Chapter 146: The Battle of Luye Mountain
At noon on May 10, after the Satomi army rested overnight in Gojing Castle, Satomi Sakyosuke insisted on leading the army to regain the lost territory with Satomi Yoshishige as the general general, despite the opposition of everyone. Even though Hiroyoshi Nambata, Hideji Kano and Gentosai Ichikawa suggested bitterly, Satomi Sakyosuke and others still didn't listen.
Satomi Sakyosuke and others believed that the Hojo Army was 'almost completely wiped out' after being flanked by the Uesugi Army under Goi Castle (Satomi Sakyosuke and others did not know that a large number of Hojo Army routs had fled back to Kururi Castle), and the Hojo Army's head of the Bo General and the general Hojo Naodari was dead, and the Hojo side had famous samurai Seki Soldier Beshi, Saito Matajiro, Oi Fuji Saemon, Kikuchi Gozaemon, Okazaki Shuryo Ryoshi, Date Boyoshi, Kurokawa Kai Mamoru and Morioka Tsuneri were taken up, so that the people of the Kururi Satomi family were full of confidence in the future.
However, Satomi Sakyosuke forgot a little. The general of the Hojo Army's main team, the famous Daido Temple Masashi and the deputy general of the Hojo clan, Yasuya Yamamura, and the Satomi family governor of the Anbo Fuchu (Tateyama, Anbo Kunifufu) still escaped. Even the old subordinates under Satomi Yoshiyori, Genshichiro Masaki, Mamoru Kato, Mamoru Kato, and Tsurumi Uchishosuke still retain their strength.
After Yasukatsu Kasahara, who was still on guard at Kururi Castle, and his retainers welcomed the ragged and unkempt Daidaiji Masashi and others into Honmaru's Ohiroma, he received a report from Tanma that Kururi had gone out to see his family.
"Can be defended, our army is newly defeated, and there are only more than 5,000 troops in Anfang Fuzhong, among which the battleable army is only prepared in vain······" Dao Temple Zhengfan first wiped his face with a damp cloth and said helplessly.
"Yes, just the old department that I finally got in touch with died in the battle of Wujing City, how can this battle be fought?" Satomi Yoshiyori is ready to pick a son and quit, it is natural for him to succeed as the governor of the Satomi family, but he doesn't want to do this loss-making deal at all.
"Let's not say a few words, the question is how do we wait for the main bus to be replaced? The Sekibu of the Imperial Horse Palace, Saito Matajiro, Oi Fujizaemon, Kikuchi Gozaemon, Okazaki Shuryo and others were all killed in battle, and they were one of the few elites who could handle it! "Yasuya Yamamura is very anxious, if he returns to Sagami now, then he will be ordered by the Hojo clan to cut his stomach.
"As for the attacking enemy army, I am here to find a way to repel it, and you are now resting in the city. Most of the various tribes were demoralized, so they sent the people of Anfang to guard the castle of Kururi and the surrounding branches. "Kasahara Yasukatsu didn't have anything to say to them, thinking that when he and Hojo Tsusunari fought together in Musashi and the Uesugi army, he had seen the strength of the Uesugi army. However, he has never received information about the town guarding the northern part of Kamiso, and Kano Hideharu only knows that he was originally Uesugi Kenshin's bannerman, and nothing else is known.
When Kasahara Yasukatsu felt that it was useless to talk too much and walked out of Ohiroma quickly, Kasawara Terushige, who had been waiting at the door for a long time, grabbed him: "Father, according to the follow-up report on the exploration of horses, I saw that Zuo Kyosuke sent troops without the support of the Uesugi army, and his army was less than 2,000 after counting the temporarily mobilized peasant soldiers. ”
"Mizuno Nagakatsu and other Anfang people can also be regarded as pouring out, and two thousand reinforcements can reach Kururi Castle in a few days. We still need to defeat the enemy army first to boost the morale of our army, otherwise we will be completely annihilated by the Uesugi army sooner or later. "Yasukatsu Kasahara is not as optimistic as Terushige Kasahara, and for the Hojo Army, the land is not a place where you can come and go as you want. It is not a territory, so the terrain is not yet familiar. If you want to find a good terrain to ambush Sakyosuke Satomi and his party, then it's really not easy.
Satomi Sakyosuke is the chief general with the young Satomi Yoshishige, and he is the identity of the latter to overthrow him. Fortunately, after Goi Castle was defended, he regained the support of his colleagues Takano Tokamori and Matsuoka Tokinaga, and the response of Yoshihisa Akimoto and Katsunobubo, the landlords of Tozaki Castle and Koito Castle, made Satomi Sakyo a little flustered.
The 1,600 miles of the army reached more than 2,100 after counting the strength of Akimoto Yoshihisa and Katsunobubo. Satomi Sakyosuke regained the important towns of Ariyoshi Castle, Seko Castle, Kisarazukan, Kimitsukan, Futsukan, Kubota Castle, and Shiizu Castle all the way in five days.
Masaki Yoriding, who occupied Katsuura Castle, Gojukukan, and Kotsukan, learned of the disastrous defeat of the Hojo Army, and had no choice but to leave the castle with his men and flee to Kururi Castle.
At first, the three of Satomi Sakyosuke, Kano Hideji, Nambada Hiroyoshi, and Ichikawa Gentosai, who were not optimistic about Satomi Sakyosuke, could only send troops to receive them first. In addition, Saito Michizo, who was in Manki Castle in Isumi County, also began an offensive against the Hojo family. Seeing that the two defenders of Minami Castle and Sano Castle, Shirai Nobukata and Taga Rokuro Saemon could not defend the castle, they withdrew with a small number of troops.
Satomi Sakyosuke marched all the way, while Saito Michijo Sanzai controlled Yamamoto Temple Dingcho, Miyagi Masayi and others to garrison the important towns of Naggara-gun, Hanso-gun, Isumi-gun, and Ichihara-gun.
In addition to the three counties of Wangtuo County, Zhou Zhun County, and Tianyu County, Saito Michizo did not send troops to go, and even Satomi Sakyosuke's Goi Castle replaced the more than 20 old, weak, sick and disabled defenders in the original castle.
Since Mamoru Kawachi, the supervisor of the Mobara Pavilion, didn't know that Minamijo and Sashijo had given up, he still held on to the Mobara Pavilion. However, this time, the head of Yamamoto Temple will definitely not see him, and he will not attack the cage city.
Yamamotoji led his army to surround Mobarakan on all sides and launched a fierce attack on the castle at the same time. There were not many defenders in the castle of Mobarakan, and after adding the 200 people brought by the supervisor Kawachi Mamoru, there were only 400 defenders.
In just two hours, the head of Yamamoto Temple paid less than 100 casualties to conquer the Mobara Pavilion, and the defender Kawachi Mamoru took it.
Tsurumaki Castle is located on the northern border of Ichihara-gun and Mojita-gun, and Ichikawa Gentosai is still arranged to guard there, and the Okamoto naval army of Musashi also entered the port of Tsurumaki Castle under the leadership of Okamoto Yasuyasu, Okamoto Yorimoto and others, and brought a lot of grain, grass, and ordnance.
Just when Satomi Sakyosuke set off from Oito Castle and led his army to Mt. Kano, one of the two flags of the Satomi army was broken by a sudden gale.
Satomi Sakyosuke himself didn't take this bad omen to heart, but Matsuoka Tokinaga and Takano Tokimori felt that something was not quite right, and asked him to send a scout to reconnoiter that there was no Hojo Army on the mountain.
What Matsuoka Tokinaga and Takano Tokimori didn't expect was that Satomi Sakyosuke directly vetoed this proposal, thinking that even if the Hojo Army wanted to hold some important towns in the country, it would have to defend Kururi Castle and the surrounding branch castles, and now they were marching to the mountain road near Mt. Kano and didn't even see the Mishimakan, so how could they waste time?
As a result, when the Satomi army continued to advance, the rear road to Koito Castle was blocked by a large number of falling rocks.
"There's an ambush!" Tokinaga Matsuoka, who was in the rear, shouted. Although he knew that there might be an ambush by the Hojo Army, he really didn't expect an ambush at this time.
On the slopes on both sides of the mountain road, the flag of the maru Sanshiki and the flag of the third order of the reishi were instantly raised, and fifty iron cannons on each side of the mountain road were fired at the mountain road.
Satomi Sakyosuke and the others were instantly stunned, and before they could react, hundreds of samurai on horseback galloped in front of them.
"Retreat!" Satomi Sakyosuke, who was at the forefront of the Satomi army, didn't know that the back road was broken, and he was counting on retreating to Koito Castle first and then thinking about it in the long run.
"I'm the Hojo family's Hakubi Kasahara Scene, Satomi Sakyosuke is gone!" Kasahara Keinaka led the samurai on horseback into the Satomi army, breaking up their formations and formations, making it impossible for them to cover and counterattack.
"Follow me!" Just as the Satomi army was running ******** direction of Koito Castle, the Hojo army on the hillside rushed down, and the leading samurai were Kasawara Terushige, the son of Yasukatsu Kasahara, and the general of Shirabi Ashigaru, Mataro Aritake.
Satomi Sakyosuke and the others fled regardless of the lives of the ashigaru samurai under their command, but when they reached the end of the mountain road, they found that the intersection had long been blocked by a large number of rocks, and it was impossible to move it quickly. The surrounding hillsides were full of Hojo Army, and there was no way to get out.
Satomi Sakyosuke, Matsuoka Tokinaga, Takano Tokimori, and Satomi Yoshishige committed suicide by seppuku by the rocks, while Katsunobubo and Akimoto Yoshihisa were captured after a battle with the Hojo army. Since then, the Kururi Satomi family has been cut off, and even the last generation of retainers who are loyal to the Kururi Satomi family have all died, except for Ichikawa Gentosai.
An hour later, the valley was littered with the corpses of Satomi's army. The Hojo Army did not leave a single prisoner this time, and even the captured Katsunobubo and Akimoto Yoshihisa were immediately beheaded in the valley.
In this ambush, the Hojo Army invested 3,000 people, of which Shirabi was the main force and the Satomi Army fought in close combat, and the rest of the Hojo Army was surrounded by formations all over Kano Mountain.
After the Battle of Kano Mountain, the Hojo Army quickly withdrew all the forces in Wangtuo County to Zhouzhun County and Tianyu County to garrison. They no longer have the ability and strength to hold the important towns in Wangtuo County such as Kururi Castle and Beiyuan Castle, so in order to reduce unnecessary losses, the only way to keep shrinking the defense line is to do so.