Chapter 174: The Battle of Hino Mountain (Part I)
The night was uneventful, and the next day, as soon as the sky was slightly bright, the rapid sound of the conch horn sounded at the foot of Mt. Hino. The moment he heard the horn, he suddenly opened his eyes and quickly got up from the ground with the naginata in his hand.
After a while, another formation of magic horns sounded from the north, followed by seven or eight samurai on horseback galloping from the north. After listening to the reports of these samurai on horseback, Shibata Katsuie came to the Oda army on horseback, first encouraging the people, and then giving the whole army the order to advance earlier.
After receiving the order to advance, the Burning Sky nodded to the standard-bearer beside him, and the standard-bearer held the papaya flag and the Yongle Tongbao Army Flag and followed the Burning Sky forward. The army behind the burning sky did not need to be commanded by the burning air, and consciously followed the previously moving military flag.
The Oda army had advanced about 800 meters before hearing the sound of taiko drums in front of them. Gradually, the large army flag with three sheng papaya patterns entered the field of vision, and at this time, the papaya pattern in the Shibata Katsuya formation and the Marunouchi two geese gold pattern military flag also stopped advancing. Later, the burning sky saw countless military flags with three sheng papaya patterns and other family crests appearing from the north.
Due to the fact that it was a plain, there was no way to see the formation of the Asakura army. But soon Shibata Katsuya's attendants rushed over and said to the burning sky: "Lord Hiei, the enemy army is a formation of fish scales, Lord Gong Wang, act carefully!" With that, Shibata Katsuya's close attendant returned to Shibata Katsuie's main camp. Burning Hollow pondered the fish scale array listed by the Asakura Army in his heart, and kept looking up at the Asakura Army.
After Suzuki Heavy Industries and the others beside the Burning Sky listened to Shibata Katsuie's report, Fujido Takatora whispered to the Burning Sky: "Lord, the enemy army is in a fish-scale formation, this formation is hoarding a large number of troops in front, and the weak point is behind its formation. ”
After listening to Fujitang Gaohu's words, the thinking Burning Sky nodded and said: "Since the enemy army dared to form a fish scale formation after finding out the deployment of our army yesterday, that is, the number of troops is above our army, and our army has more than 8,000 people counting peasants and soldiers, and the Asakura family army should have more than 10,000 troops!" The Asakura family has mobilized all the families of the Hokurizen Plains and the Higashitsumae Former Mountain Castles this time! ”
After listening to the words of the burning sky, Suzuki Heavy Industries on the side said to the burning sky: "Lord, can the Asakura family mobilize more than 10,000 troops?" After hearing this, he glanced at the Asakura army on the opposite side, and said to Suzuki Heavy Industries: "Before North Vietnam, it was a place where the Beijing wind prevailed, and there were many temples and ronins, coupled with the terrain of the plains, its population could mobilize more than 10,000 troops, but it was unknown how powerful it was!" ”
At this time, the Haima Yijia said to the burning sky: "My lord, the spring plowing should have just ended before North Vietnam, if the Asakura family mobilizes too many troops, what will happen to the cultivated land that still needs to be taken care of?" ”
After hearing this, Burning Sky said to the Seahorse Yijia: "Yijia, the Asakura family is facing a battle of life and death, if we don't mobilize the army, will we let the farmers give us the land?" ”
After listening to the words of the burning sky, the Haima Yijia suddenly laughed and said to the burning sky: "It's me who only focuses on one point!" ”
Seeing this, Burning Sky also smiled, and looked at the Asakura army on the opposite side and stopped advancing, so he said to the army behind him: "After this battle, the Echizen country will be included in the territory of His Royal Highness Nobunaga, and most of them will be heroes who conquered North Echi, and His Royal Highness Nobunaga has clear rewards and punishments, everyone will be rewarded by His Highness Nobunaga one by one, it's time to be loyal to His Highness Nobunaga!" ”
After saying that, the army in the formation began to be agitated, and many samurai had begun to shout in the formation. Burning Sky also clenched the naginata knife in his hand, and his legs gently clamped the horse's belly, looking like he was ready to go out of battle at any time. Behind the Burning Sky was a group of more than 200 horseback warriors, lined up on the far right of the Burning Sky formation.
The two armies were lined up not far from the foot of Mt. Hino, and both armies were quietly watching each other. In the end, the outnumbered Asakura army could not hold back, and launched an offensive against the Oda army amid the dull sound of the conch horn and the rapid sound of taiko drums.
The Asakura army, which was arranged in a fish-scale formation, did not attack first with iron cannons and bows and arrows, but directly charged at the Oda army with the advantage of numbers. Seeing this, Shibata Katsuie, who was in the center of the formation, immediately ordered several military formations in the center of the formation to fire projectiles and arrows at the Asakura army that was charging towards him.
The overwhelming Asakura army charged in the direction of the Burning Sky in the direction of the Burning Sky in the midst of shouts and drums, and when the Burning Sky saw this, he realized that the Asakura Army was also going to break through the Oda Army's formation in one fell swoop, and then bulldoze the Oda Army from the side. And the original plan laid out by Shibata Katsuya lost its effect in an instant,
Shibata Katsuie watched the Asakura army attack in the direction of the burning sky, and immediately adjusted his plan, and said to his close attendants: "Kick down the horse rejection fence!" When the attendants heard Shibata Katsuie's words, they shouted, "Tear down the horse-barring fence!" "The iron guns Ashigaru and Bowfoot Light, who had been shooting at the enemy's flanks, immediately stopped their men's movements and struggled to knock down the horse-barring fence that they had arranged yesterday.
At this time, the Asakura army was not far from the strength of the Burning Sky Army, and the iron artillery team and bow team under the Burning Sky were also retreated to the rear of the formation after a few rounds of shooting. Burning Sky looked at the approaching Asakura army, and immediately ordered his troops: "The whole army will attack from the right flank and spare the horse fence!" With that, the cavalry team on the right flank of the Burning Air Force took the lead in attacking the Asakura army, and then the Burning Sky also led his samurai and Ashigaru to the right wing to spare the horse barrier and rushed towards the Asakura army.
Seeing this, Niwa Nagahide, who was originally behind the Burning Sky Array, immediately said to the two thousand troops under his command: "Make up for the vacancy in front!" With that, the military flag beside Niwa Nagahide also moved, and then the ashigaru followed the samurai with the flag in front of him striding forward.
The Asakura army apparently did not expect the Oda army to spare the horse rejection fence, and after joining the cavalry team under Kanku, they were caught off guard by the iron artillery team and bow team under Niwa Nagahide, who had taken up the position.
After a cavalry team of more than 200 people attacked the Asakura army, Kanku also led his foot samurai and ashigaru to attack the Asakura army. The moment the Burning Sky joined the Asakura Army, he felt the horror of the Fish Scale Array. Although these elite horseback samurai of Shibata Katsuya are highly skilled in martial arts, they are still powerless when facing an enemy army that is several times their size.
Burning Sky swings his sword on his horse and slashes down the surrounding Ashigaru, only to find that he is only the tip of the iceberg against the Asakura army. The immediate Burning Sky looked at the Sansheng Papaya Banner in the distance, gritted his teeth and continued to slash and kill with Asakura Ashigaru beside him.
Niwa Nagahide's troops used the horse fence to keep hitting the Asakura army who were struggling to push the fence. The sound of iron cannons rang out one after another, making the Asakura army who came to push the fence pay more than a hundred corpses, but there was still no great progress.
After Shibata Katsuya also knocked down the fence in front of him, he launched an attack on the flank of the Asakura army with more than 3,000 troops and more than 2,000 peasant soldiers. At this time, the Oda army's military formation happened to be an unbalanced crescent moon with a thick left side and a weak right side, although it was different from the previous plan, but the glaive formation also began.