Chapter 80: The Battle of Kaguruga (1)
"Kill!" "Hah!" Crackling, the sound of ashigaru's spears slapping came and went. In front of Kagura Okamoto's main formation, the Rokkaku's 3,000 pioneers were suddenly attacked by Miyoshi Yoshiko, who had forcibly crossed the river from Shirakawaguchi, and attacked from the flank without even saying hello.
Hosokawa Nobumoto stood on the top of Kaguraoka and looked out at the battlefield below the hill. Since the Battle of Barrel Sagama, Hosokawa Nobumoto clearly felt that the real Warring States was coming, and each family had begun to abandon the previous tradition of covenant warfare, and tactics such as sneak attacks and night attacks had begun to be widely used. The most famous is the fourth battle of Kawanakajima between the Takeda family and the Uesugi family, and the Takeda family's military advisor Yamamoto Kansuke doesn't know if he borrowed from the battle of Barrel Sasama, anyway, he was fighting the enemy head-on, and then sent a mobile unit to make a detour to Tsumiyama to attack the Uesugi family's main camp, and it was also called "woodpecker tactics".
It's a pity that the tiger is not an anti-dog, you say that you will attack secretly, and you set off to prepare food for the sake of the army, and you blatantly began to bury the pot to cook, and the smoke was everywhere. So that Uesugi Kenshin came to the conclusion that the Takeda family was going to launch a general attack from the smoke, so he took precautions, and in the end, Yamamoto Kansuke could only eat the consequences of his own evil and apologize for his sins with death.
Thinking of this, Hosokawa Nobumoto looked around and began to walk around Kaguraoka. At present, the first 3,000 are hastily receiving the enemy, but the enemy has 7,000 troops, plus it is a sneak attack, so the Miyoshi family has the upper hand.
"Hey, it's really a big taboo for a soldier." Hosokawa Nobumoto walked around Kaguraoka and had already sensed the greatest weakness of the coalition forces.
"What's wrong, brother? Any questions? The younger brother on the side, Haruyuki Hosokawa, asked suspiciously.
"Look! First of all, the Hexagonal Coalition was the attacking side, so there was only a one-man high horseback fence around the Kagura Oka main camp, and there were no fortifications such as arrow towers or earthen walls. Secondly, 10,000 troops have been sent to reinforce the general mountain city, in addition to the 3,000 troops in the front, now there are 2,000 troops of the Hexagonal family in this formation, and more than 1,100 troops in the main family, what about the rearguard? Ay! There are no more guards! Hosokawa Nobumoto said, pointing to the rear.
"Order the army to assemble and stand by, defend, um~~ defend." Now Hosokawa Nobumoto is not sure where this east, west, north and south will be the main direction of the enemy's sneak attack.
"My lord! The first hand of the Rokkaku family collapsed, and the first general, Lord Goto, had already led more than a thousand remnants back to the main camp and held the Otemon Gate. The Miyoshi family has begun to storm the Otemon Gate, and Lord Sakyo summons the lord to come to support. Miyata Mitsuji came from the main camp.
Hosokawa Nobumoto looked at the direction of Otemon, and then at the direction of the general Yamashiro behind him, and decisively ordered: "Order the army to follow me to the back to defend!" ”
"Back? Lord, there are no enemies behind? The commander of the cavalry team, Honda Tadakatsu, asked curiously.
"Soon it will be." Hosokawa Nobumoto looked at Honda Tadakatsu, he was still a reckless man, and he wanted a commander with brains, not the kind of reckless man who only knew how to fight. You must know that the elite such as Takeda Chibei will be buried in the hands of a reckless man in the end.
"Hah!" A Miyoshi family ashigaru stabbed with a blow and took the life of a Rokkaku family through the fence, and the Miyoshi army and the Rokkaku army fought to the death at Otemon.
"Hold on! Hold it for me! "Goto Kentoyo is commanding the army to defend Otemon.
"Up! Attack me! "Miyoshi Yoshiko led 7,000 people to attack Otemon, relying on his own strength, he has already begun to climb over the fence and try to attack the Ashigaru inside.
Outside of Kaguraoka, a pair of vicious eyes were looking at the main camp of the Hexagonal Alliance, and when he saw that Miyoshi Yoshiko had successfully attracted most of the troops, he quietly led the seven thousand Yamato people to the rear of Kaguraoka's side.
When Matsunaga was about to climb into the fence, he suddenly rushed out of the main formation and struck a thousand foot light, and with one blow of the spur of the brush, he pierced several strings of sugar gourds.
"Huh?" Matsunaga Shu was visibly stunned, only to see a young samurai dressed in a golden statue come out of the Hosokawa army.
"Matsunaga Show! I have seen through your plan, and the 10,000 troops of my family are on the way back, and you are about to be surrounded. "Dressed in gold, it was none other than Hosokawa Nobumoto, who wore Matsudaira Motoyasu's armor, which made him even more dazzling in the sun.
"Huh?" Matsunaga Xiu was stunned by Hosokawa Nobumoto's words, rolled his eyes, and laughed, "Don't be foolish, those 10,000 troops have already been introduced into Jizo Mountain by me!" I guess it's still spinning now! Hahahaha, and the general's mountain castle has been broken by me, this is the head of Nagahara Shigecheng! After speaking, a head was thrown in, it was Nagahara Shigesumi, who was so frightened that the Hosokawa family's army retreated, and he was afraid.
Hosokawa Nobumoto clearly felt the chill from the bones of the Hosokawa family around him. [A peasant soldier is a peasant soldier after all, and it is so easy to lose morale. Thinking of this, Hosokawa Nobumoto pulled out the sword at his waist, and he had to take advantage of this time to arouse the fighting spirit of the peasant soldiers.
"Nether Iron Rider! Invincible! Kill! "Although there is a fence that you can't assault on horseback, under the horse is also the flag warrior of his Hosokawa family!
"Oh!" More than 100 samurai shouted, threw their spears in their hands, shot down a row of enemies, and then drew the sword at their waist to command the morale-boosting Ashigaru to go up.
"Up! Take Kaguraoka! There's a reward for everyone! Hideya Matsunaga also commanded Ashigaru to attack.
Due to the large gap in the number of enemies and us, soon the Matsunaga family ashigaru climbed into the fence and rushed towards Hosokawa Nobumoto and others.
Boom, several ninja guards appeared in front of Hosokawa Nobumoto, "The lord has no worries, half hidden here!" ”
"Haha! It's been a long time since I've done it with a real knife! Anyway, I'm also a master apprentice of the master craftsman of Shangquan, so I don't die so easily. Hanzo! Bungoro! Lawfully kill on sight! Hosokawa Nobumoto was also enthusiastic, holding the "national weight" and dancing a sword flower.
"Yes! Kill me! "Hattori Hanzo and Kisada Keikane led the Ma Hui and the Shinobi to meet the Matsunaga family, Ashigaru, leaving the guards Hosokawa Nobumoto and others behind.
Huh, a tiger who swept through thousands of troops, Honda Tada's four-meter spear dance, beat the Matsunaga army either dead or wounded, and descended on the battlefield like a god of war.
"Watch out for alternate attacks! A few of you go to support there, a few of you hold here, those who retreat, slash! Defend this position, everyone will be rewarded! "Ii Naotora has been in the center commanding the samurai on horseback and the ashigaru battle, no way, that Honda Commander is fighting selflessly, without the slightest awareness of a commander.
Swish! Sou! Burst! Although the Hosokawa family horse Hui people are small, they have also successfully resisted the enemy who turned in, and the three of them are at the level of sword heroes, and they almost kill the peasant soldiers one by one. Hattori Hanzo is not far behind, and he is also an excellent shinobi himself.
Seeing that the Hosokawa army had steadily suppressed the Matsunaga army, suddenly a burst of cheers broke out behind him, and the Otemon Gate was broken by Miyoshi Yoshiko, and the Hosokawa army suffered from the enemy.