Chapter 465: Eagle Yang

At four o'clock, 1,000 Asai eagles, led by Asai Nagamasa himself, launched a fierce attack on the position of the Oda army.

Due to the narrow official road, at most 500 soldiers can be launched into the attack at one time, so Sakai Masao's 800 soldiers are enough to defend the official road tightly, not to mention that these 800 soldiers are the elite of Oda Nobunaga's direct subordinates.

However, Sakai Masanao just has no bottom in his heart. Not for anything else, just because of the eagle's momentum of looking at death as home.

"Tell the archers and gunners to shoot at once!" After seeing the Eagle Bei enter the firing range, Sakai Masashi immediately ordered the ranged soldiers to start attacking. He wanted to rely on the powerful firepower of the Oda army to force the eagle to stop and shoot at them, so as to drag the tide of the battle into a protracted battle. However, he was surprised to find that none of the eagles standing in the front row were archers and gunners, but all infantry.

With neat steps, they rushed towards the line of the Oda family without any scruples. Even if the dense feathered arrows and projectiles inflicted huge losses on the infantry of the first platoon, they did not stop in the slightest. The infantry in the rear quickly filled the line, and without any intention of returning fire at a distance, they bumped into each other.

"Endure casualties and go straight into white-knuckle combat?" Masamao Sakai watched the battle move in a direction he hadn't expected with some disbelief, "Oh my God. ”

Sakai Masashi hurriedly ordered the archers and gunners to retreat, but they were still caught off guard. When the Eagle's infantry saw the change in the Oda family's position, they immediately launched a charge and collided with the Oda family before they could restore the battle line. Standing on the front line and commanding, Sakai Hizo was caught off guard, and saw that many eagle-prepared soldiers squeezed into the Oda family formation along the retreating path of the archers, and killed the surrounding Oda troops indiscriminately, causing a lot of chaos.

"Follow me!" Sakai Hisazo immediately beckoned several Oda samurai around him to lead his troops forward, trying to maintain the line. However, those eagle-prepared samurai were also brave and brave, and they cooperated with each other tacitly, and in only two or three rounds, they had already killed and injured nearly half of the samurai around Sakai Kuzo.

At this time, the Oda army on the front line also started a fierce battle with the eagle preparation. These troops under the direct command of Oda Nobunaga were originally quite powerful, but they were difficult to resist in the face of the eagles. The Eagle is well-trained, and everyone uses a katana as a weapon, which is far superior to the various spears and swords of the Oda family's troops in a chaotic war. Moreover, since the Eagle Bei became an army ten years ago, it has experienced countless battles and battles, and it has long been a battle-hardened force, and the cooperation between its companions is far from being comparable to that of the Oda family's soldiers.

What's even more terrifying is that the morale of the eagle is also high and terrifying. Carrying the banner of "righteousness goes, life and death go hand in hand", and the family governor stood on the front line to personally lead the charge, everyone was not afraid of death, the knife was fierce and decisive, and there was no defensive meaning at all.

On the other hand, the morale of the Oda army was relatively low. They were suddenly betrayed by their allies, stranded outside the country, and retreated. And at the moment, they are also outcasts who are arranged on the Eastern Front to buy time for the main forces. Under the advantages of one and the other, how can you stop the eagle?

Seeing that the frontline was showing signs of total collapse, Sakai Hisazo was also a little impatient. As soon as his heart panicked, his sword skills were chaotic, and he was not paying attention, and he was stabbed into the lower abdomen by the samurai of the Asai family in front of him. He fought back blankly with his sword, only to be knocked away by another Asai samurai. Kuzo Sakai instinctively tried to hold the katana inserted into his lower abdomen with his hand, but the Asai samurai only coldly twisted the katana, and blood immediately gushed out from the wound. Sakai Kuzo vomited blood clots in his mouth, his hands were also dripping with blood, and he was stabbed again, and fell down weakly.

Seeing the death of the commander of the front, the samurai and ashigaru of the Oda family retreated one after another. Masashi Sakai watched Aiko die, and he didn't even react yet. It was only a quarter of an hour before the war began, why did the front collapse? The child who was still laughing in his ear just now, the child he brought up since he was a child, and the child who planned to let him inherit the family business, why is it that he is no longer there in an instant?

Sakai Masashi lost his mind in an instant, and actually led the reserves behind the formation to press directly, trying to beat the eagle back directly. However, it was met with a majestic eagle preparing to meet the head-on attack. The eagle had just occupied several commanding heights in the Oda family's position, taking advantage of the territory. Asai Nagamasa was condescending, and at a glance he saw that there was a break on the right side of Sakai Masasa's front, and immediately threw hundreds of soldiers into the gap. The right flank of Sakai Masasho's department was cut off by the assault force of Taka Bei, and he lost contact with Sakai Masasao, and was forced to the direction of Lake Biwa under the attack of Taka Bei. They were so embarrassed that they were stuck in the mudflats, and it was already difficult to adjust their formation, and they were finally routed by a wave, and the defeated troops fled westward in disarray. There were more than a dozen daring Oda family ashigaru who took off their armor and jumped directly into Lake Biwa, trying to swim and escape. Those in front on the right had no choice but to drop their weapons and surrender.

After breaking through the enemy's right flank, the Eagle Bei immediately began to sweep Sakai Masanori's line from south to north. Mori Kecheng, who was standing on the high ground behind Sakai Masasho's formation, clearly saw Sakai Masanori's predicament at the moment, and sent four or five envoys in a row to make Sakai Masasho retreat and reorganize. However, Sakai Masasho refused to retreat as if he had been killed.

However, Asai Nagamasa will not give Sakai any chance at all. After the first team broke through the line, another 500-strong reserve of the Eagle Reserve quickly entered the battlefield and besieged Sakai Masasho's headquarters from the right rear. Sen Kecheng saw that things were not good, so he had to abandon his position and lead his 1,200 soldiers to the east to support. However, before he arrived, Sakai Masasang had already been captured in the rebellion, and the banner was captured by the Asai family. Sakai Masasa's department, which had lost his command, completely collapsed and fled to the west, instead disrupting Mori Kasei's formation.

And the Eagle Bei, which relied on Yu Qiuping's modern training method, also far surpassed the ancient army in terms of formation change. They quickly broke away from the battle, regrouped on the original position of Sakai Masasho and resumed the formation, and once again rushed towards Mori Kosei in the form of a phalanx charge. Sen Kecheng's troops had just been attacked by the defeated army, and before they could adjust their formation, the eagle had already crashed headlong. Even though Sen Kecheng led the troops to fight hard, he still couldn't stop the eagle who looked at death as if he were home, and the troops began to retreat.

And his situation is even more difficult than that of Sakai Masasho just now, because he has left his position in order to rescue Sakai Masanori. At this moment, if he wanted to retreat, he would have to wade through his position. The large number of trenches, horse rejections, and fences he had laid out to resist the Asai family's offensive had now become stumbling blocks to the retreat of his army.

The rear team retreated slowly, but the defeated troops at the front had already overwhelmed it. Mori Kecheng's reserve and the remnants of Sakai Masasho's troops were in chaos on the east side of Mori's position, and there was a serious stampede, which was routed by the Eagle Bei in one fell swoop. The panicked rout fell into the trenches in large numbers, trampled to death by those behind them, or pushed and knocked to death on the repulsive horses, and the fence that fell to the ground further aggravated the confusion.

The Oda family originally wanted to rely on the narrow official road to delay the Asai family's attack, but at this moment they reaped the consequences. Due to the narrow terrain, the routed troops could only flee to their friendly positions, which would not only be hindered by the friendly fortifications, but would also give the attacking side a chance to cover up. After the rout army rushed through the defensive position, the original fortifications were trampled to the ground, and the eagle was able to attack all the way forward.

Behind Mori Kosei were several weak positions such as Ikeda Tsuneko, Kinoshita Hideyoshi, and Naomasa Tsukasa. According to Oda Nobunaga's plan, Sakai Masanori and Mori Kocheng could hold the Asai family back for a long time, and it was not their turn to fight before lunch, so these subsequent positions were not prepared for battle at all, and they had to deal with the large number of routs and the Asai army that came from behind.

Hiroko Ikeda, Hideyoshi Kinoshita, and Naomasa Tsukasa were powerless to resist, and were crushed one after another by the eagle's preparation. New routs were constantly added to the rout, and the structure became more and more chaotic to the point that it could not be contained, and the surrendered Oda army had almost blocked the official road.

"Those who surrender, lay down their weapons and go to both sides of the official road by themselves!" Asai Nagamasa, who rushed to the front line, was also covered in blood at the moment, and kept shouting, "We don't have time to capture you!" ”

Under the continuous impact of Asai Nagamasa, the 10-mile positions set up by the Oda family on the line of Shidake-Nagaji Temple were broken one after another, and the rout was rolled up against the rout, and the situation was no longer manageable. Asai Nagamasa White Eagle Horse Seal pointed out that the troops of the Oda family were invincible. And Niwa Nagahide, who was in the eleventh formation, had already seen the tragedy of the front line, and sent urgent messengers one after another to inform Oda Nobunaga of the situation here.

"His Highness Sakai has been killed, His Highness Mori, Lord Kinoshita, His Highness Ikeda, and His Highness Tsukashi are all missing, and as of now, the first five formations have all fallen under the offensive of Asai Nagamasa."

"The Sixth Array has collapsed! Tsuda-sama killed! ”

"The seventh formation can't be resisted, it's already collapsed! His Royal Highness Nagano is seriously injured and his whereabouts are unknown! ”

"The eighth formation, Lord Okamoto, is trying to resist the enemy, but if there are no reinforcements, he can't stop Asai Nagamasa!"

"The eighth formation has been defeated, and the ninth formation, Lord Mizuno, sent someone to ask for a retreat, please give the lord an order!"

"The ninth formation collapsed, and Mizuno-sama was killed! The Lord of the Tenth Formation has abandoned the army and absconded, and the deployment of the dragons is leaderless, and there is chaos! ”

"The tenth battle is broken, and the politics of Asai Naga are unstoppable! Please make a decision as soon as possible, I'm afraid it will be difficult to protect here! ”

Oda Nobunaga was unaware of the situation on the Eastern Front, and he didn't expect Asai Nagamasa to be so brave and in a hurry. In front of him, the Asakura family had just started a battle with the Tokugawa family not long ago, and it was still more than an hour away from being led into the ambush area by Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had fought and retreated, but it was definitely too late now. He hastily ordered the ambush troops to leave their positions and return to their own camp as many as possible, but the ambush plan was cancelled, and Tokugawa Ieyasu held on to the spot to block the pursuing troops of the Asakura family. At the same time, he urgently ordered the grounding order of Yu Qiuping of the main camp to be lifted, and asked him to immediately lead Tokiwa to guard the main formation.

At four o'clock, the eleventh formation guarded by Niwa Nagahide was also broken by Asai Nagamasa. The eleven positions formed by the 5,000 soldiers of the Oda family were completely broken by Asai Nagamasa in two hours, and the entire army collapsed. In two hours, the outnumbered crowd broke eleven in a row, such a feat is quite rare in the entire history.

The name of Omi Eagle has resounded all over the world.