"The Miura family..." Imagawa Yoshima stared at Miura Bei's position and stopped resisting, "Is this a surrender to the enemy..."
Just when Imagawa Yoshima was panicking, there were also wails from the right wing position on the southwest side. Imagawa Yoshima turned around and saw that Ichinomiya Bei had been defeated by Okabe Bei who followed, and the routed troops were in embarrassment.
He ran down the hill and ran towards Imagawa Yoshima's horse seal after chasing the horse seal of the head of the Ichinomiya Soushiro.
At this moment, Yuhibei and Hasegawa Bei were also in full decline, and they were retreating steadily under Okabe Bei's continued pursuit. Kotsubei and Anhara Bei, one on the left and the other on the right, tried to outflank them. Fortunately, Kamahara Bei stepped up to support them, and they were able to avoid this.
The misfortune of being surrounded. However, the stoppage of Kamawara Bei means that Imagawa Yoshimata's retreat has been interrupted, and they cannot return to Kamabahara Castle. The auxiliary soldiers who were originally retreating in an orderly manner also lost their strength after seeing the crisis of the battle situation.
Order is fleeing all over the mountains and plains.
"Gather the stragglers!" Fukushima Masashige kept signaling to the fleeing Ichinomiya Muneki, "Let him come to us and gather the scattered troops. There are only a few dozen people. Those who have time to sort them out will be with us later.
We, the Fukushima family, join forces to fight against the enemy."
"Although Miura Bei over there has surrendered, their troops are still blocked on the hills. It will take some time to accept their surrender. We can delay Sekiguchi Bei, Sena Bei and Asahina Bei for a while. The enemy seems to be divided.
Our battle line, but they themselves were not separated? They were left alone everywhere! It gave us the opportunity to maneuver inside and hit more and fewer! Our Fukushima Bei had just completed the backward turn to form a formation in order to deal with the Asahina family's cavalry. This is
What a great time!”
Fukushima Masashige himself drew the sword in his hand, reined in the horse and turned to the west, "Eshinari, you lead 50 people to stay behind, and try your best to hold off the Imagawa family's main team for a quarter of an hour. I will cooperate with Kamahara Bei to flank Okabe
Bei, Xingjin Bei and Anwara Bei, destroy them first! Let Kamahara Bei's archery team choose a position immediately from a high position. I will attack them as soon as they arrive! There is no time!"
"But what if Asahina Bichu's cavalry turns around and comes back to attack our flank?" Fukushima Masashige's younger brother Fukushima Katsunari shouted to Fukushima Masashige, "We are heading west like this. If our flank is attacked, it will be a dead end!"
"I hope he can be attracted by the fleeing auxiliary soldiers and civilians." Fukushima Masashige comforted himself sarcastically, but Fukushima Katsunari seemed not to understand the meaning of the family master's words, and questioned incredulously. "
Are you kidding, Your Highness? Asahina Bichu is a veteran general for many years, how can he not be able to distinguish priorities?"
"Shut up! You bastard of a separated family!" Fukushima Masashige, who was already extremely angry, yelled at Fukushima Katsunari, "Then do you have any other way to turn defeat into victory? Isn't it just gambling? Isn't surrender possible?"
Fukushima Masashige didn't waste any time. He led his troops first and rushed towards the west. He rushed down from the hill where he was, constantly waving for the Ashigaru to follow him, and then attacked Okabe Bei, Anwara Bei and Kotsu Bei from behind.
Go. The battlefield is not big, and the distance is fleeting. These three troops were originally using all their strength to besiege Hasegawa Bei and Yui Bei, but they did not realize that Fukushima Bei had adjusted their formation to face the rear not long ago - for the medieval
It is extremely difficult for the Japanese army to turn around and turn around on the battlefield. A slight mistake will cause collapse, so it takes a long time.
They thought that even if Fukushima wanted to retreat and attack from a pincer attack, they would have to change the direction of the entire unit first, which would give them enough warning time. However, who would have thought that Fukushima had already turned in advance to guard against Asahina Tenno's cavalry.
Okay, now the westbound encirclement speed is more than half faster than expected. By the time Okabe Bei, Kōjin Bei and Anhara Bei noticed the enemy coming from behind, it was too late and they hurriedly adjusted their troops to respond to the enemy. However, in the fierce battle,
How easy is it on the fighting front?
At this critical moment, Kamawara Bei's archery team, which had already occupied the ground, launched several rounds of condescending volleys of arrows, instantly killing more than twenty soldiers. In the chaos, both Anhara Bei and Kojin Bei suffered injuries caused by the break in the battle line.
There was a partial collapse, and only Okabe Oyatsuna completed a simple defense by relying on Okabe Bei's strong combat power. However, he still could not mobilize enough troops to defend the enemy from the rear, and was beaten miserably by the surprise attack of Fukushima Bei.
Seeing that the situation had improved, Imagawa Yoshima immediately rode his horse and held the red bird horse seal and rushed to Fukushima to boost morale. Under the brave performance of Imagawa Yoshima's spearhead, the samurai and ashigaru warriors of Fukushima prepared bravely.
, was about to defeat Okabe Bei, Kōjin Bei and Anhara Bei who were attacked from both sides. Okabe Oyatsuna even had to bring his guards to the front line to fill the gap in the battle line. Fukushima Masashige immediately asked all the mounted samurai in the headquarters to take turns.
He led his troops to attack Okabe Bei's battle line, and also concentrated 20 knights to attack on the flanks, almost penetrating Okabe Bei's battle line.
However, at this moment, wailing suddenly came from the top of the northwest mountain.
"It's over, it's over, run!" The archers of the Kamahara family were concentrating on Anbara's soldiers at the last moment, harvesting their lives without any pressure. The next moment, they discovered that Asahina Taino was leading the army.
The cavalry had unknowingly reached the side of the hill where they were. When the sound of horse hooves sounded, it was too late for them to escape.
The cavalry team of Genkata of the Imagawa family rode forward. Several archers who were drawing their bows twisted their directions and shot at the charging cavalry. However, only one of them hit the horse, and was then chopped down to the ground by a random sword.
.More people didn't even have a chance to wind up, and were already rushed in front of them by the cavalry. In despair, the remaining 20 archers threw away their weapons and knelt down to beg for mercy. Asahina Taino didn't hesitate, and turned to
Kill the flanks of the Umohara Mitsuru clan.
"It's completely gone..." The Umagawara Mitsuji clan had no hope of turning defeat into victory - even if Fukushima Katsunari could encircle and annihilate Okabebe, Kōjinbei and Anharabei first, there would still be no hope when the Imagawa clan's Motokata follow-up troops came up.
If they were defeated, they would only gain some time to retreat. But seeing that their archery team had been destroyed, the Umohara Mitsuru clan suddenly lost all will to fight.
"Withdraw, retreat, there is no chance. Prepare to submit a letter of surrender. Escape back to Kabara Castle first." Mitsuhara Kamahara called the troops to flee to the northwest to avoid Asahina Taino's front. "This battle can't be won."
beated."
As soon as Ubihara Bei withdrew, Yuhibi and Hasegawa Bei, who had suffered heavy losses, immediately lost their will to fight and broke away from the battle line and fled westward. Okabe Bei was able to concentrate on dealing with the enemy behind him. Okabe Okabe took some time to attack Ubihara.
All Bei's troops turned to form and counterattacked towards Fukushima Bei. At the same time, Sekiguchi Bei, Sena Bei and Asahina Bei also crossed the Miura family's position and attacked Fukushima Bei from the flanks.
At this time, the hilltop where Fukushima Enoge was stationed had also been captured by the outnumbered Imagawa family troops. Fukushima Enomoto himself was desperately fighting and retreating, moving closer to the direction of Fukushima Masaari's main army, but once
The Imagawa Army, which was pursued across the mountains in groups, still overwhelmed him with only 40 men left. The reserve group left by Taiyuan Yuksai in the main formation also joined the battlefield and came along the official road; Asahina Taino's cavalry group
Then they circled straight south, flying together with the reserves on both wings, trying to surround Fukushima completely like a pair of pliers.
The army was defeated like a mountain.
Imagawa Yoshizhen truly realized the meaning of this sentence. The dawn was fleeting and the fate of defeat was inevitable.
"Let's go, lead the third son to break out of the encirclement!" Fukushima Masashige also understood that the battle situation could not be reversed, and immediately commanded the horse warriors to protect Imagawa Yoshima, and rushed towards the gap in the encirclement. The Fukushima family infantry behind him tried their best to catch up.
But he was still thrown further and further away. Imagawa Yoshima had no time to look at the friendly troops behind him. On the battlefield filled with flying arrows and smoke, he could only use all his strength to control his horse and sit down in order to keep up with the cavalry.
speed.
The shouts of killing gradually stopped, and Imagawa Ryozen's troops who were still fighting could no longer be seen on the entire battlefield, but Imagawa Ryoshima managed to escape. Fukushima Masashige arranged for one team after another to dare to die.
The soldiers turned back to delay time, and finally opened a safe distance. At this time, there were only more than 40 people left around Imagawa Yoshima and Fukushima Masashige. The main force was cleanly surrounded and annihilated by Taiyuan Xuezhai. If there were no survivors just now,
With the intention of turning defeat into victory, he directly led his troops to retreat from the battle line after the Miura family surrendered, and maybe they could still retain some of their effective forces.
Fukushima Masashige was so angry that he punched his thigh hard, and his right hand was cut open by the leg skirt. But Imagawa Yoshima looked back at the battlefield full of reluctance - in less than two hours, the entire army had already
It's all over.
Fukushima Masashige protected Imagawa Yoshima all the way west to Imagawakan, but they no longer dared to enter the city at this moment - Shouguini was able to bring troops to Imagawa Ujimoto before the battle, which means that she had been secretly collaborating with the army, so Imagawakan
The more than 2,000 Imagawa family members left in the house must have also obeyed Sugini's orders. Fukushima Masashige and his party bypassed Imagawakan from the north of the city and fled all the way to the northwest Fukushima Home Furnishing City Hanakura Castle.
On the morning of March 27, the fifth year of Tenmon (1536), Imagawa Yoshima and Imagawa Ujimoto fought in a battle in Kamabahara, Suruga. The battle was a great victory for Imagawa Ujimoto. Imagawa Yoshima almost escaped with his own life. It is known as the Battle of Kamawara in history.
The defeated Imagawa Yoshima and Fukushima Masashige fled into Hanakura Castle before dusk, and mobilized the remaining soldiers and citizens to defend the city. After nightfall, Imagawa Ujimoto arrived with his pursuers and surrounded Hanakura Castle heavily.
In the early morning of March 28th, the fifth year of Tianwen (1536), Shougini officially announced that Imagawa Clan's successor as the governor of the Imagawa family was outside Huacang City, making him the eleventh generation of the Imagawa family. However, Imagawa Liangzhen was succeeded by Shouguini.
He called on all the Imagawa family retainers to fight against the traitors who murdered the former lord Imagawa Uji Teru and Imagawa Hikogoro.
As soon as this order came out, whether it was the Asahina family, Okabe family, Sena family and other families who were on the side of the Imagawa clan; or the Abe family and Uden family in the mountainous area north of Suruga who had not received the news before and were not notified until now.
The Imagawa family, the Ogi family and other families; or the Miura family, Kamahara family and other families who were originally on the side of Imagawa Yoshima - all Imagawa family retainers, except the Fukushima family, submitted an oath to recognize the Imagawa clan as the successor to the family governor.
position, and everyone is passionate about avenging Imagawa Shiteru.
Shouguini transferred all government and military power of the Imagawa family to Imagawa Shimoto, and Imagawa Shimoto appointed Taiyuan Xuezhai as the family minister to handle all matters on his behalf.