Chapter Forty-Eight: The Battle of Purgatory
"Brother, Murakami's army is attacking too fiercely, please plan early!" Takeda Nobuyoshi, who was stained with blood, rushed back from the front line and urged beside Takeda Harunobu. Although the Red Reserve was defeated, Takeda Harunobu was able to mobilize troops to defend, but the defeated army under the command of the Oyamada family and Yokota Takamatsu blocked the way for the rear army to come to help, but with the talent cultivated by many years of commanding troops, the 300 troops under the command of Nobubo Baba, the 200 troops under Naito Masatyo, and the 1,000 troops under the command of Takeda Nobushige successfully met, forming the final line of defense in front of Takeda Harunobu's main camp.
Murakami Yoshikiyo also knows very well that although his subordinates are sharp, but after all, they have an absolute disadvantage in numbers, once they can't defeat Takeda Harunobu in time, then when Takeda Harunobu deploys troops to surround him, it will be difficult to fly, so he keeps urging the elite of Kita Shinano to attack, and he even leads his relatives samurai to rush to the front line. Seeing that Murakami Yoshikiyo was so brave, the soldiers of Kita-Shinano fought to the death and launched a furious offensive against the Takeda army. Rao is Takeda army has been on the battlefield for a long time, and has never seen such a deadly style of play, they are all frightened, coupled with the disadvantage in numbers, the entire defense line is constantly retreating, even if Takeda Nobuyhiro personally swings his sword into battle, he can't stop the defeat.
Takeda Harunobu watched the Murakami army rage with a pale face, and a few words broke out of his mouth for a long time: "Echigo Nagao family!" β
Because the Takeda family has the support of Kanayama, so Takeda Harunobu has a lot of money to support ninjas, and the intelligence system under his command is quite perfect, and it is impossible for him not to know about such a large-scale transfer of the Murakami army, so the only explanation is that his intelligence system has been hit hard, and only the Xuanyuan ninjas of the Echigo Nagao family can do this!
"Lord, the young master is still with Tsukahara Molong!" Kansuke Yamamoto hurriedly spoke.
Takeda Harunobu stiffened, but then waved his hand: "It's okay, I believe that the Murakami family can't stop Tsukahara Molong." β
Can't stop it? Kansuke Yamamoto and Nobu Takeda looked at each other: Murakami's army has already defeated his army of 15,000, can he still stop a Tsukahara Molong?
On the hill on the other side, Takeda Yoshinobu looked anxiously at the battle situation in front of him, but he didn't dare to rush down the mountain, after all, the Murakami army below was like a tide, and he rushed down alone, and it was estimated that he couldn't even fight a wave.
Tsukahara Molong leisurely watched the two armies fight, while eating the grilled fish unhurriedly, and after clapping his hands, Tsukahara Molong stood up.
Takeda Yoshinobu remembered that Tsukahara Molong was still by his side, and hurriedly begged: "Master, please save my Takeda family!" β
Tsukahara Molong patted Takeda Yoshinobu on the head and said with a smile: "Since Yoshinobu has spoken, then Master and I will help you this time." β
Sanada Yutaka and the others were stunned when they heard this, because it would be good to save Takeda Yoshinobu from escaping in this situation, and Tsukahara MoryΕ« still wants to help the Takeda family defeat Murakami Yoshikiyo? Seeing everyone's reaction, Tsukahara Molong smiled and said: "The North Shinano army is indeed elite, and that Murakami Yoshikiyo is also a fierce general, but it's a pity, in my opinion, it's just a local chicken and a dog!" β
What the?!!! Everyone was shocked when they heard this, where did this kid get his confidence? Does he still want to do it like the night battle in Ninja City again?
"Changxiu, let them see what the Purgatory War Ghost is!"
"Huh?" Sasaki Nagahide's pupils shrank suddenly: It's funny, let me go down for a long time? However, Tsukahara Molong's talent made him trust him very much, so he was quite entangled.
"You just have to do this, this, and this...... However, remember not to get too close to the Takeda Army, otherwise you may be killed. Tsukahara MoryΕ« whispered in Sasaki's ear.
"Oh!!!" The more Sasaki Nagahidemu listened, the more excited he became, and finally his eyes were shining, and he grabbed the horse that sat down, and rushed down the mountain in an instant.
Seeing a samurai in extremely delicate armor rushing down the mountain, Ashigaru along the way thought it was a high-ranking samurai of his own army and hurriedly gave way. Unexpectedly, as soon as the warrior approached, the ten-character spear in his hand glowed with cold light slashed down, and his head flew sideways.
Because the main combat strength of the Murakami Army is on the front line of fighting with the Takeda Army, there is no one in the rear who is the enemy of Sasaki Nagahide, even the most elite Ashigaru of the Murakami Army, can not even slow down the speed of Sasaki Nagahide a little in front of the fire gun on the sixth day.
As Sasaki Nagahide easily killed the rear ashigaru, the samurai in front finally sensed that something was wrong, and many samurai with high martial arts hurriedly came back to intercept and kill Sasaki Nagahide.
After Sasaki Nagahide swung out a shot easily, a man who tried to sneak attack him was instantly cut into two pieces by the blade of the fire spear for six days, and the blood on his neck was splashed, and there was actually a burst of blood mist, and Sasaki Nagahide, who was surrounded by blood, looked up to the sky like a demon and roared: "The ghost of the Purgatory War is here, who dares to fight!!! β
"I'm a ......" A Murakami army samurai shouted violently, and also stepped forward with a ten-character gun, and wanted to take advantage of Sasaki Nagahide's "pretending to be B" to dress him in a heart-cold manner, but Sasaki Nagahide didn't even want to listen to his name, so he lowered his head directly, and after flashing this shot, he swept out the flame gun in his hand for six days. The samurai of the Murakami Army, who was galloping at high speed, felt as if he had hit the blade of the gun, and was instantly cut off by the waist, and his internal organs suddenly flowed to the ground.
"You don't deserve to let me know the name." After saying a cold word, Sasaki Nagahide rushed directly towards the murakami army samurai who surrounded him.
Although the murakami samurai are all warriors who have been practicing martial arts since childhood and have been on the battlefield for a long time, Sasaki Nagahide also grew up in the dojo, and the spear in his hand is like an extension of his limbs, and he has also received the two peerless masters of the treasure temple Yinei and Tsukahara Buden, no matter how the murakami samurai fights to the death, he can't stop him at all, leaving only a broken corpse and Sasaki Nagahide's blood-stained back.
Not to mention that Murakami Yoshikiyoshi was frightened when he saw it, wondering when the Takeda family had such a fierce general, even Takeda Harunobu and others, who fought to the death, were also dumbfounded: that windy armor, they couldn't be more familiar with it, it was Tsukahara Molong's junior brother: Sasaki Nagahide! Takeda Nobuyoshi couldn't help but retreat with his side, but Iitomi Huchang, who was in charge of commanding the Takeda army's main formation, said: "It is said that during the night battle in Ninja City, Tsukahara Molong led Molong to prepare how to fight well, I didn't believe it, I thought that the legends were exaggerated, but today I saw Sasaki Nagahide, Fang Xin's rumors are true, such an invincible fierce general, if there are ten people, they can run rampant in the world." β
"Well, what's even more terrifying is that there are two more people with the same gorgeous armor as Sasaki Nagahide. And Tsukahara Molong's own strength is probably not under this Sasaki Nagahide......" Iitomi Huchang couldn't help but say: "Fortunately, we are not enemies, otherwise I don't know how many lives of my Kai disciples will be used to fill this bottomless pit." β
Takeda Harunobu's eyes flashed, but he called Yamamoto Kansuke, whispered a few words, and then ordered to hurry up and transfer the rear army, if the army still dares to block the road, kill on the spot!
Not to mention everyone's surprise, Sasaki Nagahide seemed to be unable to find the specific location of Murakami Yoshikiyo, and went around in circles behind the main force of Murakami's army, killing people when he saw them. In order to stop this killing god, Murakami Yoshikiyo was forced to send samurai from the front line to help, which gave Takeda Nobuyhiro and others a chance to breathe.
Just when Murakami Yoshikiyoshi was about to complete the siege of Sasaki Nagahide, the troops of the Ichijo family, the Suwa family, the Ganri family and the Itagaki family in the rear finally arrived, and Murakami Yoshikiyoshi held the sword tightly, looked at the Takeda army headquarters not far away, and sighed for a long time: "Retreat......"
With the arrival of the Takeda family's rear army, Murakami Yoshikiyo has lost the advantage of assault, and his subordinates have been fighting for a long time, and their physical strength is exhausted, and it is difficult to take advantage of the battle again, at most both will lose, so Murakami Yoshikiyo has to choose to retreat.
Looking at the retreating Murakami army, Sasaki Nagahide was even more excited, and after picking up a ashigaru with one hand, he shouted: "Murakami Yoshikiyo, dare to fight with me Sasaki Nagahide?!!! β
"Murakami Yoshikiyo, dare to fight with me Nagahide Sasaki?!!!"
"Murakami Yoshikiyo, dare to fight with me Nagahide Sasaki?!!!"
Sasaki Nagahide's voice echoed in the mountains, like a celestial might, and Murakami Gunagami even lost his will to fight, dropped his weapon, turned his head and ran. Murakami Yoshikiyo is naturally not stupid enough to stay and fight with such a fierce god when the main force of the Takeda family is about to arrive, although the honor of the samurai is important, but the small life is more worth cherishing, isn't it? So I can only choose to leave with hatred.
Seeing that the Takeda Army was getting closer and closer, Sasaki Nagahide suddenly heard a crisp sound in the sea of people, and then his body shook like an electric shock: Iron cannon!