Chapter 139: Surrounding Kawasaki
As soon as the Ashina clan returned to the Chinese army, his expression immediately became solemn, as if he was deeply saddened by the total annihilation of the 1,600 people, and specially nodded to Otawara Ziqing: "Please also mourn on the birthday of your lord!" We will continue to pursue the Tsukahara army until they pay the price of blood for all they have done! β
Otahara Ziqing nodded with red eyes: "Thank you, Lord Ashina, in the future, the Nasu Seven Party will definitely be the only one!" β
Hearing this, Ashina's eyes flashed, and he didn't say anything, but he had already secretly calculated in his heart: This old guy doesn't seem to have become stupid because of the pain of losing his son, and he is still playing with me at this time. While claiming to be the representative of the Nasu Seven Parties, he wants to be the head of the Ashina clan himself, not the head of the Ashina family, which is not only to show his own value, but also to show loyalty to himself and not to the Ashina family. After thinking for a while, the Ashina clan ordered Toshimitsu Anazawa and Otawara Shikiyoshi to lead 3,000 people to cross the river first, preparing to continue to pursue the Tsukahara army, of course, the Ashina clan did not plan to fight the Tsukahara family head-on, what he wanted to do was to seize the huge power vacuum left by the Tsukahara army's retreat as quickly as possible, so although the crossing of the river was also quite hurried, it was not too rushed.
Soon, Toshimitsu Anazawa and Oewara Shikiyoshi led their troops to the other side of the river, and while sending a large number of rangers to reconnoitre, they cleared the open space for the landing of the rear troops. The crossing of the river was originally carried out in an orderly manner, but suddenly a gust of wind blew, and the Ashina clan who was crossing the river felt that his feet slipped and actually fell into the river. Not to mention that after everyone went ashore to bandage the wounds of the Ashina clan, the Ashina clan himself was a little drummed, which doesn't seem to be a good sign.
Just after half of the army had crossed the river, a panicked sound of horses' hooves attracted everyone's attention, and Anazawa Toshimitsu and Otawara Shikiyo suddenly stared when they saw the comer: It was the ranger who was sent out to reconnoiter before, why was he the only one who came back?
"The main force of the Tsukahara Army...... ......"The samurai who insisted on coming back had just dismounted, and everyone found that he had been hit by two iron cannon projectiles in the back, and he couldn't survive, but he still struggled to tell the results of the investigation, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Looking at this samurai who had been fulfilling the task he had given him until the last moment of his life, the young Toshimitsu Anazawa couldn't help but sigh, and Otawara Shikiyoshi hurriedly went back to report to the Ashina clan. But before he arrived, the opposite bank suddenly changed sharply, and suddenly there was a shout of killing that shook the sky, and countless Tsukahara troops killed from both sides of the place where they had just crossed the river, and the six thousand people who lost the command of powerful generals such as the Ashina clan were suddenly in chaos, and they all rushed to cross the river, but the bottom of the river was already mossy, and it was easy to slip and fall, and at this time fled to the other bank in a panic, and many people suddenly fell, but there were a large number of people who crossed the river together, so under the survival instinct, they grabbed the clothes of the people around them, The other party was caught off guard and fell down together. Although the river was not so deep that even Japanese during the Warring States period would have been submerged, many people were drowned on the spot by forcibly crossing such a large scale. Those who were far away from the river could not cross the river, so they had to fight reluctantly. But soon the hearts of these people were instantly cold: the Tsukahara army gushing out on both sides seemed to be endless, and the vast majority of samurai had never even seen so many people in their lives.
And at this moment, the Ashina clan who has crossed the river is not much easier than those on the other side of the river who have not crossed the river, and in the woods as far as the eye can see, the Tsukahara army is pouring out in a steady stream, and there are more than 7,000 people in front of him alone, and this number is still increasing rapidly, and the Tsukahara army is the head of the general, and it is Sasaki Nagahide, who killed the corpse mountain and blood sea in Shimono and Hitachi countries. The military situation of the Ashina army on the other side of the strait was under the banner of Toki Weiyori and Tsukahara Heiji, and he actually fell into the encirclement of the three major legions of the Tsukahara army, which suddenly made the Ashina clan have a trace of unreal feeling.
However, the reality did not leave much time for the Ashina clan, and it didn't take much time for the Toki Weiri Legion and the Tsukahara Heiji Legion to initially form a battle formation, and after realizing that using the river water to deal with the other side was also a good choice, the two legions began to use the iron artillery team as the lead to bombard the other party's samurai who dared to resist from a distance, and then squeezed the opponent's space with a dense gun array to squeeze the other party down the river. For a time, the Mutsu coalition forces were driven down the river like dumplings. And the problem faced by Sasaki Nagahide is relatively tricky, because the combat power of the troops directly under the Nasu Seven Party and the Ashina clan is relatively intact, but if it is a headache, Sasaki Nagahide will not be one of the Sun and Moon Twin Dragons. Therefore, Sasaki Nagahide began to say that the iron artillery team was placed in the first position, and the spear foot light and bow foot light were placed in the auxiliary position, responsible for protecting the iron artillery team.
The Michinoku coalition army, which formed a battle formation with the consciousness of death, found that the other party did not give themselves a chance to meet in a short battle at all, and directly bombarded them with iron artillery as soon as they came up, and what made them even more desperate was that the iron cannon of the Tsukahara army seemed to be endless, and after the first round of iron artillery team was designed, the second round of iron artillery team immediately took over and continued to attack. However, compared to the Shimono Hikuriku Coalition Army, which fell like a weed harvested by a lawn mower at the foot of Shomon Mountain, the Mutsu Allied Army was still very happy, because the number of iron artillery units at this time had been greatly reduced, only about one-third of the original. But even so, the Mutsu Allied Army, which tried to launch a decisive assault, still couldn't get one step closer to the Tsukahara Army, and even Toshimitsu Anazawa personally led the army to assault, and he also returned ten steps away from the Tsukahara Army, in the final analysis, the iron cannon of this era is not advanced enough, the farther the distance, the less powerful it is, and in the same way, the closer the distance, the more terrifying the lethality.
Seeing the Mutsu coalition forces whose living space was constantly being squeezed, Nagahide Sasaki, Toki Yuri, and Tsukahara Heiji all agreed to give the order for a general attack, but the arrival of several heralds changed their minds: suspend the attack!
I saw that the army of Sasaki Nagahide's army automatically divided into two parts and made way for one way, and it was Tsukahara Molong who made the Kanto generals shudder at the thought of riding their horses. Tsukahara MoryΕ«, who looked at ease and contented, did not see the slightest worry about the siege of Edo Castle, or the joy of the current favorable battle situation, as if everything was under control, and no accidents had happened, and his shocking momentum was also fully subdued, looking like an ordinary young man walking in his back garden.
"See the !!! of the Lord" The generals of the Sasaki Legion bowed down one after another.
"See the !!! of the Lord" Tuqi is Lai, and the generals of the army bow down one after another.
"See the !!! of the Lord" The generals of the Tsukahara Heiji Legion bowed down one after another.
As the general spoke, some of the ashigaru who had just returned to Shun and didn't know Tsukahara Molong also understood, but they all rushed to the front line, even if they stopped attacking because of Tsukahara Molong's order, they couldn't make much action, so they had to shout: "See the lord!!! β
But even so, the shouts of more than 30,000 people in unison were deafening in Kawasaki, an environment surrounded by mountains on both sides of the river, and the thunderous echo in the valley echoed in the ears of the Mutsu Allied Army, like the power of heaven.
Tsukahara Molong raised his right hand to show quiet, and the earth-shaking cry suddenly stopped, looking at the embarrassed and almost collapsed Mutsu Coalition Army, Tsukahara Molong said loudly: "Please come out and answer the Lord Fang of the Ashina clan!" β