Due to the flat land around the castle, the Hojo army outside the castle could not observe every move in the castle at all, and Sanada Masayuki did not mobilize the ashigaru used to defend the castle at the head of the castle, so the Hojo army did not know that the remaining 5,000 troops in the castle had been assembled.

And just when they were building the fortifications, suddenly the west gate of the bridge city was opened, and the five thousand Takayama family guns came out, although the Hojo Army found the Takayama Army at the first time, but the distance of two hundred meters was too close, after a dozen breaths, the Takayama Army 5,000 Ashigaru rushed into those fortifications that had not yet been built, although the Hojo Army had a part of the army used as a defense, and did not participate in the construction of the fortifications, but they obviously did not expect the enemy to go out of the city at this time, but after all, this is one of the elite forces of the Hojo familyAfter facing such an unexpected situation, he was only slightly stunned and immediately reacted. Three thousand white bei swooped down on the Takayama army under the leadership of the samurai. But as soon as they fought, they found that the Gao Shan Army had no intention of fighting them to the death, but continued to rush forward while resisting. Such an impact, although it will cause a lot of losses to the Takayama Army, but after dropping two or three hundred corpses, with the advantage of numbers, it still broke through the blockade of the three thousand enemy troops, although at this time, the Hojo Army constantly put down the tools in their hands, picked up their weapons and joined the battle one after another under the leadership of the samurai, but how could they resist the impact of the Takayama Army with this way of increasing their troops one by one. Although these troops couldn't stop the Takayama Army, they still did it if they wanted to slow down the other party's speed, so under their blocking, the Hojo elite who had just been left behind by the Takayama Army caught up again.

However, since the Kasahara Yasukatsu main camp was a hundred meters behind this defensive offensive, by the time they caught up, the Takayama army had already crossed the fortifications.

After all, Kasahara Yasukatsu has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, and when he found out that the enemy was out of the city, he was not entangled with the army under his command, and he already knew that the opponent's target was the main formation, and he also knew that once the other party rushed into the main formation, then this would definitely be a very serious blow to the morale of the army under his command, so Kasahara Yasumasa immediately made a decision when he saw this, and personally led the only 1,000 troops around him to rush out of the main formation and fight with the Takayama army. If Hojo Tsunashi is the first general of the Hojo family, then this Kasawara Yasukatsu is definitely the first fierce general of the Hojo family, although he is now over forty years old, but not only has no degradation in martial arts, but the moves are more ruthless, and the thousand troops around him are the most elite ashigaru in the white preparation, so don't look at only a thousand people, but as soon as the two armies came into contact, they immediately showed their ability. Although they were five times as many enemies as they were, they were not divided by each other, but were connected to each other. Resist enemy attacks.

At this time, Bai Bei's other armies had already caught up, forming a flanking attack on the 5,000 mountain army.

Seeing this, Katsusuke Tanaka couldn't help but feel anxious, originally after rushing through the enemy's blocked army, he was still very optimistic that it seemed that it was not too difficult to win over Kasahara Yasukatsu, but now he didn't have such thoughts at all, not only that, but after the enemy chased the mountain, he felt that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable for him.

Not only the overall offensive is unfavorable, in the samurai battle, the Takayama army still failed to stand on top, especially Kasahara Yasukatsu is even more brave and irresistible, when just at the beginning of the battle with the enemy's main formation, the army pursued Lin Guangzhi to Kasahara Yasutsu to fight together, Lin Guangzhi's martial arts can only be regarded as commonplace, he was bullying the other party is old, even if the ability is strong, in terms of strength is definitely inferior to himself, so he rushed over without hesitation, but this handover, he knew that his idea was simply wrong, the other party not only superb martial arts, This strength is even more boundless, only two moves later, he was stabbed in the shoulder by the spear in the opponent's hand, fortunately, Kohata Nobuzhen came in time, and helped himself block the fatal shot, otherwise Lin Guangzhi at this moment is already a corpse, although he saved his life, but after being injured, he who was already martial arts in general, could not even play a normal level, so at this moment, except for helping Kohata Nobuzhen to sweep the formation, it could no longer play any role.

And Kohata Nobusada is still not Kasahara's opponent, although the two have passed five moves, but he knows in his heart that these five moves have been in passive defense, and there is no chance to attack at all, if it goes on like this, it will not be able to win the other party at all, maybe a surprise will become the other party's gun ghost.

Nobuzhen Kohata couldn't help but feel anxious and wanted to retreat, but the other party was too tightly entangled, and he didn't give him a chance to escape at all, and he wanted to call someone to help, but he was embarrassed to speak, after all, if it was two to one, it would really hurt the face of the samurai, so he could only continue to insist for a while.

He didn't want to hurt his face, but Katsusuke Tanaka couldn't care about it so much, as a commander, the most important thing was to achieve victory, face was important, but for him, victory was more important, so when he saw that the enemy's army was coming, he no longer continued to entangle with those ordinary samurai of the Hojo family, but rushed towards Kasawara Yasukatsu. As soon as he came closer, he didn't talk nonsense, and immediately launched an attack on him together with Nobusada Kohata.

Seeing this, Kasahara Yasukatsu was not only not afraid, but was very proud, and the more people the other party came to attack him, the more he could prove his bravery. And he really has such an ability, don't look at Katsusuke Tanaka joining the battle, under the combined attack of the two, it can be a draw with the other party.

Seeing that he still couldn't take down Kasahara Yasukatsu for a while, Katsusuke Tanaka was really anxious at this time, after all, if he couldn't quickly resolve the battle, then he and the 5,000 troops under his command might be difficult to return to Stablebridge City today. So he also let go, and while continuing to fight with the other side, he opened his mouth and shouted: "The Takayama army listens to the order, there is no need to have any distractions in their hearts, our purpose is to win Kasahara Yasukatsu, and whoever can get this person, I, Katsusuke Tanaka, promise to accept this person as a retainer and give him a hundred dollars." His words were completely shouted to the surrounding Takayama family to listen to. After all, there were no other samurai of the Takayama family around, otherwise he wouldn't have said that.

When the samurai fought with the samurai, according to the custom, these ashigaru could not be shot, otherwise even if they could get the other party, they would inevitably be punished by their own samurai. After all, in this era, samurai still cherish their face very much, they would rather die in the hands of each other than be opportunistic, and the same was true of Katsusuke Tanaka before, but after following the clan for ten years, the idea that the clan instilled in them is that when necessary, sacrificing face for victory is necessary.

This idea of the first clan was opposed by the retainers, but when he said that you are not fighting alone, and if you die, then most of the ashigaru under your command will also pay for it, although it is still difficult for the retainers to accept it for a while, but they all acquiesce.

And the reason why Katsusuke Tanaka was able to shout these words was because he thought of the teachings of the lord back then. And those ashigaru of the Takayama family, but no matter about these, especially when they hear that once they can kill the old man in front of them, they can become a samurai, their eyes are shining, for them, this is definitely a great opportunity, although it is easier to become a samurai in the Takayama family than other forces, but this is only for those who are extremely capable in the ashigaru, for other ashigaru, becoming a samurai is just an unrealistic dream.

And when they listened to Tanaka-sama's words, they immediately realized that this was definitely an opportunity to ascend to the sky in one step, as long as they killed the old man in front of them, then they would become a high samurai, which was too simple.

With Tanaka Katsusuke's consent, and then there is the temptation to join the ranks of the samurai, those Takayama families around Tanaka Katsusuke can not care about anything else, after Tanaka Katsusuke's voice fell, I saw that they could solve the battle in their hands immediately, and what they couldn't solve was to try their best to get out, and then the guns rushed towards Kasawara Yasukatsu.

And Kasawara Yasukatsu as the general of course can't have no one around him, at this moment, more than 20 flags around him immediately protected Kasahara Yasukatsu on three sides when they saw this, but although their combat strength is good, how can they stop the Takayama family Ashigaru who has become crazy, and in an instant these 20 or so Ashigaru were rushed away by more than 30 Takayama family Ashigaru who rushed over, of course, they didn't kill these Hojo family elites, after all, the Takayama family's Ashigaru knows that if you kill an enemy Ashigaru at this moment, Then they will inevitably fall behind the other ashigaru rushing in, and they don't want to give away the qualifications of samurai to others.

But just knocking the other party away, this is enough, as soon as they occupy the best position, there is no hesitation at all, and the spears in their hands are stabbed towards Kasahara Yasukatsu, although there is no order, but they also divide the upper, middle and lower three ways.

And Kasahara Yasukatsu didn't have any smug expression at the moment, and his heart was full of anger, if he was said to be inferior to others and died at the hands of samurai, it would be considered a well-deserved death, but if he was dismembered by these ashigaru, then he would die too unjustly.

"Bastard, do you still have a hint of samurai consciousness?" At the same time that Yasukatsu Kasahara rushed over at Takayama Ieashi, he couldn't help but shout at Katsusuke Tanaka and Nobutada Kohata.

And the two of them also knew that even if Kasahara Yasukatsu was killed, it would definitely be an extremely humiliating thing, so they just buried their heads in the battle and didn't answer at all. And the movements of the two of them are getting faster and faster, and Katsusuke Tanaka even used a move to fight for his life, in order to make Kasahara Yasukatsu lack skills and have no ability to resist the attacks of the Ashigaru.

Sure enough, when he used these moves, it was too late for Kasahara Yasukatsu to redeem himself, and in just an instant, several spears pierced his body, and the first fierce general of the Hojo family was killed.

"Haha, I won the enemy's commander, haha......"

"I, I, I was the first to pierce him."

As soon as Yasukatsu Kasahara fell, the ashigaru people of the Takayama family immediately shouted excitedly.

But Katsusuke Tanaka didn't put his mind here for the time being, although Kasahara Yasukatsu was killed, but these white butchers of the Hojo family were still there, and there was a lot of smoke and dust in the distance, it was obvious that Hojo Tsunari's reinforcements were coming, if he couldn't kill back in the city as soon as possible, then he might have to explain here.

So Tanaka Katsusuke just a little perfunctory, and immediately ordered someone to cut off the head of Kasahara Yasukatsu, let a Ashigaru be raised high, and immediately rushed towards the direction of Ashibashi Castle with Ashigaru, because Ashigaru behind him did not know that the main general had been killed, and the resistance was still very fierce, but when the spear carrying the head of Kasahara Yasukatsu was raised, these elites of the Hojo family saw this, and immediately became a little overwhelmed, they have now lost the will to fight, so they have unconsciously made way for the Takayama army. This allowed the Alpine Parent Gun Team to return to the city smoothly.

And although Hojo Tsunashi came, but it was a step too late, when he saw only the body and no head of Kasahara Yasukatsu, he almost fainted, he was not sad and indignant for the death of Kasahara Yasumasa, but he knew that the capture of Ueno had failed, and not only that, after this battle, the Hojo family was already at an absolute disadvantage, if it wasn't for fear of affecting the morale of the Hojo army, he really wanted to shout three times, the sky died Hojo.

And at this moment in the city, after listening to Tanaka Katsusuke's report, Sanada Masayuki did not feel anything wrong because Tanaka Katsusuke ordered Ashigaru to kill Kasahara Yasukatsu, this time what he wants is victory, as long as he wins, then no matter what the price is acceptable, especially after knowing that in this raid, the loss of Ashigaru on his side is only three or four hundred, Sanada Masayuki is still very satisfied.

Being able to defeat the Hojo family with 16,000 troops with 8,000 troops is enough to prove that he is still competent as a military advisor.

At the end of September 1576, the Hojo Army came in a hurry, and hurried away, although the Ashigaru of the Hojo Army did not suffer much loss in this battle, but due to the death of Kasahara Yasukatsu, which led to the low morale of Shirabi, so that it was impossible to break through the Stable Bridge Castle again, rather than consuming military rations here, it was better to withdraw the army early and return, so on the second day, Hojo Tsusunari led the two reserve troops to withdraw from Ueno, and he retreated, and the Hojo family did not step into the land of Ueno again until the time of destruction.

In the eastern country, there was already a little chill at the end of October, and at this moment Ueno was completely controlled by the Takayama family, but due to the destruction of a large number of Hao clans, this caused the Ueno bandits to run rampant, with a few dozen people and a large number of hundreds, all of whom were composed of samurai who were destroyed by the Hao clan's forces. In order to eliminate them, it took a month for the mountain army to eliminate these bandits. (To be continued.) )