Tang Zeshan 213 rout
"Take down the head of the Hojo clan!"
With a roar of rage, Sano shackled a high-ranking samurai to death with his sword, and rushed towards the middle army of the Hojo clan with dozens of horseback warriors from Karasawa Mountain Castle.
When he saw that there were only about 1,000 people in the castle, Sano Masatsuna felt a sense of loss in his heart......
How could the Hojo Army, which had 20,000 men, be defeated by relying only on foreign aid of 1,000 men and defenders of several hundred men?
-- Unless a miracle happens.
But the change in circumstances shocked Masatsuna Sano, because he seemed to really see a miracle!
No...... More precisely, it was he who saw the process of miracles being made!
Nagao Terutora and her 1,000 Echigo horseback warriors crushed the right flank of the Hojo Army like a whirlwind, and rampaged through the left flank of the Hojo Army like a dragon entering the sea, crushing the Hojo Army's strategy of entrapping it on both sides.
And that's not all...... Masatsuna Sano also saw that the Chinese army of the Hojo clan seemed to have begun to retreat!
"The Hojo Army is defeated! All the army, follow me! ”
Chang Gang shouted and rushed out first after the city gate was opened.
Behind him, there were dozens of Sano family's horseback samurai, and behind these dozens of horses, there were nearly a thousand Sano family ashigaru.
They had been trapped in the city for more than half a month, and now they came out in anger and pounced like wolves on the 2,000 Hojo Army that remained outside the city of Karasawa Mountain.
Besieging a city with twice as many troops is usually impossible to take or prevent the defenders from breaking through.
The reason why these two thousand men watched the battle under the city with great brava was because they felt that there was an army of nearly 20,000 behind them, and that they were safe from the front and from the back door.
-- It is impossible to be attacked or exploded. Chrysanthemum.
But when the Hojo Army's army was already on the verge of collapse...... They were literally pushed.
It was pushed by Masatsuna Sano with inferior forces!
Dozens of horsemen led by Sano Masatsuna became the sharpest minions of the Sano army, and fiercely plunged into the Hojo army formation under the city.
The main commander of these 2,000 people is Shigehide Akai, the lord of Kamidate Rinjo Castle who belongs to the Hojo side. Shigehide is also quite strong in Ueno, but there is obviously still a gap compared to his rival Sano.
Seeing Sano Masatsuna taking the lead in launching a counterattack, Shigehide immediately panicked, although he has been on the battlefield for decades, he has never been in the front, and he is even more afraid of himself coming to the front line. At the moment, there is no one to rely on behind him, and Sano Masatsuna is like a wolf and a tiger, and he has not even started to fight, and his heart is already timid.
If the general is brave, the sergeant will use his life...... This is talking about Masatsuna Sano.
A soldier bears a nest of bears...... This is talking about Shigehide Akai.
Although the Hojo clan gave Akai Shigehide enough troops of 2,000 troops, the latter did not have the ability to command these 2,000 men at all, so he hurriedly mounted his horse and fled south in a hurry under the protection of his personal guards.
Flee south...... Flee to his Tatebayashi Castle, the enemy will not wipe out Ashigaru anyway, and in less than two days, the defeated Ashigaru will return to the village below the castle.
Akai Shigehide's timidity and fear made Sano Masatsuna despise greatly, but in the near future...... The timid and fearful Akai Shigehide's father died on the battlefield because of his daughter's wealth, and the brave and combative Masatsuna Sano died on the battlefield...... But that's another story.
That's it...... The Sano Army broke up the 2,000 Hojo Army under the castle and rushed to the right flank of the already routed Hojo Army.
Masatsuna Sano himself followed the Echigo Horse Riding Team with a team of horsebacks, and although they did not form such strange wheel-like formations, they were skilled in traditional cruising and fighting.
In just half an hour's effort, the left and right flanks of the Hojo army had completely collapsed, and with a finger of Nagao Teruto's spear, the dragon of the Echigo Horse Riding Team turned around and pounced on the middle army of the Hojo clan!
Although Hojo's heart is beating like thunder, it can be said that it is not easy to sit firmly on horseback.
The reason why Takeda Yoshinobu, the sister-in-law of the Takeda family, was able to perform calmly and easily in the Battle of Bottlejiri was that in addition to his own ability to command troops was indeed stronger than that of the clan, there was also the factor that Yoshinobu's opponent was weaker.
How can the Hao clan coalition led by Nagano Yoshimasa be compared to the dragon of Echigo, Nagao Teruto?
Clan Masa's still didn't quite understand this, so he was distraught, and seeing the rout of the right and left wings one after another, he didn't think about how to launch a counterattack to repel the Long Tail Army, but fell into self-blame and guilt.
The rout of the Hao clan on the left and right flanks fled towards the main formation where he was, and the originally strict formation was suddenly rushed by the rout.
"Young master! Order, kill! ”
An old monk stood beside Shi Zheng, and spoke earnestly.
His head is bare and shiny, his beard is gray, and the three wrinkles on his forehead are extremely deep, which is none other than the Hojo family's famous diplomatic monk Hojo Phantom An.
For this old monk of his grandfather's generation, Shi Zheng originally planned to worship the phantom hermitage as a mascot, and he didn't think that there was anything needed for the old grandfather in this Tangze Mountain City Raider.
It's okay if he was wrong, but Clan Masa's didn't expect Hojo Phantom's suggestion to be so violent, and he actually asked him to directly order the defeat of the army!
"Uncle...... Those are allies! ”
"If you can't stabilize the formation, even the Chinese army will be defeated by the other party, give the order quickly!"
Hojo Phantom An's voice is very strong, this appearance is very different from his usual amiability, in the eyes of the clan is a little close to the angry King Kong in the Buddhist hall.
"Hold the formation! No one is allowed in! ”
"Violators...... Kill on the spot! ”
After thinking about it again and again, he finally gave the correct military order with difficulty, but just after he was thinking. I want to fight at this time...... The time has come.
The fighters of the Echigo Cavalry have arrived, and at this moment the Hojo clan has ordered to hold on...... It's late!
The Echigo cavalry had already turned into a giant dragon and pounced on the middle army of the Hojo Army, shaking its head and tail, setting off a monstrous wave.
After the initial contact, the Hojo Army seemed to be rippled through the Honjin.
Hojo Mirage sighed and ordered the samurai of Hachimoto to bring the war horse.
"Young master! Please give the order to break out! ”
“…… Hail! ”
The Hojo clan, who woke up like a dream, hurriedly stepped on his war horse, and left the main camp with more than 100 horseback warriors and more than 300 ashigaru to break through to the south.
As soon as he left the battlefield, the more than 300 ashigaru were gone, and the samurai on horseback beside him were only 100 horsemen.
He planned to go to Guanlin City for a short rest...... It's just that I don't know if the lord of Tatebayashi Castle, Akai Shigehide, died in battle under Karasawan Castle......
As he passed by a forest, he suddenly saw a frightened bird flying out of the forest.
The horseback roared by, and before the clan could think clearly about the crisis represented by this group of frightened birds, he heard the sound of horses' hooves louder and louder.
…… A huge wolf-headed horse mark stood in the way.