Tsukahara Moryū watched the army under his command slowly lay down the crane wing array, although there was a sense of pride in his heart because of the strength of the army, but he was immediately forcibly suppressed. Even if you are full of pride before the war, you must suppress it and stay calm, otherwise you will definitely suffer a big loss in a head-on confrontation with a hero like Hojo Shiyasu. And now he can say that he has already fought with all his strength, this victory, no one in the Kanto region dares to face himself, that land spans three countries, 800,000 stone land is really counted in his own hands, this defeat, everything is turned into nothing, even the dojo of Kashima Town is not spared. It can be said that the victory or defeat of this battle directly determines the future luck of Tsukahara Molong and Hojo Shiyasu. Just like Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin facing off against Kawanakajima, it was a big gamble that weighed everything down.

After all the troops were in place, Tsukahara Moryū turned his head to look at Inukai Yoshio: "How about the things I asked you to prepare?" ”

Inukai Yoshio, who has been working silently, nodded, exuding a calm temperament, and he is no longer the impulsive young man he was when he left Ueno Country. "Although the operation has been completed, it is difficult for us to support the grain, grass and materials we have now."

Tsukahara Moryū patted Inukai Yoshio's shoulder with a smile, and said with great confidence: "Don't worry, after this battle, no one in Kanto will dare to offend our authority for a year or two." ”

"Hah!" Seeing that Tsukahara Molong was confident, Inukai Yoshio was also relieved. Inukai Yoshio has an almost blind trust in Tsukahara Moryu's talent, and he may be worried about Tsukahara Moryu's situation, but he will never think about Tsukahara Moryu's failure.

However, Tsukahara Molong has no bottom in his heart, the hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff, although the Hojo family has repeatedly encountered large-scale battles, and its strength is not as good as before, but it is these battles that have trained the Hojo family samurai and made them more good at fighting. The army under his command seems to be outnumbered, but what can really make Tsukahara Molong command freely is the 7,000 people who followed him in the first battle of the Black Dragon River. It's not that how they are loyal to Tsukahara Molong, but most of them are ordinary people, and it is their instinct to cling to the strong, in the battle of the Black Dragon River, Tsukahara Molong led them to a fantastic victory, which made them extremely awe of Tsukahara Molong, plus most of the grassroots commanders were the disciples of Katori Shinto who practiced in the dojo with Tsukahara Moryū back then, so they were able to do the ban. As for the others, Tsukahara Molong had nothing to do, so he had to hand it over to the generals under his command according to the management of this era.

Until noon on the second day, the Hojo family's army was still nowhere to be seen, which made Tsukahara Moryū a little uneasy, but he still let the army that had already been well rested line up and prepared to meet it. The 7,000 men under the direct jurisdiction of Molong quickly took up their weapons and ran to the predetermined position to stand, while the rest of the army slowly swallowed up, and even with the command of the samurai general, it was still chaos. Seeing this, Tsukahara Molong couldn't help but secretly sweat, glad that he had arranged the formation in advance, otherwise the scene would only be more chaotic, and when the time came, there would be no need for the main force of the Hojo family to arrive, and only a cavalry team of 1,000 people would be able to kill his 24,000 army.

Sure enough, just as the army under the command of Tsukahara Molong began to line up, a burst of drums came from a distance, and the pupils of the warriors who had been in battle for a long time suddenly shrank, and they reprimanded Ashigaru in formation even more severely. In a few moments, the Hojo family's army appeared from the horizon and came like a tidal wave.

Seeing the Hojo family's heyday military might, almost everyone couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and even the hands of some samurai holding swords began to tremble. However, the Hojo family did not spend time arranging the formation, but divided the troops into three routes, and directly pressed towards the army under the command of Tsukahara Molong.

Tsukahara Moryū looked at the surging Hojo family army, and was also secretly surprised, when the night battle in Ninja City, he created chaos in the Kwantung coalition army to profit from it, and when it came to the head-to-head duel, he found that the Hojo army was definitely a harder bone than the Satomi family.

This time, Hojo Shiyasu went out to the national capital and Taiwan army, and the army of Hojo Tsunataka and Kasahara Yasukatsu each led 5,000 troops to attack from the two flanks, and Hojo Shiyasu himself led 8,000 troops to suppress from the middle. The reason why there was no array, and after arriving at the battlefield, he attacked directly, was to catch Tsukahara Molong by surprise. It's just that I didn't expect that Tsukahara Molong had already arranged the formation in advance, and by the time the Hojo family was about to engage with the army under Tsukahara Molong, the 24,000 troops under Tsukahara Molong had already lined up the formation.

In this case, it is already impossible to retreat, only to attack forward, attack, and attack again.

Regarding the decision of the Hojo family to divide the troops when the army was at a disadvantage, many samurai under the command of Tsukahara Moryū felt that the Hojo clan Yasu was too big, and they began to drive Ashigaru to meet the battle according to the subordinates of the previous Tsukahara Moryū. The two corps of Tsukahara Nagakei and Akita Ieji flanked the Kasahara Yasukatsu Army, and the Heiji and Toki Legions besieged the Hojo Tsunataka Army, while Zhou Dashuai led the army to prepare to defend to the death.

However, when the war really started, those samurai realized that it was not the Hojo clan Kantodai, but the Hojo clan Yasushi had a sufficient understanding of the army under his command: Akita Ieji and Tsukahara Nagakei flanked Kasahara Yasukatsu twice, but they were easily blocked by Bai Bei led by Kasahara Yasukatsu, unable to move forward, but almost fell into the division of troops of Kasahara Yasukatsu, who was at a disadvantage, fortunately Tsukahara Nagakei commanded the troops in time to protect the flank, otherwise the two were likely to be defeated by Kasahara Yasukatsu. Toki is Lai and Heiji cooperate quite tacitly, but although they have a slight advantage in troops, the elite of the Toki family also suffered heavy losses in the battle of the Black Dragon River, not to mention those ordinary Hao clan troops, they are not the opponents of the Hojo Army at all under the same strength, so although there are no mistakes in command, they are still in a bitter battle.

Seeing that the four major armies that took over first were all facing difficulties, Tsukahara Molong looked at the front army commanded by Marshal Zhou and was also a little worried. However, Zhou Dashuai did not seem to notice the decline of the two wings at all, and still calmly commanded the troops to prepare to meet the 8,000 troops led by Hojo Shiyasu himself. In the face of twice as many enemy troops as himself, Zhou Dashuai was very calm, which did not mean that the ashigaru samurai under his command were also very calm, so Zhou Dashuai directly issued an order: if you take the head of an ashigaru, you can get a fief of ten stones, and if you take the head of a samurai, you can get a fief of one hundred stones. As soon as this order was given, everyone was shocked, but then they were ecstatic, and their eyes became hot when they looked at Hojo Army. During the Warring States period in Japan, although merchants lived a good life, their social status was not high, and they were not as respected as low-ranking samurai. But becoming a samurai is also very risky, and if you don't have a territory, then if you die in battle or are fired one day, your wife and children will lose your source of livelihood, not to mention your social status. Fiefdoms are the dream of all low-ranking samurai, let alone those who aspire to become the ruling class, samurai. But how easy is it to get a fief? Even if many people have achieved the level of serving generals, only Yulu has no fiefdom, and now Marshal Zhou has given them such an opportunity to change their fate, and suddenly mobilized the fighting spirit of these 4,000 people.