Chapter 4: The First Battle of the Knights
When Asadachi arrived at the castle town of Edo Castle, which had not yet been repaired, with the strength of the Uesugi family army of 850 Fan Clan, the defenders of Ninomaru Ashigaru couldn't help but become timid.
"What are you afraid of? We are waiting for the five-color preparation of the red army, follow me to fight! "Hojo Tsuna, a member of the Hojo family, has more than 2,000 red reserves, including only fifty cavalrymen.
"As long as the Hojo Army goes out of the city to fight, the family will definitely win." Ota Shimasa looked confidently at the situation inside Edo Castle.
"Follow me!" Hojo Tsunataka was the first to rush out of the castle with fifty Akabi mounted samurai, followed by more than 1,000 Hojo Gunashigaru.
If you want to say that it is ashigaru, it is better to say that it is better to say that they are better peasants, they just have buckets and buckets, and flags. However, the military quality is not as strong as Ashigaru, and it can be said that it is like shopping, scattered behind the cavalry of Hojo Tsunadaka.
"Namba Hayabusa, Ota Shimasa, you two should know what to do." Chao Ding pulled the horse and moved backwards.
"I understand." Ota Shimasa and Namba Hayabusa immediately divided their troops, and the Ashigaru team, commanded by Namba Tian Kenshige, set up a gun array.
Namba Hayabusa, Hayabusa, and Ota Shishimasa, with one hundred and fifty knights, respectively copied the Hojo Army's forces from the left and from the right. This move was not even understood by the veteran Hojo Tsunataka of the Hojo family. Didn't the samurai on horseback dismount and fight on foot when they came to the enemy? Why not dismount?
Just when Hojo Tsunataka was still confused, Nambada Hayato was the first to attack from the right flank of the Hojo Army, causing these unprepared Hojo Army Ashigaru to collapse instantly. Coupled with Ota Zimasa's 'mending the sword', the Hojo Army behind was either harvested by the samurai on horseback or hurriedly ran away with oil on the soles of their feet.
"Bastard!" Hojo Tsunataka seems to have discovered the intentions of the two, and if it weren't for the fact that most of his Ashigaru was sent to fight the Ashikaga and Satomi families on the Boso Peninsula and formed an army of peasant soldiers, he would not have risked being killed with a bow and arrow.
By the time Hojo Tsunataka turned around and fought back, Namba Tian Kenshige had already arrived behind him with fifty knights and two hundred ashigaru.
"Please evacuate!" After saying this to Hojo Tsunaka, a samurai in large armor rushed into the forces of the Uesugi family in Ogiya, and even his colleagues rushed in to buy time for Hojo Tsunaka. After all, the death of a member of the Hojo family in battle is not a 'decent' thing.
"I'm sorry!" Hojo Tsunataka had no choice but to tearfully watch as these retainers and samurai under his command were stabbed to death by the spears of the Ogiya Uesugi family and retreated.
"He is the general of the Hojo family, Hojo Tsuntaka!" Ota Shimasa obviously found the 'big fish', and immediately opened his bow and aimed at Hojo Tsuntaka who was fleeing. With a whoosh, the arrow in Ota's hand flew away and flew quickly towards Hojo Tsuna
High back.
"Ahh Hojo Tsuntaka felt a sweetness in his throat, and after spitting out a mouthful of blood, he realized that his armor had been partially pierced by arrows, and his lungs had been pierced by arrows.
While Hojo Tsunataka was still dying, Ota Shikoko would not give him a chance, and immediately rushed to give him the final sword, and then took off his head to persuade the defenders of Edo Castle to surrender.
"Hey! Hey! Oh! "The ashigaru and samurai of the Ogiya Uesugi clan cheered, they finally won after a long decade or so! And I don't think the Hojo family is the strongest anymore.
"To report to the lord, the losses of the family in the first battle outside Edo Castle were ten people killed in the battle with guns and feet, and five people were slightly wounded by the Kawagoe Knights." Namba Tian Kenshige counted the data in a short period of time and reported it to the Asada.
"Very good, this battle is enough as long as the family wins three points, Edo Castle is not conducive to the family to defend, although it is the ancestral city, but there is no point in taking it." Asadachi could see that Edo Castle had been burned down by his order last time, and the plates of Ninomaru and Honmaru were almost burned, and the palace of Honmaru was completely burned down. The Hojo family only set up a few tents to use.
"Yes." Although Namba Tian Kenshige was a little unwilling, he couldn't object to anything, but he did the arson last time.
The Knights' battle at Edo Castle showed the important position of the cavalry on the battlefield, and directly defeated the rabble composed of peasants and soldiers in an instant. When the news reached the ears of the Hojo clan, he vomited blood directly from his mouth and became ill, and even the follow-up battle ended in a passive retreat. The first battle of Guofutai ended in a tie between the two sides. The Satomi family took the opportunity to recover the castle captured by the Hojo family, and the Kogong Princesse also rebuilt it with the support of the Satomi family.
There was also an end to this battle when the Kanto governor Uesugi Kenmasa thought that the Hojo family was easy to bully, and thought that the time had come for him to completely control the Kanto region, so he contacted the Ashikaga Haruhi clan of the Furukawa Princess, and even the Ogiya Uesugi family sent an envoy to it. Prepare for the upcoming attack on Hachioji Castle in Musashi Province. He also calculated that if the Uesugi family and the Ashikaga family of the Furukawa Gongfang of the two families brought the surrounding people and wealthy families with a total of 80,000 troops (in fact, they could also have 50,000 or 60,000 troops), while the Hojo family could mobilize only 15,000 troops.
Of course, this is just Uesugi Kenmasa's idea alone, he just wants to take the Hachioji Castle, which originally belonged to the Uesugi family in Ogiya, and use it as a springboard to attack Sagami and Izu countries, so that the Hojo clan and Hojo clan Yasu, who 'call themselves' the Hojo family, will go back to Ise Province. He didn't give the Uesugi family face in Ogiya at all, Hachioji City has been the territory of the Uesugi family in Ogiya since ancient times.
In early November, Shisuke Kata, the wife of the Yamauchi Uesugi family's envoy, went to Honmaru in Kawagoe Castle to meet Uesugi Asada.
"I'm the old wife of the Uesugi family, Shisuke Kata, who came to meet the head of the Uesugi family in Ogiya, the Uesugi repair doctor, Lord Asada."
"Tsuna-sama Shikada must have been tired and hard along the way, so these are not respectful." When Chaoding saw the face of his wife Shisuke Kada, he knew that this person was a person who could only flatter him, but fortunately, he had already prepared the small gold judgment and Yongle money for 'dotting'.
"This ・・・・・・ Repair Doctor, it's so interesting." As soon as his wife Shikada Shinsuke saw the fifty small gold sentences and one hundred 'hardship fees' in front of him, he immediately changed his face.
The big change of Wife Shikada Shinsuke is disgusting to the retainers of the Uesugi family in Ogiya, they only knew that the Uesugi family recruited the world's ronins before, but they didn't expect there to be such people! However, they can only see that there is no seizure on the face of the Asada, after all, the Yamauchi Uesugi family is still the Kanto governor.
"What do you need from your family, and you need your wife Kata to come in person?" Asadachi can only say in a calm tone now, after all, his power is not big enough, if the Yamauchi Uesugi family is defeated, he can only quickly take his descendants, the Kawagoe Knights, to Echigo Province to join the Nagao family.
"Actually, it's nothing, it's just that the Lord in charge is going to prepare to go out." Wife Shikada Shinsuke said it very casually, which caused many retainers of the Ogiya Uesugi family to whisper.