Chapter 108: Decisive Battle: Decisive Battle

Although the peasant army was slowly assembled, Uesugi Kenmasa's Hojo Raiding Army was still formed, and the 45,000-strong army slaughtered Musashino. Musashino is an important place in Iruma County, with steep peaks on both sides, but a flat river in the middle, which is most suitable for large armies to fight. However, this time, the Hojo family took the initiative to abandon this area and retreated the army, so the commander of the Hojo Crusade drove straight into Fuchu Castle and surrounded it.

But what made Uesugi Kenmasa have a stomach ache was that it was none other than Hojo Tsunari, the first general of the Hojo family, who was guarding Fuchu Castle! At the beginning, he led a large army to surround Kawagoe Castle, which Hojo Tsunaru was responsible for, and finally failed to capture it after half a year, but was counter-killed by Hojo Shiyasu, and almost became a shadow of Uesugi Kenmasa's life. However, one of the most important combat forces of the Uesugi family, the Minowa people, was left by Uesugi Kenmasa to take care of the house, and Nagano Yoshimasa was not in the army because he was excluded and suppressed by Uesugi Kenmasa, and for a while, Uesugi Kenmasa couldn't even find anyone to ask for advice. In desperation, Uesugi Kenmasa had no choice but to invite Yoshikiyoshi Murakami and Kenshige Kohata to ask for their opinions. However, Murakami Yoshikiyo and Kohata Kenshige also couldn't say why, with the bitter lesson of the night battle of Kawagoe, a long-term siege was obviously an extremely stupid choice, but it was not easy to capture Fuchu Castle, which Hojo Tsusunari personally defended. At that time, Hojo Tsunari could make tens of thousands of troops helpless with only a few hundred remnants, and now with Huang Bei, the world's male army, if he really launches a strong attack, I don't know how many people will be lost, and Uesugi Kenmasa's command over the subordinates is seriously insufficient, if there are really too many casualties, many wealthy families are likely to retreat regardless of it. This is the fundamental weakness of the great alliance army: it is still very powerful to fight a good fight, but when it encounters a hard stubble, they will blame each other, compete to retreat, and then blame each other. Although there is a strong army under the command of Murakami Yoshikiyo and Kohata Kenshige, Uesugi Kenmasa's attitude towards the two is becoming more and more ambiguous, so that the two are unwilling to die in this battle, in the final analysis, these troops are the private soldiers of the two, if the losses are too much, on the one hand, the gains outweigh the losses, and on the other hand, they may be poisoned by Uesugi Kenmasa.

Besiege but not attack, mobilize the main force to continue to find the Hojo family's army for a decisive battle? It seems like a good choice, after all, the Hojo family's most warlike Hojo Tsusunari is not there, and the overall combat effectiveness of the Hojo Army will definitely decline, but the Takeda family and the Imagawa family have sent reinforcements, and the combat power cannot be underestimated, so the troops must not be reduced when the decisive battle is held, otherwise there is a risk of being counter-killed. The question is, the main force has been transferred to the decisive battle, what will happen to the remaining Hojo Tsunari? Who came to see him? Uesugi Kenmasa suddenly regretted it a little, if he hadn't forced Tsukahara Molong away, with the three murderous weapons in the world, Nagano Yemasa, Kohata Kenshige and Tsukahara Molong, he would be much calmer now. Not to mention anything else, Nagano Ye is looking after his family, throwing Tsukahara Molong under Fuchu Castle, and letting him look at Hojo Tsusunari, and lead the main force to attack by himself, that would be too perfect, there is no need to worry about the back road at all, you Hojo Tsusunari is fierce again, isn't the second Guofutai Battle still for Tsukahara Molong to fly in the air? Even the head of the family governor, Hojo Shiyasu, was beheaded.

While the three of Uesugi Kenmasa were discussing and discussing, a secret war was going on silently. Although Imagawa Yoshimoto and Takeda Harunobu were unable to dispatch their main forces due to domestic opposition, they did not prevent them from mobilizing the ninja crowd to support the Wind Demon Ninja. Under the joint efforts of the three parties, the unsuspecting Uesugi family's royal ninja Zhongden was hit hard. And the main force of the Hojo Army, which Uesugi Kenmasa was looking for, slowly approached Fuchu Castle in the night. Along with them were the Takeda Nobuyoshi Legion and the Asahina Taino Legion. The three legions were like the trident of the Sea Emperor, silently approaching the Uesugi army that was still besieging the city.

On the other side, the main force of the coalition consisting of the Oda family, the Satake family, the Utsunomiya family, and the Yuuki family also marched towards Shimoshoguni. Although everyone thought that Tsukahara Molong must have died, but the name of the person, the shadow of the tree, the coalition army was still worried, and every time they went to a place, they would carefully send scouts to investigate, and the army did not dare to disperse at all, for fear of being broken by each one, causing the army to march extremely slowly.

Sugata Masasa, who was not afraid of tigers as a newborn calf, volunteered to be the vanguard of the coalition army, so he commanded the 5,000 troops first, but the slogan was shouted loudly, Sugata Masata was not a fool, even if Tsukahara Molong really hung up, the two of Sasaki Nagahide and Zhou Dashuai of the Tsukahara family were by no means easy to mess with, not to mention that Tsukahara Molong also left twenty-nine elite standing teams. If they make a move together to give themselves a ruthless blow, they may not be able to bear it.

Dressed in a majestic manner, he looked around vigilantly, and soon a ninja appeared outside his tent. "My lord! There is urgent information! ”

"Oh?" Sugatani Masada was shocked in his heart, but he still had to sit calmly in front of the generals under his command, "Present it!" ”

After the guard took the bamboo tube from the ninja's hand, he respectfully sent it to Sugatani Masasa. Sugatani Masada felt a little stuffy in his chest, and couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of Shengjin, the information in the bamboo tube in front of him was likely to determine his fate! Will he take advantage of this shareholder wind to rise to the top and become the darling of troubled times, the world's famous general, or will he die......

Trembling to open the bamboo tube, Sugata Masasada held her breath and looked at the cloth in it, but then her eyes widened, her breathing became heavy, and her handsome face turned even redder. I saw him get up and say loudly: "Yesterday, there was civil strife in the Tsukahara family!" Zhou Dashuai was killed by Sasaki Nagahide! ”

What the! Everyone was stunned by this explosive news, although Zhou Dashuai was born in the Ming Kingdom, but in the first battle of Guofutai, he showed a strong military command ability, it can be said that his courage and good fighting in the Tsukahara family is second only to Tsukahara Molong himself, such a terrible enemy actually died in the hands of Sasaki Nagahide? However, Sasaki Nagahide fuses the swordsmanship of Katori Shinto and the spearmanship of Treasure Temple, and his martial arts are stunning contemporary, if the two face each other directly, I am afraid that Zhou Dashuai will not be able to resist at all. But everyone is not very afraid of Sasaki Nagahide, in their impression, Sasaki Nagahide is brave and invincible, but his command ability is not good, far from being comparable to Zhou Dashuai, and even those people in the old family group can defeat Sasaki Nagahide with the same strength. At present, he and the others have an overwhelming advantage in terms of troops, and even if Sasaki Nagahide wants to make a decisive assault, it is almost impossible to succeed, after all, the coalition forces do not have a supreme command, so there is no way to talk about the decapitation operation. Kill any of the Coalition Governors and the other families will continue to fight, and may even be glad that they won't compete with them in the future due to the weakened strength of their allies.

Just when everyone was talking, another ninja came to report: Sasaki Nagahide was unable to control the whole army, so he only left Xiaojincheng with 6,000 troops and began to march here. Sugatani Masada nodded, but in his heart he had some admiration for Sasaki Nagahide, the total strength of his side was six times that of Sasaki Nagahide, but he still dared to lead troops to fight, he was indeed a hero at that time, a real samurai! The vanguard had only 5,000 men and a large number of peasant soldiers, and although Sugatani was confident that he could outperform Sasaki Nagahide in the arrangement of troops, even if he fought, it would only be a defeat for both sides, which was seriously inconsistent with his interests, so he ordered to report back to the main force and immediately go here to start a decisive battle with Sasaki Nagahide's 6,000 troops!