Chapter 319: Qi Zheng Depends on Each Other (2)
However, it was said that more than 800 people from the first section of the Sabei watched Lin Xiuzhen lead the army to pursue the retreating Takeda army, and the Fujido Gaohu who was standing next to the Sabei held a knife in his arms and whispered: "Lord, the Takeda partial army has been defeated, and it will be until Lord Sado Mamoru attacks the Takeda army's main formation..."
Before Fujitang Gaohu finished speaking, Sabei stretched out his hand and said: "I can wait to guard the left flank of the coalition army, and the major affairs of the soldier country must not be talked about!" ”
Seeing this, Fujitang Gaohu nodded, and immediately held his sword and served beside Zuobei, his eyes passed over everyone, and he concentrated on observing the battle situation ahead.
Sabei stood still in the middle of the formation, looking at the mountains and forests on the side, and suddenly saw a burst of birds chirping in the forest. Sabei, who noticed that something was wrong, immediately said to the close attendants on the side: "There is something wrong with the left wing of the coalition army, you take me to fold the fan, and quickly go to report to Lord Mikawa!" ”
Hearing this, the attendant who was serving beside the Sabei lowered his head and took the folding fan, jumped out of the formation, and ran quickly towards the main formation of the coalition army.
Seeing the attendants flying away, Sabei immediately returned to his senses and commanded his troops to line up to meet the enemy. The 500 Tokugawa troops deployed were in the front of the Sabei because they held two and a half spears, and the two wings were Ashigaru with short spears and naginatas, and these two wings were surrounded by the arch guard, and the Sabei was in the 100-man main formation, and a brief crane wing array was listed on the left flank of the Oritoku coalition army.
Before the army of the Sabei Department could stabilize its formation, the land, which had been plagued by the sea breeze all year round, began to tremble. Seeing this, Sabei felt a chill in his heart, looked back at the somewhat empty coalition battle formation in his own formation, let out a loud sigh, and then raised his naginata and began to chant the Lotus Sutra in his mouth. Seeing this, the attendants who were standing on the left and right of the Sabei also raised their swords and sang in a low voice with the Sabei guard.
However, the battle-hardened Ashigaru had already guessed the size of the ambush from the movements in the mountains and forests, and some small pre-war commotion followed. The chanting of Sabei and others is really limited, and can only appease the military situation in the vicinity, and some ashigaru did not listen to it at all because of nervousness.
Probably in order to avoid the inspection of the coalition army, this ambush was hidden very deeply, even though Sabei had sung for nearly a hundred breaths, but the ambush still did not appear from the mountains and forests. And this unknown is even more frightening, and there are already people in the Sabei Guard who are about to run away.
Seeing this, Fujitang Gaohu on the side said in a low voice: "Lord, could it be that the Takeda Army is bluffing here to lure friendly troops to support us?" ”
Hearing this, Sabei couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he first swung his sword and killed Ashigaru who turned and fled, and then carried the head of the deserter to explain military discipline, and once again used the reward to motivate his subordinates. This set of carrots and sticks went down, and the military heart finally had a little stability.
Before the general of the Sabei army could settle down, the ambush soldiers in the mountains and forests had already rushed out. Fujido Takatora, who has excellent eyesight and has a height advantage, fixed his eyes and saw that a newly erected banner of the Rehmannia Hachiman came into view.
Seeing this, Fujido Takahu whispered to Sabei, and Sabei's face became even more ugly when he saw this.
Sabei glanced at the enemy army that was estimated to be twice his size, and immediately let out a loud sigh, and ordered his troops to change the formation, completely shrinking the crane wings, and transforming them into a defensive square circle. The samurai who received the order shouted at the samurai to act quickly, and the ashigaru also carried out the samurai-sama's orders with fear.
In the midst of the shouting of the Kanto accent, Sabei's samurai and ashigaru "clanked" to complete Sabei's order and transform the Tsurushikashi array into a square circle.
Sabei, who was standing in the formation, looked back at the Tokugawa Ieyasu main camp again, and saw that the Tokugawa Ieyasu main camp banner was still there, so he gritted his teeth and said: "The reinforcements of His Royal Highness Mikawa are about to arrive, and we must withstand the first wave of the Hojo Army!" We can't let the Hojo Army easily enter this camp! ”
As soon as Sabei finished speaking, he saw a wave of arrows flying in the sky. The short distance caused a lot of damage to the Hojo family's arrows, and even the close attendants of the Sabei were also damaged. Sabei looked around, and before he could give the order, he saw another wave of arrows flying.
After pulling out the arrow that did not pierce the belly roll of his body, Sabei looked up at the Hojo Army, who was already thirty or forty paces away, and shouted to everyone, "Hold on, the Hojo Army is going to rush up!" ”
Sabei shouted to command his subordinates, and while clenching the naginata in his hand, his eyes stayed on the yellow-lacquered armored horseback warrior not far in front of him. After a pause, Sabei took a deep breath, a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and then he saw the Hojo army collide with his own army.
Ashigaru, who was armed with two and a half spears in front of the battle, had already fought with the opponent's spear Ashigaru, and the Hojo Army was like a flood blocked by a boulder, while impacting the front of the Sabei army, and at the same time, two teams were diverted to bypass the spear Ashigaru and kill the two wings of Sabei.
Ashigaru, who was holding the naginata on both wings, looked at Hojo Huangbei who was coming from a distance, and the naginata in his hand couldn't help but tremble a little. Seeing that Hachiman Huangbei was about to fly in front of him, the hand holding the naginata was still unable to completely calm down.
The horse Hachiman Huangbei was about to stab the short spear in his hand into the chest of Ashigaru who was in a daze in front of him, but found that the Noma horse sitting down was stabbed by three or four naginatas and short spears, and before waiting for the next move of these naginatas and short spears, the short spear in Hachiman Huangbei's hand had already pierced into the dazed Ashigaru chest in front of him.
With just one charge, Hachiman Huang Beizhong peeled off a layer of Sabei's square circle. The Hojo Army's follow-up foot samurai and ashigaru are still following up, and the Sabei command is already a little overwhelmed.
Seeing this, the Tokugawa samurai in the formation said to Sabei: "Lord Mingwei, the Hojo Army's offensive is too fierce, and there is Hachiman Huangbei, who can withstand this?" ”
Looking at the coalition soldiers who fell to the ground around him, Sabei said to the Tokugawa samurai in front of him: "Now that the main formation is empty, once we are breached, His Highness Mikawa's main formation will be in danger!" How long can we hold on! ”
When the Tokugawa samurai heard this, his face became even more solemn, and he bowed his head to Sabei and said, "It was a miscalculation, and after the war, I went to His Highness to ask for guilt!" ”
As he spoke, the Hojo Army, which had rushed over, no longer paid attention to the military momentum of Sabei and went directly to Tokugawa Ieyasu's main formation. If Tokugawa Ieyasu's main formation is broken, even if Tokugawa Ieyasu does not die, the coalition forces in front of him will definitely be demoralized, and whether they can successfully break through at that time is a question, and I am afraid that I will have to explain here. Thinking of this, Sabei looked back at the Hojo Army rushing over, and a layer of cold sweat formed all over his body.
At this time, Fujitang Gaohu was the first to react, and said to Sabei in a low voice: "Lord, the Hojo Army divided its troops and went straight to His Highness Mikawa's main formation, I don't see that there are many troops left behind, why don't we fight back against the troops they left behind, so that we still have a chance to return to support His Highness Mikawa!" ”
Zuobei's flustered heart slowly calmed down when he heard this, but after looking around, he realized that the Hojo Army not only "peeled off" one layer of its own military formation, but even directly broke up another layer of its own military formation, so that the originally tight Fangyuan formation had shrunk a lot.
Sabei, who had already made up his mind in his heart, looked at the spear Ashigaru that was still in front of the Hojo army, and then he lit up the more than 100 people around him, killed from the left flank of the square circle array, and directly hit the right flank of the Hojo army that was left behind. Sabei, who had hope in his eyes, brandished his naginata and cut down the Hojo samurai who was a little stunned in front of him, and then led more than 100 of his men to slash and kill the Hojo army directly.
The Hojo army, which had been killed, resisted a few times before tending to break up. After pursuing dozens of paces, Sabei saw that the Hojo army was no longer capable of fighting, so he stopped and straightened up the samurai and ashigaru who were following behind him.
Originally, the main purpose of the remaining Hojo army was to delay the strength of the Sabei army, and it would be better if the Sabei army could be defeated. However, after Sabei reacted, these two tasks, the remaining Hojo army only completed the delay, and was defeated by Sabei's counterattack.
After finishing the reorganization of his troops, Sabei hastily gathered some of the coalition forces that had retreated from the front, and barely formed an army of more than 500 people, and then began to return to the Tokugawa Ieyasu main camp, which was attacked by the Hojo army.