Just after most of the Anbo country was captured by the Hojo family, Satomi Yoshiyao did not have the strength to counterattack. Even the defeat of the traitor Toki and Masaki Tokitaka against the Satomi family could not annihilate them. Although the 11,000 reinforcements of the Uesugi army are still on the way, this does not mean that they will be able to arrive at Kamiso Kururi Castle in time. And Satomi Yoshiyao, as the hero of the Satomi family, could not be defeated by Hojo Shiyasu in a short period of time. Therefore, the court decided to make the plan to go north and then go south to aid after the general seizure of the north. This plan was still suggested by Saito Michizo, who had been eating idle meals and felt that he couldn't go away after he decided on this idea.

In order to save the prestige of the family, Masaki Tokishigeru had to make enemies of his younger brother. He proposed to Satomi Yoshiyao to temporarily abandon Anbo Province and lure out all the main forces of the Hojo Army for a decisive battle. The best place for the decisive battle is at Mt. Mifune. Mt. Mifune, which is close to Sakan Castle, the base of the Satomi clan, is said to have been named because it looked like three boats connected to each other and placed upside down on the ground. The terrain near Mt. Mifune was completely unsuitable for a large number of soldiers and horses, and it was very suitable for the Satomi army, which had a small number of troops. There are also some paddy fields and swamps near Mt. Mifune, and as long as the Satomi army is ambushed properly, it can completely defeat the Hojo army.

However, there is a prerequisite for luring out all the main forces of the Hojo Army. The premise of this is that Satomi Yoshiyao will abandon the existing residence of Kururi Castle and enter all his family members and troops into Sakan Castle, which is difficult to defend and difficult to attack. Sakan Castle is a fortified castle that Satomi Yoshihiro painstakingly built, and its defense capability is not lower than that of Kururi Castle, but Kururi Castle is very easy to be surrounded on all sides, and Sakan Castle is close to the sea on one side and the terrain is dangerous.

To say that Satomi Yoshiyao is not without foresight, he also got the news that the Uesugi family's reinforcements are on the way, so he only needs to win a battle, then the Uesugi army will contribute. Satomi Yoshiyao immediately notified all the retainers who were still willing to swear allegiance to the Satomi family within a few days, and asked them to send their families to Sakan Castle as soon as possible. However, Kamisaone Furuya Castle, Taki Castle, Heizo Castle, Ikewada Castle, Sano Castle, Tozaki Castle, Kururi Castle, Senbon Castle, Oto Castle, Kuramakan, Mishimakan, Ryuzan Castle, Oito Castle, and other large and small castles were to be temporarily abandoned. Satomi Yoshiyao knew that as long as he won, then these cities could be recaptured, and if he lost, everything would be over.

After Satomi Yoshiyao left 5,000 troops at the foot of Mt. Kano on August 30, he did not abandon the castle after all his retainers and his family members withdrew to Sakan Castle on September 1. As long as you have control of Mt. Kano, you will be able to clearly detect the movements of the Hojo Army, so Sakan Castle, Amabashi Castle, Hyakusho Castle, Mineyama Castle, and Futsukan Castle were not abandoned by the Satomi family, because these were the keys to ensuring victory. Moreover, these castles were connected to each other's horns, and the Hojo Army could not easily conquer them.

In the face of the murderous army of more than 20,000 people of the Hojo clan, the Satomi clan's strength after the general mobilization was still less than half of the Hojo army. If a frontal battle were to be adopted, the chances of victory for the Satomi army, which was at an absolute disadvantage, were slim to none, so in the pre-war military discussions, Masaki Toshigeru proposed a strategy similar to the tactics used by the Takeda army in the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima. The Takeda Army was victorious in the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima, but Takeda Shingen only divided his forces to flank the Uesugi army when his own forces were superior, and it was a great adventure to use such tactics with the current number of Satomi troops; If something goes wrong, waiting for the Satomi clan is likely to perish. Despite everyone's concerns, no one could come up with a better solution, so Satomi Yoshiyao and Satomi Yoshihiro finally decided to go with Masaki's plan.

By the 5th of September, the Hojo Army's Hojo clan, Hojo Shiro, Hojo Naodada, Tominaga Naokakatsu, Tame Motoko, Toyama Yasumitsu (Toyama Tsunakei's younger brother, former Edo people), Abe Motoma, Kira clan, Toki Noriri, and Masaki Tokitaka had reached Mifune Mountain, and a fort was built on Mifune Mountain. The main commander of the Hojo Army will be Hojo Shiyao, and the deputy generals will be Hojo Shigeru and Tominaga Naokaka, and the military will be Naosada Hojo. The two of them, Toki Ryori and Masaki Tokitada, came to make up the numbers, and the 5,300 troops of Hojo Shiyasu, Mamiya Nobutada, Oto Keicho, Yamanaka Morita, and Ogasawara Yasuhiro were all in Anbo Province to stabilize the situation.

Satomi Yoshiyao handed over all the command of the Satomi army to Satomi Yoshihiro, and asked him to lead the remaining 8,000 troops of the Satomi army to fight against the Hojo army, while he himself defended the castle in Sakan Castle. Satomi Yoshihiro entangled the Hojo Army with 6,000 troops as a front, and Masaki Kentoki, the adopted son of Masaki Toshigeru, led 1,000 of them as the first hand. And Masaki Toshigeru led 2,000 troops to detour through the rear of the Hojo Army and wait for an opportunity to sneak attack.

Originally, the other party who was supposed to fight the Satomi family was the Hojo clan, but now it has been replaced by the Hojo clan, who doesn't have much ability, should Satomi Yoshihiro be happy or happy?

The main team of the Satomi Army, led by Yoshihiro Satomi himself, set up a formation in Void Zoyama, while Hojo Shiyao set up his formation at Mt. Mifune. Looking at the few small troops on the Void Mountain, Hojo Clan Yao suddenly had a feeling of victory in his chest, and the generals of the Hojo Army also recognized their own victory like Hojo Clan. However, what the Hojo family didn't know was that Masaki Tokimo took advantage of the laxity of the Hojo Army to lead the special forces back to Hachimanyama north of Mifune Mountain the night before.

The 11,000 troops led by Ota Shimasa and Yamamoto Temple had entered the Upper General from the Miyagi political domain, and their first battle was against the Toki Sakai family. And the Toki Sakai family, which only has 12,200 stones, is naturally no match for Ota Shimasa and others. The two sides decided the victory in just one battle in Toki Castle, and Sakai Yinji, the head of the Toki Sakai family, was killed in battle, and the retainer Wakana Toyo Maemoru was captured. The Toki Sakai family perished after losing a hundred troops. The garrisons of Tokushi Castle and Inunari Castle were handed over to Miyagi Masaki, which was located in the area of Hirayama Castle.

Ota Shimasa also needs to destroy the Higashikin-Sakai family, the Mitani family, the Ida family, and the Yamamuro family, otherwise he will not be able to go south with peace of mind, and the back road may be cut off by them at any time.

In the early morning of September 6, Kentoki Masaki took the lead in attacking the Hojo Army. As the pioneer general of the Hojo Army, Tamu Motoxing naturally did not panic and calmly counterattacked. In just half an hour, the Satomi army retreated decisively under the leadership of Masaki Kentoki.

Immediately, the Hojo Army seized the initiative on the battlefield. The Satomi army began to retreat southward, and along the way, they took the initiative to discard their armor and spears, even the samurai of the Satomi family.

When the Hojo family retainers and Toki Yoriri, Masaki Tokitaka and others on Mifune Mountain who had not yet put their troops into battle, were a little impatient. If you want to make a meritorious contribution in a battle that you must win, you need to obtain the head of the enemy, and now seems to be the best opportunity, the combat effectiveness of the defeated Satomi army should be very low, so the price to pay for obtaining the head of the enemy army must not be high...... The vanguard of the Hojo Army began a frenzied pursuit of the Satomi Army, not even caring that they were already in a paddy field where it was difficult to move.

"Lord Abe, the revival of the Imagawa family is today. If you make a contribution, I will make a suggestion to my brother and let Daisuke Jibu choose a territory of 100,000 koku in Anfang and Shangzong, how about it? "The Hojo clan Yao had already received a promise from the Hojo clan that tempting the Imagawa army with territory and letting them live and die was the best way for the Hojo army to reduce its losses.

"Yes!" Abe Motoma's father and son immediately led the 3,000 troops of the headquarters and rushed out. This was followed by the 1,500 troops of Yasumitsu Toyama and the 4,500 troops of the Hojo clan.

"General, please let me wait to join the battle! If the people of the Imagawa family make more contributions, won't the family lose face?! "Hojo Naosada was very dissatisfied with Hojo Shiyao's words that he had just made more credit to the Imagawa army.

"Then you can go up too, anyway, the Satomi family is over!" Hojo Shiyao was very relieved, and directly let the 2,400 troops of the Tominaga Naokuma Division and the 1,000 troops of the Hojo Naoditaka Division in the Hojo Army fight, and the Hojo Army on Mifune Mountain now only has the 500 troops of the Kira Dynasty and the 1,000 White Reserve Army of the Hojo Shiyao himself.

And Toki's 2,000 troops and Masaki Shizhong's 2,500 troops are watching the show, and they are not ready to join their forces into battle, after all, they are not willing to continue to fight with their former colleagues. They also understood it in the first battle of the original war, the Hojo Army used them as cannon fodder, and the Hojo Army waited until they were almost unable to hold on.

Seeing that the Hojo Army had fallen into the paddy fields of the Shoji Valley, Satomi Yoshihiro, who was immediately in the void of Zoyama, put down his tight heart a little, the first step of the strategy had been completed perfectly, and the wolf smoke for notification had also risen, and the rest was up to Masaki Shigeru's special forces; However, when he thought of Masaki Shigeru, Satomi Yoshihiro had an inexplicable worry······

As soon as he saw the wolf smoke rising, Masaki Shigeru led his military horses to quickly rush to Mifune Mountain. And Masaki Shigeru himself took the lead and rushed to the front. It has been thirty-four years since Shigeru Masaki Daizenryo Shige, the lord of Baishou Castle, has been the chief minister and chief general of the Satomi clan of the Bo So, and in terms of blood, Masaki Shigeru is still the uncle of Satomi Yoshiyao, and with Shigeru's position as one of the best in the Boso area, there is no need to risk arrows and stones to rush to the front line, but after Shimo's younger brother Masaki Tokitaka rebelled against the Hojo clan, Shigeru's position in the Satomi clan became very embarrassing.

Dividing a family into two parts and joining different forces to ensure the survival of the family was a common tactic used by small forces during the Warring States period, so after Masaki Tokitaka rebelled against the Hojo clan, rumors that Masaki Tokishige and Masaki Tokitaka had a consensus at all never stopped. What's more, some people predicted that Masaki Tokitada's defection was just to pave the way for the complete betrayal of the Masaki clan first, and when the time was ripe, Masaki Tokishigeru would take the head of the lord to the Hojo clan...... Although no one dared to say this in front of the gun Daizen Masaki Shigeru, who was known for his bravery, Shi Shige did know that rumors had been lingering in the ears of Yoshihiro Lord.

Yoshihiro heard a lot of rumors about Masaki Toshigeru, but Yoshihiro has always ignored it. After the disastrous defeat in the Second Battle of Kokubutai, the Satomi clan, which had lost even the base of Kururi Castle, could not withstand a civil strife. The decline of the Niko clan is not far off, and Satomi Yoshihiro is not so ignorant as to deliberately reduce himself to the same level as Niko Haruma and Niko Yoshihisa father and son. Of course, Satomi Yoshihiro didn't treat Masaki Shigeru any better, because once there was a trace, it would be bad for Masaki Shigeru to have any suspicions...... After a few years, Masaki Toshigeru has more or less realized the good intentions of the lord Yoshihiro, so Toshimo tries his best to find an opportunity to wash away the stigma on himself, and there is no better opportunity than rushing to Mifune Mountain to personally take down the head of Hojo Shiyao, the general of the Hojo Army.

Self-absorbed with himself and about to become the first hero of the Hojo family in the raiders of the Boso Peninsula, the Hojo clan Yao obviously didn't notice that the combat effectiveness of the Satomi army seemed to have dropped too unreasonably compared to the second battle of Kofutai, and all the people who could be seen had been fought by him, and at this moment, only the Kira clan was left by his side.

However, when the news of "a soldier and a horse being killed from behind" came to him, Hojo immediately sensed the rhythm of his besiegement. Finally woke up to the Hojo Army's plan to quickly analyze the situation, the main force of the Hojo Army is currently crowded in the paddy fields of the Shoji Valley and cannot return for a while, although the enemy killed in the north is not many, but the number of escort troops around him is not much, for the sake of prudence, it is better to move the main formation south down the mountain and join the main force before trying to counterattack......

The Hojo Army, which was crowded in the paddy fields of the Shoji Valley, soon learned the news of the enemy attack in the rear, and like the Hojo clan, they knew their own plans. Unlike the Hojo clan, the Hojo army in the paddy fields was blocked by Mt. Mifune, and could not see how many enemies had been killed from the direction of Mt. Hachiman. After a while, everyone saw that the clan masa's main formation began to shift.

As a result, rumors of a surprise attack by a large enemy army in the north began to spread rapidly among the various units, and the Hojo Army fell into a panic.

Satomi Yoshihiro observed the chaos of the Hojo Army in Void Zoyama, so the Satomi Army, which had lured the enemy, also began to turn to a counteroffensive. When the main camp of the clan masa joined up with his side at the foot of Mount Mifune, the troops led by Masaki Toshigeru had also pounced from behind the Hojo army (north), and the speed of this force was much faster than Hojo Masa had imagined, and the Hojo army was actually flanked from the front and rear. As a result, the morale of the Hojo Army quickly deteriorated, and the chain of command soon became ineffective...... The battlefield was one-sided.

Such a situation was something that Hojo had not expected, and seeing that he was powerless, Hojo was ready to order a retreat. However, at this moment, the Hojo army could not even retreat, and under the onslaught of the Satomi army, the Hojo army quickly collapsed, and the soldiers began to scatter and flee, and even the Hojo clan himself was in danger of being killed by the enemy - Masaki Tokimo killed the clan Masa's main camp.

Toki and Masaki Tokitada saw that if the Hojo Army was defeated, the Kamiso Ichikoku would definitely return to the hands of the Satomi family, and if he didn't make a decision now, then as soon as the Hojo Army withdrew, his family would be destroyed.

At the suggestion of his son Toki Yoriharu, Toki quickly launched an attack on the Hojo clan on the mountain of Mifuneyama. When Masaki Toki, when Toki's Kikyo flag moved, he realized that Toki was not attacking the Satomi army, but attacking the Hojo army!

Toki is the first to take the lead, and he is one of the fierce generals of the Satomi family, although he is worse than Masaki Toshigeru, but it is better than the Hojo family retainers who stayed on Mifune Mountain. Hojo Clan's original hope of a quick evacuation was dashed, although his army was transferred to the north to fight with Masaki Toshimo's army, but the number is now very small, and even if the five hundred troops of the Kira clan can fight again, it is impossible to stop the two thousand troops of Toki!

"I'll wait to see home again! Follow me! "Masaki Shizhong immediately decided, as long as he can grab the head of the Hojo clan, then the Masaki family is still an important minister in the Satomi family, and he can continue to gain the trust of the Satomi family! He immediately led the 2,500 troops under his command to assist Toki Weiyori and launched an attack on Mifune Mountain.

At this moment, the Hojo Army, which was still being caught off guard by the Satomi Army in the paddy field, basically had no morale. Due to the rapid advance of the Hojo clan's army, Satomi Yoshihiro also received 'special' attention. The three hundred troops of the two teams of the Jade Rope Clan, the Jimbo Palace and the Tanaka Commission, were all killed by the Satomi army, and the heads of the two of them were also taken.

The Imagawa army, which was deep in the swamp, was shot with bows and arrows by the Satomi army. All 13 of Zhikura Akihei's guns were killed, including Zhikura Akihei himself, who was also killed by random arrows. Abe Motojin and Abe Nobukatsu were killed by the only 50 iron cannons of the Satomi Army on the way to escape. The remnants of the Imagawa army were all scattered, and 1,900 of them were taken prisoner.

The Hojo clan's reorganized Bai Bei was even beaten by the 2,000 hungry wolf-like army led by Masaki Toshigeru, and these recruits were defeated in an instant. And at this moment, Masaki Shigeru found that on the other side of the mountainside, Toki Weilai and Masaki Shizhong had defected, and they were still fighting with the five hundred troops of the Kira clan, and they had already won the Kira family's retainer Ohira Dehamori. He himself won one of Shirakei's ashigaru generals, Masayo Ito.