Chapter Seventy-Six: The Bloody Battle of Hojo

Just after Kasahara Yasukatsu, Fukushima Katsuhiro, and Takashiro Yinyoshi led the army into battle, the court was also a move. However, his move-and-tear move was a bit passive. Hojo Tsunari still has a considerable part of his important combat power still resting, and he does not have many available troops who can directly fight his remaining army.

Just after Fukushima Katsuhiro thought that he was powerless to merge with Kasahara Yasukatsu and Takashiro Yinchen, he immediately led the army to fight back. This caught Oishi Tsunagen and Kano Hideharu a little off guard, originally according to the plan, the Hojo Army should have advanced desperately, but they never thought that this team of Hojo Army would turn around and kill directly towards the long shield Ashigaru and the three spears.

As the dozen or so mounted samurai under the command of Katsuhiro Fukushima struck left and right, the ashigaru holding the long shield was obviously a little unable to support it, and the three spears behind the long shield Ashigaru were limited in power and could not effectively kill the horses and riders. In just a few minutes, a hole was torn alive in the originally sealed aisle.

"Gun samurai obey orders! Use your spears to kill the horses of the Hojo Army's horseback samurai! Obviously, Hideharu Kano considered his Northwest Army to be a key area, so he ordered all the samurai on horseback to dismount and have them armed with guns (shorter than the spears with light guns) to try to intercept the Hojo Army that wanted to break through, even if it was to stab the horses to death.

"Oh!" Soon, a hundred samurai armed with guns immediately replaced the 100 unstoppable 3 gunashigaru, and with the cooperation of the long shield ashigaru, they began to counterattack.

"Even if you kill the horses, do you not hesitate to kill them?" It was the first time that Katsuhiro Fukushima had heard of such a thing, and he knew that the entire island country had a limited number of horses, and even the opposing sides would not talk about the killing of each other's horses. Hideji Kano's urgency can be regarded as temporarily saving a crisis.

Fukushima Katsuhiro could only watch as many war horses fell to the ground and wailed after being stabbed by the samurai of the Uesugi Army, and he could say that the only dozen or so mounted samurai on hand were all reimbursed in this way, which made him lose the confidence to continue to break through. After all, Katsuhiro Fukushima is the younger brother of Hojo Tsunari, at least he has followed Hojo Tsunari a lot of times. In an instant, Katsuhiro Fukushima had another plan - to order the corpse to be thrown into the shield array of the Uesugi army.

Immediately, the ashigaru people who belonged to Fukushima Katsuhiro did so one by one. Under the cover of their colleagues, all of them, whether they were Uesugi or Hojo, threw them at the Uesugi army's shield array, causing some of the long shields in Ashigaru's hands to break and shatter.

In this way, Fukushima Katsuhiro once again found an opportunity to take advantage of. But, after all, it's 'one foot high and one foot high'. Hideji Kano is not a person with a low IQ, at least Ma Xia, who has been following the dragon girl for a long time, and he still learns some military strategies after rendering his ears and eyes, and these episodes are not difficult for him. After a while, the Ashigaru under the command of Katsuhiro Fukushima threw away all the corpses they could throw, but they forgot to save some. In this way, their physical strength is consumed a lot.

"It's now! Everyone follow me and kill Katsuhiro Fukushima, the brother of Hojo Tsunari! Hideji Kano pulled out the saber at his waist and climbed steadily onto his horse with the help of a samurai beside him.

"Oh!" The Ashigaru and samurai, who had been idle, cheered, and it was finally time for them to play! In an instant, the situation was reversed. The Fukushima Katsuhiro team was immediately surrounded by reinforcements sent by Hideharu Kano and Tsunagen Oishi, and the Hojo Army began to lose more and more casualties. However, this is only a reversal in a local area, and the pressure on the central army formation and the circular formation where the DPRK is located is still unabated.

Saito Michizo can be said to be terrified by himself, he thought at first that he would be able to win after Asadabu laid this battle, but he never thought that he would be suppressed by the Hojo army. "Son-in-law, can you defeat this strong team of the Hojo family?" Now even Michizo Saito can't predict the next battle.

"Don't worry, the Hojo Army can only hold out for a while, and it will definitely be able to win or lose within an hour!" Chao Ding couldn't sit still at the moment, he could only get up from the horse and carefully check the changes in the battle situation. When Asadachi looked at the location of the Hojo Tsunasari's headquarters outside the battle, he himself was a little unsure whether the Echigo people would be able to withstand the attack of the Rehmannia Hachiman.

At this moment, Hojo Tsusunari, who was on the other side, obviously found an opportunity (he couldn't bear the loneliness), and he was the first to find Katsuhiro Fukushima, who was already at a disadvantage, and he didn't care much about Yasukatsu Kasahara and Ginyoshi Takashiro. Probably Fukushima Katsuhiro is the only brother of Hojo Tsunari, and the 'brother' of the Hojo family has some raw points. Hojo Tsusunari immediately ordered the Huang Bei army and the army of the former Yinei Division, a total of 4,800 men and horses, to go straight to the south of the Six Scales Formation, intending to open the passage to the south of the Six Scales Formation and jointly attack the Central Army Formation after the confluence of Kasahara Yasukatsu and Takajo Yinyoshi.

Of course, Chao Ding also saw it clearly, and he was not in a hurry to annihilate the army under the command of Yasukatsu Kasahara and Takajo Yinyoshi, who were still fighting the trapped beasts, because Chao Ding wanted a spoonful of stew. Rather than fighting again after one battle, it is better to defeat the enemy army at once. Because of this, Chao Ding ordered Xi Liding to beat the drum again.

After Silidin immediately beat the three-way drum, the ashigaru, who was originally responsible for sealing the aisle, immediately retreated to the military formations on both sides. However, this time, the Hojo Army, like the previous two groups, was attacked by three rounds of arrows. After losing more than thirty of the horseback warriors, Huang Bei's samurai still rushed into the aisle of the Six Scales Formation and fought with Yasukatsu Kasahara and Ginyoshi Takajo. This made the two of them grateful, although they still failed to break through the circle formation outside the Chinese army's formation, but with the help of this group of horseback warriors, they also had the confidence, and the already low morale also improved a lot.

However, the price paid by the Uesugi army was the long shield ashigaru and the three spears that were originally surrounded by the forces of the Hakubi and Takashiro families. The more than 100 people were almost completely wiped out after being directly attacked from both sides, and only a few of them withdrew into the military formation to stand by.

At this moment, Chaoding also found that nearly 8,000 people were crowded in the southern aisle, and it was no longer possible to make the long shield ashigaru surround them. However, Chaoding immediately came up with a countermeasure - change the formation!

"Beat the Liutong drum!" Chao Ding ordered Siliding to beat the drum again. He is going to use a change of formation to surround all the Hojo Army in the formation and not escape!

"Yes!" Silidine didn't talk nonsense, and directly began to beat the drum, and it was very hard.

After being in the eastern army formation of the Six Scales Formation for almost an hour, the head of Yamamoto Temple finally waited for the signal to attack! He immediately waved the baton in his hand and commanded the three thousand troops in the military formation to change formations. In fact, the only person who really needs to change the formation is the team of Yamamoto Temple Dingchang, and the other military uniforms basically have a role and cannot be moved.

Soon, the Yamamoto Temple Dingchang team moved the entire military formation out, preparing to quickly approach Nagao Keishanobu and Ota Shimasa. The vacancy left by the head of Yamamoto Temple was filled by Hosotani Shimichi of the Tohoku Army.

"Uesugi Asadaki is in the center of this formation! Don't slack off! "Hojo Tsunashi only has Uesugi Asadachi in his eyes, and his original intention is to kill Asada, so that the dripping flow of the Uesugi family in Ogiya will perish.

"Humph! It's up to you? "Ota Shikashi heard Hojo Tsunari's roar from the southwestern army, and he took a loaded and lit iron cannon from the hand of a samurai and prepared to kill him at the right time.

In the end, under the frantic attack of the Hojo Army, a large piece of the circle was torn open. Even if Saito Rizo led the cavalry of the Kawagoe Knights to raid the Baibei army from the flank, it was still ineffective. As a large number of Hojo soldiers poured into the circle, Saito Michizo directly drew his saber, and he felt that he might die here.

"My lord, I'm sorry for the delay!" Xiliding also felt that his mission was over, and once it was time to change the formation, then there would be nothing for him to do. It is understandable that he took the initiative to leave the high platform and go to the phalanx to lead the hundred gunners on standby.

"Go ahead." The court knew that as long as the head of Yamamoto Temple arrived at the designated position in time, he would be able to win the battle by himself, and although it would pay a heavy price, it would be worth it. After all, the Uesugi family can afford it, and the Hojo family can't afford it at the moment. The main purpose of this battle is to annihilate the living forces of the Hojo family, so that Musashi Ichikoku can be peaceful, and then unite with Takeda Shingen to completely destroy it a few years later!

"Son-in-law, the casualties of the Uesugi family in this battle are not low. I've fought a battle for half my life, and I've never seen a battle with such heavy casualties. "Saito Michizo found that there were already dead bodies everywhere in the south and west of the camp, especially in the south of the camp.

"Father-in-law, this is just a joint battle with high casualties on both sides at the moment, and there will be more ······ in the future" While Asadaki was talking to Saito Michizo, the Yamamoto Temple Ding long line blocked the gap!

"Not good! We've been tricked! "Hojo Tsunari only now realizes why the Uesugi army, which should be more numerous than the Hojo army, fought with Kasahara Yasukatsu and others before, just to be able to encircle them all at once at this moment! In addition, all the ninjas and spies who accompanied the army before had no news, and the Hojo Army fought like blind and deaf people, and they didn't even know the news that Asadaku had been in Musashi except that they knew that they were fighting against the Uesugi family!

"My lord, I can only break through!" Takashiro Yinchenji hurriedly drove his horse to Hojo Tsunari's side at this time, he didn't want to lose his life here.

"The battle is helpless now, you withdraw first, and the jade rope and the yellow reserve army will be broken!" Hojo Tsusunari can only do this, otherwise if he leads the army to break through alone, no one from the other armies will be able to escape!

"Oh!" The Ashigaru of the Hojo Army, even before they once attacked the phalanx, were repelled by the spear Ashigaru led by Syrieda, and it is still unknown if Hojo Tsusunari fought again.

Although Hojo Tsunashi said so, he still had to work with Yuan Yinei to defeat the 3,000 troops of Yamamoto Temple, who had been waiting for a long time. However, all this also ended with the collective fire of a hundred iron cannons.

Before the asada, a hundred ashigaru were transferred to the head of Yamamoto Temple in order to prevent the Hojo army from breaking through to the death, but I didn't expect it to be expected! A dozen samurai and more than two dozen ashigaru after the original Yinrong team was broken were killed in an instant, and after they fell, Huang Bei's horseback warriors could not fight as handily as before. These corpses, together with the Ashigaru who had been killed by the Uesugi Army and the Hojo Army before, made the already not spacious aisle uneven.

"Hojo Tsunari!" At this moment, Ota Shimasa was riding on his horse and shouted at Hojo Tsunari, who actually turned his head to look at him!

“peng!” With a gunshot, Hojo Tsusunari fell. This was not the end, as he fell, many ashigaru trampled him directly due to the crowding. Even if there was a jade rope and the samurai were driven and beaten, it would not help.

"Knock knock!" Chaoding himself began to beat the drum, "Everyone listens to the order!" You don't have to be confined to the formation, and kill all the Hojo Army samurai and ashigaru who are still alive in front of you! I just need Hojo Tsunari to be the head of one person! ”

"Oh!" Perhaps it had been suppressed for a long time, and the ashigaru of the Uesugi army clenched the spears, three guns, and swords in their hands, and the samurai also clenched the naginata, spears, and swords in their hands and followed closely behind Ashigaru. In this way, all the Uesugi samurai and ashigaru knew that only one person's head was needed, so as to avoid letting most of the Hojo army run away when they obtained the head of other Hojo army samurai.

Let's talk about Fukushima Katsuhiro here, after his army is completely surrounded, he can only make his army break through as much as possible, plus the unrestrained formation ordered by the court has a greater chance. With the personal defeat of Fukushima Katsuhiro, his army more or less escaped more than 500 people. When Katsuhiro Fukushima himself thought of breaking out, he was captured by Hideharu Kano who caused his horse to fall down with a tripping horse. Running slowly, together with Fukushima Katsuhiro, more than 100 ashigaru were also captured.

In fact, the Hojo Army was doomed to defeat the moment most of the Hojo Army entered the Six Scales Formation, but Hojo Tsunade became his 'authority fan'. Takashiro Yinji had good luck and took more than a dozen horseback warriors of the Takashiro family to kill them out of the chaos. However, the Ashigaru of the Takashiro family was not so lucky. Since the Takajo family was sold by his lord, he didn't have the 'dedication' like before, and directly threw away the weapon in his hand and surrendered directly. And Kasahara Yasukatsu is different, although he united with Huang Bei's army and wanted to turn the tide of the battle together, but he had more than enough heart and not enough strength. With the Jade Rope Clan's Fujita Moricho, Yuki Shihei and others were successively captured, Huang Bei's army was already unbearable to fight again, even if there were still a considerable number of Ashigaru, but the leading samurai were killed in battle and the general fell to the ground, Huang Bei had lost his ability to fight.

"That's it! The white reserve army will break through with me! Kasahara Yasukatsu was also helpless, and immediately after his retainer Kasahara Keinaka led the team to open the way, the white reserve army only succeeded in breaking through the 200 troops. Even the banner of 'Hakubi Kasahara' of Yasukatsu Kasahara was lost. However, the same was true of the 'Rehmannia Hachiman' banner of the Hojo Tsunari Division's Yellow Preparation, which was also seized. Although it was Ota Shimasa who killed Hojo Tsunari, Nagao Keishinobu was not bad at seizing the 'Rehmannia Hachiman' banner. Even the head of Yamamoto Temple seized the banner of 'Shirabi Kasawara' at the last moment.

"Hojo Tsusunari was taken by me, Ota Mino Shouzi!" With an acquaintance of Ota Shimasa, the team of Ashigaru hurriedly cut off the head of Hojo Tsunari wearing yellow array feathering from the crowd and handed it directly to Ota Shimasa.

"Oh!" Afterwards, the entire Uesugi army cheered! They have already defeated the legendary 'undefeated' Rehmannia Hachiman Hojo Tsunari, and many samurai of the Jade Rope Crowd have directly killed themselves and cut their stomachs in the chaos. Although some of the samurai of the white preparation broke through one after another, they were all scattered and unorganized breakthroughs. Even Yuan Yinrong fled here in a hurry with five samurai on horseback.

Half an hour later, the recalcitrant Hojo Army samurai and ashigaru were all killed. In this battle, the Hojo family killed a group of people, the pedigree Hojo Tsusunari and Fujita Moenaga, and Yuki Shihei samurai, Fukushima Katsuhiro was captured, and countless samurai committed suicide. In the end, the court ordered the 2,600 captured Hojo Gunashigaru, Takajo Ieashigaru, and Hara Ashigaru to be taken to Ueno Stable Bridge Castle and Dahu Castle for custody.

And Asadachi did not want to continue to lose his military strength, so he immediately ordered the various departments to open the opening for the Hojo army to escape. In the afternoon, after the counting of Sugi Katsuyuki (Metsuko), Ishibashi Shinzo (Shoyuki) and others, the Hojo Army lost 900 samurai in this battle, 4,700 ashigaru dead, and 2,600 prisoners. In this battle, the Hojo family, including the captured Ashigaru, lost a total of 8,200 people, and the important combat forces of Bai Bei and Huang Bei were even more devastating! Hojo Tsunari, an important minister, was killed in battle, and Kasahara Yasukatsu was wounded in seven places even after breaking through.

The Hojo Army, which broke through sporadically, was not so lucky, and Hara Yinei was attacked and killed by the people near Longevity Castle two days later, and a total of six heads were sent to Kawagoe Castle along with the accompanying samurai. Three days later, Takajo Yinji was also hunted by a fallen warrior in Hongo, and a total of seventeen heads of samurai were sent to the castle of Kawagoe Castle.

In fact, the Uesugi family lost a lot of troops in this battle, and the Kawagoe Knights finally counted down the cavalry of only 200 people. The rest of the divisions, except for Hosoya Shimichi, were not directly involved in the battle, and only Nagao Keishanobu and Ota Shimasa suffered the most casualties. Although the forces of each division were redistributed after being disrupted, the total casualties reached 4,950 after counting the 250 cavalry of the Kawagoe Knights that had been lured to the enemy before, which was completely half of the total casualties of the Hojo Army.