Chapter 385: Kansuke's Death

As the news of the death of Takeda Shingen's right-hand brother Takeda Shinshihiro in battle reached the Takeda Army's main camp, Takeda Shingen immediately felt his eyes darken, and said to himself: "Shin Fan······ Shinshigeru died in battle, even if Baba Minomori, Takasaka Danmasa and other generals led their troops to Hachimanwara and won the battle after attacking the Uesugi army on both sides?! Our army suffered such heavy losses that even Xin Fan ······"

In the battle of Hachimangahara, in fact, it is already clear who will win and who will lose.

"Lord Pavilion, Naito Yamato Moriden requests that reinforcements be sent as soon as possible, otherwise the Naito Yamato Guards will be wiped out!" A hundred-legged envoy Fan armor was in tatters, and he ran to Takeda Shingen covered in blood and said.

"I'll send the Suwa Divine Army to support him! Tell him to hold on! "After thinking about it, Takeda Shingen had no choice but to send the Suwa Shinto army in the reserve.

"Yes!" The hundred-legged envoy immediately retired and left the Takeda army's main formation.

However, the "Suwa Divine Army" that Takeda Shingen intended to send was not a force that was actually used for combat, but a Suwa Gonken of Amaterasu. In fact, the ceremonial team of Suwa Shrine carried the shrine in battle, and the shrine maidens and priests marched in with drumming in order to improve the morale of their own troops. At this moment, Takeda Shingen really had no troops available, and it happened that the morale of the troops in front of the main camp was very low, so he simply sent the Suwa Shinto Army to support Naito Masatsukibu.

At the same time that the Suwa Divine Army was about to arrive at the rear of Naito Masatsuki's Division, Arakawa Nagami, one of Kenshin's bannermen, had already led more than 500 iron cannons to the flank of the Suwa Divine Army, and set up a wooden shield to light the fire rope.

"There are only 18,000 troops under the command of the Duke of Chaoding, and now they have successively defeated nearly 20,000 troops such as the enemy's Takeda Warden Division, the head of the Cave Mountain Xuanfan, and the Takeda Criminal Division's Young Auxiliary Division. Arakawa Nagami immediately ordered the iron cannon ashigaru to concentrate fire on the Suwa God Army.

After round after round of volleys of concentrated fire, the Suwa Divine Army, which had gone to reinforce Naito Masatsuki, was beaten into a sieve. Subsequently, 300 horseback samurai led by Kenshin's old minister, Uno Sasuke, arrived, and after a burst of slaughter, the Suwa Shinto army was completely annihilated. The reinforcements of five hundred men were not breathing in less than a quarter of an hour.

Now that you've come this far, you can't afford to go back. If it were someone else, he would probably have been broken a long time ago, turned around and fled without a trace. But Takeda Shingen's nerves were extremely tenacious, but he immediately ordered: "Shrink both wings, slowly move closer to the main formation, hold on for another hour, hold on for another hour, and then the reinforcements will come, and then it will be the time for our army to cheer for victory!" ”

"Everything is because of the minister's mistake that led to the death of many retainers in my family, and the minister deserves death!" Yamamoto Kansuke was ashamed when he learned that the important ministers of the family such as Mizhi Toroyoshi, Kanemaru Torayoshi, Takeda Nobuyoshi, and Mokaku Torada had been killed by the Uesugi army, and immediately took out the sword he wore at his waist and said to Takeda Shingen: "The minister will lead the army to attack the Uesugi army, and try every means to enter the Uesugi army's main camp to delay time, as long as the minister is still alive, he will never let the Uesugi army hurt the owner of the pavilion in the slightest!" ”

"It's not entirely your fault, I'm also responsible as the master. The current situation of the war is no longer something you can turn around alone, Kansuke, you must come back alive. Takeda Shingen shook his head and said. He was already feeling physically and mentally exhausted at this moment, and he had no strength left to stop Yamamoto Kansuke's appearance.

What Takeda Shingen didn't know was that almost at the same time that Takeda Nobushige, Morakku Torada, and others were killed in battle, the 20,000-strong army led by Baba Nobubo, Takasaka Masanobu, and Oyamada Nobushige was engaged in a fierce battle with the 20,000 Uesugi troops stationed at Mt. Tsumime and Mt. Saijo, and it was impossible to reach Hachimanwara to flank the Uesugi army as agreed.

At the same time, Kenshin shook the reins a little uneasily in the main battle, and the moon hair released by the famous horse under his crotch also snorted, as if the smell of blood and the sound of fighting on Hachimangahara made it particularly excited. Qianxin looked at the banner of Siru, and looked back at the direction of his wife and daughter mountain from time to time, becoming more and more anxious. She had to see the right moment to break into the Takeda Army's main camp before the reinforcements from the Takeda Army arrived at Hachimangahara. The flag-based samurai under Kenshin's command all clenched their weapons in their hands, looking at the Takeda Army's main formation, which appeared from time to time in the smoke and dust, waiting for the lord's order.

"Whose troops are at the forefront of the right wing of the Takeda Army?!" Kenshin saw that under the siege of many of his own troops, this Takeda army was still able to maintain the array and continue to hold the position.

"Shiro Takeda Katsuyori!" Matsumoto Keishi, a retainer beside Kenshin, immediately replied.

"Order Saito Shimono Mamoru and Kurokawa Suruga Mamoru and others to withdraw immediately!" Qianxin then gave a startling order.

"What are you talking about?!" Matsumoto Keihiro asked in surprise after listening to Kenshin's order.

"It's a strategy, Takeda Shiro Katsuyori will definitely think that our army was flanked by the Takeda army coming from the direction of Mt. Tsuma and took the initiative to retreat, and then when Takeda Shiro Katsuyori pursued, he sent troops to surround it, cut off its retreat, and isolate it. Do as I command! Qianxin then came up with a way to deal with it.

"Yes!" Matsumoto Keishige immediately led several samurai on horseback to give orders to the front departments.

Subsequently, Takeda Katsuyori really led his army to take the initiative to pursue Saito Asanobu, Kurokawa Kiyomi and other troops who were 'defeated' as Kenshin envisioned.

Takeda Katsuyori led his troops to chase after him for less than half a mile, and the two divisions of Saito Asanobu and Kurokawa Kiyomi immediately reflexively killed back, and at the same time, Kakizaki Keiya, Takemata Keisuna, Okawa Nagahide, Yamamoto Temple Keicho and other departments immediately outflanked Takeda Katsuyori's left and right flanks. In an instant, the more than 2,000 troops of Takeda's Katsuyori Division were surrounded by nearly 10,000 Uesugi regiments.

"Kansuke-sama! Big things are wrong! The Uesugi army, which the young lord pursued the 'rout', was surrounded! "Not long after Takeda Katsuyori was surrounded, Hagawara Yaemon, the head of the Ashigaru group under Kansuke Yamamoto, immediately ran to Kansuke Yamamoto and reported.

"What?! The young master is the future of the Takeda family, and nothing can happen! Come with the old man! Subsequently, Kansuke Yamamoto led his 500 troops to break through the encirclement of nearly 10,000 Uesugi troops and successfully merged with Takeda Katsuyoribu.

"Take this opportunity, young master, please step back immediately!" Yamamoto Kansuke didn't have time to talk to Takeda Katsuyori, so he ordered his retainer Kawahara Village Messenger to pull Takeda Katsuyori's horse bridle and retreat in the direction of the Takeda army's main camp.

"Can I help you?!" Katsuyori Takeda asked, turning his head.

"The minister is here to be your palace army!" After Yamamoto Kansuke finished speaking, he led his troops to launch a decisive assault against Saito Asanobu and Kurokawa Kiyomi, who were heavily protected.

"There are brave and unscrupulous people, is there no one under Takeda Shingen?! No clown dares to stand in the way of our army! Looking at Kansuke Yamamoto, who was constantly rushing to kill, Kakizaki Keijia sneered and then stabbed at Kansuke Yamamoto with a gun, Kansuke Yamamoto couldn't resist it, and then his body was crooked, and he fell to the ground on his side. Kakizaki Keijia then went up and shot again, which resulted in the life of Kansuke Yamamoto. Kansuke Yamamoto collapsed in a pool of blood, his eyes wide open, but there was a faint smile on his lips, as if to say, "It is a great honor for a warrior to die to protect the lord." The old man is worthy of the grace of the Lord of the Imperial Palace, and the old man died without regrets! ”

After that, Qianxin looked up at the sky and saw that the sun was already three poles. At this point, the fog on Hachimangahara had all cleared, and she looked at the sun hanging in the clear blue sky, guessing that it was about noon, and decided that she could not continue to hesitate.

Qian Xin first threw away the green bamboo cane in his hand, and then ordered the Qiben samurai beside him to raise the Chaos Dragon Banner, "Everyone, you heard clearly, at this moment, our army is about to start a surprise attack on the Takeda Army's main formation, and there is only one purpose - the head of Takeda Shingen, and the rest are not needed!" Don't be left behind! ”

With the terrible sound of the conch resounding through Hachimangahara. The two wings of the Uesugi army's mounted samurai also rushed towards the Takeda army's main camp like a tsunami, and at the same time, Ashigaru, who was armed with spears and swords, followed closely behind the samurai on horseback, and tens of thousands of Uesugi troops swept from the flat ground like a black tide.

Finally, Kenshin's team and Takeda Shingen's team collided like a sea of mountains, and the rumbling thunder resounded throughout Hachimangahara, hitting the mountains like a thousand angry waves. Swords and spears flew sonorously, iron cannons and bows whizzed and flew by, dense rain of arrows and projectiles covered the sky, and the dull sound of killing and short roars made the mountains and rivers tremble.

"Is it finally over?" Humility thinks. The perennial battle with the Takeda family is about to come to an end at this moment. As long as you break through the main formation of the Takeda army and take down the head of Takeda Shingen, you can completely control the entire four prefectures of Kawanakajima, and even the country of Shinano. After that, the four counties of Kawanakajima were returned to the Takanashi family, the Inoue family, the Murakami family, the Ogasawara family, the Iwai family and other northern shrouds, as long as they were in Kasuga Mountain Castle, then there would be no more disputes and wars between these foreign retainers, so Echigo Minami could sit back and relax.

Once Okushinano is pacified, Kenshin will be able to enter the Minami-Shinano area and restore the old clan that Shinano had been guarding Ogasawara for a long time, and restore the previous order. When he pacifies all parts of the eastern country, he can send troops to Shangluo to fulfill the long-cherished wish of supporting the shogunate and the imperial court, and then hold high the banner of the shogunate and the imperial court to crusade against the murderers who are causing trouble to the world in various places. The day when peace, order, and stability will come once and for all, and it will not be far off.

When that day comes, and your mission is over, you can stay away from the blood-soaked battlefield, seal up your weapons, and concentrate on the study of Buddhism. This day of longing for seems to be unfolding before the eyes of Humility······ Kenshin looked forward to being able to personally cut off the head of the Kai murderer Takeda Shingen, and use his head to pay tribute to the tens of thousands of mutilated beings in Kita-Shinano.

However, no matter how the Uesugi army rushed and killed, the Takeda army never collapsed on all fronts. Even after defeat, the rest of the people always gathered again and stood in front of Takeda Shingen, firmly defending against the Uesugi army. It seems that the samurai and ashigaru of the Takeda Army will stand up to defend their pavilion master, until the end of the day, when only Takeda Shingen is left. This is a decisive battle between two of the most powerful daimyo in the Sengoku world, but the victory or defeat is still undecided. Both Qianxin and Xinxuan once had a brilliant record of winning and undefeated, and both had the courage to die generously. Iron men collide, and death does not spin. Hideous faces, bloody knives and guns, muffled screams, and thick smoke and dust, the entire Hachimangahara was enveloped and annihilated by the tragic aura of this primitive fight......

Qianxin also began to be anxious at this moment. It is estimated that it will not be long before the Takeda Army, which has rounded Mt. Tsuma-Nyo, will divide its troops and come to Hachimangahara to join the Takeda Army's main team. No matter how tightly defended Mt. Tsumime and Mt. Saijo were, the strength of the defenders was limited after all, and they could not easily annihilate the 20,000 Takeda troops in one go.