Chapter 63: The Battle of the Barrel Narrows (3)
"Drink! Ha! The scuffle continued, and Imagawa Yoshimoto, who was thrown off his horse, only felt that the world was spinning, and his stomach was as disgusting as turning over the river and the sea.
"Ahh With a scream, Imagawa Yoshimoto covered his right thigh, where he was attacked by an Oda family horse and stabbed in a bloody hole.
"The Oda family Hattori Kodaira Taiharu An, I have come to take the head of the Ministry of Justice. Please come to your senses! "It was Oda Nobunaga and Hattori Haruyasu who made a contribution.
"Hah!" Imagawa Yoshimoto pulled out the famous knife "Sozo Left Script" on his waist and blocked Hattori Harayasu's second shot. This famous sword is the work of the famous craftsman Chikuzen Saemon Captain Anyoshi, and the knife is 2 feet 6 inches long and extremely sharp.
I saw Imagawa Yoshimoto flip his right wrist and press down Hattori Harayasu's spear, followed by a roundabout slash that slashed Hattori's knee.
"Ahh Hattori Harayasu staggered two steps in pain, and the spear in his hand was also picked off by Imagawa Yoshimoto, and he quickly pulled out the knife on his waist to confront Imagawa Yoshimoto.
Hosokawa Nobumoto was overjoyed when he saw it, and hurriedly led a group of thugs to prepare to go up to grab the merit, but suddenly more than 30 people were blocked in front of him, and the first one shouted: "I am the Imagawa family's Nimata Castle lord Matsui Goro Hachiro Soshin!" Dare to fight me! β
"I'm rubbing! A ride? Hosokawa Nobumoto looked at the person in front of him, [This person has a lot of brains, he knows that his army has no way out, and he knows how to use a horse to buy time for his lord. But the cripple was doomed to not be able to run. ]
One of the characteristics of ancient Japanese warfare is that when the other side sends an invitation to ask for a horse, the ashigaru of the two sides will be temporarily separated, and the samurai on both sides will fight each other until one side is defeated, and then start fighting. So there is often such a funny scene, one side chases and kills the other party's main general, and it looks like it is about to make a contribution, and suddenly the other party jumps out of a few people to invite a horseman, and then the pursuing party can only stop and fight alone, and his subordinates are light and staring at the opponent's main general running away with their lives, and they can't pursue it. If the broken samurai is not capable enough, it is okay to cut it and chase it directly, if it encounters the level of the Sword Master, it will not rush to the pursuing samurai if it is all over. Therefore, during the Warring States period in Japan, there were few daimyo who were able to die in battle, and this is the reason.
Hosokawa Nobumoto is not in a hurry at all now, and he is still watching the two lame men behind Matsui Munobu slashing at each other. Imagawa Yoshimoto is worthy of being born in a samurai family, and he also has a leg injury, and he has completely suppressed Hattori Haruyasu, and he will be able to get this damn horse in a while.
[Hmph, it's good that Haruan Hattori is dead, so the credit for a gun will be vacant again] Hosokawa Nobumoto thought darkly, Matsui Munobu stood there embarrassed, no one to fight, not to go, not to stay, and simply shouted again: "Could it be that the samurai of the Oda family are all 'female samurai'?" Didn't anyone dare to fight! β
This sentence annoyed the samurai of the Oda family, and they only did not respond to the battle because Hosokawa Nobumoto, the highest in the family, did not speak. It's better to light a fire for yourself nowβit's not easy to burn buns.
Honda Tadakatsu jumped out: "I am! β
"It's your sister!" Hosokawa Nobumoto went up and kicked Honda Tadakatsu aside.
When everyone thought that Hosokawa Nobugen was going to fight, they saw Hosokawa Nobumoto pointing at Honda Tadashikatsu's nose and scolding: "You have already won a general, so you can't give some scraps to the other brothers, do you have a sense of public morality!" β
Hosokawa Nobumoto finished scolding Honda Tadakatsu and shouted behind him, "Kanamaru Shoji! Triple within the result of him! β
"Yes! Lord! I'm Hosokawa Kanemaru Uemon Captain Shoji, please give me a lot of advice. He knew that this was an opportunity specially left for him by the lord, and he thought that the friends in the same period had become the leader of the ashigaru group, and there was only one left, and he secretly swore that he must show it to the lord this time.
Boom, Matsui Sonobu fired three shots in a row, but they were all dodged by Kanemaru Shoji, although he followed Hosokawa Nobugen to the south and north since he was a child, learning the art of war and military strategy. In terms of qualifications, he is the most mediocre, he does not have the martial arts of Honda Tadashikatsu, and he does not have the resourcefulness of Honda Masanobu, but he has a calm heart, an incomparably loyal heart.
I saw Matsui Sonobu stab out another shot and was blocked by Kanemaru Shoji, he has always been on the defensive, and there has been no attack. But it was Matsui Munsin who was sweating, first, his physical strength was declining rapidly; The second is to worry about the safety of his father-in-law.
Now that the battlefield is nearing its end, the Imagawa army has been defeated, and the Oda army will soon encircle them faintly, and it has become a situation in the urn.
"Ahh Matsui Sonobu, who knew that he was going to die, was ruthless, and rushed towards Kanemaru Shoji with a gun, wanting to exchange his life for a life. As a result, Kanemaru Shoji just turned over his spear on one side, and poked his spear upside down on the ground, the tip of the spear pointed upwards, and Matsui Munenobu was poked as if he had hit it.
Kanemaru Shoji pulled out the sword at his waist and stepped forward, and before he could cut off his head, the Oda army behind him immediately pounced on the Imagawa samurai, squeezed through the defense area like a head, and killed Imagawa Yoshimoto.
Hattori Harayasu saw that a group of merit-grabbers came up, but he was in a hurry. Thinking of the credit for his desperate work, he has to give it to others. Unwillingly, he was also ruthless, directly abandoned his defense, fit and crashed into Imagawa Yoshimoto, endured the pain of being slashed in the back again, and sent the knife in his hand into Imagawa Yoshimoto's abdomen.
"Ah~~! Damn it! "Imagawa Yoshimoto was hit hard again, mustered up all his strength, flew up with a kick, and kicked Hattori Haruan." Huh~~Huh~~~" Imagawa Yoshimoto half-knelt on the ground, only feeling that his chest was stuffy and his throat was sweet.
"Oda family Mori Shinsuke Yoshikatsu, I have come to take the head of the Ministry of Governance, please come to your senses!" Mori Yoshikatsu didn't care whether Imagawa Yoshimoto died or not, so he came up and put his arms around his neck behind his back, ready to forcibly cut off his head.
"Ah~~! Well~~! Imagawa Yoshimoto was dying, biting Mori Shinsuke's hand holding the knife and not letting him use his strength. As a result, Mori Yoshikatsu fought two fingers for the head of Imagawa Yoshimoto, and also cut off this good head.
"Uh~~No~~How~~May~~Will die~Here~I~~" Hosokawa Nobumoto looked at Imagawa Yoshimoto's gradually dimming gaze in distraction, this man who seized the position of governor of the family since he was only sixteen years old, successively reached the "Triple Alliance of Koshoha", subdued the Matsudaira family, seized the Mikawa country, and became the number one daimyo in eastern Japan with Suruga, Toe, and Mikawa, and single-handedly created the peak era of the Imagawa clan. Now is the time for Hongye to plan for the future, but he died here unexpectedly, life is really so elusive.