Chapter 50: The Battle of Slippery River

On March 20 of the second year of Hongji, the dragon girl waited until her body recovered after a relative came to prepare for the battle. It was a beautiful day, with clear weather and cloudless skies. This is a very good day for Asada, who is used to opening with iron cannons.

Coupled with the ninja's report, Honjo Shigenaga burned the castle on the 15th after defeating the few 30 members of the wealthy army belonging to the Jimbo family in the Crab Temple, and on the 16th, he used the captured Jimbo family flag to infiltrate the Ape Peck Castle, and after a direct raid, he captured the Ape Peck Castle, which was only garrisoned by 40 peasant soldiers, and still burned the castle with the same fire as the Crab Temple. The current Honjo Fanchang has led his troops to the outside of the Great Avenue City, and he has used the banner of the Jimbo family to fool the pass. After getting the chief of the god to know, he directly informed the monks of Honganji Temple, so he sent his eldest son, the god of the treasure of Changju, with 500 troops to the important city of Shengcheng in central Vietnam to garrison.

In the early hours of that day, the Uesugi and Nagao coalition forces held their last military meeting before the war. At this moment, whether it was the Dragon Girl, Chaoding or the Vietnamese Leading Party, they all entered the Daguang Room of Shengfang Mountain City early and sat down.

"Did everyone get a good night's rest last night?" When he came up, he asked everyone in the room, not what he was going to prepare.

"This ...... If you go back to the repair doctor, you really didn't have a good rest last night. "Kakizaki Keijia is a real person, and he tells the truth directly.

"So you all haven't rested as well as Izumi Mamoru?" Asada looked at the long tail and Uesugi retainers who were sitting in two beats and asked.

"My lord, the enemy army is strong. It is not easy for the ministers to stay in this Shengfang Mountain City until now, let alone rest peacefully for a night. Ogasawara Akimura is also aware of the contrast between the strength of the enemy and us, and he didn't sleep peacefully.

"Are you excited and unable to sleep or are you scared? If you can't sleep because you're scared, then you can go back with your own military strength. After Chao Ding finished speaking, he gave the dragon girl a look. The dragon girl nodded slightly when she saw it.

"Gentlemen, Wuyun is in the sky, armor is in front, and meritorious deeds are at your feet. Hold the enemy in the palm of your hand at all times and start a joint battle. If you are accustomed to the pain, you can live if you fight with the heart of death, and if you fight with the heart of cowardice and life, you will die without life! The dragon girl put down the rosary in her hand and said to everyone in front of her in a majestic tone as if she were Bishamontian.

"Oh!" The retainers of the Nagao family saw that their lords were so calm and confident, what were they afraid of?!

"Now that you all have confidence, let's briefly talk about the details of the battle to be met." After motioning for Katsuyama to lay the map on the floor, he pulled out his saber and started drawing on the map.

"The center of this battle is the Slipaki Plain, and I have sent the Honjo Honjo Clan to attract the attention of the Jimboo family. We only need to engage the army of Ichisho Zong for the most part at Huachuan, and we will need to send a team of cavalry to attack the enemy from the flank, and if we have the support of the navy, our army will be able to win......" Chao Ding shook his head as he said of the navy.

"Don't worry about the repair doctor, Lord Naoe Keixuna has already dispatched Echigo's naval army, and now it should have reached the sea near Uozu Castle." Usami saw Asada's worried side, and immediately informed Asada's news.

"Long tail bullet positive, is this true?" Chaoding himself didn't know that there were reinforcements along the way.

"Yes, I sent someone to Echigo a few days ago. There were three ships and ten bows and ten ships, led by Kadi Qinggang. After the dragon maiden confirmed that there was the support of the Nagao Water Army, the retainers of the Nagao family were all relieved.

"Next, I asked Namba Hayato Sakenji and Namba Hiroyoshi to lead their cavalry to Yusho Castle and attack the enemy's right flank after the battle began. As long as we can defeat the forces of the Jimboh family or defeat a part of the army of Ichijomune, we can establish the rule of the Nagao family in Yuezhong. "The Wazumi Mori Kaneji in the hand of the Asadaki suddenly stabbed into the slippery river in the map.

"Oh!"

Immediately afterwards, the Long Tail Army and the Uesugi Army began to deploy out of the city in turn. Namba Tian Kenji and Namba Tian Hiroyoshi were the first to lead five hundred white-robed cavalry out of the city, and they would arrive at Gongzhuang Castle as quickly as possible and stand by in the city. The Long Tail Army was led by Kakizaki Keijia, with 3,000 troops. After that, it was backed up by the 3,000 troops of the Nagao Keishinobu Department and the 2,000 troops of the Yamamoto Temple Dingchang Division. The rest of the army, including the Uesugi army, was on standby under the castle of Mt. Shengkata.

In the morning, the battle began at Kakizaki Keika, who took the lead in leading the headquarters of the mounted samurai assault.

It has always been the military strength of the Jinbao Chief's Rank that has always been arranged at the forefront, and the first thing that the Divine Protector Family has with the Nagao Family is Kojima Occupation. As an important minister of the Jimbo family, he is the lord of Hinomiya Castle, but he has lost faith in the Jimiya family. If you are under the command of the Nagao family, then you will let your talents be brought to use. In this way, Kojima Zhizhen, who had already been angry with the Nagao family, turned the rear team into the front team after the Kakizaki Keijia Department left, and raised the butcher knife towards his former colleague Mizukoshi Katsu Shigebu. The Mizukoshi Shengzhong Department is only 500 troops, where can it withstand the attack of the 1,000 troops of the Kojima Vocational Town Division? And it was a surprise attack without being at all guard.

Mizugoshi Katsushige was hit in the thigh by a stray arrow during a battle with Kojima Prefecture, and then fell off his horse. In an instant, the forces under the command of Mizugoshi Katsushige thought that Mizugoshi Katsushige had been killed, and then they were defeated under the assault of 600 horseback samurai of Kakizaki Kei's family. Mizukoshi Katsushige himself was also beheaded by Kojima's retainers.

Seeing that something was wrong, the Jimbo Shoji quickly withdrew from the battlefield with the rest of his army after discovering that Kojima had defected and Mizukoshi Katsu's Shigebu had been defeated. And Namba Tian Kenji and Namba Tian Hiroyoshi also led the team to fight from the side into the defeated army of the Jimbo chief after a while.

The chief of the Jimbo can only take the military strength and Shimoma Yorizhao round, but all the people in the Shinma Yorisho army know that the Jimbo family is their own people, but the Uesugi army is chasing after the Jimbo army. When Shimoma Yorisho saw this, he couldn't order people to raise their butcher's knives against the Jimbo chief's office, so he could only let them break and flee into the crowd of Kaga.

Seeing the opportunity, Kakizaki Keike and Kojima Ichijo immediately launched an attack on Shimoma Yorisho's army. Nagao Jingxin and Yamamoto Temple Dingchang's two 5,000 troops also bit the people in Yuezhong. At this moment, 3,500 troops, including the dragon girl Naetsuna, led the way, and the party Tohi Masashi was supporting Nagao Keishinobu and Yamamoto Temple Dingchang. Asadachi also sent 200 samurai from Ogasawara Nagashi to the front to support Kakizaki Keikei.

In this way, after the entire hour passed, the army of a large number of people did not have the slightest advantage at all, but was dragged and suppressed by nearly 10,000 coalition troops.

As soon as the time arrived, the naval army of the Kadi Qinggang Department arrived near the Huachuan River. They used bows and arrows to shoot at the long-tail army covering the landing, 500 foot light. At this time, Shimoma Yorisho and Honganji Genri and others couldn't sit still, they thought that with more than 80,000 troops, they would be able to scare the Echigo army and take advantage of the situation to enter Echigo, who knew that the Nagao and Uesugi coalition forces completely suppressed the Ichigo army with the method of encircling three and missing one, and Nagao Jinghu and Uesugi Asadaki did not launch a general attack.

As soon as the battle situation developed to this point, the city lord of Muzhou City, Ishiguro Naritana, and the city lord of Ao City, Kikuchi Takekatsu, saw that the crowd was suppressed, and they also took their own army that had been prepared for a long time to kill nearby, and when they entered the army, they had to kill more believers in front of the Nagao and Uesugi armies in exchange for the right to block their skills!

After these two teams of 700 troops joined, Chao Ding rode to the side of the dragon girl and said, "You can attack generally." ”

"Yes." After the dragon girl nodded, she took out the little bean and swung forward, "The whole army is assaulting!" ”

Usami Dingmanbu 1,100 troops, Naoe Keitsuna 1,700 troops, Chisaka Keikinbu 500 troops, Nagao Keitora main team (200 samurai on horseback, 200 iron artillery ashigaru, and 2,000 ashigaru) 2,400 troops, 100 Naginagi samurai of the Uesugi army, 100 heavy infantry (carrying a large curved shield with a red cross painted on the front, holding a cocha as a weapon) 100, bayonet iron cannon Ashigaru 200, standing gun Ashigaru 500, standing saber Ashigaru 300, a total of 6,900 troops, and the Nagao Army, Uesugi Army, After the alliance of the Vietnamese and Chinese Hao clans, a full-scale counterattack began. It was not so much a counterattack as a massacre. Originally, the only weapons in the hands of the crowd were some farm tools, and the better ones were bamboo guns and spears. With the rout of the Divine Protection Chief's Department and the suppression on three sides, Shimoma Lai Zhao and others thought of one word - run.

"Retreat...... Retire! …… Fall back! "Shimoma Yorisho is not a battlefield, this is a slaughterhouse! He immediately got on the horse and ran away under the escort of Shimoma Zhongxiao and hundreds of monks! Abandoned a crowd and the same door in Vietnam.

"Retire! Fall back! As these two words continued to reach the ears of the crowd, tens of thousands of people instantly lost a trace of resistance, and the whole line retreated! This simply gave the Uesugi and Nagao coalition the best chance! Even the chief of the divine protector had to run away with his cronies in a hurry.

The Battle of the Slipaki River can be said to have ended in a fiasco, Takeda Harunobu originally hoped that Kaga and Echichu's Honganji would defeat the dragon girl and then his plan to go north to capture Echigo failed, and the Eima family of the missile learned of the defeat of the Ichichu people and left the Crab Temple in Echichu to return to his powerhouse. Honganji Genri and Honganji Genzong were also captured by Ishiguro Seitsuna and sacrificed to Yusho Castle.; The eldest son of the Jimbo Nagan was also killed by Honjo Shiganaga under the attack of Kojima Occupation Town and Honjo Shiganaga. When Jimbo Nagaju was originally trying to cover his father's retreat, he was instantly defeated by the impact of Honjo's long army and the sudden attack of the Kojima Vocational Town! When Ikeda Castle lord Terashima Itodai learned of the defeat of the Jimbo family, he fled with his cronies and his wife and concubine in makeup, preparing to defect to the Takeda family; May the lord of Kaiji Castle, Terasaki Morinaga, commit suicide in the city; On the way back to Moriyama Castle, the Jimbo clan was hunted by the local leaders, and the head was handed over to the city in the evening.

Because a group of people in Kaga Province were also left behind by Shimoma Yorisho and others, who were eager to flee for their lives, they were mercilessly killed by the coalition forces! By the halfway point, the dead had already piled up all over the Huachuan Plain area! The nearby waters are stained with the blood of those killed in the Battle of Slippery River.

The cavalry of the Heyue Knights was finally left with four hundred; Only fifty of them survived, but all of them were wounded. Namba Tian Kenji and Ogasawara Sadazu were even more injured. Heavy infantry and iron artillery were light and there were no casualties; Since the bow foot is light because the court is fixed in its formation, all of them are also without casualties; The Naginata samurai were killed ten and slightly wounded fifty; Sixty were killed, 100 were slightly wounded, and 50 were seriously wounded; Fifty were killed, thirty were lightly wounded, and seventy were seriously wounded. In total, the casualties of the Uesugi army were six hundred and seventy! That's 33.5 percent. Look at the Long Tail Army again: the Kakizaki Keika Clan's horseback samurai killed 20 people and lightly wounded 30 people; 100 were killed, 200 were lightly wounded, and 100 were seriously wounded; The cavalry samurai of Nagao Keishinobu were killed 30 and slightly wounded 60, and Ashigaru was killed 200, slightly wounded 150 and seriously wounded 150. The casualties of the Long Tail Army were one thousand and forty. The losses of the four leading parties were relatively small, and the total number of casualties was 370. After the war, he personally bandaged the wounds of his wounded retainers and samurai.

On the other hand, the loss of the crowd: Yuezhong has always had the strength to continue to compete with the Nagao family, and the temple was burned down by many wealthy families. The number of people in Echichu and Kaga reached more than 17,000 after 30 days of counting! The death toll of the Jimbo family was also 600. It can be said that Vietnam-China is already in the bag of the long-tail family. Kaga and Echichu were also captured, and more than 40,000 people were taken prisoner. These captured groups were then arranged to reclaim land and repair roads in Echigo and Echichung. As for those monks who bewitch the public, they naturally want to be beheaded to show the public.

I'm sorry for all of you, but the exam is coming soon, so I won't be able to update it for a while.