In the era of cold weapons, there are many factors that affect the combat effectiveness of the army, but we have to admit that the most direct is the army's fighting spirit. The so-called horizontal ones are afraid of being stunned, and those who are stunned are afraid of dying. When an army is able to fight without dying, such an army is undoubtedly extremely terrifying. With the superiority of troops, equipment, and experience, the 8,000-strong army under the personal command of Hojo Shiyasu pressed aggressively against the Zhou Marshal army, which had only 4,000 men. The expected situation did not appear, but the main force of the Hojo Army, which hit like a tsunami, was like crashing into a high mountain, and its head was bleeding, but it could not move forward. Stimulated by such huge interests as fiefdoms, four thousand people burst into full potential almost instantly. People die for money, birds die for food, parents give birth to us once, just fight! Those "simple" farmers from Ashigaru howled and fought against the Hojo Army, and the samurai were also red-eyed, and the territory was given away! According to the usual practice, only those who have made a very outstanding contribution to the main family or have served the main family for several generations can obtain a fief. The soldiers used their lives, and Zhou Dashuai was very easy to command, even more convenient than the 7,000 troops under the command of Tsukahara Molong. The 4,000 people, under the command of Zhou Dashuai, turned into a sharp blade that frightened the Hojo clan, not only blocking the fierce attack of the main force of the Hojo Army, but also slashing the momentum of the Hojo Army to blood.

Zhou Dashuai's vigorous performance in commanding the front army soon attracted the attention of the entire battlefield. The generals under Tsukahara Molong, who were originally skeptical of Marshal Zhou's troops, were dumbfounded, and couldn't help but sigh that Tsukahara Molong had the wisdom to understand people, and at the same time felt extremely relieved to have such a powerful teammate. The generals of the Hojo family don't think so, although I don't know where this turtle called Zhou Dashuai came from, but the Hojo family came from a long distance, and the advantage is a quick victory, once dragged into a protracted war, the physical strength will inevitably be poor, and the defeat will be like a mountain, but it will not be able to be recovered by manpower. As a result, Kasahara Yasukatsu and Hojo Tsunataka unanimously ordered to intensify the offensive, as long as either of the two wings of Tsukahara Molong was broken, the battle situation would immediately tilt in favor of the Hojo Army.

However, seeing the front army led by Zhou Dashuai fighting so hard, the four major armies of Akita Ieji, Heiji, Tsukahara Nagakei and Toki Weilai were also inspired, and they were on an equal footing with the two armies of Kasahara Yasukatsu and Hojo Tsunataka who were bent on victory. However, the white-hot fighting has caused a sharp increase in the number of casualties on both sides.

Seeing that the two armies had entered a stalemate, Sasaki Nagahide did not anxiously ask for battle as in the Black Dragon River, but quietly stood on the side of Tsukahara Molong, carefully observing the methods of using troops on both sides on the battlefield, as for the outcome of the battle, he believed that Tsukahara Molong would definitely win, so this was not a problem he needed to worry about. But in the battle of Heilongchuan, the shortcomings of his lack of experience in commanding troops were exposed, although the cavalry led by him was only a hundred, and he still fought with Tsukahara Molong, but it was very difficult to command. In terms of prestige, Sasaki Nagahide is known as the ghost of the Battle of Purgatory, and he fought in Toishi Castle single-handedly against Murakami Yoshikiyo's North Shinano elite, and his prestige in the army is very high, so the problem can only lie in his own ability. After all, Sasaki Nagahide also grew up in the dojo, and learned the marksmanship of Treasure Temple Yinei since he was a child, although he hoped to become a great samurai, but he had little opportunity to learn the command of the battle array, and then participated in the night battle of Ninja City with Tsukahara Moryū, and the battle of Toishi Castle, and successfully mastered the Treasure Mongol Drift Spear and Katori Shinto Flowing Knife Technique, which can be described as the pinnacle in martial arts, but almost all of the commanders are Tsukahara Molong, but he has not been able to contact the command level. It wasn't until the battle of Heilongchuan that he realized his shortcomings and began to decide to learn the art of war. Tsukahara Molong also trusts this junior brother very much, and also hopes that Sasaki Nagahide can grow into a general who is in charge of his own affairs, so he has no secrets and teaches Sasaki Nagahide. But after all, the time is too short, and what Tsukahara Moryū can teach is only theory, and the real battle formation command, Sasaki Nagahide can only learn from the battlefield.

Tsukahara Molong knows very well that the competition for the world is not about who has more people and who has more money, but who really plays a decisive role in talent. But where does the talent come from? It's nothing more than recruiting and cultivating. Oda Nobunaga, who was the most powerful in the history of Japan's Warring States period, was compared to Cao Cao by the Japanese because of his eclectic talents, Toyotomi Hideyoshi who was born as a farmer, Kazuki Takigawa who was born as a ninja, Shibata Katsuie, who once betrayed him, and Akechi Mitsuhide, a relict of the enemy country...... These people were all reused by Oda Nobunaga and became the commanders of the legions on the side of the town. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who inherited Oda Nobunaga's hegemony, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who finally seized power in Japan, did it themselves and cultivated talents by themselves, Kato Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori, Ishida Mitsunari and other famous ministers who were promoted from his small surname made great contributions to his fight against the heroes, not to mention Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was called by the Japanese among the four heavenly kings of Tokugawa, Honda Tadakatsu, Ii Naomasa, and Kamihara Yasumasa were all talents cultivated by Tokugawa Ieyasu, not only outstanding talent, but more importantly, loyal to the master. Therefore, Tsukahara Molong plans to train Sasaki Nagahide and others to be his right-hand men, and use these people he absolutely trusts to dominate the world.

Although both sides tried their best, the soldiers' use of their lives did not mean that the command ability of both sides had no impact on the battle situation, and the legions commanded by Toki and Heiji were better, while the legions commanded by Tsukahara Nagakei and Akita Ieji were gradually on the verge of collapse. As the commander of one of the five major reserves of the Hojo family, Kasahara Yasukatsu is young and jealous, but no one in the entire Hojo family dares to question his talent, and even the first general of the Hojo family, Hojo Tsunade Chengdu, once said: "Ten years later, the first general of the Hojo family is none other than Yasukatsu!" At Kofutai, Yasukatsu Kasahara also proved his talent with his actions. He divided the military into three groups, and took turns to launch a strong attack on Tsukahara Nagakei and Akita Ieji's army, and this kind of seemingly never-ending attack method caused Tsukahara Nagakei and Akita Ieji's Ashigaru samurai to have a huge sense of panic and powerlessness.

Seeing the enemy army that was about to collapse, Kasahara Yasukatsu's face did not have a trace of a smile, his knife-like eyes were always staring at the direction of Tsukahara Molong's army, how to kill Tsukahara Molong was what he was most concerned about. Just when the victory was about to be decided, a cavalry team of 1,000 people was like a sharp blade straight towards the Kasahara Yasukatsu army, and the entire peripheral formation was instantly disrupted, especially when the first member of the red armor fierce general, the entire Kasahara Yasukatsu army did not have anyone who was his enemy, and in the blink of an eye, he killed seven samurai in a row, even the most experienced Hojo samurai couldn't help but change his complexion, not to mention the ordinary Hojo army Ashigaru, he didn't dare to step forward to stop it, and fled one after another.

Standing on a high place and commanding the battle, Kasahara Yasukatsu coldly glanced at the troops under his command and the unstoppable cavalry team that were separated like sailing waves, and ordered Bai Bei to start assembling and prepare to meet this person. Sasaki Nagahide took the lead, and the fire spear in his hand flew up and down for six days, like a red dragon in his hand, and no one could stop its edge. Seeing Bai Bei, who had already finished the formation in front of him, Sasaki Nagahide almost subconsciously wanted to enter the horse, but in the end, he stopped this thought. Turning the horse's head, he killed directly from the other direction, and scattered the entire army formation. How could Tsukahara Nagakei and Akita Ieji, who had been pressed and beaten by Kasahara Yasukatsu, let go of this opportunity, and ordered to take advantage of the chaos of Kasahara Yasukatsu's army to kill.

Yasukatsu Kasahara looked at the back of Sasaki Nagahide's departure, but a gleam flashed in his eyes. Just now, if Sasaki Nagahide really dared to lead the army to attack Bai Bei head-on, then Kasahara Yasukatsu would be ninety percent sure that he could drag Sasaki Nagahide's cavalry team, and then transfer troops to encircle and swallow this thousand-man cavalry team in one gulp. However, Sasaki Nagahide was able to resist this impulse, which greatly increased the hostility in Kasahara's heart towards him. Rounding up a fierce general may have to pay a lot of price, but it is not a difficult task, especially the cavalry tactics commanded by Sasaki Nagahide, who became a monk halfway, are simply full of loopholes in the eyes of Kasahara Yasukatsu, who has received systematic samurai education since childhood, but Sasaki Nagahide's performance in this battle is too far from the stunned young man who is easily carried away by blood and only knows how to rush to kill, is it an intelligence mistake, or has he grown? If it is the latter, then if this peerless fierce general really grows up, he will definitely be a big rival!