Takeda Harunobu, who was urging the army to cross the river, looked at the Ogasawara army that was losing ground under Takato Castle and sneered. All the Ogasawara army's hopes fell on the Takato family's uprising to help them open the city gate.
The castle was helpless. Once all the Takeda troops crossed the Tenryu River, they could encircle and annihilate the entire Ogasawara army on the plain between the Tenryu River and Takato Castle.
However, what surprised Takeda Harunobu was that the Ogasawara army did not flee over the mountains in embarrassment as he imagined. Instead, they found a hill and tried to form a formation to hold on. They saw a brown and white flag of the third rank on the hill.
When it was shaking, Takeda Harunobu was really confused: "What's the use of standing firm? Even if I besiege them, I can still starve them to death. At this time, I can either run, or I can't fully cross the river and attack halfway. Standing firm? That's not waiting.
Die?"
Although the opponent's well-timed stupidity confused Takeda Harunobu, there was no reason not to catch the opponent's flaws. Takeda Harunobu then continued to command the troops to cross the river on the west bank of the Tenryu River. The vanguards of Iitomi Toramasa and Baba Nobuharu had already pounced on the Ogasawara army. The situation
Everything was great until smoke and dust rose again in the direction of Huangshen Mountain.
The Takeda Army on the battlefield stopped one after another, turned their heads to the north in stunned silence, and looked at the direction of the Ogasawara Army. Behind the foothills of Arakami Mountain on the west bank of the Tenryu River, a large number of troops circled out in a mighty manner.
The remaining troops are still hidden in the mountains, but judging from the scale of the smoke and dust, their number must have reached at least 5,000. The flags of the Yashiro family, the Suda family and other wealthy families of Northern Shinano are all prominently listed, and the leader is...
The famous samurai of Northern Shinano - the horse seal of Murakami Yoshikiyo, the leader of the four great generals of Shinano.
"It's broken... what the hell is this..." Takeda Harunobu, who has been planning everything since the expedition and even orchestrated the rebellion of the Takato family, showed a panicked look for the first time, "Their territory is at least 100 meters away from here.
Baili, how could you come all the way to get chestnuts from the fire for the Ogasawara family? They would rather delay the autumn harvest than make enemies of the Takeda family who have no grievances or enmities across other people's territory? What do they want?"
Until Takeda Harunobu saw the big characters on the flag above the Northern Shinano coalition forces——
"Follow the way of heaven and fight against injustice."
As for the opponent of the Northern Shinano Allied Forces, Murakami Yoshikiyo mobilized his good horses and galloped on the loess of Shinano at the lead, raising his arms to the soldiers behind him and shouting:
"Takeda Harunobu is extremely evil, treacherous, and kills innocent people indiscriminately. He led a group of Kohiko boys to do whatever they want in Shinano. They killed my soldiers, massacred my people, and plundered my town. Such crimes are outraged by both humans and gods! Your Highness, the Guardian of Ogasawara, now summons us to Shinano.
The righteous warriors fight according to the law of heaven, defend the land and bring peace to the people, and attack the Takeda rebels! All you gentlemen should follow me and take the lead, kill the rebels and drive the Kaibi bandits back to Kaibi!"
"Hey! Hey! Roar!"
The samurai of Northern Shinano all had grim expressions on their faces, wishing to eat the Takeda army alive. The tragedy of Uehara Castle and the indiscriminate killing of Takeda Harunobu had already spread throughout Shinano, which naturally aroused the raging anger in their hearts.
"Hurry and let the troops enter Takato Castle for temporary shelter!" Takeda Harunobu grabbed the horse seal from the flag bearer's hand, waved it in person and issued the order to the main force of the Takeda Army on the other side of the Tenryu River, watching them finally break away from contact with the Ogasawara Army and
He finally felt at ease as he slowly withdrew towards Gaoyuan Castle. However, he immediately realized that what he should worry about was not the Takeda Army on the east bank of the Tenryu River, but the location of his own horse seal.
The Northern Shinano coalition did not cross the river to the other side of the Tenryu River. Instead, they went directly along the west bank of the Tenryu River and attacked Takeda Harunobu's main formation from north to south! Takeda Harunobu's main formation only has more than 1,000 people left at this moment. How to face it?
An impact on more than 5,000 enemy troops?
"It's over..." Takeda Harunobu took a deep breath.
"Lord, what should we do now?" Kasuga Torasuna, who was accompanying him, was in a state of chaos at this moment, and was so anxious that he was sweating profusely.
"What else can we do? Those who know the current affairs are heroes." Takeda Harunobu laughed twice, and then without hesitation kicked down his horse's mark, calling for the Hatamoto cavalry to flee south, and at the same time shouted:
"Instruct all the troops to escape individually!"
As soon as Takeda Harunobu's horse seal fell, the Takeda army still on the west bank of the Tenryu River immediately dispersed like birds and beasts and evacuated in all directions. The reserve troops near the river bank hurriedly escaped from the bridges and shoals across the river bank, and the rest headed towards the surrounding hills and mountains.
They fled through the forest. The Northern Shinano coalition forces lost their target for a while and did not know where to attack. However, after hesitating for a moment, they turned west and headed towards the Imagawa Army. More than 3,300 auxiliary troops were left in place, while more than 1,700 combat soldiers were
It pounced like a tiger descending a mountain.
The Imagawa Army was following the Takeda Army safely at first, not thinking that it would encounter a battle soon, and even the formation was still in a marching formation. But now when they found more than 1,700 Northern Shinano Allied Forces soldiers rushing towards their face with great momentum, they instantly became chaotic.
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"Form up on the official road!" Okabe Oyatsuna drew his sword and shouted, "Hurry! The enemy has arrived in front of the formation!"
After Okabe Okazuna gave the order, Okabe Bei, who was in the front team, immediately launched a defensive line on the official road, firmly blocking the Northern Shinano coalition forces.
"Go up the hill! The first and second platoons follow me up to the hills in the northeast to set up defenses! The third platoon goes to the hills in the southeast to set up more flags to serve as suspicions!" Behind Okabe Okatsuna, Osawa Motoyo
He also immediately gave the order. He led the Shoudunbei to occupy several nearby highlands first, blocking the shortest path for the Northern Shinano coalition forces to rush to Imagawa Yoshimoto's Red Bird Horse Seal.
However, Murakami Yoshikiyo's commanding style was valiant and neat. When he found someone blocking the way, he did not delay at all. He left behind Yashiro Bei, Suda Bei and other small wealthy people from Northern Shinano to contain the two hastily formed reserve teams of the Imagawa family.
, and he drifted away. Completely ignoring the dangers of the retreat, he led more than a thousand of the main force of the Murakami family to bypass the defense line and draw an arc to kill Imagawa Yoshimoto's horse seal.
Upon seeing this, Imagawa Yoshimoto immediately withdrew to the direction of the Chinese army with his horse stamps. However, the reserve team of Murakami's old man Rakuganji Masakata was extremely brave and rushed into the retreat of Imagawa Yoshimoto's horsemen at an extremely fast speed, trying to
In one fell swoop, Imagawa Yoshimoto was surrounded. At this moment, the main force of the central force of the Imagawa Army had just received the warning of the enemy's attack and had no time to form their formation.
Just when Imagawa Yoshimoto felt that something was wrong, and was about to draw his sword and lead the flag team to respond to the enemy, a reserve team suddenly burst out of the diagonal stab - the flag was Matsui Sonobu's sword and spear preparation. They marched in a marching formation.
Four loose columns collided head-on with the invading Rakuganji Bei.
"Cover His Highness's retreat! Don't worry about the formation!" Matsui Munanobu jumped in front of the formation and took the lead in charging towards the enemy. The soldiers of Gamaubei were not stage frightened at all, even though there were not many friendly troops to cover them.
, also gritted his teeth and attacked Leyanji Bei with an enemy force, but he staggered the surprised Leyanji Bei. As the follow-up troops of Gomao Bei gradually ran to the battle line, Leyanji Bei's
The offensive also stalled.
"A bunch of lunatics." Rakuganji Masakata hated the desperate Imagawa troops in front of him. He cursed and ordered the troops to retreat and adjust. Just when he turned his head and tried to find Murakami Yoshikiyo's horse seal, he found that it was already there.
It's no longer in its original place.
Murakami Yoshikiyo went completely crazy. He actually abandoned his ashigaru on the battlefield and led 400 knights to continue to circle around Imagawa Yoshimoto's horse seal at an extremely fast speed, determined to capture the formation. However,
Miura Bei, who arrived later, did not have the same courage as Goma Bei, but tried to form a formation before joining the battle, but time obviously did not allow him to do so. Murakami Yoshikiyo urged the cavalry to rush into the formation first, and Miura Bei's position was almost
On the verge of collapse, they were defeated by the incoming Beixin army.
The defeated troops on the official road blocked the troops behind them. Ogikiyo and Abe Motoshin, who were in the rear, got angry and led their troops to grab from both sides of the official road, hoping to rush to support the formation in a marching formation.
Murakami Yoshikiyo sent the monk Lao Kiyono Seishiichi to stop the reinforcements, while he personally led the main force to attack the Red Bird Horse Seal.
"It's broken." Imagawa Yoshimoto felt cold sweat on his back. He was a little out of breath from Murakami Yoshikiyo's desperate attack. But the Chinese army was all the Imagawa family's baggage, auxiliary troops and refugees.
There, Imagawa Yoshimoto could not abandon it, so he had to prepare for a hard resistance with 300 horse troops, and at the same time ordered all ministries to immediately return to reinforce the horse seal.
In the few moments when the horses were in formation, Murakami Yoshikiyo's troops had already jumped onto a hill next to the central army. The straight-line distance from the red bird horse seal was only half a mile. Imagawa Yoshimoto could even clearly see Murakami Yoshikiyo.
The lines on the Seal of the Kiyoshi. The more than 400 Hokushinano war horses beside Murakami Yoshikiyo neighed, and more than 200 ashigaru followed one after another, also gearing up, waiting to defeat the Imagawa family with twice the strength and bravery.
This formation was destroyed.
On the official road at the bottom of the valley, the Imagawa family's central army was trembling. Countless auxiliary soldiers and refugees were horrified. They looked at the weak Ma Zhongzhong in front of them and the powerful Murakami army further away.
I just feel that a nightmare is coming. Even if the horsemen and horse seals can survive, these numbers will never be able to protect the thousands-sized Chinese army. At that time, the soldiers from Northern Shinano passing by from both sides will attack the enemy.
They were killing these unarmed auxiliary soldiers and refugees like a pack of wolves. The auxiliary soldiers could barely maintain order, but these refugees who had just been admitted from various places in Shinano were already preparing to flee with their families. Mothers hugged themselves tightly.
The children and the children supported the elderly.
Just as everyone gritted their teeth and waited for the moment of desperate struggle, the Northern Shinano coalition suddenly stopped. It was like a waterfall that plunged thousands of miles and stopped out of thin air before entering the water. With the wave of Murakami Yoshikiyo's horse seal,
, the army's movement stopped in front of Imagawa's home army formation.
From Yoshimoto Kawakawa to the civilians and refugees, everyone was stunned and turned their eyes in confusion to where Murakami Yoshikiyo's horse seal was.
I saw a man and a horse slowly driving out, surrounded by various flags from Hokushinano. The man was dressed in thick purple clothes, and the horse mark on his side already showed his identity - the leader of Shinano's four generals, Hokushinō.
The tyrant of concentration——Murakami Yoshikiyo.
He didn't say much, he just put on the reins of his horse, turned sideways, held his hands far in front of him, and gave a heavy fist in the direction of Imagawa Zhongjun. Imagawa Yoshimoto thought that Murakami Yoshikiyo was looking at him, but he found that he was wrong.
Now - the direction of Murakami Yoshikiyo's gaze was not to Imagawa Yoshimoto, but to the thousands of Shinano refugees who had been gathered behind Imagawa Yoshimoto.
Murakami Yoshikiyo coughed heavily, and then, the Northern Shinano samurai on the hill also neatly clasped their fists in the direction of Imagawa Nakajun, making a dull collision sound.
"I, Murakami Yoshikiyo, fought in the name of justice. On behalf of the Shinano righteous men, I only pay tribute to Lord Yoshimoto's righteous deeds."
After saying this, Murakami Yoshikiyo drew his horse and left, leading the Northern Shinano army to drift away and break away from the battle line.
