Chapter 388: Yue Gong is like a snake in Tiger Gorge
At the moment when Baba Nobubo was killed by the Uesugi army, the balance of the battlefield situation on the south bank of the Chikuma River had begun to tilt towards the Uesugi army, and the important fierce general of the Takeda family and the veteran minister of the Takeda family, Nobubo Baba, was killed, and the Takeda army was suddenly attacked, and the entire front collapsed at once. With the death of many powerful generals, the Takeda army continued to retreat under the onslaught of the Uesugi army on three sides, and even the powerful generals of the Shinano ancestors, such as Soki Masatomo and Amamiya Ieji, were killed by the Uesugi army in the assault launched by Shinbata Shigeie, Anozawa Toshimitsu, Itaya Mitsuyin, and Tobira Yuta.
Especially at the moment when the head of the Baba Nobubo was hung high by the samurai under the command of Honjo Fanchang, the Takeda army was shocked and lost their fighting spirit in an instant.
The Takeda army is defeated! This was the consensus reached by the Uesugi Army and the Takeda Army on both sides of the Chikuma River.
Takasaka Masanobu was furious when he learned that his army was constantly retreating, and he personally took his sword and went into battle to command the battle in order to redeem the defeat, but starting with the powerful people of the Umino and Ina people, the collapse of the Takeda army could not be stopped. Seeing that the battle situation was irretrievable, Takasaka Masanobu had to lead his subordinates and Lizhong and Ganli Masada and other generals to cover the retreat of Takeda's defeated army, in order to make a comeback.
At the same time, after analyzing the battle situation a little, Asada's decision to abandon the pursuit of Takeda's defeated army was likely to be cut off by the enemy, so he decided to abandon the pursuit of Takeda's defeated army, and immediately annihilated Masanobu Takasaka, who was in charge of the Takeda army's army, and then went to Hachimangahara to join the Uesugi army's main team.
Subsequently, the more than 2,000 troops led by Takasaka Masanobu and others were completely wiped out in an instant under the flood of more than 30,000 Uesugi troops, and Takasaka Masanobu, Takasaka Masasumi, Koyamada Toramitsu, Kohata Toramomori, Itagaki Nobuya, Kusama Tsunatoshi, Hoshina Masatoshi, Ganli Masadada, Hara and Sozaemon and others died in the chaos one after another. In the end, only more than 100 people, including Akiyama Nobuyo, Oyamada Masatsun, and Kohata Masamori, successfully broke through and retreated into Chikuma County.
Under the hard work of Umino Zhong's Kamio roommate (Kamio roommate), Umino Yukimitsu (Yukiko, Yeyoshi), Sanada Tsunayoshi (Yukitaka brother), Umino Yutada (Mikawa Shouyuki Sadako), Umino Nobumori (Heihachiro) and others, Sanada Yukitaka was finally able to lead more than ten people back to Toshi Castle. However, after this battle, the entire Umino army was annihilated, and Ueo Fangyou, Umino Yukimitsu, Sanada Tsunyoshi, Umino Yutada, Umino Nobumori and others took the initiative to report their names and launched a suicide attack on the Uesugi army in order to prevent Sanada Yukitaka from being won by the Uesugi army. Sanada Nobuta, Sanada Masataki, Yazawa Yoritsuna (Sanada Yukita's brother), Kawara Shigemasa (Kamaharahara's son), Kawahara Takamasa (Sanada Yukita's brother-in-law), Kawahara Miyauchi Suke (Kawahara Takamasa's son), Hisaya Mikawa Mamoru and Hisaya Saomayo and other relatives, genealogy retainers and even his own two sons all died on the south bank of the Chikuma River.
Sanada Yutaka only felt a tightness in his chest after looking at the empty Ohiroma, and instantly spit out a large amount of blood from his mouth, while his eyes were still shining with Venus and his ears were buzzing. Immediately, Kawahara Tsunade (Kawahara Takamasa Sano), Kimura Tosa Mamoru (Sanada Nobutsuna retainer) and others stepped forward to support Sanada Yukitaka. However, even if Sanada Yutaka loses all his family, he still intends to resist stubbornly in Toishi Castle, he has gambled his life on the Takeda family, and now there is no way out, if he chooses to surrender to the Uesugi family, then Sanada Shinyin and other children in Kai will die, and he is not willing to surrender like this at the moment. Sanada Yutaka had the dignity of a Shinshu samurai and the glory of a wise general, and he did not want to die standing still, and then he inspired the remaining 100 people in the castle to prepare for the cage castle and decided to live and die with the castle.
On the other hand, because Shoda Dingxian, Nagai Nobumi, and Iwai Nobuno went too deep into the hinterland of the Takeda Domain, they were counterattacked by Shinano Ancestors such as Ichikawa and Yatsu Nobutada (Takeda Nobuta's son-in-law, Takeda Nobuyoshi Xuan's brother) and were defeated, and Shoda was killed in battle to cover the retreat of Nagai Noshimi and Iwai Nobuno.
Faced with the inability of the Uesugi army, which was several times their size, to break through the siege, and they had to hold the consciousness of the death of the defeated battle, they led generals such as Imakfuku Yukiyo, Asarishi Nobutan, Sone Shichiro Guard, and Tsuchiya Shoji to raid the main Uesugi forces such as Usami Dingman, Okuma Asahide, Nagao Keiren, and Nagao Keiqin on the flank of the Uesugi army.
Naito Masatsuki, Yamaguchi Masamitsu, and Mochizuki then launched a surprise attack under the rain of bullets, and then the Takeda army actually defeated the Great Bear Ashide, Nagao Keiren, Nagao Keiqin and other units one after another, and drove straight into the reserve of the Uesugi army under the fierce fire of the Uesugi army's fierce iron cannons and bows, and forced Kenshin's main formation to start a death battle with Kenshin's banners. In the melee, Mochizuki Trust was killed by Kojima Sadakin by Kojima Sadakin and Matsumoto Keishi, who returned to defend the Uesugi army's main formation, and in the melee, Mochizuki Trust was killed by Kojima Sadakyu, and the Takeda army's offensive was immediately damaged and began to be chaotic, and the Uesugi army took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack. At the cost of the bitter battle, the Uesugi army successively defeated Naito Masatsuki, Yamaguchi Masamitsu, and Mochizuki Shin, and after the defeat of the Takeda army, Hachimangahara was filled with the corpses of the Takeda army that had retreated from Yamaguchi, Naito, and Mochizuki.
At the same time, Yamaura Kunikiyo of the Uesugi Army began to identify captured Takeda Army flags and poor objects. With the support of iron cannons and bows, Ota Shimasabu, Koyama Asakyuki, Gan Yakei and other departments fought desperately with Ichichi Shinryu and other departments.
After learning that Takeda Shingen had led part of his army to safely withdraw from Hachimangahara, Naito Masatsuki and Yamaguchi Masamitsu led more than 20 samurai on horseback to break into the pursuing Uesugi army. After Naito Masatsuki used his spear to pick out four or five samurai on horseback of the Uesugi army, he was killed by the iron cannon Ashigaru under the command of Ota Shimasa of the Uesugi army. Yamayama Masamitsu, on the other hand, was hopeless in breaking through, and his troops committed suicide in Hirose after suffering all casualties.
After leaving the Hachimangahara battlefield, Takeda Shingen had to abandon all valuables such as military flags and gold seals in order to escape the wild samurai and thieves such as the Hiraga people who attacked the Takeda army everywhere, and these were finally captured by Yamaura Kunikiyo. After deducting casualties, missing persons, and escapes, the Takeda Army, which returned to Kai safely, had only 5,000 troops.
As a result of this battle, the Takeda family's military forces in Shinano and Kai were completely destroyed. Among the retainers who died in the battle, there were close relatives such as Takeda Nobushi, Takeda Nobuyo, Takeda Nobutomo, Ichichi Nobuturyu, Matsuo Nobushi, and Kawawa Nobutomi, and among the genealogy, there were also Baba Nobubo, Takasaka Masanobu, Kanemaru Torayoshi, Mieda Toraki, Ishihara Shougen, Oyamada Toramitsu, Ohata Toramomori, Hara Masain, Naito Masatsuki, Yamayama Masamitsu, Asarishi Nobuna, Imafuku Arikiyo, and Kasai Higo Mamoru and others. Among the sect, Mochizuki Nobuyo (the eldest son of Takeda Nobushi), Mokaku Torada, Sakurai Nobutada, Iwate Nobumori, Iwate Nobuyaki, Imai Nobumasa and other important ministers were begged to death one after another. For the Takeda family, this is an out-and-out total rout, the Takeda family is not only a big loss of vitality, broken muscles and bones, but a martial arts that have been abandoned and have no chance to recover.
A total of 10,000 people were killed on the battlefield of Hachimangahara, and 5,000 were captured before they had time to escape, and only the 5,000 troops led by Takeda Shingen actually escaped, such as Fuji Nobutada, Ohara Jinmi, Anhara Tadashi, Anhara Mitsukyo, Yubi Tadamitsu, Yubi Masanobu, Nishiyama Mitsuei, Nishiyama Mitsukin, Mitsura Mikuhisa, Miura Yoshikagami, Pregnant Ishi Motoyasu, Otsuka Soldier Uemon and other people and Anayama Nobujun who smeared oil on the soles of their feet early after seeing that the battle situation was unfavorable and left the battlefield. On the battlefield on the south bank of the Chikuma River, the Takeda army was captured more than 2,000 and killed more than 5,000. In the battle on both sides, there were a total of 65,000 Takeda troops, including other countries, Oyamada Nobushige, Anayama Nobuyo, Takeda Shingen's team, a total of less than 20,000, and the rest were either captured, missing, or begged to die, and after the first actual inspection and statistics, a total of more than 15,000 Takeda troops were killed.
However, in this battle, the Uesugi army was not without losses, and the Takeda army also paid a heavy price. The Uesugi army invested a total of 78,000 troops, of which more than 7,000 were killed and tens of thousands were wounded. Among them, more than 1,200 people were killed in the battle of Xiaoshan Asaoyubu, a retainer under the command of Chaoding, and almost all of them were wiped out, ranking first in the loss list. In addition, more than 2,000 of the left and right armed guards who held on to the north bank of the Chikuma River were also killed, and if it had not been for the fact that the Takeda Army's partial division was prevented from breaking through the Chikuma River and merging with the Takeda Army's main team, it would not have quickly lost a quarter of the left and right armed guard armies that had just been formed. However, there are losses and gains. At the cost of losing more than 2,000 troops, the court successfully exchanged the glorious record of destroying and attacking many important ministers of the Takeda family, such as Nobubo of the Baba family, Masanobu Takasaka, Torami Oyamada, Toramo Ohata, Nobuyan Itagaki, Masashi Hoshina, Kagan Masatada, Sanada Nobutsuna, Sanada Masataki, and Soki Masato, as well as the brilliant achievements of destroying and attacking the Kaino and Shinano ancestors. The Uesugi family also lost some of their retainers: Shida Yoshitoki, the lord of Nato Castle (Naoe Keizuna and Ritsu), the lord of Akakura Castle, Okawa Tadahide (Yohoku), Shoda Dingken (Mima Nian, Hagimoto), Yatsu Jibu Shosuke (Kitanobu Shiori), Iwakura Temple Castle Lord Noro Yazaemon (Notobo), Okurazakikan Pavilion Master (Okurazakakikan located near the cliff on the west bank of the Chikuma River), Takenouchi Gennai (Kitabu Shika), Inoue Higo Mamoru (Kita Shinho, Okushino Inoue Uegami clan), Nishika Castle Lord Tojo Nobuhiro (Kitanobu Shi), The lord of the castle of Tsugaku, Shibatsu is the letter (Kitashin), Takanashi Gentoshi (the fourth brother of Takanashi Masayori, the Hokishin), Koyama Takatomo (the former governor and head of the Kanto Koyama clan, the elder of the pen family under the command of Koyama Asayuki), Koyama Hidetsuna (the son of Koyama Takato, the former young master of the Kanto Koyama clan) and so on.
Subsequently, Asadachi and Kenshin held a victory ceremony on Hachimangahara to celebrate the Uesugi army's complete expulsion of the Takeda family from Okushinano. After entering Saijo Castle, Kenshin also awarded a very special "bloodstained feeling" to the generals who performed well in this battle, and a total of ten people, including Fujiwara Asada, Kakizaki Keiie, Shibe Katsunaga, Usami Dingmi, Saito Asanobu, Kurokawa Kiyomi, Honda Nagashi (Flag Hon), Matsumoto Keishi (Matsumoto Tadashi, Flag Hon), Arakawa Nagami (Flag Hon), Kojima Sadako (Flag Hon). Among them, among these ten feelings, there are humble words from the bottom of my heart: 'Your hard work, Zhenghu will never dare to forget in his life'.