Chapter 43: Impermanence
"It's useless to talk too much! Let's go to war! "Imagawa Yoshimoto obviously knew that Guo Jia had won this scolding battle, so he planned to attack directly, what about the nameless division, as long as he wins, who can say anything!
"Fight and fight, whoever is afraid of whom. Iron cannon ready! Guo Jia shrugged his shoulders and shouted directly behind him, but this sound scared Imagawa Yoshimoto half to death.
"Oda Guojia, you don't talk about credibility!"
You must know that the tongue war before this war is to send some people to come over to fight with others, and generally their own generals will follow, just like now, Imagawa Yoshimoto is also in the ranks of this tongue war, their own team is far away from here, morally speaking, the war is fought by both sides, and then the war is started, how can there be a direct iron artillery department like Guo Jia to prepare to attack.
But even Imagawa Yoshimoto didn't think that Guo Jia was just scaring him, and the Iron Cannon Department didn't even have a fire primer now.
"Imagawa Yoshimoto, what are you talking about, why don't I talk about credibility. Look at you, my brother is still in your hands, why don't I talk about credibility. ”
"Then why are you preparing your soldiers to attack!"
"Hey, what are you talking about, didn't you say you were going to fight! Didn't I prepare for it? ”
The reason why Guo Jia did this was to ask Imagawa Yoshimoto to hand over Nobuyuki, anyway, although this person is a traitor, but in the final analysis, he is still his younger brother, if he dies in his own hands, it will be nothing, but if he dies in the hands of Imagawa Yoshimoto, it will be troublesome.
"What do you want!"
"One life for another."
Hearing what Guo Jia said, Imagawa Yoshimoto immediately pushed Oda Nobuyuki out, and as Guo Jia's younger brother, this life can definitely be exchanged for his life.
"Take the rope and take him back." Guo Jia saw this scene and spoke directly to the Shibata Katsuya next to him, even if Nobuyuki is his younger brother, but he has committed a crime of treason, the Son of Heaven has committed the same crime as the common people, not to mention him.
"Let's go!" Imagawa Yoshimoto is really afraid that Guo Jia will threaten him like this, in case this product is the same as his thoughts!
", who wants to see you!" Guo Jia didn't say it angrily, which completely angered Imagawa Yoshimoto.
"Humph! Oda Guojia, just wait, and when my soldiers come, I'll let you run rampant again. And you don't know it yet, Cheongju Castle is about to fall. Imagawa Yoshimoto didn't say these words, just thinking in his own heart.
"It's going to be a tough battle." Guo Jia sighed, because he received the news that the Miyoshi people had sent people into the territory of Owari to prepare to attack the land of Mori and Enoe.
"The three good people now obviously know that we are confronting Yuanjiang, and they really have them to pick up the leak at this time." Guo Jia's eyes shone fiercely, and he didn't mind slaughtering the Miyoshi army after destroying the invaders in Yuanjiang.
"Do you want Mino to help?" Of course, Shibata Katsuya knew what Guo Jia was thinking, so he asked tentatively. But Guo Jia's answer made him dumbfounded.
"I'm worried that there's no reason to attack Ise Province."
Soon, the sun walked to the center of the sky, and the wind wheal had already found the target, and after Maeda Toshiya came back to report in person, Guo Jia still let them retreat, but there was one more order to let the immovable mountain go out to prepare to meet Guo Jia and them.
The winter wind howled like a blade, blowing fiercely on the faces of the warriors, and the dense soldiers of the Imagawa army had already appeared in the field of vision of the Oda army. It was like a forest, and the family crest of the Imagawa family on their flag fluttered in the wind. The breastplates of their warriors were all made of wood and iron, and they glowed golden in the sunlight.
The infantry in front of him held an eight-foot spear in his hand, and the tip of the spear exuded a little cold light, as if he wanted to choose someone to eat. The right-wing archer had already pulled an arrow with a terrifying glow out of the bow and quiver behind his back, as if he would pull the string of his bow at the slightest disagreement. On the left flank was the cavalry of the Imagawa army, and the soldiers had drawn their sabers, and the noses of their horses under their crotches snorted at the white mist. The number of archers of the Imagawa army is almost equal to all of Guo Jia's current strength.
On the other hand, Guo Jia's Oda army did not have a left and right wing formation at all, and the fire regiment and the forest regiment stood there one after the other, and farther away was a large number of rejecting horses, with some spear tips tied to the spikes, and if the horses under the cavalry's crotch could not jump or go around, there would definitely be no return.
"Woo~~~" With a long horn, the Imagawa army launched an attack, and the whole army slowly approached the Oda army, and even the cavalry did not charge.
"Fifty years of life, like a dream, life and death, what regrets for a strong man! Shoot the arrows! By the time Guo Jia finished reading this poem, the Imagawa army had already entered the range of the archers, and the same was within the range of the Oda army.
Suddenly, the sunlight in the sky was completely cut off by the rain of arrows on both sides, and it was like the end of the world in an instant, and the noon was pressed into darkness by the rain of arrows. Arrows from the sky flew like locusts toward both camps.
"Fire!" Guo Jia's order was not simply to set fire, he meant that the fire regiment would raise the shield to defend against arrows.
"Dangdang" is just that, in the blink of an eye, the shield of the fire ball becomes a hedgehog porcupine.
At this time, the cavalry of the Imagawa army moved, and when they saw Guo Jia's infantry raising their shields to block their vision, they instantly rode their horses and charged.
However, the Lin regiment was not so easy to be defeated, and even if there was no upward angle of vision, you could still see the cavalry's charging route.
"Let them go back!"
With the roar of the first iron cannon, the second shot was also fired one after another, and a simple single round of iron cannon attack instantly forced the cavalry of the Imagawa army to retreat.
"Lin!"
The enemy is beginning to cross the river! This was an opportunity to wear down their forces, and until now Guo Jia's Oda army had not suffered any casualties, but it was difficult to say in hand-to-hand combat.
"Shoot the arrows!" The second round of arrow rain was released by Guo Jia first, and this time the effect was only to block the follow-up forces of the Imagawa army, and now they have crossed the river!
"The Iron Artillery Department of the Lin Regiment pays attention to the cavalry, and fights one by one. I've handed it over to you. Guo Jia saw the situation completely clearly. If the wind ball and the mountain group are here at the same time, it is still possible to fight with one, but now ten thousand against three thousand? No hope!
After Guo Jia's order was issued, the invasion came into contact with the infantry of the Imagawa army.
Aggression is like fire, and now it is also soft armor, chain mail, and the whole body is wrapped like zongzi, especially their wooden armor, the color is specially dyed red by Guo Jia, symbolizing the flame, the katana at the waist has not yet been unsheathed, and they are holding a three-pronged gun in their hands. The invasion was like a red torrent that hit the Imagawa army as they came ashore, and they could not stop, and once they stopped, the spear of the Imagawa army would be stuck in their throat and kill them.
And the Imagawa army is also like a moth to a fire, piling up their marching steps with human heads. After one fell, the other continued to make up, trying to break through the defensive line of the fire regiment but to no avail.
At this time, the cavalry of the Imagawa army moved again, and they were divided into two parts, one part rushed to the fire regiment defense line, and the other part was the position of the archers of the forest regiment!
The archers of the forest regiment have been suppressing them with a rain of arrows, and if it weren't for this damn rain of arrows, the defensive line on the banks of the river would have been broken by them long ago.
The Iron Artillery Department is not omnipotent, they can't attack people in both directions. On the side of aggression like fire, it depends on how long they can hold on. They chose the bow and arrow department to protect the forest regiment.
That is, the moment the cavalry touched the defensive line of the fire regiment, a gap was opened.
"Retreat." Guo Jia gave the order. The fire regiment is not as immobile as a mountain, their characteristic is active attack rather than passive defense, at this time they cannot show their strength, and the forest regiment is now exposed to a very dangerous position, if there is no follow-up support, it is easy to be broken.
"Fire Ball! Crane Wings! "After hearing Guo Jia's order, the aggression was like fire, and immediately changed the formation, Crane Wing! It's a combination of offense and defense. It is also the most commonly used formation in fire group training.
But what is the use of such a massive offensive? Sooner or later it will be completely defeated over time. However, do they need to fight the Imagawa army? The answer is no.
On the other hand, the Imagawa army has already paid a great price. They broke through the defense of the fire regiment and consumed nearly a hundred troops, and the number of people who died in the hands of the forest regiment was not more than 1,000, but 800.
"Retreat!" Guo Jia gave the order for the second time, and now they must withdraw to the city and either hold on or continue to retreat. Holding on means that Imagawa Yoshimoto continues to attack without stopping, and retreating means that the Imagawa army also garrisons the whole army, and they directly abandon the city. Anyway, so far, Guo Jia's two routes have almost been achieved, and he is humble! Scratch it in anger!
Now the morale of the Imagawa army is greatly boosted, and they are at a time to look down on the Oda army, and if they are completely arrogant, they will inevitably fall into Guo Jia's ambush. Similarly, now that the Imagawa army, especially their general, Imagawa Yoshimoto, is furious, if Guo Jia retreats and fights, it will definitely make them even more angry and crazy, and this will also fall into Guo Jia's ambush. Anyway, I gave him a trap and pointed it out to him, so I'm sorry, please come in.
The sun finally set in the west, and today's wind was also in line with the situation, and the wind in the sky was slapping on both sides with bloody gas. The screams, the frenzied killings, the dull tips of the guns, the piles of corpses on the ground, the river of blood heralded the difficulty of the battle. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, with more than 700 casualties in the fire regiment alone, and the forest regiment was even worse!
The only thing to be thankful for is that they used more than 1,000 troops to exchange almost 2,000 lives of the Imagawa army. There was no one outside Inuyama Castle to clean the battlefield, and no one to pack up those things. The stumps and severed arms were scattered outside Inuyama Castle, and the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the ground was no longer visible whether the fiery red of the setting sun or the color of blood donation.
"You don't see, Qinghai head, no one collects the white bones in ancient times, the new ghosts are annoyed and the old ghosts are crying, and the sky is cloudy and rainy." Guo Jia had withdrawn to Inuyama Castle, but the pursuers of the Imagawa army were still attacking here.
"My lord, there are now about 8,000 troops surrounding us! What to do? Shibata Katsuya hurriedly asked.
Now Guo Jia's heart is in turmoil, he regrets it a little, why didn't he bring all his troops? Why don't you trust your ally Mino? If the mountain and forest groups were here, maybe it would all be easier. Now that he has fallen into this situation, it is indeed his problem.
But things are still turning around, because the mountain group is coming. After an afternoon of rapid marching, the mountain regiment, as the largest corps in Owari, came!