an instant, nearly 20,000 troops came to block the Nagao army, blocking them tightly in all directions.
The Long Tail Army was suddenly blocked by an army of 20,000 people and was a little panicked. With its excellent fighting qualities, it quickly took back the small disadvantage. The arrows like locusts made a whistling sound and sank into the Hojo Army. The enemy on the opposite side
Miserable howls sounded one after another, the rumbling military drums, the noisy clash of swords and guns, and the angry shouts and screams were mixed together, and it became a mess within a few moments.
The Nagao Army's Ashigaru Spear Formation is like a rock standing in the wind and rain. The black armor is as hard and steady as a rock. No matter how violent the storm is, it cannot break the hard shell of the reef. Nagao Kagetora's main formation is rooted in the wind and rain.
On the top of the mountain, looking at a large green Hojo army, he sneered: "Are the Hojo family crazy? Do these people even want to block our Nagao family? After passing the order, the generals from all walks of life immediately counterattacked and defeated the intruders who tried to encircle them.
enemy!"
Amanazaki Keagemochi, Kachi Harutsuna, Takemata Keizuna, Shinbada Tsusada, Igokono Hiroie, Ishikawa Juge and other troops each led their troops to rush out from the left and right wings. The battle line was opened to hundreds of rooms at once, and more than 20,000 people were involved.
Together, the scene became very chaotic. Nagao Kagetora sat on the mountain to direct and dispatch, and soon realized that something was wrong.
"What is the Hojo family doing?" Nagao Kagetora realized something was wrong, and front-line generals such as Saito Asanobu and Amazawa Keikichi also realized something was wrong. It is simply not common sense for the Hojo army to fight and retreat despite huge casualties. If it weren't for
It was clear who was the attacking party. I thought that the Hojo family was the defending party after the transition from offense to defense.
"Are they not targeting our family? Then his target will be..." Nagao Kagetora's mind quickly ran through several possibilities. The next moment he suddenly caught a glimpse of the strange movement of the Hojo Army's main formation, and suddenly shouted: "Oops
! He is planning to attack the east and west! The target is not our main formation, the real target is the branch cities in Ueno, which are Hirai Castle, Minawa Castle and Amabashi Castle! We have fallen into the trap!"
I saw two armies with three-scale flags rushing out of the main formation of the Hojo Army. There were about three thousand people in the two armies. Each team was equipped with seven or eight hundred horse-riding warriors. They seemed to be two groups of rebels.
The reined wild horses quickly rushed out of the battlefield and swept through the heart of Ueno country along the streets of Ueno.
Nagao Kagetora was taken aback. Obviously he did not expect Hojo Ujiyasu to plot a deception. Suddenly he heard a noise coming from the west, so Ban quickly reported: "The Hojo Army's 6,000 Rangers are moving towards Hirai Castle, and the Ueno Allied Forces are
Some Koreans defected from the coalition forces and joined the Hojo Army. The Ueno Koreans were shaken, and Nagano Shinano Mamoru was working hard to suppress them. The scene was in chaos!"
"Oops! Something big is going to happen!" Naoe Keizuna stood up in panic. Looking to the west, the Ueno coalition forces were indeed in chaos. He hurriedly suggested: "Lord! For this plan, we must stop the Hojo Army's special forces. We must not let them
Capture Hirai Castle. Once Hirai Castle is lost, our way back to Echigo will be cut off. Being trapped here will mean death or life!"
"I know! We can't be anxious now. The more anxious we are, the prouder the Hojo family will be. Don't be anxious!" Nagao Kagetora walked slowly and tried to think of countermeasures.
The Ueno National Army deliberately distanced itself from the Nagao Legion's station. Although the two camps bordered each other, the main formations of both sides were at the other end of the camp. Apart from some debris from the other side, the bordering area was the battlefield.
It is a place for medical treatment and training, and of course it also has the task of holding funerals for the war dead.
Nagano Ye was waiting for the Ueno people, who seemed to want to prevent the influence of the Nagao family from infiltrating. They were secretive in doing things and were not happy enough. Nagao Kagetora didn't bother to pay attention to their family spirit. The cooperation between the two parties would become very troublesome if suspicion and estrangement arose.
At the same time, because the distance between the two sides is relatively long, and their respective camp gates are opened in very remote places, communication with each other is far from smooth as expected.
It was originally thought that the Ueno coalition forces could exert their power to resist the Takeda army, but the result was very different from what was expected. The situation on the scene was far more severe than imagined. Several Japanese people in the Minawa clan rebelled one after another, causing bad effects.
People are so panicked that they can't even perform at 50% level.
It is very common for the people of the country to marry each other. The people of the country in the entire Ueno Kingdom are all related to each other. Some of them are close relatives dating back three generations. It is very common for relatives to belong to the same two camps and oppose each other.
During the chaos, Minamoto no Yoshitomo of the Kawachi Genji clan and Taira Kiyomori of the Ise Taira clan confronted their fathers and uncles, and then ended up marrying their closest relatives with their own hands.
Therefore, many times the samurai family does not talk about kinship. There are many fathers and sons who have conflicting ideas and become enemies or even fight each other. The samurai family in the Kamakura period were the ultimate in this type, being completely egoistic and selfish.
He was self-interested to the point of personally destroying the foundation of the imperial family's collegial system, and stupidly killed each other, eventually ending up in the tragic situation of being raised and enslaved by the Hojo family.
Since Muromachi, the samurai family has also been reflecting on this. In particular, the Ashikaga shogunate attaches great importance to the family clan. Almost all the main responsibilities of the shogunate are in the hands of one clan and the other to ensure that the Minamoto samurai family will not be stolen by powerful ministers and relatives.
, the trend set off by the shogun quickly spread to the people of the lower classes.
For example, the relationship between in-laws, black hat relatives, brother-in-law and brother-in-law, brother-in-law relationship between cousins, best friend relationship from childhood to adulthood, etc. have all been substituted, and the little Chinese have spent hundreds of years on it.
Weaving a huge network of relationships, among which the small and medium-sized daimyo, mainly the Mutsu Date family, are the most representative.
The advantages and disadvantages of the deep in-law relationship among Chinese people are very prominent. It is easy to do things with relatives, but when there are many relatives, there are many things to do. Take the Shirakura clan and the Kuragano clan who have rebelled many times.
Relatives in Ueno's country also encouraged many rebellions, which posed great hidden dangers to the Ueno coalition forces.
When the Nagano Sixteen Guns were in charge of Kuragano Awaji, Shirakura Zaemon Munehito came from one of the two clans. Although they repeatedly stated that the clan's rebellion had nothing to do with them, the fact was that they would eventually lose trust.
, as their clan rebelled again, their status in Ueno Junior High School was shaky.
The collateral impact of the rebellion between the two was that three relatives, Nagane Somaji, Oto Bungo Mamoru, and Daidoji Nobukata, were also brought to Hojo's side. The families of these three people were closely related to the Shirakura clan and the Kuragano clan. Nagane
Zuomasuke and Bungomomo Oto are their sworn brothers respectively, and Daidaiji Nobukata is a stepbrother to them.
The betrayal of five people turned Nagano's sixteen guns into eleven instantly. The remaining eleven people were familiar with each other, and a few of them were also sworn brothers. They had their own reasons for not being taken away all at once.
I don't want to join the Hojo family, but they are destined to be distrusted.
The great Hu Musashi Morihidetsuna was very angry. The Sixteen Guns had made an oath to unite as one and live and die together in Minawa Castle. The words of the oath that day were still in my ears. The sixteen brothers had already been divided into two formations and had changed their minds a long time ago. When the five rebels
When the news about Shui was revealed, Nagano Yamasa immediately summoned the remaining eleven people to comfort them, so that they could work in peace without worrying about other people's rumors.
But he himself knew very well that the bad influence of all this was being fermented. It was unusual for Nagano Yasumasa not to curse at the first moment. He knew the temperament of Shouzhou Huangmao very well, and he would glare at familiar samurai if he did anything wrong. Twelve
His son-in-law was often scolded by him but nothing happened. Once he had a good relationship with Feng Xiaoyu, he would completely distrust him.
Dobira Shouyu looked sad. As a pure samurai, how could he have so many tricks up his sleeve? The rebellion of the five brothers had brought so much disaster to the remaining brothers. Even though he wanted to forgive those five people, he did not have the courage to do so, and sighed:
"For now, the only way to restore the lost reputation and trust is to kill them on the battlefield!"
Fujii Bungo Moritomo Tadashi spat and cursed: "I have long disliked those bastards. They have been so sneaky in recent days that I don't know what they are planning. I thought they were making some good plans."
We have earned a share of merit, but I never thought that these five bastards would have thought of using the reputation of my sixteen brothers to gain a lifetime of wealth, which is simply shameless!"
"Bungo, please stop saying a few words! Everyone feels bad." Shirakawa Mitsuru's face was ugly, and he could not bear the bullets of Fujii Yutada's abuse. The Shirakawa family and the Shirakura family have a very close relationship through generations of in-laws.
A few days ago, Shirakura Zaemon Munehito came to him to discuss the matter. At that time, he just said that he would not give an accurate answer after thinking about it.
He knew very well that the price of defecting at this time would be huge. He was not the only member of the Shirakawa clan, nor was he a wealthy family like the Shirakawa clan who had long made up their mind to defect. He had to consider his own family, but Hojo didn't expect it.
Coming home so quickly, Shirakurazaemon Munehito thought Shirakawa Mitsuru was trying to deal with him, so when he saw that the situation was not going well, he led five people to betray the Ueno people.
What he did almost got him in. Everyone in Ueno country knew each other very well. When he looked at Shirakawa Mitsuru, his eyes changed. They all had false smiles on their eyes, and their eyes were full of alienation and indifference, which made this iron-clad man
How could a man swallow this bad breath? He had never frowned in any difficult situation on the battlefield, but now he was frowning because of the betrayal of his "good brother".
As soon as the internal strife broke out among the people of Ueno, the military duties of eleven people were temporarily relieved for various reasons, and the army was handed over to a generation of their respective families to lead the army. Nagano Yasumasa called this avoidance of suspicion, and Hu Xiutsuna could not swallow this breath no matter what.
: "They say that we are the Nagano Sixteen Guns. At first glance, it seems that the sixteen of us are a bit shorter than the Nagano Shinano Mamoru, but we are not the retainers of the Nagano family, so why can we be relieved of our military power! So**
How can we survive in Ueno if we are so nakedly distrustful?"
Gohan Nobuya suffered miserably from five "good brothers" who ran away. The governor of the Gohan family was very dissatisfied with him and threatened to drive him away. He was so angry that he almost committed seppuku. When he mentioned this, he came again
He was angry and said angrily: "Brother is right. The oath that the sixteen of us made to live and die together is true. Those five bastards should be killed for abandoning our friendship, but it is too much to deprive us of our military rights when we have not made any mistakes."
Well, we never said we would be loyal to the Nagano family, it was all Nagano Yamasa’s wishful thinking and had nothing to do with us!”
Wada Hyobusuke caught a glimpse of the Hojo army approaching from the bottom of the mountain and snorted softly: "The enemy forces are approaching and the generals are changing on the battlefield. Nagano Shinano Mamoru must be old and confused! I really want to see what they can do to block the Hojo family's Goshiki Bei!"
The situation worsened far beyond Nagano Yoshimasa's expectation. A total of twenty-eight powerful samurai, including five from Nagano's Sixteen Guns, defected from the Ueno coalition forces. Originally, he thought that he could control the situation by quickly transferring personnel related to the repression.
To this end, he quickly suppressed hundreds of implicated samurai and adopted a cooling-down method that neither dealt with nor eliminated suspicion.
Unexpectedly, things backfired, and plump ideals were no match for the skinny reality. Nagano was paying the price for his mistakes. The Nagano Sixteen Guns and the defecting samurai family who were most implicated were transferred from frontline command in the name of "avoiding suspicion."
The negative impact of the sudden change of generals caused unrest in the Ueno army.
Nagano was about to take action on the people of Ueno, and rumors spread that the Minawa consensus system was occupied by him alone. The soldiers always felt uneasy when they could not see their governor. The longer time went by, the more suspicious people became. It was originally not impossible.
The rumors spread like wildfire, and the morale of the entire Chinese army plummeted uncontrollably.
Hojo Ujiyasu, who was sitting at the rear, quickly discovered the problem of the Ueno Allied Forces. At the beginning of the war, he took out the ace Hojo Goshiki in his hand. These five reserve teams were different from the general formation of reserve teams. The number of people in each reserve team was in
Between 1,900 and 2,200, they were composed of the most elite warriors drawn from each city and tribe of the Hojo family.
The military system of the Hojo family has evolved from a simple foster care system to a military service account, and now it has further established the trend of semi-professional standing. The combat effectiveness of this 10,000-strong army is more than double that of the ordinary Japanese army. It can be said that they are all gathered together.
Most of the best members of the Hojo Army are in one body, and only the horse warriors guarding Hojo Ujiyasu can compete with them.
The interim commander of the Goseki Bei is Hojo Tsunage, the head of the Yellow Bei flag. This person is also known as Dihuo Hachiman. He was originally the son of Masashige Fukushima, a native of Toe Province. Because his father was defeated and killed after experiencing the Hanakura Rebellion, he fled to Sagami and recognized Hojo as Masashiro.
The adoptive father inherited the name of the Hojo family in Tamanawa, and later married Hojo Uyasu's sister, officially becoming a member of the Hojo family. He shouldered the important responsibility of grasping the situation of the war and taking action as needed.
Hojo Tsunari also observed the unusual movements of the Ueno army, and noticed that several flags in the Ueno army were missing. He laughed loudly and said, "My lord is really scheming. No matter how powerful Nagano Shinano is, he can't escape the law. Now the Ueno army is in the position
The situation is in disarray and morale is declining. This is the good opportunity we have been waiting for... The whole army obeys the order and attacks!"
Five-color flags fluttered in the wind, and tens of thousands of troops rushed into the formation of the Ueno Japanese Army in order. Suddenly, the ground shook and the mountains shook, and the shouts of killing resounded throughout the sky. The five-pronged army penetrated into the Ueno Japanese Army in five directions.
In the loose front line, many reserve units that lost their commanders had no intention of fighting at all. The gap between the experience and command level of the newly replaced generals was too great, and they could neither suppress the entangled situation nor command the messy reserve units.
On the left are the Akabi and Aobei of the Five Colored Beri respectively. The Akabi flag is headed by Hojo Tsunataka. His father was originally the son of Takahashi Takatune, the chief minister of the Horikoshi family, and his mother was the daughter of Hojo Soun who was promoted to the Hojo Imperial family.
The Oji family is a clan and is allowed to use the name of the Hojo clan.
Naokatsu Tominaga, the leader of the Seibei banner, is one of the twenty-one members of the Izu clan. He is one of the five elder clan members of the Hojo clan. He was born in the same family as Tominaga Bangoro Tadayaro, a direct descendant of the Tominaga clan in Mikawa Shitara County. His family has been known as Kamishiro for generations.
Lieutenant Youemon was famous among the Hojo family for his martial prowess and was a rare loyal and brave general.
Tame Rokuro Mototada, the head of the Kurobei banner, defended Motokei, and was a quasi-sect member of one of the six Hojo Goyuu families. His father Tame Rokuro Mototada was the first general of the Hojo clan, and his status thirty years ago was equivalent to that of today.
Hojo Tsusunari, who himself was also a very brave general, personally led the Kurobei composed of the Kato tribe of Suruga Kingdom.
Hakubei Flag Tokasahara Notoshou Yasuki is also one of the twenty-one members of the Izu clan. He serves as the five elders of the Hojo clan and also serves as the leader of the Shimoda clan. These four reserve teams gather the main combat power of the Hojo family. They are in the hands of Hojo Ujiyasu.
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