The Nagao Army actually gave up its position and crossed the friendly defense zone to help. The fierce Echigo cavalry charged, causing the Hojo Army to be caught off guard. The Akamatsu Army and the Urakami Army randomly launched a counterattack. The Hojo Army wanted to withdraw, but failed.
Pushing each other on the west bank of Dongshan Bridge, many soldiers were squeezed into the Kamogawa River and swam to escape in embarrassment.
"Don't panic, everyone, let me raid the formation for the friendly forces!" Nagao Kagetora, who was leading the charge, raised his arms and shouted to the soldiers of Akamatsu Army and Urakami Army, "The enemy's defeat has become apparent, follow me and counterattack quickly!"
After the order was given, the Nagao Army began to pour towards Higashiyama Bridge, following the retreating Hojo Army, trying to cross the Kamogawa River. The Oda Army and Saito Army hurriedly formed a defensive formation, and the Kitahata Army on standby in the rear also
He hurriedly rushed to support, which curbed the momentum of the Long Tail Army's counterattack.
When the news came back to the main formation, Takeda Harunobu and Taiyuan Xuesai began to discuss how to deal with it.
"In the battle a few days ago, the losses we suffered were due to the Otomo Army and the Nagao Army." Haruki Takeda tapped the hanging map lightly, "Originally, in this battle, the Tokoku Daimyos who came to Sanluo were all
It should be done without putting in effort. Logically speaking, only the Miyoshi family, the Hosokawa family, the Rokkaku family, and the Yusa family are the big names in Kinki who are really motivated to fight. But I didn’t expect that the young master who led the Otomo family wanted to make contributions for himself.
To gain fame, the Nagao Kagetora of the Nagao family is even more inexplicably high-spirited, resulting in the Northern Army having two more troops who dare to fight. Our Southern Army has no fighting desire to respond, so it naturally falls at a disadvantage."
Taiyuan Xuezhai nodded slightly and added: "It is also because the Otomo family and the Nagao family have no enemies with conflicting interests in the allied army, so they have less scruples. Tao Wei Zhang (Tao Longfang) of the Ouchi Army is also
, our army's Asakura and Rokkaku are also motivated to contribute in this battle. However, their mortal enemies in the area are friendly forces, making it difficult for them to fully engage in the battle, and they inevitably have to be on guard. Since they want to take the opportunity to weaken
They are afraid of being betrayed by their mortal enemy when they fight hard. But the Otomo family and the Nagao family are not like this. They are alone, so they naturally have no reservations."
"Also...His Royal Highness, the leader who is supposed to have the most fighting spirit, has no enterprising spirit. He always stays in the formation and waits to see the success or failure. On the other hand, the three good repairmen are full of fighting spirit and fought very hard in the last battle.
Brave. Under this situation, even if our Southern Army has the upper hand in strength, its actual combat effectiveness is subtly inferior to that of the Northern Army. If this battle is won, the biggest beneficiary is the Hosokawa family. How come he can't do anything?
"Takeda Harunobu said while looking at Hosokawa Harumoto in the distance in the tent with some dissatisfaction - he did not participate in the discussion between Takeda Harunobu and Taihara Yuksai about the battle situation, but sat beside the main tent and tasted it leisurely.
Tea appreciation painting.
Then he discovered that Imagawa Yoshimoto was sitting opposite Hosokawa Harumoto, drinking tea and admiring paintings with him - well, these "prince samurai" had similar interests.
"That guy Goro..." Takeda Harunobu laughed sarcastically.
"It's not necessarily a bad thing to have a good relationship with His Highness the Commander." Taiyuan Xuezhai explained to his apprentice with a smile, "With His Highness Dashan and me here, Chengfang doesn't need to worry about anything. In terms of military strategy, he still needs to be polished.
."
"Master Xue Zhai has some ideas to break the situation?" Takeda Harunobu looked at Taiyuan Xue Zhai.
"There are three strategies. I wonder which one Your Highness, Dazen, would like to hear first?" Taiyuan Xuezai looked at Takeda Harunobu meaningfully.
"Of course it's the worst policy." Takeda Harunobu said with a smile, stroking his hands, "The lowest policy is the most practical policy. The middle policy and the best policy may look glamorous, but in fact it requires a lot of determination, sacrifices and changes to find a good way out. Our coalition forces
We are almost without a leader. Who can convince whom? Who can make the decision? Who can convince everyone to make sacrifices? Therefore, the best policy cannot be implemented at all. Only the lowest policy can be implemented."
"Sober, well said." Taiyuan Xuezhai sighed in admiration, then waved his hand and pointed to the station of the Nagao family on the map: "The next step is to draw out the most militant Changwei army to surround and kill. Defeat the North.
With the help of the army, future strategies will be more effective with half the effort."
"We see the same thing." Takeda Harunobu also looked stern, "The Nagao family is bent on fighting and will never let go of the opportunity to counterattack. We let the Oda Army, Saito Army and Hojo Army use a loophole to introduce them
On the east bank of the Kamogawa River, surround and annihilate them."
"However, the Long Tail Army is also hard-core. If they are trapped in a dangerous situation, they will definitely have the momentum to fight until the end of the day. Their combat power cannot be underestimated. It is unrealistic to expect friendly forces to attack the enemy." Taiyuan Xuezhai pointedly guided, and
Takeda Harunobu obviously already had the answer:
"Then the Takeda family will naturally take the lead." Haruyuki Takeda hammered his chest hard with his hand, "The Takeda family will definitely attack Northern Shinano. The Nagao family will definitely be our enemy by then. Who will the Takeda family not do?
Take action? Getting rid of one of their main forces here is exactly what I want."
April 8, the 14th year of Tianwen (1546), Kyoto.
Just like yesterday, the Southern Army divided its troops into three groups to attack Chofukuji Temple, Takio Shrine and Chisukein. Like yesterday, the Nagao family actively supported them. This time, the Oda Army, Saito Army and
After seeing the arrival of the Nagao Army, the Hojo Army decisively chose to retreat. The difference was that even though the Hojo Army, which came to support last time, did not arrive, the retreating Oda Army, Saito Army and Hojo Army failed to organize
Solid defense. After Nagao Kagetora saw the opportunity, he immediately drove straight across the bridge and charged in. What came into view immediately was the Takeda Army and Imagawa Army who were waiting in full formation.
The Takeda Army attacked from the front, while the Imagawa Army penetrated directly along the Kamogawa River in the north, trying to seize control of Higashiyama Bridge and trap the Nagao Army on the east bank. At the same time, the Kitahata Army also joined the retreating Oda.
The Japanese Army, Saito Army and Hojo Army regrouped south of Higashiyama Bridge, seeming to want to cooperate with the Imagawa Army to launch a pincer offensive and attack Higashiyama Bridge together.
The Nagao Army immediately sent a signal to the friendly forces of Chofukuji Temple, the Akamatsu Army and the Urakami Army, for support. However, the Akamatsu Army and the Urakami Army were not related to the Nagao family. Although the Nagao Army was grateful for the kindness of the Nagao Army who came to support twice,
They sent out troops to guard Dongshan Bridge in a symbolic manner, but they did not have the consciousness to fight to the death and were quickly driven away by the Imagawa Army.
"Wait for death." Takeda Harunobu looked with satisfaction at the gradually closing encirclement and the young samurai under the Nagao family's horse seal. "Do you think everyone is as naive as you? Would you fight for the sake of friendly forces and this?
It doesn’t matter how hard you fight?”
"How naive." On the other side, Nagao Kagetora was looking disdainfully at Takeda Harunobu's horse seal, as well as the Oda Army and other troops in the south of our army, "Such a clumsy way of luring the enemy, do you think I can't see it?"
Just when Takeda Harunobu was about to close the net and encircle him, Nagao Kagetora advanced instead of retreating and led the crowd to charge towards Takeda's army. Takeda Harunobu quickly turned around to form a formation, but Nagao's army flew away directly in front of him and turned to
Kill in the northeast direction - get out through the gap between the Imagawa Army and the Takeda Army - that is the direction of Takio Shrine.
The Imagawa Army was moving westward, and the Takeda Army was in formation. In a hurry, no one could keep up with the Nagao Army's actions, so they were rushed over by him. If the Nagao Army continued to move northeast, they would be able to rush in immediately.
Behind the Asakura Army and Asai Army who were besieging Takio Shrine - directly smashed these two armies.
The main force frantically warned the Asakura Army and Asai Army, and the messenger soldiers sent out rushed towards Takio Shrine, but the speed of the Nagao Army was not much slower than the messenger soldiers. When Asakura Soteni received the news, he was shocked
When he turned to look behind him, the vanguard of the Long Tail Army was almost in front of him.
At the critical moment, another group of knights came to kill from the side. Asakura Soti took a closer look and found that it actually had the red bird horse seal of the Imagawa family governor. They walked around from the other side of the street and happened to stop them.
The vanguard knights of the Long-tail Army did not rush into the formation. Instead, they reined in their horses together, picked up the loaded iron cannons, pointed at the Long-tail Army and pulled the trigger. After the smoke rose, people from Vietnam came from Vietnam.
The horses and knights behind them were immediately thrown off their feet amidst the loud noise and rain of bullets.
"It's an iron cannon!" Nagao Kagetora himself reacted, but the "hillbillies" in Echigo had never seen such a novel weapon before, and they were immediately in chaos. If they wanted to re-pacify morale and organize an attack, they would be delayed.
Little time. But now that the Nagao Army is alone in the depths, time is the biggest risk. If the Southern Army units react and come to support, it will be troublesome. As a last resort, Nagao Kagetora wisely chose to give up the attack and pull the troops
He rushed westward again, trying to go north along the Kamogawa River and retreat to the control area of the friendly forces. However, Yoshimoto Imagawa did not resist. After rescuing the friendly forces, he decisively opened the way to let the aggressive Nagatail Army leave.
"So fast... When did Goro go around?" At this time, Takeda Harunobu, who was startled into a cold sweat, had time to look at the battle situation. "Could it be that the long-tail army had just moved around, and he had already brought his own flag to go around?"
Road intercepted?"
But after just a few simple glances, Takeda Harunobu, who had just experienced a tactical failure, had calmly sensed the new fighter plane. Although the evacuation of the Nagatail Army was probably unstoppable, the enemy forces across the Higashiyama Bridge were now only
The weak Akamatsu Army and Urakami Army were left. To the southeast of Higashiyama Bridge, six troops including Takeda Army, Imagawa Army, Saito Army, Oda Army, Hojo Army and Hokahata Army were assembled. At this moment, the control of Higashiyama Bridge
It's still in the hands of the Imagawa Army.
"Cross the river and attack!" Takeda Harunobu sent messengers to Hosokawa Harumoto and Taihara Yuksai of our own formation, requesting them to change their command, while waving a flag to the Imagawa Army not far away. He wanted to make peace with the Imagawa Army not far away before mobilizing other friendly forces.
The Imagawa Army crossed the Higashiyama Bridge together and marched westward. After receiving Takeda Harunobu's request, Imagawa Yoshimoto immediately led the team through the Higashiyama Bridge and launched an attack on the Urakami Army position at the bridge head. The Urakami Army was originally in the "show stage".
He planned to wait and see the Confederate Army encircle and suppress the Nagao Army, but he never expected that the flames of war suddenly came to him, and the Imagawa Army broke through the position in three blows.
After crossing the Higashiyama Bridge, Imagawa Yoshimoto immediately commanded the troops to spread out to the left and right wings along the river to expand the position on the west bank. Subsequently, the Kai samurai of the Takeda Army followed aggressively and rushed straight out of the passage vacated by the Imagawa Army.
