Chapter 924: The Decisive Battle in Kanto (11)
With this army of more than 10,000 people joining, Yasutoshi Mamiya has no intention of becoming famous now, and now he has only one thought in his heart, which is to evacuate immediately, because he knows that if he doesn't leave now, I'm afraid he will have to stay here forever.
But he wanted to withdraw, and Sasa Narumasa, who was fighting with him, didn't intend to let him leave, because although there were less than five hundred people left in the army under Sasa Naruma, but after the Asai army arrived, he couldn't help but be demoralized, especially Sasa Narumasa, after discovering the other party's general, he immediately killed him, risking being surrounded by enemy troops, and fought with Yasumatoshi Mamiya, Yasumatoshi Mamiya's martial arts are much worse than Kasahara Yasukatsu, and Sasa Narumasa on the opposite side has a fight with the Maeda Toshi family, So as soon as the two of them fought each other, they made a judgment, and the spear in Zuo Zuo Chengzheng's hand was like a dragon, sometimes the dragon came out of the hole, and sometimes the hidden dragon was in the sky.
Of course, although the other party did not have the strength to fight back, there was still the ability to parry, after all, the other party was able to become the commander of Bai Bei as the general of Huang Bei, and he also had a few brushes, so it was not very possible for Sazuo Chengzheng to take down the other party in a short time, but all this changed with the arrival of the Asai army.
With the assistance of the Asai Army, there is no suspense on this battlefield, so I saw that Sazuo Chengzheng was getting easier and easier to attack, and even regarded the other party as the object of honing his martial arts, and he had long since lost the impatience just now, and as his mentality calmed down, his moves became more aggressive, and Mamiya Yasutoshi was different, he was originally on the weak side, and he was able not to lose just now, all because Bai Bei still had a slight advantage, but now the other party has tens of thousands of reinforcements, and has formed an encirclement of himself, How could his mind not be chaotic, plus the other party's offensive was getting more and more aggressive, so when he was distracted, he was immediately seized by the other party, only to see the spear in Zuo Chengzheng's hand flickered, and a change of line bypassed the direction of the opponent's resistance and went straight to the opponent's waist and abdomen, although when the other party changed moves, Mamiya Yasutoshi also came to his senses and immediately wanted to resist with a horizontal gun, but he was still a step late, only to hear a pop, and the blade of the gun pierced directly into the big armor on his body and pierced into his lower abdomen.
If he is wearing the world's sufficiency, then with this layer of iron mask, although he will still be injured, it will be much lighter, and it will not make him lose the ability to fight, but he chose the ancestral armor, although the armor is gorgeous, but it is much worse in terms of defense, after all, it is only made of bamboo and wood, how to block the sharp blade of the spear, so although this is Sasa Chengzheng's trick after the transformation, he was not able to use all his strength, but the blade still pierced into the body of Yasutoshi Mamiya more than two inches.
And Sazuo Cheng Masashi saw that he finally made a contribution, so he immediately took advantage of the victory to pursue, and after pulling out the spear, he continued to attack it, if the spear was not drawn, Mamiya Yasumatoshi could live a little longer, but as the spear left the body, the first blood also erupted, although there was a big armor in front of him, and he failed to spray it on Sazuo Chengzheng, but it was just an instant that the green silk armor on his body was dyed red, and because of the excess blood loss, the Venus in front of him was surging, and the enemy in front of him became more and more blurred.
But the enemy on the other side didn't want to stop there, after pulling out the spear, Sasa Narimasa did not hesitate at all, and the spear in his hand was raised again, heading straight for the opponent's throat, and Yasutoshi Mamiya also fell to the ground in response. Yasutoshi Mamiya, who had just become the commander of Bai Bei and wanted to show his strength, died. And his death directly affected the will to fight of the army under his command, originally when the Asai army arrived, the remaining less than 6,000 troops of Bai Bei no longer had much will to resist, and now even the main general has been killed, and they have no reason to continue fighting, but at the moment they are all fighting, and they can't get out of the battle quickly, so when Mamiya Yasutoshi died, a large part of the Hojo family's ashigaru and samurai chose to surrender, and only a small number of people chose to fight to the death, A small number of the rest to the north escaped the battle.
Because after the Asai army joined the battle group, the military situation has been seriously tilted towards the coalition forces, so the battle ended very quickly, almost just behind the three thousand troops that Otani Yoshitsugu separated, the battle was already over, although there were still some samurai of the Hojo family who chose to fight to the death in the battlefield were still fighting, but it was obvious that they could not hold out for too long, so Otani Yoshitsugu immediately chose to withdraw his troops, set up a formation here, and waited for the arrival of the Hojo family's black bei army.
Don't look at Otani Yoshitsugu is very young, but he is not low in intelligence, plus he has been trained in the Asai family for a few years, so he is becoming more and more mature, after the annihilation of the Hojo family Shirabi, the reason why he did not lead the army to another battlefield is because, he knows that once the cavalry of the Takayama family and the ninja army participate in the battle, then Kurobei has no possibility of continuing to resist at all, and he leads the army to go, maybe the other party will be defeated when he arrives, even if he doesn't, he can only be regarded as the icing on the scene, there is no meaning, And it will also make the army under his command consume more physical strength, so he chose to deploy here, which can not only let the army under his command rest, but also prevent the opponent's army from returning to the city, which is the best arrangement for the best of both worlds.
In another battlefield, the original Ueno Legion and the cavalry team of the Takayama family have been pressing the black preparation of the Tamu Yuanzhong, after all, there are 3,000 cavalry under the command of the Takamu Yuanzhong, and the cavalry of the Takayama family has reached 5,000 people, and in terms of foot soldiers, the Takayama family has 10,000 Ueno Legion, and he only has 5,000, so the beginning is very unfavorable to the Hojo family's black preparation, but with the transfer of the cavalry from the Takayama clan, the situation has finally undergone some changes, the other party has no cavalry, and he has, which is for Heibei, even if it is at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, But in terms of combat power, it is higher than the other party, so in order to be able to achieve victory, Duomu Yuanzhong did not let his cavalry choose to pursue the opponent's cavalry, but continued to fight with the Ueno Legion of the Takayama family, under the continuous impact of the cavalry, the Ueno Legion can only take a defensive position, that is, Duomu Yuanzhong does not want to spend too much military strength in this battle, so that the Ueno Legion can hold until now, otherwise, as long as he pays the price of thousands of cavalry, he will definitely be able to break through the opponent's defensive array, as long as he breaks through, then he can completely defeat the enemy.
But he felt that there was no need to do this, because before the war, as an important minister of the Hojo family, he had long known that the naval army would go back to attack Suruga, and when Sakuma retreated, once the Narita army completed the task of raiding the Takayama main camp, then the Takayama army here would inevitably collapse, so there was no need to fight hard with the other party, when he did this, he was not afraid of the Takayama army, but completely wanted to reserve more strength for the Hojo family, otherwise even if he defeated the Takayama family by luck this time, but with the financial resources of the Takayama family, I'm afraid it won't be long before it will make a comeback, and my family is much worse than the other party in terms of financial resources, once this loss is too serious, then how to resist the opponent's attack next time? So he had good enough reasons to do so.
It was he who made such a plan, so after receiving the order to retreat, he could quickly get rid of the battle, although he had to give up the cavalry team in order to achieve the purpose of evacuation, but the five thousand ashigaru under his command could achieve the purpose of retreating, although in terms of cost, each cavalry was much more expensive than the foot soldiers, but Duomu Yuanzhong knew that the next family would take the cage city to resist the attack of the Gao Shan family, so that the cavalry would not be useful at all, rather than this, it would be better to save the benefits of the foot soldiers, And if you want to hold off the enemy, then the cavalry is much better than the ashigaru under his command, and once they complete the task, there is still a chance to evacuate, and if the ashigaru is in charge of the temple army, then they have no hope of survival, after making a decision, he immediately ordered his cavalry to continue fighting, and he personally led the remaining less than 5,000 ashigaru to retreat in the direction of Odawara Castle. Because he walked very simply, when the Takayama ninja army and cavalry arrived at the battlefield, he had already walked a distance of several miles with his troops, and even if the Takayama army wanted to chase after him, he could not do anything about it.
Although his decision was extremely correct, he didn't expect that not far ahead, more than 10,000 troops of the Asai family were waiting for his arrival. At this time, the two armies of Shibata and Uesugi joined the ranks of blocking while retracting the rout after solving the remnants of the enemy.
In the direction of the Ueno Army, with nearly 10,000 elites of the Takayama family joining, the cavalry team of less than 3,000 people was quickly disintegrated, especially the cavalry of the Takayama family, with them joining, the 3,000 Hojo cavalry can't run even if they want to, there are horses to sit down, I also have them, and there are more people than you, plus there are tens of thousands of foot soldiers besieged, there is no chance for them to escape, no matter which direction these Hojo cavalry rush, they will encounter the resistance of the Takayama family's army, once they stop, Then the chasing Takayama cavalry will come up and strike hard, as the number of people continues to decrease, the impact of the Hojo cavalry is getting weaker and weaker, and after there is no possibility of breaking out of the encirclement, the commander of the Hojo family Kubei cavalry, the general Toyama Naokei, can only choose to surrender.
In this decisive battle, this is the first time that the enemy has surrendered in a formation, and the other party is still commanding the cavalry, so the retainers of the Takayama family present cannot call the shots, after all, they know the importance of cavalry, so when Toyama Naokei ordered his subordinates to give up resistance, Kohata Nobutada immediately sent someone to the main camp to report the matter to the clan.
And the clan couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard that the remaining more than 2,000 cavalry on the other side chose to surrender, he worked hard for more than ten years, and countless money to make up a cavalry team of 5,000 people, and now there are more than 2,000 well-trained cavalry sent to the door, how can the clan not be happy, if this cavalry team is surrendered, the scale of the cavalry of the family will exceed 7,000 people in one fell swoop, which will greatly strengthen the ability of the family to fight in the field, and in order to show the importance of this army, the clan sect after receiving the report, Immediately lead the Samurai of Qimoto, who had returned to their main formation, to the north and personally collect this army.
Since the other party has been surrendered and has all been disarmed, there is no way to leave so many troops here to standby, and Ishikawa Goemon and Sanada Masaaki and others received an order to completely annihilate the Hojo family Kurobei, and now the task is only half completed, and there is no way to send to the main bus at all, so after settling the battle, they immediately led the army to continue to pursue Tamu Mototada and his troops to the east.
At this moment, the clan has come to the south side of Mt. Ashiga, in the main formation of the Ueno Army, and when he just sat down, he saw several samurai walking in dejectedly, and he knew that these people were the high-level of the Hojo family's black cavalry.
Because they have been defeated and have made the decision to return to the Takayama family, their attitude is very low, although these people have not seen the Takayama clan, but seeing that the general who has just fought with him, Nobusada Kohata can only sit in a lower position at the moment, so he knows that in front of him, the samurai wearing gorgeous armor must be the head of the Takayama family, the Takayama clan.
So as soon as they entered the tabernacle, they immediately bowed respectfully.
And the clan is in a really good mood now, and he didn't have the intention of embarrassing the other party, after all, after this battle, the Hojo family perished, and he didn't worry that these obedient people in front of him would rebel, so at this moment, the clan had already regarded them as the retainers of the family, although it was impossible to entrust them with important tasks, but in the end, the clan still gave the position of deputy commander of the Yuanshan Naokei cavalry, and the samurai who returned to Shun behind him were still the leading generals, not promoted or lowered, and continued to be retained. As for the commander of the second cavalry team, the clan has already planned it, and it is none other than Yamanaka Shikanosuke.
Naokei Toyama originally thought that if he returned to obedience this time, the Takayama clan would definitely not be entrusted with important tasks, and he was ready to hand over his military power and become an ordinary samurai. If this is the case, then the best result is that he is at most an idle person who leads the general Yulu, after all, there are countless capable ministers and brave generals of the Takayama family, and there is no place for himself at all, but when the clan finished speaking, he couldn't help but be stunned by the other party's decision, although he was only the deputy commander, but he knew that the military system of the Takayama family was not like the Hojo family, and the commander was the only authority.
Among the various armies of the Takayama family, although the commander has the greatest power, he is not the authority, and if they want to make any decision, they must have the support of the deputy commander and the military commissioner, once one person vetoes it, then this proposal cannot be sent to the Takayama clan sect at all, even if it is sent over, the lord will not adopt it, after all, even your own opinions have not been unified, how can it be implemented? Therefore, it seems that the position of the deputy commander is lower than that of the commander, but he still has a lot of power. (To be continued.) )