Chapter 200: Sneak Attack and Counter Sneak Attack
Just when the Oda Takeda Asakura Asai coalition soldiers and the large coalition army were playing spear phalanxes against each other, there were several large coalition army phalanxes that could not withstand the pressure and were broken through, and the surrounding Oda Takeda Asakura Asai coalition soldiers were suddenly overjoyed and poured into the gap, and the joy of victory diluted the reality that they were still holding spears more than three meters long, and the masters who rushed up behind the large coalition spear phalanx suddenly used naginatas to sober them up.
This spear is a great weapon to use to form a phalanx to attack, but once you get close to someone, it's a nightmare. The monks and soldiers usually do everything except eating and reciting Buddha, and naturally they are not hungry and full of peasant soldiers, although the samurai try their best to resist, but the good tiger can't stand the wolves, and the number advantage of the masters determines the tragedy of these Oda Takeda Asakura Asai coalition soldiers who rushed into the gap. After almost destroying the enemy forces that rushed into the gap, the masters did not pursue, but retreated again, allowing the regrouped spear phalanx in the rear to come up and fight against the Oda Takeda Asakura Asai coalition soldiers.
This kind of shameless tactics made the military quality advantage of the Oda Takeda Asakura Asai coalition army completely unplayable, even if the other party was defeated with a spear phalanx, it would be slashed by the monks and soldiers when pursuing, and after a few back and forth, the morale of the Oda Takeda Asakura Asai coalition army plummeted. Seeing this, Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Harunobu had no choice but to order a temporary retreat, and the frontal attack could not open the situation, so the two could only discuss other methods.
That night, the Oda Takeda Asakura Asai coalition army gathered 5,000 cavalry, commanded by Iitomi Toramasa and Shibata Katsuie, and prepared to make a detour to launch a night attack on the large coalition army. But before Iitomi and the others set off for a few miles, Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Harunobu heard the sound of killing in their own military camp. It turned out that Ashikaga Molong used the Kumano Navy and the Suruga Navy to transport 3,000 elites overnight, led by the sword lord Kitabatake Gukyo himself, and quietly landed from the beach to launch a night attack on the Oda Takeda Asakura Asai coalition camp. Fan Fu Huchang and others had no choice but to return to the reinforcement camp. However, the composition of the coalition army was complicated, and the night attack of Kitabatake Gujiao caused great confusion, and many coalition soldiers fought for a long time before they found that the opposite side was also their own people.
Just when the Oda Takeda Asakura Asai coalition army was about to usher in dawn after a night of turmoil, Ashikaga Molong ordered the main force of the large coalition army to do its best, how could Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Harunobu stop it, many people had been fighting from yesterday day until the early hours of this morning, and they had long been exhausted, and the 70,000 army was actually released like this. Fortunately, the Great Coalition Army itself was also in chaos, and basically pursued each other in the pursuit, and Ashikaga Ryū was unable to fully command, but let most of the defeated troops flee back to Owari territory.
Giving Oda Takeda Asakura Asai four families a one-time bloodletting, Ashikaga Molong was immediately satisfied, and it was conservatively estimated that the opposite side would have to lose tens of thousands of people, so it was okay, weakened too much, and the cheap big coalition army was not what he wanted, and maintaining balance was the right thing. Moreover, the confrontation between the two sides for almost a month can be said to have greatly consumed the war preparation materials, so it should not be possible to do anything. After contacting the various forces of the Great Coalition and determining the cooperative relationship between himself and Luo in the future, Ashikaga Molong returned to Kanto with satisfaction. He was not worried that the Great Alliance would eventually develop into an independent force, such a loose alliance was too cohesive, and if he hadn't personally commanded the battle this time, it was really possible that Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Harunobu would have collapsed. Without his own commander, who in this alliance is willing to obey whom?
After being beaten violently by Ashikaga Molong, the four families of Oda Takeda Asakura and Asai can be said to have calmed down a lot, although they didn't know what was going on at the time, but they could still know a little bit about it if they inquired afterwards. After learning that the battle of Nagashima was under the command of Ashikaga Molong himself, they suddenly lost their temper, and they began to lick their wounds one after another, of course, it may also be a big move. After all, after this incident, Asakura Yoshikage's whole person has changed a lot, and it is said that he who was not interested in war before actually began to visit the army, after all, the development of history is still very consistent with what Asakura Sodri said. Before, he lacked a clear understanding of the horror of Ashikaga Molong, so he didn't think much of Oda Nobunaga, an upstart, but now it seems that if he doesn't join forces with this nouveau riche, he really doesn't even have the qualifications to fight with Ashikaga Molong.
Takeda Harunobu's losses were slightly lighter, his subordinates can be said to be the strongest in combat, although the fight was also quite tragic, but most of the cavalry team of the night attack was made up by him, and the result was that when he was attacked at night, the loss was the smallest, Iitomi Huchang saw that the situation was not good, and directly left Oda Nobunaga and ran away with Takeda Harunobu. After all, cavalry is much more expensive than infantry, not to mention peasant soldiers, and many samurai masters don't have horses to ride. After running back to Kai with a smoke, Takeda Harunobu became a monk directly, and Takeda Shingen was so freshly baked, and by the way, he also made the "Wind Forest Volcano Flag". No, it won't work! The tragic losses of Kawanakajima and Hachioji Castle last time were offset by the credit of opening up 200,000 stone in Kita-Shinano, but this time there were no benefits, but more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded, which has greatly affected Takeda Shingen's domination in the country.
As for Oda Nobunaga, it was a complete loss, and the frequent dispatch of troops to Mino had made the people of Owari very dissatisfied with him, but after the unification of the two countries, Oda Nobunaga's prestige at home was suddenly in full swing, but this time he squeezed out an army of 50,000 and went south, and the number of people killed in the battle after being slammed by Ashikaga Molong exceeded 5,000, and countless people were injured, even if the Oda family had a big business, they couldn't withstand this kind of toss. Moreover, this expedition did not reap any benefits, not to mention, what made the Owari Mino wealthy clan even more frightened was that Ashikaga Molong personally commanded the Battle of Nagashima, which itself showed an attitude: he did not want to see the Oda family expand further. All of this can be said to make Oda Nobunaga fall into an embarrassing situation in an instant, not to mention foreign expeditions in the short term, and even self-protection is difficult. Fortunately, the Oda family is big enough, and no one generally dares to mess with it.
The Asai family in North Omi was overshadowed, and he had long been aware of the Hexagonal family of the Asai family, a chaotic minister and thief, who wanted to do things, and the focus in the night attack was the Asai family, although they only dispatched 4,000 troops, but they were directly killed and wounded more than half of them, and only 2,000 people ran back intact!
The most nourishing is the Matsudaira family in Mikawa, and a small force like them must generally charge ahead and retreat behind, and they have to do all the dirty work. But in the face of the uncontrollable factor of night raids, there was no way, and the three river brutes, who had always been known for their loyalty and uprightness, were the first to run away. Counting the previous series of battles, the number of dead and wounded was less than five hundred.